Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1951 — Page 1

joi >LIX. No. 34;

TANK-LED AMERICANS SMASH TO HAN RIVER

Retail Food Prices Reach New High Mark J Ro|e Os Increase Sidles But Prices ;Reach Record High L|•lsul i i y i n i; W&Hlngton, Feb, 0 (UP)- > f h> MV irnmont moved to. head '■fflflktygk market In moot tocontrolling tho number *f |lAghter houeee that will be to operate. j orl|e chief Michael y Dlsalle rJrdeMd that until Adril 1, no {kujmerera ban operate unless eywere In between n. f, 1950, and today. , Islington. Feh. !) HJ’-I — gljvernnient reported 'today food prices haver risen lie®; secord high, but the rate erAse has slowed down flight of labor statistics reporked what retail food prices ill ' cMtsedt three-tenths of .one per retrt iriihe last two weeks of Januaqv. smallest two-week incie|se: Snce tnid-Novemher. Sowing pf the price spiral wa-4; to the price freeze impos^d". :jant 25. the ‘ bureau said sinse -■<>&>' a few foods were as-. fec»*d fa® it. ! lite rlpprt. was made as price controller Michael V. bjSallg-and • coaomll stabilizer Erie A Johns- 1 ton’ weri called befbre the* housesenate Iconomic watchdog comrail |ee t« report on controls. H -r I)|sSai|f jwaiAs congress to curb food prig’s at the farm level, and ! a hjgh .said he, would be) < tiHrnt hold the food line nt Fjarify. would mean another ,|'i(of iljnost jive peTcant. T|« w ,r *’ controller will isHita eh<>i|ily, ;|n urdt»r limiting livestock l,n an 'effort to pre —vent;- .marketing, lie said he doubted-jpvj‘ry.-much" wjhether the .oidiji iil®» would i ause tins drop In 'tneu| Ili ill# l.>liniMol WOK; pi<-pni|d foi Mhe iperl incut *pri< m qiieal.louH iho jwgl&log member* hmt'read> I ‘(iiniliß fee moiiilmiw|m have Iceil hcwjlig bwii lh«' liohio ItUkt* nhni Il|n pi i., < -wane 11» r . .had foicir qii|fiition<4 6* iln’ait J*>i the < Io; ill HlWitio who l» to blame 10l ho i ; \ What are ttio chin|ve*;n>lf Huffing the lid on III* liatlin itfi tli«> iie\t few itiunlha ’ iWht wt|| t iifoK.e it oiitroh?. ■Wilsum DlHiille iiild .fohiiHtoii wen insving >• fit tighten up Ihe who o I'H'tul program of control*. Ab soiled Os Blame In piny's Depth ll<folivi|o, Iml.. Feb !l (1’1’) A 2|veai|ohl woman was absolved of iffime Jtydny in the death of a new tor trj Jill fan whoso body was founii iit a 1 garbage pile here last Decjmbe I ' Al at) male (jury found Gloria manjlaul iter after a three-hour ilelibprat; >n last night. Police cljiCf ,Kdb<rt M Connell filed the charges aftee the victim's body was found H ; —•—■ _.'„a Farm Bureau To Aid in Rabies Campaign In |tli?eir monthly county meeting ’■ecejtjw in Monroe, the county ’•'arid agreed to help the Adans county health .fouhcil in its campaign. They will distri '.site/the rabies pamphlets to the iuraH schools of the cmmt>\ They vjll also ask the school teaching t taffs to- emphasize the need toy vaccinating owneih dogs annually and ylirplnating'stray dogs, Retailers To Meet Tuesday Afternoon > llulpli jMa.beggv’r. retail director of the Glnimher of (’thninfcrce, h.t/ railed an! ’important" mhhtlng of all retailers Tor i next Titesduv. I p m , in nmyot's'! court i'imm. In c'.iy hull. Hu ingrtl that all mmnhers ' attend meeting ui that time WEATHER Fair eold tanlgljt. taturday partly cloudy with rising > t»mp«raturax. Low tonight 05 ’ below north, os abovo couth lituMfay nogr 80 north,

