Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 134.

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Says H-Bomb / Is Nearer To I Realization Commission Chief Makes Frank Report On Atomic Progress New Yprk. June 7 — f .(UP) — Chairman Gordon Dean of the atomic energy commission reported for the first time publicly today that the hydrogen “super bbmh” is getting closer to realization. . ; Dean also stated for the first time by arfy commission official — though other sources have reported it—that the United ? States is developing “atomic warheads for artillery and guided missiles.” In*an unusually frank report on atomic progress, the commission chief told the New York State chamber of commerce that this , w s country is in a position to fight an atomic war frith Russia and, "win it.” I ; .■ s He also disclosed that: 1. Development .and improve- < tnent of weapons is proceeding at necessary to .conduct new atomic so rapid a pace that it will be tests “at more frequent intervals henceforth; the commission is practically doubling its ~ $2.500.000, 000 production plant. 2. Discovery and exploitation of’ new uranium sources have made the atomic raw material picture “encouraging” and will keep it thaTway “for many years to come.”' r, 3. The commission is “concen- , I trating” on development of atomic engines for world-girdling submarines and airplane®, and Dean is "sure” that “we are going |to have both.” Such engines—which the commissoln is trying to eget “at » the earliest possible date” — will reduce “almost to the vanishing p.'. point the dependence of naval vessels and military aircraft upon bases of fuel supply. ; - 4 Some time year tirecommission will put in operation at Arco, Ida., the worlds first atomic “breeder,” a 100 kilowatt ‘ plant which in addition to producing will manufacture more atomic fuel than it consumes. Deain's was the first Official H-. bomb statement since the»commission announced May 25 that atomic tests at Eniwetok this spring included experiments “contributing” to super bomb “research” i,_Atomic authorities stated that no H-bomb. big. little, or medium- — sized. was exploded at the Pacific proving ground, and some congressmen said the May 25 statement could mean the experiments produced “negative” as well as “positive” results. But Dean made it clear that the results were “positive.” The Eniwetok fests, he said, not only to super bomb “research”' but to actual “development of such a weapon.” | | ' I ( ' Circuit Court Goes In Vacation Saturday The >pril term of Adams circuit court w lll close Saturday, arid there w‘i|l be no formal court until the opening of the September term the first Monday in September. Judge Myles F. Parrish today notified all attorneys in Adams county that he would be in his.of fice every Friday during vacation to transact emergency business. The judge also said that he would be subject to call on extraordinary court matters all during the vacation term. L - , The term just closing has been a busy one, with numerous opinions being handed down. Judge Parrish will rule on the police p°n--1 slon case Friday afternoon. This t\i case has created more interest during the last several months than any other cause on the docket.Evansville Youth Drowning Victim (Evansville, Ind., June 7 —HUP) — Ten-year-old Alonzo Beasley. Evansville, drowned yesterday . when he and several companions were playing in a lake near here. His body was recovered.

