Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 103.

KEFAUVER COMMITTEE BLASTS O'DWYER

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Report Warned Russia Sought „> Korea Control . Warned President Truman In 1947 Os Soviet Russia Aims , Washington, May 1— (UP) — The long-secret Wedemeyer report' , on Korea warned President Tru* man three years before war came that Russia "undoubtedly” would seek control of the country, publicatipn of the document disclosed todajK t /'if ' The report, drafted' ,in September, 1947, by Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, urged that this country undertake a vigorous program of United States arms assistance to the republic of Korea, give it military advice and supervise a Korean scout force. / The document, long withheld as .( top secret by the administration. | wa* released today by the?senate - scorhmHtee investigating the oyster of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Wedemeyer recommended to Mr. Truman that Ampricap occu-. pation troops remain hr South Korea until Russian troops were Withdrawn from the north 1 , This was done. But Wedemeyer’s recs ommendation for a strong pro- ■ , gram of U. S. military aid was t not implemented. Wedemeyer predicted that “undoubtedly” Ija Russian /• objective would be /tb obtain control of South Korea by using the com- / munist North Korean military for- . ees it Sponsored and trained, by infiltration and by other methods usually undertaken by, the Reds. He also stated it was “extreme- • ly doubtful” that the Soviets or their North Korean satellites ' would invade South Korea in “the near future.” Wedemeyer’s report was made J three years before the North Ko- , reans struck at the South Korean • republic in June, 1950, an invasion followed up by intervention of the Chinese communists in force in November of 1950. » Wedemeyer said indefinite occupation of South Korea by U. S. . military forces would be “unacceptable” to the American public, once the Russian troops withdrew I i from North Korea. But he said I the Soviets would withdraw only | ; . after building up a North Korean» “people’s army,” and that, this necessitated Jong-term American military and economic assistance / for the fledgling republic. The-U, ? S. troops were withdrawn in June, 1 1949, after the Russians also withdrew. ' The general said that then pres—ent U; S. troops in South Korea would be a “military liability” if “major hostilities” occurred in the Far East because they could not ' be maintained adequately. Instead, 'Wedemeyer recomijiended: • / y 1. That a U. S. withdrawal (which actually occurred in June 1949) be based on agreement with Russia for proportional withdrawal of Soviet troops and “as many guarantees as possible to' safeguard Korean freedom and ini dependence.” i - 2. U. S. military aid for South Korea, including furnishing of arms and equipment to the Korean naitonal police and Korean coast I guard. 1 ! ? ~ • '< 3. Creation of an Americanofficered Korean scout force of “sufflcient strength to cope with the threat from the north, plus ads vice in training of technical specialists and tactical units.” ■ 1 4. /“Continued interim I occupation" by U. S. army forces, apparently until the agreement forconcurrent Soviet withdrawal could be worked out. /■ v p L Indiana Man Killed When Thrown By Mule Columbus, In 4, May 1 —(tfP) — Services were planned today for ’« Luther McClellap, 61, who died , yesterday when he was thrown by a mule. J i i ■ ■ • . ; - n J ■—'' . v ■ - •/M ■ ■'/■ / : J' 1 _ ; , ■ ; ' / I- • ' . ’ ■; | '

