Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1951 — Page 1

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REDS REJECT UN PEACE PLAN FOR KOREA

Council Approval For Diesel Engine

Pouncil Approves -Signed Contract For Purchase Os \ New Diesel Engine ■ th J ' - ' ."' Th| city A Decatur became*the ( <)wh<& of a diesel engine today, one .Japable of producing 3810 . KWt|* at a cost of $493,175. bitt | promises to be a slight ] paus'M- of several months* while Idguttecitnicalities are ironed out. j liarts-ikre assembled am| construe- ’ tion js completed. ' i Members of the city council Tuesday signified approval of a contract sighed by the city’s board of* pt|>lic works .lasi month by a 3«3 v|ie in favor, of the purchase, The tlk tion was anti-climactic folweeks of public discussion and changei of votes. At 'ffifst. councilmen during a preliminary ’ meeting voted for a N’ordl|ei‘k engine at a cost of ssll,spo| Armed with a recom-\ mendtjtion from' consulting engineers lEmerV, Marker and Emery. whicMhad stated the best engine for the city would* be one irianuhy the Baldwin-Lima-Jlamirtloh company, the board of puhlkNi works—Mayor Doan, city attorw jy. Robert S. Anderson and counci inan Joe. Krick and signed a contract\with the latter Lompany. • At & subsequent meeting conn-, oilmen) refused to approve the contrail t and the matter was for all p$ poses copaidered closed, llowt-tpr, councilman agreed to reopen[the proceedings for another vcrti | on the ordinance approv- _ ' Ing ths contract, and at Tuesday's meeting final action was taken. ' The [approval was voted by counci |nen Krick, Al Beavers and Adria): | Burke, while councilmeh Joe B jenuen and Ddrphus Drum voted heir disapproval of the con- ' tract'. '[l J \ ’ .It is|iassumed that future action J;will rdpuire the city to obtain p - <lefetis| order number before constriicti|n can be completed. It is ' : ] believ.|l there will be little delay in obtaining the order because of t \. the uagure of the project. . H The engine, when’installed, will bemused by the city light and ■ I power department as .an auxiliary power |danty primarily to discontinue y purchases frpm outside * ' \. City Bieouneilmen also det’ered ulitil Ktebruary 6 any action concerhin® the Schirmeyer sewer > resolution which was given preliminary consideration at the Deceinbe<l9 tp.eeting,. It ws proposed to construct the sewer in the Schirmeyer. i street Section. were sent to Jeskients to be affected by the construction of the sewer, and a hearings was held at the Tuesday . meetiu||. Four of the ten persons pres,end opposed thj- Construction of the sewer, stating that it would be cosily: those who approved favoretj the advantages to the sewer Astetn in that section. Tlfe matter/was referred to the street anr server--committee for further study. | ' < • Red Cross Activities Discussed At Meeting \ Plans for the annual Red Cross drjve ai|d participation in the area blood blink campaign were dis cussed list evening, at the quarterly- tneedng of the directors of the ■<’ ,county | Red Cross chapter The of a fount, y chairman to direct *p>e Red Cross drive in March will he made within a few* days. Earl B. Adams, chapter president. announced. i The airst visit of the mopi’c blood unit will be made to this city in Jdarch] it was stated. The American Legion has offered its home Aaf.the blood center when tho mobile' jimit and technicians visit the city^,Reports were made by the various f chairmen including the yoluotedr service and home Service A financial report was given by Roscoe plendennlng, chapter treasurer. | > \

