Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 275.

South Korean Troops Push On Chongjln Seek To Seal Off Northeast Korba From Red Forces Tokyo. Thursday. Nov. 23—(UPi —The South Korean capital dlvlslop pushed spearhead* lo within , lens than Irt mile* ot the bombed out cast coaat port ot Chongjln today In a UnifeiTTVattons drive to seal off all of northeastern Korea i at the .Manchurian and Siberian borders. On the northwestern end of the' line, the allies threw almost the entire weight of their airforce against- communist troops and supplies concentrating below the Yalu river crossings from Manchuria ; It is the northwestern area that the bulk of the lOti.WU-man communist army Is concentrated The ROK capital division thrust ■ north through Yonghyang on .the herls of fleeing communists to within artillery range of Chongjln. I The South Korean 3rd division I moved into Hapsu. Important rail and highway junction 30 miles in- 1 land from the coast and-30 miles i southeast of Hyeaanjin where the 17th regiment, of the V. S 7th dl-; vision is at the Yalu river border i U. S. marines of the 7Mi regiment patrolled 10 miles up the ■ western whores of the Ciioein roses-1 voir lo Yudam. and moved their | main force five miles north Ma-; tines of the Sth regiment contln- , ued their sweep up the eastern! hank*-ef the man made lake ESo jets, attacking through I heavy anti-aircraft tire trouiboLb the: Korean and Manchurian sides, of. the. Vain river, hurled I.«W--.pmibd demolition bombs at the bridges linking Sinuijti and An-I lung Smoke from a previous at-; tack hid the results of their strike Supertort* smashed at the north- , ’ east Korean border, town of Musan/ where there is believed to -*n enemy troop concent rat k>n and al so pounded rhongjin ahead of the j advancing capital division Other F-90* and B !« light bombers. maehlnegunned. rocketed and gasoline-bombed troop centers and railroads In the northwestern sei • tor. Thundering broadsides from eight inch guns of the U. S. heavy cruiser St Paul offshore and a rain of bombs, rockets and bullets from American carrier planes took a heavy toll of the retreating enemy below Chongjln. Navy pilots reported some communist, units were pulling north out id Chongjln, but it- was too early to determine whether the enemy has decided to abandon the port without a fight Much of the city is in ruins from American bomba. At the opposite end of the 250mile from across northorn Korea, seven allied divisions totalling up to 100.000 men and an equal number of Chinese and Korean Reda were getting set for what maxJRL the last great battle of the Korean war, Lt <ien Walton 11. Walker s allied Bth army will try to break through the Red line to Slnuiju. the temporary North Korean caplDeßolt Child Breaks Leg In Fall At Home Little Miss Alice Deßolt, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Chalmer Deßolt of this city, fell in the kitchen of the Deßott home and fractured litr ’eg in two places Alice had been waging a success- 1 ful fight against a siege of polio and tor the last several weeks had been able to run and play again. WEATHER Rain or enow north and contral and rain In eatrOmd south tontgnL Temporarily clearing late tonight and Thursday morning. Increasing cloudiness late Thursday, followed by rain south and rain or snow north portion Thursday night. Somewhat warmer Thursday. Mueh colder Friday. Low tonight 36 to 32 north. 2t to 36 south. High Thursday 37 to 44 north. 44 to 60 south

