Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L Np. 272.

U. b. Air Force Unveils A New Fighter Craft ..... wp dßL** I' J ■ Iw . ■ -. . :• ■ . • ;: . W|l IPSa THI ® THE FIRST PHOTO released\on> the delta-wing ZF-92A in flight. The after-burner is contained in the extended tail section that looks something like a bluiH-nosed torpedo. This picture was made\ ?« 8 o» e hish-speed experimental research plane climbed in a test flight at the Edwards Air Force Base, ' California. No details of performance haVe been released by the U. S. Air Force.

Heavy Toll In Tragic Series Os Air Crashes ; . . . / . • ■ jj Over 80 Persons Dead Or Missing In Series Os Crashes i - J By UNITED PRESS The toll from a tragic serie# of. airplane crashes in North America; and the Far East stood today at ; more than 80 persons dead or miss- $ ing. ■ " j ■ . , An air-rescue fdrce of 15 planes • was ready to make a fresh start' today in the search for a C-U9 : Flying Boxcar missing in Alaska* with 20 men aboard. ■ The force scanned 10,000 square j;miles of wilderness near Anchor-' age Sunday but caught no sight, of. the. plane in the untamed bush ; country. Air Force officers clung to the hope a faint but steady: radio signal picked up shortly after midnight at Elmendorf Air Base oame from the missing plane. In the Korean area alone, two air crashes left a toll of at least. 55 servicemen dead or missihg. An Air Force C-46 plunged into the sea off tNe Korean coast late Saturday; night and rescue teams picked up only seven survivors. Eleven other passengers were presumed dead. Meanwhile, ground parties brought the bodies of 44 servicemen bgt of the i. rugged territory east of Seoul. The men perished Friday when their C-119 plowed into a craggy hill. A civilian air , tragedy snuffed out fivje lives near Dalhart, Tex., Sunday, night, and two other widespread crashes killed three servicemen. A navy scout (jlafie crash landed in a swamp near Norwood, J Mass., but the two fliers aboard walked away from the wreckage unhurt. 1 .' /" J ... ? Authorities at Dalhart tentatively identified the pilot of the single engine cabinet, plane that crashed there as Charles Ross. It was believed that the other four victims were all members of one family. ♦ They were tentatively identified as Charles William' McDonald, 40, Lillian McDonald, 35, his wife, and their two children, Charles Jr., about 5, and Charlene, about 7. A ground rescue party,. Sunday found the. wreckage of the Second of two navy .Corsair fighters which, crashed almost simultanjeuosly Saturday night while making an approach ; to Moffet Field in California. Both pilots were-killed. They were. identified today as Ens. Richard Oldenburg, Ovid, N. Y„ and Lt. Anthony J. Shea, Los Altos. Calif,, Oldenburg’s plane set fire to the home of a physician n<aar Palo Alto when it crashed. Shea’s plane was found Sunday on a wooded hillside 13 miles southeast of Los Gatos. ' Lt. John Ritenc, 28, was killed Sunday when his F-5q Mustang fighter crashed near the western boundary of ing wreckage over a 10-acre area. Bitencr an air national guardsman, was a resident of Farmington, 111. The Flying Boxcar which vanished in Alaska Saturday was the third plane Os its type to go down in nine days. Another 04.19 crashed on Silver Throne Mountain 'hr central Alaska Nov. 7 with 19 men’ aboard, and the big transport which crashed near Seoul, was a Boxcar. There were no surviyors In either crash. .The Alaska Command said the . search for the C-119 is being concentrated arpund ML RedOubt, a 10,000-foot peak about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage on the west side of Cook Inlet. ~ ! INDIANA WEATHER Scattered showers and local thunder storms tonight and Tuesday. Rather windy. Mild tonight, turning ©older Tuesday or Tuesday night. Low tonight 5064. High Tuesday 58>65.

