Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 215.

EARLY APPROVAL OF MARSHALL FORESEEN

Stop Reds On NorthemFront

Yankee Troops Stop Reds Cold, Capture Hills Battle-Hardened Ist Cavalry Hits At Communists Tokyo. Thursday. Sept 14 —(VP) - American troops stopped' the eommnnistn cold on the northern! front in Korea today and then charged forward to knock the enemy off three hills on the approaches to vital Taegu The grimy, battle-hardeaed V. « Ist cavalry division seised two hills in its southern sector and a third only in miles north of the allied supply hub of Taegu The republic of Korea 2nd corps hammered at the walled city of K» san 10 miles north of Taegu, with Ist cavalry artillery support British troops along '*•" Nahtong river cleaned out poekrts at the enemy on their left flank ami cap tured If prisoner* , CommuplStt. here falllag hack from Yongchon eastward t«* the Jas pan flea., with Americans and south Koreans hot on their heels Infantrymen, artillery and planes combined to push the. communists off the three hills, hut the enemy still held two other important heights five mil?* east of Waegwaa Planes bombed and strafed areas where an estimated ♦n.t'tut eomwiunisttroops were believed Soho content raud A Ist cavalry Inlsf Use-nee -officer Identified three nt the four enemy divisions facing Taegu as the 10th. south of Ute British sector on the northwest, and the 13th and Ist. Which border otr the south. Korean 2nd corps 1 area. He said they had plenty of am munition and were capable -of launching a counterattack with two divisions about jn.mm men somewhere on the Ist cavalry s front m the 25th division' sector, air and ground attacks failed to dislodge a pocket of communists four and one-half miles smithwest of the confluence of the Nam and Nak tone rivers An American patrol captured a communist platoon. in the 2nd division sector on the northern front, hut the area wax otherwise relatively quiet. A« this news came from the fighting fronts. Lt. O*n Walton H ’ Walker, commander of United-Na-tions ground forces, told troops of the I' 8. Ist cavalry, 2nd and 25th division' that the day of retreats had passed -Wn will go forward within a short period of time.'' Walker said. • Instead of going through the suf fertng of retreat that we had in the past two months, we will go so ward. — I feel a definite weakening of the enemy, and In some places he Itro T» rase Fleet Rubbish Pickup Here Thursday And Friday City trucks will-make a complete canvass of Decatur Thursday and Friday to pick up rubbish. tin cans, etc- city officials have announced. Rubbish Is to be placed In containers and set in the alleys; The schedule follows: — Thursday morning—fire ward 4. north of Monroe and west of Fifth Thursday afternoon—fire ward I. north of- Monroe and east of Fifth: Friday morning, fire ward 3. south of Monroe and west of Fifth: Friday afternon. fire ward 2. south of Monroe and east of Fifth. State Polio Cases 'lndianapolis, Sept. 13—(UP) — Today's polio totals in Indiana since Jan 1. compared with the same date last year. Cases Deaths No. es Counties 1950 233 IS «s 1949 727 72 «0 Ndw cases reported today: 7 In St Joseph’s county. 4 In Marlon | county, 2 In Marshall county. 1 each tn Johnson. Harrison. Randolph, Lawrence. Morgan. Fountain and Gibson counties. ( First cases reported this year In Harrison. Morgan and Marshall counties )

