Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 84.

TRUMAN, LEADERS DISCUSS MACARTHUR “J; *■ — ~ ; • : ! : * - : i I‘ > ' \ ' .

E. W. Lankenau To Retire As G.E. Manager !

Only Manager Since Plant's Founding In 1920 To Retire From Active Duty April 30 E. W. Lanxenau. wno in 1920 -\ successfully cradled tjie newly born < DecStur General Electric plant, and for 31 years guided the healths youngster and saw it grow several times its original size, will retire April 30 as plant manager of Decatur’s largest industry. His approaching retirement, while causing emotional throbs in the throats of, fellow cb-workerS and as tjiey conterhplate on the severance of daily contact withlhim; was the occasion for the Decatur supervisor’s club to honor their retiring chief Saturday night at a banquet at the Fort Wayne Orchard Ridgej Country Chib. i Speeches ana messages of goodwill extended to the honored guest. J. K. Eady, club president, presided and John F. Welch, assistanti manager to Mr. Lankenau since 1948. iwas the toastmaster. " • As a remembrance; club members presented, the industrial lead- / er with shop tools, which he can use in! pursuing hobbies in the room in his new home west ' of the ’ city. The gift included wood working machines, with a drill press, 'bench lathe, jig saw and bajid saw. : r Messages of good cheer and vyishes so long years of health in his retirement were sent to the Decatur plant manager rby the J supervisors and foremen’s clubs in Fort Wayne. ~i The local club also presented f him with a bronze plaque in recognition of his 31 years of faithful and efficient service. A souvenir program was distributed to the more< than 50 guests at the .---banquet. The program contained the theme, “In Appreciation,” with a picture of tyr.' Eapkenau on the front page- > " The Decatur G. E. plant was /dedicated in April, 1920 and the ' first .motor rolled from the lines in July. When the original plant was constructed,, it was designed, to employ aliout 225 persons. Mr. Lanketiau was named superintendent and moved here from kort Wayne. 7 By September, 1925, the onemillionth motbr was produced in the plant. In 4937, the G. E. club building and an annex to the plant were completed. In 1940, the local plant, under j the management Os Mr. Lankenau, celebrated its 20th anniversary. - ' So successful hsd'“manufacturing operations become In Decatur’s fractional horsepower motor plant, that the large building to ' the north of the first building, on North Ninth street, was built in - 1941. From then to 1944, or. untH | ' after World War 11. war motors I were built for the government. In j 1946, G. E. purchased the building from the defense corporation and both plants were organized into ! their present day multiple produci tiop units. In 1950, the Decatur plant produced 1.447,328 fractionfl al horsepower motors. During all these eventful , and ’ growing years, Mr. Lankenau continued as the guiding and* supervisory head of the nationally Jnown G. E. plant, which through lany expansions and use of modrn production ' methods now employs more than 1,000 persons. „ Mrs. Minnie Holthouse j L Undergoes Operation | Mrs. Minnie Holthouse, 514 Madison Street, underwent surgery at St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne 'early this morning. Her condition was reported satisfactory by members of her family who are at her bedside. V "■ ■■ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with occasional light rain] extheme south portions. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 35 to 40. . High Tuesday 50 to 55.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

To Retire | i | \ Ew i r \ r | K' L !fl isl jflfK& ■E. W. Lankenau j ■ Abandon Fight To Enact UMT Into Law Now Abandon Fight For Universal Military Training Law Now Washington. April 9.—(jUP)— House military affairs leaders gave up today in their fight to write universal military training into law at this time. Facini 'bitter opposition to a pending’ draft and UMT bill, they agreed to support amendments under which congress would commit itself now merely to consider “legislative recommendations” to be made later by a special UMT commission. , UMT cpuld hot go into effect until congress, by law, so decreed. Chairman CUrl Vinson, D., da., said -his house hrmed services committee, which sponsored the bill, approved the revisions unanimously at a closed meeting. The committee, without taking a vote, also wa<t understood to have sanctioned informally an amendment to give draft boards the: last word on deferment of college students, despite forthcoming nationwide college deferment tests. Rep. Paul J. Kilday, D., Tex., who earlier had planned to Offer an amendment to block the college tests, said that under his revised plan the’ tests would go ahead as scheduled but that tne results would be only Each draft hoard would have the final say about its own college deferments. The\ latest concessions on, UMT i (Tara To Fa«« Six) Jennie R. Rhoades Is Taken By Death Funeral Services i Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Jennie R. Rhoades. 39, a native of Adams county, died at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning after a 90-day illness of a cerebral embolism and complications, i She was born in Adams county Feb. 23, 1912, aTlaugliter of Mr. and Mrs. George Urick. She was a member of the Winchester U.B. church. Surviving are a daughter, Sandra K. Rhoades of Fort Wayne: three brothers, Freeman, Robert and Virgil Urick, all pf Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. , Peter Martin, Mrs. John Hirschy and Mrs. John MayOr, all of Decatur j Funeral senices will be held; at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. H. J. Welty officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until’ time of the services.

