Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 74.

TAX VIOLATIONS ARE CHARGED TO CARROLL

Yankees Drive A T Chinese Reds Off Three Hills Bitterly Defended Hills Near Seoul Taken By Yankees * ■ I I r ■ !■; ■ , Tokyo, Thursday, March 29.— (UP)-?American troops drove Chinese Reds off three bitterly defended hills north <if Seoul Wednesday while other American doughboys battled a Chinese regiment with hand rgrehades and rifles. < Both actions were on the west- ' ern front, >’here the Communists are dug 4n about seven miles south of 'the WBth parallel. On the east coast, 3out'h Korean troops drove more than [six miles into' North Korea. 7' , The three hills, from ,700 to 1.700 feet’high, guard the, highway north at a pbirit about 10, miles north of Uijongbu. The Yanks took them by storm. > Defending Chinese retreated east to- another set of hills. On one hill the Americans counted nearly 15j0 Chinese bodies. They took seiren prisoners and estimated Cljdnese woynded at about 200. Jin' another action. 15 miles northwest of ITTjongbu a Philippine combht team, identified in hctibn in this area for the first time, ranyinto about 5,0 mounted cavalrymen and. drove them off after a sharp fight. An American, advance bine miles northeast of Uijongbu was halted by a" Chinese regiment entrenched in the hills around. Siflye. seven miles south of the /parallel. The beds halted/ the\ American advance- with heaVy morta'r and small arms fire. The Americans gmashed within hahd\grenade distance of the Cotmhunist lines but still were uhable to break through when nlghtjfell. v officers , estimated a still Chinese regiment was entrrin'ciieH ini the hills. They said their men T*|re encountering bigger and bigger Communist concSntra- \ Hops, indicating the Reds may be planning to make a stand south of the 38th parallel in -that area. The heaviest fighting was along highways lehdjng north toward the Communist [capital of Pyongyang. Patrols entered Sinyu during the day but were fired upon by Reds holding high ground around tile town, it was presumed the patrols withdrew at dark in accordance with custom. v " While troops , drbve for the parallel, staff officers held hurried ineetings tb consider the implications of secretary of defense George Marshall's policy ' statement bn crossing the 38th parallel. John J. Muccio. U.S. ambassador to Korea, flew to the front to confer w<h Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, commander of United Nations groupd forces. The two conferred for l-U hours Muccio said nothing when he left. Irving R. Levine, correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company', reported that top commanders in Korea were called into a secret session by Ridgeway Wed- / nesday morning before Ridgeway . j {Turn T® Five i LATE BULLETINS Berlin, March 28. —(UP)— ' A convoy of five U. S. army / sight seeing buses filled with American soldiers was fired upon as it left the Soviet sec- - tor of\East Berlin today. No one was injured. ' An. Army spokesman sald the Shooting occurred early this afternoon as the buses came down Leipziger Strasses in the Soviet sector into Potsdamer Platz, junction point of the Soviet, American and British ■ sectors. ' ' ,-r The spokesman said the shooting was done by the E,ast - German peoples police. The * police fired a volTey at the buses, hitting one and smashing the windshield of another. , Paris, March* 28. —(UP)— The Soviet Union agreed today to consider the of the demilitarization’of Germany along with other causes of eastwest tension instead of separately. Soviet deputy Andrei Gromyko made the Russian proposal in response to Big Four charpe* that Russia is keeping the Balkans in a ferment that riould lead to a new world war.

