Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 252.

Philippines Typhoon Kills 415 ' ’’'T'” ’ ' ... - . - ' . •jh <: ' A ■" i- . •| ■* • RADIOPHOTO gives a general view of the Philippines city of Daraga Town located at the foot of Mount Mu-yon in southern Luzon where a recent typhQon struck with devastating force and left a toil, of 415 persons Hilled and countless injured,(Concrete structures were leveled by the tremendous force of the winds and; water. , ' ' ! H : / ,

Chinese Cling To Pike's Peak Despite Attack American \ Soldiers Forced To Retreat , \ Under Heavy Fire V i * SEOUL, Korea ' UP —American infantrymen launched a savage attack on Chinese Communists hold- ' ing Pike’s Peak bn Triangle Kill late today but wei-e,forced th give it up in the face of a heavy Red artillery and mojigr barrage. v \ U. S. 7th divisions soldiers clawed and fought their gay to within 10 yarda. of the crest of the central front height before their attack , stalled.; Some of khe\ intense Red fire was direct trajectory, probably from tanks or seff-propelled guns. An Allied spokesman said at 10 p.m. it was “quiet iherejiow except “■ for occasional rounds of incoming Red mortar and artillery.’’ United Press correspondent Painton said at dne point in the attack the Americans were halted by a maze of antipersonnel mines planted around- Pike’s Peak by • Communist patrols. , ( a _ Pike’s Peak is ; she last •,? tobhold on the four'-doomed Triangle. Hill mass north pf Kumhwa. The other three hills hre held by jhe Americans with Ethiopian troop# . ~ ' backing them up from the Allied main line of resistance. The American attack followed 4 ' savage assaults by more than 3.000 Chi n.e s e Communists on eight American, South Korean and Ethiopion positions* Thursday night and' early today. - Battalions of about 800 Reds hit Triangle Hill, Finger Ridge and Little Gibraltar Hill, while companies and reinforced companies -of about 200 men attacked Iron itorse Mountain*, j Sniper Ridge, Capitol Hill and Castle. At Iron Horse | Mount,aib east of Chorwon a reinforced Rdd company tossed RQK infantrymen from the crest. At last reports fierce fighting was continuing, with the Reds holdings the \northern? slope and the ROK’s'on the southern slope. Regret incident y PANMPNJOM, | Korea, UP — The United Nations admitted today ,i 1 that •shell tragmeib.ts from one of its giins fell the Panmupjom. neutral area last ; Monday. U. N. armistice' negotiators told the Communists |t a liaison officers’ meeting that the U. N. “regretted” what it said was an “unintentional violation” of the Conference area. 1 / After «U. N. Col. Charles W. •McCarthy handed over a note to K the Communists regretting the iqcident, the Communists handed him , a letter protesting that U. K planes flew over the truce site. - . ■. j Armistice talks currently are In an indefinite recess called by the United Nations uhtil the Reds acl' cept proposals ori exchanging, prisoners of war or present a "con-, structive” offer of their own. r * - i'■ ’ ...» i ■— . _•? Official Death Toll In Earthquake 13 ISTANBUL, Turkey UP — The official death I toil from Wednesday's ea J|feg uft fr e in the re * gion was announced as 13 toWy, but tt was believed at least 20 had *b®en killed and 44 r- injured. ■' i; f. '

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Judge Rules Against '■’ f r ■ Zone Appeals Board Motion Os Board Attorney

