Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 281.

TRUMAN WARNS U. S. MAY USE A BOMB

Embattled UH Forces Battle Against Odds Huge Communist Armv li Swmmmi Toward Pyongyang Tokyo, Frtaay. Dec. 1 (UP)—EsibatUad United Nation, force* look up th* battle of Pyongyang l**a than 25 mile* from the city gate* today against a MA.uoO-nian (ommanUt army sweeping through Korea's mountains from the Yalu river to the Chosln reservoir. Chinese communists sweeping through the M mile gap In the .. allied lines below Tokchon linked up with an estimated two divisions of North Korean guerrilla* and swept unopposed to within 25 mUes of the former North Korean capital. A comparative lull settled over moat of the battlefront* today, hut It brought no lull In the stream of Chinese reinforcements from Manchuria nor to the bumper-to-bump-er flow of allied motorcades withdrawing south for a stand before Pyongyang. The I? 8. marine Ist division and two regiments of the U. S. 7th wore isolated around the Chosen • reservoir. The U. 8. 2nd division, fighting an hemic delaying action south of flamltw Kune on the chongchon river, was partly encircled hut was fighting its way south. No responsible other in Tokyo would hasard s' guess whether we -iiM nvneoefally defend Pyong yang against the Chinese Ma* • The ollied defense ttae north of Pyongyang shrank another 10 to 15 miles during the last 24 hours, and the former Chongchon river supply towns of Sinanju and Auju apparently already had l>een abandoned. Thin *d*y. ,„an i airforce spokesman said Americana j still held the Sinanju airstrip' where only a week ago Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed to launch the illetarred United Nations of tensive against the Chinese and North Koreans. However a United Press correspondent flying over the lines Matched from the air. a* allied engineers blew up with dynamite charges the bridge across the Chongchon built only a few weeks ago Io speed supplies northward . Civilians as well as troops streamed southward in the general exodus. Women with children strapped io their backs and loads on their heads waded waist-deep through the Icy Chongc hon" to the southern side. On the airstrip at Pyongyang, wounded, frost-bitten Cl’s and i Turks lay on stretchers waiting to j |>e evacuated. Some had lieen , fighting and retreating without , rent for more than 74 hours. They i told of Chinese troops, some in American uniforms, some blackdad to hide them In the darkness, worming their way to within three, feet of allied foxholes and then attacking at the blast of a bugle time more, allied commanders j could only guess at the Chinese. Intent. The enemy broke contact all j along the northwest line Thursday. Allied others said It was not surprising since uo army could maintain indefinitely the furious pace of the Chinese attack during the last five days. it was considered likely that they were rwgrouplng and refurnishing supplies for another onslaught—this one aimed directly at Pyongyang. Hoving bands of Chinese horse cavalry were striking 10 miles from Pyongyang In some of the wildest, moat mountainous eoun- ■ —try iw Korea, -ami . North. Korean guerrillas were even closer Not all allied troops had been able yet to pull bark to the new dcfcme perimeter WEATHER Fair tonight. Friday cloudy wMh snow beginning north and east portions In afternoon or night. Snow may become mined with rain north and aaat per- ' tlons late Friday night. No major temperature change. Low tonight 12-18 north, 1825 south, high Friday M>3! north. 32-34 south.

