Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 257.

YANKS SWING INTO FULL SCALE ACTION

niigc mrong Views Annual Parade Here Streets Os Decatur Lined For Annual "wliUwCwil ruflly® With ideal weather contUtioA prevailing. estimate* ranging up> I wards to I»,W parsnus were made . of the number of people who turni ad oat for the Calllthempiaa parade. held Tuesday evening along Second street. It wa* agreed by officials and observer* that the crowd was ' probably the largest ever to at- ■ lend the annual Halloween event, co-xponaored by the Chamber of Commerce and the local Mouse | lodge. . People were lined up four deep moot at the parade route to watch the fantastic characters march up the street. Interspersed .among the ghosts and goblins and gaily | decorated vehicles were several high school and organisational | bands and drum and bugle corp*. The same situation was evidenced at the Lincoln school and DeV eater high school gyms where the PTA-*poo*ored fall festival was I underway. Crowds jam.med both I place* for the evening’s activities I Which featured saeh attractions as a cube walk, a *euar» dance. I and many prise awardlag booths The highlight., of the parade, of coarse, waa prlse-wiaatag CheMev Adams, at 7» Cleveland street, who appeared as the tallest man over seven feet. Costumed as Uncle Warn. Adams came to the Democrat office tor his prise; he . . simply steeped a Mule and was * itkMiddff < dOM* la the mareMaa aad meskr de partmeat, the Humartown high school hand won the top award for uniformed high school band; Wren, O„ high school band was second. Willshire. 0. high school third, and Convoy, O. fourth Appearance prises were awarded’to the Adams county. 4-H hand, the Decatur high school band and the drum and bugle corps of Boy Scout Rotary Troop 61 Ulis White, of the Decatur hitch j school bend, won first prise us the i beet drum nta)or leading a band; second place award was riven to Marlene Trlsel. of Willshire and third place to Roe Marie Scaer. leading the Convoy high school hand Other award winners were. Dwight McCurdy, of SIH Cleveland Street, for the best decorated boy’s ' hike; Becky Dickerson. MS North Fifth street, for the best decorated girl’s bike; .Mrs Pauline Halberatadl. of Pleasant Mills, as the best adult clown; Beverly Singer. 421 North Dierkes street, as best kid clown Judith Ann Koors was awarded a prise as the moat original girl; Shirley Osterman. 114 South Fifth i street, as the most original ImyZ I Mrs. Paaline Halberstadt as the most original adult. As best comic strip characters. | Tom Noll, of route *, was the best ■ girl; Darla Gehres. Wren. 0.. the best hoy; Marlene Ohler. route 5. best woman, aad Billy Tumbleson. of Wren, best man. I Michael Hakes, route 4. was the Iw-st tat man: Dailey Bixler. Linn Grove, best fat girl, and Patrick Teeple. 122 North First street, best fat boy; Elaine Cochran. 53b Studebaker. Barbara Borror. 91# Line street and Suette Johnson. 55« Studebaker. composed the best comic band. Connie Hakes, of route I, was the best ghost, and Junior Rothgeb. of Hoagland, the |>X( witch. ’ Erwin Gehres, of Wren, led the bast masked group of three or more 4there were 15 of them representing the Ma anti Pa Kettle tribel. and Tommy Mclntosh and Ronnie Kless wjrte the best mask * ad couple. \The beat decorated toy wagon or tricycle'a ward waa given to lievertv Meyers, of route 6: David Mitchell. Os SIC Short street, and Arlen Mitchell, of route 1. were guarded the prises for having the best trained pet and the l>e«t decorated pet-drawn toy vehicle. tTeew Te Pane I , . WKATHKR Parity cloudy, tuminfl much cooler late tonlpht and Thursday. Lew tonlpht 42 50 north, 60 M south. High Thursday 56-42 north. 04-70 south

