Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1951 — Page 1

Vql. XLIX. No. 61.

200,000 UN TROOPS SURGE ACROSS KOREA

1 ! ~ House Group Rejects Ban On Men To Europe Rejects Motion To Make Congressional Consent Necessary Washington. March 13 - (URHThe house armed services conirnTlx tee ioday rejected a motion to bar ||Senqirig troops to Europe without L ' prior consent of congress. The vote v was?2l to 14. Harry L. Towe. R., NJ-, offeied the motion as an amendi J men| to appending bill to loweri-the draf| age from 19 to 18 ft. 'The committee did not take final action on the draft bill. ' Tcjwe’s amendment followed closely a proposal by'the house Republican policy committee, which wan|s congress to have the f|nal saw con sending troops to Europe. The amendment would bar ‘assigninent of,any serviceman within . 1 thenext 12 months to any north Atlan tic pact nations except Great Britain and= Iceland, unless coni'.grekri by concurrent resolutions api j>rov|d.the transfer in advance. Republican backers of the troop amendment expect to offer it again wheri, the draft bill conies up in the house. Tojve’s proposal was not debated*. As’the committee neared the end of work bn if% compromise draft , and Universal training bill, commit-, \ tee’chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., ■ announced that he will ask the g'rouß.not write in any-limit on the nb.ml|er of troops which this country may put in uniform. Th& senate has voted to limit | ' ■ military strength to 4.000,000 men. ~ Vinstm had endorsed this limit, To- j . day, iiOweVer, he said he would ask the committee to leave it out. He said “world conditions are, such [that the psychological effect (of any 1 imitation) on the rest of the world would be bad.” ■ | i Vltfson told reporters also he will moveito increase from, three to five i years, a proposed time limit on | draft! sections of the measure. Hei ad det that he will ask the committee ti knock out a proposed clause y unde* which congress, at any t(me and s rithout approval of the president, icould shut off a post-emerg-1 ency ; program of universal training. ! Thi committee adjourned before, it go ,to a proposal by southern! Drimc eratiri members to write into' tlje J d raft bill a segregation clause. Prest mably this will come up toihbrn w. Meanwhile .the southern benic erats are scrambling for votes ' 'l. ~i . -dp- —— t Eric Johnston And I Unibn Heads Confer Wage Stabilization I tup Is Discussed fngton, March 13 — (UP) — ilngton, March 13 —(UP)—' lie stabilizer Eric A. Johnst again with top upion offi►day to disctiss a new wage ation board setup amid rehat Labor and management >ry close ' to settlement, iton (conferred with a delefrom the united labor, polimittee. , igement officials — reprethe Chamber of Commerce, il Association of Manufacand the commerce departbusiness advisory council to see. Johnston this aftetnoon, I Onei industry official told a reporter he thought a settlement was ‘'very close”, on the basis of ' a compromise proposed, by Johnston hist week. The wpul(| give an 18-member wage board f limited jurisdiction over, dis- ■ | (Turn To .'*■*» Flvr» RED CROSS > JJL BLOODMOBILE Monday, Mar. American Legion : " Home \ -4—— . Indiana Weather Show tonight and Wednes- • days Not much change In temperature. *■ Winds becoming \ qulfe strong by Wednesday. Lovf tonight 28 to 32. High . Wednesday 28 to 33, b ; -- ■ ;u '

