Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XL.VIII. No. 219.

U. S MARINES DRIVE TO HAN RIVER BANK

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Trucks Crash At Crossing Os Highways Two Moo Bunrod To Death After Crash Here Eorly Sunday Ch» police were mill riflln* through the charred paper and clothing Arana* from the wreckage Sunday of the burned-out cab of one of the semitraitef track* la order to get a positive clue to the identification of lha two men bare ed to death. It I* pretty well conceded, though not officially confirmed, that th* driver of the illfated track was Clyde V. liarnette. with hi* home address Hated as Orlando, Fla. The other man’s Identity still eludes poHce and other inveatina live authorities possibly will until «uch time a* a representative of the Spector Trucking Co . of 8t Untie. arrive* in Decatur it la learned that be is enroute here at this time, and is expected to arrive sometime today. ' ' Police today learned from Peoria. 111., authorities, the origin at the trip taken by the easebound trailer truck which crashed and burned, that the second man’s name was Harrison" Nothing more was learned abrwt him: where he was from, what he did The track was loaded With whiskey enroute t* Pawtucket. R I when the accident occurred The two men were burned to death about 8 am. after they had been thrown from the cah follow Inga collision with another truck ut the Intersection of U S. highways 224 and it The trailer-truck, presumably driven by liarnette. was heading east on Tit and smashed into the -roar end of another semitrailer truck driven by Jack Lavenducky. of South Bend, which was heading north on I' 8 27 The Impart twisled the cab almost shapeless and Immediately flames broke out engulfing the two victims who were apparently either dead nr unconscious, for they made no effort q> escape, according to witnesses. Two witnesses at the scene. Thomas laites and Leo King. Jr., both employed at the Hoosier Pete service station on the northwest corner of the intersection'stated that the eapt-bound trailer made no to stop for through highway 27. There were no skid marks on the pavement, to sub stantiate their statement*. Lavenducky. though his trailer overturned as did the other, scrambled out of the cab and remained uninjured " - ’ A couple of pair of shoes remained at the scene, a reminder of the t men who were burned, and a piece ( of paper indicating that such a thing had happened before. For there was a receipt two day* old stating that the driver had paid a fine in Illinois for running a traffic light. At first, it was believed that th* other man might be narked Robert Jump, but subsequent disclosure* revealed that it was probably some other person who was riding in the cah in addition to “Barnette." The fatal accident, in which traffic deaths three and four in the city of Decatur were marked up. was the second of Sunday morning, at the same place and for much the same reason. Total damage to the two tracks was estimated at |lO.<MM>. (Tara to Faw* mat Funeral Held Sunday Far Fisher fefant - Funeral service* were held Sunday afternoon at the Zwick funet- ;. I home for Ken Lee Fiaher. stillborn infant of Brice and Doris Sprunger-Fisher. of Decatur route I. horn at 1:26 pm. Saturday «t the Adams county memorial hospital Th* Rev. OHn Krehhlel officiated. with burial in th* Decatur cemetery. Surviving in addition to the par-' ent* are a sister Mary Kaye, at home, and tht grandparents. Mr. and Mr*. Charles Flsltemf route 4. and Mr. and Mrs Adolph Stronger of Berne.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WLf DAILY MWtMMR IN ADAM COUNTY ’ '

