Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1951 — Page 1

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11 PERSONS KILLED WHEN TRAINS COLURE

Suicidal Red Army Keeps Up Powerful Push Chinese Continue Attacks Despite < Tremendous Losses Tokyo, Saturday, Mayl9.—(UP» -Elements of an American divir >*on trapped in eastern Korea by the vanguard of a suicidal millionman Communist army smashed to safety Saturday witty the aid of a shattering artillery barrage. Communists, most of them Chin<se. charged fanatically oyer the bodies of their own dead and rammed 20 miles deep Into Allied - lines tn the Jnje area, .ntfar the east coast. They threatened to trap a battered South Korean ‘ division, and despite heavy losses, appeared to be exploiting most of their first successes in the three bloody days of their second spring offensive. United Press correspondent Robert W. Gibson reported from the critical east cen Tai front that although the American unit < seemed safely out of this Communist trap, the Chinese had not let up their overwhelming attacks, v Gibson said the shattering of f South Korean unittX enabled * the Reds to endanger *the American division and to race southward to 'road. 1 But part of the American outfit’s main line east of fchunchon still held like a rock, Gibson said, and elements of the division that had beep enveloped and outflanked Crashed southward; down the InjeHoxigchon road rigtyt through the Chinese line. "Doughboys, artillerymen and airmen were kill-groggy and weary and dazedly told stories of the human sea of Chinese that came on and on and would not be denied.’’ Gibson reported. f , Heavy ’ enemy capualties were credited to \ heavily-sown minelields, 2,000 miles of barbed wire and massed Allied artillery, which were writing a bloody chapter in military history. j “Division artillery fired an awesome .total of rounds in the, 12-hour period ending at 6 a.m. " irrlday and went on outdoing itself during the day,” J United Press correspondent Glelnn Stackhouse reported. . ’ One battalion fired thousands of rounds—a feat * described < by officers as “an all-time record fbr any battalion in any war.” Heavily-censored dispatches from the front during this fluid period make it impossible to the real extent of the enemy successes. United Nations offtoerli are confident that the Red drive will be halted but several facts stand out. 1. The enemy is pouring it on. 2. He has made some penetrations. \ 3. He seems to be exploiting bis advantages fairly well. 4. In some spots the situation is serious., United Press correspondent Richard Applegate, reported from the west central front that three Chinese attacks were thrown back Friday morning. < ; "As multitudes (if fanatic Reds poured from their | bunkers across mined and flare-ensnared fields, (Tara To Tag* Sew«) . ’ '' ' « ' * Armed Forces Day To Be Marked Saturday FlagA will-be placed throughout the city Saturday by city firemen in observance of \ Armed _ Forces Day, which will be marked in Fort Wayne by the flight of the army s B-36. \ : The huge bomber will make a 7 token flight to 19 Cities, beginning at v Youngstown atyd flying over Crawfordsville on its last listed cnecking point. The army’s show is scheduled over Fort Wayne at approximately; 3:07’ p. m„ but air force officials stated that a variance of 30 minuter Cither way due to weather or local air traffic conditions should be allowed. \ INDIANA WEATHER /partly cloudy tonight and / Saturday. Continued warm. Low tonight 57 to 64. High Saturday 82 to 86 north, 85 to 90 south.

