Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 157.

American Troops Make General Retreat In Korea

10 PERSONS DIE AS CRACK TRAINS CRASH »■»' ' ..j-'Sfc M.'4 it \ * - _ _

Troops Pushed Back 25 Miles By Red Forces

Latest Communist Victory Threatens Communications To Korea Battle Field Tokyo. Friday. July 7.-<UP> - The Americans are making a gen eral retreat in Korea, pursued by x la.oao Communist tf«op> and Kat tank* Americana hare been rolled 25 mile* and the latent Comt victory baa threatened rail unication* (tom the Korean port dty nt Paean to the battle field CommiapUt forces awept southward from, the ReouiHuwon nee tor and pushed the American* back through strategic Pyohgtaek The <1 .. r, were driven out of a defea>F line <m the south bank id a WfrTOirm. «'«* r sjwwttt •ed Hand ’ “ • ’ Tinwtiftfr headquarters la Jvorka toM of the general retreat by the mealed America* -force* S-wie So.ntm /forth Korean troop* and mor* 'han lo« tank* were slugging aoathward from the Wein areaA Gen. Dougin* Max Arthur'i com maaHae lagged well behind •» Held dkapalrhe*. It eaid th* MWt* Korean* were prewlak their offhn *k* ahmg the front below Suwon Hut it mentioned movement* t<>\ ward t'hian. 11 miles south of Su i won which long line* had been u»»rtun by the; Comtnunl*r» • A new threat to the advanced American positions. now several' - -mile* south of-Pyongvaek *pd with-! in milt* of, the t>rovi'«iona.i capl tai ol Taejon.- *»• indicated by Mat Arthur’s communique ■ I It «aid the South Korean* ’till held rhutigju 47 mite’ east nf ! Pyongiaek Chungju is a transport hub commanding the main line* between l‘u*an and the battlefront The Soith Korean* were massing strength in th* Samchok area on th< coast 56 miles’east of t’hungju. and »er> striking out inland-to. an undetermined depth At the- same t Imr t h«- -V- S . TSI trial through Pyongiaek laid -open that Hank of the Pusan t'hungju transport artery, setting up a PO* stble Communist pincer* drive to choke off the flow of V S men and supplies A vital rail Ithe runs northwest from the port of Pu«an to t'hungju / Mai-Arthur reported a general niovemint of North Korean troop*, artillery tank* and supplies southward through the Seoul Suwon area tn a big tw-ale reinforcement. Communist force* which captured the Seoul port of Inchon also were moving down through Suwon toward the front The communique reported a coordinated assault by Communist tank* and infantry onC S positions Al least four Communist tank* were knocked out by point blank artillery fire "I'nitetf States troops withdrew aftuYhe action to a rendegvou* ftfr regrouping and reorganization." the communique said It apparent |y referred to the V. S; setback south, of Suwon where the retreat —started Despite bad weather which held ■ Twee Tw Wawe Twei Wilson To Succeed Gotland As Trustee Indianapolis. July «. —fVPI — Governor Scbricfcer announced the appointment today of Guy H Wilson. prominent Howard county farmer and livestock breeder, as a member of the Purdue Vnlverv ity board of trustees succeeding .1 Ward Calland. Decatur Re-ap-pointed to the board for threerear terms were Cornelius O'Brien. Lawrenceburg, and Ralph Thompson. Seymour. WEATHER Clear and eeel tonight. Friday fair and pleasant. Lew tonight 51-55 north. 55-55 south. High Friday 76-51 north. 53 55 south.