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28 Persons Die In British Air Crosh Only Two Persons Survive Air Crash London. Nov. I - (UP)— A British airliner returning for a "cheap trip" to Paris crashed In the year’s worst fog at the London airport last night, killing 24 passenger* snd crewmen ■ The stewardess of the British European airways viking and one passenger survived with inurte*. The bodies of the others aboard--25 passengers, including one American. and three crewmen—were strewn as tar a* 54 feet from the burning wreckage. The American was identified a* Ernest Friedenhelm. of New York. A peasoup fog enveloped London a* the twoengtned plane earns bl ou h regular BEA low-rale tun which hauls passengers to Paris and back for Six The plane overshot the runway while making a radar' landing, hit a pile of steel pipes, exploded, and burned Only the tail fin wax left in ncogntgeuble shape The fog was so thick thai firemen and aliport workers who heard the crash were unable to-! see the flames, thus delaying thej rescue The intense heat, as they! i worked under searchlights, pre- j vented them from dragging the victims ftoni'the plane. The airline said the dead in-; eluded a South African. P Levy, | whose address was given as Chiea . g«. 111. and three British subjei-is wluijlved in New York. I Republicans Close I Campaign Saturday Smoker, tolly At Local Headquarters » The Adams county G. O P wttl close the 1950 campaign with a smoker and get-together meeting at Republican headquarters In Decatur Saturday night. Harry Essex, county and district chairman, announced. Two young Fort Wayne attorneys will, be the speakers. Robert Meyers, son of Superior Judge Edward Meyers. and Robert McDonald will ring down the Republican campaign. Essex has Iwvttvit all committeemen. vice-committeemen and other! Republican worker* to attend the meeting. The general public also is invited. G. O. P. headquarters is located on the first floor at 119 South Second street In the Kent Realty building. Candidates for county offices and all candidates for township trustee* will be Introduced at the meeting. „ River Explosion Takes Eight Lives Friars Point*, Mis*., Nov. I.— fUP) — Six men missing *fter an explosion wrecked four vessels In the Mississippi River < lven up for dead today. The bodle* of the other twq yl£t|nui .„**•*. 1 covered. " • A continuous search slndh Monday night failed to divulge any 'race of the missing six. It was tulloved some of them might have been btirled In tke 100-foot hull ot a dredge which sppk bi 30 feet of water.

BR as* D ■ aft ft By -T---MTS* dIISCiIB Dies Suddenly Tuesday Night Mrs. E. W. Busche Dies Tuesday Night After Heart Attack Mrs. Nettle Busche, 74, wife of E. W. Busche of Monroe, president at the Adam* County Home Economic Clubs since 1929. and widely known for her leadership tn that organise: lon. prominent in Methodiet church circles and honored by university aad magaalaes with the title of "Master Fann Homemaker,'' died unexpectedly st her home st HF3O o'clock but night. Her sudden death was attributed to a heart attack aad described by the nitendtag physician a* an acute acardlai failure. Apparently la her usual good health, she conferred with Miss Anna K. William*, home demonstration agent, during the afternoon about a meeting-of home es-oaomlc grxAp* scheduled to meet at the Busche home Thursday eveala* Early in the evening she complained of a pleurisy pain. Her breathing became difficult and a physician was called. Death came before she could be moved to the hospital A'resident of this county since IM*. following Mr. Busche'* purchase of * farm east of Monroe. Mrs. Bum he was an Inspiring force In the community, a leader in all home economic movement* and chati-h society activities. She assisted tn organising the Adams County Roadside Council and gkve of her enthusiasm for this and many mhsr community projects. In 1932. she wax designated by a national magasiue a* a "Maater Farm Homemaker" aad waa recognised by Purdue University for her leadership in rural life activities. Mr*. Busche was *_ member and past president of the Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Monroe Methodist church. She was a member of the Order ot Eastern ; Star of thi* city and the Better . Homemakers club. < ; As the lutetess. her home was j the scene of the annual meeting i ot the Adam* County Federation of ; Clubs. She was one of the adult leader* ill 4 H club work. I A daughter of Henry and Mary j Kendal Smilson. she was born ' Sept. 9. 1X74 in Tipton. Her marriage to E. W Busche was on March , 28, 1495. The couple observed their ■ fiftieth and fifty-fifth wedding ani niversaries with receptions at their I farm home. Besides her husband, she is snr vived by one daughter, Miss Louise j Busche. a teacher In the Elkhart public schools, and Martin Busche. assistant county agent supervisor at Purdue University. One brother. W. A Smitson of Kokomo and three grandchildren. Miss Rogene, Eugene and Roger Busche ot Weet I Lafayette, also survive. Funeral service* will be held at the Monroe Methodist church Friday at 2 p.m. The Rev. W. L. Hall, pastor, will officiate. The Rev. and Mrs. Elbert 8 Morford of Muncie, formerly of Monroe, will be in charge of the music. The itody will be moved from the -Swick funeral home io the Buarhe residence. wh4re friend* majfHall after 7 o'clock this evening. Burial will be In the Decatw cemetery. Navy Planslo Call $ I . . Up More Reserves Enlisted Reserves, Officers Face Coll Washington. Nov. 1 — (UP)— The navy announced plans today to, i call up Jl.imp enlisted reserve* and an undisclosed number 'of reserve officer* ddring the first half of 1951. - . • After that. It said. 5,(*00 enlisted reservist* will be put oh active duty each month <N the 31.04*4* enlisted men to be mobilised from January through June, about half will be petty officer* and half non-rated personnel Jp pay grade E-3 or In pay grades E-l and .R-t who k>ve had ut. least six months prior active duty! Officer* to be called will be chiefly general duty officers with ranks of lieutenant commander* and below They are needed for sea duty. Fvw. If any. aviators or iTm Tw Pag* Tww>

