Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 67.

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Chinese Send Parts Os 3rd Army In Line ; Screen Northward Withdrawal Qf Red / Troops In Korea Tokyo, Wednesday, March 21. — (UP) ~-i Chinese Communist commanders have thrown elements qf their 3rd field army into the liiie in Korea to screen the northward withdrawal of other red troops, front dlspatchers reported today. Two tank-led U. N. columns were reported to be within 12 to 1 14 miles of the 38th parallel. United! Nations troops continued to ?advahce all along the 140-mile front. They met rear guard resistance plainly in the areas north of Seoul and north of Hongchon, on the central front. In general, Bth army troops were less than. 17 miles from the parallel at 11 or jnore points along the line. (Geographical place names which would pinpoint the UN advance were missing from field dispatches, presumably because of censorship. In London, a British government spokesman said U. S. and British officials were conferring on whether allied troops should cross the i 38th parallel.) A new and stricter \ censorship ' , regulation was imposed Tuesday .night on correspondents, but the cehsor refused to pass dispatches explaining Its nature. A dispatch from the western front around sgoul *nFd 11 prisoners have ' bt-.ii raptured from (he 26th army roips of the Chinese Communist i :ti.t field anny, The 3rd field army at last reports was beltig recouped and re-equip-p. .I in Mam milla enter being vrerly nihulrd by marina* and army tniopa l]n fighting uroupd Hungnam In northeast Korea A staff officer said the fetreailmt Chinese were digging In north Seoul and that elements of the 3rd field army were thrown into the 4ine to screen the construction of these new defenses. J The heaviest fighting of the day broke oilt on the central front south of Chunchon, which is only eight miles south of ithe parralel. An armored patrol driving for CKunchbn rap into heavy machinegun and ,mortar fire from Chinese rear guards entrenched in hills on both sides of the road. The patrol returned to its main lihes and after darkness fell the Chinese continued pouring mortax and machinegun fire into' allied lines. Chongpyong' reservoir and its \ hydroelectric plant 24 miles northeast of Seoul were captured virtually intact two days ago, a belated Bth army announcement disclosedThe eifchbmile-long reservoir fur- - nished electr|c power for Seoul. Youth Badly Hurt In Knife Battle i. Indianapolis. March 20. -(UP) Ernest Wayne Crpven, 20, was In critical condition today kt General hospital after a knife fight In n mortuary. ' ' Police held Paul W. Taylor 19. bn a charge Os assault and battery with Intent t<> kill following the bloody fight last night. Both men worked part fhne as attendants at the mortuary and described them as • the bo#t of friends." They both attended Join Herron Art Inatitutu | ; • Elkhart Man Killed In Auto Accident i Elkhart Ipd., March 2tr — (Up) --Homdr Lamunyon.\ 27, Elkhart, was killed yesterday when the car In which he was riding ran off a Michigan highway north of hejre \ and overturned. j . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued cold thia aftemjoon, tonight and Wednesday. Snow flurries extreme southwest tonight and extreme north Wednesday. Low tonight north, 18-22 south. High Wednesday 25-30 north, 3040 south, Quite windy north portion this afternoon.

