Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1951 — Page 1

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Airliner With 22 Aboard On Missing List Southwest Airliner Reported Missing - In California Santa Maria. Calif.. April 7.— (UP) —A southwest airliner carrying 22 persons was reported missing today and officials feared that it haM crashed Into a'mountain or into the Ocean while flying through a heavy overcast. i ' ! The two-engined DC-3 disappeared between Santa Maria and Santa Barbara, Calif. Air force, coast guard and civilian planes stood by to search for the missing airliner but were held up by the overcast covering the / rugged Gaviota pass area where the plane was presumed to have crashe<L . f i ' ' Sheriff Johq D. Ross of Santa Barbara county said an intensivesearch would start at dawn. Two planes went out to hunt for the lost airliner but fog and overcast forced them back. Patrol 1 cars, dispatched by the sheriff and state highway police, also were hampered by fog in the rugged ■hlllS. ' I ■ ' - "We’re out of luck until daylight and as we|l give up till then,” , Ross? said. Officers of the rescue squadron at March air force base near Riverside said the plane probably had exhausted its gasoline supply. Southwest public relations officer Ray Costello said in- San Francisco (hat the plane, piloted by Capt. Knox Pittman.of South San Francisco, wads unreported since 8:18 p.m, shortly after it took off from Sabta Maria of the SO-mile flight to Santa Barbara en route, to Los Angeles. The twin-engined plane carried three crewmen and 19 passengers, including many army and navy officers and enlisted men. The plane left San Francisco’s International airport at 5:45 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies reported that two tyilchhikers observed a “large plane; apparently in trouble” circling a|i area 10 to 12 miles south of Gaviota a few minutes after the missing plane tonic offTroni Santa Maria) . . A rancher in Doty Canyon near Santa Ynez peak in the Ghvipta area told officers he heard a plane “down rathef loMr" apparently turning north to return toward Simla Maria. ■J • ! ——■ —\ ■'' College Choir Will Appear In Decatur The completion of' pldns for the annual spring tour of the chapel choir of Indiana Central College has been announced by Dr. Hugo Marble, head of the department of music. The chpir, under the direction of Prof, 4.11 an F. Schirmer, will tour Indian*, and Illinois between April :15 and 22. 1 The tour schedule. calls for 18 appearances in high schools and churches and one radio broadcast. Towns included in the itinerary are New. Castle, Gwynneville. St. Paul. Elwood. Marion, Wabash, Huntington, Decatur; Churubusco, Warsaw, Atwood, Brook, Frankfort Lebanon, and Chicago, 111. The choir will make two ap pearances in Decatur. It will perform at the Eyangeßcal United Brethren church at <7:30 .p.m , Tuesday. April 17. It w|ll appear again Wednesday* April 18, at 8:15 a.m. at Decatur high school. Made New Member Os Quarter Century Club V Leonard Meyer,, a supervisor at the Decatur General Electric Plant, has been made a member of the G.E. quarter century club. He Is one of 10 near members announced' this week. v ' ——l < . > INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, rAin tonight and in north and east portions Sunday. Cooler Sunday and in west portion tonight. Low tonight ranging from 40 to 46 in northwest i to 50 in southeast. High, Sunday 45-50 northwest,' 55-60 southeast. \ ' /BK ■ ■

