Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 279.

UN NOW FIGHTING "ENTIRELY NEW WAR;” U. S. BRANDS CHINESE AS AGGRESSORS

City, County Digging Out Os Paralyzing Snow

Public, Private Equipment .Used To Remove Snow On Streets, .Walks ~ Decatur was still digging out of Its worst »uow storm In many, many year* today. with the city dot nr th* hulk, of th* work utlli* ing its equipment on hand, and employing privately-owned a* well as their own truck*, to clear th* ntreet* of th* drifted snow which was piled almost meter high in the business district. At the same time, the city obttlned the services pf two of ' Henry. Swygans horses, hitched them to separate plow*, and were thus clearing many of the city's sidewalk* ' The two plows were used all day today, one ot them starting at Monro* street and clearing as many sidewalks as possible in a northerly direction, the other clearing -Idewalk* south of Monroe * Traffic moved at a more respectable pace today, not the tantallt- ’ Incly slow travel of Monday where more cars were stuck than ever before. » And while the city was brushing and digging away the show front its streets, like a man brush ing those stray bread crumbs front liis vest, the county roads were • becoming more passable About 400 miles of the county "s Ton miles of highdays were opened by noon today and a crew of highway men was working around lh* dis k. Phil Sauer, county highway superintendent reported today Th* wind .Monday night and a couple of in< bes of additional snow < losed ataiut I<M) miles of. mad but Sauer said that barring any serious breakdowns of high Way machinery, almost all roads would be opened In the next 72 hours Twenty emergency calls were received by Hie county highway department Sunday night and .Monday Most of these calls were from homes where a doctor was needed, and special crews of men drove through the make temporary openings. • Highway machinery was in operation on a 24-hour basis and an extra force of repair men was on hand at the county garage to be available immediately tn case of breakdowns so no time would be lost x,. „ The city. too. worked around the < lock . clearing the main thoroughfares of Decatur Using a loader normally utilized by the <-rty light and power department in transplanting coal from the rround to trucks, the snow on Second atroat. lrom Mauro* aoui6~ to Jefferson, was cleared on both sides during.the night Monroe street, between First and Third street, was also cleared Acker said that the loader would not lie iti use on the streets dur- , Inga possible three-hour period , this afternoon. when it will !•* used to load coal After that Is finished, however, the men will again resume the street-clear-ing process Acker stated that they will concentrate primarily on the business district at present, and put the loader to work wherever it's most convenient, where there are tewest obstructions by parked cars. Floyd 'Acker, city street depart ment superintendent, in charge of the work, would not estimate the amount of snow removed, but did -Aaay that a truck was loaded on the average of about every five |T»*~ Te Fane Tw«l WKATHKR Partly elnudy •* cleudy tonlpht and Wednesday. Oeea ■tonal enow flurries dess te Lake Michigan. Net much change in temperature. ,L«w tonight te >f. .High Wednesday JO to id-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I ..... .. , Indian to Stale Ol Semi-Isolation One-Way Traffic On Many Main Highways By I'nlted Press Persistent-sr.ow. which still fell ' in the eastern part of the state. 1 and covered the ground In all other 1 sector*, kept Indiana In a state of 1 eeml-iMilation today. Police records showed 13 deaths from the six-day siege of winter: weather The state police early morning ’ road report showed only eight highI ways still were blocked, but "many main roads have only one way traffic." a stat* trooper said Most transportation was back .»<» ' near normal, but delays going or i coming from the east weir reported ' on both railroads and bus lines- i Blocked secondary toads werdl expected to extend Thanksgiving ■ vacatloi» for many rural grade and high school student* to six days, : > because th* big yellow buses can't - buck snowdrifts Meanwhile, the weather hureuit • said the night's lows ranged between IS degrees at Terre Haute l and 27 Art South Bend It m< ■-.» parted to warm up a little today. ■ but not enough to cause any ex I tensive thawing, and there wasn't : enough sun to accomplish much i either. Most bus lines reported service J was back almost to notmal How j 'revet, (lieyhotfnd buses weren't go! ling east of Dayton. <l. for the; . third day in row. and Indiana' II Kailroad's buses were going'south- ’ : east of Shelbyville. Ttain service was goed excepj, ■from the east The Pennsylvania' . : railroad said Its two best trains ! from New York the Spirit of St , laiul* and the Jeffersonian.-both 1 . j were running about two hours he- >. hind schedule I Added to the list ot storm dead i: late Monday were the names of Paul H Etson. 45. Elkhart. and ■ Mrs Dorothy S. Brown. 2S. Kaismaxoo. Mich i Etson died in General hospital at . j Elkhart of exposure. He was , i found in an alley Thursday night , with his hands and feet froxen , Mrs Brown was killed near Peru f when a car driven by her husband , was hit broadside by a skidding truck- The driver. Robert E MiI Daniel. 24. also of Kalamazoo, was : held on a charge of reckless drlvj I ing ■■',- Annual Church Fair Postponed One Wed(, Weather Postpones i Presbyterian Fair Because of the snowstorm and in 1 clement weather, officials of the Presbyterian women's association 'lannounced that the annual Preshy 1 ' terlan church fair will he postpon-’ ' ed from Wednesday to Wrdnesday.; Dec. li. one week The women in charge stated that ' nince.mauy Adams county people ' had plaliped to attend the fair and ' ; because many of the county roads, ! were still impassable, the event ! would be held a week later Meals will be served at noon and , ' In the evening at the Presbyterian ’ church basement and 12 booths. 1 featuring all sorts of gifts and toys, i will be set un in the church. Dolls again will be the top few lure and each doll has been dressed differently, with all home-sewed clothing -and accessories • Homemade candy and other confections will f*atur* another booth. Th* public is asked to not* the postponement and all are invited Io the annual event I>ec 6. starting al lb o’clock In the morning and lasting until ’0 o'clock at night.