County's First Traffic Death Os Year Today ?V \ - Edwin E. Harbert Dies This Morning Os Wreck Injuries Adams county’s first traffic fatality of 1951 was recorded this morning, when Edwin E. Harbert, 29. Os 816. Colerick. Fort died at 6 o’clock at the Adams county me mortal hospital of injuries sustained last Thursday night. Harbert was injured shortly before midnight last. Thursday night, when the autorhe was driving overturned approximately six miles east of Decatur on. U.S. highway 224 near the Indiana-Ohio state line. Death was caused by a skull fracture and a brain laceration. The* accident, victim was unconscious when brought to the hospital and regained partial consciousness only briefly Sunday Leonard Kuderna; 32, also of Fort Wayne, who was riding with Harbert, escaped with only minor injuries. . ' j War II Veteran Harbert was born in Venedocia. 0., July 13. 1921, a spn pf Thomas and Clarissa k r McDormih-Harbert, and wa's married to Selina Koenemannj daughter of Carl of Preble. Aug 24. 1946. ; A veteran of World War It; he entered service Oct. 8, i 1942, and was discharged Nov. 1. ;1945 after serving in the European theater of war. He bad been employed at the Phelps-Dodge plant in Fort Wayhe the past four years. j He was a member of Adams Post 43. American Legion, and the Moose lodge of Decatur, and the Eagles lodge at Delphos, O. Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Kandyce, Kay, 3. at home; his parents, Mr. ind Mrs. Thomas Harbert of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. I>averl Sharp of Decatur. / Funeral services will, be conducted at 2 p.m.; Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home the Rev. HerHeine of the Zion Lutheran church at Fort Wayne officiating. Burial will be in Tomlinson cemetery at Elgin, 0.. with the American Legion conducting military rites. The body will remain at the futk. eral home, where friends rpay call 'after 7:30 o’clock this evening. Education Building Dedication July 1 Plan Services For Lutheran Building The new Zion Lutheran parish ‘education building, | now beipg erWted adjacent to the Zion Lutheraii church on West Monroe istreet, will be dedicated with special services Sunday, July 1. Date for the dedicatory services ’was set Sunday afternoon at the quarterly meeting otf the church voters’ assembly. Details for the ceremony and selection of the guest speaker will be determined by a special committee, composed of Gerhart Schultz. H. H. Krueckeberg; Reinhold Sauer and the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt. Kitchen equipment in the new byilding will bo provided by the missionary society. A furnishing committee, consisting of representatives from each of the church organizations, and headed by Earl Caston, congregational vice-presi-dent. has been receiving bids and placing orders for necessary building equipment. During yesterday’s meeting, Kpnneth Schnepf was appointed ds treasurer, succeeding Howard Buck, recently njipved to Marion, R. The church will also have a special collection on Mother’s day, May 13, for the kynod’s army and navy commission. . '— ? > ' Oppose Hiring Os Teachers Oyer 66 Membets of the Adams county board of education weqt on. record at their regulat meeting Saturday as opposed to hiring teachers beyond the 66 year-old agp limit. The state teacher’s pension plan allows retirement at that age, with the local school option of rehiring the teacher if there is a “definite need .for hipi.” i v >

Decatur, Indiana, Mondays April 9, 1951.

Indicted On Income Tax Evasion BBhBBm WEST COAST GAMBLER Mickey dehen. and his wife, Lavonne, indicted on charges of evading f156,(M)0 in income taxes appear in a U. S. Marshal’s office in Los Angeleh to sign their $7,500 release bonds. Cohen could be given 20 years,ln prison and fined $40,000 if convicted. His wife faces 15 years and ,$30,000 in fines.

