Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 92.

HERO’S WELCOME FOR GEN. MACARTHUR

Hopes Fading For Rescue Os 75 Men In Sub • * ' I Hope fades Despite Intense Search For British Submarine "4 ; Portsmouth, England, Apr. 18 — (UP) — The royal navy admitted > late today. it had faint hope of rescuing 75/ men trapped In the \British submarine Affray op the bottom of the English Channel. Hope faded despite a search by 44 worships which formed two giant, rings and sounded the .floor f of the. channel In the area where faint messages were heard early today.; ? t •’ln spite of continuous search, no survivors have been sighted.” F said a communique by Sir Arthur *"\ Power, director of rescue operations and commander of Portsmouih nayhl base. / x ' There U increasing evidence that the ®edrch is being carried out in the tpiTect place. The fact that the submarine has been submerged such a long time reduces the prospects of success.” The Affray disappeared on a test drive Monday night With a crew of 55 and 20 visiting officers on d training cruise. The “correct where the search was centered was a general area about 35 miles southwest o|r the, Isle of Wight. But the ad- !■ miralty admitted ho precise posii. tion could be fixed because the submarine has not yet been found. .Thirty-two. ships formed one ring five miles across in the area where faint tapping signals and ( a supersonic telegraph message were heard by searching ships last night. Th.e tapping’ signals ceased at 2 a. m. (7 p. m ,Tuesday CST) 'before a definite fix could be made on the sunken vessel. . *• , The telegraph message indicat- . ed the Affray was ‘‘stuck”- on the bed of the channel at a depth of J. 98 feet. ' A • - Blit all signals ceased after 2 a. 1 m., leaving the admiralty still un- j 1 pertain of the submarine’s , position.- The Affray has been missling since Tuesday morning, when it failed to come out of a test , dive made Monday night. The main search was centered 35 miles west of the Isle oif Wight, where the Affray 41ived Monday night Thirty-two warships formed one circle and 12 ships formed 1 another. * ' -.1 They used their, asdic equipment to ‘ bounce sound from the ocean bottom. Asdic forms the outline of any object below and ] echoes most clearly when it ‘ strikes metal. / sister submarines of the Affray cut their engines and drifted silently in the depths, trying to pick up any renewed tapping. Experts said manual tapping on 1 the hull can be heard .for several hundred yards. 1 Naval vessels signalled the missing submarine early today With light depth Charges, saying that rescue ships were standing \ by and the men should escape through emergency hatches to the surface. But there was no response. q -. , / Time was running out if there were any survivors. If all compartments were, not flooded and if there were ho electrical fire? to consume oxygen, the meii might be able to survive' for three days —until tomorrow night.' Marshal Petain Is Reported Sinking He D’Yeu, France, April 18 — (UP)—» Former field marshall Philippe Petain was reported sinking in liiarisland prison today and Abbe .Bailljk his priest, was called • hurriedly to his bedside.' Unofficial reports said suffering from a lung congestion, was in'a semi-coma. His wife prepared to sit out an aB-nlght vigil at his bedside if necessary. The wartime head of the Vichy regime, imprisoned since 1945 on > , this tiny island fortess for treason, ■' ran a 101 degree temperature this morning—ohly six days before hte 951 h birthday anniversary.'