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■ : . , --- -— Campbell, Capeharf Fight War Os Own Domestic Issues In Campaign Secondary Indianapolis Nov. t — (UP)— Sen. Homer E. Capehart 'aad bia Democratic opponent. Alex M Campbell, fought a Korean war ot their own today In their Indiana election campaign. Domestic issue* were secondary aa Capehai t. 43. founder of a juke , box empire, and Campbell, 41. a lawyer and former assistant U. W. . attonwy MuaraL ewdtod the Mt . stretch M tltotr drtv* for votes. Capekart, a round-faced fresh. . man senator with a schoolboy grin, served notice early he intended to bummer at the sociality*! Issue But Campbell steered clear of such ’ issue* a* the Brannan farm plan and the Ewing national health insurance program So Capehart concentrated on other issue* He charged "administration bungling" got u* into the Korean war. Campbell replied that. the Republican* were *o isolationist and "wailed so loudly about this country's military weakness” the communists thought, the time was ripe to strike in Korea. Communism has been another big issue Campbell campaigned on . his record as assistant I” S. attorney general in charge of the crimi- . nal division at the time 11 communist leader* were prosecuted in the 1949 New York ease "Capehart asked voters whether they want "the party that let the communists in <***r government in ! the first place, or the party that forced it to drive them out " Campbell, a tall and husky florid faced attorney who descends directly from the founder of the Diwiple* ot Christ religious denoniinathln. has had an array of out- \ side talent plugging his campaign Among those who have made <Tqra Ta rage IWuM* Chinese Red Moves Os Deepest Concern Acneson expresses Nation's Interest Washington, Nov. 1— (VP) — Secretary ot state Dean Acheson said today the United State* is deeply concerned over Chinese communiat military moves In Korea and Tibet. At a newa conference.' Acheson said the report* of Chinese communist intreventlon In Korea Is i the subject ot concern to this I government and the United 'Nai tlons command Is Investigating re- ' ports of Individual Chinese who claim they are part of Chinese I communists unit* in North Korea On the reported. Chinese communist Invasion of Tibet, Acheson > said this government regards such i a move at uatortanal*. unhappy ■ and serious If communist aggresI slon occurs In Asia again. i While the United States is very . concerned about the Tibetan invasion. Acheson said this goverm * meat does not know as much i about the report as it would like > to know. Washington, Nov. I — (UP) — Ifw* va raa* tagao

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Two Mm Killed In Plane Crash Tuesday Ptalrffeld. Ind , Nov. 1. —(UP) — An‘ Investigation was launched today to lean the cause of a plane crash at Loy Field which killed two men. niot Robert! E, Smith, 33. India, napolls. and Itarrj A. Wiusett. 17, Plainfield, were killed yeeterday. Confesses Killing Pol*io*CriDDled Son KHIs Eight-Yeor Old Son Rochelle, 111., Nov I.—(UP)— A father admitted today that he killed hi* polio-crippled eight year old son because he believed the boy "would never be able to make rnnrh of himself." Police said Ray Henry, 50. shot, hi* son. Garrett, with a ,3* caliber rifle in the basement of their home ; yesterday afternoon. Then he tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide When the bullet missed his heart and lodged in his chest, he telephoned assistant pre; lice chief Jack Knicely, and told him to hurry tn the Henry home. "The boy w»» a cripple.” Henry mumbled to Knicely “He would never be able to make much ot him- j seif." State's attorney Wayne Bettner; placed formal charges of murder against Henry, who w»» reported recovering in a Rochelle hospital. Hettner said Henry had brooded over the condition of his son. whose '.eft leg was shriveled by an attack of polio in 1946 Yesterday. apparently, the thought of his son's future became more than he could bear. ♦ Henry quit work early at the railroad crossing tower where he was employed aa a watchman. He went to a hardware store, bought the rifle, took a taxicab to Garrett’s school and picked up the boy. They rode home in the cab. When they reached the bouse, the father gsve hl* son a book to read. As the boy sat in a chair in the ha*em*nt. hi* Interest centered on the book. Henry said he took deliberate aim at his son's heart and sqaeesed the trigger. The bullet struck the boy in the heart and killed him instantly. Henry carried hl* son’s body to a conch, then turned the gun on himself. Henry's wife. Viveene. who was working at her job In a Rochelle laundry when the shootings occurred. said she was unable to explain her husband’s action. -Why did he do it? Why did he do It?" she sobbed to police. She said her husband had discussed the boy's handicap with her on several occasions but did not seem particularly distraught. "Garrett got around fairly well," <Tw*e to raw* asst One Killed As Auto Hits Motor Scooter Kokomo. Ind.. Nov. 1.- (UP)— Jack Shealy. II waa killed last night and two other boy* were inJared whan their motor scooter was rammed by a rar driven by MM Mary Nuaenrd. Greentown The accident occurred on Ind. 22 about a mile east of here.

