Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1951 — Page 1

VOU XLIX. No. 58.

U. S. BTH ARMY BEGINS FLANKING SEOUL

Senate Refuses To Eliminate UMT Features Ta, Retain Universal f y Military Training Features In Draft Washington. March 9— (UP)— • The senatei refused today to eliminate tie .controversial universal military training features from the adminiitrations bill to draft IS-yea.r-ol|s. i w lr rdected. 68 to 20, a motion by Sens. (Edwin C. Johnson, D., Colo., and JtShq W. Bricker, R.. 0., to strike if>ut the entire UMT section of ti>e|m. • The |tctlon represented the first approval—implied or otherwise — evfefe given to UMT by either branch of :|feo®|fresfe. Bills were reported front < (Committees tn the past byt j alw«ys| died on the floor. ' \ Universal ipilitary tra|nin t ’ would , be feta feed whenever the president I or cot&ress decided that international lensions had eased.. /) Voatij| then the emphasis will tym K on : jiraHting men for military service; t The administration contends ife-year-olds must be added to j the setyctive service pool to meet the armed services' manpower, U nefefea.t ■ "/ | ■ ■ . Ohc< the emergency is over, all ; j draftees would be put into, a "na [ ttonal | security training corps”) supervised by a civilian-dominated board. At the end of their training/rthfey would be required,to join • the reserves. I The i Jill provides that the length i Jr Os service—it would extend the present 2i|month« to 27—would be cut f i to R»u| er'six months'when the ,'Bwf section soes into operation, i Tie Isenate also an amendment to the bill which fwould ; havfe-eliminated special deferments Jorija .(limited number of college I students., . The |6B to 21 vote defeating the) proposal indicated thfet sponsors of i the; bi| have a_firm hold on the! senates They previously had' been I _„un(tyrt|in about the outcome. Seq.jGuy Cordon, R., Ore., sought to striae out the! deferment section, ’ saying?it was and . ( unferQrtable.' would authorize the deferment of up/ to 75,000 college stfeflenis a year for the first three \ years./ The students j would be selected j|on‘ the basis Os competitive tests administered by a presidential . board ’ SenjLyndon B. Johnson, D-, Tex. t floor tyanagey for the bill; said the) seetlott is: designed (o insure the na- •£ tioh a j adequate supply of trained physicians, dentists and englhejprs. i Tfeegstudents would be required to complete four months of basic tralnirl; before the deferments went ifeto effect. After graduation, they tybuld. be obligated to reenter the irfted forces for the balance of •the reiuired Jime of military sent- . lce - I ' ' ' Folio Navy Crewmen z Die Tn Plane Crash /.' ; ; ■j ® M 1 Patuient, Md.. March 9 —(UP) — Navjjr fealvage boats searched today ' for foiir bodies and the wreckage Os a) jwin-engine bomber' Which - crashMl into Chesapeake bey yesterday (near the mouth of the Rappahanqock river. The Inavy creymen were killed " when their plane stalled and plunged ihi the bay. A spokesman said I the navy will investigate cause of p ~ the crfesh. \ • <4 . . ; ----- .'..1. Two [Women Killed As Mitos Collide Maiijm, Ind., March 9. —(UP) — State |oplice Said today the running of feustpP- sign at a highway inter section! north of here resulted in a two-tar smash-up, killing , two woniea)- - ' The"| accident, which occured yesteffflfey, killed Charlotte Swiger 49, .Paris Mich., and Marie Riders 58, Theft cir struck an auto open ated b| Jack' L. Budd, 32, Fort Wayne! who escaped Injury. ■ ■ | , ;Kl-. —-—- . • \ INDIANA WEATHER , Fair and continued cold tonight Saturday Increasing jclounness and warmer. Low tonlgmt 15 to 20 north, 20 to 27 «out» High Saturday 35 to 40 n 40 to 46 south.

