Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 36.

COMMUNISTS COUNTER-ATTACK AT SEOUL * ‘ . 1 : — "... — : ’ ■ ?

Beat Britain Hr • . Opposes New 38th Crossing ; Full Consultation J By United Notions ; Urged By British - -L'i ‘I -■ ' ' “ !■ ' ' London, Feb. 12 — (UP) -+-Pipme\ . Mit)!-tor Clement Attlee apnouncbdj ’UxliLy that the British govern opposes another crossing of Ififej 38tH parallel in Korea until = afor :full consultation in the I'ljlted, Nations. \j jittlee fe|h| in commons it was ♦•4lJe,eially important to get the oT title nations fighting in \ I ■i j|e was the first government *4>iiuker in the foreign policyAle* . 7>at,e' in the house Os commons. jitjlee also said that while Brit-- . loyally supports the UN ano ttojisjilers China the aggressor; question of sanctions I is not which we can support until lljgjreju no hope of settlement.” • ‘Altlee said the 38th parallel is rtM!j a military line, but just an RnWginary line on the. map. and thajl therefore there might be un-' intentional crossings here |and thebe at times. ■ ' ' . 'V" ’|i . ' Hlit. referring to any planned intention .to cross the parallel, jAtfiee said: - , J. |ln our view, the iljith parallel ou&ht not- to he crossed again un-’ , til j|here has been full consultation t I’hifed Nations atid, in with those member who are eontrihut'ing forces -iqjkorea.r - ■ 7 1 | Attlee leritk-ized those who inhinti that the issue in the f.ar east Is solely ‘bet ween the United St ; ije> Aijld China. [ ”|rhe issue is het Ween the Unitcd -Nations”, and Korea. - ’ he said ‘.’ltljds just to suggest that ‘ China has done nothing in this. , It Is equally stupid to. Suggest that I. his goveyhinbnt have fib .policy of their own.” 7 .. Six Killed In New i Swiss Avalanches Zurich, Switzerland. Feb. (I’P) —New aValanches of rock and . snow-thundered down the Alps into IjWP Swiss villages, today, killing siS persons and bhrylhg It) others. ’ Officials said there was little <-h*ni*e the life were alivq’.The center of Airolo, h village of . f.Soo population, was buried under •Jld feet of snow which hurtled from t Mount Vallascia. The slide was •J caused by torrential rains in the ■ | ,lqwer Swiss- Alps and heavy snowfall, higher ’ \ ’ One Mart Killed As Gas Main Explodes Mi\ldlesboro. Ky., Feb. I’2.— (UP) A gas main-exploded in the business district) here early' todayT? killing one man. injuring two others, * anil cutting off the entire city’s . gas. supply. \ j 'The victim was Jack Welch. 2b of ’ 'Middlesboro. one of several Middlesboro Gas Co. employes who had hebu working in an excavation ip an effort to repair a leak in a gas! main. • ' -7' : v

beaten IttedtfaUw, ' • ' .. ' ■ . . f ' W ';.,!» ' J. Welty. Decatur Missionary ChuiTlu , “HIDDEN TAXES” '■< J ; '■ I For thus saith the Lord God' the Holy One of Israel; in > remrning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in ’ confidence shall be your strength; and ye w'ould not. I , • I Isaiah 30't 15 < ■ - v At this present time the majority of the American people are Yfiry conscious of taxes. Many are beginning. to groan under the present ones wit,h fear of greater Ones < oiftlng. /What is the pur- \ of all these taxes? It is that we as a nation may bejseeure and •TO) supplied with ships, tanks, and all other wa]r lequipinent. Our philosophy has become. “To be strong wo must be well , "fcd dipped." Israel had this same philosophy. Site thp'nght if she , h;fd horses and chariots and Egypt as her ally she would possess Strength and security against her enemies Isaiah reminded her that strength and security are not found weapons. Her safety and strength could, only be found . Ijy returning to God and one'e again, putting her faith, and confidence In Him. J. Likewise God would remind us Americans that our greatest ' he<*4 today is not more taxes for more war material but that we as II nation nnce again bumble ourselves, repent of oiir sins and return to God. '