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Highways 01 State An SUN Huwdoß Ruin Is Forecost For Stott Friday ludutiMpolfa, Nov. 30— Moderate temperatures helped weary mow-shovetor* cteaa up the effects _of Indiana's week-long splurge of winter weather fnday. but the state still was far from back to normal Many school children continued forced vacation*. highways were impassable and haxardoux. and stocks of automobile tire chain* Were depleted The weatherman said tempera-' lures would fluctuate near the (reeling point today and range from 15 to 25 degrees tonight. The south could expect rain tomorrow, and the north, rail) or light snow When all the enow doe* melt. It might pose some dangers of flooding in the Fort Wayne area. where the water content was high, weather observers said, but there was no statewide flood threat. ■State police repeated a drive-at-your-own risk warning for upstate motorists and summarised the road situation this way North-Main highways cowled with snow and Ice. especially wUck in Fort Wayne area and clear In Chicago area. Central Many snowblorked near Tipton. Muncie. Hartford City ami Elwood; clear and normal near Lafayette and Greencastle Southeast- -One-lane traffic near Connersvlile: travel difficult near Osgood; many IryjMßftfc - ' South west—Roads dear near Rvansvilie and Jasper; secondary roads impassable along Ohio river. The tire chain buying spree hH hardest In northern Indiana. Retailer* In fcmth Bend and Fort Wayne reported normal winter supplies wove sold In three days and "we could have sold thousand* more ” Many schoolofficials «aw no possibility of resuming classes until Monday, saying school bus driver* were unable to travel on snow-drift-ed country road* bulletin I Pittsburgh. Nov. 30.—(UP)— I The CIO United Steelworkers wage-policy committee today accepted a “fifth round” wageboost from the United States i Steel Corp, and prepared to i sign a contract immediately. - Simultaneously the company announced a- steel price increase averaging 5- 1 - percent to cover the coat of the new contract Earl Shelton Home Destroyed By Bomb Bomb Blast Renews Gangland Warfare ! Fairfield 111 . Nov SO. -(UP)— jThe home of Karl fltig Karli Shelton brother erf the three Bheltonr ! slain in less than three years, wa* destroyed today -in a botnli bias that renewed gangland warfare aguinet the clan. Neither Shelton nor his wife. Earline. slenping in the house at I the time of the explosion. were I injured. But the House, a six-room 1 lavishly furnished home valued by I Shelton at 235.000. was wrecked jby a fire that followed the bomb ling and exploded the propane gas the Sheltons used Mrs Shelton told sheriff Hal Bradshaw that she was awakened > by the sound of a tin can thrown through the bedroom window. "A moment later." she said. "After I jumped up to call for help. ■ the bleat occurred It blew m* ' frotnthe bedroom into the bathroom." Rig Earl one of two survivors > of the 'Shelton brothers whose ' gangland warfare rocked southern Illinois, wan described as "marked i for death" when he appeared >l. the inquest Os hi* brother Roy at i Fairfield last June <w the five Shelton brothers Earl" and Delta remain alive. The others were slain within the last three year*. Six «hooting affrays occurred since was killed from ambunh near Earl's farm oh Oct. 23, 1»47. Bernie Shelton was ambushed near Peoria July 24, 1M» and killed by a abarp. shooter who used only one bullet to brine him down as he was entering bis tavern near the Bhelto* Amusement Co. office* Roy the last of the brother* to die. was (Twee Ts rose «twMt

