Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 110.

MAC’S STATEMENTS THREAT TO ALLIES

Slulls i Drum, Brennan Easy Winners ( For Councilmen Stults To Oppose Mayor John Doan In November Election - ' I i Although, none of the, ipolitica. I undits was startled by the number of votes cast Tuesday which assured the “rubber match” between ' former Democrat ; mayor John Stults and incumbent lican Mayor John M. Doan; it was generally agreed that the 1.300 ballots represented a “pretty good turnout.” ' The voting also swept in incumbent councilmen \ Dorphus Drum r.rtd Joseph Brennan as Democrat i nominees seeking reelection from the 7 second and fourth wards, respectively. ' — >• j r- Other Democrat candidates fdr .the forthcoming general election Include Adrian Burke. councilman first district; Ed Bauer, third district and Al Beavers, council-'man-atdarge. There is no candidate for cldrk-treasurer. s', J j The Republican slate, headed —by Mayori Doan, includes H Vernon Aurand; candidate for clerk-treasurer; j councilman for the first district, Adolph Koi ter; second district, Donald Gage: third, district, Hubert Gilpin, fourth district, Hugh _ Engle,; and courtcflman-at-large, Dr. Joe Mofrte. ' The Republicans by virtue of no opposition,' were automatically nominated, : ' Stults carried all but one pre- - •* inct —ward 3-B—-to win over his opponent. Adrian J. Baker, with a majority of 225 vptes. The election itself climaxed a I rather subdued campaign. | • The usual election crowd that mingles downtown on ’’election night was reduced to a hand-full i who remained outside the Decant nr Democrat Office awaiting returns from the various * precincts. The reports came in between 7:30 and 8:45 p.m. from the outlying precincts, and the completed tabulation Was posted before 9 o’clock, less than two hours after « — ihe .polls were closed. Brennan, councilman from the fourth ward, won with the largest majority when he obtained 899 votes to Kenneth Secaur’s 347, a F difference 0f'552. Drum won out over Niland Ochsenrider by 315 j, 1 ballots, when he received ,789 j votes to the latter’s 474. Stults’ iweived 767 votes. Baker 542. Although the voting was “pretty good,”, it gained momentum dur-' / -ing trie day. Only 350 votes were recorded in the Daily Democrat’s pre-noon survey; which meant- that , almost 1.000 were cast in the afternoon and evening before the polls closed. • The result of’ the election pieans that Stults and Doan will meet for the third time. Stults won over his ' , Republican opponent in 1912, while Doini was elected in 1947Such a match is expected to generate a little more qxcitemen* in the fall than was displayed in the Tuesday' primary when only A the Democrats had , contests. It is believed that a great propor- ' t.»on of the registered 3,737 voters will cast ballots in November. This number, of course, will be aug(Turn To Page Eight)

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BULLETIN Washington, May 91— (UP)\ —Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who replaced Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the.. Far East, was nominated by Presßent Truman today for promotion v to four star general. . Ridgway took over MacArthur’s four* j commands the moment MacArthur received notice in Tokyo last month that Mr. Truman had fired — him. "■ i - j i' i 1 .. Allied Planes Blast Secret , Red Air Base Secret Communist* - Base Turned Into Flaming Inferno Tokyo. May 91— (UP); —The greatest U.S. air armpda of the Korean ;war blasted a secret Cqmmuinist air ’base just south of the'Manchurian border into a flaming inferno today. probably destroying at least half of the 10(1 enemy jets hidden .there. . v uJ ' T | L - The sth/;riir| force threw 312 planes—every Available fighter and fighter-bomber ini Japan and Korea —againNt a crirtmuflaged. ! Cooliebpilt airfield at Sinuiju .fn the northwest corner of Hrireri.-' ( The 3fLmiuu|e left the whole airfield Covered with fires. Red-tinged sn)oke \bil!ow?ed up three miles or more injto\4hb sunny sky. It was the ’biggest single air strike of the war, and was designed to smash the mojst dangerous potential enemy challenge yet to American air; supremacy over Korea. J ; - J u Hundreds of; Communist troops died under the deluge of bombs, rockets, bullets and flaming jellied gasoline. , , “It’s a massacre up there," one returning airman said, The air force struck at northwest Korea while Communist trbops tell back to or across the 38th; parallel all along the lOb-mile fighting front to tlie south. (The Reds gave up hard-won gains of two weeks ago without ' f / Tlie Bth arrhy thrust ahead to points 18 to 20 miles north jdf Seoul and within 10; miles of th* 38th parallel at the western end of the line; It already had lifted tire siege of Seouh • M' An Bth army communique reported advances of up tp miles northwest of th* former capital during the day; It said a battalion of Red rear guards broke contact and retreated north after a brief skirmish. ■ , | Other rear guards ( were-dispersed; due porth of Seoul j —between ' Uijongbu and ihe 38th parallel. j .'. f j ? 1 . . All the way from Coinmunistabandoned Chuinchonion the central front to the dakt coast, ether allied forces operated on or adrqss the parallel dividing Noyth and South (Turn To. Pawt Three) ;— I ■ ' '■[ I i f INDIANA WEATHER ft.osily cioudy. Cooler north portion tonight and entire state Thursday. Occasional tihowers or thundershowers tonight Low tonight ’45 north, 55 soutri High Thursday 60-65 north, 60-70 south.

