Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIXJ No. 129.

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Acheson Fights Publication Os ;■) “ .fK'f■ ' : ■ I. ’1 Official Paper Formosa Document* Brings Wrangling j At Ouster Hearing Washington, June I.—(jin— Secretary of state Dean Acheson fought today to -prevent publication of an official document in= which his department discounted the importance of Formosa. Senator* investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ouster got igto a long wrangle over whether to overrule him. - a The argument blazed on so long that their meeting was recessed without a vote on the issue. Senators a vote would be taken during the afternoon sessibn. Acheson appeared before the senate armed serviqes»foreign relations committee prepared to defend far eastern policies which culminated in the “limited war” now being fought in Korea, • Committee members immediately began quaftelini> over whether to , publish the confidential document I of December. 1'149, in which -the state department foreign service members on Formosa policy. ■ „ Sen. Charles V. Tobey, R-. N.H’, reported on leaving (the hearing room that the publication Issue would be settled by a committee vote. - The controversial Formosa docume.pt was first revealed to the world in a Unitied Press dispatch /' from Tokyo on Jan. 3, 1950. Phe dispatch disclosed that the state department had advised foreign ' ] ktarvice members that Formosa was likely to fall soon to the Chinese Reda. The* document instructed 7 them to sell the idea that the big coastal island was not important to U.S. security. Despite the pnited Press despatch. Acheson strongly opposed publication at th|e document’s text, according to senators who attended the session. Tobey said the secretary held that "the best interest of the country Would be served” by withholding the docuoient. J, Tobey said he wculd "go along with that” and vote against publication. _ One sfenatbr raid Acheson told the committee te would drop ihte - objections if the committee goes ahead and votes Ito publish the ' 2 document. He conceded, it was said, that military security considerations are wt involved. But he argued that publication nevertheless would not in tbe national interest. It also was repirted that Acheson told the senators that the United Press dispatch published only about one-third of the document. Unpublished . sections, -it was said, dealt critically with th* Chinese National--Ist regime and expressed doubts that the Nationalist could of would ~ fight effectively to hold Formosa r in event of a showdown with the Communists. The memorandum was prepared -4: by state department information officials. Since then American policy toward Formosa has shifted. The administration once refused to send a military mission and more arms aid to Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist troops on the island. Now, how■7 ever, arms are bejng sent and a U.S. military mission already is on Formosa. ’ 7•• ■ Acheson, it wan said, emphasized that the document was meant only to give U.S. information officers the most logical line to follow after Formosa’s expected falk Formosa did not fall, however, and some senators said Acheson objects to publication now of criticism of the Chiang regime made more than two . years ago. MacArthur and the military chiefs here contend Formosa is of vital strategic importance to th® United States, The administration - recently dispatched a military mission to Chiang Kai-Shek to help prepare his Ch|nese Nationalist garrison on Formosa to defend the big island off the China coast. But Republican*contend that the ■ etate department in the past was ready to let Formosa go to the Reda. j /« „ .\. I INDIANA WEATHER Partly clout ly» warm and humid tonight and Saturday, with scattered thundershowers extreme north tonight and north and west Saturday. Low tonight 64-68. ; High Saturday 85-90. I' 7" : r ■ ■ P i■' t .V. . . ; p ' ■

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f Guest Speaker kL * / d HI Dr. Clyde W. Meadows

