Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 224.

WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH IN WRECK TODAY

Marine Advance | Slowed Down By Red Resistance

Yankees, However, Enveloping Three Sides Os Seoul; Tragedy Reported Tokyo, Sept. 23. —(l!P> — Stubborn enemy resistance Mailed the marine drive to capture Seoul today hut the Americans were enveloping three sides of the city and to the south the Jaws of an allied nutcracker closing on lou.'Hal reds weie only 85 miles apart. United Pres* correspondent Jack James In the find dispatch out of the Seoul-Inchon beachhead in more than 24 hours -saiO the marines were just about stopped In ] their tracks Saturday •It's like a spring or rubber; hand." one marine officer mid ; "Ryety time we add a pound of! pressure we have an extra pound of rerdHunee.,'' The southern prong of lien Doug las MacArthur's Korean offensive was" surging forward from Us I*u san beachhead with a speed which only a week ago would have -been iinhell. vable. Hut. with the allied gains in the —south, altut came one of the- truer j dirs of war IliUlsh tommies driving on Song | ju light miles west of' Wargwan’ were meeting stiff opposition two miles east of the town They had captured one side .of a hill and had called toe air support to help them drive file communists from the other Allied planes roared in for -the attack. They picked the wrong «lde of the hill. They plastered the British troops with rockets, flaming gasoline Jelly bombs. fragmentation bombs and 50 caliber bullets British casualties were "heady." perhaps exceeding original estimates of go killed or wounded The Americana. British and south Koreans had extended their Pusan beachhead to a perimeter of about 16W miles The line now ran roughly front Chongha. some It miles north of I'ohang on the northeast coast; to Sangju. 85 miles from Seoul; then swung southward through or close to Kumchou, Songju. Chogye and Chinju on the southwest coast Correspondent James retained that on the Seoul front the marines Were close enough to the city proper at Its northwest and western boundaries to see numerous gun emplacements In the city and barricades and sandbag* around its big buildings "Everything indicates a hard fight for Seoul with fighting from building to building." James said, adding that United Nations commanders also were faced with deciding whether to turn their big guns on the main pan of the city - Korea's biggest and moat modern A marine who cut his field telephone Into the Seoul telephone eya tent called an operator who spoke some English. What's going pnr he asked "They are preparing to defend the city to the end.” was the an ewer. ■'*’ War prisoners said north Korean officers had threatened to kill any red soldier who surrendered The enemy was estimated to have 1,000 to 5.000 regular communist troops In Seoul, plus conscripts. And they hud plenty of ammunition Mrs. Albert Blossom Is Taken By Death Mrs. Albert Blossom. St, of near Rockford. O„ died Friday after noon at the Van Wert O. hospital after a long Illness Surviving are the husband; two sons, Ivan Brubaker of Ohio City, O and Wil but Brubaker of St. Mary's 0.; six brother*. Theodore Mihm of Pleasant Milla. Karl. Floyd and Ray of Rockford. Charles of Chardon 0.. and Clarence of Celina. 0.; three sisters. Mrs. Frank Shaffer and Mrs. Carrie Boroff of Rockford and Mr*. Laxter Exline of Ohio City, and her mother, Mrs. Orlando Mihm Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm Sunday at the Chnrch of find |n Ohio City, the Rev Royal Rear officiating flurial will be at Rockford

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY MILY MWOMOdB M AOAMB COUNTY .