loyal Bollinger Is Back To Active Duty Mr. and Mrs. A. D Bollinger, of 928 Dierks* lUMI have received a telegram from the war department. stating that their eon. Pie Royal Bullinger, has returned to duty In Korea. Bollinger was wounded in action with V. 8. troop* In Korea a few weeks ago and waa hospitalised for a time ia Japan. Master Plans Outlined For Atom Defense Master Blueprint Given Congress By President Truman Washington. Hept, 18—(UP) — ■ Pres Meat Trnman gave congress today a "master blueprint" for civilian defense against atomic attack, and said he will set up .* temporary civil defense administration. The temporary agency will function until congress establishes a permanent not until next year Tbe 149-page report which Mr. Truman seat to congress warned that Husain has "th* power to at- > tack our cities in force” and that ’ MF atomic Nita "would be par Hally successful.'' Mr. Truman *»at with the re-. ' port a proposed bill for eateblishing the permanent civil defense administration, lie urged the congress to consider the report and bill carefully during th*. I next few weeks "a* a basis for the enactment of legislation in th* near future " Mr. Truman said the civil defense document "present* a sound And workable outline of the . . problem* we face, and what th* federal, state and local governments should do to meet them." Civil defense in th* event of '. emergency, Mr. Truman said. "will be of the greatest importance" He was sure that everyone ' wilt do hi* part with “Initiative and cooperation which are characteristic of our tree society." The temporary agency probably will l>e set up by executive order. The civil d*f*n»e report outlined what could happen to the I'nited States in event of an atomic attack. To counteract the effects of such a blow, it called for a federal civil defense administration, state and local organisation*, and "million*" of civil volunteers to act as block wardens, rescue squad member*. auxiliary police, fire guard*. 1 and shore patrollers. i The report, drafted by th* national security resource* board and forwarded to congress by President Truman, said such a defense setup would enable the nation to recover quickly from an A-bomlc Ing and "fight baek." Properly administered. It said, civil defense could cwt casualties by SO percent and keep the nation's Industrial power Intact. Primary emphasis would be placed on -defense of son* 140 “critical target areas." Including all major population and Industrial center* of th* nation. Stat* governor* soon will be given maps showing which area* are In their jurisdiction. ) Th* overall program carried no price tag but was accompanied by s warning that It would be expensive." Local Man's Sister Dies Sunday Evening Mr*. George Sleepy. 47. died Sunday evening at her home In Poneto after a long Illness. Surviving in addition to htr husband are three sons, one daughter, her father, addition to her husband ar* three brother*. Including Clyde Toman of Decatur. • Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at the Poneto Baptist church, th* Rev. William 11. LaMaalers officiating. Friends may call st tbe horn* after 4 o dock this evening.

New Contract Is Signed By G.EAndUE 1 . 10-Cent Hourly Pay Raise, $125 Monthly Pensions Provided By Called Press Th* labor situation took a definite turn for tb* better today with more than 97.vo<’ of the nation’* 1.42.5(H) strikeldled workers expect ed to return to their job* within the next seven days Thirty-two thousand member* of the farm equipment worker* union led the back-towork |>ar*de by recessing their strike against 1* International Harvester plant* pending farther negotiation* on their demand* for a 15-cent hourly pay boost About CIO nnited auto worker* remained on strike against eight Harvester plant*, however, and charged that ■ the FE -waa "strike-breaking" by returning to work even temporarily. At General Electric plant* In the east and midwest, meanwhite, 48,Otw CIO electrical worker* were casting vote* ea whether to end a UE Union Here The majority of employes of the General Kledtrle BUI in Decatur are member* of • tbe I’nited Klectrclal Worker* union (Ind.) Htrike by accepting a lOcent hourly psy raise snd 1125 monthly pen sions. About 19.608 of the It.’RCIO menilwr* went bar k to work In four GE plant* at Lynn and Everett. Mas*, but 9.600 member* at the Syracuse pleat turned the agreement down The contract was the same as previously accepted by tbe inde pendent united electrical worker* union which formally signed the agreement with GE yesterday. The united mln* worker* also’Settled two strikes today. About 4.500 miners returned to work In eastern Ohio coal shaft* after the mine companies agreed to eliminate stagger crew* and shift*. About 2.000 member* of th* t’MW district 50 returned to work at the 'Allied Chemical and Dye Corp., producing soda ash which was hadly needed for tbe manufacture of glass Ford Motor company ordered 1,400 worker* back into the LincolnMercury plant at Metuchen. N. J., today as the factory began once more to receive supplies from tbe Ainsworth Mtg. Co. The Ainsworth plants at Detroit and Maryville. Mich., were shut down by a strike which ended Saturday. Over 500 Tickets SoM For Fish Fry Heavy Advance Sale For Oct. 12 Event WJth les* than a month Io go before the big event. M P. Cass, ticket chairman tor tbe Chamber of Commerce sponsored town and country fish fry, to be held October 12 ’in the Decatur high school gym reports a heavy advance sate. To be exact. 514 of the ddeals have been'sold to date, according to Ca*s - A crowd of 1.000 person* te wtcipated -to fill the gym for the second annual fish fry. In addition to most of Decatur’S business bouse*, the following farmers also have ticket* for sale: Don Raudenbush. Blue Creek township: Ben Maselin, Monroe township: Homer Arnold. Kirkland township; Edgar Thieme. Union township, and Clifford Mann. Root township. Tbe Decstur postmaster will serve a* toastmaster for th* event, when It was announced today that Leo Kirsch would direct festivities; - tbe Rev. Robert Haasmond. First Baptist church, will deliver the Invocation , ,