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Truman May Present Farewell Message Considers Personal Congress Appearance WASHINGTON UP — President Truman is toying with the i|ea of appearing in person before the Re-publican-controlled 83rd congress early in January to deliver a?‘farewell address.” Administration officials emphasized that /‘nothing has beei decided yet” and said Mr. Tinian “may or may not” go through with th? unprecedented' speech. They said the speech would not .. be the usual of the uniore message recommending a legislative ; program. Instead it would bei a review of Mr. Truman’s seven iyears | in the presidency, or, as ose ih- ; forjmant put it. an “accour.tliag to the congress and the people df his stewardship in office. A congressional appearance by an outgoing President before a new congress not controlled by hismarty be without historical dent. This is the first chartge in ddiiiinistration since approval of tiler twentieth amendment [which abolished the “Lame Duck”HConsHk- ■ ilPresidents Grpver Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wiison, and Herbert Hooverlywere among the outgoing chief yyecutiv?s sending state of the ipnion messages after their administrations' had been Voted out of »w?R. Rowevdr, they sent them to “B>kme Dudk’’ congresses. At that :pme, the] chief executive did not ileave .office Until March 4. Fjranklin D. Roosevelt —aftei the thrye times he was re-elecHed—-sent state of the union messages to the. new congress. But Oeach titnV both the executive and legislative branches were continuing m Deriliocratic hands. | If the farewell address I is inade by; President Truman, he il expehted to follow his usual irocedure read his final meisage personally and have it broadcast at (Turn To Page ElKht) ; ■f’ ■ / X,' _\ Mrs. Mabel Lyons Is Vice-Chairman I Republican State 1 -Committee Meets ( INDIANAPOLIS, — Mrs, Mabel Lyons, fourth dh trict RepJ blican and DeKalb count] Republlean vice-chairman, was tweeted 1 ice chairman of. the Inc lana RepubUcan committee Sunday afternoon by ,a unanimous vote, - Mi s. Lyons was placed in lopainatlan for the state post, v <cated by Mrs. Mabel Fraser, Delphi, by Harry “Peck” Essex. Dec itur, /fourth district and Adams county Rept blican chairman. Mayor | Noland C. Wright,. Anderson, jwas chos ?n state chairman to suejieed Cale J. Holder, Indianapolis. Mrs. Eras ;r and Holder had resi ijied their posts a few days ago. Espex went tQ Indianapolis Saturday and canvassed all of I the district chairmen and vice-c airmen! for .Mrs, Lyons. He st ited in a' Sunday night telephone call that/the Auburn woman was the unanimous choice to head the! women'p division of the state oi tanizatlbn under governor-elect Seo-i-ge Craig~ Esiiex said that he the fourth district would get a ood share of appointive posts in the administration. Hfe wil remain; in Indianapolis and also; visit in ; Speedway until some ime Wednesday, he said. Edwin Steers, Indianapolis, and Hubert Hill, Indianapolis ipapermnn, will continue as treasurer and secretary of the G. O. P. a ate committee, it was reported. :, Mrp. Essex accompanied her husband to Indianapolis and is visiting with the Web Oliver »m---ily at Speedway. / I H

