Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIiI. No. 286.

13 NATION APPEAL TO CHINA COMMUNISTS

15,000 UN Troops Dash For Freedom Drive Southward In Attempt To Escape Red Encirclement Tokyo. Thurwtay, Dec 7 — H’T) j Fifteen thousand encircled mar ! ~TSB end Infanteyinen smashed rm* 1 of Chinese-aurrounded Haguru end drove southward toward a north cast Korean Dunkerque Wednesday nigtit against an estimated two Conimaatat division* blocking thetr < acape. A small British Commando uni' and element* of two V. 8. Jilt Infantry Diviaion Regiment* joined the Ist Marine Division in a dash for freedom down a stwwcovrwd r.*a>l aerons a mile high plateau South of the Choain Reservoir Their immediate coal Is the mountain village of Kotort. seven mNes south, where S.fttMl men of another Marine Regiment and other Infantrymen also are surrounded Spearheaded by a Marine task force, the trapped Americans and British altandoned Hagaru airstrip late Wednesday and started their dospethle hid for freedom after Hying out t.voo caauaitle* tn (Ke peat Hye days. At the same time the V. 8. Sth Army In the west halted Its head long .flig.H Just north of the 3St«i parallel and turned to strike bark "a* Chinese Communist troop* not inc South from Pyongyang along side roads. Eighth army patrol* probing north found no Communists in Immediate pursuit and It appeared that the loday tdd Chinese Red offewer may have slowed temporarily But In Seoul. 29 miles south of the M il paiallri frightened refupees Imran again the same fllshi xo»tn j hat marked, the. Communr-: Jnvasiou of JUt lune 25. were the families of minor govern-1 merit .official* heading fol Pusan I in the far Houtheu.t ' Cott L. I<awton Collins, V S. , Army i hies of staff made a five ’.our survey of the Korean front Wednesday before flying to Toki’iT for final conference* with C.et> Douglas MacArthur on the . crisis Att ing American arms tn the unde-i r'lared war s Uh-China 1 Collins said in an interview hi i <eoul that the United Stated ctmh' spare only one more division, the, S2nd airborne,, for the Korean war? The Marine drive to escape the Conimunist" encirclement south o' j the Ctr.mln reservtrlf face* 35 air j line miles of snow choked ynoilnt | ;ip,.o.s r .ails liefwre rear hing the ' big American supply tenter ofi Hamhung Hamhung and its big port of ■lutighan themselves were Threat I —roved withlsolation by another tTirnexe <’<immuni*itone ot ZIU turn driving toward the north south coastal highway a few mile* south A spokesmen for MacArthur said, the latest information was tlyrt the | - - crows Ta Faa* <•»»» .... L Grand Jury Opens Session Here Today Delayed organizing id days byi the recent snow storm, members | of the grand jury, to serve during the November term ol court, were impaneled Imlay, then received IB .fruitions from Judge Myles F. Parrish. - Those members chosen as jurors included Cart Mie*, of Deca tur; Harold Nenschen and William Bryan, of Kirkland township; Richard Hleeke. nf Vnloh; Homer Felty, of Wabash, and Christian Inniger, of Monroe Bryan was chosen foreman of the grand Jury at the organizational meeting Itoßoy Taylor, of this c-wltr-bas Already. been appointed tn serve as bailiff, and Romaine Randenbush. court stenographer, is lb serve the Jurors as stenogrrtpher WKATHgR Rain seuth, anew ee mln north portion thia afternoon, “with Ain changing back to » enow by Thuroday. Much colder estremo ooiithweat tonight and In west and south portions by Thursday night. Low tonight 12 northeast. 15 extreme oeuthweet. High Thursday 3* korthsast. 25 southwsel.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Final Actin New On Diesel Engine Extension Os Time Is Running Short BULLKTIN the Indiana public aorviee commlaaion approved Decatur's requeet for a SMBMO bend iosue finance the construeOven of the. million dollar auxiliary power plant here. Word . was received late today by | city attorney Robert 5. Ander* | son. _ With the extension of time running short, accompanied with the consequent threat of paying increased coats, city coiHttilmen are expected to take final action within the next few days on the purchase of a diesel engine to serve the city light and power department a* an auxiliary unit When the bids, eight of them, were originally filed Novemlier 3. it was with the understanding that the price* quoted would maintain for 30 days Since then, however, this time has linen extended 111 more days by the two competing companies. or untit nest Tuesday City officials are waiting final word from the •state public service commission, as regards approval for the city's 5900.00* bond issue. Members of the council simply extended Tuesday s meeting rather (han adjourn. facilitating the < all of a future meeting to decide finally on the million dollar plant. Subsequent Inquiries recommendations and deliberations sime the bids were first opened, hare narrowed the number of cbotces to three machine* which the councilmen and memberSof the Imard of public work* will consider » Actually, the field to probably limited to but two engine*, for one of IhO’e remaining to be conshirred Is almost prohibitive In cost at the present time • i Connerj u?rilly<4l y official#. ] will isrodbly vote tn a meeting Icalled by Mayor Doan on two 12 ‘ < yitnder engines one of- them 'made by the Xotdljerg company, of Milwaukee and the other by the Lima-Hamilton company, of Hamilton. O — Chy offhiaix have made a <on>pr<*h<Miv.« Mindy of the diiwwl engine field. Ixtth by illusfration | and )»y fi»»ld h Th»» latter : consisted chiefly of visiting the ' two competing company's plants and watching their engines in operation Trips were taken by city oditTeiw T* Few* K*«b«« Chief 01 Staff On <orea Front Survey Callins Returns For MacArthur Farley | Toky >, Dec. 5 - (UP) Gen J.' ' Lawton rolling. I'. S army chief of! I staff, returned here from Korea to ; night for final conferences with lien Douglas MacArthur on the i ■ risis facing American troops there ' because of the Chinese Communist 1 intv rvention. | Coßins flew from Yongpo airport I in northeast Korea after a flvehour 1 survey of the i rilk al situation In the U 8. H'th corps area, where U S mat lues are surrounded by an estimated six Chinese divisions At a press conference in Seoul earlier today. Collins said the United States could spare only one more division for Korea, but even that would leave United Nations forces vastly outnumbered. liesplte the allied reversal*. n»e of the atomic bomb would be Impractical In Korea, he said. He said the only additional division whlbtl the United State* could send io this theater 1* the «»nd airborne But he gave no Indication whether the division actually will be sent here. Tie said he did not expect any Immediate reinforcement of the UN force* by UN member* not already represented In Korea UN force* In Korea, including seven Ahiericnn division*, total about IGO.(MM) mqn. Arrayed against them are nearly 300.1 HM) Chinese and Korean Communist front-line troopa and reserve* of more than Tuo.uoo men—an over-all army of more than 1.0H1.0e0. -Collin* scouted annuation* that the allied sth army might be en t*e« Vw AwweDtete l