Tax Increase Measure Waits Truman Action Congress Completes Action On Measure To Increase Taxes Washington, Sept 23 - tl'l’i — , President Truman got a first in , stallmen!" tax bill today to lielp i finance rearmament against com | tunnlst aggression, and congress immediately s tufted work on an- ' ul Iler tin President Truman's desk wa- a S4.7UO.<HW),'oM> boost on In diyldual and corporate income taxes Mr Truman is, sure to sign the measure which will increase personal Income taxes 12 to-2« percent I The tax-writing house" ways and ' i means committee, looking tpwaid- | , another tax Increase. scheduled ‘ ' an unusual -Satikrdny meetitwt * | before .Its memlters go home for the congressional re. ess /, to plan 1 for conshlerat lou of atv- "rue-v---profits tax on c-Urporations. Taxing the excess profits of corporathms wa* the hottest Ihsmt in i congressional debate on the tax measure, which Is now on Mr Tru-, man's desk That Idll calls for ' action on an excess profits levy as ' spun gpetpoeaible. with the tax to t lie effective as of July 1 or ttet. I | this year The ways and means committee ; was expected to st hedttle hearings on an excess profits tax starting soon after the November 7 congressional elections Congressional tax experts say extensive hearings Will tw necossgry to hammer out the complicated revenue measure. The "first installment" bill, a compromise written by a senate house conference committee, breexed through lite house ami senate yesterday It will produce about $4,700,000.tttto in additional revenue for the treasury Tax experts have estimated that another 37.fWMt.Mm.noo must he raised by the excess profits levy and other tax adjustments to Im carried out early next year The present hill will take about 12.745.000.0M1 In additional taxes from Individual taxpayers' pockets starting .Oct. 1 It Will hike the corporation Income tax from the 38 percent maximum under present law to 45* pert-ent effective ns of July 1 That will bring In about $1,500,tMIO.POO — ' In addition, taxe* will be boosted on xuch item* as deep freeter* and television sets. The bill also corks up some loophole* in the general tax laws. UTf BULLETINS Washington. Rep*. 23—(UP) —Rig gun* from the heavy cruiser* Toledo and Roeheatee "effectively" halted.an enemy counter-attoek In th* part 24 heur* In the Seoul area, the navy said today. A navy apeketman did net pin-peint the place where the north Korean force* launched th* counter-attack again*t U- •- marine* driving to capture the south Korean capital. The cruiaers, moving off the woet coaot near Seoul's pert city of Inchon, fired their heavy guns on targets reported by shore parties. Flushing, N. Y„ dept 23 — (UFl—Ruscla failed again today in Ita persistent attempt to seat the Chinese communists in the United Nations general a» sembly. ' WKATHER Fair and coal tonight. Sunday fair and continued cool. Low tonight 40 t* 43 north, 45 to to south.

Toledoans Stop Apologizing To Visitors / '■:s!£& f ~ ;r ~ r . ~..-w «••. •>•-• - .—J no note ttfntf etattew to Telede. pride as the Lake Erie part atty. - . '■,.. ~ ’I i—• x • * to ' Tto> la toe M-year-oH batt of eodhsw jabaa for srito* Tetodiass anda ee asaay apolegiea. A btoboatd, yrirlslmjag “Dea'l fudge TeMo by Ita Vatoa Mattan." waa replaced. f UNTIL NOW Toledoan* advised visitor* to their Ohio city not to judge It by the Union station. They ; 1 have revet sad that shamefaced advice t«» point with civic pride to the bllstening $3,500,000 itructure . - that replaced 04 year-old eyesore Oedkation of four-level building set off week-long celebration.

I —l—- — r —- ... , -. Comer Stone Laying Sunday Afternoon Service Sunday At Lutheran Building The Zion Lutheran church. West Monroe and Eleventh streets, will observe the cornerstone laying ot the new parish-education building In a special service Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev Walter II Moeller ot Immanuel Lutheran Church. Van Wert. 0.. will speak The pastor of Zion, the Rev. Edgar P Schmidt, will be liturgist at the service and will officiate at the cornerstone laying. A special invitation has been extended the sister Lutheran congregations of Adams county and Van Wert county. The public also Is 1 invited th the service. The order of the cornerstone laying follows: llvtnq-.by congregation ( Praise To The Lord" Versicles and the Gloria “Patrt. The lection The apostolic creed. Choir: "Laudamus Te.” Mueller. Hymn: "O Lord ot Hosts." Sermon Offerings and organ voluntary Procession of the assembly to the building site. Ceremony of the cornerstone laying. Prayers and the Lord's Prayer. Prayer response by the choir. Benediction. Jobless Pay Claims Increase For Week Indianapolis. Sept. 23. - (UP) — Hoosier jobless pay claims were up for the third consecutive week but 71 percent under the same week a year ago. the Indiana employment security division said today. Director John W Criae attributed the 17 percent Increase to the secondary effects of atrlkes. chang- <• In production lines plant maintenance and material shortages Despite the increase tn jobless claims, there was a 33 percent Increase In job openings as employers sought to Increase their forces tn production schedule levels and replace student* and workers being called to armed service duty.