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ‘ • • v ' OIHLY pAILV NEWSPAPER IM ADAMS COUNTY

No Real Relief Is , Forecast From Cold X Eastern Two-Thirds Os Nation Shivers \ |lv I’nllcj PICM The i. iti iw<i rliii dt, of the nn I lon hitt ei t d 111 idiiti cold and hlddt tl ini t now mid Ire ioda.\ Wrallhu lot < emit vi s nuid no real Wllef was in shthl.' The <lO|thrill plnliiii, (liciij laiki’M iind\nori lira <t«'i u jd< w< i. "one lllllic let* blix,." lilt o'l Vol« said, with uh z> hi irmpt tniiiipi Hinging (thwh io- Nfi in (iriinisloiip, wit, ' i ut '.Wan an, \vi- and ? i at Mln <>n City. laY Grey < loiiiN diiinpi d' ‘ flow I root cinlral lllhiols io the Atlantic coii.i. and a ( hill rain fi ll southxof ihe now bi ll i’p to fotir tnchrs of fresh snow was reported in Illinois and Indiana The nvorn ink- sub zero line st retched Oirthe weather map from southern lowa across northern Itlinbis and Wisconsin to New York and-Wew England. . Only Texas and area west of the Rockies escaped the .Arctic blasts. But Los Angeles, the mercury rose to a comparatively balmy 74 yesterday, had a weather worry—smog. The weather bureau there said more.fog. haze and smoke would plague the city today. At\noon yesterdays he worst smog id foiir years reduced visibility t.o one-eighth of a mih- and touched off a virtual epi- 1 deiiiic of sniffles and inflated eyes. A giant snow-slide blocked transcontinental traffic cm towering Ixiveland pass In, the 'Colorado Rockies, state ; highway officials pr< ssed clearing eejuipment into service when the sli,de covered a four length, of thv highway with a L’ofkot jec p dam of simw, timber and nouldeis. \ The cold,, coupled with the rail road strike, caused jietroleum and iwiliiral ga- shortages In ihe mid Wt l and ihe !‘ii | sbiirr h t ale i liepns peiioleuin ailniini JI ai/ir llltice l< Blown nskid foil) Klat« governot l.bo oil eoinpifnicik fuel oil disir.ilm(<p - and fui ni ooop« hi Ilves |o help solve rt nihlwest short' age of Ittel oil . lie iiiged Ihe govciimh pf 111 l Hol Imllaii I \l |>. >(li. ,n and, \Vl'.. Willvp stiitp .rp<| hil’iit loi’lllullolix fixing WrlghEjJlll'ltM Oil (111 l k hmilliH’ fuel OIL lAid nuked pihiifu. eompiiijb ii/fii ' woik kcvmi diivi II work bliiojtiig and Hlllomllnr, im« until noinml eondltl<ui« me ri’Hlorcd m A ■ ; i s ■ - Ucinher iore< oitei.s said lenv jiejUtHM would mddciate sllghllv mid ti hipoim lly" In (he mldW| 4 by tomon'iHv inn tio v said ' nothing iipploip hlng liofrmil wax in p.roHpiiei '■ . j \. \

MacArthur's Visit To Front Is Futile 'Weather Prevents Landing n Korea J \Toky.x Feb. 9--(UP)-~Con. Doug las MacArthur 'lew to the"’battle front today tq Abkerve the aljied tank offensive bn the llaij river, but bad weather forced his plane t v o return td Tokyo without landing in Kor*’a. ? I 'MacArthur, xjho likes to be around som't tiling unusual happens at' the fioiit. left Tbkyo at 8-am aboard his private plane. lie.planned to land at Suwon airfield, the largest airport hear the frond The trip was unannounced 7 Bad weather throughout South Korea made a landing impossible at any I'iiiied Nations-held air port, Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway commander of the U.S. Sth army was at Suwon airport to meet !Rae Arthur, When the supreme com mandcr’s plane was unable to land ltidgwav went on to the front win ie io- ii.id «tii e< hml Capi \\i that W XL vet- Lfthder, Wyp . to bad the tank as>au)l ' , Maj Gen, Couit.ney Whltpey. ehli i <»i Mnc\| iliui’s govertlme tit si < ilnn In Tqkyo Hind the trip wax to have he« n n "routine visit "1 "The whole of South Korea was bittiikrted with bad wrathur." Auld Whittle), Who .ii('(>iii|iaiiie(l Mac Anhui "\Vn hovered nroitnd Suwon for about half an hour but th# etlllni wa4 otrty 400 t«rt, with ptactlcdlly no vkdhlllty #t Snwnn '• \ | . *\ • I, . . ■r ''