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Industries Ask Abolishment Os Excise Taxes Ask Retention Os Tax On Gasoline, Tobacco, Alcohol Washington. July 5. —(DPI— A committee of >7 industries asked congress today to abolish all leftover wartime excise taxes except those on gasoline, tobacco, and alcohol They said, thi* would stimulate business and employ tnxtit 'sKtT *7>T government greater corimration and Individual igmlngs to tap The repeal proposal was put up to the senate finance committee which is considering a house-ap-proved bill to cut a 10l of excise levies and make up the loss from othee revenue sources The 27 Mdaatrle* belong to the nafloiml ewmmUtee tar repeal o» <kt'title excise‘taxes Their chief i spokesman I* Leon Henderson, \wartiine price administrator \ The house way* and mean* cone idittee estimated that the excise cut* approved by the hottse' would , add\up to an annual jrtrvenue loss I of about ll.ulO.mtti.iM>' 1 Hut Henderson Said this figure i hM» Ir'ig by nearly half. He said! . it only JatS idw.tHw The -mate Committee was gpdttc ahead with -Work in thy tax mea sure despite ax possibility posed by the Korean waK that it might have to forget about \hrting taxes and think instead,of boosting them CM he r cimgreskHinal develop riient* \ / Korea Sen Wayne X. Morse. It Ore said congress shbuld forget about politics and stay in —ion for the duratitm of rhe Korean war A lot of congressmen. Including Morse, are tunning for reelection in the fall balloting .Most of them want to jkd the session over with some time this summer the officlal target date is Aug. 1- and go home to campaign Arm* aid -The senate armed services committee called on Gen Omar N Bradley, chairman of th. joint chiefs Ut staff, for a report I on the arms aid program Health federal security administrator Otu-ar It Ewing urged establishment of a separate depart (twee T* raw* *ia>. Four Girls Injured In Auto Accident Auto Strikes Phone Pole Near Decatur Four Adam* county girl* were injured in an automobile accident while returning to work in Decatur this noon Injured were: Marilyn Beer daughter of Bwer. Belynont Park She suffered cuts and possible chest injury. Beulah Jane Bertsch. French downship, clits and bruises ' Pauline Seeaengnth. Cralgville rural route, cuts and bruise*. Aleta Ratcliff, route six. rut about the face and neck, btjiken wrist: The accident occured at Roop's turn on the river road The girl* were returning from a visit to Mia* Dora Shaffer's. Persons at the scene of the accident after it happened stated that the car made a wide turn, and struck a telephone pole, spinning th* cir If did not turn over All tour girls were admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital The accident happened about 1 o'clock'

’’ - ' - • W;- / Route Bombers To Japan CALM ANO ATTtNTIWt, pilot* and nartgatora at tha Mad Bomb Wing am given ''hush husk" Hight ; rouO* for their B-»'a wMeh left March Field. Ca|.. shortly thereafter lo* Japan. - ■ - - -

List Schedule Far. , County 4-H Show August 7 To t All 4-H projects In the Adam* county 4-H fair, to be held 1* Maa , rae Aug 7-». wilt be judged be-1 tween July St nd Aug 5. with! grand champion* named Saturday afternoon. Aug 5. Miss Anna K ! Williams, home demonstration agent, said today Bt side* ..Mi** Williams, Mrs Jack t.ee. of Pennville, and Mrs M O Bates of Springport, will be the judges Mr* Bates will judge the baking.' canning and frosen food*, projects, and Mr* Lee will judge ;lu < lotlijng and food iireparatlotiJ Enrolled in the five' projects--clothing baking <-anning and frees jng. home Improvement tfurnlturel. and food preparation are <OS girls ; and -17 boys . Each |«roject. Is divided into five divisit n*. according to the ability of the girl .or boy In all. a total of «15 projects will be judged in the 2u division*. Several of the participants have entered more than one project. .E.ii-h exhibit will he given either a blue. red. or while ribbon., to; *hu» Its relative class Then on ; Saturday afternoon. August 5 the, grand champion for each project: will be chosen and five premium. ribbons in each division Judging will be at the .Monroe school Following is a schedule for the local judging of 4-H projects. Both the girl and her mother are Invited I io be present at the judging. July 31 loin, Decatur 4-H: 12 ini. Decaturt contlnuedl Aug 1 S:3n. Hartford Happy-Go-Lucky. 10:45, French Peppy Peppers: I. I’nion Pals; 2:45, St. Mary's Kekionga Aug. 2 s:3n, Frledhelm Peppy Pals; >10:30. Preble Jolly Juniors: 1. Geneva (Toverbloseom; 2. Genwva Limberlost Boys: 3: Jefferson | Go-getters . ' Aug 3x4:30, Berne Jolly Work-i ets; I, Blue Creek Vp and At It;! Cloverleaf of Wabash Aug 4 ii:3<t. Monroe Busy Bees: 10:30. Monroe Booster; 1. Kirkland Kut-T'ps: 3. Washington Happy Hustlers Aug 5 * 30. Monmouth Merry Maids. 1, Home improvement project* will be judged at the Monroe school Afterwards the grand champions will be picked Work on these project* started after the Indiana state fair laat September Home of the girl* start rrwrw ww Fwa* *u«M> Monthly Report Os fed Cro*Soviets KHte local Red Crosa home aervtv* ofUrw gave financial aid to 13 person* during Jun*. Nine ware veteran* and their dependent*, three weile civilian famllie* and one a aery Iceman The Red Croa* performed 545 service* during the month, the majority being aid to veteran* The ofHce reports that a hospital bed is available