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Montgomery Named Eisenhower Aide British Marshal Ik Deputy Paris., March 20. —(UP)f- Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of .Britain was named today pyj Gep. Dwight D. Eisenhower to be deputy supreme commander of Atlantic pact forces. ] Gen. Alphonse Jilin of France was named to work undeit Eisenhower’s direct orders as, commander of the strategic central European area, the main target of qi y! Russian attack. i ] A communique issued by Eisenhower’s headquarters said pact forces in Europe would be divided into three commands; -j- central, northern and southerly A British admiral was named to command the northern fprfcijs. No commander was appointed; for the southern forces, but' when one Is named he will be an Haliajh general. ~ / Montgomery served under Eisenhower during World War II as commander of the 21st arnjy, group of British . and Canadian; troops fighHng the Germans on the northern sector of the western frob.t. For the past year he has been commander of, the unified "military headquarters of the, five Brussels pact nations — Britain, . France, Holland. Belgium and Luxferhbourg —with headquarters at iFbntainbleau outside Paris. I The communique said that Eisenhower will ask the Brussjels pact nations to transfer the duties of the Fountainbleau headquipiers to the Atlantic pact commaii<| The communique out lit ed the duties and reeponaibillties <f EisenliuWiiS chief deputies ; * It said' Montgomery ’w|l! he the prinelpul luwhtani to the teupr’enm commander in currying mu the mi* aloii entrusted to him hy North Atlantic count i les." |l "Hl* prinelpul normal djtijfe* will l>. to fuilhel the OrgWHlttlOtt, equipping, (mining ami iriiitylng ut (Tars To t’na* Hlgteii Hire 1,200 Persons For Jet Engine Plaht Toledo, ().. March 20. til’. Willys-Overland Nfotors, lii|ie., said today planned ‘to ’biw some 1.2C0 persons for jet eMme production at the former Chevrolet plant at Anderson, Ind. The company, ■ which announced purchase I of the modern! 13-arre plant last night, said it would start immediately on a $7,00ff,00.) tooling program to \ fill a- military order for General Electric J-47 jet engine units. , I \ ,o -A I v v Company officials . gave no details of the size of the injtjdl order, but it is understood -to be well over the recent $63,000,000' Willys order for military jeeps. Production Guides Announced On Crops County Corn Acreage 12 Percent Higher . Adams county farmers now have, definite word on how they ean best contribute to the (national defense effort, according to Winfred L. Gvrke, chairman of the comity pro duction and miiiilnlMtrn tlon colnmlltee Following u meeting IfrlMy even Ing In the county PM A btfflee, route, ty produc.tlou guides soy Imporiani crops wr rp These .guides represent the coutdy'u share . of the production needed from the state If national farm] defense d* aru to be met Adams county farmers nerd to boost their IBM corn i|< reagr a* bout 12, perrent to im • I, ihg < u p production targets set for'the county. Soybean production guides are two percent higher. Under the law minimuta supports : imay be made available at from 76 |to 90 percent of parity. Thtese minimums have been \ announced for 1951 corn kt $1.54 per bu|9liel; soybeans at $2.45 a bushel!; oats at $0.72 a bushel and rye at sl.3o'a bushel. Loans and purchase agrees ments are the. methods generally used to carry out the supports. Attending the meeting to make plans for the 1951 production effort were PM A Fieldman, Carl fc. Kohr; county and community committeemen and county representatives of the farmers home adminihtration; (Twa to Face Sljx • ' i- —I ■■ ' ■ 'I ■ \ '

