Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1951 — Page 1

No. 10.

TRUMAN ASKS FOR GIGANTIC TAX PROGRAM

UN Hammers Reds At Wonju

Ground Troops, U.S Air Force Blast Al Reds - ■ ip.: i / ' 1 ■ Red Soldiers Flee r From Ridge As Air ? Force Hurls Bombs Jan. 13 — (Saturday) — j / (UP*) -4 I’nited Nations ground .1 roops <r»id the V, S. air force gave the/coiijmuniHts a bloody nose Fri- ' day .in the battle of Wonju. ' i The Beds broke and ran from a ridge tijro mile* south of the city- 1 . I when American fliers burned and blasted I 6,000,000 square yards c with 27© tons of bombs. American, Fr?pch, Dutdh and South Korean troops then launched a conn- ~~ that carried them with- . in a mile of Wpnjui :a After i'the blazing counter attack, a Unitied Nations corps command-, er whsfasked: “What is your of the' situation?" "The Situation is fine,”' he-said. "We’ve killed. a lot of the enemy and we|il kill plenty more. Our ‘men alp aware that they should I be here;undthey will stay. We’Ve got all; rfhe artillery we need and nil the |bod we can ever eat; As long ft? ?the situation remains that Way wej will be here forever.” Obviously the IL N. arrtiy in- - tends tq hold the Wouju line as iqjhg as to prevent the Beds .from pouring through the "gateway to Southern Korea” on the roads leading W* the Pusan i beach. h(4d. ■ s :1 The aerial, assault on the conip rngnlst position kiStCti all day yes- i First American fighters ' and light hrimberu torri into the enemy. flights ofß-29Acaml? ip with (their Sunday punch and the communists .couldn’t stand up undec < , Earlyljkriday the communist air ™ force upde three light raids against V. N. troops in the west- ' ern sevtor. Later in the morning an Afluerican-typd bomber bearing U. air force markings dropped twtythombs. U.S. eighth army headquarters said It did not know whether the plane had been deliberately . disguised ds an American ship whether it was a IL S. pilot who had lost) his way. / Threat Diminished ■ ’• .Wnshlhgton, Jan. 12 — (UP) — A" high-ranking army officer today i’ said the communist threat ’* tef Unitejd Nations forces on the Korean Tight flank "has been diminisheil to a great extent.” ; Th A officer referred to the Wonhi urija hwhere UN. troops have been resisting enemy efforts ti| take vitail rail and highway intersections.- •’ . . j f . : The Ajidkesman told newsmen ta at a bridling that the f 1 improved was brought about bji reinforcing the South, had been defending the vllaf position. The reinforce-1 ments have been identified in Tokyo dispatches as the United States second division The officer • said there are between fg.OOO and 15,000 North Korean Troops and guerrillas east' ; the second’ division* in the Wonju area. . • 1 ♦ He said this figure prbbably includes' 1,000 to J. 500 guerrillas who have moved lb a position K übout.L’S miles south of the second dlvipipiU iHe skid there are now .about 0,000 Kjorean refugees in Pusan, e southeastern port city, alone, i ; “And .they are comipg in at a rate I of Hoosier Physicians % To Register Monday ». y ■ . - i: ■ 1 ’ . ’ Indianapolis, Jan. 12.—(UP)— . Brig. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana selective service , announced today about 7.000 Hoes ier physicians, dentists and veterinarians would register, at local boards Jan. 15. The group includes men übder 50 years who are nut member? pf the armed forces or its 1 reservft.i components. and certain all ens. Hitch cock said •' J ■