Decatur, ladioaa, Thursday, July 6, 1950

Fort Wayne Lad Is Drowning Victim • July' 4. H’Pl— Paul Thoma* Vtrtrol. 11. son of Mr. and Mr*. Norbert Volrot, Fort Wayne slipped off a dam while fishing, fell Into St.. ! Joseph* river and drowned yesterday. Hl* body was recovered ! after a short aearch. ! 1 ——r. task Informed Os U.S. Navy Blockade No Threats, Frills In Notice By U. S. Washington July S. —-U'Pl— j | The Viiited. State* has lnfont|ed jiUHsia Wjthout any threat** or frill* of President Tnftnan's order to American force* to throw a . naval blockade around the Korean j coast. | ~ I Dipfomatic authorities said Mr Trumans' blockade order wa* | communicated to the Soviet foreign office* bv American ambassa dor Alan G. Kirk The envoy acted on order* the state department rent to all U.fi. ambassador* and minister* on July 3. Officials said Russia and other nation* ware Inforrtted that the naval blockade was being invoked in line with the Pulled Nations : security council decision to help South Korea resiat the red invasion from North Korea ; Made effective Immediately. It i applied both to the North Korean coaat and territory in South Korea held by the communist*. -j Delivery of the information to the Kremlin was regarded as another American effort to warn Russia against open Intervention The straight-forward language demonstrated this government's gs ] fort to avoid any provocative ■ 'brents that would prompt severe! (Tw* y» ran* s*v*>

One Os Wrecked Coaches Is Twisted Like Pretzel

(Editor's note: following Is an eyewitness description of tbe scene of the collision today between the Santa Fe railroad's streamliner El Capitan and Kansas City Chief ) By JAMES BARRETT (Reporter for the Galesburg Repleter Mail) Monica. 111 . July (TPI- One of the wrecked coaches on the El Capitan ix>ks like a pretzel made of ateel. Yow can't walk Into It YotT make ‘ the tarn around the door and that's as far as you can go. Peoria county coroner Chauncey Wood said hy would have to use torches to get out the seven dead that are in There amidst ribbons of glaas and under tbe seats in the twisted piles of steel. The other wrecked coach, where one dead person was found, alwi | was wrecked badly < , v It doesn't look right now that there are any other dead people la'

1 , . 1 ' 1 1 VariMces Granted . - J- . . -- j. l Pr Appaak Board ; Zoning Board Meets Wednesday Evening The -board of aoning appeal* granted three variance* from the sotting ordinance and authorraed a tmwawrnry permit for the plat lug of a traib-r it the' tear of thtt Harrison street property of Clarence Boring for a period not to exceed six months at the cegulavr meeting of the board held Wednesday night at city hall , Ralph E. R<m>|> enforcing off! leer, who recently rejected his own, application for a building pehnitj to remodel his property on South ' 10th street, wa* granted a varl lance in the first hearing Permission was- granted to Giles Porter to add an apartment |o his apartment house on Fourth street, without changing the wall* or structural size of the butldl'ig Mrs Sylvia Parmer was grant)' I the authority to em lose the front porch <»f her residence on Line; street There were no objection*,: from any citizens" to any of the petitions The Boring residence is loCMeJ at 537- Harrison street and the application to place * trailer at the rear of the*' rekidenre. ffi te.-t from the street, tor a short period j i wa* granted. One new petition was filed | Rol>ert Hill asks a variance so | that he can remodel hi* home on West Adams street t'nder hi* present remodelling plan’, the Hill lot is 75 square feet too small This petition will he heard July It The Itoard also heard a request form Adatp Kunowich concerning his property on West Monroe street Kunowk:h is seeking to asc> rtain the process by which h<may change the -classification of hi* property to neighborhood I shopping. He was advised by the I fTwsw ww t-sae rtakv*

“ / K I file two coaches, but until they get into the "pretzel" car you can t tell for sure. The wrecked cars were jacknlfed into the path-bf the Kansas City Chief They stayed upright, but they had been plowed into wreck age. For about a city block, the tracks were all ripped Into junk. One of the two wrecked cars was headed downhill to a fence about 10 feet lower than the right of way The other one was jammed just, about parallel to it. lifted right into place side by side when tbe Chief ; smacked into it ■ ; | The odd thing Is that both of those coaches where the dead are i lying remained upright qp the tracks —— ' Xll th* ears on the El Capitan were pretty badly messed up On I the Chief. 10 of the cars remained : on the tracks And Wret-klbg crews were able to| 1 move them right out