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NIWtDAMUI * ADAM* COUNTY

High School Pupils Visit Doily Democrat Students In the advanced shorthand class at Decatur Catholic high school accompanied by their. Instructor. Sr. M. Eebronla, tourid the Dally Democrat plant today. Stops were made at the U. P. teletype, the linotypes, in the com posing room, press room and , anting department War Tax Boost Bill Advances Toward Passage Homo Committee Okoys Conference On Tom Boost Bill _ Washington Hept 13 tl'PrThe house rules committee today gave Hu war tag boast bill a push toward final a< ttoa fr nOy»W a rroohstb-n whk h the house i« MfHk'ted' ’ (<»' approve morrow to' send the E4.sos.«m».ued|' measure to rimferem« with the! senate Democratic leaders hoped tor agreement on the hill hv the week end It was one of the last three or four* issue-, standing In the way of congressional recess or adjournment Agothe, la a measure, approved IM by the senate armed services committee, to waive'legal obstacles . Io appointment of Gen George C Marshall as defense secretary succeeding Loal« Johnson The house armed services committee will vote on the waiver Friday. and final congreaplonal sp proral la espected shortly there after. Other <ougrc'sk>nal develop meals.' O'Dwyer The senate foreign re--lations committee approved the nomination of former New York mayor William O'Dwyer to be am hassador to Mexicq. Heer Rep John D. Dingell. D, Mich drafted a bill ordering the defense department to issue brer to fl.l.'i "whenever the health and wejfa/e of the troops demand it " Contempt The senate foreign re latlons committee voted contempt citations against three witnesses who refused to answer questions during the—recent Investigation of alleged communism iu the state department " ~ Slave labor Rep. Robert L. Ramsay. D.. W Va . called for investigation of slavelabor produced Imports from lion curtain countries. Guardsmen— The house armed services committee ordered staff members to study legislation for compensating dependents of servicemen killed before they get a chance to seek national insurance. The study stems from the death of 34 Pennsylvania national guardsmen in a train wreck this .week . . .... Jim Davis Dies At Hospital Tuesday Funeral Services On Friday Morning Charles (Jim) Davis. 45. former Decatur resident, died Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist hospi tai in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for three weeks A resident of Fort Wayne for 1* years, he bad been employed at the General Electric plant In this' city, and also formerly operated the Riverview Gardens here. Surviving are hie wife. Eleanor: a son, James. Fort Wayne; two brothers. Earl and Lawrence Davis of Hopewell. O.; his father. Charles Davis of Hopewell: and two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Heyers of Marseilles. 111., and Mrs. Dorothy Pailsey of Coschocton, O. Funeral services will he held at .9:30 am Friday at St. Michael's Catholic church in Hicksville. O. the Rev John Flynn officiating Burial will he In the Forest Home cemetery at Hicksville Friend* I may call at the Perkins A Rer-h funeral home at Hicksville I

“Big 3” Begin Talkr 4 I THE •‘DIG THREM," lead ink foreign ministers of the free world outghle the Iron curtain sit In conference at New York on European defense and Germany’s role in the community of nations Inaugurating their laika ht the Waldorf-Astoria hotel are (1. to r.) French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. U. 8 Secretary of State Dean AcbeaM and British Foreign Minister Ernest Elevin.

Zoning Board Acts Thursday On Store Interest Grows In New Super-Market * Much Interest has been shown by both proponents and opponents in the matter of determining whether a supermarket grocery can he erected at the corner of Ninth and Monroe streets in a residential seetioa of the city. Final action on the matter will, he determined ala meeting of the Decatur board - <»t toning appeals Thursday night' at city hall, starting at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting Will be public and all interested persons shall have the right tu he beard, according to the toning ordinance Residents for several hl<*ks around the site have been visited by persons for and "against the proposal aitd petitions favoring both sides have beep circulated The matter t ame to the attention of the west end residents wheh Marsh brothers, operators of several super market groceries in this patt of Hie state, offered to buy rhe property several weeks ago from Adam Kunowleh. provided a permit to construct a grocery could be obtained Hoard members who will Ire call ed on to settle the problem are Clarence Ziner. chairman. Sylvan Rupert. Charles Cloud. Robert Yost and Dick Heller. District Democrats Hold Meeting Here State Chairman Is Principal Sneaker / “The Republicans have greatly overplayed their smear-sr-are tactics this campaign.’’ dra Haymaker. Democratic state chairman, stated last night. The state chairman spoke to rhe county chairmen . and vice-chairmen of the fourth district at the Decatur Elks club In the first executive meeting of the district ever held in Decatur. Haymaker predicted that the Democrats would gain two seats In congress thia year, plus a Democratic senator. He highly praised the fourth district candidate for senator. Alex Campbell, who spoke In Decatur laat spring. Campbell, the Democratic candidate tor senator. was the ’b-asslsiant United States . attorney-keneral who had charge of convicting Communists found spying in the United States Fourth district chairman lames Koons, of Avilla, acted as chairman of the meeting, after an introduction by Mrs. Charles lose A chicken dinner was served before the business session Haymaker spoke for an hour and outlined the plan for polling, registering snd voting thia <ampaign Dr Harry Hebhle. Adams county's new Democratic was introduced as host- tn the I group All members of the dis--1 trlct were present except the AlI len county vice chairman

