Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 136.

CHINESE REDS START ON MAJOR RETREAT

. I’ i Area Camporee Underway Al Decafur Park Pageant Tonight At Worth man Field Is ; Open For Public While the number of Boy Scouts attending the 20th annual camporee in Hanna-Nuttman park over the weekend fell somewhat short of Expectations, neverthless a mighty horde of youths converged bn th? tent city. There were 940 Scouts register* ed, according to R. L. Van Horn, chief executive of the Anthony Wayne council, and they were housed in an estimated 200 tents. I ? The first Boy Scouts began pouring onto the,scene where already headquarters, commisary, conces/ sjons tents were in place, by regis* traticm tinie at 5 p.m. Friday. • _ Some of them were hurrying to finish erecting their tents before darkness In preparation for any foul weather. " 'A . The. weatherman promises to co operate partially with the cant poree, stating that at most only in > termlttent showers will disrupt activities. "i i ■ These activities will be highlighted this afternoon by handicraft demonstrations ahd swapping among the Scouts. All of them were notified to bring “something to swap’’ for the session. Tonight at 8:16 o'clock, the gen eral public Is invited to Worthman field where the Scouts will present their pageant of the early history of the northwest territory, with ' scenes depicting the arrival of the white man into the Indian’s territory. A climax of the pageant will be the scenes depicting early scout f ing in the Anthony Wayne council as compared to scouting today. ' Sunday morning worship services will hie held at the Decatur Catholic cemetery where a field «mass will be given; Protestant services at Worthman field and Lutheran services at Decatur’s Zion Lutheran church will also be held. All three services will be conducted at 8 a.m. Although ■ there were fewer Scouts than anticipated, probably because of the threatening weather, - none of those present will want for much according to the menus outlined for the camporee. Sommissary chairman Vir gi 1 es, of Fort Wayne, said that today’s luncheon menu for a consisting of four f patrols of ten boys each, would \include: 120 weiners, a like number of buns, four jars of reljsh, four-one pound bags of potato chips, eiglU bunches of radishes, 12! quarts of chocolate milk, and 40 pies. 1 ‘ Sunday noon parents of the Scouts will be present. and the Boys will have a basket lunch. Van Horn said that by bringing scouting into the Various communities it would acquaint the people there with the scope of activities (Tara T» **»«* Dr. brook's Mother Dies At Dayton, O. Mrs. David I. Prugh, of Dayton, Ohio, mother of Dr. Charles M. Prugh of Tiffin, Ohio, formerly of this city, died of a stroke at her home last evening, according ta word received this morning by Leo M. Kirsch, , locajl postmaster. Mrs. Prugh apparently was in good health. She and Mr. Prugh were planning a trip to California this month. Dr. Prugh. a former pastor of the Decatur Zion Evangelical ahd Reformed church, is the dean of men - at Heidelberg College, Tiffin. Besides her /husband and one son, Mrs. Prugh is survived by two other sons and one daughter. Funeral services will be conducted at - 2 p.m. Monday at the Central Evangelical and Reformed church in Dayton, with burial in that £ity. INDIAN/? WEATHER ' , Partly cloudy tonight with occasional showers. Sunday clearing north and partly cloudy south, with 'showers probably continuing near the Ohio river. Not much charge in t?mperatore. Low tonight 58- to 64.

