Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 117.

SENATORS UPHOLD BRADLEV’S REFUSAL

Tall Proposal To Cut Armed Forces Lashed President Truman Terms Suggestion Invitation To War I Washington, May it—(UP)— President Trurhan said today that .Sen. Robert A. “very fool lifch? suggestion to cut the armed forces’ manpower goal by 500.000 meh was "an invitation to war ’ with Russia. < 1 Penny-pinching now may mean throwing away the lives of our soldiers later on,” Mr. Truman said ia a strong plea for the administration's military and economic programs. Speaking before, the national conference on citizenship, the president Urged housewives and wage earners to form a huge consumers’ lobby to' bring pressure on congress for an extension of, strong controls over prices, wage.and rents., ' y . "If they are not',’’ Mr. Truman 1 said, "our whole economy will be in great danger, and every family • in the country will, suffer.” Mrj Truman did not mention Taft’s name, but the president left no doubt that he meant the Ohio Republican leader who is regarded as a leading possibility for the 1952 GOP nomination. ♦ ■ "A suggestion was made by one senator the other day that we ought to ciit down the goal tor our armed forces by half ; a million men," said Mr. Truman. "At a time like this, such a cut, would be very foolish. ’ "Slashing the site of bur armed forces would not be economy? it would be an invitation to war. r The projected goal for the armed’ forces during the next fiscal year is 3.500.000 persona. Taft has suggested a drop in the goal to about 3,000,000 men because of “a large waste of personnel” which he believes can be corrected. M ; The president quarreled generally with any idea of "penny-pinch-ing,” .delay ’or reduction in the defense program, saying this nation faces the "very real—danger of war” with Russia while “spnif people —think there is still time to play politics.” ] * | Mr. Truman steered clear of the controversy over conduct of jhe Korean war his firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Most of the president’s speech before the citizenship meeting sponsored by the national education association and the department of justice dealt with the domestic side of the defense effort. Here were some of his main points: 1 ‘ ■ Prices: pressure has eased off "a little lately’’ but will come back “stronger than ever in th 3 Text few months.” He said ’f prices are not held down until al least the middle of next year, “the cost of living will go through the roof." T ’ " Taxes; “We have to have more if we are to pay for our , defense program and hold down inflation. Everyone must pay his- fair share. ' Foreign aid: “There is no economy in slashing our foreign aid program’!’ because our allies are strong “the Kremlin might take, them over and the danger of war would increase " Spending: “When we talk about cutting non defense expenditure:*, we must be sure that we don’t cut the strength that supports our defense effort.” . — * » Daily Vacation Bible School Opens May 28 The (Rev. John Chambers, Chairman of the education department ’of the Federated churches and so charge of the * oommunity dai y vacation Bible school, announced today that the school will be held from May 28 to June 8. . j: I i Classes for children from’four years of age to freshman 'in high school will be held from 8: Sa to 11 a.m. at the Lincoln school. The Federated churches sponsor the school annually for all children of the city. Mrs. Russell E. Owens will be dean of thq school and the teaching staff will be announced at a later date.

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Speaker Sunday .? Jj ; J \-■ ' 1 I Rev. A. C. E. Gillander » - ; 'i ■ 1 ' \i- - 1 • . — -...1.. . r ._.-j ; . — Baccalaureate Rites 1 . ■ u■ I I ■'l ’■ ■ Here Sunday Night ' . \ A J •• ;\ Graduates To Hear Reverend;Gillander The Rev. A.C,E. pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will deliver the haccalaiircate sermon to the 75 seniors of the Decatur hifch school Sunday nt 7:30 p.m. ? j Four other ’ministers of the Decatur iplnisterial association will also participate during the services as wilj the high school choir who will? sing the ‘ Gloria in ; Excelsis,” under the direction of Miss Helen HauboM. supervisor of music, Decftur public schools. | Rev. | Gillander has chosen “Springs of Happy Living,” as the subject of his baccalaureate sermon. • .[* The invocation will be delivered .by the ißev, John (E. Chambers, pastor of the THnity Evangelical United Brethren chiirch; scripture leading by the Rev. Lawrence Norris, pastor of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church; prayer by the Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion , Evangelical Reformed clforch, and the benediction by the Ret. Robert H. Hammond, pastor of the First Baptist The services will, be held in the Decatur high school auditorium. . J , ’ i—-R— > ■ Central Soya Co. To > Boost Grain Storage 20 More Silos Will Be Built At Plant ,C. I. Finlayson, local Central Soya company plant manager, an- , uounced today that work is progi easing on the construction of 20 grain storage silos for the com pany’s elevator department at the plant site at the north edge of the city. The new storage, which will increase grain holding capacity fry 1,300,000 bushels, is scheduled for completion in time for the annual fall bean harvest in late , September. ! ( ' : The double banks of silos are being erected directly south of the two banks which were built last summer. Dimensions will duplicate the 1950 addition, each tank being 28 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. \; i A Slip-forming of the tanks will be done by the MacDonald Engineer- ’ iug company of Chicago from plans developed by the Central’ Soya company’s engineering department, headed by J. J. Thompson of this city. ; ■ In making the announcement, Finlayson stated that the increase in stqrage facilities is another step • of the expansion program begun in January. "With the erection of the pew solvent* extraction plant, our daily operating capacity will he. more than doubled; such a \ boost in daily production naturally required more storage space for ’the Soybeans. It was ’ therefore necessary to include the silo addition in foe construction plans of the new extraction unit,” he said. r .|\ ' , i “When the various phases of the construction work are completed, our soybean processing plant wijl be the largest installation of its kind in this country, 4 ’ Finlayson concluded. | \

