Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1951 — Page 1

Vol XLIX. No 13

SUWON RECAPTURED DY BTH ARMY TROOPS

Marshal! Asks Free Hand On Using Draftees De fen se Secretary Viewpoint Given Senate Committee • ••'s&.- " £* Waihingjon, Defeftise secretary George M*. Marshall’ does \uov want hi* hands /tied JOh the way he uses drafted assistant; defense secretary -Anna M. Rosenberg told a senate coUAnittee today. \ Vi<i shatl’s^''viewpoint was preJ scnted on the qufestirin of a pro--posed one-year ban on sending 18yea Holds overseas it congress approves drafting .them. Mrs. Rosepberg said she conferred withpAirshall this morning on the .question whether the defense department will accept a one-year . ban i>n sending 18-year-o|ds oveir«ea-‘ She said no decision has been, made on that specific issue. Rut. at Marshall’!® instructions. Mrs. Htosehberg «read to the senate preparedness committee from a report he made in .1943 when he was t*rr,my chief of staff. In it itje protected that legal restrictions were*; hamstringing the use of soldiers. , - \ ■ me to comply With the wi4'h«fs of the committee as far as visible.” - she said. ‘ But he said 4k would appreciate it great1y it lids hands hot be tied'.'’ 1 . Committee,. chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, D., Tex., told her' thqt MLaisljatU be prepared tp state how many 18-year-olds 7he wants to’send outside continental jijhited States. ' \ <’ - Under > tire present draft law, nie.n HF through 25 are subject to military service/ for 21 months, "the defense department has proposed jdropping the draft age to IS andiliextend ing the military serviceperiod to 127 months. ’ , ‘ln previous testimony. Marshall tfnd Rosertberg have said that very few> I'S-year-ohhewill be subject to overseas service iF-t+rvy-are ‘drafted. '' j ? But Johnson and other congressmen Wre expressed fears that congrejcs will turin down draft of Hie lit-H-ear-olds unless the overseas I >Sti is approved as the sa'me I into 1 ■ ■ ' • ' | Mrs.?.: Rorenberg later told r> pqrter.* that if the defense departement ipan is approved, a 21-month v volunteer plan announced yesterday 'will "be extended to a 2imonth | prograin retroactively so , that, volunteers serVe the .same length of time aS inductees under >■ the ne% .law. ■< f \ 1 Earlier in today’s hearing; ‘ Joh.»sp| complained to Mrs. Rosenberg|that the department is too slow ir£.bringing in a specific bill to rev|ite \the flfaft to meet the ” emergency/ She said the /bill WlO/come to, congress either toniot'r.(|w or Thursday. Ther| were also these manpower developments: > .1. u|»pgress received another defebsX department request for authority to' extend for one year all regular enlistments expiring <|rnrn To I*a<c«- Threet ( Features Added To Ar C. Meet dere Next Monday / V ■ ■*'l ; * Added features to the of Commerce program next Mon day eventing at (he_ Decatur high school/ [auditorium, will be the Upndkragce of local musical groups 5 . ' * .! Mrk. ifearl Clrase will give selections -(if Hamthond organ melodies and Miss Helen jlaubold I will direct a group Os, hifch schod) students- who will :sing. -. prior» to the of tho play. “The* .Silver Whistle,” which will <)>« presented [ by the Fort Wayne Civic Opera. j 'R;. C ; | Pruden. executive see- " retary o|f the Chamber of .Commerce. firged to ger their ticihpts at once. Reservations must b|;inade for ’ the.' dinner, which will be served by the Adamh County Home EJcj club. / Cal E.':’Peterson is chairman of the ticket committee, ’tickets have ; 'been placed on sale at , 4 stores and members of the dramatic of Woman’s club tiave tickets for sale.