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Price Rollback May Be Ordered As Os Jan.l Report Government Prepared To Order Wage-Price Control Washingljon, Jan. 17^—(t T P)—• The government was reported toto be prepared Jo order across-the-board wjage-price controls which Would include a pr ice rollback There, were reports the price rollback might be to Jan. 1 wages '‘stabilized" at that date. The order may be, issued within a> week or two. Tip-off 911. the Im* pending order will coble tonight when defense mobilization chief Charles E. Wilson delivers an ‘‘important" speech at Philadelphia. Wilson isi expected toj so that early imposition of .coijtrols is needed. That jneatis they are in the Works and may be ih> posed when 13 regional i economic stabilization agency offices are opened about Feb. 1. Wilson will not issue th® order himself. Economic . stabilizer Alan Valentine, whose agency will enforce the rules, will d\> that. The order] is expected to call, for a price rollback to remove any increases Which hav? occurred since price stabilizer Mitjhael V. Disalle’sk 3C*day wage price freeze was vt tb< d last week. Finishing touches on the new order were made as retail food prices pushed to their highest level in history. The labor department reported last night that retail food prices on Jail. 2 topped the previous all-time high of Jan. 15, 1948 by pne percent. Nearly all meats, vegetables and other foods showed a sizeable imjease. ■ ' There were also these other (Turn To Page Seven) \] Exchange Teacher At Lincoln PTA Thursday Miss Katbjeen ab exchange , teacher from Scotland, now teaching at the Smart school in F'ort Wayne, will at the meeting of the Lincoln parentleaphers association here Thursday evening atf 7:30 o’clock. Elxehanging ) outstanding schoiil teachers between America and Great Britain or other countties is an established project In international understanding and cooperation. PTA officials hope for another large attendance of parents Thursday night.'

House Passes Bill For Navy Building Votes Two Billion Fof Atom Warfare Washington. Jan. 17.—(UP) — The house approved overwhelmingly today an immediate 000 shipbuilding and conversion program to help prepare the navy tdr atomic warfare, if it conies. The program calls for 173 new ships, including a 57,000-ton, $235.000,000 super aircraft earlier designed to carry atoniiic bombers. It also Includes seven 'pnorkel submarines, two rocket launchers and fwo “ocean escorts” —?a ne.w experimental ship with ultra-mod-ern. detection devices to warn against sea and air attack. In addition. existing naVy shlpO wouldJje.converted to| atomicage duty- Six Essex class carriers would he beefed* up to handle fast jets: two cruisers concerted to guided rhi&sile launchefs; and 12 cruisers converted for anti-aircraft protection. Work would start at once, and would be finished in two years, except tor the car(rler?whlch would take about 3 years to build.

B#To Repeal Utilities Law Bill For Repealing Arbitration Law i f* Indianapolis, Jan. 17 AVPI — A bill to repeal Indiana’s 1947. utilities compulsory arbitration law was ininsluced In the house of the legislatures today as a Democratic platform measure. But Democrats, who tried to get a similar bill through the 1949 session admitted they saw little chance of ramming the new one, through a Republican controlled house and senate. , y , 1 , Thb law bans strikes In public utilities and was credited with averting an Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Walkout a few' weeks bfter it was enacted by the GOPcoutrolled general assembly four years ago. The senate had a committee* report ready recommending defeat of a bill to repeal the state gross income .tax law. Eight senate bills were scheduled toi reacH the floor with “do pass” approval of committees. Rep. Thomas ,C. Hasbrook. R., Indianapolis, authored a hill to control lotteries and gambling. Tiie "no. strike” utilities bill repeal was sponsored Ny Dempcrats L. Dickinson, South Bend, and Ralph \V. Myers, Anderikoh. A similar measiiie passed the house- in the 1949 session but died on the senate floor despite adopj tion of a "do pass” minority committee report. The house veterans and military affairs committee had a fajvprable report ready for the bill extending to Korean veterans provimOhs of! the state soldiers and sal drs relief act and made three apiendmentS'to the bill providing for immediate payment of the bonus to next of kin of deceased veterans and those disabled 10\ percent or mores It still wjs not ready to be reported out, Jjowever. 1 One amendment.] to extend! thebonus applicationi jiling diite to June 3(). was apprm'ed. with the' proviso it would be witlidfawn if j ■1 bill embodying that extension was introduced iti'- the senate. Such a b.jll was understood J»e ready but had noi been presented yet - \ -i r ! ; Another amendment provided for immediate payment of the bonus to sohie 30(t ’ veterans totally disabled jin accidents following their discharges. ’ It would not , (Turn To Pake Fewr)

