Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1951 — Page 1

Vol XLIX. No. 38. V- i . ; ■ t

SOUTH KOREANS LAND BEHIND RED LINES

Johnston Says Tax Increase Is Imperative . Wage-Price Control Plan In Jeopardy Without Tax Hike Washington. Feb. 14 (UP) — Economic stabilizer Eric A. Johnstint) said today the government’s price control program will be in ‘"constant jeopardy” unless taxes . are increased quickly by at least siful<td.ooo,ool) a year. |te jtold ther tax-framing house ways, and means committee that the No. 1 problem before congress in jhe field of economic stabilizadoft. is to drain (|ff • excess purchasing power "through higher tutUs all along the line." While-Johnston did not spell out his ideas on where the extra $lO,000,000.000 should lie obtained, he apparently went along with Presidept Truman's proposals that it be raided in higher taxes on individuals anil corporations and steeper '•■xiiise levies. ; *_ Asked about demaiids for heavy i ut!s in nonrdefense expenditures, Johnston said Ke favored cutting noft-essential spending wherever * possible;' ■ ’ ' , “ H; 4 ■ ‘|But whatever adjustments may be (.possible in this direction," he Aid. "I believe, in view of the miliA laiy requirements,. . that at least irio i .oo0 } ,000.l'oo in additional taxes Mvih bti required.” . ■ Ajax increase of this magnitude, lit; said, will not reduce seriously ' the American standard of living.

"On the average, the American -| people can pay much more in taxes • and still be as well off as they/have liven-in tevent months." he said. But he said the days ahead are going to be "tough and rough” for ( veryohe. "We’re alt going to take a cut.” he.sa|d. "Wages won't ruh as high as i tt'idtkers think they ‘should. I ’risfitswon’t run at the- rale that -• bu'tdiiess they shbuid. •/Tne/. farmer won’t get all he wants and ail of bs as consumers t wiill pave to get along with less.". . Johnston concluded oh a mote - 4)p(iimistiy note: . "Barring a full-scale attack. I be-,lh»-e that two- or, three years will be:us loing a< we may need conflips”, I .iohnstoh reiterated that price- / wage controls to he effective, must pej supplemented by “comprehenlimitations on credit.” by an ulpout production; and by a “drtasItic’hoost" in taxes, p V 1 these things are tied to getper and must treated as part i“ of an Integrated,pattern.” he said, 1 "if We are to he successful in staving: off The enemy without aggn ssiVi’ communism-— and the enetny within ruinous inflation." failure to tax-'“and tax hard" wi|| be "perilous to our country’s sticpgth andjdLtety,," he said.

t '■ ? - » I ■+ v ' Capehart Says Taft To Seek Presidency • Farion, 0.. Feb. 14—(UP1Setj. Homer E. Capehart. R.. Ind., predicted last night-Sen. Robert A. Tt(L R., 0., would seek the presiddiicy in 1-952; , ■|l presume you knpw that Tutt wifi be a presidential candidate in 1932*’' Capehart said in a Lincoln lia|r speech before the Marion , County Republican Club. (’apehart said he agreed "100 . pef cent” with the foreign policies set forth recently by. Taft- and • former president Hoover. 'He said « "S. should be defended before troops "are sent abroard. 1 E —— ■• ' I WEATHER . ' I Partly cloudy north with or snow south except 1 freezing rain extreme South tonight.' Thursday partly dloudy north with sleet or snow I 4outh and east central portions • With some freezing rain extreme south. Precipitation endi the forenoon. Little -. change in temperature. Low - tonight 10-15 ibove north, 15-23 - South except near 32 extreme —*- south. High Thursday 27-32.

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Dutch Commander In Korea Is Killed Tokyo, Feb. 14.——1 UP)—-Lt. Col. Deii Ouden. commander of Dutch troops in Korea, was killed in street fighting in Hpengsong Monday night while he and his men fought a rear guard action that enabled two U. battalions to escape a Communist trap. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters announced. Onden’s death tod av alter officially notifying his government at the Hague. The Dutch waV ministry said his (hath was a- “grievous [ loss." .