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Dies Thursday ■■l - m ' w--- 3 Charles D. Teeple O _ 1 Charles D. Teeple Is Taken By Death Former Businessman Os Decatur Is Dead Charles D. Teeple, 79. for many years a Decatur clothing merchant. and prominent churchman, died ar St. Joseph. Mich.. Thursday afteyi|oon at 4 o'l-lpck; The Teeplek had -moved to St. Joseph last summer. Dpath resulted from a comhinatidn of ailments and Xlr ; Tehple h&d been bedfast most of the ■ time -since moving to, the Michigan city. Charles IL Teeple, was born in Willshire, <O., December 15; IR7L a son of Andrew. J. and Achsah I Teeple. He was married May 26. ISPS, to Margaret Fbrdyce. The Teeples resided in Decatur all of their married life until last summer. v 1 Mrs. Teeple and a daughter, Mrs. Alta McClintock of Bejiton Harbor. Mich . and three grandchildren, Andrew Fordyce McClihtock» Joan apd Susan McClintock, also of Benton Harbor, survive. Mr. Teeple was engaged in thp clothing business here for years.' lieing tjie senior partner in the fii’m of Teeple, Brandybefry and Peterson. The store later became Teeple and Peterson and a few yeaYs ago wjien Mr. rTeeple retired the' - store becamh Peterson’s, and is now Peterson and Heller. He was active fob years in the First Presbyterian church .and the Decatur Masonic lodge, being a 50-year member ok ' thel local lodge. He served several totmst as elder of the Presbyterian church and alsp taught in the Sunday School. He was active inF Decatur and Adams county church ‘ affairs. . The hoily will be brought to the Black funeral home in Decatur late, Saturday afternoon.. Friends - „tnay caljl Sunday and Monday tinI til noqh. Funeral services will ! be held at the First Presbyterian church Monday afternoon at ‘ 2 o’clock with the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander, pastor of the First Presbyterian church'< in charge, assisted by Ihe Rev. Laurence T. Norris, pastor of Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, a clo>e (personal Triend Os Mr. Teeple. Active pallbearers will bb Leonard Soliday. Roscoe Glendentng. Dick Heller. Sim Burk; MJ A. Frisinger and Ed F. Jaberg. Honorary pallbearers will include John If. Heller. W. F. Beery. Fred V. I Mills, tharles Knapp, Wilson Lee and Cal E. Peterson,-, partner ; of Mr. Teeple during his years in the clothing business. Burial will be in the Decatim cemetery. \ “ WEAJHER Mostly cloudy this afternoon, rain bedinning extreme south tonight, spreading - northward over stat^, 'probably mixed with snow extreme north Saturday. Higher |em* peratures tonight. Low to- ■ .night 30 north, 35 south, higli Saturday 35-40 north, 40-46 I aouth. '- J ■ |■■' JL - : '

