Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 195.

NAKTONG BULGE WIPED OUT BY UN FORCES

Air National GuardsToße Called To Duty To Coll Throe Or Four Groups Within The Next Few Weeks Washington, Aug. IS — (UP) Three or lour air national guard group* will he called tn active duly within the next month, It was learned today The award air group* will lie the first to he called up since the outbreak nt the Korean war. They will he resigned a* air support ream* for the four national iruard divialona which already have Iteen ordered to active duly and are soon to report. Informed xource* said Each air group la equipped with 75 planet, moatly propeller-driven Ml mustang* nt World War It fame Their other planet, are F-80 >1 shooting star* Both type* have been widely used In Korea litm-hmure of the Impending air guard call t ame ah a hipartlaan group of 88 senafor* urged that the .nation embark on ''total p*y ciMdoglcal and spiritual war aguinet Moscow. and the army., aavy and marine* announce* a* serie* of rapid-fire move* to strengthen their force*. Theae were yeelerday'a develop ntenl* on the mohlliiation front: 1. The Is senator* called on President Trumaff®' to launch a ' ptychologiral and tplritual often rive against the Kremlin" to Im press the Huraian people that the r tilted State* want* peace. To get that taeeaage across. t hey said. Mr. Trumata ahotild order "total mobilisation and total engagement of our paychological and rpifllual forces" 2. The army boosted it* call for captains and lieutenant* in Ba. reserve engineer corp* to 1.1 to and issued an Invitation to former enlisted War* to volunteer for at leant a year’* acriee.duty during the Korean emergency 3. The navy ordered partial reactivation of it* *tatiotn al Mid way Island and Trinidad 4 The marine corp* dlmlosed that it is calling up s.«<><• officer* and enlisted men through the rank of sergeant from It* voluntary re serve* in its huiM-up to 174,00marr- strength, The call wa* the tlr«t pha*e <rt the marine < orp*’ plan to moldlimit* entire volunteer reserve of Mi.Ot ft It hopes to add 50,00 ft men by tu t. 31 but I* not certain it tan In a further move to encourage enlistmeet*. the marlhe* cut their regular enlistments from four to three year* ' • , • They also told men IS through ::t who have no previous evper ience that they can enlist a* reserve* for an Indefinite period and go on mltve duty Immediately Most former marine* were told they could volunteer ami chose their own initial station Inst by going to the station, where they want to serve. lien Clifton B flute*, marine corps commandant, promised no marine under IS, whether regular or reserve, would lie sent to combat. Indianapolis Woman Killed In Accident Washlnrton. Ind . Au* IS. (UPI —Hr* Georgia M Datitm. 2J». Indianapolis. wa* killed today when her car ran over a curb and hit a tree Authorities Itelleye Mrs. Dalton. $ Kingan and Company employee, was enroute to visit her parents in Sebree, Ky. The accident happen ed on Ind. 57 within the city

Arrest Texan For Having Marijuana Elwood. Ind. A«r 1» -(VP'— Flores Guadalupe. 10. Mr Allen. Tex., was sought today for preset n ti<m on chargee of having marl Juana.. Guadalupe was arrested yesterday hut a few hours later he pried eell hnrs In city Jail and escaped. — WKATHIR Partly eleudy tenlght with scattered ehewsrs south and east. Cooler nortfi. Tomorrow fair north and central and cloudy with scattered thundershowers extreme south. Cool-

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Belgian Communist leader Is Murdered Killed By Burst Os Machinegun Fire Brus.-telU, llelriurn. ■ Au* 19 tl.'Pi A communist party spokesman announced today that the assnaaipMhm last night of a «5 yearold Julien lahaut. party chairman will he avenged with "another mall's life.” One hundred thousand Bolivian worker* streamed from mine- and factories tp strike, throughout the nation protesting the murder. laliaut w-as killed by a burst of rub mac hinegun fire when h* answered a knock on the front door nt hts brick home tn a working class district of Sedan* a suburb of Liege. Spe shot pierced hl* head Two others went through hl* body. As he staggered- back into the house, bls assailant ran down the step* to a French-made Citroen sedan, in which a second man wa* waiting with the engine running The ear roared down the *trert. Imhaut's cries brought hl* wife He collapsed and died In her arm*. A communist party spokesman said l-ahaut's la»t word* to her were: me!" Said the party »pok--*man: "You can fell the world that another man will pay with his life for this dastardly crime " The remark indicated that tbe party hierarchy thought It knew the identity of the assassin Belgian security sourer* said the murder was pollljc*! They specu laird that the killer may have been a fanatical antl-communlst. a rabid supporter of King Leopold, or even a member of-a dissident group within the communist party Latent wa* one of the leader* of the socialist and communist dernonstrailona which led tn Leopold's transfer of his royal power* Io Ms eldest son, crown prince llaudouln. and the king's agreement to abdicate on llaudouln'* Slat birthday in Sepetember, 1951 It also-was l-ahaut who led communist member* of parliament In disrupting Jlaudouin * swearing-in ceremony by shouting, "vtfe le republique "

