Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 65.

REPORT REDS HALTING AT 38TH PARALLEL

Soviet Union' Accuses West Os War Moves Bitter Propaganda { Blast Is Issued At Meeting Os Deputies PaJls. Mar. 17 — (UP) — The Soviet Union accused the western powers today of ’ deliberately preparing to unleash a new war'* agatW the east. Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei A. Gromyko maxle a bitter propaganda J blast against the United States, Britain and France ate th# 12th meeting of the big four deputies who are trying to aitree on an agenda for a fullanile foHign ministers conference, •Gromyko monopolised most of the meeting. He made it clear ttip Soviet** major objective is to <«i th* west to drop its plans for rail rm lug Qerminy. /’Tbs Soviet governmenl does . not hide til* |act that it condemns , wiatarn on, rearmament of Gfrmiiny. which seeks to under* mine peace l>y preparing for ihe b. ur|)*ita)ilng ofa new war," he said. fWliat to needed for peace Is not r» ai thu mont . race and no rearmament of Germany — rather, the opposite. ••The western powers are deliberately preparing for a new war. byf-recreating a German army and a German war Industry.” I Gromyko .referred time and again to the all four powers assumed at the Potsdam conference demilitarize Germdpy. ‘^phyioualy,’’’ he said, "the Soviet government considers that these obligations of the four power# must be fulfilled now during these preliminary talks and also during any subsequent council of foreign ministers meeting.” He did not elaborate, but the remark was considered an ominous) sign as], far as a foreign ministers meeting* is concerned. The western powers have said, repeatedly they will not change their policies. British delegate Ernest Davies repeated the pledge today when he said: do not change policies The policies of the western powers were stated clearly in the exchange of notes with Russia. They, stand. The. policies of the west stand and can not be changed ijby any agendas.” U. 8. delegate Philip C. Jessup replied to Gromyko briefly tn a statement charging that the Soviet] delegate’s speech contained “a large number of false and misI leading statements.” ' . ji ;y ' — — •' ■ Noon-Time Services As Presbyterian Church "Ths Narretlveot the Day", will he‘told ip Grat "person, present vlvjd ieftaa, mm ' worMhlpperw at FlflH 1 ITeabyierlan church taka . h*tf ah hour each ita, Monday .fhrtmgta Thursday, next week,, to jlv* again with Jesus and llto DiiWlplea In meditation. The pastor the events of the week, and re colled requests "to make them vivid again \ without haste that hearers might again vicariously experience those humble but world-shaking incidents of the Saviour’s Passion. Because of the silence of Wednesday in the New Testament] Monday will tell the events of- the firpt day of the week. Palm Sunday. Thursday win tell itis own story.” Before, each noonday worship en|s- at 12:45 sharp, there will have been time for hymnsof the passion, sl|ent meditation while th# organ plays, and prayer. \ y ; Good Friday, beginning at noon, all. Protestant churches worshio together In the union service at Ziqn Evangelical and Reformed church, Third and Jackson streets. Th* Good Friday speaker is the ®e'Y- Ware .W. Wimberly, D.D., pastor of the F|rst Presbyterian chdreh in Wabash. \ f A '? 1 ' - " ■ - -

