Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 139.

RED ARMIES ARE ABANDONING PYONGGANG

House Group Winds Up Work On Tax Boost Heavy Increase ln,» Taxes Proposed By House Committee Washington, June 13 — (U?) — The house ways and mean© committee wound up work today on the biggest tax increase biH in U. S. history — a 17,500,000,000 boost.' The committee will meet tomorrow to report the hill formally to the house. But for all practical purposes, its five-month job of drafting the legislation was completed. " The legislation, which still must clear both the house and senate before it can become law, proposes Ito take a heavy new bite out of the pocketbooks of individuals and the earning© of corporations), / * / For individuals, the measure proposes to increase income taxes by 12% percent, j Corporations would have both their income and excess profits taxes increased substantially. Higher excise taxes are proposed on many items, including licjuor, beer, gasoline and automobiles. The committee rejected President Truman’s request for higher, excises on radios and television sets and on some other - items. ■ ' I ' Chairman Robert L.j Doughton. D., N. C., of the ways and means committee said he hopes to get ’ the bill before the house next week. t' \ iChakmanv Walter. F. George, D.. Ga., of the (Senate finance committee, said he thought it would be at least Sept. 1 before the senate has completed its work on the bill and sent it along to Mr. Truman for signature. At today’s session, the, ways and means committee confirmed its earlier tentative decision to v raise the excise tarn on automobiles from seven to 10 percent, and the tax on gasoline from' one and one-half to two cents per gallon.-, ’ \ \ ; As the ways and means committee approved it, the bill would raise individual income taxes 12% percent. This means that if your (Turn To l’atf Elxht) I -— \\

Less Than Half Inch Os Rain Last Night c Less than one-half inch Os rain fell in the city last night and up to 8 a. m. today, Herman \“Hi” Meyer, local weather observer, said. ’ ! The measurement was .42 of an inch. St. Neary’s river was slowly rising and the stream was measured at 8.5 feet. Auxiliary, Scouts To Aid In Service The uniformed drill team'of the American Legion auxiliary, and all other members of the auxiliary, are requested to meet at the Legion home at 7 o’clock Thursday evening to take part in the parade and flag day services at the Elks home. The drum and bugl# corps of Boy Scout troop 61 will also take part in the paride and services, and will meet at the Letgion home at 6:45 p. m. Mrs. Trank Bremerkamp Dies Tuesday Evening Mrs. Joseph Brennan and Mr*. s J. C. Laurent received word last' evening of the sudden death of their sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Bremerkamp, 59, of Hollywoxjd, Cal. Mrs. Bremerkamp was visiting with her parents in Greenup, 111., when stricken with the fatal attack. Her maiden name was Mist Nunnemaker and her parental home was in Greenup. Besides her husband, she is sury ived by one son, John Richard Bremerkamp of Hollywood. Mr, Bremerkamp began his business career in this city as a bookkeeper In the old First National bank. Mr. Bremerkamp moved to Terre Haute. Funeral services will be held Thursday in Greenup and burial will be In that city.

DECATUR DA 11. Y DEMOCRAT

On Draft Board I* " IL A i W James K. Staley . —— Appoint Staley On County Draft Board James K. Staley Succeeds Reusser y Announcement was made today jbf the appointment of Jameis K. Staley. s 235 North Sixth street, to the Adams county selective service board to succeed Omar Reusser, of Ber ne, former chairman who recently resigned. Staley, for the past 10 years in tfie planning division of the General Electric company and a past-cdni-mander ;of post 43 American Legion, assumed his duties on the board at the Tuesday meeting. At that time he Was elected to succeed; Reusser, al©o as chairman of the selective service board. Other members of 'the boarij include Hugh J. Andrews, secretary, and Ralph E. Roop, both of Decatur. Reusser. whose resignation was handed into state selective service officials several ago, presumably designed because of business presente. He has been board, chairman since October/1948, when it was reactivated. \ \ j: Staley's appointment w'as made "a couple of days > ago” and the Tuesday meeting was his first of\fitial action. 'T A""Recreation Program Will Open Thursday

