Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 208.

RED OFFENSIVE WITHIN 30 MILES OF PUSAN

City Schools Opened Here This Morning Enrollment Lower Thon Lost Yeor's First Day Totals When school bells rang this morning for the city’s public school students.'to indicate the end of a long summer, enrollment figures reveal ■ d that 1.141 children made their ways to either the Decatur high school or the Lincoln school. Included in thia figure of total first-day attendance are 129 kindergarten children, the same number that was registered in Scptem lor. 11149. Other grades In the two schools compare favorably with last year, though slightly lower this year. For example, there were 691 Lincoln school students enrolled on the first day In 1949; this year there are 566 Enmlinicnt figures in the junior high school (seventh and eighth gradesi is up In this year, from 153 to 16} there are 16 fewer high dudents. though, with 3»*t enrol od In 1949. and 294 this year Superintendent of city *< bools Walter J Krick, who released the enrollment figures today, stated that there is a possibility of change in them. especially In the upper! grades- i The ■ oinplcte li*> dM the . nr»«ll nieirt figure* In the individual grades and a conrparslon with last I year's figures follows: First grade 111 this year. 109 hod year increase of two I Srcwad jtrade 97 this year. 97 last year: decrease of 10 Third grade -95 this year. 100 In 1949, a decrease of five. Fourth grade -96 this war. 1<)1 ’TaM'/yearcS'daeraaae of air. — Firth ftrtdc S 3 this yi>»r*wl lust year, an Increase of 12 Sixth grade 94 this year, 92 last j year, a decrease ot eight Seventh grade 88' this year. 86, last year, an increase of two Eighth grade- 76 this year. 67- ■ last year, an increase of eight Freshmen S' tills year. 87 la«l rear; a decrease of 19 Sophomores 72'both this year and last year Juniors 65 this year. 77 last war. a decrease of 12 *S>njors 79 this year. 64 last war an increase of 15. Th* Decatur Catholic high -ctiOOl and th* St Joseph's grade school —wilt not, unen until Wedneaday. and registration figures will hot he available until then Enrollment figure* will also not | he Trudy for release until.ldler tori the county's school*. according to superintendent Hansel F<>i«y who Indicated that he believed the low er grade enrollment figures this war might, exceed last year’s, while the upper grade figures would remain much the same , Start Testing New Telephone System - Automatic Service To Begin Sept. 30 Testing of rhe new automatic telephone system starts this week. <> C Hance. chief installer of the new equipment. -' stated today Testing will continue until 11 p m it’ l> T-» Sept 30. w&eh the automatic service will begin. Hance has had as many as 18 men working at the Cltiiens Telephone’company since June 6. The new. complicated machinery will occupy a room 41 feet by 77 feet in sixe. There is room left for expansion of service when the number ot phones The new system -will allow four times as much long distance service as the present set-up, with room for eight long distance and information operators during the treat period of use each day The new system will do away with the long waiting periods for long distance calls. Charles Ehinger. new president of the Cltlxens Telephone company, states that the new system will allow toll calls to be completed while the caller iTwre -re Fwwe SVVI WtATHER Fair thia afternoon. tonight and Wednesday. Continued cool. Low tonight middle 40's north, 45 to SO south. High Wednesday 75 north, 7S south.

