Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 245.

ALLIED FORCES ENTER CITY OF PYONGYANG

Truman Warns Soviet Russia • -

Stem Warning Iwiml Anaimt Red Aggression Free World Ready To Battle Against Reds* Aggressions lUll l T I N Washington. Oct. IS.—(UP) —President Truman and Oan. Daugtaa MacArthur apparently reached campleto agreement en Fprmoea In their private ene> hour cenference en Wake Island. high government effielale said today. These officiate said that President Truman, following his private talk with MacArthur, told participants at ths gsneral conference en Welle that he and the supreme allied commander In the far east had mwmdsmvd AJUMAMMUMgaff AM ■ and that there was no need to dlocuos it further. Washington. Oct. It —(VP) — Russia faced today a Merit warning from President Truman that the free world will be ready to fight any communist aggression The chief executive flew bark home from Kan Francisco where he delivered a speech last night explainleg Amwrica'a foreign poUey The president's personal plane, the Independehee. w«« foerod by tog blanketing National airport here Ui land at nearby Andrews air force bane. HehegnM to land around t ig am. EST. the plane got dowp al 9:54 am I'ST In his San Francisco speech the president set forth this country's policy in no uncertain terms Mr Truman said that there was no "mystery" about his weekend conference with O»n. Ilouglas MacArthur. explaining that he had flown to- Wake island only because he wanted a personal conversation with the "commander in the field" to learn first hand his problems in < lie far east ,The president left no doubt that the Vnited States Will bark the tree j nations-of the world in resisting j "communist imperialism" wherever it occurs In hl. speech before an > nthm-lsstic audience of 4.« M per runs who jammed San Francisco's War Memorial Opera house The speech was broadcast to that nation over tour major radio net works and was shortwaved over-| »ea» to countries on both sides, of, the iron curtain Mr Truman emphasised the Vnited States sought no military conquest or glory and that It was undertaking a huge defense Proliant with reluctance Declaring that the I'nited States will continue to Increase Its mill tary production al the expense ot civilian consumption. Mr Truman added "All this will be difficult and It will exact many great sacrifices Hut we are aware ot the dangers we lace. And we're going Io be prepared to meet them Let no aggressor make any mistake about that "We are going ahead In dead earnest to build up our defenses. There will lie no let down because of the accesses achieved In Kolba." Then the president listed four ways by which Russia could prove Its peaceful Intentions: 1. It must live up to the principles of the I'nited Nations charter 2 It can join the rest of the I'nited Nations by calling on the north Koreans to lay down their arms at om e. si 3. It can lift the Iron curtain and permit the free exchange of information and ideas 4 It can Join the Vnited Nations in establishing a workable system of collective security—"a system whi li win permit the elimination >twrw Ta Fww» Ftvei WEATHER Incecasing eleudinea* thia afttrnaon and tonight Thursday, partly cloudy north and cloudy south periton with occasional rain In extreme aouth. Net suite oe warm in aouth portion Thursday. Lew tonight SME north. 55 to 50 south. Hlqh.TKUrsdsy 75 to U.

