Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 69.

U N FORCES DRIVE NEAR 38TH PARALLEL ' ■———————————————. — .... - ■ >

Carroll Gives Testimony To Crime Probers Reveals 20 Million . Dollar Business In Betting During 1949 Washington. March zz.— (UP>James ,1. .Carroll, St. Louis oddsmaker, said today (hat gambling is a "biological necessity” and that catering to It gave his $20,000,000 , betting business a gross profit close to $7501.000 in 1949. I Carroll went before the senate crime committee to purge himself of a contempt charge voted for his \ previous, refusal to testify before > i television cameras in St. Louts. For hl» second appearance; the committee gave Carroll the same conceaalon it gave’Frank Costello, New York underworld figurp, by ordering:; the TV cameras to show only his hands. • - | , Waiting his turn to testify was Jake. (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, feputed treasurer of Chicago’s Capone crime syndicate. Long “missing,” Guzik finally was found in Florida. As the hearing recessed for with 6|arroll still on the stand, committee chairman Estes Kefauver. D.? Tenn.., said “we expect to get to Guzik this afternoon.” Sen. Alexander Wiley. IL, Wis., asked Carroll for a guess on the “gambling take" in St. Louis. The witness answered that he could testify about only “one operation" —his own—which did a business pf ©Ver"'IgO,000.000 in 1949. . "How many operations are there?” Wiley asked. "I wouldn't have any idea.” Carroll replied. Then ne said he couldn’t sVen say whether there 1 are as many as "half a dozen.” “I think gambling is a biological necessity," he said. “It’s4he quality ' that gives substance, to their day*, dreams.” ' ■ ' Questioned about the profit on his $20,000,000 annual business. Carroll said the gross profit dras $740,000 to $750,000. ' ; i Wiley asked what percentage “of horse players die broke,” Carroll replied that he youldn’t know but said “there are horse players who consistently beat them year after vear.” -■ When Wiley asked what percentage of the St. Louis population gambits. Carroll said track attendance indicated 10 percent, or about 100,000 persons in an area of 1,000;000 persons. Asked how many are - professional K gamblers, he put , the figure, at 1.000 to 1,200. Carroll-began hii testimony with protests but agaipst and their lights, press photographers.. and smoking in the hearing room. He accused the committee of inejecting a “fright factor” into the > proceedings. He said he -suffered from ‘mike fright” and wai "speechless." The committee refused to eject the nevvsreel men but told press - photographers to get out. As a further concession it banned smoking. Carroll, still protesting against the lights, proceeded to answer questions at a rate that indicated he had recovered considerably from his professed fright. , Early questioning dealt with “layoff’ betting- of bookmakers who hedge bets to guard against heavy R losses. ■ . ’ “ This discussion prompted sen. Lpater C. Hunt, D., Who., to observe that he thought the committee has 5 not got at the root of the problem. He said he thought there was no question but that the “highest officials” of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., know they are “aiding and abetting this illegal operation.” . , j • Hunt announced that he will ask the committee to call telephone officials, presumably about layoff betting handled by telephone. v . '/•' — —— ; \ . 450 Stonecutters ; Strike At. Bedford Bedford, Ipd., March 22.—(UP). —A strike by 450 stonecutters? today threatened to thro*’ 4,000 men out of work sat 30 mills in Lawrence and Monroe counties. The strikers, members of the AFL Stonecutters | Association of, North America Started walking off their jobs yesterday to press union demands for a 19-cent hourly pay Increase.