House Group ApprovesßHl To Tax Profils House CooNwittee Approves Measure On Excess Profits Washington. Nov. 30 - (UP) — The Hoppe ways and means commklee approved an excess profit* tex bill today that would raise an additional 23.40ti.000.00ti a year toward war costs. The bilk calls for a maximum excess profit* tax rate 0f,7& percent - the rate recommended by President Truman and treasury secretary John W Snyder. It varies in several other important respect*, however, from the adiulntotratkm-aponaored measure. The treasury had figured that its proposal would yield 44.000.000,000 a year, some fgOO.OOO.OtH> more than lhe committee bill would raise Tentative plan* coil for the committee to put It* final approval on the blit tomorrow, after thegxact language ha* been put on paper, and then to like It to the bouse floor for action early aexj week. Ilduse leader* hope to get the bill passed not later than Wednesday ao the normally alower-mov-ing senate will have an opport un ity to consider It before the pre*- ( ent congress expire* on Jan. 3. The Mil kk'now drafted contains ’ these provision*, in addition ♦•• the | 75 percent tax rate: 1 The lax would apply to prof ll* in excess of #5 percent of the , average earning* tor the beet three of the four years 1844-42, The treasury bad proposed • ?6 percent credit for the throe year*, instead of *5 percent as the committee voted; Thia reduced the prospective revenue l>V several , hundred million dollart. 2. There would be a 47 percent j celling on lhe total tax liability of any corporal ion; This "means' that no (orporatlon would be re- ' qulred to pay more than «7 percent of it* profit* In combined corpora-1 1 tion Income taxes and excess pro'- 1 (Tara Te Pane | , I Record Price Paid I For Champion Steer ■ 1 sl2 Per Pound Is Paid For Champion Chicago, Nov 30—(UPt—Albert Pick of the Io"cl chain today paid a tecord-breaklng 012 per pound for Big Spring Special, king of the cattle world, grand champion steer of the International livestock expoelflon. Calm, soft-tipoken Lloyd Robison. IK. who paid $l4O for the low slung Hereford steer, increased hi* , investment nearly SI fold The youth <aid he does not know "what , I'll do with the money ” But he said he might use It a*, a down payment on a, "dream ranch" near his home town of Big , Spring, Tex. / The animal weighed 107 fr pounds . ateeKTTxyas awarded the grand I championship Tuesday, but when weighed after the sale it scaled L 1.025 poutid*. At 112 per pound, the sale price was 112.300. . Col. Roy Johnston. Belton. Mo., ' handling hi* l»th consecutive grand championship auction, re--1 qulred only 20 minutes to negotiate the sale. Pick's agent was Ellard Pfaelter. ' Chicago commission man. who started the bidding at fl per pound. After seven minute* the bld was ft. by Jess Andrew, In--1 ternational exposition president. ■Five minutes later the bid wa* ' MO, by Pfaelxer's son. Johnston I kept up his "un-dubbly-übbly-bubb- - ly-lebetvleben-uni-dabbly." until the bid two minutes later was f 11.50. eqbal to tk<* previous record eomi manded last year by another Texas I Hereford. i Andrew made the fi1.75. then [ Pfaelxer closed the sale at fl 2. i Immediately. Pfaelter Introduced i Pick and signaled for an eight-foot ■ brightly painted sign Io be hoisted ( proclaiming the Pick Hotel* as the buyer of the champion [ Meanwhile the exposition an- . nounced that all officer* were rr- > lected. including board chairman , Henry W Marshall. Lafayette. Ind., , and exposition president Jess C. Andrew, West Point. Ind ■'4p - ■

OffLV BAiLV MWtMMM H» AOAMB COUNTY

Dgcotor, loAom* Tbuftdoy, November 30, 1950

Bad News Draws Crowds 'A B 1 < BRIM NIWB from th« Koran battlefield* brings crowds of civilian military personnel to the huge wuk map In thr main cqacourxe of the Fawtagun in Washington. Corp, ail Walker M the army information i specialists, keep* the map ap to date <

issslsem 'Baalaaagn juoge Uwes Kuimg On Charitable Trust Estate To Be Used For Crippled, Blind In an intereattug cause in Adama circuit court. Judge MyM -fv Parrish Wednesday aft•f no o n handed down a written oplnlor that the last will of Jacob A. Moser created a charitable trust and he ordered the executor, Kermit Yoder, ro turn over to Miss Fried* Lohman, trustee, the Imlass-e-eE-lhe estate to "be given by Frieda Lehman to the crippled and blind, even though they be euualdere.l tramp*, whoever they may be. that said Frieda believes arc needy of it," The trust will amount I to several thousand dollars i This, gctvrding to the will, shall l>e done after the Just deivts ar*> paid and film I* paid to Llxxle Kuhn, of Celina O. The cause reached Adams circuit. cpßrt- on a petition filed by C II Muaelman. attorney for executor Kermit Yo ler, asking lhe court to interpret the will ’Moser, long a victim of infantile paralysis died about a year ago and his will was ordered probated; and placed on record in March of l»50 Yoder qualified as executoand last Septexnfwr. Yoder, through his attorney, appeared in court and *ald that all other proceeding* of the will had lieen carried out. and asked that the court interpret the will to ascertain what should be done with the balance of the estate. Judge Parrish heard evidence on the petition November 24 and ren. dered hi* opinion today. The court, after citing several case*, summed uj> hi* opinion a* follow*: “All provision* of lhe will should be construed together; parol evidence I* admlsaaftle so the court may be In a position to ascertain Ute true intention of the wilt; court* in eonetruing wills -maylook into circumstance* of the testator; all conditions of a will should be upheld if it i* possible to do no without doing violence to the testator'* Intent; circuit court* have jurisdiction to construe wills which create trusts; due re gards shall lie given natural Im pulse* of mankind; a charitable trust I* one for the benefit of an indefinite clean of persons." Therefore. Judge Parrish ruled that Ml** Lehman ig the trustee of a charitable trust and an such she shall qualify the mandate M the will. The court also stressed a point which the Indiana bar association has been using In it* puUk- relation work the past several months, by quoting an old opinion: "That such problem* would not *rt*e it proper draftmanship were used in making • triß >« I* •'forty 'rtnnmeniary on ths standards of the profession that an appellate Judge who referred to the able lawyer' who drew aa tart rument whteh required seven page* of appellate oplnlou ty coastrue