Defer Decision On Drafting Os 18-Year-Olds Favor 26 Months Os Service For Men InZ Selective Service Washington \Feb. I).— (Up)—l .The senate armed services committee 1 today tentatively approved 26 months of 'service selectees, but deferred a decision of the hot issue of drafting IS-year olds Chairman Richard B. Russell. D., Ga., said after a closed meeting that “we have not finally settled the age matter." but thajt his group hoped to finish work />n the bill this afternoon. , lie said the committee adopted two or\ three amendments to the preparedness subcommittee’s bill which calls for drafting .ISyearolds. .. . ... ' * ' Another committee member said one amendment set the term of service for draftees at 26 months, but would' give a draftee a chance to complete his. sdlvice in 24 -months if he took no leave. Another merqber said the com milttye rejected a proposal to keep the term of service at 21 months as at present. The 21-month service period was favored by Seb. Wayne Morse, R., Ore., who was (he lone dissenter when Sen. Lyndon B. Johnsons subcommittee approved the bill. Few impotlant changes we’re expected to behnade in thh program approved by Johnson’s subcommittee last week. One member the full committee made almost no important 5 cliangi s .during 2->j hours’ work on the bill yesterday. As approved by the subcommittee, the bill would permit drafting 18-yea T-olds in the order of age, but <mly after Other draft eligible* in the 19 through 25 agf group have been drafted. Men inducted under the bill would be paid for 26 months and five days of service. They cQuld, however, complete their service in 24 months and collect the Tejst of their pay on a furlough basis if they wanted to forego all leave. Morse favors induction at 18->/ 2 and 21 months’ service. \ , 1 Present law' nmvides 21 ifTonths of service for men 19 through 25. It dots not involve, a universal training piogratt) as included ill the (Turn To P»«*. Siwe

Rebecca Jackson Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Friday Afternoon ■ ' - > : ■ B j Mrs. Rebecca, Jackspn, 88,-a resir dent of 'Adams county .most of her life, died .at 11:15 o’clock Tuesday night at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Robert K Sovirie, rufal route 5. been critically ill with infirmities for, the past five weeks. Born in Tuscarawas county, 0., June 19, 1862. she was a daughter of John F. and Catherine Burkhart-, Koos. Shle was married March 25. .1888, to Daniel Jackson whol preceded her in death. \ I She was a member of the Bobo United Brethren church. She rev sided on North Fifth Street for a number of years. The daughter is, the only near survivor. * One son. and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. C. C. Peters and the Rev. L. A. Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. Friends may,,call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. I \

House Passes Bill Against Drunk Driving Indiana House Bill Makes Jail Terin On Drivers Mandatory Indianapolis. Feb. 14 — (UP) — The Indiana house passed and sent to the senate today a bill requiring judges to send drunk drivers, to jail from five days to a year. The vote was 82 to 16. The "bill would make mandatory a five-day to six-monthsjail tenn on first .convict ion and a 60-day to oneyear term on second conviction. It also would slap fines of slo' to S2OO on the drivers. “1 do nob question any man’s right to drink,’.’ said Rep. Frank Q. Rarick. R.. Warsaw, the bill’s author. "I do not question any man’s right to drive. But.l do believe a man who drinks should not driive and if he does he should be penalized.” / ' §ix Democrats and four Republicans, most of them from/ populous cities, opposed the bill. They were Reps. Acker, Brennan. Ball. Cockrum, Kopp, Korpal, Macer. Ryan, Sale and Seng. , Earlier -a bill clamping down on overloaded truck and tyro others abolishing state agencies were tagged for passage in the house. [ The roads committee recommended passage of an bill setting up a new schedule of tighter penalties for operators of overweight vaps. which have been blamed for deterioration of Hoosier highways. , » The ways and . means committee recommended passage of two bills wiping out the state department of commerce and public relations and the Indiana economic council. a A bill to set' a statewide speed limit of 60 miles an hour daytime and 50 at night moved to third reading and a final house showdown after two attempts'* to kill and amend.it failed. One’amendihent, by Rep. William M. Cockrum, R„ Evansville, would have kiMed the bill by deleting the enacting claused The other, by Rep. A4ein ; bert Brayton. R.. Indianapolis, would have made the limit 60 miles an hour day and night. The economic council is a 21member agency headed by chairman George Wright of Indianapolis, with Blaine W. Osterling of Indianapolis as director. The commerce and public relations departihent is headed by Mat ion T. Ayers of Shelbyville as executive director. It has a sevenmember advisory committee. The ‘ abolition’’ bills were among eight introduced by Rep. Charles (T»>*n To Tore Sl*>

