Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1952 — Page 1

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SURVIVORS OF THE4JLAZE thatlook the liVejs of 14 persons at the Huntington State Hospital. Huntington/<Va.. sit huddled in blankets in the dining hill before beinh moved to other quarters: The fire broke out in thp basement of the three-story Btruc ture and burned for more than two hours before firemen could bring it under control.. Among the 1H victims were five girls under 15-years-old. Nine other women died in the blaze./ 1 ’• \\ ' ! Jl\ ? >'« r; ’I ' M

CIO Leaders Warn Ike To Guard Labor Pledge Support To President-Elect; Urge Labor Aims ■ 1 ' • 4? NEW YORK UP —Leaders of the CIO personally pledged support today toHPresident-eledt Eisenhower, but told him they would "reapt vigorously to any effort to cut living standards, to attack labor or to obstruct progress toward worthy goals for our democracy.” The group ot CIO officials and vice presidents of its most powerful unions said after a conference with Eisenhower that they made no suggestions as to his appointment of a secretary of labor.. 1 J The CIO group included David J. McDonald, acting president of of United Steel Workers, Walter Reuther, president of the United J'Autojmdbile Workers, and v Allen Haywood, executive vice president of the CIO. In a formal statement, after the conference, they* said they did "emphasise that the secretary of: labor should ! be a person who is devoted to the strengthening of the department of labor and to the interests of democratic American, trade unions.” Eisenhower earlier met with' Mme. Vijaya Lakahmi Pandit, leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations. .. T \ Mme. Pandit was believed to have given Eisenhower a briefing pn the Indian peace formula as a preparation for his forthcoming - visit to Korea. _ • > ' * IHowever, she said as she arrived at Eisenhower’s headquarters that ‘‘l have only come to give him my greetings.” _\' ‘ ’ Madame Pandit, upon leaving, would not say whether she - had gone into.the details of the Indian compromise proposal. Gov. Shepnan Adams of New Hampshire, who will serve as assistant to the President, announced Thursday two more selections fortop White House jobs. They were, James C. Hagerty as press secret tary and Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons ret., as , special assistant to the President. - Persons, 56, a native of Alabama who was brought out of retirement to serve on Eisenhower’s NATO staff in Paris, will advise Eisenhower in the "field of legislative masters” and alto will undertake other duties assigned by the Presi- . dent-elect, Adams said. Hagerty, 43, at present on leave as press secretary to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Near York, is a native of Plattsburg, N. Y., and formerly was, a reporter for the New York Times. His father is political reporter for the Times. — ■ i r ■' i ■ -.)■■■ Voter Registration Opens December 1 County clerk Ed Jaberg has announced that beginning December 1 will be the new registration period for the 1954 Jaberg strohgly suggests that any voters 1 who had trouble becoming qualified in the last election, or had. for that matter, any difficulty at all, should register now and avoid the possibility of a last minute hectic rush to register. Jaberg stated 7he would offer information to those in doubt.

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Conservancy Meet Scheduled Dec. 3 Meeting Slated At Auburn Wednesday Developments continue apace in the controversial issue of the northeastern Indiana conservancy district. The latest of these is a meeting called for December 3 at Auburn at which will be agricultural agents of DeKalb, Adams and Allen counties, a lobbyist of the Farm Bureau, and many interested citizens. -' * i ’ — Ever since the first meeting here in the county, sparked by the citizen's civic association of Fort Wayne, and. attended by watershed officials of Ohio, and water conservation inen of Indiana. a mild turmoil bf conflicting j interests ha»\ existed between Adams county officials Wnd those of. Allen county pushing the plan. Alldn county clkims the district Is good for I everybody. Adams ■ county claims the benefits of the of a district would weigh heavily in; fjayor of Allen county. It is true that for years Fort Wayne has laid directly in the path of a flood if a flood were' to coine each spring. Fort Wayne Is very much flood conscious and that is no doubt the motivating factor in her efforts. That is understandable. But an Adams I county official—fL. E. Archbold, Adams count# agricultural agent —offers the stfbng opinion that the welfare interests of Adams county should not be sacrificed even for such, a danger as , flood. The Indiana conservancy act is tested In the state supreme court. Officials here would like an outcome ;' before subjecting themselves to a controversial act. Five hundred signatures are re-‘ quired to bring a. petition of formation of the district into cdurt Officials heue protest the minute amount needed to<bring the petiUibn into court. One unnamed official said, "Why, Fort Wayne petitioners could walk a few, (Turn To .Page Six) ■r‘

