Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 122.

REDS ABANDON COSTLY KOREA OFFENSIVE

Huge Air Force Plane Crashes

At Least Three Men Are Killed At New Lisbon Huge Plane Crashes In Pasture Near New Castle Today New Lisbon, Jud., May 23 —(UP) v —A huee C-124 air force troop and cargo plane crashed ? and burned in -a pasture today, killing at least three persons and injuring at least -j. six others. - , The pilot told a .nurse he “encountered mechanical difficulties and had to crash-land” before anyone could bail out. The plane, w Douglas Globemaster with a wing span of 173 feet /a and capable Os carrying 200 fully equipped troops, left WrighfrPatterson air base at Dayton, 0., with 12 aboard, an hour before it crashed in a pillar of plames and smoke on the George Ball farm. Wreckage was scattered fever a wide area. Witnesses said the plane hit the tops of trees in a woodlot, veered to the\ earth and /bounced several times across the pasture. Then it burst with a loud whoosh into a blazing inferno that trapped some of the passengers in-;'-xv side? ;{h ■ One man, identified by a state police trooper/ as -“James Stelyn,” appeared to be little hurt. Two hotfrs after the craWi, the, wreckage still burned and Officers made no attempt to probe the hot » m «tal. Stet® police said nine of the 12 were accounted for. There were six survivors, five of them in Henry county hospital. Among the injured was the pilot, three other air force and two civilians. |V - v An air force major assigned to investigate the" crash said he believed there were seven bodies in the plane. He would not give his name. He said he arrived at the P ' figure by subtracting-the number of survivors in the hospital- from the number known y td be aboard. . But his report conflicted with state police and other reports saying one survivor was hurt so slighting he did not require hospitalization. The plane was on an experimental flight with seven air force men and five civilian technicians 1 aboard. 'The weather was warm and sunny and. there was a moderately brisk breeze as the big plane roared low over New Lisbon, seemingly in difficulty. Witnesses said it tried to land in a field but overshot, hit- the trees and bounced over the ground like ? -a rubber ball, scattering chunks of wreckage each time it touched the earth. ' At Henry county hospital, where • 1 five of the injured were taken, Miss Dorothy Septer, superintendent of nursep, said all suffered “severe burns about the face, hands, arms ./ and upper extremities,” and “such ’ shock I don’t know if they will die.” She said she was “concerned" about thfkcondition of two of them. The plape, of a type the air force said was the largest now ordered in quantity,, fell on-a level farm and burned apparently as the pilot tried to land. / * / “ Witnesses said the plane appear(Tara Ta rare Six) . 4 —. PTA Conference To Be Held Thursday > The Lincoln parent-teachers association will sponsor an all-day conference at/ the Lincoln school Thursday, opening at 10 a.m. This v ill be an information conference directed by Mrs. George Grunewald. Fort Wayne, district director of PTA, and several of her board. i members. / j ( All executive boards and committee® of parent-teachers association in Adams county are invited. About 25 reservations have been made for out-of-town participants L for the special group luncheon at — noon. .I $ INDIANA WEATHER *_/£ £alr and cool tonight with possible local frost In muck lands of extreme north portion. Sunny and warmer Thursday. Low. tonight 40 to 48 except lower In muck lands. High - Thursday 75 to 80.