i Judge Myles Fl. Parrish this morning ruled against the city board of zoning appeals on their motion to strike certain allegations set forth in tlje original pleadings Los the Lecatur Jehovah’s WitThe judge overruled the motion of board attorney Robert Andprson on the ground tha| it .had beOn filed too late. The city board wished the parts of the religious sect’s pleading alleging? the board to have acted in a Stricken from the plea. Andersoh said the five men or! the city board of zoning appeals are honorable gentlemen and were incapable of the allegations whidh the plaintiff sets forth. Apderson; looking forward to a possible by . the court on the grounds of dntimeliness. stated, “At, the. time the writ of certiorari was '■ issued, the court said it could ho| properly look into rhe merits of the case as su[ch was hot at issue.: and since a motion’ could not liavg been filed before the writ was issued, the only time to file this motion would he after it wqs ißßupd,”k The defepse attorney “took issue with the charge that the board denied equal of laws by permitting other churches to operate in thk city under the same circumstances requested by r the petitioner.” Anderson said that ”no\ other church ? in the city of Decatur has ever applied for a variance to the zoning ordinance, with one regarding off-street parking.” 'i ' “The ordinance has nothing to do with churches, just buildings.” said 'Anderson. “The plaintiff has injected the religious issue into the case irf an attempt to effect martyrdom,’ l ' he further stated. He reiterated tiipe -and again charging./”the statements hf the plaintiff in his pleading are scandalous and -should ii 4 stricken- regarding the five mhn serving on the board.” ’ The. answer W the motion to strike, attorney for the plaintiff Robert ?mith of Custer and Smith, waiHquite a bit more brief. Viewing the question-of timeliness as being of prime import as opposed to actual content. Smith stuck to that argument, saying, “If the court sustains the motion of the defense .attorney io strike the parts named in the pleading of this case, tfien it is removing, in effect, the , reasons' the, cburt usfcd to arrive at its decision to Issue a writ of certiorari. It is on those grounds that we ask the’court to overrule the defense motion. “If, the court sustains the motion to strike, the writ will be nullified,” declared Smith. Bbth rested i and Judge Parish began his' ruling almost “The wr|| of certiorari is legal in the state of Indiana only when applied to ; matters regarding decisfonls bf a city board of zoning appeals and Is not a common-law writ,” he said. “Ordinances of the city board of zoning appeals limit personal liberty and time is therefore of the essence in arriving at a determination.” Judge Parrish indicated the power ojt an ordinance to limit personal liberty should be reason to accord it wary attention. “The law states these cases (Turk To Page Six) ' '■ t •' ! i 1 /

Adlai Seeking New York's 45 Electoral Votes Would Rathfer Lose Election Than To Abandon Policies EN ROUTE WIT HSTEVENSON UP —Adlui E. Stevenson said today he\; would rather lose the ejection than abandon a steadfast stand against aggression in Korea. ;The Democratic presidential candidate brief|y at Rochester, N. Y., as he campaigned for the state’s 45 electoral votes, biggest single prize of file Noyember election. \ He vigorously rejected a suggestion of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, his Republican opponent, th a t American troops could, be brought home earlier if more 'South Koreans were trained for front line service. , "If a\ steadfast siand for the cause of the United Nations in Korea would lose us the election. It would by more worthy of our soldiers to take that stand tjhan to win the election,” StOvensoh said. Noting this is United Nations day. .Stevenson devoted most of Rochester talk to the search for peace through the international Organization and its stand against Communist aggression in Korea. “Th& war in Korea," he said, "is not Mr. Trumap’s war. l It is mankind’s war. It is -the stiind ( of free world against wantoh aggression and cynical despotism. t “The issues in this confliict are too grave and too great for partisan politics, and the proposals of a quick and slick >'ay out of iKoriea are false,” the governor continued. “My opponent has told us that we could leave the South Koreans to do the fighting alone against the Communists. ,He has said that Asians left to fight Asians. If we were to follow the general’s policy, we would risk a Munich ip the Far East, with the probability of a third world war.” The Democratic presidential candidate opened his tour across the state' with an early morning stop at Niagara Falls at 7:15 p.m.. j. He winds up tonight with a torchlight parade and speech at? 9:30 p.tn. at Troy where Eisenhower spoke two nights;,ago. Stevenson Said his GOP nent's campaign was one of “innuendo and slander” w’hich could Wreck the American political system. 4 - \ 1 Stevenson had scheduled speeches between Niagara Falls and Troy^-marking a full 15 hour day of campaigning. Stevenson hurled his .charge at his Republican rival in an angry speech in Cleveland Thursday night in which he repudiated the criticisms of his part in the Alger Hiss case. u 11 He accused the Republican opposition of a deliberate program of “innuendo and accusation aimed at sowing the seeds of doubt and distrust” in the minds of the American people. He changed that L“those who would beguile the ovters by Res br half-truths, 'or corrupt them by fear and falsehood,” are committing “spiritual treason.” “Like a cancer that is small at 'first and hardly noticed in the body politic, it can grow and It can spread until it has produced real organic changes — all that 1 has (Torn To P»ge Elcht)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October, 24, 1952.