Ike Prepares For Truman's Parley Tuesday Ends Vacation In Georgia; To Meet President Tuesday f ;i AUGUSTA, Ga UP -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, >who probably will not get another vacation 'before he becomes of the United States in i January, spent today draining the last bit of pleasure from the Ipw hours remaining of his stay here. \ i The president-elect leaves Tuesday by plane for Washington and a conference wlth Truman, the first of a heavy round of\ appointments that undoubtedly will extend right up to Inauguration Day. After a morning with his secretarial staff, Eisenhower hastened out to the golf course of the Augusta National Golf Club where has gotten in almost daily rounds. x Actually, he has to simply step off the front porch of his vacation cottage to reach the course. Like any average office worker on the last day of a vacation that went by tob fast, the president-to-be was trying to get in as much pleasure as possible before it’s all over.. .■ s 1 James A. Hagerty, Eisenhower’s press secretary, declined comment oh news from t Washington that hydrogen bomb tests have been made at Eniwetok. \ Hage»ty replied Vno comment” whei| asked if Eisenhower had been given details of the tests. • \ After ' Eisenhower’s talk with President Truman Tuesday, he will' depart for New York for more ' conferences. First on the list there will be a joint conference Wednesday with Sen. Robert A. Taft and Rep. Joseph W. Martin. Then will follow meetings with other Republican congressional leaders and with party chieftains, including Herbert Brownell, Jr.* former x chairman of the GOP na-' tional committee, and Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, two of Eisenhower’s bMef campaign strategists. * Eisenhower is scheduled to leave here by chartered airliner at 10:30 a.m. e.s.t Tuesday, arriving in Washington at 1:10 p.m. He will be met at tho military air transport service terminal Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge R-Mass., his chief emissary to the executive departments in arranging the transfer of administration. Aft<r a procfession through downtown Washington. Eisenhower will' go. to the White House for his meeting with Mr. Truman. . Lodge and Joseph Mi l Dodge, the Detroit Ranker who has been sitting in at budget discussions as Eisenhower’s representative, will attend the meeting with him. It was reported here that Eisenhower would approach jiis conference with thfe President with a determination to be friendly, but ' would make no promises. His aides pointed out that since his election he stressed "that he <|oes not want to become involved in the policy decisions of the outgoing administration. Jehovah Witnesses Ruling On Thursday Judge Myles F. Parrish will hand down a written decision on t£e case of the Jehovah’fe Witnesses of Decatur against the city board of zoning appeals Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, he announced today. The case, pending since last spring, Involves the proposed Kingdom Hall to be built by the Witnesses on Monroe and Ninth streets. The city claims it violates an ordinance restricting size and dimension. The religious sect counters that the city is being discriminatory and its ordinance unconstitutional. \

Decatur, Monday, November 17, 1952.

Hydrogen Super-Bomb In American Arsenal Os Deadly A-Weapons

Urges Price? I Wage Controls , Be Discontinued I Recommendation By l Late Phil Murray In Final Message ! i. < j WASHINGTON (UP) — PhilipJ Murray,, in his last official acß as CIO president, made the surpriserecommendation that active wageand price controls be dropped. The recommendation, a reversal of previous CIO poUcy, was contained: in ’Murray’s annual report, ferhiefi was to have been presented \ to the CIO convention today.. Murray’s sudden death last Sunday, caused a postponment of the convention until Dec. 1, at which time the report will be submitted to the delegates for approval. ■ In. calling for an end to antiflation controls, Murray noted that “widespread inflationary pressures have subsided" and that ■there is now danger erf a deflationary tendency.” But his principal argument was that wage controls must be lifted because “there no longer is a comprehensive price control program.” "When organized labor decided to accept wage stabilisation, ft was specifically and emphatically stated that wage stabilization can be viewed favorably only as part of an overall economic stabilization program.” he said. “The CIO stated 1 time arid\time again that the effective control of living costs is a prerequisite for acceptance of wage stabilization.” • ! Biit nolw, Murray said, “the price control program is being abandoned — as a result of congressional action amending the economic controlc law and soft markets. ! “The facts' —a week la#, soft markets in some parts of the economy, and collapsing price and production controls—are clear. • The basis for maintaining wage controls under these conditions at present no longer exists.” Since the start of the Korean y war the union has been an active supporter of firm price controls and is! represented on the wage stabilization board. i While proposing an end to active economic controls, Murray said' the new administration should , be given standby controls because a new outbreak of Coirimunist aggression “could change the economic scene, setting off a new wave of inflationary pressures.”' : L

Miss Bertsch Relates European Experiences •

i :■«& BEULAH BERTSCH •Miss Beulah Jane Bertsch, just returned from spending the entire summer working oh farms in Germany, in connection with the international farm youth exchange, reported some startling revelations through Che months of living with the foreign farmers. Miss Bertsch said it was amazing how many false conceptions?