Allies Confer Over Crossing 38th Parallel American, British Officials Confer On Orders Tq Ridgway London. Mar. 30 —(UP)—American and Britisli officials are conferring on whether Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway’s troops in Korea should cross the 38th parallel in force, a British government spokesman said today.' There werb unofficial reports that the British were swinging toward agreement to a qrossing for a certain distance to set up a "buffer zone” north of the parallel and then renew* the offer to the Chinese communists to negotiate a truce. Gen. Douglas MacArjhur has made it clear he must have instructions from a. higher authority or the Korean fighting will develop into a stalemate involving continuous maneuvering and consequent casualties without any decisive action. \ ' - His latest statement on the problem] of crossing the 38th parallel was made Thursday in reply to a (Question by Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press. MacArthur said it would be unwise for his troops tq throw up a defense’ line along the parallel when “and if they reached there ith force. MacArthur said hie troops would have y to continue their war of maneuver because there are u<» tiatqraj defence* near the parallel to- hold against the Chinese cominunlsiH. Prlnis-Minintm- C|t-m»-nl R. Alt !<•«> lum mmli- Biltsln’s stand, Known In the hquxa of ('onintohs. Ho suhl the British believe the pniulh'l slmulil not h»« crossed by ('tilted Nations troops Without conferences of UN members, pup ilc.ularly those which have troops In Korea. v The foreign office spokesman said such consultations are under way. It was bidieved they are being held at Washington and Lakh Success; Popular aentinient in Britain is against any crossing of /the parallel. For ihat reason, Attlee’s (Turn To Paae Kiahtt Explorer Troop Is Organized In City New Scout Troop Is Formed Last Night Twenty six youths were installed Monday in Explored Troop 2060 and thus was begun a new era of Scouting in Decatqr. For creation of the new troop extended Scoutng to those youths who otherwise diacontnue the work when they enter hgh school. The Explorer troop is open to youths over 14' years of age. Nine member* of the Berne Explorer troop 2068 h- Roger Hlrechy. Jerry Fluecklger. Jerry Spruriger, George’ Balsinger, Reggie Meyers. Paul Schug, Paul Sprunger, Jim Gerber and Ned filxler—which re* ctently contnleted ita ofganleatlon. wgre In harge of the Installing cere- ( inon|ea held in the Lincoln school auditorium. \ dbonge D. LltcMlold, a member of the senior committee and advisor* of the group, stated that actually 28 bays will be charter members. Three qddltonal names were . added to the original list of 25 youths Who sign I filed intentions of Joining the grdup. Two of these youths on the original list were not present at lust night’s ceremonies, however. \ Approximately 65 parents and friends attended the candlelight in. stallatlon servcea at which eaich boy entered troop 2060 was duly sworn in, given hla pin of membership as well as indentlfication card] The list of the twenty six charter members Installed at the Monday include] Perry Sheets, Luther J. Schrock, Ronnie Secaur. Earl Stahl, Roger Blackburn, Ronnie Murphy, Jim Engle. Joe Cowans, Paul Blackturn, Jim Custer, James Rawley, James Carter, Richard Callow, Phillip Krick, Dan (Turu T« Pax* B|x>

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 20, 1951

Cops Tie Into French Students a BJ w 71 i ■ I * POLICE DISPERSE a “protest march’’ of French Students In Paris demanding social security benefits from the golrernment. Students all over France persuaded professors to join in a. nation-wide strike which included cessation of classes atp! mass ifre<H demonstrations. This march on National Assembly was cllnfax. - ■■ - A L *, . gp,-.- jl* 1I • -■ - - II ■. - - -1 - —

Quota Is Met By Bloodmobile Unit Red Cross Chaplet Expresses Thanks Mr* Max fkrtiafer, executive ■erretary ot Adam* county Heil Cconh chapter, hM|ay iMMued h . MiuiMiiit’ii! from that organisation Io all thoae "who eooptrulvd so fully with un In making tH* blood llollHlhm |>l or.l Hill II NUCf’CB*" ‘Tim RM (TonN, du«plt«J Atnli nd veraltle* «* Inclement Watlmr, wan nble to maintain it* whMule throughout the (lay ami mnsequently meet its quota. One hundred and flfty-thred persons wore processed between fl a. tn. and 4 p. m. she said, and front them a total of 126 pints of blood was obtained. The county’s quota for Monday’s program had previously been set at 125 'pints, by regional authorities of the\Red Cross. _ \ - A steady flow of donots streamed through the American Legion home Monday, the scene of the mobile unit's visit to Adams county. This is the first of five such visits, for the year, incidentally. Mrs. Schafer reported that members of the unit from the Fort, regional center expressed] their gratitude for the “hice quar-l ters" and the job done by volunteens in setting up the schedule. In her statement, Mrs. Schafer expressed the Adams county 1 Red Cross’ thanks to the city, for the parking facilities made available; tip city firemei|i for their cooperation In placing the flags; to the American Legion for 'providing the quarters af|d specifically to Bernard Ulman, Paul. Wletfeldt, Wendell Macklin and Frank Hower tor their fsslstance in loading and unloading ths mobile unit; to "all volunteara and •specially to (hose who responded In donating their blood." \ Among those assisting throughout the day in the canteen services was Mrs. HersCl Nash, whose name was Inadvertently omitted In Monday's story listing the volunteer workers assisting the Rad Cross in their program. \ ( Missouri Pacific Bus Lines Tied Up St. Louis. March 20.—(UP) — Service on the Missouri Pacific bus lines was tied up today by a strike of 300 drivers involved tn a wage dispute, stranding hundreds oi passengers over a 10-state area. The drivers kralked out at 3 a.m. CST after a breakdown In contract negotiations with the Missouri Railroad subsidiary. ■ ■ F. A. Purcell, deputy president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, said negotiations were called off last night when the , company made a final offer of ta G-cent hourly wage. The drivers, . who now earn $1.20 an hour, had scaled their demands down to a 10-cent hourly raise, he said. t ■ f