•ULLC T I ft I Un. Chariaa JOrchner. M, of ! Preble, 1 o’eloek this I aftamoea al the Adame county I memorial teoopftot. The body j wao rovnoved to the Zwtek funeral hem*. Funeral arranpemonta have not been completAnnounced Today Results Os Farmer - Vote Are Announced The results of the recent election to name township committeemen of lhe Adams county PM A were released today by chairman Winfred 1,. Gerke. who. along with Homer Arnold and Lawrence Beckmeyor. were reelected a* the county committee. Each to'Wnshlp committee was • elected by mail, with eligible farmers selecting"a township committee chairman, vice chairman, regular member and two alternate* An envelope containing the ballot* we.-o mailed from the lot's! PM A office to farmer*, who in turn were Implored to return the j ballots by last Saturday. The community and county PMA office*. Gerke explained, are charged with the local administration of such national farm programs as lt.e agricultural coa*ei\yation program, commodity loan*, price support program* and others. Those elected chairmen of their township committees also serve as , delegates on lhe county committee. The following i« a complete roster of committeemen. Hated by ‘ townships by chairman, vice chairman. regular niemlier. and the two i alternate*, in that order. Union Herman Geimer. Victor ; Bleeke. Oscar Fuelling. - Edsrird i Bischoff. Alfred Grote Wabash - Lowell l-ong. Herve lukhen. Herman Burke. Robert > Long, Charter Roth. I Washington—David Roth. Frans , Braun, Kddie McFarland, l-eww i Stump. Roman Brite. t Jefferson -Ray Teeple. William i Adang, Victor Bollenhaciier. Frank Orndorff. Arthur Weaver Kirkland-Oliver Dilling. Samuel • Yager. Emil Steffen. Harold Henai chen. Thomas Griffith* Monroe- Franklin Steury. Dan I Striker, C TT: R. Schwarrt! Tjsurei ! Mattax. -Victor Sprunger s Root-Hugo Boerger. Chaunce;' • Sheets, Paul Becker, Frederick Altmann. Rveretl Singleton. I St. Mary a Edward, Koos. Harri ey Bell*. Elmer Winan*. Charles • Backhous, Krmal Shifterly. - Blue Craak—Elisha Merriman. Arthur DeArmond. Frank Dellinger.' t Fred Myer*. Ernest Anderson. » I’reble—Robert Wyrling. _ Ulen • Girod. Paul Fuhrman. Waldo Cen- • rad. Reinhard WerliM • Freach-l-eweßyn Lehman, ’ Oeorge Rlngger. Otto Kluckman. ’ Henry Bcbaffter. Harold Zeigler f Hartford Robsri Augshurger. •Two Te reee ftteSvi

