Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1951 — Page 1

VoIjXLIX. No. 32. I

AT LEAST 81 ARE DEAD IN TRAIN TRAGEDY

BaikTo-Work \ Moye Growing Ort'Railroads ; W • Many Os Striking | Workers, However, Are Still Off Jobs ■ O ' *» 7 rElr J ■- ' V ' |j By United .Press . LhpH backto-work movement among! railroad switchmen gained at several toil uy'a||l many factories resumed lint . elsewhere the strike ragged on and forced still more industrial cutbacks. ' S<ihii|c switchmen in the west and ilfflbwrst joined the return to work, 'iiM hit h begun earlier Uhis w eek/l | the ' east. There were spine ■ dJ a return to work nt t’hhug i; hut most strikers stayed Jiff the job there and at St Ijouis the twb pdg mid continent' rail , > J ■ | D»*sp»/ factory .reopenings elsewhere tpe Ford Motor Co. at'Detroit ’denounced it would lay .off XI.SOP .Hjetroit area employes Triday Realise there were 'not enough cars to haul finished ./Products' from thA River Rouge tend. Highland Park plants. The number of idle in.the automotive industry had soared to; nl- • nUst ijß.mm. |lu t® Chit ago area, the Elgin Joliet lip Eastern. a vital trunk line ‘ erv‘in|t| .-jeel mills and othejfi.in«liistri**| between 6rt and 75\ workerft had returned to the Kirk yards it ilary. Ind., where 250 X normaiijr are •Employed, The Burl:Jlngton | repotted 75 but <|f 254 (’hlcagd|*.sfrilters back at work. Bu 4 o|:h|r Chicago roads re ported no sigjiMu ant hack-to-work “trend. A« sgj? check by United Press showed I these developments j! at varlouij fail centers: Cincinnati .— Officials of the Brotherifbod of Railroad Trainihwii said - th* strike should be tically! over” at Cincinnati ;by ' midnight Los The Southern Pacific neth>rted 75 percent Os jits , witch Ai(m had returned after taking yole. Hut the Santa Fe .said thtj[tie-up appeared to be spreaidlp§ .in J-its Lo.s Angles yards. | ’ .Minn*‘&»olis-St. Paul - Operations we|e returning tb normal as .switchmf|i drifte/i back to work f dn the 'AtilWaukee. Burlingion apd ’ 4lreat Western. Kalnsas| City Service, returned to hortmy with the return to work of $7 ~l'hiion Pacific switchmen, last hohfimts. among strikers on the four major Kansas City roads. About employes of the Chbvijolet and Fisher body plaints were ret timing jt<) work. Pittsburgh — The Pennsylvania railroad l^epbrted 1 passenger service “about normal”, and said freight movements (were gaining' momeritu|i. but.workers still were on strikedat the Pitcairn yahls; ■ 11- ' Public! nvited To Town I oil Meeting The iM Be is invited to attend - the'town | all fonym Saturday ni / o at 5 8 o'clock in rooms 307-308 a' Decatur Ik th school, at which time Sen. Vor» Eichhorn and Rep. Reyny Biply will answer legisla tiki quekfl ons. While the mejetiifg is being-| irraiiged by Dr. Harry iiebble, J.am» county Democratic chairman! It- was pointed out that ' the meetii g-is public, and all m- - t terested Bersons are invited b, attend. \ Frank l||>hnke, well-known Deca tur citizeil will ft ct as moderator and tl|e two members of the Indiana gefwnl assembly will answer inquiries Bind, explain what has -been during the first halt of (the session' of the stat* left'islattir4i Legislative committees of also' art lavited tp|sr their problems at tin' forum. ,i| k.. ? i|w£ATHER' | f-j Fair fid colder with diminiehing iwinds tonight. Thursday f«i|h an d cold. Low toThuroila 4no*r 10 above north, i ' teed to iVo above south. High Thurhds 4 near 10 above north. 19 abovi |oouth.

