Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1951 — Page 1
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House Group j Favors Draff Age Os 181-2 Major Hurdles Are 1 Cleared By House r / / Committee Todays Washington, March 12.--(UP) | ' Tij® house armed services tee today voted unanimously to tower the draP axe from I# to lx % and to extend' the term of service from 11 to If months The committee did not finish (in Hh draft blit ft cleared several major hurdles however, and chairman Carl Vinson, I)., (la, said he hoped to art flrtnl action on the hill late today Other members said ■ > this was unlikely ' in addition io approving the low* I .sred graft age atrd longer term of / S< rvli*» the comnilftd*' iilwn I llejrclvd a propusul by Rep, .Jack 7. Anderson, R„ Cui., to Mi|»niNdt< into two .titles the hlll ij draff mid ■’ universal military training pro* visions The vote)was 17 to I<. „ Rejected a similar proposal by Rep. Leslie C Arends. H. Ift.. to Stparate draft and U\MT Into aepu / ratio bills? 4 Approved a provision to rjeqUlre *7 at least four months training for draftees and to keep men out of * j : teortibat hreax for their first yHlx 4' /non th wof service. The committee at Its initial clos* ♦ ed-sessiqn on a revisited bill drawn up by,i Vinson did not consider universa! military training, but laid f the grouted work for it by approving a section authorizing a national / security framing corps. / r r* The bill would/ authorile induction ittm’Tfie* c®rps for six inonth£ , training of men 18 H to 19. This; training program would not, start untilUhe need for the draft—to get men for actual military servicehad ended. 4 vThei Senate has approved a bill to lower the draft age to 18 but to require each draft board to call all | its mtn 19 through 25—the present j draft age group—first. The senate ' bill also provides for a post-emerg- , ency program of UMT. '* Vinson said the decision on ai new ptaft; age and on the longer i draft iterm were ; reached by unani- ■ mbus* consent without any formal' ‘Ajvnte.j - ; Alsb approved In this manner i was a.provision requiring the <le v ' _ rmse department to luwrr Induction (ttundards levoto in effect in L Januiriy, 1945, the lowest standards \ of Win hl Whr II Eisenhower States Views On A-Bombs > Use Bomb Instantly ‘ For Destruction ' ■ ■/ - ■ :' 4 yVanhington, Mar. 12 (UP) (len Dwight I). Klnenhowetfr be J IlvVew Russia's leaders would bp "rettßy tools" Id stal l war aguitisl llw tnltrd Hlutes, uml fte iik«« t n» atomic bomb "Instantly" < ’if It would moan str/a \ ■ teaic destruction. 1 \'< z The Atlantic pact supreme com mandj-r gave, those views In secret / v aaatlteh on Feb. 1 before, the sen-. ate termed services and foreign l committees Hls tesli mony has been made available to the bolted Press? Thi* general, now at his Paris • heard porters, cautioned the senators not to be overly Impressed ' v by Russian propaganda regarding Soviet military strength. He said the iwest’s international force could!lmeef the Soviet threat with numbers "far, far below" those of the Soviet armies and doiild. make "rathtete significant \ portions of Western Europe safe?’ Eistenhower’s views on of the Ajtotnic bomb were in response to Sen. Jy. William Fulbright IjA... Ark., who aaid ne was contiliied at apparent growing, opinion that under no circumstances should the rIL S. use the ■ weapon first war. Eisenhbw!er;s was: | / ' 4 Td: rhy mind the use of the \bomb would be on this bash)) Does it advantage me or does It not when I gej into war? Now, Ilf I felt that the material destriictlop that' I was going to. / accomplish waa not equal to aqme moral dr grteat fraction (Tut-u To !*•«• ais» • 1 ' ■■■' ' —
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Government Bares | Some Atom Secrets ' Testimony Given In Federal Court x if New York. March 12. - The government bared foj the first time today fjome of the secrets tpat wentynto the atomic bomb ini an effort to prove three.perstens guilty (if wartime espionage for Russia; Walter Koski, 'a physio cheibist whte\ worked on the boml> .at. Los Alamos, N; Mex., testifitd ijiat ;-k< i< hts and infoi wh|c x h tonttssted spy David (R-AengltesA supplhd to u Soviet spy ring w|n •Hough to u veal' yliuf win going on at Los Alamo/* x Koski, now an awgocUti pi,4• i not ut John Hopkins ITnlwt >|t.y, and a consultant In; gowrpiimmi -reararch on rndlom tlvi- nut l« I. tffU?. ifhd In federal couh nfiter htarrng <lt i <>m?ln m d(M(tlbr <cia|; afohi H ecMich dm ft which ho stem hr gitvi' io> his hroi|ii'i ln-lnw, Jullii* ftosanbt 11* . ■ j Rosriibrig, wills wife E<Jol n|td Mot ton Hohc 11 are | fight Inga possible dtiilh xrnltticc nit ili.itgra of slipping atomic bomb isicrrts /to Russia, , 1- ■j -U Hhown sketches a secret, h ha whl»4r Ci i ciikliihm said were c’oplLs of ions hr gave Rosinlntefc. Ko«M.I identified thi/ni io "rouuli drafts" of Ihe expel Imcntal setup UM'd/hl the development of the atomic bomb. / / . a.