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Atlantic Hurricane Is Moving Eastward Washington, May 23 —(UP) — The Atlantic hurricane was movin? eastward att 15 th 20 miles an hour 300 miles north and a Ijttle of Bermuda at 4 a. m. GST today, the weather bureau reported. Winds of about 80 miles an hour were reported near the center/ of the hurricane and gales extended outward at about 130 miles an hour. The wpather bureau said the storm "is* expected to continue its movement toward the east and caution is advised Sil shipping Ln its i path. Vote To Ease Additional Tax On Individuals House Group Favors Lighter Tax Than Originally Planned Washington, May 23. —(UP) — The houpe ways and means committee voted today to increase taxes on individuals in the low' income brackets only 12 % percent, insead of 15 percent as previously approved. The committee also voted to stiffen the \ excess profits tax law On corporations so they will be reto pay about >730,000,000 a year in additional excess profits taxes, i ■ The decision to lighten tho additional tax burden on persons in the lower income brackets came as the committee virtually completed its work in preparing a new tax bifl. Committee members said they hoped to have a bijl ready for the house tp consider early in June. The legislation mijst clear,both the ! house and the senate and be signed by president before it can become law. ! i The effect Os thp committee’s decision today was to approve a 12 % percent “defense”-tax that all tax-’ payers would be required to pay in addition to the taxes they now pay. • / | 1 -, r For example, a person who pays >IOO in taxes now would pay an additional >12.50 under the commit-tee-approyed plan. ' This 12 % percent increase was voted in | lieu of a previously approved p|an for increasing individual inconje taxes three percentage points ini each tax bracket. This would hale amounted to a 15 percent increase in the' first bracketpersons with taxable incomes of up (Terx To Page Six) I ' ' Saturday Is Poppy Day In This City > . ■ j i '* / Legion Auxiliary To Sell Poppies Saturday will be Poppy day in Decatur and throughout the nation, Mrs. Lawrence Rash, chairman oi the American Legion auxiliary Poppy day corpmittee, .sponsors of the observance’|here, has announced. A On that I day everyone will be Mskef to vfeat a memorial poppy in tribute to /America’s war dead and to contribute to the welfare of disabled veterans and needy children of veterans. “With our country preparing to defend itself against new dangers, (wearing of the poppy will have Increased significance this year,'' Mrs. Rash said. “The little red memorial: flower reminds us of the sacrifices made for (he freedom and security of America in the past, and gives us inspiration for service to our country', in the present emergency.” j < The poppies which will be distributed have been made by disabled veterans, which has been the practice for several years. Thousands of disabled veterans in the various hospitals have thus been, given work la the program. t \ Contributions made by those who buy the poppies form the principal source otJteupport tor the Legion and Auxiliary program for rehabilitatibn(Jit was pointed out

Bradley Cites Danger 01 Russ Strike In Iran Warns Os Dangers In Middle East In Senate Testimony Washington. May 23. —(UP) — Gen.' Omar N. Bradley, said today there is “danger” that the Russians will strike in Iran while U.S. power to counter such aggression Is curbed by its commitments ip Korea. ■ The chairinan of the joint'Chiefs ipf staff vyarned of danger in the middle east as he testified before ’ the senate committee investigating Gep. Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal from the far eastern command. The five-star Bradley had said earlier that MacArthur's proposals for /Expanding Korean war against Red China would not be “decisive” and would risk setting off World War 111. This evoked questions by Sen. Owen Brewster, f R.. Me., as to the global impact of the Korean war on American, fighting power. ’ /'Bradley was asked if the “ap- ' parent imminence” Os trouble in / .Iran makes more desirable than be- ' fore a “liquidation” of the fighting in Korea. Iran and Great Britain are at Odds over Iranian determina- ' tion to nationalize British oil properties. Russia is said to have sizeable forces oh the Iranian border. Answering Brewster's ‘question, Bradley said that . the longer we fight in Korea “the less we are prepared to meet any movement anywhere else ” , I - “I would prefer not to say as Iran, because I aih not too sure that has too much application In our ’ case,” Bradley said. Bradley also testified that: . 1. MacArthur’s expanded war proposals wfauld not be “decisive” I I To Pace Six) (Slate Os Officers Nominated By Lions Annual Election To Be Held Next Week > ; ,V. ? -• A slate of officers to serve the . Decatur Lions club for the coming ( year was submitted to the members i* in the report of the nominating committee at the regular meeting Tuesday. The election of officers , will be' held next week. L.E. Anspaugh, club president, was in charge of the Tuesday program at which time he announced that tentative plans have been made for the picnic to be held at the last meeting of the sunimer, June 26. While the time and place will be announced later, Anspaugh did say that all Lions and their families are invited to attend. i The club president gave a short talk and showed films —“Functional Photography”—during the meeting, the film produced by the Eastman Kodak company, and. dealing largely with the modern uses that photography can be applied in industry, the man)’ ways photography can be put to use to save time and increase efficiency. Glenn Mauller is unopposed as nominee for president of the Lions club, according to the report of the committee. It is customary that the first three offices of the organization be without opposition in elections; officials are upgraded each year. . . Consequently, Thurman I. Drew, candidate for first vice-president, and Watson Maddox, second vicepresident, are unopposed for these offices. , Contests will be conducted for the other offices, however Alva W. Lawson and Virgil Doyle are nominees for third vice-president; Robert A. Anderson and Merrit Alger, secretary; John Halterman and Richard Macklin, treasurer. ■ / Ron Parrisn/and Bob Wortqman are candidates for tail-twister; J. Clark Mayclin and Vaughn Miller, Lion tamer. Two directors, each to serve four years, will be selected from the panel including Clyde Butlen Lynford Bracey, Bill Gass and Robert Krick. <

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 23, 1951.