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 18, 1950

C. S. Field Commanders At Inchon 1 giwromawe — — - 95 Sr VETERAN ASSAULT landing officer* of World War If, Maj Gen Edward M. Almond (left), commander of the newly-created Tenth Corps, sad Maj. Goh. Oliver P. Snrith. commander of the First Marin* Division, are In charge of AUfffctn invasion force* at Inchon Smith waa decorated for technique of "reef landing” during operations In the'Pacific aMy* l the Japan***

Hesvy Traffic Toll un jure nignways 17 Ferwns Killed In Indiono Traffic By United Proa* Hoosier motorists jammed the highways for the last weekend of summer as the weatherman cooperated with nice weather. The result was one of the highest weekend traffic death loll* of the season A Untied Pres* checl allowed 171 dead In traffic accident* from Friday night to midnight Sunday. Another man wa« killed when struck by a train Sunday Sunday was tbe "big" day on Hoorier highway* Seven were killed in Sabbath accidents. oompareA with six Saturday and four Friday night. Not Included In the total was Mrs. D«rwih Butcher, 32. Bryant, who died in the Jay county hospital at Portland Monday of injuries she received seven miles east of Portland in a collision ala county road junction. Three different Occidents claimed two Ilves apiece during the weekend Two out ((f-state truckdrivers died in Sunday’s accident of that kind when their track ran a stop sign at the Intersection of. U. S 224 and 27 near Decatur and | crashed Into the side of a second. track, state police said Others on Sunday’s' long list of victims included William R Beeh tel, M. Odon, who was injured fatally when be wm atrack by a car as he crossed Ind. 45 near bls home. Mr*. Evelyn Kennedy. ». Huntlagton. was kilted when her ear ran off the road near Huntington and struck a telephone poet. Oscar W. Richardson. g 4. Wheatfield. was run over and hilled by a New Vorh Central freight near . WhnaiMsM. ~~ r Job* J Palho. gg. South Bead, was killed when be walked in front of an auto near the South Bend central fir* station. Corbett Jordan. 30, Evanavtlle. died and three other persons were injured when the ear in which they were riding collided with another In U. S. 41. south of Evansville, and crashed through a guard rail and down an embankment. A six-year-old - Evansville boy. James Newman. Was’ struck and killed a* he darted across wa Evansville street while going home for supper. The six Saturday victim* included Harry V. Huber, 45. Merlon, who was kilted when struck by an auto near his home; Herman Mengedoht. 20. Freelandville, whose motorcycle stnick an auto on Ind. 87. near Bicknell, and Stephen Thomas. 5. Monroeville, whose bicycle wa» struck by a car on U. S. 30. 10 miler rest of Fort Wayne. O’hers killed In Saturday traffic accidents were Mrs Margaret E 1 Thompson. U. Edinburg, who died when bsr rtatlonwagou overturned on V 8. 11. south of Indianapolis, when she attempted to pass * car. (Twee to Pwwe Mas