Afttee Pledges I Britain Will I Stand By U.S. Iritem't Uoiter Speaker At Frew Club Lunch Today Washington. Dee. 5. —<UPIBrltish prime minister Clement Altlee:T!>eita»i..todgy that Great Britain win Stick by the United State* “in fair weather and foul" and will seek together to ease the Korean crisis. 'Our force* are fighting along side yowea." he told a Nat tonal Pre as < lub luncheon "You may be certain that in fair weather or foul, where the Wars and Stripe* fly in Korea, the British flag will fly beside them We stand by our duty We stnad by <mr friend* " These were the sentiments he expressed in a prepared text made available shortly before be *poka. Attlee detended Britain's recognition of CnAinuniat China, but said •that dean not mean that w* have any intention of indulging in what is called appeasement—< word of HI om»n.” "I am told that there are people who believe that is what I have come here to do." hr said '’'We all know from our own bitter experience that appeasement never pay*." "Hie times are critical." Attlee - said It Is idle to deny that the forces of the United Nation* have suffered a serious setback This I* not a time for criticism We must seek to find how best to help those who are bearing this burden." Attlee did not Join.in the critl clam of Gen. Douglas MacArthur expressed In some Hr it luh dlHelal quartet* and in the British pres*. Rather, he pratoed the tenwral. "Let me *ay here that th* achievement* of General MacArthur and hl* troops will go down to hto tofy as most notable," Attlee said. —N tenet heirs*he added. - —We have to recognise that,’-owing to the intervention of the Chinese, the military situation has gravely deteriorated in the last few day* "It is our task to review the world situation in the light of these events and consider carefully our further eouise of action " He stressed that "(he objectives , iTscs Ta Faw*' »t*t Nation 1$ Buffeted By Winter Storms Cold Wave Delays Arrival In State By United Pre** Winter storms buffeted the nation from the Pacific coast to the Appalachian*today They dumped deep snow* on the midwest, unleashed <0 mile-an hour gale* on the Pacific northwest and] turned Dixie into an ice box | Floods left hundred* homeless in I 1 the Ohio valley. Snowslide* derailed trains and severed powei lines in the Rockies Snow clouds which forecasters •aid were ''packed with all kinds of poasiblliti***" dropped a blanket of fresh snow from the great plains eastward to Ohio and from Cnnada south to Arkansas. Forecaster* said up to seven inches of snow might fall in Illinois. Indiana. Michigan and Wisconsin. The north Pacific gale and frigid weal her claimed five Uvea. Arrival Delayed Indianapolis. Dec. 5 —(UP)— A cold air mas*, expected to send temperature* down to around aero in Indiana, will not rench the state until sometime tomorrow, weather experts said today. The cold front was moving east more slowly than expected, they said. Temperatures will remain near freening today, and min or snow will continue over most or the state they said. Observers reported two or three inches of wet snow on the ground at Lafayette, an Inch at South Bend and traces st Fort Wsyne and Terre Haute. The Dunes park state police post reported three inches. State police said It was raining In the Charlestown and Connersville districts, with snow mixed with rain around Seymour and Greenwood. Roads were hazardous over the northern part of the state, and were wet over most of the rest, police ante.