Mail Embargo Lifted As Rail Walkout Ends Switchmen Back To Work; Grumble On Orders From Army \VmJlllip.lOll. I'’elb II (I'l’l ; PoMfinuster Jummp M Doiiuldson lm| tiny lilted all lesfrletjmiM on nutir Whit II hud been Imposed hr< ntixe of iha rull Mtrlkn. The dopmimt'iit ImpoMnd u niu Hon wide enilmigo liDtL week tin pi at th ally all mall exebpt letters, nowspuporH. bank notes mid metllt'lnt’s ami other emergency hupplies, •» ’ • . The. ban covered all first class mail over two ounces; all second class mall except newspapers; third ami fourth class mail and airmail po. tai packages weighing ipore than two pounds. lit was relaxed slightly two days ago to apply only to the movement of mail between points east! and west of tlm Mississippi and to -ome points in six midwest slates. Donaldson said the renewal of train service in Chicago and St. Louis permitted him to scrap the restrictions completely. ' Strike Ended Ry United Press Railroad- switchmen ended their strike tbday and began the monumental task of clearing up the jam of 1 freight cars from switchyards. v i. The Railway Express agency lifted all freight embargoes effective last midnight. Rut the agency advised shippers^—4hat there still might be slight delays until the freight ,logjam is an sc rumbled.' As they set to work restoring the nation's bMsic transportation system Io normal, the men grumbled feellngiy übout the army’s work <u-be fired" order, the 12*sicnt hourly pay boost handed Jlp-in with the order, and the presidebt's ■ li.iive that hieii union leaders acted like a \birnch of ItiiHHlans x Tlie Hwltchmeh, meniheiH of the lli'ht helhpod of Italtroml TrulliUivii let II he known t hut limy wort’ 'ho|-p ! ' and Unit they were iel in iiihk only io | I'Hiln v ilmlr l<ibh mid ! u\ii|iii It v i Iklilh Thi'ii "mtltiidr whs typified by tt group rtf a IHrmlnglimn. , Ala., HWlfilime|i Il t»w\i'ould Im oid< H it Hi work ini a hllisy raise, wo I Tarn Im r««e »Ib» b

Gives Final Totals On Community Fund All Agencies Will Receive Full Quota > .1 ; " ■ ? ' i All participating agencies In the DeCatur Community Fund,. Inc., will receive their full quotas from the fund. Louis Jacobs, president of the civic orgtmizhtion' announced today, as he reported final totals frohi last fall's annual campaign. \ Contributions and pledges to thd DCF amounted to $8,799.86, Jacobs reported. This totalls only $354.40 under the budget and the directors of the Fund in meeting last evening voted to meet all allothicnts in full, the presjdjent said. \ The participating agencies in the DCF ard\ the Boy and Girl Scout organizations;; the youth conrririftee of Woman's'T-lub for the teen cantlyr recreation and playground committee; Salivation Army, Decatur chattel- of the dancer society ttnd the national defense committee, a newly organized committee which replaces the'USO. Th# DCF directors expressed their appreciation to Ixiwell W. Harper and Dick Llnrt, co-chairmen, who spun headed last year’s drive. They also thanked contributors tor their dona'iion to the civic fund. Earl M. Caston, assistant cashier of the •■'iiHt St He Bank was elect ed to succeed Arthur Heimann us executive ’ secretary of the fund Heinhmn served as srcietaiv for the past three years and asked'' 1 Io he relieved of his . duHt s The dll rotors extended their appreciation to him for h|s hiany yearn of service, In addition to cash donated at the Uni# of tho arlve, employe* in local industries nho pledged 12.234.20 th lib fund, to be paid through the pkHotl ph n ttils viuvi, J.ibotiH stat- . 4 ■

Friday, February 9, 1951.

