Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 269.

U. S. NARINES REACH POWER RESERVOIR

jfqNlCluUn » Captured Today In Minneapolis prater Klan Hood 1.»5 IS jßio TWSWM • WWwy ■ ■ w»U W ▼ dwwWhWw Mb» unite, Not. IS. —(UP)— D. C. Btephenaon. Mian* Ku Klux Kian leader wb* «k* boasted T at t*e tew ta Indians," was captured to suburtuui netMaadato today sad jallsd for panda violation AtMbhMiMMi vrito m Klan iMula? WWV rows rMwn swawsswe was one of the moat poswrful political loaders la Indiana history, baa beta wealed for parole viola * Freed la Man* by ladiaaa gov •roor Hoary Scbrfcker after serv lag M yoara of a reorder aawtanee. bo peeked bte toteegtag* aad disappeared oa Aag. M from aoetheea Illinois wfmre be read beoa worklac. Parole aatbortitea Imre beea looking IbSor ftNftfft It waa bte notoriety that ted to bte rapture today A Ouaday aowstmper erttete PteMtebod la the Yteta Cities Me picture. Harold Jcbaeoa. pleat auperintie feet at a weekly newspaper wboro dumbeaeoa wae wwrktag. IdoatNted tbe pfctare, called potice. aad • dstectiv* arroetad the fomer ktaa leader today. dtdpbeoMe surrendered quietly retere rotted fatal into th* plant <-Mro aad apo* qroMfoetag ho ad nutted be was the asaa parole atfteiate.W* netted He was taken ' -?*' MW* jy ,UI be held for , aaro cf-OM Mlaaaacaltt Peet aad HeMtopll County F**L rote Stapheaaaa had beoa worMM *• a print<r elate Ho*. 7 ea the newspaper ft was there that Jokssoe roeeprosod him from a picture published te the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. Ho was workinc odor the name ■Frank Wright He bad no soe tel security eord. Ho had explained tack of the sard by uytag ho bad lust sold out hta own plant whore he bad been workinc tor himself •1 knew it wee earning," Steph ensue told deputy Bacons Arnold. After I saw that story ta the paper. I knew I was as good as caught. 1 was tired of running from the law anyway, and I'm clad you pot me." Arnold quoted Stephenson as saying "the whole thine is political, fron the start, it was nothing but a frame-up " “After I saw the newspaper story.” Stephenson said. "I thought about going to New York to give the whole story to the papers there. Bat I knew It was Just a matter of time before they caught me here.” Stephenson, who had nothing to I say about why he jumped parole. (Tara To Fawe. Stal 1 IU LL ITIN A bl/of BM.OOO for the Kraft building on B. Winchester street wee made by Richard Brown at Now'York City, as agent for a corporation, at the public auction foe the sale of bOsss feaalMldhM AteO aofafa at wumv v I o'clock this afternoon. Under terms of the eate j which were read by William I 'reft JAo V IVY yrt WS-wW-rt W* eoph R. Bay auction firm. New Verb, the Kraft company has MM do aero sire *kem • bld. * retail OAhMb IbM £ aaa IM AAt ■f*WH V*ew Wwaw • •** revsel the name of the prospro st..-, te««> Mh«t ftbdh MYw pVwWWYp Rwt were* row weald Wire thio newspaper If the deal wae eteeod Friday Bernard R. Day of the nationally known auction firm conducted the ecto. A lorge Italy Unions Order Workers To Return Route. Nor. 1». —(VP> - Italy's •'Mg Three” ualoa ordered their t.teO.OOO workers baek-to their jobs today after staggered walkouts which Interfered with transport tor two days aad tied up Industry for four hoars. The last of s series of nation wide strikes ended at midnight Th* naloa-ono communist and two antbeommantet-bad joined forces to preee for general , pay boost In Ila* with rtotag Urine roote-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Michigan Winner

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A rote recount la forseon la MicbigM. where dor. C. Meanea Williams. Democrat, has l>e*n declared wlnaer In the gubernatorial race by a Barrow margin. — ■ mJ as.—