t— —— [Four Persons Die In California Blizzard Missouri Town Is j Whipped By Tornado I t- '1 Ry UNITED PRESS Ualiforoianß today dug out from a weekend blizzard that saw four persons freexe to death and workmen Cleared the wreckage from a tornado that leveled the business section qf a small Missouri country town‘ \ Rain, spaked the bone-drug torn belt. Sunday, but the rains and whipping winds Were dying down today asij they moved eastward. Twisters and heavy winds whistled through Southern California while »now piled \up in the north ern section of thfl state. The windstorms paused numerous traffic accidental sent iwo navy fighter pilots to, their graves and ripped up property. Three Small children were found huddled ’together and frozen to death In a jeep Saturday and their grand father, who ran the vehicle offj a mountain road, was found dead farther up the road. It was believed suffered a hdart attack whi|e trying to get help! The children, Michael Parker, 5, and his feisters. Catherine, 4, and Peggjf J<4 2, of Ukiah, Calif., were a.-coihpai|ying their grandfather.) Reginald 5 McKee Parker, <SO, Spy RockiiCajif., to his home. k t<|rn4do destroyed most of the business district of Hopkins, in ’Missouri, as it hopscotfehled through the to;wn Sunday night! (o the accompaniment of hard rain and hall. Mrs; Harlry Gray, 90, and her 62-yeas-old daughter, Mrs. Mabel Gray, Were hospitalized with shock and Muiwfes. Their home collapsed on thfemt after being hit by the twister. '* I l ' The #e£t coast storm, whicluwas described, as two storms with a one-two sunch, was indirectly responsible? for numerous traffic deaths anil a crash of a navy piano which kiHed two pilots, The pilots. Ens. Richard oldenburg* of jpvid, N. Y., and Lt. Anthony J.'gShea, Los Altos, Calif,, crashed: oh the fringe pf the Santa Cruz 'Mountains Saturday night. Twb twisters ripped across Hollywood, salif., and 1100,000 damage reported at Paramount Studios inhere a “western street”, set, of saloons and stores, was battered and splintered. twister, traveling up to 70 miles : per hour, swept across Balboa and Newport Harbor, leaving broken trees, roofs and television antennas in its path. Up to JIS inches of snow was (Tpra To Elaht)

the German farmers have about farm. lift in the United States. She said'all the farmers there know the U. S. is what they see ini the American movies released there; Chicago, New York and Hollywood. "Thqy told me they thought folks -from Indiana must have descended from Indians ” she said. ' Miss Bartsch told of the warm greetings; she received on all the farm# sh* was delegated to, and recounted in particular the farm of Franz Tillkornm, where -ehe stayed fpr five weeks beginning July 28. | “The Germans were surprised ; that I didn't emoke; they thought all American girls smoked, and j were amazed when I went out with them in the morning and helped milk the cows and trekked out in the fields to help shock the ■.corn. “About the . cows,” eaid Miss Bertsch, “when I told them back home we also milk cows by hand they couldn't believe it, they thought We did it all with automatic milkers. . “They- have the idea that the majority, of farmers here inspect , their many acres of land with (Tar* Ta P««e Eight)

