Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 133.

BIG PACKERS CLOSE BEEF DEPARTMENTS

Steady United Nations Gains Made In Korea i , ■ -'■ • • 1 • ■ Plunging Toward China Communist Triangle In Korea Tokyo, Thursday, June 7. —(UP) - —-Allied infantrymen plunged Wednesday through artillery and mortar fire toward the. Chinese Communist iron triangle in Korea hoping for £ major victory. \ • - I Dispatches from the front told of steady United Nations advances through the rocky, shell-pocked mountains toward Chorwon and Kumhwa, southwestern and southeastern anchor points of the triangular plateau which is an enormous Red assembly base Below Chorwin the Allies reached the "head of a valley extending nine miles tb that anchor point. Below Kumhwa the UN infantrymen made gains of about one mile. On most of a 35-mile front the Reds have fallen back almost exactly to the point from which they launched their disastrous April offensive. . , It was believed that the loss of Chorwon and Kumhwa would be such a major military disaster for the Communists that the Red army must put up the bitterest .possible fight for them. lost enormous numbers of meh, and enormous amounts of weapons, transport and otljer equipment, uni their April and attacks. An Bth army communique reported gains of nearly two miles all along a 35-mile front below the triangular plateau where the Reds are believed to hate massed 200,000 or more troops. ’ * Strict censorship blacked out exact allied progress, but 0N spearheads were believed? less than nine miles from the "iron triangle” in one or more sectors. ™ \

For the second straight day, Chinese Reds abandoned almost without a fight a labyrinth of rock and log-covered bunkers from Which they might have delayed the allied advance for weeks. Muddy UN infantry surged north in their wake toward Chorwin and , Kumhwa, southwest and southeast anchors of the “iroti triangle.” One allied column swept to the; last line of ridges overlooking ; a three-mile-wide valley leading from Chipo to Ghorwin, nine miles jt<| the northwest. \i f The orderly Communist with| drawal moved up the ridges on bptlf sides of the valley into the northi ernmost reaches of the Kwangdok .mountain range south of bpt| Cirorwon and Kumhwa. ' ' | r The Bth army communique qaijj the Allies advanced 2,000 to. 3;oftl> yards across the approaches to both bastions up to noon, today against "light to moderate” resistance from enemy rear guards. It also reported decreasing resistanr&e south \and southeast of ( Kumhwa, but did not specify the extent of UN gains there. j f The Reds fell back to almost the exact line guarding their vital triangle from which they prematurely opened, their April offensive.The Chinese retreat from layer after lajfbr of defense works bQilt under Russian supervision before the war duplicated the Communist tactics of last April 19 and 20— two days before the Bth army’-s advance forced the Communist command to launch its abortive spring offensive prematurely. Il - No allied steff officer would predict that the new Withdrawals in turn would explode in another Red (Turn To Page Two) | Barney Weismantle ; Dies At Texas Home ! Mrs. E. F. Gass has received word of the death of Barney Weis- . f mantle, 76, in San Antonio, Texas. Death occurred Monday. A former • resident of this city. Mr. ’Weismnatle operated a tailoring establishment here before moving trt Waukegan, Several years ago he and his wife moved to Texas. He was married to Miss Rose Gass, a sister pf the late JE. F. Gass. Besides the widow he is survived by five children, A son, Bernado, lives in Waukegan. -The body will be brought to the York funeral home in Diwood, parental Lome of the deceased. services will be held Friday at 9:30 a.m. at St.'Joseph’s Catholic . church in that city.