Senator Vandenberg Still Gravely 111 Grand Rapids, Mich., March 20. —(-Up)— Michigan’s Sen. 'Arthur H. Vandupberg, the republican party’s top foreign affairs adviser, remained gravely ill today. itr. 4, H. Smith, the 66-year-old lawiiißker a irfjyslcian and personal friend, said there was "no change" in Vandenberg's condition Vandenberg has undergone « gerlae of in up. and epina operations alma HH9 and mtrfcrcM a rglapaa two w^akaago. Democratic Women To Meet March 29 Pot Luck Supper, Meeting Planned Mrs.; Ruby Ware. Indianapolis, Indiana Democratic vice-chairman, and Mrs. Mafle Smith Lahmon, Fort Wayne, fourth district Democratic vice-chairman, will be the principal speakers at a pot-luck supper meeting' of, the Adams county Democratic women's ’club Thursday night, March 29. at 6:30 o'clock, it was announced t'dday. The meeting will be held at the Fairway restaurant on U. S. highway 27 (formerly Swearingen’s) in the Pai--4 room and all women of, Adam* county are invited to the meeting,' , f Mrs. Ware is touring the state during March and April visiting all Dbmodratic women's clubs and she has aimesaage of Interest to all. ) General arrangements will be made by. Mrs. Charles Lose, Democratic county 'vice-chairman and president of the women’s organisation; and her executive committee, Mrs. Ralph E. Roop, Decatur; Mrs. Gust* Dubach, Berne, and Mr*. Thurman i Baker, Geneva. ; \ A reception committee includes Mrs. Gerald Visard, Decatur; Mrs. Paulina' Halberstadt, Peasant Mills: Mrs, L«on Baumgartner Mlh LaVon Mattox and : Mrk-j. Fanstermaker, O«« ’;nevw; Mrs. Herman Moelierlng and Mrs. Lewis Ranking, Jr., Preble; Mr*. Victor Black* and Mrs. Frad Fuelling. Decatur. Arrangement* tor the speaking and dinner will be made by Mrs. Harrg Hebble and all of the Decatur vice-committeemen. Plans are underway to make the meeting one of the largest' ever held Adams county. Mrs. Lose stated that reservations should be made in advance and she urged that all Democratic women of the county mark March 29 on their calendars. Mrs. Ware has visited Decatur ’before and those who have heard her say that she Is one of the outstanding women speakers of the state. Mrs. Lahmon is a former Decatur woman and is always a popular speaker in Decatur.

