Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1951 — Page 1

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North Korean Forces Pound At Gateway Counter Attack By Yankees Hurls Back Offensive By Reds Tokyp, Feb. 17 (UP) — U..S. forces Mulled North Korean Reds back miles today in. a counterattack uuAlnst kpeariheads of three communist divisions threatening Cheehcjn. mountain gateway to .southeast Korea. \ By 5 p. m\ (2 a.[ in. EST), the Americans han driven -one Red column. back to a point seven joules north? of Chechon. a road and rail huh 20 ,miles southeast of Wonju" nn the east-central front. Other American units ran into mortal fire four miles north of Chechqn, a U. S’. 10th corps ' spokespian said- He the battle wai\on an irregular line across mountainous terrain. TheH American counter-attack eased the" immediate communist ' threat , to Chechon - after elements of the North Koreain sth corps had broken 15 to 20 miles through the UN lines above the town in an end run around Wonju. . The? enemy comprises tfrreje divisions totalling 20,000 men .at full strength. At least , .',oooi North Koreans already were oast -arid southeast of Wpnju and to steadily increasing ' pressure Yagainst -the new Chechon defense \ine. ■ i ' i ’ The nuiss enemy breakthrough I I forced other Bth army units to I Pyongchkng 20 miles northeast ,«>f .L’beclMMJ. jmd pull r back from the 3SLh parallel on the 1 east coast. • i Fighting between South Korean uAits; and 1,500 to 2,000 Reds was reported under way at three points four to- 10 miles southeast of Pybpgehang. Another 3,000 Koreans were reported six miles j east and southeast of the town. ' l The new qommunist thrust also endangered the eastern flank of UN troops who broke the back of : the . six-day-old communist offensive against Wonju and Chipyong on the central front. ' , Chinese and Korean Reds have ' lost yearly 32,000 in dead, wounded/.and captured, most of them on the central front; since they launched 'their offensive Jast Sunday night. loh (he western front, air and artillqry strikes broke two communist attempts to cross the ,Han river southwest outskirt sj of Seoul ,’j shiall communist force in a hill'four miles east of Kyohgan, 17 miles ,southeast of Seotil, threw back jin allied assault with hand grenades, but, as second attack drove /Ute Reds off-the hill ipto an artillery barrage. L___ r , ■ ■ ” I?.*’ . i'r- . ■ . ■ I - ■ Wohuin, Two Daughters Are-Burned To Death LaCrosse, Ind.. Feb. 17. —(UP)— Mis. Connie Reading, 20, died today of burns suffered in a fire which destroyed her home five miles* south of i here and-burned her two Small daughters to death. / Mrs Reading was FahiHy hospital at LaFbrte after Noflh-l Judsoh firenit n who answered arj aTarm found her lying un- ■ conscious in the yard. \ ■ Virginia, three, and Lee Ann. 15months, died in the blaze, which "Starke county sheriff Lee James said apparently was started by an < xplbding oil. stove. . , j ■ ' Jobless Pay Claims 20,663 Last Week A Indianapolis, Feb. 17.—(UP)— The/-Indiana employment security division said today jobless insurance’claims last Week numbered 20 66?.,. h Johri W. Crtse,. division director, said It was the lairges(. number of clainis fifed iri any week in the last month, but the number, was only about 50 percent of the volume of cUiints for the same week a-year ago Jj ■/ ’ ' ,• ?■ ‘ WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, warmer north and cen. trai Sunday, Low tonight 25 30 north, 30-45 south. High Sun- V day 45-60 north, 50-60 couth. w -