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Henry Wolloce Says A-Bomb Tramp Card New Haven. Conn . Nov 33.— tVPI Former vice-president Henry A. Wallace said last night that Russia should be kept up In the air about nur intended use of the atomic bomb “It would be a mistake to say we won't drop the bomb. Wallace told a foreign policy round table sponsored by the Yair political union. “Russia should be uncertain about whether or not We would dtop the bomb. It Is our trump card." Kraft Building Purchased By New York Rim Varied Industries Buys Building Here, No Details Known i The Kraft building -oa 8 Winchester street was. purchased by Varied Industries lac. New York I City. Bernard P. Day of Joseph P i Day. Inc . New York auction firm. Informed thia newspaper today. No Information as to the type of i Industry .or far. what use. the building would be used. Was given in i Day's letter His letter stated that the Kraft Foods company of Chicago hsd aci cepted the 325.00,1 bid tor the i building, made by Richard Brown. ' at the public suet fan here on Nov 15 1 Richard Pruden executive seers I tary of the Chamber of Commerce was unable to obtain any informs j film about the coiiipany W AKlepper, pre.-idetit of Cloverleaf (Yeamdrie*. Inc who constructed the building in 1915 with the late Earl Martin, is. not acquainted > with the operations of Varied In- ; dustrie* Mr Klepper. who is an executive in the Kraft Foods Com , pany. was informed in 'Chicago ■ that the company had accepted [Brown’s hid. Attorney It. Burdette Custer, j counsel employed, do cuwpletv- (he legal details In the sale, was in court in Fort Wayne and unavailable for comment A supposition is that Brown pur chased the building for an unre. v ruled purchaser and operates Varied Industries. Inc. in the acquiring of industrial sites for later transfer to those who operate the plants The building contains 36.000 square feet of floor space and prior to purchase by the Kraft company, was operated by Clover leaf Creameries, which dairy concern was founded by Martin and Klepper. Cloverleaf was one of the largest dairies In the state, local operations being transferred to the Huntington plant several years ago. / ’ ' ' ■ Hold Meeting On Red Cross Blood Center > Legion Home Local Center For Program Miss Rebecca Glenn, blood program field representative, and Miss Marjorie Koester, chief nurse from the Fort Wayne regional Red Cross blood •enter, conferred here with local volunteers who are organising the program In this city and county. Among those who attended the meeting were Dr Joe Morris, chair(man of volunteer recruiting. Mrs Ed Bauer and Mrs. Joseph Oelberg The 'etlonal representatives ap proved the American Legion home as the local center for the blood program The home was offered to the Red Cross hv the Legion. The regional blood program is being organised In some 30 counties In this sms and the first visit of the mobile unit Is expected here February. Volunteers will be asked to donate blood on each visit of the •mobile unit, which will be here every other month Approximately 145 volunteers will be needed on each visit, with blood donations | from at least 100. the Red Cross 1 officials explained

Dulles Urges UN To Study China Demand I United Notions Is Warned Not To Let China Demands Die Lake Lake Success. Nt. Nov. 33.—(I'Pi— John Foster Dulles told the United Nations today that j "It will be a black day” tor the' world organisation if It , “buries" Nationalist ('hina's demand tor . aft Investigation of Russian relations with the Chinese Communists. Dulles spoke tor the United, States as opposition mounted In the general assembly's main political committee to the Nationalist proposal to appoint a commission to investigate Russia's bdcklng of Mao . Tte-Tung's Communist regime and Soviet denunciation of its 1645 j treaty with Chiang Kai-Shek. . After Australia and France joined Britain In opposing the national , proposal. Dulles told, the 60-aatlon committee: "If this Item Is gulps to be burled, the hopes of many people will be buried, but tbe issue will live on. There should be no double standard • of right and wrong for the big and small That double standard exists iii tbs security council, but fit the general assembly there has been a single standard "The fact that a nation accusad , Is a great power Is not a reason for us to try to bury the matter. If we do, we will busy many of the hopes held by mankind In this general assembly.” Dulles also opposed the British ■rgumeht that the resolution would hurt negotiations for a settlement .[ in the far east. j • “A matter of precedent is in ' volvedi” Dulles said “If we bury : this matter now. It will be a black day for this organisation and will ' remind us of the league of nations I which tried to hide itself frifm j I reality. ' Britain split with the r S. on , the issue yesterday and Australia; anil Frame joined the opposition, I bandwagon today They held the 1 view that a lom mission could do nothing except verify facts which ■ already were knovth and accepted Thus, for the second time In two days. Britain sought to clear the i slate of Chinese complication*. In- ' dilating that the British are ready | to take the inltiatlvw in negotiating a “package settlement' ot the (Twra Ta PM* KlaMl I ' . Two More California Rivers Break Banks 7,000 Are Forced To Flee From Home Marysville' Calif , Nov. 22.—(UP) —Two more rivers broke their banks today, sending torrents of muddy water pouring over California's flat central valley and forIng at least 7.000 persons to flee their homes. - The Yuba river spilled an avalanche ot muddy water over six towns near Marysville. Farthej south, the Stanislaus river broke through Its levees at three places near Ripon. The floods were the latest In a 1 series that were blamed for 10 1 deaths in California and Nevada ' and sent property losses soaring 1 toward the (20,000,000 mark. Auth- ■ qritles generally regarded the figure as conservative. Meanwhile, the weather bureau forecast a let-up In the rains that drenched the state for nine days and melted the Sierra Nevada snowpauk. The prediction waa for ’ “generally fair weather." 1 The Yuba flood came so swiftly 1 that rescue parties found themselves stranded as roods disappear--1 ed before and behind them. Power boat* were called to rescue a party I of 36 resone worker* marooned on a pile of gravel. | Sheriff John Dower waded 100 yard* to safety through water that, '! at times reached hit chest '. The Stanislaus break catne In a sparsely settled terming region of I perhaps 100 Inhabitants Most of ’• them were tiken to Ripon. I I Farmers In the area were warned iTwrw Te Pane *i«>