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Over SB2 Donated Jo March Os Dimes lAms at the Decatur Bluffton I basket ball games Tuesday night at [ the Decatur gym tossril $52,25 in | to the local, March of Dimes fund. L Het ween halves of the varsity eij counter members of the tVo high s< h<Hd organizations, the Future {Homemakers of Ameri<a. and the Future Farmers of America, carii«d a large blanket around the gym fhmit. with fans tossing their contributions into the blanket When the coins were counted, ai.d a niuither of strays'later-pfi Ij ed off the floor, the total of |k2.25 was realized. The tWd organizations are supervised by-Miss Ormujen'e Steljer and Vaughn Miller ih’gh school tern hers.. I „ ' , . ' • UN Forces Move To Within Six Miles Os Seoul U., S. Bth Army Moves Reeling Reds Back On Korean Front Tokyo. Thursday, Feb.\ S (UP) -United .Nations troops ad valued their main front to within six miles of Seoul Wednesday. They were paced by American infahtry- ' men who swept; the Reds (iff a .hilltop in a spectacuilar bayonet ! charge within sight of the city. Covered iiy a,» cuHaan of itrtillevy fire and sipeurheaded by tfiiee fast-shooting tank tfisk\fofces., the U. S: xth aVniy shoved the reeling communists back one to four tpiies all along the Korean front. Allied artillery moved up bellin I the troops, bringing Seoul wi’tii i easy artillery range. But they ignorexl 'the city temporarily to blast 10.000 .to 15.000 Reds dut in below the Han river f(>;r a pstditch ' defense stand. On the central front, a three-day-old U. S. 10th corps a'ttok gained than two miles ttr.d sent one spearhead within 25 miles of the 38th parallel. Spectacular hand-to-lrand < ‘ight ing iaiged south of Seoul as Atne,ican. Turkish and Puerto Rican infantrymen pushed their lines forward to witbin four miles of the Hart river. ' . j . At one point American jnfairtrymen resctie'd a task force of negro tank men w lip were pinned, down by entrenched communists on a lull. ;v l Capt. Lewis F. Millett, of South Dartmoiyh, Mass., led his infantry cjompany in a wild charge up the Hill. ~ L_ 1 The yelling Americans cut ddwn 47 < with their bayonets and shot Jinotheip 50 ‘‘like rabbits” las they attempted to flee down the north Aide of ? the hill. Freed from the trap, the negro tankers —j task force Bartlett — ■ swept on north and linked up with task [force Dolvin. which had cut four'miles deep into Rdd lines south and southeast of Seoul. Between them the two columns clamped an armored pincers on an unreported number of Red de-. tenders south of Seoul and northwest |of Anyang. ' ' I , . << U. S. Casualties In Korea Total 47,388 7,905 Os Announced Total Are Killed Washington. Feb. 7. —-(UpjAThe defense department said today had been reported to next of kin through last Friday—s7 1 more than a /v. t k ago /Th4 total included 7905 dead. The new figures ;do not reflect the alctual up-to-date number of cusua|ti s because of the time lag i/i i» polling them from the front and Notifying next of kin. The new total was brok< n dolyn as follows: army 38:995; navy 546: marines 7.475; airforce 37? The total number of dead by sei v lees; ■' j Army 6.351; navy—74; marines , l/I.'IS ; air force 142, Wounded in action (30,941) at thy —24.365; navy—4l4; - marines—--6.134: airforce—2B. Missing in action (9.433) army—--8.91t; navy—C7, marine^--\’H ; air forcer—9o9.

. J.. ? — t Boy Scouts Make Annual Report To Chief Dm I lUh O' I ■ A DELEGATION of Boy Scouts.of Aiqeric a presents their Honorary President. Harry S. Truman, a ' report to the Nation” which -contained a rgcordlof their accomplishment 4 lii : 195(1 artd their pledge for 1951. The 12 outstanding Eagle Scouts, representinfc 2.75(1.UtH» at (he opeiiint of Boy Sequt Week which marks the list anniversary of the organization made'the report at thv White Ijknise. In the group (1. to r. seatedi President. Triinmn. and Scoutmaster Chttirfus A. Kelso. St. Louis, xitt., who has served continuously for fl years. Standing (I. to r.) Kenneth WnPhilbrlck. 17. (Hand Island, Nebr.; John H. Dykes Jr 16 Enid. Okla.: Jerold .1 Has..rot. 1.7, Arcadia,-feilil.; Jack Paley. If,. U.oldsboro, N U ; David Dei bes 13 Pottsville. Pa.; Thomas Burton. Id. Bismarck. IN. Dak.; Charles W. Ring. 14, Brunswick. Maine; Lee Sdxandall. HI. Qshkosli. Wis.; Arthur W. MutthF&s. 17. Monroe. La.; William E. Iloluston. 11. Central City, Kentucky and Matthew E. Brislawit, 16. Pijt|iiman, Washington. 'L; j