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Pleads Guilty To Espionage Charge New York. Oct. 18.—(UP)— David Greenplass. 2k. former army sergeant and member ot the Klaus Fuchs atomic spy ring, pleaded guilty, to a charge ot conspiracy to commit espionage in federal court today Judge William Bondy set Dec. 4 for sentencing hut It was expected Greenglass will be a government witness at the trial of other alleged members of the ring, including hi* sister. Mrs, Ethel Greenberg. .13. and her husband India Seeks To Break Deadlock Over Secretary Proposes Delegates Moke Secret Lists Os Two Nominees Success. N Y . Oct IS (VP>—lndia sought to break the I'nited Nations security council's deadlock on a candidate for secre-tary-general today by proposing that each delegate to the council secretly submit ism .nominee* fur the post, well-informed tources said The entire list of nominations then would tie studied by each of the five permanent members of the security council. The big five (Megales would cross off the Hat the names ot candidates they would veto, and the remainder would be considered by the entire group as a working list, these sources said. The Indian proposal came as the 11-natlou council, which is re qulred by the charter to recommend to the general as embly a candidate for election as sucre-tary-general. met behind guarded doors In secret session The meeting was marked by a bested clash between Aml*aa-a<loi Warren II Austin chief I' K delegate, and Jiuoh Malik, chief > -c ' let delegate Reports emerging ! from the tne-llng room said All* tin de< lured iliat It would lie "surrender" for the west to consider new candidacies in vie# of the majority which secretary general Trygve !.!»■ received when I the council voted la-t week The vote at that time was 9 to I. with Russia's negative vote counting as a veto. Ho h Austin and Arne T Kunde of Norway blasted Malik for Ills last-minute effort to set off a wide-open race for the secretary generalship by demanding today's (Tara To Faae Kla'iiti 93-Year-Old Woman Dies Last Evening Mary A Hendricks Is Token By Death Mrs Mary A Hendricks. 9.1-year-old Adams county woman, died at f. o'clock Tuesday evening at her home one mile north of Monroe i She had been ill for the past seven months A lifelong resident of Adam* county, she was born' March 25. 1557. a daughter ot Jacob and Susan Head-Martt Her husband. Jacob Dayton Hendricks, preceded her in death. She was a member of the Mon roe Friends church Surviving are three sons. Harry E. of San Diego. Cal.. Brian B. of Danville, 111 . August C. of Mortroe: five daughters. Mrs. H F Majors and Mrs. M. E Babcock. both of Fort Wayne. Mr*. Walter Loben stein of Dejrolt. Mich. Mrs Roy Manlove of Monroe and Mrs. S A Baker of Indianapolis: five grandchildren; 15 xreasgrantUhtldren. and a brother. Frank Marti of Monroe Eight brothers and one sistw preceded her In death Funeral aervicea will be held at 2 pm Friday at the Black funeral home, the Rav. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this craning

British Crash Kilb 28 y TWENTY-FOUR vacation-bound passengers, inchidi-tg two Americans, and four crew members died In this crash of a Brill h European Airways plane, just 15 minutes after leaving London for Glasgow. Only one'iu-rsou. a steward, survived. The airliner exploded as It crashed and fire Iwoke out in the wreckage

Rules Geneva Board Competent Io Sene Ruling Is Issued By Special Judge Judge Homer J. Byrd, of th* Wells circuit court, serving — special judge in the Adams circuit court In a cause of action to determine the rights and status' of Hie Geneva town board of true tees and clerk-treasurer ruled. In effect. that the board'was competent to continue to serve. A complaint, one for a decalratory judgment, filed by attorney* Custer and Smith for Luther Martin. Hoe V. IHckeraon, Sidney M Huckmaster. Richard McCollum ; and William Heeler as plaintiffs charged that most of the present I Is,,,rd of trustees as well as the i .. jerk were mH properly elected They pointed oiit in the tom- '| plaint which named Harold T Fields. Isaa. Garringer. J Martin Brennan and EliiMbeth Potter as defendants, that the latter are not ■ legally elected, that all but Fields ' were appointed In addition to pleading for the ; ourt lo determine that the status of the occupants of the board lie established. the complaint asked iha special election be held to • Im t officers. Papers were filed by counsels. I by; Geneva town attorney Robert < S Anderson, among which was a demurrer, which .Bulge Byrd upheld in the latest action The demurrer declared that the complaint “does nob state facts - sufficient. to c onstitute a c ause ot action" Judge Byrd admitted in his opinion that "there la no question that the defendants' appointments are irregular" for there was no quorum pre ent when the appoint ments to the town board were macle, but adds that plaintiff's actions would promote uncertainly ' and Insecurity rather than relieve it He went on to say that since the plaintiffs do not ask the removal of the defendants, that "he could not possibly terminate the controversy Vice-President At Fort Wayne Today Fort Wayne. Ind . Oct IS tl'P). — Hoosier Democrats, fighting to win the November elections, get important support today when vicepresident Alhen W Barkley makes a two-speech visit to the state Barkley, who was booked to speak In Indianapolis Igsf March hut missed because Important legislation was pending in congress. Will address a noon luncheon In Fort Wayne, hometown of Alex Gampbell. the Democratic senatorial nominee and ticket-ltader. Hix major speech will be at Indianapolis tonight. Campbell, governor Schricker and other top Hoosier Democrats will appear with Barkley at the Murat theater.

