Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 217.

ALLIES STORM ASHORE BEHIND RED UNES

G.E, lUEIn Agreement On New Contract

Agreement Is Also Reported Noor Wifif UE On Settlement Os Contract Issues Washington. Sept. - 15.— The General Electric company aed the CIO united electrical workers union today agreed on a contract to end the strike ot nearly W.MM (IE employe* in the northeast and the midwest. The contract provided for IP .cent* an how wage Increase*. a com of living escalator clause. and pension and Insurance benefits ’ The company and the international union of electrical workers signed a memorandum contract which Its chairman James B. Carey said he felt sure would be ratified hy lhe union membership Ratification. Carey said, would reopen the strike-bound GE plants nut Monday. Sept. It. The contract affects about 40,into of OS’s igff.ttOO production employes. Carey had threatened to call out the Jti.OOO lUE members Mill at work and close down all OK plants If the current talks failed to produce a settlement The |« cents an hour across the board wage boost includes an average five cents an hour which the company put Into effect voluntarily on July 1. The additional five cents Is effective today. The unkm had drtnanded IB cents above the July F increase. The ecet-otUving escalator clause will be the "Qeneml Moton” typo which provides a one cent an hoar wage boost for each 1.14 points rise In the government’s coat of living Index. But the escalator clause cannot lower effipioyra’ wages an- • d»r the level seF today with the ■ new wage Increase. In New York lhe united electrical workers (independent! said it had “reached a tentative settlement of all contract Issues." Terms of the tentative settlement were not disclosed The company and union said negotiations were continuing on pension and Insurance provision* The union had indicated earlier, however, that the wage offer was acceptable provided other contract demands were met Strike At Wabash Wabash. Ind . Sept tB-(UF)— Some 500 members of local 823 of the CIO united electrical workers struck tbe General Electric plant here today, demanding a “living wage" and company-paid pensions. Harry Miley, local president.said the company “failed Io bargain In good faith." He said the workers voted 100 percent to strike ' 4 Three Men Killed As Trucks Collide lehanon. Ind.. Sept. 15. —(VP) Three men were killed last night when two trucks collided at a state road Junction in Boone < minty, south ot Rosston. State police identified the dead a* Otis Perkins. 24. Fort Wayne, and Walter Booth. 22. Lebanon. I with negroes riding in one truck, and Forrest Money. 24, Indianapolis. dt'fving the other. ! Adams Countv Jail Given Cleon Bill Warren Edwards, supervisor of Inspection for the state department •if welfare, today released his ret.ort on the August 2S inspection of the Adams county Ja’l stating that the jail "appears to meet the present needs of Adams county." The report Mates further that the ’ strength, security, safety, sanitation and segregation appeared to l>e good. . .a very good degree Os cleanliness prevailed." WEATHER frhte tonight. Slightly cooler '■ extreme north. Saturday tocrossing clewdtoeso with shew | 1. eve extreme south. Lew tonight 4B to St north. M to SB south. High Saturday M to 74 north, 70 to 7S south.

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Uniled Stales Pressing For Japan Treaty Allow Unlimited Rearmament For Japanese Notion Washington. Hept. 18-(VP) — The United Staten is pressing for a speedy Japanese peace treaty that will allow Japan unlimited rearmament. an authoritative source said today. This source said all branches of the American government are ■ agreed that the treaty should: I. Place no restriction* on Japanese armaments, J. Authorise American air. sea and ground forces to remain in Japan after the treaty i* signed 3. Give the United States a strategic United Nation* trustee-, ship over Okinawa and tbe other Ryukyu* Islands. This would lie equivalent to American annexation of the islands except that the V. 8 would have to report periodically to t’N over how the Island* are being MHt The V. « could build beaaa on the islands and forbid UN reproeentatlves from visiting ibel Islands. 4. Place “no economic or other j artificial restrictions" on Japan. Nobody here expect* Russia to agree to any such treaty proposals. But the United States wants early action- with or without Russia.' 7*’ So a new V. S.-Sovlet row appears Imminent. President Truman set the stage for it hy telling the state department to start separate treaty talks with Russia and 11 other countries which fought Japan. Russia insist* that the treaty should lie dictated hy only four nations Russia, the United States. Great Britain, and China. Jobless Pay Claims Increased Slightly Indianapolis. Sept. 15. —(UP) — Hoosier Job!*** pay claims were slightly higher last week than a week ago but still were 73 percent under those of the corresponding week of I>4S Director John W. Crise of the Indiana unemployment security diI vision attrihrttedthe 10.532 claim* to scattered layoffs caused by material shortages’ production changes and work interrupt ions in plants affected by the Internal lonal Harvester strike. Return To Standard Time Here Sept. 30 Move Clocks Back To Standard Time That hour's sleep that many persons lost last April when the city council recommended the switch to daylight savings time, can be regained Saturday. September 30, when at midnight the clocks revert to standard time, according to the ordinance , Officials ot. the General Electric plant here announced that organisation will comply with the city's changing date of September 30 rather than revert to "slow" time tbe previous week. Fort Waynt, where the parent plant ot the Decatur GE la located, will gt< on standard time September 24. All county offices are expected to revert to the standard time along with the city: all but tbe court room, that is. which has remained op standard time throughout the summer months. The reversion to standard time will probably be welcomed most Strongly by lovers who will bare that extra hour to coo (heir good.brw k '