Decatur Councilmen In Meeting Tuesday Sewer Construction Principal Action City ' ouncilmen. at their ix-gulnr no eting Tuesday, tyusied thepis» Ives with receiving petitions and similar writt.n matter, the bulk of It pertaining to.the construction of sewers in cliff* rent sections-of the .•• | r In one instance, though.' a ke« riionstrance signed by (Hen Addy and 13 others was filed against the proposed construction of the Schir mi yer st wer. ; This reriionstrance followed the filing of the street and sewer committee's report, which was\ favorable to Such construction. The report, was submitted on the advice l of the c ouncil at a previous meet i and was provoked after a disj mission in which a'number of perAsons appealed before the couuejl : providing divided opinions concerning the proposed sewer. , The cotjincil. though,. adopted a final re-olution at. the Tuesday meeting for the construction of the sewer and the board of public works and safety is scheduled to rec eive bid- for 'material and labor March 20. Another petition, signed by George Anspaugh and six others, was fihd with the council, and referred to the street a'iid sewer committee' -n conjunction with the city engineer, seeking a sewer\ com mencing on Rod street at a point in an alley between Russell! ahd Vine streets, then south for approximatvely 150 fem to Bollman street. , Still Another such petition was presented to the council, seeking sewer constriirtHoQ in the Homewood addition east of Thirteenth street; in the Mutschler first addition, in Porter’s first addition, and adjoining properties. The petition was signed by Jay Osborn and 64 others: \Bob Heller, of this city, also appeared cm behalf of this proposed sewer. The Decatur Casting company presentod. .through attorney Ferd Liltc'ier, a similar petition, stating in effect shat should the Homewood addition sewer be approved, the eoinjiany, would desire to become a cqorterative m,ember of the project, relating that the current sew'erage is insufficient when severely taxt4d by excess drainage. , Other matters presented to thecouncil included a petition for a light behind she VFW home, in the alley between Third and Fourth streets, which was signed by W. HHarber and seven others The council also adopted a resolution that $16,580.27 be transferred from the operating cash fund of the city light and power depaHmept to the electric* utility bond fund. Ralph Shirmeyer; head of the Intercity Ocijst ruction, company, builders of the Grant Park addition. also appeared before the board to discuss the matter of building s'treets and sewers within the proposed addition before build ing permits will be grantkl.\\ x Counclhnen. following a consulta tlon with city engineer Ralph Roop, had wlthhefd Issuing the permits until the problem can be clarified.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 7, 1951.

I. U. Chorus To Sing At Churches Tonight The; 'Hoosiers.” the lqd-e .ana male chorus of 40 voices. wl>iih present.cl a public 'concert at'iiie Decatur high school this afternpon, will sing at three separate ctmrch • here toti ght at the opening o,f Lenten serVJtS. ■ L' / ' . ,\ The chothß will appear at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church ht 7 o’clock, at the First ' Methodist 4hurch at 7:3<h and ait the Zion Evangelical and Reform j ed church tft S p. hi. 1 [■ Plan For Increased Benefits To Jobless A $27 Weekly Proposed To State Unemployed. Indianapolis. Feb. 7. (Jl’P) — Jobless Hoosiers w-ill get increas-i ed unempioymuit . compensation beiiiefits under a bipartisan c\miprrtmise amendment being worked out today by the Indiana legislature’s house |abor committee. Major change from the present law would be an increase from S2O [ to $27 per weelj, in benefits.. The present 2(>-week maximum, how ever, would the same. Also, a controversial Clause'in the R»publican-sponsored bill which provided those Unemployed must make a “reasonable effort to seek' work” would, be-eliminated. The oil)' with amendments, was slated forCcß'oihmendation to the house for parage. In the seipite. Sen; Judson West,! D,. Indianapolis, said his amtmlmen/ "With tOelh” to the bill opening’' welfare'r|lls to the public probably would bk introduced today.

