Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 143.

REDS LOSE GROUND IN FRENCH ELECTION

Senate Group To End Ouster Hearings Soon ’ Committee Agrees To End MacArthur Dismissal Hearing Washington, June 18. —(UP)— The senate committee investigating the dismissal ot Gen. Douglas MacArthur agreed today-to end its long inquiry as soon as possible. The committee, whose hearings are in their seventh week, decided to hear only four more witnesses along with MacArthur who might pick up a standing invitation to appear for rebuttal testimony. Unless MacArthur does decide to testify for a second time, the hear Ings were expected to end in a week or so, After a brief procedural discussion this morning, chairman Rich- . ard B. Russell, D., Ga., announced that the committee has approved unanimously subcommittee recommendations to conclude the bear ings as soon as possible. He announced that only these additional witnesses will be invited: Patrick J, Hurley, wartime ambassador .to China who sought to end the civil.conflict between the Nationalists and Communists and who resigned in 1945 with a blast at state department career officials tn China. Maj. Gen. f Emmett O’Donnell, former commander of the U.S. strategic air force in the far east. Maj. Gen. David C. Barr, chief of a postwar military mission to China and more recently.commander of the seventh division in Korea, now stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. Vice Adm. Oscar Badger, former U.S. naval commander in the far \ east and now commander of the eastern sea frontier. ' The committee abandoned plans to W. Averell Harriman president Truman’s foreign policy adviser. Russell said both the committee and Harriman felt that his testimony would merely duplicate that of administration witnesses already heard. The committee last week sent MacArthur an invitation to return for rebuttpl testimony. The deposed far eastern commander tesified May 3-5. Most of the testimony since then has come from administration spokesmen and the joint chiefs of staff who opposed MaCAfthur’s views. < Russe’l said MacArthur has not yet replied to the invitation. k Russell has pronged some ‘•hard’’ findings. I The Georgia Democrat conceded there would be some conflicting recommendations, but he said he hoped to get a unanimous report on some phases of.Gift inquiry into administration far easterp policies. In an interview he scotched an idea circulated by some committee members that the “best thing the t committee could do would be to .transmit its bulky hearings to the senate and let it go at that. Russell contended that his committee owed It “to the country” to come up with findings in Jone, and almost certainly mote committee reports. “It is wholly possible,” Russell said, “that we will be able to come to an understanding on some of the matters we have been discussing. “I hope, and will do everything within my ability, to have a unanimous report on some phases of the subject." l But he freely admitted that on such key topics as the justification —if any—for MacArthur’s firing, the basic issues of American policy in China, and the strategic conduct of the Korean war would find members at loggerheads. / Funeral Friday For Cpl. David Pollock The body of Cpl. David Pollock, killed in Korea by the accidental discharge of a gun, will arrive in Decatur Tuesday night at ’>: W o'clock at the 'Erie railroad station. The body will be taken to the Gillig and Doan funeral home. j\ Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. Samuel Emerick pf the First Methodist church officiating. Services will be held at the home on West Jefferson street. A full military service will he conducted by the American Legion .and burial will be in the Decatur 1 cemetery. a

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GOP Chairman I BW U Bfl» Robert Smith Robert Smith Named GOP City Chairman I Decatur Attorney | [To Lead Campaign | Robert Sipith, Decatur attorney, was elected Republican city chairman at an organizatiop meetipg -Saturday afternoon at the Rice hotel coffee shop. Mrs. Cleo Lintl was named vice-chairman and Robert Anderson, city attorney wait elected secretary-treasurer. The organization meeting followed a luncheon which was attended! by Decatur G. O. P. committeemen; and Harry? Essex, Adams county and fourth district Republican ehairman, pre-! sided at the meeting until the organization was completed. The meeting was attended by Republican candidates Spiith ahd Anderson gave a short talk following the election and both Urged the candidates to make an active campaign in the November city election. . j j All three new officers were elected without opposition ami will (Mart their tenures of office immediately; Under the state election laws they will serve for four years or until their successors are elected and qualified. .\| " ' “A ' r Employes Picnic Here On Thursday Decatur employers are urged to call the Chamber of Coni in er ce office as soon as possible to report the number of their employes who will attend! the second apnual ejnployes picnic, to be held at Sun Set park Thursday afternoon and evening. -p j ' \\.( ! Reports must be made not later (han Wednesday morning in order that ample food may be prepaied. Elect School Board ■ Member On Tuesday Two Applications Are Filed To Date Five Democrat city eouncilmep have the task Tuesday night of electing a inember of the Decatur school board for a three»year term and the member must be a Republican. The election wilt be held at the regular meeting of the coungjl Tuesday night. Roy Mumma, owner of the Decatur Lumber Co. and long time member of the board, has signified his intentions of retiring from the board. To date he has not tiled his application for reelection. Two Decatur men have filed ajiplications for the post. They are George D. Helm, owndr! of Helm’s grocery in the north part of the city, and Edward Wert, Central Soya employ?. Both meh reside in the north part bf Decatur. There is no law regarding the geographic location of members hut the council usually plans to have each section of the city represented on the three-man board. jCi t y clerk-treasUrer Vernon Aurand said today that applications would be received at his office for the post until tinte fo.’ :he council meeting Tuesday night. > Y . INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and continued y warm tonight and Tuesday, Low tonight 60-65. High Tuesday 85-90. - * | j