_. . _ ' O 'DwyerSays Underworld Head Dominant, Sinister Influence In Operations

Candidates Scarce For City Offices Two Decatur, One Berne Man To Date The business of receiving names of candidates and officially listing them is pretty slow* in 1 the clerk’s office these days. There are but three men, two from Decatur and one from Berne, who have signified their intentions tor' office in the coming city elections in the two communities. ' Clerk Ed Jaberg stated, that the last day for, filing is officially March 29, and to date iricumbent Mayor John Doan and clerk-treas-urer H. Vernon Aurand are the only two men to file in Decatur., Both are Republican candidates. Grover C. Moser, Jr., is the only Bern© candidate to file for office. He is currently the clerk-treasurer in that city, elected in last fall’*, special election on the Democrat ticket. If no contests develop in either city, Jaberg pointed out; there will be no primary elections. Should this be the case, it is nevertheless expected that there will be a full list of candidate* fm- both parties In th* fall elections. According to a letter received by Jaberg form Edwin Steers, Sr., a member of the state election board, "county clerks have nothing whatever to do with \town l elections” In Pecstur. Aurand will conduct the election, while In Herne Moser will |»erform such ;■ ■< ■ yotrrs who export to cast ballots in the primary election May I must be registered In Hfr prr clncts In which they reside to qualify them for participation In the selection of party candidates, clerk Jaberg warned today. Voters who were purged for not voting in the primary or general election of 1950, and did not become reinstated within 3> after receiving such a notice, can register by calling arthe clerk’s office on or before April 9. Plan Commission For Sub-Division Faurote Division ] Is Given Approval A new proposed sub-division in Decatur, to be known as the J. Henry Faurote sub-dtviaion, received approval of the city plan commission in a special meeting Monday night at city hall, and the proposal now wiH go to the city council for final action. \ • Thb now addition is located in the south part of the city on Russell street and the present proposal is for the division of ths property into nine building lots, Ml fading on Rusasll street. Eventually the Faurote addition will contain 97 building lots. The plan commission In ts recommendatlon to the council of approval of tjie proposal, contains two requirements. Faurote must make satisfactory arrangements with city enginees Ralph E. Roop concerning disposal of aurfkee water from the property; and sewage. It Is understood that this has already been discussed. The other requirement is that the deede shall contain an easement of two feet at the rear of; each lot for \ the construction of utility poles. This is required since | the! proposed iuiey is only 10 feet wide. ’ J V It is believed likely that the council will accept the recommendation of the plan commission and will ap. prove the propbeed new iiub-divis-ion tonight. \ Each of the nine lots presently surveyed and ready for home build, ing has the required number of square, feet and other requisites contained in the Zoning ordinance.

Eric Johnston * 4 And President In Conference Hold Urgent Talks On Deadlock Over Wage Stabilization Key West, Fla., March 20—(UP) —Economic stabilizer Epic Johnston met President Truman at the little iwhite house\today for urgent talks ; on the labor-management deadlock over setting up a new Wage stabilization board. Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the national security resources Lboard met him. \ Symingtop came here yesterday for the announced purpose of making a\ periodic report to the president. ® The can’bwait nature of the meeting was underlined by the fact that Johnston flew here scarcely 48 hours before Mr. 'f'ruman returns to Washington. It was learned that the confess epee was requested by Johnston whose latest effort to compromise the dispute over the wage board was refected by both labor and management. Johnston flew tn Miami from Washington late yesterday. Johnston, seeking to bring labor hack into the tnoMllaatlon program, had pi.)posed increasing tho wage htjui’d from nine to 18 members and giving II authority <o referee contract disputes' affecting defense produrt ion. \While the compromise appeared to' meet most of labor’s demands, it proved unacceptable to the united labor policy copimittee. And the management group turned it down on grounds It gives the board too much authority. Although Mr. Truman has said that he is not worried abput the dispute and has no doubt that labor will cooperate, nevertheless he is concerned by the labor boycott of defense agencies* \* • / . The three labor representatives bolted the wage board Feb. 16 when it voted 6 to 3 for a wage formula that would permit 10 per cent pay boosts over Jan, 15,1950 levels. This touched off a walk-out by labor Representatives in all other mobilization groups. \ Tells Futile Effort To Increase Funds i Assembly Rejected Gas Tax Increase The of a futile effoyf to secure more state funds with which to maintain county roads is told all Indiana county commissioners in a report of Claude Hodson, executive secretary of the commissioners’ association. Efforts In the recent Republican controlled general assembly to get a two-centa a gallon Increase In gasoline tax for use In copnty road maintenance failed miserably, according Ro the report, when 38 or ganUed groups Joined force* to keep the gasoline tax at the present level. C Hodson has went each county commissioner a detailed report concerning the fate of the measure, placing the blame bn tlw etate Republican policy-making committee end predicting the continued bad condition of county/highways because of lack of funds. ' Hodson states in his detailed letter that in 1927 Indiana counties re T ceiyed. $26'«42 970 for road maintenance and construction and in 1949, when usage had increased 75 percent, the counties received only $16,975,285. Opebnehts of the measure, however, point out that since the Increase in use of county highways was largely by vehicles dping business with owners along the county highsHiys, such as CT—a To Six) | .' ' '

