Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 121.

REDS ROOTED IN WEST; ADVANCE IN EAST

Bradley Says Korea Policy One Os Waiting Hinges On Current Offensive Drive By ! Communist Forces Washington, May 22 —‘(UP) — Gen. Omar N. Bradley told senators today that major American politi- ; cat-military policy in Korea “is still a wait-and-see proposition” which hinges on how the current Communist offensive turns out. Bradley added, that he and the joint chiefs of staff "still hope” the United States may be able to “propose something” to the United Nations that will lead to a negotiated peace in Korea. But h e didn’t say when or how. 1 Bradley made this statement co the senate committee investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s discharge in response to questions by Sen?Leverett Saltonstall, R.,.Mass. Saltonstall told Bradley it appeared to him that the nation is following a “negative policy” in Korea; Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs, testified that the issue "pertained primarily to Whether or not we crossed the 38th parallel in the spring,' and at this time it was pretty much understood that we would not be able to get any politi-cal-military policy until we had been able to see what would happen in this next offensive.” “It is a fact. course, that this is still a.wait-and see proposition,” Bradley said. « . . This all added up to the proposed armistice terms, if you want to call it that, v which our government was discussing with the other governments involved in Korea, which was sent oyer to Gen. MacArthur tor comment.” Bradley said MacArthur himself later “announced” the armistice ’’ plan and thus “voided any chance of submitting it as a United Nations’ proposition.” Bradley added that “we still hope” that the United States again will be 1 in a position to “propose !> something” for settling the war through the United Nations—something which would lead to a negotiated peace. _ . Military policy regarding the Chinese Nationalist-held island* of Formosa, Bradley skid. is and has \been that the United States should “improve” the equipment of the NaA tionalist troops there and, with that, “»helr ability to hold Formosa.” Bradley’s testimony on his fourth appearance before- the committee was delayed a while by a wrangle over charges of “whitewash” which Sen. Alexander Wiley, R.. Wis., had made against Democratic members. At one point Wiley denounced as a “damned He” suggestions he said he had seen in the newspapers that he is plotting to “get” some administration witnesses. At the same time chairman Richard B. Russell, D„ Ga, accused Wiley of reflecting on “the integrity and motives” of majority members of the senate armed servicesrforeign relations committee. The committee, which is conducting the MacArthur investigation, voted 18 to 8 last week that Gen. Omar N. Bradley need not answer Wiley questions about a confidential'conversation between Bradley and President Truman. Six Republicans voted, with the majority. ~ Wiley charged over the week-end that Democratic members of the committee are employing “white wash” and “cover-up” tactics. • Farmer Is Fatally Crushed By Tractor Jasper, Ind., May 22 (UP) — / Alphonse Mehringer, 34, .was int jured fatally last night when he was crushed by a farm tractor. State police said Mehrlnger’s tractor pulling a wagon jackknifed and overturned while turning, a curve in a county road northeast of here. ■ . _ ' "jU j*' Four-Year-Old Boy Trampled To Death \ Fort Wayne Ind., May 22—(UP) —Four-year-old Thomas Lee Bechtold was trampled to death by a horse on his parents’ farm at near- ■ by South Whitley yesterday as he and an oldeir brother threw corn to the animal. Thomas’ brother, seven-year-old ■J/ John, told coroner James R. Roth that Thomas climbed on a fence and fell under the horse’s hoofs.

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Graduate Speaker i K/ .JI > H I' t i ' Dr. Robert B. Pierce 1 J-. A-- ■ ■ r Graduation Rites Thursday Evening Decatur High School Exercises Thursday t ■'.i \ ■ Dr. Robert B. Piercs\ pastor of t the Broadway Methodist church, j Indianapolis, will deliver “A foii inula for success” as the copi- » mencement address to the 75 • seniors who will climax their pub. I lid school careers Thursday eve- ■ n(ng at 8 o’clock. . The 70th annual commencement i exercises will be held in the Decatur high school auditorium with the Rev. Samuel B)iQeyick, pastor ’ of the First Methodist \ church, offering the invocation, and the Rev. F. H. Willard, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical [United Brethren church, the benediction. School principal W. Guy Brown Will present the\ members of the class to be graduated "from Decatur high school, and R. E. Mumma, president of the Decatur school board, will present the diplonias. The high school choir, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, ( supervisor of music in the Decatur . public schools, will feature “Amer* ican Prayer’” “Halls, of Ivy,” ami “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor." \ Principal Brown will also an- , nounce names of those students ; who have been designated i of scholarship awards; *

