Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1950 — Page 1

Vol, XLVIII. N«. 248.

ALLIES WITHIN 85 MILES OF MANCHURIA

U.S. Leaders / Mourn Death Os Henry Slini<nn Im FikiAalt Os Four Presidents, Two Other Officers Cold spring Harbor. N. Y, Oct 21 tl'Pj—Th* nation'* leader* today mourned th* dauth of k3y»«r old Henry L. Stimawn. the only man to aerre In th* cabinets of four presidents and In office* to which be waa appointed by two other presidents. The elder atateaman died at 4 p. m. yesterday at bis Lona Island eatate following a heart attack white taklnff an automobile ride. Ha broke Ma late In July and line* had been chnfltod largely to a wheel chair. Vtee Proatoent Alban W. Barkley. secretory of stale Dean Acheson and defease secretary George C. Marshall beaded the list of prominent government lander* who joined in mournin* Stimson'* death as "th* loo* of one of our truly great citteena." The moat historic role which Stimson played In 33 year* of public life was when as secretary of war during World War II he recommended to President Truman that the atomic bomb be dropped on Japan. •.•Umsoa sald M*... recommend* tlmi to use the atom bomb was made ‘to end the war la victory |HM {MMNIHrt* OOBt In the I nene «t onr wteh a the arortto which I had helped -I* rale*.*'. <*e said "no ssaa" In hi* position "<MM have IhUed to nee” th* bomb and afterward look “hl* countrymen in the face." Stimson was on the verge of retirement from law practice in June. 1340. when the late Pre*! dent Franklin D. Rooaerelt asked him to be secretary of war. He had been a life-long Republican hat hi* philosophy of “duty abore party line" led him to accept the post In tlw new deal cabinet A* secretary of war. Stimson was able to put into action his plans for preparedness that had been frustrated by public inertia during his term* secretary of War under President William Howard Taft and secretary of state under President Herbert Hoover. He woaked 12 hours a day to build the JrtO.OOtpman army into a victory force of 10.000,000 men Stimson was Itorn in New York . and educated at Yale. He entered law practice In a firm beaded hy Klihu Root, who recommended him to President Theodore Roosevelt for appointment as I' S. district attorney In New York. He gave up a 325.000-a-year practice to take the job. ' in I*o* Stimson rangfor governor of New York but was defeated. He served as secretary of war from I*ll to I*l3 and saw action in France for nine months during World War I as colonel of an ar- ■ tillery division President Calvin Coolidge appointed Stimson a* arbitrator In a dispute between Chile and Peru and a civil war In Nicaragua Hi* work a* a peacemaker was so effective that Coolidge named him governor general of the Philippines In I**7. a po*t which he held until he Joined the Hoover cabinet In I*2*. Little Damge Done By Fire Lost Night City firemen were called to the Hill Carter, trailer at the Strickler Trailer camp, on Mercer pvenue, when the oil stove got out of.control Firemen reported that there was little damage done, other than smoke damage to th* Interior of the trailer. City firemen also asked that persons calling the station for In-formation-apd not to report a fire to dial 3-3134 or 3-3133. other piiune* at the firehouse. They stat* that the 3-3133 number is for alarms only, and added that they "would appreciate any future cooperation In thia." WEATHER Partly cteydy tonlpM and •unday. Caviar Bunday. L*w toolftt IMO narMi. 48-M south. High Bunday »5-M n*rth, 36-70 south.

