Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XU X. No. 73.

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South Koreans Push On North Korea In Force American Troops Mopping Up South Os 38th Parallel ii Tokyo. March 27.—(UP)—AmerF can troops began up sout h of the 38 th parallel in the Seoul area today while So,uth Korean troops op the east coast drove in\to North Korea in force. t The Yanks decimated one Chinese regiment and isolated part of another in the area of Uljongbu, on the main highway 10 trilles north <»r flepul, U.S. iith army ffprces in general were ott or within artillery range of the parallel aJI along the 14<>riille front. > In some areas they . moved t||«lr Hnwi forward Without ! firing a ihm. / The iii part of the 77lh’division <>f the 2ttth Army <oi t»M. tried io fight u I‘rMi guard action Mig-piiieM south of-fto- Imrdi l The Ygnitx killed or wounded It* ib. hi g mliarp rlawlh An Amari cun Mlicff officer said the 7tlh division could no longei he ron blUri ed *|l NTntlve fight Illg Toirr ~ \Tw<i (tuiiiiniinlM arlllleiy * also wet’f fiiiorkrd out Tilted mill >1 iioi theMHt of tjljunp hu nii aihvilomu unit cut off another (’hhime Uoiuniiiiiinl'force In a clash with thres Red liattalioiiH. rhe American* ctilled for sur \ render leaflets \to be dropped on the encircled Chinese,. giving them a chance to quit before moving In on them .’ffiiey also asked for a tup render broadcast by\loudspeaker Warplanes continued smashing Red efforts to build up a defline along the ifkrallel. flying 499. "sorties despite law visibility. South Korean troops on the east coast were pushing north from ' Kaunpo, three miles north of the 1 38th parallel, along the same route they followed last summer. The brief South Korean announcement of the fall of Kaunpo gave no details, hut the village was believed to have been captured yesV terday. There was no mention of any Commd nist resistance. | ‘The Sopth Koreans were advancing along; the same highway they followed all the way to Chongjiff. nonie 250 miles* north of the parallel and only t>s miles from the Soviet Siberian frontier, last winter. This time., however, they were expected to advance much more cautiously to protect their' flank. There was no expectation they would go more than a few miles - Into North Korea at present. An Bthj army spokesman scoffed at repdVts the South Koreans were, defying’"the United Nations commai(d with a headlong plunge mcross the parallel.— AU their advances htave been on orders from hh Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, cominander it Bth army. Qf.her Bth army forces were on or ; within artillery range of the old frontier between Mouth and Communist North Korea all across the j itti-mile-wlde peninsula. Fort Wayne Man Is Crushed To Death Fort Wayne\ Ind., March 27*. Taylor, 44 Fort Wayne, was crushed to death at the American Steel Dredge- Co. yesterday when a five ton pile of sheet steel fell on him. ; . One-Day Clinic For Physicians, Parents The Adams county tuberculosisj association is sponsoring a oneday clinic next Thursday in the K. of P. home for the benefit of\ those physicians and patients who wish to confer with Dr. O. T. Kidder. of the Irene Byron sanitorium. of Fort Wayne. Conferences with Dr. Kidder are to be by appointment only which can be obtained through Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the sponsoring organization. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and mild with occas- '■ Iona! rain tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight near 46 north ; to 60 to 66 south. High Wednes- | day near. 55 north to 60 south. .i- . \