Take Over AsSouthKorea Forces Falter Before Red Resistance In North Korea

■ 1 ■ W ' imqn '■ "■ ■ ■ New Church Dogma Proclaimed By Pope Huge Throng Hears Pope Proclamation Vulcan City. Nov. I.—(UP)— Pope Pius XII proclaimed today a* Roman Catholic church dogma the 1.500-year-otd church belief that the body of the bleased virgin Mary ascended into heaven and there was reunited with her soul. a More than 790.(M» persons, including the greatest assemblage of Catholic pretales in the JJWOycsr history of the Roman church, gathered In St. Peter’s square to listen to the Pope's proclamation on All Saint's day. a holy day of obligation for Catholic*. Beginning at exactly 9:34 am. (t:3» am CBT*. when th* Pope; started reading the papa! hull establishing the assumption a* dogma. 438.400.b04* Catholic faithful w»r* required ,to adhere to the dogma—a truth revealed by God according to church teaching-un-der pain ot mortal »in The Pope read his proclamation from the steps of St. Peter* basl Ilea under a brilliant blue and cloudie** sky. Before him stretched a solid mas* ot Romans and foreigner* stretchiag out to the Titer, a half mile away—jamming St. Peter’s square and surrounding street* dad plaxaas. k The orange, blue and Mack colors > of the Swiss guard*, the colored -; plume* of the noble guard helmet* ■ and the French-atyle hat* of the ■ palatlne-juuu ds flashed here and ( there among the pure white outfits of the <ar<jtnal* and other churchmen who gathered near the pon tiff's throne. Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York was the only American cardinal present He; : flew to Rome earlier this week it was the first Catholic dogma of the 20th century and the first In i nearly a century to be proclaimed personally by a Pope The last dogma pronounced—- : that of the infallibility of the Pope I -was proclaimed by the Vatican i council In 1870 Reading of the proclamation was the most solemn act of Plu*' 12 years and eight months’ reign. And the Pope's voice was firm and confident as he read it. After a three minute preamble, he read: “We pronounce and decree that Mary Is assumed ..." The crowd, devoutly quiet during thy reading, suddenly poured forth a thunderous burst of "vivas" and ’•hall Marys.” Abandos Hope For Skew’s Recovery Fomout Playwright , Reported Near Death Ayot St. Lawrence, England. Nov. I.—(UP)—A rector read a commendatory prayer today over George Bernard Shaw —the cloaest approach to last rites in the Anglican church ritual. Shaw. 94. greateat current playwright. hovered unconscious on the brink ot death. Friends had abandoned hope tor his life They said the end might come at any moment. The Rev. R J. Davie*, rector of thia tiny parish of 9b persons, spent half an hour in the bedroom of Shaw's red brick house where he had lain in a coma since i a m. , Hi* faithful housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Ludden, summoned the rector after reporting that Shaw's death seemed imminent, and nothing more could be done for him. Dr Thoma* Probyn, the local practitioner who overcame Shaw's lifetime dislike ot physicians, said , tiler* was bo improvement In bis patient's critical condition Sir* Itadden said Shaw was breathing with great difficulty and no attempt wa* being mad* to feed him.

