Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 115.

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' — I!.I- :■ ' ‘ ‘ .Tr 4 p JSpring Rains Aid Red Cause In Korea War •Rain Drives Allied Planes From Skies \To Red Advantage 4 Tokyo, Wednesday, May — (UP)—Allied tanks, infantry arid artillery. jabbed today at Chinese Communist force? poising r for an expected major assault in the Red’s Korean spring offensive. * Both sides exchanged artijlefy fire across a rain-drenched noman’s land, «s the was reported crossing the Pukhan and Soyang rivers southeast and southwest of Chunchon on foe mountainw ous central front. 4 American troops citing to firm mountain positions arid tightened their defenses while the Communists slipped into battle positions under a protective umbrella of low rain clouds. Thirty-eix hours of rain had grounded nearly all allied aircraft, but tank-infantry patrols were sent out by the United Nations to see the enemy and test his muscle in minors skirmishes. A heavily censored dispatch from the central front said an officer reported that Chinese were on high ground in unknown numbers just south of the Pukhan river, southwest of Chunchon, and were in pontact with U.S- forces southeast of the mined city. The ndxt paragraph in the dispatch was censored. Other enemy groups in unknown ■ numbers were seen* late Tuesday south of the river in the Sudong valley. The dispatch, said one Chi- ■ nese was caotured during one of ' several fire fights, believed to be eneihy probing attacks southeast of Chunchon. The next paragraph was censored. • The heavy rainfall is the ally for which .the Communists have been waiting patiently. Much of the UN arjny was hogged down in the sticky mire, and allied warplanes were driven from the skies. The moment the rain started falling. the Reds began their expected moves. They massed their forces and poured into a bridgehead which stabbed like a dagger five miles into South Korea. American troops patrolling no man's-land said the bridgehead* south of the Soyang river, appeared to he widening. On the western frpnt. allied tanks flushed out an energy company for a brief skirmish of] the type which has dominated the' war sjnce the first phase of the Chftiese offensive began April £9. ' / The weather was the chief allied enemy at the moment? UN forces contented themselVes with building up their barbed wire and sandbag barricades on aij 80 mile line and sowing mine fields in the enemy’s path. | ", One allied officer, surveying the dripping Korean skies, remarked: “This is their meat The Chinese can do a lot of moving under these (Turn To Page Eight) Meeting Wednesday On School Transport < The steering committee of the group of parents who have been ( seeking transportation for school > children in Decatur announces that , there will be a meeting at the Decatur high school Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. to discuss transportation for schoolchildren. ATwoposed plan has been worked out wkh the cooperation of the {loot township trustee to make buses available at cost for transporting the children in the Deca-tur-Root section of town-to the Decatur schools. Decatur school officials have indicated a willingness to cooperate in wrojung out necessary schedules tp maWsuch a plari feasible, Ed Wert, sppkesman for the group said. ; / 4AU interesting .in availing them- ‘ selves of these facilities are urged to attend, the meeting as it is necessary to know the number that will support this program before a final decision on establishing this bus system can be''.made. AU people with a transportation problem are asked to attend regardless of what section of toym they live inIt is hoped that if a- successful program is developed-Tor the Deca-tur-Root section oft-town a similar program may eventuallly be. developed for the other sections of Decatur. Wert stated. ’ U ■ • . r /■

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r- r Teacher Retires Albert Sellemeyer . ' : , J Albert Sellemeyer Retires As Teacher Veteran Band Leader Quits Local School Albert Sellemeyer. for the past 18 years band director and .instructor* of Instrumental music in the Decatur high school. Monday announced bps f ; etirefotht. and the annbuncetnept elicited nothing but praise for tile bapdmaster. Maybe it was summed up aptly by the present band president, Jacquie Hite, who presided at a testimonial dinner 1 for the departing faculty member Monday, when she said, “there's rid one who will ever take Selly’s place.” Or maybfo it was in the words of W. Guy Brown/ principal of the Decatur high school; or Walter Krick, its, superintendent, who lauded the, work: of Sellemeyer in speeches. | ■» Or perhaps the niost appropriate feeling of. all was expressed by members of the 1950-81 band who presented j Sellen)eyer p’ith a plaque which read, ?‘For the contribution to the musical enrichment of tlie youth of Decatur during many; years of untiring service ...” i All of ‘these geptiments were from people who expressed the way they felt; in forititude. And when Sellemeyer spoke, he had nothing but gratitude in return for ‘the many\ Decatur civic and fraternal organizations “who always assisted us, and made what we-did 'possible.” / Then the band director ed on the fine cooperation “I have received fron% every I>oy arid girl down through the jyears.” Sellemeyer* taught ■«. total 26 years, stopping.off in someday places*»before settling" down to teaching the youth of r Decatur their mlisic and marching in a • manner :they neter forgot. > It was alwaysi custom," some of the old-timers, remark, for an ex-member of tlie Decatur high school band,to lepve the city, and upon hjs return: head straight for SellemCyer’s, tjo pass the time of day, apd more likely, to receive those fpw words pf encouragement that meant so I much. i In hts long teaching egrper, interspersed by such occupational diversions as (lijsectiing the city band s from 1912-20, Sellemeyer taught’at the Peterson high school Inow amalgamated in the? Adams Central school system), Warren, Berne, and the; school, also extinct. , - It yas the familiar figure of Sellenleyer, too? who directed the Sipnmgr concerts for many years. And it was he who originated the a’l-glrj band of a fpw seasfons back that proved so highly popular and efficient. j f For the list of “firsts” created by Sellemeyer ’are probably augmented more than anything else by a ■ former student’s preface to a story, “Why, ‘ I remember the first time I met Selly ...” and the ex-member?‘ who had literally been itaught to iblow his own horn ‘ < ■ F (Tn'ra To Pa*e El»bt) - I ■?