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Crime Hearing In Recess To Monday Ex-Mayor O'Dwyer Slated To Testify New .York, March it-r-(UP),— The&enate crime committee recessed for the v r eekend today after billing former nayor William, O’Dwyer and boss rteketeer Frank Costello as co-star, witnesses tor a promised Slam-bang hearing next Monday. ( Sen. Estts Kefauvqr,JD:, Tenn., t scheduled a Washington conference . to take ac lon on preparing poV > Rlble perjurv and contempt charge* against the recalcitrant Costello . and perjurj action against fellow , New York tacketeejr Lou to Weber. ~ O’Dwyer, now to , Mexico, fie v hack from Mexico , City last 1 night to sweat out the weekend but kept mum on what he planned to fell the crime investigators He lud "no cmnment’’ test ; night on ytslrrday's testimony in which one of hto former deputy fire commiaitluneni and Hbs« friend, James Moron, said O'Dwyer once visited Coal silo In hto apni tment, Ccmtelio, vho faces threes possible Stations foi hto .refusal to answer committee lurstlons. hup u date with a doctor to tiatertnlpe the extant of the "Isryngiito" which has reduced hto volt e to tj whisper, Th»» doctor, appointed by th* coptmlttee after It reject nd repblrts from two o’ Costello's physicians, will report on the state of hto vocal , cords at Monday's session O’Dwyer to appearing at his own request to aid the committee In finding the dirty llneh that hung in New York’s backyard during his years as mayor and Brooklyn district attorney. It appeared possible that the two' headlined witnesses might meet, face to face before a breathless audience. ,a Albert Anastasia, “lord, 'high executioner” of Murder, Ihc., and \Moran also Were scheduled for ap-\ pearances. It promised to be the, hottest session yet. The committee’s investigation into law enforcement in Saratoga. N.Y., apparently would go by the boards after yesterday’s session failed in An Apparent attempt to pin responsibility for "wide open" gambling on Gov. Thomas .E. ' [. ■ ' I ' - Report New Fiareup Os Berlin Cold War Westerrt Military Trains Are Halted Berlin, Mar. 17— (UPr - The Russians refused, to permit three wester# military trains jtb cross the Soviet zone of Germany to Berlin today in a, new fiareup of the cold war.; { • j v , Russian offh ialb wld Hint - in the fujure only Hi western mill tury \ freight and pagsenger Hraliis would be permitted tp —Operate dally over Im i i<> niile\dj ip aapuratlng West. <leniui|iy andiwlln The pa*aengerg o# the tinr> i’ jn iiimv ituiic-., In from liremorhuven to Itorllm wpr«)\forch oil Io ght off al lh’hitol»'<|i, a znn Ml border M’h<#’kpofnl Th© pasrengtoii caught a non-mllltary train going t<j lle'rlln form Frankfurt and finished the trip without Interference. A rate of Ifi military trains per day was net in 1945 widen the. four powers established p regulations oh the international coorrldor. Until .today, |he Russians relaxed regulations and allowed 19 trains through 1 dally. Ip 'h Western said the Russian crackdown was an attempt to influence the big four deputies meeting in Paris. ■’/ — -F ; Seek Nationalization Os Oil On Bahrein The National Fron-t pgrty, Iran’s leading advocate of nationalization of oil. today demanded the nationalization of American-oper-ated oil interests on Bahrein island in the Persian gulh ‘ The demand came as the Irah- , tan senate voted 41 "to 1 to refer the proposed nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian, oil company to a special 18-man commission for study over the weekend. The bill was passed unanimously by the lower house of parliament Thursday.

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Holy Week Services At Lutheran Church Special Services To Be Held Next Week A 7Ai>n Lutheranjchurch, Wesl’Mon* roe and Eleventh Htreela, announce'* the * following schedule or service* to be conducted during Holy Week and Easter: Wednesday of Holy Week, the pastor, the Rev'. Edgar P. Schmidt, will receive announcements in the Church at 2, 3. 4. 5,7, and 8 o’clock, for the Maundy Thursday and Easter Communion services. Members desiring to partake of the sacrament are held to announce thdir intention to the pastor op the designated hours. \ : Maundy Thursday a divine service wilj be conducted at 7:30 in the 'evening, at which the institution of the Holy Sacrament will be commemorated and the sacrament also celebrated. The Rev. W J. Sqhdedler> Os Fort Wayne \will preach the Maundy Thursday sermon and will assist t|he pdstor at the celebration of the Sacrament Good Friday, a reading and prayer service will be conducted at 12:30 noon, in which jlhe history of the Passion of Jesus Christ according to the four gospels will be read, and interspersed with appropriate hymns and prayers. This quiet Good Friday noon service is becoming an institution at Zion Lutheran church and is growing in popularity each year. The service lasts* one and one-half hours, 12:30 to 2' p.m. \ Good Friday evening at 7:30 the church will conduct the memorial service of Jesujs’ death, at which i the pastor will conclude hie aeries of Lenten meditations on "King Jesus" with the subject, "His Throne—the Croaa." The choir will appear at this service. . (Uaster Bunday, two festival services will ba conducted ai the usual |>ours of wot ship: 8 and 10:30 o’clotk Holy Gemmunlop will be) velebrnted at both these aervlcea. the choir will sink at both these worship servlccif. A Mpcclul children’s Kester prograin mid seryh'b will be conducted for the children of t|ie Sunday school during the Sunday school hour, 9:15 to 10:15 o’clock. The children’s festival hour will center about t|ie screening of a film strip showing tho death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Ed Bauer, super intendent of the school, will be in charge of this service. •The public is invited to all the worship services .conducted by Zion Lutheran church. - Distribute Palms At Church \Sunday Palms will be blessed and distributed at St. Maryls - Catholic church Sunday at the 10:15 high an ass. Ushering in Holy Week, the story of Chrtst’s Passion as related in the gospel by Matthew, will be read at all the Sunday masses on Palm Sunday. There will not be any service Tuesday evening. The Holy Week services open Thursday morning, continuing through Saturday and climaxing with the Easter Sunday ihorning mass. The Three Hours on Good Friday will be observed from 12 to 3 o’clock in private devotions and congregational Way of the Croaa. \

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 17, 1951.

