Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1950 — Page 1

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AndVamienberg Back From East Assert Korean War To Turn Out Well For United States Washington. July IS — fl'PI —, Csns. J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt , S. Vandenbent returned from the Par East today with assurances that "everything will turn out all riirht" in Korea and to report on how mach more money and men are needed to defeat the Communist aggressor* . _ landing in a driving rain at National airport, the two generals imusad for only a few words with newarnen and then drove to the I'entagon to draw up their reports for President Truman and defense • secretary Ixiul* Johnson. - On tho>e reports will hinge to s ’great degree how much money will he needed to defeat the North Koreans —'some estimates put It »t an emergency appropriation ot 2*’ IMHI 000.000 Collins, army chief of staff, and Vandenberg.' air force chief, flew io Tokyo Monday to confer with r .Cm JkMMtJUM MacArthur and gel ■ a first-hand report oa. hi* need*. Both .hru'hed oft peqsmen won that score Collins would say only The troops are doing damn well and everything will turn out a)l right ” Officials sgld the national de tense- department would ask budget bureau and WMie House approval foj an emergency apttfoprjation up to iS.itOo.WJ'OO. Others tald.that figure was'too high. Assistant defense secretary W J. McNeil, however, had thia to say; ■ • We haven’t got the estimates prepared We will not be in shape to nrcnare them for the nest 10 days ; ' rid WeW'TCitn not i.n ” «-vep to give Bn estimate until we are abb- tn determine what Is needed A land. air. and sea task force of 100.004 men and up appeared today to be a reasonable eipecta tlon At least a lltnitrd call-up of armed service reserves seamed in evitable There were unconfirmed . r.-porls that Mr. Truman would call up part of the national guard Defense officials said there was no national guard call planned as of today That might mean mere ly that It would not come until neat week Rumors of industrial, mobilisation and war time controls tended to wilt some under Insistence of White House Intimates that the president Is against both at least for now. — Within the week he has told White House callers he did not believe such would be necessary Mr Truman hopes the emergency will be contained within Korea .md that war time restrictions can I* avoided His Intelligence reports do not detect indhatlons that Communist aggression la *’ tout IO break out elewhere Hut the president has l>een say Ing in language spiced With pro faniry rhat he Is disgusted with hoarders, especially food and auto tire buyers An Intimate quoted him today like thi- ’ ~ "Silliest thing I ever heard of. The tire and sugar markets are glutted. Why should ther hoard? Th- country is overflowing with food right now" But the president also said no —. sound Judgment could I* made of the extent of the emergency and the burden upon the national economy until we actually begin to fight back In Korea. If th/load la great, enough, restrictions will be sought A powerful brake against an administration request for control is labor’s opposition to being frosen in Jobs or wages Hebron Girl Drowns In Lake Michigan Gary. Ind-. July IS. — 4VPI - A Hebron Ind., girl. 17-year old Delores Thatcher, drowned In latke Michigan yesterday while swimming at Marquette Park beach. Efforts to revive her wit-i an Inhalator were unsuccessful. WEATHER Fair and warmer today. Partly cleudy tonight and temorrew with scattered showers er thunderehewere late tonight. ending tomorrow afternoon. Turning cooler temorrow. High today 44-M. Low tonight «MS north. 44-4* south.