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Alger Hiss Begins Five-Year Sentence I Former Official In State Department New YOrk, Mar. 22 f- (UP) — Alger Hiss, former state department official and adviser to President Frankfln D. Roosdvelt began serving his five-year jap. sentence today for lying when.pe denied having given-government Secrets to communist spy courier. Whittaker Chambers. Thus ended the fam< us case of the “pumpkin papers" and ‘.’Who is lying: Hiss or Chanbers?” \ The handsome convicted perjurer, still protesting his innocenfce surrendered to. U. :5. marshal William Carroll and we s taken to the federal house of detention. There he will remain in the comof narcotics pedd ers, whiteslavers. counterfeiters and dther offenders of the federal laws, until lie is ordered to a p mitentiary. The 46-year-old Hiss spent his final night of freedom a gloomy party” in ; l friend's Manhattan apartment. One of the guests there said the conversation avoided mention o: Hiss’ two perjury trials and ttye U, y S. supreme court refusal lab t w to review his conviction. • “Most of us feel w-e have exhausted all talk along that line," the friend said. “We ust talked: about simple things." With time off for good behavior. Hiss could be treed on parole in one year and eight, mt nths—onethird of his term. Even thep, he will be stripped of his civil rights —including tlie right tc vote —because of his criminal Less than three years ago, Hiss was still viewed as a ‘bby y wonder” with an almost limitless future. He came from a highly respected family, graduated with 'honors from Haryard law school and served as secretary to the late supreme court justice O iver Wendell Holmes. o' After working soy a cistinguished New York law’ firm, lie went to Washington in 1933 at the start of his meteoric gover iment career. , . Hiss’ rise to eminence was matched in speed only by his downfall. It began wl en Chambers. then a , $30,008-a-j ear Time Magazine editor, said jjust fdur words about Hiss before! the house; committee on unAmeridan activities. . | ' Chambers named 'thr|?e \ members of a cbmmunist underground ring that stole secrets for Russia. Almost as an afterthought, he, added ‘as was Alger Hiss.” Hiss denied it. Chaiibers expanded his charges. | , . Two ((rials later, Hiss said In his ~fHial statement after the verdict: | “The wrong will surely be righted . . . with a clean coijscience, J continue to look forward to the time of my vindication."| ll _ i r Peter Martin Dies At Home In Lima i Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Peter Martin. 59, a native of Adams county, died Wednesday at his home in Linia,\O., following an extended illness of complications. He was Employed at a Lima hotel. He was born in Adams County Aug. 1, 1891, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin. He was married Aug. 4, 1916. to Daisy Urick. He member of thfe Missionary church. Surviving are his wife; two sons Howard Waynd and Otis Emery Martin, at home: tw’o adopted children. Miss Viola Martin,; at home and Ervin Martin of Decgtur rotate JU'one brother, Charles Martin of Buena Park, Calif., and ithree sisters, Mrs. Ida Calkins of s|anta Ana Calif... Mrs. Amanda Hueties qf Garden Grove, .Calif., and Barbara Martin of Berne. One ‘daughter, one brother and one lister are deceased. ; Funeral services Will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Gllllg .& Doan funeral home, theater. H. J. Welty officiating. Burial will be in MRE cemetery at Friends may call at the funeral until time of the services. ; ■■ 1