Mrs. Nathan Spranger Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Morning Mrs Nathan Sprunger, 71, lifelong resident of Adam* county, tiled at 7 15 o’clock thl* morning at her home In Berne following an illness ot seven year* She wa* latrn near Berne Feb I) 1979. a daughter ot Christian anti Veren* Spr-unger-ScheMegger. and wa* married to Nathan Sprunget In 1X99 She eas a member of the First Missionary church at Berne. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters. Mrs N.orvaT Fuhrman ot near Decatur. Mr* James Miller of Hackett* town. N JT, and Ml** Jeannette Sprunger. at home; five son*. Ervin of near Geneva. Rolland of Indianapoll*. Leriie. Vincent and Clydp. all of Berne; 22 grandchildren, and three sisters. Mr*. Alfred Gantschi. Mr* Dina Baumgartner and Mrs Chris Egly. Three children. two brothers and four sisters are deceased Funeral services will lie held at Ift a m Tuesday at the First Missionary church, the Rev. .1. Pritch ard Amstutz dnd the Rev C. H Weklerkehr officiating. Burial •sty be In the MRE cemetery. The body will lie removed from the Yager mortuary to the residence, where friends may call.after 12:30 p m .Sunday Assistant Manager Os Fort Wayne G. E. Ab Martin, formerly manager of •he Oakland. Cal., work* of the General Electric Company, ha* been named assistant manager of the Fort Wayne GE Works. C. 11. Ma* son. manager, ha* announced He will auuihe hl* new post .n:mediately. A n*tlre of Texa*. Mr Martin wa* graduated from the L’nlvurelty ot Texas In 1929. He Jblnad th* GE th* **me year a* a Judent engineer on the teat course at Schenectady. NY Martin and his, family will move F to For' Wayne

‘Does Soviet Wish To End The Fighting? It Can* "DOC* THC bOVItT government wish to have peat e In Korea* It ean have peace. Doe* the Soviet government wish to end the lighting? It can end the fighting.” U. S. Warren Austin (right I bluntly t harges in the UN Security Council. Lake Reeces*. N. Y. At left Is Soviet lielegate Jacob Math k. Count II president Second from right la Britain’. Sir flladwyn Jehb Austin outlined a U S. peace proposal which wouhl eliminate the Wlh parallel division between warring North and South Korea

10 Reserves Receive XL ■ Orders For Physical C. Os C. Secretary Only Officer Called One officer and nine enlisted men from Adam* county have Iteeii ordered to report tor final physical examination* prior to being called into active service. Ait the men are member* of the United State t army’ reserve and organized, reserved corp* -Some of the men were ordered to refuirt early today, other* will lie required to travel to indianapoll* to take their physical examination* Sunday Upon completion of physical examination*, the men will return to their homes to awali further ■ They will be allowed a minimum of 21 day*, following receipt of orders, to arrange their personal affairs

('apt lilt hard W Pruden who Is the executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of rotnmerre. Is the only officer called to take his physical examination Enlisted men who are ordered to report Include Pfc Robert L. August. Pfc Frank Clear. Jr. Pfc. Eugene J Miller. Pfc. Merlin J Hoss. all of liecatur: t’pl Hugh L. Ehrinan. of route .2: Pfc. Charles E Rauch, route 1: Pfc. Virgil C. Morningstar, route 2. Herne; Pfc. Harold W Nussbaum. and Cpl Marion I. Smith, both of Herne Also ordered to report was Ist Lt. Henry F. Hleeke. now of Bluffton. hut a former Adams county resident ._ ~ • W Report Settlement Os Newspaper Strike New York Strike Reported Settled New York. Aug. I»—(VPl—' Negotiators for' the New York World-Telegram and the Sun and the ClO-newspaphr guild reached agreement-early today on new contract terms"*to end the nine-week-old strike against the newspaper. lietails of the agreement were kept secret, pending ratification by the 4<H» striking members of the newspaper's editorial and commercial department. - =c '. The guild negotiating committee sald thry would recommend acceptance of the new contract at a membenthip meeting to be held Tuesday night-. The agreement was reached after a marathon negotiating session that began at 12 noon CBT yesterday and ended at 2:45 a m. CBT today. Walter Maggiolo. spokesman for a three-man federal mediation panel which met with the negotiators for l>oth sides, Issued this statement : "A majority of the union negotiating committee. Is going to carry back to tbe unit tbe Agreement that .was> reached on all Isaacs with a recommendation that It be accepted "Both sides have agreed that, there will he no discussion as to the details of the agreement untTara Tv Paue rivet