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Sen. Capehart Says) Millions Involved says Teapot Dome Case Overshadowed I Washinton, .\iarch 9. --(UP)—z Sen. Homer, E. Capehart, R., Ind., said today the “millions and'millions’' involved in the RFC inquiry “Make Teapot Dome lopk like a contribution to a Sunday school class,*’ 1 ■ Capehart is rankihg GQP member of a senate subcommittee investty ating the h^eonstruction finance corp.. He said congress' should Trod out if the same '‘influehee/ situation bared by the subcommittee s nefe' disclosures existtd/in other government agencies. / “I’m fearful that it .does,” he said. Capehart said he was »not suggesting any casos of bribery such as were turned up in the Teapot | Dome Oil scandals of the Harding administration, but to the totkl a* mount hrvolved in it(e scores =of RFC lofena examined by the investigators. t \ in the 3200,000,b6p Tdapot Dome 0s e - former secretary of Interior (Albert B. Fall was < .convicted of • taking SIOO,OOO in for arranging oil leases for Oilmen Harry Sinclair.. The subcommittee iljieard yesterday that millionaire oilman Edwin W. Pauley, former democratic na- | tional treasurer, got “special" consideration from the RFC when it ; was requested £y tho democratic national . committee. The consideration was to be given to Pacific Rubber Co., of which Pauley had a principal Interest. y’ Pauley said at .Midland', Tex., that his firm was a small independent and the RFC Was favoring _the big rubber compel leaf. He said “wanted to correct thia injustice, but we were successful. He said Pacific got no consideration. j Most of the disclosures were bas- | ed on entries in the f iary of RFC j Director Walter LJ bunhan, who ! in secret. KAnqpes which I | were pulled into the inestigation were of President Truman, presidential assistant John R. Steelman, white house adviser Donald S . Dawson, Democratic National C hail-man William M. Bbyle Jr., Joe Major, a World War I ’‘battery D" > Buddy of Mr. Truman Who is nqw workihg fbr the general service administration'. Capehart said the should immediately call Boyle. But Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D.., 111., said . he could find nothing in the testimony to show- any “improper LnI fluence”l>y Boyle. Sen. Burnet R. Maybank. |D„ S. C., said that “if anybody has done anything wronfe at the RFC. they should /.be put in jail.’’ But he saief that would be no reason’ for abolishing the agency, as some advocate. . ' -- ■ I Communist Party ‘ . ■' • • Donors Are Sought House Committee Seeking Sources ] Washington, Mar. 9 — (UP) —r; The house activities committee, switched from culture to agriculture today In Its hunt for sources of communist party funds. £ ei«j The committee recalled Lemenf ty. Harris, identified jafe head of the party's agricultural commit 'sion, after dismissing , X ictor J. Jerome, referred to as of the communist cultural commission. / \ Members wanted to y question Harris further on communist fini ances ,an<f Red influence in farm organizations. He refused to answer questions/ on both subjects last week, objecting) that they cov> ered “an area which might tend ‘o incriminate me.” 1 1 Jerome u ed tho aelf-inferiminia* tion plea yesterday to duck\ at least 111 questions in open sea? sion, mostly on Hollywood or) wes| coast figures and Organizations. During the closed session, the committee staff read to Jerome wh’t members called a long list of names of secret Hollywood contributors to the communist partj| Members said later he refusetj to discuss most of the list, which they said contained the names of many wel-known film figures; H 4 did say he had no knotvkidge of ‘Tura To Eirttj J >!