Treasury Head UnjesTaxOn ExcessProfifs Soctatavy Snydnv , in Statement To House Committee Washington. NO*. H — lUF) — Treasury secretary John W hwydar urged rohgress today to ter/ a » percent escero profits tag oa corporation profits to increase federal rereaue by about »«.«••./•*,- •M a year. ' - Ttec'TTßPfWht rate - w*a»t--bo Store liberal than tbe MU percent rate in e«oct during World War ii. - Snyder spelled out the administration’s excess profits tax program In a statement road to tbe tax-writiac house wsys snd means committee. The -commlttoo. In accordance with a prorision written into law when Individual and corporation Income taxes were boosted last September, met for the first time •oday since the ’ congressional recess to try to agree on an excess profits ftut President Truman said yesterday in a letter to chairman Robert L. Doughton. D„ N C.. of the ways and means committee that the excess profits tax should be retroactive to July 1. In approving the Individual and corporation Income tax boost in September, congress wrote Into the law a specific provision that the excess profits tax would be applied to the last quarter or the last half of 1950 earnings. Both Mr. Truman and Snyder said that approval of the excess profits tax program would wind up the administration's plans for incresslnc taxes this year. But both left the clear Implication that Increasing military costa probably would necessitate further tax increa'es next year, including higher taxes on individual incomes, if the defense program Is to be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis. Snyder proposed that the best three of she four years l»4t-4». Inclusive, be used as the base period for computing tbe excess profits | tax. Corporations would be given l . the alternative of using an invested capital plan if they elected to do so instead of using the base period. Similar alternative methods were allowed tor computing ex(Tore Te Feer Slut Christmat Trees Placed Today On Court House Lawn County highway employes, under the supervision of Phil Sauer, today nlanted two evergreens in Hie northeast corner of the {court house lawn. The two trees, obtained from William Bowers, hardware merchant who grows trees for s hobby, straddle the sidewalk which leads to Second and Madison streets. Comparatively small now. they will nevertheless serve as lighting standards for many years to come and add to th* dacoratlve atmosphere of th* Christmas season. Th* two trees are a fair enough trad* - they supplant the old. dead, branchless tree that was removed from tbe lawn about a month ago.

H Salvador Te Place Tibef's Appeal To UH fidklMMl AcoHihlv I* Asked To Consider Aggression Appeal Lake Bmxmss. N. Y. Nov. IB —tUFl— KI Salvador requested the United Nations general aaaem. bly today to consider Tibet’s ooasplalnt at communist Chinee* aggroesion. informed sources reportThe UN secretariat mad* no formal aaaouax-emeM of th* r*qu*st and the KI Mvadorean delegation raid tb* action eould h* confirmed only by Hector David Castro, chief of the delegation, who wae ta Washington today. But H. Racobar Berano deputy chief of Cl Salvador’* d*l*gatloa. said he knew that Castro Intended to put the Tibetan complaint on th* aatosnbly’s agenda. Communist China commanded th* attention of UN delegate* oa two other points as arrival of Its nine-member delegation appointed to participate ta the security «roaell'* debate on Formoa* wa* *xpoctad momsatarily. ladieatimls mounted that th* general assembly'* mate polttleal comorittee would postpone Its scheduled debate oa tb* futar* *f FonnoM pending th* arrival of Moe Tse-Tung** dteMbtion. Th* Peking realm* has dtodutsced tacluetoa of this item •* th* aseem Mv'* agenda Th* aroarity council will plunge into full debate toaroreow, without oa * w**tern resolution wbfch weald order Chtaoee withdrawal from Korea but would offer a* surance to Mao that his government’s interests in th* Korean: Manchurian border area would be protected. £1 Salvador's action meant that Tibet’s appeal for UN help agalnat the Chinese communist Invasion. Ignored by all of the 11 countries entitled to raise It in the saeurity council, stood a chance of .consideration bv the go-nation assembly However. It was problematical whether the 15-memher assemble •tearing committee wo-ld accent the request M put the Tibetan complaint before the assembly. The "town meeting of the world” (Tarn T* Iteae Mat BULLETIN Indlanaeolls. Nev. 14—(UR) — Franklin Cllek, *l-yeacold Fort Wayne oeiery farm worker, must die Dee. 30 for the IPS4 •ex slaying es Phyllla Conine, th* Indiana suprom* court ruled today. Convicted In Allen superior court, Cllek wee sentenced to die In the state prison electric cair Oct 17. He was given a stay of executton white the high court pondered whether he ohould got a new trial. Three Os Runaway Yoimgslen Found Skipped From School Hero This Morning Late this afternoon three of tour Decatur youngster* who “ran away” were back home sate and sound. A fourth was still at large and believed to be bidden out northwest of this city. The four—two girls, aged six snd 'eight, snd two boys, aged 10 and l>— "skipped" school this morning and admitted the theft of 1 two of three blcycleo on which they started their journey north. A Monmouth grocery store operator became, suspicious and telephoned deputy sheriff Bob Shraluka. He apprehended three of the children about four miles north of Decatur, but the fourth Dud down a cornfield and eluded • the deputy. Farmers came to the ' aid, qt.th* otlcers. but late hour he had not been returned. State patrolman Walter Schindler also joined ta the search. The lt-year-old boy. atftl at larg*. Is a cousin to the others, a brother and two sisters. The children stopped at the Monmouth grocery to ask for food, aaylag they wore “going to Waynedale to c** th*ir mother.”