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Reds Attack Along Entire Korean Front Force Os 96,000 Fails To Collapse UN's Defense Line Tokyo, Friday, May 18—(UP) — A force of 915.000 communists attacked United Nations forces allacross the 120-mile Korean war front today, but failed to collapse the allied tine. A dispatch from the east central front \ said a large force pf southbound' Reds had crossed the Pukhan and Soyang rivers in a gradual) buildup of\ round two of their j offensive. They swarmed over mountains and through valleys, the dispatch said. The rest of the dispatch was censored. Allied troops fell back on the eastern and east-central fronts. *A U. S. Bth army communique said these were line straightening operations, although it was conceded the enemy had knocked a big hole in South Korean line's in the Inje area, near the east coast; Chinese and North Koreans were falling by the thousands under artillery, firing at the rate of one round eVery two minutes, and bombs and/machine gun bullets fired from warplanes. A Jate report from the east central front said estimated enemy casualties credited to artillery fire in the last two days was 7,150. A nearly full moon illuminated the battle field Thursday night and 12 B-29 bombers dropped 90 tops of high explosive bombs on enemy communications and airfield targets. The much’ publicized Red air force had not made its threatened appearance. The Reds were relying on small arms, mortars and Russian-type 76 millimet-, er light artillery. The only Red breakthrough came in the Inje area. South Korean flanks were exposed and other ROK units were endangered. American forces rushed jin to attempt to seal the gap. Returning fighter pilots said that in strafing attacks on the central, and west central fronts they slashed to ribbons two groups of Chinese infantrymen estimated to number l,o<>o The pilpts said the long expecteach. ed second round of the Reds spring offensive was on, but it still had not reached the ‘Tull human sea” force of last month’s effort. Russia Challenges Right To Ban Arms Bitter Attack Made On Slated Embargo Flushing, N.Y., May 17.—(UP)— Russia today challenged the right of the United Nations general assembly to ban arms shipments to Communist China. Tho Soviets contended, that sanctions could be voted only by the security. council, where they could use the veto. Chief Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik launched a bitter attack on the proposed embargo, on the Unib ed States, and on the procedure the UN seeks to follow as a tense meeting of the assembly’s 60-nation political committee opened to debate the embargo plan which was approved last week by the special committee on Korean Sanctions. Russia. Malik said,' would not participate in the consideration of any such proposal. The senate hearings on Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s proposalsjfor far eastern policy and action by both houses of congress in unanimously demanding that the UN adopt an airtight, worldwide v embargo against the Chinese Reds were used by Malik in his attack on American policy. , ' !• “The senate and the' house of representatives ” Malik said, "have hastily and with an extraordinary', procedure adopted a decision designed to help the aggressive quarters of the U S. to impose on the UN in committee and in the general assembly this shameful resolution which* they want to foist on the world. "General (defense secretary (Tara To Pace Fowr)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 17,1951.

Friendly Handshake IJ «. ,1 H ■ ’ - j T fl fl GEN. OMAR BRADLEY (left) chairman of .the joint jchiefs of staff shakes bands with ranking GOP member of the senate foreign relations committee Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. Sen. Wiley is fighMng a ruling by senate armed services chairman Russell (D), of Georgia, that Bradley was right in refusing to divulge what was said at a conference called by Prdsidient Truman on Geri. MacArthur’s dismissal.