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Greenglass Paid | To Leave Country • / Gtyes Testimony In J Russian Spy Trial | ' i j! New York, March 13 (UP|Former army sergeant David Gre§nglass testified in federal court today that ,hli br<jther-iri-l|w gave him 55,000 to get out of tjlie country last year when British scientist Dr. Klaus Fuchs coqfe|s- ; ed their atomic spying for Russia. He said he was instructed to ■ take his family to Mexico aind contact the Soviet embassy • That was to have been the; starting point of \a secrecy sliroudfed ■ journey which would have landfed him. behind the Iron Curtain, he ' added. 1 Greenglass said his hrother-jn-law, Julius Rosenberg, 34, was the man in"'the Soviet spy rihg who supplied him with funds arid instructions for fleeing the couiritry. - . 1 t Rosenberg, his wife Ethel, 3.6. whri is GreengUfJs’ sifter, arid electronics engineer Morton Sobell are on trial for their livls,. charged with spying for Russia jn wartime. If convicted could be sentenced to death. j Greenglass said Rosenberg can|e to him in February. 1.350, a few days after Fuchs was arrested jri England. ' | Rosenberg asked him* if he ribmembered the man who picked i|p atomic bomb data from him in Al--N. M., Greenglass said. 'The man Harry Gold, cdpj fessed member of the spy ring who l is now serving a prison v“Julius said Fuchs wafc also odie of this man’s contacts and thjit the man undoubtedly .would be ar- ‘ rested," Greenglass (said. “Julius said I would have |o leave the country and that he would get money, for me from the Russian< ! Greenglass said Rosenberg gavlp him SI,OOO then, and told him to hea.d fur the -border of Mexico i where he was to pick up tourist ! i permits. , ii ! I Greenglass said he memorized ! (Turn To Pnurr Five* Susan Kay Morgan Is | Reported Improving b Susan Kay Morgan, four-year : olld j daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .Tohh Morgan, of 310 South Eleventh I street, Was reported “resting I fprtably” in the Adams county memorial hospital whery she was taken Sunday after boihg struck I I by a. car when she darted into the ' I street near her home. Her physL I jcian said there was a slight fraeft jure of the collar bone, blit otheri wise the child was “doing fine” Gross Income Tax Collections Higher . Indianapolis, March 13U-(UP)->I Conn J. Sterling, director of thri Indiana gross income division, | said today collections for the month of February indicated a record high in tax collections foi ithis year. v j February collections amounted to $16,585,174, compared with $10,018,006 for February, 1950, hri said. , ; j « „ ; u \ : || Otto S. Sales Dies Early This Morning : j Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Otto S. Sales. ,64. native of Adami counly, died at 5 o’clock this morning at, the Wells county •hospital after ahong illness of cancer. He Was born in Adah™ countV May\l4, 1886, a son of Siiheon and Rachel: Bates-Sales. A farmer, hit resided in Adams bounty until hiß second marriage in 1941,, when his moved to a farm one-half milje south of Keystone. His wife? Magi gie, died in September of last year. Surviving are four stepchildrbni Mrs. Mildred Green of Arizona, Mrs. Naomie Burres of Farmland, Mrs. Violet Murray of California and Harvey Walters of Knightstown; a brother. Benjaipin Sale? of Asnley, O. A nephewj Carlton Sales, lives at Linn Grove. ' 1 Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Walker bhaphl at Montpelier, with buridl in thb Alberson cemetery in Wells county. . Friends may call at the funeral home 6 p in. Wednesday. ; t■■ 1 :■ ' 'I. ■