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Directors Elected To Community Fund Annual Meeting Is Held Monday Night ; /| * ■ J •! i i The wlde\ : extent of Decatur’s youth andi-ecreatjonal programs in the interest of boys and girls and the election of four directors to the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., board were the principal topics of business at the annual meeting of the organisation last evening. The meeting was held at the Den with, Louis Jadobs. president, presiding. Miss Jcian Wemhoft served i.as secretary. \ CTi ■' Directors elected are: Carl Gerber. representing business; the Rev. A.C.E. Gillander, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, representing churches; <Ross Way, representing labor, and Robert Ashbaucher, representing fraternal organizatipns. Officers will be elected at the next Tegular meeting of the board. The assembly voted in favor of Operating the Den. nv-youlh cienter next year. Stevel ! 'fcverhaft, sjupervisor, reported increased interest and participation in the/Meebtef’s' activities during the past season. He said an average of 80 children, the Den daily. Mrs. AHolthouse, chairman of the Woman’s club committee, sponsors of the youth center, was told that the Community Fund would -financial support of the Den next .fan. , ’ ; ! L Mrs. Roy Kalver, chairman of Girl "Scout activities, reported on last year’s activities and plans for this year’s prosrams for the scputs. Decatur has ?45 Girl and Brownies and 94 adult "leaders and volunteer workers. Mrs./ Kalver stated that the theme of the sum-: mer camp at Hpnria-Nuttman park this summer would y be “Hands AnoUnd the World ” Lowell Smith reported on Boy Scout and Cub activities. There are 79 Cubs. 51 Scouts and 3f Explorer Scouts in the scout organization, f Past activities were butlined, along i' with plans for csimb outings this year, Steve Everhart told in detail about the park and recreational programs which are financed by the Decatur Community Fund, Modern equipment has playgrounds apd bqmpjetion of the program ‘will jbe carried through this year. AlLequipment has beep instilled with thie safety Idea tb | protect childrien against • Injury, I Everhart sairt Roy Kalver j reported on the I Adams county cancer (unit and told < about its work. He stated that the society would meet its quota and that funds now on hand would be used to pay the county’s full share of the 1951 drive, i ' Brigadier Herbert Hill of the Salvation Army, which also receives contributions froih the Community Fund, reported on work of that agency. ; A motion picture of the Boy Scout jamboree held at Valley Forge .Was shown at the conclusion of the program. , : 1 1 i '' ' / . .. ' p ; County Councilmen In Special Session Study Additional Emergency Funds | Members of the Adams council mot in special sessiontoday, the first of a\ two-day meeting, to consider additional emergency appropriations for county officials -and the highway, department- ■ The .total amount to be considered for thel county, the bdlk of the appropriation for per diem salaries for county officials, amounts to 113,115. Ip addition to wage salaries for certain officials, this expenditure will also consider jnileage and supplies for the court house, jail, and pounty home. Tn addition, the council will study |31,400 appropriations for the counity highway department for labor, assessments and supplies. This money is '.appropriated from the county’s gasoline tax and license fee distributions made by the state auditor’s office in quarterly payments. - However the total appropriations amounts to $44,515.. \ \ . • l? . ■ . -