11 Spiritual Emphasis f Speaker Is Named / ■ ' Ji ■ : J V Dr. Clyde Meadows Here In January The Decatur ministerial association today made advance announcements regarding plans for (he annual spiritual emphasis j week, Which will be held in this’city next January 6 through 13. This special week of services was previously held in November of each year. Guest speaker for the services will be Dr. Clyde W.H Meadows, United Brethren pastor of Chambersburg, Pa. he is pastor of a church where the average- attendance at church school is nearly I.OOOj He is chairman of the department of evangelism pf the Pennsylvania council of churches and is frequently engaged in community spiritual emphasis week programs. A special concert by the Taylor University, choir, of Upland, will be presented on the January 6 opening night, with Dr. Meadows speaking, each of the seven Succeeding nights. t I ' The ministerial association expressed the hope that all organization heads avoid any conflict of meetings With this special week, with the early announcement of the dates aimed at aiding in this cause. The committee in charge, of arrangements for \the spiritual emphasis week includes the - Rev. Samuel Emerick. First Methodist church, chairman; the Rev.jF. H. Willard, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren, chufch. and th| Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy. Church pf God. \. , ' i . « I r ' j.]. ■ Enemy's Losses Fot Week Over 100,000’ • I I * Casualty Estimate Announced By Army Washington, June 1 — (UP) — The army said today the Chinese and. North Korean cbmmhnists suffered an estimated 108,006 Casualties during the Jweek ending Wednesday, May 30. U , A spokesman said the figure is subject’to later correction. The army estimated the total casualties suffered by the enemy since the beginning of the Korean war , to date at 1,133,410.* This fiffi ure also Is subject to correction The defense department; said yesterday that American battle casualties in Korea amounted to 67,127 whose next of kin had been notified through Friday of last week. It was a rise of 611 over the figure of a week before. But the figure reflects totals some three weeks old —the time it takes to notify next of kin. The army estimated the enemy lost 682.238 in battle casualties and 149,417 as prisoners of war through May 16. It also estimated 138.880 enemy 'non-battle casualties through April 10. These figures have been adjusted and corrected. Unadjusted battle casualties and captured for the period covering May 17 through May 30 were 162. 875, the spokesman said. The last figure for total unadjusted casualties suffered by the enemy, covering the period through May 23, was 1,025,404. j s ’ ■, ■:. ■ - . J J ' '

Truman Urges Britain, Iran Settle Dispute Personal Appeal To Britain And Iran AHp Over Oil Dispute Tehran* Iran, June 1 — (UP) -rUyS. Ambassador Henry F. Grady called on Premier Mohamed Mossadegh today, f arid Iranian sources said he delivered a personal letter from President Truman urging a peaceful settlement of Iran’s dispute with Britain over the AngloIranian Oil Co. \ \lmmediately after Grady left, the aged and ailing premier called an emergency session of his cabinet. Mossadegh was reported to have informed his ministers that he would advise parliament of \ the contents of Mr. Truman’s 1 letter tomorrow. Iranian sources said Grady informed British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd of the contents ot Mr. Truman's letter. Grady has been urging moderation on the Iranian government. He has asked Mpssadegh to negotiate a settlement with the ojl company, instead of' merely goirlg ahead with nationalization plans without consultation. The American and British embassies refused to comment op the iette?. 1 1 I ,' Mossadegh and Grady lunched together earlier this week and talked over the oil dispute wltn Shepherd. The premier was understood yesterday to have informed parliament he would stand by the decfc sion to proceed at once with nationalization of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil company regardless of British protests. '. Personal Appeals Washington. June 1— (UP) —- President Truman has made personal appeals to Britain and Iran to settle the Iranian oil dispute by friendly negotiation, administration sources said today. The unusual presidential, ap(T«ri Te race Six) Irish Extremists - . I Bomb Customs Posts Protest Visit Jof Queen And Daughter Belfast, Northern Ireland, June I.—(UP)-Mrisb extremists bombed two customs posts on the border between Northern and Southern Ireland today as a protest’ against a visit to Northern Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. ' The queen and her younger daughter arrived for a state visit amid unprecedented security measures taken as the result of two earlier bombing plots. The two border bombings occurred before the Queen and Prinpess arrived to receive the biggest welcome ev/r given visiting royalty by Northern Ireland. ' Police said time bombs were planted in the customs posts of, Kileen and Tullydonnel early to-, day, but exploded when both posts were unoccupied. No damage was caused at Tullydonnel, but the Kileen customs station was damaged by the blast and tire. Sbme documents were destroyed. \ 0 . " ' ■ ? ■ G.E. Choir To Close / Season Sunday Night The ' Decatur General Electric’s Aeolian choir will close its 1950-51 season Sunday evening, with * a public concert at 7:30 o’clock at she Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Tita choir, directed by David Embler, will present a varied program of sacred compositions, augmented by organ selections by Harold Mumma, organist' of Trinity church, and Miss Helaine Foley, soprano soloist with *he choir. Immediately after the sacred program, the choir will adjourn to the church social rooms, where they will present a short program of popular and secular numbers. Poth programs are cpen to the public. ‘ ' /' ■ -7

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 1, >951.

1 — yrw. , . — J Testifies In Mac Probe ■ ■ ADM. FORREST P. SHERMAN, (right) chtaf of naval operations, is shown conferring with Senator Leverett Saltonstall, (R) Mass., member of the armpd forces service committee. Sherman had just completed his testimony before the committee, saying thatUhe situation Ini Korea last December was so grave that U. S. theater commanders were warned to “increase their readiness" for "general war.”\ i ■ -■ - - --------- j i .