- - - - , -' . - Query Gambler Costello Over ' ' "I Naturalization Crime Committee Continues Hearing In Federal Court New YoidbxMarch 13. - (UP) — Senate crime investigators questioned gambler - Frank Costello about his naturalization papers today in an apparent attempt to show false statements which could make him, liable for deportation. Sen. Charles W. Tobey. R., N.H., said that if Costello had broken the law's vQf the United States and at a later date applied for citizenship under false pretenses. “I suspect he would be liable for deportation as an undesirable and falsifier.” Costello was the chief witness as the crime committee opened the second day of its widely-heralded hearings before television and Newsreel cameras in a kleig-lighted federal courtroom. \ The suave, unsmiling witness refused to appear op television and the comibittee airbed he could sit outside the camera’s range. The rest of the principals pt the hearing still were being televised. Costello's request that radio broadcasting be turned off during his testimony was rejected. Rudolph Halley, chief counsel for the committee, questioned Costello about of names other than his own, about conviction prior to his application for citizenship, and about'the identity of character witnesses, who attested for him on his naturalization application. One of the character! witnesses was a Harry Saucer, who was listed as being in the real estate business. Halley then produced a record of testimony given by Costello before the New York state liquor authority in 1947 in Which he allegedly named a Harry Saucer as ‘ thp person, who ran liquor from ! Canada to the United States for ■ him prohibition. - ' Costello denied that the two meii were the same and maintained that he had been in the liquor business only during the later! years of prohibition. “Could you have been in the liquor business in 1922 and 1923?" Ha’leyV asked. “No. I doubt it,” Costello said. Costello asked Halley to tell him who he had named as his liquor smuggling associate in the 1947 I hearing because “1 just don’t rie- ► member.” ’~ . Halley said “your an?w«r was; ‘he is dead. A fellow named Harry Saucer I .’ v ■- — “Could that have been the Saucer (T-ris Tn Paue Eiahtl Ministers Discuss Military Chaplains Discussion Held By I Ministers Monday j The Adams county ministerial association, meeting Monday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in this city, discussed “the call of the militariy chaplaincy.” ' ' ' ; ’ Formef army -and air corps chaplains, the Rev. Lawrence Norris and the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander, led the discussion, based on an outline of positive and negative factors for consideration-. The need for sincere chaplains by young men and women away from home was emphasized, as was the value to the ministry of young pastqrs. Difficulties and dangers were faced, such as: separation from family (no worse for chaplain than for kny other married man); low moral tone! of surroundings; shock of meeting some chaplains who think of themselves as officers instead of ministers; and the occasional opposition \or indifference of a hard commanding officer, against which the chaplain has recourse through the 'chief chaplain in Washington. From the iring .discursion, it would appear that the considerations far outweighted the negative. [. ' < The next meeting of the cdunty ministers will! be held at rihe First Mennoniie church in Berne April 16.' with I the discussion subject to be “Can we minister to the unchurched.” ;

i. Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 13, 1951.

— . Bigwig Commy Released _ EUGENE DENNIS, secretary general (it the Communist party in America is greeted by his wife and son asjhe was released from Federal House of Detention in New York. Sirime 100 admirers were qq hand a? he ended his year’s sentence—minus 00 for good behavior -for contempt of congress. *

Approve Four More S’ ' ■ " V. . ■ Divisions To Europe . Senate Committees Send Bill To Floor \ - Washington.' March 13.— (UP)— Two major senate committees today unanimously approved sending four additional American ground divisions into the\ Atlantic' pact army, but insisted that congressional approval should be obtained before any more are, sent. The action by the senate foreign relations arid armed services committees sent the explosive troopsforEurope Issue fb the senate floor. Debate may begin on Thursday. By an 11 to 13 vote committees rejected a proposal by Sen. J. William fe'ulbright. D.. Ark., to strike from the troops resolution a demand that “congressional .approval" be obtained before any troops—aside, from the four additional divisions now contemplated —are, sent to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s international command. The house armed services committee, considering a draft bill, meanwhile beat down a Republican policy committee proposal that' no troops be seht to Europe without the piibr consent of congress. The house ctommiitee vote was' 21 to :14. But more will be heard about the issue in the house as well as the senate. Senate foreign relations chait* man Tom Connally. D., Tex n said thrit today's decision by v the senate committees constituted “a clear cut approval” of President Truman’s i plans to send ! four more ground divisions to Euroe, to join the two already there; in the mutual defense forqe. "That was the big issue.” Connally told a news conference. “This action ought to be encouraging to Gen. Eisenhower and to his collaborations with the military forces of western Europe. It removes any doubt whatriver\thht these four divisions will tgo tz> Europe.” Connally rsaid that he reserved the right dp the senate floor to strike from; the proposal? the demand for as congressional voice in any future troop committment.

