Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 81, •—

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War Jitters Hit Washington

Fear Russians To Hurl Armed Forces In War Other Capitals Os World Take Calmer View Os Situation \ By United Press The nation’s capital had World War 111 jitters today after an official warning that America stands ip "face of terrible danger" and perhaps a world conflict The fear waw that ’ Russia was about \ to throw her armed l forces into the Korean war arid that the fighting then migHt spread to Europe. President Truman at W news conference Refused to make, any, predictions concerning a general war. He said simply that the danger of war now is as great as it ever has been. o I" V. L Other world capitals' took a calmer view of the thrdat./j kt United Nations military (headquarters in Tokyo it was said was no information to confirm The Wash-i ington fear that Russia ' wjas about to become an active belligerent. Gen. Douglas MacArthurj is’ expecting a Chinerie-North.! Korean spring ■ offensive!, but his intelligence officer® are not inclined to l>elleye combat troops will be used Ui ; It. ‘ . 1 British intelligeuce experts had a report trial Russia had handed over 3,000 planes tp Red , China /to,be used iin the spring offensive. Not all of them are first-line and bombers. Many training p|anety are included. The British: consider it possible that Soviet itroops may ,be massed in | Manchuria, but they believe they are there for defensive, not offensive, purpose®. \ i A brief speech in the house of representatives by speaker Sam i Rayburn started the excitement yesterday- He is the presiding officer |o| the house and seldom leaves ■ the chair to make a speech./ The fact that he had just come from a military briefing at the White House added weight to ( his wffrds. Rayburn descended from t|he speaker’s chair to the well of jthe bouse to ’speak in behalf of; the draft-universal military training bill. "I have never in my long service in this house said a thing or done a,’thing that might have a tendency to deceive the members of the house," Rayburn said. ’’Since eVen yesterday, with 30 enemy planes coining over Korea, with the massing of troops in Kott rea ami Manchuria, and not ajl of j them communist Chinese by a great extent,' I say to this house in all earnestness and all serious-j ness that it is my firm belief we are in trie greater danger of an expanded war today than we have -been at any time since' th* close Os the riorld war in 1945 . . . This winning of a little battle in Korea had, better not lull the American, pople to sleep because I think that we stand in the face of terrible danger and maybe the beginning xrf- 'World War HI." \ MacArthur’s intelligehce officers - have known for some time that there are Russian technleiaris and civilian advisers in North Korea and Manchuria. There is evidence that Russian pilots occasionally have'flown in support of the Chin-ese-NortJf Korean army. ; MacArthur was quoted in the London Daily Telegraph today, as saying that his army easily could defeat trie Chinese Reds if the United Nations would “take thel wraps off” his command. Lt.-Gen. H. G. Martin, military correspondent of tile Daily Telegraph, wrote after a iHt with MacArthur that I a sea blockade of the Chinese (•oast and a bombing attack on the nation’s | railroads would bring Peiping to its knees. ' ■ , LU ■ ' ; *U’ 4 INDIANA WEATHER Incteailfi g cloudiness tonight, followed by showers extreme northwest tonight and . river most of state Friday. Not 90 cool riouthweot tonight. Low x tonight 30 to 35 northeast to 40 to 46 southwest. High Friday 50 north tri 55 to 60 south.