Walls County Woman Kills Husband, Self Muffton Ind:. S«pt. 11 —(UP) I — Mr*. Wanda Robert*. 4*. strangled herself ia a jail cell early yesterday after shooting her busband to death. Sheriff Alva Smith aald Mr*. Roberts fashioned a noose tragi th* sleeve of her blouse and tied ' >t to a chain from which her bed waa «uapended. Her body wn found slumped beside another bed. Mr*. Robert* tried to slash her throat and bnrn down their home ufter shooting her busband.'Doug--I las. 42. with a shotgun Saturday after asking him to cet her a drink New Credit Controls Are Now Effective Easy Installment Buying Is Reduced Washington, Sept 18.—(UP> — Free and easy installment buying l-ecame a Korean war casualty today. From now on you’ll have to put more cash on the line to buy such things a* automobiles, radios, televisions and refrigerators You’ll i have to pay for them quicker, too. ! The new controls, to be adinlnis,'ered by the federal reserve board. I went Into effect last midnightlittle more than 14 month* after similar control* tn World War It expired Here are the new basic consumer credit requirements: One-third down on automobiles with 11 month* to pay the balance. Fifteen percent down on household appliance*, such a* washing machine*. *tove«. televisions, radtoa. refrigerators, and 18 mobrit* tn pay off the balance T*n percent down payment io make borne repairs and kiterations I and repayment In 30 months instead of the present 38 months. There I* no down payment required for item* costing less than *IOO. but the balance muni be paid off within tbe period prescribed tor that typ?of purchase. For instance. ■ *M refrigerator would have to be paid off In 18 months. The new credit controls are les* onerous than 'they were during World War IL or Immediately after, although considerably tighter than the liberal term* . offered, nearly everywhere in the past 14 months.' Mrs. Rudolph Borne Dies In Louisville Word ha* been received here of th* depth of Mr*. Rudolph Borne Bunday' morning at her home In Loui*elite. Ky.. after a long illness. Rurvivora Include two son*: two slaters. Mr*. Mayme Worthman of | near Oaaian and Mr*. Alma Repl»rt of Decatur, and two brothers. Loui* Mann of Tocaln and George Mann of Oaaian. No word ha* bean received on funeral arrangements - '

