Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 147.

CHINESE REDS INTENSIFY AIR ATTACKS

i Report Plane Missing With 39 On Board Pan American Plane Believed Down In Liberian Jungles Dakar, French West Africa, June 22 —(UP) —A Pan American Airways Constellation carrying 39 persons from South Africa to New York was missing today. It was believed to have crashed In the steaming jungles of Liberia. The nlane lost radio cobtact after passing over Roberts field at Monrovia, Liberia. It ran into a violent rain storm and radioed at 3:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. Thursday CST) that it was returning to Monrovia in 15 minutes to land. Nothing has been heard since. Brit||h and French search planes were flying low over the rain-soak-ed jungle country and the rugged Kru, grain and ivory coasts but without finding a trace of the plane. Every available plane in the area was thrown Into the Search over the steaming jungles and rough plains of Liberia which was established as a republic in the early 1800’s as a haven for freed American slaves. All commercial planes on the route along the big bulge of Africa’s west coast were alerted. The plane carried 30 passengers and a crew of nine. Pan American said the plane had fuel to remain airborne only until 11 a.m. (5 a.nt. CST). / \ (In New York, the air line said only three or four persons on the plane were bound there. The air line identified the pilot as Capt. Frank J. Crawford, 38, of Huntington Station, Long Island. N.Y., who had been with Pan American for 10 years. The plane left Johannesburg at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. CST) Thursday. It refuelled at Accra, British Gold Coast, at 11:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. CST) and then went straight west to Liberia, about 800 miles away. It had no scheduled stop at Monrovia and its /' route then swung north northwest another 800 miles to Dakar, where it was to have refueled before flying on to Lisbon. Portugal, and then across the Atlantic *o Boston and New York. The plane was due in New York Saturday morning. While the search planes droned over the African jungles, veteran native guides readied search parties to plunge into the snake-infested wilderness as soon as wreckage is spotted. Boats were ready to be launched into the choppy sea pounding the harborless coast if wreckage is sighted at sea. Macklin Elected , A To Precinct Post O. W. P. Macklin, manager of Macklin’s garage, was unanimously k € lected tq serve as Democratic precinct committeeman in Decatur, ; second ward, A precinct at a meeting of the Decatur Democrat central committee Thursday night. Macklin will serve until the next primary election in 1952. He formerly held the post and has : been active in Democrat city ani county politics for many years. >' _ . Talk On Television i|. Presented At Rotary An interesting discussion of the television industry was presented to the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at its weekly meeting k by Adolph Schenkel. general manager of the Caswell-Runyan Co. ; at Huntington. J The speaker, whose firm manufactures cabinets for both ! and television sets, pointed to the remarkable increase in- the sales ; of television sets in the past few years. There were slightly moro thaa 6,000 TV sets in 1947, while in 1950 the sales had zoomed To more than ,7,CT)0,000. Wilbur Petrie, club president, was |n i charge of the program. INDIANA WEATHER . Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Occasional, showers and scattered thunderstorms Saturday. Low tonight ranging from 58 to 60 extreme north to lower 70's extreme south. High Saturday ranging from around 70 extreme north to 85-90 In extreme south. i • i

