Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 27.

EISENHOWER REPORTS ON EOROPE NEEDS

Name China Reds Aggressors

Communists Indicted By UN Assembly i General Assembly -I 4 Votes 44 To 7To ] Indict China Reds ; Lake Success. N.Y.. Feb. 1. — (l"Pt —The United Nations assembly today indicted Communist ( China as an aggressor. * The vote was 44 to 7 with 9 ahi stentfons. , The assembly moved with exceptional speed to adopt the resolution tvhirh the United States had pressed for seven weeks through a hardfought debate in the political committee.- It decided, 32 to 5. against holding a full-scale debate on the , measure, with members being permitted only to explain their votes I in advance;* Only 11 countries tpo"ke. The . ■ si. Finds Communist China .guilty <>t having "engaged in aggression In Korea.” ’ " .“J, Establishes a 14-nation collecI tive measures committee to study tlitet next steps .to be taken against Peiping regime. L. . \ - 3.- Creates a three-man hommisstori Os good offices to pursue . flirt thw, peace negotiations, if the Opportunity arises. provides • that the collective hjAasofe#—■ sanctions— committee will defer its report to the assembly it tips good group reports progress. y . \ Britain, reluctant to impose sanetfpmi against communist China. v jdiined|, forces with (he U.S. only Wlien |he assurance was given that sanctions w-opld be withheld if | Appeared a chance for peace. ,Brlt.|sh delegate Sir Gladwyn J#bl? Emphasized this position todgy, reflecting an earlier statement . by minister Cleipent A. Att-i ' kt^injX*°ndoH that the UN should pb’t adopt sanctions until it is ap- , 1 parents that all peace efforts have 1 gited.l JJebl|- also declared that Britain, attached “great importance” to the pi-ograp outlined informally to the ptditifhl commidtee last week by dahad|an external affairs minister B. Pearson. One provision of tbeWearson program was to call . _ tol s<iVoh-nation conference, • with Peiping included, first busibe to arrange a Korean .eg;ase-ilre. ' J ~ . “Thej assembly voted on the American resolution in ' separate l \ pgrts ItUiVst it voted ors the paragraph pertaining to sanctions. On a ? shtywfof hands, it was adopted, 43 to y with 8 abstentions. Then tie test of the resolution was app|oted; by a hand-vote, 44 to 7 with .7; abstentions. Finally a roll-call vote w|s taken on the whole meas-1 u h' i j | 'I * British View Feb. 1.) —(U,P>-r Prime Clement Attlee said today ’ tlfere cpuld be no adoption of fur- ‘ ther * jjnited Nations measures, against! Communist China, until it > •bfedniw apparent ttyat efforts to > a (peaceful settlement have / ■ -4ail»<i 1 . * . Attlei’s ’statement was made to the ,h of commons in a.special eiptahanion of Britain’s support of tl|e: UN 'resolution branding com namist .Chinn an aggressor in Korea. >- said Britain wished to see the ,■ good offices-committee be gin Jts jwork as soon as the reso- “ . lti|lon Has been' approved 1“ the “The jUpitod States has pointed ■ thte 1 andshown the will for i H peace,” .Attlee has | much ‘t(jp Shin by coops ration ’arHi mp'ch tq lose by withholding R. •*’lt is,my earnest hope that the central peonies government of China Vpll respond to any efforts which be made by the good * office* Committee to . bring about a pease-fire and a negotiated set-tie m|*nt in the far east.” \ ■ I, “ WEATHER 1 I Snow flurries, with considerable drifting snow this afternoon. Clearing and colder toflight. Friday fair with slowly risingtemoeratures. Low to. night jero to to below. High I' • FridayVlO to 1«.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY IN ADAMS COUNTY