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Local Lady's Mother Killed In Accident Word has bern received b<-re of the death of Mr». C. W. Norris, of Creeiivllle, 6.. and the mother of Mrs. John .Morgan, of 31® South Eleventh street Mr*. NorrU died of head injuries received in an auto “ "mobile accident Monday near New C»Mtle Mrs. Morgan’* father and Mister. Thelma, all of Greenville, ure in the New CaMle hospital. Funeral servicer will be held Friday for Mrs. Norris in Greenville ; Powerful Gulf ■ Storm Smashes Into Florida I Hurricane Headed • For Jacksonville; 1 Villages Smashed GsinsvHle Fla Sept 6—(UP) r -A powerful gulf hurricane smashi rd Inland across a cluster of fish I Ing villages today and carved a i path through piney woods country I toward the big seaport city rtf Jack - sonville on the east coast. I Accompanied by highest winds ■ estimated at 126 miles an hour and | blinding sheets of rain, the storm ■ by 9 a m CJ4T was within 30 mTles •I of thH hustling college town, site I nt the University ot Florida ~| The highway patrol reported the i roof of the Cedar Key bank was i I blown off and a 120 by Cll f.xit | hardware building was topped over, r Most of the dock-side fishing huts I were turned over but winds Were ’ subsiding at 9 30 a m The city bus lines sent all vei hides Io garages. Stores, except for food markets, were elosI rd Churches bioadcast their hr cations for the benefit of refugees I American legionnaires were sum , mimed to duty as disaster workers, ij The highway between GajjisvlU* land Jacksonville was jammed with I, repair and disaster crews. The rain was cascading down ’• flooding roadside fields covering’ the highboy In low places The Cainsville humane society put out a -jidden call for someone, with ■ a solid house to adopt 15 cats being boarded in open shelters. Jacksonville radio stations Were «Twew Te !-•«, Slat — —— I County 4-H Band ! Leads Fair Parade { Adams County Band Is Highly Praised i More than 260 Adams county 4-H , members and leaders saw the . Adam- county 411 Hand lead the parade ot champion* Saturday afternoon at the state fair The 52 band members gave a concert In the coliseum before an audience of 10.000 jammed Into all the available sitting and standing room before the parade started They played several marches while I the parade officials got things ready I outside In a pouring rain | The Adams county band got a hig hand when they entered leading the paiade. Behind the band marched the mounted color guard and Gov Henry Schricker’s special car At noon the hand member, were guests ot Carl Tyner, managing secretary of the state fair, tor a chicken dinner In the administration building dining room After dinner the band played in the youth . building Four busloads of 4-H 'leaders, members, and band members left Decai ur at 7 o'clock Saturday morning for the trip to the fair. On the way one bus broke down just east of Elwood, and the children wi re-transf. red to the other three busses Busloads ot A-llers also went to the fair from Union and St. Mary’s township Saturday . Gerald Zimmerman, band director. reported that the member* of | the stale fair board were very pleased with the hand. They hard ly believed that the hand had practiced only four months Those who saw the parade report that they performed like Reasoned veterans County agent L E Archbold stated that Franklin Buuck. who Is at lending the boy'R camp, and Arlene Balslger. of Berne. Patsy Johnson, of Jefferson township, and Rosalyn Wagner, of Monroe township, who are attending the girls’ school, are enjoying their stay at the slate fair

—— * Train Wreck Ushers Holiday Carnage “* MILWAUKIE’* tragic excursion train wreck (abwvei in which nine wwrc killed and more than 6ft Injured when two trains crashed l>egan the customary holiday toll of ttaed and injured. By early evening of the three-day Laborftliay holiday, the toll of dead through highway accidents, drownings and miacel laneotis causes, mounted steadily toward the 350 mark all over the nation —_ ; W ♦