Bulletin: Two Men Shot After Attempt Io Kill Tramm Washington, Nov. 1— (UP) — Two gonmen apparently attoMgting te 1 aasaarinate PreoMcnt Tro- 1 num were shot down today ia a wild battle on the aidewalk on front of the Pratident'a Btair House real- i dence. Throe WMte- House ' guards wwc woundkNl in I the gun battle. Preaident , Truman was inside the honor at the time. The gwdo said the two men whom they shot, and a third who escaped in the ■dee, tried te break their way through the front gate of Blair Homie. . One of the two aaaailants ' was dropped with gunfire 1 through his eheat aa he the steps te onm? stem Stiteim JteUBDA mSteomp I with several shots through j his torso and head, fell inside the bushes at the oth- • er Blair House entrance. Both men, it was reported, approached the two Blair House entrances : ■hooting with drawn guns. The White House policemen returned their fire and ; 1 successfully blocked the entrance. i One guard estimated that more than two dozen shots in all were fired. I I Blair House is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and a half 1 a block west. UN's Assembly • Votes Lie To Continue Office • . ■ ■ ■'i Overwhelming Vote Cast By Assembly For UN Secretory Flushing. N. Y .-Nov 1-(UPt— Th* United Nation* general assembly voted overwhelmingly today to continue Trygve Lie's term as secretary-general for three more yttar*. a* demanded by th* United States. The vole waa 44 to 5 with 7 abstention*. Thus the assembly resolved * deadlock between the U. 8. and Russia In which Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik vetoed th* security council's recommendation of Lie for a new term of five years and American delegate Warren R. Austin threatened to cast the first American veto to block any candidate but the 54-year-old Norwegian. Ue was not present durlag th* voting. He had absented himself during th* day-ond-a-half debate on the question of continuing him In office. He was expected to return to th* high dlas of the general assembly this afternoon and announce hl* acceptance of the extended term. The assembly's vote. In which th* five negative votes wer*'cast by Roasia and her. fomisform | partner*, meant that Lie's, ortg-j Inal term, scheduled to -expire next Feb •. will continue until Feb 3. IM4. 1

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Sudden Communist Attack Rolls Back South Korean Army; Flank Is Thraotenad Tokyo. Thursday. Nor 3.—4UP> - Battle wise American dtvtsioua took over from faltering south Korean troops tn three key sectors of Korea today aa communist resistance agroand and ia the air boiled up menacingly The U. 8 Ist marine division, the Ist cavalry and the 7th infantry division charged into full scale action against communist fore« which hod driven abend tn scattered parts of north Korea. . Gen Dvugla* Mm Arthur commit ted the American forces in Korea to the final push toward th* Man . hurian and Russian border* after the south Korean*, who had »et the pace in most sector* since the fall of Pyongyang. Mt ground to communiat counter-blow*. Only In the northwestern corner of Koran were the allies carrying on the lightning *we«p which had promised eartier to carry quickly to the frontier There an armored column of the U. 8 24th division speared within artillery range I the border near the communist emergency, capital of Sinuiju A sudden communist attack southeast of Sinuiju rolled back the south Kareen Sth division around l iman, and threatened the flank of the U. B forces stretched tnmiy up Ae mwnbwaM «**L m The C 8. tut eevMry dMsfcm I went to the aM of the hard-pressed eomh Korean- in rhe Unsan area The Yaak* encoueteved Miff re * siatance immediately after rellev Inga republican regiment in the legion >t I'nsan at 4:3<> pm. Wednesday Across Korea on th* east coast, the U 8 7th division, veterans nf the fighting for Seoul, replaced troops of the south Korean caprtol division tn the Pungsan area 7« miles northeast ot Hamhung The south Koreans had tnet four miles to. the rommwlsls in that sex-tor south of the Chostn reservoir earlier this week In the Hamhung area, long eoiumns of Ist marine truck* moved the leathernecks north for the final drive to the border Two days ago the south Korean* were fighting on that front against fanati< al red ban sa i charge* which sent them back more than six miles to within an hour's jeep ride of Hambung Eleven enemy planes were destroyed and seven damaged on the ground and ia the air along the Manchurian border Wednesday dispatehea from U. 8 Mb air force headquarter* reported It wa* the most active day the airmen have . had against the communist air forces *in<-e July. The communist fliers esme out briefly juat east ot Sinuiju. and lorn three Yak-type fighter* to a 824 light bomber and a flight of F-51 Mustangs Th* Tth division called tn ma ria* Corsairs to help beat off a communist counterattack near Pungsan Th* marine airmen estimated they destroyed more than sf» communist troopsIo the southwest, the marines were seeking contact with a reported 3.500 communist* near Tok hung A dispatch from Hamhune said tension eased there a* U 8 and aimth Korean troop* pulled In to d*fen«lve positions befote the city itself Den Opens Thursday Night For Season The Den. Decstar's youth center will open for the talk and ter *ea*on Thursday evening Sy! venter Everhart snpervleor announced today. - The renter, which 1* sponsored by the Decatur Community Fund, sill be open five night* meekly. Hour* on Monday Tuesday and iThuradsy night* will be from 7 to 1 10 oelorh. anA J>u Friday and Sal ‘ It rda* nights ffom Me II o'clock Saturday afternoons the Den will h* open te junior hl«h school •students from 3 to I o'clock