OM.V OAM.Y MWaMMIt IN AOMM COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 18, 1950

'Back To School' Night On Thursday "Bac k to school" night will be observed by the Lincoln parem-leacb-ers association Thursday evening, and parents are asked to be In their children’* classrooms by 7 frnt; tor “back to Khool" analysis by , teachers of pupil mMertal. State Draft Quota 6,045 By Christmas Men Now Accepted To Foce Eorly Coil Indianapolis. Oct. 18 -(UPi ‘ HooHera who passed draft exami | nations before S»-pi M pnibabiy I won’t b# home for Chrislmafi Not a* civilians, at least in.it i>i;s mvtii file a < "L- man quota of lat'ii jn uniform b> b«- • 20. which taßea a sizable bite out of the group of 6.810 men who Were ■ termed til tor military aervire after ; exama .n Aueust and September Allowing a reduction in the ! availability figure for those who are rejected on second physical I e<ania, selective service official* i said practically all men examined ■ durinc the last two months can expect to l»e in uniform by the ♦nd ; of the year Potential draftees examined thi* ! month need nut expe< an indue --Hon vail until- after Leu.- 1. because of a national order instinct Ing stale headquarters to "as far asi possible" refrain from inducting men from Dee. 20 through Jan 1 Draft officials here said, however, that pre induction physical examitTwra T» Paa# Klabo

700 Korean Civilians I Slain By Communists

Ilamhung K‘orth Korea. (let IS I —(l'P) The bodies of 7W Korean civilian* including some teenage youths were found today near a big modern prison* here They had been murdered by the retreating, communist* The new horror widened the rlv I er of blood left in the wake of the I ted armies feeling the allied ad ranee. More than l.»W» atrocity victims have been found in liberal ed area* during the last week.. Today'* victims were found by; advance unlta of the south Korean ■ capitol division, which liberated thia big industrial city yesterday Some bodies were found stuffed in the prison well, but most were piled in a tunnel in the hill behind i the prison All had l>e<n beaten and shot The victims were Ide ratified as l local anticommunists. Discovery of the bodies touched off a wave of fury In llamhung. I Mother*, wives and daughters of the murdered men stood wailing before the prison today, while their sons—often with th* mutilated i bodies of their fathers before them i — eahorted crowds to help the south Koreans drive the < ctnmun-

Chicago Police Tell How Io Gain Wealth Furnish Details On Income To Probers CMeggo, Oel. 18 — (VPi —Two high pwUcw oEk-ialx lold'the Mnate crime investigating committoe that "gift*" and wine iuveutmenta enabled them to build personal fortunes deupit* rnodert calarlee. Captain Dan Gilbert, chief investigator for the "state's attorney's office, and Captain Thomas Harrison, who commands the Gold I Coast anil Honky-Tonk district of Chicago's near north side, furttiahed details regarding their income* at a c losed committee session last night The committee was expected to hear testimony today by Toro Kelly. manager of the Continental Press wire service. Mrs laiuis i Little- New York I Campagna, and Thomas Cawley, reputed gambling kingpin of laiKalle. 11l Joseph Flne’tJ. former mapor of Gary. Ind. also was waiting to testify, and it, was learned that C-Oinnilttee investigators were searching tor gambling and vice tmeses of latke county. Ind Finer, y's brother. laxrsxre. was shot to death In 1945 at his Highland. Ind . home during the "wire service" war in which James M Hagen former head nt Conti* ental Press Service, was assassin a led Before his death. Hagen dis i lo*ed that Continental had made arrangements to supply Finerty with racing news Ragen said Finerty had planned lo buck the I Capone "syndicate" for lhe couniTwew Tw Wage Fives

lists out of the country Many youthful residents asked for guns so they could help bunt down the reds Today’s discovery was the worst atrocity uncovered by the south ■ Koreans troops racing north along I Korea's east coast. i The bodies of 14 murdered civilians. most of them elderly anticommunists and religious leader*, were found in Chongpyong two days ago. and soldiers of the ISth south ’ Korean regiment found the bayoneted bodies of sis prisoners of war in a ravine outside Chigyong Eyewitnesses told American military advisers that the communists ‘ beat the Chongpyong victims with fence posts and then burled them alive Th* bodies of CM prisoners of war who had been tortured, starved and slaughtered were found in Kowan and Yonghung Americana marching with the victorious south Korean army said . the cold-blooded murders are a* senseless as they are shocking. Wherever atrocities are discovered, infutia'ed survivors cherish a hatei ■for the communists that probably' will .never he erased

