Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol XLVIII. H 0.207.

YANKS LASH OUT IN BLISTERING ATTACKS

Truman Issues Blunt Warning To Communists

Says United States Will Build Armed Force Os 3 Million Against Aggression Washington, Sept. 2 (UP) President Truman, in a blunt ultima'uni to world communism. aald last night that the United Staten will build an armed force ot 3.NO.MD men to block further Red aggression. He coupled the warning with a rallying cry to the nations of the free world, which the Voice of America will hurl around the word today in two doien tongues The United States. Jfr. Truman said, wants nothing from the world save peace anti freedom for all nations and all peoples. To gain these simple ends, he said, this nation will fight to the full limit of its mounting resources The effort toward that goat, the president said, will require hard work and sacrifice by all of us." Mr Truman delivered a damnIng indh tmenr of the Soviet Union and Its policies He warned the Kremlin that Hitler and Tojir fatally underestimated the United States ten years ago. and grimly added: --— . Mt wwuld tie aggressors make no such mistake today." While the president's was primarily a simple laiignage •‘(presshtn of American aims S4MI IHtlieie* directed at 'counteracting Soviet propaganda, there—were In dbations ibat lt may have gained him some support on the domestic IHiHthat front Initial reaction from congress— Where the Truman foreign policy has Iteeome a hot Issue was predominantly .favorable Even his most outspoken congressional > titles did not lake immediate issue 4y|th the theme of the presi deal s radio and television report to the nation Ills announcement that the armed forces would git to X.innt.l tai or more received gen oral acclaim The peesMMM gave an effective anti plain anther to communist ch*rgwr-vtiwt— America has Imper TSlisf «oe. in the fit east. He said th< Unlietl Stales (toes not want Formosa nor any part of Asia, that it believes in freedom for all Asian—nations and that It does hot helleye In aggressive or pre--venllve war. \ Korea, he said, has the right to Ire free, independent and united, and the United Stales la going tit see to It (hat It gets that right The reference to a ‘united" Korea indicated that the U S will never agree to a return to the divided state that egisted before the North Korean Reda Invaded the republic In-South Korea Diplomata speculated that this means United Nations forces will not stop at the 3*th parallel when their major counter-attack is launched —a question which Mr Truman declined to discuss at his last press conference The president said the UnileiL States does not want to see the Korean conflict erupt Into World War JH, and expressed once again the hope that comunist China "will not be misled or forced" Into it Six Airmen Killed * As Fiona Explodes Nashville. Tenn . Sept 2—(UP) Sewart air force base was expect ed to announce today the nani* of six airmen killed In the crash of a C-ll,» “flying from which three others parachuted to safety It was first believed that seven pe.hhrd when the plane crashed -In n cornfield near Parsons, Tenn.,, yesterday. Only six bodies Were found, however, and a negro trooper was later-discovered tangled In his chute far from the crash scene. Ills name was not learned Sgt Richard Evans. Oak Lawn. 111., and Cpl. Joe T. Wootten of Dixie. Oa.. ware the other survivors Evans aald they were flying a routine navigation training mission at •''lS',ooo feet when one of the engines exploded and set the troop carrier plane afire,

