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House Passes Nation's Top Tax Measure Senator George In Suggestion Senate Delay Tax Action Washington, June 23. —(UP)— Sen. Walter F. George. D., G., proposed today that- congress defer final action on the record-breaking $7,200,000,000 tax' bill until after a late summer recess so it dan get a better picture ot the budget outlook. ; . t George said he hoped congress meanwhile would cut President Truman's fiscal 1952 budget by $6,000,000,000 to assure keeping the government in the black next year with a tax increase no greater than _ that approved by the house yesterday. George is chairman* of the senate finance committee, which will begin work next week on the bill passed 233 to 160 by the house to collect an additional $7,200,000,000 a year to meet mounting costs for defense and the Korean war, The bill A.'+will increase personal income taxes by 12 % percent. Almost the entire sum would come from higher personal and corporation income taxes and new excise TeviesJ The house bill, proposing the biggest single tax increase in history. Would raise federal revenue to a record-breaking $66,000,000,000 a year. Both George and Sen. Eugene D. Millikin. R„ .Colo., ranking GOP , committee member,- indicated that they felt the $7,200,000,000 sought in the house bill was abouuas high as congress should be shooting. Mr. Truman has asked for a tax increase of-$10,000,000,000 this year. In proposing a late summer recess of (our to six weeks before a final vote on the tax bill, George, put himself at. odds with senate administration leaders who want to pass the measure before taking a vacation. A recess and the schedule for handling the tax bill will be major topics at a senate Democratic conference on Tuesday. Since congress usually is reluctant to make tax increases retroactive. any delay in passage of the pill might postpone the effective, date of the new taxes'. The house bill would raise personal income taxes as of Sept. 1. Millikin said he expects the senate committee to “make a thorough study of federal spending plans over the next two fiscal years” before taking any action. He said the amount of, the tax increase to be approved by the committee probably “will not be greater thap that in the house bill and it might be Don Mansfield Still Unconscious Don Mansfield, Decatur* injured fin an auto mishap near Fort ■Wayne early Tuesday morning, is still unconscious at St. Joseph hospital but (According to members of his family he has moved his arms and on one occasion said a few audible words. This evidence gave attending physicians : some and it is believed that he has a chance to recover. It is still impossible to j completely examine his injuries , because of the seriousness of the skull fracture. -7 Blackford County Shortage Higher Indianapolis, June 23 — (UP) — Otto K. Jensen, chief examiner ot the state board of accounts, reported today a recheck of the tax books of former Blackford county * treafsdrer Lester Hiser, who disappeared last fall, showed an additional $597 shortage, bringing the total mount missing to $9,730. Expect Japan Treaty Signed By September Hong Kong, June 23 —(UP) -rA Japanese peace treaty will probably be signed in late August or early September, John M. Allison, deputy for presidential adviser John Foster Dulles, said yesterd.r.

f— T Archbishop's Trial Resumed In Hungary Fifth Os ConfesseslTo Guilt BULLETIN Budapest, Hungary, June 23. —(UP)— A peoples court trying Catholic archbishop Josef Groesz and eigfif others on charges of plotting against the government adjourned for* the t weekend today if ter ail defendants pleaded /guilty. • Budapest, Hungary. June 23 —• (UP)—A employe of the U. S. information service in Budapest pleaded gijilty in ri| people's court today espionage. Dr. Alajos Pongraqz. 42, told the coiirt that he turnefl;. over military and other confidential infonnrition aohut pommunist Hungary to the African legation. | . Pongracz was the- fifth of nine defendants to admit fits guilt iri an alleged plot to overthrow the goverument and restore jhe Hopsfijurg monarchy. Archbishop Josef Groesz, replaced Josef Cardinal Mindszenty as ranking Roman Catholic prelate in Hungary, confessed yesterday that hb led the plot and was to have becoipe bead pf the monarchy in the Hajpsburgs’ absence. ill*." i Archbishop Groesz ? and three co-defendants pleaded* guilty to conspiracy rind other charges on the openihg day olf |he trial yesterday. The 64-year-pld archbishop sat quietly in, \the courtroom today with no outward sign pf emotion. Although he is to question other witnesses,! be did not do so. Pongracz. a school teacher by profession, testified in; a calm, steady voice. He appeared pol®- ; He wore a suit. He testified he typed in the U. S. legation buihMng a document in which Arfhlwiop Groesz stated his to become head of the state to appoint a temporary goveijnmiept. He also for thei !f first time brought into the trial the name of U. S. Minister Nathaniel P. Davies, now on home legve in America. \' • ; \ He testified thqt ft? document—apparently the same-jone he had typed in the