Reds Appear To Be Building Up New Offensive Third-Round Drive Speculated On As Reds Mass Troops Tokyo, June 18 — (UP) —United Nations spearheads struck north nearly two miles in Korea today against communist forces massing for what may be an imminent hew offensive. At the same time, U. S. F-86 sabrejets shot down five Sovietbuilt MIG-15 jet fighters and damaged two others in the second straight day of dogfights near the Manchurian frontier.. It boosted the two-day toll ot enemy jets to six destroyed and eight damaged. \ Advancing UN columns and beefed-up patrols pushing across no-man’s land on a 60 to 70-mile front found hundreds and in some places thousands of troops where a few days ago there were none. Front reports said the Reds were swarming back south into .bunkers and trenches they had abandoned without a fight earlier this month. On the central front, they poured through Pyonggang into the northern apex of the communist “iron triangle.” There Was speculation that the third-round' communist offensive predicted by Bth army commander Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet may start? within the next two weeks. The main <?opimunist concentrations appeared to be just above the 38th parallel north northwest of Seoul on the classic invasion route to the former South Korean capital,. and around Kumsong, 29 miles north of the parallel on the central front. These were the routes used by the Reds for the two rounds of their spring offensive. The first round was launched on the western front toward Seoul' and the second on the central sector. The abortive attacks cost the communists gt least 170,000 men in dead, wounded and captured. In the air, 33 American sabrejets battled an estimated 40 communist jets for 15 minutes j six miles east of Sinuiju, just south of (Tara To Pace Six) Y\‘ ■ _ - f . »J Red Cross Campaign Still Short Os Goal 76 Sections Listed As Still Unreported Earl B. Adams, chairman of \the Adams county Red Cross, reported today that the 1951 fund campaign of the chapter is still short >1,806.53 of the announced goal of >10,551. The chairman stated that if the Igoal is not fully met, budget requests of the various services will again be thoroughly screened and some w(ll have to be cut. In previous years, the chapter had reserves .which permitted an extensive “permissive? program'in addition to jhe charter obligations. < However, failure to meet the quota Tn the 1941 campaign, along with the increased military program, have depleted the reserve funds, and now, so that the charter obligations of services to the armed forces and dependents, disaster service and the recently established blood program cap be met, it will be necessary to further curtail the “permissive” program. Listing the following townships, by sections, which are still unreported, 76 in all, chairman Adams urges anyone still holding chapter funds to make his report at the earliest possible date. Blue Creek: Sections 7-10-17-22-28-31. French: sections. 9-11 & 12-13*16-23- a ti Hartford: sections 10-12-13-14-16- \ Jefferson: sections 3-4-15-16-22 & 27-28-32-33. Kirkland: section 25. Monroe: sections 36. Preble: sections 4-10-22-35. Root: sections io-11-20-32&33-35. ..St. Mary’s: sections 3&4-18-27-31. Union: sections 3-5-18-34. Wabash: sections 3-4-6-7&8-10-18-21 T 22-23-24-28&29-3»33. Washington: sections 1&2-4-5-22-24-

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 18, 1951.

Truman Signs Indian Grain Bill I’, \ , rat - wi Bi B . ■*’ • B' AT THE WHITE HOUSE/FmlHßit Tru«S*n signs into law a measure authorising a loan of fo India for the purchase of 2,000,0(M> tons of grain to ai<L the yr ought and famine-stricken country. patching the Mgning ceremony is Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India’s tg the United States.