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Retail Merchants Will Meet Tuesday j Decatur retail, merchants were ‘again r^miqded ; of the special meeting called for ’Tuesday. 1 p. m.. In (he cjjy court room of cityhull hy Ralph JlaheggOT. retail director of the Chiimbfr of Commerce, who (irged all members to he present at the "important", meeting. " ‘ •—! j ' More Drafted ’ I ’ - J Troops Being Sent To Korea Draftees To Bring U. S. Divisions Up to Full Strength Washington. Feh. 12l—(UP) — ' More drafted troops are . being sent to Kofea to bring I - S. army divisions to full'strength of is.fmo' Americans in vfre near future, a military spokesman sajid today. \ The draftees • are being taken from' four national guard divisions and twb cAn|ba| teams called to active duty fall Nd ■guardsmen are being stnt The 28th infantry division from Pennsylvania, now staliofied at. Camp Atterbury. Ind.. uTls" listed among the units whicitj ‘will fur-» xtiish trained draftees for the special shipment. ’ , The draftees have cornTdeted at; least 14 weeks of basic training with lhe guard divisions. No numbers were given hu.t the spokesman sipid that no 'inore than s<> ' of the tguul'd outfits will be taken. Sqmc individhal soldiers will ne taken frlom fifttjalionsi other than giiard Informed speculation put the figure ,at artnind 25.000 or 30.000. -This' special shipment. w”hlch. will be I completed hy March 1.7. is in atldiiion to the normal replacements of casualties. and injured-. ' . Assistant defense secretary Ari” lia Rosenberg recently said t,.hqt 15,000 a"month w«ou|d', he needed for replacements. ! i All of tjJen. Douglas MacArthur’s four divisions in Jtipan pt the out” break oi the Rorean 'war were sent in th! action at ahopt 50 to GO percent of ,fuU strength.\ South integrated into tiuise American divisions in an efl’ort to bring them to full\ strength, South Koreans now are bei|ig ) replaced by Americans and Will be transferred jtd the republic of Korea army, j '' Funeral Held for! Schamerloh Infant j Graveside services we|fe held at .the Immanuel Lutheran churelu ! cemetery this afternoon'for Larry Lynn Schamerloh, stillborn at 7:20 j p. m. Sunday at tjhe Adams county memorial hospital. Sen ices were ! conducted ,by the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. W,l C. Vetter i officiating. y Surviving are/the parents, Harc'ld and Phyllis’ of Union township and the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schamerloh of Union township and Mr. and Mrs (’arl Ileiiio of New Haven.