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No Fire, Siren Is Part Os Fire Drill That long, piercing whistle that rent? the air last bight. heard lor the first time by in.an.y 'Decaturites, was’ part a>f the fire practice drill held by (lie Decatur vohjnteer fire department, at trie fire sthtiort. No damage was»| caused by the lack of fire, but a, deal of curiosity was aroused. when the whistle wa>| t|ken from ‘ under wiaps" for| thrii first time To Alert U.S. [Troops To Be Sent To Europe Go-ahead To Follow Senate Approval Os Troops For Europe Washington. April .-i.—(UP) — American troops will |je alerted within a few' days for tjransportar lion to Europe and the Atlantic pact i army, military sources today. The go-atiead was given with senate apf royal of resolutions yesterday tri: build up American strength in Grin. Dwight Dr Eisenhower’s aijny to sii divisions. The divisions earmarked for Europe are the 4th infantry division now at Ft. Benning Ga„ and the 2nd Armored at Ft, flood, Tex. These are regular army They will be followed later by two as yet unidentified natiriiial guard divisions now in training Two divisions already are in Europe. Military and diplomatic officials — including Eisenhower: — have made clear they are an,xiops to rush troops to Europe. After months of bitter senate debate they believe that only the sight, of. more American Gl’s swing dpwn the 1 Champs Elysees in Pari# and on I station in Germany willVreassure 1 western Eilrope that the United States means business on| the pact army project. , 'l' ■ ~ \ Here is the present time table on building up American Torces in Europe to the six division; figure: 1. Within \a few’ days/-possibly 48 hours —the 4th infanti| r will be alerted and ordered to brij ready to start moving within about ;a month* The 2nd armored, will follow Inf another month. 2. They will be joinetj in late I summer by an as yet unidentified 1 national guard division and by early fall by another guard division. There are now’ four national guard divisions, all infantry, itj federal service in this country. They are the 43rd from Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island; the Wth from Minnesota and North Dakota; the 31s>t from Alabama and Mississippi; and the 28th from Pennsylvania. 3. Already committed jlo Eisen'bower’s army are the Ist- infantry division and the constabulirjy force, reorganized into an armored division. Both, these units jnowr are in western Germany and under Eisenhower’s control. s Graliker Appointed Trustee Os Company 'l* 4 Initial Meeting Is Held By Creditors T. F. Graliker. president of the First' State Bank, of this; city, to--1 day was appointed trustee “%t the | first meeting of of the Steury Packing company: held in federal court, Fort Waynri, today. The’ Steury company w’as declared bankrupt in a petition filed March 10, at which time referee in bankruptcy William G. Keane issued a notice of the creditors’ meeting. 5 ' - The meeting was.continped open > until time creditorsfwill resumes the discussions. “Hoyever, it ma|r not rie | necessary to hold any further meetings,” he said; . ( v In his “Trustee of the bankrupt eoncrifift, Graliker will be tn charge of tlrie inventory of the company, filing of petition; to sell, and the conduct of the salo itself.

Gov. Schricker Orders Ban On Slot Machines Determined Effort \ To Hit At Heart Os Gambling In State BULLETIN \ Decatur and Adams county authorities today issued a joint statement in which they pledged absolute compliance with Gov.' Henry Schricker’s recent edict against gambling. Following a special meeting , today, prosecuting attorney Severin Schurger, sheriff Bob Shraluka and Decatur chief of police James Borders issued this written statement: ‘ln compliance with the orider of Gov. Schricker, the gambling laws of the state will be strictly and immediately enforced in Decatur and Adams county. This “Includes slot machines, punch boards, fish' bowls, pinball machines, bingo and arty other forms of ganffSling.” The governor’s order had carried with it the threat that If local police officials were not quick to act in eliminating such gambling forms, the state polite and excise men would be called Into the matter on a local level. Indianapolis, April 5 —(UP) — oj’der by Governor Schricker banning Blot machines and all types of gaming dev ides was rii' effect today in a determined effort to strike at the heart of gambling in Indiana. , Schricker, making the first move in Hoosier history to put a strict antirsjot plan into- operation on a statewide basis, called on local law enforcement officials to “take the 1 initiative in riddiflg our state of j these unlawful operations.’’ . 1 But if thqy don’t act, Schricker said, state police and state excise officers will carry out his executive baij. “We have tolerated the slot machine evil in Indiana all too long, and the time has come to square our position as law-abiding people,” he said. “These illegal practices must stop and stop immediately.” Schricker said he had been “conT ■ ! Holliday, Ferrer Deny Any Red Ties t Tied To Communist Front Organization .Washington, Apnl 5 — (UP) — Jady Holliday and Jose Ferrer, academy award-winning movie stars, were listed by the house un.American activities committee today as “affiliated with five to to communist-front organizations.” The committee issued a report on the communist “peace” offensive in the United States which included 67 pages of names of al- ' leged Red fronts and their sponsors. The report’s subtitle wa# "a campaign to disarm and defeat the United States." The committee said it got the names from the press or from documents of the organizations. \ Missi Holliday and Ferrer, who performances in “Born Yesterday” wton “Oscars” fast week for their arid “Cyrano De Bergerac,” were listed ris sponsors of a communistfront '‘peace” conference in New York ip March, 1949. Miss Holliday and Ferrer told the United Press in New York that’ they are free of communist affiliation. ' “l am not a member of any organization listed by the attorney general as* subversive/’ Miss Holliday said. “Iff any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowl- , edge that such organization was I subversive.” ' The blonde actress said that of her own free will she had given Columbia pictures and the National Broadcasting Co. sworn statements that krie is not and never has been a member of the cpm(Turn to Fare Six)

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— .;—— Hugs For Heroes rU,Ji ■&- a j| JEAN ANDERSON (left) and Karen Ixitterer (right). K-year-old Minneapolis gi’ls Po«e w+th arms around two heroic boys. 4ohn 12. and William Donahue. 13. who rescued them from a cistern into which they haff fallen.

