Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1951 — Page 1

Vol XLIX. No. 125. ’

RACE TO WIPE OUT FLEEING COMMUNISTS

_ Ouster Hearing Probing Into Mac Judgment General Collins To \ Return to Testify Before Committee ••[-- ! > j _ BULLETIN Washington, May 26. —(UP) —Gen. J. Lawton Collins said today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur raised the question of bombing Red Chinese targets in Manchuria last Nov. 7 but i? . made “no specific request” for permission to bomb them. ; Washington. May 26 — (UP) — The investigation of Gen. Douglas “ MacArthur’s- recall was .shunted " along a new path today hy disputes over his military judgment and willingness to follow military advice and orders from Washington. * ’ / Gen. J. Lawton Collins. v army chief of staff, was due/back before the senate armed senftces-forelgn relations committee for further questioning about his charge that MacArthur to “read) out” t . from whatever leeway he wks given for conduct of the Korean war. i Collins, in his testimony yesterday./ was the first witness to charge that MacArthur had violated a military Order. This charge 4 was promptly flatly denied by MacArthur, through his spokesman. Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney. Republican backets of the deposed far eastern 4 cdmmander indicated they would seek to show that any over-stepping MacArthur might have done should bf> blamed on foggy or conflicting orders from Washington. •' t-i In addition to the long-evident foreign policy disagreement between MacArthur and Washington, the hearings have developed these disputes over military issues: \ 1. Whether MacArthur ignored the joint chiefs of staff by using troops othei;' than South Koreans to drive near the Yalu river border of Nprth Korea last year. 2. The -deployment and divided * command of troops in Korea last winter which worried the .joint chiefs, although they did not order MacArthur to adopt different tactics. V 3. MacArthur’s rejection of advice. according to Collins’ testimony, to halt the advance of United Nations\ troops last fall a few mites south of the Yalu. 4. Whether the joint chiefs—had they not been curbed by foreign policy restrictions: — would. 1 have favored adopting Mac Ar—f thur’s proposals to bomb communist China, blockade the China coast and use Chinese Nationalist troops. (Collins testified that there were military objections to these proposals too.) , b _ Collins said yesterday that Mac- / Arthur was told last Sept. 27 “as a matter of policy” to use only South Korean troops near the Manchurian and Soviet borders of North Korea. This message was sent to MacArthur when UN forces were sweeping northward, before Red China entered the Korean war. x Collins testified that MacArthur gave bis field commanders authority on Oct. 24 to use other UN troops in the push to the border. When he was questioned about this action by the joint chiefs, he -j said .“military necessity” made it necessary. - \ x . ' Collins suggested that MacArthur could have notified the joint chiefs first ‘and (explained his reasons, \but ‘‘that was not done.” InNew York last night, Whitney made a “categorical denial” that Z any such order" ever went to MacArthur; However, Collins read what were described as para* phrases of the message. Collins said he was not charging "disobedience or insubordination." but that the incident was an example of MacArthur’s action ■ contrary to a policy declaration without telling the joint chiefs about 4t first. _____ 1 INDIANA WEATHER j Clearing and cdpler tonight Bunday fair and not much change In temperature. Low tonight 50 north, 55 south. High Sunday 68-73 north, 7276 south.