Chinese Siege Forces Recoil From Capital Massing Troops For Apparent Advance On Central Korea •• - i Tokyo, Wednesday, May 2. —(UP) 1 -—Chinese Communist siege forces] recoiled from Seoul Tuesday. They ( began massing their troops 50 miles east, apparently for a drive south through centra! Korea. The Reds moved forward reck- ■ lessly in broad daylight toward the ’ west-central front down the Chun- ■ phon-Hongchon corridor under the blasting of allied warplanea and ■ artillery. < , / . Allied staff officers said the Communists closed the &wachon reservoir flood gates. They apparently wanted to drop thfe level of the Han and rivers before unleashing a drive to cross them, i Allied lines On the Central front now are south of these two rivers. The anticipated May day assault 1 on failed to materialize. Instead the Reds withdrew northward to escape a furious pounding by 1400 big guns set up in the former /South Korean capital. ’ Allfed' tank-infantry patrols jabbing northward from Beopl reported only four minor enemy contacts. Only a few Reds were found in areas strongly held as late as Monday. The presumably had decided to alm the second round of their spring “end-the-war” offensive down the spiny center of the Korean penim(ula\|oward Yoju on the \ south wares bend of—the_Han. A Cominunist Yoju, key road' junction 38 southeast of Seoul and 50 mites the 38tb parallel, probably force the Bth army to give up the : former capital without a fight to ' protect its rear and flanks. An Bth arinv communique reported that UN. patrols thrusting out from the 30-mile defense arc around (Tui-n To Page BigfcOj / V > ' . '' : Levee Break Feared : Al South Mjiscatine . Stubborn Residents \ Refuse to Evacuate ! Muscatine, la.. May I—(UP) — , Volunteers and national guardsmen patrolled a rain-soakedNevee . protecting the city from Missisi sippi flood waters today as police ’ urged stubborn lowlanders to • leave their homes. The river’s 20.6-foot crest may not start falling for three or four j days, rivermen sa|d. . The water beat against a levee so moisture laden that it “quivered like jelly” in places, polices Sgt. Don Platt said, and officials feared it would not hold up before the crest passed. “We’re sweating it out,” Platt said. “Right now anything can happen.) If the levee breaks, anything might happen.” He said that 1,200 of the 2,000 residents in South Muscatine had s left their homes, but that the remaining 800 had stubbornly refused to follow their example. ? “We’re doing our best, to convince them of the danger," Piatt said. “But I don’t know what we Can do if they don’t leave.” ' ' Most of the refugees are quartered witA friends and relatives; ' but some were housed in a high school gymnasium. \ 1 The crest is the second to pass ' within a week and is only about > four inches lower thaq the first. ’ The force of .the first hr ( est, com- - bined with recent' “porker-type rains, weakened the leveq to such a degree that a small hole might • expand into a major break before . it could be tapped. > Guardsmen and volunteers pa- > trolled on a 24-hour bapis In slxs hour shifts and poked long sticks » into the: te v ®« susplctous-look- ' ing places to determine \lf it is solid in the center. 1 *’ i Scattered thundershowers were 'forecast for today. y ) ' ' ' . '

Decptur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 1,1951.

'J ‘4 1. hf Mrs. Welcomed Home J B r g OKIR Ik MRS. MACARTHUR, unnoticed by the crowd for a moment, Rajoys a and a hug with a close friend as she andi her famohs husband arrived in her home town, Murfreesboro, Tenn. The day was het as Mrs. MacArthur Day by the people of Murfreesboro, i

Pleads For Help In Stand Against Army father Os 111 Youth Asks Congress Aid ■I . ' \ i ’ * May 1. —(UP) — A father who smuggled his son out of an |rmy camp after the youth complained “I am going to fall dead sooi,” pleaded today for congress global support in his stand against Tfie rgcruit, Pvt. Stanley Amborski,? 21. was undergoing treatment for'double pneumonia at Great Lakes naval hospital. < Doctors described the emaciated youth as a “vely sick young man.” h|s father, John Amborski, 45, removed the youth from Fort Leopard WoM Mo., last Sunday without percussion from the army. He went to file camp after Stanley wrote several times that he was sick and said bis pleas for medical aid had bee| ignored. - 1 "(let me out of this, Dad,” Stanley |vrote, "I am going to fall dead sooi\” fborski said he felt much be|ow that his son was getting proper attention. v "My boy is getting the best treatment in the world —finally.” B*lt he said he hap appealed for help from his congressman, Rep. R., 111., in his stand the army which denied that the recruit was turned down in his requests for treatment. "tf’ve written My. Vail and expect to {get some action in Washington on Bis matter.’’ Amborski said. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr„ commander of the 6th armored division at the Missouri camp, said the was considered absent without leave because he had been removed without permission. Action against him, Sturgis said. wou3d depend on the. outcome of an investigation. i , T|e army, in a double-barreled denial, said the youth had visited the dispensary four times and each timi he had been examined and treated. The army said it had not confirmed a report by the Amborski family physician, Dr. Meyer Cohen, that Stanley was suffering from peritonitis, possibly caused by a ruptured appendix. ' i ’ INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday, somewhat warmer northeast, low tonight 56 to 60 northeast, 6G to 65 elsewhere, high Wednesday 82 to 87. I ' « I . i