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 22, 1950

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I _ > - - -- - — A RESIDENT stand in Reno’s downtown district and watches the rampaging waters from the overflowing Truckee:river course through town Heavy rains In the high Sierras..spread floodwaters through l out the west. Reno sufiored an oadnuted million dollars damage

Defeat Ordinance Ot One-Way Sfreefc To Continue Study Os Traffic Problem Members of the city council, in their regular meeting Tueaday. reversed an earlier stand, and voted HoWn an ordinance which would provide one-way streets adjacent to the business section of the city. The ordinance was given its second reading at tlie meeting, and I tlirs* v-outicllmen cast negative , votes »;hile only one voted for ap proval. At the last previous meet- ; Ing 'councilmen had voted four toj one for the approval of the ordin--1 auce. ; At the same time, rue ordinance | creating one way traffic in the al1 leys between First -and Second street, northbound, and between Second and Third streets, soutlf- ' bound, was approved on its second reading One further reading und approval is required before this ordinance Is adopted. Though councilmen voted down the ordinance which would make First street one-way tor northbound traffic, and Third street oneway for southbound traffic, they hinted that this Is nut final action to alleviate the congestion ot traffic in the business area They Intimated that perhaps they had their directions mixed, that the one-way traffic should be reversed. In line with this. Dr. Joe Morris appeared before the board to object to the direction the traffic would flow, pointing out he complexities Involved, say. in left-hand turns “I think.” Dr. Morris raid, 'that the Idea Is wondertul. that oneway traffic Is perhaps" a solution But I do think the directions should be reversed There's too much need .to .cross..over into oncoming traffic to make turns." Councilman admitted that the project" needed further study, that they were merely submitting these proposals in an effort to relieve the traffic situation,, and would welcome further discussion. That oneway streets would not be too unpopular Is attested to by the survey made by Mayor John Doan. Residents and business houses along the streets In question expre sed overwhelming *►' proval of creating, the oneway {hurt/ughfaret. f Two other ordinances were approved on their first readings, one of them approving a contract to purchase a parking site near the business district, and the other submitted by the Decatur plan commi tlon which would extend th* restricted area to a two-mlle limit outgjde th* city, „ .. The latter ordinance was presented to the council by Dick Heb ler. representing the commission, who told co-inellmen that th* purpose ol th* ordinance was to clarify the present toning ordinance, take tn tbe two-mlle limit, and give the commit don jurisdiction over the building of outdoor the* <Tovw te imw*