DECATUR DAILS' DEMOCRAT O44LV MILV MWVMNN •* ABAUB COUNTY

Senate's Th Boost Bill To CoofereiKe House Members On Recess For Holiday < i i i Washington. Sept 2 — (UP) — I ’ The Semite's 54.50* IMMr.tuMt tax i" Increase hill headed for a con gressioual conference today —for > action after the house gets back > from its holiday. ! Under an emergency procedure. • adopted to speed the defense effort. the senate's tax Increase was i actually tied to a house bill .which would have cut taxes Instead of lioostlng them. i Extensive carpenfry by a senatei house conference committee obviously will lie required But no house conferees can even be ap--1 pointed until member* return from their Lalsir Day recess a week from Monday The senate-approved bill would take 52.745.<5M>.i)0(i from the pocketbooks of Individual tax payers r Corporate iocrime taxes Would furnish II .Stw.fHHi.oAi. and the rest would come from plugging "loopholes" In present tax law*. Elsewhere in congress Reaction — Congresxkoml rest i Gon wa* generally friendly to president Truman's raulo-televlx t. JM. .report to the people last night. 1 Reliable congressional sources predicted that Mr Truman's decision to double pre-Kprean armed services manpower may tenet the nation's defense budget to ISO.tMHI ■ 000.000 this year Subversives Some senate sup power* of "tough" communist control legislation which President Truman ha* attacked ax to strict hoped Mr Truman's new warning to world communism would make him more friendly to string ent measures to deal with communists on the homefront. Controls President Truman said In his speech that he will approve the economic controls bill now on his desk and use Its. - -powers tu— "make many changes In our way of tiring and working ” Doctor Draft Congress completed action on a bill to permit drafting of doctors and dentists through age SO for 21 months of military service. Woman Is Killed In Bus-Truck Collision Reymonr. Ind. Sept, 2. —(UP) — Mrs: Bernard F Griffith, about 27. of Earl Park, was killed an J her husband was injured critically today when- their automobile was hit by a big truck on U.S. 31. northeast of here. Three other persons were Injured. \ Mrs. Otto Sales Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Otto Sales. 58. a lifelong resldgpt of Wells county, died at x o'clock this morning at the Wells county hospital at Bluffton. Death wax caused by heart trouble. She waa married to Otto Sales, | ’ a former resident of near Oeneva. on Feh. 20, 1041. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters. Mr*. Roxemand Green 'of Arisons. Mrs. 1 Naomi Hur res of Farmland and , Mrs Bonileand Murray of Cali- 1 > fornla. and one son. Harvey Walter 1 of Knightstown. Funeral services will be held at. 2 pm. Tuesday at the residence, threefpurths of a mile south of Keystone, the Rev. Matthew Worth- I map officiating. Burial will be in i the Alberton cemetery near Domea- i tic The body will ba removed from i the Walker funeral home at Mont- I peller to the residence, where friends may call after 7 pm Sun- i day I

IUE Strike On GE May Close Decatur Plant IUE Calls Company Wide Strike As Os Tuesday Agoinst GE Although the Decatur General Electric plant may not be strikebound next week, prospects of continued operations are dim. if the general strike ordered by the local office members of the union. Del i-atur plant workers are represented , by the United Electrical Radio and . Machine Workers of America (IND) which up to noon today had not joined the competing uniop In the strike demand A I'E spokesman representing GE workers at Erie. Pa., said his members would not honor IUE ■pickets If the shut down come* to the Decatur plant, it will be because of the lack of wire needed to manufacture the fractional horsepower motors turned out here This par ticitlar wire is shipped from the Fort Wayne GE plants, which will be dosed If the IUE workers Walk out. ' E W Lankenau. Decatur plant manager, stated that as far as he knew, the plant would resume operations Tuesday morning, following the loibor Day holiday. "But.” said Mr. Lankenatf. "we have only a three, or tour dujts’ supply of wire to keep the plant running." Consequently, if the wire supply Is shut off. the more than goo local G E employes will be victims of the IUE strike among It* member*, despite the fact that local workers are not on strike GE plants at Tell C*ity- and Wabash would probably be forced to close tor the same reason, press dispatches Indicated The plant* at Tiffin. Ohio and DeKalb. 111., might operate. Mr Lankenau said. Work cis in those nlat are represented by the UE and will not be out on strike. If materials are obtainable these non-stilke plants can coot lope operations ' " ■ ' r Order 40,000 Strike By United Press Labor's drive for a round of cost-of-living wage boosts threatened today to idle more than 20f1.m)0 worker* in strikes next week More than 12(1,000 union mem-(T-rw To esse Kv»> Three Decatur Men Ordered To Service Ordered Jo Report Later This Month Three Decatur men received their orders--today to report for active duty,with the army later this month Included In the call were Sgt Ix'wls Smith. Decatur lawyer. Pfc Robert L. August, of 1024 W. Adams street, and Pfc Frank Clear, Jr. Sgt. Smith served with the mill tary Intelligence branch of the army He served for more than three years He will leave for Fort RHey. Kan.. Sept. 21. and then will return to Camp Atterbury for reassignment. Pfc. August will report to Fort Riley. Sept. 22. He will be reassigned to an engineering battaHoh at a Missouri camp He served with the army of occupation in Japan All three men are married. Pfc Clear was just released from the army last February. He served t3H months with the medics. He will report to Fort Riley Sept 21. Lions To Resume Regular Meetings Dechtnr Lions club will hold It* first fall meeting after having suspended regular weekly for the summer, it was announced by Lawrence "Bud" Anapaugh. president. Tuesday'* meeting will :>e held at 8:20 p m at the K. of P. home. The session will be a. review of activities, with reports of officer* and plana will be announced tor the fall and winter meeting*. Watson Maddox will be tn charge of the bnslnsa* aeasloh. All members who will bo unable to attend are asked to report to Dr. H. Frohnap fel before noon Tuesday.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 2, 1950

