Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 149.

UN CHIEF TO DISCUSS PEACE WITH MALIK

United States Ready To Talk Peace-Traman Any Settlement In Korea Must Put An End To Aggression / Tullahoma, Tenn;, June 25 -4 / (UlP)—President Truman declared today that any settlement in Korea “must be a real settlement which fully ends the aggression and restores peaee and security to the area.’* \ •The door is open for negotiations .that will get that result, the president said in obvious reply to Saturday’s cease-fire proposal by the Soviet ftln delegate, Jacob A. Malik. J {c . . “But.” he warned, “we must avoid like the plague rash actions which take unnecessary risks of world war or weak actions which would reward aggression.” In a major speech here on tile first anniversary of the Korean war, Mr. Truman also; , 1. Denounced Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other f advocates of “go it alone if necessary” pol- • icy in the Far East. He said ‘‘they want us tp play Russian ; roulette with the foreign poliqy of the U. S. — and with all the chambers of the pistols loaded.” Declared “it’s time (the) smear campaign was stopped”, against this country's military and diplomatic leaders. , Political ’ opponents qouldnl win "in honest ». political, debate,” he said, so they hate resorted to "spreading fear and slander and lies,” ' \ In replying to Malik's cease-fire Mr. Truman did \not mention him or his proposal specifically. But he obviously had them in mind when be said: "We are ready to jpin in a peaceful settlement in Korea now * as we always have been. But it must be a real settlement which fully ends the aggression and restores peace and security to the area and to the gallant Korean people. . \ ’V/ “In Korea and rest of the world we must be ready to take Tany steps which truly advance us toward world peace. But we must avoid like the plague rash actions which would take unnecessary risks of world war or weak actions J which would reward aggression, i "We must be firm and consist- ’ ' ent and level-headed. If we get discouraged or impatient, we can lose everything we are working for. If we carry jon with faith and courage, we can succeed. And if we succeed . we will have established a firm peace for the whole world to last for years to come.” | Malik proposed merely a ceasefire and a Withdrawal by both sides from the 38th parallel, original dividing line between South and North Korea. This country wants to know a lot more about what the communists would propose to do after that. Mr. Truman said nothing specific as to what measures this country would consider adequate *’ to ‘yestore peace and security to /I (Turn To Pn*e Three) — Roy Price Appointed < Lions Zone Chairman - Roy Price, well-known Adams county farmer and former county treasurer was today named zone chairman, region 3. zone A of the international Lions club to serve during the 1951-&2 term, starting In July. Price’s f appointment was made by district governor-elect Charles E. Carter, Wolcottville, 4 district 25-B and his tenure of office will start with that of newly elected officers throughout the country. Zone A comprises a {fcup of Lions clubs In northeastenPradiana and Price Will be general super- ’ visor of these clubs.and assist them in formulating their programs and projects for the year. He has been active in Lions club affairs in Decatur for several years. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair Tuesday. A period of showers nqrthwest portion, tonight or Tuesday fore- \ noon. Warmer north and central Tuesday. Low tonight 57 to 82 north, 84 to. 70 south. High Tuesday 80 to 86 north, 86 to 91 south. ?■ — ’

