Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 71.

ALLIES DRIVING TOWARD 38TH PARALLEL ■ii' ■ - I •

Gen. MacArthur Offers To Talk Peace With Reds Authorizes Forces To Cross Parallel; Makes Offer To Reds Tokyo.M*r 24*- (i'H (Jan DougisaMw* Arthur fl* w hi t-.H.iy and iiij.ilu,, i/<-4 ||(t Mb ai my tW rfWSS ifeg Skill |m**m 11I l,i|l ui Him M*m*> jhriM tifferod i,, talk With Hlu * o«*»**«***«w Ofi the bNUleflehl — , : > Th® AuyfOfn# GN ('ommahdeA W»l(1 *»« hi® rotUHl to' Tokyo Giml he hod diluted ihe pilled army io ♦•rose th# did frontier between Mouth «n<j c frnrnnjiipf North Korea "If and when Itn (the nttny’sl security make* It -tacJlclMiy advlaeble" »’ . Mar Arthur offered In a formal statement a few hours earlier to confer in the field "at any time" with the cximmunist commander, presumable either North Korean Premier Gaft. Kim II Sung dr Chinese Gej&t Lin piao—on means of ending tie war, - Asked on his return here if such a conference took place during today’s flying .visit to the front, MacArthur replied: "There was no contact." It probably will take the communists several days at least to reply to MacArthur's proposal. MacArthur’* visit to Korea was described <aa. routine. it came at a time when his forces were almost abreast of the 38th parallel all across 'the 140-mile-wlde Kopeninsula , ’ The bjullc Os 200,000 Ao 250 ( 000 Chinese and North Korean troops have fallen back across the parallel, Jeering oijily rear r guards to dispute the >llled advance. . The Jast sjseabla enemy force! soutli of the! parallel was thrown ipto retreat yesterdayH»y~u maws ~ parachute juihp 20 miles behind the communfkl lines above, Seoul, MacArthur hew from Tokyo to the Meoul city airport and then jpeped to within 2,500 yards of enemy Mines ' above J’ljonghu, 11 miles nprtheaet~nf the Korean capital. j He watched allied artillery and mortar barrages rake an enemyheld- hili northeast of the city and M visited Belgian. Puerto Rican and Filipino troops. Uijongbu was under intermittent communist < mortar fire during his visit. He landed in Japan on the return flight at 5:33 p. m. (2:33 a. tn. CST). MacArthur, appeared jubilant ae he stepped from his personal Constellation SCAP, at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and read a prepared statement to newsmen. He was wearing his famous battered, goldencrusted cap and a trenchcoat. \ \ . : / ~ : . . Kidnaped Child's \Mother Is Missing Chicago, March 24 —(UP) —Mrs. Catherine Moroney, whosb two-year-old daughter was kidnaped 21 years ago, was missing today. But her husbaiM wasn’t worried. He told police his wife often dlsappears at this time of the year to pray that her child will be returned to heri ' * Moroney said a woman posing aa a welfare worker took the child "to get some clothes” and never brougli her back. Burglary Reported At Service Station Burglars broke Into the Phillips 66 service station at the corner of Second and Jackson street, and made oft with 1250 in bills. silver Ind pennies. The burglary was reported to city police by Lyle Mailonee, coowner of the station early today. The! burglary occurred sometime after 7:30 p.m. when the station was Closed Friday. Entry into the puilding was.made through the rear window which has not been Used for several years. Burglars use# a crowbar to force open the window and gain entry. A first check of the stolen loot today made bv city police who were called to investigate, revealed that |2OO in bills and checks was taken \ from three bags in a filing cabinet; also missing was $35 in silver, and sls in pennies. « \ ■ 1 ' I ■'

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT \ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IM ADAMS COUNTY