ONLY DAILY NCWBRARM IN ADAMS COUNTY

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NATIONAL PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATOR Wffllam H. Harrison (right) expiatas to reporters in Washington the 11 percent reduction ‘ tn civilian aluminum supplies, warns the action will result in some job loss plus higher prices for sluminum products nasi year Hand sou claims military program will inquire about M perrout of national output of 1 jaaajaaa tom. New order te. eWective Jan. 1.-

i -I— —... {Dr. Holmes Hits Al > Dpnmap . riftjci MiiiMiim r Spiritual Emphasis Services Nightly hl one at tite most unusual ap--1 proacbe* in the htotory at local - spirituA emphasis service*, Dr. - Arthur Holme* of Batter Untver- : *lty school at religion pointed ’ Tuesday evening to certain mechanical and neurotic human practices as substitutes for prayer The unique speaker at the minis- . terial-sponsored serlea pointed to i such practices as alcoholic drinking and tobacco smoking as ag|>ng modern substitutes tor prayer, when human personalities feel the I I n**d for a ‘crutch* and do not have ’ enough sense of direction jo turn 1 to Ood. Tbe vast difference be ■ .ween prayer .to Ood and any of the mechanical substitute* is the ’ end effect upon the personality Involved: real prayer, seeking accord with th* purpose* of God. always benefits tbe soul, while any mechanical substitute merely gives th* delusion of benefit, while acj tually tearing down the personality, whose functions are ‘thinkI Ing. feeling, and willing.' “Not a* a moralist do 1 speak to you.” reitera.ed Dr. Holmes, “but as a psychologist." The speaker. Is head of tbe department of psychology and philosophy of religion St Butler. Dr. Holmes 'described 1 thinking as a “brain storm" in which there is explosion among certain of man's 1* billion brain cells. He explained how a habit pnd how a prejudice la formed, ta that a path among exploded and rebuilt brain cells is more easily followed on succeeding occasions. That factor also explains the Inertia which builds reluctance for original thinking. The speaker pleaded with his audience to disagree with him last for the exer--1 ctae of their intellects. J 'Also. Dr. Holmes contrasted the , permanence of one’s personality t with the 10 different bodies a man has in his allotted thre score-yearo- [ and-ten, snd pointed to the brain I as the hand-maid of the soul. The , speaker's central theme Is that [ growth of soul or personality Is , each man's basic task, and Ood's prime purpose. Prayer is the . best means of that growth, there- . tore fraudulent snbatltutM for . prayer among the soul’s worst f enemies. ' The Rev. Francis Willard con- ' ducted the service, and the Rev. 1 Ralph Carter road scripture aad ' led ta prayer. Special music was 1 by th* combined choir* of th* Christian and Presbyterian chur- ’ cbes. t Tonight's music will be by the i D*c*tur high school chorus. Th* ■ R*v. Jonas Berkey will have ( cbarg*. with th* Rev. A. C. K. Gll- ; tender conducting worship. All > services are held at th* Methodist church.