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 13, 1950

Waste Paper Drive By Scouts Saturday The first of a series of waste paper drives will he held Saturday it was announced today hy the Boy Scout committee In charge of the drives. All persons having waste paper and discarded newspapers and magaxlnea are asked to have them on • the curb tn front of their homes > Saturday morning by S:3e o'clock I Marshal Al Geneva II Resigns Position Quits Following Attack On Work Harold Hirshey. town marshal, of Geneva. Tuesday -tendered -hi*, resignation to the town board, ef-’ I fectlve immediately, allegedly folj lowing an attack made on him. and appearing as a paid advertisement, in another Adams county newspaper. * The advertisement was signed by E K Dawaid. Geneva attorney and i critlclsidl the marshal's manner of handling his duties The charge was instigated, primarily. because Hirshey had sought from ths- town board the expenditure of money for the purchase of a two way radio to enable Geneva to become a part of the Adams county pojice radio network As late as last week, at a rrgulur meeting of the town hoard, other Adams county police officers, including Decatur police chief James Borders and deputy sheriff Hob Shraluka. as well as state trooper Walter Schindler and stale radio technician Milton Hull, appeared before the board to express their favor of the proposal The resignation from Hlrschey given tn town board’president Harold Fields who has accepted it.' though no official action had been taken late today by the other two : members of the board v There will not be an official meeting of the board until next week, though It is held likely that the members will call a special sewslon to consider the resignation. Peterson Is Named To Election Board Harry Essex. Adams county Republican chairman, today announced that True M. Andrews bad resigned as the OOP member of the ' county board of election commissioners. and that Cal E Peterson iDes'atur clothier, had been named to replace him. Andrews stated as his reason for resigning that employment out of the city made ltdifficult for him to give as much time as necessary to the duties Jas a member of the hoard WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday; easier tonight. Lew tonight It to 52: high Thursday Eg to ?4 north. 73 to 7k south.

Advance Plans For Street Fair She Drainage Work To Be Started Soon ' aienu HUI. president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, and R. W. Prudes, executive manager. Nnuferred today with Mayor John Dom. prior to the start of drain- ’ age and other work at Hanna-Nutt-man park which will become the site at the 1 Decatur fair and agricultural show starting In IPSI. plans-to level off certain parts of the area and start the. drainage project this year ary about complete About 22 uefek of the park will be used. Plans for the permanent buildJ Ings and also for a half mile race , I rank are' In the making, but they j are not yet definite, it was learned j Mayor Doan said that city employes would start the sewage work this fall and would proceed as far as possible with the limited apprie priation At present thrreis a quarter-ntlle I track at the |u»tk. which is used hy the riding club. This will not lie changed at least at the present. Hill said The general fair committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet soon to further plans and start the work of getting ready for the 1951 show. Decatur lioos Club In Meeting Tuesday Telephone System Change Explained The members of the Lions club turned out in great numbers Tuesday, but It was not officially reported Whether or not their M ticlpated 100 percent attendance had been reached. Unofficially it was noted that “there were a terrific number of Lions howling." probably the greatest number ever assembled in Decatur, maylte lite greatest number assembled outside a jungle Charles Ehinger. manager of the Citisena Telephone company, gave the principal address of tiie even Ing, reporting to the Lions about the changeover from the present telephone system to dial, the work, he Informed members, would he completed In about two weeks and service should l>e great ly bettered Waller Krick was in charge of the program L. E Anspaug'i president of the cluh. presided over the business meeting and presented certificates of appreciation awards to five persons. representing other organisations or businesses, for, their participation In Uonsi cluh parade held in Fort Wayjne several weeka ago The five recipients were: Kenneth Feraur llcoutmaster of Ro tarif troop 11; Bill Mansfield for thp MaasHeld Motor Sales C I Finlayson for the Central Soya tTsrs is Paa,