Winnie Ruth Judd i I ■' ■■■ ; J 'I p In Sixth Escape- < - N 1. . Escapes Arizona Prison Thursday - PHOENIX, Arik. VP —Winnie Ruth Judd, who murdered her roommates and stuffed their bodied into a trunk, was at large again today, and authorities said she apparently had “outside help.” It ,was sixth escape from the Arizona state hospital for the in* sane, j . . It came just ohe day after hoepital superintendent M. W. Conway made a special cheik of her ward because he feared the au-burn-haired murderess was planning a break. • • The notorious “Tiger Woman of the 1930’5” made her break through a carefully cut 15 to 18 jnch hole in a heavy mesh screen on a bathroom window Thursday night. " 'i J Conway said evidence indicated She was aided in her escape. He frould not say |she had “inside help.” ? Sheriff’s investigator-Rrank Mitchell said Mrs. Judd had to have “outside help.” ; He and Conway said Mrs. Judd must have climbed on a small table and- squeezed through the opening.

India's Peace Proposal Sure Os UN Passage United States Will Accept Compromise I Formula On Peace ■ '■ ■ '? ' V 'j ■ UNITED NATION'S, N. Y. UP — The, United Nations political committee hoped for a vote in its Korean debate today, with India's compromise peace formula sure of passage by at least 50 to 5 over Soviet objections, x , j J The United States i has announced it wili accept the Indian compromise formula. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vtshinsky has declared that both Russia and Communist China reject it ! | Despite Redopposltion. the endorsement of the plan by the U. S. assured it of overwhelming passage witirfew vote abstentions. Although there was little Mope of a Communist change of heart, a landslide U* N. vote tor the Indian* measure was sought in the belief it would provide an effective propaganda weapon. A U. 8. spokesman stated that a second revision of the Indian measure met the "clarification” Secretary of State Dean Acheson had asked for and that the American delegation would vote for It, provided a Danish amendment also is accepted. V. K. Krishna Menon, who authored the compromise plan op instructions from Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, was scheduled, as main speaker. at today's meeting. He was expected to accept the Danish amendment. I ’ As it Stands, the Indian proposal balls for the problem of war prisoners resisting repatriation to be submitted\ to a high-level political conference — provided for in the tentative Paiimunjom agreement — within 90 days aftbr a Korean cease-fire. If any prisoners have not been repatriated in an additional 60 dqys, ."responsibility for their care and maintenance add for their, subsequent disposition shall be transferred to the U. N.”

The Western majority of the U. N. thus conceivably would be free to resettle the non-repatriables in line with American views. I The Danish amendment simply cuts the period in which the political conference could discuss the prisoners’ future from Mi to 30 days. This was the best bargain the U. S. Could gain in its demand for a definite “freedom deadline” Mr all prisoners. «i I ' ’ I ; •’ „i Jobless Pay Claims Continue Decline INDIANAPOLIS UP — Unemployment insurance claims filed last week dropped to 12,350, a continuation of a three-week decline, the Indiana employment security division reported today. f The 'Division said employment prospects for the balance of the year are bright \.with the prospect of continued industrial hiring and the start of holiday hiring. } INDIANA WEATHER Fair early tonight, In cressIng cloudiness late tonight and I Saturday followed by rain or snow beginning Saturday afternoon or night. Slightly cold- \ er east portloi). Slowly rising temperatures . Saturday. Low tonight 10-17. High Saturday 2037. i

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More Than 100 Die Violently Over Holiday u Cold Thanksgiving | Holiday Takes Toll 11 Os Over 100 Lives By UNITED PRESS Americans went back to work today after a cold, blustery Thanksgiving holiday that saw more than 100 of them die violent deaths. I . '*'p The cold snap was still clamped down hard over most of the country today, and snow flurries brushed the Great Lakes region. Motorists took to the highways in great numbers Thursday, ah they do every Thanksgiving, even though glare ice and hard-packed snow made them hazardous ip many areas. | A total of 105 persons died in accidents during the holiday. They included 77 persons dead in traffic, 12 in fires and 16 in miscellaneous mishaps. The total did not include 36 persons killed In the cranh of a (Ks air force plane near Tacoma, Wash. The crash occurred after the holiday period ended. The worst single automobile accident occurred near Shelbyville, Ky., where five persons, all Negroes, died when their car hit a transport truck it was trying to pass. ';\i .( Texas led the nation with nine traffic deaths and five fire fatalities for a total of 14. New York reported five traffic deaths, one fire death and one miscellaneous. Four persons were drowqed in Michigan's’ St. Clair riter. *i\here was savage blood letting oh the rocky hills of Korea, when some of the United Nations troops had to turn back Communist probing actions and small advances. Temperatures were below freezing as far east a4 the Appalachians and as far west as the Rockies. Chiljy fingers of the cold air mass touched northern Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. The Atlantic seaboard was chilly - , too, but temperatures were not unseasonable and were expected torange in the 40’s and 30’s. In the Northern Plains it was really cold and due to stay that way all day. weathermen said.