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1 L.'. i I'l’ V Indiana Racketeers Being Investigated Indianapolis, 4 Jute 9 —(UP)— Agents from the U?;S. treasury department, guided by/records qf the Kefau ver [senate ytlme committee, investigated more |han 400! known racketeers in Indiana today. Wilbur iO. Pluitnner. assistant collector jof internal revenue in Indiana, “Said books of the ripcketeers would be audited and “count-er-checked.” He sftid "TV agents were working in Gary. Fort /Wayne, Indianapbhs, Terre Haute, Lafayette, South Bend,? Muncie, Evansville, and New Albany. z i i 8 Jets Crash Al Richmond, Three Killed \: i - Biggest Peacetime Mass Crash; Cause Os Crashes Sought Richmond, Ind-, June 9.-+(|JP)|— Air force and FBI agents investigated today whether sabotage caused eight EB4 fighters to crash in the biggest multiple airplane disaster in peacetime history. Three pilots were killed and two injured law yesterday whe| the planes crashed mysteriously wh|le flying in a flight: qf 71 planes through an electrical storm. The three other pilots were unhurt. i' At least two pilots said their engines exploded ?fter they; were safely through thef.storm. (Another said his engine “4onked out.” and that he saw at two ©f the ships collide. AH the planes Crashed in a 25-mile radjits near Here. An air force spokesman raid it apparently was the biggest number, of planes ever lost'during h Peacetime operation. The biggest pre; vious, to his recollection, wasjwhen a flight of pursuit plants flew into bad weather near Raleigh,in 1939, and six were lost. | Sixty of the planes in yesit|rday’s (flight flew on tq Selfridge Field, Mich., but three others turned back and landed at I .Wright-Patterson field, near Davtoh; 0.. where the'y had taken off only 10 minuses before the crashes. ■' The planes -wer| escort assigned to the strategic timber command whose chief. lit. Ge#. Curtis Lemay, flew today t? take personal charge of the investigation. 1 fi i J Heavily-armed <ir police guards surrounded the wrecks hert? arid the planes of the flight at Sejfridge field and Da”‘iij- ■ i MechrL.cs a# inch(Turn To P4S* « r — it Retail Stoies Open i > j• I 1 Later On Saturdays Set Closing I Half-Hour Later .Members of the retail | division of the Chamber of Commerce voted in their regular meeting Friday that Decatur businesses will estabJfsh new Saturday cfosirig hours, beginning June 16. • j \ ? The division also nwle appointments which will i»iom4 effective immediately to sertfe oh the retail committee, the fleluding Vernon Aurand, Carl Gir--1 her and Jud Bleeke. ] Next week's closing will be extended to 9:30 p. m. on 1 the division decided, t the change from an earlfer closing hour dije to daylight savings tlise. The Decatur stores, will, ; how-. J ever, retain their usdal Thursday afternoon closing program unless t holiday occurs on a week-day.\| I Members of the retail: division ( also made tentative plans for a pjc- ; nlc and voted to take Ene full-pa||e advertisement in the forthcoming 4-iH catalog plus a $76- donation io that organization thus eliminating individual solicitations for ads. : Plans outlined at the. Friday meeting also call for a picnic at Sun--7 Set park, June 21. with businessmen. managers and their wives hosts to all employes. ’ ' ; 1 ’ H I’

China Mission Is Assailed By MacArthur One Os Greatest Blunders In U.S. History Is Charge BULLETIN \ Washington, June 9.— (UP) —President Truman has ordered an investigation of the socalled “China lobby,” secretary of state Dean Acheson announced today. . Washington. June 9. —(UP)— Gen. Douglas \ MacArthur charged today that the postwar Marshall mission to China committed “o»e of the greatest blunders in AmdHcan diplomatic history for which the free world is now paying in blood and disaster.” , The deposed far eastern commander added that the free world “in all probability" will continue to pay this blood price ’‘indefinltely." MacArthur relieved from his Tokyo commands last April for public criticism of administration policy, hurled his charge at the 194&-47 China mission headed by Gen. (leorge-C. Marshall in a telegram to Sen. William F Knowland, R., Cal. MataArthuT declared that the Marshall missiop used “the potenUal of American assistance as a weapon to force” Chiang Kai-Shek’a NSktionalist government “into a political alliance with the Compaunists.” “Its effect could have tiben foreseen,” MacArthur said. “It at once weakened the government lot China) and materially strengthened the Communist mihorlty. Demands Probe / Washington, June 9—(UP)4Sem Brien McMahon, D., Conn., demanded today appointment of a special senate subcommittee to investigate alleged “China' lobby ’ operations trorii Formosa to New York. \ McMahon has charged that ,?a band of crooks!’ used American relief aid to line their own pockets and swing public opinion behind Nationalist jCbina. He. told newsm .a the charges were beginning ” . \.cMahon said he will ask the committee investigating Ger. Doug(Turn Tv Pane Bradley Urges Arms Programs Be Speeded Appeal Is Made At British Conference London, June 9.—(UP) —Gen. Omar Bradley urged the United States and all other Atlantic pac*. countries today to speed up their/ rearmament programs becausq “we don’t know how much time w'e have.” The chairman of the U.S. chiefs of staffs made his plea at a press conference following talks with British and French defense officials. - c He said he was not satisfied with the progress of rearmament in any country, “and I include ourselves in that.” He also said that *the United States always had hoped that other United Nations would find a way to send more troops so Korea Bradley denied emphatically that new American cease-fire formula for Korea to his talks with British defens? minister Emanuel Shinwell and the British chiefs of staff. , ( “I brought with me here a map showing the disposition of all the United Nations troops In Korea,” he said. “I thought they would be interested here because the noivAmerican battalions are attached to various divisions in many places. \ “I did not discuss the question of a cease-fire or negotiations for ending the war. "So far as I know, there is no new plan, although that would be handled on the Apolitical level. From the military view, we worked (Tar* To Pace Six)