Quick EmlTk) Red Riot ■■ ■ Mu Or WIST GERMAN POLICE hl persuade a demonstrator li> leave the scene as they break np a battle t>egun when cowimtinlsls attempted to atorm the city halt. Some tUHI East Germans took part after distributing pamphlets demanding "Americans go home." and carrying the slogan "Korea tor Koreans -Germany for Germans ''

CMtndsAwanM I For Moose Addif ion $57,000 Addition To Decatur Lodge Home „ t'.milracls tor a 057.000 addition to the Moose home, corner of First and Jackson streets, were award ed In a joint meeting of the building committee and the trusters of Adams Lodge No 1311. Loyal Order of Moose, last evening Bills were received several weeks ago - - Ail three contract* were award j I ed to local concerns. The general contract was awarded to Tost Uonstruction company; plumbing and heating to Carl Gattshall of the Walter Plumbing and Heating company, and the electro-a I work tu Engle A Klees. The general contract totals approximately 245.000. The contracts are exclusive of furnishings. _ Members of the building torn mlttee are: Wesley Titus, chairman; Oren Schults. Henry Braun and Waldo Eckrote. Flans and specifications for the addition were prepared liy le-ltoy Bradley. Fort Wayne architect, who designed the original building In 1041. He will supervise construction, of the addition, which will get underway this month and will be completed early in 1051. Russell Baumgartner, governor of the lodge, amt E.- J. Worthman. secretary, staled that the new addition became necen»ary to accomodate the Increased membership of the Isige _ The new addition, -which wHI have two floors to correspond with the present building, will be 72 feet by 3S feA. to lie constructed north of the present building with a new entrance on First street On the upper floor there will be a lodge room addition 41 by 24 feet, with stage and dressing rooms, a new office and three large storage rooms The present kitchen will he more than doubled in slxe and arranged with serving counter adjoining lodge room addition. Modernfdld doors between, this room and the present lodge room will enable these areas to be used independently for lunch eons and small dinners, or as one combined unit for large banqitets . and other parties. On the lower floor lhe capacity of the present club room will lx doubled. A stage with dressing rooms will be located at the north end. A new game room will he provided, large storage room and 1 ladles' rest rooms. A new fire- i safe vault will also be constructed i In the basement. <

i Board Os Education • Moots This Morning Adams county's 12 trustees, comprising the county board of education, met with superintendent. Uansrl Foley in their regular! monthly session this morning | Eli Graber. French township, trustee, was elected to serve ,ax trustees' representative on the county tax adjustment board which; will meet in September to feylew the tax levies and budgets Several questions concerning the new school term were discussed by the trustees The meeting lasted about an hour Champs Parade At State Fair Today County's 4-H Band Leader Os Parade Judging at the Indiana state ftilr was completed today and several hundred 4-H members, hand memhers, and adult leader* left early this morning to see the parade of champions The Adams county 4 H band, directed by Gerald Zimmerman. will lead the parade. Six busloads of 4-Her* will attend today, and several carloads of adults also went to the fair. Barbara Wolfe, of the St. Mary's Keklonga*. placed in the white ribbon group in the food preparation judging contest Friday. Barbara won the district context last month. Jim Frtt'e. of the Washington township variety farmers, placed 12th with hi* exhibit of pig*. Nearly fin entries were entered in that data. Marie Hahegger. of soute one. Berne, placed In the white ribbon group in the fourth division of the clothing project She entered a school dress of wash material. " Patsy Rumple, whose medium weight Aberdeen-Angus placed first In Its class, also placed In the honor group in showmanship The honor group consisted of the best five showmen from The grotip No report ha*, yet been received, on the dairy or chicken entries from Adams county Terre Haute Woman Killed In Collision Greencastla. Ind.. Bapt. 2. — (UP)— Mr*. Belle B Boyer. «. Terre Hgute. was killed In a collision at the junction of U. 8 4* and Ind 75 yesterday when her ear hit a truck driven by .Claude Gorham, Coatesville