John Lenhart Dies ]. 1 At Geneva Tuesday M’ Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death John M. Lenhart, 82, retired lumberman and former . Decatur resident, died at 7:25 o/clock Tuesday evening at his home in Geneva following an illness or two W’eeks., A native of Chattanooga, 0., he operated a sawmill' in the north-, west part of Decatur for many years before moving to Geneva. He i’ks a veteran of the Span-ish-American’ war. Surviving are his wife. Hattie; two sons, William M. Lenhart of Traverse City. Mich.; a Mrs. Hazel Weis of Cleveland; three stepsons. Waldo Aspy of East Chicago, Don Aspy of Whiting and Rex Haviland of Fort Wayne; two stepdaughters. Mrs. Paul Caldwell of Gary and\ Mrs. O. B. Fink of Pontidc, Mich.; two grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The body was removed to the Hardy & Hardy funeral home. Services will be held at flO afhr. Friday >t the Geneva Evangelical United Brethren church, thej Rev. Garth Shepherd and the Rev. C. C. Stalter officiating. Burial wil( \|be in Spring Hill cemetery. . ; :t . J—■' j \ WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild tonight). Cloudy and mild Thursday. Rain beginning extheme south Thursday. Low tonight 30 to 35 north, 40 south. .High Thursday near 50 north, 50 to 60 south. \ ■ . ’ \ '

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 17, 1951

\ Confer On Soviet Debt To U. S. , ,• 1 ], „’ ' fIML "w JI AFTER- A, LAPSE of nearly three yeArs. talks are finally underway again on that sll billion ‘ lend-lpase bill Russia owes Uncle Sam. Chief negotiators, Soviet Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin. <left|> and John’Wiley confer in WashinlgtoiL during a session. x :

10 Persons Killed \| In Airliner Crash 1 " ' \ ' ' • ! I. Northwest Airlines Plane Crash Tuesday i rteardait \yash.. Jan. 17.- (UP) 3 V-Investigator's today examined theij scattered Feninants of a twimenginj ed airliner that “went nuts” 4»nd| crashed, killing 10 persons. ]j Civil aeronautics authority officials sought to determine Whether a structure failure or blinding snowstorm caused the Northwest; Airlines Maitin plane to fieid and explode yesterday. ' They said the ceiling and visibility i were zero at the crash scene. i The plane, bound from Minneapolis ;to Seattle' ■on a scheduled Hight, was the of Northwest' Airlines’ 2T» Martin planes to crash] in less than three years. The; crashes took the lives of 90 per-| sons; ’ t Pilot Ijlnyd Rickman. Seattle.) radioed five minutes Lifter his take-j off from Spokane thpt \the planet "went nut 9." That was the last; report he made. The plane plunged to the ground--300 feet from tlie farm home of| Mrs.' L. E« She said she; beard the plane flying “very low”' over her house. j “It sohmjed like the pilot was trying to pull up." she said. "Then we heard it crash. It was bunting.” Rescue workers ysaid chunjes of wreckage were strewn over an eighL-mile-wide area, and there! were “no recognizable remains.” ; Commander F. B. Stafford of Spokane naval air station. wh<4 \ (Turn To i**k*‘ Seven) i . +_ No Lions Meeting Here Next Tuesday \ \ Announcement was made thlat there will be no meeting of the Decatur LMhs club at the regularly appointed hotir next Tuesday, bift instead local members will meet bt • Faift Wayne *ith the Lions club of that city Wednesday. It was further announced that first and second vice presidents of the Lions. Glen Maullery and Thurtnan I. Drew, have been appointed ‘to represent the Decatur -Lions clph at a zone meeting at the Dutch Mill, north of Bluffton Thursday: Chester Hite, of Huntington, zopife chairman, called the meeting 1 , for 7 b. m. 'Barton; Ree°e Pogue, humorist, poet and P hl,os °P her > was ' principal), speaker at the regular Meeting Tuesday which was moved up to]ati earlier starting hour, which proved too early for some of) the nten|bers whp failed to attend. Walter Krick was in charge of the program and introduced the speaker whp recited several of his poems and spoke mainly on home —and home life. Mrs. Wai-' ♦er Krlok and- Mrs. Clyde Butler assisted Lion "Wilson Reery in leadlug the singing.

