Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1950 — Page 1

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SEVERE WINTER STORM HITS EAST STATES . . _ — - - - ,

Allied Troops Pushing Ahead

Massive Drive 45-50 Miles OfManchiiria Only 55 Miles From Soviet Siberia In Powerful Campaign ■ULL £ T I N Tokyo, Eunday. Mov. 24.— (UP)— Gan. Oeugia* MacArthur'* headquarter* afMiounced today that the Gauth Korean capital dlvlalati had captured Uta big northeast part at Chon* jin, M mile* tram the Siberian harder, without opposition. Tokyo. Nov 25 <l*P>— The massive United Natkin* "home by Christmas offensive leaped to within « to 50 miles ot Manchuria and .'•& mile* at Hot lot Siberia to day >a fighting which pitied American plane acalact Hwl- op horns-tux-k Allied forces in the central sector and on the eartern flank ran »mack iatoCommaairi opposition in the ftrat bid batlte of the new offeu • > sirs Hat ua tbr western flank. the] knockout assault at 111 van rollin* I toward th* Talk river without op- j position On th* ee*t vuaat, Soiittl Koreans flanked Chongjln and aeiP rd a town fire mil** north of It. IM Douglas MacArthur’s two day-old ••aetrrackrt offensive" Was paced na the northwest front by th* Uta at th* U. H 2«h diviatob the ftrat American* In the wwr and deirrartadd to be the first out of h Th* 24th made an unopposed threat up th* eenet through Chong ja, M mile* from th* Mstxhurlan teorder. and kept rlaht on going Hat th* offensive ran into trouble Southeast of Taechon. In the central sector of the Urmlle-stretch of the UN Un* where the largest number of troop* aa* massed The enemy made «n cud run around th* east hide of the South Korean line and sprinted st* mile* into I N territory An estimated regiment of ('hi , Jir.r Struck another unit of KOK I*l division troops southeast tis j raechon before dywn and drove them back several thousand yard*. The South Koreans pushed right hack with air support, but .were hi Id up short ot Taechon while artillerv and planes hammered an estimated three regiments of Reds ting In the hills around the city. —UN planes strafed Communist horse cbapliy on the western front, where the Srwth Korean* had hem in trouble They caught a group of enemv horsemen near Taechon and knocked 16 to 50 of them riff their mount k. ■> Farther went, the 24th Went oik unmolested by the counterattack’ Ing Red*. The division kept right on going after capturing bombed-out Chong ju. once coastal anchor of -the enemy’s defense line, without firing a shot. Some 50 miles ahead lay the border city of Slnuiju. capital of the little that remains of Red —Korea. ; • —- — ■ The Nth army reported that all seven American and South Korean divisions still were advancing iluad of schedule along the 75-mlle front against sporadic resistance. ■ j- , Evening Hours For Christmas Shopping Decatur retail merchants today agreed to th* following evenhihours to prevail through Decern her 23. according to R W Prnden executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. who made a survey of all business houses. Decatur stores wlft'.rernain op-trl each evening until 9 pm. begin-1 nlng December 14, Kruden said In addition, the stores -will remain open each Thursday afternoon durlie; fiecembe beginning with the 7th. but excepting the 2Sth. WEATHER 'sConsMerabl*. cloudiness tonight and Sunday, with anew flurries north and east central portion*, with locally 4to | 10 tachos, accumulating near Lake Michigan. Not quite ao cold northwoot tonight Low tonight i*ro to 10 above. High Sunday 14 to 22, frosh northwosterly winds.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ’ ONLY OAILV MWSMMO AOAMh COUNTY

