Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 112.

ASIA WAR THREAT WORSE THAN EUROPE

House Group Favors Added Liquor Taxes v Votes Tentatively To Increase Liquor, Beer And Wine Taxes Washington, May 11. —(UP)— The house ways and means committee voted tentatively today to impose extra taxes «of $250,000,000 pn liquor, beer and wines. The new revenue would \fal| far below the $671,000,000 asked by the admfnistration from these sources. Proposed hikes in excise taxes on automobiles, gasoline, radios and < televisions sets, refrigerators and . 'other items will be taken up later. The committee 'already has agreed tentatively to boost taxes on individuals and corporations by $5,460,000,000 a year. The committee voted to raise the present $$ per gallon tax on liquor to $10.50 to produce another $167,,/ 000,000 in Revenue each year. The treasury* had asked for a boost to sl2 a gallon to bring in more.' The committee jumped beer taxes from $8 a barrel to $9 for an addb tional $68,000,000. . The treasury wanted an increase to sl2 for $287,000,000 more’ln revenue. J Taxes on wines were raised by the committee to provide an additional $8,500,000. compared tor the treasury's request for $90,000,000 more. . , . ■ . • . The comrhlttee also voted to hike the fedefaf tax qn retail liquor dealers from $27.50 to SSO a year toe provide an extra $7,000,000 in revenue. 1 If the Democrats’ forecasts of a $1,500,000,000 hike in various excises' prove correct, the committee still will be $3,000,000,000 short of «• the SIO,OOO 000,000 total tax increase requested by President Truman. The committee did not go as far as Mr. Truman recommended in voting individual and corporation boosts. Similarly, committee members said they probably wpuld approve only about half of the $3,00,000,000 excise tax ' increase the president asked. . Mr. Truman proposed that .the excise tax s on passenger cars be Increased from the .present seven to 20 percent The treasury estimated that "such an increase would yield '5685,000,000. He asked congress to raise an estimated $710,000,000 by focrehsfng the tax on liquor from $? tp sl2 per gallon, the tax on beer, from $8 to sl2 per barrel, and by increasing the various taxes on wines. 5 The gasoline tax, under Mr. Truman's recommendations, would be doubled,'lgoing up from one and one-half cents tp three cents a gallon. Refrigerators,, television sets, radios and other' consumer durable goods would be taxed at 25 percent instead of 10 percent under the president’s proposal. A Clgaret taxes would be increased from seven cents 10l 10 cents per pack and cig ays by various amounts. J I » . . s A As the committee prepared to } /s|art its work on excises, there were indications that the tentative decision to raise individual income taxes, a straight ttiree percentage points in each bracket might be changed to pqt less of the burden bn taxpayers in the lower brackets.

Parents Alternate To Donate Blood To Bloodmobile Unit <-■ •-. ) ' ■ -The visit here yesterday of the Red Cross bloodmobile occasioned several instances of. family cooperation from local citizens. - William Low Jr., assistant cashten at the First State Bank gave a blood donation Thursday morning, in the afternoon he was a baby sitter so Mrs, Lose could be a volunteer worker at the canteen Mrs. Lose was a blood donor in\March. Dr. Harold F. Zwick was moving along in the line to make a blood donation when he received a call to rush to the hospital He reported to the hospital, assisted in the delivery of <- baby and then returned to the American Legion home where he contributed a pint of blood for the bloodmohite. . i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ■ ' : W OA,LY MIWWKW IN ADAMS COUNTY . ■ - ■

23 Adams County Teachers Resign ■Five Principals Included In List A s •. r I A\ total ot 23 principals .or instructors in the Adams county schools have tendered: resignation to tjte different trustees, according to a list released today by Hansel L. Foley, superintendent of the county’s school*. j| (i L _ included in 'the exodusZof personnel are five principals and 18 instructors. » s '' [ • Foley said that only a partial number ot the teachers have been replaced to date; that a complete rostjer W all the county schools will be announced later. Three of the resignations were previously announced. Gerald Vizard, principal of Pleasant Mills high, school, resigned /more than' a month ago from that; post to devote full time to business. Sidney.Er win resighed aS principal of the Jefferson?schools: he was replaced by former Adanhs Central high school basketball coach Howard Brandyberry. ; ' Other principals who will not return to their posts next year are Olen at Monmouthb Hugh Tate. Hartford Center; and Harold Reasoner; grade principal of the Ajiams Central school system.: n i . ’/ Those instructors ikho resigned include Nellie Price, in the Adams Central grade school;. Ernest Davis, industrial arts, Hilda Morehouse, vocational home economics, Ruby Smallwood, Seventh and eighth grades, and Ruth Bowen, fifth and slkth grades, Monmouth. Esther Eichenberger, Schnepp school; Frances Smith, music, and Grace Smith, vocational home economics. Hartford Centef; ■Charlotte Burtner, home economics. Sybilla SprungerJ music, Jefferson. - ' A'' Le|a Risser. home; Robert Garrett, mathematics; Albert Coppess, arithmetic and agriculture, Darrel Jacobs, business education. Pearl Gehres, fifth and sixth grades, resigned from the staff! at Pleasant JMiils. and Kenneth Watkins, instructor in the Bobo schools. > i : Foley stated that '“several other” resignations are expected in the near future which will be announced later. - '