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Declare Tires To Damais PkntHul KCrIMBI » ICTIIIIiII Mram Other Controls Moy Be Needed Soon Washington. Oct., 21- H’Pl — Government and Industry offklala said today that tire* sad whisky should remain plentiful despite new curb* on their civilian consumption. In a move to channel more rubber into the defense program, the national production authority yesterday limited rubber for civilian goods to about to.tHM tons a month during November and December. Simultaneously, liquor dirtiller* agreed voluntarily to divert 15 to 20 pen-ent of their alcohol production to defense needs. Government and Industry source* Immediately predicted that neither move would pinch consumer* daring the remainder of the year. Hut after that, they ■aid. stiffer control* may change the picture. tn a apaech before the Mt. Holyoke alumnae association last night, presidential assistant Jahn R. Steelman warned that “other controls" may. he needed soog. He did not specify what these control* would be. Karl W. Glenn, director of NPA'* rubber division, said the latest restrictions should not cause * tire shortage and that tires will he only slightly lower in qaulity than before. Even though new tires probably will contain more synthetic rubber, he said. they ■ill) will be far better than thoaC tarred out during World War 11. As for Whisky, the distilled totrUsiamfiai* said AmerVanx would not go thirsty Spokesmen said 4,000.000 to Tdto.kd* gallon* of alcohol would lie diverted to the government In November and Decemlier and perhaps more next year. But they ■aid the Industry still could ml demand tor 140.000.000 to 132.000.000 wine gallons nf distilled spirits. The NPA rubber order was the second government attempt to reduce civilian consumption to the pre-Korean war level. The tipit <Tsrw Ts rear sis) Hurricane Threat To Florida Is Erased Tampa Fla. (let 21—H P) A storm with Its hurricane punch gone hit the Florid* west coast near Cedar Keys today with winds as high as to mile* an hour Just a few hour* earlier, coastal resilient* had prepared for a shrieking 00-mile* an hour Mast The weather bureau said In a 7:30 a. nt CRT advisory that the latest disturbance of the waning tropical storm season was blowing Itself out north of Cross City and I that no fur.lter dangerous' wind* are Indicated Six Persons Hurt In Auto Accident Two Autos Collide Near Convoy, Ohio Six perstm* were Injured in a I two-car collision which occurred Friday night la Van Wert county. | near Convoy. 0.. three of the per sons from Decatur Mr and Mrs. Orville Foor, of <ll Marshall street, and their son. John, were all victims of the collision a* were Mrs Kiggin*. of Convoy, a passenger in the Foor car. ahd Mr. and Mr*. Michael Klinger, of Dixon. O. Mrs. Higgins. <7, guttered a fractured right hip and shoulder and underwent considerable shock; .Mrs. Foor received a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee a* well a* facial and body laceration*. FooP* suffered a fractured left grm and collarbone, facial laceration* and body bruise*. John received minor body bruise*, was given emergency treatment and retensed. All four of rhe victims were rushed to the Adam* county memorial hoepital from the scene of the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Klinger were token to the Van Wert county hospital. Klinger suffering laceration* and brute** of the face and body. Mr* Klinger a broken kneecap, body bruises cheat injuries and shock ... Both ears were demolished as the result at th* aecldMt.

Prisoners Marched South, South Forges North I - a* jr NORTH KOREAN PRISONER* marched south through Kaesong, on th»%aat coast of North Korea, pas* a South Korean truck displaying a captured N. K. nag. Standing at rig*, next to flag. I* Pvt. Roy Thoma*. Huntington, W. Va.. Mb army artillery ooarrvar. uegurtmant photo.