Worthman field will Le formally opened Thursday for the summer recreation, program. Craft work will be done Mondays, Tuesday# and Thursday from J. to 4 p. rp./ under the supervision of Miss Nancy Krick.:;; 1 Steve and Deane Dor-i win are I Supervisors of general Boy work, arid also night‘jsoftball. ) lA ■ ''Mi INDIANA WEATHER ; Clearing and' cooler tonight. Thursday fair and a little warmerj£ Low tonight 54-58. High Yhursday. 75-82. | Variance Granted By Appeals Board •< ■ Zone Appeals Board Meets Last Evening A variance of tt|e city zoning ordinance to permit Dqn Frost .to e>tendi a foundation for a galrage six feet along his south; property line on Merfet avenue was granted at the regiilrir meeting of the board of zohiirif appeals at the city hall Tuesday; night. A communication from inspector E. Roop to Lawrence Anspaugh, qwner Os Ans-paugH’s Studio, informed him ar small display stricture in frbnt of his studio on Mojirpe was not in con); pliano# with th? zoning ordinance in that it extended north beyond the established building line, \ | The board instructed secretary Robert Anderson td advise paugh that the structure should be moved back in line With the\other buildings on Moniio# street, east to the river. i Communications concerning several mjnor infractions of ihe ordinance were read into the records and reports were to be the effect that t|ie violations had been corrected (as advised by the building inspector. 1 ,'

Investigating Black Market Beef Charges Industry Members I Being Probed For Beef Slack Market Washington June 13. —(UP) — Price enforcement officials said today they are investigating black market charges against “several pretty big”; members of the beef industry. But they made it clear that they do not know whether investigations will bear out the charges. They alsc disclosed that they expect to tun over to the justice department “within the next few days quite a number” of cases involving illegal rlaughtering of beef. The officials said the big cases Involve allegations amounting to “black market operation? «in a general sense” by packer and wholesalers. 1 They hinted that th# charges involve upgrading of beef, disruption of “horipal ■ channels of distrlbutiop.” and tie-in sales. These cas es are not ready to be turned ovei to the justice department yet, they said. Investigations by price enforcement agents are still going cn. they said. n \ ' The officials said the' illegal slaughtering cases involve violations of slaughtering quotas, use pt fraudulent iiuotas and slaughtering by persons ’yho have not registered in compliance with the beef regulations. These disclosures came as congressional investigators called a two-day inquiry to find out whether cattlemen are striking against the public. Shipments Increase Chicago, June 13. —(UP)> — Cattle shipments neared normal today/ supporting the belief that farmers have decided to accept the price rollback. p.l After almost two week? of dwindling livestock supplies, shipments today were! hear normal for the second day in a row. f Cattle received at the nation’s 12 principal livestock centers this morning totaled 33.200 head, compared with only 22,000 a week ago and 34,000 a year ago. At Chicago, the world’s largest Stockyards received 10,000 head of cattle, compared with 9,952 a week ago and 7,1)84 a year ago. Shipments to th ? 12 big markets so far this week totaled 108.300 head, compared with )2 310 last week at this time and 1 17,757 for the same (Turn To Page Ei*kt) . . | — P— • Red China Leaders To Continue War j ?■ China Reports Decision Taipei, Formosa,.June 13 —(UP) —Red China’s military - leaders have decided to continue the Korean war despite recent defeats and steadily-mounting Chinese casualties, Nationalist intelligence reports said today. ' \ , The national defehse ihinistry’s information service here said the decision was taken at a top secret meeting in Manchuria early this month. I The meeting also was underwood to have decided to: i 1. Dispatch happy” supervisors to theTront with orders do prevent mass Communist surrenders. :, ' , . 2- Court martial any divisional commanders whose menA take part in such surrenders. Intelligence reports said Gen. Nle Hyung-Chen, acting chief of staff of the Communist Chinese army: Gen. Lin Piao, Chinese field commander in Korea, and Kao Kang, Manchurian Coipmunist boss, were among those attending the meeting. > Unofficial reports reaching Formosa place Chines© casualties in the Korean war sincri Chipe'se intervention last November at 1,300,000. The Nationalists also reported belatedly that their navy recently defeated an attempt by the Chinese Reds to storm. Nationalist-held Mahjo Island off the Fukien coast opposite Formosa with 100 junks and two gunboats. Nationalist warships intercepted the enemy flotilla and repulsed it after-\ ah exchange of gunfire, sources said. ' i ■

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Decafur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 13, 1951

w ■ Km DEFENSE SECRETARY Gen. George C. Marshall reports to President Truman on his return from a whek-long visit to the Far' East. He reported the current UN drive in Korea has been successful beyond expectations-.