I Switchmen Back To Work 1 S ; .- ftr : - i f - I '.' " I® -. *hL- 1 Jf . ■ / ‘ ■I(. J • ' ■ . AS IN YARDS all over the nation, a swltdimah throws his first switch Jn a Chicago railroad yard following President Trumau's order to the Arriiw to operate the rails at full capacity. Rail union officials issued'|«tr«®4 orders to alt trainmen to repoit back under "pain io-s of ■ < , L(' ■' J. ; ' \

' ! J I ; ' i Court; Hfuse, Bank Will Cloie Monday !l - % . • ' ■ ; Business (fill be conducted as ; usual in|!mo« places Monday -rlAxi : coin’s with the exception of in the county-cjourt hou: * and the j State Bang. The city , hall wil| retrain open during the ; any, as sjill fjecatur stores. ' a -’4- ■■■ «• ' * •'< Deep Frieze Woman I Slowly Recovering ; Making Remarkable Figtf l|or v ! Survival . ! 1 ehhui4p, fab bi II (I p) *Ch|t'H go's "||M«P ft%cz|e" woimill mildt? II rciiiui kii|ili* Ahi for hurvivkil *u»d ißi|m<iic*|i hi I**- milnhiM viiriujh fndiiy, lltifu* ullt’i Him wim found w|ill iffar body ImnimHiHli <* down Hi;.ut (wUH I*l th'Uiemt. Murpi'l|t»d timlhl'H wuiclmil lht< eiise «dn«hdy Mm Dorothy Mm* HieM’iinjis;!, to udmin tfuHiiiu iiiid- I'orthoiu*, She wnir lih|ihli( Into Mllchiit’l HcVhc yolerduy ufliM y»h»‘ hull bci'ij foiiijd in mi alley virtually 1 frozen H|lff. Pollct’iimii whii \fodinl h*’i' *ld|< rfbed Iml <|rt ' Olfl like rltfm nitwtlM.'* After !ilorli|r* had (hawed her out at roimi (|m|mriiHire, her body temperature ,srmm ' steadily luhl night to' the'lnormal f»N li deg e* s and climbed tbday to lt)l. Aimarch of medical regordk showed nil case ' In which- a h|man being sut*yived 1 after body temperature druppeil ' below (IST degjese. doctors said. It is riire f|r to survive.with • the tem|eratgiri> below SO or S 5 | ! <Ttfri> T<» Paar Seven 1 ;

'WtetetatiM. Fl ■ si _ r ! f ; . ? (|lev. O. C. St; Paulis Lutheran, Prteblc) \ . I “ON CHOOSING GOD” JI ' , . ■ . Jfcsus said: "I and My Father are one.” John 10:30. Th| </uest for God is universal; Id the noblest quest of man, Jesus w*!r presented a single argument for the exi ten.ee of God; evidHiiafHe bblieved that in his be§j, moments man would accept - this f;fq|. Many of the stars above are planets like our own solar system. These and many ofhpr heavenly bodies move with Orderliness and precision and form a part-of the universe so large (hut its immensity confounds us. You cajinot face thesp facts without thinking of God. No wonder the psalmist declared: "The heavens declare the rflory of the Lord.” i ' ■ ■ 1 While most people admit that tlufr# is a God, yet great, multitudes are uhwilllng to agree with Christ .that He and the Father are one in essence and purpose. Many there who regard Chrikt merely as one among other sons of m«h—a great and Impressive personage, hut. after all only a (nan among mep. But if Chriht taught anything, and then by word ami deed Remonstrated the truth of His teaching It Is this, (hat He was God sent Into this sincursed world to save it through Ills vlciirlmjs suffering and death Our qiie> t for God is ukeleas iinles# We see God revealed in Christ Jesus, oi\r faith as (Ihrlat|nns| rests upon these facts, that .U'sus is God’s Hon. that He loved UM. rhut He died to? us. If this he lMm, theft ill ontj. needs tire met Hip. {mln. sorrow, separation and death enn never be the same The whole universe of life is (hanged if God was In/’hlhd. ami if.Hr loved us and gate Him seif for us. then all th# problems arr p<dved and we are satisfied Begin and continue your religloiia'Hr# by choosing God ns your guyilng slur Becogulz# Jmuh mm highest rovrlatloti of God If you would know God mid th# Lente# story and |>e< ome arqmilnt lid With JesUK, Mie Savior of the wot'hl ' ' _

