The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST Fair and cooler tonight, low 20. Tuesday fair and not quite so cold inf afternoon, high 46. Entered as Second Class Matter Oct. 4,1895, at Postofficexat Tipton, Under the Act of March 3, 1879 Tip VOL. TIPTON, (IND.) TRIBUNE, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1952 AIDED BY MECHANICAL HEART BOBO, the dog used In the first trials of the mechanical heart operation.

Is shown (bottom) a week after the surgery. The animal suffered no ill effects and has only the incision scar to show. The artificial heart successfully took over "complete function of maintaining blood supply" of 41-year-old man while his heart was opened and worked on by surgeons for 50 minutes. The horseshoe shaped incision Is displayed by the unidentified rheumatic fever patient (right), the first to benefit from the mechanical heart. The great dream of surgery was performed at the Harper Hospital.

Detroit $700 Plate-Glass Doors in Army Camps Stirs Congress WASHINGTON (INS) The military was notice today that Congress wants no more extravagances such as $700 plate-glass doors, in future camp facilities. The House Appropriations Sub-committee on Military Public Works reprimanded the armed services in a report for ignoring President Truman's order for "austeritory" on post-Korean construction. 4 The report made it Congress would tolerate no more "over-elaborate" buildings such as a small Army cafeteria at Pasadena, which it hinted looked more like a nightclub than a service building. The "ultra-modern" the target of wide discussion at singled out for spe- jcial, attention in the report, which frowned on the "pair of $700 plate Polio Vaccine Tests Made on Six Children more BALTIMORE The Balti News-Post said today that il lltU I'll Hit- JJUli VSL V' vv fJlULW six children have been vaccinated glass doors set in bronze at the successfully against the three rec-1 entrance" and the "circular snack cgnized types of polio in tests proving the human body would respond to the vaccines. The newspaper said Dr.

Howard A. Howe, adjunct professor of epid- emiology at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public.Health, was to announce the experiment at Cleveland today before the American Public Health Association. The News-Post said the children all are bed-ridden imbeciles, two to five years old, who probably bar with pedestal-type leatherette seats." The report asked the Pentagon for a list of punishments given officers whoA'iolated the president's committee, headed by Rep. Riley S. has been able to find "only a few isolated 1 instances of disciplinary action" against those who'violated it.

Congress, since the outbreak of the Korean war, has appropriated eight billion 900 million dollars for military construction. Much of this never wffl know of their contribu- has been for secret overs eas proj- tions to the advancement of scien- ects tific knowledge and perhaps to The Senate Pre aredness ub manity. Results of the the paper added, suggest that at an undetermined time in the future, infantile paralysis may be as rare as smallpox in countries where vaccination is general. It warned, however, that a great amount of research may yet be required before any such multiple- vaccine can be prepared in large enough quantity or at practical enough cost to permit widespread Quaker Men Open Earlham Conference RICHMOND First National Conference of Quaker men opened a week long stand today at Earlham college. Some of the most outstanding men.

in the nation will address various meetings of the group, which was organized last- spring and initiated the first of this month. Included in the program are Charles F. Kettering, vice-president of General Motors Corporation, who will deliver the homecoming address Saturday, and Sir Oliver S. Franks, British ambassador to the United States, who will give the dedicatory address that morning. Sessions will open this evening with a talk on 1 the value of Quaker philosophy in modern business, by D.

Yarnall, president of the) Yarnall-Waring companf, of Philadelphia. committee repeatedly has denounced waste in overseas construction, particularly North African bases. Its chairman, Sen. Johnson said Sunday that waste in the African bases may mount to upwards of 25 mil- jon dollars. The House report dqalt with construction of at home.

It criticized the military, too, for being "less than candid with congress" in asking for funds. It accused the Pentagon of using a foot-in-the-door" technique to get initial money for construction it knew would run into much more of an outlay than it indicated. Money could be saved, too, according to" the report, if the military would decide at the outset what it wanted and would standardize such buildings as barracks, mess halls and warehouses. NATION'S COAL MINES CLOS XJ Parties to Fill Hoosier Air With Political Talk INDIANAPOLIS (INS) Oratorical giants of major political parties will be in action in this state during the week. With the election only two weeks away, the ether will be filled with campaign oratory henceforth.

The chief Republican targets of President Truman 'and Governor Adlai E. -Stevenson will be together in Indiana tonight. Allies Maul Foe in Fierce Hill Battles SEOUL and ROK (Republic of Korea) -troops mauled two regiments of Chinese Reds today in pitched battles on Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge on Korea's central front. Communist commanders threw from 5,000 to 7,000 men into separate attacks against American'posi- tions on Triangle and ROK defenses on the ridge. One frontline report said that the Reds were under orders, to take the Allied positions "or die." Communist- casualties were not announced immediately.