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t legislature Holds '! Saturday Session - -Senate Passes'Bill k Fpr Bonus Payments i BULLETIN 1 Indianapblio, Feb. 17—\(UP) — A bill seating a statewide speed limit of 60 miles an hour daytime and 50 at\ night failed by a single vote today to pass in the Indiana house. The vote was 50 for and 40 against. Fifty-one votes are a constitutional majority. , The i bill may be called up latejr for . another vote. . * ji J BULLETIN Indianapolis, Feb. 17—I(UP) —A‘ Democratic Indiana senator proposed today i that the federal government i withdraw fron# thip public welfare prograijn and let the states card of our own needy.” Sen. Von A. Eichhorn, Uniondale, who earlier tHis week voted against permitting the public to inspect welfare Toll*, ■ outlined his plan wnen a senate resolution to memorialize congress to 1 remove secrecy ffom the welfare program came up for a showdown vote. ' Indianapolis, Feb 17- (UP) — An Indiana legislative conference committee today assume! control of a bill pase|d by both senate and house to distribute $25.00(7.000 of the soldier bonus to 50,000 World War If veterans Immediately. The senate pased Ihe bill mb animously late yesterday. The house had done the same thing days earlier, approving a proposal/ V» make payments 1 this year to: 40,000 disabled veterans and sur-i 'lvors of 10,000 who lost their lives in the last war. . estimated the disabled vets would get ?10.0(K).00'i and the families of deceased ser, icemen $6,000,0'00. . . The bill weht . into al senatehouse committee to thresh out an Janfendment added in the senate yq give 200 conscientious objectbrs 4>nractive duty the right to share the bonus with men who bore artns. There was little doubt the bill, toith its primary purpose bf taking care of the disable and survivors now. would stay alive. Payments may be made as early ■is july. ' . j Both houses of the legislature, were in session today for the:first Salurday since the session began last Jan. 4 A conference committee will be appointed today or Mopday on the bonus bill, and another on a second bill. ’ 1 The other was on the .teacher letirement bill which increase I the state’s share of benefits from (Tun to Pace Six) Californian . Sought Fot Killing Korean-Bound G. I. Victim Os Murder nationwide I manhunt under way today for a young Californian accused of murdering q Koreanbound G.I. and dumping his body into an abandoned gravel pit. The body of Cpl. Dennis E. Miller of East St. Louis. Ill.y was, found Wednesday in the pit near ■ the village of Toyali, IS miles west of this West Texas town. His throat had been slashed and his skull fractured. A charge of murder was filed against JohnE. Welch, 22, Ana heim. Calif, after it was learned ‘l.at he had a ride with Miller Jan. 23. the day the soldier left Fort Bliss at KI Paso on a' furidugh home. Sheriff. Charlie Fitzgerald ■ said be -believed Miller was slai”. lobbed and dumped into pit only a few hours he left E. Paso. Highway patrol and justice of l\eace court records at Van Horn, \Tex.,, showed Welch was driving Miller’s car the afternooh of Jan 23 when the 1950 Studebaker was stopped for traveling on the wrong side of U. Sj highway 80. Welch was hned 314. ' but the fine was paid by Miller, who identified himself as owner o' the car and explained he had ricked up Welch blt,ch-blking at (’turn T»/Page Three) 1 | '■l ; ’ ' ' . . 15 If ‘ ‘