Ridirway Greets Marshall In Tokyo ni i I I i I I I I I I DEFENSE SECRETARY George C. Marshall Is greeted on landing by plane on-“A surprise visit to Tokyo. Greeting him are Gen. Matthew J RidgWay i (right), supreme allied commander in the Far East, and A Mrs; Hidg’way. . ( '

City Mandaied To Pay Police Pension Pension Fund Act \ Upheld By Partish Declaring the police pension fund act *fen the whole” is constitutional. and the existing program submittedfby the trustees of the fund Is Judge Myles F, Parrish Ffiday mandated the city to levy tjie necessary money to maintain fie pension plan. The coiift upheld the police department’s budget for the pension fund which must be' included in the 19&1 budget, collected In 1952. ft The btu&et calls for one-fifth of one mill fpr each dollar of taxable property tp be included toward the police pension fund. At the same time, city 5 policemen will pay Into the fund |i specific amount each month. I ’The judgment of the court’s mandate was km the tag-end of a 45page decision which required more than an h/jmr of reading. Members of the cijy‘ police department as well as attorneys Ed. A, Bosse and Robert's. |\nderson, the lattei- representing She city, were ,in the court when the decision was handed down. < The police department representativesghad fifst presented the pension plijn to members of the city .council ini February, 1949. It was rejected a| that time and on subsequent presentations, thus • the department began the court proceedings. | Councilri|en ansyer to the department’s charges was, in effect, that police -could possibly force the city to borrow [money “to meet obliga-\ tions;” further that the act gave too much powers tp the tru#t?(js of the fund. Judge -f*hrrish, however, upheld the departments's petition for the mandate stating that, the defend-* ants clerk-treasurer, . and councilm®4> and - their successors in office “Inust take cognizance of any and ail budget estimates, sub: niitted to tthem for the estimated requirements by the board of trustees of th| police pension fund...” The un«|fifth of one mill levy will raise fan : $1,400 ’to $1,600. | F" — Man Is Oled When Train Smashes Truck Porter, |ud., June 9 — (UP) — Ernest Cl4nens, 48, of Porter was killed yesterday when his truck was hit a fast stew York Central crossing ii| Porter. ;l - Police laid that Clemens, an employe o| the New Central, apparently; attempted to cross ahead of a|slow switch engine and didn't the freight approaching - ■ t . i ■

/ . J, E-g Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur Ministerial associ-; at ion will meet Mqnday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Zion Evann jell cal and Reformed church for election of new officers. This will be the fins* meeting of the assoj ciatlov ..util September. ' L_’ Frankfort Man Is New C.C. Secretary | Walter D. Ford Is To Succeed Pruden j Walter D. Ford of coach of ti“|e high school ! football; team and civic leader, in that has been employed as secretary*of the Decktur Chamber of Commerce. Roger Kelly, presH dent of the orginization, announcet| today. j who succeeds Richard W; Pruden who resigned last monfh; to accept the position of executive? secretary of the Fostoria, Ohio.; Chkmbfer of Commerce, will begin; his duties July 1. The new secretary has done re-1 search in chamber of commerce work and community promotion! through the Indiana office and as-/ sociation with these organizations: in Frankfort. A graduate of Louisiana TechJ Ruston, La., Ford has continued! graduate studies at Purdue Uni-i versity. His majors were history] and government apd physical edu-l cation. Ford has membership in Kappas Sigma, Indiana state, teachers. sociation and the Indiana coaches/ association. He has traveled 40 dH the 48 states and also in Canada,; Mexico and the Philippine Islands.He- is a veteran of the army air; forte, having served five years in* thia branch of the service. Native of Indiana. ‘‘Ford was* bora in Lafayette. He is marriedj and thye father of two children. The’ family will move here as soon as; a house can be obtained. He Is a member of the Methodist church, the Masonic lodge and Junior Chamber of Commerce of Frank- ’ fort. President Kelly said that eight applicants sought the Decatur secretaryship ?nd that personal interviews were given to several ot the men. Assisting in the selection of a man to succeed Pruden was a committee composed of D. R. Zintsmaster, Earl Caston. Wilbur Petrie and Kelly. William Linn has been serving as acting secretary the past tnonth. Kelly announced that the Chamber of Commerce would continue it?; office in the DeVoss building and that Mrs. Frank Det ter would remain as secretary to the executive director.