Southern Florida Braces For Howling Gales; Toll In Philippines Is 415

Government In : Effort To End Coal Walkout Secret Attempts To Settle Nationwide, Coal Miners Strike I \v 1 ' j WASHINGTON. UP —The government is ’ making secret attempts to isettle the nationwide soft coal, strike and prevent it from spreading to the anthracite fields, it was learned today. Informed hourcesy-revealed t|hat David L. Cole, cheif of the federal mediation service, has Ir&en meeting privately with John L. Lewis and coal industry operators ir. a move to end the stalemate, However, the; Unit od Workers’ chief was reported standing firm on his position that only a $1.90-a-day raise will settle the soft coal strike and prevent a possible similar walkout ol 65.0(H) hard coal miners. Lewis wain scheduled to resprae negotiations with hard coal (operators at 10 a. m. EST., today, but there Appeared little chance of a quick agreement. The operators termed the settlement price teg too high and too riSky. The soft coal pits remained closed for the fifth straight i(ay as more ‘than 3&0.000\ miners continued their strike against the wage, stabilization board’s 40-cent cut in thteir> pay raise. , Undaunted by the board’s rilling; Lewis, served she same demand in negotiations with anthracite operators—that he the full $1.90 .in wages, rather than the $1.50 bolard limit in pay and the rest in fringe La Dor members- of the board said, Lewis might get the full amount if he would accept 40-cepts Os it in improved vacations, paid holidays or other -fringe benefits. The anthracite operators, well aware of what happened in the soft coal industry, wbre balking at paying Lewis’ price. They felt thp wage board would also cut down this increase, and they would be Kit by a strike even if they agreed, to pay the price. However, the operators were (T,,rn Tb paje Eight)

Fish Fry Attended By 850 Last Night Merchant-Farmer Event Held Here A routing 850 people jammed the Decatur high school gym last night to tear into 650 pounds of delicious blue pike fried by the Jonah club of Akron. No sooner did the Adams county folks sit down at their places than the thousands ,of fillets of piscatorial pleasure heaped high on the plates and disappeared almost as fast as they were put there. i ■ Almost all the businessniien in Decatur and Adams county toijed as Waiters, scrubbers and friers. They did it from 1 o’clock in the afternoon and were hard at it cleaning up at 10 o’clock, after all others had departed: A makeshift kitchen was set up in the school’s nachine shoip, the benches of' which were loaded with the highly specialized embellishments of the fish frier's art, electric vats, dippihg\ grids, flour, and stuff and things not easily identified. Whatever it was, the folks agreed that seldom had they tasted, such delicious fish. Jonah club worker A themselv’psi remarked that they very rarely get to fry such fine quality fish. A community sing was led by Lawtence Anspiaugh. without benefit of a microphone. Few then realized what was to come. . i\ A whacky group of Shriners—the outhouse ensemble —took over the hall lock, stock and barrel. (Tara Te P«g<- Eight)

Japanese Order Six Russians To Leave 1 Reject Requests To Stay On In Japan TOKYO UP -The ‘Japanese government' today ordered six Rus- 1 sians, .three of theni correspond dents for Pravda and Tass, ,to' leave Japan within a month. The government rejected their requests to stay bn in Japan as resident-aliens. They are attached to' the "illegal’ ’Soviet mission iii Japan Ordered to> leave the country were Pravda correspondents Alexei Kozhin and Egor D. Ryzhov; Tass News Agency correspondent Evgeny ■S. Egorov, ' wite and Child; and Victor P. Timofeev, representative of the Soviet film export association. The immigration bureau of the justice ministry based its older on the /act that the Sbviet mission 'now has no legal basis foV extfrl; tence. The mission was set dp as an adjunct to the Allied occupation, [ • i ) When the occupation ended, the other Allies closed their missions and reiiistituted nbrmal diplomatic relations with Japan. However; Russia and Japan are still technically ‘iftt war.” 1 Spn»e 40 other Riehibers of the Soviet mission hai’e yet'to for‘their residence permits. It was not known yet whether the Japanese government would deny theni in , accordance with , today’s action. __ I L—. Pleasant Weather Indiana Forecast INbIANAPOLIS UP — Pleas; ant days and crisp nights will continue in Indiana during the weekend; 'Wea flier men haitl today they expect jittle temperature change during the next five days. t Daytime temperatures were expected' to range ih the mid jobs with nighttime readings around 40. ' J : ' •' i I '• ■' ' ' ' • ' Rural Schools Plan Clothes Collection j Clothing Drive In Schools Next Week Adams ? county schools will take part jp the statewide' “sav? the children < bundle week" 'drive {to collect tfsed clothing for needy children,- according to announcement today by Glen B. Custard, superintendent of the Adams.county Schools. The^drive, part) of the llth annual children’s clothing crusade, will be held in the county Oct. 273i. . . ' r, a Tlie national goal has been set at 3,000,000 pounds of wearable clothing. Last year, nearly 4,000’,000,. pijpils collected a total of 2,161if>38 pounds of c-lothing. or apv proximately 5,050,d00. garments, Clothing collected will be used to aid needy children and families in Korea, in war-dbpleted countries of Europe and the Middle East, and in disadvantaged rural areas of the United States. Wearable clothing’ of all types, in babies’, children’s and adult sizes, jblankets, sheets and .other bedding;" and low-heeled shoes are especially needed. \ Shipping bags have' been sent to each school system, and leaflets wjll be distributed to the children to take hoipe during tlhe week. The leaflets state the purpose of, the drive and ask for pooperation: of thb parents. In endorsing tR® clothing drive, the county superintendent said, “We cannot stress too much the desperate need for clothing that exists among children in this country and Overseas. I- am sure the citizens of our county will want to lend a helping hand. “Bundle week” provides a practical and effective means of clothing collection, and at the same time, teaches the youth in our schools to (Tui-m Tn P"re Eight)