Thousands Slid Suffering From Storm Effects Cold, Snow, Block Marketeers Bring Added Hardships By United Press Cold. snow and black marketeer* I brought hardship to hundred* of I thousands of mid westerners and ' easterners struggling today to recover from the effect* of the | weekend's great storm. : About 154.000 |>ersons still lacked electricity, lights or heat In the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area and 117.000 were without telephone service About 100,000 telephones were out of service In New England and thousands in the area were deprived of lights and lte*l • • I Snow fell In part* of Pennsylvania and Ohio again today ‘but the fall was light. Temperature* hovered near freMing. adding to i the diM-umfoet of hentless families Reports ot casualties and damage were.still coming in from iso- ’ lated communities. Tin- latest United Press survey . showed M 8 death* attributable to "the storm and cold in the United States and Canada Damage thus far reported totaled >200.000.00(1 and some exports expected it to hit Stmi.OOO.OOO.OOO. A weather-born black market which had squeezed the price ot milk and bread to II a quart or a loaf to some customers in snowchoked Cleveland collapsed as the [city dug itself out of the snow. : and pri< es returned to normal. Black market-, also were report ! ed in some West Virginia cities Bread sold for 25 cents a loaf at > .Wheeling At Moundsville. W Va ~ I milk could lie purchased only with i a doctor's prescription Slowly hut surely, resident's of Ohio and Pennsylvania were! I throwing aside the heavy blanket ■of snow on streets and highways i "It appears." Ohio Gov Frank J laiusche said, "that the cities of i (Thio generally will resume their normal operations and that Cleveland. which was hardest hit. will definitely lie operating on a sub tTwrw Ta Faa, Ftvel I Grave Charges Are Made Against FBI Rising Clamor Os Dispute Is Caused ■ Washington. Nov 28—H'Pt—- > Grave charges against the FBI di-rei-ted toward removal of J Edgar Hoover are stirring a rising c lamor j.Of dispute here .j liudfmitiuty. invasions of civil | rights and polh-e hiutjrlitj! ar* among the eomptginB 1 made against the FBI in a ticsik by Max Lowen- , thal. "The Federal Bureau of lu- : vestigation." The book exploded In Washingi ton with considerable noise Lowendial has been idem it led. as a close associate of President Truman during hi* senate days and as his sponsor in friendships which turned him away from the Democratic party's conservative element* This association with Mr Tru- -' man, although long Inactive, ha* caused it to be widely believed here thal Tjowentha'.'s book had a prepublic*lJon„, White House okay. I ■ The jUnitetf Pres* was,, informed ': that no such approval was given The book is a free-swinging atl tack on the FBI from Hoover down I I —more than W page* of criticism 1 which the FBl's friend* in congress ■ already are answering. Sen Bourke B. Hickenlooper. R , la., told the aenate yesterday the book la "an utterly biased piece of propaganda." lie described Ixrwen--1 thal as "the new deal mystery man ' of• Washington." Lowenthal itate* that hi* book I* wholly documented and that the ' replie* ot Hoover and other* to all H charge* are contained in it. Hl* •■critics challenge this claim of objectivity and assart lhat material 'T*»» T* Fag* n»l