Armed Forces Increase Goal For June 30 * Figure 262,505 Over Previously Announced Quota Washington. Jan. 12.—HUP) —j Assistant defense secretary Anna M. Rosenberg disclosed todaj’ that the m ined forces have raised| their goal to 3,462,205 men and wjonien ,ip service by next June 30. The figure is 262,205 over the, previous goal Mrs. Rokeriherg said President Truman approved tbe increase this! morning. ' She told (the senate preparedness subcommiitee the higher goal is to be met “as| early as possible” with .June 30 th«* outside dale. Although she did not say so, it presumably means an increase in draft quotas. Mrs. Rosenberg offered the new figure io explain to the committee .why the defense department wants to draft IS-yearolds. The present draft'age is 19 through 25. Mrs. Ros»nbci|g indicated it is possible even higher figures will be set within the next few weeks;. Spe told the committee that the aiinojinced Jnciease and any pew ones will tequire a complete ret-, vision of ijianpower <-harts which Mie has submitted the past few days. These will be ready Monday, :Mie said:) ’' I ■' ' p “I asked the statistical department Ts there is such a thing as a rubber;chart so we won’t have to sirup all night r< vising the charts,” she sard. 11 The higher manpower figures < an be met only by revisit present draft procedures, she said; Unleks IS-yem-ulds me called, she said, the armed services will have to ■ask'for husbands-who are veterans or fathers Who are non-veterans. In additiefn, she said, the defense department will have to "squeezle" the group oL men now deterred while they are attending college. The committee members were somewhat skeptical toward the defense department request for, a draft of IStyear-olds. The skepticism''was based upon the old goal of 3,200.000. Department officials told the committee yesterday that the old goai could be met without substantial j changes in present law. Marine Evacuee Is Speaker At Rotary Kenneth Jennings Experiences U. S. marine evacuee Kenneth Jennings, in relating some of his shattering experiences in Korea, told members of the Rotary club tliat the American Red Cross was right on hand in aiding members of tkearmed forces all along the Korean front. I , "M’hen on the ship to be evacuated to the Red Cross gave' us cigarette?, shaving equipment dnd sent tglegrumk or placed .telephone calls to our families back home,’' the marine vet-; eran who had both feet frozen in 28-degree below zero' weather stated. Marine Jennings spoke on the Rotary program, following the showing of ii talkie picture on th? Red Cross blood bank movement. Dr. Joe Morris, recruit chairman for the county mobile blood bank, presented the picture and explained plans fpr the local project. The local Red. Cross chapter is one of? 2 units in the Fort Wayne an a to the monthly visit here of the mobile blood unit. blood center will be established at the American Legion home. ( Jeiinings stated that his feel; were “thawing but” satisfactorily; He suffers a stinging pain frequenU* ly, and dares not subject himself 1 to extreme cold. He does not believe complications win develop. He was evacuated from Hungham, Korea, after escaping from the Chi|nese Communist line in that area. The program was in charge of V (*wr« To Pa*e Klakn

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 12, 1951.

— r V- , Swears In His Son B\ ’ 'lk XWk wiH! v A ■ ■sHHHHHHBHIK & awHI ■ A FAMOUS FLYER, Col. Eddie Rickenbacker. top U. S. me of World War I. swears his son William. 22. into the Air Foike in New York. Colonel Eddie is a' reserve officer. . > . ' j

Believe Vatican j Misinformed On Ban Bishop's Statement , On Ban On Rotary '1 1 f The Most Rev. John R Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne, Mated lie is certain the Vatican has been misinformed about Rotary dubs in the United States and will withdraw its ban <m : ecclesiastical membership in these organizations once the matter is explained. I The bishop said he had not bejen officially informed of the Vatican’s decree forbiding Roman Catholic priests from joining Rotary clubs, but had heard of it on a radio broadcast. ? “I have a notion they have had trouble'with Rotary in Latin eoittr tries,” said Bishop Noll, ”|mt 1 think this thing will be cleared np soon.” ” d ; , The Bishop said he was a!charter, member of the Huntington Rotary club and that the Rev. Simeon Setvmltt, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church there, is now president of that dub. Bishop Noll expressed the belief that people in Spain got the wrong impression of Rotary when Englishspeaking officials of the organization went into that country to organize Rotary clubs. ”1 am certain, hoWeter, that some American authority will explain the situation to the Vatican and it will be cleared up.” he said. The Bishop also noted that the Vatican' newspaper Osservatore Romano* which announced the ban, is only a “semi-official” organ of the church. a, Vatican View Vatican City, Jan. 12.—r(UP)-— Some Rotary clubs the United States and Canada are considered by the Roman - Catholic church to be “antl-religious” or “antirCatholic',” a Vatican source said today, [ This source said, however, that 1 Catholic laymen who belong to the international organization can de- ‘ cide for themselves whether to resign or continue membership. I The information was given in clarifying yesterday's Vatican decree forbidding priests, as apart from laylmen. from belonging to Rotaiy clubs. . Vatican sources said the decree was aimed at some European Rotary ahd not at club? in the U. S. or Canada. These sources said Catholics in the U. S, and Canada may belong and continue their membership jf their local bi-sh Ops approve. The president of ifotary international is Arthur Lagueux.. Quebec, Canadd, banker and Catholic. . j . , “Catholic faithful may belong o|r ' resign' at theij;' discretion,” the sources said. , “Their .membership, in R btarvwUl be tolerated. However, ary drganization. because pf certain professions of secularism, does not have the spiritual sanction of the Roman Catholic church.”