legfttiq^— signed by Groesz had passer} through him to Albert Sherer, third ’secretary in the legation, who promised to for-, ward it to Davies. !?' Pongracz admitted he had been rin intelligence during the Horthy regime between the wars. He was taken a prisoner of war: b> the Apiericans during World War I'l, lie said, returned to! Hungary on his release in 1945. He said he got a jo|> in the U;S.: (Tur* To B|X > r. ’ — ~ I 1 ~~ -ftp" H Earl Nyffeler Dies j Friday Near Kokomo || Former Decatur Man Is (Taken By Death Earl Nyffeler, 40, fson of Mrty Charles Nyffeler of Decatur, roptC 6, died at his homp'at Darroutgli Chapel, near Kokomp, was born in Preble toTCrfsnip. Adams county, January 11, 1911. son of Mr. and Mrs. oharles Nyffeler. '■ Hl ( Nyffelbr was empllpyed as elec trician at Cuneo in Kokoipt), having moved from Decatur in 1942. While in Decatur he yas employed at the General Elective Co. \ He attended Fairlawn United Brethren churcp In; Mokomo. He was married Martha Buchanan of = Willshire, |!b. The widow survives,jJ|s do two children, Wayne and Ppan, both; it home. ? Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Naomi Garwood! of Wren, 0., and Mrs. Helen Tinkham, Decatur, and three brothers,* Kenneth of Preble, and Robert ind Sherman of Decatur. - Funeral services jvil! be held, at Fairlawn United BrfethrSn church in Kokomo Monday morning at .JLO o’clock with the pastor, the Rpv. Luke Martin officiating. y Committal services < will be held Monday afternoon at,! 2 o’clock at Decatur cemetery, atJ which time the casket will be opened. body is at the residence in rough Chapel where niay call after 7 o’clock tpnight. S

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Iranian Oil Crisis Threatens To Ehpt Six Ship Skippers r i Refuse To Concede [Tehran, Iran, June 23 —(UP)— The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis threatto explode today when six= .British skippers refused to concede Iran's ownership of oil taken aboard ! their tankers a\t the Abadan refin-ij ery. 1 ; The tanker captains refused to Sign receipts acknowledging pay|nent for the oil should be. iriade to Iran instead of the British-owned Anglo-Irabian Oil: company. • British officials in Londoo indb rated approval bf the action. First skipper to refuse to sign [was George Dobson, captain of the tanker Vritish Admiral with 11,500 tons of oil aboard. > The weekly newspaper Farman reported that Soviet ambassador Ivan Sadchikov recently informed premier Mohammed Mossadegh that the Russian! 27th army and . “anti-pa-atroopers ’ had been transferred from Czechoslovakia to the Iran bolder. ” Britain has stationed som® 3,000 , paratroopers on Cyprus to be available if Rritish lives are endangered by»rioting Inuran. The weekly paper said Sadchikov tbld Mossdegh that Russia looked with favor upon the oil nationalization program and would support the Iranian government’s stand. It said Sadchikov offered to supply Russian oil to Iran If the Ab<dan definery was forced to shut down. Six tankers enter Abadan dally to pick up oil at the huge refinery —largest tn the world. H : 'T . ■' ■■■ ■ t ■!■' rp-' Continue Hunt For ■ ' ■ Warren Lee Irwin Suspected Killer I Eludes Authorities Detroit, June 23. —(UP) — The trail of Warren Lee Irwin, fleeing murder suspect, grew cold today as police doggedly tracked down tips from jittery citizens who claimed • to have\seen him. 1 The wily, scar-faced ex-conviftt, who is charged with one murdbr and boasted of another, has bebn ‘ reported seen at a dozen places 1 simultaneously. . ' But police said nt) one has posi- • lively identified Irwin since he stepped from a chartered airplane ■ at Chicago’s Midway airport Wednesday. ’ j The 27-year-old suspect escaped ’ arrest Tuesday night by fleeing out ; the back door of his mother’s home in Detroit just as police arrived with a warrant charging him with first degree murder in the June 78 slaying of Mrs. Adeline Shagena, 1 31 J. ot nearby Oxford, Mich. ' Doris MyepL, 43, of Detroit, told police Irwin tricked her into driving him to Toledo, 0., Tuesday: [ night From there she said he • ordered her at gun-point to “head ! west." She said she escaped at - Durant, la. • Irwin then hired a pilot to fly him from Davenport, la., to Chi(Tan To Page Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 23,1951

Tornado iDamage May Be pillion Winamac, |nd., June 23—(UP) — Damage Caused by a tornado which swept? across three counties night before! last may run to almost Early estimates of the loss in Pulaski, Fufton and Kosciusko counties ranged up to $750,000. Authorities y believed additional damage reports would boost the total. I ;\ / - Indianapolis Man Is Murder Victim Is Believed Killed By Indianapolis, June 23 — (UP) — Mike Mattel, 29, a former west coast lumberjack was shot \ and killed today; wheni he chased |nto a cornfield ia purse-snatcher who invaded an in which he sat parted with a 17-year-old girl. s Police teamed the death a rob-, bery-slayingi They questioned Vada Alexander, a Serbian who with her family fled from behind Russia’s iron curtain two years ago. She was Mattes' companion. Mattes’ body, a