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Accident Injuries Are Fatal To Youth > •V ' Coluinburi, Ind.; March[2B —(UP) —-Arlo E. Davis, 20, died yesterday of injuries suffered wheb his car crashed into a tree as-he returned 'home from Easter church services Sunday. v Wilson Sees Big Increase In Production ’ Sufficient To Wage An All Out War If i Necessary By 1953 j 1 Washington. Mar. 28 *— (UP) -— 1 Defepse mobilizer Charles! E. Wil- ■ son said that, by 1458 the United States will' be able to produce enough to fight an all-out war if necessary and also supply more civilian goods. ' \ Within three years, he told the senate appropriations committee, hie believes “we will he able to' achieve a potential military and ’ economic strength heretofore un1 heard of.” ' -I But Wilson warned that if the defense program is fd be a sue- ’ cess there must be a stabilization [ program adequate enough to keep the U. S. economy strong and the dollar stable, J Wilson said he now is Studying new legislation that < may help stabilize prices. He said . labor's walkout ' from the wage stabilization board was < “not the way to settle differences and work out an equitable program." Wilson was understood to hkve told the senators at the closed session that he ‘hopes labor soon will return to trie mobiliza- * tion program. Lt[ He testified in connection with i his request for $51,000,1 00 |n extra I funds anjd $4,000,000.0)0 in borrowing authority to increase de- ; sense production. ' > Wilson said that eyiop now the mobilization program is passing * from the contract to thri produc- * tion phase. Since the Outbreak of ? war in Korea, the government has ? obligated for miliJ tary procurement. Since January. It has obligated about $12,500,000,- » 000. . \ !■ ' ; 1 Wil°on warned against undue ■ optimism toward the world situa- * tion. , ’ I 1 “I do not wish to be an alarmist but I must point out| that the threat of communistic aggression ’ . still, exists." WiUon said. * ' He defended | the program to 1 boost production by tdx amortlza--3 tions, government loaris and loan 3 guarantees. But here, [he said, industry must be permitted to “in1 tegrate” at the expensbi of existing capacity or in excess of available materials. HL 1 ) \ ■ L 'LL ’ - ; ' ~~~ i rind Woman's Body Near Crime Scene Mrs. Cook's Body Found Near Quarry \ Riverside. Calif., March J 28. — (UP) —A sheriff's posse found the body of 18-year-old Mrsi. Doris Cook today near an old quarry, about a mile from the spot where her husband was found shot so death two days ago. ' L;., Sheriff’s Capt. Doh Schraeder said one of the patrol cars used in an intensive, search of the lopely Gavilan Hills- area negr Lake i Mathews radioed a report that the woman’s body had been found. Schraeder said he did not know whether the woman !had been shot or died by other means. He said a 20-year.-qld air force sergeant held in connection with the case wak “in the fibldL with the search party but that he did not know whether the aergeant was with the car that the body. Weston W. Walrath, chief of the sheriff’s detectives, hajd announced earlier in the day that he would seek* a murder coinplaint against the youthful sergeant, charging him with slaying Richard Cook, also 18 Cook’s body was found Monday <Twrm To Fa*» Six)