Extendi Markup Price Controls To More Stores 76,000 Retailers In U. S. Affected By Latest Controls Washington, April 6.—(UP)— Tfie government today extended “markup" price controls to another 76,000 retail stores doing a $7,000,000,000 annua! business in radio a'nd television seta, sporting goods, musical jewelry and other consumer goods. The order, effective April ilO, freezes at March 31 levels thei retailers’ percentage markups—the difference between what they, pay for an article and for what they sell it. k No widespread price rollbacks are expected,! because- all of the hundreds of l|ems covered by the new regulation already were under the general price freeze imposed'on Jan. 25. The main Immediate effect will be to Hold retailers’ margins at present levels. Then, if manufacturers’ prices should be rolled back later, the reduction could be passed along to the retail customer. Price controller Michael V. DiSalle issued today’s order as an amendment to his Feb. 27 regulation which put the same type of margin controls on about 200,000 retail merchants-7-mostly in the clothing, furniture, household textiles and shoe fields. Comparable regulations freezing margins of food stores were issued on March 29. DiSalle said the margin type controls, originally developed and used' successfully by OPA during the last two years of World War 11, are tailored to fit the pricing practices of large and small retail stores. He said they have support of the industry and are fafrer and more effective than the ' general price freeze. \ When today’s order becomes effective next week, the only major \retail terms not covered by margin controls will be gasoline and oil, automo‘ive equipment and supplies, drugs and cosmetics, building supplies, hardware, stationery, fuel, and large household appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines. , p . DiSalle said provision has been made in the new order to limit the amount of cos* increases on certain items which retailers may be allowed to pass on to thei'r customers. In those cases, ( which he did not further Identify, the retailer will be alloWed to pass on only the dollars-and-cents cost increase, not the percentage rise, which generally would be larger. Consumer goods covered by the new order include radio-phonograph combinations, record players, watches and clocks,, fireplace equipment, kitchen cutlery and gadgets (like cookie can openers and salt shakers), toasters, electric irons and other small appliances, cpoking utensils, bathroom accessories, laundry driers, manicure scissors, luggage, golf and tennis balls, baseball and other athletic equipment, bicycles, sterling and plated silverware, glassware, china, costume jewelry, compacts, cigarette cases, and wedding rings. .

.'/ii’U 1 I Only Two Properties In Delinquent Sale ' Sale Is Scheduled To Be Held Monday Only; two properties remain to be sold during the delinquent property tax safe scheduled to be conducted' next Monday at the east door of the, Adams county j court house. However, both auditor I. Drew lind treasurer Richard D. Dewtox) said that the sale might possibly be cancelleddjecause of no The/ noted »hat when the delinquent tax properties were first listed, I®. descriptions were noted; this list has been reduced to the possibly two sales. Some of the descriptions were removed from the list because of a court order, for example, in thd Steury ; iAßottoir property, which is involved in bankruptcy proceedings in federal court. Another property was Pajrt of an estate on which taxes will be settled after its sale; still; another property is held by the welfare department, which has a lien against it. [ ( There were three descriptions placed dn sale a year ago by coup-, ty officials for delinquent taxes; there was no sale the previous two years. ' Tbose>’ remaining today on the list _ard the Joe and Charlotte Schuster and Lincoln Housing . properties. ■ ■ " , U LLETIN > Albuquerque, N.M., April 5. (UP)»—An air force C-45 trans- , port crashed and burned cast-of Lis Cruces, N.M., In the Organ today and officials said; they feared that several \ persons aboard were killed. the air force spokesman said search planes had flown over the wreckape and that observers reported “no signs of life.” Youth Sentenced To Prison For Slaying _ W J -4 Begins 2-21 Year Term At Pendleton Tipton, Ind., April 5—(UP)— James E. Chalfln, the last< of three persons to face court action in the robbery-slaying of a former Indianapolis city, attorney, today began a two to 21 year terpi at the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton. Chal'fiij, convicted Monday by an all-male circuit court jury of manslaughter in the bludgeon Slaying of Albert Thayer, was given the sentence prescribed by law in l spite of a -defense appeal for leniency J Chalfin and tw\> Indiahapolis companions—Carrol Dooley, 26, and pari Michael Kelly, 17—were indicted last summer in the ThayOr slaying. Dooley was committed for life to the Indiana state prison hospital for the criminally insane and KeMy. was sentenced to life Imprisonment on a first-degree murdqr conviction in Hancock circuit court. \ Attorney T. Ernest Maholm. pf Indianapolis asked judge W. Mount toreduce the sentence t to one to lOryears in view of Chalfin’s I age. Moiiut said he would consider ; <Twra Ta Page Six)

