Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 240.

NAVAL AND AIR RAIDERS BLAST AT K

Truman Hopes Trip To Aid wonarcdct Leeves St. Louis Far Woke Island, MacArthur hrlty Kt Louis. Oct. 12 —MUP) — President Truman taken off today for aa historic Wake Island codfore nee with Goa. Douglas Mac Artliar on U. B foreMtn policy in tke far Mat and the military clean-up of North Korea. Me was ackedaled to leave here about 1 p. m. CBT aboard the DC-2 Independence and will atop briefly tonight at Fairfield-Sulsua air force baae in California before * flying on to Hawaii and Wako for his flrat face-to-face meet inc with MacArthur on Saturday The chief executive was intent on what be hope* will tie a world peace mission Hut Informed quarter* ia Washington said Ma trip coincided with a "serious" militant situation in Indo-Chlna. where communists recently have scored Important mill tin Mtwwm ~ _ These sources said the indoChina situation will receive much attention at the mid-Pacific conference Meanwhile. ueually reliable sources In Tokyo said that MacArthur ia expected to ask the president to "draw the line" '" against commuMet aggression in the far east If be la given an opportunity. MacArthur ia said to toot that ' the United Ulates must act Wjjfe vent Farnioaa. Indo-Chlna ewd-04b-or aoa-commuinet areas from fall - Mg late Red hands. These Tokyo quarters saM that Mat Arthur will sot his commander in-chlef run the conference but . will answer fully and without reservation if ho U asked for his ‘— views. —According to these Tokyo sources. MacArthur will almost certainly make these points in hie talks With Mr .Truman 1. Communism la the world’s biggest problem and 'lts threat must I* met with firm measures such as were used in Korea. - • 2. Asia is just as Important as Europe to the United sitates. and lhe imporainre of Asia lit world affairs is growing 3 Soinethiug must be done to preent Formosa. Indo-Chlna and other non communist areas from railing into the communist , bands 4 The V. 8 has a rmpdnsiMi ity of leadership in Asia that it ranmd dodge without disastrous rvsuHs ’ a Most Asiatic nations prefer to line up with Democratic nanons but they want assurance they w.iw’t he left out in the cold .when rtie chips pre dump. The chief evecutlve. at a mam moth meetfoe of the Order of lhe Easters Mat last Mgbt described the ys'V* of his meeting with rhe i »..*d Nation* commander in I am on my way to a confer ence with < Jenera I MacArthur’ .aid rhe president, "ami I hope that out of that conference will come seme contrihutton to lhe peace of the world " Before leaving Washington yesterday, the president said he was meeting MacArthur to "die < <wa With Mm t> the I'nited Nation* action in Korea" The president outlined his alma for the MacArthur meeting in an (Tore Tn Pone FtoWt. No Further Clues To Missing Treasurer Hartford City. Ind.. Oct 12. — tUPI— Authorities had no further clues In the mysterious disappearance of Blackford county treasurer Leeter Hiser. SO. who was seen last about midnight Monday. Otto K. Jensen, chief examiner cf the state board of accounts. Ind-' lans polls, was to-arrive here tomorrow to examine Hiser’s books. Jensen’s deputies have been conducting a routine audit since Tuesday. Hiser was seen on a downtown street late Monday night, driving a truck he used In his part-time electrical business The truck leter we, found In Hames outside of town but a search of nearby vroodod areas failed to show any clue to Hiser's disappearance.