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Warns Nation Not To Relax In Rebuilding Continued Tight JZontrols Needed h Washington, May 9.—<UP) — President Truman said today it will take at least two more years .of tight economic controls and higher taxes to build the necessary strength “to convince the Kremlin that it ought not to start a world war." The president warned that peace In Korea wih not put an end to the global danger of Soviet aggression. and “we cannot afford to relax” in rebuilding the nation's military sterngth. A Military might is the only thing that will/deter Soviet aggression, he said, and “we must prepare ourselves to mobilize quickly for war in case the Kremlin is reckless enough, in spite of everything to plunge the worlq into a general conflict.” [ ~\S If all-out war hasn’t dveloped in two or three years, <he promised, it should be possible To begin taking off some of the controls by that time. He said he was trying to keep thy war limited to Korea., Mr. Truman spoke before an assembly of about \7AO men, representing such industries as power, coat, minerals, petroleum and gas, who are members of advisory councils that wwk with ♦he interior department on defense mobilisation problems. He asked them to help get from congress the production and inflation controls arid the taxes he has requested. > ’ “I am serious abopt this." he said. “I think you might; to be I asking the congress ifor hjgher taxes. But, wljen you do that, be [pure to urge them to extend price/ and wage controls, too.” I The defense production act, w.hieh included authority to imV pose wage and price controls and consumer rationing, expires June 30. Mr. Truman has asked congress for a two-year extension. • He told ; the industry leaders that the demands of i military production bn materials and man •power will be going up month by month for a long time yet and MTara To Pace Six) /’ ' \ Cornell Winner In Bluffton Primary Don L. Carnail won the Demo-! cratic nomination for mayor of Bluffton Tuesday, defeating Donald W. Hammond, 740-496. Three Incumbent Democratic TBbncilmen were defeated for renomination. All Republican candidates opposed. \ Other candidates for mayor nominated in nearby cities follow: Portland- Mayor Albert A. Abromson. D., and Dale Miller. R-; Huntington- Homer Webster, D., and Garl R. Rudicel R.; .Auburn- H. Gerald Oren, D.. and Mayor Hal G. Hoham, R.; Garrett- Mayor Fred L. Feick, D., and Clarence L. Wilson. R.; Hartford City, William C. Smith, D., arid Gerald Galbreath, R.; Kendallville- Andrew if. Mlinar. D., and Mayor Robert <5- Moser.R. ’TV

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 9,4951.

Report Cordell HulL Somewhat Improved Wasington May 9 —(VP) —' Former secretary of state Cordell Hull still is in critical condition .today, hut "has shown definite improvement" during the past 21 hours. Bethesda naval hospital reported. I -A. The 79-year-old statesman entered the naval medical center last Saturday. He is suffering from an acute respiratory ailment with cardiac eoinplications. U.S- Casualties In • Korea Total 64,05$ Increase Os 1,256 Over Previous Week Washington, May 9 —(UP I — The defense department today reported a new total of 6 J 55 American casualties in the Korean war, an increase of 1,256 in a week. The new total ‘'represented casualties whose next of kin had been notified through last .Friday. The actual number is higher since it requires one to weeks to notify next of kin. ' The new total included 11,001 dead, 42.215 wounded, 9,562 missing. 114 captured and 1,163 previously reported missing who have been returned, to military control.' ‘ The * total casualties also listed as 53,115 army, 682 navyFO,695 marine corp# and 563 air force. • A breakdown by services showed: . p) ' Army—9.ll9l z d ea ths, 33,859 (Turn To Pagf Ri*h«)

— j | |"C ‘ —---f ---- Public Inspection This FPeeit At Telephone Co.