3 .- . I ]' i ' !' I j Tobey To Seek Continuation Os Crime feobe Senate's Inquiry Is Scheduled To Expire Saturday Washington, March 28. —(UP) — Sen. Charles W. Tobey, fighting! to 'continue the senate crime committee investigation, said he would call for a meeting today to “determine our future coyrse.” Two other members of \the five man committee backed the New .Hampshire Republican's efforts io continue the committee’s inquiry beyond its scheduled expiration next Saturday. \ "We have merely snatched the surface of this vast problem, confronting the American people.” Tobqy said. “I believe we ishotild continue to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may.'' Supporting Tobey \ were fellow committee members Sens. Herbert \R. O'Conor, I).. Md., and Alexander Wiley, R., Wis. But chairman Estes Kefguver, 1).. Tenn., expressed fears that an extended congressional investigation might interfere with legislation to combat interstate crime. [ Ip As a substitute, Kefauver proposed the creation of a permanent crime investigating commission. He w*as supported only by Sen. Lester C. Hunt, D., Wyo., who\said that too mu"h investigating might interfere with senatorial duties. The committee worked fevierishly to prepare its report which is due by midnight. Saturday. It will make a number of recommendatiotis, presumably including one to hanif&r the interstate transmission of horse racing infornmtibn. L. Tobey said that at the very least he would ask for week to 30 days” extension to work on the report. He said it is “ridieulods” to expect senators to produce such an important document, in four days’. ‘ The committee concluded its open sessions yesterday with test!\mony from treasury officials on income tax frauds and the narcotics problem. But it still plans to question again three key witnesses in a closed session on Friday. They are Lou Rothkopf and Morris Kleinman —members of the socalled “C|eveland syndicate”—and Jake “Greasy Thumb" Guzik, one \of the alleged heirs-tff the underworld empire of “Scarface Al” Capone. j All three , have refused to answer committed The committee yesterday voted contempt citations against Rothkopf (Turn To Pagr Five* t r, Primary Election To Have Contests Contests Loom On Democratic Ticket As the deadline nears for filing declarations of candidacy for municipal offices, two councilmanic contests loomed in the Democrat party. Three incumbent, councilmen had filed their declarations day and indications were that a fourth, Adrian Burke, would file prior to' Thursday’s deadline. Those now serving on the council who [have announced their intentions of seeking reelection include: Alfred Beavers, coujicilman-at-ladgb; Joseph Brennan, fourth district: DOjrphus Drum, second district. | ' . \ In the* third district, councilman Joseph Krick has declined to become a candidate and there are two aspirants for\ his post. Ed Bauer, of the Schafer Co. and prominent Legionnaire, has filed his candidacy as has Niland D. Ochsenrider, a Democrat precinct comnlitteeman. i Kennsfh Secour. a newcomer (n Dolitics, has filed his candidacy for council from the fourth district and will oppose Councilman Brennan. There Were rumors of more con♦ests, but at midafternpon no other candidates had filed. It was said by close friends of councilman Burke I that he would file either today or tomorrow. Councilman, Brennan is employed at the Central Soya Co. in Decatur: councilman Beavers operates his own gasoline service station, here and councilman Drum is employed at the Schafer hardware store.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday; March 28, 1951.

‘Now, This Hurts Me... ’ Etc. 1 I ' ' . y - ■ J' ' A THAT OLD SAW about this hurting me more than it<does you is no more convincing in Korea than it is anyw’here else, it seems, as these tots in Yongdungpo, Sepul suburb, are inoculated typhus, smallpox and cholera in a mass treatment. . -