Communist Aggressors Warned By President; Pledges Arms Buildup

ts - Uiflli U/iailc dMIOWf To Hit Some Aims Some Araos Ta Feel Replica Os Storm By United Pre** Strong wind* and snow squalls were forecast today for some areas hit by last weekend * big storm and on 11,344-lo(i tanker wa* breaking up in heavy sea* In the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The U. S tanker Raeo Rochester, owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey. radioed that she needed "Im mediate assistance” So mites off Anileoail Island Other vessels Mood by to take aboard her crow of "about 4u” Who reported them selves us la no danger Helow-freexin* temperature* in the snow blanketed Appalachian moentains held off a dreaded qiriek thaw that could send severe flooda down the Ohio river valley. The weather bureau warned that high witttls would hit destern Pennsylvania and western New l York State, bringing snow that I would accumulate to a deptk °* ; six to 10 incher in New York area*. Northeast Ohio also expected enow squalls. Generally, however, lhe area wa* slowly returning to normal from the big storjm National - guard t roop* bega n withdrawing from Clevetaad. The Columbus. 0.. city council voted a 2250.'“W bond issue to buy equipment that can be converted to snow clearing purposes Ohio officials also appealed to residents of major cities to leave their car* Mt home Slid' use” pwMiv transports tion to their job* Twenty thousand student* returned to classes at Ohio State University but at least eight other Ohio colleges were still closed Columbus police impounded 40 car* which were dragged off the stteets so snow plows would have free space to work. i Almost all electrical power and telephone service was hack to normal In the New York metropolitan area Florida officials reported that the five-day cold snap which hit simultaneously with last Saturday s storm had caused Mh.OOO.OW dam-j age to the slate'* truck crop* at a| "very conservative" estimate | Truck crops have been virtually) •Twa Te rage Msl County Schools To Stay Closed Friday Flan Reopening Os Schools On Monday All county xr hool* and the BerneFrench school have abandoned plan* for having school any more I this week, according to statement* buraed today by county superintendent of school* Hansel Foley and Berne superintendent E. M Webb Tentative arrangement* are made to reopen the school* next Monday morning, providing no unforeseen snow storm* hinder the student*' return to classes Classe* ar» being held in both the Decatur Catholic and public school* throughout this week. The public school* suspended class** Monday wh»u *om» memb»rs of the faculty were unable to be pre sent, but classes there have continued since ..that time . _,, , . County klgiway employe* wSre sttil attempting to clear some of the roads closed by last weekend’* storm, but wind and drift* Wednesday made the going difficult. Phil Sauer, highway superintendent. said. Decatur streets, especially in the traffic lane* in the t>u»ln»** dirt- ' trict most heavily traveled, were becoming nearly cleared today, due to thawing temperature* . Along the aide* of thq streets, packed by parked automobile*, however, there remained a coMlnglof anew But the city ira* still digging out. and truck* were still carrying away (be snow five oxy* after the storm hit lhe city

Take Issue Os Red Aggression To UN Assembly Indicate U.S. To Take Issue Before General Assembly Lake Buccee*. N Y. Nov 2W - (UPi- Th* Untied Mates will tak* lhe issue of Communisi China's j aggiessioo to th* floor of the United nation* general assembly touiorrow. an authoritative source Indicated today Russia was certain to veto wearily coaneU resolution ordeelag Red ChineM’ troop* oat of Ko re* when it comew up for a vole today Ambassador Warren R Aww tin. chief U »- delegate, planned to carry th* eounell Into a night a**aton. if necessary -oe th* "quit Korea” order to the Peking government. The t’. S. hi»pe* to take the issue io the veto-free assembly with the backing of lb* other * member* of necartty coanrll. Only India ‘ wae considered a doubtful vole 1 It wa* understood that only a formal decision by the state de ’ pwm»«*i w»* awalted hrtote the It. H. pats the Chinese Communist 1 caae before the general assembly ' When it goes before the W-uatlon 1 group. It wa* expected that the in- * ewe would be stated in much ' stronger term* than the current re 1 solution before the security conn .cii’. That measure, on which the U. 8 hoped to ret a ifrl vote today, merely call* upon all countries with the finger implicitly pointed at Peking—to "refrain from aaatet--1 iug or encouraging the North Ko- ' rean authorities, to prevent their nationals, or individuals, or unit* of their armed force* from giving assistance to the North Korean forces and to cause the immediate withdrawal of any such national*.; Individual* or unit* which might presently be in Korea." The llusti*'! veto will open the 1 assembly** door* to consideration jof the issue. Under the Achewon ‘I antLaggression machinery adopted I early in this session, the assembly '' may recommend action against agI gressors whenever a veto prevents ! emergency action by the security. council. That same legislation calls on ! member countries to maintain unit* of thefr national defense forces to tight aggression under th* UN flag at the direction of the assembly Miss Eileen Geimer - Still Tops Contest y Leads Contest For ' Christmas Queen e Mlm Eileen Geimer. represent* (• live of the Decatur Catholic high *, school, maintained her lead for the i- title of M to* Merry Christ ma*, ac cording to the latrot ball'd count re--n leased today by contest chairman c L. R Zintemaster. • With a total of li.<»»4 vote* tabu- " 'ated following the closing of b«a---1 iness in Decatur store* Wednesday. ' Mias Geimer ba* a 1.172 lead over 1 Mie* Lois White. Decatur high - erbon! «coatestuat. whn-has -»4122 J -ote* Altogether 34.227 vote* have ’ lieen east tn the contest to choree r the queer of next Monday * parade. Mias Bernita Thieme, of Monmouth, ha* a total of 4.455. Ml** Carolyn Egly. of Adam* Central, a 4.220. Mlaa Bhirley Fox. of Pleasant t- Mill*. 2.»1#. and Pal Johnson, of e Jefferaon. 3.424. e Rix mm were hu»y Wednesday 4 eompUiag the latest statistic* tn y the race, counting ».«» vote* In • four hour* Zlntamaster said that the moat difficult and time cohI- •■miag job was unfolding the baly tele to make the count, and *dde<! • lhat official* would appreciate th* (T-ro Ta Paa* tert"