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__ L Tornadoes Strike Indiana, Illinois |l Damage To Property j Is Reported Heavy By United Press At least two tornadoes struck Illinois and Indiana last night as; heavy rains \ ushered summer in throughout the central midwest. One tornado ripped up 12 barns, caused an estimated $500,000 damage, and injured at least four per-! sons in Indiana’s Pulaski County. The other twister struck the Woodford county poor farm 20: miles northeast of Peoria, 111., flat-; tening wooden buildings and twist-; ing the tops off trees.\\ j \ Indiana state policeman Delviei Masterson said the Pulaski county tornado lasted .about 10 minutes? pnd isolated the smart towns of Star City and Pulaski. .. I "The natives had to take saws, and axes to chop their way through the trees that fell over the road,”! he said. Four, persons were treated fori minor injuries at the Carneal hospital in Winamac;, Ind., and a barnfull of livestock was feared lost when she building cbllapsed. ; “That wind scooted my car right around in the road,” Masterson said. “You could see the twister coming three to 10 minutes before it hit, and then you couldn’t\ see anything.” The Wpedford county I sheriff’s office afulureka, 111., estimated $50,-, 000 damage as a result of the other tornado. ’ ‘ Another storm skipped over Akron near Rochester, Ind., causing considerable property damage. Barns and old buildings were blown down and falling trees block- . ed Ind. 14 west of Akron. The wind snapped utility lines, ( cutting off lights and telephone ‘ ] service. ' ' L No one was reported injured at ‘ Akron. But at Winamac. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rearick and their two children of nearby Star City were taken to the hospital for observa tian. \ Parts of Winamac were blacked out when the wind, which hit near Francesville and moved eastward over Winamac and Star City, blew down electric lines. Telephone service between Winamac and Logansport also waS cut. The storm was accompanied by lightning and a heavy downpour, police said. • Farmer Killed By Post Hole Digger Rushville, Ind., June 22.-k(UP) — Services were s&t tomorrow for James Thomas Crisp, 51, who died in Rush memprlal hospital yesterday of a skull fracture suffered in cn accident Wednesday, jprisp, a farmer, was hit in the head when ; be leaned over a’post digger. ■ -- t- ’ ■ ; Frank Bohnke Named Democrat Chairman ' City Chairman for November Election ! Frank E. Bohnke, 12l?S. 11th street, a Democrat predict committeeman and long timer worker in the Democrat party inqDecatur and Adartut county, wa( elected city chairman at an organization meeting of the Democrat party held last night at Red Men’s hall. i Mrs, Everett Hutker, 733 Cleveland street, was named vibe-chair-man; Niland Line street, was named Secretary and Leo “Dutch” Ehiijger, 720 North Third street, wasj] named treasurer. ' ■ \ ' Dr. Harry Hebble, county chairman, presided at the meeting and James Koons, Avilla, fourth district chairman, v gave a short talk following the election of officers. The newly elected officers will guide the destiny of the democrat party in the November niunicipal election. The new officers have the unanimous endorsement of the city candidates, including John Stults, for mayor, and Dorphus Drum, Adrian Burke. Al peavers, Ed Bauer and Joe Brennqii, councilmanic candidates. « - y Plans were started at.qnce for a vigorous campaign and\ the city committee, which includes the regularly elected precinct Committeemen and vice-committeemen of Decatur, started plans for a series * of fall meetings. [ ' ' r ■ I »\ '

\j. L ■ General Barr Dissents From M'Arthur Plan - ■ \ Ex-Commander Os i Seventh Division Testifies Today Washington, June 22 — (UP) — Maj. Gen. David G. Barr, who once headed an American military mission to China, said today the Chinese nationalists “never lost a battle" for lack i)f arms but were whipped by the Chinese Reds because the nationalists lacked "offensive spirit.” Barr flatly rejected charges that the U. S. government is to blame for the communist conquest' of China because it did not give Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist regime enough military support. The general, until February commander bf the seventh infantry division in Korea, testified before the senate committee investigating Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s dismissal as far eastern commanded. He sharply dissented from MacArthur’s publicly promoted proposals for expanding the war against communist China. Before the senators started questioning Barr, they received into the committee secord a oncesecret message in which Gen; Matthew B. Ridgway, shortly after his arrival in Korea last December. • disclosed that MacArthur wanted to use Chiang's troops on Formosa against the Reds in South China; .MacArthur has said several; times since his dismissal last April that he favored use of these nationalist forces against the communists but would let Chiang say where. | Barr, however,'doubted Chiaqg’s troops could contribute much to the United Nation’s cause. He was called primarily for testimony on his experience in in 1948 and eariy 1949 when he was military adviser to Chiang in the civil war against the Chinese communists. Barr supported (Completely the (Tara To Fase Mx)3> To Submit Bill For Air Force Academy - Indiana Site One Os Seven In Race\ Washington, June 22 — (UP) — Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., said he will introduce an adminis- ; tiration-backed bill today to estab- ; lish an air force academy on a par with West Point and Annapolis. The $20,000,000 bill would authorize the secretary of the air force to establish the academy temporarily at some aif force base or i civilian institution unftil a permanent school is built. The secretary would be authorized to pick a permanent site with the aid of a commission. He ' also. could buy the needed land and plan the construction. Vinson said the 4tfr force needs a continuous; flow of young officers educated and trained for air fqrce careers. (Only 47 percent of present regular officers in the air force hold college degrees, the chair, man said, compared with 71 percent in the,army and 87 percent in ■ the navy. , ’ I Air force supporters long haVb argued for a separate air academy. The joint chiefs of staff backed that view in 1949 and a service academy board appointed by the defense 1 department urged in 1950 that the air school be established immediately. The selection board has narrowed the choice of a site to seven places—Camp Beale, at Marysville, Cal.. Colorado Springs, Colo.; Madison, Ind.; N. C.; and Grapewine, = Grayson county, and Randolph air base, | Indiana has one of seven sites under consideration for thet Academy by an air force selection board. The site 4s located near Madison, Ini;- It and six others remained after the board eliminated dozens of proposed locations, I including one at Bunker, Hill, Ind., [site of a former air base used <Tara To Pace atx>

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 22, 1951.