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Argentina Airliner Crashes, 11 Killed Buenos Airf> Argentlnk March 27. (UPI !An Argentine' firline DC 3 crashed while landing ;it Rio Grande near the Hvuthernmpst > tip of South . America yesterday, killing UM the 20 persops aboard. The airlines said the tWorenglned plane “suddenly fell to the grpim I" while approach in j>tjie airport :in a flight from Cshuaia 75'rnijes to the south, Cape Horn. Senator Hits At Corruption In Government Senator Fulbright Blasts Officials' Moral Blindness Wiishinyton., M*nr, 27 - (Up) Ren. ,1. 'WjllllHih Fulbright ■'!>•. Ark,. Miiid toddy tlitit rcHponmiblH goveminent offlchijlH, by ‘ blind uesH or ci»lloiigneH»i.” wife condoning 'H»rrii|Ulou In our 0)10*1.” \ fit an iipimttl for oliHtuVam'e <»f Ilin MPirll n* iWell mt llul |nlterVof the law anil whut to Im n blitMl at firn Triinutn mfinliih trail on tlim"|(F<! ■..mt'. “Mcamlnla In mir urb m>i n new iilienotnoiia in our hlMldry. Whali •••»* .1.0 he new about th«Mi» aramlnlM fw Ilje morel or callOUMie«« ; Which allows those in fespcmslhV position to accept the practletos |ivhlch the facts reveal. j ■ "It h baM enough for us to Imvo corruption In <»ur mMst.. hut It is I worse if It 18 to be condoned andaccepted as Inevitable." ; . When Fulbright's senate, subcommittee investigating (be .Reconstruction Finance Corp;, issued its recent report on ‘ttjayorltism and influence" fn the government lending agency, President Truman dismissed it as asinine, j Later he defended members of h|s official family as honorable meii. l Fulbright said the subcommittee was "confronted more ami more with the problems of ethical conduct" by officials in its investigation. although had fpund no legal cases' of bribery. ! , In a speech prepared for senate delivery, he called for creation of a special commission of "outstanding citizens” —and he named 10—to study “the problem 'of ethical standards of\<ondudt in public life.” , | “We simply can no longer afford moral obtuseness in ou.r public officials,” he declared. “What should be done abou\t I men who do ndt directly and blatantly sell the favors of their offices for money and so themselves within the penalties of, the law?" he asked. "How can we deal with those who. under the guise of friendship, accept favors which offend the spirit of the law but do hot vio Ipta its letter?'* ' Fulbright lamented that the RFC Tuqulry hiis revealed conditions which uhfortuntitel}-may be <Tt-b Tw Pasr Elsht) Ohio Farmer Dies At Hospital Today Funeral Thursday . For Fremont Bowers Fremont Bowers. 72, • retired farmer t>f e , garrison township. y Van Wert county O„ died at 8 o'clock this morning at tlje Adams county memorial hospital; He had been ill for the past year arid a patient at the; hospital for thre° weeks. He was bori) in H ai 'rison township May 22, -1878, a son lot Josiah and Margaret Mißer-BoWers, and was married to Effie Hawk Feb 20, 1898. | i j Surviving are his wife, one brother, J. Harlan Bowetfs of Van Wert JO., and a sister, ofrs. Lulu Miller -of Van Wert, O. Oise brother and two sisters are deceased. I Funeral services will be helcl at 2 p.in. (EST) Thulrsdaji at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Seth Painter officiating. Burial will- be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral after 2 pan. Wednesday, * . 1 ' !,• H . I ! *