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- ' British Factory Is Rippedlßy Explosion Scotland, June 6 — (VP)---jTire targest|pxplosives factory in preat \Britftin, employing over workers, -was ripped by an explbgion tjere joday. At least two men -were kndwi to have been killed. 7 Two, hundred wotrien working -jnear the .scene of the blast inithe imperial chemical industr.esj factory v&re sent home. Many .were |ufferftg shock. Towns,and villages up and down .the Ayrshire eoastf were shaken by rthe blast and windows in many homes were hroky. , Nine Men Die in Military Plane CraSh

Crashes On Takeoff la Texas, Case And Filling Station Fired [ / !I ■: Ii V; sari Antonioi Tex., June 6 — (UP), — A foiir-engined military plan! crashed ion takeoff today frpnf Kelly ait] force base, apparently carrying! its entire crew of ninq] to death, jtnd gutting a filling station and ,a-case by fire in its spectacular plunge. authorities identified the craft as a C-97. operated by the Military Transport Service (MXtS) Wifii headquarters at Kelly. . ■ Six bodies- were recovered immediately and was im»\ thgt any of the other three crewm&J survived, authorities said.V Xsivilian authorities reported oge women was badly burned in a fire which destroyed the Grey Eagle Case on Somerset ftoad, about 2*4 miles off the Kelly reservation. 4 The big plane finally came ’tp rest alongside the case. It was purning as it fell, afjter clipping two strings of high-voltage electric wires about a quarter-mile apart, and as it settled near the 'jcafe the , wreckage wtfe swept by a .blast arid fire. A mile back, after it tore into the first string ot electric wires and clipped a utility pble, the right wing dipped sharply earthward and-smashed the top Os tire gasoline station. Fire f immediately ! spread through the station, gutting it, but police said they believed no one was hurt there.

v Kelly authorities said the X-97 is one of the type planes used commonly for military ambulance flights in the Korean war area. Judge Sets Aside Judgment Os 1948 ' Orders Case To Be Tried On Merits Emphasizing that all cases should be tried on their mtefits, Judge Myles F. Parrish set: aside the judgment rendered October .14, 1948, in the case of < Lawrence Jacobs vs. James H. pagt(e et al and ordered the original case to be tried on its merits. Uosts were assessed against Jacobs The cause was originally filed by Jacobs against! the Dagues to set aside conveyance of 4j deed. Default judgment wks taken October 14, 1948. ' Attbrney Hubert McClenahan later brought action to set aside the original judgment on the grounds of mistake, inadvertence, surprise and excusable neglect, i Judge Parrish heard the new case last week and after three days of testimony, he took the ] case under advisement until Tuesday afternoon. ’ j In a lengthy rirrltteb opinion, citing numerous cases Judge Parrish ordered that the blriginal cause be defended on its merits and he stressed the fabt that every case should be tried on its own merits. Principal points in the opinion included: ; i ' "It is mandatory and it is the imperative duty of the court to relieve a party from a judgment taken against him through his mistake. surprise /or excusable neglect.

“The statute is remedial and (Tara To Page Six)

\ Speakers At Church Services For Boy Scouts - ■ A ■ • I : I I -■ ?Ji ! V: . P A

ity * H A Rev. Clayton/J. Steele

Special church services will be held Sunday looming for the approximate 1.500 Boy Scouts who will attend the Anthony Wayne area Boy Scout campbree, which wpl be' held at Hanna-Nuttinan park in Decatur Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All services will be at Ba. m. Rev. Steele,; of the Alexandria Methodist bnuflph, will speak at the Protestant services at Worthman field. Rev. Steele was formerly pastor of the Grineva Methodist chqrch. \ ' l) \. Rev. Conroy, associate editor of Visitor, Huntington, will conduct the Catholic field mass, which will be held at thri Catholic cemetery. f 5 Rev. Schmidt, phstor of the Decatur Zion |mt|eran church, wjll conduct for the Lutheran Scouts at the church, Monroe and Eleventh streets. He will speak on “God’s Plan for Your Life.” -