\BU L L TI N Washington, Jan. 1,7. — (UP): —J-Ltl. Gen. IdwalljEdwards, ail* . force deputy chief of staff, said today ’ the air force is beirig; built to a strength of “95 to 1C0” air groups—about double its »re-Korean size. statement before a house armgd services subcommittee was the first off-ioial word of. the aih force’s latest goals. It had been announced previous---ly that the goal was “substan-j Sially more” than 84 groups. :,j ; ! Italy Reds Proles! j v Eisenhower's Visit : Communists Call A General Strike ■ I Romo, Jan. 17 — (UP)—ltaly’s 2. floo.(h)rt- member, communist pajty < ailed a general strike aiid wh(esp|-ead demonstrations tod;»y tod protest against Gen. Dwight l>; Eisdnhower’s. visit to tonight. . | i Thousands of police were called out io disperse a\ march on the American consulate in Turin and. to tear down "Go Home Eisenhow'er" posters in many cut ids. A \ • •(At least 25 persons were arrested. Turin, major industrial city in ! tfie heart of the northern cpinmunist belt, was paralyzed by a general strike. Plants and stores were shut down. Transppftation stood stilE All police and riot squads ip Rome . were alerted. Security ■measures weref the strictest since the war.. Police closely guarded the 10-mile road from Rome’s lUiam'pinO airport where Eisenhower is to land. They checked sewers for lime bombs and questiortjed residents alqng the road. J i Italian officials will advise Eis- - that thred Italian army divisions are ready for his Atlantic pact army and that another nine /divisions will be available bjr June, ''3o. ; ' -I-, * The violent communist upheaval in Italy contrasted strangely with Eisenhower’s visit today in the Portitguese v capital of LisbottThere he. Indulged in an early morning motof tour around the city, enjoying the sunshine, sightjseein£ and taking photographs. ■ He conferred 1 35 minutes in private with Portuguese Antonio De Olivera Salazar an(| later with other officials/and military men. He was told, that Portugal’s contribution to the Atlantic* pact- army would l>e smjall but that next door Spain could com tribute 22 divisions if accepted as an ally. There was indication tha(! t(»C Portuguese, who have been plumping for Franco Spain’s admission to the Atlantic pact, tried to steer their conversations with Elsedhower in that direction ai every Opportunity, . J'.B :

Chinese Reds Reject UN Plea; Offers Five-Point Program Os Korea Peace

Acheson Rejects Criticism Os U. S. Approval Os Plan As "Appeasement 0 Washington, j Jan. 17.—(UP) — Secretary, of state Dean Achespn today rejected Congressional criticism that U.S. approval of a United Nations- cease-fire plan for Korea was “appeasement.” Acheson hisfi comment at a news conference a few minutes before Tokyo i dispatches ] revealed that Communist China hais rejected the cease-fire proposal. Just before the news conference broke up, one -of Acheson’s aides brought in a news report'that Red China had rejected the proposal. Acheson was asked for comment. He declined. Some membersjof congress have described U.S. aupport of the ceasefire plan as a ‘‘sell-out" to China, “appeasement” and "abject surrender.” Among tne critics have been Sens.\ Robert A. Taft, R.., 0., William F.| Knowland, R., Cai., and H. Alexander Smith, R., N.J., and Reps. Usher L. Burdick, R., N.D., and Henderson Lanham 0., Ga. Even chairman Tom D., •tex., of the foreign relations can\mjittee took! strong exception to the state department’s failure to consult his group o,ri the new UN peace bid. Asked to comment on this congressioijal criticism, Acheson replied that U.S. support for the tutidn was not appeasrt’ffFnt. He said this government had noi committed itself in advance on any of the questions that would be discussed in a far eastern peace conference as proposed by the (United Nations. Acheson restated U. S opposition to seating Cbmmunist China fn thp United Nations. And he reiterated previous American decisions tO oppose handing Fbrmosa over to the Chinese Communists outside of United Nations action. \ Acheson said the American vote had signified continuing American support for the principle that no stone should be left unturned in seeking <i peaceful settlement of far eastern problems. He said that this government, when it voted, had serioius doubts the Chinese Reds would accept it. But the heavy mar jofhy of nations favoring the plan prompted the. affirmative U.S. vote, he said. k ,

