Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 85.

TRUMAN TO STAY OUT OF MACARTHUR FUSS

Chinese Reds Turn To Half Allied Drive . O /I • . ■ ■. i,. ' J _ Fight Furiously In — Attempt To Prevent ) Advances 'Tokyo, Wednesday, Apr. 11 — (UP)4-Chinese communist troops turned. 1 and fought furiously in Korea Tuesday, attempting to prevent .an allied advance reaching the huge Hwachon reservoir before they can unleash the full, fury of its impounded waters. The Reds poured the heaviest I artillery liombardment of .recent I weeks into American and South Korean ranks and turned well-hid-den self-propelled guns on allied tanks. ’ f.V. S- and French infantry drove around the southwest shore of the /\ reservoir to within one mile of the “key .‘’dam, which is eight miles \ north of.’ the 38th parallel, but guards still held the sluice gates. ■' >■ FhfTnt/ dispatches said a single company of diehard Chinese were laboring to open the massive flood gates by ’ hand and shoot a wall of upon ad-' vaneing: allied troops. These reports said the Reds abandoned the stronghold of Hwachon. on ■ the banks of the Pukhan river four miles west of the Sluice gates, apparently in anticipation of the flood. By late today, thb communists had fully or partly opened 10 of the 18 flood gates. But the water from Korea’s third largest reservoir lias been released so gradual-4 ily so 'fir thatt ho Pukhan river dnto which It flows has been able to take the extra load without bursting its banks. 1 A However, engineering \ specialists reported that the Pukhan was up 2 feet- \3 inches, 4 feet inches, ar .d 5 feet inches at three check points this afternoon. The water’ surged swiftly south through <the Chunchon valley and into the Chongjyong reservoir, half-way: between Chunchon and Seoul, without causing '.serious damage or delaying the allied ad-. vance»ndrth of the 38th parallel. The Reds began opening the Hwachon reservoir gates yester- * day to cover the withdrawal of their main forces from the reservoir and Hwachon itself, four mites t<\; the west. Officers believed the communist plan tb loose great torrents of water, suddenly failed because eaeli heavy gate had to be opened in- y urn by hand. Thus the flow was much more gradual than the \ Reds had intended. 7he stiioke of battle apd a fog obscured visibility in the dam area, but some aerial photographs indicated that the Reservoir was down .about eight feet this afternoon. » U. S. and French troops battled into the' narrow neck of land ini the Pukhan river loop just west of the dam. Enemy, rear guards , fbught with their back's-to the raging torrents to delay the advance. « i - : ' - Hwachon, itself was formerly the southeast anchor of the central Korean triangle in which the -GOminunists were believed massing or more- troops for a spring counter-offensive. ' The reservoir, behind the Puk- • han river dam four miles east of\ Hwachon. is the third largest in\ Korea and formerly supplied a major portion of electric power for Seoul;, capital of South Korea.

Nitro-Laden Truck is Rammed By Auto I [ Flora, - .111. - April ,*■ - Three Incky ■= motorists ; escaped serious injury yesterdays when a car jammed a truck carrying 6,000 pounds of nitroglycerine. ■The truck wan driven by Jesse Poole, 29, Lanton, Ind. WilHam Pierson, .23, Mercer Wis., tfas a pasenger. . 7-- ' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and J Wednesday, ■!" Brief ... showers — Wednesday. J Cooler Wednesday Law tonight 35-40. High Wednesday 45r50 north, near 50 sgutlU •

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SIOO,OOO Fire Loss - At Lafayette Today Lafayettft,f\lnd., April 10, — (UP) —Damage was estimated at more dhan $i00,0(/0 in a fire that pt the Cooperative Elevator Co. \ building. Four of the city's five fire com panics and a unit from West Lafayette arrived at the scene yesterday as'flames shot-through thd’ room. Nearly . 40 firemen worked three hours to control the blaze. ' A crew remained on duty throughout the night pouring water bn the smouldering- wreckage. The fire destroyed a tractor and largb quantities of autp tires, grain, pil and grass seed. - L.