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BULLETIN Washington, April 18.—(UP) —The state department today denounced the North Korean communication jto the United Nations as a “qory document full of the' usual wild accusations, baseless vilifications, and perversions of Met.” '—j-— '..-4-.-—4. United Nations ■ ' ’ • • I ' r' Forces Advance Lines Steadily 1 1 g : IS. \ Only Opposition By Reds Is Reported • In Hwachon Area Tokyo, Thursday, April 19. — (UP).—United Nations troops in North Korea (advanced their /lines Wednesday aj a 4 tea( ly walk i,behind tank' columns; thrusting deep into Communist links. There were.no reports of opposition except) l ini the vital' HWachon dam area, where allied forces stormed across the Pukhan river and attacked ieargpard Reds hold* ing around thy daip. \ The allies i-rOSsid the Pukhan in the four-milt stretch between the town of Hwachon an<i\ the dam itself. They charged into an estimated 50 Red troops holding 'the hills there and) forced them to withdraw. Allied patrols reached the dam area Tuesday but tfrere forced to withdraw Under (lommunist machinegun fire from, the hills." Allied troops' moved forward elsewhere along t|ie frqnt virtually at will. One' officer Said they were moving forward “about as fast as they can walk iover the hills.” . The retreading Chinese fired soipe shells aq; the allied infantrymen but declined to engage in close fighting. I • 1 At one point! on the west-central front they lobbed several rounds of mortar fire ihtoV filled positions. In another sector they fired two rounds of artillery fire. Armored forces lunged toward the ev.efny bastions of Chorwon and Kum.hwat on a 65-mile front, daring the Reps to come out and fight. The Corpibuhists refusl? d - ' I. J i , Early front Reports did hot give the extent of jodayjs .penetrations, but one 'spearhead yesterday stabbed? unopposed to Chigyong, 16 miles north of the 38th parallel and burned; the village to the ground. 1 ) Chigyong lied nine) miles north of the main UN like above the parallel and almost on |he southern edge of the enemy’s ' Strategic ChorWonKumhwa PycjnggaAg triangle, (Tlira To Paure Six I -—f —44 —. L ■■ d Mrs. Leo E. Lehman Dies This Morning i / Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Alice Lehman, 57, wife of Leo E. Lehman of Berne, died a‘ 5:45 o’clock tljis morning at- the Adams county imehiprial hospital Death was attributed to a heart ail ment. Her doiiditiqn had beer serious since March); 12. A lifelong resdlefit of Adam c county, she w4s born in. Monroe township Aug. 1, 1893, a daughte' of Ulrich and Jjidlth ' Sprunger-Leh man, and was =marrjed to Leo E Lehman Ott. it 1915. She wag. a member of the First Mennonite church at Berne. Surviving in addition to her hu c band are three Dr. Harold B Lehman of Berjie, Leland C. Leb man, a professor at < Denison Uni versity, Granville, oi.fi and Jacksor ,Rd Lehman, a student at Blufftoi College: two dhighte|s, Mts. xJdgaD. Bishop of Philadelphia and Mis c Imogene Lehman, at: home; three grandchildren f four brothers, Wes ley Lehman of /Decatur, and Levi Omer and llehmah, all o f Berne, and fivd sifters [ Amalie Lehman, a nurse in Newton, Kan. Mrs. Edwin Swartt : of Elkhart Mrs. Elmer l-ehman, Mrs. Clinton Soldner and Mrs', Irvl'n Canen, all of „ Av-, i ■ •• IT- 1 i\ Berne. , jM; - . y ■ |. Funeral: Services will be conducted at 2 iqxtL Friday at the First Mennonite |he Rev. OHn ; /U Krehbifel oni&atlto. Burial will , be'in the MRE cemetery. The body will remain at fh'e -Yager funeral home, where friends' riiay call after 8:30 o’clock this evening.

Mississippi Flood Sweeps Over La Crosse _ -I ..IM-.. I ~ bl. *■ - * me* -t••• • /a 1 -'- ' <■' --»' •< tk. ■Ekk -v- -' HOMES IN LA CROSSE, WIS., lie under water in one of greatest fiojkis In Mississippi river history. The crest left St Pgul, Mian., littered with debris, swept over toward La Crosse. This photo was made before the actual - ,crest reached the 1 city. | - M

Two Youths Admit ' : ' 1 ... I- ' ' ! . Burglary 01 Sate Two Juveniles Held For Safe Robbery Two Monroe township youths, ages 16 and 17. were being hekk today by the sheriff’s department j after admitting the burglary of the sate at thp Meshbeitger Brothers stone quarry in falue Creek-town-ship oiq the , night of April 1. The youths were arrested Tuesday by sheriff Bob Shraluka, deputy Jim Cochran and state trooper Ted Biberstine. ' \ The 16-year-old boy, a sophomore in a rural high school, was takeh into custody kt the school, the other youth at his home in Monroe township. ? 4 After questioning by police 'of: ficials, both boys admitted their guilt and signed written statements, .. „ ■ , Meshbergers \ reported lat time that $249.65 in cash was taken froih the safe, along with two checks of undisclosed amounts. The youths in their statement admitted splitting more than $230 and burning the checks. Investigation revealed that the youths first attempted to ‘‘punch” the safe’s combination. When this method failed, they f‘ peeled” the steel from the front of the safe, then knocked out the concrete fi;ont until they 'remove the combination’s bolts. They told questioners that they did not have a tool with them, but utilized those they located on the <T»»-« To Haire Slx» May Draft Call Is Seduced By Army Slash From 60,000 Announced By Washington, April 18 —(;UP) — The arniy announced today that it would reduce the May draft call to 40,000. It was the cut from 60,000 orignally planned was possible because of a continued increase in enlistments and fewer casualties In Korea. The army gave the same reason last month in lowering the April draft call from 80,000 to 40,000. It reported that-18,000 men enlisted in bringing total enlistment since Jan. 1 1q 64,000. This is about 34,000 ,more than has been expected, it added- '■ Coupled with fewer-than-expected casualties in Korea, the bigger en 4 listments should enable the army to achieve its planned strength with the draftees. —O Its authorized strength is 1,550.000 (-M) now. May dratt call: brings the '■army’s total selective service request to 570,000.