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 19, 1950

Report Os Folio Case Here Is In Error - No polio-cam have been reported In Adams county during the present year, health officer* and official* of the county polio chapter stated today. Erroneous 'pres* and radio reports yesterday listed one polio case tor Adams county. However, a check made by the Decatur Daily Democrat Friday with the state bogrd of health disclosed that Ibis wa* tn error, a* the listed case was trdm Msdtson county, and no Adam* county case* have been reported. either locally, or to the state office. Two Candidales For legion Comnwidef Building Dedication Highlights Farley Indianapolis. Aug. 19. (UP) — Indiana American veteran* of two wars solteted by a new international crisis, met today, for their 32nd convention. They may adopt a resolution •.tiff ors In g National Commander George N Craix'* demand for a feder# law making Ba < rime to'lie a Communist: Highlight of the four-day program will l>e the dedication of the la*glim's new *2.M«.W national head quarters building tomorrow. For >ner National Commander and sot jiier Indiana Gov. Paul V McNu:t will speak. Fifteen committees met today. Ojte was the resolution* fomnißtet* dbich plannetl to prepare resolu Don* to put liefore the 1 A«9 dele-v 'late*, artiong them the Communis? crime law demand . The Korean war and America'* mohlliiation put a damper on the fun-making aspect* of the convention. I-egion official* said they would police their own membership to keep celebrant* In line. The Forty and Eight will parad ■ tonight and the Indiana Department will parade Monday night A drum and bugle corps contest at the In dianapolls baseball field wil lie held tomorrow night. The convention will close Tuesday with election of u new Com inander. Jack W. Mclntyre ot Bloomfield and Frank A. .'essup of Winchester were the only candidate*. Both were U.S. Marine* Pi World War 11. The Indiana Department never has bean headed by either an ex-Marine or a World War H veteran.

State Folio Cases Indianapolis. Aug. 19.—(UP) — Today's polio total* In Indian* since Jan. I. compared with tbe same date last year: Cam Death* N*. of Count!** iriSO 109 R 49 1949 485 >49 84 ( - New cam reported today: 2 In Allen county and and Wabaih count!*. First cam thl* year wore reported In DeKalb and Wabaeb counties. Death reported today: Karen Rlngenburg. nine. Fort Wayne, died yesterday In St Joseph's hospital at Fort Wayne

11 Violent Deaths Recorded In State Traffic Accidents Are Fatal To Five By United Pres* At least 11 Hoosier* have died in the Igst 24 hours from traffic accidents. Industrial mishaps and from miscellaneous cause* Five were killed In truffle yesterthree tn factory accident*, a >ll prisoner banged Mmselt. a lodge custodian -tumhlril from a third floor window, and a member of a const reel km crew died of heat prostration The victim*: Walter N. Hlnger.. 5(1. Farmersburg. Sullivan county Republican chairman and former secretary of the Indiana athletic cominHslon. killed In a traffic accident near Brasil. Max Thoroman. 55. Wheatfield high school agriculture teacher, and Robert Clark. 14. hi* pupil, killed when their auto collided with a truck near Monticello. Duane Nelson. 12. Wolcott, killed when he ran In front of a truck near hi* home Henry Blackwell. 49. Chicago, killed when a truck and auto sideswiped near LaGrange Wayne Morlan. 22. Greencastle, hanged by a bedsheet from a cell door in Putnam county jail Alpheu* E _Swisher. 54. South' Bend, dead of heat prostration. Thoma* McKelvey. 7S. Noblesville, killed in a fall from the Eagles bulge hall. Norman Rolling*. 2ft. Elbridge. 111., killed by electric shock at a Terre Haute mushroom plant. Willie James. 47. Gary, crushed death in an Elst Chicago steel plant. Robert Evans. 21. Hobart, burned to death in boiler explosion at a Lake county oil plant. New Home Building At Record In July 'Best Homebuilding Month In History Washington. Aug 19— (UP>— The bureau of labor statistic* *sid today that July wa* the be»t homebuilding month In history The bureau said tbe sustained housing boom thl* summer ha* been helped by builders' effort* to start construction hefor/ prices ri-e further and before, material* become scare* A survey by the bureau «howed that 144.000 new non farm dwelling unit* were storied last month The year'* total so f»r 1* 93U.1KW1 Each month of the year, homebuilder* have broken records for comparaMe months In previous year*. By the end X J"*!- nfW housing activity wa* 54 percent over last year's volume, the survey showed. The bureau predicted that th* trend may be reversed later In the year an a "delayed effect" of •oaring malerial co«t«. The survey, acted that tbe volume of hulldlng permit* issued levelled off In July in *ome western and northwestern •Twew Te rms* m*»