Gen. Marshall In Appeal For UMT Measure Defense Secretary ' Seeks Passage For Universal Training Washington, Abril JO. (UP) — Defense secretary I '-George C. Marshall pleaded today for a universal military training bill with no strings attached. The House armed services com* ' mittee* has amended its draft-UMT measure to put military training on a standby basis until congress gives the go-ahead. ' J 4 Marshall saH| at a news conference he was "very fearful that we may get a result that will largely emasculate; the universal military training phases” of the bill, i • The amendment was tjie committee’s answer to strong house efforts to kWPUMT altogether. The draft bill as passed by the senate containsya training(section more Satisfactory Jo. the military. J J ' Defense officials expressed hope that a senate-house conference committee eventually“.will agree on a UMT version that will not require congressional approval before it is put in effect. . \ v Other congressional developments: Tydings-Butler—Former Sen Milla\rd E. Tydings, D., Md.. swore to a senate subcommittee that he did not induce" Or attempt to induce a witness'to comipit perjury in connection with the Investigation of the 1950 election campaign in Maryland. 'i Rubber —Harry E. Humphreys. Jr., president of \ the U.S. Rubber Co., said federal rubber controls are causing needless unemployment and tire} shortages; Housing — House Democratic, leaders are in riol hurry to take up the defense housing, measure passed by rhe senate. The house is considering 'a l bill to draft ,18-V 2 year olds, and \Rep.. J. Percy Priest. D*. Tenn., said that would be disposed of first. t “ 1 ' The house Democratic leaders w'ere burnt once on the housing measure. In a stinging setback for \ (T"-n To Fore Six) i | Tax Distribution By v State At New High Nearly Six Percent Increase Over 1950 Indianapolis, ' April 10—(UP)- — / The mqtor vehicle fee and gasoline tax collections melon, which hit a pew high of $*’8,507,000 for the first quarter of'l9'l, was cut today fO'r distribution to the state highway department and local government units. . \ State auditor Frank T. Millis said $26,07L')d0 will.be divided among the highway department, cities, towns and counties for an increase of 5.84 percent over the distribution in the first quarter of 1950. i \ The highway department will get $13,817,000; counties, $8,342,000, and cities and towns $3,910,000, Millis said. . v i • Millis also reported a 15.3. percent increase in all state revenues over the first quarter in 1950. He said collections for the March period reached $05,300,000, or $7,300,000 above the same period last year. The increases included 17 percent in gross Income tax collections,. 15.9 perdent in oil inspection fees. 7.3 percent in intangible tax collections.

Screen Actor Admits Being Party Member Sterling Hayden Red Party Member During Part Os 1946. Washington, April 10.—(UP) —•_ Film actor Sterling Hayden, a wardecorated marine, told thp house un-American activities committee today he joined the Communist party in Hollywood between June 5 and June 15, 1946. : \ Hayden said he quit the oon4 munist party cell in Ddcenflber, 1946, his membership thus lasting only seven months. The six-foot four-inch Hayden, speaking in staccato phrases, said he returned to Hollywood from the war disturbed oyer the Mate of the world after service in Yugoslavia with native partisan forces. \ Hayden said he was asked "to join the. party by a woman named Bea Winters, who was secretary to his agent, Berg*Allenberg. "One day she said to me," Hayd» n testified, "why don't you stop talking and join the Communist party?" ' '\ ■ ' ' Hayden said his first reaction was "this is ridiculous.” He said he went ahead anyway, but he could not remember whether he signed the party application with the name Sterling Hdyden or John Hamilton.' \The latter is his real name."] K \ Hayden sail has since merged with the agency of William Morris. He said he believed Bea Winters is now a secretary to a producer.. The tall actor told the committee in Considerable detail of hl» war service, especially in the office of strategic services for which he smuggled arms through the German blockade from Italy across the Adriatic to the Yugoslav partisans. He said he picked up “an enormous respect” for the way the partisans fought the Nazis. “I personally was affected tremendously by it,” he said. "We knew they were Communist-led but there was little talk of politics.’During his service, he said) he kept up\ a correspondence with a Capt. Warwick Tompkins. He inet Tompkinsxin Boston at the age of 14, he said, and later Tompkins showed up on a schooner at San Francisco when Hayden first went to Hollywood in 1940. He said Tompkins, who he identified as employe of Amtorg, Russian trading firm, continually handed him Communist literature, and sent Communist publications to him while he was in service. Hayden said that when he feturned to the United States bn leave in December, 1944, he was (Tun To Pave 8Ix»