! i JI .wlw-i Carolyn Egly Mias Egly, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Valentine Egley, of route 4, is owe of th* <tx contestants whom people are voting on until December 2 tn determine who shall reign a* "Mia* Merry Christmas' In the giant Manta Chiu* parade to be held in Decatur the afternoon of December 4 Mia* Egly'* picture was unavailable previously when - those of contestants were run In . the Decatur Democrat Miss Egly I* president of the senior rias* at Adam* Central, and secretary ot I the Rekamoneh dub She is also bcftve tn"ctam-h: work In her community IntanuiiMial St Ark Expdio* Opened More Than 11,000 , Head Os Livestock I Chicago. Nov. 25—(VPr- BluebliMKls of the farm world went on display today as the 51st annual International livestock exposition, agriculture* biggest show, opened an elght-day run More than ll.tum head of live-1 J stock, groomed and fattened to ■ near |>eifectlon. tilled the massive | 'international ampitheater al -thej edge of the Chicago vtts kyards i Rosy-cheeked farm youth from, the cornbelt, bronzed ranchers from the aest and "dudes" from | the city filed up and down past i the pens of marcelled steers, sleek I hog* and giant draft horses. Hoys and girls between the age* of H> and 21 nervously paraded judging rings for the junior live, stock feeding contest, opening event on the program Judges today were selecting a grand champion steer, a grand champion harrow and a grand champion pen of three lambs in the Junior division. Lucky youngi sters whose animals win top honors were entitled to enter the stiff i>p»s tompetlilon . which begin* Monday. I More than 570 youthful exhlbltors from 16 states entered 700 steer’. 92 hogs and 54 lamb*. Preliminary judging cut the number of steers to 255 Irefore today’s elimination started Other events today Included the. , colldgtate livestock judging contest. In which .12 agricultural col- , leges front 31 states entered teams. I Sam Goldstine Is Seiied As Suspect In Ligonier Theft Bam Goldstine. 5». ,of Columbia : City, rout* four, formerly of For', i 'Wayne was arrested yesterday in connection with a Ligonier super. | market burglary Police hed been, on the wstch for him and h* was arrested by Detective Sgt Mitchell | Cleveland In Fort Waxne Goldstine I* on* of the men who held utp th* old Linn Drove bank I and In hi* eacape kidnapped John ’ Raker, sheriff, and the Ute Dallas ' Hower, deputy. ’ The robbery and kidnsnrdtjg took ' place Dec. 2, 1»26. Gnldst ine’s ae-Jl commllce, was William Rlellv. Ths,1 received prison terms. Ooldstln* I has served about 20 yean of hla I life In prison. i Former Sheriff Raker has been : confined ,to hi* home the past f<*w week* with Ilin***. H* I* SO. „ J

