Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XUX. No. 114..

THOUSANDS OF REDS PUSHING SUUTHWARU

Marshall In Testimony For Seventh Day Defense Secretary r Ends Testimony On MacArthur' Ouster Washlngtan, May 14—(UP)— Defense secretary George C. Marshall expressed fear today that expanding the Korean wkr might undercut Gen. Dwight D. i Eisenhower’s attempt to secure Europe against possible Communist attack, Eisenhower himself has. not said' so, Marshall told senators hearing him for, the seventh day on the ouster of Gen. Douglas MacArthur from his far east commands. - But asked directly by Sen. Lyn- 1 don B. Johnson, D., Tex., if carrying the war to Red! China might “seriously affect” Eisenhower’s plans for his -western \European * . forces, Marshall replied: \ \ “We think it might.” 'The statement was a wind-up of \ the first round in the administration’s defense of its dismissal of MacArthur for publicly advocating a stepped-up drive for victory in Korea by attacking Red China. Marshall, who last week and this morning testifying before senate group" probing far eastern policy, was excused subject to ret ' call later. Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., chairman, of the investigating committee, said Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint ch|efs of staff, has been summoned for a day-long session starting, at 8 a.m. CST tomorrow in 10 days of hearings, the k has heard only MacArthur'and Marshall. \ After Bradley, Russell said, the army, air force and navy chiefs of staff will be heard. t Marshall,has contended that MacArthur’s proposals, particularly his demand fbr , aerial bombing of Red China’s supply bases in Manchuria, might bring Russia into the limited Korean struggle, thu| causihg a new world -conflict. His reference to Eisenhower s plans today on his oftexpressed that Russia might like to force ‘a diversion Os extra U.S. strength to the far east and - then launch an attick against west--7 ern Europe —including those countries with some forces fighting in Korea. ? -7 J Johnson asked if Marshall considered the present Korean war 'policy “the most prudent and wise” that could be carried on. “That is correct, sir,” Marshall replied, adding no one in the administration’s .policy-making positions disagreed.- —- ; ■- ' ; '■' I]. - Red Men District Meeting Held Here _ Prancing horses, whooping Indians and a band are probably the most memorable things retained hy the spectators following the r Circuitous march of- the Red Men Z through Decatur Saturday evening. In the district meeting powvrow o* the patriotic organization,l|)out 100 members of the organization marched to the Lincoln sch<y)l before the program there got under- * And ‘oncq.it did, |he, principal speaker of/the evWng, H. 7. Walker, a member of the organization from Montpelier, addressed the crowd gathered there. Ritualistic services were .conducted, and the work was conferred on a new class of candidates. — —— Local Lady s Sister Is Taken By Death . , Mrs. Helen Densel, 51, died Saturday at her home in Convoy, O. of a heart ailment. Surviving are a son, Donald of Detroit; a daughter, Miss Darlene Densel at home; hfer mother, Mrs. Permilia Wherry; a sister, Mrs. Lola Helm of Decatur, and three brothers. Harry Wherry, Sr. of Tully town ship. Allan of Convoy and Alpha of Van Wet, O. \ Funeral / services will i>e conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Convoy Methodist church, the Rev. Roy Ballard officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery at Convoy. Friends may call at the Herts funeral home until time o* ♦he services. ?

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BUL-L ET I N •\, New York, May 74.—(UP)— Max Con<*ad flew his Piper Cub into LaGuardia airfield at 12:39 p.m. CST today—setting a new record of 22 hours, four minutes and 31 seconds for spanning the country non-stop Itta light plane. . \ |?ft J 7 House Group 1 Votes Hike In Excise Taxes < • Cigarets, Autos And Gasoline |n M 1 Favored Increase , rh ! Washington, May 14\— i (UP)-r-The house ways -and means committee voted tentatively today to increase the Excise taxes on 'cigarets. and gasoline by more thaii a year, t This brought the total tax increases tentatively approved by the committee to more tljAri $6,000.000,• 000 a year, *t previously had okayed 4!tiff boosts ‘in individual and corporation income taxes and ’in the excise-taxes on Hqupr and beer. The tax on cigarets would be increased one cent per pack. The federal tax now is seven cents a package and would go up to 8 cents. The/ treasury had proposed that the cigaret tax be: made 10 cents a package. J* The one-cei)t per ;package increase in cigaret taxes of all types represented a victory, for committee chairman'' Robert L. Doughton. D., N.C. a move- by Rep, Hale Boggg D.. La., to exempt the “economy” brands qf cigarets from the’ increase. - ; i The comi&ittee rejected a treasury pfbposiT to boost the exci ß ® taxes oh cigars The to increase the tax oti new passenger cars and motorcycles, from seven percent-to 10 percent. The treasury had -asked that the automobile tax be made 25 percent. ■ = ,j :, j The federal gasoline .tax would be increased from the present t cents per gallon to two/cents. The treasury had asked that the gasoline tax be doubled^ —increased to three cents a gallon. i‘ It was unofficially estimated that the gasoline tax Increase would vield $193,000,000 a year, th® ret increase $165,0b0,000 and the automobile increase $150,000,000. ’The commil/teie rejected a treasury proposal that th e 10 percent tax on electric, gas and oil appliances be increased to 25 percent. It did agree, however, to add a long list (Turn Tu Pnge Two)