Early today the mercury stood at slx 4 below zero at Bismarck, N.i D. Redwood Fall?, Minn., reported six below, St. Paul five below,? Denver, Colo., four below and Salina, Kan., , had two above, x Some main high was were still blocked Thanksgiving day in Nebraska, and low# reported some side roads were \drifted shut. All; main roads were open, although? some were icy, in the Hawkeye state. ;■> •< •

Report Os Septuplet Birth Revealed Hoax SANTIAGO, Chile UP — Fed- students who are celebrating their eral police denounced spring festival down here under as a student hoax today a report the equator. that the wife of a Santiago laborer "Wt believe it was all a joke gave birth to seven i baby girls. I perpetrated by the students,” a The police statement said there police? spokesman at the scene will be serious consequences for said. those involved. He added that the federal govMidwife Adela de Figueroa was arnment itself was directing art the authority for the story that investigation into the story and spread excitement through San- had taken steps to get court authortlago. She said she delivered the ity to enter the maternity home, septuplets in her maternity home. Search Records Out she refused to admit police or By UNITED PRESS government authorities. The story that, a Chilean laborer’-! Detail after detail of the alleged wife gave birth to septuplets —a btrffitMiad circulated through the story tihat turned out to be a hoax city- L ~ to off a search of obstetThe newspaper El Mercurio was rlcal history; today,. the first to express skepticism'. It , Official medical histories go back emphasized the midwife’s refusal 35i years to find the only case of a to let authorities into thd home, woman bearing seven babies at one Then the report started clrculat- birth. This is recorded at Samelri, ing-unconfirmed, like the original Germany, on a stone tablet on the story of the births—that it was all house where the birth was'said to a hoax perpetrated by university have occurred. I

Highway Death Toll Is low In Indiana Only Five Traffic Deaths On Holiday ' By UNITED PRESS Indiana enjoyed a cold Thanksgiving day holiday ■ which was comparatively free -of accidental deaths, even though state police reported the freezing weather did not discourage motorists and highway*; were jammed. There were ..five traffic deaths, Ohly jOiie of them on Thursday. A flVe-year-otd boy burned to death* in a home fire and a sportsman died of exposure for a holiday death toll of seven. In addition, a Hoosier drowned in Wisconsin. Russell Pressler-of Osceola was the ybung fire victim. His body was recovered Thursday from the fire-charred ruins of his parents* 86,000 home. \ \ .' Fire broken out near an oil heater wjiile the family slept Wednesday bight Tho father, David Presslet, Carried two children to safety, btit roaring flames prevented him or a neighbor from saving the boy. The father carried six-weeks-old-Donald outside the burning home, thenreturned and suffered burns himself to carry out Barbara, 2. She Was taken to Mishawaka's St. Joseph Hospital withs serious burn*. Traffic victim*; Included Mary L. WHkie. 13, Huntingburg, who wgs killed Thursday night when her husband's car .swerved off Ind. 162 southeast of Jasper, struck a culvqrt, and overturned. She was huirled from the auto. k Three persons died in a Wednesdaj’ plght two-car collision on a hill of U. S. 40 east of Terre Haute. They were Anita R. Early, 23, Dayton, 0., a student at Southern Hllnois University; Mrs. Burrell Bowden, Carbondale, 111., and Annette Carter, 28, Terre Haute. - Thb first two were riding in a car with a student en route home for the holiday.

William C. Habel, 73, Pierceton, was killed Wednesday night when struck by an auto while walking along a country road near Warsaw. Fred Correll- 70, Hutsonville,, 111.,, was the exposure victim. His body was found along a Wabash river bank' west of Sullivan. Sullivan county coroner Russell Blubaugh said the fisherman-hunter apparentlyl fell into the river from his boat and suffered, a heart-attack due to exposure to the cold water. A Wisconsin Lake mishap claimed the life of Chester Kamanski, 44, Epst ■ Chicago, on Wednesday. He drowned in Lake Superior near Wasliburn. Wi?., when waves capsized Ca small boat which was taking hdm and two other deer huntlaunch. The others swam to sh|re, but Kamanski fell victlrb to the waves and cold water.