Tax Writers Near Finish Os Tax Draft Preliminary Work Near Finish For Increase In Tax Washington. May 17 r- (UP) — House tax writers hit the heme stretch today in their four-months-old effort to draft legislation boostixig individual and corporation taxes by more than |6,500,000,000 a year. Members of Ihe tax-framing ways and means committee hoped they could finish their preliminary consideration of. various taxboosting proposals today and then get down to the tedious job \ of putting their conclusions into legislative form. The committee has reached a series of tentative decisions to: ’ , 1. Increase individual income taxes by three percentage) points tn each bracket to provide the government with $2,900,000,000 a year in additional revenue. A threepoint increase means that the 20 percent rate now lev*® in the lowest tax bracket would go up to 23 pefreent. and that th^re'would Ibe corresponding increases in each higher bracket. 2. Boost corporation income taxes by $2,080,000,000 a year.TThias a would be done by nicreasing the* tax rate from the present 47 percent to 52 percent for corporations earning more than $25,000 a year. And , from , 25 to 30 percent for those that make less than $25,000. 3. Raise the present excise taxes on liquor, beer, cigarets, automobiles, television sets, ra(Turn To Pag* Sevfw) . f ' ————

Local Man Relates His Experiences In Liberia

V • " While roaming in for-off landw as construction adviser can be invigorating, Carl Striker, of t b is city, thinks the most logical place to be is in the states/ At least as long as most of the foreign jobs—"and I never realized there were so many American jobs overseas” — forbid families accompanying the men. “The next time I go outside the stated,” said ’ Strikler, “it will only be when my wife can go along.” Striker planed home from Liberia, arriving in Decatur last Saturday. He had been in that African country for the past four and onehalf mdnths supervising construction work on the free port of MonThe most noticeable thing Striker brought back with him -is au unseasonal tan, a memento of a tropical sun " “Surprisingly,”: he said, "the sun never pushes the thermometer much above 90, but the humidity makes it almost unbearable at times ” He remarked Wednesday that because of this humidity, the 90 degrees of Liberia much stuffier than the 90 degree temerature hereyesterday.

Former Kraft Bldg, i Leased For Storage ’ . U.S. Rubber Leases Decatur Building 1 ’ ■ ■ i The former Kraft Cheese company building on South Winchester street, which was sold last November, will be used for storage of defense production materials by the Fort Wayne division of the U.S. Rubber company, it was announced '■today.’ ■ \ According to ah announcement, the Fort Wayne division has leased the 36.000 square feet of floor space in the former cheese factory. For the past several weeks, workmen have been readying the building for occupancy. 6ne employe said Mo persons were attached to the lodal payrolL. .A- , ?■ Negotiations have been underway for a couple of months and it was understood that company officials were considering the building Ms a Site for a branch plant. R. W. Pruden, executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, contacted division officials and offered full cooperation in the contemplated plans for a U.S. Rubber manufacturing unit. "We hoped all along that the company would open a plant* here,” Pruden stated. Acquisition of the Kraft building as a warehouse for defense (production materials came with the awarding of a contract to the Fort Wayne division of the U.S. Rubber company for self-sealing . fuel Cells for B-29 and B-V bombers. The contract also includes rubber tracks and tanks and other tracked »rmy vehicles, all of which will\ be produced In the Fort Wayne plant, by the mechanical goods division. ■ . Huge vulcanizers have already been installed in the Fort Wayne plant to produce the giant rubber ' (Tsra T» Pm »«wa) •

> Striker left the first part oi January in company with 10 other ad- ' visers, and engineers to expedite work on the Monrovian free port which was opened as such July 26, 1948. The principal function of the port, which is made practical oromarily by intricate conveying systems. is to iron ore from Liberia to the United States. “The field which Americans are working has an estimated 55 million tons of truly high-grade ore,” Striker said, and, he judged it contained about 68 percent cast iron. ’•Really remarkable,” he added. He said the port, of course, is utilized for other things than obtaining the soon Ore supply. It also has the important function of "getting material to Africa wih a minimum of risk ” , The transportation system in that country is made doubly difficult. Striker pointed out, because outside of the capital of Monrovia “. . . there are only seven miles of blacktopped road.” And the city/ of Monrovia itself, he added, sits atop solid rock. “They don’t know what a basement is.” He told of the natives Os that coun(Tara T« Fa*«