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Decatur, larfioM, Wednesday, November 6,1950

Chief Visite Freiit RAWOPWOTO of Gen. J. Lawton Coßins (right) U. 8. army chief as he talked with Li. Gen Walton H Walker, commander of the Stir army on an alralrlp In Korea. Gen Collins is in Korea on a tour of the battle zone. w.»’» ■■ ’■ ■■ ■ — -—»-• ■ ■" 1 ■-

Oue-W«yTraffk h Alievs Is Annraved Extension Os Zone Ordinance Debated City councllmen Tuesday approved the second reading of an ordinance extending the Juriadiction of the Decatur zoning law to a twomile area surrounding the city, but wegp cauU<M»d UMK. to all probability the farmers in the Specified area might balk at the "restriction* " Meml>ers of the council also adopted an ordinance providing one way ■“traffic iii certain - alleys, and approvetT the second reading of an ordinance providing the pur chttae of certain land to be Sard as a parking lot. Councilmen stated that they did not believe the zoning ordinance's intent -was—4o— erea'te restrictive powers for the city, .-but rather I the emphasis was on the forming of an ordinance with jertajn proJ te< live measure*. No alteration of a tax rate, no further laws that do not already apply to the area will be put into effect by the zoning ordinance. It Is -perhaps this paternalistic attitude that farmer* in the twomile area will resent most of all, ] according to John Schleferstein I and Vernon Hebble, ls>th of whom j appeared before the council Tueday to object to the ordinance* passage They doubted the need ol such an ordinance which would, in esaence. prohibit rhe excavation of ’ minerals and clay aiiiT oilier sub- | stances by stripping from the t earth; which would also define the type of building to be erected, and limit the installation of certTwvw Ta Pane nisi