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• "fT; j ; Gen. O'Donnell Says Air Blows Blocked _ Planned Smashing 4 North Korea Blow ( i '\ I ■' Washington, June 25 — XUP) -4 Maj. Gen. Emmett (Rosie); O’Donnell. Jr., air forpe bombing expert, said today he thinks an “overriding political or diplomatic consideration*’ blocked his plan to bit ’ North Korea a smashing air bfow early in the war if the communists refused a ceasefire ultimatum. ; \ k Testifying \before the senate , MacArthur investigating committee, O’Donnell first said the plan was dropped when his B-2f| bomb- , era had to be used for close sup- ’ pprt of hard-pressed ground , troops. Butdater chairman Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., asked again why the idea was abandoned. l “I think it was an overriding ’ political or diplomatic t tion, sir,” O’Donnell said. “I don’t know. I am (at that time) . the bomber commander out there ( and I get word from General Stratemeyer who said no, nqt at ( this time." j i Stratemeyer until recently? was . Gen. Douglad MacArthur’s , chief air officer. , ‘ i i O’Donnell testified that he took ■ the bombers to the Far East with i the idea that MacArthur could demand that the North Korean communists quit the war or suffer a ’ “burning” of their five major cit- ■ les and “complete” destruction of about 18 major strategic targets. This was early in the war. before Chinese communist intervention. He said he thought MaCArtimr to quit {heir aggression and retire to quit their aggresison and retire north of the 38th parallel or: “They better have their wiVes and children and bedrolls to go down with them because there is not going to be anything left up in North Korea to return to.”] O’Donnell said it was ' within this “intention and hope” that this changed on arrival, in Korea, he recalled. Stratemeyer \told {him that American and South Korean ground forces were in a “very- tad state,” and that the big bombers had to be used fptd direct support of the infantry. ’ In I other testimony, O’Donnell said: I 1. American v planes in Korea have done “majoi\ damage” affecting Russia by smashing North Korean steel and chemical installations. \ J - ’ | 2. Six weeks ago the war in Korea entered a new phase marked by “quite enlarged air action” by the \ communists flying out of the|r Manchurian “sanctuary:” 3. There should be no frittering away of the American Strategic airy force—whose crews are the “New York Yankees” of tljb air world. They should be reserved Whenever possible . £ : for Actual Strategic bomning . L : Erie's Exhibition | Train Here Tuesday :• ,| ■\? i i Displayed To Public , During Three Hours ' Exploiting the progress made in railroad trains and systems (luring the past century, the Erie exhibition train every! hln < from the engine use 4 W iears ago to today’s sltpk-operpting diesels. .1 g These wil- be just two of the many thipgs contained on and in the train when it stope at Decatur Tuesday from 11 a. m, to 2 j|>. m. The DecatUr\ stop will be; one of scores scheduled on the Erie line from Hammond to Newark, J - i I -1 1 Designed to illustrate railroading to the public, the {rain’s; crew —numbering about he on hand to answer pH The exhibit train, which; will include among other thinjfs an actual 1851 locomotive ’ with its baggage-car and coach; a museum Coach; the biggest and latest, army-ipnk on a flat car; -Jp. cutaway display diesel 4 locomotive unit, and examples of \ modern passenger and freight:■ equipinent, Is open to the public. | It will be on display at the Erie • railroad station for the three; scheduled hours Tuesday. | Ik L 4 1 W

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Dr. Humbert DePauw President ’. aI s i j . \va -. ■" ' \I Youngstown Pastor Succeeds Wildman . Greencastle, Ind., June 25 — (UP| — Dr. Russell J. Humbert, Youngstown, 0., was announced today as president of DePauw ' University to succeed Dr. Clyde C. Waldman: The board of trustees said the 46-year-old Methodist minister will take over the presidency at the beginning of the fall term. Wildman retired recently after heading DePauw 15 years. L Humbert, a graduate of Wooster College, 0., and Boston University School of theology, was orin 1930. He became minister jpf the Firestone Park Methodist ehurch in Akron, O„ in 1935 and in five years doubled the church’s membership and paid off a $25,000; indebtedness. He also served as; minister of the Epworth Methpdist church in Toledo, 0., and in moved to Youngstown. In j 193$ Humbert was voted Akroh’s “outstanding young man of year” and also received the junior chamber of commerce’s distinguished service award. Humbert, a native of Barberton, 0., Repeatedly turned down offers for Secular jobs. He once said he decided at the age of 16 to become a minister “and nothing has happened since to change my mind/’ Humbert, who is a delegate to this - year’s Methodiit ecumenical conference in London, is married and-has three daughters. •'’’l ; Three Killed When Small Plane Crashes Turbulent Wind Is r Blamed For Crash Angola, IntT., June 25.—(UP)— A.Rurbulent wind disturbance was 1 lamed today for rippipg apart a small beechcraft bonanza airplane and sending it crashing to the ground eight miles southwest of her|, killing three persons. The dead were identified as Walker Lyerly, 34, treasurer of the Ilylgn Furniture Co., Hickory, K, (|: George Van Dyne, a. furm- ’ lire buyer for the Lamson De partmerit store, Toledo, 0., and Miss Pat |Leahy, Oak Park, 111. Authorities said Lyerly, the pliof, was returning yesterday from the 1951 furniture market ia Chicago, where he had met Van Dy tie and Miss Leahy. The planwas|headed for Cleveland, 0., when the I crash occurred, a flight log found in the wreckage indicated Witnesses said the plane was flyiig through an overcast at abo|t 3.000 feet when parts of the .winff and tail assemblies were “ripped off,” sending the lighc pin lie into a spinning dive. Farmer A. I? Bunday said the pla|e plunged Into his corn field, then exploded and burned, state police said wreckage was scattered ever a two-mile area. ’The plane came barrel-rolling out-of the overcast with pieces flying oft in 'every direction,’ Sunday. “It seemed to disin tegßgte in mid-air.” I i ■2k \■ ■