Allies Lift Immediate Threat To Taegu; Reds Launch New Offensive

Seek To Head Off Threatened Rail Strikes Series Os Strikes Set For Next Week By Roil Employes By United Press The government was expected to launch an all-out attempt today to prevent u series ot railroad strike* next Week, 7 Meanwhile, strikes which had shut down a New York newspaper, an Alabama steel mill, and Alaskan construction projects, were settled. Presidential assistant John R. Steelman planned to meet today whb official* of the railroads and the trainmen's and conductors' union* in an attempt to head off strikes against five small but important terminal and belt line railroad firms next week. The union* reportedly were threatening to extend the strike "If need be”» against at least one major railroad in their attempt to win a 4Ohoar week with no loss in pay I for yardmen and higher pay for road service employes. At Birmingham. Ala.. CIO steelworker* ended a fourday strike against the. Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Co thAt had forced the firm to bank Its furnaces and suspend production. The ore miners were voting on I proposal. I“ A marathon 15-hour bargaining , session resulted today In an agreement for-, settling tbe CIO newspaper guild's nine-week strike that had shut off publication ot the New York World Telegram and the Sun The union had struck for union and job security and for pay Increase* Details of the agreement Were kept secret pending ratification by the 400 striker*. A 24-day plumbers' strike that halted construction on vital Alaska • Tara Ta Wage »t*> " ! Democratic Women Will Meet Thursday First Fre-Election Meeting This Fall A Adams county women are invited to attend the first pre-election meeting of the Adam* county Women's Democratic club to tie held next Thursday night at 9 o'clock at Decatur high school, Mrs. Charles Lose, president, announced today. Plans will be started at the Thursday meeting for the fall activities of the club and several meetings will be planned in which the women will bring prominent speaker* to various parts of the county. The women'* organization has always been active In county and city campaigns and Mr*. Lose slated that all women.of the county are invited to the Thursday meeting. It is not necessary that those attending be memjier* of the club. - ’ Important matter* concerning the November election will be discussed and the advisability of sponsoring a county-wide Democratic piciuc- or a fourth distriel ■picnic Will he discussed. ' County candMate* also Will lie invited to the affair, and they will be advised with concerning the part they want the women's organisation to take la tbe election Two Folio Deaths At Fort Wayne Hospital Fort WaVne. Aug 19—(VPl Dottorv said today the deaths of Karen Rtnienburg. I, and Vernou Wunder, 4. In the St Joseph's haepltal yesterday were due to pol'o. Karen wa* the duaghter nt Mr and Mrs Elmer Ringenburv of F-«rt Wayue and Verntm * home wa* Paulding .O’ “