Police Will Cleir Streets Nmf Plsnt Streets Are Blocked Near G. E. Factory in an effort to combat serious , flaunting of sign* and to alleviate an enforced cramped condition of surrounding resident*. Mayor Doan and <lty police have promised a campaign of clearing the slraota near the General Elvvlric company Th* crowded condition* aro mostly noticeable, it was learned in a recent, cursory survey, while the second shift at the plant i* coming to work, and before workers on the first shin have loft. Mayor Doan and chief Jama* Hordern have borne th* brunt of rrftk-iam of the aituatlon. eapocJally from those residents on Indiana and Marshall afreet*, between Ninth and Tenth street*. Thai the complaints were jastifled was pointed out in the fact that some of the residents on those two streets were al times unable to get their car* out ot their driveways. ‘ Employes of the second shift would report for work disregarding the company’s parking lot and Instead park their car* close to the sales in reatrk-ted zones For Indiana. Marshall, and part* at Ninth street are limited- to threv hour parking City police have never Iteen given proper authority to enforce I lie law, but chief Border* claimed that if anyone wanted the situation cleared up. "just suy the word, and give u* the backing.” The ordinance haa never been duly enforced since its inception several years ago, and the general habit has been to flaunt the signs --clearly visible on all streets — proclaiming the parking limit*I Inins To deter future unnecessary parking Hi suxh restricted zones, disciplinary action has been discussed by official", and a concentrated plan of action will lie undertaken. One of the outstanding I area surrounding the General Elecj cars parked in private drives will I he towed away at the owner’i exipense I Warnings first, then more stern I action, it is believed, will diminish this parking problem. In company. witK Magur Doan. ; a Democrat reporter checked the I area surrounding the Geenral Electric plant Friday, and In two and one-half block* noted 41 cars improperly parked In the three-hour . limit zones At th« same time, the north parking lot retained enough room for at least 100-150 additional automobiles The problem has arisen from those early arival* who refuse to utilize the proper parking lots maintained by the company. Th* north parking lot la about one block from the gale* through which employe* enter the plant. A further action might result In making Ninth street a one-way thoroughfare. It I* almost Impossible to get through the street from either t direction, from off Nuttman or Dayton streets, people arrive double park, awaiting employes scheduled Io get off shortly. 1 This problem would not lie too serious, perhaps. If there were ! not the Improperly parked car* lining Ninth street. Mayor Doan said that he didn't want to legislate against motor Ist*, but the condition has liecome serious enough, and the complaints logical enough, that some- sort rs l action must he taken Auction School To Open Here Monday Classes fill begin Mdnddy for the winter session of the Repper’ auction school. It was announced today by Miss Eleanor Reppert. director of the school, who stated that enrollment had not been completed for thia term She added that auction sales bv the student* will be held in Mansfield’s garage, on South Second street, as was the practice last year The first sale, she said, would Tw conducted negt Saturday craning.

Docctur, Indiana, Safer jay, Novombor 25, 1950

Dedicate New Parsonage Sunday ‘ ‘ 7” ’ ; Xp Js ■ \l' j JuB ' z * t -7 - ■‘c IB H IIH H H I ‘\ ' c s -• IB H ,

Tfee buMttfal new Mhaay gellrul Vwited Brethrau parMNMge* located acrooo the afreet from tin ebsnh on WinchMiw atreet. wM be dedicated Nuaday nfternoao at 2:M o'clock. Br. Reuben H. 4 uel lev. executive secretary of the board of Christian education at the Evangelical Vai tad BrMhrgn church, will be the guest speahar The R*v H. H. HaaenfleM. dlat rict Mperintettaent. will assist la th* ceremoelea. which will be presided over by -be Rev. F. H. Wil lartf pastor of Bethany church * The dedicatory service* will be held in th*-church and th* parsonage will b* open all day for those who desire to Inspect the new modThe parsonage, which is eta sructed of brich, was built by Btsßemaier Construction Co. with the plumbing balßff installed by Haagk’s the heaUag by Ntebard Girod sad tba electrical Wtefag by Veruoa Castor. 4|r. Sunday school claaeee. chart* organisMlon* and individual member* of Hethany church sponsored various projects of th* construe-

Chinese Reds Seek To liberate' Korea American Prisoners , Told Os Missions Eighth Army Headquarter* tn Korea.• Nov 25.—(UP) — Nineteen wounded American prisoners ot war released by the Chinese were told before they were freed that the Chinese mission was to liberate all Korea from U. S. forces, the eighth army announced The eighth army issued a summary oft statement* by the men who were released Wednesday aud sent back to their own lines. "They were told by their Chinese interrogators that Chinese troop* in Korea are 'volunteers’; that the Chiuese Communist mission was to liberate all Korea from the Americana; that Chinese Communists did not like war, but war was necessary in order to form a united Korea.” tbe statement said: "Borne of the former prisoners believed they were released so they might tell other U. 8. troops ot their good treatment at the hands of Chinese forces. They were toM Jast.before their release that if they were forced to fight again they should tell their trieade to fire into tbe air and then give up."