Three Men Burned To Death In Chicago \ Chicago, May 11.-HtJP)—Three men were burned to death today when fire swept a rooming house on Chicago’s near north side. J Two of the dead whose bodies were found in the building after the I flames were . extinguished, were ! tentatively identified as John Dordlund and < Thomas McKeegan. I * j ' : . (. , Blood Donor Quota Met Here Bursday ! ' ' i ' [I -4 • | ° Red Cross Chapter Reaches Set Quota The Red Cross chapter's quota for the bloodmobjle was met yesterday by 141'donors who contributed 125 pints Os blojod on the second visit of the unit to this city, Mrs; SA W. McMillen, • blood program chairman, announced today. k Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary of the Red Cross office, stated that 134 donors who had signed cards reported and an additional seven volunteered Popped in to the Legion home during- „the day and contributed to the blQOd bank. ; Ten additional from Centra) Soya conjpany reported lute in the afternoon?. t!o ( help meet the chapter’s quota.s.The bloodmobile, staff officers Aimpiimented th|F women who Wbrkeid Untiringly dur-' ing the day at the \ blood center. Two women, Mrs. William Lose, Jr., and Mrs. Mary Cloud were add* ed to the! volunteers who assisted at headquarters yesterday. , The chapter wishes to acknowledge the; assistance given by Junior Red Cross boys.. Burdette Caa[ ter, Joe Cowans and Wayne Brunner. who assisted Sheriff Robert Shraluka and deputy James Cochran. Charles Mcßride, Wendell Macklin, Frank Hoiver, and Bill Hunter Jp loading and unloading the bloodmobile. j ■ > “We also wish to-thank city officials for paricing bourtesies, ihe (Tara To Patriae) T ■7l} r 1

Red Resistance Stiffening On Korean Front Communist Forces Putting Emphasis t On Central Front Tokyo, May 11.—(UP) —Chinese Communist commanders resorted to battlefield loudspeakers to encourage their hard-pressed forces on the east-central Korean front today, promising them reinforcements if they would hold their lines.. But United Nations forces overran the Reds’ mountaintop positions* and recaptured Inje, an important high.way town five miles north of the 38th parallel, without firing a shot. Elsewhere along the lOOmile Korean front there was an ominous stiffening -of enemy resistance*. Allied troops probing towards suspected /Communist buildup points on the western front north of SeotH. were blocked by -Red forces appar/ntly thrown obt to screen the main Chinese armies. The Reds put special emphasis on the central front. They were reported massing west, north and east of Kapyong and Cbunchon, giving indications they may be about to pull the trigger on round two of their spring Offensive. - The enemy loudspeakers were beard east of Inje while South Korean .troops were knocking two companies of Communists off a hill. “Holtf your positions at all costs,” the loudspeakers blared' in Chinese. “Reinforcements are on the w*y.” But the allies found no immediate sign of the promised reinfolrce--rnents. Field dispatches rather *atd there were signs of a new withdrawal between \lnje and Yanggu, 10 miles to the northwest. Fifteen miles northeast of Seoul, on the opposite .end of the front, allied patrols were halted by tank traps protected by heavy rifle and machine gun fire. One platoon of enemy troops at' tempted to push down the Uljongbu corridor into no-man’s Jand just southeast of the town. Allied artillery decimated the Red patrol. . Allied fighters and fighter-bOmb-ers ripped into Communist troops moving up to the front in the Kapyong-Chunchon are*. A sth air force summary said most of the day’s close support missions were flown on the central front, with an estimated 380 Reds killed or wounded there.