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Legion WHI feted New Officers Today Cocke Favorite For Notional Commander Ui/Angeles, Oct, it —(UP>— The American Leg taH erect* national officer* today with World War ft veteran Erie Cocke. Jr., cd Atlanta. Ou-, almost certain to become commander of the organ lawlion’s 2.202.233 members. The election* will close the 32pd annual convention which storied Sunday Running against Cocke were Don R Wilson of Clarksburg. W. Vs. aad Art Connell. Middletown. Conn. The Legion's foreign relation* committee beaded by William Ver Ity of Ohio was expected to add more fuel to the group’s blasts at administration foreign' policy in Its report today. Convention delegates unanimously adopted a aerie* of resolutions yesterday for outlawing the communist party and the trial of communists aa traitors. --- They asked the death penalty for espionage, treason, sedition and sabotage and demanded removal of any federal executive who has protected communists In his department. Other resoTatibns sought conitouatlon of the house unAmerican activities committee, continued investigation of the loyalty of government personnel. re-employment rights for veterans entering armed service and elimination pf diecrimination against older worker*. Three Republican members of congresa addressed the convention and called tor ouster of secretary of stole Dean Acheson, enforce ■MH of anticommunist laws, and a stronger hand la dealing with AtalM . Jiep Edith Noorse Roaers o» ■ttaanrhaaMfs, In accepting the legion's distinguished service medal. Mid "the time Is past for our secretary of state to shake hands with a representative of Stalin who ha* American blood on hi* hands.” ” Harold V. Haines of Cedar Lake, Ind., took over today as national commander of the American fog ion's 40 et 3 organltation Haines. 52. was elected unanimously by 1.200 member* tojeplace retiring chis de themin de for Clarence E Smith of Raleigh. N. Os Fumes Are Fatal To - Woman At Seymour Seymour Ind. Oct. 1-2. —(VIM Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Bernice V. Rem ington. 42. co-owner of a jewelry store here, who died yesterday fram the effects of carhon tetrachloride fumes she Inhaled last week whsff cleaning upholstery in a closed room Click's Fate Is Up To Supreme Cowl New Trial Sought By Click Attorneys Indianapolis. Oct 12—(UPiThe case of Franklin Click, central figure in one of Indiana’s most complex murder trials, today was In the band* of the state supreme court Click, Jl-year old Fort Wayne rtrtery fgrnr worker. hu urrtjpdnfotr to die Dec 30 for the 1*44 sex slaying of pretty Phyllis Conine, a high school student— — He confessed the slaying more than a year ago. then repudiated his statements. Hut yesterday. Click'* attotneys. appealing the caae. argued before the high court that be should be granted a new trial because Ralph Lobaugh confessed he killed Miss Conine five days after Click was convicted of the crime. Both men also alternately confessed and denied two other sex slayings for which Lobaugh is scheduled to die In the electric chair But deputy attorney general George Hand said Lobaugh's confession was "Irresponsible" andshouldn't be considered because it was made while Lobaugh was waiting to die for three other sex muc der*. He said It was written on prison stationery and couldn’t be admitted because it wasn't In affidavit form. Click's attorney*, including Rob-. Sri A. Buhler who also is Lobaugh's iTxn To Pane rivet