revolver wound in his cheat, was found lying in a cornfield in the early-morning darkness. |The girl said he ran through a thicket at the roadside to chase a fthief who grabbed hed purse fromjthe car as they satin the back spat on a date. Mattes was divorced. His former wife atid a six-year-old daughter are bettered to be in Cottage Grove, Ore?, i . Authorities learned Mattes worked fn| Washington and Oregon lumbe# .camps and was injured twice. ; He returned to Indianapolis, his home town, only a few days ago. E The girl)- said the robbery occurred as -they sat> smoking cig 4 arets during a drive they took because she f was not permitted to smoke at ;home. The crime occurred at£3Bth street and Guion road oh the Indianapolis west side. ' Chief deputy sheriff Fred Foster said the girl told this story: • Mattes had a date with the girl and called for her at 7 p. m. Later, they returned to her home but went for a drive when she’said she wanted to smoke a cigaret and never; smoked at home. They parked and got in the back seat< They left the car motor running, j Mattes asked' Nada where hes purse was. She said it was iri the front seat. They looked and it was gone. Makes (got out of the car and walked into some bushes along the read. Nada heard a sharp sound she described as “sounding like a slap.” She waited 15 or 20 minutes. A car came along and she flagged it and asked the driver to take her home. \ Nada called authorities and four deputy sheriffs went to the scene. They found Mattes* body in a cornfield about 75 yards from the car and 25 yards from the Mattes'' billfold was had about S6O in it. He had been (turn To Pan Six)

Distribute School [ Funds On 1951 Act * \ • Young Overruled By Decision Os Judge Indianapolis, June 23 (UP) — Indiana attorney general J. Emmett McManamon prepared to appeal as a test case today a superior court judge’s decision that the August distribution of state school funds'should be based on a 1951 law.’? . V '■ - \ : j Tife ruling, handed dbwn late yesterday by Judge John L. Nibof Marion superior court, contradicted the opinion of Wilbur Young, state superintendent of public instruction, that the funds should be handed out under a 1949 formula.t McManamon planned to appeal to the state ‘supreme court for a final judgment. \ ■’ktftte auditor Frank Millis said distribution under the 1951 law would $2,50Q.000 more than they would receive under the 1949 formula. It would mean no additional taxes, he said. The money would come from the state general fund. , Niblack’s decision favored Gary school officials, who filed the suit against Young. Young sought a change of Vvenue from Niblack’s court, but the state supreme court refused to mandate a change. The ruling by N)black ordered Young to certify the Aug. 1 distribution on the higher teacher salary schedule established by the 1951 general assembly. Millis, to whom the certification is made, said earlier that funds wi.ll be distributed under the 1949 law and then if the supreme court upholds Niblack, adjustments will be mkde. - \ Total distribution, he said, will amount to between $58,000,000 to $63,000,000, depending- upon the number of students enrolled and the number of fall. Tq Complete Scrubbing Monument Members of the Decatur Lionsclub will finish the job of scrub-' bing the soldiers and sailors monu-; • ment on the 1 court house square* Monday night, Drew and[ Clyde-Butler. \ co-chairmen, of the; project have announced., About two-thirds of ihe work was completed fest Tuesday; when rain interfered.' The hard* est job, according to the workers, [is that of, polishing the bronze tablets which contain the v names of Adams county soldiers of all wars. '. ■! , * When completed, it is understood that the lights again will be turned on around: the monument at- night. [The large stone and bronze memorial, erected after World War I, was long peglectedIt is claimed to be the first peaco monument erected? in the middlewest. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with [ [ scattered thundershower* south, t Sunday partly cloudy I' with scattered thundershowers. Not much change in tem-; perature. Low tonight near 60 north to 70 extreme south. [

New Red Offensive In Korea Is Expected To Erupt Within Few Days

... I.—.— - i ■■■ -■ Rejects Suggestion To Call Harriman f Hope To End Ouster | Hearing On Monday ■ Washington, June 23 — (UP) -— Chairman Richard B. Russell, D„ Ga., rejected today a suggestion that W. Avereil Harriman, presidential foreign affairs adviser, be called home from Europe to- testify before the MacArthur investigating committee. [ The proposal was made by Sen. Brien McMahon, “D., Conn. He said Harriman should be given a chance to refute testimony by Patrick J. Hurley, formed U. S. ambassador to China, that ttfe 1945 Yalta agreement was an "immoral’’ sei) out to Russia. * Russell told reporters he thought Harriman’s testimony Would be repetitious. He pointed out that secretary of state Dean Acheson and other administration spokesmen already have explained (hat they believe the Manchurian concessions to the. Russians at Yalta were necessary to bring Bussia° into the war