Wilson Seeks To Smooth Out '>' ' i I Labor Trouble ! ■ 4 ■ F . Defense Is Concerned Ovef « Boycott By Labor Washington, Feb. j 17. (UP) Defense mobilizer Charted E. Wilson jactedl today to aver( a threatehed labor boycott of thje mobilization program by to; make a union official one of his top advisors. 1 ' I Wilson, reported by a spokesman to be “coni'erned and discouraged” Over labor s withdrawal iro&n the wage stabilization board, dropped his demand that such a labor representative cancel uniqn ■affiliation before being appointed 1 as an aide. . The spokesman said Wilson’s only qualification now is t|»at the labor hide work ftfll time for the government. | Lt Wilson jnadeithe offer afUr the united labbr policy-committee, representing nearly all organized labor.’, said labor would not take part in al program dictated by “a L)v ineq rgenjited from big buslnesK who believe they have a monopoly on experience, good idehs and patriotism," f Labor was dissatisfied when M. Harrison, head -of the AFL railwak clerks, recently was named latoor advisor to economic stabilizCrilEric A. Johmstqn.; Johnston technically is under Wilson, and labor demanded a repfesenta--tive in Wilson’s office. f The (hrCe labor members' of the wage bOajd quit when tihe Indus- ( try and public members defeated them, « te| 3. or.-*doptk>w of a general wage formula ailewtiig percent pay increases above Jan. 15, 1950, levels i 1 Th| labor represents ve| were told by (he policy commiit.ee to send their resignations to; Presi-1 dent Trutpan. The board’s decision may I get its first trlai-by-strike in the walkout of the C’lO textile from 150 woollen and worsted ihills Bostcin. In Chicago, a 7,0()0-men[i-ber local of the CIO packinghouse workers asked union officials to Call an “immediate strike” because of the decision. Johnston, who will make the final decision ion the wage formula, said he would not act until next To Face !Hxt ; : j Marilyn Hobtef Is Oratorical Winner Decatur High School Senior Wins Contest Miss klarilyn Hoblet/ senior in the Detf-atur high tschoM, : Friday was judged the winner df thp Adams post 13, Aqierican jDegionspohsorpd ibratorical content, and won tbe riglA to represent this county in the Legion’s fourth dis- ! trict contest. ' - Tom Bosse, junior in the Decatur Catholic high schorl , Won the second' place award, while Mi-s Edith Sieury. senior in > Adams Central high school, placed All thvee were limited in the scope (>f their Speeches to on thei constitution; all of them the results of many hours' labor preparing their speeches. i The fourth district ’ contest, E<l Jaberg, Adams .post It 3 oratorical contest chairman stajtel, will be, held within the next “couple of weeks, and probably it) Fort Wayne.” j The three contestants 1 Friday were awarded $25 for rirst place. sls tor second, and $lO f<W third, the awards given |bjr the! local American Legion post. I i Each contestant was jaltowed from between 10 and 12 Minutes to deliver his or her speech. All of thepi touched on the rights wej as Americans have gained through the advantages afforded by the Constitution. ■ Sometimes the speakers' referrl ed to j the gigantic stnggle that was the founding of the Constitution; sometimes they\ noted its flexible journey from] 1787yt0 the present; all of the time, |bough, 'he speakers noted an urgency tfo protect those rights * f Me| havn (Twre to Face Itx) * ,: ' 1

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Plan Reorganization Os Ag Department Will Mobilize For National Defense Washington, Feb. 17.—(UP) — The agriculture department swung into a sweeping reorganization pro'gram today to mobilize for national defense. , ’ I Agriculture secretary Charles K Brannatf ordered all departmental I field offices thrt/ughout the nation to coordinate tneir activities “um der one roof to piwote mor» rf* ficient operation.” About. 90,00'u employes were affected bj the or/ der. Brannan also announced establishment of agriculture I mobiliza- ' tion {committees on national, state and county levels to help streamline the ‘'department's activities. / Brannan said the reorganization j plan is the,first step in girding the department for defense peeds. Hf?! said it. is aime,d at cutting operating cost f s and increasing efficiency i(i | peeping with Hoover commission recommendations. He also ordered consolidation of the forest, service, soil conservation service and’ the production and marketing administration under the overall supervision oj an assistant secretary of agriculture. He placed all agricultural research activities under another top aide, i <7 1 Brannan said there are no "immediate to fire any field employes, but that the department may .be able to dismiss «Dme later “thrqugh more efficient operations.” Lij He emphasized that “interlqckink duties and programs of the agenciejs Pointed up the necessity-tor closer working relations.” About 90 pericent of the agencies in the field nqw are housed in, separate buildings, Many of these, he’indicated, will be brought under one roof. Hereafter.. Brannan said, all conservation policies and programs will be settled jointly by officials of the. production and marketing administration, soil conservation service and forest service. Pfev-, iously, PM A alone decided policies and'programs and determined rates paid farmers, who coipply ,with the (Tara To Pace >lx>