Probe For Crossings To Seoul; Captured Kimpo Airport Now Being Used

Series Os Crashes Reported In County Geneva Child Hurt When Struck By Car While the fatal accident nt the Intersection of U. S. highway* 224 and 27. in which two men were burned to death, held the center of truffle accident conversation; and while an accident at the same Intersection, with practically the identical circumstance* except for no Injtfrire. pointed ap the imminent dangers there, four Ather accidents were taking place in the county over the weekend, one of them serious. Slate trooper Boli Mercer and deputy sheriff Bob Sbraluka Investigated the accident in which Douglas* Chrisman, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Charles Chrisman. of Geneva;' route i, was injured about 16:15 a. m Bunday. The accident occurred when the youth dashed between two south: I bound car* and into the aide of a | northbound car driven by Charle* . Reed. Jr., of Portland. Young Chriiman. who suffered I a >kull fracture, was sped to the Ball Memorial hospital. In Muncie. where, according to latest ret port*, he waa out of danger. . I Deputy Bhraluka stated that I Reed had been absolved df any , guilt a* the result of the acctdent which occurred just south 1 of the traffic light in Geneva on , U S 27. Deputy Bhraluka also investigated two other accidents, one of them at abont 2pm when -a concessioner’s bus. driven I>y Wendell- White, of WoosHtr. 0.. enronte to the Bluffton fair, rammed the rear end of a pickup truck being driven by Mr*. Roy Johnson, of Amity. Ark The accident occurred on r. 8. 224 about two miles east of Decatur. Mrs Johnson suffered a shoulder injury a* the result of the accident, and her daughter. Peggy Lynn. 4. several facial lacerations. These two. along with son Larry, were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, treated, then released Then at about 5 p. m.. four iTaew tw rwei *•■» I Sentence Chemist Fer Aiding Russia Alfred Dean Slack Enters Guilty Plea 1 Greenville, Tenn., Sept. 18 — (VPI-t’lietntat Alfred Dean Slack ; pleaded guihfM&fay to charge* of providing Rusalan agent* with ' U. 8. munitions secret* during World War 11. He waa sentenced to 10 year* k Tb'prison at the government** request and with the approval of U. S attorney general J. Howard McGrath and the FBI. The plea of the former Syra1 cuse. N. Y.. resident came a* a surprise to the handful of spectators in the U. .8. district court1 room here. Slack previously had maintained hi* innocence. Slack waa Indicted Sept. 1. accnsed of turn!tig over samples of ' RDX. a powerful exploelvw. to ' Soviet spies while working nt the Holston ordnance works at Kingsport. Tenh. . He *»• arrested June 15 and has since been held (Aider lIOO.W bond and 24-hour guard. Slack was linked with an eaplonage rln* by Harry Gold. Philadelphia cheniDt who waa arrested by ' federal agent* along with David 1 Greenglass and Julius Renenhert •nd his wife. Ethel. I *— WEATHER Fair south. Increasing dentines* snd warmer north tenlEht. Tuesday partly cloudy end mIM- Lew tenigM M 4* *O. High Tueaday 80 to gg.

Chinese Reds Massing Near Indo-China Report Two French Border Garrisons Are Under Attack Beigon. Indo-China. Sept 18 — IUP I— Thousand* at communist troops were reported io lie massing along tbe Chinese Indo-China border today and two French gar* riaon* guarding invasion route* have been attacked. Borne military observers her* said the attack* might be the start of a general Red offensive. (Tbe French have a siseahle army In Indo-China which I* fighting the native Viet-Mlnh communist force*. There has been apeculatlon for some time' that IndoChina 'might be th* next place th* communists would attack in (heir attempt to conquer Asia.) A French army spokeaman aald a communist army of between 4’ooo and 5.000 troop* was Attacking the outpost of Dongkhe. on the Chinese, border, Another strong coaßwomtM dasee waa reported to have sgrrouadot the outpost of Laokay. M? mite* west of Donghke. and to have started artillery fire On* report from Hanoi, a city In the northern part of Indochina. said the communist* already had overrun Donghke. A military spokesman here said, however, that he understood the French still were holding the outpost although they ..had awfCereA : wean* casualtie*. He added that the ba*is for the belief that a genera’ commounist offensive might be under way wa* th* fact that police yesterday, made several arrest* here in Saigon to thwart a plot to throw the i city into panic by bombing public I buildings. The Saigon plot ap. parently was aimed to ’coinride with the border attacks, he added. Linn Grove Home Damaged By Fire The large home of Ray Thomas, of near Linn Grove. w»s"practically demolished by tire Sunday afternoon before Berne and Petroleum fire departments were able to arrive on the scene. The fire started about 1:30 o'clock and_ was attributed to a spark from the chimney Igniting the roof. Mrs. Rosa Hannon Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs Rosa Ann Harmon. 80. widow of Uel Harmon, died at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the the home of a (laughter. Mr*. Elsie Hslnes tn Monroe. She had been 111 18 months and bedfast for the past month. She wa* born In Clark county Dec 5, 1889. a daughter of Adam and Elisabeth LoteDase. and had lived in Adam* county for the past 14 year* Her husband died Jan 7. 1949 ' s She wa* a former member of tbe Presbyterian church at Otiaco Surviving are two daughter*. Mrs Elsie Hain** and Mra. Ruaeell Hain** of Monroe: seven grand Children: owe great-grandchild; ahd three brothers. Adam C Due* of Jeffersonville. John H of Elkhart and Charles W of Fowler Owe eon and five slater* preceded her la death Funeral servLe* will be heM at 2 pm Tueaday at tbe Yager funeral home In Berne the Rev W L Hall cfflctatlng Buriat will be in MRE cemetery Friends may call at rhe funeral home until time of the aerv- ' Ice*

