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Prestel Io Seek Partial bFVMHw B wH BWwB MODHIZuiIOn From Pros. Truman Washington. July IT—(UP| — President Truman will semi to coagrees Wednasdny a “quttn compreheßoivo” bmmbbb PBCOBMBBBdiny legislation for partial xsablli sal km at the home front to win the Korean war. The White Hesse said today that Mr. Truman will follow np the mesaepa with a radlo-tetevte-ioo broadcast to the nation at 4:3e p m. CDT. Democratk legislative leaders pledged that congress will act "with all speed*’ on whatever recommendations the president makes. They refused to give any hints except to confirm that he will not ash for anything aa drastic as rationing es foods.. Indications, however, were that Mr Truman would seek carbs on consumer credit;' some controls to assure that armaments plants get enough steel without delay; more money to finance the war; and perhaps eicosa profits taxes t»n buo|||4)ML>- .. It was Mt' believed ■ that. he' ■ would ask *M< or price controls, at lomM for the time being. -Hut he might hsk for authority to are them later If. necessary. Mr Truman also Is expected to announce plana for calling up some of the national'guard to re place regular troops that are being sent to the fir east. The president outlined the meje provisions of his message W*w While House conference with cor.gresslunal leader*, but they kept the specific recommendations a closely-guarded secret. Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the national security resources hoard, whose Job Is to mobilise • rhe- item*- * nine .man laltor committee to confer with him tomorrow, on labor's role. In, cum of an emergency mobilise- ■ Hon: - -'- ----- .■ — Sen Henry Cabot Lodge. If., R. Mass. called for immediate mo - bllizatlon of American manpower and industry" because "we are al -this moment in a major wa.-" White House press soefetaiy Charles G Ross said the message would contain legislative recommendations ■ concerned with domestic problems. - Chairman Brent Spence. D.. Ky . whos> house banking ami curren cy committee would act on any economic control legislation, told reporters that “normally" the first anti-inflation curbs would be on installment buying Some bouse members believed that Mr. Truman will ask as much as 34.004.004.440 more for military spending. They believe be will couple that with a request for limited or standby controls .to curb inflation. Thousands Stolen By Five Teen-Agers Indianapolis July 17 — (UP)' — Utot taken by five teen-agers In 74 burglaries since last March was valued at ‘'thousands'* of dollars. police said today. i m —-14 —— rvrttal* euF rnnrr Beni i nwy ( nt tih rr tw the boys yesterday aa they tried to flee after entering a home. They implicated two other boyj. who were arrested later Ih their homos. Parents of one of the boys. Russell Kerscher. <7, and his wife Helen, 41. also were arrested. They were charged with contrib utlng to the delinquency of a minor and receiving stolen property Store At Seymour Robbed Os $2,500 Seymour, Ind. July IT — (UP* — Three armed' bandits, all wear <ng straw hats, hold np the G..C Murphy variety store today and made ott with 31.400 to tt.MO. The men followed store manager L. H VanVoorhlee and another employe when they made their daily trip to the bank. Whoa they entered the store the three max took the money at gunpotat »■< nod. Van VoorMes said the th remm jumped Into a getaway ear parked la front of the stare. H» said It was drives by a fourth man.

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Two Youths Wovadod In Broohm Attempt Chicago, July ft. - (UP) -Two teen-age burglars sat today “only with difficulty' after a grocery owner wounded them palnfuUy with a gbotgun when they attempted to break into his store. Richard Michaels, 18. of Gary. Ind., aSI Joseph , jMeatln*. 17, of Chicago Mrs arrested after they were wounded by Kdward Premhaca. A third youth escaped. PoL ke said their Injuries were "pairtlul but not serious" , India Presents Stalin's Meas OnbdhgWar Indio At Mediator Gives United States Views From Stalin Ws.hlngton July IT—I UP) - India In the role of sell-appolnte-i mediator today gave the I nlled Statea Josef malln's Idea* on how the Korean war might Im- ended Indian amhasaador Vljayalakshml Pandit presented rttallav slews during a, flve-miqute cel I on secretary of •tate fteau Ar.h*<. - Indian premier' Jawaharlal Nehru had appealed directly, to Moscow and Washington to and tne Korean fighting Htalin replied over the weeks ml. and' Madame Pandit delivered a ropy of kit reply to Acheson today. The Halted iitatea has not answered Nehru's Inquiry. U. 8. otodata have stated bow : rr~~. that thie eountry will not negotiate " a Korean peace until .CTWi-irtTt forces agree to Mop fighting and return north of the SXtbparallel. . - Stalin's reply has not been announced officially but the govern ment operated all India radio at New Delhi has broadcast that he w'eti’oWMi Nehrd's infttarH* and said the Issue should lie writled In the i'hlted Nations security council with Chinese communists part irtpatlng This might turn out to lie the sticking point Russia has walked out on the council and many other UN organisations because thwestern powers have not seated contmulnsi China instead'of nat- j lona list China in the UN. - Authoritative American sources have Insisted that they cannot even consider the seating question until the North Korean communist invaders oltey UN orders to stop j fighting and withdraw The United Mates plana to op pose even considering the seating question until the fighting ends Great Britain, which was trying to seat communist China In the tTwea To Pa«e Three* Moose Receive Bids On lodge Addition Northeast Wing To Be Built To Home Rids for the construction of a northeast wing to the Moose home corner at Jackson and First streets, will be received up until k pr Bf; Affgwr» K: t. Worthman; secretary of the Loyal Order of Moose, announced today. Architect Leßoy Bradley. 1113 Routh Clinton St.. Port Wayne, will have blue prints and specifications ready for prospective contractors by Tuesday evening These esn be obtained from Bradley's office. Worthman said. The addition to the building will include a wing which will join the main lodge room on the north. I: will extend west to the preaent kitchen — The first floor, will be on a level with the present elnb room and the second with the lodge room. rooms will en enlarged to the else of the addition. Work on the construct ion of the building will begin as soon as contracts are approved. The present building was built in IMI. It waa designed by Bradley. The Mooee lodge has more than l one members and the addition will provide floor space to accom modate the large membership. The project was approved by thgrand lodge several months ago end when completed will give Ad i ams lodge one of the moot modern and .adequate booses to tbd dtoto.

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Calk 0i Press b Censof War Hews . MacArthur UrpK Freu Take Action Tokyo. s»wly IT.—(UP)— Gen. Douglas MacArthur called upon the press tdday to censor war news I'self and leave the army free to fight battles j , “ ~ He made kaowa h|s vlewq to commending the CMrego BwwTimes tor auaouacing .that during thy Korean wsir emergency ft will not report the departure and nature of American troop movements from U S ports. \ At the same time. % dispatch fr<»ni Korea' disclosed that *a Oen. Walton H Walker, commander of the tighth army, had ordered Mar gwerite Hlggiaa, New Tort HeraldTribune '■ war edrfes pbndy nt. OU t M the Korean theater of operations. An order from U S army head quarters'ln Korea said Miss Higgins waa to proceed Immediately ■to rear area heaffutiarters and i thence to Japan No reason was given for her expulsion ~ Mias Higgins said she would confer with Walk r to see it the order could be rescinded. MacArthur yesterday lifted the j ban hla press relations Officer, Col. M P. Echols, bad imposed on Peter Kalischer of United Press and Tom Lambert nt Associated Press relenting to the Korean front. Echols had said Kalischer's and Lambert's front dispatches gave “aid and comfort to the enemy." however, he did not challenge their factual accuracy The ban was imposed while both were In Tokyo resting from their front-line experiences. MacArthur lifted the ban during a conference with the two correspoitdenia and their Tokyo bureau chiefs. Earnest Hoberecht of United Press and Russell Brines of Aw aoctated Press. He said he had decided to permit the two newsmen to return to Korea becauea be had confidence in their judgment and because they and their bureau chiefs wore friends of his. Family Picnic Os Decatur Lions Oh * Wednesday Night Exhorting the members of the Lions club to come to the family picnic Wednesday, officials aleo urged them not "o o o to come urged them not . . .to coma dressed for a formal dinner . . . wear play clothas." With this the theme of the first such picnic — whereby the entire family of the different Uons will gather — club president L. E. Anspaugh said that "a large attendance was expected " The festivities will begin at •:ll p. m. at the Boy Scout cabin at Hanna-Nuttmaa park, and the cU max is expected shortly after that when Lions and families spread the food Though the Lions have officially disbanded tor the summer, a ebon basindae moeflag to disease aereral pertlaeat matters needing immediate atteatloa will bo bold. Anspaugh added.

