Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 59,

ALLIES GAIN FOUR MILES ON KOREAN FRONT

Senate Passes Bill To Draft Youths 0118 Expect Revisions By House; Hearing Will Start Monday Washington. March 10.—(UP) — The senate bill to draft rneh 18 through 25 for two years’ military duty and set up universal military training ran headon into trouble in the house today. - House military leaders predicted the house will pass the bill, but that it will be amended to bear little | resemblance to the version approved by the senate, 79 to 5, yesterday. The house appeared set to raise the-bottom draft age to 18 ft. it alto seemed likely that the house will tack bn clauses to lat congress -’-without consent at the president —shut off either the draft or UMT at any time. Anumber of other changes also were considered certain Chairman Carl Vinson of the bouse armed aervices committee, pleased at the senate’s thumping endorsement of the 18-ysarold draft and UMT hili, scheduled closed committee sessions starting Monday to stet on s much more resir tried vsrajloi. ■ i•' -The house bill calls for a dfirt at IM Mt, service of II mouths, and a postwar umt program for men of IM Whereas under the senate bill, an lOyesr-old could drifted only after hie draft board rthausfled Its lOthrough-ll pool, a man could be ceiled nt once under the house version • Th<* draft program would terml* rm|M in Hftee years under the house Jilil No termination date was set by the senate, in addition, the I house Version provides that con grass, by cb&curttnt resolution. • mild halt rithrV draft or UMT at any tltn»I I " ' !' \- ——■ 25 Bus Company " u Workers Strike Indlapapolls. Mar. 10 — (UP) — TWchty-flvo workers of the Terre Haute division of the Indiana Railroad Bus Co. went on Strike today after-tbe company refused to open a contract running to Dec. J. T; Martin,; Vice-president and general manager of the line, said a union spokesman- informed the company last night the workers would strike if the contract were not opened. ; Two Other divisions of the bus line were not affedted by the strike of members pf the AFL Amalgamated 'Association of Street, Electric Hallway and MotoH Coaches union. Give First Reports Here On Assessments Township assessors met today In Hie commissioners • room in the riius. house with county assessor Albert Harlow to present the first report of the current pergonal* prop, erty assebament. The assessment period In for 66 working days from March 1. and indicated there would be periodic reports submitted by the assessors. The purpose of those meetings Is to submit reports on the average asMsamenfs and the average number of household goods/ to maintain a uniform assessment throughout the county. South Bond. Plant Is Robbed Os S3OO South Bend, fUP).4Police Investigated a |3OO robbery today ail the Zlker cleaning plant. Watchman Joseph Kocsis, 7tfj said two bandits tied him as he reported for work last night and took the money from a safe. Indians Weather Sleet and freezing rain spreading into south and west porJlprtt by night and Into north- , 7 east portions tonight, changing to rain south portion to night and north portion Sunday, Slowly ..rising temperatures. Low tonight 26-32 north, 32-38 south. High Sunday 35-40 north, 40-46 south.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT P • ONLY QAILY NKWSPAPKR IN ADAMS COUNTY '