20 Countries | Join U. S. In J Korean Stand 1 '.'Hi: V ' Call On Reds To i • Agree To Terms Os Korean Truce ’NITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — Some 20 countries joined? the United States today in sponsoring a United Nations resolution calling upon Communist China ; and North Korea to Hgree to a Korean triice providing for non-forfcible repatriation of prisoners. Britain, Canada and most of the Allies in the Korean war aligned themselves with the Americans. The list was expected to grow; still further by the time secretary of stite Dean yAchespn goes before the general assembly’s main apolitical cominittee this afternoon to “open the whole book” on ? the Korean donflict. L Acheson was expected to dejiw er?a review- of U. S. prosecution of tlte war and peace efforts. ? His speech was expected to last at le:|st two hours. I He had been scheduled to speak Tluiraday. but the «0-nation :committee’s entire session was taken up with a wrangling, repetitious debate oh whether to x invite botli the South and North Korean regimes to attend the. discussion without voting rights. t jThe committee apprbved Thai-land’-s proposal for an invitation tc South Korea by a 54-5 vote, but killed an invitation to North Kdrea —4 proposed by Russia -r---by; a 38-11 vote. ' ' ‘ ’ ■(Today was “U. N. Day,” the seventh anniversary of the date When the charter bei-ame effective in 1945 with thO deposit of the 29th country’s ratification, which, ;incidehtally, came from 1 Russia. The assembly scheduled a speciaCobstVvance this morning. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was scheduled to read the preamble to the (charter, after which assembly prehldient Lester B. Pearson of Canada will deliver a short memorial address for those w-ho have died in U. N. service. Pearson later : will deliver a forhial speech in Observance of U. N. Day. j p. S. spokesmen said that Achesop’s speech to the political 7 com(Turn To Page Seven) !.

Democratic Office Is Now Open Daily • I . ' ! e L .•• v Headquarters Open Every Day At Noon Democratic headquarters in; the Br<j»dk building will be open every day from now untjl election itime from noon until 9 q’clock at night, Dr. Harry Hebble, Adams county Detnocratic chairman stated today. The telephone number is 3»2534 and several of, the county candidates will| be on hand to assist persons with selecting any reading material concerning the national, state and county campaigns which might desire. “J Badges of Stevenson-Sparkman! an<| also badges of Schrlcker and Watkins are Available; 4 ome automobile stickers also are available at headquarters. The rooms, are located Jn the Brock building and the general public jis invited to visit them at any tirjne. County candidates will be assigned \ to the headquarters at certdin times each day from now until election -time arid committeemen, volunteer workers and coqnty committee officers also will, be on hand to visit with the public, it wals announced. The county chairman also announced that a sriioker will be held at the headquarters Saturday evening. Cigars will be provided for „ the men and ripples for? the ladles throughout tho evening and the public is invited to visit headquarters. • A • I ' I PI. ' ‘ :

Slight Decline In Living Cost Index Steady Climb Since February Reversed WASHINGTON. UP—The government reported today the cost-of-living fell slightly from record jiigh levels from Aug. 15 to Sept. I - ? The drop reversed a steady oimh since February. i The bureau of 'labor statistics prices df goods and services propped two-tenths of 1 percent in the Aug. 15-Sept, 1)5 period. This put the new consumer’s price index at 190. fr percent of 1935-39 trices. The bureau said the decline was ue to a 1 percent drop in food rices. Prices of a|l other major items increased \ in the 30-day period. ' 1 1 This was the ‘(first over-all decline since February when prices began rising to a record peak set Aug. 15: i While food costs .dropped sharply, increases were reported /or dPparel, • house furnishings, fuel, Electricity and refrigeration, and rent. ? The Sept. 15 index affects contracts of slightly fewer than 100,1)00 aircraft, electrical, and other workers. Their contracts are adjusted on a quarterly basis but. despite the rise in living costs in the two previous months, the increase was not enough to give them a wage hike. Other major contracts, including automobile hnd railroad contracts. are also tied to the index but adjustments are made at other 1 Leading th® decline in food priees the bureau said, were a »35 percent drop in sweet potato prices, a 30 percent decline for cabbage and a 25 percent drop for t?omatoes. j Fresh fruits and vegetables (Were down 9.3 percent, while meats, poultry and fish declined fractionally, mainly to a 2.4 percent decline in pork prices. , The increases for all other items latere fractipnal. with apparel Ijeading the rise at six-tenths ot Ofle percent. U, N. Employe Denies Being A Communist