Two School Safety Patrols Honored Present Awards To Two School Patrolsv ; . . - - ■j - ' i ■ , - Twenty-four youths tbday were honored with service awards ih different ceremonies tqeld in the, Lincoln and . St. Joseph schools this afternoon. The recipients of the awards are all members of the tiwo schools’ safety patrols. Mariori Kirkpatrick, field representative of the Chicago .Motor club, dohors of the awards, made the presentations at the' two pchools. Sheriff Bob Shraluka \acconipanied Kirkpatrick, and spoke at both presentation programs: ' Those members of the St. Joe patrol receiving awards included Charles Voglewede, captain: Thomaij Titus, Donald Rumechlag,' Thomas Omlor, James Schhepp, Patrick Teejple, Thomas Ehler, Timbthy Murtaugh, Robert Miller, Edward Meyer, Larry Ehinger, Ronald Raymond Eyanson and Edward Laurent, Those whA received the awards at Lincoln school included members of 6A class: Bill Smith, captain; Peter Dalzell. John Dorwin, Ted\ Schrock and Michael Cole. \Members Lincoln 4>B class to deceive the awards were. Gene Baxter, captain; Stanley Alger, Jay Gould, Tony Kelly and Ronnie Hesher. Floyd Reed is the instructor. tn charge of the 6A patrol members; Hubert Zerkel, Jr., is in charge of the 6B contingent. Kirkpatrick presented each patrol member! A service pin, some (Tum «• Fw (r si x) j ' '-p- --y Bryant Man Dies In Auto-Truck Accident Lee Ford Killed At Bryant Last Night Lee Ford, 60, a native of Adams county, was instantly killed at 7:35 o’clock Sunday evening when his auto was struck by a northbound truck on U.S. highway 27 as he drove ontoi the highway| from a Bryant filling station. The truck, loaded with limestone building blocks, and driven by Kenneth Young of Bloomington, struck Ford’s car practically broadside as Ford drove onto the highway from the east side of the road. Ford suffered a crushed head as he was thrown froih his . car and run over by the truck. ' \ The accident victim was born in Adams county Sept. 6, 1890, a son of John and Naomi Armstrong-Ford, and had never married. A veteran of World War I, he was a member oZ American Legion Post 211, Portland, and the Portland Moose lodge. He was employed as a general laborer, and resided one mile south of Bryant Surviving are three brothers, John* and Charles, both of near <T«ra Te Page six)

Contingent Leaves For Army Induction \ 4 Rix Adams county men left today for induction into the armed f«ce«; raiding the total number of inductees since last, August to 85. Originally 18 men were: scheduled tor induction, but later notices reduced this to the six who left, reflecting the nation-wide decrease in the need for recruits. Those included in today’s contingent were, Gordon Wayne HireNorbert Aloysius. Lengerich. Norman Junior Young, Willard vR. Burgess, Ray Delton Kauffman and Williahi Junior Ehrsam. ; ■ > Heavy Traffic Toll Recorded In State 14 Fatal Highway Crashes Reported , By United Press Indiana counted one of its heaviest Weekend violent death tolls of the year today. 14 of them in highway crashes, as stath police reported that fatal traffic accidents 1 in Indiana increased 16 percent during, the first three months of the year. Four of the victims Were in a. car-truck collision at the intersection of Ind. ft and 37 south of Marion. Two of them were identified as Archie Delaney, 46, Crofton, Ky,, and Emma Jean Carter, 18, Hopkinsville. Ky. The others, h woman and a four-year-old girh unident’fied. \ Authorities said the 1 Wreck occurred when Delaney’s car failed to stop at an intersection and crashed into a truck\operated by Edward J. Myers, 29, Fort Wayn£. Myers was not injured. | ' Other dead were: John M. Hammack, 16, and Olson L. Coomer, both of Salem, killed when their car was struck by a speeding Pennsylvania passenger train v in Scottsburg. Lee Ford, sft, Bryant, killed when his car hit a truck. Albert L. Swainston, 56, Sullivan, j whose car collided with a station wagon on. U,S. 41 near Shelburn. Mrs. {lose Cannon, 60, Winamac, a passenger in an autobiobile which collidedwith a truck on U.S. 35 south of Star City. ‘ Charles Garrett, 51, Whiteland, who walked into the path of an auto near his honje. Adams Boggs, 57, Avilla, struck by a car while walking along Ind. 3 south of Avilla. Fred Risley. 50, Indianapolis, whose car struck a safety zone abutment. David ; Shapiro,\ 18, Indianapolis, killed in a ear-truck collision. \ Janet Hegcock, 11, Mitchell, injured fatally in a two-car crash at the intersection of Ind. 37 and U.S. 50. > _ Max Wood, 15-year-old Alexandria high school sophomore, was killed in a freak hiinting; accident when a pullet fired by a companion glanced off, a. tin roof and hit him rTwrw To Pave Fear)