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 25, 1951.

—-t — Mansfield Condition [ Is Still Serious \; :4. • Don Mansfield, injured in an auto wreck last Tuesday morning, remains in a serious condition at St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. Don has not regained consciousness for any length of time, but - has been able to take some broth , and ice crehm. i Attending physicians told memf bers of his family that there wan < some, hope.jfor bis recovery. A complete X-ray examination will > be made later this Week\ if he I shows any aigna pf improvement. i ( . i ■ 4— — ■ New Blocks Tossed At Control Measure Senate Committee v Opposed To Freeze Washington. June 25 — (UP) 4Two congressional committees tossed additional roadblocks today into the path of new controls legislation. ! • The senate agriculture committee. headed liy Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La., agreed to oppose any floor attempt to write President Truman’s proposed annual farm parity “freeze” into the defense production And the house labor committee (voted 15 to | to strip the wages stabilization Iboard \of powers to decide non-vfage disputes. The committee proposal will be offered on the house floor as an amendment to the{ defense act. The proposal also; would shake up\the membership Os the board, requiring that the ;public members outnumber the total of labor and in-, dustry representatives. One labor member would represent an inde- ' pendent union. The two developments came as the senate proposed to begin debate on its bill to extend Controls for eight months. Present controls expire Saturday. Other congressional news: ■ Un-American — Screen producer* Robert Rossen swore the house committee investigating unAmerican activities that he is not 1 a member of the communist party. But he refused to say ft he was a member yesterday, on grounds his answer might be self-incriminat-ing. _ Public ServJce-r-David E. Lilienthal, former; chairman of the atomic energy commission, urged congress to set up a system of “universal public service” in ('lWra To Pare ate) I - • H ' ■ ■ Peace Feeler Sends Grain Prices Lower . L Chicago, June 25 — (UP) — Russia’s peace feeler sent grain prices downward on the Chicago board of trade today, but a midmorning rally apparently checked the decline. ■ Oats for delivery in September dropped the iix-cent permissible limit in opening trade but regained two cents |o sell at 74% cents i bushel by mid-day. j December corn dropped' 6% cents a bushel at the opening, but recovered 1%; cents and sold at 1i1.56% shortly before .noon. September wheat ae much as 3% cents loiter, and by mid-day was off four Rents at $2.35% per bushel. I