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— - Report 51 Dead In Brazil Train Wreck Rio De Janeiro. Brazil, Jun# *7 -*-(UP)~- At least 51 persons were killed today when an,’electric commuter train Collided': with a fuel truck at a grade crossing. | . Another 37 were reported inwreef* seriously in the crash and resulting fire at thd Nova Iguazu station 25 miles northwest of Dio. I Farmers Hold Off Shipping Beef Cattle - Nation's Butchers \ Report Difficulty In Obtaining Meat Chicago, June 7^—(UP) — The nation’s butchers reported difficulty la buying enough mW for (heir customers .today farmers held cattle shipments to a minimuni ants meat packers charged that soiie °f the animals were going intex the black market. ' A spot check of retail meat shops across the nation showed few current beef shortages, but many butchers said supplies were getting tight and might be |hort next Week. Farmers, who save protested government price ceilings oh live cattle, had sent on y 110,000 head of beet cattle tp the nation’s 12 major livestock markets this week,' Compared with j 135,000 for corresponding pefior I last Week and 161.500 a year ago.; Big packers steadfastly refused to buv cattle at current above-ceiling prices on the gambo that they will drop later. Legally, packers could pay today’# high <' >rlces if their over-all purchase# -for the current accounting period Averaged out at ceiling. . i \ J • , Much of the available supply of cattle was being’ bought up by smaller packers! wl|b were frilling to take the v riski,p s . I f<fr one of the bigger concerns said: the packing industry had much against price controls.” because they assure the packers-a “good’s profit. Blit he said big packers cojld not chance’ above-jetting purchases now at the startfpf the prje control program. * g An Armour Co. spokesman said the 'company might gave to discontinue beef slaughter completely tomorrow, and if so probably would not be able togresume until next Tuesday i f At Washington, howeveL price control official# predicted t|e “beef, strike” would * end rpiicklj when farmers realize |ihat the rollback was here to stay, I , Office 3 of’ price stabilization officials, ordered gvery available enforcement agent,’ into thelnation’s stockyard? to track down any black marketeer# who: might b< buying the few head of cattle tricliing into the pens. . » g , At. Indianapolfs, City health director Gerald Kgnipt ordered an investigation of reports 1 thjjt horse meat wap being sold as hamburger. He said fear# of a beef Shortage may hate encouraged formation of a horse meat ifing similay to one (Turn Tq Page F, 'f) ’ I I "Tl —* I. Hearing Dates Set By Review Board Initial Hearings Will Start Monday Dates for efty, town |md township hearings before Adams county board -of review were announced todaj by county assessor Albert who serves as president of the bpard. The board frill review objections to assessments oh improvements and real estate and personal property taxes for 1950-51. The ddtes when persons from each township or city afe to appear before the bokrd of rev|ew are: , Union township, Jung 11; Root. June 12; Prghle. land, June.lji: St. Mary’s' June 1819; Blue Jun# 20; Monroe. June 21; Frfrnch, Jung 22; Hartford, June 26; Wabash, June 26; Jefferson. Jgne 27; Monroe corporation. June 28; Ggneva, June 29; Washington and Dfecatur, July 2-& Berne; July 5-6. r ■ -

Demands Probe 01 Profits In I . ’ Aid To China I■ . , Sen; McMahon Makes Charge On Crooks In U.S. Aid To China Washington. June 7 —(UP) — Sen. Brian McMahon, D., Conn., demanded investigation today of a “corrupt band of crooks” which he said used U. g. aid to Nationalist China to enrich themselves and influence American foreign policy. MoMahon voiced his demand before the senate committee investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal. His charges climaxed a stormy session in which secretary of state Dean Acheson and administration senators fought to estabs lish that China fell to the Reds not f because of any China policy failr ures Iry the United States but be--1 cause of mistakes by Chiang Kail Shek’s Nationalist government, f Acheson testifed that consessions s made to Russia at the 1945 Yalta conference had nothing to do with ’ Chiangls downfall. That wad the ■ administration’s answer to repubr lican charges that the port, raii- ’ road and territorial concessions — made at Yalta to get Russia into * the war against Japan “opened the ‘ gates” to the communists. J Acheson testified that 1200,000,- ’ 000 in American gold was “trahs- ’ ferred physically” to China under ’ a 1500.000.000 aid program in 1942. McMahon declared that an “'inside clique"' around Chiang made huge profits from this transactions. McMahon demanded “thorough investigation of this corrupt itransaction” to determine, whether “this money has come back into tnis country for the purpose of influencing public opinion.” The Connecticut senator charged that American taxpayers had been “robbed” by “this corrupt garfg 'pf crooks” in China. The session produced these highlights: V s 1. Democrats and Republicans wrangled long and loudly over whether to admit to the record a “secret” report—only to have it 1 turn out that the report has oeen published two years ago the state department’s white paper on China. 1 2. When Alexander Wiley, R„ Wis., condemned Yalta concessions, McMahon read a 1945 speech urging that Russia join | the war against Japan to , it to a quick end and save AmjeriJ can lives. The speech was by i Wiley. 3. Two Republicans, Sens. (Turn To Pace Six) Annual Meeting Os Foundation Monday Memorial Donors Meet Monday Night The second annual meeting of ( dohors to the Decatur Memorial Foundation will be held . Monday at 7:30 ’p. m. in the mayor’s, court room of the city hall. ~ The principal item of business will be the election of four directors and the reading of the annual report, Mrs. Roy Kalver, secretary of .the civic foundation, stated. 4 " A year ago when a permanent organization was formed, 16 directors were elected, in divisions of four. At that time J. Ward Calland, Robert Anderson, Ray Leltz and Arthur R. Holthouse were named to one-year terms. More than SIOO,OOO of thel approximately $260,000 raised in pledges for the proposed community center during the 1949 campaign has been paid, the last sni nual report of T. F. Graliker, treasurer, shows.. No concerted drive has been made the past few months toward collection of the pledges, although a majority of the donors are making regular payments on a monthly or yearly basis. Many pledges were* received' on a three-year payment . plan and 1952 will terminate these ■ agreements. Carl C. Pumphrey, president of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, s urged donors and Interested perr sons to attend the public meeting at the city hall.

