Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. Na. 276.

MASSIVE OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON IN KOREA

77 Killed As Trains Crash On Long Island Public Officials Shocked, Angered At Train Tragedy New York. Nov 24 — (UP)- The Interstate commerce commission ordered » sixth tnvestlgation today Into the wreck of two Long Inland commuter train* which killed 77 perron* and injured 329 Thankagivin* Eve. (lov Thoma* E. Dewey and mayor Vincent Impellltteri flew home from southern vacation* and were directing two of the Inquiries. Dewey was to meet at S:w' pm with the mayor and Nassau and Hitffolk county official* In an effort to coordinate iuveatigations and recommendation*. Public anger against the railroad largest commuter line In the country—waa no great that railroad guard* stood watch last night while It* chief bankruptcy trustee I lav id K Smucker slept In * ear in the Jamaica yard* A rnmor circulated that the widow of one victim 4 - had beaded for Smacker'* home " with a gulf. The railroad and’police said the report proved to be false The wreck was the third-thi* ySar on the heavily traveled line, with a total death I ojl “f U« investigator* hoped to learn what caused the Wednesday night ,cra*li in which an ea«tbuund express, 1 carrying several thousand commuter* home for th* Thanksgiving holiday. apparently ran through a stop signal while going at about 6« miles an hour and rammed the rear of a stalled local train which was alee jammed, with home-bound worker* filling all seat* and crowding the ai*k>» The ICC announced al Washington that it would open 'nation at 10 am. tomorrow in the ; Hotel Statler, here The engineer of the express, al man known for hi* caution among, fellow employer, was killed m thej accident So it appeared Unlikely the Inveftifhtions would learn' exactly what happened iti the few j seconds before .the crash. However, it seemed likely the blunt of the criticism tor the fifth i worth I' S tali wreck since. Htmlj would fall on the management of j th* bankrupt line which failed to install rutoinalic. safety device* at I all signal blocks after a similar wreck at Rockville Centre, N Y. ' nine months ago killed 33 persons, and another three months ago in-; jured I". • Heath toll in the wreck rose to 77 yesterday when an Injured passenger died at a hospital. Sixtytwo of the 329 Injured passengers still were hospitalised. 15 In critical condition « : —.- | Decatur's Stores Announce Hours Os Christmas Seasoni With the Christmas shopping i season -to be officially opened in 1 Decatur with the giant parade Monday. Dee 4. Chamber of Com merer executive secretary 41. W. I’ruden today announced prevailing store hour* for the holiday season On Hecennlrer 4. „tor*s will re-j main open until 9 p.m They will ' also remain often every Thursday afternoon during Deeemlter begin ning Dec. 7. It was further announced llvat member stores will remain <>i>en several nights before Chri«tma« until 9 pin. but when continuous evening hours would begin was Dot released. Indiana Death Toll Astonishingly Low Indianapolis. No*. 24. —(VP)— Hooaiera recovered today from one of the most delightful disabilities, ■too much ‘ turkey, a* police re j ported an astonishingly low total | of Thanksgiving highway death* Only one Huosler was killed In ■ a traffic accident and the num ® her of injured was far below the ‘ average’’ figure maimed during a typical holiday celebration A St Joseph county farm worker. Romero Cedillo 17. waa killed Thursday when th* trwek he »*• riding skidded Into a Grand Truck freight train, eight mile* southwest | .if Routh Deed