Seatii Bead Worker* Vote To End Strike South Bead. lnd . July IT — (UPT — Rome <7» workers at. the Oliver -Corp, plant here voted yqatorday to end their today-old strike against the company. The strikers, members of the CIO United Auto Workers union, walked dft their jobs June • to protest the discharge of a untea committeeman aceuaed. of destroytag a time stady report. The dispute will be submit!a.. - trt an Independent arbiter under terms of the agreement 4-H Judging Contest In Decalw Friday r Staff Is Named By ~ Extension Office Announcement was made today from the county extension office of the staff for the judging and demonstration contests. These contests In the home economics > prqjpets will be held at the ctmnty wide meeting Friday st the ( Lincoln school in Decatur. Miss Anna K. Williams, homo demonstration ageat. announced the following list of those In charge of the various activities. Mrs. Sam Houston, vqeatlonal Tome economics teacher at Petro: cum. will bring tour of the Nottingham 4-H girls to model tor the clothing judging contest. These Wells county 4-H girls will wear 1 washable school costumes. Mrs. Houston win hear the Adams county contestants give their reasons ‘ < n placing this class. Mrs. Henry Rumple, who Is a home economics graduate at Ohio State University and a leader of the Jefferson Work • Win 4-H club, will act as judge of reasons , on blouses. In charge ot tabulation . and written work will be Waveline ' Lehman, leader of the Waahlnv- . ton Happy Hoeflers 4-H club. More than 34 girls are expectel to enter this contest. The baking judging contest win be supervised by Mies Joan New comb, vocational homo ecoaomlct teacher at Decatur. Reasons on the plain white flour yeast rolls will be scored by Miss Newcomb. ' There will be a class of oatmeal drop cookies for which Mrs. Phyll- * is Belneke Haagk will grade reasons. Mrs. Hsngk is the vocation ' al homer economics teschdr In ' Weils county. tnM Ripley Roberts win set ss tabulator sad give the true-false and multiple choice toot This contact may include boys a.i 1 well as girls slace there are 17 boys carolled in 4-H baking is Ad- ' ems county Baking Is one of the . most popular 4-H projects so each ’ of the H clubs is expected to register two eligible contectaats Mrs. Stanley Arnold will direct the judging of food preparation She Is the adult leader of the Kirtland Kut-Up 4-H etab Assisting ' her will be Mrs Dennis Norman ’ a former homo economics teacher and Mrs Vaajba Miller of Decs tar Mrs. Arnold will beer the roe- ' sons on newer center pierce, Mrs tTwsw Vs Pnwe Yhveei '

■■ I Two YmAs Are Held' h Serios 01 Tteefts ■ < Youtta Confas To Area Theft Series Two youths, one ot them 14. the other 1< years ot age. awaited juvenile court action today following their arrests Saturday by city sad county police, snd their admission !.IpK Ok hectic series ot thefts in and near Decatur. _ The youths told everything after questioning by city police chief James Borden*, patrolman Maurice Teeple. and deputy sheriff Bob shralnka * And the tales they told also climinted % series at Mta stripping thefts which have, extended over the past couple of years, and sub stantiate much of the peike'a aus. piciona The admissions were obtained utter an all-night aeries of thWts by the youths which began Friday afternoon when they stole 13 chickens and two dosen eggs from the Jacob Raker farm, east ot Decatur. I They then stole two chicken crates - and an auto battery at the sale barn on Monroe street. ~ They sold the chickens to n Berne produce company tor 333 40. then proceeded to Bluffton where they sold the auto battery They split the chicken sale money after cash: Ing the check tn the Berne bank Returning from Bluffton they sighted some pigs at the Lester .Adler farm. Were Intrigued by them, and decided to return that night. They did so. about midnight Friday, loaded the pigs in the trunk of the car and headed foe Fort Wayne, after making one stop They remained at Coppess Corners long enough to stesl some watermelons and cantaloupes and for Calvin Coppasa to get their license plhte number, then headed north. They waited until daybreak In Fort Wayne, only to find that the stochyards would not be open Sal urday. Then they drove to Payne. .Q_ and.. sold the remaining pig*; Me had died in the trunk ot the car from suffocation. They sold the pigs tor 344.34 In Payne and had their license plate number takt en again The yMth. ever watchful, noticed some corn ta a field on their return from the Ohio city, and knew they could get it if they had a trailer It was while they were buylag a trailer hitch In Decatur, that the pieces of the punle began fitting together. License plate numbers were the same as those reported; the youths ware spotted by police authorities and tahea to the station tor questioning The Saturday grilling solved an Imposing number ot thefts whk-h bad occurred over the past couple ' of years, aad which police bsd been 1 investigattag thoroughly The capture of the two youths would likely hr vs been forthcoming shortly savI way. tor the police evidence was such that admissions were not dis • flcult to obtate. ‘ . WKATWCR “■FWiy VWWye WWsvw humid «Mh. scattered showers er art tonight and a dhto toF _ VWW M Hloi tomorrow 44 to tg.