_ • > n • Draft Compromise Approved By Senate Senator McCarthy Lone Negative Vote Washington, June \^2^(UP) — The senate today approved a compromise draft and universal military training bill with only Set. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., recorded against it. Passage of the long-delayed bill was by voice Vote and no “noes” were heard. However. McCarthy said in advance r that he wanted to be recored as opposing ,the measure to broaden the draft while the United States declines to accept the help of all available troop' trom other countries. ‘ ' He cited specifically Chiang KaiShek’s Chinese Nationalist troops .on Formosa, the Spanish army; and the manpower of western Germany. I ' The compromise hill, drawn up by a j house-senate conference committee after the two house* passed differing versions, now goes to the house, where a vote is set fpr next Thursday. House approval seemed certain. i The bill: would lower the bottom . draft age' from 19 to IStt, but would require each local board to call first its available men 19 through 25. It would extend the draft term from 21 to 24 months. The bill also would set up the : framework of a post-emergency (TvrM To Pace Three) h" ■ •it j » 65 Are Enrolled In Union Chapel School Sixty-five pupils are enrolled in the vacation Bible school at Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, pastor, aoyiounced today. This year’s enrollment is an in- ‘ crease of about 25 over last year. For extra curricula activities, the children have a leather purse proj ject in progress, Rev. Norris stated. Rev. Norths is dean of the school. Four teachers and eight assistants comprise the staff. 5 1.1) 'J ' 1 I[ ‘ Commissioners To Meet Here Monday 1 Members of the board of county •ommissioners will meet in regular session Monday when they will award the gasoline contract for the next six months, the grocery contract for the next three and award claims accrued during the past month. I . The gasoline contract, now serviced by the Pearl Oil company of Berne, isfor approximately 35,000 ■ gallons of gasoline to be used by ’.the county highway department. The grocery contract, now held ■ by Spiegel’s Market, of this city, i is to supply groceries for the coun- > ty home for the next three months.i Commissioners will also receive . bids for a 20 cubic foot frozen food ► locker for use In the Adams county home. \ ; ; .

. . . \ - T- _ BULLETIN Washington, Jun«l —(UP) — Gen. Omar N. Bradley left by air for Europe today to get “first hand Information” about the progress of the North Atlantic defense ' Many Preparations for Scout Camporee Committee Reports Show Scope Os Job r While much of the preparations I for t|ie forthcoming Boy Scout > camporee will go unnoticed by the > trample of probably 1,500 boys, • the recent reports of the various • committees nevertheless point up how vital such preparations are. - J To Care for, house, feed and geni erally entertain Boy Scouts from c nine counties in the Anthony i Wayne council could seem an insignificant job. it nonetheless re- > quires the administrative ability > of almost a score of men. An idea of the size of the proi ject and what must be done be- ; fore the camp can even be Opened I is illustrated in the reports of two of the committees at a \ recent i meeting presided over by general : chairman \i)f the event, Clarence > Ziner. i For example, the committee on > quarters and decorations, headed. by Paul Hancher and Bob Banta, i a title which is self-explanatory, ' must design and decorate the entrance, prepare for occupancy the many headquarters including registration office, judging quarters, first aid station, concession stand, and the like.\ v '• This committee has one final duty it has > supplied the ‘ necessary signs: to have a sign painter on the to meet any emergency. Other emergencies will be handled by ‘the health and safety com- ’ mittee with Dr. Joe Morris in charge. This committee will be ’ responsible for arranging for a doctor to be on call at all times during the camporee, and appoint 1 appropriate personnel as first aidera.. ■' j' ‘ ' These committees serve In preparing for the influx of the many Scouts expected - here during the three \days of June 8 through 10. , Whili the camporee itself, . ed after the national Jamboree of I last summer, will be expected to k function with the least amount of strain qr discrepancies, officials point up the fact that it can do so ’ only through full preparations. • ■‘ J I ! £ \ ’ ■ ji\ J Former Peru Mayor • Is Taken By Death F ' ’ Peru, Ind., June 1 —(UP) — SerI vices will be tomorrow for William’ , A. Hammond, 86, former mayor of • Peru and one time member of the .* Indiana state Ham j mond, whs Miami county rhpresenI tative in the legislature in 1910 - and served one term as mayor in 1914. He died yesterday. ; W J