Citations Voted By Senate Committee Cite Three Men On Contempt Charges Washington, June 6 — (UP) — The senate crime committee has voted to cite for contempt two committee - named \ Capone mobsters and the president of a lush Chicago country club. The witnesses,\ who shied away from the crime committee’s questioning during a recent i-t secret hearings were Murray (the camel) Humphreys and Rocco Fischetß, long-time Chicago underworld characters, and George S. May, president of the Tam (J’Shanter country club which is gained for its annual golf tourneys. Chairman Herbert R. O’Conor. D., Md., said the committee voted the contempt citations at a closed meeting late yesterday? The full! senate must act on the citations before they are sent to the justice department for a final decision on prosecution. Ditch count of contempt Upon conviction is punishable by ! a sl,ooo\fine and a year in jail. Humphreys, Fischetti and May appeared before the committee on May 28. The investigators had sought the two mobsters for questioning almostasince the start of the inquiry into the underworld. and May was wanted for Questioning on charges that part of the club’s slot machine “take" went to a Chicago syndicate. Humphrey’s answere a few general questions while Fischetti replied to a “very few questions," including his name and address. Both hoodlums then pleaded that it was their constitutional right to refuse to. answer questions which might incriminate them. May gave the committee some information, but refused to discussj the alleged slot machine activities at Tam ,o’Sbanter. O’Conor said May talked freely about his industrial engineering business in Chicago, but refused even td say. whether he belonged to his own club, i| Dr. M. N. Scamahorn \ Speaks Here Monday Dr. M. N. Scamahorn .of Kokomo, member of the board of directors of the Indiana state society for crippled children and adults, will be the principal speaker at the regular meeting of the Adams county society next Monday in city hall. The meeting is scheduled for 8 p. m. I The speaker, himself a victim of polio 19 year agq, is active in Howard county also as -’president of that society. Miss Elizabeth Scott, secretary of -the Adams county society for crippled children, stated that ' the public was urged to attend the meeting. r y Admits 58 Hoosiers To Legal Profession v \ Indianapolis, June 6 —(,UP) — Fifty-eight hoosiers who passed'bar examinations two months ago .will be admitted to the legal profession before the Indiana supreme court today. ■ A ...

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Decatuq Indiana, Wednesday, June 6, 1951.

I v t wPfrwli V 'li jl ’*T 5 j, sRev. Jame« P. donroy

Plan Pifhjfc Friday For Bible School y Plans the Friday picnic of members ||| the kindergarten and nursery classes of the Decatur vacation Bible school were announced today. The; Children are asked to bring lunch “with names Written on thd sacks,” and classes* will be dismissed at 11 a. in. Parents also reminded to have children at the Lincoln school, where the Bible school is being heldj bjf 7:15 p. m, Friday for the exercises which will, be held at 7:30 p. m. The children of the kindergarten and nursery classes will return to their Tooms white other Classes are holding their program;; Scout Camporee To Open Friday Night Area Camporee To r Be Held In City While reports of the various committee’; chairmen in charge of the weekend Boy Scout camporee in Hanriasdittman park indicate that a fullrtime program 1® outlined, it is wtiin the next two days that the real > work must be completed. J ’ 1 I. , ■ For approximately 1,500 Boy Scouts from? the nine counties in the Anthony .Wayne council will begin registering for the* camporee at 5 p.m. Friday, which will begin ! a jbusy schedule climaxed by ,r closing | ceremonies Sunday, 2 p. m. In line wißr this is the program outlined by- the committee on camporee program, of which Lowell Smith selves as chairman, aided by Steve .Everhart and the Rev. A. cf Glllander. ’ • The arrangements completed by this included securing Worthman.’ (held for ti)e pageant, appropriate service places, and outline, pther programs. Other Committees whose job has been to prepare for the camporee in a specific capacity include the Concessions committee of LawrenCfe Rash and R. E. Glendeni ng; quartermaster’s committee headed by Virgil Lineal, and the judging L and registering’ committee With Homer Smeltzer, Lloyd Cowehs and Dari Webb in charge, \| These • functions will include a variety of activities, such ;a's planning exhibits and contests, arranging for all .food supplies, refrigeration, and maintain tjhe concessions stand. < There is, one committee which will not begin its operations until after the camporee is over; tlßs, is the camp master’s committee, headed by Herman Krueckeberg and Gene Rydell, whose duties will parfljl Consist of cleaning ‘the area; also the committee has planned Rpr; parking and traffic supervision, and must arrange for a headquarters crew. , I ' 44a . 1 INDIANA WEATHER Partly, cloudy tonight and Thursday. Scattered shower* southwest and extreme south. Slightly warmer north and central portion* tonight. Low tonight 49-54 north, 54-58 south. High Thursday 75-80. : . r

Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt

Tragic Death Os Two j Fliers Is Revealed ' I \ . ■ ■' ■ -I « • «. V -ti Froze To Death In Raging Snowstorm Creede, Colo. ' June 6.—(UP) — Un unemotional diary by a dying man and mute evidence in Red Mountain Creek Canyon revealed the tragic story today 6f two fliers who survived unhurt a crash-land-ing last February only to freeze to death in a raging snowstorm. * ? The bodies of Dr. John J. Button,: 35, and attorney Robert M. Eakes, 45. of Durango. Colo., were found yesterday by a 35-man search party. Nearby was their light plane which had only the) propeller damaged and still carried jhalf a tank of gasoline. A journal on Button’s body told of the fliers’ last hours: “Departed Durango 6:15 a.m. Feb. 27, 11951. Clear sky to Pagosa: Springs, when clouds encountered. Flew north to Upper Piedra, Clear arqa. s Climbing turns to 15,000 feet. Storm nearing.\ Northeast. Clear; on top., “Radio report Alamosa clear with scattered clouds at 3,000 feet.; Started over pass. , (Ptesumably! Wolf Creek Pass). | I “Cloud banks until we were; engulfed. We tried heading back. 260 degrees west at 14,000 feet alti-! tude. Came out of clouds near side of peak (probably either Piedra Peak or South kiver Peak, both nearly 14,000 feet high). “Drifting into peak at 180 de-! grees. Into valley and could ,not hold altitude. Cowling with frozen snow. Flew with window open for visibility. Trild to head down valley 100 feet over tree tops. .. . i “Going well until downdraft sucked us into bottom of valley meadow. Landed in about feet of snow. Nosed ove|r air prop in small ravine and settled back on tail. Neither Bob nor I hurt. “Time of crash-landing 8 am. Stayed with? plane. Time now 12 noon. Waiting for blizzard to sub--side. According to air speed indicator wind is doing up to, 40 miles per hour in gusjts. Steady at 30 per hour.” There the diary ended. The rest of the story was pieced together by the searchers. \ Thd bodies were found in Red Mountain Creek Canyon, less than four miles from the downed ship. Sheriff Harry L. Larson said the position of Button’s body indicated lie had fallen ove* an embank; ment while stumbling through driv Z( ing snow <and head-high drifts. How- e eve£ the doctor’s glasses were unbroken. j Eakes' body was found between two trees. “He apparently sat down or laid down between the two trees,” Larson said, “and then it probably was the old story He fell asleep and was frozen.” The ashes of a small fire were found nearby, recalling reports that a blaze spotted high on (he mountainous slope soon after the 1 crash. However, further snowstorms and deep drifts halted both air and ground searches until spring. The two had been en route to Trinidad, Colo., and Tulsa, Okla. A pilot among the searchers said ' (Tara Ta Pa«e Si»)