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two lorresponaenTS Barred From Front Dislike Dispatches Written About War Tokyo. July 14. — (UPi —Peter Kalis, her of the Vnfted Press and Tom Lambert ot the Associated Press have been f<| bidden by public information oft leers at su- - promo heedquart, rs to return to . the Korean front. I Hoth correspondents had flown shack here to rest up from covering the opening phases of the Korean war. They were preparing to return to the front today when Col. M. P. Echols, press relations officer at headquarters, informed them they would not be permlted to go Echols- said he did not Ilk-- the dispatches Kallscher wrote about the series of military reverses the d’nlied states has suffered in Korea. He said they made the army look bad” and "gave aid and" 1 comfort to the enemy." Echols said the facts reported In Kallscher’s dispatche. were correct but he did not like rhe ■ way in which they were written Ernest Hoberecht. I’. P manager for Japan, told Echols he would carry a retraction of any dispatch Which the" army could prose was hHwrw t >fe added that the r*W< •d 'Pros* intended io, report Afc. . foots when, there were, defeat*, and would be glad to report victor les where there were victories Echols replied that he conceded the fact that front line reporters knew Hie situation on the battle* .field heat. The Associated' Press Tokyo hiiresu said they were Informed by L Echols that I-ambert. too. was bar ' red from Korea for writlag dispatches that "gave aid and comfort to the enemy." The A P said ' Echols did hot question the factual accuracy us Limliert’s dis patches. - Kallscher was trapped behind the enemy--lines in Korea with a " WtW had a I hlilTilaylt The Korean Commiinlst'radio at Pyongyang broad.chat a false re|H>rt that he had been capture.! When he made his way hack to the American lines, he wrote a frank and tactual dispatch about his experiences and conditions at the front. —— i New York. July IS — tIJPt I I’nlted Press -world headqtmrt'-rs j here sent a message to Col M P. j Echols today. asking him tor specific charges against Peter Kal--1 Ischer Slayer 01 Two Cops Caught In Chicago Wounded Negro Is Nabbed In Closet Chicago. July IS — <VPI — A " hahdn ~Wlnrkilled two policemen was captured as be crouched on a closet shell, blood flowing from a wound inflicted by one of the 1 dying officers Revenge-seeking fellow police1 men seised Bernie Davis, gangling ' Js-year-old negro, five hours after | he shot It out wHh detectives Ed | ' ward Crowley, tl, and Don Me- ■ ’ Cormick, IS. 1 State's atorney William Boyle said he would do his "utmost' to 1 send Davis to the electric chair r The gun battle yesterday uc--1 curred when Crowley and Me • Cormick went to Davis' home to 1 question him about a SS.SM rob--1 bery at a finance company In ’ Weirton. W . Va.. and an unauc--1 ceasful holdup at a Steubenville. ’ O . .bank . I '* Davis admitted today that he Was in Weirton the day of the holdup He became a saspect when Weirfott police learned that the holdup men had driven a car with - Illinois license plates and one of I four Weirtow-tmCMcagn. telephone I rails that day had l>een mad- to i Davis' home. -e t DaVis said another negro, shorn i he named oaly as Ardell Nelson. was with him In Weirton When the IWo officers knocked at his door yesterday. Davie open rd fire, hiring Crowley In the thigh and bead and McCormick in the •bdonm Both officers managed to draw their pistole and return the fire One of their slugs hit Davis In the knee as he Jeaped through a win dow. slid down an adjoining roof and escaped through aa aUoy.

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Warner Gear Strike Is Ended At Muncie " By Compouy, Umoa Mun.l*. TW July Ik-HttPl— Citi ualted aato workers retwraed today to their fobs st roar Werner gear division plants of Borg Warner C«>rp. ending a strike which began July 1 Home I.amt workers voted yesterday overwhelmingly to accept the n»w costtract recommended by thtlr negotiators The first groups jg Workers reported for duty al 11:30 leal eight The new contract provide a wage increase of five cents an hour for noh-producHertr workers and an ".wrect inequities Peneiomt of II I? I*l month lor worker* who reaches year* of age and have 35 years service also were Included An equalshare voluntary health and hospitalisation plan also was included A m.tdified union shop clause was written into the contract which | gives probationary employes the tight lb join or stay independent ! when they are accepted CID officials said the new agreemeat was "a very much improved contract." It will continue for one year unless terminated, by either party before expiration. The strike halted production of transmissions and overdrives for Ford. Studebaker. Na*h and KaiserFraser. Development ot a, new automatic transmission for Ford also was stopped. Decatur Areas Are Sprayed With DDT City firemen, under the supervl sion of chief Cedric Fisher. Friday completed the first round of DDT spraying throuattow, fhscatur Alleys, the city dump and eating areas at the city parks were given an extra heavy dose of the fly I killer,- _ • ’ The work, which is Hone each year by the fire department, us- | Ing one of the fire' trucks for the I spraying power, is approved by the city board of health The alleys in the uptown area were almoat void of flies and other insects Saturday morning, a spot cheek revmled A so und complete spraying will be given the same areas in another month or six weeks, and a third will be used If necessary Cancel Vocation Plans At Allison Indianapolis. Jaly H —(VFISome l.Pta workers will stay >t their production llae jobs turning oat jet - -plane engines and tans transmissions at the Allison division of General Motors her*. Im stead of taking vacation* during 'the first two weeks of August | The vacations wore cancelled veatorday by Allison general manager E B NewHl after a request from the air forte and army ord aaace that the big war plant stay open - - r Noon Edition