against Japan and 'tpus save American lives. j Russell hoped' to close the lengthy investigation, now in its eighth week, on Monday, < when ‘Maj. Gei> Emmett (Rosie) .O’Donnell, air force strategic bombing expert, is scheduled to testify. McMahon suggested that Harriman testify to explain Hurley’s Statement that the( late President [Roosevelt soured bri the YVtta agreement shortly after it was jnade and sent Hurley to Moscbw to try to talk Stalin into changing the agreement. j No administration witness has 1 given tills Version of the events following Yalta, and McMahon said the matter shouh) be clarified. However, in view of the already established plan to close (the hearings on Monday, McMahon said he had not definitely determined whether to push the [matter of calling Harriman. P ' r. ' ' / ■'' ; . ■) Andy Appelman Is Returned To Home Andy Appelman, seriously injured in. an airplane mishap two weeks ago, has been returned to his residence in Decatur from St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. Appelman is continuing to show improvement but, it will be some time before his upper jaw is completely healed. ■ ! !'. ■ —L-i —[—_L ■ ■ j. 7- ■ i ' . Church Association May Be Abandoned Duplicated Effort Is Cited By Some ) . , I} J - The fate df the associated ; churches of Decatur will be decided ; soon at a meeting of officers and ; churc|i delegates, it was learned todayl. [ There are 10 member churches in Decatur and each church has four delegates. These delegates and officers of the city-wide group will meet soon to determine if there is a need for kuch an organization. Many }ocal church members contend \ that the association is not necessary because of other union church grottps, such as the ministerial association.! Originally the group was organized to sponsor union events such as Good Friday services; spiritual emphpsis week and other city-wide Protestant religious efforts. However, the ministers of the individual churches and their I own church governing bodies have practically the sarhe functions. » Ed Jaberg, president of the association, said that he would call his executive group togetho soon to determine the fate of the organization. The annual dinner scheduled for last night at the Masonic hall was cancelled because of the small sale ot tickets for the dinner. * ■ 1

Air Annada Is Searching For Missing Plane Seeking Airliner With 40 On Board In African Jungles a Dakar, French West Africa, June 23—(UP)—A five-natie® air armada searched over steaming African jungles for "survivors of a missing New York-bound; four-engine airliner with 40 persons aboard. i Ships scanned coastal waters between Accra and Dakar for the Fan American Airways constellation. ’A And on the ground missionaries and tribal chieftains led native bands through remote jungle areas of the gold coast. , J The four-engine plane, carrying at least 12 U. S. residents and one. Canadian, vanished Thursday* nighs after radioing Roberts Field near Monrovia, Liberia, that it intended to land there in about 15 minutps. I It Was on a flight frc)m nesburg, \ South Africa, to New York'witi stops en rdpte. Some 35 U. S., British, (French,? Liberian and Portuguese aircraft wheeled low over the rain-soake<| jungles in aft organized patterßf search. J Pan American’s New York of-' flees rushed search experts, technicians knd medical A men from New York and London. The group included Pierre De Remer, th§ ( company’s top search and rescue expert. » The search-—biggest in Wes| African history—was called off at dark yesterday, but resumed at daylight today. All nine crew members aboard the missing plane lived in. metropolitan New York. The piKji, Capt. Frank J. Crawford, has lodged 8,000 hours in 10-years service with Pan American. * '.B. Pan American said it had flpiin 4,000,000,000 passenger miles singe its last (accident April 15, 1948. J Indiana VFW In State Convention | Wounded Korea War Vets Lead Parade Indianapolis, June 23 —(UP|— Wounded Korean war veterans Will head a parade of the 30th anftiial Indiana encampment of the t|eterans of Foreign W)irs today. / Thirty Korean war wounded filim Camp Atterbury hospital will Mde in cars at the bead of the profession. following them will be overseas veterans of other wars, baiids, drum and bugle corps, drill rifle squads and color guards, f The parade will begin at &30 p.m., and when the wounded iben reach the reviewing stand in University Park, -the paraders will pause for a nisment in tribute to the men still fighting in Korea, A banquet and military ball/are scheduled for -tonight. Rep. Ja&ies E. Van Zandt of Altoona, Pa!, Who served three times as VFW natieffaal commander, will speak. < | The final business session jrill wind up the convention tomorrow. Mayor E. Spencer Walton of Mishawaka is favored to succeed Willfem M. Cox, Jasper attorney, as 4he VFW Indiana commander. Among resolutions presented?- to the convention delegates for [approval were three opposing Gov. Schrlcker’s ban on slot mach&ies as it applies,to private clubs. The resolutions committee reported, however, that the measures tiad little support among the delegates.