Zone Board Rejects Variance Petition Remonstrance Filed Against Business petition for a variance filed by, Victor Porter and, Charles Connely to permit the operation of an automobile body repair" and welding shop in the neighborhood shopping area at the’ corner of Thirteenth and Adams street was unanimously rejected by the board of zoning appeals at the regular meeting of that board Tuesday night? ‘ A trailer sales establishment formerly occupied the building in question. A remonstrance against the petition for wvariance was filed by several residents of the vicinity , of the proposed business and two residents, appeared before the board/io protest the granting of a variance. James Kitchen, Sr. of this cify filed a petition! for a variance so that he can remodel a house in this edty to make it a two family d'welling. The petition was ordered advertised and set for final hearing Tuesday. February 27. The application of Ralph Kjdegle for a variance\ so that he could build a second house on. a corner lot at 1033 West Marshall street was ready for hearing, but action was postponed because the petitioner was not represented at the hearing. Chairman Clarence Ziner of the board set Febtugry 27 as the. next regular meeting of the group. ,

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 14, 1951 I

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Womanless Wedding Tonight, Thursday Lions' Club Show ' Will Open Tonight Aside froth a few minor difficulties which are largely reducied. with the passage of time, everything is in readiness for the gala perforipancq of the ’ Womanlegs Wedding," |o be presented by members oil the D&iatur club .in the Decatur high school auditorium tonight and Thursday. The curtain 4s ; scheduled to go up both mights at 8:30 p. m. Some of ihe strains of assembling the large cast and preparing such an ep c production were becoming evident today- For instance. P're* man Schngpp, cakt its a long lost [brother -<|t the bride,; will not be in the Presentation; Instead Robert Helm will take., the part. Ther=i is no official report from Lions club officials concerning the absence of Sctmepp frdii); the cast other than to say thftt. "he' got long lost." ajul cgn t get bac|t ib timi. ! V // Another tninoy difficulty wt|s Vanquished when some members learned the-.location o[f rehearsals'. Someone stated that thembers of the cast should report to straighten out their cues, and three members were finally located in 11)4? local pool room. 1 Lions club president L. E. Anspttugh repoHecl today that ther4 had been a -‘good advlance sale 'of tickets." bu|t that plenty mobd would be available for tonight and Thursday at the dbor. The bargain elemjeht of, thijs home talent show wds prized- so highly by one impartial) observer that, he was removed to remark, ’Where else in town can you get all the ham you 'want for 85 cents?” J 5 To’ ease some of the:nervousness of the cast, most of them, along with other Lions, were present at the regular meeting Tuesday when Harold Miller, of the F6rt Wayne office of the social security, divi(Taraj To Faae iSI«>

beaten » ' i ‘ ‘ ■ ((IRev. Samuel Emerick; First Methodist Church) “NEW CREATIONS” Two facts stand clearly-before alt'Christian people: 1) That the world is sick without and .within and full of perplexity. 2) That the ch|unch is doing far too little to cure the world’s sickness. Too many Os us are a part of the disease instead of providing "from Within ourselves” the (cure. , We must confess, if we are truly honest with ourselves, that We arpsdn need, in the case of many of us. of a radical up-to-date spiritual overhauling. .We haveinot had it in us to do much! about changing the world’s life. There is too much need betwejen the greatness of the wofld’s need k and the smallness of our ability to do anything" about it. [Before wig can bring new life to the world, it must come TO us.and be IN/Us. . , The world is waking for the flow of the spirit’s power through pur lives. Let us. therefore, take time to, turn pur lives to the One who is the Answer, so that He flight recreate a new spirit IN us and then remake our bewildered iprld THROUGH us. The same spiritual power it available to ns that was such a World-shaking influence in the lives of the early Christians. Let us sweep bur hearts clean so that we may be worthy-recipients of it to£gy. . 1

PTA Founders Day Thursday Evening They’re going to celebrate “Founder's Day" at Lincoln grade s< hool P. T. A., on Thursday night at 7:30' o'clock whether the weath-\ er’s fair or dirty: State Superintendent of \ public hsttuctlon Deane Walker will speak He will be in-; ti oduced by Walter Krick, Z-ity school superintendent. J ' V ■ ' • Any Attack On Slavs World Peace Threat • 'j'i ' Warning Renewed By Secretary Acheson Washington. Fieb. 14. -(UPi — Secretary of state Dehn Achesqn wanted aneyy today that any attack on" Yugoslavia would threaten world peace! Acheson tjold a news conference that the United States' attitude toward such an attack had been niade clear in American action in defending Korea and In the United Nations' decisions regarding Korea A reporter I raised the question of what the United States' reaction might be to any invasion of Yugoslavia. American .authorities long have feared that the Soviet satellites surrounding Yugoslavia might attack >the regime of Marshal Tito. Acheson replied tliajt President Tinman on July I^—after the communist invasion of Korea —had said that the people who have, the authority itb start or withhold aggression should realize, that new acts of aggression would strain the fabric of world peace to a very dangerous ■degree. i ' America's attitude toward aggression, Acheson continued, has been made qlear in action in Korea and in the UN. . ' Present U S. policy as drafted by the national security council is understood to call for American arms shipment's to Tito only after Yugoslavia is attacked. But informants said the danger raised by growing satellite armies .may force iTuni to Pi*<e KiKhti