Armour Blames Loss On Price Controls Reports 5 Million Bee£ Slaughter Loss Chicago, June 18 — (UP) -Y Armour and Co. announced today that it lost >5,000,000 on beef slaughter during February, March and April, and blamed it on price controls. !In Ms quarterly report to sherehblders. the big meat packing firm complained that it was caught in a price/squeeze and now has a “compelling \need" for working capital. J ArmOjji' president F< Mr. Specht reported [ that net profit declined from in the first quarter of the fiscal year (November, December and January) to only >2,747,146 in the second quarter. “Beef operations alone showed a loss ip the second quarter of approximately >5,000,000 \ before taxes," Specht sajd. Specht' blamed the loss on the government's .price freeze which went into effect last Jan. 25. Under the freeze, ceilings were set on dressed beef sold by packers to wholesalers and retajlerk. Cattle, prices remained uncontrolled. powever, and “advanced rapidly” until -ceilings weie set on them June 4, Specht said. Between January and June, he I said, the firm was faced with the choice of “buying and processing cattle at a loss or going out of the beef business/? Spechtsaw little hope that the new cattlje price ceilings, imposed over the Vigorous protests of farmers and cattlemen, would help, He polhted out that the ceilings have resulted in a" sharp drop in the number of cattle shipped to market, j Armour’s cattlek purchases at the 12 major livestock markets during the week ended June 9 were down 71 percent from the (Tara To Pace Six)

Daily Democrat Sent Each Day To Hospital Patients Oneu anniversary that is only ness.” slightly observed passed recently; This year there are three new and probably no one except patients businessmen in the group pbf 23: at the Adams county memorial hosr Cole’s Meat Market, Smith’s Pure pital were conscious of its presence. Mi|k company, and Leland Smith For the past 14 years the Decatur Insurance Agency? The other 20 Daily Democrat has been delivered ha ? e been sending the newspapers daily to patients of the hospital to the hospital for the patients for through the courtesy of Decatur a P erlo< l years, some of them businessmen. ' from the outset of the program. • ' . . . . The other businesses represented There are 23 such businesses who Jn<jlude Rent< piorl gchafer subscribe to the service, and have catur guper gervlce> The Pirgt a sticker on each paper which gtgte Barik General Electric comUsually coaxes the patient to speed- pany Oerber , g Meat Markets Holt . ily recover. house Drug company, HolthouseWhile for the most part the ad- Schulte company, Loya! Order of vertisers remain the same, there the Moose, Northern Indiana Public have been over the years some Service company, Pumphrey’s changes. r Jewelry store. An attempt has been made to Yost Construction company, Inc.. keep advertisers wbo subscribe to American Legion club, Ashbauchthe newspaper for the hospital as era’ Tin shop, KA. Bixler, 0.D., diversified as possible. It does dup- Burk Elevator company, Burke’s llcate on lodges and fraternal orga- Standard service, Citizens Telenisations somewhat, but on the phone company, Decatur Rotary whole, such subscribers are drawn club, and the Decatur Daily Demofrom “the field of Decatur bust- crat. ■ -

High School Band Practice Tonight W. Guy Brown, principal of th® Decatur high School, Stated today there will be a band practice at 7 p.m. tonight in the high school’s music room, and the first band concert Tuesday. Th? latter, rained put last week, is scheduled for S pm. on the south side of court house square. Miss Ixiis White will conduct the band in the absence ot Albert Sellemeyer. Frack Driver Freed As Firm Pays Fine Indianapolis Man Looking For Work Indianapolis. Ind., June 18 —(UP) —Truck driver John W. Lewis today lit np a Father’s Day cigar, put on a pair of Father’s Day socks, and went out to look for a job. • His family Went >3OO in the hole while he sat in jail elefen days for. driving a truck 9,100 pounds overweight and his boss fired him after paying the >9ll fine. \ Lewis made it home in time for Father’s Dajr afid called it the “best I’ve ever spent.” His six children, aged from two to\l4 years old, managed to scrape up enough money to buy him the socks and cigarp and then topped It off with a note penciled on a school tablet. \ 4 ‘Mother dertalnly picked out a swell fellow to be bur father. Wo love you both,” the note said. Lewis could have been held »n jail one more day for each dollar of the fine. His wife Camped on GoV. Henry Schricker’s door and th? governor promised to' look into the case. The company he was trucking for then paid the fjne “under protest,” and Lewis ’ jv as released last week. Lewis said that Mr. and Mrs. Hepry Schrader, Indianapolis, had leased the truck to the com(Tarw Ta l*w «x» \