Big Transport Center Is Abandoned By Americans Before Superior Forces

Response Spotty To EafisteeiitDrive Weekend Compoign Is Disappointing By ITnited Prow Recruiting officers across the nation reported a “spotty" response to a w-eekend drive to step up enlistments. Some of the army, nav y and marine recruiting officers who manned their desks Saturday and Sunday reported a rush of yeung men and womM seeking information about military service. In ether XitteA .they twiddled taeir thnmhn white Jroepoctlve SO listers straggled to. Recruiting non-coms in those cities said the army apparently did not publicise stations open over the weekend. The New York national guard opened a drive for 3.444 men toauthorised strength Guard foerwtt- • ra atreebM the'agguaMsqt that- any man who joins before he's 1«H years old is exempted from the draft aa long as he's aa active guardaman. Recruittag officers at Chicago aid the weekead reaponee waa "maeh better than expected.' AbMt 3d men appeared and some received their Initial proeeastag for army duty. However, the 4th Army headquarters said enlistments since the outbreak of the Korean fighting wore "disappointing." Only IM en listments were received during the first three dsys lasU'weok In nln • hrtd'WMtem ;eitian,r-. : ■; In : New ¥orh,„ jo, men m»** >»’ qulrlee yesterdayi and an officer said enlistments were “on the upswing " But at Buffalo? N. Y.. a recruiting sergeant said only two mca showed up yesterday and three others telephoned Recruiting stations in Boston said enlistments were “ver/ plow." although It had been “very good" during last. week. An army officer at San Francle <o said many reserves were volun leering for duty and that enlist meats bad "sparked up conslderab•y" dnring the Korean conflict. Army and air force recruiters ta New York said that thousands N combat veterans trying to roeohst had been refused because of a regulation providing that a veteran with dependenta cannot re (Turn Tw l*nne Twei Orders Draft Board Oa FaH-Taae Basis Five Days Weakly Beginning July 24 Starting next Monday. Jnly 34. the Adams county draft board wtH remain open -five days a week. Monday through Frida/, according to an announcement made today by board chairman Omar Reusser. of Berne, upon orders of the state draft board. The state board baa not yet released quota figures tor the different counties; Indiana's total quota oa the first national draft call U STS It was revealed here that there are approximately 344 yon th a classified in 1-A. snd would qualify under the specifications of the draft as to age. though none of them have had their pre-lnductloa physical examinations Youths when they reach their 13th birthday are required to register for the draft, though they are not subject to call until they are It; the first draft is inclusive of those IS yean ot age Becaase of the new order, youths will not register'al th* clerk's of rice; heretofore, the draft beard bad been open Mly Tnesdays and Wednesdays, and the clerk's otflee bandied the regtrtertag the other days The draft haard la located above the Holtboeae 4nsg etaro to Deeatur

Hrn rire diockhxj RescueOfFive , Trsppcd Miners riv< NWi i rappea - In Utah Mina As — Firt Slows Rascua Lark. Utah. Ualy IT—CUPI— A fire harping at least 7J44 febt am dergroend today blocked rescap squads trying deeperalely to reach five men trapped ta a lead mfoe. Seareben held little hope for one ot two maintenance men trapped when the fire broke oat yesterday morning Bat.they.gate the mcmA J»l» tenance worker and three men sent down to find their missing coworkers might hsve found safety in a’ air. Hope faded for'the life of Nielsen. 34. when -It was learned that he had gone deep tato the mine to investigate when the blase wss first reported The tuanels he started to explore had little or no t *‘ r Mine company official (Near ' Glaxier said the other font SUM ’ couM have found aafety ta a cutoff 1 lunnel that branch— tff at the T,IM .foot terel pad extends down ' to in.one feet The fire was believJ ed to have broken out In the pump ( modi at the bottom of the 7.100 foot main shaft Rescue aqa ads. methodically ■ searching '404 miles of winding tunI >aH».'.i«4d ; ;tiwy" iouM I ***! ' the 7.100 foot .mark before they r were forced to return to the surface to replenish the oxygen supply for their masks Glasler. who was In charge of the I rescue operat ions said It eon Id he "minutes or hours or days" before the men were located As rescue-squads of 10 men each worked ta relays, an estimated 500 persons—many of them friends or relatives of the trapped men—stood silently around the floodlighted entrance of the mine. Among those keeping vigil w«» «Twew Ts Pane Threes Teenage Bride And Husbtnd Disappear Husband Reported His Wife Kidnaped Crownpoint, Ind.. July 17. — (UP) — A dual saareh was under way today for a blond teenage bride and her husband who reported site was kidnaped by a "red-headed stranger" and then disappeared himself The husband, an Illinois farmer identified both aa Marshall aad Richard Clark. 