*- -w Jap Conservatives Leading hi Election .. , ; * Tokyo, May 1 -rlP,!*)-*. Incomplete returns gave a commanding lead today IP prime minister Shigeru Yoshida’s conservative party in nation-wide elections yesterday for governorships and prefectural , assembly seats. ■ '-a- Uli-\M ' L Early returns showed 19 iconaert vatives and only one socialist select . ed in races for 34 governorships.' 1 '. __ jr . t I Says Chicago Focal J Point Os Criminals • Police Laxity And Corruption Blamed V ■ i;| 1 Washington, May 1 —(UP) — t The senate crime committee said t today police, laxity and corruption j has helped to make Chicago a 1 “focal point for the activities of 1 organized criminals in the 'United Statea” v | In an official report to the setT j ate, the committee said it lias uncovered “evidence of deplorable laxity on the part of individual 'pf- ’ ficlals” charged with law enforce--5 ment. It added bluntly-that “the conclusion is inescapable tjiat the" police are being paid off” bpganjgs- . ters. ' d .su - r “The job of law-enforcement in • Chicago,’’ it said, ’’remains 5 a tre- * mendous responsibility to law * enforcement agencies and to the ’ citizens of and its surrounding areas ” | The report traced the growth of 1 gangsterism in the Chicago area from the Capone era of the to • the present day. ' The resurrected Capone r gang, ‘ now led by Tony Accardo| Jacob * Guzik and »Charlie Fischetti—all 1 one-time associates of the nqtoridus ’ “Scarface Al"—has been described ’ by the committee as one pt the two 1 major interstate cHme syndicates now functioning in this country. * The committee described in de--1 tail the multi-milllon dollar ppera--1 tions of the revived Capone sypdl--1 case in book-making, the policy racket, labor racketeering, ppuneh- ' boards and slot machines. | < It said that it is “perfectly 0b- • vlous , . . that many of the law en--1 forcement officials have been cor--1 rupted” although, it added, the committee, in the time alloted to its' Chicago inquiry, was able to ' uncover only 4 fdw cases of Specific protection payments to police. , < “As John Rossellt, onetime Capone henchman, frankly stated before the committee,” the report said, “the wire service, the handbooks, the slot machines, and the (Tara To Pa<e Ei<ht) Ii .. ■ I' :■ ■ 1 '

■f I | Charges Former Mayor Os New York City Aided Organized Crime Growth

.""—H • h ! 1 Five Minor Youths Admit Thefts Here Admit Burglaries fin, Near Decatur CRy and county police officials have apprehended five minor youths?, all of w;hom haye admitted several burglaries in and near Decatur. Altogether, theL youth* whose ages range between 11 and 14 -years, have admitted breaking into and entering nine £ establishments, and have been involved in more than a dozen other petty thefts. Three of the bovs were arrested Monday, the other two early today. , Authorities stated that “at least two\ or three” other youths are involved, and will foe apprehended late£ today. Singly or in groups, the \youths admitted breaking intoj and sometimes looting the Decatur country club, the office of the .Stiefel Grain company. Teeple Truck lines, Lee’s bait house, Klenk’s, Kingdom Hall church in HapuaNutlman park, the Boy Scout cabin, Evelyn’s Beauty shop, and, Smith's grocery. ’ Sheriff Bob Shraluka, deputy Jim Cochran and Decatur police chief Jamqs Borders, who have conducted the investigation leading, to the arrest of the five boye and possibly others, were busy today rpcoverink the loot cached away. \ \ A'*-, Most Os the stuff listed/ as stolen by the police and recovered is “to be returned to the owners as Aoon as final disposition can- be [made.” . . \ ; The list Includes: , several air rifles, three pairs of roller shtjeI skates, several pairs of work gloves, a large p urn;b er of flashlight batteries, air rifle, ammunition, fishing tackle, candy, cigarets, shoe laces, and eomq cash. \ The loot was hidden in garages at the homes of the youths, by the river, and other possibly safe places. ! ; 1 ■ k The roundup Os the ' youths be-i gan when, late Monday sheriff (Turn To P«*o Six) I | , . ~ “ '/ / /} / Man Serving Life Term Is Acquitted Police Brutality Is Scored By Judge Philadelphia, May 1 — (UP) — Rudolph Bheeler, 35, former Now restaurant worker, wa« acquitted today Os a 1936 slayihg for which he/had served 12 years of a life sentence. Quarter sessions «ourt judge James Gay Gordon ordered a directed veniict of acquittal after describing Sheeler’s conviction in the killing of patrolman James T. Morrow as a “black apd shameful page in the history of the Philadelphia police department.” I J Sheeler broke into loud sobs as he was adjudged innocent of the crime and had to be led out of the courtroom. He did not hear ipost of the judge’s excoriating remark* on |he brutal treatment he had received at the hands (rs police before his conviction in the row slaying. Sheeler’s pretty 14-year-old daughter, Diane, was In the small crowded courtroom. She also cried, as did several , women spectators. ” , Sheeler had been free on bail since April 5 when the Pennsylvania supreme court vacated his conviction and life imprisonment sentence on the grounds they were obtained by “police brutality and fou£ play.” ■ Shortly after he was 1 brought into \ the courtroom to be tried a second time in the slaking, assistant district attorney Colbert C. McClain read a brief statement outlining the case and said: “We are unable to find one (Turn T® Pace Ei*ht) ■ ,' \ . . / •