Defense Head 1 Says Military Might Growing Defense Mobilrzer Promises Detailed Report On Monday Washington, March 27. —(VP)—\ Defense motrilizer Charles E. Wilson saio today the military might to deter. Russia from attacking the United States is now “in sight.” Wilson told a news conference he Will issue next Monday a detailed report showing the progress of the mobilization -program he took over three months ago. "I would t>e frightened by that r eport If 1 were a principal enemy of the United States," he salq. "Amdi'icu • has In sight no)v the might that I think will forestall any enemy from attacking üb.” WllHoh ;warned, however, that the threat of inflation still la prenant and that "we have to th k (Im! too, to obtain a full victory." ;• .* v lltt said tin awes stmo- very dlacmiragina mlkiih" on the MtMihlliia tlon front, but that on Hie whole |ip 14 encouriiMSd by the prfigroMa mmltl toward mOWIO* (low II Ibo 111 tlatldniirV «|dru\l, J * Wlhtim d«'< lim-d to diHcttaa any fiirthiMi* price control uienaiiraa now in fin< work* or to toy what racotumrmtatloUM the admlnlstration will luakw to' vottgreaa for changing the farm parity nrovlaiona of the exist. Illg law. ' ; "I lie I lave we’ve got to have some control of farm prices." he I said. “But to what extent and what direction I am not prepared tb say.” Present law forbids control on prices of farm products until they touch; parity. ' ; ,-" Wilson also said a top leviel discussion is now under waj* -within the mobilization agencies on a proposal to Impose complete allocations over critical materials hy July 4" He said ne and ofher mobilization officials want; to be sure ithat any such step, if taken, will not disrupt the civilian economy too severely. He said a final decision on that question will be made this. week. Wilson sa|d the wMcome, mat is still out for the labor leaders who walked of the mobilization program last rhonth in protest against what they called .the “Big Business Domination." , “I don’t think big business has taken over this program,” Wilson said heatedly. “Yes, I came from big business. I started in llUlie busi. To Pasi, Five! f - ■ ' —j Schricker Urges \ Red Cross Support Appeai is Maae Tq Citizens Os County GoV. Henry F. Hchricker, in a telegram Merit to Hugh J. Andrews, clinjrniun of'the Red Cross drive, made an appeal to Adams county citizens In support of the drive, which closes' this week. Mentioning Red Cross services to the armed forces, the governor said, "We on the home frotß cannot, let them down.", The governor's message reads: "The state of Indiana has \| always responded to the, demands made upon it. During, this great national emergency, qver increasing numbers of our young men and women are entering the naGori's arnied forces and Indiana is well represented on the battle fields of Korea. We on the home front cannot let them down, “Through our support of the American Red Cross we shall assure funds necessary to. carry on the many Red. Cross services that are so essential to them and their families, the 1951 Red Cross campaign workers in your chapter are carrying out a patriotic service for ( vital importance to the citizens of this state. This mission ipust be accomplished.’’ About 50 percent of-the county’s quota was reached today. Contributions of 15,052.85 were reported, compared to the $10,555 goal. Chairman Andrews uYged all workers to complete their canvassing and to report contributions to the Red Cross home service office, ' ■' ' ■ ■' I ' '.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 27, 1951.

Cite Ways To End Crime FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover (left) aiu) U. S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath (right) appear at the Washington Senate crime inveHtlguting committee hearings with chalrtnan Estps (D) Tenn. They told the committee what an lie done legislatively to (*i|pp|H nationwide gambling syndicates.: '

Farm Achievement Banquet Held Here Sylvdn Habegger To Head Corn Club Hylvun Hth«dior was blut-tad (*ialrman of the f|va<acra corn club for the coming year an a climax to the annual farm era' achieve, mi'll banquet Imhi Monday in tii<> . Decatur high Kboqi hudUorturn* The chairman a» well as the other officers were unopposed, They were elected when the members present accepted thri regort of th nominating committee presented by toastmaster Ben Gerke. Other officers Include .toel L. Isdh, vicri-chairman: Weliion Neuenschwander, secretary; Edgar Thieme and Dan Striker ; directors. , Approximately 350 persons were present fbr .the banquet, presentation of various awards and the speech of C. E. Drury, ptamlnerit Van Wert, O„ attorney. The speaker reviewed the colotful history enacted in this particular section shortly following the Revolutionary War and pointed out w*hat a tough struggle it was to overcome the belligerency of the unfriendly Indians the region. It waS the background, though, for the rich agricultural tradition of tliiri. area, a tradition which enabled numerous awards to be presented at Monday’s vbahquet. There were special awards like the efficient production award given'to Paul Lfechty and Sons by the National Dairy Produces corporation, one of five of its kind in the state. And the honorary certificate, distinguished “ag" award given to /Stanley ,D. Arnold for excellence attained | in scientific agricultural accomplishments by the Purdue Ilniverslty alumni association. There were special awards for old medal dairy herds, silver medal dairy herds, and bronze medal dairy herds, gold medal hulls, as wgll as 51 varied awards offered to: of the five-acre corn < ,T