: l I’l ■ —rp Defense Bpnd Sales I Higher In County T, IF. Grailker, chairman of the V. H defense bonds committee fdr Adams county said today that thia county accounted for a tot«U <•: 144,187 17 In defense or "E” bond sales during the month of February. Thia compares with a total of 139,747,22 for February of last year, Qraliket said that 18 out of Indiana's 92 counties reported increases In Defense bonds sales for February over the corresponding month of last \ year, including Adams county. Truman's Deal With Eisenhower Reported Make Ike Available For 1952 Campaign \ Miami, Fla., Mar. 17—(UP) .— NBC commentator Merrill Mueller said today that President Truman made a deal with General Eisenhower to* make the general available for any presidential campaign of 1952. j "The chief executive told , Ike* that one Harry Truman did not want to be accused of exiling a potentially powerful Contender for the honors of the White House," Mueller said in an article written for The Quill published by Sigma Delta Chi. , Muellei'T said Eisenhower me this": in Denver last December. “Ike also told me —in contradiction to'his written replies to my letters over the past five years—that he would run in 1952 if draft-, ed by one of the political parties," Mueller said. Mr. Truman told friends around him In Washington, Mueller added, that Elsenhower could have the presidency If he wanted It and •’Mr, Truman was said to be thinking of a more restful form fit public service as an elder statesman in congress. ’’ lio Haiti since Gov. Thomas K Dewey camo but for 'Klsenhower as president, It has beep no secret that the, Republicans are staklns most of their on the general to put them back in power in 1962. "But they are overlooking an obvious threat, that Ike could juet as easily become the Democratic candidate," he added. < "General Ike will not voluntar-' fly leave Europe; he will be ordered home. As a soldier, Ike still takes orders from his commanderifrehief. - Such orders could quite conceivably be used to make Ike available for the candidacy. “If Mr. Truman sees defeat for, his party with himself in the chief campaigning role, he would hot heeitaje to use a vote getter of Eisenhower’s stature to retain the power of the Democratic party's bureaucracy—and \ incidentally, create Pew powers for himself.” Epperson Is Named As Post Detective Indianapolis March 17 —- (UP> — Technician Charles W. Epper son, Pendleton, has been promotea to Pendleton post detective, state police Supt. Arthur M. Thurston announced /today. Epperson replaces Wijliam G. Spannuth Knightstown, who was given a leave of absence, to become state clemency commission secretary.

r— ! — Accuses Deputy ,Os Planting Evidence Rape-Slaying Trial Becoming Involved Kai ams too, Mich., Mar, 17 — (Up) —The prosecution accused deputy sheriff Frank D„ Carr today df planting evidence to aid the defense in the trial of two farmhands for\ the rape-slaying of a pretty college coed. \ Ahelktdnt prosecutor Gordon Kriekgrd said he may ask that Carr, be declared a hostile witness at the trial of Valorus Mattheis » and' Rae Olson. *2-ybar-old Vicksburg, Mich., youths. • Thetrial, already confused by five : confessions by the defendants, one of which named two Indiana men as the slayers, became more involved yesterday. Defense attorney James Tolhuizeni asked Carr if he had ever found h knife in the car of Robert' Brubaker. 24, Churubusco, Ind. Mattheis had said that a knife was used by Brubaker and Orville Minnick to force him into their auto the night of the slaying. Carr said he had. “Where .is that knife now,” Tdlljuizen asked. Cgrr pulled from his pocket a sheathed hynting knife, Kriekard jumped ip his feet and shouted: "Your planted that knife in Brubaker’s car so you could find it later." ; ■ | Carr denied the charge. He admitted that he had pot given the knife to the prosecution, however. Krlekgrd then told circuit judge Lucien ; F. Sweet that he wanted "to - defemine if this witness (Carr) (a hostile." | Mktthals had caused the arresit of grubaker. his cousin, and MlijniCk< 3L Etna, Ind., three days befOre: the trial opened. Both Brub.skir and Minnick were cleared of the chargee Millhala and Olson have signed , (Tare Tw Feet) .J .1. ' Jm ' Woodburn Man Drowns East Os New Haven i A : - ' r- 1 - Fort Wayne. Ind. JVfarch IT — (DPI — Russell Burke, 62, Woodburns wag drowned Igst night tn the Erie canal two miles east of New. Haven. Edwin Messman 34, Antwerp, 0.. told he was going from New Haven to Woodburn with Burke in an auto and they decided to change drivers. Burke got out of the car and -walked around in' back of it, Messrman said. When he didn’t get into the car on the other side, Messman investigated and found Burke's body in the canal about five feet from the bank. \ Clip ton Man Burns To (Death In Home Clinton, rod., March 17—(UP)— Delbert H. Collier, 45, Clinton, was burned to death today when fire destroyed his four-room home west of hire.' . V'\ . v Collier was alone when the fire etarted. Hl* wife, Lila, and two children were spending the night at her mother’s home nearby. Firemen eaid they had not de tennjned what caused the blaze. \ .'9 : 'T ..