Americans Lash Out In Blistering Attacks As Mason Proclaimed Saved

Havana Threatened By Two Hurricanes Two Storms Roaring Through Caribbean Havana. Cuba. Sept *2. —(UP) — Two hurricane*, one already ■ killer. roared through the Caribbean Sea todav. threatening this tropical city of «(H> ihh>. Residents took storm precautions for the second time in a week as the aeasbn moved slpwly toward Cuba and the U. 8. mainland. The closest and newest of the hurricanes ha* remained nearly stationary tor the past six hours. 230 mile* south-southwest of this island, accoraing to the U. 8. weather bureau's 5:30 EDT advisory. The storm was reported to have winds of 50 to 80 mile* an hour near the center, and apparently wax building up strength. - in FhtrMa. small craft were asked to exercise caution over the Weekend and keep informed of th* storm's movement Htorm warning* were ordered up on the Florida Keys The larger of the two hurricanes, which bad killed a child when R* winds lasted tte island of Trinidad yealerduv. wax iorated at 5:30 AM EDT fiu miles north-northeast of St. Thomas Island, about 7<mi miles southeast of here This big hurricane, with wind* of more than 120 miles an hour, was reported by the U. 8. weather I bureau as gaining in intensity as II i moved slowly on a west-northwest-I erly course at eight to 10 htiles ' an hour. I The storm wax expected to pass to the north of Puerto Rico and weather forecasters refused t»> pre diet whether it would hit Tuba However, the U. 8. embassy warned ataehex to be on the alert for the next 24 hour* for possible -trona winds and heavy rain Monroe Plans For Waterworks System Subscribers' List To Be Made Today Pinal plans, to include 100 subgovUter*. will be drawn up today' and Monday for the (75.000 Monroe waterworks. Homer Winteregg. chairman of the town board, said today. The town board met today at 10 a m to discuss the water work*, and draw up the final list of *ubMcriber*. The board want* at least lofl name* on thejlst before a contract for tte water system Is let. Person* wanting on the line after the final plan* are accepted by the contractor* will have to pay the contractor. A flat rate of 52 73 a month for each house ha* been proposed, with meters only for public places that desire them A flat rate will also be established for business and public place* The water works will consist of wells, located In Winteregg'* field, a smalt pump bouse there, and a large 40.000 gallon water tank on the town kail lot Bond* will be sold to pay for the program ;sj>a fact, the board has already checked. Winteregg explained, so that they know the bonds will all be sold ITje engineer. C. L. Snyder, of Hillsboro, guarantees that the cost will not exceed 575,»(M> Included In that cost Is the 40.000 gallon tank, all piping and fittings, water snpplv. valves, hydrant*, service piping, engineering tee*, legal fee*, ■ccouhflng fees. Interest during construction period and *ix mghlhs thereafter, real estate, advertising, printing, election, and a proper surplus for unknown eoets. The state board of health located the well* for the water supply, and will Inspect them later to Insure that they provide pure water. Win teregg* staied >

Russia Pledges To Remain In UN's Council Russia Rebuffed On Two Issues Friday, Malik Steps Down Lake Sucre**. N. Y . Sept. - (UP)—Russia, although *teffeted by two resounding defeat*.- tfas pledged today to remain In the United Nations security council for quite awhile | Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik relinquished the chair to Britain's Sir Gladwyn jebb yesterday and. although j>» »w *ucce**ful in piolonging the council's meeting with three more -long propaganda speeches against tte United States and the west, he lost two important vote* First, he sought to up«et Jebb* presidential ruling that the invttatlon extended on June 25 to south Korea to attend the eounett* Ko rean debate* still is valid Nobody supported him in hi* cbullenge to ’ *e< ’Ms aside. , Secondly, he sought tn farce the rouucltm Invite a reproaentatlve t from north Korea. a« UMU aa *MNk , Korea's ambassador John Myun Chang, to sit in. Yugoslavia voted with him on this Issue, but tte Soviet delegate lost bis proposal under an 8-2 vote. Jean Chauvel of- France remarked during the four-hour debate—which accomplished in one after noon what Malik had prerented the council from doing for a full month that it appeared inconsistent that the Russian, who started a 28week 1 boycott last January and blamed it on the presence of the Chinese nationalists, should now be attending the council as an ordinary dele- j gate while nationalist delegate! Tlngu F Tsiang still sat with the group. "The delegate of France." Malik said, "has expressed certain doubt* ■as- to my presence l here: If you will permit me. 1 will explain it In one sentence: “In the course of the month of August, the delegation of the Soviet Union submitted a series of pro posats designed to strengthen the' course of International peace and! security and it intends to defend them " x September Term Os i Court Opens Tuesday Court Procedure Is Outlined By Judge September term of Adams circuit court will open Tuesday morn ing. Judge Myles F Parrish has announced that tte first three days will be devoted to the calling of the docket and arranging time for trials during the term On Tuesday, lhe guardianship docket will be called. Judge Parrish stated This Will be followed by tte setting of criminal cases on „ Wednesday, and oh Thursday lhe civil docket will be called All members of the Adam* county bar will te on hand for the n.vcket calling and Indication* are there will be a buay court term Judge and Mr*. Parrish returned several days ago from a Canadian trip, and Judge Parrish ha* been busy Ute laßf several days making ready for th* September opening. Cleaner* have been hosy la th* court room and It has teM thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned The conference room and tte etert's private sai'e also have been cleaned *"■ MKATHtR Partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional shower* tonight and tomorrow. Little change In temperature Low tonight M north, near 70 couth.