New Serum Drug Oftering Hope To Cancer Patients

Chicago, March 27.—-(IIP) —Two "hopeless" cancer patient lost all signs of their malignant tumors after treatment with a new serum drug which offers “liiuctv promise" for future experimentation, it was announced today. ' , The drug, named Krebiozen, w i as developed by Dr. Stevan Durovic, a Yugoslavian refugee who now is a resident of Argentina. It is obtained from horses. A description of Krebiozen and its results on cancer patients was given yesterday at a special scientific meeting by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, vice-president of the University of Illinois , in charge of professional schools. Ivy is an eminent physiologist and personally directed the •‘preliminary” experiments'with Krepiozen here. ' The drug has been used in treating 29 patients, 22 of them in Chicago hospitals and seven in New York. Most of the cases are “terminal” patients, meaning that they were hopeless or nearly so. Two of the patients recovered

Billy Cook Begins 300-Year Sentence < Hun FhriiHMco, March 27,—(UP) Billy /Took, Mullen and 'em* httirt’edt..' lodar bagjMi) serving n on Alcatraz iMiuiiti f&r killing m fumily or five C.’uriA, Ms, arrlvad yMMierdav from (iklahoittM' Uit v. Wl.nra Im was swiiiahceri last week for Ituirdtutnr. Um UarlJMoKsm family of AtWvhd. | - ./ ~ \ Man filled, Fear Wife js Kidnaped Airforce Sergeant Taken Into Custody Calif., Me rch 27—(UP) —Officers feared toe ay that Mrs. Rleharri M-! Cook w>ps kidnaped and slain by g gunmah who killed her husband rind left their baby playing on a blanket beside Cook’s body. The body of Cook, 18, Maywood, Calif:, wris found yesterday on a lonely San Diego-to Los Angeles load. His eight-mrinth-old gon, Jeffery, played happily and unharmed on blanket spread hear the ilody. There >’as no' trace of Cook’s wlfe< Doris, 18. who had started out with himjand the baby fpr a weekend holiday trip. Shoniya Cook's body was found, Riverside police seized a 2Oy4ar-old sergeant it March alr base. Sheriff's Capt. Don Schrader said “theVe is very peculiar physical evidence which, on the surface at least, seems to line this man to the crime." Deputies searched canyons and abandoned mine shafts in the desolate Gatilgn hills eigit miles from here for Mrs. Cook.\ “We (ear that she tpay havfe been kidnaped by the persan who killed Cook,” deputies said. "There's a lot old shafts around here, some 30 feet deep, where a body could be hidden:" They dU’ided on th» mine search becauseJ of th* recent case of badmiiri B|Uy t ook, who killed five eTn*w T« i*mre.fntr«nt 'WVi«Miho > ii 1,4^11 W: ■ .»Vr.' w.y 'l'lrWi—||j|»i||ii

entirely. Nine of thg 22 Chicago patients died and twol of the seven New York patients despite the treatment- apparently due to the advanced stage of the disease. All cages, including those patients who, died, t showed ‘moderate to marked’’ apatomical and clinical improvement. \ Ivy emphasized repeatedly, however, that .Durovic’s serum was not considered a cure. “1 am not talking about a cure,” he told about 40 doctors who came here from all parts of the country for the meeting. “It should be made clear that Krebiozen is not to be viewed as the final goal in the chemotherapy of cancer, but I believe itjjs an important step in that direction.” Nevertheless, Ivy said that after watching the results of the drug, “I could hardly bellieve my eyes when measurments showed an effect on humans sometimes in 24 hours.” Durovic made the drug in an Argentine laboratory, working on iTara Pa»e sxx>