Steamship Company Strike In 11th Day Demand Business Agent Be Rehired Detroit, June 25 — (UP) — A strikes against the T. J. McCarthy Steamship company went into its 11th Utay today with the international ( longshoremen’s union demanding the firm rehire its Detroit business agent.. Uniion members at Cleveland, Buffalo and Duluth, f Minn., have 'refused to unload automobiles from |the company ships that have arrived at those docks. The Detroit chapter of Local 1324 went on strike June 15 in protect of the firing of business agent: Phillippe Lezgntier. Lezbntier was' wounded last Wednesday in what police believe was a feud between two AFL unions, the one headed by Lezontier and the teamsters, who drive the new automobiles from the Detroit plants to the McCarthy dock. Onl|y Local 1324 members can load and unload cars from the McCarthy ships under union regulations. | But the teamsters took L (Tam To Says McNutt Agent For South Korearis Washington, June 25 — (UP) — Sen. Edwin 0. Johnson. D., Colo., said today that Paul V. McNutt was registered as an “agent” of the South Korean government for three (months this spring. Johpson said the Indiana Democrat, prominent in party circles in the; early dhys of the new deal, received >2,500 a month for the job. Johnson' said, however, he does hot know what McNutt is doing for South Korea nor who is paying him. Family Picnic For Lions Club Tuesday. Abandon Meetings/ Balance Os Summer Members of the Decatur Lions club will continue—and it is hoped, finish—scrubbing the peace monument bn court house square tonight, iln preparation for the family picnic Tuesday. \ ■ Lions-club members and their families will picnic at Sunset park to climax the organization’s year. They Will adjourn, then for the reminder of the Bummer, or until the firsit' Tuesday in September. But. tonight the Lions hope to complete their major hummer pro; Ject by accomplishing the cleaning of the monument. Started last week, \ the years’ accumulation of dirt and grime was too the work\was continued until tonight. The Subject Os considerable discussion by civic organizations in the past .few years, the Lions began their attempt to clean the monument dedicated to peace and listing the names of those men who served in the armed forces of all wars. It wais \ erected shortly after World War I, and elicited considerable attention from tourists in Its first! tew years. Lately tt has been neglected—thus forcing the thoroug i cleaning.

Key Height In Korea Is Taken By UN Troops No Slackening Os , War Despite Soviet Proposal For Peace Tokyo, June 25.—(UP) — The United Nations marked the first Anniversary of ljhe Korean war today with the recapture of a key height and the destruction of their 13th Communist plane in Hand-co-hand fighting raged in Several sectors lof the 100-mile ground front. There was no sign of gny slackening of the battle despite Russia’s proposal! for a Korean cease-fire. ! An Bth agyny communique tonight disclosed that*Allied troops had swarmed again to the crest of a strategic hill south of Kumsong, 29 miles aj»ve th{ 38th z parallel, Against “moderate resistance” from an estimated Communist company. ■ The Reds had fought bitterly for |he hill until to(iay. It changed hands twice yesierday in fierce Close-quarter fighting, .and the Allies were half-w{y back up last bight when called back for the night. i ; Thb Allies alsq stormed a hill just south of Pybinggang, 17. miles West of Kutnson{, with bayonets , find grenades in an attempt to wrest . it again from Reds who threw them . off it yesterday. | Hand-to-hand \,<torkjbAt likewise lyrokb out farthef west. UN patrols ran into an I enemy company ’ northwest of Yohchon and closequarter nghting wAs sHll under way , at last reports. | j A Communist I counter - attack northeast of Yanggu en the eastern front forced a UN patrol to withdraw. I The 13th Comnjunist plane shot Ljow'n in nine days was bagged by Capt. Milton E. N4lson during a 10minute aogfight between 27 American F-86 Sabrejetjs and 30 Sovietbuilt MIG-15 jets along the Yalu river Manchurian border. : The Communist fighters darted hack and forth across the river during the fight and finally streaked fbr home afierl one of'their number was shot down. 5 Besides the 13 planes destroyed, one was probably destroyed and 27 damaged in air battles during eight of the past nine days. Four Communist planes were damaged yesterday. i ■ The Bth army began the second .year of the Korean war under orders from its cominander, Lt. Gen. James'A. Van Fleet tq,"carry on as (Tarn To I*A<* Two) Strike Is Ordered On Western Union [Strike Order Set For Next Monday Washington, June 25. —(UP)— The Commercial Telegraphers union (AFL) today ordered a nationwide strike against' Western Union to back up its demands for ai2s-cents-an-hour wage increase. The strike was set for 7 a.m. (CST) next Monday. President Adolph S. Brungs of the CTU Western Union division said the union aims to “close this company down just as tight as we can.” 'Brungs said some 35,000 telegraphers, clerks, messengers, and technicians would be affected. The company and CTU’s Westerp Union division have been arguing for several weeks over whether their contract can be reopened for wage demands on July 1. A clause permits reopening in the evient of war. The two sides are at odds over defining the Korean conflict as it applies to the contract. Decatur Junior C.C. Will Meet Tonight 4' ' - •/ ' ' : ? Members of the Decatur junto’* Chamber of Commerce will meet at: the Chamber of Commerce looms tonight at 8 o’clock. Plans will be announced for several summer projects to be undertaken by the junior Chamber. The membership drive for the group will probably be extended, and an invitation will be issued to all. younger business men of the city to become members. ; r -L- •; ■. ' ■