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Urge Crackdown On MacArthur Complaint % Opposes Policy In Korea War Conduct Washington, April 7.I—RUP) — Official pressure built up today for • President Truman to crackdown bn Gen. ' Douglas MacArthpr’b complaint against U.S. policy conduct of the Koifean war. But some influential Republican senators took the view that the atk ministration was guilty of mishandling of policy. Several Republicans said they might introduce a resolution in the senate next week asking MacArthur to appear before congress. Sen. Homer Ferguson. R., Mich-, hinted it might be better for a senate delegation to meet with MacArthur in Tokyo. , Authoritative sources reported that the Washington-MacArthur difficulties have cast a\ chill over Allies fighting Tn Korea. Fear was expressed that recurring incidents would prompt more trouble between the allies.' [ — The White House yesterday Te- . buffed MacArthur on his views that Chinese Nationalist forces should be used in the far eastern theater. White House press secretary Joseph Short said there had been no change—-and probably wouldn't be —in U.S. policy to keeb Nationalist troops on guard on Formosa. No one' in' official quarters Would go so far as to say that President Truman is angry' enough with-Mac-Arthur .to replace him as UN com-mander-in-chief. But Mr. Truman last Aug. 28 ordered MacArthur to withdraw his policy statement on Formosa, and he might; take similar action again to silence the general’s criticism. \ : Administration insiders were convinced that some action would have to be taken to clear up the con-' fusion over what the nexl\ move should be tn the political arena of the Korean war. Britain and the United States already have tailed to agree ijm a policy declaration—a (Turn «• Moon Funeral Rites Here This Afternoon Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Zwlck funeral hbrne for' William E. Moop, who died Wednesday. The Rev. Samuel Emerick will officiate, with burial in the Decatur Cemetery. /' Masonic services will also be conducted by Cletus Miller, worshipful master of the Decatur lodge. Pallbearers will be Roy Mumma, John DickersoTi, Robert Helm, James Kocher, Sr., Gottlieb Stauffer and Samuel Butler. — ' \ : Pan-American Pact To Be Signed Today To Strengthen West Against Communism Washington, April 7.—(UP) — The 21 American republics today sign a ‘’brass 'tacks” agreement strengthen the western hemisphere against Communism. The plan calls for sweeping military. wononiic and political cooperation in future years. Many top U.S. officials believe the program may be one of the most useful Pan-American agreements ever signed because it emphasizes action more than principles. Signing ceremonies were scheduled in the hall of the Americas in the Pan-American union building. Secretary of state Dean Acheson was to. represent the United States. C, The 4 Pan-American agreement ;was hammered out during two weeks of debate by foreign ministers of the American republics. The United States' called the emergency Conference to prepare the western Hemisphere against the threat of Communist aggression—and American officials say the diplomats did better than was expected. Under the agreement, all the American republics will plan how they can build up their armed forces to protect the continent and perhaps aid the United Nations. Argentina. Mexico. Guatemala and some other Latin nations refused to go alqng with a U.S?, proposal to promise to defend any American\country that is attacked. The United States, however, expects to give '580,000,000 worth Os arms to Latin countries agreeing to carry out specific projects for defense of the continent

Eric Johnston 1 Handed Tough Assignment I’. Ordered To Name Fact-Finding Board s On Rail Increase Washington., Apr. 7 — (UP) — Economic stabilizer Eric A. John- , ston, relieved of one major head- ‘ ache with establishment of a new rnobilization advisory board, faced another tough assignment L today., President Truman ordered Johnston last night to name an emergency fact-finding board to decide -whether 1,000,000 non-opergting railroad workers should get an . automatic six-cent hourly cost of ' living wage increase 'which would violate by about four cents tlie 10 percent ceiling on pay boosts. Johnston’s aides said, he hoped [ the panel would be named “in a day or so." ; Officials emphasized, however. ( that no such special treatment , would be” given workers in the meatpacking, shipbuilding, textile and other industries facing similar problems. ' Johnston has refused to okay any hikes over the 10 percent limit in an effort ’to pressure lal>or 'and management into agreeing on formation of a new wage stabilization board. But Mr. Truman noted In his letter to Johnston ’that rail wages were handled separately during World War 11, and indicated that the precedent should be followed. He suggested that' Johnston meet with the national (railway) mediation board to decide whether wage stabilization should be handled by the board, which normally has jurisdiction only over disputes. The fact-finding panel is. only a stop-gap; ' ' ■ ' ! ’ ■ ' • ' 1 ■ ’i Flood Wafers Drive 3,000 From Homes f .. i ' -I Others Threatened By Rising Waters ■ ■ - ?' ■ ' By United Press Floods drove more than 3,000 persons from their hbmes in lowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas today and the rising waters threatened to force 13,000 others to flee for higher ground. | Showers swept the flood area today, increasing the danger. \ A thousand families were left homeless at or near Sioux Falls. S.D., and the neighboring towns of Renner and Baltic as'the big Siopx river spread Jto a width of three miles.. The water was so high that it cbvered the gauges which measured the rate *of hooding: Fifty families fled their homes at Marshall, Minn., where the Red Wood river poured over two-thirds of the town. It appeared that 5.000 more persons would have to leave if the river kept rising. Red Cross rescue workers and volunteers began mobilizing emergency squads as the LJttle Sioux river threatened to drive the >B,OOO residents of Cherokee, la., from their homes, a 79-year-old map was rescued when water surrounded his house. The Cedar river flooded lowlands near Charles City, Ia„ as ice broke out of river upstream. Volunteers and three bull-dozer crews' worked steadily at Breckinridge. Minn., and Wahpeton, N.D., where high water on the Red river of the north threatened to burst out the protecting dike systems. High school students and airmen patroled the dikes throughout the night. The Minnesota river was rising swiftly at Mankota, Minn., and the Little Cottonwood was flooding at Comfrey, Minn. Other streams endangering residents in Minnesota included Zumbro, Root, Whitewater and Minnesota rivers. The .Big Sioux river was dropping at Dell Rapids Flandreau inSouth Dakota and the weather bureau expected, the flood to start receding today at Sioux Falls.