Chambers Testimony Denied By Worker ? NEW YORK UP — David Chambers said Thursday had worked with a Communist apparatus in Washington in the 1930’5, acknowledged today that he had worked with some Communist organizations in what he believed was “an underground against Hitler.” But he said he never had been a; Communist. I Zablodowsky, iiow the $114,000 a yeifr head of the United Nations publication division, told the senate internal security subcommittee .hat he forked for |he office of strategic services, l al&y in an editorial' capacity, throughout World War 11. Chambers, a former Communist whose testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison for perjury, fcaid he first met Zablodowsky whije he was attending Columbia University in 1923 and 1924. He said Zablodowsky was then a Communist sympathizer. 1 He denied Chambers’ testimony that he had , been sympathetic to dommunism during their college days at Columbia University. He said he believed Chambers might have gotten subh an opinion because of his pleased reaction to a Communist mutiny aboard the German fleet, nr j ? He said for Chambers to draw such a conclusion was “as wrong as if I accused Chambers being an arsonist because he once showered me with, a bottle of catsup —which he did. He was very nice about it. He gave? me a dollar for the cleanIng -” ■ iL He said that in 193f> or 1936 he (Tara To Page Seven)

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Hurricane Is Nearing Cuba; Post Warnings 415 Killed, 200 Others Missing In Philippines Storm MIAMI, Fla. UP — Southern Florida braced today for howling gales, advance messengers of a j mighty hurricane approaching Cuba with winds of 125 miles an hour. Grady Norton, chief of the Miami weather-bureau, said • storm warnings were posted at 8:45 a.m, from Vero Beach Jsouth To the . Florida Keys for “dangerous weather." - ■ -V -I L "We are cautioning all in this. ! area to prepare for dangerous weather from the Southeast Florida ' coast eastward ovet the Bahamas and south of Cuba," Norton said. The weather bureau said liminary indications are that the storm Js now located about 60 miles from the Cuban city of Cienfufegos. It- is expected to frit the Cuban mainland in a few hours, the weather bureau said —“probably in midday.” - . . . ?. i.! The weather bureau kaid it is stilt too early to tell, but that it > the storm continues movement at i is present rate of 10 miles per hour j it will pass between Nassau and Miami, leaving Miami on the edge. \ {“The hurricane isn’t very large but is sharp and intense," Norton i said. “I see no indication that it ‘ has lost any of its force and winds of well over 100 miles per hour can bd expected. Florida may miss the | actual hurricane 1 but we will be in the area of the storm.” , The weather bureau said a hurricane hunter plane took off from Jacksonville early today and was expected in the center of the storm by 10 a.m. Earlier, another plane took off from Jacksonville T>ut had J to him back because of engine I trouble. Worst In Years MANILA, P. I. UP — The typhobn “Trix." the most destructive) storm-to hit the Philippine Islands In recent years, killed 415 and another 200 were reported missing, i the Red Cross said today. I Weather experts said a new typhoon was forming 1,600 miles east southeast of the Philippines in the same area where “Trix” originated. ’ ■ ■ • . j The new typhoon, “Wilma,” passed 250 miles southwest of Guam Thursday. It could not be determined yet whether it J would pass through the Central Philippines as ( Trix did Wednesday. t ■ 'y' " The death toll from Trix rose almost hourly as areas which had been cut off re-established communications and reported casualties. ' Feliciano Cruz, a Red Cross official, said Trix, was “(he worst ty- L phoon within living memory” to hl|t| the Central Philippines. Ha (Tarn To P«Ke Kight) Lincoln PT A To Sponsor Festival 1 Halloween* Night The annual fair and fall festival sponsored by the Lincoln parentteachers association, will follow the Hklloween parade in Decatur Friday night. Oct. 31. The festival will be held in the gaily decorated gym of the Deca- • tut high school, with Varied entertainment offered and scads of delicacies for sale. The public is invited to attend the festival, which in past years has attracted tremendous crowds. . ; , Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school, « will distribute tickets to the scho.pl children next Wednesday. INDIANA WEATHER ~ Fair tonight and Saturday with little change in temperature. Low tonight 35-41, high Saturday 70-75. .« i