Local Men Promoted V By Central Soya Co. r Series Os Moves To Emphasize Quality \ Personnel changes affecting the rromotion of two Decatur citizens. Paul C. Sharpe and Robert L. Theobald, both residents of Master Drive, were announced today by C. I. Finyayson, manager off the local feed manufacturing and soybean processing plant of the Central Soya company. In a series ot rnoVes designated to Strengthen the emphasis on quality production, Theobald, former plant quality control supervisor, was appointed general foreman of the feed mill department, and Sharpe received a promotion to the newly-created post of quality control inspector. John J. Ebersole, chief chemist of the company’s Harrisburg, Pa., feed plant will transfer to Decatur to assume the post vacated by Theobald; Lloyd M. Sheets, 1020 Master Drive, who .has served as general foreman of the feed mill since 1942, will continde in the same capacity but will devote a greater portion of his time to increasing the effectiveness of production quality and efficiency. Theobald has been a Decatur resident since joining the Soyn company in 1947. He is a native of Illinois and a graduate ot Illinois Wesleyan University. He was the plant’s first quality control super/ visor and was instrumental in establishing! the program under the direction of R. W. Odle, manager of the products standards department. Sharpe is a 13 year service veteran of the company, having started in the feed plant in 1938. four years after the local organ(Twra T® Page Six) I

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Base Strengthens Atlantic Pact — 1 Ta 3Z 1 i * Atlantic mi STATES W Nt itLAND J I ■ SOUTH -mi , k = AMERICA MLES r IL ICELAND NOW PLAYS a key role in'Atlantic pact defenses under a new agreement with the U/S. for establlahment U. S. base at American-built Keflavlk airport. Initial force is 200 troops. Iceland would be an important link in event Os ierial warfare across Atlantic.

Fire hspedion In Decatur Wednesday Thorough Inspection Planned In Decatur The Decatur Chamber of Commerce has joined with the two Decatur service clubs, Boy Scouts, Volunteer firemen and Decatur members of tbe Adams county lnInsurance agents, association in pledging cooperation in the citywide fir inspection scheduled for next Wednesday, it was announced \oday. . ■ i Fifty inspectors will comte to Decatur and with the assistance of volunteer firemen and Boy Scouts the inspectors will visit every business establishment, public building and all churches. Inspection will be made of the properties with a view of making fire prevention suggestions. \ The Inspection will help eliminate fire hazards which tend to cause Increases in insurance rates, Harry Essex, general chairman for the event, said today. A luncheon will be served at 12:15 next Wednesday noon at the Masonic hall for the visiting inspectors, mtehibers of the local service clubft Chamber of Commerce all local people who help with the inspection. A few tickets also will be available the general publio and may be obtained from localinsurance agents, Essex said. A short talk will be given by a representative of the state fire .marshal's office at the luncheon to explain the exact purpose of tiie inspection- ~ • Inspectors also will visit both idTx Fxw Six) Pupils Entertain At Rotary Meeting A Second Grade Pupils Entertain Thursday Decatur Rotarians enjoyed a novel and higher entertaining program at their .weekly meeting Thursday evening, with pupils of the second grade at the Lincoln school providing the program. The pupils, directed by their teacher, Miss Florence Haney, and Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor in the Decatur public schools, pl&yed a number of selections on their song flutes, and also offered* focal /selections. The song flute” is a pre-band instrument, giving valuable early instructfpn in the playing of band instruments. The pupHs will present their program at the Washington school in Fort Wayne hext week. P. Brycq Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school, was chairman pf the program. ( , John Welch, president-elect, and Jerry Leitz, secretary-elect, who will assume their office* .July 1, reported on the district conference of Rotary International, held recently At Elkhart. * The Rotarians will forego their regular meeting next week to attend the noon luncheon at 12:15 (Turn To Page Eight) - ■■ 1 ; .. -. V