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Thorough Probe ■ > . Os MacArthur's Ouster Pledged Democrat Leaders Pledge Thorough \ Probe Os Action Washington, Apr. 18 — (UP) -r—- --. Democratic leaders \ < pledged a “sky’s the limit” senate investigation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal today. Republicans were prepared to see that it is done. Not since the war days were capital officials so tense and taut as they awaited the general's arrival from San Francisco late tonight- or before daybreak tomorrow aind his review of the far eastern Situation before congress at 11:30 a. nq CST tomorrow’. , j As tempers frayed, Sen. Harry P. Cain’s resolutions that congress either declare war on 1 ) Communist China or order American tiroops out of Korea kept thte situation steaming. The Washington Republican’s resolutions were met >by Democratic hostility and GOP coldness or caution. A United Press poll of eight Democrats and six Republicans on the 27-man house’armdd services committee showed that all 14 were opposed to a war declaration. As the climactic moment o f MacArthur’s appearance ' neared, one powerful GOP voice, that of Sen. James H. Duff, >Pa„ urged calmness. He said in a New York speech last night that the nation must drop its ‘‘emotional binge" over MacArthur's firing £nd buckle down to the - rearmament job. But the binge will be a while abating. The capital prepared a tumultuous welcome for the returning warrior. District school children will be dismissed at or before noon tomorrow. Govern: i ment workers who be spared were glgkn t|me off. More than 1,006,000 persons kere expected to line the route of MacArthur’s motorcade along historic Pennsylvania Avenue. Indications were that the investigation into far eastern policies would be long. \ The promise of an unfettered investigation of MacArthur’s historic policy fight with President Truman and his subsequent dismissal was made by f chairman Richard B. Ruesell, D„ Ga., and Tom Connally, D., Tex., of the senate armed services and foreign relations committees, respectively. Russell eaid ‘‘the sky’s the limit,” and Connally said he thought the committees would delve into any “pertinent” matters.

Yote Pay Increase For City Employes t Fast Time Approved üßy City Councilmen '* •' ' ' ■ While tn embers of the city council were passing a couple of ordinances assuring pay increases fbr enfployes of the police, fire, water ari4 electric lifcht departments, they alko approved a resolution inoving the clocks ahead one hour. The city "may” go on fast time the last Saturday of this month, April 28 midhight, to be exact. The, ordinance merely recommends such a thing, thus giving lip service to the lifeless state iaw against “fast;*’ time. the city’s clocks and offices move an hour ahead, that will complete the county time piecesake the county court house clock; that will remain on standard tirife. r j . tn two ordinances, the council boosted the pay of employes of the and water departments sls njdhthiy, and firemen \and police slightly more. City firemen rec<yed the largest . Increase, frqm s2|B npnthty to $235 ' monthly. City -police will receive a similar amount, $235, a rais’e from their former $21,5 wages. The chief of police will receive s2^7; he formerly received $2,990 annually. The fire chief receives ‘hd; regular fireman’s salary, plus S2OO annually. for volunteer firemen was sefi at $1.50 for the first hour and $1.25 for every additional hour witen fighting a fire. They were allowed 50 cents per practice ses* ’dpp. The wage increases will becoihe effective May 1. tJouncilmen received falso a peti‘ioh for a street light at the alley between Fourteenth and Fifteenth strict on Adams, which was referred to the electric light commit* tee; a petition for a tile drain in southern addition to be paid for by siknees who are the Rev. John Berkey for the Flrkt Christian ehptch and six others: referred to the' sewer committee; petition for a proper water line to the Second Mdgter addition by H- A. Maddox, f’eferred to the water committee. The council also adopted a Resolution to be forwarded to the governor stating the condition of Monroe street, Secdnd street, and Mercer avenue, "all state highways, “was deplorable” making driving “uncomfortable and dangerous," and urging the, state to alleviate these conditions. INDIANA WEATHER Showers tojrlflht ending by Thursday morning in northwest. Low tonight ranging from 40 to 45 northwest, 55 In extreme Southeast. High Thursday 45 to 52 northwest, 60 southeast.