Orders Probe Into Alleged Speculation Lana Speculation South Carolina Z To Be Investigated Washington, Mar. 9 — (Ap) —- Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordered an FBI investigation today of land speculation in SOut|i Caroli'tia near the site for the hew H-boml; plant. > Similar investigations are beinjg conducted by the atomic energy commission and the joint congressional atomic energy committee. The Frtl inquiry was requested by Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, D.! S. C„ earlier this week. ' There have befen report Os quick and huge profits through land purchases in the vicinity of the 250.000-acre atomic site. The senate bankiijg committee, of which Maybank is chairman has received records of all land transr fers in Aiken and Barnwell' counties. South Carolina, ■ for study in connection with defense housing leg! lation. The plant site is in those counties. The records cover the period from November, 1950, , to February, 1951. Chairman Brien McMahon, D„ Conn., of the ‘joint congressional atomic energy committee, previously announced that an inquiry in the area were based on “inside information." t The AEC announced the site on I Nov. 23. Land values in the arfta shot up after the announcement. Maybank! hag said he wants the FBI to “keep ab eye" on land deals in other areas besides the H-bomb plant section. 1 Land records .showed that 'WalI ter V. Pace, Salt Lake City meat wholesaler, took options on some Aiken ebunty land as late as Nov. 27 and made profits of $75,600.Pace said there was “nothing irregular” about the deals. Two Lonely Hearts I Killers Executed Ends Murder Trail For LustjAnd Loot Sing Sing Prison. N. Y„ Mar. 9 — (UP) —Fat Martha Beck wriggled her 202' pounds into a tightifitting electric chair last night and followed her lonely hearts lover in death, ending &\ trail of murdei 4 for lust and loot. ‘My story is a love story,” she said beforp being led into the death chamber. '“But only those tortured by love can know what I mean.” v The 31-year*old Mrs. Beckl her 'curly hair cropped in a crew cut, [ winked at . her matron as sha 1 -queezed into the electric chair. : She was pronounced .dead at lir|24 p. m. I , Eight mifeutes earlier her suaVe lover, 36-y|ear-old Raymond Fernandez was executed. Told a fefeminutes earlier that his mistress again had expresefed her undying love for him, he had replied th«b pews made him “want to , burst with joy.'” The two had not seen each Other since they went to the death house Aug. 22, 1949, after’their onvlction for the slaying of Mrs. Janet Fay, a 66-year-old Albany, | V. Y<, widow. They did meet last night: Two 22-year-old fillers, John J. King and Richard Power, were executed ahead of the lonely hearts killers for the slaying of William Hupe of New York last March 15 in an attempted holdup. They were convicted \ for the Jan. 4, 1949, murder of Mrs. whom they had lured to an apartment at Valley Stream, N, Y. Mrs. Beck bludgeoned the elderly widow , with a ball-peen hammer and Fernandez chocked her with a scarf. She had given Fernandez, whom she [had met thrbugh “iJbnely Heartk” c’ubs, her life savings of $6,000 because she believed he intended to marry her.

| ‘Railroad Man Os The Year’ t. i . ■ < I-'.-' , ’Orl In ' • rar 7 ' Bi ?, rx Ip . • J AZ J Wk X1 fIH Bn -1 liESB® & ' nßffl FEDERATION FOR RAILROAD PROGRESS' annual “Railroad Man of the Year” award goes to porter Albert.J.*Lively (Hght), Louisville, Ky.. in a Washington presentation by Mr*. Alben parkley. The medal is presented in recognition for olit tanding service ar|d courtesy. Mrs. Barkley once wrote to) the C. & praleing Lively’s efficiency. At left if"Tbomas J. Deegari, Jr v , federation president. i 1

Frat House Death • fit ‘ Termed Accidental Verdict Returned By Cjbroner's Jury Champaign, 111., March 9—(UP) — A jury returned a verdic| of feccidei);tal. death in the case of a University of Illinois student who! (Was fatally injured in a fight at a fraternity Hdance Feb. ?4. the |iury found that Harold Col- 1 ton, 21) of Chicago died of a brain hemorrhafee caused by the blows of Clark Dean, also a membei of the fraternity> There fejas no homicidal intern, the jury rjfeled. y Colton died .11 days after the fight and ifeeemed to be recovering when he Suddenly grew worse and died Wednesday., Several:) member? of Colton’s fraternity| Alpha Delta Phi, testified that (jblton had been “drink|ng heavily"; ife the house and that: he became! Babusive and ungentlemanly.” B ’ ; ! p Miss Carrin* Brockmeierj: Colton’s dateijUor the evening, testified that he, "badly intoxicated” wtSn he picked her up and that her fjevening was ruined.” Miss Bibckmeier said thaj beer was served in the fraternity house and she hid one glass. < ■ University regulations/, for bid the serving of|beer or liquor in campus living qufertera. It was minted that disciplinary action wclilid be taken against the fraternity | : I Colton waS struck by Dean, acting president of thb fraternity, when tty tried to quiet Colton. “He was in tyl drunken stupor." said Dean. “Hie Eried to kick down a floor whqfe he couldn’t find the floor knob)y’ “I helped him into a room with another fellow and asked him to be quiet because <he was not acting like a gentleman,” Dean testified. Dean sfeid that Colton went “wild” afefl | started swinging. “I hit him twice irt self-defense,” he said. ‘ 1; t James Breen, of Helena, N.Y., To P««e KUifeti