.Death Toll In Ship Collision Reduced Jo One Navy Announcement Reduces Death Toll, Five Still Missing \ Norfolk. Va. May 15— (UP)— L rescue workers went through j the seaplane tender | Valdour foday and scaled down the I casualty tpl! from its collision yes- 1 | terday with a coal ship to one | known dead, five missing and 16 | injured. ■ The navy \ announced officially |i last night that 11! men were killed | when the Valcour, loaded with high I test gasolfne, l swerved into the path I of the collier Thomas Tracy six I miles .off (Cape Henry, Va., in I Hampton Road?. , ■ \ I Both ships burst into flames I when the Tracy, its bow acting as | a trigger, rammed into the smaller I ship and ignited the fuel. I A navy public relations officer announced the revised casualty figures this morning and blamed the early erroneous reports on “hasty estimates” from rescue ships that criss»-crossed the wreckage area picking up the injured and Scores of| sailors who leaped into the water to.escape the inferno. The ono known dead was identified as seaman apprentice Dale Eugene Caley of Riverton. Wyo. Rescue workers, braving deadly j?as fumes, began opening sealed compgrttnents below decks of the Valcour this morning in their search for victims. The 'pompart■ments were kept shut off from the rest of the ship until all trace of fire was gone to prevent danger of an explosion. Eight then the navy thought had been trapped/in the engine room apparently r escaped, it was an* nounced. Others were believed at first to fiave been entombed in a ! berthing compartment. - But the navy said in its latest announcement whether any were caught there, either. Spokesmen said it will be several , days before all the Valcour’s compartmentp are opened and unloaded. t \ As the compartment-tby-compart- . ment search was under'way. mem- , bers of ‘he ship’s crew began turnt ing up on other ships and from ashore. Many of them originally ’ were believed to have been trapped aboard the Valcour or drowfleas in the fire-coated waters at the mouth (Turn To Pn«e Elsht) 1,500 Expected At ■ Boy Scout Camporee Scout Camporee In Decatur June 8-10 “Indications are that things are shaping up ( fb'r one of the biggest 1 in recent years,” Oeofge Bair, camping and Activities chair 1 man for the forthcoming Boy Scout ■ event, today. • He made the statement following a meeting of alb chairmen Monday in dity ball, presided over by Clarence Ziner, general chairman of the eVent. “Preparations are being completed to handle l t soo Boy Scouts/’ Bair added, “and we are certain there will be? that many here for the three-day affair.” The campotee, to be held in Hanna J Nuttman park June 8 through 10. will attract boys from the ninej counties in the Anthony ■ Wayne council. R. L. VariHorn, Anthony Wayne council executive, and Dewey Didier, council chairman of camping ’ and activities, who attended the Monday meeting, stated thht tehta- . five Indications were that the anticipated 1,500 Boy Scouts, "was probably right.” . • To handle this crowd a tent city will be erected at the bite, and a complete program, emulating the national jamboree held last year at Valley Forge, %ill be conducted. Sunday, the last day of the encampment, parents of all the youths are expected to converge on the city to be with their sons, i Another meeting is planned for Monday, Mav 28. of all committee chairmen and members\ to formulate still further and more complete plans for the cairiporee. , I i i i 1\ ! i t

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 15, 1951.