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War Bride Appeals Bar From Country Ellen Knauff Says Spy Charge Is Lie 5 Washington, March 27.—(UP) — Mrs. Ellen Knauff, accused ot once spying for Czechloslovakia while working for the United. States, today planned, her appeal from the latest order barring her forever from this country. ' The German-born yar bride returned to New York on parole to he|* attorney, Alfred \Felngold, to draft her appeal to the Immigration com mlMHioner. A special immigration and naturalisation vervlde board of Inquiry ruljed yiHieiday thut her ehlry into Uni United States would be "preImilrial to the national security " H uttered her permanently barred The board lytld It was "reaaonable to suspect’’ that aim would work aaalnst Am *r loan esplonaga and BMOttge laws. Mrs Knauff, wife of an American army veteran, arrived in <h*» United Htatas in IS4N, hm hat been held until recently on Hills island in New York harbor. x - ' Mrs. Knauff denounced ,m a lie that Charge that she had been a spy for Uaechoslovakia before the Commujnlsts took over that country. But the board ruled, on the basis of evidence given by three witnesses, that it believed she had been. I:f her appeal to the commissioner fails, she then can go to the board of immigration appeals. That failing, she will be excluded from the United States and ordered never to return unless the attorney general says she mayi The board's decision affirmed orders by two attorneys general excluding her. Until yesterday’s hearings hpwever, nothing had been disclosed on what the officials spe-, cifically based the exclusion orders* suprenie court had upheld the right of the attorney’general to exclude her . without a hearing. The orders had simply said she was excluded on the basis of confidential information her presence here To Pace Elcktl •—V— Says Chinese Reds Are Dumping Opium d L ■ Smuggled Through Japan Into U.S. Washington, Mar. 27 — (UP) -r The chief of the federal bureau of narcotics said today that the are dumping opium on the world market and that It is being smuggled through Japan to the United States. The statement wag madiv by narcotics commissioner Harry J. Anstlnger In testimony prepared for the senate crime Investigating committee. \ He described as « "disturbing matter*’ the offer of 500 tons of opium by the Chinese communists on the world market. He said 500 tons is a “tremendous" amount, equal to the medical needs of the entire world for one year. In addition, Anslinger said, his agents have \uncovered heroin traffic from a laboratory in Tientsin. China. Large amounts of nardbtics, he said, have been smuggeld from China to Japan and “will be coming to the United States.” “The Chinese communists should suppress this traffic,” he said.\ \ He also disclosed that American agents are “attacking” sources of heroin in Italy and Turkey, and that “there are, signs that this attack is having its effect.” He said Italy is a ‘major source’ of illicit drugs. Italy has cut down' heroin traffic somewhat but not enough, Anslinger' added. He said Turkey is trying to control "clandestine heroin laboratories" now thriving in Istanbul by controlling distribution of the source material —opium. - H • ■

Draft Policy Statement On UN Objectives Friction Between i MacArthur, State Department (Clears ’ Washington, Mar. 27 -. (UP) — ’ Reliable sources reported today ' that friction between Washington ‘ and Gen. Douglas MacArthur la being "cleared up" by Important ' behind-the-scenes negotiations. These, sources said the follow- ' Ing moyea ate iii progress: ’ I l. MacArthur Is being instructed (o clear with Washington all future statomenta touching on diiiionmi v- as K relates to the Ko [ rean fighting. Tim j\.im QhlMg <>r staff art! the llasoh between Wash- ( tagton the White House, pentaI gon and state department and , MacArthur. ' , ( 8, The United Btaloal has handed the 13 other nations fighting , In. Korea a draft of a mbJor policy , statement on Korea aimed al clari- . tying UN objectives in the war. The White declined all , comment on the matter. The friction between Washings ton and MacArthur stemmed from MacArthur’s -weekend .“peace" •\ statement on the Koreaii, war. [ His controversial offer to meet . \the Chinese communist command- > er in the field prompted questions i by this country’s allies concerning I U. S, policies. The White House last December ■ reminded government, agencies, overseas • diplomatic representatives and -U.S. military command!ers at home and abroad that proposed statements. touching on foreign policy must be cleaned in advance with the state department. While cabinet members gnd fivestar generals here have complied, it was understood that none of MacArthur’s statements had been submitted for review in advance. There were indications in offt- • clal quarters that the timing of MacArthur’s statement had collided with administration plans to issue this week, if possible, a new statement of UN war aims. The draft document was clrculated last week among the 13 nations. Their representatives meet today with state department officials as part of the series of semir weekly Korean war reviews. While the statement is ■, subject *«• Fitirr Ktsfct), r r\ i- i Ex-Pohceman Is Given Prison Term First Conviction In Brooklyn Ring New York, Mar. 27— fUP)--' The first policeman convicted in the exposure of Brooklyn's police-pro-tected \ |20,000,0(>0-a-year* bookie ring was sentenced to two and one half to five year> in prison and fined $5.G00 today. While Aaron Fela, 44, a veteran of 20 years in, the department, faced Judge Sgmuel Goldstein, exmayor William O’Dwyer was testifying for the .second day' before ' the grand jury which had sent more than a 'score of high police officials and leefeer department members scurrying out of the de- 1 partment onto the pension roles. . Like yesterday, O’Dwyer’s testimony was secret but the grand 1 jury was questioning him about what gave with the police during ' his administration. The jury had alleged that the ring pay the po- ! lice 11,000,000 a year for protec- 1 tion. O’Dwyer once characterized the investigation “a witch hunt" ’ but later apologized. Goldstein told Feld he was “a 1 small cog in thq wheels of the 1 biggest gambling ring in the his- : (Tin To Pa*e EUrko 1