Railroads Are Staggered By WcKJC vemanos locroosas Os Non Billion Dollars Ara Demanded By Unions Washington. Oct. It — I UP)— Tbe nation’s railroads atagxeted today tinder* union demand* for wage increases of nearly a billion dollars a year. Railway management spokesmen would not comment officially on. the unprecedented demands from both operating ami craft unlone—lrat it waa no secret they were rocked hy the sum involved. The unions contend the pay Increases are needed by their some 1.425.0 M members to keep abreast of rising living costa. Representatives of some 1.022> 000 non-operating railway workers engaged In clerical, signalling, telegraphy and terminal shop operations announced yesterday they will demand a 25-cents-an-bour pay hike. A few hours later, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and _ Enginemen disclosed that they want a 35-cents-an%our wage boost. According tv management spokesmen, the various rail union demand* stack up this way: ,1 Fifteen non-operating brotherhoods and lhe International Association of Machinist* are -asking 25 cent* an hour more for some j.OM.MM employe*. This would coat more than 2525.000.PMi a year. 2. Th* firemen's 35-ceat demand for 35,002 member* would coat 225.000.002. while Ma proposal for a 40-hour week with 42 hours’ pay wouM cost another 223.000.000 3. The enginer*' 20 percent pay Increase for yard worker* and other raise* for road men Involve 40.000 workers. It would cost 222.n00.000. 4 The demand by trainmen and conductors for a 40-hour week at 43 hours' pay and other heenfits for 300.000 road service employes would cost 22t'0-000.000 — Body OF Fieehter YouNi Recovered Body Is Recovered In Creek Near Home The body of Ralph Fieehter. 20yeat'old Wells county youth missing from hl* home since Monday evening, was recovered today In the Pigeon Roost creek, about 101 rod* from the youth's home The body was discovered at about 3:30 o'clock this morning by a professional diver, from Fort Wayne, in about four feet of water lu the creek An autopsy I* scheduled for later today. The contention of Wells county authorities I* that the youth apparently fell Into the creek, then drowned. Fieehter. who lived on a farm two and one-half miles north of Craigvllle. was discovered missing Monday evening after he had gone to the mall box to seek the evening paper A general alarm was broadcast to police units in a three state area, and the Pigeon Roost as well as the Eight Mile ditches were dragged, though unsuccessfully. Following the discovery, the body was taken to the Jahn Funeral home in Bluffton. Funeral arrangements had not been made late today. The youth Is survived by hl* widowed mother, Mrs Fred Fieehter. a brother. Richard, and a sister. Nova, both at home. Scout Honor Court Here Fridoy Night A Boy Scout court of honor, for all tbr** Decatur troop*. Rotary <l. Llorfs <2 and American Legion 23. trill J»e held at the Decatur high school Friday evening at 7:20 o'clock. W Guy Brown will preside a* 'hairman of lhe court, which will bw followed by moving picture* of the national Boy Scout jamboree.’ held at Valley Forge last summer. The public is invited to attend the court of honor and view the pic'turee.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 12, 1950

Truman Begins Historic Flight PRESIDENT TRUMAN bids goodbye to hi* secretory of state. Dean Acheson, just before leaving Washington's National Airport in his * private plane He will begin his flight tor a .conference with General fkmglas MacArthur "Mtmewherb in the Pacific" after an overnight stop ia Bt. l-ouls.

Automobile Buying Declines Sharply Credit Curbs Lead To Buying Decrease Detroit. Oct. 12.—(DP)— Regulation W has slammed th* brakes on new and used automobile buying across the counter, a I’nited Pres* survey showed today. New car dealers, ia the medium and high price Helds, complained that sales have dropped as much ait 33 percent slave th* one-third down, 31 months to pay sredit curb* look effect tore* weeks ago; Howling the toude*l, however, are the nattoa’* used ear merchants. Who almost unanimously report a ahw-dlve in buying aa sharp aa 72 percent . "Th* used ear saarket Is tteod.” walled one big New York dealer in second-hand vehicle*. Men who sell new cars costing over 22.0 M appeared just as unhappy. A Detroit Hudson dealer, said the ret»rn of regulation W has’ dthtn most of his customers to cheaper cars - Ilk* Chevrolet. Ford 1 and Plymouth Although regulation W received j most of the blame for the declining j .sales, many car salesmen itointed,' out that other factor* also have bit | business - Traditional seasonal decline at the «nd'of summer. bigg< 1 govern- * inent tax slice* from everytiody'* j paycheck*, rising aulo prices and: appearance of new 1351 models' shartd the blame with Installment I buying controls. A Heat tie Ford dealer said that "with car prices Inflated like everything else, most people can't seem (Tara To Paco Five!