French Troops Ouit lost Frontier Post Border Region Held By Red Guerrillas Hanoi, Indo-CMna. Oct. 21.— (UP)—French troop* withdrew today from their lasi fortress on th* Chine** eommuniri frontier. «wrtendrrlug the entire border region to red guerrilla* and falling back to a line dangerously near Hanoi. French mtlitery bendquarter* W nounced th* withdrawal from th* fortree* of LaMSge, M nsHau navsh nf Hanoi, in a cemmunMn* whleh ■toted French troop* “plan no further retreats." Th* withdrawal to the new defense line on the Red river delta represented a general retreat of upwards of SO mile* in some places 1 It' meant that the communist i guerrillas, trained and armed lu neighboring China, would he able ' to triose within 20 miles of Hanoi, capital of tonkin province with out major opposition The communique said the French troop* began falling back from l.a ng sou three day* ago. just one month to the day since the communist guerrilla* began their big offensive with the capture of the; outpost of Iktngkbe The withdrawal 1* progressing in I "good order and with only small wale fighting.'' the communique' said It said the withdrawn troop* I would be regrouped into new strik ! inc units. The forces will begin a new of-! tensive as soon as this reorganisation is completed.'' the communique' -aid I unguarded by the abandonment of Langson were nearly 260 ■ miles of frontier facing communist : China, which has been arming and supplying the rebels Vietminh army of Mos-.-ow-lrained Ho Chi Minh There have been ' unconfirmed . rumors that China also ha* been' sending troops Into Indo-Chlna to! join the rebel*. iTrain Hits Truck, At Least Two lead Freight Train Hits Loaded Gas Truck San Manos. Tex.-. Oct 21— (VP) —At least two men were killed today when a Mhsouri-Kansas-Texas freight train collided at a grade crossing with a loaded gasoline tank truck and burst Into flame*. Mr*. W. A. Pennington, manager of a San Marcos funeral home, said “one of our ambulances jnst brought In two bodies .and another of our car* is Mill out. There may be one more dead." The dead were apparently mem-[ her* of the train crew. Spn Marco* hospital said T. D. Koch of Kennedy, driver of th* Phoenix Oil Refining Co., truck, wa* admitted tor treatment of burn*. "His condition," a spokesman said. "I* critical." Capt. E. K. Browning of tb* Texas stole highway patrol aald the engine and 10 ear* of tb* Bmltbvtlloßan Marco* Branch Hn* freight were derailed. Browning said flame* enveloped iTw*w T* Paam *•«>

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Wolter Hildebrand And Wife Injured Mr and Mr*. Walter HlMebraad. of near Magley. Friday w*r* vSctim* of a headoa colUston which occurred north of Angola, on U. S. highway 27. The Hildebrand car and one driven by Jam** H. Meyer*, of Detroit, who wa* also Injured In th* accident. collided on Ute berm oft the highway when Hildebrand headed for the ditch when he «aw he eould not compter* passing a truck. Meycis also headed for the dHch Ml an attempt to avoid Mtriog th* Hildebrand ear. Hildebrand suL g***d e frimtoieA treeweew, ewd hbg wife received a broken jaw a*d chest injuries. Meyers suffered a compound fracture of th* no** and chest Injuries Seek To Link Racket To Crime Syndicate Football Handicap Racket Is Probed Chicago, Oct 21—tVPl - Under cover police sought evidence today ; linking the foothall parlay racket i to the national crime syndicate I Capt. William Balswlck. head of' -the undercover "Scotland' detail jot Chicago police, said the weekly[ .football card system is an Inter-] ‘ national operation Involving mit [ I lions of dollar* annually Raids here and al Dalia* this week are believed to have given I authorities a head start In exposing the racket and seeking connections with the crime syndicate under in ] veetlgatlon hy Sen Erie* Kefauv- ] I er's committee At Dallas, postal Inspector H. D Holmes and t’. # attorney Frank S I Potter announced that a federal grand iury wa* teady to launch an ' Inquiry Into football betting i Four men were seised there In a hotel room where they were preparing cards for mailing through out the V. 8., its territories and several other countries Dallas poj lice believed they had broken up ; the ‘ International headquarter*" of i the football handicapping service. Ralswiek's men clamped down on a clearing house for the card* here Thursday, arresting two men and seising voluminous feeord* similar to those impounded *1 Dallas' Halawtck said the evidence here and at Dallas showed a clear pic ture of a big scale operation which may have Its root* in organised gangsterism One central handicapper rates the weekly games, possibly at Dallas, he said, with local handicappers passing on the ratting*. Ralswiek said the Chicago handicapper was known and was being kept under surveillance I passing on the rating*, ualswick I said, deals in 300.000 card* a week. 1 The cards **ll (o professional gambler* at rates of 37 to 314 a thousand. On the basis of the handicaps, the gamblers take bets for any whet* from 2f> cent* to 310 anyone who want* to take a fling Balawlck said It »*«m*d almoat curtain that th* national crime ayndicatc. with its penchant for cutting itself in an "anything good." would b* getting son* sort of a rake-off from th* football gambling.

