Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1951 — Page 1

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FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY TESTIFIES

’——FT Atom Weapons Are Deadliest j' r ?.. ■. Ever Devised ■J >;[ ■ Tests At Eniwetok Prove Deadliness Os Atom Weapons / Washington. June 14 —(UP) — Atomic weapons proed at the 1 recent Enlwetok tests are s he _f deadliest ever devised. But even as their mushroom ■clouds surged toward the stratosphere, atomic weaponeers already I were planning future tests of new and deadlier weapons. That in essence, officials said \aoday, is the story of Eniwetok, 1951. ( This story, detailed at a special pentagon news conference yesterday, also disclosed that: 1. The Hydrogen super bomb is progressing toward “eventual development.” 'Z 2. This country has a variety of atomic weapons—for use against armies in the field as well as cities—on which progress has been made “all across the board.” 3. A vast amount of new information! has been' accumulated which not only multiplies this country’s power to inflict atomic blows but also strengthens its ability to take 1 and recover from atomic blows. Data oh what the new bomb does to shelters, in- _ dustrial plants, and homes will be ready for civil defense people in about two months. 4. Tl)e “pew. and improved” weapons tested at Eniwetok were 1 “several times” more powerful than the world war II A-Bombs Which were equivalent to more •than 20,000 tons of TNT. It is possible the new weapon’s • precise ’’energy yield” may be revealed some day—if necessary for Civil defense purposes. ' 5. The new Weapons are tr“most important” contribution to atomic ‘‘economy”—that is, they getmore destructive power out of a given amount of atomic explosives than olderbombs. . » 6. The “mysterious ghost’ of lingering radioactivity from . atomic air bursts has b«m “dispelled for'eVer.” jp/ , ■' /- / The general picture of was accomplished at the Pacific island proving ground in April and May was given to reporters by j chairman Gordon Dean of the atomic energy commission, Lt. Gen. Elwood? R. Quesada, commander of the A EC-armed services task force Which conducted the tests; Dr. Alvin C- Graves,, AEC bomb Scientist who was technical director at Eniwetok; chairman Robert Lebaron of the AEC’s military liaison committee^and others. Lebaron, who. is defense secretary George =C. Marshall’s deputy for atomic affairs, said that since the first Eniwetok fests of 1948 "“much has happened, to speed up the tempo and ever-widening scope of our U. S. atomic energy effort.” One discordant note was sounded by former AE£J chairman David •E. Lilienthal who said in New Yqrk that he was “profoundly shocked by the helpful tip-offs given to Russia by the disclosures. BrigJ Gen, James Cooney, radiation safety advisor to the Eniwetok task force, said the new tests proved all over again that “the immed - fate radiation, hazard from the air burst i disappears after the first two-minutes.” (' Low bursts might contaminate an area 600 to 800 yards across. Cooney said, but “no rescue work would‘be required in this area because it would be devasted.” Whereas Dean and Graves merely said ’ the Eniwetok experiments “contributed’ vital information to- , ward "what Graves called “eventual ward development" of the H-Bomb, rep. Melvin Price, D., 111., who witnessed the tests, told United Press he is now convinced the super Weapon can and wjll be A- ' ' "i K f - • r : ’’ r ‘[• ■ v! • ' • INDIANA WEATHER A Fair and cool tonight. Friday partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers southwest. Warmer north and east portions Friday. Low tonight 50 to 55 horth, 54 to 58 south. High Friday 80 to 85.