—* t —; 1 Stork Is Winner In ißqce To Hospita t Indianapolis. Jan., 12. (UP) — i The st<pk overtook Mrs. Frances ! Kwchlef as ! her ihusband, Cyr»l. | frantically i 1 steered the family car l through Heavy traffic toward a ho.» ■ pital. * Kui-hiet Staid today bp tucked the' baby un4e*r his right arm, drove with his le|ft arm, honked the’horn With his jright elbow and sped on to the hospital. Annual County Home Report Is -Released Assets Increased Over Previous Year The jAuhms county home is n growing concern-acordiiig to |the figures pleased today which weiro compiled' during the recent inventory takein the first of the year. The appraisers. B. E. Breiner and Chris), Bohnke, valued the prop ; efty at 1. This compares fav •o ably .with) 1950, when the assets of the hn.he.were valued at >28,95”7d. and id lfU9 when the valuation was. |35,2^16 The in cattle and hhgs, raided at > 10,095; grain, hay. | feed, poultry and similar items. >6.360, fujip implements and Supplies, $R.082: other supplies listed separate for household goods, at >1,075, <5. supplies of such nature as'hot water heater, [washing machine. and sotorth, $4,105.75; clothing and miscellaneous were valuedat >292.50: ] 1 i In addition to tlie duly appointed' aibpraisetH, the county commissioners, John.' Augsbunger, Otto Hoffman and Lewis Wor.th|man, Frank A. Kitson, superintendent of the home, and Ed. A. Bosse, County attorney, also participated in the report wh|ch was released by county auditoii Thurman I. A>t the idine time, the iinniial re port of the home was released, dis,(losing tiiut total receipts for 1950 were >24973.62, while disbursements were $19,527.45, leaving a caish balance of >5,4)6.14. The Adapts county home is a selfsustaining institution. The homie’s receipts were gained largely through the sale of livestock and produce plus board for residents,/ which in most instances is paid by the different township trustees; approximately 111.000 during IPM. ' I'l ■ ' Fall Under Train ISr Fatal To Yoythi flreensbubg, Ind., Jan. 12 —(Uli services were arranged tot ay for.Rorbeft D. Rejctor 21, who di(|d yesterdhjk as the result of a traih accident last, week in whirl, he lost bbth legs. He fell unde- a meving train attempting to get aboard i ■ 1, ■ . ' £ ■ »■