Decaturites Shiver In. Cold, Blustery Squalls

One thing about this wintry weather—it creates many styles and adds Impetus to otherwise lacklustre personalities. For example, when the north wind blows, bringing with it a blast of chill air as well as scattered anow fishes, people huddle into the collar of their eoat* like a. turtle retracting hl* head. - And th* walk Is a modified bop. skip and jump for the most part. People bend Into the wind, or scurry with It. almost always Intent on getting out ot It. The wind helped keep the thermometer hovering around the sere mark here in Decatur, and added some woes in other part* of tbe nation. , The United Pres* report* that snow. ”17 Inch** deep." oovsred Pittsburgh, and waa still falling. New York aud Cleveland, tbe report aaid. wore also heavily hit. Tbe U H weather bureau aaid that tn the Appalachian tnouatain area

• tfao and ale* financed the project*. ; k b reported that aurnrient money kas taea raised to completely pay for the sow home prior to the d»dt Uffioa. . Various committee* from *be - church selected the material*, aad i the eoauractlua was under the g«aera) supervision of the trastees who are: Charles E. Hocker, president; William L Lian, vice-president; , Earl C- Fuhrman, secretary-tress-urer: Amo* Ketchum and Raymond Eiehraaaer. CoMtriKtkm was started several months ago. The home is located on th* sbme tot where the old, manse stood. The old frame st rue-1 tar* was sold at auction last summer sad moved to Booth Fifth! street, where M is being convened! into an apartment building. The dedication ceremonies will be preceded by regular church and Bunday school services Bunday 1 asovaiag During the eburta hour at l*:30 e’eloch. Dr. MUeWr *l*o wffWbwwWm 4mM* i The afternoon aervicee are open - to the public and the public ab» I is invited to visit the new parsonage. any lime during the day. I— . - .

Good Fallows Club Places Boxes Here The Good Fellows Club sponsored by the Detta Thela Tsu sorority, today placed boxes for contributions lo their annual drive In the First Stale Bank. Holthouse Drug Co. and the office of the Dally Democrat Each year the club provide*! clothing, toys and Christmas boxexi for needy families in this conimun-l ity from public donations with thel assistance of local merchants and I the fire department. Edwin Roehm Rites Monday Afternoon Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pan. tESTi Monday at tbe St. Paul'* Lutheran church at Con. voy. O. for Edwin A. Roehm. 60 ■who died suddenly Friday after noon of. a cerrin-al hemorrhage. Surviving are his wife. Ahna. a daughter. Mr*. Huffman of Decatur; a son. Eugene of Fort Wayne; two grandsons; a brother. Carl of Spencerville, and two sisters, Mr*. Thomas Alapaugh of Jackson. Mich., and Mrs. Grace Sears of Akron. O. Noon Edition —i

a snow storm there was "one ot the heaviest oa record." Tbe r.aow flurries being whipped around Decatur almost, but not quite, deterred some hardy soul from attsndlng such outdoor extravaganaaa a*, say. the IndianaPurdue football game, but last Indication* were that ticketholders were making their way to Lafayette and were going to take their chance* with the element* The towuat temperature reading reported for last night was one de tree below gero in Decatur. But it I* not too much to become pessimistic about, for the weather man promise* u* miMyr weather: says U s going to go up to 15 or 2<>l degree* today, and tonight II won't go much below 10 above. Tbe apaurar. of couroe. la to tattoo up tbe overcoat just a litU* tighter. And if you’re *ttll cold, maybe you could add an extra pair of rad tlanneis