■ Patrol’s Booty: Two Chinese J "Ws fa MH t I V x m i V \ 1 Brl TWO COMMUNIOT prisoners sit (foreground) on an armored,vehicle as they are brought in by the tank-infantry patrol which captured them oh a foray |nto\Chlnese lines on the Korean Photo by INP staff photographer Fred Waters. 2 ■' j

Captured Red Spy Had Inchon Plans 18 Accused Spies On Trial In Tokyo ' iI ■ 1 < - Tokyo, May 15.—(UP) — The Communist ringleader of a North' Korean spy r(ng had the “top secret" plans for the Inchon landing a foil week before the operation took place last September, a United States army , prosecutor charged todav. J . /' i Maj. Robert M- Murray, chief prosecutor for the international provost court; said the secret document containing the iinformation on the Inchoii landing was found in tlfo possession of Yoshimatsu I war mura, ,38, the spy leader? The prosecutor said the information possessed by the Japanese spy could have turned Gep. Douglas MacArthur’s dramatic “behind-the-lines” landing into a debacle had the North Koreans made proper use of it. Instead, U.S. marines stormed ashore at Inchon, Sept. 15, 1950, in a landing that quickly overwhelmed Inchon and captured Seoul. UN forces at the same time burst out of the Pusan bridgehead and, together with the marines, annihilated the bulk of the North. Korean army. : ; . r > An intelligence source said the spy chief had radio facilities to transmit the information to North Korean Communists, However, he did not know whether the plans were actually sent. Iwamura and Chang Man Ko, who came to Japan to help Iwamura set up the spy network, are the key in the trial of 16 North Koreans and two Japanese Communists accused of spying for North Korea. The 18 defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges. They wore the first to be tried from a group of 45 suspects rounded up recently in Japan and accused of espionage and "acts inimical to the security, of the occupation.” i J “When Iwamura was arrested,” Murray said. “k document was found in his possession containing information of the Inchon landing, an operation which received ftgm the occupation the highest security rating possible-super top secret operation. v “Details of this operation were unknown even among numerous high-ranking officers among the occupation itself," he said., ' Murray said Iwamura/“knew the exact date on which tne landing woiild take plo.ce at Inchon” a week before the operation occurred. He did not say how the spy leader secured the highly secret and guarded document*nor did he say whether-or not the spies were able to get the information from Japan to North Korea. Oapt. John Rice, of San Francisco, Calif., the, counter? intelligence officer who arrested Iwamura Sept. 9, 1950. was scheduled to be the first prosecution witness. \ | INDIANA WEATHER} Mostly fair and continued v warm this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 55-60. High Wednesday 85-89. .r- --' < /-J ' • ' if '

: .1'77 1 A ■ Postpones Meeting On Border Warfare Flushing. N.Y., May 15.—(tfP) - The United Nations security council today postponed a scheduled meeting on the Syro-, Israeli border warfare in Palestine in order to permit further confutations before taking action. , ’ •, * . ~i < 4House Group Voles • • *■ • ■' : Gas lax Increase Committee Votes Half-Cent Boost ’ Washington, May 15 — (UP) -* t The house ways and means committee voted tentatively today to increase the federal[tax on gasoline by one-half cerft, a gallon. ’ This would yield thfe government ! an estimated a year tn additional revenue. ’ The federal gasoline tax is now ’ ,1% 4 cents a gallon, j It would go up/to two cents a gallon under ( the committee plan. The adminis- ( tration had recommended three cents. / j The committee announced yes- , terday it had approved a gasoline / tax increase but later said this was erroneous. It f reconsidered ( the problem today, arid decided in favor of the increase/ , . The committee refected propos- ( alsfto put a one cbni tax on each l bottle of soft ‘ It also turn- ( ed down a 20 percent manufacturt era’ tax on candy land chewing gum. I ■ 1 The proposed ne|w taxes on : these items would I have yielded - an estimated a year 1 in revenue. \ A reduction in the tax on do1 mestic telegrams waA approved, at an estimated loss of revenue of ? $8,000,000 a year. | Tpe present 25 » percent tax on telegrams would • be reduced to 20 percent under the ’ committee proposal. 1 • The tentative actions by the - committee today brought the total tax 1 boosts to >6.528,000,000 a year. This figure takes into ac1 count substantial increases in cor--1 Vocation and individual income ■ taxes as well as in various excise , 1 takes. „ ■ \ 7 ’ / ■ ' ■ ’ v > • Gift Presented T 6 Catholic High School Ronald Smith of Midland, Mich., . presented his alma rrater, the De- ' catur Catholic high ichool, with a valuable tape recorlins; machine ] , yesterday in ceremon es held in the [ school’s gymnasium. . ( “Ronnie*’ was gra lusted from 1 DbHS two years ago) and then re- ( ! turned to Midland where his par- ( ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith have their home. He will be tin- , ducted into the army in two weeks ( , and will be sent to Fort Custer, j ' 'Mich. , | In yesterday’s ceremonies, Ronnie gave a talk to tte high school j students and asked to be remem- ( bered'by them in their prayers. , rannie Is a former paper carrier ' for this newspaper and during his ( high School years was in charge , of the city carriers. S ; ‘ : i ■ i /■ '