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Doubt Russia Will Accept Proposal Foresee Refusal Os J.! Big Four Parley Moscow, June 1— (UP) • — Western observers saw only a slight chance today that Russia would accept the western proposal for a big four foreign ministers* conference. in Washington July 23. They pointed out that Soviet < Deputy Andrei Gromyko, obviously on directions from Moscow, already had objected to all three alternative agehdas proposed in yesterday’s notes from the United States, Britain and France. Some optimistic observers nevertheless believed the western notes contained a loophole which might lead to Soviet acceptance of the invitation. They pointed to this paragraph in the American note: “The U. S. government ... considers that -th* amount of agreement so far reached on the agpnda makes possible a meeting of the four foreign ministers which wouHi permit -discussion among others of all topics proposed by the Soviet government in the exchange of notes preceding the Paris conference (of deputy foreign ministers) .\c . ” r , ; Under a broad interpretation of this paragraph, these observers said, the Russians could raise any question pertaining to world tension at the proposed Washington conference. j This presumably would include t the North Atlantic treaty and U.S. > bases abroad, although the west- , tarn powqrs have refused at the I deputies’ meetings in Paris to in- » elude these on any agenda for the foreign ministers. J Only Monday, the official newsi paper Pravda said that the Atlan- , r tic pact and American bases over- . seas constitute the main cause of ■ world tension. 7 n “The refusal of the western powers to include the Atlantic ■ pact on the agenda of the council ■ of foreign ministers again un- [ masks the efforts of those powers i to deceive public opinion,” it said. ; " ; , 1 -J' ' J ~- ■ Decafur Sale Barn 1 Pta UrT " ' Being Torn Down v City To Operate Free Parking Lot ’ Workmen were putting the finishing touches to razing the sale I barn on East Monroe' street, and ( old-timers were scratching their ( heads trying to remember much of > its past history. History that upon recollection . reveals that it was a livdry stable . and a|so Schlickman’s merchants’ t delivery service, and Breiner’s ( feed mill, none of these necessart ily in that order. In most recent years it has been . operated by Erwin poebrmanh as ’ a sale bajrh, with sessions every < Monday. Qnce the building is torn down, 1 , the cRy level the place, pave ( it, provide for drainage, place lights, and in general be in bush ’ ness with a free parking lot that t should relieve much of the down- > town area congestion. t The lot was purchased by the j city frpta I. A. and Roy Kalver for ( |l2,s<M), |3,0d0 of which has already been paid. The purchase price is constituted over, several years’ payments, and the money is obtained from parking meter tunds. The Kalvers also, sold the 1 i building to Doebrmann, who is in * charge of its destruction. The ‘ latter intends conducting the ■ sales previously held near the ’ Monroe street ’bridge at his farm home. ? Today only a shell of the build- ’ ing stands, and much of the in--1 side has been gutted by workmen. (Tara To Page Sevea) ; nl*■ I • I " ;

Lie Calls On I ' ' wy I Reds For Cease Fire In Korea j UN Secretary Calls On Communists To Accept Cease fire Ottawa, Ont., June t<- t (UP)—United Nations secretary-general Trygve Lie called today on the Communists to Korean cease fire now and negotiate later, But if the North KoreMtis and the Chinese Communists woift accept, the Norwegian diplomat told the UN association of Canada, the UN must continue the wata and UN members must contribute additional forces to Gen. Matthtata B. Ridg- ,■•> ' i I way s army. •<. “I believe,” .Lie said idta luncheon speech, “that the time ,has come for a new effort to end the fighting in Korea. The UN forces there—as things stand today—have re? polled the aggression and thrown the aggressors back across the 38th parallel. -7 "If a cease-fire could be arranged approximately along Sthe 38th parallel, then the main. Purpose o( the security council resolutions d June 25 and June 27 (tad July 1 trill be fulfilled, provided that ths ceaee-fire is followed by the restoration of peace and security in the area. ; “It takes two sides to make peace. We do not know tahethef the North Koreans and their supporters are ready to agree to a cease-fire, to be followed- by negotiations. Until we do hnow, the members of the UN must continue to fight in Korea with alEthe forces that can safely be committed tej the action. 1 Al? “If there is no cease-tire in the very near future, I think that it will be the duty of all members of the UN to reconsider the situation and to contribute additional “But the way is open a cease-: fire if the North Koreans and their supporters will now indicate that they are ready to join with the UN in stopping the Lie pointed out that the UN went into Korea with three o®ctlvee: 1. “To repel the agression which the North Koreans started and re-i store peace and seeurltj£* 3. "Establishment of >; free and independent Korea United under a (Tara Te P*«e Tvy*) Bierly Is Speaker Al Rotary Meeting j Service Club Hears - j State Legislator G. Remy Bierly, Decatur attorney and joint state repytasentativd from Adams and Welle counties, was the guest speaker # th e weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday the K. of P. home. Bierly discussed briefljf the recent session of the Indiana general assembly, pointing to the accomplishments of the tagislators and his personal expertataces. Bierly, while a resident of Southern Indiana, served two terms previously in the house of representatives, in arid in 1923, and he particularly pointed out the vast changes governmental procedure and Since those earlier dayk. The speaker touched briefly on more important measures proposed in the legislative session, including the -budget, publication of welfare rolls, state aid sot schools, speed limit, and others. John Welch, vice-prejddent of the club, conducted the meeting in the absence of Wilbur president, who attended the Rotary International convention, which closed at Atlantic City yee| terday. Simon Heetadtra was chairman of the program.