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College's Loyally Oath Held Mid \ School Ordered To Rehire 18 Persons Sacramento. Caljf., April 7.— /UP) —The third,district court of appeal has found the University of ■■■ California loyalty oath unconstitutional and ordered the school to rehire 18 persons who were fired for refusing, tp sign it. According tn the state court, the special University of California loyalty oath was in violation to section 3 article XX of the California constitution which provides an oath for all public officers. The section says "no other oath, declaration or test shaft be required.” The pledge provided in the constitution was "the highest loyalty that canl be demonstrated”, and imposition ®f “ar.y more inclusive test would be the forerunner of tyranny hnd oppression," according to the opinion. «. The I cmrft- took note that the I university regents had protection of the university in mind when requiring the oath. But added bny other conclusion than that reached favdringthe teachers would “be to approve that which frbm beginning of our government has been denounced as the most effective means by which one special brand of political and economic philosophy can entrench and perpetuate itself to thb eventual exclusion of all others." The UC loyalty oath under .dispute was first adopted at a meeting of the regents at pavis, Calif. Regent L. ¥. Giannini resigned when the compromise measure was adopted because he felt the oath was,not severe enough. The state legislature had before it as the court made its ruling, a constitutional amendment by assemblyman Harold Levering, R., Los Angeles, that would require a similar oath. It would require every public official who got a portion of i his income from tax funds to take the oath. A , In Berkeley, the court’s decision was. hailed by professors as “the turn in the tide against an unAmerican trend to judge men by what they sign." 'Stanley A. Weigel, the San Francisco attorney who represented the professors who refused to sign, said “my clients and I are yery much gratified, “Fighting for the principle that loyalty in America is to be judged by the substance of men’s lives and actions, 18 distinguished American teachers have ghined much for all Americans in all walks of life.” Noon Edition ——£

'• ... Lineman Is Killed In Fall From Tower Kendallville. Ind . April 7—(UP) -‘-Adam .-Boggs. 57, Avil|a. was I struck and killed by a car driven by Roy Hare, 41. Fort Wayne, while walking along Ind. 3 south'of Avilla today. State police said Hare told them Boggs was walking near the center of the roadway. Only Seven Vefs Os Civil War Survive Rigorous Winter Took Six Veterans Indianapolis, ’ April 7.—(UP) — This winter’s bone-chilling weather cut a deep swath in the tiny band of survivors of a \Civil War army. Qnly seven w r ere left, when spring rolled around from a huge Union army estimated by the veterans’ administration at 2,200,000 during the war of 1861-65. \ It was 86 rears ago this mbnth that the war ended. Last Year’s day there were 13. survivors, but the rigorous winter, comb|ned with the normal infirmities of age, chopped six menbers from the Httlb band in the last three months. x Those left range in\age from 104 to 109. .All are feeble but most are mentally alert Strangely, all are members of the Grand Army of the Republic, , although only one out of every five Union veterans joined that organization. Dean of the Survivors, James Albert Hard, 109.,;. Rochester, N’.Y., was taken to a hospital last weekend with, a chest congestion and his nurse feared for his recovery. ,Jospph Joe) Clovese, 107, spends much of bis time in bed at his Pontiac, Mich., home. But though he had a* “touch” of a respiratory ailment? this winter, the former Louisiana slave remains alert. ' Candy in an Easter basket among his gifts “disappeared* mostly in one day,” his housekeeper said. The othens are Israel A. Broadsword', 104, Samuels, Ida.; Douglas T. Story, 106, and William A. Ma<T«r« tn 81X1 Indianapolis Man Is Traffic Victim \ Indianapolis, April \ 7.—(UP)— Fred Risley, 50, Indianapolis was , 'killed today when his automobile ran into a safety abutment on a street here. 3 ■ . i 1 'Horses Os Troy' C > Rehearsal Sunday Initial rehearsal for the “Horses ’ of Troy” will be held at 2 o’clock I Sunday afterboon at the American ’ Legion home. All members of the 1 cast are Urged to be present. 1

