Winona Republican-Herald, The (Newspaper) - June 7, 1952, Winona, Minnesota Continued Warm Humid Showers Possible Sunday VOLUME 52 NO 95 Flash Gordon Moon Mullins Start Monday FIVE CENTS PER COPY WINONA MINNESOTA SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 7 1952 SIXTEEN PAGES Ike Backers Yell Steal In Indiana Taft Takes All 32 Delegates on Rute Change Complaint By JACK BELL INDIANAPOLIS Gen Dwight D Eisenhower's backers crying Indiana cans prepared today to complete a 32 vote delegation almost solidly backing Sen Robert A Taft for the GOP presidential nomination Only formal ratification by a state convention was needed to elect 10 com- mitted to Taft Twenty listed by party leaders as Taft backers were chosen in district caucuses last night hower got one and another was regarded by both sides as neutral This result accomplished in what was called by Eisenhower's porters a change of rules in the middle the game brought threats of a contest at the national convention next month in Chicago Texas I Former Rep Robert A Grant I state Eisenhower chairman in a statement that he and i others aren't going to accept the result as final We have seen the Texas steal duplicated here in Indiana by a machine which has thrown all caution to the Grant declared The slate made by a group of power-hungry desperate men does not represent the wishes of the Republicans of Indiana maneuver 5 I iver General Dwight D Eisenhower left is greeted with a shake by one of his strongest supporters New York's Governor Thomas E Dewey on his arrival at La Guardia Field New York after a flight from Kansas AP Wirephoto to The Herald ently caught most of the napping party leaders ruled that all candidates must file by a fixed deadline yesterday and put up in fees They said anyone Who didn't qualify couldn't run At least one Eisenhower date publisher Eugene C Pulliam of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News met the line So did William Hutcheson for- j mer president of the AFL j hood Carpenters He was as neutral by both sides I Pulliam and Hutcheson were I elected unopposed as district egates but only after a rebellion against them from within the ranks of some Eisenhower backers had been quelled This hower campaign leaders instead but they lost in an effort to get their names before the caucus The other 30 candidates who filed were for Rough Tumble Battle for Delegates By ART EVERETT NEW YORK D Eisenhower was back home in New York today ready for the rough and tumble task of trying to win more Republican convention delegates His first scheduled event is a news conference this morning Eisenhower flew to New York by plane last night after opening his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination with a speech and press conference at his hometown of Abilene Kan A wildly cheering crowd of 500 broke through police barricades at LaGuardia field to shake his hand and We like Ike Another cheered him later when he came home to Columbia University j where he is I Gov Thomas E claims New York's 96 delegate j votes for Eisenhower's cause I made last night's welcome the to refer to the retired as the future President Rosy Prediction But Dewey's rosy prediction has to be backed up in the next few weeks with a lot of down to earth ike Says He Would Talk With Stalin NEW YORK Dwight D Eisenhower said today he would i be willing to arrange a meeting Steel Talks Resumed at White House All Available Production May Go Into Weapons By JERRY T BAULCH WASHINGTON House talks aimed at ending the old nationwide steel strike resume today for the third straight day any progress concealed by lipped silence of both management and the union Neither side would comment ter five hours of negotiation There was no official con- of reliable reports that the steel companies had offered or were about to offer each of the idled CIO steelworker package pay raise of 20 cent an hour Meanwhile the government pre pared to channel all into the manufacture of weap ns if the walkout continues j Secretary of Defense Lovett tol news conference yesterday tha j in view of the very grave situa the Defense Department i asking its weapons contractors to shift to plants for stee to turn out certain critical items He did not name the items bui said such action could take care of only a small fraction of the steel needed for weapons Lovett also said the department was considering making direct con- tracts with these mills but he added this is not a very promising field Defense of said about 27 plants are not struck none of them major steel producers In answer to a news conference question Lovett said the Defense Department had considered but re- placing orders direct with he idled steel companies to bring nto play a section of the Service Act which could mit government seizure of plants f the orders remained unfilled Lovett commented that studies under way for weeks on the sub- ject showed prospects of obtaining steel by this method were not very hopeful The National Production ity meanwhile drafted the order that would restrict steel ies from the mills to weapons contracts Actual ance of the order was expected to be held up at least until Sunday Crumpled Wreckage of an automobile that ried five persons to their deaths on a grade ing near Elk River Minn last night lies beside the railroad right-of-way The car was struck by a Northern Pacific passenger train bound for the West Coast AP Wirephoto to The