, "< 5 ' V’ , ; ■ V . (Rev. William C. Feller, Zion Evangelical A Reformed Church) “THE FOCUS OF LENT” Bchojd the Ixtmb of. God,’which taketh away the sin I of the? world.” John 1:29. ./ ' 'c ' ■ .' i c • / Ash IVednesday ushers in the season of Lent in the thurch year. Lent Is that period of forty days before Easter (hot including Sundays),; which according to ah anejeht tradition corresponds to the forty days of fasting and prayer which Jesus spent in the wilderness immediately after His baptism and preceding the beginning of His public ministry. The beginning of Lent then is determined by; the date of Easter. And Easter, Which is a movable date, falls oil the first Sunday after thq first full moon in the vernal equipox or t|ie first day of spring. i The tratlitional aim and purpose of the Lent|en season has been do focus the attention of Christian's upom the figure of Christ Himself, artrt thereby to deepen the spiritual life aijd increase devotion to Hint.. XV hatever spiritual exercises -of prayer and .inedita.tion, worship and, personal devotion we. indulge in -or whatever selbdenials We impose upon ourselves ought to draw us closer to the Christ arid bring us spiritual refreshment and enrichment As we look at the modern world it'appears like some blurred and .confused photograplii-v-out of focus: Cynicism, pessimism, materialism,.and all the other discouraging isms’ around us are a ' result of blurred vision or a.lack of focus; . Vie need to focus our attention during this Lenten sebsnn on one person. JESI S CHRIjST, the Lamb of (Jml; and on one place, CALVA-RY, where sin dirt its worst but where kjod did His best. If we put Christ at the center of our life, all other things will fall into their proper relationship. But if FIRM M not ar the center of life, then all of lite willlbe out of focus. Our attention should be centered not on what WE do or refrain from doing during Lent, hut on what GOD has done. The matter hf first importance is not what WE dO;hut what we let CHRIST do for us and within us. May this Im? u sea on of soul searching and »6i|t growth for all

Van Horn Speaker At Boy Scout Banquet Scouts To Take Over ' Government Saturday Boy Scout chairman Vlurenc e Ziiier today I annemm ed ' that. R. D. Van Horn, lohg active in iSec>iit work;, and executive of the Anthony Wayne area council will Im l ' the principal speaker at ' the Boy Scout banquet Thursday. Fihal arratagements. he said. i Have been completed for the ban-I , <(uet; at which H. H. Krueckeberg 1 wil| iserve as master of eeremopies for the evening, snd different ' Scoift officials will participate in the program. ' , The baiiquet will be attended by •at least t;2 s.-oms, Ziner said, as' Well as Scout committees from the different sponsoring organizations. and she Rotary and Lions i.club members. The baiiqiket is to he iteld Thursday at 6:3(1 p. m. in the Masonic hall, and will fall exactly 41 yearC front the day that the Boy Scouts of America was organized A| the same time. Ziner annouheed ethe Inames of the Boy tScouts who will serve along with city and government officials ,Saturday in commemoration of the Scout's week, which' is from February ?G to February 12. . Gebige; Bair, of the, district ><omrhittte initiated the plan’s outline which would give the youths ail opportunity not only to •becQirie familiar with the function o*f various governmental offices I but also to give them a working knowledge of the officials' duties. Ronnie Secaur, of Rotary froop 61. will serve as unofficial mayor '• (Torn T« Pnae Four)