Expanded Drive Places 10 UN Divisions Across Parallel; Big Air Fight

— (“A Dig Frantically To Rescue Two Miners Trapped By Cave-in In Minnesota Mine Eveleth, Minn., Apr. 7—(UP) — A volunteer crew dug ‘ frantically today to reach two miners trapped by a cave-in 40.0. fedt below the surface but &ill had 20' feet of rock to bore through (o^. reach them. / j 'Authorities said they "still had hopes” that Anton Kortcha, 52, and Frank Putzel, 42, would be found alive when the rescue workers reach them in the depths of the Spruce iron mine. Two teams of 10 men each alternated every 15 minutes in the digging operations. W. J. Kaiser, directing the rescue team, said the men could haye been killed .by the slide at about I p. m. yesterday or suffocated in the 35-foot long, eight-foot wide chamber behind it. - “The going is slow,” said Kaiser. who is general superintendent of the parent Oliver Iron Mining Company’s operations in this area. "A man works until he is exhausted and another takes over. But it will -go oh, man by man, unti| we get to them.” Kohtcha and Putzel had gone into the tunnel alone when the walls and ceiling caved in.- - Andrew Pettinnelli, r working nearby, said he felt a “rush of air" and, when he went to investigate, .found the tunnel solidly blocked. A Police chief Ed Mahaffey,?said similar fescue attempts had taken ,up to 18 hours at the mine. \He believed the cavein was caused by spring thawing. \ “It doesn’t look good,” he said (Turn to Pare Six) - , ' British Government Reproves MacArthur Hit Irresponsible * Statements On War London, Apr. 7— (UP) — The I British labor government indirectly criticized Gen. Douglas MacArthur today for making "irresponsible statements" about Korea and the far east. Mini ter of state y Kenneth Younger—No. 1 deputy to foreign secretary Herbert Morrison — official cognizance of the mount- , ing clamor in Britain agaipst MacArthur in a Speech before the Welsh national council of labor , at Cardiff. * ' , Younger -did not mention MacArthur by name. He referred rather to statements' issued by “highly-placed quarters.” But he left no doubt that he. was talk- 1 Ing about the United Nations’ supreme commander In Korea. Younger said It is still not too ' late to hope for peace talks with the Chinese Reds and added pointedly: “Neither we nor they (the Chinese) should therefore be misled by such irresponsible statements as see,m to come otit at fre- . quent intervals from highly-placed quarters, without the authority of 1 the United of indeed any ‘ member government.” His statement was a calculated ' onh, expressing the views that British officials have been stating Privately for some time. It fol- ’ lowed Morrison’s own remark, last J Monday that -this is the’ ‘psycho- j logical time” for a major truce ( move toward China and obviously was cleared by the foreign office, j Younger’s speech came ’ in the < midst of a campaign led by a left- j wing minority labor govern- i ment to force MacArthur’s dismissal as UN commander. - ( One laborite introduced a mo- 1 tion in commons yesterday asking t for a vote of “ho/ confidence” in 1 MacArthur. But it seemed unlike- t ly that the motion ever would be f put to a vote. 1