Decotvf, ißdiaßOy Saticoy, September 23,1950

Five Persons Hurt . As Train Derailed Elsberry. Mo.. Sept. 23. -jfl’P) — Five persons iere injured and a score of others shaken up when a streamlined passenger train, en ; route from St. Icm Is to M Innes ;m>Hs went off the rails and tore! up 500 feet ot track. j Seven cars of the "consolidated , fiurllngton-Rock Island Zephyr' derailed as the train pulled out of Elsberry- last night. i Autumn Takes Over Throughout Nation Autumn Is Greeted By Foir Weather By United Press = = Autumn moved in today on the heels of a rebellious summer that brought cold, crop - retarding weather to the com belt, a near drought to part of the nation’s wheatlands and a siege of forest fires to California , The season of toot balls. Jack O' lanterns and frost arrived at 8:44 a m. CUT. The autumnal equinox was'greeted by fair weather across most ot the nation, but hrisk winds raised small-craft warnings on the Great Lakes and Scattered shoWers fell on the northeastern states and the Rocky mountains. Cool weather spread from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic as the football season got under way In the rest of the nation, temperatures were unseasonably mild. Farmers In the northern half of ' the corn belt feared an early frost would cut yields Agricultural ex--1 pert* said 13 t-onsecutive weeks of below normal temperatures had de • layed the maturing of the* com 1 crop Kansas wheat farmers reported • that rains speeded growth of the recently planted winter wheat crop > which will be harvested next sum- • mer. Unusually heavy precipitation i also has been measured In the OklaI horns Panhandle, where lack of ■ soil moisture greatly reduced the . 1»5() wheat crop

Decatur Time Change A Week From Today Buses And Railroads Will Change Sunday ; Decatur and Adams county, unlike most of Indiana, will have one more week of daylight saving time this city's return to central standard time not taking place until midnight Saturday night. Sept. 30. All the rest of Indiana, with the exception of Columbia City and possibly a few other cities, will revert to standard time tonight Bus and railroad schedules will change, effective tomorrow, returning to standard time. It may be a liftle confusing, hut will last for only one week Changes In the Erie railroad schedule, effective Sunday, were announced today by station agent AV M Bumgerdner. who stated that the changea were made to conform with the return (in many places) to standard time The following times, then, are based on standard time for next week, add one hour If you are on Decatur time, for slow time won't reach the Adams county seat until September 30 Westbound trains: train I—due 4:23 a m (regular stop): train 5— due 1:55 pm. (non-stop): train 7— due 10:20 pm (regular stop) Eastbound trains: Train 8. due I:2<> a.m (non-stop); train S - 12:54 pm (non-stop): train 2 -due 9:33 p.m. (regular stop). Huntington Girl Is Junior Miss Indiana Bluffton. In.. Sept. 23 -(UP) Blue-eyed, dark-haired Cynthia Lee Coyle. It. Huntington. rnJed today as Junior Miss Indiana. She won an Indiana Junior Chamber of Commerce contest last night by defeating It-other girls. Including Marian Whltesel. Union City, who won second. Donna Miller. New Castle, third:- Sally Brown. Winslow, fourth, and Shirley Reiff, Bluffton, fifth Along with the Junior Miss Indiana title, Cynthia won the title of Indiana tomato queen. Noon Edition