Engineer Admits Train Traveling At Twice Its Regulation Set Speed

Reject Charge United States Is Aggressor UN Committee In I Rejection Os Red Charge By Russia Luke Success. N. Y., Feb. '7 tl'Pi—The United Nations political committee today rejected t a Russian charge** that' fire United States is guilty of aggression against Communist China. By a Vote of 49-5 with 3 abstentions. the dn-natioh committee turned down a Soviet resolution requesting ' the security council to take/the necessary steps to ensure tile immediate [cessation of aggression against China by the States of America.” It also iejected a companion Russian resolution which sought ;to condemn alleged American air I raids on Manchuria and the alleged ‘•bombardment, detention and inspection of a merchant siiip by a military vessel of the U S.” The vote on the second resolution was 50-5 with 2 absteptions. ' Yugoslavia. Indonesia and Bur'ma abstained on the first vote. I Yugoslavia and Afghanistan on the second. The five votes for the resolutions came from the Soviet bloc. ■ '' Propaganda Washington, Feb. 7 +- (UP« — Secretary of state Detin Jtciieson said today that Moscow's reply on a proposed big four meeting was a propaganda blast aimed at covering jup a massive huilduii of Soviet and satellite. armed strength. j Acheson made it clear at a news conference that the United States believes satellite armies, with Soviet approval, have been 'built up beyond limitations set in peace treaties. He said this subject might be a topic of discussion at any big four meeting. Acheson said he saw nothing ■particularly new in the, Moscowreply to the western proposals [tor a big four meeting to /ease eastwest tension. The note, he added vigorously, contains a propaganda (Tjirn To I’aicp Three* Exchange Pulpits In Lenten Services Speakers Listed At St. Mary's Church |? The Very Rev. Msgr. J. .1 Seimetz, pastor, will deliver the first of the series pf Lenten sermons at St. Mary's Catholic church this evening. Beginning at 7:30 pin. the blessing with ashes will take place at the conclusion of the services. : ' An interchange of pulpits during the Lenten season with Fort AVayhe pastors and Mggr. Seimetz will begin next week. The general theme for the sermons will be “The Holy Sacrifice of [the Mass.” Msgr? Seimetz will preach at St. Peter’s, St. Joseph’s, St. Jude’s, St. Paul’s, and St. Andrew’s in Fort Waynje. The visiting clergy who will preach at St. Mary’s beginning next Tuesday are:. keb. 13. [The Rev. Edward Keever. Feb. 2<>, Msgr. J<\hn Nadolny. Feb. 27. The Rev. Dennis Dennihan. > March 0, The Rev. Ralph Larson. i March 1.3. The Rev. Leo Ami brustcr. : I Holy Week services will begin on March 22 and Easter will be celebrated on Sunday, March 25? -k’ In addition to the Tuesday evening sc vices. congregational Way of the Cross will be made every Friday • veuing at 7:30 o’clock, concluding with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. 1

Heads Campaign - a® HP. » 3D ■ Hugh J. Andrews — -H— -- Andrews And Foley To Head Campaign | Annual Red Cross i Campaign In March Hugh J.* Andrews, principal of j Adams Central school and com- ' mander of Adams . Post of the American | Legion, and Hansel Foley, county superintendent of schools.'will load the March campaign to raise 1ift.551 Jot the Red Cross. v Doyle Collier of Homestead 43. I industrial arts teacher at Adams Cent al <<hop! will serve as Deca tur i hairman. Judge Earl B. Adams chapter chairman. announced. The annual Red Cross eamp -ign will open Match 1. The ernuntv chapter's budget; is $6 675. or G ; percent of the $10,551 The na tional chapter s share i< $3 8.76. equal to 36.7 percent of the t: al. Commander Andrews will n ?me 1 chairmen for Monroe. Bern l and Geneva'and direct the Overall de tails in | connection with the drive. Supt. Foley will name township leaders|and direct the campaign in j the rural areas, including contac: . through the schools. Due to the Korean wait and otheremergencies, the budget for .the national Red Cross has been, itiAj cr«a.-ed from s7!'.mm.mm to $94 Sm»-: 000. Mis. Max Schafer, ; executive ! secretary of the local home service 1 office, explained. The county chapterjs budk'et. is ail increase of approximately $1,400. [ Provision is made in the budget td j defray the chapter's share of thd area blood center in Fort Wayne apd the additional expense of bring, iijg the “bloodmobile” tn Decatur six times during the year. The chapter's reserve fund has been substantially reduced over the past few years, due to the many serviced performed by the home service of<Tura To Pag* Six) \ New Cold Wave Is Fanning Over U. S. Far Below Zero Oh Northern Plains By United Press A new cold wave speared down the Mississippi valley to the Gulf of Mexico and fanned across the country from the Rockies to the Appalachians today. Residents of the northern plains shivered in temperatures far belbw . zero, and the morning sub-zero line dipped into Nebraska. lowa and Illinois Cold wave warnings were issued fob Ohio,; Kentucky, Tennessee. West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and winter’s newest blast was expected to hit almost al! the Atlantic seaboard by tomorrow. ‘ Temperatures dropped to 23 below zero at Glasgow. Mont:. 21 be-, low at International Falls,. Minn.. and below at Dickinson* and Grand Forks nd. Residents of Mason City. la., braced themselves against 40J mile an hour Winds with the mercury at 10 bfelow. It was -5 at Rockford. <T«ra T« Pave Sial