Long-Range Policy Fight Between Administration, General Near Showdown

Reds Abandon Stronghold Os Hwachon Today Open Flood Gates In Futile Attempt Ta Halt Invasion Tokyo, April 9 —(Ulb— The Chinese Reds abandoned their Hwachon stronghold today after opening the flood gates of the huge Hwachon reservoir in ,a futile attempt to delay the allied invasion of North Korea. Pursuing U.S: sprees,, ignoring the threat of floods, reached the southwest side of the reservoir 13 miles north of the 38th parallel—the deepest American penetration of the Communist homeland in\this second battle of North Korea.. The Yanks were believed to have seized hills overlooking Hwachon itself.. fortnerlv the eastern anchor of the central Korean triangle in which the Reds were reported massing a hdif-millidn or troops for a spring counter-of-fensive. \ The reservoir Is the third largest in Korea. The Yanks reported that the Pukhan river, into which the reservoir empties, rose 7% ffeet at mid-day, but by dusk had dropped to only one foot above normal. The dam gates Were mile across the reservoir from the nearest allied units at dusk. Engineers ventured no explanation for the fall of the river's crest other than the possibility that the Reds maiy have closed all or some of the gates before finally retreating nortji, But in abandoning the reservoir,! the Reds gave up their best defensive position in central Korea\ UN officers sajd the temporary floods might hamper but would not seriously affect the allied march north bf the 38th parallel. '[\hey were confident that none of ihe American, French Thai or South <T*rn To Pojko Six) i Fritzinger Resigns From Postal Service! Veteran Rural Mail Carrier Quits Today Former poetmaster Hairy ( FritzInger and mail carrier on Decatur route three since Nov. 21, 1927, retires today from the U. S. postal service, Leo M. Kirsch, postmaster, announced. With 28 (years of service to his credit; Frytzinger was appointed postmaster Sept. 22, 1922. He served in) this position until Feb. 16, 1927. On Nov. 21 of that be was appointed carrier pn route three. He made the 62,31 miles trip daily in the delivery of inail to rural patrons served \by the Decatur office. ? , . For the past few months, the veteran postal employe has been on sick leave, his resignation becoming effective today'. Fritzinger is the second former postmaster and mail carrier to retire from' the service within the past, six months. Maynard Frisinger, became a cdfrier on city route four, following his service as postmaster, resigned Nov. 30, 1950. Postmaster Kirsch announced thht this was filled today with the formal ‘ appointment of Richard Maloney, 1409 W. Monroe street, Maloney was a regular carrier on the parcel post route and was promoted to the city system. Jay Martin, who was a substitute \carreir, was given the parcel post carrier appointment, effective April 1. t Both pf these easier* are Veterans of World War II and have been identified with the postal service for the past several years.