Payroll Bandits Shoot Twjk A PRIEST ADMINISTERS laat rite* to Harold O’Connell and Joseph Gllgar on a New York sidewalk where bandits shot them down. The holdupmen VscSped with a »23.00« payroll the men were carry Ing. Both are in critical condition.

Good Crowd Attends Opening Os Festival Berne Festival To Close On Saturday The Herne fall festival drew a good opening crowd Thursday despite cool weather, and clear weather today promises a largo crowd for tbe Judging of nearly 100 Holstein entries this afternoon I ami for the style show tonight. ! The style show at the Herne auditorium will Mart at 3 p. m. Thirty model* will show the latest fall, fashions in women's and ; children's, clothes. At 7 p m Judge Paul J. Jasper., associate justice of lhe Indiana supreme court, will speak, from the stage on Main street. He brings the greetings of Gov. Henry F. Sehricker to the festival. •reeds Judged C. B. Smith, of Williamstown. Mich., an auctioneer of purebred cattle, judged three dairy breed* Thursday The Holsteinsf will be Judged this afternoon and the Guernseys tonight. More than 30 Holstein raisers will show their animals this afternoon.- and 14 Guernsey breeders will show at <1:30 this evening. There were 25 head of Jersey*. 24 head of Brown- Swiss, and 31 head of Ayrshire Judged yesterday. Most ot lhe time the judging circle was ringed with spectators two or three deep. Seats were arranged for first-comer*. Biggest drawing card so far was the 240-foot industrial display in the large tent Just north of the First Bank ot Berne. All space is filled in the display, which includesseveral fUrTiaces which heated the tent Thursday evening. Winners Named Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Young, of the Limberluet farm. Portland, showed the grand and senior champion Jersey cow The same three'year-old won first prise In Ils class at the state fair ' this year. Clarence Walker, 'of Portland. showed the reserve champion Jersey, and Everett Rice, of Monroe, showed the junior champion heifer. W B. Isenhart. of Portland, showed the senior and grand champion Brown Swiss cow. Reserve champion was shown hy William F. Klaebn and son. Fort Wayne, and junior champion belonged to Harold Isch. of Bluffton. , Baekhaus brothers, of Decatur, showed the Junior, senior and grand champion Ayrshire cows in the show last night Henry Aschleman. of Berne, showed the reserve chsmpldn. Harold isch. of Blufftuu. ahowed the grand and junior champion Brown Swire hull, with Wilbur Kirch holer, of Geneva, taking reserve honor*. Jerry Price, of De catur. won Junior and grand champion hull honors ia the Jersey breed. Claude Marckei, of Monroe. showed the reserve champion, and Everett Rice showed tbe senior champton. In the Ayrshire bread, grand and junior champion hull wont to the Baekhaus brothers, of Decatur Clarence Steffen, of Bluffton, won (Twee «• Page Ms>