Government To Ease Up Some Pnce Controls Labor Increasing Pressure On Break Os Freeze On Wages A- Washington. Feb. 12,—(UP) — The* government got set to punch a few more holes through its price ceilings today, amid increasing labor pressure for a Corresponding break ih the wage freeze. > Orders exempting cotton ginners from direct price controls and setting fixed Tellings on coffee, cocoa, soybeans and other commodities awaited only the go-ahead from price controlled 1 Michael V LDisalle. The cotton prder probably means \highe-r cotton prices. The effect of the fixed ceilings on the others was uncertain. i Officials~said he probably will aict before the commodity futures exchanges rertpen Tuesday. b The long-waited “markup’’ ceilings for non food retail stores also may come through later this week. Instead of selling' at fiiied frozen prices as at present each retailer will be allowed to use his customary /markup-Mhe difference betwtenlwhat he phys for an article a»ml wh it he sells it sot. That prpt>ably will mean more price rises. V A similar order for retail food pi i< <s- now eight percent over preKorea and higher than nefore in history also is in the woyks apd may lie issued in a week or so. Iliformtd sources said that will mean increases in some food ptices pud small rollbacks in others. Disalle and economic stabilizer Eric A. Johnston see no chance of preventing; a further overall rise of about fl percent in the gerierai price level hy summer time. But they hope they can hold the line qfter that The wage Stabilization board, deadlocked for weeks over a formula to replace the existing pay freeze, goes back to work on the problem tfniiorrow” with something new under consideration —a\ flexible plan that would permit Enough wage rises to match \the cost' of living increase since March . 15, (Turn To Pare Two) G. E. Aeolian Choir At Indiana May 6 , First Invitational ( Festival Os Choirs jThe Aeolian choir of the Decatur General Electric company will participate in the first annual invitational church choir festival at Indiana University Sunday, May 6. 1 8 Nipe church choirs representing different areas of the state from various denominations’ will take part in.the festival. l>avid Emhler. is director of the' G. E. choir and is making arrangements for the choir’s part in the festival with George F. Krueger.' professor of choral music at Indiana University, who. is in charge of the festival. The purpose of the festival Is to focus attention on the value of great music in the worship service and to emphasize the importance of musical training \ to church choirs. 1 > There will. be two concerts on the May 6 festival program. Each < hoir will sing two antlietns and one hymn of its own choice, with its own director ami accompanist, at 2 p. m. at the I. U. auditorium. Tile invited choirs will combine to present a prograjm of church music at 7 p. m. ip the auditorium, wit li i’rof. Krueger directing, and with tlie I. U. philharmonic or'■hestra, under |the direction of Ernst Hoffman, providing the accompaniment. ’ 7 ■ Participating in festival in addition to the Decatur choir will be the sanctuary choir. Park Place Church of God. Anderson; senior choir,” tabernacle Christian Church Columlms; change! choir. First Presbyterian church, Elkhart: combined church ehoir\ organists and choir guild. Evansville; festival choir, Zion Lutheran church, Wayne- senior choir. North Methodist church. Indianapolis; senior choir, St. Johns Lutheran church, Richmond, and senior choir, First Baptist church, Terre Haute. ■-. ■ v

—r-- 1 Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 12, 1951.

Encounter With A Sharpshooter -M, f H BL . - J 'BB | ■ *jßg * 'Bk WIST L kR.B ' AUSTRALIAN. AIR FORCE officer Allen Frost, Sydney, points to a stpall arms bulet hole received on n low-level close support mission along the Korean hattlefrOnK l>etense photo. - i ! . .

1 Womanless Wedding Here On Two Nights ■ ' ■') ' ■ - ' ■' • ' Decatur Lions Will Present Performance While 49 other men may he Riving Considerable thought to what they are going to do during the performance of "The Womanlps* Wedding", to be presented in the high school auditorium Wednesday and Thursday, “bride”, Robert Sy Amjersop is resigned to his fate. Knew he would' bd getting’ married since it appeared in the several weeks ag<>« ! I Through a slight error in the “C’dUrt news” column, inline unde/p , the heading ’’marriage licence*** noted that Voglewede su'd Anderson were going to he married; Andersbn knew then he was doomed ■ So the slight error was nothing hut a fact, really, ami Anderson; will* not only get “the works” once, hiit must repeat the ceremony a second time. . . As yet the groom is unknown. > Lions flub members. In an effort to maintain the setjse of mystery, have alternately described the groom as “a creep,” “divinei” and ,f Othdr Lions club inembers admit they haven’t the foggiest idea who the groom *is. ‘ and only agreed to appear in the show merely to learn his, identity. The “Womanless Wedding”, satirize a society wedding,: and advance noticed proclaim that it \"ls packed fulll of laughs hnd should have them / rolling in the aisles.” i Colorful costumes, elaborate wigs and make-up ill aid thte actors as they totter on high heels anti attempt to wield fans and other i feminine accessories. Lynford Brhcey has the discomfiting* chore of being the bride’s father apd Watson Maddox will portray the bride’s weeping mother. The bride’s “bad little brothers.” r Hob Worthman and Jerry Leitz, and twin sisters, William Bumgerdner and .Louis Jacobs, try to impede things as much as possible. \ J. With W. Guy Brow’n playing the part of the butler, he will ha ye the chance to announce such guests as the Rev. A. C; E. Gillarider. Roscoe Glendening. Clarence Ziner. Robert G. Smith, D. Burdette Custer,. Carl Gerber, Thurman Drew, Jack Heller and others. Tickets toj. the are going at a merry clip, according to ticket - chairman Al Reihle, but there are plenty of them left for those who want to spend ah eVen-i Ing being royally entertained. Tickets may be obtained from any Lions club member or from the Holthouse Drug store, First, State bank, Mirror Inn. HalterAnspaugh Studio,, or at the door. The price has been scaled from 85 cents tor adults to 45 cents for higp school students, and 25,cents for those children under 12 years. , of age, • - ' ' I ' ?1 ' __L—x_: I' WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Light rain or drizzle southeast tonight and snow flurries northwest Tuesday. Colder tonight . And Tuesday, much colder north and central portions. Low tonight 2025 f»®rth, 2534 south. High Tuesday 26-30 • north, 32-40 south. '

