Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 150.

UN TO CONSIDER RUSSIAN PEACE PROPOSAL

Gen. Ridgway Pays Surprise Visit To Korea \ IV r Urgent Conference < Believed Held On Cease-Fire Chance L Tokyo, Wednesday, June 26 (UP) —Gen. Matthew D. Ridgway paid a surprise Visit to Korea Tuesday aad is believed to have held urgent conferences on the prospects of a cease fire. Ridgway \conferred with \Korean President Syngman M. Rhee, U. S. ambassador John J. Muccio and high United States army leaders before he caqe back to Tokyo. The allied supreme commander found his United Nations troops locked in see-saw hatties with the communists for possession Os dominating hills and ridgelines all along the front. . \ . Both the UN forces and the communists—but especially the communists —were digging permanent defense lines on parts of thte front, pn the east coast the Chinese put up barbed wire entanglements. ; The UN forces recaptured one dominant hill south of Kumsong, 29 miles above the 38th parallel on the central front, after losing it to a communist counter-attack | earlier yesterday Eighth army told Ridgway that the communists appeared to be building up large forces for a possible new offensive, but a spokesman said a major assault did not appear imminent. - Ridgway returned to Tokyo tonight. In the air, American fighter planes shot down their 15th communist plane in> 10 days. The Sovie>built MIG-15 jet fell to the . guns of one of 24 thunderjets escorting B-29 superfortresses on a raid near Sinanju in northwest Korea. An-air battle broke out over northwest Korea late today. Twenty-nine F-86 sabrejets clashed with approximately 40 MIGS, but no* additional details were ' available. , Lt. Gen. J'ames A. Van Fleet, .commander of the Bth army, accompanied Ridgway oft his tour of the front. Also in the party was Lt.'Gen. Frank Milburn, commander of the Ist corps. ' They landed in a light aircraft ht a forward regimental command post, but stayed only 25 minutes before leaving forZother sectors] of the front. Despite bitter fighting in some sectors of the front, neither side was attempting a general advance. The sth air force reported increased communist attempts to move supplies and reinforcements to the front, but an Bth army spokesman said the enemy had not sufficient strength yet to launch a general assault. The apparent stalemate coincided \ with communist peace moves\in the United Nations. But. allied commanders said that was only a coincidence. “There is business as usual at the A front,” said Van Fleet. To Order Steel For Diesel Plant Here City councilmen and the board of works, in a special but informal mj&etink Monday, agreed to order their allocated steel fot\ the erection of the neto housing unit for the light department’s auxiliary diesel plant. While the steel —approximately 260 tons — will not lie delivered until next fall, the city has less than 15 days in which to place their Order for the allocation.' Should they refuse to do so, they would have to again go through the slow process of obtaining another defense order. Bremen Man Killed ,\| As Auto Hits Trfee ' \ Elkhart, Ind., June 26 —(UP) — Ardale W. Leman, 31, Bremen, was Jellied early today when his automobile left the road and struck a tree on U S. 6 in Elkhart county. State, police said he died of internal injuries; '

DEOATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Legion Commander A ISPjIH , ji <* Robert iAshbauchefr 1 . H— Robert Ashbaucher, legion Commander Annual Election Is Held Monday l|ight Robert Ashj|au,cher, who Monday was elected commander of Adams post 4JB. American l egion, will assume office,, “sortietine after the stateiJLegion convention” as wTtl the otger officerif elected. Qnly one office, that [of second vice commander, ! was Jeon tested, and members gos tljie PvH chose eight candidates from Enlist of 18 as delegates to the state c<nvention. Adams post 43 sends If Relegates to the convention, but the outgoing conujiapder, Hugh J. Andrews, and will attend by vlrl ues of hheir office. Other officers to head the Legion post fori the cpniifg ? ear ln * elude Don | Cochran, Iff irst vicecommander; |dlint Hersh, second vice-commamter. elected in a contest with Hayoßd Hoffman. Harold Tfeman was elected third Walter Koeneman. ffnjrth vi<je-command-er; Francis Noack. reelected finance officer® T. H. klehrig. reelected ai||l Dwight Sheets was Elected tef t,he board of trustees. L Sheets succeeds V. J. Borman, whose term expired. The eight ffien eSec,tad as delegates include? in additjbn to Andrews and State Legion chaplainj the Rey.|p. 0. Russe, first vice-|ommandejr Cochran, adjutant Gehnig, Charljjs Morgan, J. K. Staley, Rash, V. J. Borman and Dfee Frybaqjc. The Legion Convention is usual(Turn TO Pane Eight) Deny Appropriation For Adams Central Petition Is Denied By State Tax Board County auditor Thurman I. Drew today received ] notification from the state board of tax' commissioners in which that bopy denied the additional appropriations sought by the Adams]] Central school corporation. i