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[■ r-L . . ' v ... ■ Bible School Opens Here Monday Morning The daily vacation Bible school will open Monday at the Lincoln school for the anhuat two-weeks school. Classes will be held troin IL 30 to 11 a. ni | daily, Monday through Friday. IfbWever, there wil bq, np classes. Wednesday, MemoriHl Day. U.S. Appeals For Peace In (/. : j \ VI (J f Iran Dispute Warns Oil Dispute Is Grave Threat To Entire Free World \ Tehran, Iran, May 26—(UP) — The United Stites .’warned Iran today that its oil .dispute with Britain (threatens to undermine and weaken'thei entire free world, and appealed oijce raorefor peaceful negotiations: to fettle/ the dispute. .; • • • U. A s.. Ambassador Henry F. Grady handed a memorandum tq Iranian foreign minister Kagher Kazemi idenying t|iat previous American statements on the dispute amounted to t|. S. intervention in Iran’s affairs. \ “It is unfortunate that a public statement ma<|e by this government has been misconstrued by the Iranian gqvernnient as intervention in Iran’s Internal affairs,” Grady’s memo said, J “The United Statds wishes to make clear’that it did not then intend, nor does not intend to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs, nor oppose Irak's sovereign rights or the expressed desires of the Iranian government about teqntrol of Iran’s resources.” ! The memo was in reply to a communication from Iran May 21 id which Iran expressed painful at intervention hi the dispute over nationalization ok the Britilh controlled AnglA Iranian Oil |jompany. \ Thq Iranian memo had referred to thte U. state department’s statement Aof May |B\ opposing Iran’s cancellation! ner contract with the oil (company with--out consulting -the British. “There isj however, a legitimate basis for a|d?ep and ptfaper interest on the part of for solution? of Iran’s oil the memorandum said“A seriohs controversy exists ... a controversyyhich would undermine | the unity, of the free I (Turn T® P®rr Slx» V ■ ■ ■ -"F\ Chicago Site for\ ‘ ' J. '! ' ■>! \ Party Conventions ■ i ■ !’ 'll ■ Democrat (.eaders v Commend President Denver, May 26. —(UP) —Democratic leaders returned to their homes throughout the.ination today to begih laying jthe groundwork for the 1952 presidential campaigns. They wound qp three days of regional meetings yesterday when the national ’cbmmlttee chose Chicago for the convention which will open July 21, 1952. • In other actions, they commended President Truman’s dismissal of General Mac. Arthur, and attacked the Republicans in numerous speeches. Democratic party chairman William M. Boyle, Jr., ended the meetings 'by "opening paign” with a prediction for “another sweeping Democratic victory.” ■ I Boyle said that the; Democratic party and Truman administration were “working faithfully and tirelessly to Achieve honorable peace in the world” while the are “elamorfbg fdr, wars.” Boyle also charged tl)at the GOP has campaigned for 20 years on “slander-smears and ; empty slogans” i because the party has no positive brogram. Chicago was chosen ias site for the 1952 national convention yesterday after feverish bidding between Philadelphia and Chicago The Republicans also will hold their national conclave in the XVindy City. The Chicago delegation was headed by Jacob M. ArV.ey, national committeeman from Illinois and > (Tuna To P«<e Three) b ■ . ■■ A

1 l]|.. ', , ___ - . ; ■ I “ l « 11 »*'- li| . Police Round Up Teen Age Gang f , ROUNDED UP hy police after a wild gang fight in Queens Village. N. 4. some of the teen-age youths are lined up against a diner and “frisked" for weapons. One boy' to death, and at least one was shot and several others were cut and beaten ;as the "Queens Villagw ’Black Angels" clashed with the “Ozone Park Breakers.” The young gang; members fired on police whq tried to break up the battle.

President Renews Appeal For Unify Urges Nation Cease Political Bickering Washington, May 26. —’(UP) — President Truman said last night that “world concord and peace” can be achieved if the nation rallies behind the “faith of our fathers” and cease its “petty political bickering” In a renewed plea for national unity, Mr. Truhian established the rallying poine for unity as the “faith of our fathers” as expressed in the declaration of independence and in the bill of rights.. “This faith.” he said, “is the only hope for peace and freedom in the world. We must believe ip freetipm and justice and fairness.” The president spoke at dedication ceremonies >of the Carter T. Barron memorial amphitheater. The huge outdoqr theater was named in honor of a late Washington theater executive who helped create it to celebrate the capital’s 150th anniversary. The president warned that the nation is threatened by a “new and tertible tyranny” whose “terrible secret police” kidnap youths from their honffes. . In eastern Germany, he said, “thousands of persons have been kidnapped by the Russian secret police. They just' disappear and are never heard of again.” .“They kidnap the i children between ages of 10 and 16 and carry them off ti? Moscow,” Mr. llruman said. “And those children never come home.” Mr. Truman said the “constant dim of our foreign policy” has been a world-wide organization of na-_ tions that will end war and settle disputes peacefully. He added that the United Nations is “the' greatest cause in the world,” and said UN troops in Korea are “fighting to make a \world organization that Will present war in the future." May Oueen Service Here Sunday Night St. Mary's Church Site Os Services \ Queen of May services will be held Sunday at 7:30 o’clock *t St. Mary’s Catholic church. Crowning of the statue of Our Lady will done by Miss Isabelle Kintz,'Catholic high school senior. Her attendants will be Phyllis Omlor and Theresa Kintz, also members of this year’s Catholic high school graduating class.» The crown carrier will be little Patricia Ann Alberding. a member of this year’s first Communion class. The statue carriets will be James VoglewOde, Vincent Faurote, William Braun and Richard Coyne. Procession will include the graduating class, high school members and members of the first Communion • class. ; \-d Services will conclude with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 26,1951.