One Os Worst Winter Storms On Record As ' q ' Big Cities Paralyzed

Rassii Speeding Up Atom Weepow Wofk

To Lead To Request For More U.S. Anns Washtugton. Nov. 25.—(UP)— Intelligeace reports of rapid Soviet atomic progress noon Wilf cause a presldeutlal request that congress pour more hundreds of million* into th* U. 8 atomic weapon nreenal. Budget director Frederick J. Lawton reviewed the request with President Tramas this week. The president is expected to send It to congraes next ureek. probably oa Wednesday < The intelligence report*, an Informed source said, have been studied by tbe appropriate congressional committees and are expected to assure prompt approval of tbe new money requeet. These report*, tbe‘source said, underscore the fact that Russia ha* gon* a lot farther and a lot faster in development of atomic weapons j than U. 8. postwar military planners believed It could I Together with the Korean war. ■ t|xey have given atomip. military and congressional leader* a sense of urgency that was lacking six months ago. Th* source would not disclose jest how much Mr. Tromaa will ■ ask foe th* new Mamie speedup But he said "U Is a ton sub stantiai requeet." Chalrmaa Brien McMahon. D„ Conn , ot the houae-eenate atomic committee, and others on the Inside have been saying for a long time that the United States has not been putting a big enough share ot its defense spending Into atomic weapons One official, sjieaking anonymously. said a few weeks before the Korean war started that Russia may be outspending us 2 to 1 for A-bombs Subsequent discovery in North j Korea ot facilities for pro cessing atomic raw material providted an illustration of the far flung J Soviet A-bomb effort; Study Passage Os Excess Profits Tax House Democrats In Study Os Proposal Washington. Nov. 25 — tUP) — House Democrats today considered pushing through a "conservative" excess profit* tax bill during the lame duck session and reexamln Ing the entire revnue problem next year Democratic members of the taxframing house ways and means committee met secretly late yesterday but reached no conclusions Jon the kind of excess profits tax |legt*lai!uu. they will. support There was talk of two ap proache*: 1 A bill applying solely to excess profits earned after the big defense program started. It would not involve any additional taxes st this lime on s corporation’s normal earnings, but would impose high taxes on earnings over the normal rate 2. A bill providing a more moderate excess profit* tax but coupled with an increase in the normal corporation Income tax rate - Passage of an exceaa profits tax measure is one of the top items to be considered by President Truman and hi* legislative "big four" at a meeting Monday to plan strategy for the short congressional session. Senate majority leader Bcott W Lucas of Illinois and whip Francis J|. Meyers ot Pennsylvania, both of whom lost bid* for reelection, and house Democratic leader John W McCormack of MaaeachMetle and whip Percy Priest of Tonne*ioo will meet with tbe president st tbe Whit* Howe. Other major Item* to bo discussed ar* a Mhday extension of rent ’-ontrole. legislation granting state<Tnea se Pew* May

Chinese Reds Go Before UN Council Today To Argue Charge Os U.S. Aggression Against Formosa Lake Success. Nov. 25.—(UP>— Communist China goes before tbe United Nation" security gffumil ro day to argue tbe charge of American aggression’’ agninst Formosa and to face questions on the presence of its troops in Korea Dr Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia, council president for November, unexpectedly summoned a meeting at the il-nation council for later today. Bebler hoped to hold as many meetings a* possible before next Friday when Nationalist China’s Tlagfu F Tstang takes over the council presidency for December. The meeting will mark the first appearance, of .th* Chinese Communists in any organ of tbe world organixation. A nine-member dele gntfon headed by Gen HstaClraan arrived by air yesterday morning. Tba delegation was sent by Mao Tse-Tung specifically to pres* the charge limi President Transas's dispatch at the U. B. ?th fleet to Formosa to "aeotrallse” the area against attacks from either Communist or Nationalist sides constituted aggression against Chin*. But Bebler. In convoking the .meeting, coupled two Items «n the] tentative agenda which must be approved before the day's debate begins Tbe first was complaint of aggression against Formosa’— the Peking charge which wax ralx ed officially in the UN by Russia Th* other was "complaint of aggression against Korea’’—the item which has occupied most of the ; council's time since June and Under which most of the council’s action in the Korean war has been authorized The coupling of the two items, made it possible for the council. 1 under its rules of procedure, to de- , bale the entire far eastern war situation with the Chinese Com- ; munists present hut not voting , 1 Dewey Takes lead In Tragedy Probe Demands Trustees Os Road Resign I New York. Nov 25 — <UP> —Gov Thomas E Dewey undertook a "complete housecleaning" ot the bankrupt, wrecktridden Long Island railroad, today aa. the . "only, hope" of giving its riders yfe transportation He issued a resignor-b* fired ultimatum last night to bankruptcy trustees David E Smucker and Hunter L Delatour. federalappoint ed managers of the heavily-traveled commuter line op which 27 persons were killed and 32* injured in a Thanksgiving Eve wreck He told Smucker and Delatour In person that unless they resign by Monday, immediate court action would be started to force them out Dewey took personal command ot * top level Investigation of th* tragedy He conferred again at * *.«. CBT with state. cRy and coun- 1 ty officials until! I am in a 14bour session debating causes of th* wreck and how to make the Ix>ng | Island accident-proof In four wrecks since the railroad went Into receivership one year and nine months ago. 11l person* have been killed and more than Slid ' injured. ( Earlier Dewey disclosed that pre- i llmlnary invesllgatlon showed that the engiaeer ot th* express that rammed the rear ot a stalled local at Kew Garden*. Queens had driven J through one warning light and on* stop signal at 40 to 45 mile* an I (Twee Se Tame SSal I