BULLETIN Buenos Aires, Mar. 24-— (UP) —. President Juan D. Peron said today Argentina has produced an atomic explosion by using new methods and without employing uranium. The Argentine president held a press conference at which he said the explosion had been produced on an island in the south “under controlled condltions on a technical scale." Peron introduced Ronald Richter, an Austrian physics professor who now is a naturalized Argentinian. “This is not a copy of foreign methods Richter said. “It is Argentine. This project is far superior to the project being used in the United States. The energy we seek will be used for industrial purposes in accordance with Peron’s plan." The announcement said the scientist had not used uranium “but a much cheaper Argentine raw material.” I Says Doctor Sought Help For Gambler : ' ‘J \i Says Kansas City Physician Sought WuHbinglon, March 21 4 (UP) |x>u h’urr< IE ties Muh)< h I><m f dl»tributor, conceded today that \Dr.-j 1) M. Nigro of KrtnhaH Gl|y gmlb-d him io helps Kanstw (!ity who will urrertcdln Far roll finally Identified Nigro nt('<i first 1 refusing to give tha Mnala crim* ißveatlgatingscommlttaa hi» name In public might damage the doctoi’a reputation. The gnmbler wad Charh-M Gargotta, who waa alaln with Charlee Ulnigglo In Kansan (pity la’it year. j Farrell told the committee that a man rff "very, very higli character” hum called him from, Kansas Clty-td get help for Gargqtta and his brother Gus- after they had been arrested for robbery in Harlan, He offered to the committee the man's name "In private” but not “on the television.” That refusal stood for about 20 minutes. Then committee? counsel Downey Rice dropped thei boom. “What profession l’s( he |n?f’ asked Rice. i-,.'' "He’s a doctor.” , "Is his name Nigro?” , | “I don't think that’s fair.’t said FarrelL [ i ; "Coiild it be Nigro?’ Rice perslst"It could be ” "As a matter of faet. jti is. isn’t It?” 'v": V 1 WWFarrell conceded that it is. He later gave the full name "Dr. D. Nigro.” M The doctor. Farell said. |s “a fellow that helps and is "well known from coast to coast” for hid help to youths. \ Rice asked if Gargotta Was "typical” of the people Nigro helped., V Farrell said he didn’t thlbk Nigro tried to set any standards |>y which other people should run thteir lives. Farrell thought the doctor had grown up with the Gargotta boys. He did not know a Paul Nigro, but said the doctor has a brother who is a contractor. ! ■ Tano Lacoco, a Kansas City gambler, has testified he delivered $30,000 in ball money to Fdrrell and that he got $7,000 of It from Paul Nlgro.« [ The witness said at one point that he did not know Charles Gargotta. ' ’ s INDIA-NA WEATHgR Partly cloudy, windy and colder thia afternoon witji anew \ flurries northeaot and extreme north. Clearing and colder ..with diminishing t winds tonight Sunday fair with higher temperatures in afternoon. Low tonight 15-20 north, 20-25 south. High Sunday lower 40’• north, around 50 south.

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yx— —' ■ ■■. - To Aim New Peace Overtures At China Follow MacArthur Bid To End War Washington, Mar. 24 —• (UP) — The United Staten and ita United Nations allies will aim new peace overtures at the Chinese communists to follow up Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bold bld to end the Korean war.' Authoritative quarters \ said’ today these movqa ate ■ expected soon: ' * 1. The UN's good, offices-com-mission will redouble efforts to persuade the Chinese Reds to cona cease-fire patterned on the UN’s Dec. 14 peace formula, Among other things, this would hu'vw established a 20-mlle buffer zone at the 3sth parallel, 2 President Truman, on be|ialf of the aNles, Is being urged to outline the willingness of UNWlies to settle the war or flpht It out If the Reds want it that way. Battlefield events will determine the liming of any presidential \ fTnrn To j» nar Four) Seeking To Avert Strike By Packers AFL In Agreement \ To Extend Deadline Chicago, March 24.—(UP)—Leaders of the AFL Amalgamated Meat union hoped today to avert a nationwide strike but officials of the CIO Packinghouse workers still threatened an early walkout. The AFL union agreed with Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. last night td extend the deadline of a provisional 11-cent hourly wage boost from March 25 to May 6. Other packing firms were expected to Join in the extension today. The CTO united Packinghouse workers, however, refused to agree to the extension in the sessions last Officials of the CIO union were expected to make a final decision on the matter today. J/ Each union is meeting separately with the companies but are working iri cooperation with each other. They have a total of 220,000 members. The negotiations with Armour and Swift delayed CIO plans to set a strike date yesterday. The CIO has threatened to strike “on or after” Monday , The March 25 deadline was set the two unions obtained the 11-cent statement from the packers on Feb. 9. Th? negotiators said the agreement would lapse after that date. Price stabilizer Eric Johnston refused to allow the wage boost on grounds that it exceeded the 10 percent raise celling. He advised the unions to take their plea to the wage stabilization board. Extension of the deadline would give the unions time to try to win approval in Washington, where the WSB has been crippled by a walkout of union leaders. ' Noon Edition

— ■ ' ' " ■ Ri" aawM Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Moith 24, 1951