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Army Will Rotate Combat Personnel To Start Rotation System This Month Washington, April ■£>. —;(UPri — Army secretary Frank Pace. Jr., announced plans' today to rotate, army combat personnel in Korea starting this month. Pace said the plan will start operating when\the first combat veterans sail from Korea about, the middle of this month. ' Preference normally will be given to those who have served longest in the front lines, the secretary said? He said the plan will be started on a cbmparat’vely small basis and will be accelerated gradually until it reaches about 20,000 individuals a month. He .thought this level crin be reached by early summed. But he added that it will depend not only on the arrival of replacements from the United States in Korea but on the intensity of the fighting. Pace said it is planned to return as many individuals as possible directly to the United States in ihe first rotation. , But he added that later some of the may be assigned , Uy to. garrison duty in japan or elsewhere in the far east command before being returned to the United States. Returning personnel will dock either at Seattle or San Francisco, Pace said, v All will be given a chance to go on leave before reporting for their\next assignment. A month ago, the air force announced it is increasing the flow of men tri the far east in order to resume rotation from Korea to the United States in May. The navy has been rotating ships and men aboard them in Korehnl waters since tffe beginning of the! (Tarn To Pace Six) . . —. ' \ C. C. Membership Teems Are Listed Annual Campaign To Start Next Tuesday Names of the men who comprise each of the opposing Chamber of Commerce membership teams were released by the team captains today, and Chamber officials also announced \ completed arrangements for the kick-off breakfast. With a goal of 35 new members set by officials of the Chamber, to be obtained during the membership campaign, members of the teams will meet at the Fairway Restaurant next Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. J. F. Sanqiann will be the principal speaker at the breakfast. Dr. H. R. Frey, captain stated that the names of his “western” team included Ron Parrish, Dr. J. M. Burk, Lyle Mallonee. Earl Camton, Dr. J. F.. Morris, Robert S. Anderson, Nate Gurtner, George Bair, Clyde Bdtler, Kenneth Runyon, W. R. Gass, W. E. Petrie, John Halterman and Robert Lane. . Members of the “southern” team, captained by Al Zink, included L. E. Anspaugh, Carl Gerber, Fred Haugk, Leo kirsch, Robert Macklin, Robert Zwick, A- J Bleeke, H. H. Krueckebarg, Ralph Habegger, Roger Kelly, Dr. G. J. Kohne, M. P. Cass, Joe Ke|ley, arid Lowell Harper. t While the kick-off breakfast is arranged primarily to gain the additional 35 members, further discussions will also be held concerning the drive to gain more associate and junior members oh enrollment lists. \ 'Three-Year-Old Boy Is Drowned In Creek Shelbyville. Ind., April 5—(UP)— Three-year-old James L. Pendleton, Shelbyville, drowned yesterday when he fell into Sugar Creek while playing abriut nine \miles west of here.

U.S. Armored Column Drives In North Korea Drives Eight Miles Into North Korea Ahead Os Troops \ Tokyo, Friday, April 6. —(UP) — A self-contained American armored column drove eight miles into North Korea Thursday ahead of advanCipg United Nations troops holding a solid 42-mile front aboVe the 38th parallel. An Bth army communique said the Yank task force advanced against “nroderate’\ resistance and at noon, dispersed an enemy company in the Chailll area, eight miles north-of the border. v Dispatches \described the tank column hs a powerful, rounded force capable of pulling into its own perimeter and fighting off the enemy indefinitely without help. - In its slashing drive north it was heading into The heart of the Reds “iron triangle” where the bulk of an estimated 500 000 Communists are massed for a. proposed spring offensive. ' ■ 11 Massive flights of allied planes ranged ahead of the tanks, spreading destruction among Troop concentrations and clogged supply \roads within the buildup area. \ Sweeping steadlly,forward behind the armor were Tour American divisions, two South Korean d!vi : sons and a British brigade. They were moving ahead along a 42-miJe front north of the 38th parallel extending from the Imjih river on the west to a point horth jof on the east. i \ Strong allied patrols covered the line from Chunchon east to The coast, where the South Korean capital division at last reports was 15 miles north of the border and still going. ~ Canadians, Australians, Greeks and Thailanders joined American, South Korean and British troops Un the drive north on the west-cen-tral front. On the west flank, other American troops reported no 4 contact along the Imjin riverfront. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said earlier this week that the Chinese (Twj-m To . Pa*o six) Jess 0. Dull Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Jess O. Dull, 76. retired painter of Wren, 0.-, died at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday at the Van Wert, 0., county hospjtal after an illness of two weeks' of asthma. A native of Willshire' township, he was a sOn of FranUlin and Rebecca Walter«-Dull, and was married to Beulah Wonleris Jah. 17, 1909, w Surviving in addition to his Wife are two Theron Dull of Decatur and Donald of Van Wert; five daughters. Mrs. AnffLe R Hines of oriio City, 0., Mrs. Ftank Serano of Wayne, Mrs. Leland Sheets, Mrs. Delbert Hoffman and Mrs. Carlos Hey of Wren; ffne brother, John Dull of Willshirri township; two sisters, Mrs. M. Birdie King of Van Wert and Mrs. Janije Neifertl of Willshire township t and seven (grandchildren. A grapdsop, Sgt. Kenneth Hines, was reported missing in action Nov. 27 nerir |he Manchurian border and no fjirther word has been received by the family. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. (EST) Saturday at the Greenbrier R. U. B. church, the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. Burial will bri\ in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the vCowan & Son funeral home to the Leland Sheets residence at Wren, where friends may call after 7 o‘clock this evening.