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Aged Industrialist Franklin Olin Dies Alton, 111., May 2t4-(UP)—Pri-vate funeral serviced held here tomorrow for ’ [Franklin W. Olin, founder of the coast-tocoast industrial empire of Olin Industries, Inc. Olin, 91, died of a heart attack at Barnes hospital in S|. Louis yesterday. He had been k patient in the hospital since May jll. — : Veterans Memorial Services On SundayAnnual Services At [ Union Chapel Church Members of the thhee Decatur veterans’ organizations, are to attend the annual memorial services, to be held Sunday in [ the Union Chapel United Brethren church. The services are to be conducted by the Rev. Lawrence ■T. Norris, pastor of the church, j ! : All members of Adams post American Legion. Lknherlost pofet 6236. Veterans of Foreign Waite, and Disabled American \Yete are to meet at the Legion home where the ‘contingent ; will depart for the “prohiptly at to a. m.” . ; jj , ! . Officials announced- that transportation for- /all veterans will, be furnished at that point! t Leo Ehinger, flag chairman of the Legion post todjay ajso reminded those in change pf nearby cemeteries that “the flags Aren’t moving fast enough." The Legion annually places (lags ph the graves of all veterans through the cooperation of other [organizations. The chairman stated .that members of the Lagion and Boy Scouts will place many of; the flags next fweek, but asked that others to charge of cemeteries assist by calling for the flags before Saturday.

Army Ready To Set Off Biggest Non-Atom Blast To Seek Effect Os n Underground Blast On Target Areas Dugway, Utah, May 22 —(UP) —•/ The army prepared to set off the biggest man-made non-atomic blast in history this afternoon. A deeply Embedded charge of 320,000 pounds of TNT will be ex ' ploded in western Utah wasteland iri an experiment to determine the effects of a heavy underground explosion on target buildings and bridges. • ■ The explosion will have about one-fifth the energy of an atomic bomb. Newsmen and press photographers were restricted to a four-miie safety line from the blast. Army engineers, direction “operation underground,” said that the carefully controlled and measured explosion of 160 tons of powder would be detonated as planned unless unexpected storms interfere. 1 \ “Last summer in New Mexico, penetration tests were made by dropping inert bombs,” explained LL Col. C. C. Haug, head of the Sacramento army engineer*’ district. “We know how deep ’ a bomb will go. Now what we want to find out is exactly what happens when it goes off. ‘By using heavily instrumented, buried charwe should be able to find out.” Security restrieMous prevent exact descriptions of the explosion site and simulated targets constructed nearby. The same veil will shroud precise results of the experiment. . In general terms, though, authorities said that the test would simulate the behavior and shock waves Os a deeply buried bomb. The concrete and steel - structures have the same general resistance as regular factory or home walls or bridge ’ foundations. \ When today’s dry clay test and later wet ejay, sand, sandstone, limestone and granite experiments are finished, engineers will have data that would permit designings of structures! to withstand a bomb of any known strength. Offensively, the results could be used ;to calculate what explosive—and how much —would be (Turn To Page Two) . :

Hostile Activity Charged By Czechs ; Charges Are Made On United States Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 22. —(UP) — Czechoslovakia charged the United States today with “hos, tile activity,” breaking international agreements and violation of Czech borders. The charges were made in a note delivered to U.S. ambassador Ellis O. Briggs. The note said the U.S. objective was to support espionage and terrorism in Czechoslovakia by: I.—Violating international agreements through broadcasts fostering activity hostile to Czech republic »nd employing “Czech traitors" for the broadcasts. 3.—Violations of the Cznch border near MArianske Lazne, May 4, by American troops stationed in Germany. 3.— Ordering its “puppet, the socalled Bonn republic” to establish special regulations for treatment; of Ugents of western, powers by frontier guards when they illegally cross the Czech frontier. The Czechs protested “most strongly” and said the government “expects” to be informed of remedial measures the U.S. government has taken. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional rain north, showers south tonight Colder north portionMostly cloudy Wednesday with occaalonal rain central portion, showers south. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 55-60 aouth. High Wednesday 68-72 north 72-80 south.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, XAay 22,1951.

French Get Their First Jets - — aoH •m r I . K, « ’ Ik I A. Estl ’.'Sfi Wy ? gK >•.%. IN CEREMONY at Champagne airfield, Rheims, France, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower presents 14 Thunderjets to the French air force, thus activating that nation’s first jet fighter group. French Secretary of State for Air Andre Marpselli is at left. At right is Maj. Andre Gqupy, commander of the French Third Fighter squadron.