Press Women Honor Margaret

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AT A FAREWELL TEA in her honor given by the Women’s Press club In Washington, Margaret Truman stands with Perle Meste (left), U. s. minister to Luxembourg, and Ruth Montgomery IrighO. club president. Margaret leaves May 26 on European trip. /

Further Plans For *1 County 4-H Show detail More Plans At Meeting Tuesday The 4 V H club catalog will be open to all wishing to buy space, stated Forrest Sprunger, route 1, Berne, chairman of advertising and display space committee for the 4-H club show. The only exception noted by Sprunger was that advertising that could, not be accepted would be from firms that cannot cater to minors. In the meeting of 4-H committee heads in Monroe Tuesday nigint, Springer further stated that all copy sot advertising should be in his hands not later than dune 14. His committee will be made up of the township Farm Bureau chairmen. Paul Lobsiger of Monroe heads the 4-H tent committee. The number arid - size of tents was determined by the number of 4-H boys and girls entered in the various projects, such gs dairy, beef, poultry swine, and rabbits. Homer Winteregg is chairman of the group that will erect tables in the school for 4-H girls exhibits. He stated that every room of the school .would be needed for the girls’ exhibits. He expects to house the 4-H electric display in the pre fabricated building. Mrs. C. W. R. Schwartz and Mrs. Albert Belneke stated that the food tent will be located on the north side of the school. is the same location as was used last year. ' l' Gene of Monroe will head a committee that will plan for games the younger boys and girls. Lester Adler, speaking for the livestock producers association, said his group would help erect the (Tnra To Page Six)

Flying Saucers Back In News, Seen In Two States

By United Press Flying saucers, be they real or imaginary, were back witli us today. / - . . \ They appeared, according to the people whq claimed they saw them, over Kansas and Minnesota yesterday. j About 50 residents at the eastern end of Rainy Lake near International Falls, Minn., said thev saw a “crystal ball” which performed like “a huge humming bird” as |t flashed across the skies. U was joined later by another "crystal ball.” , > f And an American Airlines pilot said a "blush white star played tag” with his plane at an altitude of 21,000 feet southwest of Dodge City, Kans. The air/ force has investigated many reports of weird aerial phenomena and has denied finding any evidence of “flying saucers.” The Minnesota observers said their “crystal ball” dashed across the sky at speeds "in excess of 700 miles an hour, “then stopped suddenly and hung motionless above the lake. Then It shot upwards 200 feet in » split second, they said. Suddenly, t with the/sun's rays

Two Jet Fighters Crash, One Killed Scott Field, 111.. May 23 — Two F-80 jet fighter planes crashed Close together yesterday and one pilot was killed. The planes went down near Sparta, 111., after their pilots rad ioed that they had run into “turbulent air.” Lt. P. E. Hadley, one of the pilots. bailed out and landed safely. The other, whose name was withheld, went down with his plan?. :' . »■ -■ Workman Injured At Decafur Plant / A Aniseto Canci no Is Injured Tuesday Physicians at the Adams county memorial hospital were to take further, more extensive X-rays of Aniseto Cancino, of 809 North Eleventh street, who was Injured Tuesday while working at the Central opya company. Cancino, after preliminary examinations, is found suffering from multiple bruises and abrasions after being put through the mixer in the feed mill of the plant \ The injured man is an equipment cleaner at the piant. He was inside the mixer and was taking his exit from it when someone inadvertently turned the switch on, not knowing that Cancino was inside. When physicians arrived, Cancino was lying on a stretcher where he had been placed after being extricated from the mixer. Given emergency treatment there, he wad then rushed to the hospital, where his condition is considered “not serious?’