Visitors to the Citizens Telephone company exchange on West Mortroe street will witness f the magic of tjie new automatic system and how a million dollars’ worth of wires, cables and equipment can be so systematically arranged to give Instantaneous, fool-proof service to as many as 60,000 telephone calls a day. h ■ " I Friday and Saturday will ba public inspection days at the local telephone exchange. The jnanagement and employes of this homeowned and locally operated utility 1 ; which wis established in 1894/ [invite their patrons to visit this { marvel of personal communication and to inspect the newly completed exchange. Visitors wiii be escorted through the first floors of the building, which now houses all the equipment of Decatur’s modern telephone exchange. A page ad in this edition pictures the power board; a general view, of the first selectors; the toll rind local test panels; a closeup of two combination connectors; a glimpse of tho new business office; miscellaneous relay racks and a view of part of the toll board. These are technical terms of the trade, so to more fully under stand how your call courses through the wires after you have dialed your number, and rings bell at the other end of the line, ■ ; ' . A

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Stale Os Emergency In Earthquake Area / El Salvador Takes Emergency Steps San Salvador; El Salvadriif; May 9. — '(UP) — Emergency I measures . were employed today in earth-quake-ravaged areas of this- tiny nation to combat fire, disease and profiteering. The government ordered severe (or any person trying to take adv&ntagri nf sbrlods hbushig and food shortages in the stricken departments' of Usulatan and Sari Miguel. Government and Red Cross workers set up camps to assist thousands of homeless and hungry victims of the earthquake last Sunday afternoon —worst in the history of this smallest Central American re; • public. \ ' i j Rescue workers still dug in the ruins of Jucuapa and Chriameca, the t,wo worst hit of 11 affected towns in southeastern El Salvador. At least 1,000 perished in Jucuapa . alone out of its 12,000 population. Total casualty figures have not been announced. Archbishop Chavez Gonzhles said after a visit to the almost; totally destroyed towns of Juculapa and Chinameca that the crowds had Staged a blind panic there. He said they ran through the streets, not knowing where they were going 1 after glimpsing theij- wrecked homes. , z The emergency were invoked last night'for a period of 30 days Liquor sales were prohibited and the immediate of Tood (Tara To Page Sik)

requires an eye-full at (the automatic equipment. f The weekend inspection days will wind-up a series of inspection trips through ttfri utility, wfiich started last week with conducted tours of high school students. Charles Ex Ehinger, president and general ni/anager of the\Cit< zens Telephone company;. jingles with pride and bell-ringing attention when he describes Ithe new automatic systeji. And ne has right to beam’for the plant is about the most perfect consolidation of wires and intricate equipment ev6r assembled by the country’s leading engineers and manufacturers. <T President Ehinger displayed the minute book of the organization of the company in Augpst, 1894. It was one of the first telephone exchanges organized when the Bell patents expired that year. Local business men and investors organized the company w|th $5,000 capital. It had fewer than 100 patrons. Dell Locke, who then operated the Burt hotel, was the first president and Amos Beatty, attorney, was secretary. In the recent revamping of the utility frorh common battery to the automatic system, the company spent approximately $850,000 for the improvement and has nearly $1,250,000 Invested in the uVI(Tara T® Pare Six)