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Sajttember 15,1950

One Crewman Missing When B-29 Crashes Tokyo Sept. 18. —(UP)— An American B-» •oporfort crashed and exploded during a takeoff from Okiaawa for Korea and one of the 11 crew members aboard is miming. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's beadquarters announced today. Headquarters said also that two firemen were killed fighting the fire that followed the explosion pud thM the 10 survivors were ressued from the plane just before the blast. , _—b—-——-Softener Plant In Use During October Pipe Delivery Delay Slowing Operations Despite the current delay in the delivery of pipes to be installed in the building proper, city officials i expressed the hope that the water, softener plant would be erected i and ready (or operation “sometime in October." r The building itself is completed The wort that remain* is to place the building piping, polish the in teiior some and Install the doorsand windows The underground: piping has been completely install J ed The “rubdown and finishing" I work on the building will begin early next week. Mayor John Doan stated, who added that it was agreed to follow original specifica Hons for the exterior of the building The alternative of a gunite finish had been proposed, but after city official* had Inspected otherplafetsi with this type of finish, it was de <T-ew VW reoe ►*»»•

See Wounded Gl's Hurled Into Roaring Fire By Reds

With U. S 2nd Division. Korea. September 15 —(UP)— Two U. S. infantrymen said today they *aw communist soldiers throw at least three wounded American* into a roaring bonfire on the night of Aug. 31. One said he watched three Americans thrown Into the fire from his hiding place 2«o or 3UO feet from an overrun commend post just east of the Naktong river. The other said he watched the barbarous scene from a point 150 feet away He said be saw two men east into a heap of blazing tents and shelter props A third soldier was carried toward the fire, he Mid, but “I didn't see him thrown into, it becaauae I didn’t look." The men were Sgt lister Marcum of Vauchua Mill. Ky.. and Sgt Max H Stephan of route 4. Greeley. Their Mories tallied, although they wpfehcJ from different poritionp and neither knew tbe other was there. Mareum had charge of a 75 millimeter reeottleaa rifle tram on the extreme left flank of the command post when It was overrun He said he lay low and watched the enemy

Paul Hensel Speaks Ta Decatar Rotary Benefits Os Free Enterprise System Citing the common benefit* gained In this country through the free enterprise system. Paul HenMl. personnel director for Central boya company, in a talk before (be Rotary club last evening. Haled, “Capitalism is not a curse: i it does not put chains on labor. ■ Capitalism stimulates the making of more good thing's for more peoI pie " Hensel outlined the competitive ' and production systems of industry as contributions to the better way of living in America "Busi- ; ness. of which Industry Is a vital : part, operate* for a profit. Profit it must have and cannot survive 1 long without. Industry operates for Bs customers The customer is always right, is all-powerful, makes all final decision* anti can break any business In America. The customer can cause you to go broke if you don't treat him right. “We Americans live better and have more leisure time, only lie cause we have learned how to ' produce more in a few hours. We i are not the largest country In either area or population, nor are ‘ we the oldest, nor do we possess the greatest amount of natural resources. Nor do we desire good living more than other nationals.” Hensel emphasized in bringing home his point on American production through the profit and tree-enterprise systems Local application was made to industrial growth and efficiency ,by -mentioning the astounding climb in payroll at Centra) Soya (Tun* T* Pane Kesri

soldiers gather the blankets, tents and props to make a fire. "It appeared that gasoline war used to make the blaze bigger." he i said. "It was a hell of a big blaze. ' Th* enemy then took up the wound ed Gl's who couldn't withdraw anad threw them into tbe fire "I personally saw them throw i three American Soldiers Into the tire. I know they were Americans, because they were screaming don’t • do it. don't do it.' i “I am positive from the screams 1 1 heard that more than three sol : div S-were .thrown into the fire." I He said the communists stayed • in the command post area about 30 i minutes before going In pursuit of t the withdrawing Americans Marcum and his crew of nine Gl'» and - four south Korean* then made their way to the American line*. Stephan was squad leader at the i same command post. He and hi* - squad fought for about 15 minute* r before being forced to withdraw. Two north Koreans carried tbe - first American, to the tire, be (aid, > and a third joined them to throw I him In. He aaid he thought the I American must have been wounded r <Tura ta Pau* •■**