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■i . r — f —"X BULLETIN 3 Washington, June 14:—(UP) ; — The navy’today said; 26 meh / were killed and seven were wounded aboard the destroyer Walke as a result of an underwater explosion, presumably a floating, Stine, off the east coast of Korea Tuesday. The hull Os the Walke was damaged on one side but the ‘ vessel was proceeding to a Japanese pert'tender its own powr. Reds Speed Up Their Retreat On West Front Intense Artillery Fire Met By Allies On Eastern Front \l Tokyo, Friday. June 15.—(UP)-j-Un(ted forces slammed Into a wall of intense artillery fire op the eastern frpnt in Korea todaji, but Chinese forces along the rest of the battle-frfmt fled north under pressure, ( | The Reds pepped up their retreat in the west after abandoning Pyonggang, 29 miles north of the 38th parallel in central Korea and 90 miles southeast off Pyongyang, the North Koteteh (capital. Pyonggang hud been the northern anchor of the formey frdnt “irhn triangle.” Today the area was Almost deserted ap the Reds- fled hinder (treasure of Allied thrusts as deep an 7,00 P yards. ‘ s . The main allied line moved forward about one mile north of Inj| Thursday under? continuous small arms fire and . artillery. pushing ahead of the main line me| considerable moftar fire. Stiffest opposition was met north of Yanggu ,at the eastern end o| the Hwachon reservoir ir. the easfi. Allied patrols were brought’ under heavy artillery /fire at times an| some front line officers said th£ Allies were striking a new Red defense line. ’ f "His main fortje is still definitely close in,” orid allied officer sai4 "They apparently have plenty of men. Not enough for a sustained offensive, but they may attack anyway” From the east, coast came reports of two enemy attack®. One was in battalion Strength and on| Jh regimental strength. An Bt| army \-ommunique said iteoth ' assaults were repulsed. On the west dpast. C6mmunis| activity along the diagonal 50-mile front from Kumliwa to the sei seemed to be of.'a delaying typel rather thah a defense of prepareq positions. i Mass Communist were reported nojrth and east of Pyonggang, whiqh fell to the Allied yesterday. / ' : I 1 A dispatch from? the ejast-centraj front said Allied spearheads drovq ahead 1.000 to 2,£00 yairds under intense Commuhist artillery flrk (Tur» Tu Pare Li) Bierly Appointed To State Commission • ; T‘ I Mark Anniversary Os Constitution State Representative •G. Remy. Bieiily has been appointed a jnemj ber of the commission to plan art observance of the 100th anniversary of the Indiana constitution, i J Rep. Bierly was authpr of thp resolution introduced in? the 1951 general assembly the coml mission. His appointment waq made today by Gov. Hebiiy Schricker. J . V I ! Indiana’s constitution became? ef| fective Nov. 1, 1851. Other appointments to] mission are:; Dr, Pressley S/Sikeq of the Indiana university history! department; Prof. Roy ty. Robbing of Butler university history department; Miss Mary L, dean of the Purdue economics department. • Other members of thb commission art?: Gov. Lt. Govi John A. Watkins, Rep. W- O1 Hughes of Fort Wayne apd WilbuH Young, state superintendent off schools. L; Ki The commission i Will meet in Inj dianapolis in July tb plan for thej state observance, . • if f . ' 4 ■ V .. M .

Nation Honors Flag Today >• 1 j FIRST RECORDED celebration of Flag dayiwas on June 14, 1885, by H. J. Cigrand, te school teacher of Fredonia, Wis., and his»pupils. The day"was first observed publicly in Philadelphia in 1893, when flags were ordered displayed |n all public buildings. New York state foljqwed. in 1897 with a similar observance. The flag as we know it, with 13 red and white'stripes and a blue union with white stars, original*- . ed with an act of the Continental Congresslin Philadelphia on June 14, 1777.\ ; .. : - ' L.

Mrs. Max Schafer President Os BPW Officers Installed Wednesday Evening Mrs. Max Schafer, secretary of the Red Cross in Decatur was Installed as president of the Business and Professional womep s club at the regular monthly meeting held at the’American Legion home . Wednesday night. Mrs. Schafer succeeds Miss Anna K. Williams. ,\ Other officers installed included/ Miss Glennys Roop, first vicdpresident; Miss Aldine Frauhiger, second vice-president; Miss Rosemary Spangler, corresponding secretary; Miss' Dorothy Schumm, recording secretary; ‘ Mrs. Gerald Eady, treasurer; Mrs. Noah Steury, historian, and MisS* Marcia Martin, press correspondent. Dinner, served by the American Legion auxiliary, preceded the business session. The\rooAi was decorated in keeping with flag day. The club authorized the payment of S2OO as its pledge to the Decatur memorial Foundation. Several Were Voted in the constitution and bylaws. Announcement also was made at? the meeting that Miss Joan Weinhoff of this city has been named (Turn To Page Five) j Lost British Sub Found In Channel < .London, June 14 —(UP)— The British submarine Affray, Ipst in the English Channel April 16 with 75 men aboard, has been found, it was announced in the house of commons today. L. J. Callaghah, parliamentary secretary to the admiralty, said the Affray was found in the channel in 200 feet of water about 50 miles southwest of the isle of Wight. » . . _ — - 70,317 American Casualties To Date Washington, June 14 —(UP)— The defense department reported today a new total of 70,317 American battle casualties in the Korean war, An increase of 1.965 o v er a week ago. . \ The new total represents casualties whose next of kin had been notified through last Friday. The actual number is higher since notification requires one to three weeks. ' Today’s total includes 11.767 deaths; 46,902 wounded; 10,211 as still missing; 153 captured and 1, ! 284 previously reported missing, : but returned* to duty. \