Assessors' Meeting Is Held Here Today Township trustees serving as assessors, and Washington township assessor Will Wlnnes met today in the commissioners' room of the county court house with county assessor Albert Harlow for their second review meeting since the start, of the current, personal property assessment March 1. A genual review and alignment of all schedules were discussed at the meeting. Living Costs Hit Record High Mark Hits Record High For Third Month In Row Washington, March 24,i~(UP) - A new record high iu the cost of living threatened the government with a bigger wage headache today, The bureau of labor statistics reported that its revised cost of living Index Jumped to l«3k percent above the 1935-3$ average on Feb. 16. This was a U 3 percent increase in one month, and eight percent higher than pre-Korean levels. It was the third straight month that the index hit a new all-time high. The government immediately was confronted with an automatic sixcent hourly wage boost for 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers whose pay is tied to the cost of living Index. The Increase exceeds the percent Wage ceiling formula. \ Only about 2-% cents of the increase is allowable under the formula. The balance tops the ceiling, and economic stabilizer Eric A. Johnston already has banned a similar raise for the CIO Packinghouse workers. , , •. 1 Chairman George E.. Lelghty of the railway labor executives association said he was confident that the entire raise will be approved. 'He noted the/ army, whtety officially is running'the railroads, has ap. proved the escalator clause in the wage contract L. W. Horning T vice president of the New York Central railroad and member of the carriers’ negotiating committee, said the \increase Was "higher than we expected,” but added that “of course, we will have to honor the contract.” However, one of Johnstori’s aides pointed out that the full six)cent boost could not be expected to be approved because of the previous cases. If the wage stabilization board eventually is restored, it could approve the Increase. Johnston still is trying to get labor back on the board ' The “non-ops” are the only major segment of the 2,700*000 workers covered by escalator clauses who are scheduled to receive an April 1 wage adjustment under the February index. Aoed Man Is Killed When Struck By Auto , , '■ ■ ■ \ Elkhart, Ind., March 24. —(UP) — Harry Sanger, 76, Bristol, was struck and killed by a car driven by George Dieffender, 22, tine, Mich., as he walked across Ind.| 120 -in Bristol, east of here last night.

Pour Millions Info New Atomic Plants Making OfWeapons Littlo Publicized Washington, March 24, - (UP)— The Unites States is pouring millions as dollars into special new plants from which will come the many-purpose atomic weapons of the future. These plants will make bombs, missile warheads. artillery shells, torpedoes, or mines out of the atomic explosives to be produced by the mammoth new works going up in South Carolina and Kentucky. The weapons-making aspect of the vast atomic expansion program now under way has been little publicized. The overall program will cost upwards of $2,000,000,000. Congress put up $1,065,000,000 for it in one big supplemental bill last year and will be asked for more. The big' headlines ho far have gone, to ’the. explosives.plants near Aiketi, ».(’ and Paducah, Ky. The South Carolina operation will make plutonium- for A-bombs and triplo-weisit hydrogen for H-botnb# -$f the H-bomb proves feasible. This plant is expected to cost about 1600,000,000. The, Kentucky plant will produce uranium-235 which, dike plutonium, is. an A-bomb explosive. It will cost about 1465,000,000. The twos plants together ? tbps will use up around $1,065,000,000 of the $2,000,000,000 f earmarked; for, Othe expansion program. 1 ‘ That would leave 1935,000,000 for atomic ordnance works and ore processing plants. How much will grt into new weapons facilities the atomic enei-gy commission has pot disclosed. But it pf|ll be in the In the past several weeks the AEC has announced it will build new plants at, the Pantex Ordnance Works near Amarillo, Tex. and the Weldon Spring Ordnance Reserve ip Missouri. It did not say how much it \ w ill • spend on these Installations. In announcing th|e • Colorado plant kestprday, the commission said it will do secret work with radioactive material. AEC officials added, however, that this plant will not turn*out atomic bombs.| Funeral Rites Today For Kiefer Infant Funeral services wil 1 be held at 2 o’clock ■; this afternoon at the Zwlek funeral home for Keith Allen Kiefer, Infant son of Gerhartand Hildegards Bultemeier-Kiefer, of Preble -township, who died Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital 11 hours after birth. . U , > \ The Rev. O. C. Busse wil officiate, with burial in the Zion Lutheran dhurch cometary at Friedheim. Surviving ifn addition to the parents are t|e grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Kiefer of Preble arid a great-grandmother, Mrs. Anna Schroeder of Allen county. ■ ; k .■