BULLETIN ■ Balina. Kan. Sept. 6. —(UP) — Two Fort Riley aeWlera were turned over to Saline county today in connection with the fatal shooting of Jamee G. Raepery here Seturday. -' Military authorities identified the pair ae Pvt. Charles P. Potts. 22. St. Francisville. ' 111. and Sft? Willard Tartar. 35,' Farmer City. 111, A third eoldler, Pvt. Charles I. Ray. 25. of Decatur, Ind., still Is being sought. The army aald Potts admittsd that he and Ray held WP Raepery on a Salina atreet and robbed him of appedalmately . *2OO. They quoted Potts as r saying that during thd eeufno Ray fired the fatal shot. Dewey Is Drafted . . . For Governor Race New York Governor Seeks Third Term IVa-biiigt-iii-.. Si pt 5 (t'l'l There will brt some whispers id fraud ai-il phoney about that draft In New York which ha“ persuadi-d Gw- Thiinia* E Dewey to run for a third term But it had most of Jjtc marks of tlx- tral mveoy There certainly has not been a more genuine draft in New York* state since the late Al Smith insisted In 1929 that FDR slop being an invalid and tun for governor to help Al gel himself elected president Al was licked Str. Roosevelt was -elected and Went on la.ter to the White House tor Ilf*. None who know* Dewey will offer really long odds, either, that hi*, new political trail will not had him to the White House at last. •Dewey Is the-aggresslve type He has offended politicians and voters by a superior manner But he is smart. He i« both the most controversial and remarkable man in the Republican party today. If he is reelected governor next November by half a million votes or more, car ries h|s ticket with him and helps regain for the Republicans the eight house seats they lost under his nice nelly campaign leadership In 1949—if he does all of that. Dewey may very well decide he should have another shot at the presidency Officials Guests At County Home Mr and Mrs. Frank Kltson enterfalhed the, county comnrteaionera. i -.unty council and several other local people at dinner today nnon at the Adams county home. Thoße attending included: Counoilmen Henry Dehner. Julius Schultx. Ixv»n Neuenschwander. C. J. Jones and Rnfus Huser; commissioners John Angsburger. John Blakey, and Otto Hoffman: R W Pruden. elecutlve manager of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce: Thurman Drew, county auditor: Richard l<ewton. county treasurer, and TJick Heller, of the Dally Democrat. ;

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 5,1950

Circuit Court Opens For September Term Members of the Adams county bar association filed in ami out of the court room today while the docket was being called and the usual opening day entries were made for the different cases. • Court convened’ after a threemonth vacation, and Judge Myles F Parrish indicated that the first three days will he spent eompleb Ing the calling of the guardianship. civil and estate docket, and setting down for trial those criminal cases postponed from previous terms 1 Holiday DeaNiM ~ Is Heavy In Stale 17 Persons Killed In Traffic Crashes i Ry (Tilted Press A heavy violent death lull was. the nfuiiuatli today nt Indiana’s .celebration of the three-day faibor: day holiday weekend A (’nitt-il Tress survey showed 17 persons died In Hoosier highway accidents, one drowned, one died as a result of fire and three, were killed in miscellaneous ai-rldenis Ing hazardous, was the most dangeious day on the roads Eight per sons died Saturday In traffic aiddents, five were killed Sunday and • the Mondgy_highw.ay_tpt.ai was tour Mrs Mary Jensen. 34. Black Oak. was killed Monday when a car driv 1 «n by her husband. Bernatd. was struck head-on by one.driven by laruis Kock. 51. Gary, five miles north ot Crown Point in Ind. 65 i Jensen and the couple's six chil i dren received minor-Injuries. Mrs. William Norris. 57. Green- | vllle. O . was injured fatally in a I collision at the Intersection of V S. 35 and 36 in Randolph county. A ja-yeanold Waterford il-a Porte <-ouniyi boy. Richard Killingbeck. died in a Michigan City hospital yesterday, five hours after he wax struck by a car while riding a bicycle. Twenty-one-year-old Jack Hight of Muncie rode his motorcycle under a big truck-trailer In a Munciei street and was killed Monday Charles Sandage. 25. Boonville.' was killed in the weekend's hunt- , Ing accident. He was struck In the chest by an accidental discharge I from his big gauge shotgun Mrs. Clifford Hokey. 25. Rushville. died Sunday of hums she received Sunday in a kerosene ex : plosion at her home Doctors at; Rush Memorial hospital performed ap unsuccessful Ceasarean opera-, tlon in an attempt to save the life of Mrs. Hokey's unborn child r . V o- . Matson Funeral To J Be Held Wednesday Fnneral services will be held at 2 Sp.m. Wednesday at the Schone funeral home in Fort Wayne for Mrs. Martha Matson, 84, who died Sunday at a nursing home In that: <lty. Burial will be In Greenlawn, memorial cemetery. Surviving are four sons, one daughter, one brother and two sisters. Including Mrs Goldie Potts of Decatur.