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Leßoy M. Taylor Is Grand Jury Bailiff s "Juiige Wb* F/Famiffi ahltoUii& ed today that Leßoy M. Taylor, of H’3 North R*v*nth street, will serve 1N beillff for the grand jury •which ha* been called to conVW* next Monday ! Lisis Schedule For I Adult Fenner Class j I Class Organized At Meeting Here Vaughn Miller, organiser and instructor of the adult farmers class • held In the Uecatuf higti school, I today released the future schedule and courses to be offered for the next 11 meetings following an organisational meeting Monday 1 At the recent meeting Dewey Plumley. I'nton township farmer, was elected chairman of the elaas; the secretary will be one of the' students of the vocational agricultural class of the Decatur high school. The next meeting of the class will be divided Into three sections, j to meet on different night*. Miller said this—the testing of eoil earn- ■ pies class will be conducted November 27. 29. 30. to enable' the i farmer., to work in smaller group* when conducting lit* soil tests. Other meeting* and titles are i>e<- 4 making soil -profiles: Dec. i 11—• correcting the soli acidity and I he study of soil liming materials; i Dec. 18 and Jan. 8 -correcting soil leficienciear; Jan I'' determining he symptoms of ptent* showing .mineral deficiencies; Jan 22--de-veloplng the proper crop rotation; | Jan. 29—fertility balance: Feb. 5 ( j —determining the best, method of 'seedbed preparation. Feb. 12—rei lation of soil mixture to soil fer- : j finty and plants, and Feb: 19— , I land drainage. Miller stated that the class 1* , ! til) open to farmers who are in- ' I crested in attending Twenty of I i 29 members enrolled In the class : x tended the irst meeting. Ineitid- ! ng Lloyd Mlschler. Henry Heimann. William Miller. Hubert ! '7a-o Lawrence Gase, Marvin -I >ecker, Dewey Plumley. Robert , I Plumley. Lee Milter. Arnold • Thieme. Lorens Steele. Karl Ray. Virgil Gilbert. V J Baltxell. She)lon Wagley. John Baltxell. Myron: Frank. Herman Bleeke. Herman ~ Steele and Lawrence Beckmeyer. , 1 . O hers cnfoHml to date are , Dutch Gilbert. Verl Lautxenheieer. . Edgar Thieme. Oscar Fuelling, Ben , i Clerk*, Erwfn Fuelling. Alton Bitt- ! ner. Taylor Holt, and Edgar , l Krueckeberg. | Miller said that the classes will .! be conducted each scheduled Mort- . day evening, except for tj>e next 4 one which will be lu three see- ' slon*. all cluse* to begin at <:JO p. tn., and to lut for two hour* He Mid that Tom Bushnell and i i 0. P. Walker. Purdue University extension specialists, are tenta . | Uv»ly scheduled to meet with th* class December 4 and January 23