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Free Insurance For Servicemen Favored Washington, Jan. 16. — (VPI- -- The House VeferanA Committeetoday unanimously approved legislation to give all servicemen insurance of 110,000. Ecept ifor minor changes, the bill is like ohe which was passed by the house in the dosing days of the laat congress but allowed ’to dm in the senate. *'The e would sup, plant ’ the r present program of optional. Service Life lit sut;anee. Millions of Iservicetnen jhave Iboitght NSLI policies since ‘the start of World W.ar 11. Railroads Ask Freight Boos! 01 Six Percent Ask Authority To Rates To Meet Rising Costs . Washington, 16 (UP,) — The nation's railroads asked authority to raise’interstate freight rates a total of $47.0,000,000 a year. In a .nietition filed with the interstate commerce Comm’issibn, the I railroads said 1 the increaste is ! essential-; to cover wage raike demands atjd higher operating costs, i The money, they said. also i would go for heavy spending on rail improvements “in the interest of the defense measures which are being unriertakeh )>y the nathiri.’’ Facing wage hike frolm most of their employes, the railtoads said to offset them they need a general freight rate increase of six percent. Similar ret quests are beihg filed with various stats commissions for a raise ■on intrastate rates. .■ Lawyers tor the railroads told the commission they will; ask that thlie increases be allowed as soon aX possible oh an interim basis zpendihg a finaf decision iri [the •case. ; The proposed in. reqse would apply to« all freight exttept six types oh which increases also 1 were requested. | These hix and thA proposed, increases dre: , j i Fresh fruits, including eitrhs. fresh vegetables, unj melon-?, six cents peb 100, pounds ; lumber and articles taking lumber rates I four cents per 100; pounds; sugar, four cents per 10|) .pounds, and coal, IS cents per net ton< > railroads said they,are fltc-, Ing operating ,coM increases' running $421:..835,00b a year over the cost leVeljs of July, 1949. In thesfe. counted wage increases for operating employes provided |n a White House Settlement still not made effective. , : (Turn to Page Six)

Need Tax Receipts To Obtain Licenses ? State Law Requires Showing Receipts (All persons applying for automobile»license plates must > have tlfeir personal and poll tax receipts before the local license bureau can issue the plates. This fact apparently is causing Mrs. Dale Death, license branch manager and assistant', the most hleadhches It is a state law and’local! branch employes have no choice; in the matter, it was pointed oi|t. ' ' Applicants who have lost their original tax receipts may get' duplicates at the office of county trHsurer Richard Lewton. /who has been keeping Saturday gfternoon to accommodate persons desiring to (obtain their auto license plates, ( It also was announced from the bureau today that a representative Os the gross income tax division Wppld be in Decatur again Thursday to assist local people in out; their state tax forms., For the ’la st 10 days there has been a constant line.at the license branch office. Including both license plate* applicants and also persons dealring information on (gross income tax. j \ V 'V

Kilter Cowers i In Jail Cell In California Map Prosecution Os \ Slayer; Five Bodies Recovered At Joplin San Diego, cklif., Jan. -16 — tl’P) —"Butcher Billy’’ cowered in silence today in U jaiil cell as federal, and state authori-fit-s mapped plans to prosecute him for a half dozen murders and kid'hapingsl I [ ■ - J, ; , Mexican officers ended the 22-year-old Hlekperado’s one-man crime wave yesterday when they surprised and arrested him in a Santa Rosalia case 600 mileH south of the border. The squifit-eyed slayer has admitteil killing sevAi persons, and at least orie more died from his gup. Even ak poi|ic4 chief Francisco Kraus MoUlej? of Tijuana,; Mex., took Coqk into custody, officers at. Jlphlin, Mo., dragged the bodies ot five of his admitted front an abanjdonedi mine shaft. , I Cook told a Blythe. Calif., deputy sheriff on Jan. 6 that he kidnaped and slaughtered the; five nietnbers of the Carl Mosser family of Atwood. 111. Kraus Morales escorted Cpok frotn Santa Rosalia to Tijuana. Thfcre the squint-eyed ex-convi<!t wdi turned over to 20 FBI agents at the x \. ■ Cook fajinted as he re-entered the I'. S. and had to be revived. Although he protested ’ll don’t remember killing anybody” to Krpus Morales. Cook, sat speechless in a; nervous stupor during his arraignmenjt before U. S,; commissioner George R. Baird hete. \ He was charged with two counts of illegal flight to escape prosecution and one’St kidnaping. No bail was sdt on the kidnapping charge, but Bpird fixed $25,000 bond on each count of flight. The justice department was expected to announce wheth'er the sawed-off ex-di-ihwasher would be [ turhed over to California, Oklahoma or Missouri authorities for murder prosecution. A heating /here was set for Jan. 29. I At Joplin, Mo., Cpok\s home I town. Lt. Chris Mosser made ar- , , ,(Turn ! to Puare