U.S.-Soviet Vienna Relations Strained * Killing Os Yankee Soldier Unsolved 4 ; Vienna, Austria, May 14.—(UP) —American officials said today Soviet-American relations in Vienna have been plunged to their lowest point in 2 % years Ijy a shooting in the international Rector 10 days ago. L \ ' _l\-' Cpl., Paul S. Gresens, 28, of Rochester. was shot and killed by an unidentified Soviet soldier while Gresens was on duty as a military po iceman. U-S.* nigh commissioner ambassador Walter J. Donnelly declared in a ‘note to Soviet high commissioner Vladimir P. Sviridov last week that the shooting was without provocation and irresponsible.; J Donnelly said Gresens and Cpl. Jack Morgan of Keokuk, la., merely were trying to find out if/ two Soviet soldiers they saw walking through the. jinternatiqnidj sector shortly before 1 a.m. w6re on duty. When the Americans said “half the two Soviet soldiers wheeled around. One opened fire with a machine pistol. Seven bullets struck Gresen? in the stomach. He died oir the way to a hospital. Morgan returned, the; may* have woupded.ftne of the Russians. Both escaped, however, and Soviet authorities have made no attempt to produce, them or a State ment from them. 11, i , ; Late last week the Soviets broke off a joint Russo-American investigation of the shooting on grounds the Russians were bn the Americans had no right to accost them, and that the Americans fired first. - > ';H/ Lu i ;

Edwin Franz Is Killed In Korea Action Root Township Man Is Killed lh Action 1 On Korea War Front ■ . ■ -j , ■ J - received here today by Mr. apd Mrß.3llerman Franz, of routed, that thqir son, Edwin, 26 has been killed in Korean actiori. The family received a telegram from Maj. Gen. Edward F. WitSell. adjutant general of the armjf, that the Root township young map was killed’ April 20 “iu Korean fighting.” N The telegram explained that further detdils (of the incident would be forwarded to the family 1 Pvt- Franz was one of the first Adams county youths tp be inducted into the servjde following the outbreak of the Korean war, leaving in September.; He was stationed at Ft. Myero, Va... until hia departure for overseas \duty last March. . He served with the .19th infantry regiment of the 24th division. 1 4 Pvt. Franz is the second Adamis county death \in Korea, the first from wounds suffered i|n action. David Pdllock- 20, son 6f Mr and Mrs. Pollock- was killed early last, August when another enlisted mhn was cleaning ja pistol pnd the weapon discharged. - Prior to service in the army, Franz attended Monmouth 'higjh school and farmed with his father in Root township, Survivors, in addition to the patents. include three brothers, Earner, Walter, and Herman. Jr., inst two sisters. Mrs Vera Witte and Miss Ella Franz. 1 ' -+—' '■>! Violent Death Toll Is Low In Indiana Two Meir Drowned Near Columbia City By United Press (

Sunny skies and temperatures drew Hoosiers outdoors during the weekend but the fatality toll was comparatively light considering crowded highways recreation aread. State police said a check showed drownings, three traffic fatalities and one Hoosier dead Os injuries suffered >in a previous traffic accident,! I James F. Parrett. 37, Columbia City, and his brother, Ferry, 34, •Richmond, were drowned whon their boat overturned as they set a line to catfish on Mud Cake about eiglit miles northwest of Columbia City yesterday. A third brother, Henn L., 39, Larwill, swam to safety. . A head-on au :o collision on Ind. 35 near Fort Wayne Saturday killed Charles !v. Barnes, 62, t ; Hicksville. 0., and critically injured his wife, Helen, 56. j Ervin Bair, 40, Huntingtoh,<was killed yesterdajl when his car and a truck collided on a bridge along Ind. 9 about two miles south\ of Huntington. Police said, the steelloaded truck, driven by Melvin Taylor, 40, Detroit, Mich., crushed Bair’s car against the side of the bridge and plunged over an embankment. : Injured seriously in the accident was Bair’s wife, Mabel, 40*. A daughter, Donnja Jean, 19; a niece, Rebecca Hackdr, 5, and James Anderson, 19, 'Temprance, Mich., were injured Uss seriously. Charles R. Holz, 18, Evansville, was killed when the truck he whs driving hit the side of a bus at an Evansville street intersection. Police said pne bus passenger wks hurt. , : Owen Hardin. 49, owner of dn Edinburg auto sales agency, died in Schneck memorial hospital at Seymour Saturday of injuries suffered earlier last week when his car ran off U. 8. 31 near fJeymoUr and. overturned. lie was the second victim of accident. ' ' —4 — ' [ INDIANA WEATHE.R Fair and |varm tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 52 to 60 north, 58 to 63 south. High; Tuesday 82 to 89. J \ ' ' f L 4 - ■■ x. I .4 ■ h