DC-3 Airliner Owned By Mission Group Crashes; Two Die In Bomber Crash

Two Bomber Crew Members Killed; Two Missing But Believed Safe Cleburne, Tex.. Nov. 22—(UP)— A crippled B-36 superbomber, try.ng to limp home on three of it*, six engine , crashed in timberland j north of Cleburne today and at! lout two of the air force crewmen aboard were killed. There were 16 men aboard.; Twelve parachuted Mfely. Two j were mi*-Ing. but believed safely down via 'chut*. Two were known dead. One of, them' was beheaded by a propeller i ■m the doomed ship a* he bailed out. The other was killed when i his parachu e tlammed him to: earth too hard.Jn trouble, the big plane wu; winging northward toward Its i home base at Fort Worth's Cars ' well air tore* baee when it fell at I a point about 20 mile* south’ of I CarswgU. .... -Air force helicopters were put up over the hilly, bru hy Johnson county countryside to aearoh tor the missing two mon. Namu ot the dead were withheld. pending notification of (hair next of kin. The plane fell ip an open field then bounced and skidded along for an estimated three mile* be- . fore it finally stopped It was Im--1 mediately wrapped in flames that ■ ist 111 burned more than two hours, later. ’ The crew started bailing out when the B-36 wa* down to alii j tude of about 750 to 100 feet, witnesses said. A civil aeronautics administr* tion DC-3 patrol plane, bound for San Antonio on a routine airwayls check, made contact with the I crippled superbomber at a point south of Cleburne and stayed near ; by? until; after the crash The passengers on the CAA plane bad a ringside seat for ap-j proximately 20 minutes of the | drama, and after its violent end. the DC-3 circled for another few (Twra Ta raw* Bisa<> ' First Polio Case Is Reported In County Hockemever Boy Is Stricken By Polio Adams county's first polio case of the year wa* reported today when the Illness of Richard Carl Hockemever. seven yearold son of Mr and Mrs. Hilbert W Hockemeyer of route 3, was definitely ( diagnosed as poliomyelitis. The boy. who will be eight years old next Sunday, became ill Nov. 'l7. and was taken to the Lutheran hospi'»l at Fort Wayne Nov. 13 for examination 1, Confirmation of the polio diagnosis was received this morning by Dr. Harold f Zwlck. county health [Officer. The case is reported mild, with no nsrxlysls reported »nd no symptoms of extension of infection. Tbe disease Is of the spinal type with no indications of bulbar or crania' Involvement. 1 ; While Adams county Was hard hit by a polio epidemic last y*«r, | 'today's is the first case ot the, crippling disease reported tor I*6o

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18DeadAnd Missing After Trains Crash Canadian Troop Train, Passenger L Collided Tuesday . Kamloops. B C. Nov. 22.—(UP) i —Rescuer* working in *now and i below xero temperature* today counted 18 dead and missing and 59 (Injured in the head-on crash of a Canadian troop train and apes- - I senger express in the mountain. i anew storm. The bodies tt 12 soldiers of ; Canada's special United Nation* brigade .and tour train crewmen , were removed from the splintered wreckage and taken w Jasper. Alta Rescuer* hunted two missing soldier*. * Ftfty-three soldier* and a crew man aboard the troop train were Injured, 42 of them stretoiksr cases.; and 10 passengers end a baggageman were hurt aboard the express. An Ineompieted traffic message to the conductor of the troop train was blamed for the crash, a Cana dian National Railway spokesman t * al<l i The ;7-< ar troop train carried 350 i officers and men of the last major unit of the UN brigade being traa»> ferred for special training to Fort Lewis. A’ash ' The crash occurred in a show [covered Kooky Mountain~~~valley Tuesday morning when the westbound troop train tailed to stop at a siding at Cedarside. B C.. Qye i miles from Canoe River. B. C., where it was supposed to wait for the ottrushin* Transcontinental Express. a CNR spokesman said The trains smacked together at j the 2,700-foot level on a mountain (curve almost within sight of tower.lng Mt Robson, highest peak in I the Canadian Rockies One troopi train coach was catapulted into the air by the force of the impact and crushed the coach behind Seconds after the earsplitting crash army officers in the rear Coaches ot the troop train dashed into the snow storm to rescue tbeinjured. The dining cars of both trains were converted into cuter gency hospitals with Dr. P S. Kim- j nelp of Edson. Alta., passenger train physician, taking charge “Everything happened so fast." the officer said. “We didn't know what hit us" c Steampipes burst, spewihg live cTwrw T* l-aw* *ts> . ; James Cochron To Be Deputy Sheriff i Appointment Made By Sheriff-Elect The appointment of James “Jim” [Cochran, of Decatur, a* deputy sheriff of Adam* county was ann ounces! today by sheriff-elect B»b ' Shraluka, ending couaiderable sp«culation as to the appolntmenta Cochran a former Decatur high ! school athlete, is a veteran Os World War 11. j Married and the father of one [child, the new appointee I* a son 'of Mr. and Mrs Hubert Cochran [of this city and ■ grandson of Sophus Mekhi. veteran city policeman and former police chief. His wife 1* tbe former Janet Zeser i ' He will assume his new daUeeon January 1. when Shraluka. the Incumbent deputy, take* over the office of sheriff succeeding Herman Bowman Th. now officials will serve * four year term under provision* of recent stat* leglilttion Cochran [at present is employed st the for* l General Elect rm factory