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4>H Gob Exhibit Program Published The 4-H chib - sahMt progrim. tor .Mm 4-H einb fair Aagast T-kj at Monroe, has been published, dud win Se mailed ent today L B. A<h •bUd- cOwnty agent, said today. The program. »• pager taw.' he eludes the names and members of sponsoring groups, rules for shewing exhibits at the 1-H fair and rales for the stale fair. They Will be mallad to all rural route box holders tn the County, and all Pity and town «-H member* In the caipnty. Archbold said. 4 _—:—__ I ' ■ . ... - June ChtutofiM High At Library - . rs- .'r * .. , Highest June Month In Library History Decatur's library had ittf highest June circulation In it* hlttory—--3.186 hooks—this last month. Miss Hertha Heller, librarian, pointed out today. Os these books I.7#<’ were read by children and 1.371 by adult*. Miss Heller stated. Although this is a record for she continued. It was not a record month, because reading is much heavier in the winter. The freedom train project, to encourage school children to reed more during the summer months, Is half completed. Miss Heller said. Os the 2M children who started the reading project. 13 have reached the east coast, or completed 10 book*. Mlm Anna Marie Miller, a sixth grade student, ha* read the staggering total of 34 bunks this summer, to lead the parade. Her number has helped push the fifth and sixth grade group into the driver's sent tor this week, meaning that fifth and sixth grade pupils have read more books than any other group. In this group Miss MHler la engineer. having read the most books; Elisabeth Miller is next with 2» books; Rita. Heiman I* third with 17 books, and Judy Parrish is fourth with 24 book* read this summer, In the first and second grades. 14 children have read their 10 books; 11 have reached the east coast in the third and fourth grades; nine have finished ia the fifth and sixth grade*, and ar* working for five-book stars; and seven seventh and eighth graders have completed 10 books. Cliurcbos To Vote On Community Revivol a Each member charch of the Decatur Associated churches will be given the opportunity of voting on whether there will be a eamm-unlty-wide revival here this fall it wa* learned following a meeting held Thursday night by representatives of member cbarches. The meeting wa* called by the evaageUatic ceaamittee of ths association. after that group had voted favorably OR boldiM A citJ-, wide revival in the near future * While efnetato of tbe group drdined to give a formal statemwot j I; is uedseutsni that tbee* attend lag Thursday's meeting daoMod that each church should vote on, the matter I

Stale Chief Justice Speeks To Altomeys » Urgot CoMtitutional Right* Bo Oboerved French LAck. Ind. July IS. — (UPI — Chief Justice James A Emmert of the Indiana supreme court told Hooaier lawyer* and Judges today they should be careful Io observe tbe constitutional right* of persons accused of crime*. ; 1 ~ Emmert, speaking on the work of the supreme court during the last year |O the annual convention of th* Indiana state liar association. said the court's calendar was I dogued with petitions from prisoners who claimed they received uneomirKcftUMrat-traatmelrt.' "WA regret to repbrr that top much of the court's tint.- I* still I being-consumed tn deciding mis-1 cellsneou* proceedings brought by prisoner* who assert they hsve been denied due process under the fourteenth amendment, or some, constitutional right under the bill of rights of the Indiana constitution,” Sahl Emmen. He nid the public defender. »p pointed as attorney far pauper prisoners, wss saving much time for the court "However, many (prisonersi act as their own lawyer*, with the result that time is frequently e* pended on matters which are without merit, or so defective that It is impossible to determine whether relld on the merits cogld be granted or not." the chief-Justice said. "During the year there were S 9 miscellaneous proceeding* filed by prisoners." he said. "Each of these matter* was considered In confer-eth-e. many ot them requiring more time for agreement than for agreement on an opinion deciding an appeal.” Emmert said If all trial judges and defense attorney* should read Powell V Alabama, a V 8. supreme court declKlon on the Scottsboro case and three Indiana cases which were decided in lhe l*2o's. there would be few prls, oner appeals for the state's high court to consider Highway Department Using New Machine