SPRING IS HERE... ' x . ' . ' I 1 i ft 1 BUT, she rode into Minneapolis on the lap of Winter as this 70-foot-hlgh -pile of snow wijl attest. The pile, dumped in the Mississippi river by street cleaning crews, is in addition to 5-foot pilds lining the streets. Engineers estimate this pile at 500.000 cubls yards. The twin cities havi? had more than\Bo inches of snow this winter. ’ \ • ' \ \ "" 1 ■■■■■■■■■ —— - - . ■ — ... ■ .— . •/ .

Farmhands' Trial Goes To Jury Today Directed Verdict Denied By Judge Kalamazoo, Mich., March 22. — (UP) — The .trial of two youthful farmhands for the rape-slaying of a college coed was expected to go to ajury late today. The prosecution was to complete its losing arguments when the trial resumed at 9:30 a. m., to be followed by attorneys for Valorus Mattheis and Rae Olson, 22-year-old Vicksburg. Mich., farmhands. They* are accused of raping and strangling 18-yqar-old Carolyn Drdwn, a Western Michigan college freshman. The defense rested its case yesterday without calling Mattheis to the stand. Olson testified 2 Vz hours Tuesday, again denying his confession to .the murder. Both have admitted and then denied five times they killed the girl last November. The prosecution injected a girl’s wrist watch the case yesterday during ! the testimony of Mrs. Lula Shaw, StUrgis, Mich., whp formerly operated a tavern near the home of Olson’s girl friend. Eleanor Kline, 18. . - \ Mrs. Shaw said Olson and Miss Kline were in her tavern New Year’s day and that the girl waswearing a wrist watch. Assisthnl prosecutor William Sykes was believed to be drawing the conclusion that .the watch belonged to tlie slain girl, although he did not ask Mrs. Shaw to describe it. Yesterday. Mrs. Kline, Enegnor’s mother, testified .that her daughter did not own a watch. Mrs. Shaw also disputed Mrs. Klitie’s testimony that Olson had been at .their home until late the evening of the murder. The said Mr. Kline told her shortly after Olson’s arrest in January that the youth left .the house about 8:30 p. rri. \ Defense attorney Dhvid Nims, Jr., and James Tolhuizen moved for a directed verdict of acquittal or for a mistrial. They contended that ~the defendants’ confessions were obtained “Under Duress,’’ and that certain evidence against them 'Turn To EUcktl Berne City Officials To Seek Renomination All but one of the incumbent Democratic city officials of Berne have filed for nomination the city primary election in May, Those who filed Wednesday are Andrew Spruneer, mayor; Sylvan Habegger, Tilman KJrchhofer and Leslie Sprunger, councilmen. Grover C. Moser, Jr., clerk-treasurer, had filed previously. L. Wayne Reusser, incumbent councilman, will not file for renomination as plans to build a new home and will iriove out of his present ward. No Republican candidates have filed to date. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonlaht and Friday. Rain beginning west and south portions Friday. Low tonlaht 30 • north to 35 south. High Friday 50 north to 55 to 60 south. ' \ •

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADXMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 22, 1951

r r Ex-Marine Credited With Saving 11 Lives Indianapolis March 22.—(UP)— An ex-marine was credited today with saving the lives of 11 -persons in. a $45,000 fire that' burned through three businesses and four apartments,* Harry Wells. 52, who lives with his wife and son in an apartment above a sporting goods store, said he smelled smoke when he awoke early today and discovered the store on fire. Wells led his family to safety and then beat on the doors of his neighbors. Company Creditors " Will Meet April 5 Steury Creditors In Federal Court ■ ■ '. The first meeting o|f creditors of the Steury Packing company was set for April 5 in federal court, according to a notice issued Wednesday by William Keane, court appointed- referee. The. Steury Packing company was declared bankrupt in a petition filed March' 10, and the first meeting of creditors will be held in United States court for the northern district in Fort Wayne. During the . first meeting the, creditors will elect’ a trustee who will serve in much the samje capacity as a receiver, in charge of the liquidation of assets to meet the company’s obligation. This appointment will nullify the action previously taken in the Adams circuit court where Judge Myles F. Parrish had appointed Severin Schurger as receiver for the company, and Ed A. Bossd and Hubert \ McClenahan were ed attorneys for the receiver Prior to this, in the action of the Kuhner Packing company against the now bankrupt concern, attorneys sought a change of venue from the county on their complaint on judgment and for a receiver. ■ The venue was granted for the complaint on judgment, but be-: fore the change could be affected, the case of F. J. Schmitt against' Steury’s, was brought into the Adams circuit court. An “emergency” was declared existing by the court, and it was then ' that Schurger was appointed receiver. The petition for bankruptcy was filed in federal court immediately after this action. ■ The packing plant, located on U. S. 27 one-half mile north of the city, wasbuilt about six years ago, and first began operations as iTirn Ta P«» Btx) Soldier's Wife And Mother Die In Crash Waynesville, Mo., March 22. — (UP) — Mrs. James R. Bennett, 26, wife of a soldier stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, and her mother, Mrs. Oaa Eunice Morris, 56, of Salem, Ind., were killed in a motor car accident near here yesterday. Mrs. Bennett’s three-year-old son was not injured in the’crash. The Bennett car apparently skidded on a slick stretch of road 11 miles east of Waynesville and collided headon with another vehicle. V