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i S - Meatless Butcher i ■I: I: . ’ . 1 w! • WITH SHORTAGES appearing all over the country since bei ginnirfrt of OPS price rulea, George Harabadian, a Detroit butcher finds himself with little to sell. Mbceipts of beef in leading stockyardahiave fallen off sharply sindtf prices were fixed, and two giant Chicag| packers have halted a*l lyf slaughtering.. i '

Two High British ' Officials Missing Check Reports Men Haye Fled To Russia Lon&fn. June 7 — (UP) — The British foreign office \tqday suspended; the head of| its American department and another high official p&ding a check of report® that they have fled to Russia. ‘; Frehch and British police were searchtt|g yfor the two men, who disappeared from their homes May 25 and left Cor France Severn al day* ago. The foreign office said they were' "absent without loßiV® i The Officials were identified M; Donalds iMaoLean, head- —of ~ the American department, and Guy assigned to the far eastern department and specialising In far eastern affairs. French secret police joined Scotland Yard and British military intelligence agents in a search J {or the two officials in Paris Way. A foreign office spokesman said there Was no reasoh to believe that th| two officials had taken documents from foreign office files wjf’h them. The 'joreign office, after being bombaftled with queries about reports that I the two men had gone to Moscow, issued this statement at noon i ■ “Two; members of the foreign service * hdYe been missing from their hdrftes since 'May 25. One is Mr. Donald Mac Lean, the other Mr. Gujf Burgess. “All possible inquiries are being (Tprn To P«*e EJrb*) 1 ' 1

Voice Os Says Reds Made Peace Feelers

Washington, June 7.-MUP) — The Vcide of America says Russia has sponsored a series of Korean peace moves. J * “Thedrripves.” said a Voice broadcast, “have been made through a number, at indirect and unofficial channels | . but such moves have to be made openly and not under the table if they are to be accepted as sincere. I \ "The United Nations does not propose to set up a black market in peace.” The\ Voice said the west’s refusal t<| Accept the \indirect peace moves pas left iacob Malik, the Soviet delegate at\ UN*, “caught with his pants down.” Secretary,pf state Dean Acheson and all dttier state department spokesmen repeatedly have told news reporters that there was nothing to reports of Communist peace feelers.? Ji V The Vdfce, .which is operated by the state department, said in an ' broadcast, however, that, “the evidence available indicates there iragood deal of fire\ behind the pea£e rumor smoke/’ t The Voice said Russia started the\ peace feelers and, when . they 1 failed to get the proper reaction from the west, denied them. \ “The Soviet delegate to the UN has just been caught with his panta down,” the Voice said. "Malik denied ih>t the Soviet Union had tendered any peace feelers looking toward a settlement of the Korean war . J-.' I- H V I i ■ - &i t. /J ; I \