Report Major Retreat Is ? Started From Anchors Os ‘lron Triangle’ Redoubt

Nation Plans For Possible Beef Shortage 72 Percent Slash In Beef Production Reported For Week Chicago, June 9 —(UP)— Me>t supplies shrank on some \butcher counters and in the nation’s leading packing houses today as the country prepared for a possible major beef shortage. *--1 The American Meat Institute said 95 of the country’s biggest beef producing plants reported they dressed 76 percent fewer cattle this week than in the corresponding week last year. Cattle receipts dropped 3>l percent durtng the week, the tAMI said, and added that some of the beef, moved into “other than normal channels of trade.” Packers and producers ' have warned that a shortage resulting from the government’s price rollback order on beef may result in black markets. The national association of retail meat and dealers, representing about 70,000 dealers throughout the country, called on the government td change Its policy and said some markets wil| be running but of beef today. But in Washington the administration held firm to its decision to rollback meat prices further,despite a demand from the house agriculture committee to Cancel or modify the program. The shortage was already apparent in Chicago, New York and Milwaukee stores today. In’ New York, health department inspectors investigated the sale of “chopped meat” at 39 cents a pound in a Brooklyn butcher shop. Dominick Pavone was arrested on charges of selling illegal horsemeat. York City officials reported that they received' bids for only 10 percent of the 60,000 pounds of beef required for hospitals and other institutions next week. (Tura To Pave Sixt / First State Bonus Payments In July A First Payments To V Disabled Veterans Terre Haute, Ind., June 9 — (UP) — Indiana has, collected $44,489,798.30 in its World War II bonus fund and will the first payments about July 2, the veterans affairs commission announced today. Claims to be paid next month will cost in excess of $25,000,000., The money will go to next-of-kln of veterans who died in service and to disabled veterans. \ A flat payment of S6OO will made to nex.t-ofrkin of veterans who either were killed oh died between Dec. 7, 1941, and, Sept. 2, 194-5, while in military service, the commission announced. Payments also will start about July 2 for next-of-kin of veterans who died after Sept. 2, 1946, as the result of service-connected disability. vets with a service-con-nected disability of 10 percent or more, and vets with a 100 percent non-service connected disability. A third class, next-of-|rtn of veterans who died since Sept. 2, 1945, from non-eervice connected causes and all other living veterans eligible for the bonus, will not be paid until 1953 Or 1954 — when funds needed to pay all of them have been collected. ?

New Packing Plant A; H. P. Schmitt, well known meet dealer and locker service proprietor, fbday purchased the Steh|y Packing plant, one mile north of Decatur, through federal court, and announced the establishment Os Lthe H. P: Schmitt Packing company. ' New Packing Plant Is Organized Here i H. P. Schmitt Buys j Steiiry Plant Here 0 H. P. Schmitt, proprietor of t Schmitt locker service ahd widely known livestock and meat dealer of this city, has; purchased the Steury Packing cbmpany. building' and equipment, one mile north of Decatur, and will establish the H. P. Schmitt Packing company, the new owner announced tbday. , Purchase of the pjant which wt£s first established by Calvin Ri Steury six years ago, wa4 mad? through T. F. Graliker, receive* in bankruptcy, with the approval of William J. Keane| referee in bankruptcy in the Northern Indii ana federal court in Fort Waynes; Five acres of land comprise thb; site where the building is located. The building is 94 by 102 fee| in size. The new packing plant will be ready for operation about Sept. 1, Mr. Schmitt stated. Extensive remodeling of the plant will be done immediately. New machinery and equipment and steam boilers will be Installed as quickly as possible, and complete renovation of the; building will be made before; occupancy. / Operations will include ’ whole-, sale meat packing, custom butchering. curing and meat smokingj Schmitt explained. These operas tkms will be expanded as ebndi*, tions permit, .he said. tj Application has already been" filed with the OPS for a packer’#: killing permit, in compliance with all federal regulations pertaining: to the meat processing the new owner explained. It is Schmitt’s intention to affill* ate with, his two sons, Donald an 4 Hubert P. Sebmitt, Jr., in the o|i; eration of the industry. The latter is a member of the U. S. armjiV stationed at Eta Jlma, Japan, in a specialized training scohol f<X* meat handling and food processing. ‘ • I j * Mr. , v Schmitt’s father, the lati£ Dynois Schmitt, was one of tbi> veteran meat dealers and packer# ot this city. The son has been lithe livestock and meat packing business for, more than 30 year? and six years ago built the modern locker plant on Second street. Ho, received specialized training in meat cutting in a large shop ift Toledo. In World War I he hag wide experience in handling of meats and foods in the army. r ; A number of men will be enfe ployed in the new industry and a (Twa To Pace Six)