Increase In Wages/ Announced By G. E. Nine-Cent Boost Is ] Agreed On With UE General Electric; announced today that an agreement had l>ien reached with the. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) on a 9 cents-an-hour wage increase effective as of last March Ifi, for General Electric employes represented by the union. Such increase before being effective must be approved by the wage stabilization board. Twenty-eight AFL, CIO, independent unions holding representation contracts with General Electric, including UE, have now joined ip endorsing the company’s application currently on file with WSB to put the increase into effect. The company indicated that additional endorsements of the W»B application by other unions representing certain General Electric employes are expected to be filed with the board as rapidly as they are obtained. ‘ Decatur G. E. employes are represented by the UE. The company’s application to. the wage board calls for granting a 9 cent Increase to all hourlypaid employes of the company, subject to consent of the various unions involved in the case of employes’in those particular bargaining knits. A corresponding increase has been asked for all sal/ aried employes. About 60,900 of the company’s employes are being granted the 9 cent increase without the necessity Os WSB approval — even though such increase is in excess of the 10 percent celling over average rates to effect on January 15, 1950— because the increase was called fox under escalation provisions in several union contracts negotiated prior* to January 25, 195(1. The company believes it would be inequitable to deny similar increases to its other employ-: ee, who historically have always been treated on a comparable basis. Field Representative Os Tax Board Here George Gable, of Fort Wayne, field representative of the state board of tax commissioners, is meeting-today with county assessor Albert Harlow and t certain township assessors to consider appeals made to the state. There area total of 16 such appeals made during the first three months of this year and concerning real estate evaluation. This work is separate front the board of review which meets later to consider personal property tax objections.;

BULLETIN Washington* May 22.—(UP) —The navy today /disclosed that two men were killed and 13 wounded when the battleship New Jersey and the destroy Brinkley Base were hit by Communist short-batteries off the coast of Wonkan, Korea. Two Children Burn To Death In Home 1 Mother, Companion \ Taken Into Custody Knox, Ind., May 22—(UP)—Two children were burned to death today when fire destroyed their home at English Lake, 18 miles west of here. ! t t -- Their mother and a male companion with whom she was found an itour after the fire were arrested ;pn the authority of coroner. Raymond Bramman. The victims were\ Henry Michaels, 16 months old, and his 5-year-old brother, Tobey. Mi-s. Viola Ann Michaels, 38, was held, in Knox county jail for questioning. ~ ' Sheriff Lee James said the five Michaels children, ages ranging up to 16, were at home ulone earl/ this morning. The older children got Up to get breakfast and ope of them struck a match to light a kitchen kerosene stove. .. , James said the match apparently ignjted oil which had spilled on the floor / last night when somebody filled the stove tank. The flames enveloped the five-year-old boy and spread to a crib in which the baby was lying. z • / > The older children escaped without injury, They were a 16-year-old girl, a 12-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy. The children’s father Philip, is a dock worker in He was at work when notified of the fire. Acquaintances said he came home on /week-ends but roomed and boarded in Chicago during the week. The family only recently had bought the four-room house where the fire occurred. Sheriff’s deputies said a doctor (Tara To V*ace Si*) Ohio Man Seriously f Injured In Accident RayFE. Lare. 65, of route 2, Convoy; 0., was in serious condition in the Adams county memorial hospital where he was brought following a two-car accident which occurred to Allen county about 8:39 a- m. today, at (he intersection of a county road and state road 10L . The driver of the other car. George Swinford, whose address was given as Baer field, escaped without injuries. Lare suffered a fractured pelvis, fractured left leg, and possible internal injuries. The accident was investigated by state trooper Dan Turner.