School Principal Hugh J. Andrew* Andrews Principal As Adams Central Hugh J. Andrews Is Appointed Principal Hugh J. Andrew* of this city a llfe-fong resident of Adam* county, today wa* named as principal of the Adam* Central consolidated high school, it was announced by county school superintendent Hansel Foley. Andrews succeed* Dale Decker who resigned as principal of tbe county's second consolidated school last spring. The new principal ha* been a mathematic* instructor in the Decatur high school for the past 20 year*, with three year* off for military service. Born in Kirkland township. Andrews attended school in Kirkland. Monroe hnd the Decatur high . school. 'He was graduated from I Franklin college with an AB degree and received hi* master* degree from Indiana University. Andrews also served a* athletic director and coach In the Decatur high school from 1934 to 1942 during which time the basketball team won one sectional tourney, and for two years the football team wa* conference champions One of the football team* also went through the season undefeated " — He was recently elected commander of Adams Post 43. American Legion, and will assume that office at installation ceremonies early this fall. Andrew* i« a veteran of the army air force His wife, the former Eloise lawton. is an instructor in the Plea sant (Mill* high school. She Is a former Decatur high school teacher Officers Are Named By Parents’ Group Seek Transportation For School Children Offkmta.af a parent's group favoring public transportaHoa for school children were -elected at a meeting of interested persons last evening in the shelter house, "at Hantm-Nuttman park Joe Asbell. temporary chairman, was elected chairman. Other officer* named are: Ed Wert, vicechairman: Mr*. Harold Hoffman, secretary, and Pjiul Hancher. treasurer ” ' : A name for ..the organised group, membership and alms were , dis cusaed These matter* were referred to a committee to report at the next meeting niaemmion and suggestions were made to appoint * committee repreeeutatlve of each petitioning area to meet with th* tiueMur school hoard to further discus* the transportation problem. Asbell stated. Raceatty four petition* with about 1?« name* wet* presented to th- school board asking that transportation be furnished hy the •chool cHy for children who were required to wslk distance* to school; or had io be transported by parents

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Last Remnants Os 10 To 12 Thousand North Korea Troops Wiped Out At Bulge Tokyo, Aug, 19—(UP) — Vnltsd Nations force* drove tbe communists back another ipile and a half north of Taegu today and wiped out the last remnant* of I(». mm to IX.ftOt* »n*tny troop* In the big Naktong bridgehead south of the city. But even a* the allies lifted the immediate threat io Taegu, the ‘north Korean* launched tbe first attack* of what may be a big new south coast offensive toward the key American supply port ot Busan Allied force* repuhted tbe first attack*. bat n large enemy column wa* reported moving east foam CMnju. Late front dispatches and communique* gave this picture rs the Korean front* umight: Northern trout: couater-attack-Ing American 25th division and south Korea* Ist division enW* gained another mile and a haW against moderate enemy resistance north of Taegu today tor a total iwo-day advance of four mile* Allied vaacuard* were north of Kutn-wba-Dong One south Korean regi jnent alone claimed to have killed l.ftHt enemy troop* and captured a record l.ftftd more in the first 24 hour* of the counter-attack WeaUra froot—• front dispatch ' sent from Korea at »:4ft p.m (2 4ft am. CST) reported that ftghting in the Naktong bulge ended tonight with all objectives taken and at least 1.2041 to LSoo communist* ed-Thirty-five to 40 prisoner* were taken The remaining 9.500 to !<».- 500 troops in the 4th communist division either escaped to the west bank of the Nak tohg river or drowned in tbe atempt Y Soul here front—two communist attack* were repulsed by American 25th division force* west of Masan on the road to Pusan South Korean police repulsed an attack in another sector with heavy enemy losses Early tonight, a large enemy column was observed moving east from Chinju. Air *upp< 4 was asked, but had not arrived by fi p m. t 2 am CST) There appeared to be a general eneniy build up on the southern front. Eastern '"front—reinforced south Korean troops pushed nearly two miles north from tbe liberated port of Pohang to the vicinity of Pongidong and are still advancing against only light enemy resistance. Other south Korean troops have driven two mile* north beyond liberated Klgye. eight mile, northwest ot Pohang Air front—more than •# super fortresses dropped 55ft ton* of bombs on tbe north Korean port and railway center of Seismen (('hongjini, M mile* from the Soviet border, through which Russian arms are believed to move to the Korean front, "excellent results" were reported. Naval front South Korean naval force* landed on tiny Tokcboh To Island. 30 mile* southwest of Inchon. west coast port for enemyoccupied Benet, early yesterday and occupied the village of Chlnnl without incident. United Nation* warship* bombarded the Island in preparation for the landing, but there was' no report of any re*i»taWe. There waa no Indication of the size of the landing party or whether the landing wa* in the nature of a raid or seizure of a permanent haae. MMK» Caaualtis* Washiufftoa. Aug, 1»-(UP> — North Korean communist* have.suffered 50.000 casualties since in ; vadlug south Korea on June 85. a military spokesman estimated tod,y- .. . An army spokesman said that until about three week* ago south Korean casualties totalled 2T,gd# In both instance*, the figures covered . klt)ed. wounded and, missing. Tbe estimates were given reporter* fit an 8. a.'m CST Pentagon preps brieftag Military spokesmen refused to give an up-to-date figure on total American casnaßie*. explaining that to do so would aid the enemy Noon Edition