si I ■ Cub Scouts Report Field Saturday . All Decatur Cub •’ Scouts who ' 'wish to lake part in the pageanj to be presented as part of the area Boy Scout camporee at Worthman field Saturday ntght, are asked to -be at the field, in uniform; at B p . m Saturday. ' ’ . A J • Decision Friday On; Police Pension Fund Court Decision By Judge Myles Parrish Final action is scheduled taken Friday when Judge Myles F. Parrish renders a decision in. the Decatur police department’s case mandating the city to instigate' the police pension fund. The action will climax more that} two years of effort locally on ; the part of the police department to,get the program underway. The police pension fund is Opposed by members of the city council who question certain provisions of the act set up by the state legislature which affects city police forces. ( The police, then, began their spit in court to mandate the council jto partially underwrite the program according to the statutes. The officers themselves will also contribute a specified amount. \ \i The city has doubted the constitutionality of certain provisions, and was willing to test these doubts in court. The police, on the other hand, pointed to other, similar- sized cities who have been given the pension plan without necessitating 1 (Twra To Page Eight)

•| “There have been rumors Os i j Soviet peace moves to end the 11 Korean war. The moves have been made through a number of indirect . and unofficial channels. But conL firmation of them was given from [ an objective source, Sven Graft- > strom, Swedish delegate\tb the.,UN- • Additional confirmation] was given [ by the Swedish foreign ministry ; ,\. “Malik took the opportunity tot : deny it officially . . . i the evidence available indicates there is a good deal of fire behind •\ the peace rumor smoke. The ha, i tural question to ask is what is bei hind this Soviet maneuver . . . j “The Soviet Regime « . . has thrown out the bait to she if it can catch any suckers. No one has . bitten; so Mr. Malik has hastily i pulled in his line. J “No one is more anxious for i peace in Korea than the great majority of UN nations who have ’ taken their stand to resist aggresi sion. The good offices committee , . . . will welcome any move’ by the i aggressorsfor a just settlement;. . 1 x “In any case, one thing emerges clearly from Mr. Malik’s fishing I expedition. That is to tell the r world as clearly as possible who is i running the Communist aggression in Korea. The North Korean and ’ Chinese Communist soldiers are doi ing the fighting and dying. : “The Kremlin is running the I show- How many more have to die ; before the Kremlin throws in the i sponge and talks real peace with the UNT’ ’ .Vb '. t|- , I : L .'I i-

Stream Down Coasts Os Korea In Effort To Save ■ / ~ . ■ ■ - . ' 7|g , •IM i ] ■ ■.rV < ' < Iron Triangle Position