Tomorrow Is Anniversary Os Pearl Harbor Attack

By PHIL NEWSOM ( (United Pres* Staff Crtrrmpondentt Tomorrow Is a black anniversary in American history On Dec. 7. I**l—ulna years Mothe Japanese made their aneak attack on Pearl Harbor The attack launched us Into the (treateat war of all time. Thl» Dec, 7 finds ua at another black moment Defeat Mares ua In the face In Korea. The threat of World War Ilf is real. The man in Tokyo now. was the man in Manila then Gen. Douglas MacArthur had been recalled to the army only a few weeks before the Dec 7 blow fell. Then, as now. MacArthur and the United States were linked h> a fateful moment. It was the beirinninir of many months when we stood at the brink of defeat been than r month after Pearl Harbor, some JS.OOO terribly outnumbered U. S. troops fell back to Bataan, a tiny peninsula jutting off Luaon Island below Manila The fall of Bataan and - the "death march" ware to follow.

Dr. John C. Carroll Elected By Doctors Dr. John <’. Carroll of this city! was unanimous!.’ elected president j of tKe Adams county medical society at the annual election of of-| fleers held In connection with the regular December meeting Tuesday night Other Offtecrs for 1951 also without opposition. Include: Dr. Arthur H. Otrod, vice-president; Dr. Norman E. Beaver. Berne, secretary, and De. iUcbard C Parrish, tress : "urer. . A novel program followed the business meeting. By telephone and loud sireaker connection with the Indiana University medical center at IndlaiHvprdi-c local-doetut* heard a discussion concerning newer drug* being used now. by the pns session Truman's Secretary Dies Unexpectedly \ Charles Ross Dies After Heart Attack Washington. Dec. 5. - -(UPi— A sort of pall hung over the White House press loom today The regulars there who make a business of bras* were a little les* brassy than usual. £harl«wjj 2 Ross was dead President Truman’s gray, nadeyed and long-faced, fi'i-yeanold pre** secretary died late yesterday at hrs desk just a tew step* from the president** office. Repprfer* who had known. loved, denounced, and fought .with and for Charlie Ross since 1945 ran to their phones with the bulletin. When they were through dictate Ing, they Stood around uneasily, niAsklng with rough words Hie perrTwrxc T* Pswe Tw.l

I But. meanwhile. MacArthur had been ordered to Australia, there to set up new defenses against seemingly Invincible Japanese spilling over'the entire southwest Pacific And it was as he left the Philip pines that MacArthur made his famous promire. ”1 shall return." He did return. He led his still outnumbered forces in a brilliant island-hopping campaign that in three and a half years carried them to the threshold of Tokyo. MacArthur became the nation's miracle tMtu His hand Hua of the occupation of Japan enhanced that reputation. While United Nations represents, lives wrangled in Berlin and Vienna. MacArthnr hewed .to the line In Tokyo. Japan was- being restored Then, without warning*, came another sneak attack —the Invasion of Routh Korea by the North Korean Communists And with It. inother assignment for MacArthur Again MacArthur was the miracle man His outnumbered forces held the rVwea m Wae mat

Appeal Dispatched To Chinese Reds Not To Drive To South Korea *» • ■ ■ , '' • ('. '- A