Planning Full Schedule Os Recreation Activity

The promise of a full schedule ip the city’s six playgrounds was , forecast today by Steve Everhart, 1 who usually officiates during the summer oyer the vakt net'work of assembled playground equipment, when\he said that plans ate being undertaken to complete each bark’s inventory. <■ He said that more new equipment is scheduled toi be delivered at several of the parks, to augment the j merry-go-rounds pnd slides placed there last summer. The playground equipment is obtained through the ' Red Feather campaign, from funds derived from the Community Fund. It is one pf the many services conducted by the fall campaign for the recreational advantages of the boys and girls of the city. The city maintains six playgrounds, ohe at Hanna-Nuttman park, another at Memorial park, at the south ward playgrounds, in J ■ ■ I' ' '

Four Children Burn To D|ath In lowa Hardy, 1a.,, March 13. -(UP) — Four children burned to death today in <i’a fire at the home of Mr. and Mii. Merrill Vickroy. The ictimis, children of the were Susan, 4t Becky. i 3; Ann| 2, and Merrill, 1. 3 Tw lolder eHildrien, Gary and Keith. |scaped. of the'fire was not immediately determined. I' I Sale $n Delinquent Taxes Set April 9 ' I ■; . - ■ Notices Mailed To Property Owners f are being prepared for mailingi’this week to those persons ► whose ;|p>perty hhq been declared i sufficiently delinquent to be sold • at publit-auctibn.. according to auditor Thwrman I Drew, whose office the delinquent list. I Deinqpt ney is determined on property oqii which no taxes have been paid during a 15 month period end- . ing Decsmf>er fll 1950, The 'fi|tle 0$ such ' property will he qomiricted <by county treasurer ' Ribhardf' D. Lawton from the court house steps April 9. ' ' Next AlAi(I =»y the complete list of property owners will’ bb published for the first time. The publicatijpn ot : such lists will run three cqritsecu’jve weeks. There were two such’ properties in 1950. The dally auction continues until such/time as a bidder fceets the demands of the delinquent taxes. Subsequent to the sale; the property owner is allowed a! specified time to make good his? and retrieve the pro»perty before , the deed changes hands, a “i - I 1 \ d Ossiah Trucker .Is Killed In Accident ■ ■ —Willlarii Robert Herbst. 30, Ossian, 4ibd of a broken neck last night when his truck ran off Ind. 15 and riit a tree after losing a front wheel, state police reported today.

it Worthman field, and on, the waterworks property. i In addition to these, the McMillen Industries maintain a separate park ne»y the Central Soya company. ■ 'l' . v The parks will be opened officially in June, Everhart said, but workers fare getting the equipment placed early in preparation for the . summer’s program. For the young, children there will' be merry-gd-rounds and slides at practicably all of the playgrounds. Fqr older youths, the city offers a planned program of base'ball and handicrafts, all offered under the tutelage ■ of experienced [instructors. There will be horseshoe \contei|ta arranged, as in past years, and a full program is being readied for.. the anticipated influx of youthful park patrons. Staffs for the Worthman field playground and field activities will be announced Jater in the spring, it was announced. • 4T .A?, ■ .