— \ • Korean Casualties i' Now Total 46,814 1I• - ' Feb. 1. — (UP) — The defense department today listcd;- a total ofl 4C..514 casualties in life Korean wkrr - an increase of •>f.t over last weeks report. ’ This was smallest inbreas-e lienorted ip rK-ent weeks. The summary included al| casualties whose next of kin! were notified, through lasti i-Iridavl midnight. ' ■ I The new report includes -38,522 army, 528 nav'7,395 marine corps and 3€U air force casualties. Third Mighty Atomic Blast Set Off Today Third Mighty Test Within Six Days Is | Set Off In Nevada # LhS Vegas, Nev.. Feb. 1. —(UP)-— l The third niighty atomic test Explosion within six» days was set off today \at the atomic energy, scornmission’s prov: grounds joo'miles northwest bf.h ß rp. Las Vegas residents said the sky was lighted fyjf a brilliant orange flash\ like a mpgnesium flare, and the explosion’s earithjarring rumble was felt hem The blast, third in a series of “periodic tests,’ was similar to ones touched off early and Bunday, even to the early h<?ur chosen by the AEC for its eiperimenL i 4 i The earlier explosions occurred shortly before 8 a.m. (CST),< and today’s was reported at about 7:49 a.m (CST). . ‘ Weather conditions) favored the test. The sky’was clear, and there was no wind or humidity. The actual testltook plate at Frenchman Flat, a v high-altitpde valley in the- AECs 500Q-sq.uare-mile reservation. Willing the Flat on three side-- are 6000-foot mountains, and the proving grounds themselves are rugged and uninhabited. -f ■ As in the past, the commission! refused to announce, the explos|<tor in allvance and merely would confirm what startled . residents ready knew. The third blast was of abopt the same intensity as last Saturday’s residents said. " , >, The only notice given of the test came shortly after midnight ( When the civil aeronautics . administration warned pilots to keep clear of ,thd Las Vegas area. Fliers - were warned to give this gambling and quickie divorce center a 150-mHe berth from 6 a ->n- until nobn. .’ Residents here t were neither (Turn to Page Six.) 1 - Indiana University Singers To Decatur 4o Presen| Concert At School Feb. 7 “The Singing Hoosiers,” oiie of Indiana University’s most popular music groups, will be in for d concert Wednesday, Feb. ;7The singers, -with Prof. Gebrge F. Krueger conducting, will give s a variety progi'Um at 2:3Q p.ih. in the ( Decatur Jiigh school /auditorium. Tire concert will, be sponsored by the Decatur Mgh school choir, tyith VVt Guy Brown iii charge of local i arrangements. ' \ ? I The program to be given* in Deeatur will be light in nature, conselections by the full choir. sniaTNgxoups and soloists. ■■Tfie<- Singing have Bern presenting out the sthtc for the past four years. The group is in great demand for public concerts and appearances at civic functions, before fraternal organizations and other groups. , / Approximately 40 of Indiana UniI versity’s top mep singers will be in the group when it performs in Decatur. Before Christmas the Hoosiers presented concerts In Columbus, Evansville, Mentone, Mardon, Pcndletort and Decatur. On ian. 1R (Tufa To Pae* Hix)

Report Signs Os Weakening Red Resistance UN Forces Plunge Forward In Bloody Hand-To-Hand Battle bulletin! Washington, Feb. I.—(UP) — A typhus epidemic has hit the Chinese communist troops in Korea and ‘‘materially reduced their fighting capabilities,” an army spokesman disclosed ’ today. i i The epidemic started three weeks ago, already has caused i “Several thousand” deaths among the red sot.diers, and has shown no sign of abating, the spokesman said, Tokyo. Feb\. 1— (UP) — United Nations plunged ahead up to three miles! in bloody hand-to-hand- fighting below Seoul today amid first, signs that enemy resistance is weakening.* • Eighth army forces swept across 47 hills and through 46 valleys along the broad western Korean front. \ -Farther east, a Franco-American regimental combat team battled desperately At quarters tQ smash an" endirtling attack by 6.000 Chinese and Korean Reds. At last reports, assault was 'Tinder control." Six id-1 If Hying boxcars dropped 42 tdqs of ammunition and rations to the embattlad combat team in the Slnchon-Cliipyong area 10 to 12 ihiles north of Yoju on Korea's central front. ' Chinese Redfs on the western front below Seoul fought ks stubbornly as e\er against allied spearheads, but American pilots (T"-« t® Fa*® si*»