— —up’, 4 Funeral Held Today r For Ehinger Infant Graveside services were held this afternoon at the Catholic cem. etery for the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Edward Ehinger. of .Portland, who d|ed shortly after birth Saturday night at the Jay county jpital. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiated. , Surviving are the parents, Ed? ward and Eloise Leonard-Ehinger;: a si;iter\ Suzanne; the maternttl grandmother. -Mrs. Frances Leon? i ard of Decafpr, ated the paternal I gandmother. Mrs. (iertrude Ehinger ;of LaGrange. \ , I ' ■ . ! ■ j ' . I , J ft 24 Persons Killed In Airliner Crash ' 4 ' )■ ■ ■ ■ I' : I-’ Hong Kong, Mi/rch 12, (Fl’) .; | A four-engined Siamese I piloted 'by a vcteian Ampricap i"hump pilot" of World War l|, «in flame# mt<>: io?shrouded |Moutit Fiirkm] yesterday/, kllilng all "i persons alvmid . Tlttrt* of the six jrew memltyrte wore Amerimns. They te’eru Itmij titled us pilot John U forx. t in, itoiiiii < i ,me< hitnh* Al itci -ki and navlgnton II L Glttlns <m i dresses unaviillnblot Mrs. Enona Rentz Is Taken By Death Funeral Services | Tuesday Morning Mrs. Emma •N. Rentte.i fi7, dltq at 4 p. m Saturday at her liqm»K‘ I 218 South Thirteenth Btretel. fptE lowing* a year's illness. A fOrmcp resident of Peru, she had resided in Dijratur since 1942. :■ ' She wa« x born in Peru Dec. 2*» 1883. a daughter M Henfy C. and Natlna Ruth Kiofer-lluck. was married t/o William Rtehtti Nov. 26. 1903. ■ 1 She was a member of the Zioflj Lutheran church. x B / Surviving are her husband; hep father, who also resides in Dectej tur; \ two sons, George Ren*z ok DeCatur and Norman of Plymouth I j two daughters, Mrs. Paul Siehrs) ■■of Muskegon. Mich., ’ and MM James F)oty of Marton; eight /grandchildren, and a sister, George Haller of Mendon. O. / Funeral services will he held' at IQ a. m. Tuesday at the Georgy; j Rentz home, and gt 10:30 o'cloclf lat the Zion Lutheran church, the ‘Rev.-Edgar P. Schmidt , Burial will be in St. Jflhii’s Llithb eran cemetery at Perti. with thte A. H. Oallmeyet conducting aervlcete at the grave.. The body has been removed from the Zwlcfe funeral home to the George Rent): residence, where friends may cull until time of the services. i
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Os Alger Hiss No Formal Opinion By Court, Refuses To Consider Appeal Washington, Mur. 12 — (UP) — The supreme court today rejected the appeal of Alger Hlsa and open'od tin- way for commitment to Jail of the former alate department official for lying to u federal grand jury. Thi» court gave no formal opln lon, H sloiply made a bare an* niniiii eniciH that II would not conalder 11 laa’ uppeul HDm wax convicted of lying when ho skid he did not |hihm government sycroiH to Whittaker Chtimbern and when Im denied thiit luv had lint M-oli after Jan. I, 1937, ('hambera la a former/ comm uniat underground , courlc/ Hlhh’ connection with the communist agent wuh uncovered by i the house l un-Amerlcten actlv/ltlea committee In 1947. y The x supremecourt rejection will be trnnsinlltivl within a few i days to the second U. B, circuit court of appeals which had upheld Hiss' conviction and his sentence to five years In Jail. The appeals court In turn will order the New York trial court to Jail /Hiss who has been freei on 310,000 bond. Justices Stanley H. Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Tom C. Clerk took no part in the decision. Reed and Frankfurter testified as character. witnesses for Hiss at his first trial. Clark was attorney general at the\ time the case was started. . J The court refused to have anything to do with the tangled legal affairs of the Lustron Corp. It refused to examine a Chicago fedI eral court order barring the Rej construction Finance Corp, from selling the Lustron prefabricated housing plant at Columbus, O. The court also:? 