Boy Scout Banquet Held lsst Evening 41st Anniversary Os Scouting Is Marked The- 4LM annWersary" of the founding of the Boy Scouts of Atiierka w»s observed in the an tlual banquet of Decatur Scouts Thursday evening at lity .Masonic I all ? Approximately 2pti m« n and Boy I Scout* were (in attendance, with III* lilh.y- of thw Rotary ami Lions i clubs gud AdilniH Post 4:1, American ! Lvalmti. pim-»tH uh th*- sponsoring 'ojrrUU»l|«itlonx;!nf the I hue Dpcatui llioops 8 ■ \ ■ ill*.l, Vunllorn, AulhoiH \vavtm jit’cil j'tHH t xeciiilvi , wiih ! Hit' pllmlpul «pvjil<«i of Hm «'v.|ihi>', Hl Ip l‘" al al attdH- ' mi "I'ood fm Ihmmhl ' The Hcoul ' * i* < iiilvv iHili d the Hcotifn In live up to tloli niifli mid HijiiM Ihw me ii int’iiiM lb a • iilsfvlng mid «uc< * *» fdt life ‘ | x II It Kim *loin ik Wii* tnm.l imistri lt>r flu ev* iiliih ty'iiul cm ,us tlie vinlmi* mi* iHilziH lon» weir luiiodubcd Ularetivei Xlitvr. county tllsti h i chairman. priWnlrd chilllTi« fol' the ihn*' Decatur trob|ie’io die chtiliman of v tii*> x MpoliMorlHK group*- h(h<l n pennant tn Amerlcuuj Legion (troop tn. for |oti percent pattlclpatlnh In Boys Lire, the Scbtiis national magazine The meeting opened with the Invocation by the 'ID v Lawrence T NdrriH. pastor pt the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, and community singing, led bys the Ri v William Eelh r, aciTurn To PiMEft Five!

f Begin Closing Pincers On 20,000 Communists Caught In River Pocket

House Speeds Bi|l On Qrunk Driving Jail Term Would Be Made Mandatory jindlpmitmliM. l-'eh. Il > <t’P) Chronic drunk tlriyers were glivmi 'a more po(*'iit pre»< riptlon for Jail medicine today In the Indiana house . j I The house approved on second reading a bill making jhll termk. mandatory for intoxicated motorists convicted the first!time, gnd added an amendment making} second conviction punishable by imprisonment of not lesjs - than 60 In the senate, the controversial public welfare “antisecrecy” bill came up for a showdown vote and was made a special < rder of business for Monday • Rep. John M. Harlan, R.. Richmond, strengthened the drunk driver bill. The second-conviction penalty in the original bill was up to Hie judge, who cpuld scintence the t'efendlant to any number of days from one to 365. \ Harlan also amended the measme to increase the maximum fine for first conviction from 1100 to >2'6o and Alembert Brayton. R., Indianapolis, amended: it •h lAandafe both a fine and v jail term, for persons convicted of reck’esH homicide. I • ' The house approved l»|th' amend ments by voice vote ai|d the hill went to the final reading stage The welfare hill was rpoetponed' in the senate hecauHp Os the absence of minority floor leader I.c o Hteiuie, D. .iiiwper Befoi'd its post ponement. Ben \Ve-i.-\ Malone, it Clinton, who wrote (lie hill made llooi H|,eerb ill frtVor Os ihe lilll «hiuli he «nhl hml "no pdllticul sig IHHeuiion J " I "This hill |g not trying Jo em hliruNH or hurt lieeiH pejplaT Nitld MalnnA' *lWt many newly people (iron i able in ref welfurp help ViUi'T Ibe welfare depart blent Voila are loaded with c hl«uder* <>n6 "f • tlw' tad ihith'H ghoul wellja.ru Ih that II Klops imllvldgal Inltinllve I know of Mctme riiHea where the welfare duputtinent hi I mills goes out and Midlt’ll* people Io roertlA e n|d "