BULLETIN Waxhloflton, May 11 The\ army said today thajt Chb na*c Communist and North Korean force* have suffered 893,662 casualties through April 30. The total includes enemy caoualties suffered during the first nine days o* its big spring offensive. ! . St. Mary's River Above Flood Stage Nearly Two Inches Os Rain Thursday ' ■ ;/ t ; . . Mary’s river was above flood stage, measuring 14.12 feet at 8 am. today. Herman "Hi” Mdyer. local weather observer, amwunced at noon. ' llie stream was continuing to rise from yesterday’s heavy rain fall, measured at 1.82 inches for the 24-hour period ended at 8 a.m Mdyer predicted that the river would rise at least another 10 to 12 inches today and more if showers continued during the day. TH* heavy rain put a stop to all farm work and will further delay the sowing', of oats, or preparation of the fields for planting of corn; City sewers were overtaxed with the cloudburst late Thursday aterhoon and several streets were inundated test evening. The street repair program will l»e delayed a few days, due to the heavy - rain, city and state repair crews reported. T • \ ; Predict Fair Weather Indianapolis, ;May It. —(UP)--Rain which drenched most of Indiana, ended today, and the weatherman said tomorrow would bq fair and warmer. A five-day weather outlook indicited temperatures averaging near or sljghtly below normal and precipitation averaging a half to one inch. • ! > 1 Forecast for today was cloudy with the mercury climbing to highs ot 55 to 65 degrees. . The outlook was for cooler weather and showers Sunday and Monday, and a warming trend at the beginning of next week. Heavy showers fell over the entirq state yesterday. Marion recorded the heaviest' precipitation between 8 a.m. yesterday and 8 a.m. today with 2.32 inches. WheaL field had 2.05, Loganbport 1.98, South Bend 1.97, Fort Wayne 1.87, BlufftU 1.76, Peru 1.75, Newberry /; (Toro To Page Eight) Jessie Glendenning Is Taken By Death Mr*. Jessie Glendenning, 61. died ; Thursday at her home in Hartford township after a long illness. Surviving are her husband, Milo; two sons, 'William in Caracas, Venezuela, and Capt. James Glendenning, Ft. McPherson, Ga.-,\ three grandchildren, four sisters and three brothers. Funerai services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, the Rev. Clayton J. Steele officiating. Burial will bd in West Lawn cemetery. / ■ F r '

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Harry Dailey Head , Os Community Fund Decatur Teacher Is - Elected President Harry Dailey, mathematics and science instructor at the Decatur high school, was ejected president of the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., at the annual meeting of the directors last evening. The directors met at the First State Bank building. . \ , *The new president succeeds Louis A. Jacobs, who remains a member of the board and was named treasurer for the ensuing year. ' . Other officers are: Joan E. Wemhoff, secretary; Louis A. Jacobs, treasurer; Earl Caston, executive secretary; Robert Ashbaucher, first vice-presi-dent; Carl Gerber, second vicepresident. \ •I ■ Other board members are C. C. Langston, Brice Roop. Ross Way? and the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander. Retiring board members^ are Earl Fuhrman, Joe Oelberg, , and the Rev. William Feller. ' “It was announced that the Salvation Army will soon set up a special emergency relief committee to provide aid to any needy individual /or family in Decatur, resident or *trankient, regardless of race, creed, or color on an emergency basis. It was pointed out, however, that this plan is primarily a one-time arrangement for special cases pot covered by normal relief agencies? Carl Weksler, Salvation Army field representative, visited Decatur yesterday, and appointed Earl Caston, Margaret Holthouse. Joan Wemhoff, and Louis Jacobs to make an investigation of this pro-\ posal. The board discussed possible) ('lWra To Pa*e Six) Flags For Graves Os Veterans Available Leo Ehingejt- committee chairman, announced today that flags tor the graves of veterans are now available at the American Legion home in this city. The flags are for all cemeteries in the county. It was also, announced that persons needing metsl holders for the flags may also obtain these at the Legion.

John Shafer Dies Late This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon John W. Shafer, 77,.prominent retired faroier. died at 11:15 o’clock this morning at his home in Root township, one mile north of Decatur on the Winchester road, after a week’s illnese ' He was born in Bucyrus, <9., June 20,1873, a son of George end Sarah Wert-Shafer, and had lived in Root township for the past 30 years. His wife, the former Edith Wherry, died Nov. 20, 1936. ’ ? He was a member of the Flrkt Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edgar Gerber ot Root township; two sons, the Rev. G. > Kenneth Shafer of Chicago and Joseph R. Shafer of South Beffik five grandchildren ; two greatgrandchildren; one brother. William Shafer of Monrpeville, and one sister, Mrs. Thomas Griffith of Monroeville. One brother and one sister deceased. \ . (Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m; Monday ai the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will rftnaln at the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock Saturday evening. The casket will nqt be opened at the church.

Britain Still Favors Giving Reds Formosa Peace Must First Be Restored Far Korea-Morrison J \ ' London, May 11.-\(U|?)— Britain still favors handing Formosa to. Red China, but only after peace has been restored in KorwU foreign secretary Herbert Morrison said today. A • Morrison told commoS that the government still subscribes to the Cairo declaration of 1943 awarding Formosa to the “republic of China” after World War 11. \i But, he said, the firstlatep was to obtain a Korean pegce settlement. /Then the Unit« Nations might “usefully” consider the Formosan dispute at “the appropriate time,” he said. fe Morrison pointed the Cairo declaration called; for freedom and Independence for Korea. He warned in effect that Peiping hardly could expect to get Formosa While she was blocking 4>lfk>atipn of Korea. Ife Morrison’s statement . put the United States and Britain on the opposite side of the fence regarding the future disposition of Formosa. ' The Cairo declaration Was Issued by president Roosevelt, premire Josef Stalin and then British prime minister Winston Churchill. Although all three agreed that Formosa should be restored to China, the Soviet Union .and Britain now recognize Ist.! government in helping as the legal government of Chiba, while the U.S. still holds Generalissimp Chiang Nationalist regime on Formosa is the legal government.