Wilson, Armour Close "i ' tin i Departments, Predict Beet Supply Shortage

Consider New Stay For Nazi Criminals Supreme Court Tft Consider New Stay ■ Washington June 6. —(UP)— ]The supreme court agreed today to consider a last-minute stay of execution for the seven Nazi war {criminals even as the doomed men prepared to go to the\gallows. The men,’ who only Monday were denied a stay by chief justice Fred M. Vinson, were scheduled to be hanged . tonight! at the Landsberg prison in Germany. The tribunal’s decision to consider a stay came 15 minutes after the 10 a.m. (cst) deadline set by this government for further legal 'moves on behalf of the doomed men. Earlier, the government said that if the court did not stay the.execution by that time, it would feel free to proceed with the hangings. It was not immediately clear whether the court’s decision to con? elder a stay actually would delay the executiops. The state departement said it would stand on its ’orders yesterday to John J. McCloy, U.S. high commissioner for Germany, that the last legal recourse had been exhausted and that authorities were now free to proceed with the hangings. v- The supreme court was expected to rule later today on whether it actually would order a stay. The tribunal had rejected appeals twice previously—on April ?3 and May H 1 ' .. ■ 11- ' r Warren E.! Magee, attorney for the doomed men, petitioned the coprt as a unit yesterday to overrule Vinson’s Monday night refusal to issue a stay. Two Ordinances Are Adopted By Council Approve Contract To Highway City councilmen adopted two ordinances, 4 one of them approving a contract between the city and the state highway department to widen U S. 224 east of the SL Mary’s Hver bridge, and the other approving a a contract for the purchase of a truck. x Members also considered a future ordinance which would add contiguous territory to thb city. They stated however, they Wished to pursue the matter more thoroughly.. . . • - Don Sliger appeared\ before the council requesting that jthe twb lots he purchased and on vbhich he intends building a home become a part of the city. The lots are 10-i cated at the\ end of Russell street Councilmen would be required to pass an ordinance to affect the addir tion to the city; this, then, would be forwarded to the plan commission for approval, then returned to councilman lor adoption. It Was felt that the entire platted area, bi which the Sliger lots are a part, should be brought into the city if at all possible to assure conformity of building and erection of utilities. The ordinance adopted by the council pertaining to the highway east of the city would widen U.S. 224 from the bridge] around the curve, bringing the pavementt ? to the side Walk on the south side of the street I The other ordinance approved a purchase of a heavy-duty truck from Butler’s garage, the net qost, after deduction of (taxes and tradein, set at $2,671.95. The {truck is to be used by the electric light department. , Indianapolis Child Crushed By Truck Indianapolis, June 6.—(UP)— Mark Coghill, 18-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coghill, was crushed to death yesterday be-] neath the wheels of an ice cream truck. \ 1“ . . I

Acheson Says No Appeasement In Truce Plan ) > ■ A? ■ No Appeasement In i Support For UN's Korea Truce Plan i'\ - i ' V 1 • j Washington, June 6*; —(UP)— * Secretary of state Dean, Achesori said today there wastto appeasirient in U. S. support of the Korean r truce plan proposed by the United , Nations last January. H I The January p)an called for dis--1 cussion—after the shooting stopped—ot the future of Red-coveted t Formosa and a communist Chinese . membership in the UN- Adminj istration critics called foihat ”appeasment.” \ . r But Acheson denied it. He told c the senate committee investigating r Gen. Douglas 'MacArhU'r’s dismis- - sal that the January proposal mcre- » ly would have. restored the situ- > ation which existed before the *■ Korean war started. v ] ; { e And U. S. support, he added, did not mean that this country had s changed its opposition to giving the Reas Formosa and a UN seat. Acheson has said before that this 1 country cannot prevent other noB tlons from raising and discussing B r&e Formosa-UN issues. ; Acheson and other administration witnesses have stated repeat-] ; edly that the United Slates will ] not let Formosa fall to Jhe ChinI ese Reds and will opproye admit-j tarice of the ] communists io the sa|d that the’- military chiefs of staff drafted: cease-fire terms for ending the Korean war last but the Communists blocked a settlement at the United Nations. ; J He was questioned by chairman The military chiefs, Acheson said Ga,. about UN efforts last winter to halt the Korean fighting. Rusj sell said these efforts had given . rise to charges of “appeasnient.’i > The secretary reviewed the peace i effort and said it failed because r Jpled China “refused to have anyy l (Tuna To Pace Eiaht) \ft ■ r • :r ■ - I 1 ' —H ■ Carl Striker Speaks At Lions Meeting I 5 Tells Experience On African Continent i Carl Striker, who recptttly return- . ed from Libera, was thb principal > bd from Liberia, was the principal r the Decatur Lions club| relating his I experiences going to, coining from - and staying on the African conti- > nent. He told of the people, of the ctisI toms, of the work that he, along i with other Americans, did in that s country of tropical heat and singlej candidate democracy. s j i Striker was introduced by his son-in-law, Victor POrtrir. i While detailing the geography of ' the country, and the type of work . completed there, Strilter told of ! the forgetfulness of the Liberian > people. “You would them to ! do something if they Wre working for v you,” he said, “arid only moi mepts later they had; completely : forgotten their orders.’- . He thought it was i more than mere convenience to Escape work i that made them forgetful; perhaps • because they had nefer actually been required to apply themselves before. f \ Members of tjhe outgoing and incoming boards of directors of the organization met after the regular meeting and discussed disbanding for the summer, the' forthcoming family picplc on the llbst Tuesday of June, and offered a memoran- { dum to members to r participatie whole-heartedly in future bloodmobile visits by donating