Herald Truman Denies Air Force Outclassed in Korea War group wanted two campaigning among unpledged egates if Eisenhower is to win the nomination in Chicago j For the next week with GOP ul ot with Premier Stalin in interest of view of reports of progress be- peace But he declared he believes j macle in the White House talks the differences between the East j official said and West are not negotiable at this j to keep out of the dispute time Asked if hc replied Soviet ally while the negotiations con The official told a reporter the President was having studies made forces including the 10 to be finally elected today With some changes in personnel the Taft forces won without opposition 20 of the 22 district places filled last night Caucus Meetings Grant charged that the Taft had changed the rules in the middle of the game since he said candidates never before had been required to pay fees and file in advance of caucus ings He accused Cale J Holder state Republican chairman of ing deliberately prevented at least one Eisenhower delegate from filing The Taft group was so powerful it dumped overboard Rep Charles Halleck the state's oldest con gressman in point of service and its 1948 favorite son candidate Halleck swung the state delegation to Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York in 1948 Halleck told a reporter he had tried to file and pay his fees before the time deadline but had found the door locked in the office of State Chairman Holder Although other Eisenhower backers did not challenge the claim of the Taft forces to 30 egates Grant said he believed a third of the delegation will swing to Eisenhower at the Chicago con- vention The group apparently will go to Chicago officially unpledged the problem If I be Observers looked to Pea strength in that Democratic stronghold Also of significance is his day conference with Gov John S Fine of Pennsylvania who edly controls 32 delegate votes WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST Winona and Vicinity Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with the possibility of a few afternoon or evening showers Sunday ued rather warm and humid Low tonight 69 High Sunday 92 LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 95 minimum 66 noon 91 precipitation none sun sets tonight at sun rises morrow at weather on Page 12 portant bloc Pennsylvania's member delegation is unpledged thus far a prime target for GOP hopefuls Next weekend Eisenhower goes to Detroit for a speech Later he's off for Denver where he'll have a chance to confer with Western delegates It was the hottest night of the year with temperatures in the 80s as Eisenhower and his wife Mamie landed at LaGuardia last night in his chartered Good Natured Crowd The good natured noisy crowd surged past police to try to shake Eisenhower's hand The general I'd go anywhere and do thing to promote he told a news conference at the Hotel Commodore Asked if he thought the ences between the Soviet Union and the United States could be re- he replied he did not believe they were negotiable so long as the Soviets suppressed free government He said there is a direct clash between the ideologies of East and West back from a tear gas union discussions become locked The steel strike reopened last Monday minutes after the court declared government seizure of the steel mills r The steelworkers have been manding a package wage deal of had to use tear gas 26 cents an hour for each worker since last Wednesday by British Turn Tear Gas on Unruly POWs By ROBERT B TUCKMAN KOJE ISLAND Korea Brit- Warns Nation Still in Danger From Russians By ERNEST B VACCARO SPRINGFIELD Mo dent Truman declared today the United States Air Force in Korea can bomb the enemy at will most anywhere in his territory He coupled this obvious reply to Sen Robert A Taft and other ics of administration air policy ish infantrymen drove Communist i Declaration that 1 sighted politicians are playing with fire by slashing defense while Russia may be plotting new Koreas in other parts of the prisoners of war barbed wire fence today It was the first time United Russians Take Bite Out of French Sector BERLIN The Communists made another territorial grab on the fringes of Berlin today this time biting into the French sector the wreckage area Red people's police occupied the estate a big farm whose acreage lies 60 per cent in the French sector but whose buildings are in the Soviet occupation zone Whole Family Dies When Car Is Ripped Apart Youth Going Home From Graduation Minister Victims ELK RIVER Minn senger train smashed broadside in- a car at a crossing here shortly before last midnight killing five persons The victims were a youth who had graduated only a few hours from his high school his minister father and his mother ister and boyhood chum Dr Gordon Tesch Sherburne coroner identified the dead The Rev Edward A Dicke 5 pastor of Trinity Lutheran Long Prairie Minn and is wife also 55 Their son Martin 18 who was last night from ia College High School St Paul Their daughter Mrs Dorothy about 28 wife of a worker at Princeton linn Edwin K KroU 18 son of Mr nd Mrs William Kroll farmeri ving near Long Prairie No Opportunity The engineer of the westbound Pacific Flyer told urne County authorities he had o opportunity to stop the train j The engineer said the train was moving at about 30 miles an hour at the time and he did not see tha car until a split second before tht train hit it