Bevin Resigns As Fdteign Secretary HI Health Forces Bevin To Resign ■ London. Mar. 10 -4 (UP)--For-Sign secretary Ernest Bevlp resigned yesterday on his seventieth birthday because of his health which broke during the momentous and critical years since World War II when he directed British diplomacy. j. No. 10 Downing Street, announced that Bevin would be succeeded by deputy prime minister Herbert Morrison who like BeVin has favored closer ties with thb United States in the cold war with Russia. Bevin was kept on in the cabinet by appointment to the office of lord privy real so that he can continue to give help and kdvice to Morrison and prime minister Clement Attlee. His resignation, after 5% beetle years that saw relations with Russia deteriorate steadily and the international picture darkened by war In* Korea, resulted in u shuffle of other lesser government posts. Home secretary James Chuter Edo win taka over Morrison’s job as leader of the house of commons, It was Announced. Vhcnmit Addison, «1-year-old leader of. the i house of lords, Wmm named lord president of the, council. He gave up his position ha Jb)d privy seel to* Kevin \ • Chuiar ( Eda will |omblub Sils new duties mm leader of the house of commons, a trying pHrilame'ntary task of strategy, with, his present post of hotpe secretary, the duties of whlcli lih'lhiLo hirangririents for < iVil defense, i March 29 Deadline For Pricing Charts Indianapolis, March 10 (Uj’i Vfinon Dwyer. district director of the office of prh e- stabilisation, said today Mach 29 is the deadline for retail merehaifts fn Indiana U> file pricing charts with his office. City To Sell Bonds For Auxiliary Plant Bonds Os $900,000 Go On Sale March 28 7- ’ • A- 1 ; , l Bonds in the sum of. 39(h),00 are to go on Sale -March! 21 in .the office of clerk-treasurer H. Vernon Aurand, the revenue to finance the erection of the 'city’s auxiliary light and power plant land the purchase of[ a |5()0.000 diesel engine. The bond sale is perhaps the last in a long series of steps to complete action of the new power [plant. Started by.,discussion more than two years ago When officials pointed tip the dire need for additional power, city councilmeii and the hoard of (public works agreed to final purchase! early this winter. The city electric department cur. rently has 3120,000 bonds Outstanding which constitute $ first charge against the deparimpfft. However, It Is noted that the ordinance which authorizes the Issuance ot the rev enue bonds now being offered provides that prior to the delivery of such bonds thenji will bp set aside a sum sufficient to pay jthe principal and all accruing Interest, K Each bond will be for 11,1)00 and all of them will be dated March 1. According to the legal notice of the sale of bonds, which will, run in this newspaper Monday, a varied rate according [to tne length of time they are held will be paid. The Interest, however, will not exceed 2-N percent In the blds, the legal expressed* 1 i Should the city agree |tff purchase certain bonds before their full redemption period, appropriate rktps have been devised whereby the city will pay five percent inter, est for redemption on July L 1955, or before July 1. I 960; three percent if redeemed between January 1, 1961, and July 1. 1965; or two" percent If. redeemed on January 1, 1966? or thereafter prior to inaturlty. Bidders, according to the legal, are .to name the ratios interest which the ponds-are to bear, not ex. ceeding two and three-fourths percent.

It's No New Experience For Yeoman ■k . jtgr War l ■ri t j I; Mb :■ ■Bm~- - . ■ Wr V J SHIRT COLLAR OPEN, President Truman looks quite comfortable 4s he dictates correspondence to Yeoman »/c Emil Kesselman, Brooklyn, N. Y„ in the “Little White Hwuse,” key West. Fla. The experience is no new one for Kesselman. Stationed at Guam in 1945, heltook tie President’s dictation via radio when the end of the war was announced. \ \

Hearing On Rockne Charges Postponed Son Os Late Grid Mentor Still 111 . X . ■ / •• Wichita; Kap.. March 10. —(UP) Wllllnbl l» Hoikue. son of tup late Notre Dame foolbpll coach, could testify only briefly yesterday tigaliiMt the man accused of shoot hia him. • J Hmkni'H poor condition forced postponement until May 4 of a pnlltnlnary henrlha of churgva ncmiMIng Jon Novarek, 2.1. of assault with Intent io kill. Novacok is accused of critically wounding Rockne, *Bl, in the heart upd lungM. on .Jan. 20 Rockne was in n hospital until two weeks ago and the strain of testifying apjjlurently was too great for himThe hearing was recessed when Rockne’s doctor testified it Would be injurious to Rockne to continue bls testimony. x Rocknp.told city judge Geoilge M. Ashford he wdnt.to Novacek’s home twice the night of the shooting, after being told in a tavern across the street that he could “buy a bottle there.” * The auto dealer’s wife canie to the dopr the first time, he said, and turned him a4ay when he tpld her he wanted to buy liquor., Rockne said he left the tavern some 15 minutes later and returned to the ’Novatek house. Novacek .told him "to get away from here,’ h( ’ testified. •» ' . The businessman hit liim with a board, Rockne said, and he "went down on my back, then I got up and started backing away.” NejH, Rockne said he ‘‘felt something hit my tight cheek and I went down again. I don't know what (T»»« T» r*a«a SlW> Suggestion Made By Quadruple Amputee Special Design For Pajamas Battle Creek, Ml<?h>Xarch 10.— (UP) A man may be down, but he's I never out—and It took Pvt’ Hubert Edward Reeve! of Joliet, 111., to prove It, the army laid today. Reevr-H, 19, was the second quad ruple-ampui) <> <>f the Korean war. of fleers at Percy Jones hospital here old file youth has won 110 for designing a new-type pajama that will ba tailtr for amputee* to get on and off. Rjt«ve« BUfgMttd that pajama Jackets b<» with sides and slcevts open, and fitted with metal smqrs for closing. The hospital said the idea was also good for pajama trousers with open legs for men with leg Injuries. The Illinois soldier will receive hIR |lO at Valley Forge hospital, Phoenixville, Pa., where he has been transferred for plastic surgery, .officers said. He also will be fitted for artificial limbs. During 74 days at Percy Jones hospital here the young G/received 3,700 letters from well-wishers.