432,000 Gallons Water “Missing, "Pressure Low

— , City official* today were trying to solve the mystety of what happened to 432.000 gallons of water With water superintendent Ralph Roop directing the investigation, employes of the water and light departmenu,. a« well as city police, spegt the morning checking all probable avenues of escape. Tne lost water affected prac-1 tically all households in the city. I The water pressure, which normally levels off at 42 pounds, was down to five at one time, and only a trickle was running out of faucets. All sewers. Roop reported, had %een checked by noon today, and no leak* were discovered. He guessed that someone drew that much water off. but It hasn't been confirmed. Employes were still checking all possible places where the water might have gone to. Roop reported that the pressure had been regained to 3H pound*, "and was still going." Roop's office in city hall served as command headquarters for the Investigation, and calls came ih to him telling of whatever progress was made to locate the leakage. The drop in water pressure was discovered early this morning at the first of two checks made each day. All wells and the cistern are checked at 4:30 p.tn and again at 7 o'clock in the morning. Last evening's check disclosed nothing out of the way as for the pressure. Roop explained that the water department's peak loads are noted be tween « and * am. and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon In the morning when people arise and factories open; then again when

-f— Woman Is Crushed To Death By Limb South Bond. Ind . Oct. 12-(VPi Margaret Truyts. 52. was i ruah ed to death today by a 14-lncb limb, torn from a tree by beavy winds. Ths- vietim waw pinned to tb* curb, and was treed by two policeman and several pa**er*by She was pronounced dead on arrival at memorial hospital. _ ■ Authorize Coter Telecasts Nov. 20 CBS Authorized To Launch Telecast* Washington. Oct. 12 — (VP> ' Commercial color television i* I ■chadwtad to hit th* airwave* Nov. 20 — if It doesn’t bit tbe court* t first. The federal communications • commission ha* authorixed the II Columbia Broadcasting system to i: begin color telecasts on that date. I But CBS president Frank Stani ton conceded that, even without legal delays, it may be months be . fore any substantial part of the ! public receives color programs. " Owners of the 3.000.000 TV sets ’ now in use must buy a 230 to 250 adapter" to receive the telecasts flit biaek-and white and a 250 to 275 i "converter" to receive them in : color. Stanton said these should lie on the market within the next few months. • I Moreover. TV servicemen must be trained to install |he adapters ami converters It was estimated the entire cost (Tara Te Page •!*►

factories change shifts, and school Is out. He said that during the day the wells and cistern usually catch up with the loss suffered in the morning. and trouble seldom develops. Monday, because of traditional washday, is usually the “big" day for water usage Rain this past 1 Monday might have postponed I washing until Roop exclaimed that houne||P*>a "wouldn't have used that much water." There ware 205- hydrants in the city to be checked, as well an 23 mi'ea of water mains. The search was made doubly difficult because the recent rains have swollen the water running through the sewers, prolonging any detection of where the water went. That much water. 432.000 gallons, had it gone into the sewers, would probably have resulted In many basements being flooded. However. Roop has received no phone calls complaining of this. Fortunately, also, the city fire department was not called; it would most certainly have been a fateful day with a serious fire roaring. The water department's leakage problems were shared with the Northern Indiana Public Service company. Today, employes of the gas company were drilling Into much of Second street, preparing vents to care for leaking gas. Reports of such leakage tend been made, and the company was Installing vents to the street level to reduce any danger of a repetition of. ray. an explosion euch as occurred |n Port ] land last year