Price Five Cents

Packers Declare Inability To Buy Any Cattle Without Violation Os Rules ■ Chicago, -June 6 —. (UP) —Two of the “big four” packers closed their beef departments here today arid shortages were predicted. Wilson’s and Armour’s beef operations were- shut down and em- \ ployes sent home. Spokesmen said they couldn’t buy any cattle without breaking government price control regulations, i Beef production throughout the midwest was sigshed and Superior Meat Products, Inc., Gary, Ind., annoifnced jt was forced to close. Production was off an estimated 50 tof 80 percent Kansas City and ?5O to- 75 percent at Dea Moines. The cattle were available, but in reduced numbers. Shipments to li midwest markets for the first ‘three days thia week total an estimated 146,000 head, about 50,000? less than for the same period last year. v Cudahy announced from | its Omaha headquarters that 50 percent of its employes there would be laid off, starting Ute today. Controller R. A. Norris said ha wasn’t sure if the rest could ba \ kept on the job. Chicago’s Swift & Co., plant reduced beef production 95 percent and Wilsop’s 30 percent, spokesmen said. ' The packers reported they cannot pay the current price ; that \farmbrs demand for their cattle unless they go over the federal price ceilings. v . ; James D.i Cooney, vice-president. of Wilson’s, said that_BO percent of the cattle sold here yesterday and today went for above-ceiling prices. Big h© said; were not among these purchasers because, they must with the rollback order "since we\can’t risk prosecution.” He saik that smaller packers can and do take chances without) getting caught by price investigators.' Theiy aren't watched as close y as the big ones, he said. -

“You see a lot of new faces around the yards since controls started,” he said. “Some peckers have only a rope, a knife and a tree in a pasture.” Cattlemen and packers have warned that. such black market activities will result from price "i’CTeva Ta Pare Six) LjATE BULLETINS Washington, June 6. —(UP) — The defense department to- | day reported a new total of 68.- , 352 American battle casualties In the Korean fighting—an Increase of 925 in a week. Washington, June 6 —(L'P); — The United States demanded! , today that Russia punish two Soviet soldiers who shot and killed U. S. army Cpl. Paul J. * Gresens Ip Vienna May 4. \ . A formal U. 8. note to Russia also asked that damages be paid Gresens’ family In Rochester, N- Y. Thri nose charged that the shooting Resulted from “deliberate intent I or through negligence” arid that the Soviet high commissioner in Australia “has condoned this crime.” . ■ .[?h —~ ' Washington, June 6 —UUP) 4- Thelhoyse gave final approval today to a compromise bill , to lend famine-stricken India 8190,000,000 to buy 2,000,000 tons of grain. v The house vote was 255 to 82. Senate Approval was expecti ed later today. Washington. June 6 —(UP) — Thp house postoffice., committee today tentatively voted a wage raise of $360 a year for some 500000 postal workers. This would mors than offset a proposed $124,321,691 rate Increase.