Use Bayonets, Grenades To Pry Chinese Out Os Last Red Defenese Line

— ——*—• —. — ? Decatur Citizens To Observe Easter Sunrise Services Open Observance Highlighting the Easter Day, sunrise services are scheduled to be held in the First Christian church sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association, high mass will be offered in the St. Mary's Catholic church, and special services are scheduled in the Zion Lutheran church. The weatherman is willing to cooperate a bit by predicting that it will become increasingly warmer Easter Sunday, giving the Easter parade needed impetus, and Easter bonnets a chance for their first showing. With such a prediction of "fair and warmer,” plans for the giant egg hunting contest sponsored by the Elks lodge are being consummated. More than 400 baskets and gifts have been prepared for the Elks egg hunt and faster party at the Elks home Sunday afternoon. Distribution of gifts will start at 2 p. m. Due to wet grounds, the party will be held inside the home, the committee said. "Astounding Dawn," is the name given to the sunrise services being staged by representative young people, of the associated Protestant churches of Decatur. It is the presentation of the picture of excitement of the voices of Mary Magdelene and others who discover the empty tomb, punctuated by the words, "He is not here. He is risen.” Easter high mass will be said in the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 5:8(1 a, pp. There wlh he regular churhh [ services here as well as other churches throughout the city. \ | ' Two feiitlval services; marking the iiHcwnslori of Jesus Christ |n ♦Turn T® Pas® Three > Most Os Nation To Have Cold Easter \- ' Fair, Cofd Easter Weather Predicted By United Press | The most fasionable/styles for tomorrow's Easter parades'will include long-handled underwear and fur coats. The weather bureaus said most of the country would have fair —but cold —weather Sunday. In the nation’s mid-section, enow shoes, ice creepers, dust masks or fire extinguishers also ' were in style, depending on the exact locality. i At Colorado Springs, Colo., however, professional and amateur cowboys were warned that horses would be taboo at tomorrow's sunrise services in the Garden pf the Gods. Officials said the horses disrupted the services too much in previous years when the cowboys were permitted to ride them amldet the congregation. A storm sweeping the midwest whipped up dust clouds from Texas to Nebraska, covered a wide area sleet ,or freezing rain that made streets and sidewalks treacherous, and dumped more snow on the upper Mississippi valley. High winds accompanying the storm sent 22 forest fires out of control in the Kiamichi mountains of Oklahoma. The fires were blamed on careless picnickers, fhree of whom were arrested. \ Forecasters warned that the tailend of the midwestern storm might hit northern New England aa It •wept northeastward. \ Winds were still high in western Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle today and more dust erosion was expected but forecasters said they weren’t expected to reach yesterday’s 55-mfle-an-hour velocity. Nearly 4,000.000 acres were threatened with erosion. Public transportation in Chicago (Tarn To Pa*® Tlkre®) ’ i

No Traces of Missing Plane With 53 Aboard Over 70 Planes And Ships Combing Sea; No Trace Is Found London, March 24.—(UP)—More than 70 planes and ships combed the north Atlantic today for the U. S. air force Globemaster II which vanished in a storm yesterday with 53 persons aboard, but not\a trace of the plane was found. Shortly after 3 p.m. (9 a.m. CST), at least 36 hours after the fourengine Douglas transport went down about 500 miles west of Ireland, there had been no reports that any survivors had been spotted; A specially-equipped flying fortress converted for rescue operations and carrying a 20-passenger lifeboat radioed it was returning to Shannon Airport, Ireland. The message said a search of what was believed to be the crash area had been futile. By mid-afternoon, more than 70 planes ahd ships were participating in the search for the Globemaster, last heard from at 1:06 a.m. yesterday (7:06 p.m. Thursday CST)., within three hours flying time of the Irish coast. Forty U.S. air force and navy planes and nearly 30 British planes and an undetermined number of shipswere crisscrossing the rolling seas where spotters had reported sighting flares during the night. Hut. U.S. 3rd air division headquarters said no one had seen, • y trace of the plane. / First Lt. Herschel A. Lamb, Twin J Falla, Ida., pilot of a B-29 which scoured the area all morning, said upon returning to special rescue headquarters at Shanbon: “All we could see wan water.” Earlier, plane crews had reported seeing what, they thought were life-rafts In the search area. u ■ * Life Tafts were spotted shortly after, dawn not far from where a B-29 Superfortress was circling ; over some Mae\ West lifejackets ' and another life\ raft bobbing in (Tara Tn Paa® Four) ' Calvin Lehman Dies Laie Friday Night Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Calvin Lehman, 73-year-old re-1 \tired farmer and cabpenter and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 10:30 p»m. Friday at his home in Berne after a year’s illness. He was born near Berne May 27, 1877, a son of DaVld C. and Eliza- 1 beth Liechty-Lehman, and ’was married to Lena Von Ounten Jan. 28, 1900. \ 1 He was a member of the First : Mennonlte church. ' \ Surviving in addition to hi? wife 1 are five eons, Calvin, Jr., of Decatur, Martin of near Zanesville, Har- i old of LaGrange, Willis of near i Portland and John of K° rt Wayne; i two daughters, Mrs. David Zuercher i of Berne and Mrs. Olin Keller of Fort Wayne; 27 grandchildren.; five i great-grandchildren; two brothers, i Benhart and David Lehman, both | of Berne, and seven sisters, Mrs. ( Walter Stuckey, Mrs. Elda Moser, , Mrs. E. W. Baumgartner, Mrs. David Stauffer, Mrs. Menno B. 1 Habegger and Mrs. Tillman Steiner, all of Berns, and Mrs. Archie Simp- ; son of Fort Wayne. One brother and pne 'sister are deceased. ’ Funeral services will be held at t 2 p.m. Monday at the First Menno nite church, the Rev. Olin A. Kreh- , biel officiating. Burial will, be in the MRE cemetery. The body will ’ be removed from the Yager funeral ’ home to the residence, where * friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. i . ' ■ v