E. J, Fricke Dies From Heart Attack Former Resident ' Dies At Capital E. J. Fricke. ,58, an of the Indiana Farm Bureau, a former resident of thi« .city and at one time a fieldmaai for the old Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, died of a heart attack at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday while waiting for, a bus in uptown Indianapolis. Word of his death received heire by Mr. am} Mrs. Roy L. Price of route six. > Mr:. Fricke had been in his office in the Farm Bureau building and was standing qt one of the bus stops When seized with the attack. It was his custbm to ride the .fiom the business district to hiS home, 7002 Broadway, a northside Indianapaplis residential area. Reported in ill health several months ago. Mr. Fricke resigned) the leadership of the Methodist laymen’s league, in Indianapolis. He was prominent in church in that city. - Widely known in thie state FaTm Bureau Organization. Mr. Fricke direcie(l large lumber projects lin Central America and Canada. Ill* health.Jit was said, caused him ,to relinquish some of his \duties in this| department of the farm organization. Born and reared in Michigan Mr. Kricke lived in Monroe for-sev-eral yeprs. Later he mbved to Decatur and was employed at the old sugar factory. He is survived by his wife hnd seven children Wilbur, who was aln army captain in World Wgr 11, Mrk Neva Bel|. Mrs. Doris Hinnman. Lawrence, Mrs. Esther Habegger, Patsy, at homt. Harold Fricke of Fort Wayne. A son. Lt. Ben- ' janun^ncke.’was killed in an air crash in Texas during the war. Funeral se-vices will be held gt 10 a.m. Saturday at North Meth-, odist enuirch'. Indianapolis. TWJ body wi}! be brought to Berne for burials |Mrs. Price said. In the . event *that the funeral party cannot make the trip because of snow covered highways, the body will .be placed lb a mausoleum and inter-' ment until a later data.

5 — Deca/ur, Indiana, Thursday, February 1, 1951. \

Ocean Speed King ‘ > ij 1 , > * CHARLES BLAIR, 41, PanUmericaii Airways master pilot and veteran of 400 Atlantic ockan crossings, .waves from the wing of his P-51 mustang fighter in which hefset 4 new record from New York to L6ndbn. lie completed the 3.500-mt e speed dash in 7 hours End 48 minutes with the help of lusty lowering the record by 1 hour,and 7 minutes. j

Call For Welfare Probe In Indiana Bill Is Introduced For. Two-Year Probe J Indianapolis. Feb. I—/ (UP) — Bipartisan (Iriticism of the public welfare administration crystallized in the Indiana legislature today with introduction of a bill calling for a two-year investigation of the state tend county welfare de-> partmen ts. The hilj was introduced in the liouse by Reps Joseph B. Davis, Muncie, and Patrick Brennan. 1).. South w ßend. They .proposed creation of a joint legislative investigation committee 'tb survey the state and county welfare departments and report to the 1953 general assem-j bl >' j ; “Although unemploymtent rolls in thiststate are decreasing each year, sttll the , costs ]of finaheing. the vaiioiis functions of the welfare department. are increasing." the bill “Aid. “It is for the best interests- of the taxpayers that a complete investigation be made.” In the same sessispi, bills were introduced to divide) $5,500,000 a year in liquor taxes among financially hard-pressed cities and towns, end to put the office of! state school- superintendent On a non-partisan election basis. • | The hpu?e received a bill from Reps.' Lou|s W. Mellencariip, - D„ (’oluml)us. ami J. Perry R.. (Torn To Pace Five»l