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Vows UN Forces Not To Abandon Korea; . Gives Grim Warning To Red Aggressors Washington. Nov. 3k.—(rt*)— Pr*idenl Truman grimly warned the Communist aggrostmr* twßny that the United Blate* is rtwteterIng aslog the atomic bomb la the Komn war and pledged a large balM up of I’. 8. armed forces • - Mr Toman charged that the Chi neee Communist assault in Korea te Rmslan-lnsplred and threatens "aR human hope* of peace and ju--tice.” Hut he h«t* f* l * l it can l» stepped Without using the A-bomb The While House Issued a Malement three hour* later sayteK "<oaaMeration of lhe use of any weapon is always implicit |n th* very poaeeseion of that weapon" It . mpMsixed however, that only ths pronfteat can authorise tb* mu», of the atomic bomb "and ao such autbotfty ha* been given ' He rowed that the United Nation- force* will not abandon Korea because "if aggression is succosm ful in Korea we can exppet it t<* __ Spread through Asia and Europe ft* this hemisphere." Emphasixlag lhe gravity of tha crisis. Mr Truman said hi a presa (onfereaee statement that: "We are fighting In Korea for our own nattoMl eeeurity and survival " -4 tteUtaa lor naUuii.Ll determtnatiM •Jf’MMd three-point program to meet the chalteage vs the new Communist aggression 1 “We shall coallutie to work In the United Nation* for eowcertctl is: tteo ta ‘S Korea." 1 "We shall intensify, our effort* to help other free nation* strengthen their defences in order to meet the threat of aggression elsewhere.” • 2 "We shall rapidly Increase our own military strength " Mr Truman said he soon will a»k congress for "large amounts" of nnmcy to Increase the six* and effectiveness of this country's arm- , ! ed force* and a “substantial'* amouht for the atomic energy comtn tee ion He said he will confer tomorrow with Republican and Democratic congressional leader* and ask them to give "urgent consideration to th<*e appropriation* He reiterated hte hope that World War Hl can be averted And ■he promteed unrelenting effort by this government to avoid a major conflict He said It Is more necessary than ever before to increase the ' combined militaty strength' of the tree world "at a retry rapid rate" • because the new aggretwiort tn Korea "is only a part of a world wide pattern of danger to all the free nations of the world." Charging tb»t the Chinese Com tnunisl drive into Korea >« Sovietinsjired. Mr Ttuman said "We hope tha: the Chinese people will not continue to he forced or deceived into serving the ends of Russian colonial policy in Asia " Mr. Truman laid down the basic i U. S. policy to meet the criate in '| a formal statement Hte dtoeldMirw about the A-bomb wa* made ger- ■ bally la respr.nse to news coateri ence questions He wa* asked whether Manchuria . would be bombed That. Mr Truman said, would depend on action in the United Nation* And once ’ the UN arts, he added. Gen. Doag- - las MacArthur will take whatever - , step* are n»c*a*ar» Jo th* W 11 m IL- 1 J I jp| 1 1 WBBpr r Lr\ 1