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Allied Troops Push Relentlessly For 38th Parallel In Terrific Assault Tokyo, .Munday, Mar. 25--(UP) - Allied troops pushed relentlessly toward the 38th parallel north of Seoul yesterday. They used bayonets and hand grenades to pry Chinese out of the holes and caves which formed the last major Red defense line in South Korea. The battle raged only a few thousand yards north of where Gen. Douglas MacArthur a few hours earlier had watched American artillery prepare the way for an assault on the last heavily entrenched invading force. MacArthur said during a flying visit from Tokyo that he is ready - to negotiate "at any time” with the communist commander-in-chief in the field. But at same time he authorized the allied troops to cross the 38th parallel again, "if and when” it is “tactically adviseable.” United Press staff correspondent Robert Vermillion .reported that United Nations troops suffered in the hand-to-hand fighting north of Uijongbu, eight miles north of Seoul. /But they continued to adance, Vermillion said, and pushed th# Chinese back l. yards. / Intelligence offlewrs eald they believed the Reds were preparing a new defense line two to five miles north of Uijongbu, across the entire western front. IL/B. paratroopers to the east of fnljongbu held positions about eight miles from the 38th parallel, i while Americans and Belgians hit theflrmly ent rone had communists on ths West, The Reds were dug Into rugged hills northeast and northwest of Unjongbu. x "The Chinese let us get within hand grenade range of their holes before they fought/’ said Lt. Col. \ Julian W, Levy, Augusta, Oa„ who commanded One of the assgiilt units. . ■, \ “The only way to get them out Is to dig them out with bayonets," he/said. Northwest of Seoul, South Koreans rhet only light resistance from scattered groups of North Koreans they cleaned out the “ area. Earlier, desperate communist rear guards nearly 1,000 \ strong had counter-attacked UN forces northeast of Seoul in an attempt to delay a new allied creasing of the parallel. An estimated enemy battalion, believed Chinese, hit the allied line above Uijongbu, 18 miles south of the 38th parallel, at 2 p. m. (midnight EST), an Bth army communique reported. It gave no details. The counter-attack apparently came just after Gen. Douglas MacArthur had visited Uijongbu, 11 miles northeast of Seoul, and jeeped within 2,500 yards ot the enemy line®. \ Communist forces entrenched in \ hills above Uijongbu hold the only remaining deep communist salient in South Korea and were putting tip heavy resistance to the allied ' advance. On his return to Tokyo, MacArthur disclosed that he had directed the Bth army to erdss the 3sth parallel “if and when its security makes it tactically advisable.” " Eighth army forces were almost abreast «of the parallel all across the 140-mile waist of Korea except in the I/ljongbu salient. Red rear guards were not expected to hold long the\e, either. Some 16 miles northwest of Uijongbu, Patton tanks and U. S. paratroopers fanned Dut around Munson, 10 miles below the parallel, in .search of North Koreans tryipg to flee ho*th out of an American trap sprung yesterday. Some 3,000 paratroopers the 187th alr-boime regiment jumped across the North Koreans* main escape route 20 miles northwest of Seoul yesterday and a powerful tank colump from the south link- \ ' <Twb T® Pa«® Six) / <