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New York, Cleveland And Pittgburgh Are Hard Hit; Midwest Is Warned Os Snow By United Press One ot the worst winter storms on record tattered eastern state* today, crippltag transportation and communications in three naetrir jHilitan areas and scores of smaller chic* New York, Pittsburgh and Cleveland were bit heavily. At least 25 persona were dead, some in fires, some from heart sitae ta tattling deep enow and sevXin auto and plane accidents. *V WMfe BliMßtltK. Mom ot the damage was caused by anow. which was 17 inches deep tn the steel capital Os Pittsburgh and still was falling. Rain, winds and high tides also caused heavy damage The U. 8 weather bare* sail that the snow storm in the Appalachian mountain area was "one of .the heavtom on record" In New York Citg. Richmond Borough (Staten island) was hn>lated from the rest of the • chy When high (Me* caM-eHad ferry service. Power line*, television antennas, phone wire* were d»«r A heavy snowstorm was in tbe of- ; «MPittsburgh virtually was paralyz- , ed. All street cor* were JtaUod . > Jones and LaughUu virtually <low , ed a IXtae-man rirei plane; Aew j di’Wf® * Hmm i switches and railroads to the steel plants auepended service. Cleveland police said their city was "completely paralysed" by up to a foot of snow; telephone nmi- ; panics accepted only emergency . long distance calls Itecaure operators couldn’t get to work Train* were late Rus lines were as mu, b as 14 hours late The snow extended south to Alabama and Georgia, and zero temperatures were recorded as far south aa Nashville. Tenn Freezing temperatures were felt as far south as the GuTf of Mekirrt In the northern Rockies and the northern plain* temperatures were moderating, to the relief of the farmers and their herds of meat animals The midwestern states remained cold, and were warned of coming snow ranging from flurries to heavy falls Light snow fell in Chicago But it was in the crowded cities of the eastern states. New York, Pittsburgh. Cleveland. Columbus and their neighboring town* that the cold hand of winter was felt the heaviest on the lives of ordinary people Wind knocked down the power line* to thousand* of homes in the Queens. Bronx and Richmond Boroughs at New York City. The high (idea, driven by winds of up to ta miles an hour, flooded the home* ot seaside dweller Plate glass store windows caved under the hammer blow* of wind, sparing neither the. small. .m«r«-.h ant ner the large Borne outgoing (Twee Te raws *ta» Morsholl Funeral Monday Afternoon Funeral service* for Clifford T Marshall, who died Thursday follouring a long illness, will he held at 2 pm Mondav at the Black funeral home, the Rev H J Welty officiating Burial will be in the Decatar cemetery. Friend* may rail at the funeral home until tizue of the sem h es ft*’ Jfc’ far, j