‘Vt&UtetuM, (Rev Albert N. Straley, Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church) “RESOURCES OF THE RESIDUE” 11’ r ’• ■ . ’ . The [Hebrew people were living in a crisis age when the*e words were written. They were in exile. They found it difficult to sing the songs of Zion bythe waters of Babylon. The bright hopes oti Israel had vanished. But God speaks, and a Deliverer] is promised. We l,n our dav also live in a crisis ago. "The old order chanteth, giving place to new,” and many soul* faint in the process , We long forft something permanent in the face of universal change. But Godß people take heart today because the promise has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ; the Living Word; of God. Almhst all men today agree that Jesys |n His teaching offered the vorM g pattern for the Ideal but men have not attained it. The pattern remains as a testimony to his own echo of the prophet’s words, "Heaven and earth shall pass awav, but Mv Words shall not pa=s away.” J. I The Crowning resource from this Word of God is the power to s achieve. The pattern without the power 1$ maddening, but “To all who receive Him He gave power to become." That is a glorious message to a confused and bewildered world. It is the message of the Church of Jesus Christ for today. ' ? I J

-u——4 .— J - ; • “ I 1 ■ Sam Jackson Rites Saturday Afternoon services will be held Saturday ,for Samuel D. Jackson, former United States senator, who died 'Thursday morning at Fort Wayne after a'brief illness. Services/ will be hfeld ; at 3 pun. Saturday at the First, Presbyterian church ’ in Fort Wayne, the Rev. John W. Meister officiating: Burial will be in Lindenwood cameteiy. , Friends may cajl at the D. O. Mc- \ '»mh funeral home until ty a. m. Saturday, when tahe body will be removed to (he church. 1 I beaf Mule Admits To Strangling Wife Deaf Church Elder Confesses Slaying Chicago, March 9— (UP)—- John R. WOite, 27, a deaf church elder, surrendered, to police hepe today and jadmitted that he strangled his deafmute wife in their Omaha hdiity after a' violent argument conducted' in sign language. White walked into police headquarters and said he killed his wife, Katherine, 24, after breakfast Wednesday in 'an argument which stemmed from a dispute Tuesday night when she made vhim walk home from a movie. Mrs. White’s body, feiad in a filmy night gown, Was fpuhd in her apartment tyesterday. Wjiite said he clutched his wife’s throkt for 20 minuteg, then left the] c|ty by train. He came here and registered ,at a downtown hotel (YMCA, 826 South Wabash.) He .carried a clipping of the slaying when fee walked into police headquarters and told Lt. James Muljoy hie was the White mentioned in the story.- He was turiied over :to the; homicide squad and signed a formal statement. . r Police Lty Leon Sweitzer said White told bin the arguments with Mrs. White Tuesday night and Wednesday werei conducted in the «T®r® T® P®«e Rixbt) '