Self-Service Market Is Looted Os SSOO DENVER. UP -V-A customer at a self-service market Thursday helped himself to SSBO from an unattended cash register.

Democrats To Demand Income Tax Reduction Demand Congress x. To Follow Plan Set | Up By Democrats WASHINGTON UP —Democrat tic tax experts took the Initiative uoday in demanding that tlietiert Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, approve cuts in individual income and excise taxes. Rep. John Dingell D-Mich., number two Democrat on the tax-fram-ing house ways and means committee, advised his Democratic colleagues to be on guard agajnst any Republican move to slow down the tax reduction schedule set up by the Democrats last year. DingellJ. in letters to fellow Democrats on the ways and means committee, recalled that individual income and some excise taxes are slated to come-down as of Dec. 31, 1953. The present excess i»ofits tax on scheduled to expire next June 30. ■j ‘‘As I understand it, the estimated revenue from this tax legislation runs into an amount of eight ind one-half to 10-blllion dollars,” Dlngell’s letter said, "I believe we ought to prepare to hold the line against their extension in view of the stand asumed by the distinguished general, now the president-elect, who made - many anguished outcries xgainst excessivfe taxes-which we Democrats were charged as having Imposed with such recklessness.”

Dingell's, letter was made'available to a reporter by anothei member of the ways and means committee. Dingell said he did not Intend the letter for publication but had no objection. ■=> “You will recall he. Presidentelect Eisenhower, advocated a 10billion dollar tax cut as one of the first moves of the incoming 83rd congress,” Dingell’s letter said. \ "Then when he was informed that certain tax reductions are already and automatically provided for in the tax bill of 1951 by fixed termination dates in the year 1953 and 1954, he altered his position and if I renftmber correctly pledged W cut of up to 20-billlon dollars within \the next four years. “At any rate, with the vaunted ability, genius and teamwork of the great general it should be possible to perrpit the lapse of cer.ain impositions \such as excises and individual income taxes as provided fpr in the tax bill of 1951, (Tur« To Pare Seven) Mrs. E. Marie King Is Taken By Death Funerol Services Saturday Morning

Mrs. E. Marie Leßrun King, 52, a native of Decatur, died Wednesday at the Ford hospital in Detroit following an illness of eight months. She had been employed as an office supervisor in Detroit for the past 30 years. ; \ Shewas born in Decatur April 28, a daughter of James E. and Lucy Leßrun. Mrs. King was a member of St Paul’s Lutheran churph at Detroit. Surviving are a son, Charles of Detroit;, her stepfather and her mother, Mr., and Mrs. Addison Sheets of Wren, O.; a sister, Mrs'. William Stauffer of Fort Wayne; a brother. Ray Leßrun of Wron; three half-brothers, Carl Sheets of Fort Wayne, Leland Sheets of Wren, and Earl Sheets of Willshire, 0,, and two stepbrothers. Donald and George Sheets of Cincinnati, 0. ' 1 I The body will arrive here late tonight and will be taken to the 2?Wick funeral home, where services will be conducted at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, the Rev. Dale Osborn officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

Millis Doubles As Tax Commissioner Appointments Made By Governor-Elect sQ- - ' [ ; . V INDIANAPOLIS UP Indiana auditor Frank T. .Millis will double as state Internal revenue commissioner and his deputy, Donald H. Clark, will become Sptate budget director in the new Republican administration. p > Gov.-elect George N. Craig’s office announced t|ie appointments during the holiday. It will be a promotion in state J service for Clark and a step toward governs mental reorganization for MiUis. The appointment of Clark was one of Craig's major appointments. The Westfield man, who joined the state board of accounts as a field examiner in 1939 ahd was Minis’ No. 1 man as chief deputy auditor. Will succeed Democrat Lytle J. Freehafer in the 810,000-a-year job Jan. 12. The budget director is a sort of nformation and counseling source for the state budget committee, which submits a budget to the state legislature, the director has much to say about where and how state funds are spent.