Prompt Congressional Approval As Secretary Os Defense Is Augured

Brisk Ticket Sale For Fish Fry Here Big Advance Sole Is Reported Here From all indications, the town and country Tish try. to he held In the Decatur high school gymnasium October 12. will be a sellout. M. P. Cass, ticket c hairman for the event, reported that 24K tickets were sold the fjrst day they went on sale in the different Decatur Mores "It id possible." Ca»s stated, “that we might have to close the sale of tickets by Octolter 1.” Chamber of Commerce officials, who are sponsoring the event, an ticlpate a crowd of at least l.Oflo persona to crowd the gym that night for the popular fish fry . “And It’s a big job getting ready so. that number of people." general c hairman Louis Jacobs said, “bet after last year, when everynne hart : 'ttoeteaa; -good ttme. it- is i well worth the time and effort.” I Food cHairman Carl Gerber has I already ordered TSO pounds of blue pike to feed the crowd as "Well as 34Mi pounds of cole slaw 100 pounds of relishes and an untold number of gallons of coffee and I milk The Akron tlnd.) Jonah club, i who Will fry the ffah. wflt bring • eight of their large fryers that • night in order to facilitate serv c tog. it la expected that local bust - nessmen. who will serve, will have. the job done in 15 minutes. i Part of the entertainment will - pe the Adams county 4-H hand. the only one of its kind in the : state, and leader of the parade at the state fair Also. Prof. Georg Krueger. director of music' at Indiana University, has promised a well-rounded program of music, novelties and skits, in a program presented as | Indiana University Varieties. | 16 Adams County Reserves Called Included In 162 Called From Area " Sixteen members of the Inactivef reserve from Adams county recently called to active duty will leave next week for Fort Riley. Kansas, for roasslgnment They are among 162 inactive reservists called to active duty from this area. No members of active reserve units of the orxanixed reserve corps are expected to be called as individuals at this time. The Decatur men listed are Pfc Robert L. August. Cpl. High L. Ehrman. Pfc Thomas Garner. Sfc Lewi* 1. Smithy Pfc- Frank Clear. Jr.. I’t< Louis E Smitley. Pfc Eugene J Miller. Cpl James - Strickler, Jr. and Pvt MerHn T Ross: Berne Pfc Kenneth E. Yoder. Pfc. Ylrgil K Morningstar. Pvt Leonard G Zurcher. Cpl Marion L. Smith, and Pfc. Harold W. Nua* baum; Geneva—Pfc. James L. Arm strong Monroe- Pvt. Glen A. Hackenjo Bluffton—Pfc. Philip J. Landreth. Pfc. Robert E Meeks. Pfc Holden J. Snider. Pvt Louis D Penning , ton. Sgt. Roger 0 Bulger Monroeville — Sgt Lloyd D , Prouty. , New Haven— Pvt Donovan L Nice um Pvt Vuellyn F Rekhart Clerk To Receive I Absentee Ballots Kd Jaberg. clerk of the Adams county circuit court will go to Indianapolis Thursday to receive \ the first consignment of ballots to be used In the November election to ph-k up absentee voters’ ballots Then on October 22. according to information received hy JatwTr today, he will go to Indi anafiolls to pick op the remaining offl. lai ballots

Admits Failure To Cui Speed Os Fast Flyer Engineer Os Flyer Testifies At Probe Into Troop Tragedy Pittsburgh. Sept 13 |UP) ■- Engineer William Eller, tt-year-old pilot who drove his hw* P«»senger train into the rear of a stalled troop train last Monday admitted today that he failed to reduce his spee<l sufficiently when warned I>y a hiock signal. Eller was the first witness called at a four-way investigation into the accident which killed 33 Pennsylvania national guardsmen and injured 47 other persons, mostly guardsmen near Newcomerstown. 0.. early Monday. ■The. enginaer. under questioning of Samuel Pringle, attorney for rhe Pennsylvania railroad, testified that he cut his speed at the Uhrk-hsviUe block when the wayside signal and his cab signal showed "approach." He said he knew the troop train was in front at Um J** . not cut his speed to the required t 3d miles per hour and vtmn ha t hit the "stop and proceed" signal - he Slammed the brakes ou'fuftbut * It was too late. / a The diesel locomotive of the passenger train, the Spirit of St. 1 lerais. smashed through the tog . and into the rear of the stalled ' troop carrier . Eller estimated be was going about 50 miles ah hour when he passed the I’hrichsville block. Eller was asked how far the rear of the troop train was from the stop and proceed signal. He I estimated about four car lengths. (Then he was asked the position of his brake when he went through ) the signal. -, “The brake was in the emergency position. I put on the air when I saw the signal glowing through the fog " Eller (-said he saw the flag of the troop train ahead and the red and white light of the flagman through the fog hut was unable to ' stop. [ Under questioning. Eller ex(Twvw Ts rear Ktvei Banfiglio Receives Orders To Report Anthony “Tony" Bonfiglio, of 610 Grant street, received his orders this week to report for active duty October 9 at Scott field. 111. Bonfiglio was a staff sergeant during the last wr. and waa a meatier of the air corps reserve. Regina K. Boerger Dies This Morning I < Long Illness Fatal To 10-Year-Old Giri Regina Kay Boerger. 10-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Hugo Boerger. four miles north of Decatur. died at 8 17 o'clock this morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Death was caused hy a brain tumor She had been In the hospital since Oct. 29. 194 S She was bora in Decatur Aug 19. 1940, a- daughter of Hugo qnd Emma Bnlniahn-Boerger She was a member of 8t Peter's Lutheran church and was a pupil at St. Peter's school until her 111ness Surviving In addition to her parents are two sisters. Marilyn and Kathleen, at home, and the grandmothers. Mrs. Friedrike Boerger and Mrs. Minnie Bulmahn. both of Root township. Funersl arrangements haw not been completed The body was brought to the Zwick funeral homo