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Murray |s Reelected As President Os CIO Chicago. Nov, 24—(UPl— Philip Murray was elected today to hi* eleventh term a* president of the Congress of Industrial Organlta thine and promised he would fight to make the CIO ''bigger, atronger and mor* powerful." Delegate* to the 12th national CNJ convention elected Murray by erLgMUixi His unopposed nommotto* tew-heg off a 25-mlaate ■lemonstrut ion daring which delegate* tossed confetti and marched around the convention hall to the music of a bra** hand Stinging Cold Wave Whistling ToEastCoast Temperatures Drop To Record Lows In Most Os Notion By I'alted Pres* A stinging cold wave whistled eastward toward the Atlantic coast today. Temperature* dropped to record low* Snow fell so tar aouttr that-driving we* hasard on* in pert* of Mississippi and Tennessee The bad weather kept highways | free of traffic. lowering .tin- holiliny traflk death lullbut the lain* Island railroad wreck boosted the total nu mlver of accidental deaths tor Thanksgiving day Io a new no ord. . A I nlted Pre** survey showed Hrt persons lost (heir lives in accidents between Wednesday evening and last midnight There wee* ho dead in traffic. four in hunting mishaps, and 112 died In mlaceb laneous cause* including Hie 77 dead In the train crash. The weather bureau promised moderating temperature, for the I ! peekend but the relief wa* ex pe. ted to l>e alight Northern | i states were warned of tempera t I Hires in to 15 degrees below nor hial for rhe next five day*, j The coldest siHfMin the country I was at Chadron. Neb where the ' mercury hit 14 below zero. equal ' Ung a record for the month sei in ■1914 It. was 15 lielow al lamd it | i Lakes. Wi« . and 13 . below at Minot. N I>. | . The mas* of air from the Arctic i j traveled c lear to the gulf yoaat. I I pushing, temperatures to 13 above zero at Amarillo. 37 at Han An i tonio. 20 at Abilene, and 49 at New I Orleans j Many of those kileld lu traffic died when their cars skidded o't slippery pavements A two-inch blanket of snow in northern Mississippi forced postponement of a football game there. Highways were hazardous through- , out northern Mississippi ami westI ern Tennessee In some cities, the mercury <To*a Ta Page *1«l 1 /' Menas Baumgartner Dies Thursday Night Formerly Owner Os j Restaurant At Berne Menas M. Baumgartner. 71. for 43 years a restaurant proprietor at Berne, died at 11:15 o'clock Thursday night at his home of a cerebral hemorrhage following an illness of two week* He operated the Peoples Restau rant, now the Swiss Case, for 43 years until ill health forced his retirement in July of 1949 He was bor* near Herne. Sept 25. 1379, a son of Ephriam .and -Magdalen* Gerber, and was married to Rose Lehman Aug 2". 191* He wa* a member of th* First Mennonlte church and a former director of the Mennonlte men a choir and the combined choirs Surviving in addition to bis wife are a slater, Mr* Ell Habetgrr o( Geneva. Two brother* and two sister* are deceased Funeral services will be held at 2- p.m "Sunday at the First Menno nite church, the Rev Olin A. Krehbiel and the Rev Karl Tauber of flclntlng. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery Th* body was removed to the Yager funeral bom*, wher* friend* may call *ft*r 7 o'clock this evening until noon Sunday when the body wll| be removed io the chare* to ll* In *t»te