ONLY OAILY NCWWAMR IN A»AM« COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 28, 1950

IL N. Force* Set Bock - I —j, j ' ■ ( A .Z>*. -L J r iXI I IN A MAtBIVt counter-drivo Red forrea in Korea drove UN armien ' hack 12 to 20 miles U. R. ini RUruweHli advanced northwest o( > tfce Chaiiffjta roaervodn toaedtmT highway in a drive to nltee behind the foe. On Central front U ST. !Mv battalion wax rut off Houtheant of I'nsan (21. and another unit wan overrun aouthwrnt of Kujang. lied forces aiming at split ting the UN front at Tokrhon nmaMied bai'k the South Korean nth Dh . north of Yongwon The South Korean Mh> ISth Regiment, was battered back near Maengiui|tW(4). The Red drive forced the U. »S 24th, aimed toward Ninuiju. to .halt at < aptnred Chongjtt <.'>♦ The U S 7th Div is consolidating in llyeaanjin <€» area on Kalu river border. 0

/ ' ■ ” " ;l lo Build Plants For J H-Bomb Explosives New Atomic Works Is Announced Today Washington. Nov 28 (t’l’l A congressional source announced today that construction of plants to make H-bomb explosives will start early next year at u site in , South Carolina 15 miles south ot Aiken The plants will he built by E I Dupont lie Nemours n Co, on a 250.000-acre tract in Aiken and , Barnewell counties. South Caro-1 Una Congress has appropriated I |2BO.O<H» ,<WHI for the project. The plants will produce tritium, a heavy form of hydrogen which will lie the prime explosive of the so-called super l>omb. If the llbomb should prove aot to lie teas-1 ’ ible. the plants could Im- used 10, make A bomb explosives" No weapons win ne made otrtbc'. 1 sire; only theff explosive contents f The AEC and Dupont spent four | months looking for a suitable site ( for tha new atomic works. Then were assisted by a five-man committee representing leading V. b. engineering firms. The new project will lie knownas the Savannah river plant The ! river bounds one edge of the tract Dupont will start breaking , ground for the plants as soon a« the corps ot army engineers has acquired title lo the land tor the k government. It will be necessary to remove, about 1,500 families and re-estah-1 lish them elsewhere In: the next , I 18 months The $280,000,000 appropriated I for the new plants Is just a starter i on the H-bomb project. i Explosives manufactured at the i Savannah river plant will he made into bombs at secret works else- , where. • • There will be radiation haiards t at Savannah river just as there are ■ at Hanford. But It was emphaslr i ed that protective measures perfected by the atomic energy com- ; mission have given operation of • atomic furnaces a safety record I better than general Industrv’s i The South Carolina plants' funr- ■ tlon will be primarily military I But W peace should become a»sur tTwsw «• Pane mat I

' Delay Issuance Os c -Report Cards Here Walter J Kru k. *ur>*riiiteudent | |iof the IWsalur pittillc s* hisils. aim nuised today lhat rm*>rt curds ot the pupils, scheduled to be diatri •bitted today, will not lie issued until Friday afternoon The schools j were opened today with a good ■ attendance reported in wpfte of the j heavy snow Mrs Wilbur Petrie, is substituting as first grade teach ; er and Mrs Clyde Harns in the I third grade for teachers unable to! : arrive here becaime **f blocked i highways. * ' Truman's Program Meets Opposition Many Congressmen Opposing Frogram —Vj.,,.Washington. Nov. 28—(UPl - A big segment of the lame duck a determination to drag Us feet on President Truman':- 18-point program Among the president"* proposals for the final month of the 81st congress, only his request for more defense funds is sure of congressional approval Chances are good for action on rent control and aid tor Yugoslavia but there is only an outside chance for passage of an excess profits tax. Most o{ Mr Truman’s other pro- | posals. stymied when congress ad , journed two months ago for the iB6O political campaign, will stick right there i Some conferences scheduled for : today were expected to give clearer 1 indications of how much opposition there will he to various administration program* Republican policy * committee* scheduled meetings In both the house and senate. Southern. Democratic senators | were called Into a strategy huddle to dlscu** house-approved bills to, grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska. Mr, Truman urged senate action on th* statehood bill* yesterday in a letter to vice president Alb*n W Barkley. Rome Republicans oppose one., or both of the measure*, but mo»t of the opposition comes from southern Democrat*