Robt. Vogeler) Overjoyed On Return Home i Ends Flight From z Fear; Arrives In ? j New York Today New Yprk, May I—(UP1 —(UP) i—Robert A Vogeler set foot oh his native soil today after 17 months in a communist prison in Hun* gary, and said “WOnderful,! Worn derfujl!*’ Grim-faced and gaunt at first, his face broke into a big smiiq when he caught sight of his 68-‘ year old' father, Willy Vogeler. As the 39-year old businessman who was sentenced to 15 years in the Hungarian priston for spying and sabotage, \reached the last step on the ramp .lead- : ing down from his- plane at intef- , national airport, he set ;his foot • firmly and with exaggerated fore* - on the asphalt to emphasize that I he was back in his owp> country. Stopping briefly to pose for pieE tures, Vogeler threw his right'arm around his wife, patted her oji the i shoulder, smiled and kissed her • and then said: i "Wonderful! Wonderful! I r can’t express It.” ' *i| I \ Vogeler, formerly lof LaGrange, 111., looked stern and his face was - lined when he appeared in the i plexiglass nose of the Pap-Ameri- > can clipper that brought hlim from t London, while it / was landing. His eyes shifted j rapidly around ’ the airport as if he were looking • for someone. . / He started smiling when he saw his father. His wife Lucille and ■ their sons. Bobby It, ahd Billy 9fc were waving through other windows. An*official of IT\& T said VogeJer’s father was “too excited to talk.” Vogeler is an assistant vice-president of thh , company. ‘.Also on hand to greet him wer* Leonard Jacob, vice, president of IT & \ T, H. Scbdder, vice president of the- International Standard Electric/ Co., M. -R. Mitchell, and IT&T attorney; and Alexander M. Maclennan. a public relation* representative of IT&T, apd Mrs. Lilly Schebera, a family ffiend. The Vogeler 8 werfe hurried to the/ customs shed before being (Turn To Pace iEhgfct) /♦/ ■ — , ! </ . i ■". I" - ' " I Lions Anniversary Banquet Tonight ) I Club Will Observe f Silver Anniversary | W\ E. Bumgerdner, general chair* man fdr the Lions club silver snfi niversary banquet? which will fop held tonight, in the Decatujr high school auditorium, said today that everything was in rehdiness to receive the more than 250 guests who are expected to attend. Entertainment chairman Roh Parrish added that while the General Electric Aeolian choir will be featured tonight, representatives of other Lions clubs throughout the northeastern Indiana area are expected to “add generously” to thq evening’s entertainment. The banquet is scheduled for 6: 45 p.m. Awaiting the guests at the banquet will be Nfr. and Mrs. Deane Dorwin, Mr. and Mrs. Watson Maddox, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Metzler; Mr. and Mrs. Noah Steury, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Pruden, Mr. and Mrs. Thurman J. Drew, pnd Mr. and Mrs; Harold Zwick. all members of thp reception committee. “Every effort has been made, 0 Bumgerdner said, “to make this celebration the finest the Lions club has ever held. I am sure that with the splendid work done by the various committees ip preparation for this event, it will be a huge success.” v J ? ' / J