Savage fighting raged through the night and until late in the morning before the Chinese broke off and retreated under a hail of Allied small mortar fire. arms, artillery and Only small arms fire blazed this They are Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and Senator William E. Jenner of Indiana. McCarthy is the 15th GOP senator to come to Indiana to aid Jenncr's re-election bid. McCarthy is to speak in.

Gary this noon and meet Jenner at a supper rally in Austin, Scott county, tonight, at which both will speak. At Evansville tonight, Republican Congressman former Clare Booth Luce, of will address a GOP rally. Governor Stevenson, who spoke- at Evansville and Indianapolis on September 26, again will invade Indiana this week. On Wednesday the Democratic nominee will speak at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend after a motorcade through that city. An hour later he will deliver a 10- minute whistle-stop speech in Elkhart.

On scheduled to make rear platform November 1, Stevenson is i auucuuicu LV inane icai piunuiiiL afternoon between American Sev-j addresses in Fort Wayne and enth Division infantrymen on Triangle Hill and Chinese forces on Pike's Peak. Soldiers of the Second ROK Division pushed to the crest of Iron Horse Mountain in routing the Reds from still another position in the heavily area. contested Triangle Hill One chewed-iip' Chinese regiment began to withdraw from Triangle Hill at 9 a.m., leaving the slope dead and hobbling strewn with wounded. On Sniper Ridge, one mile east, hard-fighting ROKs stalled a battalion size Chinese attack until reinforcements swelled the Red force to regimental power. The Chinese, now outnumbering the South Koreans, charged up vital Hill which dominates the length of the strategic line along the ridge.

After a vicious hand-to-hand battle, the ROKs pulled off Pinpoint and called down a murderous "time on target" artillery on Chinese troops holding the Pin-j V-USG Ql Gary. His 20-minute in Fort Wayne is slated to start at 3:10 p. m. and his 15-minute discourse in Gary at 5:35 m. old forensic warrior will turn to the fray this week.

He is Paul V. McNutt, former Indiana governor and erstwhile American, Legion national. now a prosperous attorney with offices in Washington and New York. Me-' Nutt also has served as high commissioner to the Philippines. At the 1940 Democratic national convention in Chicago, McNqtt rejected a near-certain vice-presidential nomination because President Roosevelt preferred Henry A.

Wallace for that post. McNutt scheduled to speak at Continued on page 6 Mount Chosen to Hear Negligence point crest. County Democrats Plan Box Supper Tipton county Democrats will stage an old-fashioned box supper at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday county Democratic headquarters, North Main street.

The event is being sponsored by the Tipton County Young Democrat club. The ladies will prepare box suppers which will be auctioned off among the men in attendance, i Democrat candidates for county offices and precinct committeemen 'will be present. Tipton County Circuit Court (Judge C. W. Mount has been chosen to serve as special judge in the-wilful negligence case against two present and two former Madison county officials.

The last Madison county jury charged that there was a variety of irregularities in the rewarding of three bridge construction contracts to. the Burke Construction company, of Anderson, which went bankrupt before completing the work. Named in the grand jury accusation are Harold Foust and Edgar Thurston, present commissioners: Merle Foust, former commissioner; and H. G. McCliniock, former Madison county auditor.

WHERE KOREAN HILL BATTLES RAGE Stoner Defeated I. U. Class Election David Stoner, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.

N. Stoner, 228 North West street, was defeated Friday in the election of class officers at Indiana university. Stoner, a 1952 graduate from Tipton high school, was running for treasurer ol the freshman class on the organized ticket. The Independents" at-1. made a clean sweep of all freshmen offices, while organized students were victorious in the other threei classes.

NORTH KOREA KOREA SEOUL HAN RIVER TAECHWA FURIOUS PIOHtlNO CONTINUES on Korta'i central front whert United and Chinese Communist troopi have tor dayi been engaged la a series of desperate itrugglu for the possetdon of vital hfll Centers of fiercest recent lighting bare been Triangle Hill, Finger Ridge and White Rone HfU. Allied ere holding then areas la the face of counter that have proved costlj to the enemy. (CcMpi Prtit) EARLY SNOWFALL IN MILWAUKEE WINTER HAS ARRIVED ahead ot schedule In Milwaukee, Wls. The city had its earliest snowfall in 41 yean when fall of one inch wu recorded. The last October snowfall was on 1911.