Demands China Reds Allowed ToArgueCase Communist China Delegation Ready For UN Appearance latke Rucc*ss. N. T.. N*v. 24 — jl’l’i- Akcwimualst Chia*'* detagatioa to th.- VaHad NaHoMsarrivad today and Russia dmnaadad Immediately that H b* prcmUted to arg** its own charge* of aggras•lcm against th* t'alt*d Mat**. The nine-member delegation front Poking arrived at Naw York's Idlewild airport and waa haaaadiately whisked to tke swank Wal-dorf-Astoria hotel. nr. Ale* Bebalr at Yugoslavia, president of the ITN sec urity council. hoped to see them Ibis afternoon to see If they are ready to attend a council meeting tomor row to argue their case against the V. R. la that 11-Ballou group That was tbe specific reason for which the unsmiling Chinese, led hy Gen Wu Hein-Chua*, top aide to Mao T*e-Tung'» chief general, came, to the I’N. -Hut Russia, .'raised the Isa** es American "aggression'' in the general assembly as well as In the security council The eaaence of tbe com plain i tn the security council was that President Truman'* dispatch of lhe seventh I’ H. fleet U> Formosa coostituted aggression against China In a surprisingly mild statement at the airport. Wu hinted tMt Mao’e-xPrtre for peace In the tar mat would he withdrawal es fb* seventh fleet from Formosa. The gist of the Russian complaint put before the general assembly was thst Ancericsa plsne* ■ had violated the Manc-hurian free‘tier in llielr operation* for the i UN in Korea and bad ther.-by comml He-1 aggression against, fbina i It was also alleged that American ' planes bad attacked a " Chinese I -ahip Floyd Brittson Is Killed In Accident Former Decatur Man Is Accident Victim Floyd Brittson. SO. of Halls*. Tex., formerly of Hrcatur. was fatally injured at Ad*. Okla., in a*' automobile accident which occurred Wednesday afternoon, according to word received here by Mr. and Mr*. Charles Knapp The Brittson* were ' returning hontle from a visit with, Mr and Mr*. Knapp here. Mrs. was injured but not critically Mr. Hrittgon was! taken to the Ada hospital where he| died Thursday. Detail* of the acci-, ' dent were no! learned Mr. and Mrs. Brittson had started home the first at this week after visiting the Knapps and other Decatur friend*. Mr Brittson was a half-brother cif Mr* Knapp. William Floyd Brittson was formerly a teacher in the Deealur public schools and also was tn the hardware business here. Since go Ing to ifella*. be had been in the investment business. The Knapps visited them last winter In Dallas. Th/ body wa* taken today to Dallas arid no funeral plea* have been learned by relative* here Mr*. Brittson. who also waa In the Ada hospital, returned to Dallas with her husband * body Coffelt Funeral Is Held This Afternoon - Funeral servlcea were held at Van Wert. 0.. this afternoon for Mr* P. G Ctrffall. U who dle.l Tueaday night from a coronary occlusion. She had been in declining health the past two year*. A native at Decatur, ahe wa* tbe daughter of Luw Ftaber and the late Florence Fleher. Survivors include the hudband: her father; two brother*. William and Harold of Fort Way**, and three aiatera. Mr*. France* Miller and Mr*. Mary Maa of Van Wen aM Mr* Leota Turnatt of New Haven Th* Re* Frank Ml** officiated at to. day'a service* with hurlal in Woodland cemetery

ONLY OAILV NEWSFAFM IN ADAMS COUNTY

Docotur, Indiana, Friday* November 24, 1950

Last Rite* Fir LL Dead Bfeb I I HH Br A PRIEST read* lhe last rite* orer a passenger, near death on the ground a* rescue workers removed.the 77 deed and 3UU Injured from ] the wreckage of the Ixutg Island railroad train wreck at Richmond HU*. Queens. A Navy pharmacist’*.mate, hypodermic needle iu hand, ha* already admiuUtvred an Injwdtlb to ease the victim's suffering

11. S. Casualties Nev TaM 29,9% Nsor 5,000 t>eod' In War In Korea Washington. Noy .24 — H’Pi — Americsn casualties oflii-lally reported in Hie Korean fighting totaled 2V.*M. Including 4,993 dead, I through last Friday, the defense : department announced today ! ThU casualty summary, the 13th I ix-ued since the war's outbreak, showed an Increase of t.!15 over last week s total The dead comprised 4,441 killed in action. 52X who died of wotihd* and four who were originally reported a* only missing In action The wounded totaled 21.094. jn I eluding the 529 who died oft wound*. ■ Os 4.439 reported in ar- , tp»n. 529 had lieen found; 107 were known to be prisoner* of war. and], 13.900 still went listed as Hissing II The army bore-rhe brunt of the ‘casualties ■Hearing Is Held On I XHy's Bond Issue Expect Decision Within 10 Days City attorney Robert H Anderi son. who. along with light and power department superintendent U C. I’eitlbone. city auditor Ed Kauffman, and consulting engineer IJ. R Emery attended a bearing before the Indiana public service commission Wednesday reported today that the outlook U "favor able ' for the approval Os this city's proposed bond issue. The bond*. WOO.OOO worth of them, are for the construction of the auxiliary power plant a* well a* the purchase of a diesel engine The total cost of the project will amount to tI.IM.tMW. »2«3.0Ut of, which will come out of the light and power department’s cash bat-' am-e Anderson said that he presumed approval, if It I* forthcoming, would be given "within the next 10 days." He said that the hearing lasted from about 10 a m Wednesday until 5 o'clock that evening Approval seemed Imminent after state engineers testified before the board that the project was "entirely feasible " WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Saturday eaeewt fee a few anew fturrlee neiViwial part lea. C*M beginning to mederM* alewly nerthweet half Eaton day. Lew tenlgh* aer* t* * above euewpt ears U » below northeast Higa Saturday IMS.