1. Refused to review a lower court order requiring secretary of commerce Charles Sawyer to return control of the American President Lines to former owner R Stanley \ 2 Agreed to hear a petition from two New Jersey taxpayers protesting tekaltmt « state Jaw requiring recitalloi( of the Lord's i lorn To riiMr IClMht* This Week To Mark 4.■'.'4'7 - ■ Girl Scout Founding : s i.. : ; Week Is Observed Throughout World The week beginning Mari'h 12 Ih being observed throughout the world uh the 3!llh anniversary Os , the founding of the Girl Scout organization. The local activities are ; Illfthllghted by tl|« Jullcfto Row cel* ■ ebratlon, to be held at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening In th< Lincoln / school auditorium. The feature of ; the entertainment will Ojb a radio J . skit entitled, "Party so/ Parents" with a cast compioteed of |Glrl Scouts and their parents. ‘ t Following the program, refresh* ; ments will be served, featuring the / cutting and partaking of the traditional Juliette Low Birthday i cake. Partlee similar to the one being held in Decatur are being given by over 68,000 Girl Scout troops, : comprising more than 1,400,000 Scouts and adults in every state i and U. S. .territory. As part of the birthday week celebration, a display will, bfe installed inthe window of the publix Service Co. store. The theme of the display will be "HandQ Around the World,” ,the international project of Girl Scouting this year. The kettle filled with pennies to be seen in the center of the window is the contribution of Decatur to i/he International world friendship fund. These pennies are gifts the girls and represent one penny for each year of their age. The money is used to support the in* / ternational chalet in. 8 witter land / where scouts from all over the 4 world gather for their annual cony vocation. /' \ ' Also on display will be samples I \ <Tura To Fa«o Eiont» ■■ : ' - / ' ' '■ \ . ■
Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 12,1951.
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Government Takes Over Tin Purchases Orders All Supplies Put Under Controls /i ■ . - ' 4 ■ Washington, Mar. 12 —r (UP) / -+- The government took over as sole buyer tor tin for U. 8. consumption today and ordered all supplies put under allocation Control beginning May l. ! At the same time, it announced temporary increases in supplies of tin during April, May and Jun; for canning perishable foods and for other essential production. The government also wa» considering a separate order on prices which may mean rollbacks aV factory and retail levels. I - ’ The tin order, issued by the national production authority, was, designed to bring down the price of foreign tin on which the U. S. depends for its supplies. it designated the Reconstruction Finance Corp, to make all U. B.purchases of the \ foreign product. ' The government, in turn, will resell the tin to manufacturers, The senate preparedness com mlttee has complained x that the United States Ih being ’’gouged’* by foreign tin suppliers, some our allies. NPA Kidd tha temporary Increase In tin supplies fur capnera the Industry to pack, perishable' was intended primarily to enable farm cropg that begin coming to market in May. \ |i warneil, however, that 5 nothe myetv Much as the beer Industry and pa< kri-M of pon-perlalmble food's may Im cut/ back further during- the Hgmi* thn««-month per toil * NPA prevlotiHiy hud banned the use of tin for "non-cHHentlal" pur poses and h|l other iiMn were "'l'l i'» cut back their supply by 20 peiTenl. i ’ i . r __.. , . 7 19 National Guard Units To Be Called Washing,ton, March 12. —(U?) The Air Force announced that 19 .non-flying National Guard unltii with about 10,000 officers and airmen will be mobiflzed within the next nine months. 4 Upits designations and future assignments were withheld for secur. ity reasons. The first of the units will be ordered into active service within j two months and the remaining J 8 will be called up over the following seven months., New Trial Is Asked For Oscar Collazo Washington, ’March 12.—(UP)— Counsel for Oscar Collazo today asked a new trial for the convicted assassin and Puerto Rican revolutionary. Collazo faces death in. the elec trie ohair for the killing of a whit* house policeman In the -sattempted assassination of President Truman last Nov. 1. The new trial motion was re garded as a formality and there was little ichance It would b” granted.