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Chicago Milk Strike Ended / This Morning Two-Day-Old Strike Ends As Kennedy Makes Settlement Chicago, May 14. —(UP)— AFL dairy workers and milk wagon drivers ended'their two-day-old strike today and dealers raced to resume deliveries so that children would not face another day without mllly. Mayor Kennelly worked ; throughout the night to achieve the double-barreled settlement between the Associated Milk Dealers, Inc., and two >ragon drivers, and local 754 of the AFL dairy employes union. He drove home, a settlement between thb dealers and local 753 at 2:30 a.m- CST, then went into negotiations with 10ca1\754 and came through with a complete settlement of the at 5:30 a mCST. ' ihe mayor had held the two groups in marathon sessions since early yesterday. / \ \Dairy companies set out .immediately to restore the city’s milk delivery system io normal They Ordered all trucks and drivers, into service as soon as possible to minimize hardship due to the strike. Vice-president Francis H. Kullman of the Bowman Dairy Co. said he expected “the situation to be improved very materially by this afternoon.” “We have some milk* on hand and we’re going to get tile trucks rolling with that as quickly as possible,” he said. Representatives of both the unions arid the companies paid tribute to Kennelly for his work as a mediator in the dispute. ' “The settlement would have been impossible without the mayor’s help," said Thomas B. Gilmore, attorney for the dealers. “Chicago owes him much, tie stayed with us every minute from 11 a.m. Sunday to 6:30 this morning.” 7 The strike had cut off 95 percent of the city’s dairy supplies and left thousands of children without milk yesterday. / ‘ Kennelly concentrated first 4 on settling the dispute between the drivers and the dealers, holding them in session in his office until they reached agreement. Meanwhile, across the loop, officials of the “inside” dairy workers’ local, had been meeting with dealers’ representatives The mayor immediately called’ them into his office and “simply talked” them into settlement. y Both agreements must be ratified by the members of the locals but union officials were certain of the memberships’ approval. Dairy officials said it would take until tomorrow to return the city's (T»rn To Page Mx)

Find Correspondent t Died Os Drowning American’s Body Is /; Found In Harbor • Oslo, Norway. May 14.— : (tfP) — Lyford Moore, American radio correspondent who had been mysteriously missing five montps until his body was found in Oslo harbor yesterday, apparently died from drowning, an autopsy showed today. There was no sign of violence, but additional tests will be made. The autopsy, performed by professor Georg H. Waaler, showed no evidence of fractures or internal bleeding, he reported. \ , Waaler isaid most of the American Broadcasting* Company correspo’nient’s clothing/ had disintegrated and that no money, rings or other personal property was found. He said Moore’s lungs .contained water. . | "* . / Waaler said additional laboratests would be made at the request of American authorities and that the final results would be known by this weekend. Waaler turned his report over to Oslo criminal police and to U.S. consul pavid Newsom. (Daniel L. O’Connor, former FBI man who directed an extensive search on behalf of the Moore family, said in Washington, D.C., he was convinced the American Broadcasting Company correspondent died through “an act of violence.”) Moore, 40. chief of ABC’s Berlin bureau was last seen leaving an Oslo waterfront restaurant about) midnight last Dec. 10 while on a SCapdihavian tour with a group of newsmen ,« F® Kaltenborn, chief of the criminal police, gave no details of the body’s discovery beydnd stating it alas picked up in a small boat and taken to police headquarters He did not disclose the. identity of the person who found it Harbor authorities believed Moore’s body rose to the surface «nly, Recently when the spring sun r anned thef icy waters Ann Moore, the correspondent’s wife, returned to the United States recently with their two children. W..... She ‘ lives with her sister-in*iaw, Mrs. D. O. Scott, Casstown, O. The greatest manhunt in Scandinavian history was launched when Moore, a former Detroit newsman, failed to return ti> his hotel room. Hundreds of ships, trains, and planes were searched. A $9,800 re> ward was posted for information on his whereabouts. ’ Police combed waterfront hotels, restaurants and bars. Divers groped aieng the mhrky bottom of the harbor and pki troops probed through four-foot deep snowa Moore’s family hired O’Connor, now a Washington lawyer, to assist in the giant search. IJcenes from the film “Big Lift" in which Moore played a small role were shown in theaters. The search failed to turn up any legitimate clues.