14 Youths Report For Army Service Leave Adams County For Active Service > \Fourteen youths- departed from Adams county today for induction into the armed services, the fifth such? group to leave since the Ko Tean;war’s beginning. Including today’s contingent 50 men l)ave thus left the countv for trip services through induction. \ Thie list of young to leave for Indianapolis included Richard Orville Manlev, Samuel E- Cottrell, Williti in Art Sauthine, Robert Arnold, Donald , Joseph Rumschlag, Gerald Leroy Rinnkel, Robert Ridh-j aid Roop, Roy Moser. Donald Le Roy Bieberich, Bruce Raoul Liechty. Harry Herman Baumgartner. Ralph Waldo Sauer. Stanley Paul Teeter and Vaiighn Lee Mytts. \ . Three other names /were also included on the list, but these were men who had transferred |o other local boards, and would probably be called at this time. The men were Kenneth Moore Bernstein, Walter G. schwehn and Ralph Donald Sills. I Adams County Soldier Is Reported Injured Word was received here of injuries sustained by Cpl. Donald Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs., Ernest Harris, of route 1, MonrOe after lhe car‘in which he was riding en-l route to Chanute Field. 81.. went out of control then collided with another vehicle. The accident occurred near Logansport, and Harris received a broken right arm and left leg and is suffering from a brain concussion. The driver of the car, Staff Sgt. Thomas Ketten. of Detroit, suffered a broken right arm. sprained back and' facial cuts. Both men pre in the Ixyanspprl memorial hospital'. '

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 16, 1951.

' ’ ■ 1 [.’g f I ■ * 1 ■ 71-Billion Budget F ■ • /lirijr’i''! Fb I i SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE Chairman Walter F. Ghorgeltni, Ga., Hefti, “balances” President Truman’s record-breaking peacetime budget of $71,594,000,000 for iUn. Homer Ferguson (R.i. Mich., of the senate appropriations coin trill I pe. Mr. Truman, in a 60-page budget message asked for an additional $22,835,000,000 to be/spent alter the fiscal year ends, bridging The grand total to $94,429,000,000.

Predict 4-7 Billion Cut In New Budge! Possible Without Hurting .Defenses I Washington, i|[an. 16 (UP) —, A senate Democrat and a house Republican sjiid today President Truman's ijew budget could be cut from $4.<)00,000,000 to $7,000,k OttO.OQO witlhmt hutting America’s defenses, ; The predictions were made by Sen. Harry F. D., Va.,<]lf the senate finance committee,-and Rep. John , Taber, R., N. Y.. of the house appropriations eommlt|ee. Many Democrats and most. If not all, Republicans agreed thht billions could be sliced from $71 i ,594.000.0i)0 President Trunnin propose* to spend in the year beginning July 1. A $4,000,000,000 to s7.boo.oo|r 000 spending slash would Idp that much off \new ‘taxes ’ by President Truman and st.il balance the budByrd dpriobnced Mr. Trumatfis new budget for containing “wasteful domestic; spending,” He said that “withiji a day or so” he would submit to congress detailed plans; as to. how expenditures can bf> reduced in accordance with a. letter [he wrote Mr. Truman on Dec. 22. In that letter vßyid said tlie government’s non-niilitariy spending could be cht by slightly mmie than $7,000,000,000. He called then l for a slash\)f $3.500,000,00|0 ■in foreign economic aid and s3j.600.000,000 in '“domestic-civilian!” programs.;, X Despite Mr. Truman’s To Pace Slchti