Kick-off Breakfast Is Held For C. C. a . r Annual Membership L Drive Opens Today Twen’y five workers attended the Chamber of Commerce’s kick-off breakfast, at w’hich L. R. Zintsmaste)* substituted for J. F. Sanmann 1 as the principal speaket and gave instructions for, the forthcoming campaign. The Chamber’s membership drive, which will end Friday, is to gain 35 additional members to raise the total membership to 300. Two team?, one captained by Al Zink and the other by Dr. H. R. Frey, were selected to compete against one another the concerted effort to add new nanies to the Chamber roster. At the morning meeting, plans were also discussed for a meeting of all young men eligible for junior membership in the Chamber. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday. April 18, 7:30 p.m., in the city court room, it was announced, and all : interested persons were urged to attend. The Chamber already has mailed considerable literature to prospective members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, but inf ormation may be obtained from either Ted Hill. Jack Heller or Joe Kaehr, It was also announced at the kickoff breakfast, purely as an incentive, that Zintsmasler will “treat the winning team,? at the conclusion of the drive.

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Doug Gets Orders From HST •Mfc. A If - ’ m "I ' Ik S WK ijMi - . rllM I ,;M * -bB- ; ' Bl B ■Wk f . •<;.. KHk wk.. JW ARMY SECRETARY Frank Pace (left) and Gen. MacArthur in Tokyo, are shownJstanding at attention during a 17-gun salute honoring Pace qn his arrival from; Washington, with orders to the United Nations supreme commanded from President Truman and the joint chiefs of staff to fight the tadtical war In Korea as he sees fit but to keep silent on political issues., Inset shows Brltishx Home Secretary' J. Chuter fide who, in a speech at Southsields, Durham, said “we cannot Control MacArthu| because we don’t pay him." ——- : '• “ 1 : — —— l —

Waif Ruling Before Bank Night Action Asks Opinion From ) Attorney General \ The fcte of future bank nights' iq Adams county depends largely on an official opinion from the state attorney general’s office to determine which the scales will be shifted. Tqday ? the scales were level' and no local action was being taken to either' further or discontinue the bank night procedure. Oni one side of the scales \were previous actions in the Adam? circuit court, ,by a jury that found that bank nights were attended principally by persons wanting to see the movie. On the other side, there are other test cases now pending courts, and some public opiniqji, including the prosecutor's, that bank nlghts v constitute a form of gambling. Considerable discussion on the subject has followed last week's edict from Gov. Schricker banning gambling ’in many forms, namely slot and pinball machines, fish bowls and punchboards. \ Locally, prosecuting attorney Severin \Schurger also banned bingo. but today lightened that ban if certain provisions are complied with. He said that bingo is not illegal "providing no admission, fee is paid by the player, and no charge is made for the cards.” 'Most of the clubs who hold bingo nights do so under these conditions. Prosecutor Schurger said that he wqs awaiting an official reply from sent the attorney general’s office before any action is taken locally to discontinue bank nights. An official reply to the effect that bank nights an illegal form could tip the scales and force Adams county theaters to discontinue the practice. The scales are very delicately balanced. ' He is quoted in an another newspaper a? stating that bank nights must go. that "one form of gambling and \as far as he and other Adams county Authorities are concerned come in the same category as Slot machines, fish bowls, punch boards and other similar items.” t The prosecutor stated today that the quote was his opinion; that he was not going to take any action one way or the other ' until he received a reply from the state. He stated he wanted to completely study ail the ramifications of the bank night problem, "to assure firm ground for any action,” I \

400 Are Shaken Up As Train Derailed Chicago, April 10z—(VP)—About 400 persons were shaken up today when the Rock Island railroad’s streamlined commuter train, the Banker# Special, left the tracks enroute here from Joliet, 111. Police and railroad officials s,aid nobody was injured seriously. The last four cars of the seven-car ■dleselized train jumped the tracks near 157th street and Cicero Avenue but remained upright. 10 Million Reds Are Under Arms In World Russia, Satellites Have Great Strength Loijdon. April 10.—-(UP) —Russia and its satellites have about 10,000,000 under arms, massed strategically over nearjv half the world, a survey of Communist military power showed today. In event of war in the near ' future, these Communist armies could swarm into Asia and most of Europe and Africa against only light Opposition in most places, the survey indicated. Reqbnt U.S. pnd British estimates . said the Russians have 4.000,000 men under arms, the Chinese Reds another 4.000,000, and th satellites 1,000,000. TheVe are nearly 1.000,000 Communist guerrillas fighting in Indo-China. Malaya and the l4illippineS. Russian troops were known to be concentrated across the Bering Strait from Alaska. The Soviets also have air and naval bases there. They are on the borders of Iran and Turkey, the gateways to the oilrich middle east. British quarters estimated there are 500,000 Russian troops in Europe, in addition to the Soviettrained satellites, many of Whose ■ commanders are Russians. These Russians in Europe were reported on thwt* borders of Yugoslavia, in Austria and eastern Germany, in Finland, and on the Norwegian frontier. The Chinese, Communists, by , sweeping across part of 'J'ibet, are now id. a position to stride southward suddenly into India, Pakistan and Asia. . ' In Europe, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- , hower’s. Atlantic army is an army in name only. It visualizes about ...1.250.000 troons by 1953. with German participation, but there are a , great many political and economic fences to be/hurdled before it can . become a compact fighting unit.' There are good western armies in Europa, but they are scattered and are not part of the planned European defense force. Yugoslavia has 600,005 welktrained men, Turkey (Tarn Ta Pare Eight)