Mrs. jophie Franke Is Taken By Death Furieral Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Sophie Franke, 66, died at 2:35 o’clock this morning at thq Lutheran hospital !ln Fort Wayne following an illness of four weeks. She was born in. Germany May 3, 1884, a Conrad' and Sophia Damnifyer-Mueller. and had' lived in-this country for 50 years. She was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran church near Tocsin. Surviving are her husband, Christian; three “sons, Herbert of near Ossian. Gerhard of Fort Wayne and of pear Ossian; two daughters., Mrs. Gilbert Shielding 'and Mrs. Selklng, both of becatur;. 12- grandchildren, and four sisters!,living in Germany. Funeral services will be held at , 2 p.m. Saturday at the home, four ndles southeast of Ossian, and at 2:3okQ’elock at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, the Rev. Harry Behning Burial will be In the Bethlehem cemetery. The body will bp removed from the Elzey & Son funeral' home to tpe residence at noon Friday.

N'l'l J-’ ’ ) - B U L L E T IN , Washington, Feb. I.—(UP) he defense department tqda(y ordered drafting of 80,000 men during April for assign;mpnt to the army. •» Thia.mairttaina the rate of irL docti on which wpc started i|n January and ordered for February aAd March., The April call brings the t?|al army request on selective Service to 530,000. t

Decatur Is Pigging Out Os Heavy Snow t >' ,• ' ■> Over Five Inches Os j Snow Over 24 Hours i Decaturites, like people thrqughjOl the .nation, from Arkansas ijiortheast to New England, were |Miiky digging their way out of the Rison’s, second heaviest sriowstbrrn today With the promise of lh;tle. “tapering ofF’nby tonight, f ’ The weatherman says there will be snow- flurries with “considerable drifting-snow this afternoon.” He goe r s on to say that it will be <ilear and colder tonight, though, ahd Friday will be fair with rising .teirtperatures. ’ Herman Meyer, local weather Observer, said shojV fell during the 24-hour' period, ending at 8 a. m. todajf. This cojnpares .to the foot of snorw that fell during t|ie Thanksgiving weekend, when the heaviest snowfall in years blanketed the city. The weather so far was responsible for but one accident, which was invest gated by city police. It occurred today on Thirteenth street wher the car driven by Leonard Joi nston, of route 1, Monroe, was? triable to stop, in time to;avoid the car driven by Kenntetli Butch* r, of route 2. Geneva, Which W'aa in the act of'making a left' hand turn off' the highway. I fiveji with the accident toll 'at a minimum in the county, city pplice and the sheriff’s department Urged those mbtorists, who did. not absolutely have to do any driving tb leave their cars at hpme, beHiise the Outlook for highway .proving forecasts treacherous roads. j*The\ roads were passable for cdunty school buses, according to «i|perinte.tidpnt Hansel L. Foley, and no preparations are - being made to call off school unless the snow drifts much more than at present, ppunty highway officials Snorted, that all roads at noon tony "were passable as far as we know." , • Know' had piled up on the sidewalks and ■ covered automobiles during the night. The Inost popular sport seemed to be| shoveling walks for the convenience of pas-sers-by. 'Where ; there was still snpw on the walks, though,, pedestrials were filing down the street where cars biad made tracks. Mf’v motorists came out hf Pace Klahn I

Tells Congress European Allies Must Cooperate; Urgent Need Is Equipment

Nation Battered By Worst Winter Storm Weather Deaths In Nation Up To 241 j By United Press The most widespread storm of) the. winter battered the nation today, caused severe damage and; boosted the number of weather deaths for.five day’s to 211. The storm, extending from Texas and other sections of the deep south to New England, snarled traffic, closed schools in some sections and brought suffering to millions of persons. More }Han half the weather victims, died in accidents on ice-glazed highways. Sixty-three died in fires from causes attributed directly to ■the weather.. Others were killed in sleighing mishaps, weather-caused plane crashes, or succumbed from exposure and heart attacks induced by overexert ion in the extreme cold. 1 ~ j i , ■ , In Ohio, up to four inches of new snow halted traffic in some sjeptions of the state. \ Ihtehcity bus traffic in Indiana wqs slowed three to four hours by new snowfall and by drifting snow. City workers waded through shoedeep drifts to public Conveyances, many leaving their automobiles at home. Some counties were already out of their normal winter’s supply of' salt and cinders for icy roads. U.S. weather forecasters at Chicago, said they were 'amazed at the severity and extent" of the storm. Forecasted John Portier said no relief could be expected today. Temperatures Uill moderate in the, horth central states tomorrow, he said. but ’fwill continue well bejow normal.” . ’ i The mercury plummeted to 5() decrees below zero at West Yellowstone. Mont. It hit -42 below at Bemidji, Milin., 39 below at Butte, Mont., and Grantsburg. Wis.. 38. ' (Tarn To Pxe