, { • . -\ . > ■ ■ \ Future Remodeling I Projects Studied Propose Rewiring Os County Garage Flails were considered Mondaj by the board of county .commissioners in their special meeting foi future remodeling projects to be undertaken within the next few weeks, one of the proposed that the county garage be completely rewired. I ' ' It wa's declared with the present wiring -the building was unsafe, and the board :'would have plans and; specifications prepared* and bidri will be received for the work after! a special appropriation is provided.? The matter will, of course, first! have to meet the approval of the! county council. It was announced by the commissioners that during their regular February ’5 meeting they iyill receive bids for an industrial type tractor for the highway department. tcs- bp uspd to pull the road mairitainer owned by the department. It was also disclosed that with the maintainer improved, and the diesel engine purchased iast summer utilized for other purposes, it was agreed that' the need for 'the tractor Avas apparent. The board will meet next Monday in a special meeting to receive bids for the painting of the first floor corridors and offices ,of f the court house. \

i.Uv r ■. i ■ ; r f BULLETIN/ ~ Albany, N. Y„ Jan, 46.— (UP) \ ■ —Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged President Truman today With playing partisan politics [. with the national emergency, u Dewey said he was “deeply ■ disturbed” that the president included in hi* budget “vast increases 1 in non-defense lex- / penditures of '■government at a time of national crisis.” \ w I ■ „ ■> > .<< !■' -I ?

Surveyor's Report Approved By Board .Annual Surveyor's r ■ < i ■■ . 'The annual surveyor’s report, submitted by Herfnan MolHring. Wtm approved by members of the libard of county commissioners in rh»p) regular meeting . Monday, tbd report revealing the amounts and contractors so the drainage work by the surveyor’s office. <>f ihe projects Were completed by the county itself, inci tiling Work on the Earl Sipe in Blue township. ,amounting to an assessment of Eickhoff , drain, in- Ppeble. sh(i2.a4;; Durbin And Durr. Mtmroe .amj Blue. Creek. $2,048.14; kruetzman, Preble, $2,091.90; A. J. Byrd, Wabash. $1,016; James Barr, Wab4sh\ $871.50; Bert Smith. Hartfbril. $1,723.20; J. H. Blakey. Uni|ih; $1,687.19; David Muller, St. Many’s. $402.10; Steigmeyer, Uniohi ss2B;' H. Gerke. Root. S 2 353.9&? . Spam Darr, Union, '51,329; Sarah Campbell, Jefferson, $777.74; jlanheH. Washington. $2,250; >tussbiitim. Monroe. $239.20; Johnson, SL ’Mary’s,. $71.40; Sapp. St. Matty's. $23G.27; Gladys Cleverj, St. Many’s. $2,723,07;. Schroeder, 3 but. $326. 7a and Johnson, St. ary’s. $663.37. J Other drainage projects tornpie tied by private contractors included the Blair drain, in Washington toWnship? at an assessment o£, $1,261.14. by the Yost Const rplctiori/ company. { Yost’s also completed the work on the Bryan, Shjpmaker, liumple and drain. in Jefferson township, with $5.a|<8.44 assessment; Inniger. Motiroe, $3,939.73, and W- j G. Smith. Monroe and Frenc|h, $3,718.85. Work for the Kelley drain, iu .Jefferson township, $494, W| M. Ohl<-r. Root, $2,095. and Elerdjing, Kirkland, $6,055.06. was iompMted. by leaker and Schulti. | i >T|ie Walter Thieime drain, in township, was dragged by the tC. Sherburn company, of Van Wei't. The assessment for shis amojint-ed to $2,573.86. Still-'Jittle o< . Fort; Wayne, completed the work on the Sam Henscfien drain iu kirkland (township, assessed at $J.956.25. Ht P. Graber djrairi. in Monhoe and French township, by Mjyrpn and son. Portland, assessed at $9,154. and the John Thomas' in Hartford township, was completed by of Fort and the assessment amounted to $27,031.90. ' i : • - 1 ■~ •• M ' 7“ I? WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; windy and someWliat warmer Wednesday. Ldw tonight 25-32, high Wedneajay 38-45 north, 45-50 south. 1 H .i* e . . i ’ . 1