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Refuses Review Os Maragon Conviction Review Rejected By Supreme Court Washington, May 14. —(UP) — The supreme court refused today to review the perjury conviction of John Maragon, former White House hangen-on, for lying to senate'“five percenter” Investigators in 1949. This means that Maragon soon must start serving his sentence—as soon as word of the high court’s action is relayed to federal district court here.. He was sentenced to eight to 24 'months, inxt has been free on $5,000 bond for more than a year while his case was being appealed. The senators were investigating Washington agents who charge fees — usually five percent —for their services in getting government contracts for manufacturers. Maragon, one-time Kansas City shoeshine boy who became a manabout- Washington, : was said to have used his connection with Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, President Truman’s military aide, to advance his own five percenter activities. Vaughan had testified at the eenate inquiry that Maragon would have to be “delousted” bpfore he would be welcomed around lhe White House again. Maragon was convicted April 26, 1950, of lying to the .senators about his bank accounts and bis employment during 1946. The District of court of appeals affirmed thb judgment Oct. 23. 1950. An appeal filed Nov. 6 for a re-hearing by the enti» , e appeals court bench was denied on March 2. The appeal to the supreme court was filed April 2. Two Ships, Collide Off Eastern Coast Navy Tender, Loaded Collier In Collision V- ■ I I Norfolk, Va., May 14.—(UP)-j- Al loaded collier and a navy seaplane j tender collided off Cape Henry today with such force that they locked together!and burst into flames; The jiavy \rushed rescue units to the scene. There was no mention in early reports of casualties but the navy said “we are hopeful there was no Joss of life.” The navy said 160 survivors were picked up by rescue ships circling the wreck and that “all survivors are clear of the water." Ambulances were standing by at the Norfolk pier for\ possible injured. ' r \ Coast guard authorities reported that fire raged out of control for several hours in the seaplane tender Valcour which collided with the collier Thomas Tracy in perfect weather a few miles off Cape Henry in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Tracy first was identified erroneously in navy dispatches as a tanker. The Tracy was reported afire hi her forward section “but in no danger of sinking/’ She was said to have backed away from the tender under her own power and/ was head<<r»rß To P««e Blffht) Walter Mumma Dies 7 At Veterans Hospital Walter Mumma, 55, of Fort Wayne, and a former resident of Decatur died at 11:15 o’clock Saturday night at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been confined for the past eight weeks- A veteran of World War 1, he had been employed at the Sears store in Fort Wayne for several years. Surviving are his wife, Edna, and one brother, Otto, also of oFrt Wayne. There are a number of relatives in Decatur and Adams county. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Klaehn funeral home, with burial at Fort Wayne.