Vanguard Os Onrushing Allied Armies Smashes Communist Resistance

Prabe b Asked Os Charges On Dewey Senate Committee Asked For Probe V Washington. Oct. 18 — (VPI — The senate elections sobcommittee ha* been naked to invesUgate charges by New York Democrats that Gov. Thpma* E Dewey made payoff election promise*. It wa* learned today. I-eroy Rader chief of the subcommittee's staff, declined to *pe-<-lfy the source of the complaint and the request for an investigation other than to say that they did not come from Democratic candidate* In New York or the Democratic state committee "We will undoubtedly take some action," he said. Th. complaint*, he said, had been sent by special delivery mail to committee chairman Guy Gillette. D.. la., at hl* Cherokee. la., home The congressional investigation wa* asked as a. letter written by Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley. Republican - senatorial candidato.' rocked the New York political scene and brought charges from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter A. Lynch that Dewey was guilty of a felony and should withdraw from ' the mce. Hanley's letter lo Rep. W , Kingsland Macy. R.. N. Y.. Indicated that he had agreed to run tot the senate and leave the gubernatorial field clear for Dewey because of certain "unalterable and unquestionably definite proposition* made to me!' during * conference with Dewey. Rader said the senate subcommittee received a complaint and re<|iie<t for Investigation of the matter this morning. The c ommittee is chi rged with I the responsibility of investigating complaints regarding senate campaigns It ha« inveatigatlve, [lower* and a staff of experts and it c an make reeominendaUons to the senate in event Irregularities are found Brief Session Is Held By Council Kohne Reappointed To Library Board Business before lhe city council during it* regular but brief meet Ing Tuesday wa* limited to approving rural line extension pet I lions and agreement*, making one appointment, and adopting a rests lotion favoring the appropriation lof additional fund* for the street department. I The resolution actually authorised clerk-treasurer Vernon Aurand to give nottre ot the Novem Iter 7 council meeting when the appropriation matter will be acted upon The department I* seeking 11.500 for operational expenses for the remainder of the year The money is lo be taken from the general fund and transferred to the street department's budget The council reappointed Rayr.ond Kohne to serve *» tl« representative on the Decatur library board, the appointment of two years' duration. Kohne. a Decatur drug store owner, ot 327 Met: cer avenue, ha* served on the board for the past jfeveral years Councilman referred the petition of Mr and Mrs Thomas Lutes, of Winchester street ex elon. to the electric light committee in conjunction with the superintendent The council also approved agreements of such extension between the city and Mr. dnd Mr*. Thomas Harrell and Mr. and Mrs Vernon llehble. all ot Root township, and Mrs. Ruther Shit ferly. of Allen county Representatives ot two dleael manufacturing companies were also present st the Tuouday mev’ing | to discuss further the city's futuic ’ purchase of such an engine tor its tTara ts Faw* Ma)

One Killed In Florida Town By Hurricane West Hollywood Is Hord Hit; Domoge Is Heavy In Miami Miami. Fla.. Oct 18— <VPIOne person wa* killed. 14 Injured and 25 homes demolished in the small town ot West Hollywood, Fla., today by a late, season hurricane that left Miami a |S.M».O«e damage bill before roaring on Into the state's rich citrus belt. Mid-town Miami wa* smocked by winds as high as 125 miles sn hour when the waterlogged blow barreled inland out of tbe Atlantic thia morning The City's water supply was cut by more than half and electric service in most residential areas was off. Both utilities were being gradually restored as hurricane clean-uppers went to work xaMover town The hurrlc-ane wa* moving over land with diminishing—but still damaging—force in a north-north-i westerly tHrection at S a m. CBT. Highest winds were reported down to H miiea an hour. A tornado — spawned In the i midst of tbe hurricane's howling - winds—brought disaster to little West Hollywood. 16 miles north of Miami, where about 2.090 persons live C. Brown Hyatt. Red Cross disaster committee chairman for Brownard county said the twister left 299 families homeless, badly damaged ISO houses, caused general damage to 409 others and j wrecked 25 house tratfer*’. Hyatt said all available Red Cross relief i nits were being rush ed to the town Mrs. Hattie B Adams. 43. formerly of Miami, was killed by the storm when her house was blown a< r<>«* the street and flattened. Her husband and four < hildren were seriously in-; jured. Th* vic-tow* hurricane saddled; ’he gold coast communities of J Miami and Miami Beach with a 15,999 MUI damage hilt chief fore earner Grady Norton of the weather bureau said in a preliminary ' t eport to his Washington offii e The twin resort i-ltles were heavily tittered with fallen palm trees, glass from smashed store fronts, downed power lines and other debris Tbe storm lashed Into the citrus tTwra T* Fas* F.MBhi Society Plans For Banquet Novembers Crippled Children Society Will Meet The first annual banquet tor tbe director*, officers and friends of tbe Adims county sociatv for crippled children will be held *1 tbe Bice hotel dining room Monday. N<>v C. at 6 p m Purpose of lhe banquet Is to summarise the past year's achievements ot the society, to learn what others are doing and to acquaint interested person* with the type of work being done Kenneth Patton, director of extension service* tor *jhe Indiana society, will be the principal speak er and will review Wbrk <»f lhe society In the state. Apprbxitnately tto persons are ex pected to attend the banquet Tick eta may be obtained from the following person*: Carl Gerber. Mis* Rose Ellen Miller, both ot Tiecatur. Mia* Dauna Foenight. Geneva. Miss EliMbeth Scott, route 4. Decatur; Mias Irene Braun, county welfare oftice. or Deane Dorwin at tbe Decatur high school Trice of the dinner is 21 25 and reservations must be made by Nov r 3. ■ '