Newspaper Boys To Take Bond Pledges Democrat Carriers Aid Bond Campaign Daily Democrat i/newsboys ywill join carriers of newspapers all over the United States |n securing defense bond pledges from Decatur people. All Democrat carriers who volunteer for this service will be given official U- S. representative badges to wear next week during the campaignThe boys will give. each subscriber a blank pledge form ahd a similar form also will appear in Saturday’s Daily Democrat. The pledges then will be collected by the boys the latter part of next weelf. | The pledge is merely an- indication of the subscriber to make bn honest effort to purchase the/ additional defense bonds;/indicated on his pledge card- The boys only collect the signed pledges and the purchases of bonds may be made at the First State Bank pr through payrqll deductions. \! More than 25 million United States families wflfj receive the pledge cards through the newsboy distribution, it was estimated. Democrat newsboys will be asked to distribute the pledge* next Tuesday afternoon; during their regular delivery of and they will call for tliem when they collect for the paper either Thursday or Friday. ' —— ' INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and cteol. Rain end* j Ing from westward this afternoon, clearing and cool tonight. Scattered frost In north apd ? central portions Low .tonight 34-38 north, 38-43 south. Fair and warmer Saturday. High Saturday 65-70 north, near 72 south. ' a

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Reveals President Message Sent To Gen. MacArthur On Korean Procedure Washihgton, MmHII.t (UP) — < President Truman on Jan. 13 told 6en. Douglas MacArthur that the Korean, war must be fought in such away gs so give tbe free world time to re-arm ahd to keep the allies “we would desperately need” If Russia jumped into the fighting. The -president's message, para- J phrased to protect the code, was read by defense secretary George C. Marshall to the senate armed services-forelgn relations committee investigating MacArthur’s dismissal. I ; I ' • , Marshall, for the fifth straight day. defending administration policy against MacArthur’s “appeasement” charges, told the senators ha considered the threat of general war “more acute by far” in Asia than Europe. In the Jan. 13 message, as had ■previously been disclqsed. Presir Ident Truman warned MacArthur against any action which might # spread the war to Japan and Europe. At that time, the military did not know whether MacArthur’s United Nations forces could keep even a toehold In Korea. In reaching a final decision about that, the president told him, “1 shall have to give cdbstant thought to the main threat from the Soviet Union and to the need for rapid expansion of our armed forces tp meet this great danger.” Marshall had told the committee two . days ago that the Jan. 13 message told MacArthur the president realized I it might be necessary to evacqate Korea and cautioned against] any operations that would enlarge; the area of fighting. The full teit today revealed he also said: “Our courses of action at this time should be,-such as to consolidate the greftt’ majority of the United Nations. j \ “This majority is not merely pq'rt ot the organization, but is alsp the nations whom we \would desperately need to count on as allies in the event the’ Soviet Union moves against us.” - Mr. Truman also dwelt on the ■* advantages of winning in Korea if possible. i h j Successful resistance, Mr. Truman said, would ’’bring the United Nations through its first great effort in Collective security” and Would “produce A free world coalition of incalculable value to the national security Interests of the United States." Other benefits of a, successful holding action, the message said, would be that it wpuid "deflate the dangerously = exaggerated” prestige of Red China, give her opponents time to, organize resistance inside and outside Chiua, and inspire threatened nations in Asia, Europe, apd the middle east to stand up against communist aggression. Mr. Trumaij palled his message a statement ot the political factors involved. He asked MacArthur’s advice as to “the maximum effort” his forces were capable ot making. Previous testimony had brought out that the joint chiefs of staff on the previous day had drafted 16 “tentative’! military recommenfour of i. which were' more closely ip accord with MacArthur’s expanded war views than any have ‘ been actually carried oqtThese proposal* of Jan. 12, Marshall has said, were drafted at!, a time when the Red Chinese les were threatenlng to throw the* UN forces out of Korea. Several [ subsequently were put into effect —but not the four MacArthur par- i ticularly endorsed. Mr. Truman on Jan. 13 told MacArUiur that he wApted to give him the basic “national- international” reasons for continuing to resist aggression in Korea. He said his communication *ps “not a directive” but vras intended to give MacArthui* ’something of what if in our minds regarding the politic*) testers.” ? '