To Leave Any Action In MacArthur Controversy Up To Military Leaders

Order Quota System For Armed Services Insure Each Branch Share Os 'Brains' Washingotn, Apr' 10 ; — (UP) ,- — The defense department ordered the armed services today to start using a quota system efn May 1 for volunteers and draftees to insure each branch a share of the brighter recruits. \ -+• \ The system was designed to give the army a fair number of men with higher mental qualifications. In the pasj, the navy, air force, and marines got most of tne higher type men as Volunteers. It also may mean navy, air foj'ce, and marines w||l start taking draftees, which they have not done so far in the present program to build up the armed services. Starting May 1, each branch of the service can take only eight percent of its volunteers ot draftees from the highest mental group. Thirty-two percent will be from the second mqntal group: 39 percent from group three, and 21 percent from the fourth mental group. The quota, system will be based on two-month periods. If' any service fall's >hort of the percentage in any of the mental groups, the shortage will be made up in the following month with draftees. Defense secretary George C. Marshall noted that volunteers will continue to be accepted under the new program, ' “At the same -time,” he said, "it assures that we will be strong on the ground, fn the air and kt sea, with no branch holding a monopoly on all the talent.” Physical standards also will be the same Cor all services. Both volunteers and > draftees will be examined at joint armed forces examining stations?, Officer candidates, aviation cadets, and vpterans will not be covered by the mental quota system. Rush Aid To Flood Stricken Families 50-Foot Dam , Threatens To Break By United Press State and federal officials rushed aid to flood-stricken families in the midwest today and the Red Cross said high waters have already caused $3,000,000 damage in a four-state area. > < The government' declared four Minnesota pountiea as official flood However, hopes rose that the floods had reached their peak in' most of Minnesota, lowa and the Dakotas. . ' At Minneapolis a high dam threatened to break in the Mississippi river unless a runaway coal barge, swfept downstream by flood watprs, could be pulled off it. The 19,5-foot barge, carrying 1.400 tons of coal, piled onto the first federal dam yesterday. 4 Authoritips said a break in the dam could flood low lands near south St. Paul, . \ The reconstruction finance corporation named Nicollet, Blue Earth, Lyon and Brown counties as disaster flood areas and said it would hasten supplies and money Roy Schulz planned to ask the to stricken families. State Rep. legislature foi $500,000 in relief funds. \ An air force (lew over the area surrounding frorth Mankato, Minn., today to give marooned farmers a chance v to signal for help. ( ' A special- broadcast asked stranded families to lay bright* colored materials in the form of an '“H,” or, if the water surrounds their homes, to wave from win<Twn» Te Put Rix)

Added Troops, Free Use Asked By MacArthur MacArthur Holds Long Parley >A(ith Secretary Os Army Tokyo. April 10-^-(.UP)— Gen. Douglas has asked U.S. army secretary Frank Pace, Jr„ for more troops and a free hand to use them as he sees fit to defeat the Chinese and Korean Reds, informed sources believed today. MacArthur had a long conference with Pace las', night shortly after thd secretary’s arrival in Tokyo. Usually well-informed quarters believed MacArthur made these poiats: l.i More US. troops should be sent to the fat east to bolster the United Nations fighting forces in Korea. .2 Other United Nations rhembers should increase their contributions of manpower and equipment. I 3. Present limitations on- UN forces should be removtd. 4. Chinese Nationalist forces should be employed. , 5. The Chinese Reds will be willing to romp'romise on a peace settlement only, when they lose hope of a military victory. \ • ’ 6. Communist aggression must be dealu a telling blow now or it will spread. 7. Asia cannot be neglected whilq efforts are being made to build up European, defenses. Informants did not elaborate on just what limitations MacArthur thought shbuld be lifted from his command. But iVVras believed he had in mind extension of the war to Red China proper. L. He told a London Daily Telegraph corresponding in an interview idst week /that UN forces could easily defeat the Chinese I Reds if the UN would “take the wraps off” his command. ' He was qudted them as saying that a sea blockade of the Chinese homeland and bombing raids on ils railways would quickly reduce Communist China to impotence. He doubted Russ’a would intervene under sufeh circumstances Respite ' - (Tun to Six)