(IntemottonaV Light Snow Throws White Sheet Over Bloody Weekend Deaths snow flurries were expected to strike parts of Indiana today, throwing a sheet of white over a bloodstained week end of violent deaths in- the state. At least four Hoosiers died in two airplane crashes residents of Evansville were, killed a private 'pBihe crashed Uan'a, a thunderstorm Tuesday. The plane was found Sunday. 'Killed were Albert Lacy Wilson, president of the Wilson and Wilson Oil Wells Supply company: Mrs. Phyllis Bracket, 28, wife of an Evansville police officer, and Jack Brindley, pilot, Vernon E.

Rody, 26, of Kokomo, was killed in Howard county Sunday when his light plane crashed in a clover field about five mile's northeast of Greentown along state road 513. Another form of vioience claimed a life in Indiana during the weekend. Sid Bufkin, of lit. Carmel, 111., was killed when his-race car overturned at the Fort Wayne Speedway last night and upside down into the track's guard rail. Bufkin's wife, Katherine, and their 18-month-old daughter were spectators at the time of the accidents took another tremendous toll of lives during a weekend which saw thousands of motorists out tp see the fall colors of Indiana woodland areas.

Anderson Motorist Frances Monday, 1C, Indianapolis, was killed when cars driven by Donald Turner, 16, of Anderson, and James La Fever, 16, of Indianapolis, collided at an Indianapolis intersection. Earl L. Baker, 3G, of La Paz, was killed when his truck and a car collided near South Bend Sunday. Two other persons died in separate car-truck collisions. Verda Ai Robb'ins, 35, of Montpelier, was killed.

on Ind. 3, about five miles- north of Greensburg, and Harold D. Keyes, 3.6, of Louisville, died in a' collision on U. S. 31, north'of Columbus.

Elmer Springer, 64, of New Castle, and his wife, Arnelle, were killed last night When a Nickel Plate railroad freight train struck at a crossing near'their home. Herman Re'nner, 27, of Johnson, was killed when he drove his car into the side of a New York Central train at Owensville. Kokomo Woman Dies Mrs. Melba Seybold, 78,, of South Bend, died when a car driven by her daughter, Mrs. Hilda Lovelace, 36, of South Bend, col- dided with one driven by Mrs.

Veva Martin, 42, of Mishawska, in South Bend. Two young boys were killed in separate accidents. Earl Niceum, 6, of Lafayette, died last Saturday of injuries suffered in a two-car crash on U. S. 52, two miles west of Otterbein, and.

a (Continued on Page 6) Chinese Make Missions Into Red Shrines HONG KONG (INS) Missionaries in Hong Kong'disclosed today the tragic details of the Red Chinese assault on the Roman Catholic Church, carried on under the guise of "reform." Spokesmen for the clergymen who have been expelled from the Communist dominated mainland told how the once-prosperous Catholic missions in China been changed from places of divine worship to citadels of pro-Communist The missionaries reported that St. Michael's church in the old legation quarter of Peiping, Red China's capital, is now under the "spiritual" direction of a "progressive" Chinese priest who has trans formed it literally into a Red shrine. Behind the main altar two huge Red flags are draped, another covers the communion rail, two more grace the vestibule and another pair flank the path to the gate, which is also decked in flaming Red. The missionaries said that a huge red star forms the background for the crucifix in St. Michael's and the two church columns near the sanctuary are hung with the mottos, "Long Live Mao Tse-tung" and "Long Live Communism." Other columns in the church fly streamers that in bold characters: "Christians Unite to Chase out the Imperialists." Drunk Driver Pays $10 Fine in Court Fred Arley Pile, 30,.

of route 1, Gaston, was fined $10 and costs in Tipton county circuit court today for drunken driving. Also, his driver's license was revoked for four months, and he was given a six-month suspended sentence to the Indiana state farm. Pile was arrested at a. m. Sunday on state road 28, one mile west of Tipton, by State Trooper Robert Zell and Deputy Sheriff Paul Grimme." A companion of Pile's, James A.

Williams, of Muncie, was released today after being held for investigation. 375,000 Idle in 20-State Walkout PITTSBURGH (INS) The powerful United Mine Workers Union shut down the nation's soft coal mines today in a protest against the Wage Stabilization Board cutting 40 cents from the $1.90 daily pay boost negotiated in a contract with the coal industry. About 375,000 miners are involved in the 20-state walkout which extends east from Virginia as west as New Mexico. The Southern Coal Producers Association in Charleston, said the walkout throughout the South was virtually solid with mines idle in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Earlier Eastern coal miners in Western and Central Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio refused to work until the Wage Stabilization Board restores the 40- cent cut.