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!' ' ■ Killer Billy Cook Enters Guilty Plea Kidnap-Murderer Os Carl Mosser Family Oklahoma City, March 13.—(UP) —Killgr riilly Cook today pleaded guilty to the of the Carl Mosser family of Atwood, lIL, and federal judge S. Chandler said he will order a sanity hearing for the 23-year-old bad man. Chandlef accepted the plea with reservations. 1 “I can force him to withdraw his plea if I f|nd him incompetent,” hq said. The switch from a plea of innocent to guilty had been anticipated in some quarters as an attempt by defense attorneys to, save Cook from the qlectric chair. However, Chandler’s decision today, riid not rule .out the death penalty. Evidence against the former Missouri convict copld still be presented to m a jury to dqtqrmine his punishment. Chandler said he wants the sanity examination to determine whether Cook is mfentall'y capable of entering the plea. The short, droopy-eyed ex-con-rict already has ' undergone one sanity test at the request of his courbappointed attorneys, John Connally and Gomer Smith. But 1 when the findings of Dr. Hugh Galbraith were ready to be presented * in Court, th!e, defense lawyers changed their tactics and withdrew their' motion. TJiey explained , they felt the findings would not keep him ► fro-m having tp face a jury trial. U.S. attorney. Robert E. Shelton has said he will insist on a jury trial in order td send Cook to the I chair under the federal Lindbergh; kidnap The bodieri of the five Mossers were in an abandoned mine shaft near Joplin. Cook was ca> tured ,in Mexico Jan. 14 after aj , nationwide search. He admitted ‘ killing '(he Mo:- sers but -later repudiated his confession and pleaded innocent. Armed Robbery At Service Station , Dan Zhnmerman Isp • Victim Os Holdup i Dan Zimmerman, of route 4, on duty at the D and T service station, 13th apd \ Monfoe streets, was r obbed of $36 at gun point today. ' The ,robber jr was reported to city police about 3 a.m., shortly after its occurrence. • Witnesses to the latter stages of the robbery, Vjames Kitchen, Jr„ and Miss Violet Judge, drove into he station shortly before .the robber’s car left. The getaway car was driven by a woman, and headed ; eastward in its escape. The car bore 1950 Ohio license plates KSA 857,.which were stolen from a car owned by James Rominger, of Youngstown, O. City po-V 'lce checked with Ohio authorities who notified them that Rominger ias 1951 plates on his car and had' reported the theft of the 1950 plates to Ohio State police. > Zimmerman described the robber as swarthlly complexioned, with a crew haircut, full face, and about five feet eight inches in height. Reconstructing the holdup, Zimtrierman said man came into the station, pointed an alreadydrawn automatic pistol at him, -and ordered him to open the cash register; At that time Kitchen drove into the station, and the robber ordered Zimmerman to lower bls hands and be seated. Complying with this, the man walked but of the station, stood there for a moment, long enough to obtain a description, then got in the car which made the getaway.Police in Surrounding counties and states Were notified to be on the lookout for the \»air driving al lOyear-old Studebaker. I

RFC Probers Say Objective Is Attained Chairman Sees No Need Os Dragging Out More Hearings 'Washington, Mar. 13 — (UP) — Chairman J. William Fulbright said today the senate RFC subcommittee has achieved its objective and “nothing constructive” would be gained by dragging out the “influence” hearings. His stand ww disclosed as the justice department moved in to start perjury fraud prosecutions on the basis \of evidence turned up by the, Arkansas Democrat's subcommittee and the RFC itself began steps to put its house in Order. 4 Fulbright said tKat “w'e’ve done about all we can do” to prove that the subcommittee’s report of “favoritism and influence” in the Reconstruction Finance Corp, was not asinine as Truman charged. , RFC chairman Y. Elmer Harber Asked RFC examiner Hilton Robertson to submit a “full explanation, in Writing” of how he and his family 1 were “complimentary" guests fOr 10 days of the swank Saxony hotel in Miami Beach, for which ,he had recommended an RFC loan. sr Harber said Robertson “understood he should explain”, the free lodging. \ ! | He also announced that Eugene Kelly, RFC public information adviser since Feb. lSfhas ended his services with the lending agency. Harber said Kelly, who earned SSO a day with the RFC, had “finitshed the work; he started to do. which was to advise»us on setting up a public relations department." Harber also said t,hat James C. Windham, inember of the RFC’s Detroit advi ory committee!, should resign immediately. The RFC subcommittee had reported that Windham “has taimen , a more extensive interest in the loans and other business of RFC than his ; duties . . . woiild require or jus|tify.” RFC director Walter Dun«ham, also bf , Detroit, accused 1 Windham last wbekl of “using" | him in the agency’s activities. Fulbright said he plans to outline to the senate within lhe next few days his view that congress and the administration should be lTu-n Tn Pn«re \ Miss Lilly M. Gates Dies Monday Night < Funeral ! Thursday Afternoon * ■ I > Miss Lilly M. Gates, 65, of Wren, 0., died at 8t35 o’clock Monday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. Sh*e had been ill with heart trouble for, several years. ) She had been employed as a nurse’B aide at the Van’Wert, O.; hospital. Born near Wren, Jan.\2o, 1886, shb was a daughter of David S. and Amanda. Gates, and was a lifelong resident of the Wren community. , t x She was /a member of the Pleasant . View Baptist church, north of Wren. Only near surviving relative is a cousin, Mrs. Cal E. Peterson of Decatur. \ ‘ \ Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. (EST) Thursday at the Pleasant View Baptist church, the Rev. O. B. Turner officiating. Burial will be in the, mausoleum at Wren. The body was removed to ithe Black funerq.l home, where I friends may call after 7 o’clock I this evening. ' (