City Election At Berne Ou Tuesduy I 7 First City Election In Berne's History Berne resident* will hold their • first city election next Tuesday, 1 selecting a mayor, clerk-treasurer k and five city cowncllmen 1 A total of 1.434 Berne.ycit lien* - are eligible to vote, the jargest ‘ number In Berne * history properly * regt*t*red -to- vote P»U* wUt b* _ open from • a.m to 4 p.m.. with - ABstak -AMAmMLi l| filling atatlon. Herne town hall and i i*e Bern* auditorium. I Resident* voted *ev*r*l months ago to chang* Berne from th* statu* of agosni to that of aaflfthi class city Both the Democrats and Republl can* have complete slates of candidates. The Democratic candidates are: Andrew Sprunger. president of the town board, for mayor: Grover Moser, clerk-treasurer; Tilman Kircbhoter. Leslie Sprunger. Wayne Reusser. Sylvan Habegger and Forest Balsiger, eouncllmen Republicans nominees are: J. Menn.) I Lehman, business man ager of the Herne Witness, for j J mayor; Glen Neuenschwander. I - elerk-treasurer; <lifton Amstut*. . > Freeman Burkhalter. Lester E .] Lehman. Maurice Smith and Wil- : but It Nussbaum, councilmen Thousands In Final Tribute To Kelly . Rites Tuesday For Ex-Chicago Mayor J Chicago. Oct. 21—(UP>—thousands of persons, from news l>oys to powerful ward bosses, waited ' today to file past the bier of former Mayor Edward J. Kelly. A high requiem mass will lie celebrated Tuesday at Holy Name | Cathedral for the Democratic po- , litical leader who died of a heart attack yesterday at the age of 74. Interment will be in Calvary ' cemetery. I Throng* of the city's residents . were expected to visit the funeral parlor* where hl* body lay In , state on the busy near north side. The city hall where Kelly reign- ( ed supreme as the city’s chief [ executive for 14 year* will be closed on Tuesday along with all city and county court*. Virtually the entire city went ' into mourning for the man who ' rose from the "hack of the yards" 1 district by his bootstrap* to be- ’ eome one of the most powerful Democratic leader* of this generation. 1 The city halt flag flew at Italf mast. Democratic headquarter* 1 In a downtown hotel were draped 1 in pjirple and black. Sadness wa* expressed hy ■ Democratic county chairman Js- ' cob M. Arvey. whom Kelly lifted ' from an obscure atate aenatorsbip to succeed him a* head of th* 1 party's metropolitan organisation. 1 Mayor Manin KenneUy. who r ancteeted Kelly as a Democratic f 'refoe**" candidate tn t»4( said ‘ hla death ww* "sad new*" to the 1 "city of Ma birth which be loved (Twe* to ri*» Mat