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Ex-New York Mayor “ Admits Tammany Is Corrupt; Testifies To Crime Probers New York, Mar. 20 — (UP) — William O’Dwyer, (wlce elected mayor of New York with Tammany Hall support, testified today that underworld leader Frank Costello is the '‘dominant’* and 1 “sinister" influence in Tammany’s operation. * -.1 \ Appearing before the senate crime investigating committee, O’Dwyer, now U. S? ambassador to Mexico, readily admitted that Tammany, was corrupt but added that factors other than Costello also contributed to it. "Do you believe that during all your years as mayor, Costello was the dominant influence in Tammany?" 'Rudolph Halley, committee counsel, asked him. “How could I believe otherwise after the Aurelio case?" the ext mayor replied. [\ He referred to supreme court justice Thomas A. Aurpllo who in 1943 obtained the Democratic nomination tpi- his judicial post through Costello’s Influence in the hall. The factors other than Costello, inside the New York county (Manhattan) Democratic organization O’Dwyer sold,' "venal people" whose common name, “Tammany Hall," has bsen a nationwide synonym for political machine for gen* e»*ailong.\ "is Coatallo'mainly the answer to the al nisi er Influences you have referred to. Ist Tammany?” Halley eskwt him Yen, but you can’t take out of \ the picture the venal people," o‘Dwyer said. O’ftwypr said, he had spent "years" fighting Tammany and had known of Costello’s influence all along. But he learned things from Costello’s testimony last night, he added,. ’That I knew before.” Costello testified last night that, he had been instrumental in the rise of late] congressman Michael 1 Kennedy as leadbr of the hall by switching the votes he controlled on the Tammany executive committee from another candidate to Kennedy. The underworld figure also admitted getting the judicial nomination for Aurelio —a fact well, ’ known through a tapped telephone conversation made public ia 1943. Costello also admitted to, having close relations with a half-dozen Tammany district leaders. Halley said one reason the com- ' mittee wanted to question O’Dwyer was that it believed he knew more about influences un Tammany than anyone else. h You heard Costello talk about bls friends,” O'Dwyer commented. 1 “Well,’’ Halley replied. "I ad, mit Costello knows more (than . you.)" .' ’| Halley wanted to know of O’Dwyer had read the minutes of the grand jury which investigated Costello’s Influence on Aurallq’s ■ nomination. \ O’Dwyer replied that he hadn't had to—"lt was*one of the best known things in York." Q. All you kniw was that Au-- \ rello wax indablah to Coetsllo? A. What rqore did you need to knoyrt Q. Why did you not find time \ to read the grand Jury record? A. The mayor of New York is \ a busy man. The man elected to run the city of New York hasn't too much time for politics. Halley still pressed and O’Dwyer replied i “Some day when you’re mayor of New York, Mr. Halley, you’ll understand better than you do now." { * ,\ O’Dwyer testified yesterday of ▼isiling Costello while an aVmy officer and on an army mission and finding Tammany* leader Kennedy and other Tammany men there, Halley wanted to know if this wasn't “the dominating thing in your thinking about this sinis(Tbtb To Pace Eiaht) v' ■