France Swings Sharply To Right In General Election Held Sunday

Five Enemy Planes Destroyed By Yanks Two Others Damaged In Aerial Dogfight sth Air Force Headquarters, Korea, June 18—(UP)— 1st Lt. Ralph E. Gibson of Mt. Carmel, 111., was credited with shooting down two Soviet-built MIGMS jet fighters as American F-86 sabrejets destroyed five enemy planes in a spectacular dogfight today. Two other enemy planes were damaged in the encounter high northweft corner of Ko Gibbon s attached to the 4th air wing of the sth air force. It was the second successive day in which Gibson was mentioned in aerial combat reports. Sunday he was credited with damaging one enemy MIG. He has. a total of two destroyed, ope probably destroyed and one damaged. Thirty-three sabrejets and an estimated 40 communist jets took part in the 15-mihpte air battle six miles east of Sinuiju, just south of the Manchurian border. It raised the sth air force’s two-day toil of enemy planes to six destroyed and eight damaged. American jets shot down one MIG and . damaged six others in the same area yesterday. Two flights of sabres from the 4th air wing led by Col. Francis S. Gabreski of Oil City, Penn., and Lt. Col. Bruce Hinton ot Stockton, Calif., caught the Red palnes today., ? ; The battle broke up into a series of individual dogfights which ranged from an altitude of 28,000 feet almost to ground level. Today’s battle claims were di-j vided among six fourth wing pilots, with Gibson being credited with two \ destroyed. All the F-86’s returned safely to base. I ' ' i

Nazi Survives Six Years Underground Trapped In Supply Depot By Explosion Warsaw, Poland. June 18.V-(UP) —A 32-year-old German soldier who said he had ben buried alive tor six years in a Nazi supply depot was given a good chance by hospital authorities today to regain his health and eyesight. The six-foot German, .who was not identified by authorities at Akademia hospital, said he and fivei companions I were trapped in an underground German army food and supply warehouse by retreating Nazi troops who dynamited the entrance early in.. 1945. The soldier and one other survivor of the entombment stumbled bearded, blinjded and blubbering from the. bunker about a month ago when Polish workers cleared wreckage from the entrance to the depot at Babie Doly, near Gdynia. The second survivor dropped dead of shock on emerging into the daylight. The other said two of his companions committed suicide a few months after they were entombed by German troops who did not know the soldiers were In the depot. The trapped men were believed to have been looting. Two others of the trapped soldiers died of unknown causes, the purvivor said. \ Air entered the tomb through an air vent undamaged by the explosion. Water trickled through cracks and' the men had plenty of food. But | they lived in darkness after their supply of candles was exhausted two yekrs ago. The trapped men had \no tools with which to dig their way out cf the concrete bunker, the survivor said: He eaid they washed in Rhine wine and packed their dead in huge flour sacks. The bodieswere almost perfectly mummified, v / ' \. -r ■' ■

Settlement Os CIO Maritime Strike Sought Federal Mediatori Seeking To Settle Three-Day Strike New York, Jui e 18— eral mediators on both the e&Bt and wesi coasts tried today to end the three-day strike c f 80,000 CIO maritime workers wl ich has tied nondefense U.S. sh pping in ail the nation’s sea\ports. f jj Clyde Mills, assistant director of the U.S. mediation and conciliation service, hurried to New Yori from Washington for separate talks with spokesmen for tie Atlantic and Gulf shippers and the unions. ; Joseph Curran president of the National Maritime union (CIO), leading the east coast bargaining, held little hope for an edtly settlement [unless tiie shippers capitulate to the union’s demands tor k 25 percent pay r sise and 40-hour work week with 48 hours Jpay. NMU seamen and members of the .American Radio Association (CIO) and Marine Engineers Benevolent Associa lon (CIO) Went on strike ! shortly a ter midnight Saturday in 23 Atlat tic and Gplf ports. They Were joinet a few hours later by AR I Radio operators .on the westcoast. In Saji Francisco, federal medlar tors got the AR 4. and the Pacific Maritime Associs.tion of ship owners to resume negotiations today. The ARA is asking < >7G*armonth increase Tor radi > operator's. ( [ Harry Bridges’ hunierichllystrong intertaat onal Longshoremen’s and Wan housemen’s union (IND) pledged ill would not cfoss (Tara Ta (Pace «U>