L Ans Officers Are Installed Last Night Returned Veterans Speakers Tuesday v Officers* to serve the Decatur Lions drib during the ; coming year were installed Tuesday at regular meeting of that organization, with Robert S. Anderson handling thje ritualistic chores. Retiring president lx E. Anspaugh presided during the Meeting, and Majyoy John M. Doan was in charg< qf the program which was featured by short speeches by retunsAg airman Lt. James Rice and the mayor’s son, marine Pfc. E. Doan. Both, just back from Korea, aye on -30-dayi furloughs with their families before being reassigned. Both saw considerable action before behpg returned, Rice wounded wh#n his plane was knocked out of the sky by enemy fire, Doan hospitalized from severe ground action. The pilrit and the marine tqld their stories to the Lions, Rice also showing pictures he had obtained in,l Korea, and Doan dwelling largely on th© history of the country and the people. All members but one were installed by Anderson Tuesday, the one being’ Dr. H. FrohnapfeJ, secretary, who continued in that office following the recent elections. Pfoxy Walter Rittman received the installation rites in his place. s' Incoming club president Glenn Mauller received the badge of office, and. the medal of outgoing president: was pinned on Anspaugh. /Other officers installed Halterman, treasurer; Thurman I. Drew, Watson (Twra To Pace Six)

Army Defends Regiment Accused Os Cowardice

Washington, June 13.—(UP)— The army revealed totjay that the 31st regiufent of the seventh division, accused of cowardice by a navy chaplain, lost more than 90 percent of its officers in a threeday battle in Korea last November. The army made th© disclosure after making public a letter written by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway in. which; the Far Eastern commander jcj»arged that Lt. Cn dr. Otto E. Bporrer “slandered \ the reputation of many brave and honorable soldiers.” ! RidgU'ay, in a letter to army secretary* Frank Pace Jr., dffteu May 5, said that action by the defense department “is imperatively in _ order.” However, Ridgway also praised Sporrer’s personal conduct, attention to duty and bravery while serving as a navy Cathol’c chaplain in Korea. A sumihary of an investigation of Sporrer’s charges accompanied Ridgway's* letter, but was not released until today. It listed 18 allegation© by the chaplain and sharply denounced all of them. Referring to a Chinese Communist on the Silst regiment in the- Ctiosin Reservoir area on Nov. 28, Sporrer said that "in the face of the attack which was not overwhelming by any means, this unit was completely routed.” The army said the facts showed that the hist regimental combat I

4-H Band Concert Thursday Evening The Adams county 4-H band will present the first in ' a series of summer concerts at Monroe Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. The concert will be presented on a plot adjacent to the Stucky furniture stpre. The band, directed oy Jerry Zimmerman, which had a membership of 50 last, fall has now increased to approximately 100 members. A Quarry Is Drained j By Soya Company i Recondition Quarry Storage Pond C. I. Finlayson, local manager of the Central Soya company plant, reported today that Ay the draining of the old stone quarry adjacent to the St. Mary’s river on the plant grounds is rapidly nearing completion. Pufnping operations! have been in progress for the past two weekß at the familiar fishing hole in th© north end of the city and have proven to be quite an attraction to many Deqatur residents. ‘The entire operation is part of a long-range project of water .conservation which has been developed by the company’s technical division under the direction ot Norman F. Kruse,” Finlayson stated.

“Since we require large amounts of water in the daily operations of our plant, we have been acutely aware of thri receding underground water table in this area for some time. \ Three different apr proaches to the Water problem have been developed by the plan* (Tara To Pare Six) A ;

(team had about 2,800 men, and beat off repeated thrusts by more than 20,000 Reds between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, before being overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers. ‘?Only 10 officers out of over lOff were available for duty by Dec. I,’\ the report said. “The r> malnder had been killed In actio? or . were missing in action.” It said that only 385 of the apjroxlmately 1,600 survivors ofthe thtee-day engagement were able to take part in the United Nation* withdrawal toward the south. Th* Reds got so clo*e to the American* that the <Red* burned some of the wounded in trucks, the report said. Some wounded hren who cotfid not walk fired at the enemy while fitting oh the trucks, and wounded officers also continued fighting, “The allegations that officer* fled to the rear in jeeps is fantastic and impossible,” the army said. “The unit was completely surrounded.” . i 'IV Sporrer, a native of Buffalo, N.Y M and now assigned to the San Diego naval hospital, said he is “leaving it up to my many friend* in all branches of military service to justify any claims I have advanced." “For the sake of peace and any repercussions ffom either th* Roman Catholic church or th* navy,” Sporrer said, “I have promised to remain quiet.” '• ■ \ ' j