College Professor Speaks Here Tonight Pttof. George. LaMouniain, instructor of philosophy at St. Joseph’s college, Rennselaer. will be the principal speaker this evening St the Holy Name society meeting at the K. C. boll. . ’ 1 The subject of his talk will be, “The role ofAhe Catholic layman in the world lof today.” The meeting is called for S p m. and My. LaMountain will speak at about (Edward Heimann is president of the society, and will preside at the prograih. Members of the society attended mass at St. Mary's church Sunday morning, observing the m'oUthly Holy Conimunion Sunday. four Escape From 'V ’i 7 ' Drowning In Creek Auto Plunges Into Blue Creek Today There’s nothing quite like an early morning swim to clear the cobwebs from the mind and prepare a person lor a full, active day. It’s enough to stimulate a man to' merely swim ashore from the dunking. , I To get ashore, that is. when the .family car becomes submerged In a creek. That is what happened to tlje Donald fitter family of Fort Wayne, husband, wife and nearly son, Donald. Jr.? and passenger Peggy Dill, also of Fort Wayne, when their car plunged into Blue Creek early this morning about three mil/es qorth of Berne, and all of them escaped, wet but unhurt. The Ritters Were returning to their home in Fort Wayne from Tennessee, where they had visited Mrs. Ritter’s ’ family. Driving north on V. fe. 27. Ritter fell asleep at the wheel. They had been driving the entirV night. The car plunged through the guard rail, then into the creek. Then began a notable sailing saga. The car did not completely subtperge at fWst, and the occupants were to roll down the window’s and escape.: Even with a two-wheel on which an electric refrigerator was/secured, and attached to the Car, it did hot subrnerge. Before it had stopped in its travels it had gone an estimated 400 feet downstream. The slitters, all three of them, mude for shore once they were free; of the car. Miss Dill, however, felt she could not make It, so clung to the top of I the car. While clinging, an ice floe drifted by, and like Little Eva. she got on that, an<| went downstream. * Melvin Liechty, who' lives nearby, hurried to the shene, threw Miss Dill a rope and pulled her and the ice floe to shore. ' By this time, the car was subriterged at the bottom of the swirling Blue Creek, swollen and rapid from recent thaWs. .The Berne, fire department was called, as was ah ambulance. The latter arrived after the occupants of the car, who had just finished their early morning swim, had We eighth installment of 1 “Yon Can Survive the Atom Bomb,” appears on page four.

Drive Nine Miles Into Allied Lines; Treachery OI Communists Revealed ‘ '! i - . • i ' ■