United Nations Columns Swarming Through North Korea In Reds' Mop-up

U.S. Force Seeking To Rescue 150 Yonks Believed Held As Prisoners In Tunnel Pyongyang, North Korea. Oct 21 -<UP>—A tank-led U. 8. task force raced north from Pyongyang today In an attempt to rescue ISO American war prisoner* believed held by the communist in a railroad tuunel 40 miles north of here. The prisoners may be from a group of 250 I Yr Americans I whom the north Korean* marched out of Pyongyang toward the Manchurten border last Saturday. At telst 20 AidFHcan war prison ere who escaped from the communist* said the 25»odd prisoners were all who were left out of 373 who be- . gan a "death march" from Seoul. Eighty-one others died on the way to Pyongyang from beating*, shooting*. malnutrition, dysentery and exposure, they said. One of the prisoners said a north Korean colonel had told him that Ma. Gen. William F. Dean, missing commander of the V. 8. 24th division. died in communist captivity 1 while being marched from Taejon to Seoul. The prisoner. 2nd Lt. Douglas W. ' Blalock. 27. of Savannak, Oa.. and IWItH Ala., said he had met an ’ American lieutenant in a prison 1 Tamp wbw veto Mm that b* Dean 1 and several other American* had t 'BMORkMB tn Yfc® ittottwtMtoa imnw |T jon for 16 day* after that city Ml last July ' The lieutenant said the party ' separated, however, and he never saw Dean again, Blalock reported I Later, a north Korean colonel told Blalock that Dean had been captured and had died shortly before reaching Seoul. He said the colonel refused to give any details. Dean last wa* seen In Taejon with a haaooka team. He bad just boasted to a command post that he had "got himself a tank." Blalock was one ot five Ameri- . >Twrw -re ra«e mat Asks Bell Ringing Here Hext Tuesday Mark Unveiling Os Freedom Bell Mayor John Doan today issued a proclamation asking that next Tuesday all bells, available by school* and churches be rung in commemoration of the unveiling of the Freedom Belt in Berlin The mayor added that because of the limited number of bells to be found In Decatur, an apparent sign of progress, the fire alarm will be sounded for the occasion The whistle, and all bells, are to' begin pealing at exactly 11:03 Tuesday morning, the time when the Freedom Bell Will be rung in Berlin. The bell-ringing will climax the Crusade for Freedom tn which mil lion* of American* have inscribed their name* on scrolls and offered donations for the opening of Jthe radio station Free Europe. i The mayor’s proclamation de Clare* that whereas : "thousand* of freedom scrolls, which have been ' signed by million* of American citlsen*. shall on this day (Oct. 24) be enshrined with the Freedom Belt, and . whereas the national cltisens committee for the United i Nations Day have designated this same time ... I do hereby ask that at exactly 11:03 a.m. all city departments. school*, churches, plant*, organisations snd individuals ring whatever’bell* are at theft disposal i The Rev. O. C. Bu*»e. pastor of I the St -Paul Lutheran church, at Preble. Is the Adam* county chair- ’ man ot the Crusade Under hi* guidance, scroll* have been placed over all the county In appropriate . office* and business house* where local peeple are adding their name* to th* list Th* ball ringing la to bt »ym bolie of th* peal* from froedor. tod It la hoped that people behind i the Iron curtain a* wall a* those In freedom-loving a*tion» will oln riTwew T» toto* Mat

Foresee Next Cold War Move In Germany Commform Porley In Prague Believed Plotting Cold War London. Oct. 21— (UP! —The Comtnform conference cagpened' In Prague by Soviet Deputy Premier V. M Molotov wa* baUavad today to Ise preparing * major cold war otenslve in Germany to offset the loss of Korea. Molotov, second only to Premier Josef Stolin in Russia, and the foreign minister* of the Soviet Union's seven eastern European satellite* began their conference reaterday. An official announcement issued simultaneously In Moscow tad Prague said the meeting was convened on Russia's Initiative to di«cut* "Uie queatipn whlch ha* arisen in con section with the New York cowference of the three (western)' power* on Sept. 13 on th* remilitarisation ot Germany" *M Franc* agreed in New Tort la»t month to hereto* WwtOwwuz ) police forces by 30,000 men and to stndy the question of Incorporating German units In the proposed over-all western defense force. Hut they emphasised that they had no plan to re-create a German army. Russia nevertheless charged yesterday that the West German pplice force was in fact a military unit and accused the western big three of reviving the German army. Russia apparently called the Prague conference in an attempt to scare western European powers into opposing rearmament of western Germany and to throw a smokescreen over Soviet rearmament of eastern. Germany Molotov also wa* expected to lever to persuade his eastern ] use the New York conference as a I European satellite* to accept eastern Germany as a full-fledged, ful-ly-armed member ot the Cominform family The Soviets obviously decided to focus attention again on' Europe to offset ’he disastrous effects on communist prestige of North Koreas fall to United Nations forces The timing of the Prague conference to open only a few hciur* after tttysls protested the alleged rearmament ot western Germany clearly implied 1 that the Soviet* plan strong counter-measures I •