JbULL I T I N Mlwnsapolls, March 12: —* (UP)~~A section of the roof x over Williams arena at the Unifrrilt> es Mlnneeofa collapeed ths firs department •aid 'tiowie men are reported trapped.” The’ fire department sent four companiee, a rescue squad and three embufances to, the •cene.; A Rod Cross emergency •quad \also was dlepatohed to the aryna. Maiiiieis Retracts Story On Slaying Repudiates Charge i Against Brubaker tKalamazoo, Mich., March 12. — (UP) — ‘Farm hand .Valorus Mat- ! • th els, trial fdr the rape-slaying of coed; Caroyln Drown, has retracted his story that an Indiana man driver of the car in which the 18-yegr-old freshman was murdered, prosecutor John Pikkaart said today, j 7 . wjSar«old Vicksburg, Mich., youth’s; retraction--his fifth since his arrpst with Rae Olson for ithe Hiiowstlrm murder«*ended the - stub' s attempt to have Robert Bru baker, f i>f Churubusco, Ind., returned Ito' Michigan. MauhqJa had accused Brubaker, h|H coujslfi. of driving the dsath car last Ngv,' M. Brubaker confessed and Imjilicatad Orville Minnick of Etna. Itolilrubakor then repudiated hlte teontfralon and said he had an allhl fo'i the night the Stm |< bridge, Mh'lb.WrJ was slaih otHnlqu Kain masodjMlnhlrk, nrrcaLd for quest, lorilng,,! was released tor lack of evldcfi ■< . Plkkfrrt **l'l Matthnls called offleers to his jail cell and volrepudiated tjln teccuantlonK HgnlUHt/jiru baker. Ptkkifart said he notified Whit* •*iy (-misty, hid., prosecutor James Riddle 4h<t he would not uak Mich* Igan Myrhfits against Minnick and Brubaker.' But defense attorney James iTQlhulzen haw asked that the (w<| Indiana men be endorsed aw defriiwp Plkkrhirt, who wjis openly skeptical of Matthels' latest story, related , how thte,youth had "put thte finger" on people since his nrrest, Al| were shown Innocent. Last pveek, Brubaker /threw the trial in|p confusion with a confession that he drove the car in which the f girljwas killed. He named Minnick, the father of, four children, as the Siller. repudiated .the confession, ated said It was made oniy after police had hammered qileattiona ae him for eight hours. Marian Warner Dies After! Heart Attack Marled Warner, 71J of Payne, 0., died suddenly Satui-day afternoon of a hart attack on the streets of that : city. Funeral services will bte hteld|»t 2 p. m. (EST) Tuesday at the stcQlll, 0., United Brethren church, ' the Rev. L. A. Mlddaugh, officiating. Short services will be held at the Payne funeral home at 1.30 o’lsoek. There are x a number of relative# in Decatur /and Adams cotenty. J 7. ' ./
Reds Fleeing Headlong Toward 38th Parallel; UN Advancing At Will
I —,—.— ———— —J Vast Shipbuilding Program For Navy Will Bring Fleets Up To Atomic Age Washington. March 11.— The navy today mot President Truman'* goahtmd to spend 12,750,000,000 to bring Its fleet* to atomic M” The, vast shipbuilding and modernisation program-by fur the navy's largest In peacetime—will includb a super aircraft carrier for atom bambini Other carriers will bb fitted soy jets, ! Mr, Truman *lgned a bill providing the huge program yesterday hi the Httlw White House In Key West, Fla,, where he Is vacationfn* The na/vy will bblld 173/fightlng ship* and modernise 29] others.’ The legislation was shlpp e d through!congress in record time to' -meet the nation's defense needs. ' Some 2228 000,000 will go to construct the 67,000‘t0n super carrier. It will be 1 000 feet Ibng and 225, feet wide and will replace the 66,000 ton carrier canceled by former defense Secretary Louis Johnson over his admirals' protests. ■ The pew eerier will not be a true fidsh-deck carrier but will have' only a small control tower placed far to one side. This will permit long-range bombers, to take off and land with the atom bomb. i It way estimated that three and one half years will be needed to, ! build the giant carrier, although j the rest of the ships should be completed within two years. Some | house members recommended the carrier be named in i honor of the late defense secretary James ForrestaJ. In addition jb the new fjattop, (Turn Paae Mi) Girl Injured When Struck By Car Here