Mitt Eileen Goimer Loader The last baU<M count for the title of "Mias Merry Christmas." released today by queen contest chairman L. R Zintamaster. revealed that Mis* Eileen Geinier. at the Decatur Catholic high school, ha* replaced Mis* Leis White of De-i catur high, a* leader Mis* Geinier has 1.342 votes to date, while Mhos! White follow* With 1.490. Miss Remit* Thieme, of Monmouth high school, with 992. Miss Shirley Fox. jof Pleasant Mill*, with 749. Miss ; Carolyn Egly of Adams t’entraf; ‘742. and Mi** I’at Johnson, of Jeftelson 4*9 - ! I ..I Annual County S. S. Convention Planned Will Hold Services Sunday And Monday The annual Adam* county Sun day school convention will be held Sunday and Monday, with the program announced today for the two day affair. The Sunday afternoon service will be held at 2 o’clock at the Geneva Evangelical I'nited Brethren ■ church The aftirnoon program Is: worship in song. Lloyd Munro, with i4*orothy Farlow as pianist; scripture and prayer, the Rev. M. W. Burkholder, Apple Grove church: music. Berne Missionary chureh; visual aid* In Bible itory telling. Mrs. Olin A. Krehbiel; girls' ensemble. Geneva high school; *ddresa. the Rev C K Sandy Winona Lake; offertory prayer, the Rev W P Thorne; closing prayer, the Rev. Garth Shepherd The Sunday evening service at 7:30 o clock Will be held at the Firat Mennonlte church In Berne, with the following program worship in song. Clyde Sprunger. prayer, the j Rev. C A Schmid; Berne high school, a capetia choir; address. Rev Sandy; music. Mennonlte , Men's chorus offertory prayer, th* : Rev J: Pritchard Am*tut»; picture* of Holy Land shown by Rev. Sandy; closing prayer, the Rev. Olin A. Krehbiel Tbe annual banquet, closing the convention, will be held at (:15 p.m Monday at the Pleaaant Mill* high school gym The banquet la primarily for young people and Christian Workers. Th* program follows: organ music. Mr* Eari Cha**: ma*ter of ceremonies. Gordon M Uex-htjt; group singing. Freeman Barkhalter, with Mrs, Burkhilter a* pianist; solo package—eaxaphon*. Myrna Foor, cor Wet. Colleen Evans: clarinet. Marilyn Sipe; trombone. Jim WHaou; violin rolo. Freeman Burkhalter, address. Rev. Handy