I : — I ■ Nil■ , ) , Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 10, 1951.

Oratorical Zone Contest March 14 . Dslmsr Bysrly, Ossian high icbool asnior, will compsts March 14 In th» tone centssl of ths American Lofffam’a oratorical contest. to M held In ths Hummltvllls high school auditorluhi. John David Nall, Fairmount high school Is tha?other contestant.! Byerly Im the winner of the fourth dlst'rlcl oratorical contest recently held In Churubusco. Miss Marylfn Hoblot, x senior In the Docatur - high school, and winner of the county oratorical vontoat, placed third In the dlatrld meet, Rape Slaying Trial In Weekend Recess Complex Michigan Trial In Recess Kalamazoo, Mich., March 10.— (UP)—Prosecctor John Pikkaart said today that one of the defendants ip the complex Carolyn Drown murder case will not be made to face a.third suspect in Indiana this weekend as originally planned. Late yesterday, the prosecutor said Valorus (Bud) Mattheis would be taken to Columbia City, Ind., to face Robert Brubaker, 24, who this week confessed driving the car in which, the Western Michigan College coed wgs raped and slain last November. ' Brubaker is a cousin of Mattheis. who already is on trial here with Rae Lee Olson for the girl’s mur* der. Brubaker implicated another Indiana man in his which he later repudiated. The fourth man, Orville Minnick, 34, Etna, Ind-, wan released at Columbia City yesterday after a heap Ing Irv which Judge Pefley sgld evidence against him was "weak and Inconclusive.” That left three suspects: Mattheis and Olson, both 22-yeanold farm hands from Vlcksburff. Mich., and Brubaker still held in Indiana pending further investigation. The £rlal here was In recess for the weekend ' Prosecutor Pikkaart decided against bringing Mattheis and Brubaker facMoface when attorney protested <cjain»t taking the youth out of Michigan. Loshe Infant Dies At Home Last Night Carol Ann Loshe, three-weeks-old daughter of Harmad and Am site died at 8:16 fi.m. Friday at the” home on mute 4. The infant had been ill ginca birth. Surviving art th* narents; three brothers, James, Paul and Gerald; a sister, Rose Marie, and -a grandmother, Mrs. August - Lengerich. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral . home. Services will be held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon x at the St Mary’s Catholic church the Ver/ Rev. Msgr. J. J, Sclmetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. , Noon Edition .Hr’ ' 1 ■ ; - f

■ -- - ■ , , Trpck Plunges Into Creek, Man Unhurt Bridge Bannister Sheered By Truck A Great 111- muh escaped with notiiiii'a mor* than a thorough drennhlng and severe shock when the truck which he was driving sheered off a bridge bannister and plun«*d Into* a creek juat Suulh of the city. Hdff ; MMthewa, of 2ir» Houih Mlleveffth etrgrt, drag line operator for the county wurvrym'a office, was to ihmatur from the Qscar Hay farm, on route six. when the accident or<-urr»d. Matthews wua driving a pickup truck, belonging to the surveyor's department, when hr attempted to paw another vehicle on Mud Pike, of the city limits. As hr passed, (he lights on his truck flickered out, and Matthews crashed into the bridge bannister, sheered it.-their plunged into the creek. He . fought his way out of ‘ the truck, up the bank, then ,to a neighboring farmhouse. From there he returned tb the city. He was returned to his home, then to the office'of a Decatur physician wherehe was treated then released. Matthews was working at the Ray farm on a bulldozer owned by the county. When the work was completed, he left the farm for home. The accident occurred shortly' before midnight. J The car being passed was unidentified, and did not stop, apcpgrently Unaware of the accident. Sheriff Bob Shraluka, who Investigated. estimated the damage at |350. The truck remained in the creek until today. - L , , , - Alva Poller Rites Sunday Afternoon i Tocsin Resident . Is Taken By Death Alva Potter, 57, died unexpected 1y Friday at hit home one mile solith of Tocsin following a hear attack He wam born May 9, 189?. in Clinton county, a ion of Claude -N,: and Flara Lucks-Potter, and was married to Nsllia Florence Bowman He was a member of the LanCHMter fcvangoltaal United Brethren church, Surviving In addition to hh wlf<>re a son, Jamas R„ at home; four daughters M«- Charles Myers df near I’ralgvllle, Mrs. Clarence CAM How of hluffton, Mrs. Daniel BgH®X of- near Yoder and Mrs. Berlene Delnlnger, at home; his parents, who reside at Tocsin, add even ffrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at I p.- m. Sunday at the Lancaster EUB church, the Rev. J. H. Nall officiating. Burial will be In Oak Park. Lawn cemetery. The body has been removed from the fclzey I & Sons funeral home to Thd reslI dence, where friends may call until time of the services.