Pay-As-You-Go Program Urged; Strict [Controls On Wages, Prices, Rents

Atomic Explosions Planned In Nevada ( - ’ 'i H Hasten Development Ot Atomic Warheads Washington, Jan. 12— (UP) — .Officials predicted today that the forthcoming nuclear test explosions in NeVada will hasten development of atomic warheads ror guided missiles and other “special weapops.” The atomic energy commission announced yesterday that it Will set off test blasts Irotn 'time to time on the 5.000-squ’are mile'air force bombing and gutUiery rarifte near Las Vegas. No date was djivulged for the initial tests, Init 'there were indications they will he held in the next, two or three months. They will be the first atomic explosions In continental United States sipce history’s first A-hotplb test at Alamogordo. N. M„ on the morning, of July 16. 1945. | 'The AEC predicted the Neji-adla i Jests will produce a “speedup Bn the (atomic) weapons program)” and chairman Brien McMahon, D„ Copn., of the congressional atomyenergy committee said they "will save precious weeks.” | ; H The official announcement saiid the new tests will "include” ?*- ! perimental nuclear exltlosiciitis "for the development Os I atomic bombs — sQ-rfflled ‘A liombj’f That appeared to rule out hydrogen bomb tests, which , prisunuibly are being reserved for thp atomic proving ground established after the war at Eniwetok atoll ii) the Pacific. But it did not, pn the face of it. rule out tests of other "atomic weapons." \ Former defense i secretary Ix)uis ' Johnson reported, nearly a year ago that “a variety of (atdmic) weapons is under development whidh may in the near, future have military significance, both tactical and strategic.” Subsequently ( former acting AEU chairman Sumner T. Pike c-oniirmed that the ■ c-ionnnisison cTurn Tin Pace «lx> Marilyn Hoblet Is Winner Os Contest , ■ ■ . ■ '■ J\ Adjudged Winner In Oratorical Contest ■ ■ Miss Marilyn Hoblet, a Senior in Hie Decatur high school was judged winner of the recently held .oratorical elimination contest, and will represent that school ,in the forthcoming county contest, tentatively s,et Jor February 15. Nine - member? of Dleane Dorwiff’s speech classes participated in the high school elimination to represent Decatur high school in the American Legion-sponsored national high- school oratorical (Contest. Following the county contest, the orator? advance to district, 'zone, then state eliminations. Ed Jaberg, chairman of the contest, which isi sponsored locally by'Adams pokt 43, American ■ Legion, stated tpat applications for entry in the contest must be . mailed to state headquarters of ] the Legion not later than February 3; Jabetg said there is no indicatioq, t at present, from other county schools to participate in the contest, but he expressed the l>elief Chat there will, be at least three schools entered in the county elimination; Last year, only contestants from Decatur Catholic and Decatur high school were entered. ; Miss Hoblet was chostn winner by judges fpr the contest. Katherine. Weidten. Dale Ross and Lowell Smith, ail members of the high i school faculty. Others comieiing ; included. Miss Ann Deibch. who selected as .alternate'; Mairjprielu Hill, Mary Ann Owens, pue Braden, George Bair, Grover <T»«-« To Page St*)

United States And UN Action In Korea Hit Republicans Submit Resolution Today In State Assembly Indianapolis, Jan. :2 — (UP) — A strongly-worded resolution condemning U. S. and United Nations policy and action\witjh regard to the .Korean war was. introduced in the Indian? i house today by ,two Republicans. ' j ” Despite vigorous protests from the Democratic minority, the resolution progressed to engrossment and printing. The highly controversial . paylight saving time issue was tossed into the legislative hopper in both houses, simultaneously in another development of the kith general'; assembly’s session. ! A bill by Sen'. Dale E.‘ Beck, D.. Young America, would repeal the 1!H!» anii-daylight ' time bill, and a bill by Rep. Paul C. Moellering, R.. Fort Wayne, would put Indiana on eastern standard time. The Korean, resolution was proposed by Reps. Charles T. Miser. Garrett, and Glenn R. Slenker, Motfticello. But. on motion of Rep. Robert S f Justice, R. Logansport, the house by voi£e vote delayed action until the resolution is printed ami distributed Among the members for study? The resolution said the U. N. “continues to hesitate regarding suA’ieient measures for a conclusive success in Korea and refuses to declare Communist China the Aggressor.” I '' J ‘ "Be it resolved." i the resolution said, “that we unpiistakably oppose any further delay in bringing about a showdown in the United Nations, call on the delegates of the U. S. at the U. N. to obtain immediate and unequivocal condemnation . . . of all aggressors in the far east or else resign.” ' ’ 1 It demanded that the state department insist other United Nations members send to K ol ’® 3 “immediately sufficient > ground forces to enable American troops noW there to continue. I fighting (T»>-n To Paxe Four) • . 1 Civil Defense Fund Asked By Schricker $150,000 Sought As Preliminary Fund Indianapolis. Jan. 12— (UP) —• Indiana steered closer tb a wartime footing today with state leg* islators poised to speed into law , a $150,000 civilian defense appropriation asked by , Governor, Schricker. \ . . < The money would finance organization of a statewide defense group to' teach Noosiers what to do in case of an emergency. Schricker said Indiana’s dtefense ■program would include plans for possible evacuation jof threatened areas, medical aid! to stricken, and designation of sturdy buildings as bomb shelters. The appropriation request stemmed from Schricker’s twohour top-secret ence yesterdays legislative leaders, state police defense experts, and the state health comnjissioner. Proposals offered at that meeting wet? included in today's report to a special joint session of the general ahsembly> by state police Supt. ArthuC M. Thurston. ;\ 1 >p. "Restricted information" was included in Thurston's report, and the public not admitted. Newsmen wetx'lniefeil before thte session that they would be bound (Tur* To P**e St*) 'I f ' ■ ' ' ’