United States Marines Lead Daring Maneuvers To Isolate Red Forces

DeayZme ViriNce T« End Grocery Board Turns Down Variance Petition Th* Ddcdtnr board of zoning appeals unanimously voted to refuse ihe petition tor a variance in the zoning ordinance to permit Ermal Marsh of Muncie to construct a grocery building at tbe corner rs Ninth and Monroe strseta. The vote came Thursday night after a two-hour Mor my public hearing. The Mayor* room at the city ball was filled to cspsclty snd several persons stood in the doorway end halls. Both those favoring the building in the residenttsl area snd those opposed filed petition* snd several citizen* spoke for or against tbe proposal. The property is owned by Adam Kunowleh and was sold several week* ago to Marsh brothers, who operate several super-market groceries in Indians, with the provision that the sale would not be <ompleted unless a variance would be granted to permit construction of a grotjpfy Both sides were given all the . *ime desired tn state their cause. , and then chairman Clarence Zlner I -asked secretary Robert Anderson t tn call the roil ot members. AH . five members were present and all voted in the negative Marsh indicated after the heart ing that a Marsh foodliner might ■ l*e built .in Decatur in some other 'ocality at a later date. . Other routine business wa* com- . rieted hy the board'following the • rttblio hearing and two new peti- . Hon* were filed for variance*. The I next regular meeting ot the hoard will be held Tuesday. Sept 24.

WildcsfStrike At Studebaker Plant Threatens To Idle 21,000 By Tonight South Bend. Ind.. Sept. 15 — (UP) — A wildcat strike hy 10n memlier* of the CIO United Auto Worker* Union closed the Studebaker Corp plant by degree* today. threatening to throw 21,00(1 out of work by tonight The strikers all were employed in the transportation department. Company spokesmen said they didn't know why the men walked out aliout i) a. m. Officials of i'AW-CIO local No 5 refused to comwient. ..——• - - : However, observer* said the strike resulted from an intra-union dispute over the term* of a readjustment of the UAW-Studebak-er contract, approved last Sunday The workers wer* given an immediate nine-cent hourly pay boost, and the five-year contract called for periodic revision based on the COM ot livingLess than an hour after the strike began most of the other departments were closed, end Studebaker official* said the entire plant would be shut down by the end of the day Jf the strike continued. End HarveMer Walkeut Chicago. Sept 15 —(VP) —The International Harvester company said today that the Independent Farm Equipmet ' Worker* Union, representing 32.<M)0 striking employes, M 10 plants, had decided to end its walkout and send members beck to work Monday. A company statement said tbe union decided to send It* members back to work without accepting an offered contract providing for .a 10-cent hourly wage increase No union spokesmen wbre available for comment or clarification of tbe company-union dispute. Tbe FE negotiators, who have been meeting with HarveMer representatives here while negotiator* for the striking CIO-UAW met with other company ■ official*, recessed theft meetings, the com(Wwvw Te Pae* Three!

Berne Man Is Badly Burned In Explosion Manas Grabar Badly Hurt This Morning . As Drum Explodes Doctors and specialists from Herne. Decatur and Fort Wayne wore working today over Menas “Craber-fT who wss the victim of burns suffered when a drum of sntl-freeze exploded st the Graber Produce, leaving Graber "a human torch" Dtd-tors stated that Graber suffered second snd third degree burns over “7S to Ml percent" of bis body The sccident occurred about H» 45 o'clock this morning while Graber was alone in tbe garage portion of the produce building Consequently, scant details wer* available concerning the canoe of the accldeat, though It is known that a five gallon dram of "serone" exploded. The explosion was reported I y felt for several tdocks by Berne residents. Graber who atagAtM W' age. moving oB drwiha klaut. thee tbe neetdam ed about, wltaosaes said, trying to put out the fteUMO. These witnesses said he was a “flaming human torch." painfully afire. Three Berne doctor* were called |o the / acene ot the accident, administered emergemy first aid. then Graber was brought to tbe Adams county memorial hospital. •• Tbe vh-tim did not lose <on»iousnee*. and evidenced/ great pain from the burn* lieforsl he was placed in it> ambulance and taken to the hospital ( Later today he was removed by ambulance to a Fort Wayne hospital for further treatment in a move to save the victim , Hl* condition Is reported as "extremely serious.” Victor Graber, owner of the produce and brother of the victim. tTwrw Te Fnwe Tim* > MacArthur Praises Navy And Marines With General MacArthur in Korea. Sept. 15. -IUP)— A Jubilant Gen. Douglas MacArthur sent this message today to seventh fleet Commander Vice Admiral James Hedry Doyle after the marine capture of Wolmi Island: _ "The navy and the marine have never shone more brightly than thia morning."