Army Refuses Full Railroad Pay Hike Workers Displeased With Army's Action Washington, Apr. 10 — (UP) — The government, which has b een slowly restoring better relations with labor, ran itself off the track today with 1,000,000, rail workers. The rail Kyorkers, member? of non-operating unions, were displeased by army’s action in granting only cents of a >,Bixcent hourly cpst-o(-living increase effective April j. Jesse (hark, president of the AFL Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, called the action "lousy,” and predicted it would bring “serious repercussions.”. George E. Leighty, chairman of the railway labor executives association, said the rail workers would comply with the action, but “we intendno secure approval” of the full six cent increase. ' The army, which operates the railroads, took the action at |he \request of economic stabilizer Efric Johnston who said that more than cents an hour would pierce the 10 percent ceiling. A special p?nel, to be appointed by Johnston, will/ consider whether 1 the rail workers should get the rest of the Increase. The rail workers were granted a wage ipcreasb of <T"r« Pa*« Six)

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Truman Continues Strict Policy Os Complete Silence On MacArthur Issue .Washington, Apr. 10 • —'(UP)— An administration source said; today President Truman has decided tentatively to do nothing oiyhis own in the controversy over Gen. Douglas MacArthur but to leave any action up to the military. Specifically, the source said, .any action would be left up to defense secretary George. C. Marshall and Gen. X Lawton Collins, army chief of staff. > Such a decision —if any—would be transmitted to MacArthuy, either directly or through army secretary. Frank C. Pace, Jr., who is now in Tokyo. It was emphasized, however, that Pace took po instructions with him when he left Tokyo, last week. \ Meanwhile, the White House explained why Mr. Trumanjcancelled a scheduled appointment with American Legion national commander Earl Cocke, Jr., who yesterday sided with MacArthur in, the controversy over strategy in the fight against communism. The White House said the president called off the meeting scheduled for todav because Cocke had discus ad publicly and in advance what he planned to tell the president \The legion commander return, ed to New York yesterday from a trip through Europe and Asia. According to the White House, he telephoned at 10:30 yesterday asking Matthew J. Connelly, appointment secretary' to the president, for a date today with Mr. Truman. White House press secretary □ Joseph Short said Cocke told Con-J nelly he "wanted to see the president before making\any statement to the press.” "A couple of hours later there appeared on the (news) tickers interview's withCodke in which he informed reporters what he intended to tell the . president,” Short: said. ' ' • \ \ "At that point, it seemed urnnecessary foe him to have the appointment and the appointment was cancelled.” Cocke supported MacArthur's proposal to Use Chinese national-, ist troops Chinese communists for opening's second front bn the Chiba mainland and relleye pressure in Korea. That point is in direct conflict with the announced policy of the president. It has led to some speculation that Mr. Truman woipd v rebuke the far eastern commander in some way/ Meanwhile, the White House continued its policy of strict silence on the MacArthur issue. Short told reporters that \ “no comment” Would be his answer “to all the questions you \ask on that subject." |’ In Tokyo, a spokesman for supreme headquarters denied that army secretary Frapk Pace, Jr., had told MacArthul 1 to be quiet about policy matters. Pace is ip conference there with MacArthur,. but it wgs not believed that his trip had any- \ thing to do with the latest storm stirred up by the general. Pace’s irip was announced be(TWrii To Six) - Two Men Are Killed When Auto Hits Truck Indianapolis, April 10.—(UP) — Two men were killed today and two women injured when their car rammed the rear of a gasoline tank truck stopped for a traffic signal at a street intersection here. Dead were Marion E.\ Moore, 25, Shelbyville, and Theodore -Rowers. 27 Indianapolis. Phvllis Sheldon, 20, was in Tltlcal condition at General hos"ital and attendants said her sister Anna Marie. 22, was suffering from shock. Both worked here but Mved in Snringvllle, police said \ Folice said the truck was owned by Standard Oil Co. and Mras driven by Jqhn J. Stevens, 35/lndianapolis he was Uninjured.