Annual 4 H Fair To Be Held At Monroe '■■ ! s Holman Egly Heads County Committee Members of the Adams coupty extension committee today announced that the town of Monroe will be the site of the 1951' 4-H Fair, thus continuing; tlie precedent' set last summer. The fair is schedu|ed for the we k of August 5. At a meeting Thursday, at which time the tairj site wals chosen. Hob man Egly wa|s elected chairman of the committee to serve fori the coming year: Edwin Reifsteck. vice chairman; Mrs. Herman: Bleeke, secretary; Henry Getting, treasurer, and \ Roy Price, director. The committee considered two proposals concerning the 1951 fair during their meeting: to hold the 4-H fair at Monroe on the same basis RS last' year, or to hold the fair In conjunction with the Deca tur frdte fait as In former years, and on; the same basis. Repoit were also inadg during the meeting by chairmen of the. home Economics clubs, dairy herd Improvement association. crops Improvement association, farmer's Instllulrs, beef committee, swine project committee, rural youth.' and (Ml club couneli The ir«« iir-! « itp6ii, ulso pfesented al the mv»*tfng, irvraftxl R b.il.im of 81.718.11 The committee decided to have a group draw up n constituilou und bylaws and the >utdv .mil adoption of this will bathe firtit busidvas on th* aittnfl* for the next inflating,

Eight Killed When Canadian Train Hits Bus Commuters* Bus Struck By Train During Dense Fog Sudbury, dnt... Feb. ft (UPf A Trans-Continental passenuer train rammed- through a\commuters' bus in dense fog today., Provincial police reported eight persons were killed and ‘‘about 25” injured. ( , AU the were passengers aboard the bus. They were smelter workers just off the night shift at a plant of the International Nickel company. Running 40 minutes late in 47below zero weather, the Canadian Pacific Montreal-to-Vancouver Flyer was just getting up 1 speed after stopping at Coniston when the acgjdent occurred at about X a. m. T6e locomotive, shrouded in a fros) fog, ripped through the bus and hurled it into deep snowdrifts beside the tracks. attendants said some of the injured were in [ “bad shape ’’ * The scireams of the injuied pierced the frigid morning air in the coldest weather In this region in 18 years. Police Sgt O .Moyer said nobody knew immediately how the accident occurred except \thut the host fog made \l ihility "extreme ly poor," The driver' of' the bu< Edwaul Cuirleiv, esvaped with minor fat hil cuiM. Nnit wiiH the apKlntmr of till' triilp, D T |h<wtliill H*’tlou*Ty hint Twelve Inis phiocentrei'H were unhurt • Tralrtt Collide \ Mom 101 l quo ’Feb ft (Ul'i The (h'viyi Limifed it maritime HXprcHp Halil, I HlHlied Into ' file (Tilt nt tiunlhei H alii iii th** mil rotpl yards Imi’t* today titid IT pei Mo|i>4 wort* H’poried injured The iictMih'iii tMt-iirii’d iltiilUK H tTurn ‘l’o I'Mge Heveni -

Wholesalers Oppose Proposed Slashes Legislators Propose Tax Discount, Slash Indianapolis, Feb. H — (UP) — A program of paying liquor and cigaret wholesalers the actual cost of collecting' Indiana excise taxes “but Ino more” was the policy today pf the house ways and means committee “A”. The committee issued orders to both jobbers to. employ certified public accountants to ascertain their actual costs in collecting the taxes. ■ . ■ j Liquor wholesalers’ currently receive a three percent discount for cash of excise tax stamps and cigaret jobbers get seven and a half percent: . Jesse. C. Andrew. R,., West Point, recommended cutting cigaret men to three percent and elimination of the entire discount to liquor jobbers at a Tuesday session. He said it would slave the state* “over >1,000,000 annually." Representatives of both -groups appeared before the committee to protest the proposed slashes <; Barret ! Moxley, president ot'Klefer sn-wiirt liquor wholesalers, said th* 27 jobbers, paid about >223,870 In gross iheom* taxes last year Imi received ax slump discounts of tin almost complete exemption. . t lie urged retention of the current discount und offered further figures In an' attempt to prove liquor Jobbers “lose money’’ by ('olleciWm the tux for the state Moxley also said jobbers affix i • era Tw Page Flvei

Price Five Cents.