200,000 Chinese Reds Battle United Nations Troops On Korea Front

Austin Tells UN Security Council China Reds Guilty Os Aggression L*k« Bucc«*s. N. Y, Nov 28 (UP)—Th* United Stat** accuoed Chines* communiat* to thrir face In th* United Nations tuday of "open and notorious" aggression against Korea Ambassador Warren R Austin. ■ chief of the U K. delegation, re- i layed to the 11-n*tion security: council Gen. Dougtss MacArthur * charge that 2H0.00U Chlneae com-1 mnnlst troops have l>een thrown I against the sagging UN line* in North Korea. , A* Antin hurled hi* charge Gen Wu Hsiu-Chuan. chief of a Chinese communiat mission sent here to pre** the Peking regime* claim that th* U,. S. I* guilty of aggres»ion against Formosa. *at unbllnk Ing at the end of th* council table.) awaiting his turn to talk ' "The security council.'' Austin said, "will wish to hear the latest hews frotn th* UN front In Korea Last wwak. the toccaa of the t'N opened a general attack designed to finish their assigned task of repulsing aggres*kin and restoring international pea<* and security iu the area -This attaik ha* t.iow been re- ! pulsed in circumstance* which make It clear that Chine** com munlst irmel fore** totall'tdt more than 2flti.ooo mm are no» engaged in North Korea They are supported by heavy reinfon ements | moving .forward from behind the ■ mteinational Isnimlary It now appears doubtful that the war in Korea can be quickly concluded It also appears clear beyond any doubt that what all the free I Tara te F*«e «»*> • — ’- j To Name Griffis As Ambassador To Spain United .Stores To Appoint New Envoy Washington, .Nov 28—(UP)—! I The United States has decided to • scud an ambassador to Madrid, it . was learned today The envoy will be Blanton Griffis. former U. S. ambassador to Argentina The formal announce ment Is expected early next year Griffis will be lhe first U. S : ambassador to set foot in Madrid • in five years Norman Armour re- • tired oh Dec .H. IMS, and ha* not been replaced i The post ha* been vacant In ac ! - cordabce with a recommendation -of the United Nations getiernl asI; setnbly In a slap at the totalitarian government of Generullssimo i Francisco Franco, the UN voted in i IMG to have all UN members with- • draw ambassadors fr< m Madrid i With American support, the UN also invited the Spanish people to ■ oust Franco, hut outside criticism only strengthened the Generalissi- ■ mo's position in the eyes -of the :' Spanish people Now the UN has backed down - and revoked It* ban on ambasaa■l dors The United States is going i along and. more, hi preparing to 1 grant loan* to Spain a* part of an economic political effort to make t. > Spain a valuable partner tn the • weatern alliance againat Commun- j i IMT ' . II Grifft*. a «3-yearold Bostonian, j ■ resigned recently a* ambassador to| i, Bueno* Airea. a post he had held : I; * little more than a year Ndw vacationing in Florida. Gris--11 fl* ba* held a variety of posts in I bu*lnes« iind government He ha* worked wjin the office ot strategic ■ aarvlces. the American Red Cro«*.l ! UN relief for Palestine refugees i and lit IM7 w*< U S ambassador to Poland