reflecting from it, the ball moved toward a nearby cloud where It was joined by a second “crystal ball,”, the witnesses said. They hoverbd around the area for 15 r minutes before flying off. ' . Meanwhile, 700 miles / away, American Airlines Ciqpt. W. R. Hunt watched the “bluish white star” which, he said, dashed a round his plane at 50Q to 1,000 miles an hour. “The star backward and .forward, then up and down, and then seemed to come to a stop,” Hunt said. “Then it would complete the pattern over again but. would approach closer- than five miles .ipY-|lane.” Hunt, flying from Phobnix to Chicago, said he was flying at 270 MPH about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City at the time. Hunt broadcast a play-by-play description of the “star’s” flight to ground radio operators, including one at Garden City, Kans. He watched the "star” for 20 minutes before it swooped tp about 3,500 feet below his plane and then drifted out of sight to (Term T® Page Six)

Red Army Abandons Its Most Costly Offensive; Allies Pursue Chinese ’i . ■ - *• . ' -• i ■ L .ill. 'll • ■ ; '!'■* ~ i I 1

U.S. Policy Toward China Is Unchanged To Participate In | UN's Negotiations Washington, May 23 —(UP) — Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today that the United States would participate in any U. N. negotiations with Red China to settie the Korean war despite a statement by one of his top aides that the Peiping regime “is not Acheson at a news conference also said emphatically that the United States’ policy toWard the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists was not changed in a controversial speech made in New York last Friday by his top assistant on for eastern affairs, assistant secretary of state DOan Rusk. Rusk said the Peiping regime may be\a colonial Russian government, that it was not Chinese and that the United States will continue to support the Nationalist government on Formosa Acheson said at the same time that he did not despair of hope that' their might be a future settlement of the Korean war though this government haa received no peace feelers from the communist?. In connection with Rusk's statement that the Peiping regime M is not Chinese.” reporters asked whether this' government wou.d consider negoAting with the Chinese CpmmunimL Acheson said negotiations, if there are any, would be with those who are causing the trouble —that would be the Chinese. He added that if China can be brought to the point of negotiotlons, they would have to occur between China, and the United Na(Tarn To Page Six) Mail Stolen From Railroad flatform Gary, Ind., May 23 —(UP) — Postel Inspectors were called in today to help find thieves who stole nine mail bags from a York central railroad loading platform in downtown -Cary. Postal officials said the thieves cut the bags open and rifled them yesterday after carrying them to a nearby right-of-way of the Elgin, Joliet and (Eastern railroad. They said they didn’t know if anything of value was in the mail. , Daily Bible School Opens Next Monday Decatur Churches To Sponsor School Plans are progressing for the annual union daily vacation Bible school, which will begin Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock in the Lincoln school building. The school is planned by the religious education committee of the associated churches, and will be under the direction of Mrs. Russell Owens, who has headed the school for the past several years. The complete program, including the list of faculty members, Will be announced plater. Ministers of the various participating churches will assist in the school either as instructors or as leaders in the opening worship assembly. The school will begin May 28, and will continue each day, except Saturday and Sunday, until June’ >. The hours will be B:3Q until 11 (t is planned that a program of general interest and display of achievements will be arranged for parents and all interested persons Friday evening, June 8. It is hoped that the children planning to attend can be on time to attend the opening assembly at 8:30 next Monday. All Interested parents are urged to plan for the attendance of their children In the school. - .