Young Michigan Woman Fatally Burned Today In Truck Accident At Berne

Superior! Missing With 16 On Bonn! Air Rescue Service Alerted For Search Goom> Bay, labrador, Sept. 23---(UPI—A B-50 superfortress, flying the great circle route to its Arisona base. Is missing. U. S air force spokesmen reported today Sixteen persons were aboard when It took oft from here Thursday. The bomber was en route to its I home station. Davis Monthan air ! W* base at Tpcson, Aris., on a ’ routine training mission It has not l>een heard from since It took I off from here two days ago. I Officials at Lowry air force lose in Denver. Colo., said the entire U S air rescue service had been alerted to search for the superJprt. U Col. J. C. Gunnison of Lowry base was assigned to direct the xone-of-interiof search, a Lowry spokesman said He said the missing B-50 was to have entered the. U. S at a point near Martiuette. Mich., on the south, shore of Lake Superior He said there has l*en no radio contact with the missing aircraft since it took off Missing atmard the bomber are 12 crew members and four passengers, all wkidentified. be said. Mrs. J. F. LohoiM Dies Last Evening Mr*. Elisabeth J. Ix-hman, $7. - widow of J. F. Lehman, died ut p.m. Friday at Berne after a long ; illness. Surviving are two sona. I'rof. G. A. l-ehman of Rochester,; iN. Y.. and C. A. Lehman of Chi-; f . ago, three daughters. Mrs M. M , Baumgarwer of Berne. Mrs Will-, lam A. Amrecht of Columbia. M 0. ,; snd Mrsrft F. Hogg trf Des Moines.! la.; nine grandchildren and six.’ great-grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 2:31) p.m. Sunday at the First Mennonite church at Berne, the Rev Olin A Krehbiel officiating. Burial will lie In the MRE cemetoryFrlends may call at the Yager fun<ral home after 2 P-m. today. Heart Attack Fatal To Rev. Wm. Filer Dies Suddenly At Home In Croigville The Rev William Eiler 67. pastor of the Evangelical United Brethren churches at Craigvllle. Tocsin and Lancester Chapel. | died suddenly of a heart attack at S:3O o'clock Friday evening at' his home in Craigvllle The minister's death wa* unexpected as he had been in apparently good health, and spent part of Friday visiting al the Bluffton street fair. Rev. EUer had served one year in the Well* county charges, and was reassigned at the recent St. Joseph conference Rev Etter was born in Wells county Aug 8. 1833. a son of Benjamin and Rebecca Moorman Eiler, and had Jteen in the minis-' try for the past 35 years. Survivors Include his wife. Cloy; one daughter, the wife of the Rev teo Erny of Donaldson, la.;' two I sons. Linden D. Eiler of Peru and ■ David Eller, at home; and two i grandchildren The body was removed to,th* Jahn funeral home, where friends may call after 5 o'clock this evening 'until ! p. m Monday, when It will be taken to the bom* Funeral services will l>e held at Ift: 30 a. m. Tuesday at the Toealn Evangelical t'nlted Brethren chnrch. The body will then be taken to Huntington. where It will He In stat* from 1 to 2 p. m at the Huntington Evangelical United Brethren chnrch. where final services will be held. Burial will be in Mt Hope cemetery at Huntington. Dr B F Smith.superintendent of the St Joseph conference, will oglclaie

fr 5 •> Opponents Os Control Bill In Filibuster 'Weary Senators In Continuous Session; House Defeats Veto Washington, Sept. 23— HJPI—- — whipped and weary senate--one of its members hospitalised after a filibustering atlegipt- was held grimly m continuous session today to reach a vote on tbe antl commun--Ist bill Petheyed legislators—in session since B:3ft a m. CST yesterday, catnapped. dosed or read newspaper* while senate leader* waited for opponent* of the subversive bill td talk themselves wit As the continuous session passed the 24 hour mark at t:3O a m. CST. there were indications that the band of ftlibusterers might be doing Just that. Although the senate had been in ' session since 11:30 a.m. yesterday.: tbe lengthy talkathon on tbe > bill began at 6:25 p.m. last night - when President Trumnn'w veto sswe' brought up The blllbnster produced one oaawnity—Hew. WiUiam Langer. R . N D The <3-yearold senator, bi* face gray and wan and murmuring "I ,: will hot yield" right * to his col- : I lapse, slumped to the senate floor: /after talking against the bill for I ; five hours and 28 minutes Stunned colleague* rushed to his I aid Taken tn a hospital, he was ! reported to be in good condition but ■would have to remain for several : days His effort* and that of others to ! delay action on overriding Presti dent Truman s veto—already overridden yesterday in the.house apliarently. was nothing but a futile gesture. Senate Demex-rath- leader Scott W. Lucas. 11l said the tactics of the opponents were J absurd apjL, ridicukeus." He held thejseteate in : session—indefinitely, he promised Sens Herbert H. Lehman. D N. Y, Paul H. Douglas. It. 111. Estes Kefauver. D. Tenn James E Murray. D. Mont, furnished most of the oratory. They insisted they were not filibustering. but were only attempting to delay a vote on the stringent <Tura Tv Fawv *ai. Three Indicted On Kidnaping Charge 1 * -~.SVW Other Indictments - Mode At Evansville Evansville. Ind.. Sept 23—(UP> A kidnaping indictment wa* returned tod*y by a federal grand jury against three men who escaped from the Indiana state farm snd allegedly forced a young couple r> drive them to Illinois. The Jury indited Lawrence Paulding. 23. Chicago; John McGrady. 28. Indianapolis, and Rlch- ' ard Brown. 18. Ames. la. They were accused of forcing George A. Phelps. 21. Reelevllle. I Ind . and Alice Tucker. 21. Green- ‘ castle. Ind., to drive them from -■Greencastle to Pari*. 11l Authori- ; tie* «aid the three then drove to Brown's, home town in a stolen 'car. ■ The Jury al»o re-indicted Glen D Skirvin. Washington. Ind., and Allen Poppa. Bloomington, on mail theft charge* A previous indictment wa* declared faulty Richard Smitherman. 5T7 ’JoIIW Smith. 27; John Sim*. 2*. and Helen Harrington. 22. all of Indi anapoll*. were charged In another j Ind let inent with the theft of slft.o<>ft worth of check* from th* mails and cashing them after forging slgnatare* Maurice Anderson. 22. fndlanapoil* was Indicted on theft of government and old age assistance 1 check* from the mall*