Coal Industry Leader Urges Ip Wage Approval Association Head Urges Putnam To \ | Approve Increase ji WASHINGTON, UP — A soft coal industry; leader urged Ecoaomife Roger L. Putnain today to approve a f1.90-a-day pay boost for 350,000 miners, saying It would prevent “a possible disruption of American industry due tb lack of coal.” ‘ Harry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, said the increase, rather than: being “unstabilizing . . . actually is stabilizing to industry/’ Hp implied that a long and bitter strike would result if the pay increase is not granted. Mosefe was the first\witness at a public hearing called by Putnam on a petition by Moses and John I 4 Lewis, United Mine Workers chief, to reverse a wage stabilization board decision cutting i the raise to $1.50. Lewis was scheduled to testify later today. Moses said the wage board, reason and logic” could Wave ap* proved the full raise. Instead, he said, it “practically called it unpatriotic.” ' 1, , He said the miners deserved “special considerations” because they' need “special aptitude and special physical strength” In their j<|bs. Moses said he thinks the Jnctease will not affect other contracts unless “selfish men decided they wanted to use a club over board for equal treatment id cii> cumstances that are not equal." Putnam noted that.“l don’t think the results would go unobserved around the country." ' Lewis and Moses have petitioned Pjatnam tp reverse the decision by the wage stabilization board cutt ting the wage Increase to $1.50. Putnam called Ithe hearing because h#\ said, he needed “comprehensive oral reports” from both sides tb help him make up his mind. *T If (the union and industry leaders fail to persuade Putnam to grant the full Jl.'OO, the miners afe Virtually certain to strike in protest. They staged a walkout last month when the board lopped 40 cents from their raise, returning to the pits only after Putnam agreed to review the wage board decision. Soihe €S,(N)O hard coal miners equid be expected to join in. the walkout if Pqtnam upholds the board ruling. Anthracite minera al&o have a $1.90 boost awaiting (Twra T® P®«* Sl*> : Christmas Seals , Placed In Mails County's Quota Is $4,300 This Year Mre. W. Guy Brown, secretary of tthe Adams county tuberculosis association, announces thait Christmas seals were placed in the \mall today. i Thfere were 5,500 letters containing the seals' mailed throughout; the county. Quota for the Adams county cWapter has been spt! at $4,300 for this year. Funds derived from the sale of tpei Christmas seals are used to further the chapter’s work against tuberculosis. Services Include regular visits by the mbbtle x-ray, unit, patch tests in all schools in the jeounty, the regular a health education program, and similar activities. 1 Preparation of the letters was supervised »y Mrs. Brown and Maynard Hetrick, head of the commercial department at t&e Decatur high school, aided by commercial students. GIH scouts and other organization# assisted in folding and preparing the 'letters! for mailing.

Strike Ends At Two \ Harvester Plants Other Plants Ready To Vote On Contract \ I ; . - CHICAGO UP — Fanh equipment workers. -Who had been on strike for almost three months went back to work at two International Harvester plants, and strikers at other plants prepared to vote on a new contract agreement. . The workers, all members of the Farm lEiquipment-Unlted Electrical Workers Ind., reported on their regular shifts at the West Pullman tractor works. Workers at the McCormick works in Blue Island, 111., and Harvester plants in Rock Island, Rock Falls and East Moline, 111., and t works at-Louisville, Ky., apd Richmond, Ind., were still out. I But most of the union locals werle preparing to take a ratifying vote on the new contract, which -was negotiated Saturday here. > The walkout, which Aug. 21, was marked with widespread violence, vandalism and threats. . One Chicago ‘Ron-striker was beatt en to death on the street affer he crossed picket lines. * Certain locals in the tlftee Chi- ’' cago plants and the union units at > Rock Island and .East Moline cani not be covered immediately by the new contract betause some union ■members in those locals haye petitioned the national 6 labor relations bqard to dece’Ttify the FE-UE as bargaining, agent. , The union is a coalition of two organizations that were expelled from the CIO for allegedly following Communist line policies. The new, three-year agreement provides, for* a general seven-cent hourly wagW boost — eight cents less than the original demand. For employes paid on a flat hourly rate, the contract provides additional increases of from -one to five cents an hour. A modified union shop and liberalized vacation were also included, Harvester won aVceptance of Its demand that all employes fired during the strike for acts of violence should not be rehired. , k ; Auto Is Demolished Early This Morning ; Strikes Abutment East Os Decatur 'Ok: ■ ' ?•' ' A car with six occupants hit an abutment approximately four \miles east of Decatur on U< S. highway 224 at 4:30 a.m. today and was completely demolished when it' turned over in a nearby field. The driver, Charles R. Zimmer-'' man, 18, of Bloomington, was uninjured, his wife Leafjr, 17, however, Is at the Adam# county memorial hospital being treated for a back injury. Also taking treatment at the hospital are a sister, Jane Manley, 22, of Canton, 0., for a foot laceration necessitating eight’ stitches, and Mrs. Manley’s son of 16 months, Roger W. Manley, for chest injury;, , Remaining uninjured are; two other Danley children, one six and the other three years old, v According to reports of the investigating officer, sheriff Robert Qhraluka, the car evidently went out of 1 control, smacked the abutment pnd rolled over in a field. Shraluka is checking the registra- ! tion on the car with the Bloomington authorities for a discrepancy, he said, ' i ; Associated Churches j Meeting On Tuesday Pastors and representatives of the associated churches wlll maet in monthly session at 7:45 o’clock Tuesday night at the Zl<m Evangelical and Reformed ch arch. All members are urged to attend. L i : ■ ■