L UN Committee For Embargo On Armslolninese Recommends Tight Strategic Cmbargo On Arms /Shipments United Nation«£K' May 14— (UP)—The United Nations special committee on Korean sanctions today recommended a tight strategic embargo 'on||nn shipments to communist Chinfig . > - The special (soup, kriown\ as the additional measures I committee, voted 11 to 0 with Egypt abstaining to recommend the embargo. . ' The measure ;ivill be sent to the general probably later this week, and tt xvas expected to pass the worldsparliament by an overwhelming itiajority. However, sharp debate was expected. The measure; recommends that all countries “Apply an embargo oa the shipmpt to areos under the control of the central peoples’ government of the peoples’ republic of China aa| of the North Korean / authorities of arms, ammunition and intplements of war. atomic materials, petroleum, and item* useful in the production of arip, ammunition and implements of par.” Mahmoud Fawzi Bey of Egypt, whose vote prevented a unanimous decision by the 12-nation committee, told reporters later that he had abstained because “I don’t see how this action will help prevent World War IILO \ I jj.' But Ambassador Ernest A. Gross,, speaking for the United Statesfaold th« that he believed a worldwide strategic embargo against the communist forces in th«: Far East would strengthen the iiand of the UN’s good offices committee, which has sought vainly since Feb. 1 to negotiate peace with Peiping. 1 Gross emphasized that the em- | bargo resolution “recommends that every stati” enforce the strategic sanctions, Thjs, h£ said, meant that the measure would be morally binding on all countries (Tant Tfe Pan* Six) Newsboys Will Take Bond Pledges Here Part Os Drive For Defense Bond Sales Your Daily Democrat newsboy has been appointed an official U. S. defense agc&t this week and will leave a pledge card for each subscriber. The pledge is to buy additional defense bonds. When your newsboy collects this week he will ask for the pledge card. He collects no money for any bonds. Each pledgee designates on the pledge card where he will buy the bond. It can be purchased at the post office, any bank or can be deducted from a payroll. g The plan is part of a campaign to obtain the purchase of more defense bonds. 23 Daily Democrat newsboys will assist in the distribution of the pledges. More than 26 million pledges will be distributed this W«ek by 500,000 paper carriers. When the pledges are returned to your newsboy they will be sent to the state director of defense bond sales. The pledge in itself is not an order fOy bonds; it is merely a promise that you will buy that many additional defense bonds. ( . ' Hl Ml The drive will )>e concluded next Saturday. It -Js being sponsored by the United States treasury department and is the first concentrated drive.; for the sale of np< defense bonds.

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Allied Infantrymen f Brace For Assaults By Reds For Next ( Big Korea Battle Tokyo, Tuesday, May 16—(UP) —•- Thousands of fresh Chinese communist troops pushed the Enemy’s assault spearhead five miles into South Korea today in a bold daylight movement in defiance of nedr-record allied ma- ; chineguri and fire bomb attacks from the air. i More than i 450 United Nations , planes carried out;; an around-the-clock offensive against the enemy . massing in a three-pronged assault. and allied Infantrymen braced behind a bristling defense line for the next big battle. \ " s UN ground forces waited behind booming artillery and 80 miles of barbed wire and minefields in their first static defense line since they stood with their backs to the sea in the tiny Pusan beachhead last summer. The Chinese streamed down trails south of the great Hwachon hydro-electric reservoir and took up positions down Korea’s central mountain spine from which they ’ could strike at any moment to . either east or west. American artillery blasted the . Chinese bridgehead and a power- . fill American task forcy of tanks. . infantry and artillery fought through one Chinese screening / force. A full battalion of Reds caught the allied troops in (am- < ! bush northeast of Vijongbu, but the .Yanks fought theft- way out with the aid of fighter planes and ’ long range artillery. Farther west, Gl’s laid a trap , of their own. They caught a com- , pany pf southbound Chinese bysurprise and killyd or wounded about a third of them. * j / '-l A limited .allied offensive was [ under way on the extreme eastern , front. There North and South \ Korean troops fought a series of . small, fierce battles. The South Koreans were fighting there; for ) : , control of the Inje-Kansong high- ’ way. . There Were three major threats to the allied line as the Reds reached whqt front reports ; de- | ; , scribed as the I’lth hour of their ’ buildup. They were: ’ tl. A full Chinese army corps ’ was reported massed on the east , side of the Imjjn river, 20 to 25 miles ndrth-northwest Seoul for a new attack down the classic invasion routes to the/ devastated former capital. % ’ 2. A smaller concentration was growing and northwest of KapyOng, Sbout 30 miles northeast of Seoul, for a drive down the Pukhan river valley against the allies Han river bridgehead line. Allied air spotters and foot pa- I ' trols probing the 10-mile-deep noman’s land on the west central ■ front reported Monday that the I Chinese were massing near Kapyong by night marches and day- \ [ light moves in small groups that \ ! offered poor targets to American air power. " - ; i 3. The heaviest southward v ! , ; V (Tara To P«if Six) j . , -Y : ■ Elected To Office In VFW Auxiliary Two Adams county men were elected to offices in the fourth district VFW fathers auxiliary at the district meeting held in South Whitley. Fred Wagner was named quartermaster and S. P‘ Haggard of Monroe ; was named a trustee for two years. '• / Richard V. Striggle of South Whitley Post 2919 was re-elected ■fourth district VFW commander. Mys. .Allegra Uhl pt Kendallville was elected president of the woman's auxiliary. C. E- Summey of Kendallville Post 2749 was elected as the first fourth district commander of the Father’s auxiliary. VFW veterans and members of the auxiliaries front Limberlost Post in this city attended the fourth district con- j. vention. A: farther’s unit was organi ized here several months ago with h Fred Wagner as president. h ' K ' M rII I. . n