J Iran Oil Crisis Bubbles i j 4j 1 I I alNuLrt Li ililb ii I 1 liirLljH I i a-,i HUSSEIN MOKKI, right-hand man of Prpmier Mossadegh of Iran, poses atop a tower of the liiltlon-dollar. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., at Abadan where the flag of Iran replaced the British standard. He told cheering workers the flag-raising symbolized taking over of the British-controlled plant by his government.

U.S. Tax Payments 1 Highest In History Revenue For Year Over 45 Billions ’ r. ■ • ■■ Washington, June 22 — (UP) — This is Unclq Sam’s richest, year. He is in the chips- / The American taxpayer dug up and paid to-, uncle in the 11 months and days ending last Wednesday more revenue than the treasury ever: before received in a full 12 months period. The sum ot revenue as of that date is pre; cisely $45,086,227,092.65. This is a new and important fact in the great pational discussion of taxation which suddenly is challenging the great debate on foreign policy for public attention and interest. Pocketbook interest being what it is, the chances are excellent that' the tax debate soon will be stealing the show and the stage. j The presidential campaign year now coming Up will compel public review of government spending, the objectives of that ’ spending and the extent to which the fetif eral power to tax shall be exercised to redistribute income in the United States. Revenue in the present 1951 sis! cal year wilh breaks the existing record by a considerable sum. By just how much will not be known until the treasury balances its; books after-\| midnight June 30 when the fiscal year ends. The existing record was made jn wartime 1945. That fiscal ydar, which ended fess than two months after Germany surrendered, the taxpayers poured $44,761,609,047 into the treasury. Taxes were reduced after the war, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1948. The Republican 80th congress, over President Truman’s veto and protest, reduced individual income taxes by $4,773,600,000. Fiscal 1948 ehding on June 30 of that year showed a treasury surplus of nearly $8,500,000,000 after that reduction. Treasury revenue then stabilized around ( $37,to $38,000,000,000 but government spending began so zoom. It was up more than $6,000,-1 ' 000,000 during the next 12 months, . creating a deficit of nearly $2,000,-, 000,000 for the 1949 fiscal year. i The deficits Continued. . j .. A The Korean; war provoked a tax . increase last year. Congress now . is debating another hike of about . $7,200,000,000.; With this 1951 increase, taxes MH have been raised by $17,000,009,000 annually since [ the Korean w>r started a year ago * this month. J ’

Mansfield Condition Is Unchanged Today DoA Mansfield, 22, injured last Tiies/lay morning in an automobile accident near Fort Wayne' re 4 mained unconscious in St. Joseph hospital at 1 o’clock, this afternoon. Mansfield has notV regained consciousness since tpe mishap. Physicians still felt there was a very slight chance for his recovery, and that he probably would reach a crisis in the next day or two. Mansfield suffered a crushed chest and stomach and fracture 1 skull. The other two young men injured in the accident continue to improve at St. Joseph hospital/ Smitley Reelected Commander Os DAV Annual Election Is Held Last Evening Gerald M. Smitley, Decatur Lumber Co. \ employe and one of the founders of Adhrns county chapter of Disabled American Veterans, number 91/ was reelected commander of that organizatron at the/ annual election held Thursday night at the D.A.y. headquarters here. Smitley also 18 state chaplain of the group. I Melvin H. Tlnkham was reelected senior vice-commander and Rufus Sommer and Fred A. Scheiman were named first and second junior vice-commander, respectively. Other officers named included: Herald R. Hitchcock, treasurer; -the Rev. Lawrence Norris, chaplain; Dr. Harold V. DeVor, trustee; Victor Steiner, officer of the day; Henman Rumschlag, sergeant-at-arms. Installation of new officers was conducted by Harley Ward, Fort Wayne, assisted by Oscar Meyer, also of Fort Wayne. 7 Commander Smitley in accepting the job of guiding the local' group 'through another year stressed the point that the D.A.V. was responsible fpr passage of the law which provides for the payment of the state bonus to disabled veterans ahd next of kin this year. He also reviewed the accomplishments of 'the local chapter during the last year. . i All elected officers will meet Tuesday night for the purpose of, making plans for the new year. First project on the 1951-52 program will be a membership drived it was announced.