Says MacArthur’s Plan To Enlarge Korean War Would Delight Kremlin

- , L Fire Inspection In Decatur Wednesday Thorough Canvass < To Be Made In City h Jforry ’Essex, general of fire inspection day to be held in Decatur '/ Wednesday, announced today that everything was in readiness for the city-wide inspection. Early Wednesday mortng 50 inspectors will begin the task of inspecting all business buildings, public buildings, schools and churches in Decatqr. The inspection is being sponsored by Decatur members o< the Adams county insurance agents association in cooperation with the two service clubs. Lions and Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, volunteer firemen of Decatur and the Boy Scouts. All of the cooperating groups will assist in the insjiection project. At noon a luncheon will be served at the Masonic hall- Alt of the visiting inspectors will be served a lunch and there are still a few available tickets for the public, Essex announced. Inspectors will visit both nigh schools and explain the project to the students. The speakers also will tell students how to inspect their own home tor fire hazards and will leave inspection blanks for them to fill out concerning their own homes. In this manner every part of Decatur will get the advantage of the inspection, it was pointed out. The purpose of the inspection is to provide a maximum of safety in Decatur against fires? and thus guarantee property the lowest possible insurance rate. Decatur had a splendid fire prevention reCord; Essex said, and insurance agents and their cooperating groups are asking all citizens to become fire conscious so the present record can be continued. The inspecting groups will operate from the Decatur fire department headquarters at the corner of Seventh and Jefferson streets. Iran Threatens To Expel Oil Workers Tense Situation In Iraniari Oil Fields Tehran, Iran, May 15. —(UP) — Iran threatened today to expel all British oil field workers from the country if they oppose seizu/e of the British-owned oil industry by the Iranian government. Indications were \ the seizure might come quickly. Britain retaliated by aldrting 3.000 men of the crack 16th parachute brigade for possible duty overseas —perhaps in the Persian Gulf are where the big refineries cf the Anglo-Iranian Oil company are situated. ■ The . tense brought British foreign secretary Herbert Morrison hurrying back to London from a holiday on the \isle of Wight. But if British troops intervene In the oil field .. seizure it “will mean the beginning of the third world war,” the secretary of the Iranian parliamentary oil committee Warned. U.S. ambassador Henry Grady urged Iranian Premier, Mohammed Mossadegh to avoid “any precipitous action” in seizing the fields it was disclosed, r ] \ Grady said he also suggested that I ra)i delay nationalizing the oil industry - Until a mixed commission could make a report on i the issue. Grady’s recommendations \ were < made before Mossadegh retired to the sanctuary of the Iranian i Majlis (parliament! building to escape threats op assassination ' and, possibly, pressure from the i western powers on the national I (Tura T® Page Five)

Eric Johnston Cites Need Os • i v - • Stable Economy Six-Point Program Is Submitted For -Stabilized Economy Washington, May 15 —(UP) — ’ Economic stabilizer Eric A. John- < ston worned > that "the dollar is in danger today” and inflationary I pressures are poised for another I big push to send the cost of living skyhigh. ) Proposing, a six point program for achieving a stabilized economy 1 and endorsing the adriiinistration’s drive for more rigid controls-John- ( ston said- J j' “Unless We have a stabilized economy, Unless we hold inflation in check, unless we can defend the value of the American dollar against infiltration and ambush In the months ahead, we'cannot mount tbs defense effort We; need." Johnston; Outlined to the senate banking committee in a prepared statement i-the six major threats to the dollftr’s soundness and his six proposals to check: inflation. He plumped for President Truman’S request to Axtend the defense production (icft-'for two years beyond June 30 and to give him wider controls over yifoges. prices, rents and credit. • I Johnston? urged these steps, ; which the iidministration has asked, to fight: Inflation: 1. A “new pay-as-we-go tax program (whfoh would avoid the necessity for foe creation of new money. Spending borrowed money is 1 inflationary.” 2. “Pay-aLwe-go credit policies” for everyonti because “where credit is necessary to achieve increases in produetidh, it should be encouraged-” ’ ; ’ 3. Increased savings because “in- , come which* ls not spent does not put pressufo on prices . . . the . money we spek away now arid hold ( on to is going to assure a continuing high level economy.” ( M.\General economy to Wipe out ( “non-essentlgl consumption and { waste by government, business and j individuals.” ) 5- Materials;control to “allocate materials both for ; defense pur-" pose and civilian heeds." , i' 6. Strengthening; and cotttlnuaw (TarM T® Paare Elsht) L— ,• ' Strike Threatens Cut-off In Power Public Service Co. Faces Strike Threat Indianapolis, May 15 — (UP) — Sixty-thy-eq Hoosier counties faced a power gut-off today as the result of so threatened strike by some 1,500 AFL electridal workers 1 against foe Public Service Company of fodiana. • \ , 1 Spokesmen for the Internation- ’ al Brotherhood of Electrical Work- 1 ers said ; foe men planned to walk 1 off the job tonight in support of 1 10 percent wage increase de- ' mands. ® . State labor commissioner Thom- t as R. Hutson, who said the company and union had failed to 1 agree after three weeks of negoreported the workers de- ' manded the 10 percent pay boost, j and afore if .it were approved by the wage stabilization board. He 1 said tlfo company had not indicated wither it planned to grant ’ even foe id percent. J Meanwhile, IBEW International representative H. E. Eutener and ( PSCI ; president R. A. Gallegher ' were asked to attend a mediation session in Washington Thursday ( if no wage agreement was - raech- J (Tara T® Page Eiglit) ' I■■ vr \ ’ • 'I-Mv - M ■ <