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Flag Day Services Here This Evening Public -hag day services will be held at ft3o this evening at the Elks honije. with the B. P. O. Elks. American; Legion and VFW participating in the rites. The DCHS band will provide music and the Rev. J. M. Berkev. pastor of the First Christian church, will address. lExalted ruler Walter Gillium and staff of, officers will conduct the ritualistic services. ;■ — . Employes Picnic Set Next Thursday Decatur Retailers Entertain Employes / Preparations for the forthcoming employes picnic, sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, were completed at a meeting Wednesday and names of all committee chairmen were announced today e by general chairman' of the event, Al Zink. The chairman also emphasized that employers should contact the Cham ber'off ice? Saturday and not- ' ify them; of the definite number of persons who will attend to enable to “get an idea” of the amount of food needed. ' Employers and their wives \will be hosts to employes at the second annual pjcnic. Zink a|so stated that while the picnic is scheduled to begin at 1 p. m. next Thursday at Sunset park, there will be fOod and re- , freshmens to last the entire day. ‘There’s :Sio need' to be on time, especially/.” he said, “because there will, be plenty of food.” /Those 'committees who Will be in charge; during the picnic include Bill Gass and Doyle Hoffman, welcoming committee; M. P. Cass, womens hall driving contest chairman; Mrs, R. Phillips, skating; Bob Holthouse, softball; Virgil Doyle, horseshoes; Miks Martha Laurent, Don Forst, egg rolling contest, and Ben Webster and\ Hubert Jasper will be in; charge or the “guess the weight of/ the ham on display and it’s your?* contest. . Dr. Bes Duke In Serious Condition 1 1 Dr. Bern Duke of this city,’ is in the Adanqk county memorial hospital wherbj his condition is describe ed as “very serious,” after being taken there from his home shortly after midnight. Lapsing into a coma at ?about 1 a. m., attending physician? revealed they had not completed their diagnosis yet, but “it was not a heart attack, and it wasn’t a stroke." I tv B • • ■ \ V -'' ■

Price Controls On Clothing Expected Order Expected To \ Be Issued Tonight Washington,, June 14 —(UP)-t-The government was Expected to put price controls on clothing tbnight, leading to increased costs in the fall of woolens but possible rollbacks in garments, bf other materials. Officials of , the office of price stabilization (OPS) said consumers would not feel the impact of the order until late summer, when stores and the public are concent trating on fall and winter clothing, bPS officials were hopeful that there would be little overall change in the cost of clothing a family because of rollbacks in some garments offsetting increases in other apparel. L ,|; T iFhe order will ' put dollar-aiid-? cents ceiling on all clothing items except shods. Women’s purses, and men’s wallets and belts also will lie affected. In general, the order will permit some 28,000 garment manufacturer? to charge pre-Korean prices, phis most subsequent Increases lin costs of materials and labor. Price stabilizer Michael V. Diisalle told a news conference ih ‘Dehver yesterday> the order prob(Tarn To Po»e Two) I. j ■ ■ ' r - Cpl. James Roop Is / Wounded In Action h ’ ■ \ . \|l Reported Wounded j: On Korean Front .L ■ ; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Roop, bf 339 North Tenth street, today were notified that their son, marine Cp4. James Roop. 23, was wounded in action in Korea June 8. Although the nature of the wounil was not disclosed in the telegram from Lt. M. H. Silverton, acting commandant of the marine corps, it stated (hat “apparently his wound was not serious as he was not evacuated.” The Roops received a letter from their son June 5, wherein he staited he had been recently discharged from a hospital from aif illness and “yras going into action. Roop was a member of the marine reserve contingent which left Fort Wayne last August. He was stationed in San Diego until sent overseas in January. Prior to his departure for active service, Roop was employed at the A and P store here. La i He serves with I company, first division, fifth Marines. ' L ■ . |

Johnson Says Opposed Any Military Mission For Formosa — : -' .