Ralph Williams Elk River was only a few feet from the crossing in downtown Elk River at the time of the accident car drove out on the ing while the warning bells Williams said The car hesitated for a second on tht tracks then it looked like the er tried to speed up to get off tht tracks But the train hit the car with an awful crash like an explosion didn't hear any screams Charles M Nelson deputy burne County sheriff saw the from nearby hotel dow Going to Get Hit The bells and flashing light were working at the kelson said I turned to my wife o say There's a car that's going to get But finished the train smashed into the car The club coupe was rammed in- o one of the railroad signal posts he post and its concrete base ere flipped into the wrecked car wo of the victims were carried bout 100 feet down the tracks nd hurled against a feed or Church candles the pages of a ible and graduation on cards were scattered about deal which the union called tally unacceptable The average wage for the industry is just un der an hour including over flashed his grin and waved straw hat for his admirers He was driven in a cade to his home on the Columbia campus from where he set out 18 months ago to assume command of North Atlantic Treaty tion forces in Europe About persons cheered him at his Morningside Heights dence moving Eisenhower to No matter what the future may iring in a personal or official way they can never rob us of Then he turned in for the night to renewed chants of I like Ike I wish I could hower told his admirers before he went inside I'd sing you a song Senate Trademark Dies WASHINGTON John C Crockett the reading clerk whose coat and booming voice were a Senate trademark for 40 years is dead Francis Cardinal right received a fond from Pope Pius XII at the Vatican today as the titular head of the Roman Catholic Church granted a special audience to nearly 600 Americans AP Wirephoto to The f when POWs refused to from the vicinity of engineers di ging for a suspected prisoner e cape tunnel No one was reported hurt in th prison pen housing North K rean officers and 650 sioned officers It was in this same only a few minutes earlier tha prisoners had raised five Commu nist signs but had taken down when given an ultimatum Mechanical drills failed to un cover any tunnels but the searc will continue Notorious Compound of Communist defiance on thi been out as the first to be dispersed when operation breakup gets un der way within the next few days Brig Gen Haydon L Boatner commander has Compound 76 for special attention It was learned he plans to nab the men who seized Brig Gen now Colonel Francis T Dodd just one month ago The Reds held the captive for 78 bours The POWs behind the barbed wire enclosures are DOW quiet and submissive after a week of stern action by Boatner They edly know they will soon be trans- early next nto more manageable compounds lolding 500 men each At present most of the 17 compounds hold from to men Boatner plans to use crack soldiers for the transfer The POW transfer is planned in tages our Air Force in Korea is at the mercy of enemy planes just isn't true at all Taff Talk Reduced Taft candidate for the can presidential nomination said in a talk several days ago that our planes are outnumbered four to one our ground forces two to one and that administration neglect has left us with about planes while Stalin has in combat groups and is building them faster than we are Among other things the dent said today that the United Continued on Page 12 Column TRUMAN Dr Tesch said the five were dently instantly killed A N Dare editor of the Elk River Star News said there had been several fatal accidents at the railroad crossing but none in re- cent years The crossing is on a slight grade The accident happened as the car turned off U S Highway 10 and 52 onto evidently heading north to Princeton to take Mrs Minke home River Search On For Lost Twins descended on f KENMARE N D Dragging operations continued today at Des Lacs Lake here as the search went on for James and John tier cuts through this land the belong entirely to the French tor to aid in the food supply of Berlin Since then the Russians have changed their minds Once before in January 1951 a ment of Russian soldiers and police descended on the farir to make a border survey but re treated when French and West Berlin police showed up K e n m a r e er in to West Germany but they le East-West traffic through normal y The Russians continued today bar Allied motor patrols from the international highway linking y ope that tbe boys sons of Rev and Mrs E W may still be alive was practically wiped out with the finding of a canoe paddle in the lake The boys have been missing since 3 p.m Thursday when they left home to go canoeing on the lake Their overturned canoe was found late that night but the dles were missing Sheriff G J Westlake of Minot said one paddle was recovered Friday This Pup Is Just Learning how to use his new peg leg by his owner Mrs Harriet Lewandowski Milwaukee Wis Long John lost his leg at birth AP to the Herald Holdup Backfires CENTRALIA HI A man walked into a rural night club at 4 a.m flourished a gun and told some 30 This is a stickup Line up against the wall with your hands in the air One patron refused his order to land him the money from the cash Centralia police said hat no one else obeyed the matt ither The whole thing made the e holdup man so nervous he ed and ran out the door