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Joint Staff Chiefs [ Clearly In Favor Os Present Policy In Korean Warfare 4 Wash in go tn, May 15 — (UP) — Gen. Omar N. Bradley said today that Gen. Douglas; MacArthur’s program ifo enlarge f the Korean, war info Red China “would probably dilight the Kremlin more than anything else we could do.” “Frankly, in the opinion sot foe joint chiefs of staff, this strategy (enlarging the war agafobt CMba) would involve us **oß afar, at the Wrong p&iew, at the wrong.time and with the, wrring enemy,” he said. , LX Bradley made clear thaf the\nMicy Os limited war njow being lowed in the Korean war—and nob MacArthur’s—is thefone favored by the joint chiefs of staff. MacArthur has advocated enlarging the wfo by bombing Chinese bases in Manchuria, a naval blockade of China and use of Chinese nationalist troops. | - am under no Ilfosion that our present strategy qffusing means short of total war fo'acbieve our ends iand oppose communism is a guarantee that a wprld war will not be thrust upon; us," Bradley said. "The strategic alternative, enlargement of the wait in Korea te include Red China* would probably delight the Kremlin more than anything else we could do;” i In stating why these MacArthur proposals were overruled, Bradley also made these points;: 1. ‘Taking on Red China is not a decisive move, does not guaran- 1 tee the end of the War in Korea, and may not bring China to her knees.” , ; J 2. \He and the jofot chiefs “believe ;that every effort should be made to settle the present conflict Without extending (it) outside Korea.” But jf that proves < impossible,' “other measures have to be taken.” | 3. Administration critics "im-t patient” for a quick solution in Korea should be cglm. "We are not in the best military position to seek a showdown-” “methods short of fotal war” have stopped “Kremlin-ipspired imperialism” in the past in Berlin and Greece. J I F j' 1 .I, 4. The joint chiefs are unwilling to take on Russia until the country is strdnger. But the Russians know that ‘.‘foe could hurt them badly if they attacked us or our friends.” • 5. | Pulling out of Korea-without being forced out would benppeasement. But, it is not appeasement, but rather "a militarily sound course,” to refuse to enlarge the war. i i J - 6. MacArthur reported qn Jan. 10 that he might have to evacuate Korea. But he instructed to fight as Jong as possible without losing his armies. ’ j H 7. It is Bradlejf| hope that -the MacArthur headings will encourage the country to “follow* a steadfast and determined” course which will curb Soviet imperialism “and at the same time preserve the pegee .. j ” 8.1 Korea is “just one phase” of the; world struggle against communism and the jojnt chiefs were better able thin MacArthur!; to gauge the risk of w«r and of u-s---ability to meet it. 4 And "unnecessarily” risking world war would f put an onus on the United States and drive away "most if all of our allies.” [ Committee chairman Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., questioned Bradley about Rnssid’s ability to strike in the Far East. This was in connection with MacArthur’s statement two weeks ago that Soviet Far East armies were "defensive” in. nature and that supply difficulties made it extremely difficult for Russia to f undertake a "predatory attack” in Bradley disagreed with thin conception. He said the Russian far eastern armies have “the capability, of causing us a great deal of difficulty, to say the least.” At this point the censor made some deletions. j * I ! / ■