Front Dispatches Report More Signs Os General Communists Withdrawal ' _

One Indiana Suspect In Slaying Is Freed Carolyn Drlown Case Continues In Court Kalamazoo. Mich.. March 9— (UP)-—One of the new suspects in the Carolyn i Drown murder case was freed in Indiana today, while a state police officer recounted the confession of farmhand Rac Olson In court trial here. Orville Minhick, 34, of Etna, Ind., was released J?y judge Lowell Pjefley at Columbia City, Ipd. He said the evidence for holding Minnick further was “weak and inconclusive?' 1 ' ‘ | ' Minnick was implicated in the sex slayipg of the 18-year-old Western Michigan College coed by Robert Brubaker, qt Churubusco, Ind., ,a cousin of Valorus Mattheis, 22, other defendant in the bizaire case. j ( t , After Mattheis named Brubaker fes the driver of the car ir which Carolyn was raped and slain, Brubaker made a confession —which he later repudiated—and implicated Minnick. Minnick appeared to have an airtight alibi, police said. i Prosecutor John Pikkaart of Kalamazoo had sought to bold Minnick : for further questioning. Brubaker sftlll was being held. | Meanwhile, ,In court. here state ’ police detective Bion Hoeg recount'ed oral confession made by I Olson after his arrest. Olson, he ; testified, admitted raping the Stockbridge; Mich, girl, but blamed the strangulation murder on hfe pal Mattheis. > A del-ay in ithe trial was considered while further investigation was niade concerning Brubaker's confession and later denials. However, judge Lucien 1 F. Sweet ■ the trial to proceed. Defense Attorneys would have had to agree to allowing M.attheis to be, taken front the court room to Ih(Twrn To Poire Eiarnu ' | .4 — . Release Report On Crippled Children , Annual Easter Seal Sale Is Underway | Miss Mary Ellen Miller, treasur-1 er of the Adams county society > ’for crippled children, today releas-; ed that organization’s current fin-1 ancial report in conjunction with! the Easter Seal campaign. To date. Miss Miller said, $711.45 has| been received by the Adams county society in its campaign to raise funds which will be utilized tor case findings, camping akid recreation, ; special education, rehabilitation and job placement for crippled children and adults. The treasurer said that 4,836 letters had been mailed to individuals and 55 letters to various organizations throughout the epun*. ty. Tfee society has placed Containers throughout Adams county in business establishments and jffices Where persons may donate to this project. Miss Miller stated that the final xnd complete report of the Adams ?ountyi society will be , released lune 11 She noted that 60 percent it the funds received during th£ rive will remain id Adams couny, the remaining 40 percent gong to the state organization for istribution. , | This is the 18th such campaign ’or the Ea-ter*Seal organization. ■ Xs stated in the letter which was igned by Adam county chairman Carl D. Gerber, ‘‘the society’s oprating budget ik entirely dependr, n* rpon Easter Seat contribu-' tions." These contributions support sev-: ,?ral recreational camps through- j out the state for crippled children in addition to the extensive rehabilitation programs as well, as medical research. i The campaign for Such funds will continue through I Easter, ac- i cording to Gerber, although all letters are already mailed. < 1 '■

Yugoslavia Charges Reds Massing Men Yugoslavia Makes Charge Russia Is Preparing For War Belgrade,: Yugoslavia, March 9.— ' (UP)| —Yugoslavia charged today that, Russia) is mjtssihg men and weapons along her frontiers for an attack aimed at overthrowing Marshal government. I Large Contingents of Soviet troops are stationed ;near the border in both Romania and Hungary, and Russia also is arming and mobilizing those Soviet Balkan statelli es, the Yugoslav government said in a 481-page white book. Nearly 2,000 border incidents and shootings in the past three years already has created a “permanent little war on our frontiers," Yugoslavia charged The white book added that wideI spread military preparations now tgklng place were aimed at; “attack ( operations in the direction of Yugoslavia." : I All along the frontier, Yugoslavia charged, Russia and her satellkefe sere removing the populatioh, plant ; l]bg minefields, erecting barbed wire barricades, digging trenches, and building eniplacements for artillery, mortars and machineguns. New roads and new airfields are being built, tbe white book continued, and more and more military units are being brought into the border atyas for intensive training. “Large scale maneuvers are being carried out, all of them having the same underlying ideas--attack operations in the direction of Yugoslavia,” )the book said. ) “All this is accompanied by ini tensive • anti-Yugoslav propaganda in the armies of these states.” Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary are calling up new reserves for armies which already far exceed treaty limitations, the book said. Preparations also are being made to mobilize by : registering reserves, transportation and livestock. “The mobilization preparations j are being brought to a close with I the aim of ’ shortening as much as * possible the time it takes to mobilize,” 'Yugoslavia I charged, h Ruslsia is supplying all kinds of : weapons to the satellite armies and the satellites themselves are producing Soviet-type weapons in an (Turn Tn Pnarr Elufttl Three Injured In Unusual Accident Flying Sidegate Hits Automobile Three children were injured Thursday, none cj>f them seriously, when the car in which they were jpasseiigers was involved in an unusual accident with a flying sidegate, investigated by Sheriff Bob Shraluka. [ ' I The sidegate was on the truck I being driven west on state road 124 i about one and one-half miles west of Coppess Corner by Ralph Llby, of route 1, Monroe. The children were Sharon Rose, age 3, Karen Joan, two,; and Max Case Jr., seven nqonths, a|l of then® fhildren of Mr- and Mrs. Max Case. .Iso of route 1, Monroe, and all of hem suffering lacerations about the face and hands. They were taken to the office hf a Decatur physician where they jvere treated, then released. , The accident occurred as the Llby truck hit a deep rut in the road and the sidegate came unfast- i ened from Its mooring and flew into the path of thq Case car. The impact smashed the windshield, the left front window, the comer post and the left door of the Case car. ' (