■J ■ County Council hi Study Os Budgets Delegation Seeks Continued Program li ' i k A delegation favoring the con- 1 - Urination of the recreation pro-1 ’ gram in the county was nchedul- ’ ud to meet with memliers of the I obunty council late today In an ■: effort to. persuade that body to ': approve the recreation department's budget and keep the orgafixation alive. The tgte of further: nupervlsM* reeraerteß fn Adwms rWSmsr is dejrendeni on what action councilmen take during their two-day meeting la the commissioners' 1 room in the court house There , have been no private opinions expressed by the members concerning the subject, and whether i or not they will prolong the dej pari merit is known. However, coum Ilmen will also take into consideration six similar ! peHltons circulated in the county and signed by an undisclosed nun>lM*r of people opposed Io the increase In the tax rate necessary Io the department'x« i-ontinhation In the budget of the rrt-reatlon ' department Tor 1951 a (ouj-eent rate I* sought Io be- contribule-1 by hil the townships In the county but not by Decatur. Berne or Geneva “We feel the tax burden of the average taxpayer is heavy enough." the pelilions state, "without adding or continuing this tin- ; necessary fund." The petitioners state further that they (relieve that a recreation program can, he earrfeil on adei quately by leaders in lhe various communities The increased tax rate (heretofore it had been two cental .is being sought because there, is no indication that the McMillen Foundation will contribute to the jrrogram. For "thestnre the recreation department was in i aiigurated. the McMillen Foundation has paid half lhe expenses snd salaries, to get the program started i Councilmen will take no action i on this or any other budget (they will consider budgets frrftn all county government offlcesl today, but will wait until Wednesday to make their final decision. The county commissioners also met in regular session today, allowing claims. There were no ! bids or contracts to lie acted up- | on. Report Os Missinq . Soldier Confirmed ! Wort confirming that Cftl LeRoy V". Baumgartner is ; missing In action has been received by his parents, Mr and Mrs Raumgartndr Jt was reported here today. Cpi Baumgartner has been miss-' ; Ing in action since July 5. the ; letter from the adjutant general I of the army stated. The letter explained that "missing In action" only means that the whereabouts of the person concerned Is not known, not that the esse I* closed * 1