45 Killed In Plane Crashes Over Weekend \ ' '■'' ■ ■■ ' ■ 19 Air Fierce Men Killed In In West Virginia By United Press Five weekend airplane crashes left 45 persdns dead, five injured and two missing today. Thirty-onq \of the dead were servicemen, along with three Os the Injured and the two missing. Three crashes occurred while the pilots' were flying'on instruments. Nineteen air force men were killed and iwo others injured yesterday when their C-47 transport crashed on a 1,140-foot ridge near Charleston, W. Va. Three persbns were killed and three others injured when a B-25 bomber’s three crewmen parachuted at 3,000 feet and the unmanned plane crashed into a hohse at Morningside, Md„ a suburb of Washington. ( AU of the dead injured were in the house. The airmen landed safely. \ More than a hundred airplanes searched thp California coastline from Fort Bragg to Santa Cruz today for an air force jet fighter missing on a flight from Hamilton field with two men aboard. The ship disappeared yesterday. At Goleta, Calif., authorities attempted to identify the bodies of 22 persons killed late Friday night when a DC-3 airliner crashed ih 3,000-foot hi£h Refugio Pass. The bodies were brought out of the heavily thicketed' area yesterday after a bulldozer cut a crude road ihto’the irea. \ David B- Woodcock, 3k formerly of Elkhart, liyl., was \killed early today when his single-engin-ed plane crashed in a i cornfield shortly after die' took off from ! Jackson, Mich., airport. Witnesses said the plane struck several treetops while banking a half-mile f| - om the airport. All of the men killed or injured in the West Virginia crash were idesidents of Charleston for the surrounding territory and the city went into virtual mourning today. They were en route to the funeral of a Charleston air officer killed Thursday when his F-51 fighter crashed Florida. The pilot, Capt. E. K. Whittington, was bringing the ship into Kanawhk airport on instrtifoents because of fog when it hit (the hili (Tarn to Pace Six) Stella M. Townsend Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Stella M. Townsend, 71, a native of Adams county, died at 11:50 p.m. Sunday at the home of a sister, Mrs. Grace Moser, of Monroe, following a brief illness She was boito in Adams county Nov, 10, 1879, a daughter of James and Sarah Ford-Cowan. Her husband, Sherman Townsend, died six years ego. She and her husband moved to Tillman, west of Monroeville, in 1905, where they Operated a general store for 40 years. Mrs. Townsend had liVed with her sister for the past six months. Surviving is another sister, Mrs. 'Edith Alexander of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Marquart funeral home at Monroeville, the Rev. Edwin Jaycox officiating. Burial will be at New Haven. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o’clock Tuesday evening.

Price Five Cents

United States And Britain Reported In Agreement For Policy Declaration Washington,'Apr. 9 —r (UP) — • ■ President Truman discussed with his congressional. leaders today the controversy between the administration and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. i , Then he called ih nis cabinet as the long-range policy fight between the administration and the general headed for a showdown. The White House kept silent on the MacArthur situation. Presidential press secretary Joseph Short replied with a ‘no comment" to questions whether Mr. Truman had or would rebuke MacArthur. Speaker Sant Rayburn admitted that the controversy was aired at the regular Mpnday morning White House meeting betW’een Mr. Truman and t his congressional leaders. ? f ' But Rayburn (feCllned to give details except to say that 'no recommendations came .Irom the president. From other sources, however, it was learned that Democratic leaders in congress are ready to assure Mr. Truman they .will back him “to‘ the hilt” if decides to crack down on MacArthur, whose policy statements have embarrassed and annoyed the administration. ' Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, briefed the president and the congressional big four — Rayburn. Vice President Alben W. Barkley, senate Democratic leader Ernest W., McFarland and house Democratic leader John W. McCormack —on the international military situation. Bradley has been at the White House th,ree successive days to confer with Mr. Truman. '■ A Report Agreement London. Apr. 9 — bfJP) — The United States and Britain have agreed on a new declaration of policy in Korea, official sources said today. There was speculation here that a move to discipline Qen. Douglas MacArthur was 'in the offing. France joined Britain in criticizing MacArthur for utterances which they considered, exceed his authority as military commander. Sir Oliver Franke, British ambassador in Washington, was believed to be making known his. government’s displeasure over MacArthur. Earlier today it was announced that foreign secretary Herbert Morrison would make a statement in the house of commons about McArthur. A number of questions concerning the supreme commander had been addressed to Morrison, but the hour allotted for questions was taken up with other business and the foreign secretary did not volunteer a statement. British and . French feeling againet MacArthur was into hot flame by the supreme commander's recent letter to U.S. Republican minority leader Joseph Martin sugge ting that Chinese nationalist troops on Formosa be used to Invade the Chinese mainland. . \ • France joined Britain In protest today. The French foreign office » (Turn To Foot) \ Lockjaw Is Fatal To Convoy Resident \ Mrs. Juanita Ward, 31, of Convoy, 0., died Saturday night in the Van Wert county hospital of lockjaw which ehe contracted froip injuries sustained in an auto accident March \24 near Van Wert. jßurvlving are her husband, Arthur, and two sons, Larry and Terry, at home. • Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. (EST) Tuesday at the Copvoy Methodist church, the Rev. Roy Ballard officiating. Burial will be in the Convoy IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the Herts funeral home until time of the services.