U. S. Troops In Western Korea Advance 10 Miles; Fall Back In Center Area

Test Vote Planned . . • ' I ' • .Tl 4 ' •' . On Troops Overseas First Test Vote In Senate Next Week Washington, Jan. 16 — (UP) — The senate agreed today tp take its' first test votea pext Tuesday on the hotly-dehated issue of sending American troops to Europe as part of a unified XitrUi Atlantic pact force. ! The chief issue is whether Pres ident Truman can send more troops abroad without congressional approval. By unanimous consent, the senate agreed to start voting Tuesday on a resolution by senate Reptiblican leader Kenneth S. Wher ry, Neb., to require congressional’ approval before President Truman can send more ’American troops. Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex. of the senate foreign relations committee, in a compromise move, said he expects to offer a, resolution that simply would put the on recorid In favor of sending troops, He said he plans to do so as soon as,Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower; supreme cominaii uer of tiie unified western European defense force, returns from Europe and reoor(s, to congress. The senate agreement provided that members first must vote on whether to consider the Wherry resolution. Administration forces will counter by demanding that the Resolution be sent to Connally's committee for study. Wherry says this would mean "pigeon-holing’’ it.; ’ ' , ; . I ■ Only if the administration move is defeated will an Actual vote on the merits of-dhe Wherry proposal be taken. But senate leaders clearly regarded the voting Tuesday as a test of 1 strength for the WheiTy proposal. ' ' ' . i j , /\. Mr. Truman insists he nas contTwrn -«-A KfKhtt

Report Released On Growth Os Building [Seven Permits Were Issued In December Decatur’s current building growth j was wrapped up in statistics today and released, the report obtained through the office of city engineer Ralph Roop arid showing that, for example, seven buildihg permits were issued during last iponth. December, 1950. for building costs totalling $76,650. The bulk of this cost, of course, was for the/addition to the Moose home, on Jackson street, this work consuming $57,000 of the total amount. , j j •\ The rest Was divided among other classification J: industrial buildings. $5.200; one non-iresidlent permit with a cost of $500; one home. $5,000. and one play house, for which a permit was required, $l5O. In addition, construction is under way on four of the proposed 29 homes in the Schirmeyer addition, at Cleveland and Grant streets. Two of six permits sought were withheld by Roop, one of them because one of the houses would not meet the foelcessary footage speciJ Illations, arid which is expected to be appealed; the other because of the lack of streets and sewers within the project; Roop indicated he will present this to the council, and wip not reject the permit until all? the facts have been clarified. Contractors of the addition have Roop that work on the Streets and sewers in the proposed project will get underway soon. Once this work is completed it is expected that many more of the homes will be built shortly after. NEW SERIAL A new mystery thriller serial I story will start in Wednesday's Dally democrat. It Is entitled "Death and Letters," written By Elizabeth DaJy. You’ll enjoy every installment! of this mystery.

Indiana House Condemns U. S. And UN Policy Adopts Resolution y Condemning Action , In War In Korea i Indianapolis. Jan. 16 - 1 — (UP> — A bristling resolution condemning V. S. and United policy and action with regard to the Korean war was adoplted by the Indiana house today after an hourlong hot political debate. The Republican majority sent the resolution to the seriate by voice vo(,e after Democratic opponents hiad labeled it “a conglomeration of gobbledy-gpok.” “a muddleheaded, addlepated mixture.”* and “ipubletalk’ L prepared “for political purposes.”l The GOP representatives beat down five Democratic efforts to amend by striking out the key paragraphs arijl substituting others. / The resolution demanded that U. S. delegatus in the U. N. resign if they failed \to get, “immediate and unequivocal condentnation’’ of, all aggressors in far east. It also demanded\(he .state department insist other (, N. meriibers send ground, troops to Korea, that a policy of “‘all out\or get out” in Korea bd adopted by this country, and that we [should arm Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Earlier, bills to abolish one stat&q commission and two superior courts were introduced after Miser ’ recommended some governmental departments be eliminated to save money. Rep. Miser suggested yesterday in a house ways and megns committed meeting that four commissions'and boards be disbanded because their activities failed to justify the cost of their existence. In the house. Rep. William P. Birchler. R.. Cannelton, offered a bill abolishing \ the state railroad commission and conferring its powers on the public service commission. . In the Senate., Sen. Edmuad F. Makowski. D.. East Chicago, pro-(T»*-n To ■' i