Allied Lines BeUt But Hold—Russian-Marked Bomber Is Shot Down

Bomber Apparently Manned By Russian Crew Is Shot Down vAfter Ship Attack Lake Success. N Y, Sept 5 — il'Pi A Russian-marked bomber, apparently manned by a Russian crew, opened fire in an attack yes terday on I'nited Nations naval son-en off Korea and was shot down by I'N fighter planes, the Vnlted States reported today Speculation iuMßedlately was touched off that Russia may have taken up arms to “protect" the north Koreans under a policy that might even include' reoccupation by Soviet troops of the northern half of the battle-torn peninsula The I! S delegation was understood to be ready to- make the report lhe first order of business when the TN security council meet* at 3 p.m EOT However, there was no IndlcaTlon that the V. S was ready Just yet to charge Russia with outright aggression in Korea. In Tokyo, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. the UN's supreme commander Ju the field, scheduled at least, one top level conference to--1 day. presumably in connection with ‘the Incident. A reliable source ' | there hinted that .Russian Mattes ' had taken part in previous Korean ‘ operations and were believed to 1 have strafed a British destroyer 1 two weeks ago. Diplomats await«* the reaction ' of Rnseia's delegate 1 Jacob A. Malik as the poeslhle tip-off to Soviet A policy on"Wbrea. ‘ "f It was regarded in diplomatic I circles as one of the most serious Incidents in l T S-Russian relations t since red air force plane* shot ‘' down a f 8. navy privateer bomber ' over the Baltic sea earlier this • year The report' ot the incident was delivered to Trygve Lie. secretarygeneral of the I'N. at x -Tt:3il a.m., ' EDT and to Sir Gladwyn Jebb,| ' prixidint of the VN security coun i cil 15 minute* later by Erhest Gross, deputy V. S. representative ' on the security, council Holiday's Toll Is Less Than Foreseen Over SOO Killed On -. Labor Day Holiday By United Press The Ijtbor day holiday cost the live* of 347 persons in highway crashes but the toll was almost 100 i short of-what had been expected.' reports khowed today. It was the first holiday since i World War 11 In which the number ! of casualties fell below the advance i estimate of the naVfonal safety > council j, Accldenfii“of all types killed 539 > persons throughout the..weekend. In addition to thnse killed in traf- . sh-, 74 persons were drowned and , 92 died in miscellaneous mishaps , Twenty-six died In plane crashes, including 13 killed in a New York ( state slrtlner crash. — — r Canada counted a toll of 55 deaths I in all types of accidents, including 37 dead In traffic, nine drowned. , two killed In tires, and seven who died In miscellaneous accidents. , California and Texas tied with . 45 deaths each to lead the tragic , list. California counted 33 highway deaths, highest in the nation, and Texas was second with 29 New York state's accidental death total was boiMted -to 42 by the airliner crash at Vtica but the number of traffic deaths was only 12. below Virginia (221. Kentucky (181. Michigan (IS), Pensylvania _ (I|)., Indiana (.17). and Alabama ( (16i North Carolina also had 13 , traffic deaths. -, f A head-on collision between two ; Interurban electric trains near Milwaukee on Saturday killed nine per- , sons end Injured 45 The safety council had predicted ‘ that 435 persons would die In traf flc during the 7ft-hour period from 6pm Friday to midnight last night Police reported, however, that 1 motorists appeared to be more 1 cautious than during previous hotl (Turn Ts Pose Tbveel

2,000 Ignore TracePleaOf i IUE Leaders . Join In Oft GE Despite Fact Strike Postponed Washington. Sept. I—• <l’F> — Another 2.««M CIO Ittour&al Workers ignored their national leader*’ trace p'e.-a today and ' joined a strike against General Electric company The new walkouts brought io almost 2i.om> (he number of CIO International I nion of Electrical Workers who have struck against the sprawling GE industrial *y» : 1 tern since last Wednesday The union claims to represent 6(>.<MH> , workers In 51 GE Hants. Including the Knolls atomic power lab- ’ , oratory at Bchnectady, N. Y. The national union leadership i yesterday abandftned plans for a i nation-wide strike scheduled for > today against GE and accepted a r government request to resume bargaining with the company here » tomorrow Company officials did t irnt inuartlately Mpte their posftt tion. The union truce*affreement*uld b' halt threatened wS2MMns ■ GE workers at Fitchburg, Maas, » and 400 at f*rovidence. R I. ButI 406 union workers struck, today at ■ the Knolls Isborstory. 400 more at i Holyoke. Mass., about 750 at Warren. 0.. and more than 400 at i Youngstown. O. ‘The 19.000 GE workers who ..‘struck at Everett and Lynn. . | .Mass. last Wednesday voted to i continue their strike So did 7,500 others at GE'S Electronics Parks ■ plant In Syracuse, N. Y, where,! I the company manufactures tele-j I vision receiver* 1 Ford's signing of a penslon-and- i pay contract with the CAW al-! most completeil the union's 12-day hlitxkreig drive for industry-wide wage boosts to meet the rising cost of living Ford tossed out a contract which still had 19 months to run andltranted Its workers a gSft.OOO. ' (HM) yearly economic package in a non-reopenalde. five-year pact The package included 1126 a ’ month pensions, an eight-cent-un- i hour pay boost retroactive to I 1 Sept. 1. a four-cent hourly In< reuse each June 1 for the life of the con tract, and a provision for cost-of-1 living adjustments. 70,000 Called For DraHlßHovember Indiono's Quota About 1,750 Men ' Washington. Sept 5 - (UP) — The defense department asked J selective service headquarters today to call up 70.000 inductees for the artpy In November. This will make k total of 170.000 , draftees to he called up since the I outbreak of the Korean war. Previous calls were for 50.000 I In September snd another 50.000 , In October All draft calls so far have liuen , tor army Inductees. Neither the navy nor the air | force has asked yet for any drat- , The first (-all -f<xr . draftees was issued on July 10 for to.ooo On , July 27 this call of 20.000 tor September was Increased to 50.000, and another 50.000 were asked fnr October .< ■ I The army already has called up 119.000 unorganised reserves, four | national guard divisions and twn regimental combat teams, and an . unspecified number ot organised , reserve and national mart unit* smaller than division* The air force has called up