Consumer Prices A All-Time High

Reach Record Mark During December New York, Jah. 17.—(UP)b-Con-sumer prices reached an all-time high in Deceniber. the national indjustrial conference board reported today. During December, the board said, consumer’s prices in -10 major cities rose to 1.2 percent pbove the previous record-high set iti July and August of 1948. The board noted also that prices were bp for ihe ninth time in the past 10 months, pushing its index for December to 168.1 percent of the 4 January, 1939 base of 100. In January, 1939, the purchasing value of the U. S. dollar was 100 cents, whereas in December of 1950 it had’ declined tp 59.5 f percent. There was» one heartening note in the boards report. Although food prices, the major component in the board’s index, had risen 3.2 jierceiit in December, it still held 1.7 peTtent below the high get in July of 1948. , Cost of house furnishings went up 1.5; percept in the hiovemberDecember comparison. Housing vyas up 0.1 percent, clothing, 0.9 percent, fuel 0.2 percent and kundfies 0.6 percent. Over the food costs were 10.2 percent greater, house furnishings 12.1 percent, housing ]1.6 percent, clothing 4.7 percent, fuel 3.2 percent and sundries * 2.2 (percent. ’jThe board’s survey was made in Birmingham, Boston. Chicago. Denver, Detroi*. Indianapolis. Los Angeles; New Orleans, New York add

Reports Reds Massing Forces In Suwon Area Feared Enemy Reds May Be Preparing For Surprise Blow Tokyo, Thursday, Jan, 18 —' (UP) —Chinese and Korean communist troops began massing forces in the Suwon area of western, Korea Wednesday. But there still was no heavy Aground fighting to break a three-day lull and some United Nations officers , Ifeared the enemy was preparing a sun prise blow. ' U. S' sth air force fighters and bombers roared out to at least 11 targets in areas where United Nations patrols two days ago roamed back and forth Vithoi)t opposition. At least three Red forces numbering from 300 to 500 men were reported moving in on Suwon from the northeast and other, groups were sighted heading for Suwon from the east and west. (Suwon, 17 miles sopth of Seoul, was reoccupied , by American Lank colunins Tuesday in a surprise yaid that caught a Chinese communist regiment with its | guard down. The Americans killed an-estim-ated 500 Reds in cleaning out the city and then moved back to a ridge line south of town foi- the night. An Bth \army communique said Suwon remained an almost]] deserved town ' early with only one Red patrol sighted moving among its ruins in the( dawn hours.; Reports krom. the central and eastern fronts said othet Red forcek were on the move in the rugged Sobaek mountain ranges even thbugh they Tailed to follow up ipunediately a United Nations withdrawal froin the Wonju area. Military sources said the mysteitlbufc lull of the past three days alopg the 130-niile Korean front was “very similar to that in late November when the enemy laurighed siis \Chongchon i-iVer offensive." The Chinese i communist assault along the Chopgchon ‘river didn’t stop until it dpove UN forces out of Seoul, nearly 200 miles, south. Allied air armadas joined (Turn Tn Seven* Report Surplus In County's Dog Fund ' 'Ai I ' f Drive Against Stray Dogs Is Successful ■ i \ Annual figures indicate that the drive last summer to rid the county of stray dogs paid off and the county dog fund had a surplus of $682.39 on December 31, the annual report of collections and expenditures revealed. Dog tax fees go into, separate township funds and the money is used to pay claims for loss of poultry and livestock. The total amount collected in Adams county in amounted to $4,786.93 and claims paid totalled $4,104.54. . The collections and expenditures by townships are as follows: Washington township, collected, $785.28, claims phid, $148.94; St. Mary’s collected, $793.93, claims paid, $751;.50; Blue Creek, collected, $456.23, claims pai|, $292.22; Union, collected/ $349.01, Claims paid, $374.40; Preble, collected. $563.40, claims paid, v $676.90; ; French, collected, $137., claims paid. $106.50. Wabash, collected, $417., claims paid, 396.58; Mdntoe, collected. $419., claims paid, : $911: Jefferson, collected claims paid, $18.40; Root, collected, $352.. claims paid. $54: Kirkland, collected, $158., claims paid, $25; Hartford, collect-ed,-.5166, Malms paid, $350. \ ' J- ' ' ? ■' \ j .