Last Anchor Os Smashed > 4 ■ 1 - Triangle & Apparently Beina Abandoned Bvßeds

Over 113,000 Idled By Labor Disputes 40,000 CIO Seamen Threaten To Strike More than 113,000 workers were idled today by labor disputes in the garment, automobile, rubber, transit and iron mining industries. In addition, 40,000 CIO seameu threatened to refuse to sign for voyages after Friday midnight. Other walkouts impended in the telephone industry, v \ “Some encouraging progress" was reported in efforts to end a strike by 65,000 AFL International Ladies’ Garment Workers against 2,000 shops. It was the first big strike in 25 years in New York City’s biggest industry. ' The worst labor situation since the end of World War II developed at Akron, 0., as 24,000 workers walked off their jobs in rubber plants and other factories vital to the nation’s defense effort. Six thousand CIO Au(o Workers struck yesterday over working conditions at the Goodyear Airci aft Corp, plant. About 3,800 Federal Labor Unionists (Ind.) had struck previously against the Babcock and Wilcox Co. at nearby Barberton, O.rtln addition, 13,000 CIO Rubber Wprkers struck at the Goodyear Synthetic Rubber plant, charging a speedup. ! About 13,000 auto workers irere idle- at Detroit. Hudson sent home 10,000 workers, charging that employes 4° the paint and asembly lines were leaving off certain operations Chrysler laid off 3,000 at its Desoto plant because of a wildcat strike by 13 metal finishers who demanded extra help. At South Bend, Ind., however, the Studebaker Corp, called back 14,000 employes to resume woik on passenger cars after a three-day shutdown /due to a shortage of steel. > : ’ ' '■ About 1.200 CIO Steelworkers “went fishing” in an unauthorized walkout against I the Cleveland Clitfs Iron Mining Corp, at Coleraine, Minn., and it was reported that 3,00 more employes \of the \tirm were out in northern Michi(Turn To Pave Elabt) Three Youths Admit Slaying Os Farmer Confess Slaying Crippled Farmer Greenfield, Ind., June 13 —(UP) — Confessions of three yojiths were on file today telling the brutal story of how they fatally heat a crippled Hancock county farmer in an unsuccessful attempt to rob him of part of . his wealth. Amitting their part in the Saturn day night bludgeoning of Noah Fry. 71, at his farm home near Greenfield police said were Nick C. Csire, 22, and Richard Boschen, 23, both of Indianapolis, and Jack L. Randolph, 20, Greenfield. Police said their confessions implicated a fourth youth, George P. Miller, 24, Greenfield, who was held by state police for questioning, Fry. a wealthy semi-invalid who stumbled to a neighbor’s house to report the beating early Sunday, died in a hospitel at Indianapolis Monday. The confessions, which stated Miller took part in the "beating, said Fry’s slaying developed after “a bet the old pian had at least >1,500 in the house.” However, they said all they obtained was >32 from the dying man’s pockets. Boschen, Randolph and Miller were arrested after the’ beating* whe* a hitchhiker reported they planned to rob a service station near Valley Mills, state police said. Csire was arrested at his home a short time later. Sheriff Joe Fish said the group (Tara To P«*e Si*)