MacArthur's Drive To End Korean Warfare By Christmas Rolling On

Mercury Drops New Zero This Monung Unofficial Marks Os Foor Bdow Zero Old man winter, who. like a super salesman, got hl* foot In the door last weekend, cam* Into tbe boas* Thanksgiving day. and sat around aa it be were a member of the family ' Starting with rain that turned to ■sow. th* wintry weather cauaed the thermometer to plummet to a new low for the season today, when thermometers here and throughout the stale registered four degrees below aero. Mias Rosemary Spangler reported a tour-beiow reading at her home southwest of Decatur thia morning. Earl Blackburn, guard at the General Electric plant, said It wa* three below there at 5:30 am The Decgtwr Democrat thermometer registered two degree* above , aero at * o'clock Berne'* coldest i waa one below aero. .....c ft »a> >ep<H-ted by tbe Vnlted ' Pre** lhat Indtanapoli*'* three below reading wa* tbe coldeel No- ( vember 24 on record. Previously tlu> coldest wa* eight above In 1393 That is generally true throughout th* state, and in this area Though no ofticial record is available, it is believed that today It the MMeet . November >4 tor Decatur. The long range weather outlook could make the fainthearted shad ’ der. ter the weatherman said, la a ' five-day outlook, that trMperatures would range from 10 to 15 degree* ! below normal The cold wave will ! ease somewhat Sunday,but another marked change to colder ' weather will hit Indiana by Mon day. and will ease again by Wednesday The cold wave that hit the midwest spread to the Atlantic coast and "speared deep into the south land " the United Press report said. Hi added, though, that Californians 1 returned to work after th* Thank*, giving holidays sporting fresh sun tans after lolling on th* beach in summeplik* heat But the weather, which didn t he-| tTwra Ts ruwe *l*> | John A. Haggard Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon > John Allen Haggard. 92. retired Adams county farmer, died at 6 i a m Thursday at the home of his daughters in Berne, where he had I I lived for the past six week* Death - followed a long illness of compli . cations. Born In Fayette county. O„ Nov ; 25. 19*7. he waa a boa of John and . Sarah Allen-Haggard, and bad . spent moat of hl* life in Adams . county. He moved to Decatur one i year ago. and to Berne six week* ago. H|* first wlfa. Susie Marti, t died in 19«9. and bls second wife, Amelia Walker, also preceded him . iu death He wa* a member of the Weai leyau Methodist church, three mile* i southeast of Monroe Surviving are three daughter*, i Mrs. Addle Gilbert of Monro*. Mis* , Dorothy Haggard and Mr*. France* . Beitler of Berne; one son. Bam ■ Haggard of near Monroe, a stepl daughter. Mr* Oate Johnson of . Fort Wayne; five grandchildren; . ail great-grandchildren; three brother*. Henry of Monroe. Jaaon of > Holiday. N. D . and Harry of Pon- , tlac, Mich., and three sisters, Mr*, i Robert Noffsingar and Mr*. Grace ■ Erp of Monroe, and Mix Ed Roe of I Decatur i Funeral service* will be held at k l;3i> pm. Sunday at tbe hotne and ■ at 2 o’clock at the Wesleyan Metho- . dist church, the Rev. W F. Sider* and the Rev Noah Wiuierhalter ■ officiating Burial will b* in th* ■ Ray cemetery aear Monroe The • body will be removed from the Ixibenstein funeral home to the residence, where friends mey cell after 4 o'clock HU* afternoon

Proposes four Powers Decide Formosa Fate Proposal Made By United States To Settle On Formosa

Washington. Nov. 24 »H'P1 —‘ The United State* announced to-, day that it has proposed that the fate of Formosa be determined by lhe Paxtific big four power* -Russia. Great Britain, the U. S. and Nationalist China. The American proposal was made ia a circular memorandum to 12 countries that may play a. part in writing a Japanese peace treaty The United States suggested that ft the big four pwweg*' could not agree on Formosa* future, lhe United Nation* general assembly ■ ■ e. 1 — -■ ■ .. fUUWW wVvIOv w det Russia promptly replied that the Cairo and Potsdam agreement* aF i ready have decided that Formosa should be returned to Chin*. The Ru**iaus challenged the United States to explain what it meant * with It* latest plan for Formosa 1 <Form«*a I* aow th* seat at Qeu--1 eralhtaimo Chiang KaiShek's Chi arse Natrouatiai goverament and Its last major atroagboM. Preaidxut Truman at the outset of the Korean war ordered the U S. seventh fleet to "neutral!**" the island io prevent Chin*** Commun- 1 Ist attm k» on Formosa as Well as] ■Nationalist assault* on the Coni-, , muutst-ueld mainland of China The exchange of memoranda made puthic by the state department. also disclosed the first round in a Soviet-American fight over whether the Nationalists or Communists would represent China in the Japanese treaty negotiations The United State* favor* seating Chiang's Nutiotiaßst government at the treaty table Russia, however, replied that the Communist Chinese regime has a ■ special Interest" in I the Japan*** treaty | The mildly worded Russian reply I I consisted mostly of questions about the American plan United States proposals tnclud ed 1. "Any nation and all nations at war with Japan which ar* willing to make peace on the basis pro- ■ posed” would sign the treaty ' ! 2 Japan's ' membership in UN] tTwea Ta Paa* *•»!