Craig's staff said the state will save money by having Minis hold down two jobs. They said the *8.700-a-year commissioner of internal revenue's salary will be eliminated with Millis drawing only his usual auditor’s’ salary. Craig also will ask the 1953 state legislature to regroup the state’s tax collecting units into a single group — all. under the internal revenue department. This would include those tax collection duties now handled by the alcoholic beverage commission and the department of motor vehicles. 1 Millis, a Republican who was reelected to a two-year term as auditor in elections earlier this month, will not be a newcomer to the revenue department. He served as its first commlssionr when the I, (Turn T» Page Five) ''' ■ f 4 ; Students Make Trip To Chicago Saturday Three-Day Trip To Interesting Sites

A group of high school students, ofl the Future Farmers of AmericA\snd the Future Homemakers of America, will leave early Saturday morinO Jdr a threeday tour of interesting spots in Chicago. Tfyey will be accompanied, by William Journay, vocational, agriculture teacher, Mrs. Journey, and Miss Jean Steller, home economics teacher. j f j. ' ’ * ■ ■ The students will leave Decatur at .1:30 o’clock Saturday morning and are due to arrive at\ the Midland hotel in Chicago, where they

will .stay, at 7:30 o’clock. The group will visit the international livestock show at the ampitheater during the morning, and will attend a television show on WON, at 11 a.m. The boys will returnJn the afternoon to the stock show, while ’the girls will tour Chicago’s leading retail storey. Sunday, trips will be made to the museum of science and industry, the Brookfield zoo, and the Adler planetarium, i,Monday. the group will visit the Armour Packing Op. plant and the board of trade. The return trip will start at 1:45 p.m. Students' planning to take the three-dayi trip are las follows: Boys—Stanley Allison, Jim Holt. Gerald Grote, Arlen Fuelling, Richard Marbach, Russell r. Plumley, Henry Lisle Knittie, Walter Lehrman, Arlen Grote, Leroy Walters and John Frank. Girls - —Norma Agler, Neoma Wenger, Shirley Worklnger, v Coler** Lobsiger, Barbara Walter, Beverly Carol Bowman, Marcella Roth; Barbara Black, Betty Brun ner, Carol Seitz and Nanna Aurand.

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Five Women, Eight Children Among Victims Fifth Air Force Plane To Crash In Three Weeks TACOMA, Wash. UP -Thirtysix persons, including five women and eight children, were killed kw day when an air force C-54 crashed one and one-half miles north of fogshrouded McChord Air Force Base. There were three survivors, an eight-year-old boy and two servicemen. One of the servicemen was not expected to live. Col. Jack Stbvall, commanding officer of the military air transport service at McChord, said there were 32 passengers and seven crewmen aboard. The passengers incfuded 14 wives and children of servicemen ind 18 military passengers, t , The plane was enrou'e frcm Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska. It vas the fifth air force p’ane c crash while flying in or from Alaska In the last, three and the second MATS transport lost In lesthan a week.

. The toll of dead or missing aboard th§ five planes is 146. Toll Naw 236 f By UNITED PRESS At least 235 persons have been killed or are missing in crashes of United States military and civil aircraft within the past month, both on the North American con'inent and in the Pacific war theater. Four of the crashes involved C-119’s,'thi "Flying Boxcars.” Ipcluded in the crashes were: Nov. 7, Mt. Sil verthrone, Alaska, a C-119, 19 dead; Nov. 12, Shelton, Wash., a Navy Privateer, 11 dead; Nov. 14, near Seoul, Korea, a C-119 44 dead; Nov. 15, off Korea east coast, a C-46, 11 missing; Nov. 15, between Anchorage and Kodiak, C-119, 20 missing; Nov. 17, Billings. Mont., a C-119, eight missing; Nov. 22, between McChord and Anchorage, a C-124, 52 missing; Nov. 28, Tacoma, Wash., a C-54, 36 dead. ’ In addition, three persons have been killed in crashes of private planes in southern California since Nov. 1. '

Two Teen-Agers Are Killed In Accident ANDERSON, Ind. UP — Two Anderson teen-agers were killed and two others injured today *as the result of a car-train collision at a crossing oh the north edge of the city. Keith Bevilhimer Jr., 19, died instantly in the wreckage. Thomas Hospital almost six hours after the 3 a.m. accident George Carter, 18. waft in critical condition, and Tames D. McKinley, 17, in serious condition. Dr. Charles Baillie Dies At South Bend SOUTH BEND, UP — 1 Dr. Charles T. Baillie, 68, moderator of the Indiana synod of the Presbyterian church and pastor of the First Presbyterian church here for 20 years, died Thursday night after a lengthy illness. He was horn in Pictou, tfova Scotia.

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