" ■ ■■l T —■— l Report Agreement On Japanese Treaty Negotiation Report By U.S., Britain London, June 14. —(UP) — United States and British negotiators announced today that they had reached complete agreement on a proposed draft of a peace treaty for Japan. The announcement was made shortly after John Foster Dulles, President TrUman’s special diplomatic envoy, and foreign secretary Herbert Morrison held a final session to put finishing touches on the, draft. They began their talks here 10 days ago. Dulles planned to return to Washington tonight by plane with a copy of the agreed-upon draft, still subject to the approval of the British and United States governments. Officials said it embodied “the main essentials” for , Japan’s restoration as ab independent sovereign state. Z ; The foreign office statement said both governments hoped Russia wouiq sign a final peace treaty. “They cannot accept the Soviet government’s continued insistence that th# treaty must be pared at a meeting of the .council of foreign ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and China,’.’ it added. > - The announcement expressed hope that drafting bf a final treaty could be started after consultations with other powers who were at war with Japan —provided the present draft is approved. DiSalle In Meeting With Cattle Raisers Price Stabilizer \ In Chicago Today Chicago,! June 14 — (UPWPrice Stabilizer Michael DiSbAle meets face-to-face today with some of the cattle raisers who accuse him of wiping out their profits with his price rollback on beef. DiSalle will \meet 80 Illinois and lowa cattle producers on their own grounds—at the Saddle and Sirloin club in the big Chicago stock yards which are practically the capital of the livestock World. The meeting wap arranged by William Wood Prince, president of the Union Stock Yard and Transit company. \ Prince said the meeting was not intended tt>. let either side negotiate the, matter of price controls “but for the purpose of affording an opportunity for ai better exchange of ideas," While ■ .here, - however, was expected to talk with his agents whb enforce the rollback and try to find black marketeers. DiSalle is scheduled to testify in Washington tomorrow before the joint congressional “watchdog” committee on economic controls which is trying to find but what’s happening to the nation’s beef. Chairman Burnett R. Maybapk, D., S. C.; said he asked DiSalle to bring along stockyard records gathered by the agents who are watching transactions at the big midwest markets, r The committee is attempting to determine whether the farmers and feeders staged a deliberate “strike” and held their cattle off the markets for the past two weeks out of petulance over the control orders. Receipts at the markets returned almost to normal Wednesday and yesterday but officials still were not certain that the “dam” had been broken on the flow of beef to the nation’s dinner tables. Beef was short in many retail grocery shops throughout the country. New York wholesalers reported supplies off 10 to 60 percent and some were rationing ord(Tam T® Pane Five)

MacArthur In New Blast At Truman Policy Continues Personal Attack On Limited Warfare In Korea Houston, Tex., June 14.--—(UP) — Gen. Douglas MacArthur readied new attacks today on the men he charges “plunged us into a war which they now seem, afraid to win.” I The eyes of Texas were on MacArthur as he prepared to \spea c tonight in the Houston Stadium of Rice Institute in the second; of his five Texas speeches. He was expected to continue his personal war on the Truman administration’s Policy of fighting a limited-war in Korea. I MacArthur came here late yesterday after a fiery address beforfe a special joint session: of the Texas legislature in Austin. He blasted the Truman administration as one ■* motivated by fear in its diplomatic conduct and dictated to from abroad on its political and military policies. | The five-star general told the legislators and a crowd bf 25,000 gathered in the statecapitol grounds: ? “In Korea 'today, we have reached that degree of moral trepidation that we pay in the blood our sons to the doubtful belief that the hand of a t ering potential enemy may in some way be thus stayed." J Accusing the administration of “appeasement on the battlefield,” MacArthur said that “never before have we geared national policy to timidity anil fear.” Asserting that “our country has the inherent strength to face and defeat any who may attack,” MacArthur said that if Soviet Russia “does Btrik»” ? it will be because off the weakness America is now displaying. After his Austin speech, Mac Arthur flew here in the Eastern (Tar* To Pare Six) Jeff Gerber Is Dead After Long Illness Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Jeff Gerber, 85-year-old retired farmer, died at 10:18 o’clock Wednesday night at the home of. a son. Samuel Gerbsr, of Freneh township, after an of three ydars. . b-jA . A lifelong resident of Adams and Wells counties, he was born Jan. 17, 1866, a son of John and Anna Hyerly-Gerber. His wife, Elizabeth Baumgartner, died March 17, 1934. He was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. J. . Eiechter of Cralgville. Mrs. Amos Steffen of Milford and Mrs. Amo® Dubach of; Bluffton rural route; four son, Aaron of Berne, Samuel of French townshipEli of Goshen and John Jack Gerber of Bluffton; 31 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; two broth" ersj J. W. Gerber of Bluffton rural route and Joel Gerber of Kalamazoo. Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Qilliom and Miss Sarah Gerber, both of Bluffton. Two sons, one brother ond four sisters are deceased. \J : f / Funeral services will' be conducted at 12:30 p. m. Sunday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Amos Dubach, and at 1 o’clock at the Apostolic Christian church, with burial in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Jahn funeral home to the Dubach residence, where friends iAay call after 2 p. m. Friday. * . ■ - ' ■ ‘.<