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Front Dispatches Say Communists I In Major Retreat From Strong Line Tokyo, Sunday, June 10 —(UP) —Chinese communists have started a retreat from the- two southern’ anchors of their “iron triangle” redoubt in central Ko-‘ rea. front dispatches reported to- - day. \ j ';'h '. \ j ■ ■ United/.Press war Correspondent William fcurson on the west central /front, reported the communists started yesterday to abandon - the southeastern cjorner of their redoubt in a retreat from Kumhwa towafd Kumsohg, 11 miles to the northeast and 29 miles north of the 3sth parallel. , _ *» Other tront dispatches said the Chinese f ßeds appeared to have , abandoned ChorwonJ/ the south- , . western anchor point. At the approaches to both ; Kumhwa and Chorwon, the Reds were fighting delaying actions t ’ which varied from intensive to r merely token resistance. i Before Kumhwa, the Reds left automatic weapons teams on dom- - inating hill positions. Driving steadily, the Gl's pushed forward, through ’the fire, for gains of 1,000 to /2.000 yards. -i Southwest of Chorwon, a Chinese battalion— anywhere from 150 to 700 men —essayed.a vain coun- •' ter attack. This was beaten off; i and to the west another UN unit f gained more than one mile I against light opposition. > Untied Press war correspondent . Leroy Hknsen, reporting this ad- ► vance, quoted allied officers —as ( saying: i “It is jikely that the Reds are in proces? of abandoning Chorwon. / and withdrawing north of the i . city.” ’ : ’ The lori of Chorwon would , cost t><» /ommunists the only good east-irest road squth of their next , probable ‘ defense line, Hansen ! noted, and would give allied ar- : tillory fihe targets in the vast | *“iron triangle” plain. , A t / Night reconnaissance plane?’ re- \ ported that the Reds seem embarked on a steady, If slow tri•angle which allied troops are now /attacking; relentlessly; / / The assault! coincided with; , growing Speculation that U. S. defense secretary George C. Marshall’s unexpected visit to Korea ?nd Tokyo will lead to a major iiew .development in the Korean ijar. iA ; Marshall was closeted most of I the day. wish Ge?. Matthew B. Ridgway,; United Nations supreme commander, first at the general’s , headquarters And \ later at the j .American! embassy. \- ’ i: ‘X Marshall insisted his visit was / military,” but there was ; a persistent' belief in allied quar- ’ jters that the allies were preparing a new ceage-fire offer to -the 'J fjbnlnese Reds. 1 \ /j quarter? thought it might j/be- announced if and when the Bth /army drive? the communists out ; k pf their Chorgrqn-Kumhwa-Pyong-gang “irqn triangle” in the cen- ' ;j.r?l Korean mountains. | UN forces brought, their lines \ r up on a solid front before Chor- ; Won today. An Btli- army com- ■ munique reported gains of up Lto r 2Mt ■ miles across the southeast ; approaches to the city against ; light to moderate communist resistance. A .i • Communist artillery that had been shelling the southeast ap- / proaches fell silent. The rapidlyadvancing allies believed the bulk i; of the Reds had pulled back to a new defense line north of Chorwon. !■ S p Chinese rear guards holding ( the last tbip line below Chorwon* / still laid down a mortar barrage, i .‘ - T? Face ««)

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