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' ' ■■ • —' '/ ' Federal Judge Tells Couple Crime Worse Than Murder; Sobell Given Prison Term New York, April 5 — (UP) — Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman today sentenced two atomic spies to death. v . " ~ The supreme penalty was Im- < posed upon Julius Rosenberg, 32, and his wife, Ethel, 35. / » Their Morton Sobell, 34, an electric engineer, was sentenced to the maximum prison term permissable under the espionage laws^—3o years. They are to be executed, the judge specified, during the week beginning May 21. Under federal - law the death sentence is carried out in the state in which they are convicted — in this case, in the* electric chair at New York’s Sing Sing prison. \ f However, the- execution date was certain to be postponed by c appeals. If the Rosenbergs die, they will be the first persons ever executed for espionage after trial in United States civil courts. The federal judge told the couple, parents of two small children, that their crime- in delivering the ’ essential* of America’s A bomb } secret to Soviet Russia was "worse than murder.’’ ‘Tn committing murder the criminal \ kiflt ttttty hia victim,” - Kaufman told them. “But ln\ your ’ case' I believe your conduct in . putting into the hands of s Russia secrets of the atomic bomb has already caused ' the communist aggression In Korea. I believe by your betrayal you have altered the course of history.” I. The Rosenbergs faced the judge with drawn faces and tense bodies- • . \ ' y ! Because of their far-reaching treachery, which was “a diabolicril conspiracy to deri’roy thlt( Godfearing nation,”, Kaufman said h 4 was compelled 'to impose a sent ence will demonstrate that the nation’s security must remain inviolate.” He based the supreme penalty, he continued,"on the evidence of » their trial which showed clriarly that Rosenberg was ‘a prime mov- " er in this conspiracy” and his wife was “a full-fledged partner in thia crime.” ' j The Rosenbergs were called before the bench at, 11:15 a. m. Kaufman asked if they had anything to. say. They said they did not. Then,? in grave and measured tones, the judge tongue-lashed them for treachery to their country and told them they would . have to die.’ ‘‘l’ve searched the record, I’ve j searched my conscience to find some reasop for mercy,' for it is only human to be merciful,” Kaufman said. *- Nevertheless, he coritinued, he felt he would violating his trust if he imposed a sentence less than the extreme penalty. Mrs. Rosenberg wore no make* up and her face was ashen. Before pronouncing their doom. Kaufman had postponed the sent-' encing of Mrs. Rosenbergs brother, David Greenglass, until -1 p.m. (CST) tomorrow. Greenglass was the government’s chief witness against his sister and her husTurr ’Tn Kigtit) To Present Awards To Safety Patrols The presentation of awards to members of the safety patrol forces of the Lincoln and St Joseph’s schools will be made next Monday' in ceremonies at the former school. The awards are given’ to- the boys by the Chicago Motor Club in recognition, of the fact there were no children fatalities-during school hours during the past year. » The presentation will be made by Marion Kirkpatrick. 1 dWtrict renresentatiye of the Chicago Motor Club. who\no*ed that the Decatur natrol members have been recipients of these awards for the past several years The program is scheduled for 1 p.m. in the Lincoln school. '* ‘ r