Confirmation Rites Here Friday Night St. Mary's Church Rites Here Friday ■' '■- ‘! j | 'I . Approximately 150 children and adults will be confirmed Friday evening at 7-30 o’clock In St. Mary's Catholic church by the Most Rev. Leo Pursley, auxiliary bishop of Fort Wayne. A sponsor will accompany each confirmand as the holy rites of the Catholic church are conferred by Bishop Pursley. The list of children released today contains 123 names, two of whom are high school students. About 25 adults will deceive the.sacrament. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s church, will be master of cere-, monies. his first official visit to the local parish since his ordinal tion last fall, Bishopr Pursley is expected to give a short sermon during the service. Children who will be confirmed are: Diana Bak4r, Donald Baker, James Russell BowerV. Judith Braun. Karen Braun, Patricia Cass, Delores Costelloi Michael Ehler. Patricia Faurote, David Gage, Vincent Case. Thomas Gase, Sarah Gass, Pamella Gelmer, 'Thomas Gross, Gerald Gillig, Judith Ellenberger, Louise Ha|ce, James Heimann, Gerald Hess, Paul Hess', Patricia Kintz. Thomas Kollman, Edward Lengerich, June Lengerich, Roseann Litchfield, Mary Alice Loshe, Jeronda Meyer, John Meyers, Stephen Meyer, Benjamin Mendoza, Marilyn Murphy, James Omler, Stephen Otmlor, Susan Parrish, David Reed, Carol Ann Rumschlag, Carolyn Schultz, Mary Schultz, Severin Schurger, Jr. Stanley Smitley, Gerald Staub, Donald Teeter, George Tester, Marie Tricker, Robert Vela. Donald Wietfeldt, Edward Wiseman. Gerald 'Baker,, James Coyne, Michael Durkin, Patrick Durkin, Paul Gross. Alvin Hackman, Edward LaFontaine, Anthony Lengerich, Joseph Mendpza, John Meyer, Robert ' Murphy, David Schultz. Stephen Sutton, Glenn Wilder, Alexander Pursley, Angela Andrews, Elizabeth Colpaert, Jane Geimer, Mary Ann Jackson, Dolores Kohne, Kathleen Kohne, Judith Ann Koors, Theresa Laurent, Leonida IWieSr Julia Osterman. Betty Baker William Beal, Mary Beckmeyer, Keith Bricker, Joseph Brite, Virginia Castle, Tom Cass, Daniel Costello, Michael Ellenberger, Donald Gase, Sandra dase, Dale Hake, Carolyn Heiman, David Kable. David Kitson, Joseph Kohne, Theresa Kortenber, Fred Lengerich, Kenneth Lechtie, Thomas Meyer, Rose Marie Meyer, Rita Mendez, Philip Reed, Geraldine Schultz. Rosalie Voglewede, David Wiseman, Suzannd Sutton. ' Thomas Ehler, Ronald Ford, Anthony Gillig, David Heimann, Ronald Meyer. Michael Murphy, James Schnepp, David Voglewede, Alan* Wiseman, Marjorie Kohnf, Ruth Lengerich, Nancy Mies. Ann Sue Miller, Elizabeth Miller. Janice Titus, Margaret .Ulman, Eleanor Wemhoff, Rosalie 'Wilder, Ha v zel Roberts. Anita Mendez, Richdrd Kitson, Ray Brown. '

Variance Granted To Build Garage A request for a variance filed with the board of zoning appeals by Harry Maddox North Third street, to enable him to construct a garage ohe foot from his property line instead of the required three feet granted by that board at its regular meeting Tuesday night at city halt ijecause of the absence oftwo board members, all other business wai carried over to the next meetingj Which will be held Tuesday night, April 10. Tuesday’s meeting, was the first in several months at which no new petitions were filed. ■ ' Political Interest Mounts Here Today Primary Likely To Be Necessitated Contests loomed today in two pouncllman districts in the Democrat party which will necessitate a primary run off May 8, according to the list of those who had filed by noon today. Democrats and Republicans have ,aimos:t c ompleted their slates as the deadline approaches: both parties are yet top name a councilmanic candidate from the first district, but leaders indicated this would be remedied before Thursday, v Barring withdrawals, which like filing, must be accomplished by Thursday, there will be contests for councilmanic posts in the third and fourth districts. County clerk Ed Jaberg stated today his| office would remain' open Thursday untjil 9 p.m. to encandidates to file or withdraw from the campaign. As matters now sjtand, the mayoralty- race -will be decided next November bet w*?n incumbent Republican Mayor Johp M. Doan and former Democrat Mayor John Stults. ; \ I City clerk4rea\prer, H. Vernon Aurand, Republican, is unopposed for his reflection to that office. In the third Democrat district, Niland (jchsenrider and EdMn Bauer have filed for the nomination,; and in the fourth district Joseph Hi Brennan and Kenneth Secaur oppose one another. Other Democrat candidates who filed for founcil posts include Alfred Beavers, councilman-at-large, and, Dorphus Drum, councilman for trie second district, Dium, jßeavertf and Brennan are incumbent councilmen seeking reelection. Rqpublicau nomihees for councilmanic seats include Dr. Joseph Morris, cpuncilman-at-large, Donald GafeC, second district; Hubert' Gil- ' pin,"third, and Hugh Engle, fourth district. Indications from thie of both- parses were that councilmanic candidate® for the first district will be filled later todajy. It is believed that incumbent Democrat councilman from the first district, Adrian Burke, will seek renomination. Within the past couple of weeks rumors have generated considerable’ interest to the race which began unexciting enough. If any of these rumors ipaterialize, there will tmtf *• Pace Kicrit)