China Communists Wave White Flags, Shake Hands, Then Murder Americans Oh The Central Front, Korea, Feb. 12. —(UP)— Chinese communists waving white flags came 'forward today, shook hand® with th|e Gl’s, and then started killing them. An Indianapdlis soldier escaped their murderous submachinegun fire by falling into an ice-choked stream and playing dead The Old “white flag” trick had worked again. the Ceds rammed their new offensive into the United Nations lines. J An American infantry and. tank patrol a mile and a half north, (it Hoengsong was halted j)y some 6b Chinese waving the surrender flags and handkerchiefs:. The tanks hailed., Infantry moved up to take prisoners. r “The guy leading them (the Chinese) spoke English.” said Sgo Clarence E. Catlett. 23. of Leesburg, Va. “He shook hands with my lieutenant and said, ‘friends’." Lt. Petty H. Dadis', of Oklahoma Cityjtokla., told th|e Chinese to lay down their arms. Catlett said this resulted jti argument.” An explodhyi Breqade ended the discussgmy • z ' “One of tfie Chinese shook hands with one*3^ my buddies and dropped a grenade heljjnd him.” Catlett said. J ' . . .. i The” Chinese was shot one tlie spot by Pvt. Gilbert Tilton, 17, of Trenton. N.J. The American lieutenant fel|, slitil by the Chinese who had just shaken his hand. “All hell broke loose,’,’ Tilton said. , The tankfj “buttoned up”—slami ming their turret hatches shut—» and opened fire with machineguns, while the Gl’s, outnumbered and with Chinese submachineguns flam? ing in their faces, battled back td (Tura To Vase Sl«» .J favor Referendum On Fast TWie Issue House Committee Favors 1952 Vote Indianapolis, Feb. 12.—(UP) — An Indiana house committee agreed today on voter referendum to decide the controversial “fast time vs. sjdw time” issuje. The house judiciary “B” committee reported with a passage recommendation a bill which would leave it up to the voters in the 1952 general election whether Indiana operates oh central or eastern standard time. The bill originally called for eastei'n standard tinie the year around beginning next May 1. But committee chairman Paul C. Moellering, R., Fort Wayne, who also is author of the bill, reported it out with an amendment substituting the referendum for the originpl provisions. * Voters would answer two questions: 1. /Which of tlie following alternatives do you favor: slow time (CST) or fast time (EST or daylight saving time)?" • 2. “If you favor fast time which of the following dp I you prefer: fast time the year round, or fast time from May to September of each year?” I - ' I The results of the referendum would not be binding on the 1953 legislature. Mowever, they would be significant Assemblyrpen for several sessions have steered clear of the controversial issue because the farm vote w4s lined up nearly solidly against daylight saving time and tnanv city-dwellers favored it because jt gave them an extra hour of daylight for golf and gardening. \ Earlier, a recommendation on a Dill to slap a state speed limit on Hoosier motorists was sidestepped by another committed. The bill, which proposed ; a 60 miles an hour daytime limit and 50 ai; night, came out of the house public safety committee without recommendation.

Dewey Differs! With Hoover s Foreign Policy Republican Ranks Split Open Over Troops To Europe Washington, Feb. 12—(UP!) The administration seemed ready today to go half-way to build a "natlbnal unity" frorft on the troops-for-Europe issue eveh as Republican ranks spilt on the question. *•_- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of NewYork disagreed on the air-sea ! power defense views off former president Herbert Hoover and Sen. Robert A. Taft, <#. 0/ yesterday and said it of congress* business how .OqUrican troops are deployed Dewey also said that any troop limitation, "such as one division for 10, or 12,1 or four Eu/npe divisions is just/dandy. bufyou have tied up the hands of Emope and invited war." j \ However, it seemed probable that it was on just this “ratio" issue that the administration was willing to yield a bit. Chairman Tom Connally. D.. Tex., of the senate foreign relations committee is “inclined" to oppose any ratio. But Connally, it is known, would not regard as unreasonable language in a resolution which would give a green light on troop commitments under a “reasonable ratio" deemed practicable by tlie military leaders. This would not tie Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s hands too closely in his new Atlantic pact command. Administration chiefs, concerned at the possibility of ,a lasting congressional split on the issue, were considering the, conciliatory steps in hopes of mustering an overwhelming senate | vote z behind the joint Atlantic pact defense scheme. |A . 4, Secretary of state Dean Acheson was scheduled to discuss the blatter with his top advisers and Presiden|t Truman may take it up later in the day with his top congressional lieutenants. i But it was Dewey who jolted tpany of the congressional GOPi leaders' by his outspoken defense of 1 the security project headed by Eisenhower. The general already bears Dewey’s endorsement as a GOP presidential nominee. , it would be the “utmost of folly” 1 j put American defense blue chips on sea and air power albne, Dewey said. “I do not believe deployment (of troops) is a matter of congressional action.” the governor said on the National Broadcasting com(Tara To .'ase Five*