Adam* county road worker* have completed their first wees with tbe use of the highway department's new diesel • powered Caterpillar machine The new machine. first ever used in the county. is regarded aa ene of the most modern piece* of road machlner 'n tbe world The “CM" is a combination mow er. scraper, ball-doser, in fact M can do most anything necessary for tbe upkeep of the county * road*. In the winter the machine can be used as a snow- plow. Roy Heller, veteran highway employe has been operating the new equipment He accompanied the county commissioner* to Peoria. HI., last week and drove I tbe saacbtM back to Decatur. The Tetart trip took two days Th* aew aequiaitloa to the highway I department operate* on fuel oil. and according to highway attache* th* operating cost so far ha* beer , lean than the cost of a« gaaollaei operated similar machine

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f •, ■ * - Dog Fund Defkif roui lownsnips Funds Insufficient To Pay All Claims That the county — or its lirestock — ha* not gone completely to the dt>gs;Jhi ■ blessing perhaps, in that the state's contribution to the county's dog fund is insuffl dent to meet demand. Four- of Adam* county's township* — Blue Greek. Preble. St. Mary's and t’nlon — were defh dent In their dog fund* to car* for all claim* of livestock owner*. The other eight townships had sufficient -funds to meet the claim payments. In all. lhe deficit from th* four townships ’amounted to »Mt*'.4S. and this sum wa* sought by the county -auditor - from the-*«•»»•. auditor However, the latlel rr turned a check.to Adamecoaaty tor 4414 49. which auditor Thurman I. Drew will pro-rate among the tour township* The township* will receive varying amounta. according to the claims Blue Creek township trustee will receive 27479 to distribute. Prehle. 2102 17; 8t Mary's, 2174.32. and I nion. 243.21. The dog . fund is derived from r the dog tax and is instituted tp , protect Tarnier** livestock from marauding dogs. Should dogs kill j sheep or other livestock, the township trustee appoint* appraiser* to calculate the damage ami a like I tl*. irUstees will l»e forced to pay { first claims first, then when the money runs out. the remaining claims will be paid from next year's funds The excess funds which come from the state auditor's office to care for such deficits in the townships are obtained from the muni dualities which have no such claim* These funds are pro-rated to the counties, and then to the townships, then to the claimants. Urges Christians To Aid Refugees World Council Os Churches In Plea Toronto. July 15.“-(l’Pl— The central committee of lhe world round! of churches urged Christians today not to forget their “inescapable obligation" to stand by western Europe's 9.OOn,(HM> refn-i gees. The PA-member committee, winding up a week-long session, said ("the Christian conscience ia revolted by the way Tn which political change in our day inevitably pro duces the uprooting and setting adrift of masses of innocent citl aen*. T -—— "The refugee problem is not an Isolated misfortune, it is a judge ment upon our whole society." European displaced person, it added, place an intolerable burden on the resources of Austria. Germany and France A* a step toward solving this problem, the committee said there must be national and later-govern-mental action on a comprehen»ive level. The committee meets next year at Geneva. Hwkaerland The delegates reiterated their op position to tbe "exploitation of nonself governing peoples snd lhe flagrant violation* of human right*, discrimination of segregation on the ground* of race or color " Dr Benjamin Maya, president of Morehouse College. Atlanta. Ga. charged that color suppr**>ion in South Africa i» "th* rankest kind of segregation, won* tk*n any ev«r proposed or practiced la the I'll!ed States" In South Africa, he charged, "a powerful minority is imposing its will upon a weak majority Tale** there Is a rhrtsrlan solution to the problems—that's dyaamHe.7 “

Six Huge 6as Tanks Explode At Terre Haute No Casualties In Blast; Flames Are Fought By Firemen ‘ Terre Hante. Ind. July 14— —Six Jb.oOb-gaJion tanks explo<*d plant and two hours later flrem*D today at a bulk gasoline storag* still ware fighting flames tha.i covered a solid half-block. No casualties were reported and offtcials of the Mid-Continent Oil Co., said their only employe known to be in the area, a: bight watchman. was accounted tor i: Five gasoline tank* and one used *>> keeeaewe eapjadw* at. the <iorage plant, .located 13- btonks from the heart of downtown Terr* Haute, in a sparsely settled neighborhood The first blast at shout 4'34 a m.. CRT wa* followed by a serie* ot smaller explosions which lasted about 34 minute*. Shower* - ot splintered wood from lb* storage plant'* offjee and bit* ot corrugated I steel covered the oeorhy aeea. , Window* In homes tor four i bidet* tn att direction* from th* I plant were blown owt by the ex- . plosion ■ I The first estimate ot damage was . by personnel manager Han >d Willis, who could say only that hand- - <'.r df' drimtH gasoline , and equipment was destroyed All available fire and police re • cue equipment wa* rushed to the scene whfc h was shrouded by dense black smoke * Gasoline