Contingent Leaves [, For Physical Exams 35 Adams County Youths Leave Today A contingent of 35 Adams county youths left early today for Indianapolis and pre-induction, physical examinations. This is the sixth such group to leave for examination and'raises the total to U>B men who have left for physicals since the outbreak of the .Korean war. Fifty-two men have been inducted fpom Adams county, for duty in the armed services; 15 are scheduled to be inducted next Thursday. Thg list of names of those who left for Indianapolis today, as released by the Adams county selective hoard, includes William Junior White, Ray Delton Kauffmam Robert Louis Bieberich, Wilburn Ray Rdss. Robert Charles Ralston. Richard Petrie VeacH, Delbert Henry Fuelling, James Robeyt Bailey, Glenn Edgar Lehrman. William Junior Ehrsam, James Lordn BrentMnger, Sherman Ted Sprunger, Arthur Alton Funk, Marion Eugene Sipe, Samuel John Yost, Everett Hutker, Jr.. Frederick Bernard Rumschlag, Valjer Grant Ahiusutz, Lopen August Macke, Benito Olandc, Robert Daniel Zeser, Russel Eugene Mitchel, Lester Lee Geyer. Barley Billington, Glen Doris Everett, Harold Wayne Brunner, Herman Everett. Tom Max Allen. \ ' . Robert Wayne Sauder. Charles David Rhodes, Rpbert Edward Stults, Norbert Dean Byer, Roger bale Bome. Thomas Clifford’Lister Harold Eugene Sumjan. The board stated also that Ronald Charles Smith has been trailsferred to local board 58. Midland; Mich; “ \ . :, , ' , The second installment of “You Can Survive the Atom Bomb,” appears on page six.

Rail Walkout Ties Up Food ToU. S. Troops Strike Spreads As Shipments Os Food To Far East Tied Up By United Press A strike by defiant switchmen Spread to a dozen more rail centers across the nationi today, threw an estimated 50,000 industrial employes out of work and tied up shipments of f rations for U. S. troops in the far east. The shipments include two carloads of comhat rations for ithe air force, the army quartermaster depot in Chicago said,. The ’strike of about 10,000 switchmen, members of thp Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, clamped a tightening stranglehold pn industry and struck a major blow at war production. It caused widespread freight embargoes and forced cancellation of many passenger trains, j ■ Lt: W. E. public information officer for |he quartermaster depot, said that jn holding yards near the (Chicago '• depot were 10 to 50 bars of ration components marked forlassempty at the depot. He said that the depot had not been able to ket the cejrs switched into the depot. I He said thpt\ private fit-mis, which, have contracts ,ifor asembly Os 25,000.000 td “C" type rations had notified the depot that unless they get the ration components —which are bought 0r routed through the ChicagO ( depot —within 48 i they would haVe to shut down. } One of the two cars contained special survival rations for the air force, he said. It was destined f6r movement ito Memphis and reshipment of its contents |o Japan byair. A second contains “in flight" combat rations for forces in Japan. These rations were schedul<Turn ,T» Pace Kiarbtt ’ I