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Seoul Outflanked By UN; Expect Stand By Communists On New Defense Lines Tokyo, March 13—(UP)—Nearly 200,(M)0 UN troops surged north across Korea today in a virtually unopposed ,general advance that outflanked Seoul, engulfed Changpyong and threatened ihe big Chinese base of Hongchon. , > Chinese and Korean Reds, staggered by the loss of an estimated 38,000 men in six days, melted away in front of the allied tanks and infantry. But the Communists were expected to attempt a new stand along a line anchored on Hongchon 21 miles south of the 38th parallel. More than 1,500 enemy vehicles were spotted last night rushing supplies and reinforce* ments south toward the new line. An Bth army communique tonight reported that the UN forces ' advanced/ with “little or no enemy contact,’ 4 The Bth ( army was cautiously i taking up the slack between its : majn forces and the vanished I Reds, on gdard agaipst any sud- ». den Communist counter-offensive ► that might 6pl|t its line , and force iit into retrbatk I However, one U. S. 25th division ■ tank-tnfantry task force on the -western flank Jgghed out four - miles yesterday and reached the ► enemy’s > Seoul-Chjinchon supply ’ highway some 20 miles northeast : of Seoul and 24 miltes south of the 38th parallel. It met no enemy troops. , The thrust carried, past ’ Seoul’s eastern defenses and outflanked the city itself. Although aerial ob* servers had reported sigps that the Reds were bulling out of Seoul, a U. S. 3rd division patrol which Drobeb across the Han river just “outheast of the city found the outskirts heavily guarded bY sentries. ' ' \V- | Three LN divisions were clbsing itn on Hongchon. 47 ml>pq east northeast of Seoul. Vanguards were wi’hin one mile of the Hongchon river Southwest of the city ’’nd four miles south of the city itself. ' ■ ‘ Hongchon is an important communications hub and headquarters of the Chinese 66th army. The U. S. Ist cavalry division drove within flvb miles wesi c outhwest of Hoqgchon along the highway from Yongdu against stf | ibrn’ Chinese rearguard resistance yesterday, on the cavalrymen’s flank advanced within, five miles south southwest of Hongchon without opposition and patrols pushed another mile nearer the city. \ Still farther east, the South Korean 6th division and the U. S. Ist marine dfylslon advanced within five miles south and southeast of Hongchon respectively. Marine patrols were in hills overlooking Hongchon. \ The U. S. 2nd division on the east-central front wiped out a Communist roadblock and rolled on into the town of Ydong,’ 14 * tTare To six) LATE BULLETINS Washington, March 13—(UPj ’—The senate today passed and sent to the house a stop-gap rent control bill to Extend the existing lavr until June 3G Washington, March 13—(UP) —The house today overwhelmingly rejected President Truman's request for emergency , power* to reorganize federal agencies. Griand Rapid*, Mich., klerch 13.—(UP)L- Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R,, Mich., was reported ! “sinking” today and his condition was considered “serious” by his personal phy■ician. “Unless a favorable change occurs soon, hi* condition must \ be considered grave/’ Dr. A. B. Smith, the 6&year-old\senator's doctor, said.