Price Five Cents.

Worst Train Wreck In 33 Years Last \ I Night; Temporary 1 Trestle Collapses < Woodbridge. N.J.. Feb. 7—-(UP) — The engineer of "The Brokers’ [Special” which left its rails ami [killed ab least .81 persons in the nation's worst train wreck in 33 years, admitted to New .b i-< v m vestigators today that he 'was (.raveling at twice the regulation speed. Alex| fiber, assistant prosecutor of Middlesex county, said engineer Joseph H. Fitzsimmons had made -a formal stateinent that, although he had read ciders requiting' a speed of 25'miles an hour cv« r a temporary trestle, he was going 50 miles an hour just before the crash. This dev'ek'pment came as FBI agents investigated the possibility ' of 'sabotage and a state freeholder charged that the state itself was s [guilty of “contributory negligence” ■ip permitting the trestle to bybuilt under “huiry-up” conditions j wh|ch caused it .to collapse under the' Weight of the train. I ‘’i . L : Ebler' questioned the engineer us part [of the state investigation di retted by attorney general Thus defre Parsou* who explained that "necessarily it was directed at establishing whether or not there i was criminal negligence." f Meanwhile, the possibility developed that the death tojl would mount two or three above the. M figubev established by a United Press check ofjmorgues and mottuaries scattered through populous Middlesex comity which is ouly 25 niiles from N'ew York City. . State police, \ Middlesex county police, aaid-Woodbridge city police all compiled lists of the dead, and tliey varied from 78 to 84.- All supi posedly were based upon “actual counts." Ebe r said Fitzsimmons who said , last night just after the wreck that [he had been going only 25 miles an hour-—told him he was traveling at about go miles an Iwur as he ap- ! proached Woodbridge station which : is not a stop for the ' Bibkeis' 1 Limited " 1 t Wrecking crews struggled in mud l and rain to lift r two smashed- : coaches out of the (street and from j the side of the steep embanknpent and |it was indicated that they could not succeed until night. State police believed that two bodies or "parts of bodies" may be in one of the smashed coaches. ’ Approximately film commuters were jam packed into the M-car train when it plunged off the embankment at 5:47 p.m. yesterday. Os this number stm were injured in the third" tra\n disaster in the New York city suburban area in a year aud Ametica’s most costlv train ! wreck since Nov, 1. 1918. when a New York City subway train jumpits track and killed 91. The country’s 'worst train wreck ever occurred ngar Nashville. Tenn., July 9, 1918. In that one. UH persons diedJ ' ' Samuel McKee. FBI chief foV New Jersey, and three other FBI agents, inspected the scene, questioned witnesses, and departed as mysteriously as they had come. McKee said only: “I am making an inquiry” into the chances of sabotage. I Os the’ injured, all but 197 were treated for contusions, bruises,sprains, and shock at the scene—by l\s doctors and two score nurses who were assembled within half | an hour, thanks in part to Middlesex county's organized civilian defense, Sparked by the American Legion. . . , Ambulances, mustered in fleets just as quickly, rushed the mnnseriously injured to hospitals through Middlesex and adjoining counties and at the peak Perth Amboy General hospital the larg♦st in the vicinity, had 173 cas» s. Mo«t of t|i'e~e had been sent honu by dawn, but of the 32 who remain:ed. several were so critical phvsiirlans feared more deaths may result.