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Report Interstate Crime Syndicates ' Reaping Millions In Nations Cities /Washington, May* 1. —(UP)— \ The senate crime committee today charged William O’Dwyer with aiding the growth of organized crime , In New York, and a Republican * immediately demanded that .the ex- = , mayor either be prosecuted or fired as ambassador to Mexico. i Senate Republieap leader Kenneth S. Wherry of (Nebraska made the demand shortly after the committee unanimously issued a report on interstate rackets in.which it declared that O’Dwyer “contributed to the growth of organized crime, racketeering, and gangster-; ism in New York City,Hl/’ i. The report, summing up a yearlong investigation, sa|d that interstate crime syndicate^are reaping millions from gambling, tion. and narcotics in the country’s big titles. It said they were able tb entrench themselves because of • tieups with politicians, police, and businessmen. J The committee singled out for-its heaviest blast the former New York mayor who quit his job last year to goi to Mexico City as President Truman’s diplomatic emissary.. The White House refused to com- ■ hiention this or any other part of L the report. But Wherfry asserted > O’Dwker should be “given - mediate trial” or else dismissed. He said no U.S. ambassador should [ be under such a “Cloud.” The committee found that the - “power for evil” or’ organized crime ? is "infinitely grower" than it was years ago. Fighting it, the committee said, is “largely a local problem.” ' \ To help local officials the com- . mittee offered a battery of legl» lative proposals which would, in feet, destroy interstate gambling operations as they now exist, and thus deflate the principal under.world bankroll. The committee also rapped Gov. Fuller Warrer of Florida and Gbv. Forrest Smith of Missouri. It said Warren had-“allowed the power of his office” to be used by Chicago’s ft Capone syndicate to muscle into!-/ Miami Beach .gambling. " \ \ As for Sniith, it said it found “incredible” bi£ assertions that he ,did\ foot discuss giving anything to slain Democratic boss Charles BiNaggio in return fob his political support. The committee ialso lambasted \ the Western Ilnioq Telegraph Co, It said Us facilities are the bacte bone in providing infon- - mation to bookmakers abd some of its officials and employes actually have engaged in bookmaking conspiracies. I It was the comihittee’s/’final” rev port although the committee will operate! until Sept. 1. With thfo report chairman Estes Kefafover, D. Tenny stepped dowh as chief to be ar member of the committee while Sen. Herbert R. o’Conor, D. Md„4ook over as chairman. Some of the committee’s sharpest comment was directed at O’Dwyer Who testified at its dramatic televised New Yhrk hearings. O’Dwyer, the report said, “has been on terms of intimate friendship” with friends of racketeer Joe Adonis and “king-maker” Frank Costello —leaders in the New York crime syndicate. I , “Durlttl Mt O’Dwyer’s term’of office as district attorney of Kings county, between 1940 an< 1942, and bis occupancy of the mayoralty from 1946 to 1950,” the committee said, “neither he nor his appointees took any effective action against the top echelons of the gambling, narcotics, water-front, murder or bookmaking rackets.” “In fact his actions impeded promising investigations of such rackets. His defense of public officials Who were derelict in their duties, and his actions in investigations ofcorruption, and * his failure to follow up concrete evidence of organized crime, particularly in the case of Murder, Inc., and the water front, have contributed to the growth of organized c|rime, racketeering and, gangsterism in New York City.” ’ / The committee coaoeded that O’Dwyer “unquestionably” accom- , (Tom To Pa«e KUfot) //1? :>/