Camp Breckinridge, Ky., Is Larger Than Decatur

(BY A DEMOCRAT REPORTER) I Camp Breckinridge, Ky„ located about 50 miles south of Evansville,, where more than 35 Adams countly young men aye taking their basic* training in th|e United States army, is a bee-hive of activity. The camp, reactivated only in the last year; is bigger than Decatdr hr area and there are countless rows of barracks and other buildings. The outsides of the buildiugs are badly in need of paint but thi interiors are in gobc? shape and the barracks, while are comfortable. The 101st airborne division, of which all the boys at Breckinridge are members, is strictly a training division. are thousands of young both enlisted and drafted, from several midwestern and southern states. This nation’s new army is the highest grade army in the world, more than 65 percent at the

Price Five Cents.

South Korean Hold Over 38th Parallel j Is Wiped Out By Defending Reds Tokyo, Tuesday. Feb. 13. —(UP) —Counter - attacking communist troops drove nine miles deep into allied lines in central Korea Monday. On the eastern end of the j line the reds wiped out a five-mil<« South Korean toehold north of the 38th parallel. i Allied forces in the west were thrown back \ in their second ■ straight day of efforts to drive into Seoul across (he wide Hah river. But American tanks capturedKimpo airfield Saturday raugfd jilts northwest of Seoul. ' > massive rea ot lyt the center of t)u\ afcft ’fß» .aroup<l Hoengsong Monday in effqpav -h> slow down * the Nations drive In tha easea jm Its their lunge b»e commjinists <aingd miles trai»d ah American battalion tpd a South Korean regiment.' fighting still raged all tral frjont Monday night from Cfaife yong to a point 15 miles east of Homasong. Chipyongi.is 2" tilth--west of Hoehgsong. An Sth agmy spokesman said the reds threw three Chinese and two North Korean corps into their central front counter-attack. Front reports said the; American battalion was'cut-off and tra-ppM west of Hoengsong when the red attack caved in a South Korean I force fighting on its right flank. The South Korean regiment u-as cut off north of Hoengsong. 'Elements of three Chinese communist armies in conjunction -with two North Korean corps launched a strihig counter-attack against two South Korean divisions in an area north and northwest |>f Hoengsong early this morning,” an Bth army communique said. “The enemy attack gained momentum during the day. forcing United Nations elements to withdraw from their positions. “Although complete Iground reborts are not available, air observation reported a large group of enemy moving southeast into this battle zone and reported observing numerous road blocks to the rear of friendly positions this morning." A South Korean force fighting along the. east coast also was thrown\back after a five-mile dash across *he 38th parallel Sunday. ;■ 7 ■ L, ’ ’■ Boy Scouts Attend Services At Church About 82 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and leaders were in attendance during church services Sunday in the Zion Lutheran church; the service climaxing Boy Scout week which concluded today. week was marked by a banquet last Thursday evening honoring Scouts of the three Decatur troops and Saturday, when members of Decatur. Berne ind Geneva filled city Mud county governmental offices.

I men being a» least high school | graduates. . There are two classes of boys In basic training: members of the United States army (draftees) and members -of tire regular; army ’.(volunteers). ' The instructors, commissioned officers and non-coimmissioned officers, are not the) type seen in movies. They are considerate and most of them have 10 to 15 years of army service behind them. The Adams county boys all aru a little homesick but they are com- J* sortable and surprisingly well fed. The army food is .excellent. They have good barracks, with ajrout To in a two-story building. There are all the facilities of a eify, in the camp. There are churches, movies, hotels and recreation centers. Free bus service on a regular schedule is avail- * (Tara tft Pace star