flaqtes roared more than 2<m feel in th* air The area surrounding the storage plant was roped off after the first blast rocked the city A serie* of lesser explosions were felt for a half hour The plant lies about two mile* from lhe main part of Terre Haute, in a sparsely-settled neighborhood Windows throughout the area were shattered by the explosions The column of smoke was visible for 10 miles " Hospital* reported that no dead or Injured had been brought in from the disaster scene Gasoline Refining UnH Is Exploded t No Casualties Are Reported In Blast Hartford lit.. July IS—fVFt— A Sinclair gasoline refining unit 4mploded in a Hast felt four mil** ■way. then burst Into flames and burned owl of control for two| hours, police said today Sgt J T Lancaster of the Wood River police said no casualtie* had been reported except a' few employes at tbe refinery who were "bruised when they thrown around by tbe explosion" — Lancaster said the cracking unit got "red as a .cherry" as flame* shot more than 2'*‘ feet in tbe »lr He said be thought it would have to be rebuilt The unit exploded At J; 43 p m (CSTi. Lancaster said Fir* fighting equipment wa* rushed to rhe scene from Hartford. Wood River, Roxana aad MUton Hill. 11l Th* Drst was extinguished shortly before midnight Immediately after the eiplosion Lancaster said, some men at the plant reached shut-ofT valves and by-passed tbe crude oil aad gaao line flowing Into th* giant erack Ing unit ’ "I waa in tbe sqaad ear when I beard th* explosion. Lancaster said "It souaded Ilk* dynamite and at first I thoaght It «a* a bomb I was about four mile* away from th* refinery then "When I got two mile* away I could feel rhe pressure from th* CToea Te Mg*e Ft***

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Bodly Outnumbered Americans Bottling Fiercely To Stem Communist Advance BULLETIM Tettye, Sonoay. July H-— (URj — Ovtnumbarod U. tr**pa eav* »* *** w*ot*m half of their ahatterod Ko* H«w d«f*nae lia* taday. after a. 14-mil*4ona Communist beachhead outfianimd M. an* f*H back ea cmbatled T*«j*a. Tokyo. July IS.—4CPI— Thousands of Communiat troops poared across the Rum river today into a 15-mile-long beachhead w’hleT Hanked tbe American force* in th* Taejon area. A North Korean pincer* drive on Taejon, aimed at bottling np tbe mauled C. IS ground fore** battling desperately on the Knm riv'er front, was expected within 24 hoar*. «' dispatch from ■ Sdi'aPce■ "headqaar■■ ter» sifi ". Enerfy infantrymen by the' tboasaads and some light-vehicle* sue* ed Into the bulging beachhead on . tbe south side of the Kuhn in the region at Kongju 12 mil** north- . west of the provisional capital from 7 which th* Booth Korean governs ment had fled. . An official spokesman at advanced beadquarters said be did not ber lieve the Communists bad been able * their Kongju foothold 1 The outnumbered American* demolished bridges and blasted loose ’ artificial landslides a» they withdrew through the mountains towestern halL-of lhe Kutn river Un* J. They »ttn held doggedly along a 2omile river front dfrectly north of Taejon They beat off three crossing attempt* by Communist troop* The American* fighting fiercely, were forced to give up three to five miles of ground on their right flank north of the Kiyn river In a sector where it bend* southward through the allied frontline, ft was horn that sector, where the Bouth Koreans also were yielding that the second arm of the pincers wa* eipected to be thrust down from the’ northeast against Taejo’The advance* brought the Com muntats within gunshot ot the Taejon environ* North Korean artillery already was hammering the Taejon air field Earlier field dispatches report ed that th* Commuaist* eetablished tbelr second and third bridgeheads serosa the Kam Saturday The 41*patebes did not aay where they . I were With the kongju head bulg- * Ing out to a length of IS mile* it appeared likely that th* .arkma crossing attempt* merged in that area Incessant attack* by American and Aastraiian plaae* impeded the Communist push acroas the river, , and tolped keep ’he tank> .on the . north shore ..... .'. .. The airmen weve reported to ['have knocked out at least four and , tnoeaibiy as many as 14 tanks the ’ North Korean* tried to- put aero** I oa barge* I American forces traded artillery . and mortar fire with the Common- , Ma all around the three-«ided front i and engaged ia a serie* of clashes al. ylo** qnarters against infantry ( patrol* trying to cro*» the Kum on i the north Th* advanced headquarter* . ipoketman **id Communist istsr try and some light vehicle* were seen moving stAsth from Kongju . during tbe day The American* , pelted them with mortar barrage* and fought a eerie* of detayiag arf Goa* Th* Commnaista moved In large vehicles, tank* aad what air *eoa:« believed to be “fd-mflttaieter seif- , propelled guns along tbe mala road I leading southward to tbe American . front \ A dispatch from advance T -8 headquarters M Korea confirmed I that rhe Communists have oceu- . pied Kongju and added [ Tbe Reds are expected, io m»ke I aa attempt to get aome tasks and P WMytortwrt xtoo* the river tonight There are large sec - Hoas of the river Hne ov*r which , Wf have aa control except bv air At night, anything may happen"