One Trainman Dies In Freak Accident ■ Wet Leaves Blamed For Chicago Wreck Chicago. Oct. llv —(UP) — A crewman was killed today when wet leaves on the Soo line railroad tracks caused a freak wreck involvint three freight trains. The only casualty was brakeman Max Nettleton of Schiller Park. 111., who died In his caboose which was thrown 20 ’feet into a street n suburban River Forest. Soo line officials blamed the wreck on fallen leaves which had been soaked by dew and ton as they lay bn the tracks. All of the trains Involved were traveling south out of Chicago. The wet leaves had prevented the first train from gaining traction as It founded a curve and headed up a grade on an overpass spann inx tracks of the Chicago and North Western railroad The train crew called their Schiller Park headquarters ant a sec ond train was sent to boost the first over the grade The two trains had fust been coupled together In an attempt to make the grade when the third trws «e l*age Mat

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Porotroopers And U.S. Ist Cavolry Close Trap On Reds Fleeing Pyongyang ■ Tokyo, Oct 21 —(UP)— Urtteff Nations Lying columns swarmed through north Korea at will today in a jigtime mop-up t|»t reached within (.*> mile* ot the Manchurian border on two front*. Americas paratroopers and the U. 8. l»t cavalry snapped the trap .‘>P.. )il*.. *7.000 communist troop* who fled Pyongyang A* official *l>okasman *tod almost all of them •a* t>e<-n krlßed. captured or trajr Pad The dismounted cavalrymen and the 4.000 paratrooper* linked up 30, mile* nori heaet of Pyongyang snd 85 mile* from danchuria. capping with victory the move to smash the last hard core of north Korean •etosery. A report reached Pyongyang that another 1.300 V. 8. paratroopers jumped into th* Sukchon area near Pyongyang Saturday morning Tke Pyongyang dispatch quoted an officer a* saying . they met only spasm* of Ineffective restetanre The officer said it was Uttle more, than a practice jump To the northeast, the taet moving south Korean vanguard raced Wtik in U. mito* «t Manchuria »e»U> east M Hamhan*, a l«th corpa_ BpOIFSRIan rapOnw si • SB" qT'VUWRIwwWUwWR* ' a wfto* ’ww k> rapidly the aouth Korean* had ■•ported ao cow tort wtth the ewm In th* last two days. Aero** the narrow waist of north Korea, troops of the 27th British commonwealth brigade mov rd along the Chongchon river some 40 miles north of Pyongyang The brigade Is attached to the U. 8 24th division, which ir sweeping »p on the west coast. The communist radio st Sinuiju. in extreme northeastern Korea Just across the Yuiu river frontier from Antung Manchuria, reported that the north Korean government had established its new capital there. . Premier Kim 11 Sung and III* ministers fled Pyongyang when communist Tesistanr* fell apart and it become evident that the allies were going to march through north Korea as they pleased United Press correspondent Roh ert Bennyhotf reported from Pyong yang that 1.800 more U. S. paratrooper* hit the silk Saturday over the are* of Sukchon. where part of the original 4.000 jumped Friday A paratrooper who jumped at Sunvhon Friday. Sgt Pete Tihsnski of 1805 Jackson St.. Paducah. Ky.. told of minor counter-attacks during th* night He said he knew of one American and 17 enemy troops being killed He said the U 8 force* captured 300 or 4(0 prisoner* tn jbe Sunchon area

also was hurt when a parachute carrying equipment fouled him. An army spokesman estimated that S.&OO prisoners had been taken in the lath corps area north of Wonsan, including more than too Friday • — Jerry O'Dowd Will X ■ Spook Here Wednesday Jerry O'Dowd promtnent young Fort Wayne attorney and veteran • of World War 11, will be the prin- ■ clpel speaker at a ooealy wtHe ■ Democratic meeting next Wednes i day night at x o'clock at the Democrat headquarters tn the_K of P. ! home here. I A special invitation la extended f to veterans of all wars Dr Harry Hobble. Democratic county ehatr- ' man. announced today. Ail cpmmit. teemen and vice - commtHpemen • have been asked to bring at leayt 1 one automobile load of persons. tn 1 ‘he meeting. O Dowd has been act- ’ ire for several years In Alloa c«un--1 ty and fourth district politic* ami the public is invlted to attend and hear him diecnee the issues of the campaign Following the speaking rsTrethmeats will ba served Noon Edition I ■ ! ’ ' '' ■ \