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Convincing Display Os Haw Military Might Revealed By Americans In Korea American force*, tn a coavincing display of their wew-tou-d military might la Korea lashed out I* btiM erinc attacks all along a Ifw milr front today. tta tte southwestern front wterr tte American lath dtvtsiaa bore tte brunt of an all-out eommuaiat drive to posh as Mrto tte sea. U wa* aanuunced that all territory lo»t to the *ed offensive bad been rrgaia1 -d; ‘ A divishHi opufceer-M announced ' Jubilantly "Mason bus been savsg" Official estimate* said that on tte Masan front ahmr tte enemy ' in tte last two days lost I*.<HW men in killed or woanded. the equivalent of an entire north Korean division From Poteng Ml the north, east rad of the line, through tte Naktong bulge, to Masan on the south, tte American* and ttetr south Ko rean allies were attacking tn the air. Gen Douglas MacArthur threw hi* entire strength at 1 the red*, whose offensive of two days, ago' seemed to have lost much of Its cordtaation and to have left * communist unit* operating in *emi- ’ driven ftgtaer* poured too* of * bomb*. DEBet*. fwtet* and flaming ’ Jelly bomba Into the red forces. ' bloodying tte water* of tte Nak * tong and Nam river* wher# the 1 rods stiti were trying daylight crossings on rafts and boats. American commander* were confident they had broken the backbone of. the greatest red offensive ' yel Dispatches from the field were I more specific in reporting the *ud den turn in thy fortunes of war on the heels of tte .offensive whi< h . breached tte Naktoog ’river de ■ ftnse line and Jolted a crack tw the | doorway to Pusan ! A 25th division spokesman said I all the ground lost in the cotnniun--Ist attack on the coastal front west of P'Usan had been retaken'and the situation was “now under roatrol " He said the communist threat to Masan and to Pusan. 27 mile* to the east, had teen eliminated The American* are counter-attacking briskly all along the southern front the spokesman said ( On tte Naktong front. 2nd division troops driven back as much as nine miles from the river were “slowly fighting their way hack to their original position*." a dispatch from that, sector said. I Heavy fighting wa* reported atl I along the Naktong front, where the communist* had burst across the river at 18 place* and poured thousands of troops Into big bridgeheads Tte biggest was In the bend of the Naktong north of Masan where it turns eastward toward Pusan There the Americans were shoved back through Yongaan. the road L__ junction controlling the whole bulge formed by tte river bend This wa* their deepest penetration beyond the river And today the spearhead was turned back American tanks and infantry stormed tte town, killed part of the communist garrison, captured part, and sent the rest fleeing Yongaan was firmly In American hands, and the main fighting wa* on high ground to the west The town burned all Saturday morning The tire* were kindled In a tank battle in which five and powibly seven enemy tanks were knocked out Chicago Man Killed Near Kentland Today Kentland. Ind. Sept 2. — (UP)--Murphy Garrett. Jr , 24. * Chicago negro, was killed today in a traffic accident on U. 8 41. 12 mile* r.orth of bore. Garrett * car ran into tte rear of another driven by William E*tes U Chicago, and then struck a guard rail, stat* police said. A piece of tte guard roll wa* Ahrosrn through the windthleld and hit Oarrett