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• 1 Marriner S. Eccles Quits Federal Post Utah Banker Critic Os Snyder Policies Washington, June 22 — (UP) — Marriner S. Eccles, who has ended his official efforts to tighten the administration’s money belt, said today that henceforth he will be a “private businesman.’’ Eccles submitted his resignation as a member of the federal reserve board to President Truman yesterday and quietly ended a 17year tour of duty stretching back to early depression days of the new deal. ■ The 60-year-old Utah banker, an outspoken foe of secretary of treasury John W. Snyder over credit policies, said he would devote “my time to private business” in Salt Lake City. He said he will operate the Utah Construction Co., and other family interests, including feimber and sugar plants. Under federal law he will not be able to participate actively in his <> former banking business for two years. Eccles* resignation is effective July 14. Mr. Truman accepted it without the Customary “regrets," but did wish him “happiness and continued success.” An associate said that Eccles had reached “a sense of futility" in his fight with the treasury. Eccles was represented as having concluded that nothing could be accomplished by staying on in an official capacity. “He'd stay here if he were going to fight,” the associate said. “He’s just tired of it." Eccles’ designation means the "departure of 'one of the loudest critics of the administration's policy on /borrowing. Ironically, it also means the exit of the man Who first outlined the new deal policy of “deficit spending” in a depression. Eccles also believed in budget-balancing in inflationary periods. In recent months he has openly opposed the treasury department’s (Tnra To Pare Six) • I. Dedicate Lutheran Parish Hall July 1 Plan Dedication Os \ | Zion Parish Hall i ‘I ' _ ■ Plans are being completed for the dedication ceremonies for the - new Zion parish hall, on Sunday, July 1, at the Zion Lutheran church In this city. Speakers foj the ■ special services have been ■ ed by the dedication committee, 1 consisting of H. H. Krueckfiberg, Gerhard Schultz, Reinhold Sauer ! and the Rev. E. P. Schmidt. ( \ j : prhe Rev. Edwin Nerger, paster ( of the St. Paul’s Lutheran church . in Fort Wayne and well known Lutheran speaker, will deliver the sermons at both morning services, 8 ahd 10:30 a.m. In the afternoon at i the special dedicatory service, the speaker will be the Rev. Prof. Arinin Oldsen, professor at Vaiparaiso University and the future . full-time International Lutheran hour speaker. 1 Following the afternoon service, - open house will be held in the hew > building adjoining the church on West Monroe strfeet.- The structure , was begun last year and is being ’ by the Bultemeier Con- , struction Co. A general contractors. ’ The building cohtains three large j classrooms on the first floor, and a , full basement with modern kitchen ' ahd an auditorium with seating ’ capacity of 450. With sliding partir tlons, space is available for 14 large t size, well ventilated rooms for Saturday and Sunday school and vacation Bible school. 1 The public is invited to attend • any of these special services. The r Rev, E. P. Schmidt will serve as ! liturgist at~ these services and also > will officiate at the dedication ceremony in the afternoon program.

t | Ready To Quit / Iran In Event Trouble Erupts ; British Employes ; Os Anglo Iranian | Prepared To Leave Tehran, Iran, June 22. —(UP)-4 All 3,000 British employes of the Anglo-1 ran iai! Oil company packed today for a possible mass departure from Iran if violence erupts; bu 4 tension appeared to have eased. I Iranian officials asked the em< ployes to stay and work for the; newly nationalized industry, but-i British sources said a sizeable number already had. resigned. The sources believed, however, that,; most of the Britons would stay and? work as long as the industry con-/ tinued to operate and payrolls were’ met —provided there was no trouble. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh disclosed that a departing British negotiating delegation had warned the government of/the risk of mass resignations, which, might force the big Abadan refinery to close down. British sources also hinted that some British workers might strike because of an Iranian order cancelling leaves. , These sources said that if Eric Drake, the Anglo-Iranian company’s general manager here, departed it would result in a flock of resignations., Drake has been invited by the Iranians to stay at his job. He has not yet announced whether he will do so. 5 American sources here believed that the risk of an attack on the oil installations by extremists had passed and that the big danger 1 now was the possibility the company's administrative and technical staffs might break up. The Americans said the British were more concerned about their personnel in the southern oil field area than about how the oil company would be run. Nearly all the 150 wives and children of British workers have been evacuated from there. Anderson Woman Is Killed In Accident Winchester, 111., June 22. —(UP) —Mrs. Merle Daughterly, 20 Anderson, Ind., died en route to : hospital at Jacksonville, 111., yesterday of injuries suffered in a highway accident which critically injured her husband, Charles, 28. Their car went out of control and crashed about five miles west cf here. 7 Ridgway Asks For * More UN Troops Ridgway In Appeal For More Soldiers United Nations, N.Y,, June 22.—1 (UP)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway’s appeal for additional UN armed forces appeared today to pvt an end to speculation on a new peace appeal to Communist China Instead, it indicated a stiffened “get tough” policy based on the principle that the best way to get the enemy to talk peace is to kill more Chinese. / The United States, on behalf of Ridgway’s unified UN command, asked UN secretary-general Trygve Die yesterday to ask for help from the 36 nations which supported UN Intervention in Korea but failed to supply any troops. “There is a real need for additional forces from membet states," the appeal said, “in the light ot massive Chinese Communist con centrations in the area and of their continuing aggression." | The Ridgway appeal was sent (Tbix Tv Pace Uia) ! u ' ■' ? 10