Prominent Bookmaker Is Charged With Failure To Comply With Tax Codes

Initial Break In long Rail Wage Dispute Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Announces Contract With Union Chicago, Mar. 28 — (UP) —The Indiana Harbor belt railroad of the New York Centtal system announced tpday\ it, , had sighed an agreement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, providing for a 27 cents an hour wage increase. The railroad said m was the first break in the two-year-old rail labor wage dispute. ' The nation's railroad's, now under government seizure as a result of walkouts, have been negotiating tn Washington with the operating railVpad brotherhoods. The Indiana Harbor Belt agree- 1 ment, which includes a cost of living formula, was signed by R. H. McGraw, general manager of thp company, which is a New York Central affiliate, and two members of the union’s committee. Thfey are Clarence J. Huber, general chairman, and L. L.' Sandford, vice chairman. Under the terms of the agreement, which will affect approximately 280 firemen of Indiana Harbor Belt, 23 cents of the hourly w’ill be retroactive to Od|. 1950. An additional two cents is retroactive to Jan. 1, 1951, and the remaining two cents retroactive to March 1, 1951. , _ Twelve and one-half eents of the raise already is being paid under an army order which halted a walkout early this jrear. L. W. Horning* vice president of personnel and public relations for New York Central ‘ and chairman of the eastern carriers tonference committee, said in a stateihent released here that the Indiana Harbor Belt agreement for; 27 cents "is the sAme offer made by the carriers committee to the operating unions \on a national basis.” “The Indiana Harbor Belt I agreement assures three years of. peace,” he said. “It also grants the 40-hour week but because of the present manpower situation that feature t of the agreement will be postponed for at least a year. ■ -V—- ' ... Spy Trial Near End In Federal Court . Three Persons Face Possible Execution Nevir York, Mar. 28—(UP)—The fate of three Americans accused as Russian spies goes to a federal jury today in tM nation’s first atomic espionage trial. . The defendants, Julius Rosenberg, 32, his wife Ethek 35, and his former college classmate, Morton Soteell, 33, possible execution in the electric chair if convicted. ‘ \ Defense attorneys began summing uj) to the jury of 11 men ahd one woman at 9:30 a. m, EST. Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufmann said he expected to hand the case to the jury by afternoon. The tense courtroom drama on Square neared an end after 14 trial days in which brother testified against sister, secrets of the atomic * bomb were described, and confessed spies gave the inside story Soviet intrigue. The Rosenbergs each made witness stand denials of tjie government’s charge that they conspired “to deliver to the Soviet Union the information and the weapons the Soviet Union could use to destroy the United States.” They denounced the testimony of Mrs. Rosenberg’s brother, 1 Dav(Turn To Paare Six) 1