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30,000 Reds Attack On Korean Front; Port Os Pohang Is Still Being Held Tokyo. Wednesday. Sept 6 — <I P: A eommunist offensive from north had carried to within 5o miles of the vital supply base of l‘u*an today The allied ltaes, whilc bcai. bad out broken and the port of Pohang HUI was in our hands Gen Doug la* Mar-Anbar* 2 a.m. ' communique said the enemy "con Usmrt bls main effort against the routh Korean Capitol division." and that some red units succeeded in moving south of Augangni. a town on the main Pohang-Taegu ! highway. Some 30.(MW reds were attacking They struck at both Pohang and Taegu but both anchor* were holding firm Only in the eenter ot the northern- trout had the line bent There. American and south Ko'rean defenders Ten-back to hastitv dug-ia positions seven miles north of Kyongju. rail and road center. 15 mile* smttbwest of Pohang and 43 mile* north of Pusan The defense line now ran In the shape of a button hook < urvi-« Ya an arc two-thirds at the way amund beseiged Pohang. about 3.OM* yards from the city limits at all points, and then slaatiq* sharply sowthWestward to the petal of deepest penetration above Kyongju t'nited Press correspondent Ralph Teatsorth reported from eighth army headquarters that the , buckling of the allied lines across I 25 mile* of the northeast sector had posed is more serious threat to Taegu than the immediate red drives against the first cavalry division to the northwest. Teatsorth said the cavalrymen were holding their jx>»ltiun» on the hills commanding Tabudong 12 ' miles north of Taegu Tabudgny j itself has been evacuated hut the I move did not involve a change iu i American lines Front line report* from the embattled second division along the Naktong river -aid communist Inftl t raters had seised control of the r-ummuniqalions center us Changnyong. six mile* east of the river in the center of the front. However. Americans were between them and the river and the occupation was expected to be short-lived ' The heavy rain* which had hami pered American air strike* also i were making it hald for the north Korean* The N’aktoug was flood ed and the red* were having difficulty In reinforcing their bridgehead and also in escaping rhe American counter-blows American Jet fighter*. Mustang* and navy plane* joined in the fight, assisted by an American destroyer which shelled enemy position* from off shore ___ " At one time tank fought tank inside the city limits of ruined Pohang , United Pre** correspondent Robert Bennyhoff. reporting from Kyongju. 17 mile* southwest of Po hang, said the Americans and south Korean* were' defending a perimeter roughly 3.fto<) yard* from Po hang on three sides from northeast, northwest and southwest From Pohang the line then ranged south „ westward to a position about a mile and a half to three miles south at Angangnl and the main PohaneTaegu highway Henry Rumple Shows Champion At Fair Henry Rumple, of Jefferson township, showed the- champion Aberdeen-Angus In the open H«estock show at the Mats fair last week. Rumpie's daughter. Patsy.’ had previously won first place honors with her calf tn Its division Homer Arnold. Jr., placed first in the 2-vear-old cow division of the Ayrshire dairy calf 4-H award* third In the junior, senior and threeyear-old and over claaae* and ~ placed In the honor group in the showmanship class