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Flying Columns Os Allied Forces Roce Inta City Suburbs; Airport Captured Tokyo, Oct. 18. —(VPj— The vanguard of onrushing allied armies was rejxirted tonight to have smashed through a flurry of communist rosistanee and entered tbe north Korean city of Pyongyang The Pusan radio reported at p.m. IS a m CSTi that the south Korean first division crosaed tbe Taodong river, which flow* through Pyongyang, and entered the city. American and south Korean fly In* columns had raced into the suburbs from threw directions and had brought the rk-hest priae of the lightning sweep through north Korea within their grap* I Dispatches from t4je fast shifting gone of the climactic action in the Korean war said the fall of Pyongyang seemed imminent The com munist government leaders wenbelieved to have fled to Manchuria. The Pyongyang radio tell silent Vnited Nations force* captured , the Pyongyang airport, four mile* , east ot tbe cjty proper, according i to field reports broadcast from ! Pusan > ■ The Korean republican first division apparently surged westward . from the airport aad won tbe day* long race to be the first of the . three main, allied ooiunm* racing ' tor tile cgfrttal. to enter the city. The Korean Ist dlviaton attaeitod e at dawn from poeitton* eight nrilceast of Pyongyang and four miles from It* eastern airpor; it reported little opposition to tbe start 'at tbe push Into tbe capital. Tbe U. S. Ist cavalry division, dashing for Pyongyang from the Hwangju area some 29 miles to the . south, ran into a flurry of restat- , ance near Chunghwa, eight mile* below the capital on the trunk high way to Seoul. » V. S. Btb army headquarters in Korea‘reported some opposition to - the allied < olumns spearing in from the south, southeast and east A diepatch front headquat.'er* surid the Iwport indicated that last frag, ments of the mortally strickin communist army might have de' I elded to* make a stand before the j capital. - ' The south Korean Ist divtsiou 1 wa* ahead o) the race for Pyong | yang even at the time of an Bth army report i<Msqed Wednesday night. The statement said tae van guard of the division me l »table resistance including some task* ’even -"He* west of Taedong. 14 mile. f. ~i Pyongyang Hut report* band on Isler information placwd tbe republican* past those positions The Bih army also reported that troop* of tbe south Korean eighth division were meeting resistance in the westward drive from Yangdok. 6« mile, east of Pyongyang, along iTwro Tw A-ae — f Fort Wayne Mon Held For Paris Smuggling Part*. Oetf IB. e —(iXP)— An American and five other persons, including two womeff. were jailed here today on charge* of operating one of po«*war. Europe's largest gold smuggling rings The Ameri can was Identified by Parts jiollce as Max Rlhnme of Fort Waytre. Ind Police said they swooped down on Rlimmr and the others yesterday a* they were placing 2109.M# in Swiss and British currency IntoTKe fenders of a large American automobile to smuggle Into Italy Conservation Topic At Lions Club Meet Rudy Meyer, of the educational division of the state conservation departnirnt wa a- the principal speaker at the Tuesday meeting < f the Lions club Dick Pruden wa* in charge of *be program Meyer showed two movies during 1 the evening, concerned with cohxer ratio* work. High spot in Indiana." and "Blue Geese" It was aunnounced that next week'* meeting win be in tribute to the Vnited Natioa*