Uphold Bradley’s Stand On Refusal To Disclose President's Confidences

Continue Fight On ■■ Fire Hazards, Here r Inspection Made In Decatur Wednesday The war against public enemy No. I—Demon1 —Demon Fire —will be waged In thb community in a fire prevention campaign by city officials and the state fire prevention association, local insurance agents announced toddy. An inspection of premises, for fire hazards was made yesterday by inspectors from the Indiana ’ fire marshal’s pffice and the state fire-prevention association. The inspectors were accompanied on their tour by local Boy Scouts, who acted as guides to the various places of business and public : buildings. \ ~ ■ Ji Officers of the Decatur fire inspection bureau were, gratified over the cooperation extended by property owners in the one-day Inspection tour. Approximately 45 inspectors gave basements and . buildings a fine tooth inspection - during the day. Their findings . will be reported to the property . owners, with recommendations to » eliminate the hazards. The program was explained at I the banquet at the Masonic hall yesterday by state s peakero. Harry Essex was chairman of 1 the meeting and Kenneth Runyon, » r,resident of the county fire prer vention bureau, acted as toasti master. 'Speakers included H. W r Montgomery, president of the ) Indiana fire prevention associa--1 tiOn. Mayor John M. Doan, who stated that Decatur was increasing ' its water supply as a safeguard s against disastrous firop; Robert i Hamm of the Purdue University 1 firemen’s training school and the ■ secretary of the state association Attended by members of the ’ Rotary and Lions club, Robert 1 Shraluka, sheriff. James Borders, ’ police chief and Cedric' Fisher, ’ fire were guests at the meet- ! ing. 1 indications are that Decatur busi- ( ness houses, schools, churches and 1 public buildings will receive a good : report as tne result of the inspection. j ! Few dangerous conditions were ; found in any of the buildings, ac- ' cording to a preliminary report l made unofficially by inspecting of- ’ ficials. . Several minor faults were dis1 covered, largely with loose electri(Tani To Pace Etcht) Fear Four Drowned In Flooded Areas Three States Hard Hit By Heavy Rain Clinton, Okl&y< May 17— (UP)— Four persons including two heroic school boys, were feared drowned today as torrential rains pushed ’ rivers out of their banks in th« midwest. j Weathermen saw no letup in the rains which drove scores of persons to higher ground in Texas, Okla, horna and Kansas da streams threatened farm houses and nearby towns. > ' I /.\ ' t* 1 Near Pampa Tex , where 12 families were evacuated, national guardsmen and sheriff’s officers stood by for possible rescue work' as the earthen dam on Lake McLellan threatened to burst. An Arapaho, Okla., school bus, missing since yesterday, was found at a farm house early today with all of its occupants safe. Two Clinton boys were feared swept away in the flooded Washita river after they tried to reach safety when their loaded school bus stalled at the edge pf the stream. Rescue workers reached 10 other children trapped in the bus only 30 minutes before the vehicle was swept away in the rushing water. The Oklahoma highway patrol said a student from Southwestern State College at Weatherford was missing along with an unidentified Indian boy from Clinton.