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Bomb Capable Os Destroying Whole Cities \ Announcement By I Atom Commission/ Follows Stories WASHINGTON UP — The hydrogen super-bomb, capable of destroying whole cities in a flash with blast and fire* h&s now joined A Ulrica's arsenal of atomic -weaponA y I That, informed sources saih today, is the clear meaning of & brief official announcement issued by the atomic energy commission in the wake of a flood of eyewitness accounts from Eniwetok describing the worlds first H-bomb explosion. . . j.\ These sources also said that development of the super-bqmb was a brilliant scientific and technical I achievernent which gives the west a tremendous new’ weapon, ndt yet possessed by Russia, for enforcement of peace. They predicted that the first test model of the H-bomb will ba 'followed shortly by even more Violent versions. But what role the super-bomb will play in the U. S. scheme of defense, has yet. to be determined. That is a matter of high policy calling for difficult decisions. The man who will have to make them is President-elect Eisenhower. He undoubtedly will get at a preliminary briefing on the nature of the scientific, economic, and military problems posed by the H-bomb when he confers with President Truman and administration leaders at the White House on\ Tuesday. 1 . ' jMany individual members of the - ’ task force which conducted this fall’s historic tests at the Eniwetoic proving ground in the Pacific wrote vivid reports in letters home of the H-bombs incomparable blast and flame Many gave Nov. 1 as iH-day. Some hinted at morethan one hydrogen explosion. But the atomic energy commission in Sundays meager announcement withheld all details. AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said “any amplification might give aid to potential enemies and that, therefore, “we will make no further announcements. Dean also said the commission “is concerned” by the eyewitness letters. He .said investigations are under way w’hich may result in disciplinary action or prosecution for violation of law dr security regulations. <He did not, however, - 4 deny what the letter writers wrote. The commission didn't even use the word H-bomb. It said only that “the test program included expefements contributing to thermonuclear weapons research.” It did say that the task force had performed ’“a remarkable feat” and that the scientists in charge were satisfied with the Results. > In Chapel N. C., Rep. Carl T. Durham D —N. C.,j acting chairman of the house-senate atomic energy committee, said the AECs •H-bomb plans for this fall culminated at .Eniwetok “about on schedule.’” .He hinted at bigger explos- } - ions in future tests. The first R-bomb blast, which spouted five > miles into the air and sent a vast cloud of smoke, vapor, and radioactive debris 10 miles higher, was an event comparable in atomic weartoneering to rtTwra To Page Elaht) Orders Grand Jury Report November 26 The Adams county grand jury will be called November 26, it was ordered today by Judge Myles F. Parrish. The law states that a grand jury must be called at least once a year, no cases having come * up important enough to call in the jury heretofore in the year, the coming call will be the first one. The jury will investigate the county departments and; legal pro- , cesSes in connection with jallings at the county jail. - : ?i l ■ ' : ; _l .