No Opposition From U.S. To Iran Seizure Acheson Says Iran I Oil Nationalization Not To Be Opposed Washington, May 23.—(UP) — Secretary of State Dean Acheson » said today the United States' does t not oppose Iran’s desire td control its own oil resources. Iran has voted to nationalize oil properties owned by the AngloIranian Oil Co. in a move that has plunged the middle east into a new crisis. f Acheson said at a news conference he was surprised by the latest Iranian note to the United States because America did not oppose the stated desires of the Iranians regarding control of their i resources. The United States, he i said, has no intention of chai- . lenging Iran’s sovereign tights. The United States, it was iearn- . ed, has assured Iranian ambassai dor Nasrallah Entezam th^t!, America will go along with the na|lon- . alisation. The United States, hawi ever, would likti to have Briton» I c perate the oil facilities I even [ after nationalization. Entezam called at the state de- . cartment late yesterday to protest against U.S. “opposition” 4o nationalization. Assistant secretary of state George C. McGhee told , him the “opposition” does not exist. The latest tiftiover Iranian oil was touched off by a state department announcement on Friday. It called for both Great Britain and Iran to negotiate their differences Iran interpreted this td mean that the United/titates opposed Iran’s decision to nationalize properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Iran promptly and formally reminded the United States to mind lite own business. This encouraged Iranian demonstrators who yesterday poundel through the street of Teheran to denounce the, United States and Great Britaiq, Hosein Makki, tecretary general tit the National Front, charged ip a speech that the U.S. proposal for negotiation was like sticking .ja knife in Iran’s back. The United States, trying to 'pacify the touchy Iranians,! no * says it wants Anglo-Iranian negotiations—not necessarily on the question of natfonalizatiod, but on terms for continued British (Twrx To Pox* Six) — — / Over Half Million Is Paid In Taxes | l Treasurer Lists Spring Moro than a half millioii dollars in taxes was paid : for the • spring installment, according to the figures released todky by county treasurer Richard D. Lew ton. Altogether a total of >578,898.77 was entered into the four tex duplicate books by the treasurer’s office. These books have been balanced and will be forwarded <o the county auditor’s office for a further check. Jf; . > ■ The two figures, that obtained by the county treasurer and the County auditor, inust coincide. Once completed, the books will be returned to the treasurer’s office and prepared for fall tax’ pay- i meats. ’ Lewton estimates that the fall installment should ; 'Tun close to i >580,000,” making the year's (total slightly more than >1,000,000. < “The fall payment will undoubt- 1 edly be less than/this spring for I many taxpayers paid the entire 1 amount the first time,” he said. <

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Communist Forces Pull Back Toward 38th Parallel'As | Drive Abandoned I Tokyo, Thursday, May 24—(UP) — The Red army abandoned itsmost costly offensive of the Korean yrar Wednesday and pulled back toward the 38th parallel. Counter-attacking allied tanks and infaritiy'men pursued the hastily retreating Chinese in a general adtande that carried to within four miles of North Korea on the western front and carved great chunks out of the Red breakthrough corridor in the east. 'Only the continuing blackout of information from i, the hard-hit South Korean divisions on the eastern front restrained U. S. Bth. army officers from (proclaiming complete victory in the second round of the communist spring offensive. The North Korean Pyongyang radio claimed for the third straight night that three South Korean division* on the eastern front —the 3rd, 9th and Capitol—were sur- ! rounded and being destroyed. , The general allied counterattack was paced 1. by the fighting . U. S. 2nd division, which gained . four mors miles in central Korea. The 2nd divisions troops made . their four-miie gain in the first 12 . hours of their attack and captured / Hangye, J« mUss east k>f Chun- - chon. * From there the American, Dutch . and French infantrymen wheeled . east into the flank of the shrinking Red i breakthrough corridor Sound Spksa and cut the comunists' main supply route in ths jagged eastern mountains. Other troops crossed the Naechon river between Hangye and , Pungnam without opposition and I gained six miles during the day. Front dispatches said the Chinese were falling back in great haste in efforts to get out of range of allied artillery./- I . , Swift allied advances wiped oulL all gains scored by the commun-' ists in the second round Qf their spring offensive along a 70-mile front from Hangye west to the Seoul area. I \ To the left of the 2nd division, the U. S. Ist marine division advanced two miles against light I enemy resistance and reported the - .Reds still Were fleeing north across the Soyang river. The were one of five American divisions disclosed by ' the U. S. Bth army to bfe/engaged in the current drive. The others are the Ist cavalry division and the 24th and 25th infantry clivisions. Their precise fronts vfere not revealed. I Also in action are the Ist South Korean division, Siamese troops, British! commonwealth forces and the Turkish brigade, the Sth army said. Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond, commander of the U. S. 10th corps, said bis entire corps was on the offensive and making excellent progress. . “The enemy has taken such a (Tatra Ta Page Six) I " Take Applications For Aquatic School C. I. Finlayson, chairman of first aid, water safety and accident preventtop for the Red Cross, announces that applications are now being accepted for the national aquatic school at , Camp Limberlost, LaGrange. i Applicants must be at least 18 vears of age,,, either male or female, and shoqld be good swimmers for the water safety course. This year special emphasis is being placed on first aid instruction. Those qualifying will receive instructors certificates and will be certified as first aid instructors ■. in the civil defense program The Adams county Red Cross chapter defrays the expense of the course for each trainee. Those Interested are requested to ctintket the Red Cross home service tiff ice. ■ ■ ■ i