Warn Bicyclists To Obey Traffic laws Wonting Is Issued By City Officials A stern warning was issued today by Mayor Doan and city police to youth* who blandly ignore traffic laws while riding bieycles on the city's Mreets Officials noted that while riding, the cyeUM Is subject to obediMce •if* the laws as are motorists: that when a stop atyeet .ls approached, a full atop should be attained The warning area pointed up by a- minor accident which occurred Thursday afternoon when a couple of youths sped out of an alley on Third street near the school Into the aide of a passing car Damage tra» neglihlble. and no oae was Injured, but the possibility remains, as Mayor Doan pointed out. “that one of these day* a serloop accident wilt occur unless boys and girts riding bicycles show more caution " And if more caution Is not shown sterner disciplinary action by efty police la promised, tn an effort tn eliminate this unnecettsarv danr

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Allied Forces Load _ On Both Coasts Os Korea In More To Cut Off Supplies Tokyo. Sept. 15,.—(VF>— United States marines, storming ashore from the biggest armada of tbe Korean war. raptured the taland ot Wolmi today and drove on into the important wrat roast port of In chon. Gen Douglas MacArthur, in a daring maneuver to cut off the com mtutist army from its supply base*, lauded forces behind tbe enemy lines no both the mm and went coasts of Korea A short time after the landing on the west coast. MacArthur wont ashore ia a small bout to take personal coazmaud. The American flag flies today " only IS miles from «eoul the south Korean capital from which the defenders were driven in the early days of tbe war days of the war. UMthd Press correspondent Robert e. Miller, with tbe aaauh force* at Inchon, reported tbe marine* made an easy landing pa Wolmi. connected with Inchoa by a 1 .•*<>- foot causeway, and tbep when the tide was richt again H hours later, banged their way into lac boa Wttbin a half hour after their iltaßy Immß inmboßmmßibA stat heart of the por Mty Maj Goa Edward Almond, commander of the tenth army corps, messaged: “Our hopes are high.” The mari tes hit Wolmi island at <:3» a m Friday (2:30 p ni. Thursday CST) after a savage preliminary bombardment Miller, a vet eran war correspondent, said it J was the most “perfectly coordlnat I ed" attack he had ever seen i He said at its “fullest fury the , attack turned Wolmi into a live i volcano of smoke and flame as tons [ and tons ot explosives pounded Into I tbe laboriously >uilt defenses of ‘ tbe communists "At one time, black stroke completely hid tbe 300-foot high island into which the first wave of land ing boats disappeared." For 45 minutes, American and British cruisers and destroyer* hammered at the tiny island with I evary gun they had joined by_ i rocket-firing allied planes. So closely timed was the assault that the bombardment let up only 15 second* before lhe first land Ing party hit the beach Less than 30 minutes later tbe marines had hoisted the American flag atop the highest hill on the island - "The navy and the ntarines kava never shone more brightly than thia morning." MacArthur »ald in a message to vice admiral Arthur D. Struble and rear admiral James 11 Doyle. . As was bis practice during tbe Pacific war. MacArthur lost no time In getting ashore himself for a personal inspection Hi* small boat passed one beach at Inchon before the troops had landed there. Friday was navy and marine day. but backing the spearheading marine* were thousand* of G l.'s pack ed aboard an armada of 241 ships, by far the largest naval force as sembied since tbe height of World War II _ . As our force* Mormed ashore at Inchon, other marine* were hitting the beaches across Korea on the east coqgt pt Yongdok behind the communists' lines Routh Korean commando* made a third amphibious landing, just to the south of Yongdok Admiral Struble raid the “baric idea" of MacArthur's sudden and bold maneuver was "to attempt to deMroy the north Korean army In south Korea " Once in Seoul, which the south Koreans abandoned June 2» In the fare ot lhe first commnaiat assault, the allies will have a Mrangiebald on tbe best aorth-aouth route in tbe country They al*o will have regained possession of Rimpo airport. 10 miles north of Inchon, the best airfield In the country