Susan Kay Morgan Taken To Hospital city police Investigated three aver the weekend, one-of them resulting In the Injury of four yeanold Busan Kay Morgan, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, John Morgan, of. :<io Bjoufh Eleventh fftreet. The child was seriously Injured when she ran’ln front of the curt driven by Robert Mrtsger, of 346 South Third street. Hhe suffered a concussion. IniiuiiH-iiiblo contusions and abrdsion* after slip had bvi tt carried about tMccl from the place of impact, 1 According to witnesses, the child darted in front of the car, and when Me.tager veered to keep from striking her, she continued in the car's path. Hhe was hoisted onto the front lender, then carried the distance before rolling off. Rendered unconscious, the child Was rushed to the Adam* county memorial hospital, where first examinations disclosed the belief there were no broken bones, most especially no skull fracture. > However, further, more extensive examinations and X-rays will be conducted to fully determine the extent of injuries suffered by the dhild. I ' ‘ \ Police. iiivestfgated also the hit and run accident which occurred when a car rainmed into the parked car of Robert Jauregui, of 104 Mlepers street, then proceeded without stopping. The other accident investigated occurred at the Monmouth road bridge when a car driven by Mrs. John Aughenbaugh, of Fort Wayne, ind a tractor driven by Marvin Decker, of route 1, collided at the bridge entrance. Total damage was' estimated at ?600. Two other accidents, collisions between cars driven by Richard Young, of route 1, Monroe, and Harold Salway, route 1, Monroevilla. at Five Points; and another when cart driven by Margaret Walters, route 3, and Don Jeffries, 26 Homestead, collided in the 100 block of Monroe street, were re-1 ported toclty police. !■ ■ ■ x ■
~r — Government To Ask Indictments In RFC Probe J' Prejury, Conspiracy, ' Fraud Indictments Ta Be Asked Os Jury . Winhlngton. M»> 12 (UP) Attorney general J. Howard Mr tlrath disclosed today that the government will seek perjury, COO Jplracy and fraud Indictments in ■the RFC investigation. I McGrath's disclosure was contjaiped In letters filed In federal district court as a special grand I Jury went to work. He named jtjwo special justice department lawyers to assist In trial of canes i which may arise from the grand Jury’s work. \ iThe grand jury wan summoned day to look into evidence on Bconptruction Finance Corp, loan 1 policies turned up in a long Lnves-1 tigation by a senate banking ' subcommittee under Sen. J. Wil-] Fulbright, D., Ark. T|e subcommittee's investigation was still In progress. | | McGrath said his department Was informed that persons as yet unknown broke laws: ‘‘By testifying falsely under oath; by knowingly and wilfully falsifying, concealing and, covering up by tfick, scheme and device, material facts fl and by making false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation®." The letters also said the un- ( named persons also broke laws J “ t>y conspiring to commit and to defraud the United States, and have violated other criminal laws p7 the United States and have conspired to do so." . ? ' Statutes cited by McGrath included a perjury law carrying a njaximum penalty of five years in Jt.ll and a 12,000 fine; and a fraud and con; piracy law under which egch conviction could bring up to five in Jal! and a 110.000 flpe. " J x . • Huntingburg Autoitt Is Fatally injured . ‘ Huntingburg, ind. March 12 (tip) /Service* ware planned today for/(’orl Waad, 43, who died in H|ork hospital here of head injuries suffered Saturday night when hl|g auto ran off Ind. 45 about one Mud (foe-half miles south of here State police said then accident was not discovered until two hours, »f|ter It occurred Drink Os Kerosen? Is Fatal To Child I 18-Month-Old Girl Dies Saturday Night Mary Graber, 18-months-ol daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben R. Graber, two and one-half miles southeast of Geneva, died a* midnight Saturday night at her home after drinking a quantity of! kerosene about eight hours earlier. The