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Rescue Crews Pion Parachute Leap To Site; 21 Aboard Missionary Plane Jackson. 'Wyo.. Nov 32.—-LEP) — I Air fores rescue crews prepared i today io make a haxafdoas parai chute leap opto the lIJOo-foot i slopes of Mt Moran where a nonscheduled DC-3 airliner, owned by ; a missionary group, apparently i crashed while carrying 21 persons Capt Wilitam L. Young bead ot 1 tjte air fore*;.»r*re*cue_.team at/ Boise. Ida., said hi* group planned , to take off Immediately to fly here and probably would attempt to parachute to the crash scene Advised of cloud conditions and tbs steepness of the big mountain ' Y’outrg said his airmen might ■be forced to make thgir drop at Jack - i eon Lake at the base of the moun- ? tain and then climb to the site from ; there. Skilled—mountaineers—were already climbing .tbe height* of the 12.idMoot mountain ( toward where the plane was beI Moved to have crashed last nlghu Heavy cloud* covered the upper portions of the precipitous, rocky [peak. They hsnmered swy srs.-wse ; by spoiler aircraft to sight wreck J.age or survivor* Tbe plan*, apparently one owned by the New Tribes mission of i Chico. Calif , wa* hfard circling in ■ tog near (he Teton mountain range early last nigh: A resident of a lodge Bear thi peak, Ciatence Harris. said he heard a multi engined plane flying overhead and later saw a fire at an estimated Low feet altitude on Mt Moran one of throe jieaks known as The N-edlo" first aid equipment four rangers of the Grand Teton National park set out to work their way up the steep slope* through deep • snow. They hoped that-at least some of the 11-adult* and eight children aboard the plane might have survived I Chief ranger Paul Judge said, however, he doubted that anyone could nave lived through such a crash Judge said there wa* no doubt that the blase on the moun- [ lain era* caused /by the p!*n*'-. wreckage b»cau«k the tire was spotted <t an 'rtwwtqn above in. berline The mission group was scheduled to condur a religious meeting at f the Grace Bihle Mixsirre in Riilinef 1 , Mont., last night and was due there at 6 ptn MST <» pm CSTI It took off from California earlier In the afternoon and last was reported j ever Idaho at 3 4*l p m MST Th* four raneer* headed hy Blake Van DeWater carried ropes [-and other scaling «|Uiptnt n' Judge said the slope* near the t rash were 1 very .. »teep“aii< th*: he ilowbtsd ; that even • pararexcue team sent by th* 4th air force rescue squad roa would be ahi* to parachute ew i ths site because of the rugged ter ■ tain The flames,, observed on tho ,tn umainslde shortly after the > o'ene whs ht erd. died out shortly j‘n fro midnight ‘ nqolo Minister Is ’ ; ons Club Speaker The Rev Glenn L Utterback, pastor of the First Congregational hiirch o< was the-prlnct . nel. speaker' at ’he rwrulsr Tties’ay meeting of the ’ Lion* cfab : we speaker »p*Hed out . the creed the U n< qrganirarion. that It j 1 bp ed .on loyalty to the club, and 'enianrl . induatriotunes*. ohjeetty- • ty. national pride and service He said that 'O work diligently with these Ingrodtenta mixing ■i-them judiciously and well, ar.d th* re wit Is Lkme -club* bene'i ■’al to *n<t a vital part of any community PHI Dyck of Fort Wayne, district governor at the Lions tn'rmiiyed the main »pe»k n . Dyck, ia[ turn wa* lnT<«dii<-<*! by club president L E Anspaugh Ed Highland scrwugad lb* evep- : In* • program *■•' '/' '