Strike Within 49 Miles Os Russia; Surprise By Gen. MacArthur Foreseen

Draff Regulations Issued For Doctors Youngest Men Will Be Inducted First BULLETIN Waahtogton. Oet. 12.—(UP) —Draft director Lewi* B. Hershey said today that lowering the draft age to 10 I* being “*er» iously considered.” Heeehey told the Americana veteran* committee that If IB yaeneM* could be drafted then veteran* could be “wholly" exempted. There has been talk recently *f drafting veteran*. Veteran* are new exempt /under law. The draft age limit I* 42 through 25. Wa»htogt6n.6cti2—'7t’P) —' President Truman Issued draft regulations for doctors today The youngest men will be inducted first. > Tke regulations, set forth I* an executive order by tbe president, established classification rule* ter doctor*, deutjsfa and other medical specialists who begin regtatoring for .the draft Monday. The medical men will be inducted In order of their age. with the youngest lu each priority group being called first. • The doctoMraff law *M fear priorities. The first include* * those deferred during World War ' II to take training at goverameitt 1 expense or thoi. own. and who served less than 90 day* on active ' duty. The youngest men in this | category will be the first to be Inducted Nov. 15. when the first group of medical men will be called up. The second priority includes those deferred for training during World War II who later served from *0 days to 21 months. . The first and second priority categories register tor the draft ■ Monday . Later caiegeriee most register at a date to be set later, but before Jan. 12. 1951. The third category includes men who hail no armed service but were not deferred for training The fourth category is veterans The new doctor-draft law affects all medical men less than 51 years old. Order Suspension Os Visas To Foreigners Give Officials Time To Study New Laws Washington. Oct. 12 — (VP) — The state department announced today that it has suspended visas issued to all foreigners overseas I except displaced persons. The action is Intended to give officials time to study more fully the McCarran anti-communist law . and come up with some workable regulations. Many foreigners arriving at American ports have been held up ’ or barred froth entering the country The law bars entry of communists or fascists. The congestion at pons of entry I* increasing Thousands of person* are expected to be affected by the- state department's order. Travel plans throughout the world will lie snarled hy the sudden order. The state department said V. S diplomatic and consular official* will immediately reexamine the cases of persons whose visas have been suspended Visas Issued to displaced persons were not canceled because they already have been screened for any past affiliation with totalitarian movements. WEATHER Fair tonight aad Friday, kemewhat cooler tonight. Low tonight 3k to 42 north. <2 to' 22 | south. High Friday 22 te 22 north, 2k to 70 south.

Ban Control Os North Koreans By Rhee Regime UN Committee In Order To MacArthur On Korean Control Lake Succees. N V O« 12 — (L’Ft- The United Nations committee on Korea instructed Gen. Douglas MacArthur today to confine the authority of the south Koreas government below the 33tb parallel and to tel up a new civil administration In liberated north Korea. The instruction*, based* on comwrtttee adoption of an Australian resolution, were cabled to Tokyo by United Nations secretary-general Trygve Lie. The swiff* committee action, which blocks tbe announced desire of the kyngman Rhee regime to take over all Korea, took the fob lowing touts*: The swift cowunit tee action, which blocks tike announced desire of the Byngman regime to ’ take over all Korea, took tbe fidlowing course (1) Meeting In secret session *1 1« a-m, the committee found sir at iu membero-Aiuitroita. Chile * Turkey. Pakistan, tbe Philippine* aad Thsiland—favored the Australian proposal. It authorised its of- ' fleers to take action automatically when the seventh member, the Netherlands, received instruction* from th* Hague. (2) Thirty minutes after the committee adjourned, the Netherlands representative received orders to support the Australian proposal., <3> Shortly after noon the UN secretariat, upon advice from committee officer*, sent the Instructions to MacArthur. The Australian resolution as originally submitted to the committee contained the following proposals: lit That liberated north Koreal should not come under the authority of the south Korean govern-! meitt but under that of the unified/ command, pending general elec ' lions throughout the entire peninsula to choose a unified Korean government (2l That officer* representing the various UN armies in Korea he attached to the civil government instituted as an interim measure In Korea. (3) That the unified command keep the interim committee intonwd as ro hs actions to tmptrnx (Tero «• Page Slat French Troops Fall Back To New lines French Reel Under Communist Blows Saigon. Indo-Chlna. Oct. 12 — (UP) —French troops, reeling from communist blows near the Indo China-Chinese communist border, have withdrawn from the red fortress of Thai Nguyen and fallen back to a new defense line 27 miles farther south. French military headquarters announced today. The Thai Nguyen fortress, a strong point on the roads north to commuetM China and south into the rlct-rlch Red river delta, was captured by the French Oct 1 after ■ 32-hour amphibious operation by thousands of infantrymen and marines supported by planes. A French spokesman said it was given up "according to a preen ranged plan" without any fighting He said the French assault on It was designed to smash arm* depots and other red installation* But it was pointed out that th* French have been steadily pullint back from the northern frontier ia the face of overwhelming num bers of communist rebels, apparently armed and traftted In communist iTws *• rww* Mat