33. toM officers - the stranger picked Up him aad hlh a, they hßcl-hISe.T ‘ near the Mlchlgaa-Indiaaa border * early yeeterday. ' Clark said the man drove off , wkh hla wife whM be taft the car to bay some hamburgers la a restaurant near St John. Ind. Police brondMst a four-state aj term and told Clark to go to a nearby hotel and stand by. Police said later they tried to ( reach Mm and he had disappeared , Two deputies from the Lake coun- , ty sheriffs office were detailed to , search for Clark t At the time be reported Ms wife j kidnaped. Clark told officers thet he aad his wife were returning to r Dnnville. Di from a boneymomi - near Traverse City, Mleh Clark i said their car brake down early » yesterday morntag near New tortt falo. Mich They left the car. be said aad started to bitcb-Mlre i The stranger came along shortly afterwards end picked them up I Clark said. Ho deoeribed the man I u about 44. with a soatbern M- • rent and red hair He was drtvtat f a green 1444 coupe with Okie Wl “Ho SUM be waa driving to Ch) (Tuan toe tame Stases

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Key Dtfuosa City Os Ceattal Korea Will* Ta North Korwaas "Tekyu. July W— (W)-. The main American dnrve ist re dtog Taafon abandoned the Mg treneport canter toaiM to CommaaM traopo elnstag ta from three diraetimm. Taejon, key defense city ot the central Korean Jtlite. was technically * American bands at 4:l* pm. (4:44 am. CSTI. Uakted Prove cntreapoadteM Gemt Symonds reported by telephone after be left the etty at dash. Bat be added The only persona to the praeticaHy deserted etty were soene Booth Koruna soldiers whose v» Mele bed Mopped, one or two rtvlk tans, aad abost a dsora Gi's ~ Symonds bad reported earties that atone Americans already h. 3 doubt whether the rest eoeld get out before the. sWtftly etoetag Coenmutest placers trapped jhem « The hagtcTßd, teg tartneriy.- ScMc - - tag OFs had fallen beck tuto the city after Cemmatert forees out numbertag them 14 to 1. broke the defease position* ateng the Kam river worth ot Taejon Their deteaee of Taejon, was the ’ Miffew delay lag action yet fought in the Korean war Gen. Douglas ' Mae Arthur praised their Vater and J effectiveness against overwhelming ’ odds. X • Outflanked and threatened with " envelopment the Americans gave np their airstrip outalde Taeyon after destroying the four planes left, there Then with the Communists slugging into the suburb* r they began to fade back along the trunk transport lines leading to ‘ ; 3teSH>;-ThYewrTT«rt , /ast coait " “We heard no gunfire from the American defense position* around f the city.” his telephoned dispatch , mtld ■ His call was taterrapted When the connection was restored, he added the details of the deserted city—a vehicle load nt south Koreans. one of two cirillans and about a doeen Gl's Sgt Jimmy Lipps. 33. of Dayton, Ohio, whose job it was to get the trains out of Taejon. toM Symonds: "We’ll be here a* long as there are wounded to be taken out and a* long as they'll let us stay “ Symonds reported earlier that the Communists appeared to he just outside the etty on the north and west, and were driving hard toward It from the east “It is a matter ot conjecture whether all our troops will be able to get out before the North Koreans cut the road leading southeast out of Taejon." Symonds natd . Taejon teratrip. tSe mites northeast of the has been abandoned and sporadic enemy artillery i fire waa falling In aad armed the i city itself, he said.. J The Americans abandoned fmr planes en tta Taejon ulrrtrip. bat I burned them to prevent their sss i by the enemy They were a MM bomber, so F-41 Mustang fighter, a mresport eed aa-MX llatatm piaae. American fighters shot down swo Raaatan-made Yak fighters over the battlefroot today Gen Douglas MacArthur earlier announced two South Korean army tTWee T» Fane Tyrol 1 : .»■ Jobless Fay Claims Hiked By Vocations Indianapolis. July 17 - (W) — The Indiana employment security . eivtaina > sport *d today that plaM- . wide vacations during the wook , ending July 3 hiked Hoosier job , lees pay claims six percent ere.- , the previous week. t Director John W. Crtoe said the . total ot 17ta4 claims still wa. 73 , percent lees than the number dur Mg the corresponding week last . F4«r "Initial ciateril wort ap 71 percent during the weak ending July . f as persons Mt etigihie ter vucn- , tire pay filed 4.441 new appiicntiene for jobless Munraace ~ Cries said "Maas vacations are expected . he - snp*nd the dtvlrise's ciataM land tor the mm tew essks" ' ■ ’ ' ' ■ V•*