Employment Shows t Only Slight Gain Monthly Report By—- — C. Os C Industrial’ employment in this city was near a standstill in December, gaining only five over November. i ' With 1.685 persons \ reported on the employment roll, the payroll climbed approximately $56,000 over the (previous, month, reaching a high of $532,047, compared to $476,220 in November. Six industries report* ed to the .Chamber of Commerce in compiling the totals for the monthlj’ business barometer. 1 Seven build’ng permits totaling $76,650 were issued during December. This is an increase of two!permits and $51,000 in construction the previous month. \ year ago only two permits for $1,160 were issuedDecatur post office receipts totaled $10,648 last month, compared to $10,403 for the month in 1949. The November total was $5,801. Carloadings in and out of Decatur showed a slight increase over a year |igo. The total was 2.194. compared to 2:819 in November and 2.132 in 1949. Births reported were' 48. compared to 27 in November and 53 a year ago. Deaths were seven, com pared to 15 in November.1 Direct poor relief in Washington township for December amounted to $1,045.28, compared to $8|3.92 in November and $730.05 for. thd .same month last year.

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Force Communists Fall Back Toward Seoul; Air Force Blasts At Chinese ' Tokyo. Wednesday, Jan. 17.4(UP)i—U. S. Sth army troops in western Korea drove another 10 miles north Tuesday, recapturing Suwon and forcing the Chinese Comiipunists to fall l|ack toward Seoul, 17 miles north. • Bi central Korea, however, other Bth army troops withdrew from the embattled Wonju area.to set up a new and straighter defense line to the south. Fifth air force 1 ' fighters and bombers blasted the Reds with 119 sorties during day, ’ hitting 33 towns among a. long list of targets ildqg the froqt. Chinese rear guards put up only a 1 token fight in Suwon before fleeing north. Allied air fleets raked tl\em and mowed down at least 150 troops-. With the capture of SuwoiL the S(h army had advanced some l’» miles since It- launched what it called a “reconnaissance in force” yesterday. Qsan. 10 miles south of Suwon, fell’without al fight yesterday. • ' ri However, the Sth slrmy still had not come into coritacy with the main Chinese forces below Seoul and it seemed unlikely that the Reds would yield much more ground without an all-out battle. ;OriJe report said the Chinese were throwing up a defense line just; north of Suwon. ' Mh Bth aripv spokesman disclosed that a third Chinese army—the; 40jh--had mjaved through 'the, former South- Kprean and joined the 38th and 50th. armies south lof Spoul. That put iome 20,000 Chinese troops between Seoul and thd Ssth army line \ , In east-centraf Korea, other United- Nations forces dug in along a new defense line after abandoning just sorith of Wonju to an £neniy tod stunned and disorganized by their 10-day stand to follow up the withdrawal. \ Sixteen- B-29 superfortresses carried the war to the Communist North Korean capital, Pyongyang, with a t-30-ton, half-hour raid. light bombers which followed up yjhe attack were jumped Iby two Soviet-built Yak fighters, but the American . aircraft probably shot down one of them and escaped unscathed. Resuming their \counter-atfack on | the western front below Seoul, United Nations infantry ran into a s'ereening force lof 100 Reds with one machfnegun in the southern outskirts of Suwon shortly after 2 p.ni, (11 p.m. CST). The Chinese fell back into the eity after a briet'fight. United Press war correspondent Gene Symonds reported from the front.“Tlie UN forces advanced again and made contact inside the city.” Symonds said. “Latest repotts indicated the enemy is retreating north 'out of Suwon.” Air reports said the Reds were iri [“full retreat” toward Seoul. • F-80 jet Shooting Stars. F-84 .Thunderjets, F-51 Mustangs and B-26 light bombers joined naval carrier-based fighters in ripping enemy columns between Suwon and Seoul. They hoped to better yesterday’s toll of 1,600 enemy dead. Light snow interfered with some of the air attacks. There was no indication of the size of ♦he Bth army column wh|clr drove Into Suwon. However, an ,Bth army spokesman cautioned that the allies had nor launched a counteroffensive. |.

Sanitation Workers End Long Walkout Indianapolis, Jan. .16. —(Up) l ' City sanitation department workm ■- returhed to their jobs today' ending a 139-day strike Patrick A McCabes, international representative of the A.FL stat.-*, county and municipal employes union,‘said the local membership voted last night Ito return to work He,said 39 workers were scheduled to rhsume work today, and 61 others “within the next few days."