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r \ | UN Ground Forces X Hammer Out Gains Up To*2Vi Miles On Fighting Front Tokyo, June 1 — (UP) — Communist 'jets mounted their greatest / challenge to American air supremacy’ over Korea today, sweeping 110 miles south of the Mani churian border to battle U. S. bombers and fighters. The effort cost Reds three planes, two of them shot down over Pyongyang, t/he Red capital, . and revived speculation that the I communists may be planning )to j throw strong air forces into Koi rea to support their battered arm- ’ les ' i I 3 The air battle swirled within 96 , miles of th? fighting front, where 5 United Nations ground forces I hammered out gains of up to f miles. i j?•• - An Bth army communique and - front dispatches reported- these developments in the ground fighti ‘U _ ij 4? L s East Coast—South Korean forj ces drove up the coastal highway ’ to a poinjt 30 miles north of the t 38th parallel. i East-Central Front—U. S. tante » pushed back into Yanggu at eastern dpd of the Hwachon reservoir, seven miles north of the 1 parallel, without opposition. Oth- * er American units captured two J important! hflls northeast of the ’ town. .7. « *>•-- e West Central Front —Allied ** spearheads advanced 1,006 to 4,006 ® yards against light opposition. ' One column drove within nine ? miles of Chorwon, western anchor . of the coibnmunist “iron triangle.” * Western Front—UN troops seiz4 ed a new bridgehead across the } Imjin river above Seoul and jfiSt j south of ;|he 38th parallel. I Communist jet planes made , their deepest penetration of Korea just 'before noon. F-86 sabrejets , shot dowii two of them and the ■ tear gunner of a\ superfortress * bagged a third. I Two B-29s were damaged, but ; returned safely to base. The . American F-86s were not hit. ! J Howeveit three American fightj ers —an F,84 thunderjet, an F-80 ' shooting, star and an F-51 mustang —were lost in other raids during' . the day and two more communist jets were damaged in a dogfight i just south of the Manchurian : border. I The air 1 battles raised the two-- ■ day toll of communist jets to six 1 destroyed and four damaged. The dayta main air fight began when 25 Russian-built MIG-15 jets pounced ph four B-29s just as the big bombers swung into a bomb run against a railroad bridge at Sinanju, 70 miles southeast of thp Yalu river Manchurian frontier. Two sabrejets flying in the area dived into the mass of communist planes with guns blazing. As the B-29s completed their bomb runs and turned south, the enemy jets gave chase. 1 The Antarican fighters finally had to break off action because their fuel was running low, but the MIGS pursued them 16 miles south of Pyongyang. pH —. ■ J -Ml ~ ' • Private Arnold I i Expresses Thanks 1 For Kindnesses P 77- -ipPi ’ . -.r •-t ! To niy many friends of Adams \ and adjoining counties. I certainly want to express my most sincere i thanks and appreciation for the ; many cards, letters and jfifts received while I have been confined here ip this army hospital. I am i very grateful for your many pray-* ers because I am very much aware ! that it Is only through the prayers of my friends that I w*s able to come through this illness. I still have a long way to go be- ■ fore I am fully recovered but trust : I stall attain that goal rind soma i day be able! to repay you for your many kindnesses. Pvt. Billie L. Arnold Ward A-165 U.SA-Army Hosphai Camp Breckinridge. Ky. i P ' ’ 'P ■ \ P '' PP- - P ; ’ : 7