■ •-h ' ' ' Retreating Red Armies Reported As Preparing New Stand Against UN

Britain Will Make Own Atomic Bombs ; To Ask Permission I Foi\ Nevada Tests 11 | London, March 17.—(UP)-— Britain has decided to make her own ajtomic bombs and will ask the linked States for penntoiion to test them In Nevada. Informed source* said today. The ministry of supply refused to confirm or deny the reports. The sources aaid the production plane have he©n haqitod supply minister George Strauss with on ders to begin production Immediately. 7 The decision to make the bomb WH made after lengthy cabinet sessions "in view <>r the interna* thmal situation*' and in line with Britain's «t©pped-up rearmament program. An alVjet bomber reported cap able of carrying the bomb also has been ordered Into productoln. thq sources kald. The Brlttoh service chiefs Want the bomb tested in the Nevada desert, where the U.S. recently tested several bombs, because of limitations imposed by the size of the British Isles. The U.S. atomic energy commission will bp asked for permission to use the site. It is no secret that Britain has the know-how to atom bomba. Sources said the first one to already in tho making and the British experts believe it has a better fuse that the American bombs. The sources did. not say when it would be ready and they did not reveal where it was being tpade. The sources said aCe considering plans to transport the bomb to the U.S. in what is expected to be the most clbsely-guard-ed Atlantic crossing in history. They declined to say whether the crossing would be\made by ship dr plane. \ Huge Narcotics Ring Is Reported Smashed 40 Persohs Arrested In Washington Ring Washingtnq, March 17».—(UP)-r Federal narcotics agents smashed a huge narcotics ring early todaj\ by arresting about 40 peddlers and '•wholesaleVk." The illicit ring fed heroin and marijuana to teen-agers here and to soldiers In army camps in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, Three soldiers st Fort Eustis, Vi,, | were arreated sa the ring's peddlm in the ewlft pre*dswn roundup. \ Agents lirid wstrinto for 52 persons here, ths three soldiers and several dvlltan employes st Fort nu»fto. z Crack undercover agents had Infiltrated the narcotics ring by being Inducted Into army. Two were assigned to \ Fort Bust to, where they contacted the soldierpeddlers and located their Washington “sources." \ Federal officials said It was the "most important” series of narcotic raids in the area in the past ten years l . The crackdown was expected to extend to New York City and Baltimore where the arrested men ad-\ mitted (hey received their supplies, according to authorities. Czqph Clergymen Are Excommunicated Vatican City, March 17.—(UP)— The sacred congregation of the consistory today excommunicated all Czechoslovak authorities connected with the exile of archbishop Josef Beran from Prague, j Also excommunicated were all the Czech clergymen vfrho have adhered to the new "schismatic” Czech Catholic church. The actions were announced to a "declaration" Issued by the scored congregation. '