13 Violent Deaths Reported In State J Five Persons Killed In Traffic Crashes . : hi 4 By United Press * 'z ■ : ■> ' > Traffic crashes teamed up witn a plane crash, drownings and othej miscellaneous accidents in Indiana this weekend to send the violent > death toll upward. _■ v State police said an early check ’ showed at , leakt 13 persons met ’ violent deaths during the two day ’ period. There were five dead in • highway accidents, thrre killed in 1 a plane, crash, three drownings And ; two miscellaneous deaths. - The bulk of the accidents ;oc- ’ curred Sunday. Walker fcyerij| 34, 1 Hickory, 1 N.C.; and two passengers in his plane were killed yesterday I when the craft was caught in a storm and crashed on a farm ! about eight miles southwest of Angola. Also killed were Godrge ’ Van . Dyhe, 34, Toledo, 0., and Miss Pat Leahy, Oak Park, 111. JimmyDeLong, 10, a Patoka, and I his brother, Floyd, 15, 1 drowned , yesterday in the Patoka river near . their home. Authorities said the ; cider brother \got into deep water > and both boys to swept undeV when Jhnmie tried to save Floyd. I Sunday's third drowning victim s was Maurice H. Juncker, j4l, a j Fosey« county farmer. Junckey lost t his life in Welborn lake neafr Mt. l Vernon after he saved iiis j nine-year-old s^ n ’ R*lph. who had » slipped, into water from an • inner tube. • He passed the boy to f. another swimmer but was too ex- • hausted to swim to shore. H Mohamed Shawar Yari, 26, New Vork City, died in Reid memorial E hospital at Richmond yesterday 1 several hours after he was huit ' in a two-car collision on U.S. 40 near Centerville. Police said <the car in which Yari was riding skidded during a rainstorm anl struck another car. A motorcycle acident killed Lewis -R. Daler, 35, Fort U’ayne. Police said the cycle ran off Ind. 237 three miles north of Ghrrett and crashed through a barbe<| wire fence. Twx> companions riding on the cycle with Daler were Other traffic accidents Saturday killed Sam Martinez, 39.' Fort Wayne, who died when hfe car sideswiped a truck og U.S. 3(f>three miles west of Columbia City;! Patrick S., Crawley, five-week-old son c.» Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crtiwley Garrett, who died in a tFo-ca r crash on U.S. 20 at Crocked hear Valparaiso, and Jdmes R. Millinger, FO, Macy, who died when his car hit a tree along U.S. 21 about six miles south of Peru.. Henry Schmidt, 41, Crown Point, died in a Valparaiso hospital Saturday of injuries suffeded when he fell from a ladder while repairing a roof, and Melvin Radcliff, 39, Indianapolis, was sc hocked fatal-y Saturday while changing a light bulb in an extension cford at the home of a neighbor: Pvt. N. H. Hormann Is Drowned At Camp b’ F \ . ■ - i Poe Soldier Drowns In Kentucky Lake Pvt. Norbert H. Hormann,. 22, son of Mr, and Mrs. William A. Hormann of 1 near Poe, was drowned Friday while swimming in Lake Taal, Ky. He was stationed at Camp . Campell, Ky., and went into service last December 14. \ Hormann was swimming in. the lake in the recreation area of;lhe camp with pother members of-his company, and failed to come to {he surface after a dive. His body was recovered and artificial respiration attempted in a> futile effort to revive him. nA - He was a member of the Trihity Suburban Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to his parents are fouy brothers, Richard, Carl. Elvin and Arthur, and a sister, Marilyn, all at home. j Funeral service will be Conducted at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday! at Ake & Sons funeral home at Poe, and at 2 o’clock at the Trhilty Suburban Lutheran church, the Rev. Werner Schmidtkp officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