Cautious Optimism By Some Officials Is Expressed Over Developing Moves Washington Dec. (UP)— A foreign diplomatic official expressed belief today that the Chiur«e Communists may have Indicated some willingness to halt their rampaging troop* at the 39th par allel In Korea. The diplomat said that Sir Senegal Man. Indian delegate to the United Nations, would not have associated himself with the 13 nation appeal to Red China to stop at the old boundary between North and South Korea unlea* he had reason to beliave the offer had a good chance of being accepted " lip Peiping '' With the report of this diploma: the previous bleak outlook tn official quarters changed to one ot cautious optimism in the light of rapidly-developing, peace moves. President Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee of Britain •scheduled two meetings today ons ' thia morning and another this afternoon. Between these engage,'ments the prime minister spoke to t the National Press Club at l:3t> p.m. Hrttish officials in touch with r Attlee, who ha* been conferriag . here with Mr. Truman for three t days, welcomed froth the 15-nattan ~ appeal and Indian Prime Minister Jawarhnrlal Nehra's ponce hid at • New Detht. . . ■ i “Anything that will bring an honorc able end to the fighting would be r welcomed by our government.” a 1 BrUito otfirial said. ...-... r Ameri an official* supported th“ • 13-natloa appeal In principle. The." did not Immediately comment on Nehru'* plea for a <-eaae-flre. creation of a demilitarized buffer zone in Korea, and a peace conference innoug the I'nited Slate*. BrjtauL (Tara Tw Fane ***> Contracts Awarded ' By Commissioners Additional Bids Awarded By Board The troard of county comtnis- • stoner*, in the windup of thetr I two-day meeting. Tuesday award- ' etl the remaining contracts for i dragline, <«*. oil, and grader blades. The dragline la to he used by I the surveyors office, and is to > replace the one currently in operation The contract for the ma- - chine, a Caterpillar dieselenglned . dragline, was awarded to Stock- • berger-Seastrom. Inc. The contract for »mall truck tire* and to lies was awarded to i the Myer* Home and. Auto Supply company, while the contract for the large tires and tubes was awarded to the Goodyear store, of ttrta city. Both companies I were tow bidders. > The contract for gasoline, for a - six months* supply, was awarded t to tirover Neuenechwaader and the Peart Oil company, of Berne. . on Shell gas. dleeellne and kero- ■ sene The gn* price wa* established at 19 4 eent* per gallon, the dieaellne at 13 cents a gallon, and I the kerosene at 15.5 cents a gab ( lon. , The Standard Oil company was , awarded the contract lor lubrf eating oil. with their bld of M t cent* a gallon: H. J. Knapp's Phillips Service stattoa waa ( awirded* the’ eontraet for grease*. There were six liWtesn tor these , contract* From the field of three bidder* ( to supply the county with grader > blades which, like the oil products. stone, bituminous material . tire* and tube* are to be used by > the highway department, the . contract wa* awarded to the Ihdl- . ana Equipment company The contract for the calcium chloride i *l*o for the highway department, waa awarded to the Mid-continent » Chemical company There were two bidders for thl* latter item

House Passes Bill To Tax Excess Profit Predict Senate To Follow Action In Excess Profits Tax Washingion. Dec. I. —(UP)— Senate tax snokesmen agreed today that the senate probably will follow the horse in passing an excess profit* tax bill but not until some major changes are considered ' The house voted 37g to JO last night to pass Its version of the bill to tax corporation profits resulting from the defense boom. Retroactive to July 1. the mean ure would raise about 33.400,000.000 in the current fiscal year aud per baps 54.500.000.000 in future year*. House passage came, after rejection by a 252 to 145 vote of a Re- , publican-sponsored plan to raise normal corporate tax rate* and levy a milder «nt>Ma profits tax Chairman Walter F. George. D„ Ga, predicted that his senate tin- , ance committee will approve a MH, poMlbly naxt week, to raise be- . tween KJMMI.OOO.OOO and 54.000.000.- ( 000. He said same Changes may be made in the house version but would not predict wbet toey aright ’ be. ' The house bill call* for a tax of 1 75 per.enl on profits defined as i excess. One of the definitions '.limits normal profit* to #5 percent of the average for any three of the, ‘ four years. 1945-49 An alternate plan would- aitour' •profit* before taxes to equal eight to 12 percent of inrested capital The administration asked that the tax" be appHeff t<i e*niings tn exceaa of 75 percent ,of the peace- . titye average Many businessmen are complaining that the tax should apply only to profits in excess of It*' percent, of the 1945-49 average Senators critical of the house and administration formulas are expected to consider proposal* for coupling a boost in normal certiorate tax rates with a softer excess profit* levy. Some h: e indicated concern that the house bill falls to pro vide adequate safegnards lo pro fact growing business firm* L., ' ■ -■■■■ ; Eahl Fallaimc AM In rora ronows un in Auto Price Increase CIO Auta Workers Demand Controls > f Detroit Mich., Dec. 5. —(UP)— i The public faced higher price* today on two out of every throe i new automobile* made. , General Motors and Ford, which , between thorn turned out 55 perI cent of the car* produced l**t year I broke a two year "hold-the-line , price pattern last night. The CIO united auto workers im- - mediately demanded government ' control* to halt "runaway inflatioa." UAW presMent Walter P. Reuther aaked ''declairo action'' by the govermnont to "protect the llvi ‘.ng standard* of the American people." He said last week's at*ei price i hikes and tb* aow'"«»tr*id' "J« i satou expected o oproMi to o«h-I er producers shortly were the be. i ginning dt another “tnflaiionary ■ffimi." , i The Ford and GM boosts were * ' apocial Wow to ■nail-income buy • era already hurt by government I reetriettoua on credit. The car ’ market slacked heavily after the • federal reserve board required one - third down payment* and 15 • month* to pay off aato loans. Ford, which said >lx weeks ago It plafiaed to forego price Increas I **. •naoumwd hike* of 555 to W*s 1 shortly after GM boosted prices <Ta*e TW Pnee ■*■*•> \ —