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National Sales Tax Urged On Congress Organized Industry Would Exempt Food Washington, May 18 (UP) — Organised industry asked congress today to scrap price-wage controls and slap a manufacturers’ sales tax on everything but food. ~ Willigm H. Ruffin, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. told the senate hanking committee that price-wage controls can’t stop inflation. • • Ruffin said he doubts that it is even possible to ,: rewrite price controls regulations that can be understood, let alone enforced. He added that the ,NAM is against heavier corporation and businesstaxes because it feels they already are as high as they can safely go. \ So, Ruffin said, what he calls a “corporation tax” Is the “only, way to get the revenue.” “W,e favor,” he \told the committee, "ty manufacturers’ excise tax on everything but food and food products.” ’ \ ’ Other congressional .developments: \ Controls—National Grange master Herschel D. Newsom proposed that congress abolish all price controls—“except when accompanied by rationing.” Beef — Ray W Willoughby of San Angelo, Tex., told congressmen that "small” Texas cattlemen will suffer most under beef price rollbacks. Willoughby, whb is president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association, explained that by “small” operators he meant those who have only $100,090 (ranches. Willoughby, himself a “medium-sized” rancher, joined other cattlemen in asking that beef prick controls be outlawed. ' \ Draft—House ams senate conferees got set for trading;jin : an effort to break the draft bill stalemate. Accident Injuries Are Fatal To Youth Columbus, Ind., May 18. —(UP) —Services were planned today for Audrey Baker, 19. who died in Bartholomew county hospital of injuries suffered in a traffic col lision on Ind. 7 east of here Mav 12. •x• . • Indianapolis Man* Heads State Masdns Indianapolis, May 18. —(UP)— Oswald A. Tis|ow, | Indianapolis, was installed as grand master of Indiana Masoni at the . annual grand lodge, F. & A. M., yesterday. Other new offictp-s included Elmer C. Forks. For?: Wayne, junior grand warden. * Communist Losses Over 900 Thousand Losses Heavy Since Start Os Korea War Washington, * May 18>-(UP)— The army reported today that -United Nations forces had inflicted 904,788 casualties on Communist forces in Korea from the start of the war through Mag 7, (• This is an the figure for the period ending April 30. United States casualties whose next of kin have beety 7 notified through May 11 were 65,523, the defense department reported yesterday. Up to date casualty figures for other United Nations forces are not available here. | In the new figure for enemy losses, the army said the North Koreans suffered 319,818 battle casualties, 76.066 non-battle casualties and had 143 818 captured. Except fdr prisoners of war, all the figures are estimates.; The army said estimates for Chinese casualties included 311,789 battle casualties, 49.814 hon-battle casualties and 3,483 captured. In the week'between April 30 and May 7, the army estimated the increase in casualties included 5.556 North Korean and 5,570 „ Chinese Communists.

Ouster Studied By President For Over Year President Truman Says MacArthur's j I Firing Long Studied , ! * j n Washington, May 18. —(UP)— Stunned senators said totlay the MacArthur investigation might just as well begin all over in view of President Truman’s statement that he considered tiring the general for a \year. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, himself, was at a loss to explain Mr. Truman’s statement: He said he was astonished to' the point of “incredulity.” \ Mr. Truman told his news conference yesterday that he had Considered dismissing the former Pacific commander for about a year before he fired him on April 11. He said he made up his mind when MacArthur served a peace ultimatum on the Chinese Reds on March J 4. MacArthur retorted in New York that the action, on his part "would only be regarded as supplementary to and in full support of any political move toward peace unless an an agreement was in contemplation on the enemy’s own terms.” i. These seemed to be harsh words in light of the administration’s avbwed attempts to secure peace “without appeasement’ in Korea. The investigation by the senate armed services-foreign relations committee, its bipartisan surface harmony already broken, appeared headed for more stormy sessions. For two weeks a 26-man committee has diligently questioned MacArthur, defense secretary George C. Marshall and Gen. Omar N. Brad-' ley about events immediately preceding MacArthur's discharge. Mr. Truman's statement brought the lawmakers'to a surprised. halt. Sen. Styles Bridges, R.J N.H., said that-Mr. Truman had opened up “an entirely n*w avenue”• for investigation and that it looked as though “long standing personal differences” between the chief executive and MacArthur accounted for the firing. _ ■* it ' .Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R., la., called tlie latest, developments in the boiling controversy “fantastic,” in view of the “fanfare” of top secret conferences which surrounded and imniediately preceded the actual dismissal* . < '' ' A ' H ‘ '..l' 1- , . p. y . r Give Demonstration On Fire Fighting : (X X ... 'lx., d■ \> Three-Day Course A Held At G.E. Plant * Demonstrations in extinguishing fire with hand operated fire extinguishers were given yesterday afternoon at the General Electric plant on N. Ninth street, climaxing a three-day short bourse in fire fighting methods attended by the 38 G.E. volunteer firemen. > The school and outdoor demon strations were . conducted by Erpest Hanauer, fire Chief of the Fort Wayne G.E. works. Lt. Ray Shackley of the local department was in charge of details. Fred Rasmussen of the Ansul Dry Chemcials company, , assisted in demonstrations., Waste oil and gasoline were set afire in nans atyd pita on the G.E. parking lot and the volunteer firemen werb given practical demonstrations in the use of carbon dioxide fire extinguishers and ary powder chemicals. It was explained that the dry uowder was about 98 percent baking soda. Blazes equal to a fire, beyond control in an eigh* rocvAi house were extinguished in with , the hand operated pressure extinguishers. / Attending the demonstrations were Cedric Fisher, Decatur fire chief; Mayor John M. Doan, C. I. Finlayson, local manager and C. P. Underwood, safety director of Central Soya company; A. R. Holthouse, local editor. These men and Albert Beery and Julius Baker, G. E. photogra pher, were. luncheon guests of John F.V Welch, manager of the Decatur G.E. plant, prior to the demonstration program.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 18, 1951

Testify In Commonist Probe . liv ' 1 W 1. Alvin Hammer Bea Winter Leonardo Bercovlci HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES probers got varjying reaction from thrbe Hollywood figures shown testifying in Washington: Actor Alvin Hajnmer refused to answer questions, but committee counsel FrankTabenner said there was Hammer held (a Communist party membership card in 1943 and 1945. Agency secretary Bea Winter refused to reply when asked it she recruited actor (Sterling Hayden into the Communist party. ’Script writer Leonardo bercovlci said he is not now a Communist party member, but declined to tell the committee whether he used to be a member or not. . .

Highest Military \ Awards For Trio/ Anderson Officer \ Is Among Honored Washington. May 18 — (UP)— A first Lieutenant from Anderson, Ind., and si wo sergeants "will re-* celve the Ration's highest military awards od armed forces day here tomorrow.; President Truman will present the congressional medal of honor to Ist Lt. CarJ H. Dodd, 26, Sgt John A. P|ttman, 22. Tallula, Miks-, and M/Sgt. Ernest A. Keama, 3J. Dwight, Nfth. The thrAp will be the first army men to receive their awards for bravery personally since the Korean war started- , P that Dodd) who has also lived at Kenvir, Ky.. was to receive the greatest honor that can be bestowed on an American soldier. He earned it last Jan..3o and 31. when hej/led an attack against heavily fot-tified “hill 256.” r Dodd led his platoon of 24th infantry through heavy fire/ halt way up the hill, when his meh faltered. He then ran alone to tne nearest machine, gun nest and killed or founded £ll its occupants singlehanded. . | “Inspired by his Incredible courage,” the.’Citation Skid, “the men responded/magnificently and, fixing bayonets And throwing grenades, they rushed on.” \ The platoon fought its way up the hill, Dodd constantly at his head, wiping out each communist emplacement as It went forwardSgt. Stanley James, one of Dodd’s squad leaders, said he told his squad at *ope point to take cover under thft heavy fire. “Lt Dodd said ‘take cover, hell! use marching fire and follow me," James recalled. When darkness came, James said, the men dug hi, but they could still hear a mdtar blasting at them from above. He said Dodd ran 150 to 200 yards to .the top with some hand grenades and “we didn’t hear the mortar ahy more.” ' The platoon held. Its position against edemy attacks all night and the next jay forged ahead through dense fog, fighting hand to hand with the /enemy until the hill was taken. , ’>. ■ \\ Dodd’s Wife, Mrs- Libbie I. Dodd, and relatives of Pittman and Kouma will attend the white house presentation ceremonies. . Plttmad led his squad in a counter-attack against the communists last Notember Although suffering * mortar wound, he continued tog lead the attack, finally throwing his tjody over am enemy hand grebate to protect his comrades. j \ He now recovering from wounds to his left leg, arm and back at Kort Cambell, Ky., army hospital.* r Kou ma’a tank was the last one left to protect the withdrawal of a ground force. Facing 500 attacking communists, Kouma gave orders to hold ground and with his single tank succeeded in killing 250 of the etoemy and forcing their dispersal? after an all-night fight. The master sergeant suffered shoulder and foot wounds, but led his tank eight miles back to friend(Tirw T» Page BlahO • _ '|p ' >