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■ . ■ g- .« Properly Valuation _ Increases In County Figures Released By County Assessor The assessed valuation of Adams county’s household goods, cars, farm implements, and livestock increased by 12,493,287 foe 1951 over 1950, according to the comparison table released today by county assessor Albert HaYlow. The figures given by the assessor are county-wide will be* forwarded to the state board of tax commissioners as Adams county’s total personal property taxation. ■ However, certain revisions, though minor, will be made through the board of review, but these figures will stand substantially as they are. In 1950, the assessed evolution of personal property in the county amounted to 19,728,003; in 1951 this is increased to 112,221,290. While the figures refleet j the usual decrease in the horse population, sustaining the usual 2.O(>C reduction that has prevailed the past several years, one surprise jvas injected when the mules in the county increased by about 60e centIn 1950 there wasn’t a mule to be found the township assessors. In 1951 they spotted six of them and assessed them at a total cf 1205, or on the average of |34 apiece. . The horse, once the mainstay of the farmer’s heavy equipment, decreased in number froi*P94s in 1950 valued at $41,955 to 7S? horses this year valued at 133.557. In 1949 there were approximately 1,100 horses, and the previous year almost 200 more. 4 \ At the same time, farm tractors continued to increase in numbers and valuation. In 1950 there were 1,586 trabtors, assessed at $664,879; in 1951, 1,813 were valued at $828,978. more this year by 227 ma(Turn To Page Two) f- “ p " Proposes Boost On Second Class Mai! House Group Votes 60 Percent Boost J ■ \ Washington, May 22 t- (UP) —, The house postoffice committee today voted a 60 percent increase over a three-year period in-rates on second-class mail such as newspapers and magazines. ' The measure gtill must be approved by the house and senate, and. then signed by the president before it becomes law. The proposed increase, which a committee member said was approved by a 17-6 vote, came as a substitute for President Truman’s proposal to double the rates on second class mail in three years. The committee rejected Mr. Truman’s plan aa well as plans to make the increase 75, 80 or 45 percent. ( Then it approved an amendment by Rep. Edward H. kees, R., Kan., for three annual 21) percent rate boosts. s Tlje first increase would be Imposed shortly after the/'bill becomes law, the others annually thereafter. Repreeentatives of newspapers and magazines had said the toost they could stand was about a total 30 percent Increase. The 60 percent boost will yield an estimated $24,000,000 whei and if it becomes fully effective. Tire committee also retained the present minimum second-class rate pf one-eighth of a cent per piece, and continued the free-in-country service, used mostly by small newspapers. The committee earlier approved doubling the charge on penny postcards, as requested by the president ’ . \\ '• A- - ' ■

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Reds Abandoning Ammunition And Supplies In Rout r On Western Front Tokyo, Wednesday, May 23 — (UP)—The Chinese communist retreat turned into a rout in western Korea today. But in the east the Reds attacked with renewed fury 25 miles south of the 38tn parallel. A dispatch from the’ western front said the Red« were abandoning ammunition * and x supplies north of Seoul in their haste to escape pursuing allied tanks and iufantry. ; i ' The allied pujrsult smashed to the imjlir rivers 26 miles northwest of Seoul and only five miles south of the 38th parallel. Censorship * concealed virtually aH hard facts about the fighting in eastern Korea, but one dispatch said communist troops attacking [there ripped a wide gap in South Korean lines between Pugam and the teast coast. This report said the Reds cut the lateral Kangnung-Wonju highway ;in the rugged mountain area east of Pungain. Allied commanders threw reinforcements into the battlb area in an effort to seal off the Red breakthrough; j Front dispatches said the Reds . were either in headlong flight Or out of .contact along a 70-mile front from Munsan east to th# tJ. S. 2nd division area southeast of Chunchon. Air reports said, the fleeing Red troops were carrying all they could with them on their backs and on pack animals, but were forced to leave ammunition and equipment behind to escape. The said however that the Reds were “streaming down the mountains” east of the 2nd division’s] lines “by the thousands.” The Reds were headed for the breakthrough area jin the allied tonq oast; of Pungam. Enemy spearheads already were, south of! Soksa, 25 miles below the 38th parallel, the dispatch said. But censors blacked out the exact width api depth of the communist breakthrough. An Bth army spokesman called the situation, in the breakthrough area “a rat race.” Fresh Chinese troops and tanks were reported moving east and 'southeast:'either to exploit the Soksa breakthrough or for a new assault on the battered but reinforced U; S. 2nd division. The 2nd division was ready for them, but!didn’t expect them to give much trouble. Its commander, Maj; Gen. Clark L. Ruffner, said the division already had broken the back of the Red offensive on the east-ceittrol Jfrorit“The Med units in front of us are no longer capable of launching a potent; attack,” he said.. “The boys havd stopped, them cold.” , 1/ !- 1 ■* L The communists threw two battalions—jl,6oo or more troops — against the 2nd*s line south and southeast of Harigye in a probing attack early today. The division’s big gunk laid a curtain of steel and explosives on both sides and behind the attackers, then systematically annihilated the trapped communists. By 7 a. m., all the enemy had been killed Or dispersed. The 2nd division alone is believed. to have slaughtered 40,000 communist troops since the Reds launched the second round Os their spring offensive last Wednesday. i ; Weil-informed but unofficial sources placed total enemy casualties on all fronts during the first six days of the assault at more than 80.000. i 4 Field dispatches said the/Reds had been stopped cold pr thrown Into retreat everywhere except in the eastern mountains around But there they were pouring south through asap in the allied line. The Reds penetrated northwest, south and southeast of Sogsa toward the vita! lateral highway running from the east coast (Tata T» Page Ptva) [ • \ ■ <■ ; , \