For Mayor AB x . L ■. LL L■, .. John B. Stults '. . . I ; r Stults Announces :L'V ’. ■ Mayor Candidacy I• ■ ' Former Mayor Seeks Nomination In * Former Mayor John Stults today announced his candidacy for mayor of Decatur, subject, to the decision of the Deniocrat voters in the May primary election. Stults, who until a year ago operated the Home Grocery here, served as miyor of Decatur from 1943 until 1948. X The candidate has long been active in civic affairs of the city and, during his tenure of office he started~the alley improvement pro ject; the ground work for electric plant improvements, and other progressive projects. Stults also was active in the several war bond drives and other home front government activities during World War 11. He has resided in Decatur all his life and with the exception of a few years immediately After completing Decatur high school, he always has been in the grocery business.. I From 1937 to 1943, Stults served • as a member and president of the Adams countV memorial hospital board, resigning that post to serve as mayor. The candidate stated that he planned to make an active campaign for the mayor’s post and that he was confident of leading trie Democrat party to a complete victory next November. Mr. and Mrs. Stults reside at the corner of Adams and Third streets in Decatur. ? Lions Entertain Ladies Last Night Program Held Here On Tuesday Evening Waiter Sittman served'as master of ceremonies pt the program Tuesday at which members of the. Decatur Lions clilb entertained their wives and members of the cast of “The Womanless Wedding” and their wives. Highlighting the program was the presentation of certificates of appreciation by club president L. E. Anspaugh to all menjbers of the recent Lions’ production who were not members of the organization. The evening’s entire\pi-ograni was divided into six sections, with chairmen of each in charge of a particular phase. Sittman introduced D. Burdette CusteA, Malcolm Locke, Watson Maddoj, Deane Dorwip, Thurman Drew ahd Herman, Kruebkcberg, who each in turn introduced either music, comedy or contests to the approximately 150 persons assembled in the K .of P. home. During the evening, awards for major achievements were presented to Tom Lutes, Mrs. John Halterman and Ron Parrish.

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Section Os Income Tax Code Rarely In Use Dusted Off To Charge Bookmaker > Kansas City* Mo,, Mar r 28 —? (UP) —James J. Carroll, nationally known St. Louis bookmaker and a recent witness before the Kefauver committee, today was charged in a ppir of government with failure to comply with ptovisibns of the income tax code. ' ~ , < j The government dusted off a section of the code which has ‘been ' used only in instances previously and not. according to investigators. in recent years, in preparing the informations against Carroll. ' I-> The 'first information charges Carrell In 24 counts with! failure to :file form 1099, and Involves payments bf gambling winnings to 14 ’persons in 1948 add, HF 1949. The tbtal amount o( those winuirigs was listed at $52,688. The Second information charges in two counts failure to file [forms JD9B for those two years setting forth the schedule of payments. The little-usbd section of the code requires filing with the commission of internal revenue, processing division, of- payments on gambling winding or commissions paid if they amount to more than S6OO, Because that atffice of the\ bureau bf internal revenue is located here, the informations wbre filed in this district. In "Washington, the bureau said the information, filed by U. S. district attorney Sam M. Wear, alleged that the payments for which - Carroll did not account amount to about $52,000. The payments Were made in 1948 and 1949. The information listed 21 persons who are alleged so have received the payments. All the payments were for more £han S6OO. The internal revenue law requires a report in the form of an information return from any person who makes a payment to another amounting to S6OO or more within a tax year when the payments' represent a gain or profit or compensation to the recipient. Under the law. person found guilty of such violations can be sentenced to from one day to one year in jail on each count, fined from $1 to SIO,OOO on each county or both. Carroll reecntly testified before the senate crime committee here. He told the committee his betting operations throughout .the country amounted to *‘more than $20,000,000 a year.” Out of this, he testified, he made a profit of “about J Internal revenue commissioner George J. Scrioeneman said “revenue agents have been having trouble with Carroll for several years over his income tax records.”. \ B<shoeneman said dgrroll had told revenue agents he did riot file returns “because to do so would put me but of business.” The agents, he said, learned that Cgrrbll’s betting > business, . based mainlyvat St. Louis, had required as many as two score statisticians, mathematicians, accountants, cashiers, stenographers, and runners. Wear said that it was the first time, to his knowledge, that this section of the code had been used, but investigators who worked on the preparation of the informal tiohs said they believed it had , been used previously. i : The Informations charged Carroll “wilfully failed to file information returns -with tne bureau of internal revenue disclosing payoffs to betting customers or pays metns as commissioners to employes bf the Western Upion Tele- \ graph Co.” . \ INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and mild with occasional rain and some local thunderstorms tonight. Thurs- \ day rain ending and turning colder. Low tonight 45 to 50 north, near 55 south with slowly falling temperatures during Thursday. y X