Junior C. Os C. To Meet Monday Night The regular meeting of the Junior t'bahiber of Commerce will be held at;7:3o p. m. Monday at the city hai). By-laws will be read and important business will be conducted. All are urged to be presents ; I. I ?.-5 ! . ■ _ . . ’•* I 'u . • Roadside Council | In District Meet | District Meeting Is Held At Monroe More "than 80 members of the Fort Wayne district of the Indiana Roadside-Council met in their annual spring conclave at the Monroe Methodist church all day Friday. The Adams county chapter of the Council, of which Mrs. Wilbur Stanleyls president, served as hosts.? 1 3 \ The district group voted at its business session to sponsor a drive to elimiiiate the dangerous bumper-to-bum per driver from the highways. The Fort Wayne district also voted tQi seek to make this project a state-hide project at the state convention to be held in July. Mrs. Sophia 'M. Diefenbaugh, Andrew?, supervisor of the Fort Wayne district, presented the project and gave statistics concerning she number of fatal accident? caused by aqtomoblles driving too closely together on highways. The convention opened at 10 o’clock Friday morning with registration In charge of Mrs. Williafn Kohls and Mrs. Paul Rich, Decatur and Mrs, Edward Thurman, Geneva. Mr?.'Freeman Walters, Monroe gave the. welcoming address and in the absence of the state president, the response was given by Mrs. Diefenbaugh. Rev. Robert Hammond of the Decatur Baptist church bad charge of devotions. During the business session reports of officers were given. Officers attending in addition to Mrs. Diefenbaugh included‘ Mrs B. C. Green, Grant codnty, assistant district supervisor; Mrs. George Brenton, Huntington, secretary, and Mrs. Myrtle Moran. Fort W r ayne, treasurer. A round-table discussion also was held at the morning session which included suggestions for promoting the three points of the organization, highway safety; beautification and conservation. Each county president also made a report. Mrs. Stanley reported for Adams county that the local organization had created eight roadside parks Along county hard-surface highways and also had been active iq promoting safety on highways. The latest roadside parkway was given by Homer Winteregg, president of the Monroe town board. The tables placed in the parks are donated bv .various -lumber dealers of Adams county. Singing at both sessions was led by Mrs. M. J. Neuenschwander, director of the Adams county home economics chorus. At the"close of the morning session, a memorial for two deceased members, Mrs. E.W. Busche of Monroe and Mrs. Ida Hurd, Huntington county, was conducted by Mrs. Robert Elliott, of Huntington county, A luncheon w as served to more than 80 members and guests and Mrs. Diefenbaugh presided at the meeting which followed. Town board president Winteregg wel(Tarn To Pa*e Throe)

British Snarl Drive For Japanese Treaty Oppose Nationalist China's Signature * Washington, May 26 —(UPj'r— Great Britain has refused to sign any Japanese treaty that is signed by Nationalist China. The strong British stand snarled a drive by the United States, to complete the Japanese treaty this year. The dispu|e Is? the real reason why John Foster „ Dulles, U- S. specialist on the Japanese treaty, is flying to London early neat week. British Ambassador Oliver Franks has told the United States that neither the Chinese Nationalists nor the Chinese Communists should sign a Japanese treaty now. He explained that Britain feels that a “general settlement of the China question should be reached before any government signs the treaty in China’s behalf. This stand, according to authoritative sources, has been explained in detail to Dulles and assistant secretary of state Dean Rusk. The United States recognizes the .Nationalist regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek as the legitimate government ot China. Britain recognizes the communists .in Britain at first wanted the Chinese Communists to participate In the treaty-writing, but now, it is learned, has decided to drop this objection. Britain also has dropped plan to write a Japanese treaty that would v leave the Nipponese full freedom to build all the ships they wantIn return for this British concession,the United States is reported to have accepted a British proposal (Turw To Pace Six) Peace Talk Rumors Mounting In London Says U.S. Military ; Men Visit Moscow London, May 26 — (UP) The, London Daily Express said today there was talk in informed circles in Pari A that a group of U. S. military men had flown from Washington .to Moscow. “The group is believed to consist of six American officers, two of whom-r-a major general and a brigadier general—were said to have come recently from Korea,” the dispatch said. j “The visit of the group has been linked With peace talks which have been rumored going on.” Another Express dispatch said Marcus Wallenberg, Jr., a millionaire Swedish banker,' had denied rumors he had been named an Intermediary in a Russian peace move. : , I No Approach Perlin, May 26 — (UP) — Adm. Alan Kirk, U. S. ambassador to Russia, arrived here from Moscow today and said he knew nothing about reports the Soviets had indicated q. willingness to negotiate for peace in Korea. Kirk said - the Soviet government had made no direct or Indirect approach to him on the subject. i\ • . : ' • . '