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Chinese Reds Give Blessing To Malik Plan General Assembly President To Meet With Russ Delegate United Nations, N.Y., June 25.— ’ assembly president Nasroilah Entezam will fly here from Washington late today to start talks with chief Russian delegate Jacob A. Malik on the possibility of arranging Kbrean peace negotiations. ./{ \ x ■ I / 'LI The Iranian diplomat reversed his plans and decided to seek out Malik immediately to determine whether the peace offer made unconditionally by the Russian last Saturday is genuine and without strings. . . j Red China gave its blessing to, the proposal for an immediate cease-fitoi and withdrawal of troops from the 38th parallel—the proposition which Malik put forward without the usual Communist demand for UN membership for the Policing government and surrender of Formosa to Mao Tze-Tung’s reginie. , Entezam, ranking official' of the UN while secretary-general Trygve Lie is vacationing in Norway;— ■planned to arrive kt New York’s Laguardia airport and go immedi- , ately to his midtown hotel and telephone Malik for an appointment that might get the negotiation* wheels turning by tonight. In Washington, Entezam told ire- 5 porters he didn’t think negotiations would be difficult. He said that what he saw In Malik’s statement was "not very far, from the position of the unified command" and “a cease fire should got be difficult to arrange if good will exists.” I j , Told that the Peiping radio had broadcast a report that Malik’s pro-, posal is acceptable to Communist China, Entezama said: “that’s very important, very important.” y - | Earlier, Entezam, who also' la; Iranian ambassador to the U.S., had planned to devote the rest of today to the troublesome oil problem of Iran, which some long-range observers believed might lead to the next clash between \ international communism and the democratic west. ' .- x ' • • If Entezam receives favorable replies to his questions to Malik, he might call into immediate session the UN’s good offices committee, which was created last winter to discuss peace with Peiping. Entezam is committee chairman; f Entezam planned to talk soon after his arrival with Dr. Luis Padilla Neryo of Mexico, the. second member of the good offices group. The third member, Sven i Grastrom, was preparing to jfly here from his native Sweden, where he is vacationing. Meanwhile, UN secretary-general Trygve Lie picked up Malik’s offer and from Oslo, Norway, where he is vacationing, he appealed to the

world: j , ':,r . ' ■ ’ >/ “I urge that negotiations for a military cease-fire now be entered Intb at the earliest possible date s The U.S. state department* Voice of America beamed Lie’* appeal to China in its far hsfetern broadcasats. UN observers bdlieved that if a cease-fire is achieved it likely will come about through direct battlefield negotiations between UN Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Red army commanders. The terins offered by Malik were not far removed from those giv.en by the United States through the unified command last December, calling for withdrawal of troops from Korea and establishment of a 20-mile buffer zone whose-southern border would flank the/ parallel. The U.S. has never Withdrawn the December offer, but the Ameri(Tura T<» 81*) Electric Power Is Disrupted By Storm Princeton, Ind-, June 25:—(UP) — Electric -power was disrupted to Princeton and six other towns and a wide rural area in four counties last night when a violent i storm swept across southwestern Indiana. Movies suspended and church services were called off or held by candlelight. The storm,, accompanied by high winds and lightning, uprooted trees iand. I damaged windows and roofs. ' ... H ‘' - / ■ ■ :