Price Five Cents

Imply A—araacs United Nations To Respect The 38th Parallel In Korea Lako SacceA, N. “Ym Dec. ♦— (UP)—A U-nxitoe appeal to the Chineae Commantots not to drive Into ffoath Korea was sent u» Peking with aa implied assurance that the United Nation* also would respect the 3«UI parallel. Indian sources said ’oday These aources Mid the United States had approved the implteatlon conveyed to Mao Tne-Taffga Communist government that Gea. Douglas MacArtMrt* forces wouto not retovade North Korea The American delegation had no comment Sir Benegat Baa. India’s chief UN delegate auff Insttgator. of the appeal to Peking, aaid he had received no aimurance from Gen Wu HstuChuan. leader ot Mao’* UN delegation that the Chinese Communists would accept the appeal and declare (heir Wtrtti.m of staying north of the paraltel The UN general assembly overrode strong Soviet object tons today and voted. 51 to 5 w*th three abstentions. to put the Chinese Communist question on Its agenda It ordered it* political committee to take up preliminary debate The Soviet blot voted against the action and India. Indonesia and Afghanistan abatalned. Russian foreign mkatoter Andrei ' Vlshlnaky spoke in vain against aw ■Hnbly eonaWerwlsn of the RD* neae Korea He said the couutrte* which supported "that war mania*', - MacArthur" when hi* UN forces drove into North Karen. White the assembly waa voting | on the western complaint, the Aral, countries submitted a reaolutton calling for » truce'to the warblackened peninsula. The measure, submitted to avere-tary-general Trygve Lie by Rahman Abdul Azzaai Pasha. *eejrvtar«ge» : eral of the Arab league, was said to call for a month's cessation of hostllHie* Ir also would troom mend a three month truce In the overall ea*pw**t cold war. Arab sources said The source* said that while thia truce was in force, the Arab* bop ed President Tnuaaa and Russian Premier Josef Stalin could coater "at a neutral *pM" on east west difference* Indian source* said the sponsors of theli-aattoa appeal! o Pekiag to stay north of the s*th psrallel •wwse Te Fees Twel ) Auction Student Is Lions Club Speaker Raymond Shantz. of Didsbucy. Alberta. Canada, tu the principal speaker at the regular meeting of the Lions club Tuesday, the meeting presided over by Glenn Mauller in the *)>sence of chtb president L. A Anspaugh Shanti, a ' student at ths Reppert aac-tion school, was Introduced by Q. R Chaffee, of Tonawanda. Pa. director of aession* at the school Roth men are members of the Ltons clubs of their respective borne cities Dr H Frohaaptel waa In charge of the program The evening’s speaker (old local member* of the work done by the DMabury Lions dub in the interests of the community He also spoke of the poMlartty of ice horkey there, and of the bags -. rtak built by th* club for the vartou* team ..la .that region. .