Spiritual Emptanis At • On Thursday - Announcement wan. .mad* today Moftt TwßfwHuy lU|ml » ftforiMtlH rmjkaris service* win be held at 8 dtclock. Instead of the usual 1: M Mme. The later starting time was Made tor t|b* convenience of par/■ta wk* wish to taar Dr. Boy Satitey at the Lincoln PT A meettag. which will be held at 7 o'clock. Pafronagt Probleins Beset Harry Essex Political Plums Ta Ba Distributed I Harry “Peck" Ks*ex Adams county and fourth -district Republican cbalnnan ls ) bsvtag his problems the** day* The offk-e of' secretary of state has lots of patronage with which to award the faithful, and a R«public** won that office November 7. Chairman Essex stated that to date ho has received no official word concerning tbe auto license bureaus In th* various towns of th* fourth district, ft is customary, howwvsr. for the district chairman to pit the final approval on these , aiTointments after the county comsnßtee aad chairman have nominated tbe proepectlve managers "1 expect to confer with each couaty chairman In the district, at- ‘ ter each chairman has consulted with bls committee, before making any recommendations tor appoint { meat." Essex said today. Asked regarding the Decatur. { Bern* - and Geneva branches, the chairman said that he expected to confer with his own connty committee before making any recom- { mendattons. "However", be added, “all three branches will ta all prob . ability go to Republican party workers." There has been talk for some time that the Geneva license branch might operate only as a i psrt-ttaM branch during the rash - weeks. Essex said that he had no i dettntte taformation on this report. • At the present there ere three full i time branches In Adams county, i They are Decatur. Berne and Ge- ; neva. Chairman Essex said that he i planned also to confer with Con- , gresaman-elect E. Roas Adair *oen . and alao would call a general meet- • tog of district worker* < Rotary Club To Moot 15 Minutat Earlier ! The regular meeting of the Deca ! ter Rotary club will be held St 8:15 , o’clock Tbursday evening. Wilbur . Petrie, ' eieb ' praaidedt'. aanouUced today. Th* earlier meeting time wa* act to give ample time to the i gseet spaakvr. Dr. Arthur Holme* ■ of Butler University. Dr. Holm** is tbe *p**k*r st th* spirltusl emphasis week service* I sow I* progress here Member* are asked to not* tbe writer starting tiss* Bbl* w**k only:

Chosin Is One O£ Great Prizes Os Campaign In Korea; Defenders Flee

■ Tempers Rise On Telephone Strike Front Union Members Ask Fay For Operators Termed locked Out New York, Nov 14— (UP)— Tempers row along tbe telephone strike front*today as union member* sought to recover BIS«.WH>-w day ta pay for operators they etaiin are “locked o«t." Federal mediators scheduled another negotiating session ta the wage dispute today but reported that no settlement of the 7-day-old strike involving M,*M member* «f the CIO communications workers of Anteriea ww ta sight. Two mediation awetasw bare yeetetdny ended ta dwdkx-k Tbe strike situation seemed ss hopeteaaiy tangled w R did la*t Tbursday when CWA members WpUted ort.'WtatoSk ,Ul»elric Co W « state* ail at Michigan Bell Telephone company richanan The Western Electric strike Invalve* 17.*** tastaltera and wpply house worttora and th* Mfctagan •trike isvolv** 17,t0b) operating amptoyes They hav* ten pfckeitak Bell exchangee and long lines departments of the parent company, tbe American Telephone and Tele graph company. Leaders of the CWA stepped up legal effort* to force th* ATAT system to pay st least BlOwday io the 15,000 member* who allegedly were told to “get tbelr coats snd go home” when they returned to work sfter honoring hft-snd-run tines Antlpicketlng injunction* ware (•rued tn cities in Virginia. North Can Hnx. Minnesota, South Dakota vnd Ohio. Fresh lines were thrown ibou* ex.-hxnge? ta eight Illinois cities 'Retired' Gambler Wounded At Chicago Martin Wounded In Gang Style Shooting Chicago, Nov. 15. —(UF)— James "Big Jim” Martin, who claims to have retired as a policy rambling overlord, was wounded today *a a gang style shooting. Tbe attack on Martin occurred as Timothy J. O'Connor took command as commissioner of the Chicago police force as tbe first step 1 of a «weeplng department shakeup to strengthen th* city’* war against ganggtoriaoU Twa or more men. riding ta a { jeep fired Into Marfin's big Cadil lac at he drove westward w Wash , ingtou troulevart toward bte home , In Maywood. The gunmen used shotguns which blasted the rear portion ot { Marita’s ear. Six pellets plosred into hi* shoulder. Martin loat control of his car which sideswiped five other car*, collided head-on with an oncoming automobile snd then come to rest , on a parkway. Tbe shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. The jeep sped away in the darknea*. . Martin, a husky negro, sms taken to Loretto hospital where pbyaicians said hl* wounds Were "not serious.'' In an intervisw Immediately after th* shooting. Martin denied that he waa still connected vrith <T*e* T* Rews Twel - ” - Cteudy, windy and talld with •eeaateaal rata tealght and > Thureday. Clearing and •*•!- roromAro taftDroMbAAM NAutliaAat i Thureday avantaß- L*w te- , nI«M 80 te to Mlgh Thursday M te W n*rth. N ta M •Slrth.

Carrier To Retire

RRtiyiMirti A. Frlsinger

Vetana Carrier To Ouil Postal Semite MoyiKiFcl Te Retire Nev. 30 Moyiiftrd A <: nyfcai" 1 vaterau postal employe aad city. ' msil carrier aad ■ termer‘Decatur ! postmaster, has applied tor retire-, meat from the service, effective' Nov. 3(1. Frislnger snd Leo M. Kirsch postmaster, jointly, announced today. One of the youngest postms ter» ever to be named tn Indiana. Frislnger served ss Decatur postmaster from June, 190® to 1910. Hs began hi* postal service 'as a clerk in the local office in I*o3. under the pos'msstership of the irie Albert Britson. He was sueceded in the office by the late W. A Lower From 1910 and during the folowtng 10 year*. Frislnger rerved i year a* a clerk in tbe postofflee at Natch**. Miss. He was employed here st the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., and later 4ook employment with the General Electric 1 company in Fort Wayne. When 'he Decatur GE plant was opened In 1920. he had the opportunity to be transferred here. For a year. Frislnger was a clerk ri the Natches postoffice and in !. 1923 he was appointed a city car-: Tier here. He walked hl* route. daily and Postmaster Kirsch esti-; mates that Frislnger traveled at ■ least 150.000 miles during his more than 27 yearn as ,a city carrier. This figure, tbe postmaster aald. doe* not include the many hundreds of step* from the sidewalk to tbe house. Mr. Frislnger is s graduate ot Decatur high school snd with the exception of about 10 years lived i Ma entire Itf* here. He Is widely known throughout the city and reside* at 520 North Third street Postmaster Kirsch paid his compliments to tbe veteran carrier and stated -that his record com prised almost a life-time of efficient service with the postofflee department Decatur Librarian Lions Club Speaker Noting the progress of the Decatur public library during tbe past years. Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, told member* of the local Lions club that "within the next few years some arrangement will have to be made for new facilities and more space for the library is rapidly becoming outmoded ” The principal speaker of the evening. Miss- Heller related the progress and services svallable in tbe library, and also outlined some future projects that she aad -her staff, as well as the library board, have ta mind Dr.' N. A. Bixler was In charge of the program and introduced the speaker, and L A. Anspaugh presided over the business meeting. Singing during the evening wa* led by lion Waiter Btttman