South Korean Marines ' ' . ■ f In Amphibious Landing 130 Miles Behind Lines

Retailers’ Program For Year Outlined Program Presented By C. C. Secretary A plan outlining the proposed Chamber of Commerce rgtiyil program for| the coming year was presented to Decatur businessmen at a specia-1 meeting Tuesday by Chamber) executive secretary R. W. Prtiden. Projecting the (Chamber’s anticipated plan into 1952. a prepared pamphlet' was released |rhich revealed the various events and their promotion planned by the retail committee. Retail director Ralph Habegger. in a signed foreword in the pamphlet, pointed up advantages of a year-round program in that Chamber officials can concentrate on direct promotion f)>r monthly events. The pamphlet outlines events for every month of the year? not all of them direct sales events* of course, but other even(s like the county ' stddent day sale to be held in April; spring cleaii-up in May; employe picnic ih June, and th4> ; thumpian parade in October. Pruden, in presentinlf the program, -stressed the need tor co operation of the city’s merchants, i and dftailied > the plan assessing [ each' business a nominal cost for I 1 financing the year’s promotion. There were 23 businesses represented at the Tuesday meeting, and I the outline "The 1951 retail yro- ( motion 5 progiam’f— was approved ! bv those present. I ' ' ■ [.■- Schools Are Closed Because Os Roads Seymour, Ind., Feb. 14.-r(UP)~-Most of Jackson county’s . school children stayed |iome today .>*• cause of an order by epuntyhighway Supt. ’Ed Miller banning school buses frd’n county road: - .. Miller said , heavy snows followe, by a general thaw made most roads impassable. I - J

Mrs. Hattie Andrews Dies Tuesday Nigh! I ; .■ ' Funeral Services On Friday Morning Mrs. .Hattie May Andrews, 77, lifelong resident Os Adam? county, y died at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday night at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Joseph Murtaugh. 515 Nuttman avenue, where she had made her home for Several years. Death was caused by cerebral apoplexy. She had been ill for several years and critical for the past seven weeks. She was born in Washington township Sept. 11. 1873, a daughter of Mt", and MrS. Elias Crist. Her husband. Jbhn Andrews preceded her in death. ■" — She was .a member of the Monroe Methodist church. Surviving are two Mrs. Murtaugh of this city and Mrs. I Lewis Frysinger of Celina, O!; one son, Leo D. Andrews of Detroit. Mich., and nine grandchildren. Two children are deceased. Funeral services , will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Black funeral home, the I Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be in\ the Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends, who are to omit flowers, may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. Wreck Truck Driver Is Accident Victim ■Elwood, Ind., Feb. 14- (iUPICarl Porter, a wrecking I- truck driver, was killed last night! while helping a motorist free his car frotp a ditch on Ind. 371 south of here. Sylvester Decesarez of Indianapolis was blinded hy the lights on the, wrecker and his car crashed int<Tthp car in the ditch, pinning Porter between the two vehicles state police said.

Board Is Split Over National Wage Formula Industry, Labor Are Far Apart On Catch-up Formula Washington Feb. 14. - (UP) The (yage Stabilization board was split three J ways today on !a national wage formula, and a compromise was expected to permit wage increases someiyhere between eight and 12 percent.( The industry and Ikbor members of the nine member board were far apart on. the "catch-up fornmia’’ to enable lagging unions to match pay increases granted many workers and to counter cost-bf-living rises. The, three public- members of the panel were iii the middle. Biggest sticking point is whether cost-of-living increases should be included in tl}e percentage rise or not and whether future automatic increases under present contracts should be permitted. ! i An industry spokesman described as "inflation incorporated" the public members’ proposals which would' permit the automatic increases at least until June and exclude fringe benefits from the .percentage increase. i The proposals staJ-k up this way: - Labor: Wants to ’permit a 12 percent increase over the May-June level of basic wage rates, plus the costroi’-living adjustments, plus further for additional cost-of-living rises. Wants all con? tracts kept intact, including those like the CIO auto yvbrkerS’ agreements calling for automatic cost of living and prodiictivity raises Fringe benefits such as pensions and insurance would not be included in the basiJ formula. Industry: Would an eight percent increase ovejt January. 1950. including everything. Would take another look at the cost-of-liv-ing next June but [make no com-, now on possible further increases. Would void contracts calling for automatic creases. i Public: Would permit an eight percent Increase over March 15. 195«[. excluding fringe ' benefits. Further adjustments next June to match cost-of-1 lying increases between January and May. All existing contracts wquld he validated at least until Junei