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Red Air Fleet Is Chased Back Into / Manchuria For 6th i Day Os This Week A Tokyo, June 2. —(UP)—The United Nations burled stubborn Reds jhto retreat in two guard attacks |n Korea today and chased a Red air fleet back tb Manchuria for the sixth day th|s week. j , A One of the Russian-built "MIG-15 Jet fighters was damaged ;by 30 pursuing American Sabfejets be- j ,tore the 12 to 16-plane enemy for'jnation could escape across the,. ; ! Yalu river frontier. f It boosted the week’s toll of [[enemy aircraft to 34 and made it Ithe costliest week of the war for I |the Red air force. Eleven enemy —eight of them Soviet jets destroyed, one probably destroyed and 22 damaged. J American losses for the week (were listed as three F-86 Sabrejets [and one F-51 Mustang fighter, all i missing. However, no allied losses were reported in today’s engagei ment. j Other U.S. planes joined UN Aground forces in attempts to disrupt ! Communist preparations for a new offensive which some sources thought might come next Monday—first anniversary of the Korean |; war. - ' 7 ( 3 Fighter-bombers knocked out B three * vital highway end two railroad) bridges on the Communist reinforcement and supply routes to | the front. J' ' [ UN ground troops at the same 7 f time shoved back stubbornly-resist-I ing Reds in twin attacks on the cen- ’ tral and western fronts. The Cornmunists had stepped up their air and ground activity all along tqe 100-mile Korean front last > night and early today in apparent preparation for the all-out assault. But the Bth army regained the initiative soon after sunrise. On the western front, the Allies hit elements of an estimated enemy regiment—up to 2,5 w) men —northwest of Kqrangpo. The. battle lasted five hours and ended with the enemy in full retreat tq the north. Korangpo lies just below the 38th parallel about 30 miles north northwest of Seoul. It was from there ? that the Chinese launched the first round of the abortive spring offensive !n April. t On the central front, UN doughboys jumped off north against Chinese Reds who had moved back into the northern apex of the old Communist “iron triangle” below Pyongyang. | [ | 1 J Custard And Lehman Ta Pleasant Mills <|len Custard, ivells county has ; been named principal at Pleasant J Mills high school, it was announced ! this, week by Hansel Foley, county (superintendent of schools. Myron ‘Lehman, former coach at Monmouth high School and last year an instructor in Allen county school system, has been named coach. The two men succeed Gerald Vizard, who held both posts last year. Mrs. Howard Hendricks, Mon- | ! < roe, will teach the fifth and sixth grades and also have charge of physical training for girls at Plea- i j j sant Mills. [The post of ,music and , industrial arts teacher Is still / ...... Three Persons Die In Auto Accident -/ 7■■ >I ' ■ r /• ■ Columbus, 0., June 23.—(UP)—Three persons were killed today when the automobile In which they were riding struck a parked Ohio highway patrol car and careened into the path of a tractor-trailer on U.S. route 40 near here. The state highway patrol said the accident occurred when the « auto, driven by Michael Hartig, 35, Columbus, struck the patrol car | about a foot off the pavement and | then crashed head-on with the truck. T The dead were identified as Hartig; Pan! Madru, 40, and his wife, Margaret, 36, Columbus.