Fleeing Chinese Reds Abandon Ammunition, Guns And Food Stocks

. ... ■ — ’*■—» i» nt. i*. . — - •- — Legion Commander Injured In Korea ,1 Slightly Injured As Jeep Overturns U. S. Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Mar. 16 — (UP) — Earle Cocke, Jr., national commander of the American Legion,, and Maj. Gen. Frank E. Eowe. President Truman’s special representative in Korea, were slightly injured today When their jeep {overturned on a narrow road. \ . * Both Cocke and Lowe narrbwly ••caped \ serious injury. They were “shaken Up," an Bth army spokesman said. Cocke’s back was slightly, wrenched. \ The accident occurred on a n*l> row road south of Hoengsong. Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, Bth urmy\ commander, was killed in a jeep accident in Korea several months ago when h|s vehicle crashed Into a truck. Cocke and Low* were able to tails off as scheduled lata today on a military transport flight for Tokyo ' . . The American Legion commadd* er arrived in Korea yesterday. He was visiting the marine sector of the mountainous central front. The jeep tn whieh they were liillug puiti.i ovet t<< the side of s narrow road wh«t| It met a truck convoy. The Jeep skidded and rolle|i| down a 1 fl-foot embank men .; A fli) caliber machine gun mounted bn the Jeep was believed to have prevented tin Vehicle from crushing the passengers. The to cldenj occurred at 3:30 p m. Earlier. Cocke said that the morale of Us 8. forces lln Korea is -‘ln as good' shape if not belter" than the troops of World War II "Their morale and physical stamina are as good as can hK expected, especially In the 25th (division l which has been committed since the 'Sih of July," i Cocke said after a tour of the front! with Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Brig. Gen. Joseph 8. Bradley, commander of the 25th. Leading Jet Pilot Is Killed In Korea Lt. Cmdr. Magda j Is War Casualty ! San Diego, Calif., March \ 10.— (UP)!—Lt. Cmdr. John Magda Jr., ’one of the pavy’s foremost jet pilots, has been killed In the Ko, rean war. * Headquarters of the air forces of the Pagjfld fleet announced yesterday (hat Magda was killed Thursday while on a fighter strike off Tanchon. Details of his death were not revealed. The 33ye,arold F9F Panther .pilot, one of] the first to land a jet plane on an|. aircraft carrier, was jommander of the navy’s famed Blue Angeli” exhibition jet fighter earn, c , ■ The group was dlnbanded at the mtbreak of the Korean war, and most of the “angels’’ were ordered Into Jet squadron 191, to which Magda was attached at the time of his death. Magda wak credited with destroyhg five Japanese planes in the air tnd seven 6n the ground during World War II I I I He h survived by his wife, Mary, two children, and his father, John Magda Sr., < f Louisville. Ky. Adams County Shrine Club Na Officers Officers to serve during the next year of the Adams county Shrine club were fleeted at the regular monthly meeting of thjt organisation held Friday at the Fairway restaurant. W. M. Bumgerdner was to serve as president of the c)Ub; D E. Foreman, secretary, and I Robert H. Krick, treasurer. I