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Chinese Striking Bock Hord lirWest Front; Reeervoir Supplies Much Power Tokyo, Thureday. Nov 18 (UP) —U. B. marines reached th* shores ot the Chosin power reservoir—one of the great prise* ot th* north Korean campaign- Wedaeeday to find that Rs Chtneue defenders had fl*d. Bat the Chteeae were striking back hard ta th* west, forcing ties •oath Korean Bth division tat* a tour mtle retreat A motorised patrol ot tbe mat:> * 7tb regiment, led by regiments! commander Col. Homer L berg. Jr. Philadelphia. Pa. reachad the shores at the Cbosir. st 4 <..m. (1 a m CRT I. and a half hour tater troops began scrambling onto t igb ground commanding the southern tip of th* artificial ft** "We've com* a Mag way te look at this." said Litsenberg. pcinling ecroas tbe reservoir \ ‘ The marine*' arrival at the Cho. rin placed American forces.at. tbe. ... . edges of both great reservoir sys- [ terms la north Korea. , , American 7th division units, di- . vert*d tn»m . tte fftvl*ing'* »aia. ; were reported on. .. Monday to bav*. reeehad th* shores . of tbe Fuses rsesrvolr. * mile* cortheaat of the Chotaßs- '/*;:.; 1 ' : Some U*e Chtaeeg droNta *«re -report*/ to MW-- - «< ■ Fuse*. The Chester supplying the bulk I of north Korea's hydroelectric pewI er. had been defended Mttarfy by l the Chinese, apparently to ! gtve them time to dismantle the power equipment Tbe marines several days ago overran heavy crates of equipment the Chinese had not had time to remove The marines had deatroyed the better part of a Chinese division : of some lO.MO men in their slow advance over Icy mountain trail* toward tbe reservoir •Ctvfflans at PoMichi, next village r.oftlr cf Haciru, said the last iff ' lie Communists pulled out "togr •ays ago,” although some strqg' ■ glers were in the village Tuesday. * It was a two mile advance irom ! Ilsgaru to the shores i The actions of the Chinese and , north Koreans presented a mystery ail along the froxer, 250-talie north Korean front. . They were’ attacking In sotns areas, and apparently completely withdrawing in others. ~~ An estimated enemy battalion hit • ROK Bth division units on the easti era flank ot the northwestern bat | tie son* four miles northeast of j Tokchon. and forced the south Koreans back four miles: The ROKS beat off oaf enemy attack at 8 p.m. Tuesday, but had to retire Wednesday when th* enemy struck again To the left of the ROK Bth di viaton. the V. S let cavalry sent tiroops into the ancient walled city of Yongbyon and found that tbe Communists had pulled out. abandoning freshly dug defenses Action in the U. S. 24th division •nd British commonwealth 2?th brigade sectors alongside the cavalrymen was limited to patrols Clothing Store Is Looted Os $16,000 Gary. lad. Nov 15 —(UF> — Proprietor Bueter Ward of Ward's Wardrobe reposted to police today that burglars bat try *4 down the rear door and hauled off 15 suits. 58 sports shirts. M» Jackets and tvo _ pairs of trousers, valued at 814.00* Michigan Prepares For Vote Recovnt Detrott Mkh. Nov t$ - (I'Pl - Michigan prepared today to recount •very ballot in Rs muddled gov- ■ eraor's election , Democratic Gov G Mennen Will- : isms came through the official r statewide roeviis* yesrertay wtth a--of 1.145 votes *ver Republican . challenger Harry F Kelly But Kelly Immediately annouuc i ad he would file tor a cowpie'« > retabqlatton ot Michigan's 4.381 ■ precincts The move had been cos . steered inevitable atoc* widespread i errors were discovered ta-tba seesaw rat*

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