Secy. Marsha]! Charges ; Public Statements Were Threat To Cooperation

BULLETIN / Washington, May 9. —(UP) I —Secretary of defense George C. Marshall said today that Communist Chink’s armies In Korea are being “torn to pieces” and that he thinks the s - Chinese military situation < “is assuming very serious proportion.”' , Beef Rollback Al Wholesale Now In Effect Fixed Ceiling On \ Beef At Wholesale Goes Into Effect Washington. May\l9 —(UP»— The .government rolled back wholesale beef prices today, and chairman Harold D. Cooley of the house agriculture committee .said cattlemen have “woefully faCed to justify” their angry opposition to the order. ‘ Price; stabilizer Michael V. Disalle, the cattlemen’s primary tar? get. claim the cutback will slash beef prices by 9 to 10 cents a pound by Oct. f, wins housewives 00'0,000 a year. Disalie recently ordered, effective today, fixed doilar-and-cents cabling on wholesale beef prices. Urfder the order a similar ceilings on retail prices will go into effect May 14- And a 10 percent cut—about three cents a pound—ln the price to be paid for live cattle in stockyards will become effective May 20. » Industry spokesmen charge that the order will lead to a cut in production and result in beef being channeled black markets. Cooley asked cattlemen to “give us facts and figures to justify their opposition” to the rollback. The North Carolinas Democrat, one of the meat industry’s most powerful supporters, said cattlemen have “woefully failed" to answer questions about their case against the order, , /' ACooley said Disalie had "been before my committee all day and (Tara To Pa«e Severn) Seven Leave Today For Army Service Contingent Leaves For Active Service Seven men left today for Indianapolis and active service with the armed fqrces, lifting, the total number of men to depart from Adaips county in the past nine months to 92. ' , \ i fj Two of the pien who reported for duty did so voluntarily. One of the men was to report from local board 58 tn Midland, Mich., where his record was transferred. Joseph T. B. Loshe and Richard Calvin Coppess, who had previously undergone pre-induction physical examinations but were not scheduled to leave with this contingent, volunteered for active service. Ronald Charles Smith is ordered to report trom the Midland, Mich., board. Others who today included Willard Elmer Landis, Robert Louis Biebericfi? Robert, Charles Ralston, and Delbert Henry Fuelling. Officials of the county selective service board\ have made no announcement for rifofe than a month of men to undergo /pre-induc-tion physical examinations. This reflects the government’s lowering of the number of men who are to be called into the service within the next few weeks. ■- \! JL Bloodmobile ’ Thursday, May 10 American-Legion Home

Fort Wayne's Mayor Loses In PninAri Tuesday 18 Indiana Mayors Ace Defeated In Primary Election IndfflLpolis, ; May 9. i--(UP)— Eighteen Indiana mayors found the going too rough in yesterday’s municipal primaries and sat defeat ed on the sidelines today while (heir conquerors celebrated. But 57 including 30 whe survived contests, advanced to the November city;®lections anti faced toew struggles additional four year terms. had nc opposition yesterday. Most notable amoqg the casualties were the mayors of Anderson, East Chicago -Fort Huntington, Munci® and Vincennes. ; While they a dozen smaller city colleagues were losing, the mayors of suCh big cities as In dianapolis, Evansville, Blooming ton, Marion, New Al bany. South Bend, Terre Haute Hammond, Richmond, and Michi ; gait City were‘trouncing from 6 m to five of them witt ease. ' ? ’■ ■' ; In sunny mii4 weather,; the voter? went to the palls, generally In light numbers considering the size of registration riills, and nominated for mayor a in one city, a marine 1 lieutenant-colonel in ana man hospitalized with an auto wreck back fracture, and a mayor under grand jury indictment. Among th&; casualties were mayors Henry<E. Branning, Jr., of Fort Wayne, and Ftemk J. Migas of East Chicago, Democrats under indictment by>grand juries for alleged -unlawful- acts in office. ; Branning, accused in an investigation of coat purchases for city utilities, lost /to city Oouncilman Paul Mike Btfrbs by \a 4,500-vote plurality in a live-way race. 4 ; Migas, acctfged of “rhalconduct and misfeasance” in failing to act to halt gambMbg, was second to Walter M. Jeotse by 1,200 votes in a four-way raCfe. . A third incumbent mayor under indictment on/ similar charges as Migas was more fortunate. Mayor Andrew S. Kovacfk, Whiting Democrat, s warn petit wo opponents, getting 1,000 votes more than his nearest rival. £ Mayor Lefler E. Holloway of (Tara T» Pace Sevra) : Three Youngsters Entertain lions Three Steury Boys Entertain Members Three boys. ranging in age from three to 13, apd named Rudy, Billy end Robin Stefiry, were featured at the Tuesday Meeting of the Lions They #ere Introduced by their uncle, Nhah Steury, who was in charge of .the, program. The boys sang, danced and played, and the members away shaking their heads ai the versatility displayed. While|the boys utilized an electric guitar, bass fiddle and banjo,, their mother, Mrs. Amos Steury, of Bluffton, accompanied them on the p||no. i Club president 1»- E. Anspaugh announced there will be no regular meeting of the Lions next Tuesday, but instead adjoint meeting with members oT Rotary club will be/ held Wednesday at a noon luncheon. 1 The luncheon will commemorate Decatur’s first eity-wide fire inspection whicl|: is being sponsored by the Adams bounty association of insurance agents. Checkout trine tor Inions, said Anspaugh, will be Monday noon. He also commented on the fact that attendance of members at last week’s silver anniversary banquet “was almost IjOO percent.’’ '1 . I