Clifford Morshall - Is Taken By Death Former Decatur Man Dies At Fort Wayne Clifford T Marshall! 4*. M3O Sunnymede Drive, pdrt Wayne, a reaident of Decatur most nt bi* Hfe. died at 4; 15 oeiock Thuraday morning at the Iren* Byron aanitorium. where he had been a P* Gent three month* He had been ill for the la»t eight month* He wa* born 'in Tipton county Oct. 5. 1901 a son of Orlen and Mary Brown-Mgrshal! While a resident ot Decatur he was a member of the First Baptist church Surviving are his wife. Mary C,;. hie mother who lire* in Decatur a daughter. Mr* Mildred Strahm of Flanagan. Hl : one son Sgt Clifford Marshall, with the army air force In England: three stepchildren. Roeetta D Flenaler of Niceville Fla Martin W Teeple ot New Orleans La and Mrs. K E Helmke of Fort Wayne: nihe grandchildren one brother. Otto of Jackson. MlchZ and two aiatera. Mrs. Dora Ray of Columbia Clfv and Mr* Pauline Beery rtf Decatur The body wa* removed to the Black fnaeral bowl*. , where trie*!* mar call after 4 o'ebx'k this aherarvon Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending word from the son In England

Price Five Cents

Advonccs Os Up To 15 Miles Reported , As Opposition To Dote Only Slight Tokyo. Saturday Nov. (UPI —A massive offonalva to end the war tn Korea quitkly and bava American Gia "boat* by Cbriat-. mas" rolled forward up to 15 mile* Friday American and South Korean division* and a BritiabAust rattan brigade jumping off at * am in tbe start of Gea Douglas MacArthur'* flaal o«en»4ve. met only ■ scattered opfamittoe la tbe openinK j phase of their attack along a 75mile front However, the Untied Nation* force* were nearing the main Chi ue*eNi>rth Korean defense* end heavy fighting was tn be expected stem force Steven* of the American 24th division set the pace ad vanciag up the we«t coast highway to f'hohgju. 15 miles from tbe snowcovered hill* from which they launched their aaaautf The South Korean lat division ' swept nine ' mllSi "acraas. hUU gptrjde. the main toad to tbe Vaht river dams, and Friday night waa" 1 reported only three miles abort of ’ Yaechtm where |>owerful Commun ist fortes were reported maaaed Task force Nightingale of tha t American 25tb div Maa. newly fa lhe line, wa* behaved to be aithkh ’ three miles of t‘a*an at Ranged dong, northeast of Ipsok. Th* ion,Mtn man Chtneae and North Korean army wa* believed ■ to have set ui> its strongest dej feuse* op a Un* running fr<fnv ■ Chong Ju. through Taechon and Un- ■ san to Huicbon approximately go I tiiile»"iipriver on the Chongdion Gen Douglas MacArthur flea to | Korea io touch off th* offensive personally He told Maj Gen John Couitei. commander of th* U S 9<h corps "You tel! ihetn that when they gel up to she Yalu river. Jack, theyI can-all cbm* hojtte I want to make good my,statement that they will eat Christmas dinner at home ’ Before returning U' Tokyo MacArthur Hew in his unarmed Constellation Seep more than it»o miles along the- Yalu From his plane. ] MacArthur could see metre than 30 mile* into Communist China. American jet fighters and Mustangs provided brisfting ait cover for hi* flight—from the ground up to 35.o«0 feet Across the Yalu. the Chine** hare }an estimated 400.U00 to j troops massed Tokyo observers ;said MacArthur’s decision to , launch hl» offensive -now gras a tTwew T* raw* W.ldH ■ Funeral Held Today For Dr. 0. E. Smith Mr. and Mrs. W P Schrock, daughter Miss Jani* and son Will ham went to tndianaqvolis this morning to attend the funeral *•<•*- 1 tewa for Dr. p. E Smith well i known osteopath, who died Tne*. i day. Dr Smith hack practiced in Indianapolis 40 year* and in Wanking ton. D.C. 10 year* after graduating from Butler University and th* Kirksville. Mo.~ school of ostetc pathy He arae superintend**! rs the Central Christian church at ludtnnapoli* and, very active in youth wnrtt Surviving are the widow Mr*. Nellie Jane Schrock Smith, formerly of thia city, a daughter. Mr* Helen B*etcher ot Indianooli*. and two granddaughters

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