Seven Nazi Killers Are Executed Today Mass Murderers Os More Than 200,000 Landsberg, Germany, June 7 — (UP) — Seven black-wuited Nazi mass murderers of more than 200,000 persons plunged to their deaths at the end. of a rope today minutes after each cried out ,bis innocence from the scaffold steps. One by one they stumbled I up the steps between two U. S. soland jfrere hanged separately from midnight until 2:3f 'a. m. Each ohe delivered a final defiant statement with a noose around his neck before the hangman released the trap. They were nailed into their coffins immediately after each execution. The seven men were the last German war criminals marked for execution by U. S. authorities. A total of 282 have been hanged prince the first Nuernberg tribunal trials five years ago. Ironically, the seven met their deaths in the same stone-walled prison, where a former inmate named Adolf Hitler wrote his illfated plan of German conquest entitled “Mein Kampf." Until the supreme court rejected tk«ir final appeal late yesterday v the me|i had eipected another stay of execution. Three times before they 'had been saved at the last minute. An official witness to the executions quoted the final words of former S. S.’ Gen. Oswald Pohl, 58, convicted of ordering the massacre of 56,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. i “I have spent more than 30 years as a military man,” Pohl said from the gallows. “I have always carried out orders and remained true to my oath of allegiance . . .. “I am ready.” The condemned men in addition \ (Tin To Pane Elvbt) Daily Bible School Will Close Friday To Present Program On Friday Evening ) T'he Decatur daily vacation Bible school will close its annual two weeks session Friday with: the' conclusion of classes in the morning, with a picnic planned for the noon hour, and the closing program at 7:30 o’clock Friday night at the -Lincoln school. r Children of the various departments of the Bible school will present the following program: Nursery—John 3:16 in unison, Mrs. Jon Boat in charge. Song, “Zachaeua.7 Kindergarten—Mrs. J. W. MeL Nerney will be in Songs “Book Review” and “God HAs Blotted Them Oht.” Kindergarten action number. First grade tlon. f Primary—Song, "Noah and the Ark.” Flannelgraph display. Song, “Sailing, Sailing.” Junior — A triple allegiance: pledge of allegiance to flag, fourth grade, song, “America;” pledge of allegiance to Christian flag, fifth grade, song, “pnward Christian Soldiers;” pledge of allegiance to Bible, sixth grade, song, “Into My Heart.” Department song, “Walking with Jesus.” Intermediate —A pantomime, the parable of the Good Samaritan. Songs by the department A brief skit on the 50th anniversary of daily vacation Bible schools. An offering will be taken to helj> defray the expenses of the school. Indiana weather Partly cloudy with little change In temperature tonight and Friday. Occaalonal showers southwest and extreme south. Low tonight 52 to 56, near 60 south. High Friday 76 to 80.

Taxes, Postal Rates Slated • t i |\ For Increase 1 ' ■ House Committees " Give Final Okays 9 To Rate Increase ? Washington, June 7 — (UP) — • Taxes and postal rates are going f up; ~; Y ' v.-> Two house committees put the • final okays today on separate pro--8 posals to boost individual and • corporation income taxes by about $5,000,000,000 a year and to hike - postal rates $123,571,000. The boosts still must be approved by the house and senate and t signed by the president j before r they become law. But there seemi ed little doubt about that happen--1 ing, although.Tiot for some months. 1 ’ The house ways and * means committee approved proposal* to r slap an extra 1214 percept indir 1 vidual income tax on each taxpay- » er and to increase corporation - taxes. These changes would yield t an extra $2,900,000,000 ip Income taxes and $2,080,000,000 in cprporation taxes. These Inc reales are ■- part of an overall tax-booeting bill i* that would bring the government s an extra $7,100,000,000 “a year in » taxes. The plans tehtative- - ly also a $1,000,000,000 a year f boost in excise taxes on such , items as liquor, cigarets, gasoline - and automobiles, and an increase - in excess profits taxes. The house post office committee > approved the $123,571,000 increase I in postal rates after knocking out > a proposed $360 a year pay raise ■ for postal workers. Under bill, • penny postcards will cdd£ two cents; newspaper and magazine mailing rites will be jumped 60 i percent over a three-year period; fates on bulk third class mail will go up, .and so will fees for special delivery,- COD and insured piail. Other congressional develop-’ ments: j \ War Spending—The defense department told a senate tions subcommittee to expect big new demands for military spending if the Korean war contiffues beyond the end of this month. \ Controls —Elder statesman Bernard Baruch said congress had 8 ’ I (Tors T« Pave Mx> •/‘ ■ -4. - - ' ■ " :\ H-U '■ U ' ; Emil Sitko To Speak ' At Junior C.C. Meet } Junior Division To Meet Next Thursday Emil (Red) Sitko, football great • while at Notre Dame and last year j a member of the San Francisco pro- - fessiona! football team* will be the - principal speaker at a social meetr !ing of the Junior division of tfie Chamber of Commerce next Thurs- > day. The announcement of the speaker and of another meeting of all Junior division members was made i today by thaf organization's presk t dent, Joe Kadhr. i The first meeting is scheduled i for Monday, 8 p.m., In the Chami ber’s offices. Kaehr said, to comr plete the* arrangements for the - Thursday meeting. All members were urged to be present at both ; meetings, and all those interested . in joining the Junior division are int vited to attend Thursday. t Sitko will speak at the meeting vfhich will be held at the Fairway x restaurant, 8 p.m. I The ND alumnus was a stalwart for four season!, playing halfback on nothing but undefeated teams during the post war years at the South Bend institution. Following graduation from Notre Dame, “sixyard” Sitko moved into the professional ranks with the San Ftan--1 cisco ’49ers.