Mrs. Ed Rumschlag Dies This Morning Funeral; Services Saturday Morning j Mrs. Agnes Rumschlag, 61, of 122 South First street, and a lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 7:50 o’clock this morning at a Fort Wayne hospital after a short illness of complications. Her condition had heeii critical for the past week.., » ■ i i f She was' bonr in Aug. 14, 1889, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Omlor. Her husband, Edward Rumschlag. died? 10 years ago. She was a member of the St. Mary's church and the St. Mary’s RoSary society. \ Surviving are J five . daughters. Mrs. Rosemary Westrick of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Jeannette McGill, Mrs. Phtricia Hqlthousfc and Mrs. Ruth, Butler, all of Dehatur, and Miss Marjorie ’ Rumschlag, ‘at home; seven grandchildren; four brothers, Epward, Lawrence and Hubert Omlor, all of Decpltur, and Herman Omlor of FqstOria, O.: and four sisters. Mrs. Nick Braun, Mrs. Casper Miller, Mrs. Carl Steigmeyer and Mrs. Fred Ulmap, all of Decatur. One son and one daughter preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a. m. Saturday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial wijl be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, wpere friends indy call. after 7 o’clock this evening, she Rosary society, will meet at ithe funeral home at B‘p. m. Friday.

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Head Os Atlantic Pact Forces Says United States Must Battle Communism Washington. Feb. I.—(UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told congress today that Europe needs American farms more than it does large numbers of* American troops, and that our European allies must cooperate fully to preserve Themselves against the communist threat. f Some additional American troops should be sent, he said. He did. not give a figure, but said they must be “gauged to the ratio lof what Europe is doing.” Declaring that the i “grave and crying need is one of equipment.” Eisenhower said the United States now must start producing equipment “as if preparing for meeting the emergency of war.” (This should be done, he said, on a basis that can be continued 20 or 30 years if .necessary. In public report on his recent survey of western Europe’s defenses, the commander qf Atlantic pact forces solemnly told congress that the United States has "no acceptable alternative to joining western, Europe in resisting communism. ’ j He said, however, that we must make'sure that "the United States is not iserelyi an Atlas carying the I rest of (he world on its shoulders.” On the delicate subject of Ger* many. Elsenhower said there must be political agreement and understanding leading to an “earned equality” for that country before there is any talk of including German units in the unified army. “I . . want no unwilling contingents . . . in an army of my command," he said.. Eisenhower said it would be idle to say that “pessimism bordering on defeatism" does not exist in 'western Europe. But, he added, there is evidence of *‘rejuvenatfon” of a "spirit to resist . to ta|ce the risk.”. Eisenhow-er 1 said he believed the United States must prepare a security, program that we can support “over the next 20 years, years, or Whatever is necessary” without national bankruptcy. “There is not a moment to waste,”, in getting started, he said. As for the bulk of troops, he said: * “We can not conbent|rate our three in any one sector, even when one- is as important as Western Europe. We must largely sit here with a great mobile powerful reserve, ready to support our policies, our rights, our interests, wherever they may bk endangered in the world.’l '■ ■ r\. 'I. , Withbut mentioning Russia by name. Eisenhower had words for the Soviet Union. What the allies are trying to do. he said, cannot be considered by any other nation “as a threat to its existence.” Any nation making such a charge, he said, would be doing so only for “a nefarious purpose”; a» an “excuse" for moving against, us. .He spoke in the jam-packed little auditorium of the library of congress. ' “ ' Biseiiho.wer’s report to congress was expected to go a long way toward settling the hot dispute over sending American troops to Europe as 'part of the north Atlantic pact army which General “Ike" commands. Recalling that he had visited 12 capitals in Europe in three weeks, he cautioned that hfs Information had a “meager base.” But] then he asked congress to “believe in the (Txrwl'w Paar* Plvel Paper Collection By Boy Scouts Saturday In spite -of show and cold weather, Decatur Boy Scouts are ■ planning their monthly paper pick, up for next Saturday, it was announced today. Scrap paper is badly needed. Scout leaders said, and the local group will an effort ttn> month to contact every residence in Decatur. The drive will star: • early Saturday apd trucks will visit all parts of the city.