Thousands Line Parade Route In San Francisco As Mac Returns Home

Six-Year-Old Girl Fatally ■ ’ Burned Here I ' Bodie Girl Burned Fatally In Trash fire Here Tuesday MarcOlla Anne Bodie, slx-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond BOdle, 939 North Tenth street,: died in the Adams countymemorial hospital ; shortly after midnight today from burns sustained when her clothing caught fire from a trash fire afternoon at ‘ 3 o’clock. A brother of the victim rushed to the house' to notify Mrs. Bodie, who then raced to the backyard and stripped the flaming clothing from the screaming si x-fcrear-old girl. Taken first into the hduse, the child was ruahed to the hospital. Mrs. Bodie had started the trash fire in the backyard, then returned to the house. It wasn’t until one of her sons came in to tell her that she knew the other child was -being burned Other children of the Bodies believed that the child was attempting to stomp out the fire when her yiress suddenly was -.aflame, and she sustained' second’ Wnd third degre burns over 80 pe'rcent of her body, attending physicians at the Adams, county memorial (hospital reported.) j In addition to the parents, the .'child is survived by four brothers, twins Barry and Garry, and twins Michael and Dehnis; and a sister Mary,; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bodie., of this city, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolfcale, Convoy, O. The body will be removed from Black’s funeral home, to the Ira Bodie home, 318 South Tenth street, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Thursday and from where services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday. Funeral services, with the Rev. H. J. Welty in charge, will also be held in the First Baptist church, this city, at 2:30 p. m. Friday. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. ' v- ■ " ’ I “* • \ Fire Inspection Is Planned Here May 16 Intense Inspection To Be Made In City Decatur will have its first thorough city-wide fire inspection in its history Wednesday, May 16 it was decided today at a nopn-day meeting of Decatur members of the ,Adams county Insurance board and officers of the Indiana state fire inspection prevention assocMHon at Hhe Hotel coffee shop. \ More than 60 inspectors from the state association and the office of the state fire marshal, with \ the cooperation of local Boy Scouts and high school students, will visit every business hopse, school, county, city and religious building in Degatur. Following the inspection, inspecting group wllL make recommendations where necessary for 'elimination of fire hazards. Fire chief Cedric Fisher, who attended the meeting today started that his department would cooperate" wholeheartedly with the sponsoring groups apd would also furnish men to assist in the Inspections. The local -committee including Fisher, Kenneth Runyon, president of the county group. Glenn Hill and E. W. Johnson attended today’s meet with G. H. McKenzie, Lebanop, chairman of the arrangement committee of the state association; B. T . Pfeifer, Indianapolis, chairman of .the farm inspection committee and H. W. Montgomery,

Wounded In Korea Pfc. Bowman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bowman of, this city, was wounded in Korea last week when a mortar shell exploded directly . in front of him. Bowman is serving with the Ist marine division on j the Korean front.