Estate Os Million Left By G.B. Shaw Money To Finance Change In Language London, March 22.—(UP)—Irishborn George Bernard Shaw died a millionaire, his will disclosed today; and he left most of his money to finance a cultural revolution in his’ adopted ’Britain. Shaw, whose will had been as eagerly awaited as pne of his theatrical first nights, left an estate valued at 11,625,25L22. The public trustee who fi.’ed the will for probate Baid $338,840 1 Would Wrtlain after taxes, and payment of other debts' and other obligations. The .estate actually will be worth much more than that because royalties from Shrew’s writtings will be coming in until the year 2,000. As had been anticipated, Shaw’s major bequest was to finance a reformation of the English language, Shaw often criticized the alphabet, along with other aspects of life in England and bis will provides for a trust to finance development of a 40-letter alphabet, representing every sound in the English language, to replace the present 26 letter alphabet. He also left mopey to friends, relatives and serganjts. ' \ Shaw, in. his willi, forbade any monuments,to him tlkat might have a religious' significance. The playwright died Nov. 2 at the age of 94 of a blidder ailment, aggravated by a broken thigh when he f<pll in his garden in Ayot St. Lawrence. His ashes and those of his wife hive. been scattered in the garden.- \ . ' When Mrs. Shaw died, she left the bulk of her estate to be used to “make gentlemen out of Irishmen,” Her husband’s only bequest to the land of his birth hrent w the national gallery of Ireland. Shaw’s will, various per--sonal bequests, left the resident of his estate to development of the new alphabet. ' ■ : For the first time,. Shaw gave his permission to publication of letters he 'frrote to “the late eminent actress" —the flamboyant Mrs. Patrick • Cainpbell, with\whom he , once was intellectually infatuated. It was Mrs. Campbell who jested in discussing Shawls vegetarianism: . « . A “Give Bernard a steak and no woman in London would be safe,” The letters are in the possession of Mts. Campbell’s daughter, Mrs. Stella MerVyn Beech, i’Bi Jif"*"" 1 * - 4 1 " \ ; Gradual Temperature Rise h Predicted Indianapolis, March 22.—‘(UP) — Spring promised to act more , like Itself today with a gradual rising trend in temperatures. The forecast was partly cloudy and wormei today, tonight and tomorrow. The mercifry dipped to a chilly 15 degrees at South Bend today. And it Was 116 at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis; 21 at Terre Haute, anti 28 at Elvansville. But weather experts said the temperatures will cllpib to 35 degrees in the north and 40 ip the south this afternoon. Temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees -were forecast for tonight. They said tomorrow the mercury would be eight or 10 degrees higher than today.

Ist Cavalry Division Less Than Four Miles From The 38th Parallel " "I II ■ — _l I II ,| , . , .