United Nations Troops Pour Across Parallel In Pursuit Os Fleeing Reds

r - Long BRT Dispute r With Rails Settled Two-Year Dispute Is Ended By Pact V Washington, May 26 — (UP) — Settlement of the two-year dispute between the brotherhood of railroad trainmen and the nation’s carriers will not affect demands of the other three operating unions. a spokesman for one of the groups said today. z The spokesman threw cold water on hopes for a quick industry-wide >y declaring tijnt demands I of tM; engineers, ftremen and conductors fqr a 40-hour week and other benefits would, not be changed. A management negotiator said bargaining would resume next w’eek. The trainmen’s ■ settlement, reached last night, gave about 150,000 workers generous retroactive wage increases' and six rules changes. ” Yardmen got a 33-cent hourly boost and roadmen an hourly hike. The increases included hourly boosts of 12V4 cents to yardmen and five cents to roadmen which the army in February ordered management to pay retroactive to Oct. 1. 1950. ' The settlement ended one\ of the longest and most bitter union disputes in the nation’s history—a dispute which led to two crippling wildcat strides and government seizure of the railroads last August. It ended exactly five jfears after settlement of . the BRT’s last wage wrangle with the railroads. The BRT, which broke the united front thrown up against the carriers by' the four operating brotherhoods when it began separate negotiations with the management, accepted terms based on a formula worked out last fall by Df. John R. Steelman, President Truman’s top labor troubleshooter. \ • The settlement does not mean that the army will return opera-1 (Tar® To Pace Six) Tax Concessions To Big Business Hit Congressman Lashes Influence Peddlers Washington, May 26. —(UP)— Rep. Charles B. Brownson, R„ Ind., charged today that “influence peddlers” have wormed their way into* the “lucrative field” of defense loans and tax concessions. ! The resqjt, he warned, might be development of scandals within the mobilization program “that might even exceed thoserevealed concerning the Reconstruction Finance Corp,” Brownson is a member of the house executive expenditures committee which reported yesterday that defense agencies are shovelling out billions in tax concessions; to the advantage of big business and smart promoters. Mishandling of the concessions, originally intended to encourage defense production, “strongly suggests- influence peddling and polk tical pressure,” Brownson said. In | other congressional developments: Controls — Chairman Burnet R. Maybank of the senate banking committee, said congress may consider a temporary extension of the defense production act. The administration has requested a tougher law to replace the present control law which expires on June 30. But the South Carolina Democrat said a two or three-montb extension of the present law would give congress more time to,look over inflationary problems-'and work out a bill that could win senate and house support. Contracts—A house armed services subcommittee invited* house members to submit any complaints (Tar® T® Page Six) ‘|. < q. : <■ i’

United Stales Does Not Yet Have H-Bomb ; Atomic Authority Says No Assurance Os Achieving Bomb Washington,< May 26 — (tIP) — We still don’t have the H-bomfo. “As a matter of fact,” a congressional atomic authority "’ said today, "we still don’t know whether we ever will have the H-bomb.” An announcement by the atomic energy commission and defense department yesterday said recently completed tOsts at Eniwetok “included experiments contributing to thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs), research.” But the announcement didn’t say or hint thqt any H-bomb explosions had been set off. “None have, been,” the congressman said. r Other official sources confirmed that “experiments contributing to thermonuclear, weapons research” didn’t mean a hydrogen-bomb explosion. One expert , said the Eniwetok experiments “didn’t even prove whether we could or couldn’t build an H-bonrb.” A»: tbe announcement said,, they “just contributed to our research data,” he explained. These sources would not say just what H-bomb research was carried out at the Pacific ocean proving ground. It is known, however, that, atomic? scientists are seeking all the knowledge they can get about means of making an H-bomb g 0 off against the day when an effort may be made to build one. It takes heat —in millions of degrees. Atomic bombs made of plutonium or 'uranium-235 produce that sort of heat- J . Biit the big problem w V ow to 'focus it on the material to\ be heated and maintain It long enough to do the job. Rtars can do it at their high pressure centers, but can man? The principal H-bomb explosive —theory says—-is tritium, which is triple-weight hydrogen. Heat up the nuclei of a couple of tri(Tur® Te Pane Si*) .A * - 1 — I Z' ■' Palmer Johnson Is Scholarship Winner Tri Kappa Award To Decatur Graduate • f • • I Palmer Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, 809 Miebers street, recently declared winner of the Tri Kappa sorority scholarship grant awarded each year, has not indicated the university of his choice yet, but* will haye |IOO toward his education. For that is the amount awarded each yeAr by the Sorority to seniors in either of the two Decatur high schools “for further education." Miss Su Braden, daughter of Mrs. Olive Wherry, ?17 North Second street, and also a member of the recently graduated class of Decatur high school, was declared alternate should Johnson not lal)e advantage of the scholarship offer. When first instigated as a part of the sorority program, the Tri Kappa scholarship award was limited to those girls who wished to make nursing a career. Recently, however, it has been expanded to include "everyone in the city’s schools who wishes to epter college.” * * r i Originally the award wu a loan, Sut three years ago it was granted b an outright gift to winners of the contest which is sponsored by the sorority but' furnished and graded by Louise Brumbaugh, representative of the bureauT of research and measurements of the Fort Wayne public schools.