Plan Release Os Inactive Reservists Armed Services To Release Inactive Enlisted >Reserves Washington, Apr. 18 — (UP). — The defense department said .today the army will start releasing inactive enlisted reservists in September, and will turn them all loose by the end of the year. He said the navy and a,ir force will start releasing their inactive reserves in July, apd will be sending them home "in. substantial numbers” by October. 1 Marine inactive reservists will be released starting in June. \By July, 1952* the department said, “no marine reservist will be serving on involuntarily.” Assistant defense secretary Anna M. Rosenberg \ disclosed the plains to the house arrhed services committee, which is starting ings\ on h broad new reserve picogram proposed by the defense department. She said the program, devised in anticipation of approval by congress of compul ory military training, calls for the release of all reservists “at the earliest practicable time." ; In response to que'tions Mrs Rosenberg also reaffirmed that the pentagon -does not plan to call ’P any more) inactive enlisted reservists agalhst their will. She' aid the only exceptions would be •ptisual cases Where'some special needed skill i was Involved. Mrs. Rosenberg said the new program is expected to cut down by five Or six months the time required to get reserve units ready or/action in time of war. Previously it has taken nine rdonths o a year to get a unit •eady for combat. \ A® a result, she said, the nation in the future can put more re'iance on reserves and less on a big; standing military force. The program calls for creation of three reserve forces: & ready reserve, a standby reserve and a retired reserve. ' ‘ into the ready reserve will go all men completing basic military training or service, either in the armed forces or In a universal military training program. Such men will serve three years in the ready reserve. | They will be shifted then to the 'tahdby reserve, where they will complete their required period of reserve duty. Standby reserve uhits would be available for active duty only upon a declaration of <Tarn T® Page Sevea) 4

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Crowd Estimated J At Half Million Welcomes General \ At San Francisco San Franclsco.April 18. —(UP) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur left his hotel today to accept,San Francisco’s "official” welcome and start the last leg of his dramatic Tokyo-to-Washlngton trip. The thousands waiting along the parade route promised to renew the tremendous emotional greeting which the general received last night upon his arrival from Hawaii. In a scene never equalled in. the city’s stormy history ,\ a crowd esti- ' mated as high as half a million welcomed ’he hero of Bataan back to the United States after 14 A tickertape shower awaited the general this morning as he rode through the city’s financial district and to a reviewing stand set up at the city hall. There.he was to make a. few brief remarks and then depart for the airport to board the Constellation Bataan for Washington. ' 'i Long before, the procession left the St. Francis hotel, the civic plaza at the city hall was jammed With tens of thousands awaiting the general’s arrival. Business offices closed, and school children were* 'excused for the day, which mayor - Elmer Robinson officially designated Gen. Douglas MacArthur day. This was San Francisco’s “official” Welcome. The general had asked that there be no formal welcome for him last\ night but the city turned rut in a tremendous emotional demonstration to welcome him home. .. \ I The reception today prpmised to equal it. Fifteen thousand persons jammed into Union Square before his hotel and 130 police officers were on hand to protect the general and his party. MacArthur put the finishing touches on his Washington addlresß\ early today as he prepared for the last leg of his journey. The general arose at 6:15 ant. \PST (8:15 a.m. CST) Und worked on the speech he will deliver to a joint meeting pf congress tomorrow. Aides said the speech will be short, about 20 minutes. A large breakfast was sent into the presidential suite which MacArthur and his family are occupying. As early as 7 a.m., a crpwd began to gather outside the St. Francis and by 9 a.m. werp straining asairist (he ropes which held thbm back. Last night, the city gave the general a mob-like hero’s, welcome whicij equalled anything in San Francisco’s stormy,, hlstqry. MacArthur, home after 14 | years that changed the history of the world, called it “overwhelming." The, first cl’y in the UnPed S’aites to welcome the 71-year-old general back ito h(si; native country i went be«ide Itself with exci’ement and en’h'flsiasm. It was the greyest day for the ci’y by the golden -gate surrendered. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” \ said MacArthur, -smiling broadly. “It's overwhelming. "It’s \perfect—it would look perfect even if I hadn’t been away 14 years." * Crowds jof people tfumberlhg perhaps as high as 70.000 jammed -u Union Sqpare before the Saint Francis hotel where ! MacArthur was staying in the hope of getting ■just a glimpse of the man-who led American troops into a \beaten Japan. , l \ MacArthur, bis wife and'his,, young son arrived at San Franciscd ’ airport last night aftera flight from (T»>-n To F«cv St* I Sgt. Harry McClure Reported Wounded Sgt., 1-c Harry R. McClure, former resident at 604 - this city, was reported Jjy the department of defense as -wounded in action in Korea.>4’he extent of.. the Injuries were not disclosed in the 280th casualty list released by that department Mrs. McClure is now living on an Ossian rural route and could not be reached for Comment. , ' i ,