Report South Korea General Has Vanished Top Army General Missing, tylay Have Been Kidnap Victim i ■ .■ . ' ■ Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, April 7 —(UP)—One of the South Korean army’s top generals has vanished and a government source suggested today that a pro-Com-inunist Korean pilot might have kidnaped him. . Maj. Gen. Kim Paik 11, 37, commander of the South Korean Ist dorps, was last seen March 28 as he departed aboard a light liaison aircraft with his pilot for his east coast base. , JJefore leaving, he had held a front-line conference with Bth afmy commander Lt. Gen. Matthew’ B. Ridgway and diii-Q with officers of the 3rd South Korean corps. . The defense ministry discloses his disappearance in an announcement today. Government sources at Pusan, the temporary capital, speculated that his pilot might have flown him to North Korea. They said the circumstances surrounding his disappearance were "peculiar.” . d Despite an intensive search no trace of the plane, the general or his ijilot have been found, 'phe pilot s name and background were not disclosed. The announcement said, that the general explained before his departure that he was "in a hurry.” . He rejected suggestions to return to his headquarters by jeep because of a fptecast of. bad w’eather over the eastern mountains. Clerk's Office Open Late For Registration County clerk Ed Jaberg Stated today that his office will remain open until 9 p. m. Monday to accomodate voters who wish to be properly registered for the May 8 primary. Monday is the official deadline to make certain of voting, registration for those who failed to vote in 1950, changed precincts or names. The clerk’s office was doing brisk business today straightening the records of voter? and beginning to sort the cards of those who might be purged from the lists. Accident Victim \ ■ Is Still Critical Edwin Harbert Is ] Still Unconscious •(..‘ a '■ • . ■ ■. . 41 Edwin Harbert, 30, of Fort M Wayne, remains in "critical” Condition at the Adams county me- t mortal hospital where he was taken i after he had ibst control of his car I on U.S. 224 shortly before mid- j night Friday. , The accident victim has not re- i gained consciousness since being admitted to the hospital, and phy- !l sicians there have been unable to take X-rays to determine fully the extent of his injuries. \ ’ fte is suffering from severe head < injuries suffered when his car went 1 out of control as it was traveling j at a high rate of speed just this 1 side of the Ohio state line. \ Harbert thrown from the i car it had gone onto the i berm, lurched, jumped and flew toi i a stop in an upside-down position, t Police measured, at one spot, where f had traveled more than 60 t feet from a take-off point to its i landing area. c

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Ground Resistance Light; Biggest All J Jet Air Battle Os History Is Fought Tokyo, Apr, 7— (UP) — Two more United Nations divisions crossed t<he 38th parallel in today. ' \ The expanded drive placed 10 \United Nations divisions across the parallel along an almost solid 90-mile. front. ’ ' Armored columns ranged*ahead and one struck as deep as eight iniles into North Korea in the vi* cinity of Chailli on the road frorit Seoul to the big communist buildup ' area around Kunihwa. This\ thrust was a repeat of a similar drive Thursday. Red resistance on the ground remained scattered and , light for the second consecutive day. But the biggest all-jet air battles pf history erupted in the skies. Fifty American F-84 thunderjets, escorting a fleet of B-29 superforts hitting Yalu river bridges, fought 40-Soviet-built MIG-15 jets that Attacked the bombers. Two enemy jets were damaged without loss tQ the Americans. This battle raged from five miles high to almost ground level. The supefforts poured more than 26<\ tons of demolition bombs on two Yalu river supply bridges. The communist unit on 1 west-central front which stopped • an American division all day Friday, withdrew one mile during the night, giving up one line of-■ 4.000foot hills. The South Koreans routed two enemy companies north northeast of Munsan, killing 63 ahd capturing 14 prisoners. . The American task force smash- „ ing into the Chailli area met antitank and bazooka fire as well as .small arms fire, an Bth army communique reported*. Front dispatches said the Reds mysteriously abandoned strong positions on the central front and were withdrawing before the ad-' vancing UN troops along a 50mile sector of the front. The general withdrawal extended/ from the point where the Imjin river crosses the parallel east to a point directly souih of the Hwachon re~ervoir. The communists in the west were believed to have abandoned their Grat defense line just north pf the parallel and pulled back across the Hantah river fpr a new s’arid along hifh ground north bf It , UN troop' moved ahead cau- \ tiously to avoid being sucked into 1 any communist trap. They -were approaching the vital Yonchon-Pvonggang-Hwachon triangle in ' which the enemy command wag reported massing a half-million or more troops for a counter-offen-sive. Adams Cnuntv Native Is Prison Patriarch Albert Musser, 77. a native oT Linn Grovb, is now the patriarch of the Indiana state prison at Michigan Citj4, where he has been confined since his conviction 52 years ago for the slaying of Mrs. Louisa Stoltz, an aged Portland woman. Musser became the patriarch of the state prison a few days ago after the death of James Btirton, 85 who was sentenced to life imprisonment for an L 897 slaying. Warns Os Possible Draft For Nurses . Indianapolis. ApTH .■ 7— (UP)—Nurses may face a draft if the war - emergency continues, Mrs. Eliza- ( beth K. Porter, president of the American Nurse s’ association, warbed today. \ Mrs. Porter told the Indiana state nurses’ convention the number oC\ nurses needed for military nursing is i restricted information but that there is a shortage of 85,000 nurses for civilian nursing. She said if alkout mobilization came the civilian shortage would be more critical: ■ \