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Public Criticism S Left No Recourse : Except Ouster By President Truman Washington, May 9. —(UP)— * Defense secretary George C. Marshall said today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s .public statements on the Korean campaign caused “a very serious reaction among our allies" and in a time of world crisis threatened to leave this country “going it alone." L yh Marshall triads this charge .before the senate armed services-for-eign relations committee investigating MacArthur’s dismissal from the far eastern command. He was responding to persistent questioning by Sen. Alexander Wiley. R., Wlsq as to just, what policies of government MacArthuj had failed to support. Marshall made these statements: 1. j MacArthuris public _ pretests / against the official policy treated a “feeling of uneasiness" among allies anxious to avert a ‘ general war which would hit them , “far (more quickly than it Would" us ,‘U. ” \ ] f; 2, The general raised, the issue of whether he or President Truman spoke for the United States. ,3. Though alarmed hg\, MacArthur’s utterances, the aUieejjnade «o representations that Mac|hshur be removed. 4. MacArthur did not violate purely military orders but did vid’late a Dec 6 directive requiring Clearance of public military and Z' foreign policy statements with Washington. 5 ' < 5. There was “no limitatioh" on MacArthur’s right ’to express his , - views privately to the high command here. 1 6. A U.S. decision not to use any . Japanese volunteers or other forces in Korea was dictated by the Russo-Chinese mutual defense pact ! / which was aimed primarily at JaP an - ' While Marshall was testifying, secretary of state Dean Acheson disclosed at a news conference that a full report is being prepared for » the Committee on shipments of strategic materials reaching Red China. Acheson said also* that he will discuss U.Si policy sigainst giv- , ing the Chinese Reds the island of Formosa and Nations seat when he testifies before, the com* mit tee later.® \ . 1 ff ; ./ 7 Marshall previously had testified that MacArthur’s "wholly unprecedented” public criticism of his , government’s Korean war policy left President Trumari no recourse 1 r but to fire him. : The issue between MacArthur and Mr. Truman is the general’s expanded war proposals vs. the ad'ministration’s confined-war /'pro- ! ?' • 1 H . 7 MacArthur told the committee last week that his recommendations would give the United Nations victory- over the Chinese Reds without any great risk of touching off another world war. Marshall has told the same sens- i tors that to adopt MacArthur’s policies would be to risk Russian intervention, destruction of the r western defense alliance, and worldwide atomic war.» Wiley led into today’s questions by citing; the White House dismissal announcement which said 1 . it was .clear that MacArthur could not give wholehearted support to U.S.; and tTN policy in the tar east. Marshall conceded that MacArthur had not violated military instructions. But he insisted that the far eastern commander s public statements did violate a Dgc. 6 order requiring clearance of pub- t lie statements on military and for- .S«h. eigri policy bv all government, dfe. - ' ; (Tara T® Pagrr Sevea) ’‘ t /W. ' ■—— I c. v The City Ticket " Democrat Republican t [ -Mayor John B. Stults John M. Doan \ Clerk-Treasurer ’A H. Vernon Aurand /Couhdlmen Alfred Beavers Adolph Ko Iter Adrian Burke Donald Gage Ed Bauer Hubert Gilpin Joseph Brennan Hugh Engle Dorphus L. Drum Joseph E. Morris ;