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Reinforcements From Manchuria Rushed To Korea To Try v / To,Save Defenses Tokyo, Friday, June 8. —(UP)-— Communist reinforcements from Manchuria streamed down both coasts- of Korea today to try to save the “iron triangle” defense position; Red troops prepared to make a “stand or die” defense of their central Korean bastion. . Four United Nations columns, led by tanks, were within sight of the “iron triangle.” Thfc Reds counter- ’ attacked desperately and threw up ’ tfreir biggest artillery barrages of the war in an attempt to halt the ' Alliedpush. hu.lffl pilots, out the 1 enemy’s ' intentions, reported a • swelling tide of Communist convoys ! and troop movements from Manchuria. The Reds were coming * down both Korean coasts and fun--1 neling into the town of Pyonggang, » the apex of the iron triangle. The ' enemy’s defense position is a tri- - angular plateau used as a staging area for the offensives which have t been thrown against the Allies. > The Allies routed isolated groups ■ cM Chinese holding hill "positions -south and southwest of Kumhwa i and scored gains of 3,000 yards l during the day. UN tanks rumbling » up narrow valleys paced the ad- - end there appeared to be 3> few strong ridge positions remain--1 tag to the Chinese rear guards t seuth of Kumhwa. i On the weatern front, a tank-in-fantry task force drove 5,000 yards i . ahead of front lines below Chorwon ■ before running into a battalion of Communists and turning back. ; In eastern Korea, North Koreans , fought viciously near thq Hwachon reservoir, stopping Allied advances with? weapons ranging from artil* Llifry :oto mines Mortar shells fell on Allied positions all day and UN tfoops failed in an attempt to seize a: ridge northwest of Inje. The entrenched Reds have “suffered tremendous losses,” an Allied officer said. ’ ' ’ ■ 1 p “The bodies must be stacked on each other,” he added. Frcipt dispatches said all four allied columns could “look down the throats” of Chinese furiously regrouping and reinforcing their battered armies for what appeared to he a last-ditch defense. Reconnaissance planes reported a swelling tide of Communist convoys rushing supplies and reinforcements down both coasts from Manchuria for a “stand or die” effort to save the triangle. ;!The vehicles were funnelling into Pyonggang, apex of the triangular platea|i from which the Reds have launched three mighty but abortive drives into South Korea. “You will recall that enemy was allowing ouf task forces to get within sight of Chorwon and Kumhwa before he began his counter-offensive hr April,” an Sth army headquarters spokesman said. Sweating infantrymen yesterday captured 3,590-foot Kwangdok mountain, highest peak south of the “iron triangle” and cleaned out more of the enemy’s “Maginot line” protecting th! build-up area. The Reds abandoned some of their rock and timbered fortifications without a fight, but resisted desperately from others. The bunk- - era were built by the North Koreans under Soviet supervision be-\ fore the war. Rampaging tank columns struck out as much as three miles ahead of the foot soldiers and brought Chotwon and Kumhwa within range of their guns Chorwon is 17 miles north of the 38th parallel and - Kumhwa lies 14 miles to the east northeast. \ \ <■ I 'l' ’ ■' \ - Name New Principal For Berne Schools A. Ralston, of Converse, has been hired as principal of the Berne*French school, according to an announcement by E. M. Webb, superintendent of the schools. Ril-y ston Aas been director o? music, social ‘ science instructor and assistant principal of the Converse schools for the past five pears.