More Movie Stars To Face Committee May Follow Parks In Testimony \ \ v Washington, March 22.—(UP)—Several movie stars who once wPre Communists anay follow Larry Parks and tell about Red activity in Hollywood, a member of the Un-American Activities committee said today. The »committee member, who declined use of his name, said the legislators know’ of several name actora who, like Parka, may testify they were “duped” into joining the Communist party and dropped out when they learned its real aims. ■ y . Hearings on Communism in the movie colony have been rpcessed uritil April 10. Parks star of “The Jolson Story,” said his movie career probably was ended by his testimony yesterday that he belonged to a film actors’ Commmunia\ cell from 1941 to 1945. \ \ But Rep. Charles E. Potter, R., Mich., said he hopes “the movie Industry will not. seek reprisal against a y man who cooperates • with the Committee, who was a ■ member of the party and left -when he realized the political impliesi tions of Communism.” Potter said he gained much respect for Parks, and “1 hope he has the best fbog office he ever had.” \ Parks the committee not to make him "crawl through the mud to be an informer,” but compioihised by going into closed session to name fellow’ actors who belonged to his Communist cell. \ Committee members he gave them “four or five” names which already \ were known to' them. However, he could not recall many facts concerning operation of the qell\. \ ■ ' Park’s low-vdiced testimony contrasted sharply with the stormy scene played later by veteran actor Howard Da Silva, who with actress Gale Sondergaard refused on groupds of self-incrimination (Tu»w To Pa«e KlsMt) * Decatur Young Men Given Nominations Two Are Nominated For Naval Academy , Two Decatpr young men have been nominated by congressman E. Ross Adalf for appointment to the United Stages naval academy at An'napo’is, Md Marvin W. Stucky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Stucky, 227 N Third street, has been appointed'second principal to, the academy, with Leonard C. Bearman, of Fremont, as first alternate and Bill Gene Yahne, 812 Lavinta. street. Fort Wayne, second alternate. John C.' Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Thompson, 235 S. First street, has been named first alternate to Robert Hinton of Fort Wayne, who was given thd appointment of first principal The appointments become effective July 1 and are based on the results of the grades of the applicants who participated In the civil service competitive examinations held in Fort Wayne on Feb. 19. Congressman' Adair said the alternate candidates become eligible for appointment should the principals fail in the physical and mental examinations of the naval academy prior to July 1. The Decatur appointees are graduates qf Decatur high school. Thompson is a freshman at the University of Illinois.' His father is an electrical engineer for Central Soya compiuiy, in charge of \the local office; Stucky is a student at Purdue University. His father ,1s a well know local merchant and operates the Decatur Hatchery store on Monroe street. '■ V. ' y i ■ ■

Moran Resigns On Demand By New York Mayor Central Figure In • Political Scandal Resigns Position I . New York. \ March 22. —(VP) — 1 James J; Moran, central figure in one of the big qity’s biggest political scandals, bowed to an ultimatum from mayor Vincent R. Impelliterri today aYid resigned his $15,000 a year lifetime post as Water' commissioner. In reply to Impellitterl’s demand that ,he resign by noon or be fired, the longtime friend and political 1 Intimate of ambassador William O’Dwyer while the latter was maI yor informed Impellltterl he was re- : signing “with a stomach that can \ no longer digest Yhe hypocrlcies of , so-called ‘politicians.’ ” » . His letter of resignation, which I he made public at Brooklyn ( home, contained no mention of the t $55,000 which the president of the k Uniformed Firemen’s association . told the senate erihie investigating cdpmittee yesterday he gave Mot ran as ’ political contributions” and s “good will gifts” during Motan’s . tenure as deputy fire commissioner In the, O’Dwyer administration. Moran denied under oath before the committee that he received any money while he was associated with O’Dwyer’s political career, which started as Brooklyn’s district attorney ended in the mayor’s office in 1945. He specifically denied re--1 ceiving gifts from the firemen. > O’Dwyer, too, denied the testimony of John P. Crane, president of the Firemen’s association, thgt he received SIO,OOO as a contribution for his campaign for re-election as mayor in 1949. Crane said be gave Moran $5,000 in 1946, $30,000 in 1947 and $20,000 in 1949 for "good will” with the d’Dwyer adnUnistrdtion. Moran’s letter of resignation, topping, off one of the biggest political scandals here since the Seabury investigation drove riqayor Jimmy Walker out of office in the early 1930®, charged that Impellitterl had been out to get him politically since O’Dwyer appointed him to the post shortly before O’Dwyer resigned to become ambassador to Mexico. “With a stomach that can no longer digetat the hypocricies of socalled ‘politicians,’ I hereby tender my resignation . . .” \ Impblliterri himself declined to appear before the senate commit tee yesterday, which got some oft the most explosive testimony of its eight-day stand here from Crane. Hubert F. Gilpin Council Candidate Seeks Nomination On G.O.P. Ticket Hubert' F. Gilpin, owner of Gili pin’s Ornamental Iron works in De-, catur, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for councilman, subject to the decision of voters at the May primary election. Gilpin is the fourth candidate to announce fqr councilman k on the G.O.P. ticket it leaves one vacancy, as five councilmen are to be nominated by each party. Gilpin is a Decatur high school graduate and attended Indiana University and Otterbein college: He is married and the have three children, twb sons, whb are in the U.S. ai r force and a daughter, Donna, who is a nurse. , The candidate is a veteran of World War J and is a member of the Masonic lodge. He also is a member of Trinity Evangelical United-Brethren church. U -