Accuses Mate: Department Os; Blocking Plans General Wedemeyer Continues Testimony At Ouster Hearing Washington, June 13. —(UP) — Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer credited congress today with producing all the “constructive” tor dealing with China since, the war and accused the state department of trying to block those Wedemeyer made that declaration as he testified for the third day before the senate committee Investigating far eastern policy and the removal of Gen. MacArthur. S Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R., la., asked Wedemeyer. wartime commander of U.S. forces in China, if the United States had followed a policy of giving shrinking support to the Chinese Nationalist governinent while the Chinese Comm&nists were getting increasing help from Russia. ■£ Wedemeyer said he thought Hickenlooper had made a ‘-fair statement." He said there had been “uncertainty” about American China policy in the postwar period when the Communists were displacing the Nationalists from the Chinese mainland. Wedemeyer disclosed in other testimony that he early 1945 that Russia be brought into the war against Japan to shdjrten the hostilities. That recommendation wgs, he said, “a mistake, $n error in judgment, strategic judgment there.” Wedemeyer told Sen./ Estes Kefauver, D., Tend., however, that he was “not at all f involv#d” in ttie controversial 1945 Yalta which spelled out the terms Jor Russia’s entry into the war in t|le far east. -■ ■ M “It seemed to me that any constructive purposes or ideas with reference to that area really had their genesis in congress,” Wehmeyer said, “and the opposition to those constructive ideas usually curred in the state department.”; Under further questioning by Hickenlooper Wedemeyer said that U.S. recognition of the Red Chinese government would be "tantamount to a refutation" of American friendship! fdr the Chinese people, -h abrogation of our traditional door” policy, and “a victory for tire Communist movement in China, in the far east, and in the world."» ; U.S. policy is not to recognise Red China and to support the Nationalist government. > Mrs. Grover Bleeke Dies Last Evening i Funeral Services Friday Afternoon - Mrs. Ftorence Bleeke, 45, Wife of Grover H. Bleeke, of Root township, three and, one-half miles northeast of Decatur, died at o’clock Tuesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for the past month. She was born in Decatur May 14, 1906, a daughter of William and Effie Grimm Draper, and was married Sept. 13, ,1930. A She was a member of the liftmanuel Lutheran church. j Surviving in addition to her husband are five children, Donald. Phyllis, Ronald, Martha and Calbleen, all at home; and one sidteh Mrs. Stella Wood of Arlington, Va. One sister preceded her In Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Zwhk funeral home and at 2 o’clock at tie Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. 0. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the church cemet&y. Friends may call at the fundral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening. ! v . h-a r.

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Reds Make General Withdrawal Across Entire War Front As Allies Advance 5 ! Yokyo, Thursday, June 14 — (UP)—Red armies apparently are abandoning Pyonggang, last ajuchor of their shattered iron triangle, as part of a general with- r draw al across the entire Korean, front. ! Two' powerful allied tank-infan-try task force#, supported by planes, were driving on Pyonggang, 29 miles .north of the 38th parajlel, from Chorwon and KeAhw|, southern anchors of the triangle which already have fallen. Front dispatches said they were meeting nb significant resistance. It was believed possible h,e<e that a United Nations patrol might already have entered* the ruined city of Pyonggang. On almost every part of a 70mile front United Nations infantrymen were advancing againit slight resistance. ' Allied planes swept ahead dt them in force, raking columns of retreating Chinese communists with machine gun. rocket and gasoline jelly bomb fire. Hundreds of Red troops, traveling in heavily camouflaged retreat columns. were killed by the plane attack#. The official picture of the front was given by an Bth army coin* munlqiie which Mid.' 1. Light to moderate enemy contact was met by &th army patrols on the western front southwest 0f Chorwon, former southwestern anchor point of the shattered triangle. 1

2. Task forces ‘probed north. I and northeast of Chorwon and northwest of Kumhwa, the former southeastern anchor of the triangle, against little; or no resistance. Moderate resistance was reported in the area immediately / north and east of Kumhwa. - /o,| {! -3, Light to moderate resistance was met by patrolling and attacking Bth army forces on the remainder of the front. Ther# were indications that the ccmmupists already have or soon would abandon Pyonggang, Ja©t and nortbernment bastion of this enemy’s once-impregnable central Korean "iron triangle.” The hjbrthern tip of the former / assembly and . stockpile triangle was a virtual no-man’s land within easy range of allied guns and under ceaseless pounding from ] I the airi 1 Capture of Pyonggang would j>ut the hard-driving Bth army astride the main highway to the east ©oast port of Wonsan, 50 miles farther north and probable hinge of the next communist defense ' Hne. . - It also would deprive the enemy of his Pyonggang airstrip, restor- ‘ ed by the Reds in secret for of their own air force but now in shambles from new allied air raids. ‘ Dive-bombing F-84 Thunderjets knocked out runways and 12 buildings in their latest raid. yesterday. f \ Allied forces also were near Kumsong. 16 miles east of Pyonggang on another road running t© ' Wonsan. : I■■ ' . L: J | Associated Banquet On June 22 Tickets wil be available Runday ( at all member churches for the annual banquet of the associated churches of Decatur, to be held Friday night, June 22, at the Ma/ sonic hail. | \ Because of the limited number of tickets, those persons planning to attend th© annual event are asked to get their tickets as soon as possible. \j Ari interesting program is being arranged with special music and an outstanding speaker. Officer© for 1951-52 will be elected at the meeting following the banquet and department heads Will give annual reports. * /' H . /!;■{; . ’ j / / ■' yl