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Senate Committee Votes For Waiver Os Legal Bars To Naming Marshall h Washington, Sept. 13—<UP> — Prompt congressional approval of Gen George C. Marshall's appointment as defense secretary was augured today when the senate armed services committee voted lu-2 to waive legal obstacles to it. The senate itself is expected to act tomorrow In response to a plea by President Truman for early and favorable action" In the speed bitt apparently with equal “pfohnt critical circumstances *' The house wqg moving with less certainty to clear the way for the <9y«ar-old soMier-wtatesaun to take over the country's defense helm ss guecueuor' to seeretary Louis Johnson Acting lese than 24 hours after Mr Truman anonjtnced Johnson « resignation yesterday, the senate armed services committee ramm ed through approval of a measwe tu change the unification law in permit a mtßtsry mau.io' take the defense job. The president. In letters to the chairmen the esmgressioaal armed services committees said that although be is a "firm beHer•r" in the principle that the millt>r> wuMistoflMßt uhtmld be headed by a civilian be wants an , oxeepttaa la Mergball's ease. I The Ch-year-dM roldlerstatest man waa summoned from retirement to replace Louis Johnson , who resigned yesterday la the most startling shakeup of the clvl Ilian high command in the past I decade Congress, with only a few diseident voices heard, -seemed ready to sweep aside legal roadblocks and quickly approve Marshall’s appoinXment The president sent congress legislation which would remove. I for Marshall alone, the han on ap point meat of anyone as defense secretary who has been an armed service officer on active duty within the past 10 years: The president said he sent the legislation to capitol' hill with a view “to obtaining early and favorable action." It Was the biggest reshuffling in the defense command since ; the late President Roosevelt brought Republicans Henry L. Stimson and Frank Knox into bis coalition cabinet of 1940, just before the I" S. entered World War 11. Mr Truman referred to “terribly regrettable circumstances" tn accepting Johnson's resignation but did not explain them. But they seemed to be eown in the communist attack on Korea and the military reverses suffered tn the months-old campaign Some thought Johnson walked the plank to take Mr. Truman off a political spot. Johnson had staked his job on armed serv4ce economies. Those were thrown overboard the day a mericqn troops were committed to fight in Korea Congress rang with charges that Johnson had been "cutting into the muscle as well as the fat" of defense and therefore was responsible for the nation's unprepared ness Veterans organisations echoed the cry - D. W. McMillen, Jr. Quits Central Soya The resignation (rs D W McMillen. Jr., as vice-chairman of the board of Central Soya companv; was annbuaced yesterda) by T| W. Me.M4ara,'.*r...' chairman of th-. company's hoard of directors Mr McMillen plants to go into husineoa for himself He has been ’ with Central Soya company for the past 14 years and fortherlV served as executive vice-prealdeat A former rwuMent of this city. Mr Me Millen and family will continue to live In Fort Wayne al MH North Washington Rood McMlUen la a Itrtrther of Stewart W M< Mlllea. J '■uiader and of Rag Sen Re. Inc of thia city.