Price Five Cents.

Mammoth Program To Match Russian Military Might Is Asked By President Washington. Jan. 12. —(UP> — President Truman called today for a gigantic pay-as-you-go tax program. strict wage-price-rent controls. and a mammoth plant expansion program to avert war with Russia if possible but win it “if it. comes.”; At the saijie time he handed congress an annual economic review in which his council of economic. advisers said a pay-as-you-go defense. program will require tax j rates perhaps “drastically higher than have ever been Imposed bt fore in the United States?' These ad- ' \visers also raised the ultimate possibility of rationing. The president’s recommendations for matching Russia’s military might were made in his -annual economic report to congress. He forecast that in this) and the next fiscal year the United States will commit itself tq spetjid $140,0t)0,0()0,000 for “primary national security programs” alone. J # Actual spending under these pro- ' grams—the U S. military buildup, military-economic aid to free nations, atomic energy, and stockpiling—will hit an annual rate between $45,000,000,000 and $55,000,000,OQO by the end of calendar 1951, he said. ? To pay for spending at that rate $20,000,000,000. --<35,000.01MUW.--above the current clip—the $8,000,01)0,000 in tax boosts by the last congress is nowhere near enough, the president said. He will tell the 82rid congress later how much he believes (federal I revenue must be hiked. The figure ’ $20,000,000,000 has bee? suggested if congress okay? pay-a?you-go. Mr. Truman said every American will be hurt—but ’by no means seriously—by the fiefqnse program. Everybody will pay more taxes, all will have,j to do without things they're used to, both wages and prices must be stabilized. But the economic power of the United States arid iis Allies is “superior to tfeit of their enemies.” he declared, and “we can w,in our way through .to ultimate triumph if we all pyll together,” Although the president himself did not spell out the administration’s tax plans, the review by hi? economic advisers bluntly stated that: > “By far the largest part Os additional revenue riiust come from thelmiddle and lower tax brackets. These are the brackets in which the great bulk of the income is located." . Such sacrifices, he said, “will makg for a Stronger nation." Nowhere did the president mention a sajles tax, a source of revenue which government officials have 1 been considering. He did s?|y that the new tax boosts “musl press harder upon every source of available rev.enue.” •* " J \ To finance the most expensive program ever undertaken by this country without a format state of war, the president said that corporations and individuals would have to pay “much higher taxes.” He also said that | excise taxes would have to ( be increased and made more extensive. “We should make it the first l 5 principle of economic and fiscal policy in these time? to maintain a balanced budget, arid to finance the cost of national' defense l ’on a x ‘pay-as-we-go’ basis,” the president j said in a 7000-word message accompanying the animal economic review Os his council of economic advisers. ,i ~ ''' T— ~t~ $50,000 Fire Loss At Purdue U. Dorm Lafayette,‘lnd.. Jam 12 — (UU> -— Purdue University officials investigated it<| determine cause of a sso,€'rio fire today which destroyed ’ two wirigs of a : barrack-type meq’s dorniitory. Fdrty-Mx pijama-clad students fled to safety when the fire was discovered early yesterday. Many* students lost' their clothing and hnoks. i J I ’1 • . | " -'. :