child, after indicating to hemother that she wanted a drink, of water, picked up a cup which contained kerosene and drank a quantity of it before being notice'’ by! her mother. She was giver treatment by a physician and then returned to her home. Surviving are the parents and four brothers David, Christian Reuben and ' Amos, and thre sisters, Leah, Lydia and Anna, ail at home. v Funeral services were held this afternoon at the residence, the Rev. Sam Hilty officiating. Burla* Wais In the Amish cemetery in I Wabash township with 4ne Yager I funeral home conducting the rites ■ H A '| ' . ' ' ’ . . ! . .. : • ! f ' '
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Report Signs Reds Also Abandoning Seoul, Threatened ; By Flanking Drive Tokyo, March 12.—(UP)-- The Communist resistance collapsed along the 70>mile Korean central front today and Reda fled headlong toward the 33th parallel. . Aerial lobservera signs that the Communiats also were abandoning the former capital rliv Os Heoul, threatened :by ah allied flunking drive to the cast Nine UN dlytoioos reported calks of up io three miles as they moved raiitlously north skHrg the central front In the wgke of fleeing Chinese apd Korean Rede They advanced at will v '■ : Tank and Infantry task forces darted within sight of the big enemy base of Hotigchon and tM strategic east-central Korean crossroads town of Changpyong.. Vanguards were within 24 miles of the 38th parallel. Moat of the advancing UN columns reported "no contact" with the enemy. The rest reported only sporadic fyom enemy rear guard*. i There were ominous reports that ‘ the Reds wefe digging in along a line anchored. On Hongchon, some 20 miles south of the 38th parallel for a new sthnd by possibly ! 00,000 troops. But front dlvpatehes told o' nothing but enemy retreats. United Press war correspondent William Burson reported from the east-central front: “Reds who Vrere concentrating formidably here three days ago turned into headlong flight toward the 38th parallel. American and South Korean Infantry scored smashing successes all along the ■ 40-mlle-wide sector. "Only on the road to Changpyong did UN troops encounter anything resembling organized resistance, and there only sporadic small arms and machinegun 'fire was met. “A U.S. 7th division unit captured mile-hlgh Mt, Taemi and its once Impregnable entrench' inent* Without firing a shot. “The bloodies* victory completed the cross-country conquest of eastcentral Korea's most forbidding mountain wilderness." \ - South Korean tr<>op» seised Hoks*. final junction for roads lead Ing notifi to the 38th parallel and east to ths coast. The Reds bad abandoned It Three hill* farther west also were\captured without opposition. An Rtb army communique report cd that UN ground forces yesterday i killed, captured ur wounded 3.030,enemy troops yesterday. \ K That upped total enemy casukltie* in the first five days of the allied offensive to some 34.500-In eluding 1,700 inflicted by the allied dlr forces. \ Lt. Gap. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of UN ground forces iu Korea,.said the Bth army was kill Ing, wounding or capturing more than SO Rml troops for every .silled issualty. He indicated, thst his forces were heading for the 38th parallel— old boundary between North and South Korea. r ' If the war In Korea should end St the old border, he ssld. It would be “k tremendous victory for the United Nation*.” But he added that be know bf no plan to end the wsr it the parallel. In the air, -two Russian-built • MIG-15 ertemv/ jet fighters were destroyed late today when they cob ided as they attempted to follow n FBO shooting star through a Ight turn during an air battle over be Sinuiju aria of northwest 'orea. At least four more MiG's were hit by machine-gun fire in the Ifr minute fight between four shooting ?tars and 16 enemy jets. Thirty other MIG-15s challenged 12 American FB6 Sabre jets in the same area earlier in the day. INDIANA WIATHER Cloudy with snow tonight and Tuesday. " Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 2530 north, 2P32 south. High Tuesday 2a 33.