Youth Drowned As Leaky Boat Sinks Plymouth, Ind., Mqy 18 — (UP)— Searchers recovered the body yesterday of Rupert Beam, 16, who drowned a few hours earlier in a gravel pit northeast of the junction of U. S. 6 and U. S- 31 near his home. State police said Beam was thrown into the water when a leaky boat sank. T<o companions swam to shore. '’ f — '■ • Over Score Injured In Waferfront Fire Three Workers Are Reported Missing Philadelphia, A five-alarm fire wrecked a waterfront pier and severely damaged a merchant ship today! injuring more than a score of persons. Between 25 and 30 crewmen from the 5,000-ton freighter Pineland escaped death by leaping into the Delaware river John Niesstyn, <_ stevedore foreman. said he understood two stevedores and a checker working on the pier were missing, but all members of the ship's <(irew Were believed tq bav> escaped.. Police said there i may be aS many as 30 to 40 persons in hospitals, suffering from burns or exposure- 1 -i ‘ X U. S. navy representatives were sent to the scene to Investigate the possibility of sabotageThe fire started from an unknown scource on the pier, but spread so rapidly that the five alarms Were sounded at intervals of eight minutes. 'The blaze was believed to spread to containers of oil stored on the pier. An attendant at the accident ward at Mount Sinai hospital first said a number of dead were there but it could not be confirmed. lice said they bad no report of any dead. The five alarms, .ttye third multi-ple-alarm blaze since last night, brought out all fire equipment from the downtown area- Three fireboats and a police boat also joined the battle from the Delaware. More than 25 fire companies fought the blaze at pier 46 on Delaware avenue at Washington avenme. The pier Is owned by the Pennsylvania railroad. All available ambulances and police cars were pressed into service to take the injured, to hospitals. Most of the injured were (seamen who, jumped from the ship when the roaring blaze leaped from the oil-stocked pier. : X..|X.. Primary Election Cost SI.OB A Vote The recent primary election cost approximately SI.OB for each cast, according to the total number of votes and the amount bf claims which the board of county commissioners will consider in tlie special meeting next Monday. There were a total of 1,309 votes cast in the mayoralty race between nominated John B. Stulis and Adrian J. Baker, which was the largest total In the three primary races. • The board will 1 study election claims amounting to $1,415.04 Monday, making the per vote cost approximately SI.OB. ; :

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Dr. Edward Rumely Fined, Sentenced Guilty On Charge Os Congress Contempt ; Washington, May 18.—(UP)-— Federal judge Richmond B. Keech today sentenced Dr. Edward A. Rumely, executive secretary of the committee for constitutional government, to six months in jail and fined him SI,OOO for contempt of congress. t ' The judge, however, suspended the jail term because of Rumely’s age. The 69-yearold defendant was convicted of contempt on April 18 for refusing to divulge to the house lobby committee last year the names of large financial contributors to his organization. In passing sentence, Judge Keech said: “Save for this man’s age, I would commit him.” ! Rumely immediately announced that he will-appeal. He said in a formal statement that he is confident higher courts will absolve him. The committee for constitutional government distributes mass quantities of pamphlets apd other literature to persons influential in public life. During its 14 years of existence, it steadfastly has opposed policies of the Roosevelt and Trui man administrations. The house committee demanded* list of names of quantity-purchas-ers of the organization’s literature. Rumely gaye the committee Investigators access to most of the organization’s files but flatly refused to turn over the demanded names. He contended that the constitutional guarantee of a free press protected his right to keep that information secret. “Our