Acheson Says : War Situation Very Serious j Says Intervention By Chinese Reds Is 11 Extremely Serious L Washington Nov 28 '.VP'— , Secretary of state Dean Acheson I told senator* today the Chinese' Communist intervention in Korea - presents a "very «eriou*' situs'fin and may mask even more serious Russian intentions tn Europe Acheson appeared before a closed session ol the senate foreign re Hat ions committee a* his dspxrt ! ment dropped Its wai'-apd sse at i tiiude toward Red China and f rm ally branded It an aggressor in Korea Committee chairman Tern Con--1 nally t». T«x said Aeb**cn mitlln1, ed In detail a "grave slruarion" i which Soviet Russian imperitlisniY : ' haabrought upon the free people of I the world The secretary called for : "far ~ more japid creation of strength' in ■ western Europe. Connally said in ■a formal statement aft-r the n-c<' mg Two other senators said Acheson wa* com erned *t th*‘ m -sibility . that the Red move in Hcrea might, lie tntanl to mask a Russian aggressive move In Europe The -late department asked the U S delegation at the Visited Nations to make a move to brand Bed china an agxtessor in Kor» a and ,to demand withdrawal ot Chinese, : troops from that country Spn. II Alexander Smith R N! T. said he frets tbe K creanslttiation now is at a very critical stage He said Acheson left no doubt that the state department be lleves Russia Is behind the moves ’ of the Chinese Communists. Connally said the "larger part" I of Acheson's statement was devot ed to the far east, including the Communist threat in southeast Asia, the Philippines. India, the nera ea») and French IndoChina He also outlined problems concern ed with the Japanese peace treaty He said Acheson emphasised ! Communism'.« worldwide threat and while staling that "creditable pro ’ gtess" had been made toward re tTwra Te Face **»» ij Mrs. Amanda Fogle Is Takeo By Death Funeral Services Thursdoy Morning Mrs Amanda Fogle B*. a r*»i dent of Decatur for the last 1* ■ years, died at 1! 2<* o'clm-k Mon ' day night at her home 728 Line *tr**t. following an illite** ot two years »f infirmities » She was born in 'Ottawa. O. May 22. 1844. a daughter us John anti Mary Wetheral. "' • ~ _ , I She wa* a membet- of the Nutt 'man Avenue United Brethren" church Surviving are two daughter*. Mrs Glady Rarer of Decatur and Mr* | Mary Welch of Grover Hill. O.; ! one son. Clinton Bell of Fort I I Wayne: six grandchildren and 'ive; ! great<rshdchlldr»ti.”Thfee brothers’ ! and one sister preceded her in ‘ deatli. Funeral service* p-HI b* held at' 10 atn Thursday at the Glllig • Doan fuaaral home the Rev Isahe Martin ofTlrlatlnx Rut lai will hsl I in Hie Mt Zion cemetery at Grover I Hill. <) FFiend> may call at the I ' funeral home after 7 W o'clock this 1 evening

Price Fire Cents

Chinese Reds Tear Great Hole In UN Lines; Course Os Conflict Changed Tokyo. Wednesday. Nov 28 - (UP) Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today that United N lion? force* were fighting an -i tlrely new war" again*: 2t'<" «<k* Chinese Communists who have torn a great hole iu United Nafious lines and changed the whole course of the Korean eoafleci. United Nation* force* river* fighting deapende delaying action- and retreating stubbornly. ,»:ep li>-- ep. Gen ilouala* MacArthur m art amalibi.' communique d*-- -ibing the disastrous turn,of the war said that new issue* had arisen which could lie settled only "within the • councils of the United Nanons and chancrilerfe* of tbe weld He summoned his top Korea commanders to Tokyo for urgent con-fnei:--es MacArthur* announcement -aid that event* of the past tour d*y« disclose that a major segment /of the Chinese- eontinental anAd fnrres" with a gfrrirjrth of mW*r-r pthan 200.000 men "is now arrayed against the UN forces in North Km* a. There exists." be said "cbvions Intenj and preparation for support of the*e force* hy heavy reinforce ment* now within the privileged sanctuary north of th* international boundary and constantly moving forward. "Consequently, we face an entirely new wgr " Tokyo observers believed he was asking permission to bomb Manchuria and sa- mg thal we now ti». ■■ war with the major forces of ( • -m---mun'ist China On the shattered right flank of lhe United Nations line beiow. Tokchon. the situation was ■»*’ i--.tc fused that tmr even UhUed Nations ’commanders knew for Cure how far the enemy had penetrated n<*r *rha' In- intentions wejci Estimates of the retreat there ranged from 12 miles to th* en.lhi'y of Pukrtiang on the Taedo’hg river to a* high as 2>! miles Two regiments if the enemy already were reported driving w» »t along the Taedong some 13 mils* below the jump-off point for the ! start of the ill-fated I nited Nation* offensive last Friday The enemy's westward push threatened th* main allied supply ) line from the former North Korean capital of Pyongyang to the Chong* chon river figb'ing line For the first tins* sirne th* enemy- Nakomg river break •through on lie "Id Pu-ari bes.-h---h*-ad tn Routh Korea, the altfore* had rn-we tar»*<s Hwst> it wrntd handle ' Air reports said that v’neir.y troop* -warmed along every road, every, gully and every rldgeitne ’ 1 for 3a miles north of UUen Tok I chon The pattern of withdrawal »»« followed al! along the 85-mil» nor'h , western front ' The Soiffh Korean Ist division fell hack lt> miles ioaard Pakchon on the western end of the line ut> der pressure ot an overwhelming enemy fore* ' To the right of the South Koreans. the I" s 2nd and ,25th.diITWVW Te Fee* ***** - j 1 LjOfigTyßyc—? j