beaten ‘Tfteclittitiact : , ; 1 . - (Rev. Lawrence T- Norris, Union Chapel Church) “The Dependability of God” Psalms 90:2 ■ - ' . ' ■ i ■ J ' ' •' In the first verse of the Psalm; realizing that they had fallen under God’s displeasure, and that He had threatened to abandon them, (hey plead His former' kindness to their ancestors. Canaan was a land at pilgrimage to their fathers the patriarchs, who dwelt 1 ] there in tabernacles. and God was their habitation, and where ever they went they were at home, at rest in Him. Egypt had been a land of bondage to them for many years, but even then God was their refuge. True believers,are atshbme in God. and that is their comfort in all the toils and tribulations they meet with in this world. ‘ / In verse 2 of this same Psalm.-Moses h giving God the glory of his eternity. "Thou hadsta bein|-dven from everlasting to ever- i lastihg." Thotr ar >! God. y® s > an e»«*aal Gpd. whose existence has neither its commencement nor its period with time, but the same yesterday, today, and forever. We are dying creatures, -and all our comforts in the world are dying comforts, but God being an Everlasting God should comfort us in all our grievances and help its to arise from our own mor- i talfty, and the mortality of our frjeuds, and rest in Him. j r “ ! ' • Ji T ’I : I M i ■ fvr . '

t—i| County Ministers Will Meet Monday The Adams county ministerial t association wiU meet Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Borne Church of the Nazarene Ail : uiembers of the association arc utged to be present. j w Truman On Visit To Army Proving Ground * Inspects Proving At Aberdeen j Aberdeen. Md„ Feb. 17 -(UP) — | President Truman took a breather from desk work today for a. peep at new- army weapons! -many of ! them stilt top-secret. j Ajlr. Truman, making his first i Vfsl) to a military installation since the Korean war broke out, i lett - Washington by train for a day, at the huge army proving ground liere on Chesapeake Bay. \ The president accompanied tjy army secretary Frank Pace Jr.. Grip. J. Law-ton Collins: army cliief of staff, pnd members of the White House staff. First on the president’s schedule was a demonstration of enlac, the wqrid’s fastest' electronic computer which adds 5.000 digit numbers a second. '. The president also looked forward tn a demonstration of experimental lightweight infantry rifles, large recoilless rifles, the new 4.5 rocket launchers anti other guns noW being used lin Korea or being developed for use of gyounri for- '■ .Arter visiting a demonstration test of new ground force vehicles, including a firing demonstration tanks, Mr. Truman was to lunch at the enlisted men’s mess where he was expected to speak briefly and- informally. The president’s afternoon agenda was top-secret. Ordnance experts plarthed to show him new weapons which probably will remain under cover until some of them are known to be captured by <Tuy Ta nix) 1