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' ' , ' ' .A . Center Attention On Tax Accounts; Senate Committee Solons Threatened ' Washington.' March 27.—(UP)— Treasury secretary John W, Snyder said that that he is establishing a special fraud section in his department to wage war against “major league primtaals” through their tax accounts. ' Snyder made the disclosure io the senate crime investigating committee through a statement which he prepared and which was read by treasury undersecretary Edward H Foley. The new fraud section will ba bhu-ed under the internal revenue .bureau and wilt center‘attention on the tax accounts of "gamblers. Sm-ketamh, and others of their W" Snyder said it aimed ta "aireimline" the treasury's cain» palau against crime'* lax evaders," without interfering with the regular work of the bureau. Foley appeared before the tell* vision vstnersM at what the cointnlUea said would be it* last public perfoirmance. As the Itivesligatora sought •to JlDd but what the treasury 1« doing io iiab underworld character* who cheat on their' Income tax, Beu. Charles W. Tobey, R, N.H., and o;hf»r committee members disclosed they have received threats of injury or worse. \ Snyder said revenue officials are exploring with a house subcommittee legislation to “strengthen the hands of enforcement officers against gamblers and racketeers." Proposed steps, he said, would include requiring statements of net worth in return from individuals who derive their income chiefly from- non-wage sources; extension of the statute of limitations for three to six years in cases of "willful failure” to file returns; making willful failure io file proper re-, turns or keep proper books a felony instead of a misdemeanor, and giving revenue agents authority A to examine taxpayers’ books and records prior to the due date for tax returns. Snyder told the committee that “all honest knen” endorse its work. He said-he hopes the inquiry will continue because the “voluntary system” of filing tax returns can work only so long as the public! Is sure that the internal revenue bureau is doing a “good honest job.” '■ Plans, for a tax crackdown on racketeers were explained to the committee by George J. Schoeneman, commissioner of Internal revenue. He *aid the committed has been given confidential lists of ‘ nearly 2,500 persons being Investigated in the "racketeering and criminal field." . \ T A* Rchpeneman said the confidential list* glvbn the committee can not be made publlc'under the law. in any case, he said, their publication would endanger the success of the Investigations. Bchoeneman testified that checking of tax returns had resulted in collection of an additional 00(1,000 last year. He said, however, that most examinations are made on the theory that any errors are 'Turn To *>«* arichti .■ A \ Scouts Waste Paper Collection Saturday Decatur Boy Stouts will try out a new plan to collect waste paper next Saturday. The has been divided into four sections, and a troop will be responsible for each Scout* will call at. each home in Decatur prior to Saturday, 1 and in- \ quire about the scrap paper. They will tie the bundles if asked to and prepare it so that all the householder will have to do ia set the bundles out fa front Saturday morning. The new service is being started to accommodate a number of people who have told Scout : official* that they would be glad to take part in the monthly driva if they were reminded of the drive a day or two In advance. \