No Decision Yet To Cross 38th Parallel Await Communist ( Battle Strategy In Warfare In Korea Washington. Mar. 17 —*(UF)TTh© I’nitwd Htates to awaiting disclosure of eoininuntot battle atyatejty In Korea refore making a final decision pu whether UnUsd Nations forcsg should be authorli*L to croat tbs 38lb partllsl again. J ’ . Top-lavel authorities said today that tho» dectoloi on launching an offensive lieyond the border be* North ami South Koreas had not been , made by thto government. Th*. United Staten has plethced full consultation with other UN member nations before MacArthur receives any new orders. Present instructions to field commanders",.are to kill a* many enemy troop* as possible without crossing the 38th parallel In force on the ground. Continuing air and sea strikes deep into North Korea are authorized. \ \The American position was reiterated yesterday at a conference between state department officials and far eastern representatives of nations whose troops are fighting in Korea under the UN banner. The state department said again that MacArthur will pot be authorized to undertake a major offenin North Korea until UN allies had been polled on the pros and cons of 'a new strike on. the ground. ' 1 The final decision, informants' said, appears to rest with the communists. If the Reds are driven back behind the parallel and ■ seek to mount an offensive, the chances are that the United States ' will urge a major UN offensive against enemy troops and supply points. If the communists show no will to continue the fight, then the signal for MacArthur to move may be delayed for some time. This would permit disclosure of any Red peace moves. Strategists continued to wam.i however, that no peace feelers haVe been forthcoming from the communists, who may be planning a new offensive. Secretary of Mata Dean Acheson told, a conference that Rtoi China has spurned All new pauxa propttoAls offgpjM by th* .UN’s good office* conimtozlqn, , Th© nation* Ukfng part |k ye* (Tare «• Pam su t Fjve Men Killed As Navy Plane Crashes • Twin-Engine Plgne Crashes In Meadow Monroe, La. March 17.—(UP)— A twin-engine navy plane from Pensacola, Fla.,\naval air station \crashed In a meadow at Calhoun, La., jusit before dawn today, killtag five men aboard. I John Turner, an employe at the Louisiana state university extension station at Calhoun said “Wreckage was all over the field and all we could find was pieces of bodies.” , Calhoun is a small farming community 10 miles west of Monroe. State police and CAA officials identified theXwrecked plane as a navy aircraft from Pensacola. State police said they' found five bodies. The crash occurred about 5 a.m. Turner said he heard the plane's engines faltering but couldn't locate the plane in the darkness. Then, he said, he heard a loud crash. ■ .-'U ■ ■

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\ Little Contact Made With Reds; General MacArthur Visits i \ Korean War Front Tokyo, March 17.—(UP)— Re« treating Red armies 200,000 to 250,« 000 strong were reported halting at Korea's 38th parallel today for a Hew stand against advancing UN force*. \h. The bulk of the battered Chlsete and North Korean Communists, have reeled back 30 miles or more In leas than two weeks under massive allied blows.. Only on the central front west and north northwest of captured Hongchon wern the Reds making any attempt to delay the allied pursuit, An gth army communique rto ported heavy small arras, machinegun and mortar fir* there. A company - sized counter-attack was ' thrown back in one sector. j. But the Ith army reported "little . or no contact" with Communtota I anywhere else atottg the 140*mlle . frpnt across Korea. Ito spearheads ( probed cautiously north lees than . 15 mile* from the new Communtot , defenses along the 38th parallel. Gen. Douglas MacArthur paid another flying visit to Korea today to see "my friends, the marineiV’ r on the central front. He jeeped t north of Hongchon within 2,000 yards of the f-ont lines while shells j from massed allied guns in the rear screamed oyer, his head and 1 buret bn enemy positions ahead. "Everything to going Well’,” he ‘ said on his return to ‘ He said there was no significance J to hto visit. Asked if the UN forces Would cross the 38th parallel again, he’smiled and sald: "Fll tell you later.” UN warships and more than 1,000 planes harassed the battered Communists all the way from the ,38th parallel to the Manchurian border area. A Delayed dispatches said one allied naval flotilla alone killed, or wounded 8,000 Communist troops x in two vicious bombardments of the Wonsan area of the east coast Thursday. U 1 The main blow was struck by the light U.S. cruisey Manchester, American destroyer English, Dutch destroyer Evertsen . and three Amekcan frigates. It completely demolished a crowded barraks area. ■ "From 'the vast number of\bodiea seen, it to estimated that at least 6,000 enemy troops were killfkl and' wounded,” a naval communique said. j On the same daft the U.S. destroyed. Lind wga credited with killing or wounding another 2,00 b Reds With direct hit* on a Communist troop concentration at Ring! In the Woh*ap area Womtan, KO miles north of the 3Nth parallel, ha* Iman under naval bombardtu'*ni tor S 3 (Untight >tl aup*rfortr*Mta« p*o*»d to* day’* aerial <rft«h*iv*, Tw*ntyIhre* fort* acored "good to excellanl" reaull* with 13ft tone of bomba on five bridge* 'along the main railroad supply Un© from the Manchurian border to Pyongyang, the Red capital. A sixth bridge at Yonghung on the northeast coast was\ hit by a lone B-29 i On the ground, the Chinese threw elements of their fresh 39th and 40th armies into, delaying actions below Chunchon, 7 % miles south of the 38th parallel yesterday, but , signs increased that the Reds planned no more than rearguard operations until they reach the parallel Itself. INDIANA WEATHER lr Showers and possible thunderstorms south portions thia afternoon and tonight. Snow, sleet or rain beginning north portions this afternoon or tonight. Sunday showers south and snow or sleet north portions. Warmer tonight. Colder in extreme southwest Sunday. Lbw tonight 26 to 32 In nqrth, 36 to 42 Tn south. High Sunday 32 to 36 in north, 38 to 44 in south. \ Noon Edition i J