Two Deluxe Streamliners Involved In Freak Wreck This Morning In Illinois

Names Chairmen Os iBIF ÜBPailliaSinS Appointments Made By Chairman Frice Three new chairmen of departments for the Decatur free street fair and agricultural ahow to be held here Juljs 24 to 2». inelualve, were Announced today by Roy Price, general chairman of the event. ' Mr* Clarence Xiuar Will serve as chairman of (he crochet display. Ribbon* and trophies to be awarded in this department are pow oa display in tha window of, the Chamber of Commerce office* In the DeVoas building -Whiner*' in the various > la»M-» Alan wllJ. be cl!«ft l fe..ttiJUkke anti in the. aatlunaj. show to be held later in the year, Entry blank* also "tnay Iw obtained at the Chamber office* Robert Macklin ha* been named ■ hairman of the automobile show "Macklin announced today that he already has contract* for dlsfday of 12 new automobile* and aeveral other dealer* have expreaped Interest in the approaching show * Hill, of the Lelapd Smith Inkurance Agency, has been named ilutirman of the advertising committee His first job already bas '■tarted It is that of placing riiad signs and window cards throughout an area of 50 miles in all direc- • tioiyi from Decatur. Entry blanks are ready for the tractor pulling contest and mar ■he obtained from any farm imple ment dealer in chairman of this show, stated -ft is expected that here will be more than list entries In the contest. Consideration also is being given to" the holding of a hoyse-pull Ing contest at least one day durI Ing the fair. Price announced Entry blanks for she swine show are now being returned to Ralph Bluhm chairman of thia show and Indications are that the swine ■ dispfay will he one of the finest cud largest ever shnw-n in Decatur ] Iruman Says Rail Strike Unjustified Drastic Action Is Hinted By President Chicago July 5 -tl'Pt Pr*»l den Arthur' Glover of the. AFL »witchm*ns union refused to comment today on President Truman's threat to take drastic action to end the switchmen s strike against I five mgjor railroads Mr Truman said at hi* weekly news conference In Washington that th» strike ia unjustified rand must, be ended so that midwedtern wheaUand rattle can .He mSved Earlier. Glover said the government had not proved to the aatiafaction of the 4.000 striking switchmen that a "national emergency" exist*. He »aid the government had ignored union offer to move essential material*. The national railway mediation »oard appealed t« the union Sat.urdav to call off It* strike against the Rock island. Wewtern Pacific Great Northern Chicago Great. Western and Denver,, and Rio , Grande Western railroad*. ft Pointed to the Korean fighting a* an "emergency." "If. there is an emergency as; stated by the national mediation i toard. we have yet to see It." Glover said last night He said no progress was made yesterday in meetings with medl-l-ators. Glover said that both William j Green president of the AFL. and j i Philip Murray, head of the CIO. | w, (Teen To Fuee FSvet

Inman Vnirw ■ ■ UWIIWWu > Optimism On Korea Outlook Confident Koreow Invoders Will Be Defeated By Yanks Washington. ‘' July a. —(VPI— President. Tramas expreaeed rtmfi-j deme today that, despite Initial , reverse*, the North Korean Invad- ; era will be defeated ’ The President was asked st his J weekly news conference -if he was Mill'ijoprful that the situation Korea 'would work <Ait all right He. fcpiied’tiiif i>f ■ oufse he'!*' and. that he believed it Will work out all right The President turned hack a i number of question* on the actual I military picture In Korea He said ' he was not in a poeition to comment 1 He knocked down several report* ' concerning possible mobilisation of reserves in this eontry. H* said a ' great many amt chair strategist* *; seem ,to know just » hat should be ■ I done, but that calling up reserve* » has not byen diacussed I. He said he has po plan* for <■*!! • ing up the national guard He add ed that he has authority to d>> so I'but repeated that he has no such ■ plans . 4 The President was asked If he intend* t.« ask- additional Militarv funds frota congress .He replied, . not -at the present time The President chUi-kled when reporters told him- that .defense .1 ficlal* had canceled all apeeches in July-and asked if he planned to do ' the same He said he had no speaking dates In mind and added that he was happy that the defense department was going to devote all Its’tlme to . She job instead of making speeches The President was asked if he , aas expecting a new report on industrial mobillgation planning from \V gfuart Symington, chairman of the national security resources' hoard Mr Truman said that the»e plan* I are always up to-date and available ip him ■* Charges Two Gangs Have Joined Forces Says Costello And Capone Gangs Joined Washington, July 5 — il’Pl . Senate crime investigators were told today that the "Frank Cos- ' tello gang" in New York and the old Capone syndicate .in Chicago are joined In an alliance that wields “tremendou* Influence" aero** the nation. The testimony was given by Virgil Peterson operating direc tor of the Chicago crime commlssion and a former FBl- t agent Peterson' told thess senate'* speial crime committee that the Ca pone gjjig- has extended It*, operation* to many parts of the nation through "important alliances — particularly with th»- aocalled, ! Frank Costello gang in New J YorkIl! rapid fire order. Petereo* named a score of Chicago tinder world operators who have been : Important . i« the Cipone aymSijeeke —x-—- '——— Among those list'd by Peterson as currently influential in the Capone * group were Tony Accardo and Charles Fisc het 11 Also named by Peterson a* members of the Capone organisation were Jack Gualk. one-time i business manager" for the gang. I Ralph Capone. Paul Ricca. Ed iTaew Te rase a*s»