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Testifies Stand By Secretary Os State Changed Following • Korea War Outbreak Washington, June 14 — (UP) t— Former defense secretary Louis Johnson said today that secretary of state Dean Acheson opposed. f and President Truman rejected, ‘ his proposal to send- a military mission to Formosa. \ But after the Korean war started, Johnson said, Acheson and the. state department “no longer ojp- , posed doing the things to keep Formosa from falling • into unfriendly hands.” And it was Acheson, Johnson told the senate MacArthur Investigating committee, who first steg-, gested commitment of U. S. air and sea forces to the Korean Z fighting. * 1 . \ . T Johnson, defense secretary from March, 1949, to September, 1950, told the senators he had proposed ; dispatch of a military mission to help Chiang Kai-Shek train his Chinese nationalist troops beleaguered on Formosa. ■ y ' | But Acheson, Johnson/ testified, said he “really wanted to have nothing to do with the nationalist government” That was in December, 1940, more than six > months- before war broke out iin I Korea? Y I " In h!s absence, Johnson said, j ’ the state department presented ► its views on Formosa at k Dec. 29 I meeting of the national security council. But President Truman already had told him nine days before that his military mission plan was rejected. J. ‘ Acheson, Johnson said, had argued that moves to strengthen Chiang power on Formosa might damage the U. S. -position elsewhere in Asia. • ( I “He telt we| would lose face with other governments In Asia whose friendship and support we needed;- that it might be adversely construed in Japan itself; that he really wanted to have nothing to do with the nationalist government," Johnson testified. Johnson also testified that: 1. He received no intelligence warnings that trouble was imminent in Korea. \ | 2. U. S. sea and air power was committed to Korea or Acheson’s “motion" but that the decision to dispatch ground forces followed a warning from Gen. Douglas Ma£? Arthur that sea-air flower- alone could not halt the North Korean tide. / 3. MacArthur’s forces in- Japan were prepared for occupation duty only, not for combat. \ Johnson said Acheson -argued for intervention In Korea at ja June 26 /Blair House meeting attended by President Truman, the joint/chiefs, and others. Johnson said he first learned of the Korean fighting officially from the state department, but that Ibis was preceded by telephoned reports from press wire services. Then followed the round of conferences at which the decisions were made to in Korea. He said Acheson suggested that the navy and air force be com- - mitted. - thereafter, Johnson said, ; he put MacArthur in charge A of operations with the president’s permission, and asked the general for his recommendations. There ” were none immediately, but MacArthur’s recommendation to use ground forces came shortly thereafter, he said. ' SA ' Charged With Flight To Avoid Testifying Indianapolis, I June 14. —(UP)-*-William R. Morrell, Jr., 21, and his wife a^ere/held in Marion county jail today pending a hearing before a U.S. commissioner on & charge of fleeing Kentucky to ovoid testifying in a court case. . The FBI, which arrested the pair yesterday, said they formerly lived in Lincoln county, Kentucky?, \ fiom which tliey fled to avoid ap- • pearing ip court. / Y- ' i\