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\ Enemy Resistance Dwindles On West Part Os Front As Casualties Mount Tokyo; Mar. 9—(UP)—Thq Bth army began flanking Seoul and surged ahead another mile and a half ih its 70-mile-wide Korean offensive today. ! Front dispatches reported more signs of a general communist withdrawal all along the front, but • Red rear guards fought back I fiercely in the eastern mountains in a desperate attempt to stall or iekty the pur ult. An Bth army communique reported that VN ground forces kill- , ed. bounded or captured another 6.522 enemy troopT yes — ’-onsfing to 18.680 the enemy cas-! ualties in the first 48 hours of the shattering renewed allied "killer" offensive. Enemy resistance dwindled on the western h-u u- k c front, and it was there that the Bth army began flanking the strong communist around Seoul, former South Korean capital. U. S. forces opened the drive by widening to 12 miles their bri gehead along the north bank of the Han some 13 miles east of Seoul, then striking north with, tank slipport due east of the Redheld capital. I The Reds threw one counter-attack against the 25th division’s western Hank, but otherwise re istance was light. Initial gains of a mlje or more were reported. The advancing Yanks found fresh wheel marks just north of ..he fighting front, indicating the CUinqse were pulling ( out north Fifty | prisoners were captured. The Americans now hold a solid Han river bridgehead up to six miles deep from a point 13 miles east of Seoul to Yangpyong, where ~ the river bends sharply l south. All three 25th division spearheads which across the river two days ago have linked up with 24th division forces northwest of Yangpyong. communists began their counter-attacks against the eastern ha|f of the offensive front last night and dented the UN line at outpoint, but U., S. forces recaptured the lost ground after dawn and pushed ahead for new . A 10th corps spokesman said the stiff enemy delaying actioii appeared designed to permit the unrestricted withdrawal of communist troops to the north. &n Bth army communique and field dispatches gave this picture of the front east of the 25th division: j' U. S. 24th Division— Advanced 1,200 to 2,000 yards ihto mountainous < country north of “Dragon Door” mountain, which is 6*4 miles north northeast |<*>jf Yangpyong. At one point American infantrymen drove Chinese icommun.sts off a hill with a bayonet charge that le r t at least 40 Reds ead in their foxholes. fU-< S. Ist Cavalry Division — pushed ahead 1,000 to 2,000 iyards ome Ihree miles northeast of j/ongdu against diminishing reslstncq. Vanguards were less than 12 miles, southwest of the big Chinese base of Hongchon. Atached Canadian and Australian nLs gained 1,000 to 1,50® yards Ist of Yongdu. ■ South Korean 6th Division—Adtnced 1,000 to 3,000 yards east of ongdu. U.. S. Isti Marine Division—Sent I r res ive | patrols probing north Hongchon after advancing 00 to 3,000 yardc in steep mouuin terrain yesterday.k ’. S. 2pd Divi ion—Ad”an"f»d yards despite heavy opposi.on from two icommuiujt iegtn j northeast of Hoeng ong. ne 7th division column fa:ther ist wa. stalled by stiff communreslstance. South Korean sth Division — o :ght an all-day engagement ith 300 entrenched; community 5 miles east of Hoengsong, but advanced against lighter resist(Tara T® Pace Hevea>