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70 Others Hurt As Katot City Chief Hits El Capitan As Latter Jumps Track Monk*. HI July 4— tl’Pr Ten persons were killed and 7* iajurwi today alien the Banta JVs Kansas City Chief plowed into rhe KI Capitan which had jumped o» a |wr sllel track az Ftt miles an hoar Peoria tounty coroner 4Y»aut>cey E. Wood said nine persons were kilted in the freak wreck of the two deluxe streamliner* amt anoth-r died at 8t Francis hospital'in Peoria. i Forir-eight persons were taken ito Peoria and Galesburg hospitals Other* were treated at the scene The col Halon occurred when the El Capitan speeding . -eiaMWard. pimped the- track -je« al'er R passed rile Chke' wttiv- wts ' z • Ij.jgi Jib mUes per ' t Two- of the El Capitan> <a.r« i Jack knifed across the other track l: and rhe Chief ripprt! Into theei. linking them through their steel 1! side* like "a knife through chunks n! of cheeses’’ 1 Thirteen at the El Capitan's 16 atooerlie* wave derailed M NftMM g loasly. all remained ui-righ’ in*.cUld>,g ooe th;’» wa* lotuosl •i> l »if ,'a lUdnet embettkment into a field P I where It snapped off a telegraph « |H>le ] All of she Chief's ji> coacio-s I stayed on th- tracks The freak < olltsion tore up Uhm , feet of the El Capitan s trackage I and 4' ■■ <>f ’hat te-ing used bj the Chief Av :he ctoef ripped into th. ■»■■ ; El Capitan coache*. tearing. them a«ay from the tbrwanl portion -d tin- train, eio-ip, ,-r "C E Crriuil.' of Fort Madison, la . tdamitied on" jibe brakes ' Bu s he' went oil al-. ; most a mile le fore the Ej f'apl- ( "an's diesel cainy to a halt, with the l»o baggage car* and a crew '■dormitory that had stayed-on the jtracks | J’assengers inside the two coa- ! ches hit directly by the Chief were IjdaMat a.->umt like mbl>er '■ lin a box witnesMe* saM. Four men wt re killed instantly in a washroom \ j Baggage and < lotblng were rrwled about amonjg the reclining .' hair* and heaped upon the l>odies lof the dead. , and Injured J' Twisted metal trapped many of the victims in their seats The El Capitan a two stewardesses. both registered nurse*, be ran treating the injured who screamed and moaned as rescif* worker* pulled them from the ; wre< kage Children wandered almut. weepIng as they sought their parents Mother* rntalrt through the jum bled coaches, seeking their young I sters Ambulant-** called from surrounding town* took lu injured I>> the Cottage hospital and one to ' St Mary s hospital at Galesburg 14 to St Francis. 12 to Pnxdoc <Twew Tw Pwvr «fst j - - -—a. , , Annual Horse Show Will Be Heid Here Sunday Afternoon Th* Adam* County Ridin* Club in conjunction with several fireatur merchant*, will its annual . hor*e show neat huswx k-iunliK to 'Rnv Price -awretaty of the orgaaixation. who added tha- a ' word awmber nf-mtrte* -t« rx petted-' , Cooteetant* will Vie for 44 cash priaes and rlMna* In It different e.las*es in the show which will iu< fade both wv«iera» and English style riding The .bow- >11: He held s' Hanna Nuttman park Price said, at n<»>n next Biinday He added however, that should Inc Is mt nt weather force postponement the hrwsv show will be held the following Sittday. July 16 ■ ■. ' Z ' '. ■. X More than lak Horse* and rider« are exi»evied tn compete for the priae*. Price said