Cut Ordered InSfeejtbr Civilian Use \ Cut In Steel Fo^Autos. Other Production Washington? May lt|—(UP)— Steel for au&ihobiles aid other civilian prodtiO will cut about one-third pre-Koresn levels for July thrash September, the government today. The cut besides autos, such things ag-frefrigerators, washing machines, W>ves and other consumer to 15 percentages steel kor these things than into current production. W ■ Plans for were announced at a;jj|pws cons rrence by Edwin T. Girton, acting defense production administrator, and Charles Wampler, director of DPA’s division of programs anfi requirements. -g|g i The first in the ’steel program was announced oijly a few hours before, fih this, the national production ordered sharply increased iSiounts of iron and steel July for defense and demise-supporting production. Wampler that tho steel requests BUbmit||d by thfe military and by all for the third quarter of thit year adde4 up to 135 percent of thejiupply. The military?? requirements, he said, were “stouten down!’ to eliminate the leaflftessential parts before A similar goingover still has <0 be given other industrial needs,' including civilian “musts.” I W Wampler said that during the third quarter |fie automobile and consumer durable goods will get total sunply Sfet steel —|or about 2.000,000 tons jiempared tb 3,000,000 «tons In days’, J* ; I • \ Mrs. EfftPlait II P ! Is TakenJJy Death Funeral Services SaturdA Afternoon Mdk Effie |i Platt,.' 82j a lifelong resident of WlB county, died at j 11:45 night at the Wells coiiity hospitul at Bluffton after an Illness of two weeks. 'I, She was fcefn in Wflls county Jan. 6. 1869. * daughter of Jaheu and Nancy Kohr-Edmuijdson. Her husband, William Platt, died Six years ago. They lived on a farm near Ossian for many years before moving to Bluffton.. | She was a Member of the Markle Church of Christ. , - Surviving three daughters, Mrs. James ||g Kitchen,’ Sr., of Decatur,. Mrs. ij&Seph Wall of Adams country and Mildrfrd Keller of Bluffton; sons, Arthur Platt of Fort Clayton and Ernest of county abd Cl|de of Noble county; 20 godchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren and one brother, Charles Edmundson of Indianapolis. ,■? J Funeral slices will be‘held at I;30 p.m. Saturday at the Elzey & Son funerig|home in Ossian, with burial in Fifview (jemetery at Bluffton. Friends ma| call at the funeral noon Friday. ? Fort wJ|»e Resident Is Killed By Auto Fort Wayna, Ind., hjay 17.—(UP» —John He? Wagner, 83, -was hilled by a-'ycsflr yesterday driven by Vaughn|p. Bailey, 43, grade school priiO? al herd. Police said Wagner stO ed lnto the path pf the. auto. W . |

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Investigators Vote 18 8 That General Need Not Disclose Private Confabs Washington, May 17.—(UP)— Senators investigating Gen. Doug- v las MacArthur’s ouster voted today that Gen. Omar N. Bradley need,not disclose what President Truman said in secret about the far eastern commander five days before he was fired. The vote—lß; to <8 —removed any possibility of contempt action against the five-star chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. a Six Republicans and' 12 Demo? crats voted that Bradley heed not disclose the conversation. Six Republicans and two Democrats voted that he should answer. It did not cool senatorial tempers heated by three days of political Wrangling. . Chairman Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., of the senate armed servicesforeign relations committee, citing historic precedents and legal rulings, had defended Bradley. Forcing him to betray the president’s confidences, RussetL said, would have been a blow, at the "security of our country.’’! The chairman said the commit', tee quarrel had developed “along party lines" and that he regretted the “political dyertone.’’ Russell’s statement angered Sen. Alexander .Wiley.- R., Wis., whose qaestidhtng raised the issue. Ha told the chairman he "resents” the charge that he was politically motivated. • Wiley said that in demanding testimony about the April 6 White House conference which preceded MacArthur’s recall he sought only to "maintain the digqity and the power of the -senate.” Asserting that the administration has no right to withhold any information needed by congress, Wiley told committee pembers the queetion before them was whether they are "mice or men.” The squabble interrupted Bradley’s testimony on Tuesday after he had told the committee that he and (he joint chiefs of staff on military grounds, unanimously approve<| Mr- Truman’s fiecision to fire MacArthur. ? When it became apparent that the committee could not rdsolve its procedural quarrel yesterday, Bradley was excused from further testimony until Monday. Tomorrow this committee will hear Adm. Forrest P. \ Sherman, chief of aaval operations. Rhssell had ruled that Bradley need not answer Wiley’s questions about the private talks and Wiley had appealed his decision. Wiley asserted that the senate’s “dignity (and) power” were at stake. Hfe said no government official has the power to "shut off” information that congress needs. When a witness persists in refusing (answers “ordered” by a committee, the usual procedure is to Cite him for contempt of congress. But Republicans generally admitted they didn’t have the votes to overrule Russell. * ( The executive department’s prlvilege to keep confidential matters confidential has been inviolate, Rushell said, ever since congress unsuccessfully sought information on the 111-fated campaign of Gen. St. Claifr against the northwest Indians some 150 years ago.; _ A : “confidential relationship." the chairman said, was established between Bradley and the president by congress itself in the 1947 military unification act. “There can be no higher confidential relationship, none upon Which* the safety and the security of our nation must depend, than that existing by law between the chairman of Ihe joint chiefs of staff and the president of the United States,” Russell argued fj INDIANA WEATHER n Partly cloudy aouto, moatiy cloudy north portion, with scattered showers north this aftert’hoon and tonight and In ex- y treme northwaot Friday. WarmOr near the northern border (Friday. Low tonight 52-57 except 00-65 central. High Friday 75-80 north. 85-89 south.