Price Four Cents

Husband Falls Asleep At Wheel Os Truck; Victim Os Fire Is Pinned In Cab For the second time to six day*, a violent death wa* recorded when a *woman burned to death In th* cab of a tractor-trailer track Tbe accident occurred about two mile* north of Berne early this morning A semi-trailer loaded with celery and destined for Saratoga, and driven by Ervin Tombrink. 34. of Grand Haven. Mich., left U. B. highway 27 on the left aide, rolled over in a ditch, jack-knifed, then burned The driver’* wife. Amy, 18. was pinned inside the cab and wa* burned tu death, the fourth such victim in the last eight day*. Tombrink, unnerved by the accident. and unable to discus* the matter too coherently, afterward told ; Mate police and newsmen gathered at the; scene that be tell asleep whii driving and the track wa* in tbe diteh before be knew what had happened He said that his wife was pinned In the cab, that he wa* able to crawl out, and attempted to extri i cate her. but was unable to do m> . before she wa* burned Jo death. Tombrink suffered Only minor > burn* himself a* tbe result of the r fire and gasoline tank explosion. " on hl* left hand and right arm 1 Berne ageama were r-l*ned to 4iw scene snd it took two Wreckert o ’ straighten the track enough to get the body of Mrs. Tombrink from J the wreckage.-' j Her remain* were brought to the Gtlltg and Doan funeral home In this city, where they will await further dispoeitioiFby tbe husbarwt The truck, owned by Ralph Myer*, of AHegdale, Mich . did not catch fire No early estimate was made of the damage This tragedy follow* closely <>n the heels of the death of Mena* Graber, and 'the double-tragedy when two men were burned to death following a colliaion last Sunday at the intersection of U S. highway* 27 and 224 The latter two bodies have been ‘identified a* Clyde Barnette, of Orlando. Fla. and Lafayette Austin. Bartlett s body wa* cremated and the remain* forwarded to an Or> lando undertaker; Gillig and Doun and city police today received confirmation that Austin definitely w*« the second man to burn to death Hi* sister. Liaxle Robinson, of Corinth Mi**., identified the belt buckle and ting a* that of Austin s ; Today » death raised the number of highway fatalities in the count v to seven four of them within the city of Decatur. Miiwr Accident Is Reported Near City Deputy sheriff Bob Shraluka in veattgated a minor accident which occurred ftve miles north of the etty on U, 8. highway 27 about \ 8:1$ am. today when car* driven by David Moore of Decutur and Floeaie Dubach, of Berne. aMeewip*d. The deputy stated that only minor damage* to the ear* were IncurredYoung Deaf Mute Burned To Death Evansville. Ind. Sept 23—il’Pi —William Ray Stinson. 16. a deaf mute, died today In St Mary * hospital of burns suffered when hl* cjothing caught fire at a waste product* firm lot where be and bi* brother. Edgar/ 22 «l*o a deaf mate, were inspecting a totvage motor Edgar also was burned Columbia City Man Is Accident Victim Columbia City. tod.. Sept 23 (UP) Arthur L Knapp. 25. Colom bia CHy. wa* killed today when hi* automobile and a big truck col llded bead-on in the Eel river bridge oo 'XT. 8 30 • mile east of here Lawrence Ross. ««. Norwalk, 0.. driver of the track, wa* 'toJurvd vlightly He toM Mate potlee Snapp wa* driving fast.