Allied Forces Roll Up Communists In MeahGrinder Drive Along Korea Front J... r«'»kv<». Multi rd ay.Keb 14 il'i'i TMtik led American troop* smash ' «l| to t.hf IltMl tiv.l xoUlhtllMt of Seoul Friday and began rinsing a | Plmcrs arohnd fti.oou communist < caught in u 3l>**quar«-tnlle pm krt below the river The right arm of the pincers hit the Han 3-16 miles southeast of Seoul. Ten miles west, another thrift; task force swept within one mile of .Seoul’s big industrial suburb of Yongdongpo. Here they were 3- ! |2 tn ip- squthwest of the red-held capital. Other powerful allied forces in the mountain}* six miies south of the Han plunging downhill toward the river, rolling up the reds in a climactic phase of the five-day-old allied "meat-grinder" offensive. The pincers assault tightened the jaws of an Fth army death trap around some 20,000 battered Chinese and Korean reds on the south bank of the Han -all that’s left of a communist army which tried to stem the allied advance. . ' p The communists fled aiong a broad front south and southwest of Seoul. Whole carloads of abandoned enemy equipment fell into American hands. The U.B. 3rd division's task force Myers radioed at 6:lb pm. (J-15 a.m CSTt that it had reached the south hank of the Han at Bokchon. an escape ferry point 1H miles southeast of Seoul, without a fight. "We are getting ready to wadi our feet hi the, Han,’’ (’apt Arthur W: Myers of I.under, Wyo., the tusk force commander. Jubilantly report rd from his lead tank. His iutrks, anHaltcnift truck* and ttrlmtred troop* earlier*'hud iiilvam'd mm> than foui milt 4 m one Itoui \ — Al Iliv same lime, |’H Uftth dlvision tank and infantry force* pulled oiit of the muonium countty ■milhwtsl of tieonl and lunged northward against only spoiadiu int nn ieslatancc The infantiv quickly mitiuu tli« tanka. yvltleh skidded aimind on Ihr Icy roads The -douvhfcrt took ridges overlooking Meoul’a. Indust Hid'suburb of Yongdungid m ro«a she 1 hoi , horn the foi inn < aplt.»t v They moved m<> that they captured a communist supply tiuln Mind iw«»'ammunition dumps Om> officer said they were so close to Seoul that they could hit the city with mortals If they .wished United Mations artillery add tanks ah' ready have begun shelling the city. Farther east, however, the 8th 1 army reported that the communists were putting up "heavy resistance.” The reds threw IXIOO to 3.000 troops into counter-attacks north qMchon. 30 miles southeast of SeOitT and above Hoengsong. in thej Central Korean mountains. At last reports, the allies were holding firm, however^| ; \ On Korea’s east coast, South Ko■MM (Tun To Pogr Seveor "r

Union Institute To Be Held On March 2 •\ Edgar Krueckeberg chairman of the Union township farmer’s institute, and county agent L. E. Archbold today stated ,that the Institute will be held at. the Emanuel Lutheran school Friday, March 2 The meeting had been postponed bei ause of snow drifted lanes and extreme cold. i The speakers will be Mrs./'alviu Perdue and iff’. Thompson. Two Men Crushed To Death At Bluffton j Bluffton. Ind, Feb 9 (UP) Henry Koenig. 18, and Ralph Hunnicutt. 45. Liberty Center, . were Vruahed (6 death yesterday hy f6ur lons of sheet steel in Knenig» blacksmith shop here Police salt* the steel Shifted as Koenig attorn i-h'* 'st**l ; shifted us Koenig attenipl*d to remove a sheet uad liinned the men against an uuto