Lt. James Rice Is Shot Down In Korea Adams County hyer Isi Injured In Korea Word was received here Tuesday by Mrs. James Rice, of route 3‘, wife of Lt. James Rice, that he was recently shot down in action Over enemy lines in Korea. | Lt.. Rice, the father of two children. wrote his wife that enemy gunfire set his plane afire behind their lines, and he bailed out. He was flying an F-51 rinamission. The parachute did not open until he Was about 80 feet above the, ground, and Lt. Rice suffered, according to the letter, a. crushed chest arid a fractured leg. Lt. Rice has beeri in Korea since the first of June, and had flown over 100 missions; by. the first of the year. After being! shot down, army air force helpcopters apparently flew to hit aid. and returned him to a hospital. , . In the letter to his wife. Lt. Rice described , crawling away from wherle he not knowing , where he was. He said, though, that it! was; but a short time before the helicopters arrived. Lt. Rice is ih the 45th tactical rcconuissanee squadron., of the fifth air force.

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Communist Drive Jn Central Korea Gains Momentum; c Near Wonsan Port Tokyo, Thursday. JFeb. 15 — XUpj—South Korean marines hit the Reds within amphibious landing 130 miles behind the lines innortheast Korea Wednesday and smashed to the outskirts of the Qig port of Wonsan. U. S. Bth army -headquarters said the landing was made under ©Over of a furious naval bombardment at the north end oU Wonsan . harbor. ; . . i , But the three-day-old ©ririrmunist offensive ip central Korea broadened and gained momentum. The Reds: j • 1. Flanked the key central Korean road hub of Wonju. where the U. S. 10th corps is making a stand after an 18-mile I withdrawal ■ Monday and Tuesday. . TT' 2. Threw three suicide squads across the Han rivjef in the .Seoul area fn daylight. All were annihilated. > 3. Returned to the air and sent seven Russian-made MIG-15 Jets against B-29 superfortresses blasting a 480-building communist military camp in North Korea. The B-2»s completed their raid undamaged after hitting the camp with 220 tons of bombs. Crewmen claimed one Red jet plane damaged. First reports said U. S. marines were involved in the Wonsan landing but this later proved to be an error. A navy spokesman in Tokyo said only South Koreap marines were involved. The South Kogans occupied two islands in Wonsan harbor., at the, same time they landed on the he^ ch The landing Uas covered by a massive allied fleet ashore, including the battleship Missouri, with its 16-inch guns, and cruisers and destroyers. . The 81 h army announcement of the landing gave no immediate indication whether it was a hit-arid- f run raid, a reconnaissance in force or an attempt to seize a bridgehead in North Korea. Wonsan is one of the main commqlnist jtupply bases for the eastern part of t>e fighting •< front. The Chinese Communist 3rd field army was reported to have made its headquarters there after the U. S. 10th j crirps, withdrew last December. | ■ The communist attacks across she Han in the Seoul area apparently wefce designed to throw the allies off balance just as the allied Wonsan landing was aimed at confusing tse Rieds. Two enemy attacks were thrown across the rfve|r west of Seoul shortly before Inoon. In one attack the Reds advanced behind a " Screen of Korean civilians. The Yanks held their fire until , the civilians dropped to the iqe and thej Reds started firing. Then they hit the copimunists with the massed fire of artillery, mortars and multiple-mounted .50 criliber machineguns. The Korean civilians came, on ' into American lines and were taken into custqdy. Eight communists tried to flee hack across the river. They fell through the ice and disappeared. Another 900 Reds drove 10,000 yards into allied positions across the Han east of Seoul. Puerto Rican and Continental American troops caught therji in an enveloping trap as they Approached a divisional command post. About 250 Reds were killed and many more wounded. \ . The Wonsan area where the South Koreans their landings has had a varied history since the early dayis of the Korean war ■ . '■' Girl Pedestrian • is Killed By Auto Evansville, Ind., Feb. 14.— (Ulj —Sharon Burton, 14, was killed while talking along abroad east of here yesterday when she.,was hit by a car driven by Gilbert Eberlin, 47. Evansville.