Price Five Cents

Forces Than Four Miles From 38th Before Resistance Mounts f BULLETIN London, March 22.—(UP)— The United Nations Commander in Korea can not be reasonably bound “In any . \ tactical sense” to stay below the 38th parallel, Minister of State Kenneth Younger told the House of Commons today. Tokyo, Friday, Mar. 23—(UP)— The U. S. Ist cavalry division drove to within 3% miles of the 38th parallel in central Korea Thursday before running into major communist resistance. The Reds blasted a wide hole in the highway north of Chunchon and covered the roadblock with intense machinegun and mortar fire. \ ' Tank spearheads that reached the -roadblock fell back ofter a brief battle to Iqt artillery and air strikes pound the communi~ts. A late report said the advance ; was resumed but did not specify details. t The drive through the former t communist anchor town of Chun- ( chon, taken, yesterday by the cav- , alrymen, \ was paced to the east t by aonther allied advance. , American troops halted for two . days at bloody “Tpjp Stone HiH” I north of Hongchon broke through ( Thursday after the\ Reds gave up - during\ the night and withdrew north. > The Yanks swept across the l, heights and rolled on. for two miles before they hit Renewed communist resistance from another line of hills. They took the heights in a brief battle and counted 71 enemy dead. Front dispatches said two Chinese communist field armies were digging |n along the 38th parallel from Uijongbu, north of Seoul, to the east coast. The 4th field army, badly mauled around Seoul and the central > front, w T as reported digging in along Uijongbu-Kaesong-Chor- \ won line. s The 3rd field army was reported deefnding the central sector. \ On tire central front American ptitrols entered Chunchon at 8 a. m. Thursday (5 p. m. Wednesday. CST) for the second time after( they withdrew Wednesday night. ' By they fully reoccupied the town and sent a tank column spearing north. The tanks reached a point within 3%, miles of the parallel. before running into heavy enemy opposition. At this point tho Reds had created a roadblock by dynamiting a huge hole in the highway. They covered the roadblock by pouring intense fire of all kinds into the tanks. The Americans, withdrew to let artillery and planes open up on the Reds. late dispatch said that the advance had been resumed. \ - Communist rear guards also were fighting back on the western fFont north of Seoul along the classic invasion route to Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Memorial Fund To Aid Needy Bloomington, March 22.—(UP) —Establishment of the Grace Browning Memorial fund to help needy students complete graduate work was announced today by Indiana University officials. Mias Browning was head of the I.U. division of social service from 1945 until her death last month. CILOSE THREE HOURS The Decatur Dally Democrat, In order that employes may attend chureh services during the Three Hours, will be closed from 12 noon until 3 p.m. on Good Friday. In order that the usual press time may be met, all news copy for Friday’s edition must be brought or called to ths office by 9:30 a.m. Frl<**y- ’?-\. .