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Seek To Trap And , ' Annihilate Fleeing , Reds; Many Enemy Troops Giving Up Tokyo, Sunday, May 27.— United Nations troops poured across the 38th parallel on three crumbling fronts today in a race to . wipe \out 80,000 to 100,000 fleeing Reds. 4 : The allies reached Inje and threatened -to seal the main Communist escape hatch on the central front. ' . J ' i; v ■ ? * U.S. marines who sped north to Inje on the east central front re-' ported dhey were capturing scores of Chinese who refused to fight ■ any longer. One officer said UN fdrcee “are taking more prisoners now than ever before.” The battlefields were!; littered with the bodies of enemy dead, slain by a relentless assault by air- ” craft, artillery and machineguns. “There arei so many dead on the hills you have to be careful not to step on them,” one GI told United ■ Press correspondent Glenn A. Stackhouse. J ■ / round-the-clock allied bombings and strafings were interrupted Saturday by a 24-hour Monsoon , rain. United Press correspondent • Robert Vermillion said that it was . the longest single rainfall of the i year on the western front. He said ‘ the boggy roads and slippery hills j were great obstacles to the mechat nized allies, but the Reds were rac- . ing northward through the mire. South Korean forces on the east . coast wpre reported to have occupied Yangyang, six miles north of the parallel. Other forces just west of the ROKS were pressing close at the heels of "thousands” of retreating Chinese. American and Frendh elements '. secured and expanded the bridgehead southwest of Inje, but they were halted by heavy eqemy fire, 2,000 yards north of thel town. Chinese apparently had moved in during the night with an estimated regiment, Fighting continued at nightfall Saturday. Two Chinese corps—about 60,000 men—'not committed in the recent spring offensive were believed in front of marine positions in the Inje; area. « A task force which reached the outskirts of Inje liberated 12 American prisoners of war. ’Seven were from the let marine division and ' the. rest, including a lieutenant, were from the U.S. 2nd division. . Vermillion . reported that allied troops drove through the wind and rain on a broad front north of Seoul almost to the 38th parallel Satur- ■ day and sent a tank patrol beyond it. The tanks knocked out What appeared tq be a Russian-type T-34 medium tank. “The Communists apparently are retreating to their’ main assembly area in the valley that lies in 1 the center of the Chorwon-Kumhwa-Pyon g gang ! triangle," Vermillion sat 4. ' I UN units swept north seven miles and more all Along tbe 120-mlle Korean front. • F Powerful tank columns spearheading the advance had hoped to trap the retreating Communists south of the parallel, but front reports said most of Ahe, enemy had escaped across the pre-war frontier with the allies in close pursuit. • Swarms of U.S. fighters and bombers raked the Reds with bombs, rockets, bullets and flaming jellied gatollne in an attempt to slow thelf r Withdrawal long enough for the Bth army to overtake them. < At least one new crossing of the parallel was reported. A UJS. Bth army tank-infantry task force drove across rhe old border on the central (T«r® To P®«e Three) Chicago Man Killed When Struck By Train Valpariso, Ind., May 26 —(UI?) Charles J. Balauskan, about 30, Chicago, was killed today when he ' walked around crossing gate* And was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad freight train at Kouts, 10 miles south of here. Police beSeved Balauskan was a railroad \ orker. j '■/ ' ' z'