committee and I have held to the conviction that the first and fourth amendments protect the citizen against even a congressional committee,” Rumely said in his statement. : v This was the third time that Rumely has fSced a federal court jury on contempt charges but the first time he was convicted. “I have not an< i not n° w ” Rumely sai<L “hold the congress of the United States or its committees in contempt.” ‘ v -"A Jack Lee Is Named Geneva Principal Hunt Will Remain On School Faculty v Jack Lee, former principal of the Pennville high \ school, has been named principal of the Geneva high school to succeed Ramon O. Hunt, who will remain at the school as science instructor. The announcement was made today by Wabash township trustee L. Aj Mann,, through the office of superintendent' of schools Hansel L. Foley. At the sams time. Mann released other faculty changes \in the Geneva schools and noted that an additional instructor has been employed in the grade school because of the increased enrollment. According to the announcement, Elizabeth Cramer will replace Blanche Aspy as commerce instructor; Harold Schmitz has been named physical education instructor and basketball coach, replacing Marvin Mullin, for the other changes in the high school faculty. Resignations have been accepted from two of the grade school Instructors, Pauline Houser and Kathleen Shuck, and contracts were awarded Esther Augsburger, Lillian Somer and Vivian Pontias. Other members of the Geneva high school faculty who will return next year,* in addition to Cramer, Schmitz and Hunt, include: Charles Mays, vocational agriculture; Margaret Rhoades, English, physical education; Berniece Van Matre, social studies; Dorothy Owens, music, art and health; Lavaun Keller, Vocational ' (Tara T» Page Et*ht) - 1

UN’s Assembly 1 Orders Embargo On Red China Orders World-Wide Strategic Embargo On China, N, Korea Flushing, N.Y., May 18.—<UP)— The United Nations general assembly today ordered a world wide strategic embargo on Communist China and North Korea by <47 to 0 vote. 4 . India, leading a bloc ot eight countries which abstained fsom voting, called on the UN to specify its Korean war aims in line with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s statement several weeks ago when he said the world organization woiUd have scored a major victory if ;It cleared South Korea of invading forces. Russia and her four caminform partners refused to participate In the vote after arguing that, the assembly was not empowered to recommend such an Embargo. Only the security council—wjtyke Russia’s veto could block it —could legally consider the measure, the Soviet delegates In addition to India, Afghanistan. Burma, Egypt. Indoesia, Pakistan, Sweden and Syria abstained on the embargo resolution, whiijh carries a clause asking the assembly's additional measures committee to, consider further sanctions against the Communists in the fgr eastern war. The United States, which sponsored the embargo resolty|lon originally, has contended that diplomatic sanctions also should be voted against Communist china and North Korea, and has recommended that no more governments should recognize the two regimes at war with.the UN. | : India’*- Sir Benegal Rati, who has led the Arab-Asian bloclßn peace moves wjthin the UN far the last six months, raised Ridgway’s statement when he explained his country’s vote with a declaration that the new Delhi government was not shipping and would not 1 ship war materials to any country,: (Ridgway’s statement iras made before the Red armies ■ launched their spring offensive and before general Douglas was ousted as the UN supreme field ctymmander. At that timty, Ridgway commanded eighth army, i , ' ’ ; ; * Elv Mrs. Noah W. Frye Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon 6 Mrs. Jessie O. Frye, 72, of 214 South First street, died at 11 o’clock Thursday night Kt the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of two years. was born in Adams county Oct. 20, 1878, a daughter oT Ira and Helen Bobo-Blossom, and was married to Noah W. Frye Oct. 15, 1910. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church and ;tyn active member of the Rebekah lodge for 51 years. Surviving are her husband; one brother, Richard I. Blossom of Dayton, O.; one sister, Mrs. Edith Bremerkamp, also of Dayton, and a number of nephew* and nieces. Funeral services will |i» conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the First Presbyterian ch«rch, the Rev. A. C. E. Glllander officiating. Burial will be In the l)ecatur cemetery. The body will remain at the Zwlck funeral home, where friends ' mhy call after||i P- m. Saturday until time of the services. The casket will not be opened in the church.