Lad's Condition Ist Slightly lmp|roved j The condition |of Philfip McBride, 9, of was reported as slightly improved today but still extremely. Serious. Tbe boy was injured Friday morning in a fall down an elevator shaft at Monroe, and has been unconscious since the acciden l He is a patient st the Adams :ounty memorial hospital. ‘ - Fred A. Deininger Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Morning 1 Fred A. (Jacl|) Deininger, 64, retired employe pf the General Electric company plant in this city, died at 6:1«] o’clock Saturday evening at the idcCray mepicjrial hospital in Kendallville. ! Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. wa? |akpn to the hospital after becoming ill at his cottage in Rome City. He was born ip Decatur Aug. 4, 1886, a son of Mij. and Mrs? Ulrich Deininger. His prK®. Oeia Cowan, died a number of years agt). He was a member of [St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, apd the Knights of Columbus and Moose lodges. Surviving are a, son, Joseph Deinjnger ,of St. Mary’s, Q.; one brother, Richard Deininger of Decatur, and two sisters, Mri’ Bertha Kilbourne of Ropie City and Mrs. Bernard of Decatur. , Funeral services will be conducted' at 9 a. m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. SeimetZ/ officiating. Burial will be |n the Catholic cemetery. The body was 'removed to the Gillig A Doan funeral home, where may call until time of thfe services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 o’clock this evening.

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DeGau His ts Lead Swing Ta Right As / Communists Suffer Heavy Vote Losses Paris, June 18 — (UP)—France has swung sharply to the right. The communist party, formerly the largest in Franc'e, lost ground in yesterday’s general election, In the 1946 election the communists had 183 seats in a parliament made up of 620 members. The new parliament will have 627 rqembers. With about 90 percent ofj the "aekts decided, the communists have won .99 and dan claim twp elected by extreme leftist parties allied with theml The surge to the right was led by Gpn. Charles symbol of French resistance to the Germans in World Wgr 11. His party, known as “Rally of the French J. People,” will have the biggest r /single party representation in the new He now has 111 tof his own paHy and two members of t,he Independent Repub- . licans are his for all practical . purposes. They will support him bn all major issues. - With returns in for 562 of the 627 seats in the new parliament , ’ the Standings were: Extreme Right: DeGaulle’s Rair ly ot the French People 111. Al-> ‘ lies 2.—Total 113. Extreme Left: Communists 99. 1 fallow Travelers 2.—Total 191. Middle of the road government * “third force” coalition: Socialists 94. Catholic Popular Republics '176. Radical Socialists 36. Rally Los Left Republicans 50. Demo- ' cratlc and Socialist Union of the Resistance 7. Total 268. Independents generally classed as rightists: Alliance of Rightists and Peasants 82. Miscellaneous 3. Total 85. Despite the fact that the communists lost seats, they still had > the largest popular vote for a single party—4,406,301 or 25.76 percent jto 3,564,833 or 20.84 percent for De Gaulle. In recent years France’s gov*; erpment has been made up of a coalition of middle-of-the-road parties known as “The Third Force.’ r There are five parties in Jthe coalition and, as of now, they have a total of 263 seats. They need 317 to win a bare majority. What seemed likely to happen was that the “Third Force” coalition iwould remain in power with Rene Plevin continuing as premier and Robert Schuman as foreign minister. But De Gaulle would have a big voice in shaping policy. His spokesmen already are talking * about joining the “Third Force” coalition provided the Socialists are excluded.from It. De Gaulle’s bld for power winning surprising strength. Although he was not a candidate \ , himself, his personality dominat- * ed the campaign.' j, \ He founded the “Rally of the French People* ’in April 1947 and has campaigned,,since for the outlawing frf eCHamunism, and the revision of the French constitution , to give the country a /head of state with strong? executive powers. i He called upon France to (stand more on Its <iWn feet and depend (T»re Tfc Pace ' ■ ' Associated Churches \ Banquet Here Friday Ed Jayberg, president of the Decatur association of churches, announced today that there would I-e a half hour change in the time of the annual dinner to be held next Friday night at the MaAonic hall. The dinner will be served at 6 > o’clock instead of 6:30 o’clock as , Y originally planned. The Rev. John Meister, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, will be the principal speaker and a sextet girls from Decatur will 'furnish the music. Tickets may be obtained' from any pastor of the 11 member churches and V limit of 150 has been set on at tendance at the dinner. /r