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. ‘ w Two Russian-Made Planes Shot Down And Three; Damaged; Ground Action Light Tokyo, Saturday, June 21.-\-(UP) —The Chinese Communist air force, growing increasingly bold, challenged United Nations planes Friday for the fifth time in six days \ and lost two of its Russian-made MIG-1& jet fighters shot down in flames. Three more were damaged. In one of their rare bombing at- : tempts, the Reds sent three bomb- : ers over the Allied lines early yesi terday. One attacked but missed ■ the Seoul airport. Two others made ! quick runs over the front lines, and ; one dropped a home-made approxi- ’ mation of the American napalm • gasoline Jelly fire bomb without es- ; feet. The six-day toll of enemy planes •1 destroyed, probably destroyed or damaged was 29. Radar-equipped United Nations light bombers hit four enemy air ■fields. , | The greatly Intensified enemy ’ /aeria) action increased speculation j that the Reds, with Russian-made 'plane reinforcements, might make 1 -a major challenge in the air while ‘ they tried to organize a Dew offensive on the ground!. This offensive 5 come Monday, thd first annl 9 ;versary ot the start ot the- war. ’ | Lt. Gen. Edward Almond, com--1 the 10th eorps, told corre--9 in Korea that the ChiBiese could ahd probably would launch a new drive. 5 I “We are ready for them any- ’ Where,” Almond said. - Ground activity was light. But / Some allied patrols ran into what deemed a new enemy defense line. ' They met stiff resistance on the ! western, cntral and eastern fronts. i United Nations tank - infantry / t>ams probing the enethy buildup ’ reported the Reds massing just be--16,w Kumchon and Pyonggang, both '"29 miles north of the 38th parallel ' cm the central front. / i 1 |UN patrols which tried to push into Pyonggang, at the apex of the ; old Communist “iron triangle” found Chinese troops entrenched oil the hills south of the city. The Allies withdrew and called in ar,411- ' lery five on the Red positions. -1,., .Other Allied patrols fought brief skirmishes with Chinese in the hills below Kumchon, 17 miles east of ■ pyonggang. ? 'An Bth army spokesman reported the Communists becoming increasingly aggressive all along a 65-mile front from Pyonggang east to the sea of Japan coast. -An Sth army communique disclosed that a small-scale Communist ■ counter-attack was repulsed north--1 w£st of Yanggu early today. Three - nfore were thrown-back on the eastcentral and eastfern fronts yesterI d|y. Sixty-six Reds were killed in . ode. |A delayed digpatch from Korea reported that Lt. Gen. Edward Ah mbnd, commander ot the 10th corps, i to|d newsmen that the Chinese Communists are capable of launching another offensive in Korea and probably will do so. But, he said, “we are ready for thfem anywhere.” There was speculation that the enemy imay strike on or before the first anniversary of the Communist invasion of South Korea, next Mon'i \ . ' i ■' Today marked the fifth time in (T«r* To P«*o six) 7 | V- ? Reds’ Casualties 7\ 19,139 During Week Washington, June 22—(UP)— The army reported today that the , ChinSse Communists and North ; Koreans suffered 19,139 casual- / ties luring the week of June 8-14 The loss brought to 1,162,5(M1 L the iumber of battle lyM non * battle casualties suffered \by the Communist forces in Korek from \ the beginning of the war a year . ago through June 14. The latest report covering the entlrfe war period through June 15, > said United States forces had lost 73,60< in battle casualties. American npn-battle casualties are about ' 150,000. / c \ 1'; f ■ \