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Mighty Mo Leads ki Blasting Industrial Targets; UN Troops Continue Advances Tokyo. Oct 12. —tl'Pt— Allied naval and air raiders struck within 49 mile* of Russia today, as tankled ground spearhead* pierced 2» mile* north at the communist border on the wny to Pyongyang.'eapL tai of red Korea The big guns of a naval task force led by the giant IT. S. hat tieship Missouri pulverixed the east coast industrial center of Chongjin. 49 miles south of the Russian Imrder and only 122 miles from the hlg soviet base of Vladivostok. B-29 bombers and carrler-basM naval attack planes struck at the /MUrt roast citie* of Song jin. *2 air mile* south of Chongjtn. and Kicks. 21 air mile* south of the battered city. The naval and air strikes on the northeast corner of, communist Korea stimulated belief that Gen. ’ Douglas MacArthur had a new surprise In store for the red*. ' The main batteries of American. British and Canadian warship* hwcke« up t«w t24Hcft gw wf thn--"'- ' "Biff Me* ta a massive naval bomfo . ardment that buried at leeat 2*» p tone of Mffb eaptoaive into tbe industrial 112*0 t< rtntLffr tt The city had been Masted rea neatedly by B-2»’s In recent week*. s. WMBe tbe arbrahtoff and. warptaa- * e* were ranging north to strike p far behind the enemy Hnee tank--5 led columns of the Ist U.S eavalrv y division were forging steadily t ahead against diminishing rad re- ■ sistaace Late today. United Pres* cor- ? respondent Glenn Stockhouse re- - ported that left-Hank elements of - the Ist cavalry advance had rap- ’ tured the town of Hanpo. 20 mile* north of the 23th parallel. Five other United Nations divisions also were smashing their way across communist Korea, deploying for a giant “nutcracker" attack on Pyongyang Chongjin. a city of IM.OOO la one of communist Korea's main industrial centers Facilities there [lnclude steel and nickel smelters. Un oil refinery, an aluminum plant. ! chemical works and munition i plants. I it lies only 34 mile* from tbe , Manchurian border city of Hservang and 120 miles from the great soviet far eastern baae of Vladivostok. Tke fleet which attacked Choagi.n Included lhe U 8 cruisers Helena and Worcester, the 1 British cruiser Ceylon, unidentified American aircraft carrier* and a number of American, British and Canadian destroyers The naval force ranged 1 north to strike one of the two eastioast ports left to the Korean red*. By. land six United Nations division* surged through North Korea against diminishing communist reMstance. Five divisions, with a British commonwealth brigade. were smashing toward Pyongyang, the capital of red 1 Korea, on a HMt-mlle front Advance units . already had (Twee Tw toMW F4ve( All Tickets Sold For Town-Country Fish Fry Tonight All tickets have been Sold and everything is in readiness tor the second annual town and country fish fry. to be held in the Decatur high school gym tonight Beats have been srrange/l not only on the floor but strategk-aHv placed in the bleacher*, making it possible to seat the more than l.tW ticket holders who are expected to jam the hall before the starting time of 2 32 o’clock M P. Casa, ticket chairman of the event, said today that all tickets were exhausted, and that final touches are being given the arena for the attalr Durinr the dinner hour, tbe Adam* eonntv 4 H hand will furnish tnwMc tor the evening’* eqtertsi’--tnent the Indiana tfedeeraMv Varieties wlB take over