Diggers walked out in Union Reds Could Disrupt Defense Work those areas last Thursday to protest WSB delay in ruling on the pay raise. The diggers are backing their or nothing" threat voiced while the WSB was deliberating their contracted pay raise with the charge in releasin; coal operators. of testimony, some Neither UMW President John L. Lewis, "nor the operators, nor the government would comment on the work stoppages. The miners, particularly in Pennsylvania, told newsmen that it did not matter to them whether the strike was a protest or a continuation of their traditional "no contract, no work" policy.

The WSB-action, they say, voids their contract with the operators. Lewis's only comment on the wage board's surprise action in approving a pay boost of only $1.50 of the total agreed on by the UMW and. employers was- "it's a glorious attumn day." The initial report of a "sit out" strike came from Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company's Montour No. 10 mine, where the diggers failed to report at the 6 a.m. EST, WASHINGTON Sen Me- Carran (D) charged today that Communists who have infiltrated some labor unions are in a position to disrupt operations of scores of defense plants.

The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee chairman made the a transcript of it secret, taken in Cleveland and Washington from members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine workers. At the same time, he esHtr! on all labor unions to oust Communists and pro-Communists from their staffs. McCarran pointed out that r.im UE members active in the Cleve. land area were named as Communists by other members of the union which has been expelled from the CIO as Communist-led. He said each of the nine declined to say whether he was a party member.

Noting -that -the independent union's members are employed larg ely by defense plants, McCarran added: "They (the Communists) are in positions and are maintained in those positions by the hard cora showup. Some 120,000 diggers in nine states wandered off the job last week-in protest over WSB delay in approval of-the "full" pay hike. Coal sources were reluctant to speculate on what Lewis's next move, might be. It was generally believed, how-1 WASHINGTON A ever, the one course left to him! York federal grand jury today- Continued on page 6 Four Indicted In Tax Fraud would be to to negotiate new contracts which would give men the disputed forty cents in some "non-inflationary" manner. The miners themselves would be the first -to suffer from a nationwide shut-down of coal production.

Both Commercial and industrial (Continued on Page 6) 'Chain Key' Will Find Way to Tipton Through Tri Kappa Tipton's-Tri Kappa chapter may soon fall in line to receive a "chain key" from one of its neighboring the idea of the Richmond chapter grows. Although there's a law against "chain letters" with the questionable get-rich gimmick, there apparently is 'no law against "chain keys" if their purpose get Hoosiers better acquainted with each The Richmond chapter of Tri to International News Service, originated "the key of friendship" with a ranch party for the Winchester chapter. The Richmond girls Winchester chapter a 24-inch woodea key, painted black and white, the sorority's colors. The key also is a Tri Kappa symbol. i Winchester Tri Kappas I are charged with passing the key along to another Tri Kappa group from a nearby town at another party.

According to Miss Martha Elliott, president of the Richmond group, the purpose of the hospital- key is to get Tri Kappas from various Indiana towns better acquainted with the other and thus 'unlock new doors to fun, fellowship, and friendship." Since there are 172 -Tri Kappa charters in 114 different Indiana cities and the 24-inch key ihould become a much traveled symbol. Tri-Kappa was founded in Indianapolis 52 years ago and ts chapters are to be formed only in the state of Indiana. handed down tax evasion indictments against four members of a powerful post-war syndicate which allegedly made "huge" profits from the sale of sugar products and corn syrups. grand jurors estimated that the four men owe more than Sl.000,000 in back taxes and penalties. One of them is a former assistant U.

S. attorney. Attorney General -McGranery announced the indictments in Washington and said they grew out of an operation which began in 1945 as the "American Brands Corp." He identified those indicted as: Howard Lawn, Long Branch, N. former assistant U. S.

attorney at Newark, N. J. He was recently indicted on charges ot evading $8,356.88 on his 1945 personal income: William J. Giglio, a New York businessman. Frank S.

Livorsi, who has previously been convicted under the narcotic laws. Louis J. Roth, New York accountant, who has previously been indicted for making false statements to the Reconstruction Finance Com. The half-dozen indictments against the four men charge numerous cases of income tax evasion, most of them dealing with American Brands and related companies. Sgt.

Knotts Given Furlough in Japan WITH THE 25TH INFANTRY DIV. IN Sgt. Ronald L. Knotts, of 424 South Main street, recently spent a five-day vacation from Korea on a rest and recuperation leave in Japan. A member -of the 25th Infantry division, he stayed in one "of the finest hotels in Japan and enjoyed many luxuries unobtainable in Korea.

The leave is part of the Army's policy to give the fighting soldier a rest from the rigors of combat. Sergeant Knotts is a squad leader in Company of the 25th division's 14th Infantry regiment..