------ —. Eric Johnston Makes Initial Control Report Rollbacks Os Some Swollen Prices Are i Pledged Consumers Washington, Mar. 10 —. (UP)— The nation has \ won its'“first victory" over inflation, according to economic stabilizer Eric A J John, ston. Johnston admitted the controls program has not produced “spectacular" results eo far. But be promised his agency will achieve Its goal of trying "to stop the tragedy of inflation." ' In hh ."flfat report" to the nation on the control* program over the Columbia broadcastlug ay -tern last nigh , Jfohpslon told consumers they l-an Iqok forward 0 rollbacks of some swollen prices. He warned, however, that unemployment and "under the counter" black markets will rr ult If {a general price cut is ordered. Johnston’s report Included a mild rabqke of labor tor bolting the ; mobilisation program. and ••Id the walkout fmiq the wage board was not the way to settle Its argument foir mortification of the 10 pci. cm p«y hb<, h f formuhi Hut h* Hiihi ha Is "encouraged by the pro pect (hat we will find a fair aiitd workable solution,” Johnston made his report shortly after the bureau of labor statistics reported that the governhirnt’R (Wholesale pHce index.ended a one-week drop and hit another record high for .the week ended Feb. 27. x / Herald a general price rollback , would "tailspin the- economy in trying to stabilize it." I ■ ’ ' —.- . Soldier Weds German Girl By Telephone Kendallville Soldier Groom By Telephone Temple, Tex., March 10.—(UP) —Cpl. Henry C. Shaull, 21*. of I Kendallville Ind., said today it ■was worth every cent of the >9B Ihe spent to marry Waltraude |Zwrilein, 22, via trans-Atlantic telephone. The new Mrs. Shaull lives in j Bremerhaven, Germany. The kpot was tied yesterday ovdr a dlatnce of 8,000 miles, by justice of] the peace R. W. Watts of Temple an old hand at such jobs. "The boy was calm." Watts said “But he was one of.the mor” enthuaiasVlc grooms I’ve ever seed He couldn’t taka much time t” talk with the girl over the phone, but you could tell he had plant to sajk." v Shaull fell in love with Wa’ traude last year while he wks ata tinned at Bremerhaven but he was transferred back to the states before he could propose. He decided to marry the -fraulainby trans-Atlantic telephon from the Presidio, at Ban Fran Cisco, hlk new post However. lowa* told It could not be done, 'Undaunted' the military police man .recalled a dispatch he cllppt' from the Stare and Stripes, i service newspaper, while in Ger many. It told of a trans-Atlantic marriage performed by Watts. Shaull wrote Watts six month? ago and made arrangements for the wedding. Yesterday, he arrived in Temple for the ceremony Nineteen minutes later, he was a married man.. The corporal returned to Cali fornia after the marriage. He said I his bride would join him at the Presidio Iwlthin eight months. Watts said he had. conducted (Turn to Page SIX) | ,

Price Five Cents.

Communist Losses Near 30,000 Mark For-Initial Three Day Os UN Drive Tokyo, Mar. 10—(UP)—Five UN a|vislons gained up to four miles op a 40-mile Korean front today in pursuit of retreating Chinese Reds. The Chinese abandoned ammunition, machine guns, mortars and even some food stocks in their flight along the western half of the Sth army’s four-day-old "killer’’ offensive in, central Korea. On the eastern half of the front, fighting simmered down after a stories of salvage battles with fanatic North Koreans. The North Koreans broke off contact in most ec(ors and limited UN advances were reported Communist losses neared the 86,000 mark. An, Bth army communique reported 8.849 Red* killed, wounded or captured in ground action alone yesterday. That boosted communist casualties for |he first three day* of the UN offensive to 26,887. The Hth army communique and late field dispatches told this story of the righting along the 76mlle central front, from west to east: . U. H IBth Division—Advanced logo to. 4,066 y*M6 north of the Han river against light Chinese ' rear-guard resist Mice • One < «l* umn it(rove west to ’threaten Tokso, 10 miles east of Seoul Alioth *r headed north, flan king the •asteyn defenses of Heoul IL: H, 24th Division Capturwl twi> <l..minuting hlll« v mtilh»’SSt Os .Yangpyong, on* of itnrm more than 4.000 feet high. af(er brushing off five nigh* count erat tacke with heavy artillery Hire. Attached Greek troop< advanced four miles. Little or no communist resistance was reported. IT. S. Ist Cavalry Division — Chased retreating Chinese 3,000 yards along the highway, from Yongdu to within eight miles southwest of the big base of Hongchop. Enemy rear guards put up only light resistance. Attached British -forces advanced 2,000 yards without contacting the enemy. South Korean 6th Division — Made "substantial gains" south of Hongchon without contacting the retreating Chinese. Advance elements were less thah ; eight miles fropi Hongchon. U. S. Ist Marine Division — Advanced 2;,000 yards some eight miles southeast of Hongchon only light enemy contact. t . * ■“ r 1 ■■ Warmer Weekend Is Forecast In State ' Indianapolis, M*r.‘ 10 — (UP) — Old man winter planned a short trip through the extreme northern pirt of Indiana, tonight but genrally Hoosiers can -look for a varmex weekend. Weathermen said Increasing outlines* was expected ( today l:h rain beginning in the southest and overspreading he state might and continuing tbraortow, .hey said tome sleet or" snow would fall In the extreme north tarly tonight. However, slowly rising temperitures v w*re expected to reach ilghs of 3* to 40 degrees tn the torth and 40 to 50 In the south od*y, Low* tonight were expectd to range Irom ltd to 86 north ml from M to 42-south Show 1880 Receipts ’or Decatur Democrat Mrs. Charles Rabltt brought a receipt to thia office today, dated 1880, In payment for the Decatur democrat for one year. The receipt was given to her father, Robert Drummond and was signed (by S. Ray Williams. j The Democrat at that time was aeweekly newspaper, published *2 times a year. The receipt is prpbably one of the oldest in existence. ‘