Price Five Cents.

*. - - • 4-’ Reject Cease Fire « Pfan On Grounds i It Merely Gives U. S. Rest Period BULLETIN/ London, (Jan. 17.—(0P)— Communiti China’s rejection of a in Korea leaves the western nations with little alternative but to go along with the American demand that Red China be branded an aggressor, an tfuthoritative British source , said tonight. ’ BULLETIN J Paris, Jan. 17.—(UP)— Pre-’ mier Jawaharlal Nehru of India warned tonight that if the west brands Communist China an aggressor for failing to a*cept a cease-fire In Korea it - • would “bar the door to a peaceful settlement" in the far east. “We must at all costs avoid that,” he added. Lake Success, Ig. ¥., Jan. 17 — 5 (UP) —Communist China today re - jected a United Nations peace plan for Korea that ipeluiled an immediate 1 cease fire add 'proposed instead her own five-point program based on withdrawal of "foreign” troops from the peninsula. Chou En Lai, foreign minister of the Peking government, rejwted the UN cease (ire plan on grounds; it Resigned "mdre.ly to give the United States forces a i hajice to rest;” The communist counter proposal seemed Mikely to run head-on Into a U. S. demand that the UN (condemn the government of Mao Tze-Tung as an aggressor. ’ The reply was broadcast from. Peking and transcribed in Toyko. .j It had not ybt been received at UN headquarters. In the broadcast Chou made five demands: .1. “Withdrawal df all foreign, troops frbm KoreaA and settlement of Korean internal problems \“by the Korean people” as the basis “npon which the countries concerned would 5 confer and endeavor to bring ajri early end to the Korean wax.” f - ’ ' 2. Inclusion in the conference of a proposal for withdrawal of American from Formosa, , and' consideration of other far eastern problems. 3. That the conference bn among communist China, Russia, England, 'the United Statek France. India and Egypt. 4. “That the legal status of the peoples republic of China In the United Nations will be decided by the seven-nation conference." \ ■ 5. That-the conference be held in China. The demands were roughly parallel to a proposal by a 12-natiqn Arab and Aslan bloc led by India which never was acted upon by the UN. \ That proposal called for a conference of the big five powers, including communist China, and India and Egypt, t« consider the fgtf east situation and Peking’s admission to the UN. But while the Peking broadcast agreed that the Korean problems should be discussed by the conference, it went beyond the ArabAsian proposal in demanding the , withdrawal of "all foreign troops" —whether Chinese would pe con-' foreign was not specified —from Korea and the withdrawal of U. S. forces from Formosa and the strait separating the nationalist island redoubt from the Chinese mainland. The political committee will be called into session by its chairman, • Roberto Unlaneta Aybelaez of Colombia, as soon as the Peking reply is received here officially; The broadcast was pdto him. But the, U. S. was expected to demand, as soon as Peking's rejeotion has been registered in the committed, that t/he UN condemn Mao Tze-Tung’s government as an > aggressor for its intervention iu Korea war.