!|t | ■- : - Stalin Attack Seen As Effort To Intimidate Attlee's Government

Stalin Interview Termed Fizzle In Washington; Seek "Loaded Phrases' f Washington, Feb. 17j — (UP) ~ Jokeph Stalin’s razzle-dazzle interview with his own newspaper was just a fizzle by the tiibe it reached Washington. I State department J underlings | casually read Stalinas statement and promised to relay it to top department officials /when they are not too busy with other matters. The department’s Russian experts the interview for possible or “Joaded phrases." E|ut on first reading, diplomats fo|nd ‘‘Nothing to get excited about . j Congressmen branded the Stalin , interview as propaganda, arid challenged' Moscow to usfe deeds —not words—tq demonstrate it wants i peace. j / Washington — tl,e ones i taking a “so what?” attitude —felt that for the first dmfe Stalin had given a full-dress |in(ervieW without impact. | > - That raised the question of why Stalin gave the interview. : It was printed textually in = Pravjia, the , communist party newspaper in Moscow, and broadcast tfxtually by Moscow radio- j ‘ The Kremlin obviously wanted to get the wtaMt for the statement—bpt it added almost nothing to, thet routine prm i paganda charges thats are sounded daily by Soviet representatives ini the United' Nations pud by communist publications. / ,i ■ A number of Washington officials thought Soviet propagandists' are having such a tithe sell- | ing their “line” that| they! have played their trump ape—words di- ; rect from Stalin himfelf. • ;The intervidp- felU within the range ,of < urrjent Moscow propaganda. It protested ‘that Rtissig had only peaceful intentions. if predicted that, UN forces will lose I the Korean war. but joniy because they do not want to sight-snot because they ate poor; soldiers, or because the war is spreading. That was as belligerent as Stalin got. He denounced tlie west for planning aggression fa order to make super-profits, and said Russia had after World War II L While House Gag Is Charged By Wherry Blocks Testimony On Use Os Troops Washington, Feb.: Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, R„ Neb., charged today that a-White House “gag” order is blocking military testimony Against sending more troops to Europe. ; The Republican leader said in an intervVw (hat a presidential order issued'on Oec. 12. is having that effect. As a result./he spid. the (senate foreign relations and armed services committees ? are hearing only “rubber stamp”‘testimony. ‘ 1 The president’s order told gov- 1 ernment officials to c(it the number of speeches oil foreign and military 1 policy and tlear them with (he state and defense departments to 1 assure conformity with established 1 policies. ; ) Wherry made the charge* as the committees Awaited * repliis from 1 former; president Herbert Hoover 1 and; Gov. Thqjmas E. Deweyiof New ( York; —who hjold widely conflicting 1 view's on the troops issue—koy Invi- 1 tattdns to appear next week. ' Sen. Style* Bridges. R„ )n.H.. 1 urged in a speech it Wateryille. / N.Y., last night that ;Gen. Douglas ’ MacArthur be called to give the * committees his views on the Ko- 1 rean war and the overall far east- 1 ern situation. j i Referring to a list of High air I force officers be has proposed to be s called by the committees. Wherry ' l said “if the White House is going !’ to put the heat on. there is io sense <Taru t» Face »lx) i. 1 ■ i L

■ : \ i j,. . I - Seek To Level Off Prices By Summer DiSalle Speaks To National Canners ■ : ■ 'I ■■ ■ ■I ' . ' - -7 7 J Chicago. . Feb. .| ( l7i—(UP) —Price stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle said today he intends, “to. level off prices by mid-summer at a point somewhat near the present levels and to hold the line there as long as possible." He said he Will do his ‘‘best’’ to protect the public from “the unconscionable profiteer and*4iie greedy person who sees in war only an opportunity for wealth and self-aggrandizement.” He said his office now i$ working to correct “inequities” that resulted Lfrom the general price freeze three weeks ago. DiSa|le made the, statement in a speqch prepared for delivery to the National Canners association. Hq joined his assistant stabilizer. |?dward .F. Jr., in announcing that the price control agency soon will issue “tailored mark-up regulations" to permit the whole-ale and retail food industries to pass on to consumers some of the higher prices they have to pay for farm produce. Both officials warned that food prices probably will continue tc risfe| and totd the food induetry b mulst live in a "goldfish bowl for the! duration." DiSalle said that’if food prices do not level off by,, spring, he will ask congress to permit a freeze of food prices at farm levels. / Ab though ihe recent price freeze caused some injustices, he said it isaved the public “millions of dollars.” Phelps tojxl a convention of the Rational Anierican , Wholesale Gnxers’ Association that the office of price stabilization will reissue the World War II market ■ mar)i-up regulations for tljie food industry “within the next jrt days, if- possible." [ ' Farm prices now cannot h? frozen until they reach parity levels, which are designed to give farmers a “fair" price. Most food prices are below parity and still rising. t ' ! ■ ij'lEW SERIAL ‘River’s , Rim,” an exciting romance by Jane; Abbot: will start Monday in the Daily Deriibcrat. 1 It is an interesting story of war and romance: The first installment will appear in Monday's Daily Democrat. Ban Manufacturing Os White-Wall Tires Order Airtied To Save Rubber For Defense Washington. Feb. 17.— (UP)— The government today banned the manufacture of white-wall (ires, es fective Monday, to save rubber for defense. 1 The national production authority order reduces the number bf types and styles of tires, inner tubes and industrial rubber goods a manufacturer may produce. j NPA said the order is notj expected to have any effect on the number of new tires ayailahleito consumers'. I The order limits inanufheturers to one line and quality of standard treadedepth passengier car and truck tires and one line rif extra tread-depth passenger car and truck tires. "The number of extra tread'depth passenger car tires must not be made in any greater proportion to total output of passenger car tires than it was during the last h a if of 1950. ~ I . Manufacturers also may | not make more different lines of special purpose passenger and truck tires. ’ such as snow tread tires, thani they are making today. Noon Edition I" I '/-’' 1 TMM:' 1 11/' 1 /-