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Line's Red Arrow Crashes Into Rear Os Another Train In Pennsylvania Bryp Mawr, Pa., May 18.—(UP) —A Pennsylvania railroad express plowed into the rear of a standing ptyssenger train today and a high police official said 11 persons were killed, A ’ Police chief Geortye A. McLaughlin said that 10 bodies had been re* moved from the jumbled mass of wreckage, and at least “one more is in there.” t V The twisted steel cars and the . heavy express locomotive were . scattered across the four trunk , tracks of railroad jn this fashionable, main line suburb of Phils* delphia. More than £0 others were injured In the wreck near the Bryn Mayrr Station. Most of the dead and injur? ed were in the sleeping car which Was telescoped and split in two. Hours after the wreck occurred, railroad crewmhn With torches and , cranes were still trying to untangle the mass of twisted steel in an effort to reach any other victims. One of the dead Was identified as , C. F. Lauenstein, Indianapolis, Ind., . a metallurgist for the Link Belt Co. t The railroad first identified two , of the dead as crewmen bf the Red , Arrow Express, a crack pull m anI coach train from ? Detroit to New j York, but then retracted the identification. ” \ A Pennsylvania spokesman said ’ the two men, F. B. Yentzer, Harris* ’ burg, Pa., and C-- W. Ward, Sun- ’ bury, Pa., engineer and fireman 1 respectively, were found among the injured at Bryn Mawr hospital. ’’ The. Red Arrow rammed into a night express train from Pittsburgh 1 to Philadelphia which had stopped one quarter of a mile from the ’ Bryn Mawr station in response to ’ a stop stgnaL . Witnesses said the Red Arrow 1 tore right through the rear sleeping ‘ car “Poplar ValeX from Cleveland. It cut it in two and rose with it into the air in; a; flash of flame. Then the loconiotive crashed nose first into the ground. So completely <as the sleeper demolished that its parts could not be separated from the locomotive. A berth was caught against the front of the locomotive and hung there swinging. ( \ Clothing, sultcasee, train equipment and jagged bits of steel lit*.. L tered the four, -main line tracks, blocking the east-west route. Three hours (after the wreck, officials still were not sure how many , were dead. Giant cranes had to lift the locomotive tq pry the bodies from beneath tbe ; mass of twisted steel. (i A| Pennsylvania railroad official said the train from Pittsburgh had stopped west qt Bryn Mawr when it set a trouble signal which automatically threw |he track ahead into stop position, (r Ity railroad ityl|, the train “accentuated the drag detector,” a device between twb rails to catch anything down from the car. This is a safety measure to warn crewmen the brake rigging is faulty. _ While crewmembers were trying to find out what was wrong witk the night express, the Red Arrow . rammed into it with its whistle screaming, witnesses said. ; There were approximately 200 passengers in each of the trains; The Red Arrow was made up Os 10 cars and the Pittsburgh Express 19 || ;■j 1 - \ George Webb, a passenger on the Fittsburgh-to-Philadelphia tra in, said he saw three decapitated bodies from the rear 6ar of his train and one crewmember "apparently killed” in the second train. Webb, of Glehmore, near Pottstown, Pa, said the engine of the Arrow “plowed right through the rear ear” of the standing night express, ' ■ ' ' ‘Il X "|t was awful,’* he said. "It was as if you took both sides and the roof of the rear car of our train, lifted them in ttye air and piled them on top of the Red Arrow angina. / “The rear car was demolished and the second car from the rear. Was knocked over. The engine of the Red Arrqw also toppled over aicroM the adjacent tracks.”