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U. S. Infantrymen Swarm Beck Across Naktoag; Ruperts Reds Disorganized Tokyo. Tuesday, ftepi. t».—<UP> —U. S. marine* plunged to th* Han river just acroaa from Seoul Monday and arere probing tor crosatmta under rover nt tigMer planes m» in* < aptured Kimpo airport for ih* ftrai time . . rafted Pres* correspondent Earnest Hoberecht reported in a dis patch dated 3:3« p.m t1>.30 am. - CSTt that the mariae* had reached t the Han west of Seoul after »' day -of cqOtinaawa advance ■ Il meant that the marine now ■ were within eight of Seoul from > two directions with one marine - force puahlng southwest from Kim ■ p<> airfield and the second advancing along tb* main highway from the port of Inchon where the ma ' rines landed Friday. Gea. Doautlas MacArthur's 11:36 pm (MoUay) communique repor: - ed that .\tha aaarine* were seeking crossing' puffu* over th* Haw. and •AM that marine fighter* had lead ed on Kimpo airport On/ hundred and fifty mile* to the south of Seoul, nearly 1 Ahd i second dlvis I o n infantrymen" swarmed back across the Nakteag i for the first time sines test July The disocffaatoad enemy wa* Hee > lag westward, ahaadoalng ton* of l equipment. I superfort* la thate aceond dome ’ support saturation riaM of this war. dropped tan ton* of bomb* oa a ’ (bloody hill on the Taegu front where tor three week* U S. first cavalrymen have attached, retreat ' ed and attacked again. United Pres* correspondent Jack i James, reporting tbe advance on Seoul, told of increasing enemy ■ resistance as the American* advanced toward th* capital from their Inchon landing base He said the Americans were being subjected to heavy sniper fire - (from villages and hill positions, in addition to mortar and small antiI tank gun fire I The communists also were resorting to suicide tactics to halt the Perching tanks which have been spearheading the advance and killing off enemy armor One communist-soldter—in an act reminiscent of Japanese kamlkas* tactics of World War If—loaded his motorcycle with TNT and then I crashed into the ride of an Amert- ■ can tank At one village, a house filled with (Tara to l"aae suit UTE BULLETINS Lake Bueeess. N. V. Sept. Ig.—(UP)— Gen. Douffia* MaeArthur's unified command will report t« the United Nations security council today that there la verified evidence that Ruaeia eupplied munitions to north Korea In 1949 and 1950 and that oammuntet China has a*nt "trained manpower." infprmed seurces said. London, Sept. 18.—(UP)— • vvw sv* Iff walii — way ire an ii wt 11 iunporirtty halt the export of machine toot* > vteal in war production to the Soviet Union and her satellites. ' Fo/se Reports Are . Spread In Decatur Os Kennedy Death ' The Mr*. John Kennedy who wa* kitted la an auto accident Munday ' waa a resident of Huntingtoe The . <wr In which she and her husband ' were riding, strack a utility pol* north of Huntington Her husband . Is a patient In the Hantingtoa hospital. x' ! Wbaa efty and slut* police and t thia newspaper called the Hunttnrtoa hospital, the death of Mr*. ‘ Kennedy wns twaftnaed and with Identical name*. It was first believed that the vtetlm wa* Mr*. John Kennedy of this city. Later It wa* explained that the woman lived ia Huntlagton Robert Mutschler. eon of Mr*. Kennedy, waa called to th* Huntington ho, nltal and teemed that th* anto victim was not his mother ■‘ . I