■ Price Five Cents.

Stinging Reply By Great Britain Made To Stalin's Charge Os Lies On Russia London. Feb. i’kf-(UP)— Britain charged today that Soviet pree mier Joseff Stalin was trying to 1 throw a smokescreen around Russ sia’s huge‘armament effort with his t new statement that “war is not ins evitable.” j 5 The British foreign office issued a stinging reply to Stalin’s charge, ■ made tn an interview in the newsB paper. Privada. Stalin had accuse ed British prime minister Clement r R. Attlee of lying around Russian policy trying to draw his own people into a war being (instigated by the United States. I ' t -1 Britain said the western nations g werq taking defensive measures only because of the “aggressive and } suppressive" policy of Russlal The British foreign office said, despite Stalin’s protestations, the Russian ’ figures of 175 divisions. 25.000 tanks ' and 20.000 aircraft “speak for them- ’ selves." -J Stalin coupled his estimate of the I prospects ffpr another world war ' with a warning that Attlee is lead- '■ ing Britain down the American s path toward another confiirt. He said Attlfe lied when he told the house of eommons last Monday that II Russia not only has not demobiliz- ° ed its armies, but constantly is in * leasing them r Stalin's: statement appeared in Pravda in the form of an interview X and was broadcast by radio Mos1 cow early today. f British and other western sources : said the Statement was made in an » obvious attempt to split the allies, t Further evidence of this came - when the Soviet satellite of Poland, only a fd'w hours after Sltalin’s > statement' was broadcast, disclosed » it. had sent notes to four small Atlantic paet nations asking them to . urge the jbig three western powers t to enter discussions with Russia I about German rearmament before it is too Ute. - ‘ - The Palish notes- went to Bel- , gitim. Denmark, the Netherlands? l' . and Luxembourg. They warned that there must be; a big four conference on. preventing rearmament of Germany, "which we consider would inevitably lead to war.” The British foreign office, in a formal state merit read by a senior official at noon, said Stalin’s statement was a typical example of Soviet designs to sow dissension in the free world ” ~ ,■ "We therefore feel that this statement requires some comment" tlip statement said. /‘lt has been made clear by government I spokesmen in this country that it is only ’n jhe face of aggressive and suppressive policy ofj the Soviet gOTernment backed by the threat of overwhelming Soviet forces that the western nations have taken for our defence. - •“The prime .minister has given figures of those immense forces on the 26th ”bf January when he said that the Soviet Union had 175 active divisions backed with artillery.. 25,000 tanks and 20,000 aircraft and the largest submarine fleet!,. This is the answer to the accusations. ! “Stalin may call this demobilization. but the ; figures-speak for themselves. No doubt the Soviet govern-7 ment has released a number of men from the war-time peak, but the forces which remain are far superior in numbers to all of trie western powers’ forces put together.” ; Britain agreed that war is not inevitable, and the statement add- - ed that there is no problem that can not be solved by peaceful negotiation and “good will on all sides." Meeting Monday To Award Public Funds ■ ■ ■ t, ' ; ' The board of-coun/y commissioners will sit Monday as the board of finance in a special meet!nt 'Monday, 2 p.m., to determine t i» percentage of public funds to be deposited in the three county banks —the First State Bank, of Decatur, the First Bank olf Berne and the Bank of Geneva.