The appropriation, amounting to $11,500, was to be used by the Adams Central [school tor buildings to house the schobj’i buses. The letter of notification was dated June 22, and si4ned\ by Noble W. Hollajrj cWrmWff of the state board of [thx commissioners, and attested to by Ralph Wilson, secretary of the board. 1 The tax .. board’s actipn climaxes a hearing [held in tne commissioners’ room] of the; court house May 29 [hU which sabres pf persons crowded the room in a two-akd-one-hdlf hour session in whieh petitions [favoring pie appropriation and rpmonstrar ces opposed to it were filed with George Gable, field representative of the tax .board. j [ ' No reason was forwarded by the tax commissioners for (j|enying the appropriation-though it ; is lieved possible they thought no emergency existed to uparrent granting the money Which W as to Im? obtained from the school corporation's v cuiriujative building fund. - ‘ I

Reports Iran [ Oil Crisis Is Growing Worse British Cruiser Is Ordered To Vicinity Os Iranian Oil Port London, June 26 — (UP) — 1 Foreign secretary Herbert Hbrrison ‘ announced in the house of commons today that the Iranian oil crisis had taken a* “very serious” turn for the worse. He said a British cruiser had been sent to the vicinity of ihe Iranian oil port of Abadan. \|. ' \ « r’M Britain is prepared to “take action at very short notice” to protect lives of Britons in Iran if the Iranian government fails to give protection. > ■ “The house may rest assured that we have made preparations to this end and can take action ab very short notice,” Morrison said’. l 1 ' '“The cruiser Mauritius has been ordered to proceed forthwith to the vicinity of Abadan." Abadon, on the Persian gulf, is, the great oil port for the nationalized billion dollar Anglo-Iranian oil company. The 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius mounts a main battery of nine 6inch gups and harries a complement of 730 officers and men in peacetime and 980 in wartime. It is one of several British warships which have been in middle eastern waters ready for an emergency. j 1 As soon as the Iranian oil fields were nationalised (he British government foresaw the possibility of riots by Iranians, aimed at the approximately 3,000 Britons in the country. Agricultural Course Instructors Named ] Three County Schools To Conduct Classes County superintendent of schools Hansel L. Fpley today disclosed the names of the instructors for high school and veteran vocational agricultural classes in of Jthe county’s schools. At the same time he released the ngmes of members of two of the veteran classed. He said that applications for these classes are still being received in his office until July 25, the date which the government allows veterans to still take advantage of this training. One new instructor has been added to teach vocational agriculture irf the three county schools offering such courses, while the other two taught previously. Kenneth Van Emon has been named instructor in the Geneva high school. Herald Bailey, last year instructor tn the veterans vocational agricultural class at Adams Central, has been named to teach that course in the high school. Fred P. Meier returns to teach the course in the Monmouth high school. AH three men, Foley noted, are Purdue University graduates. J. E. Thacker will teach the veterans vocational agricultural class at Adams Central high schobl, and Charles Mays 'ihe veterans’ class at Geneva. Foley \said the veterans* instructor has not been named tor the Monmouth high school, "but will be within a week.” While noting that “none of the rosters of the three veterans’ classes has been completed," Foley said that there will be approximately 31 veterans enrolled at Adams Central, a like number at Monmouth, and 21 at Geneva. He said that Monmouth and Adams Central will two full-time veteran classes for the next two years, then combine the two for another year or so. Geneva will retain the veteran vocational agricultural classes “for another two years.” \ , [ The names of those veterans already enrolled at Monmouth for the coming year’s classes include: Melvin • Buuck, Harvby Caston, Richard Moses, Walter Nuerge, Thomas Shoeham, Richard Scbeuman, William Schnepf, Ernest Schefferly, Arthur Werllhg, James Smith, Wayne Hlrschy, peraid Grove, William Fritzinger, jdelvin Crozier, hetman Franz, <Tura Tn P»jr« Six)

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Acts On Russ Peace Feeler HiO Ift '. T' ' ■— NASROLLAH ENTEZAM, U. N. General Assembly president, tAlks to newsmeh at LaGuardia Airport in Ne 4 York after flying from Washington. He had proposed a meeting with Russia's Jacob Malik to clarify pie Soviet-Korean peace proposal Monday evening, but waO Informed by NfcUik’s headquarters that the Soviet delegate was “indisposed,’[ had booked passage home I on July 6, and would, “if posslblei" see Entezam on Tuesday. <<

< .pH ' 1 " 1 r 11 1 - *"" Small; lowa Town Is Leveled By Tornado : l' • ■ a k Other Twisters In ; Farm Communities Duncan, la., June 26—(UP)— A savage tornado practically leveled this tlnyf rural town yesterday as blher twisters ripped through communities in Minnesota and Nebraska; \ , The tornado left only three of Duncan’sg2s buildings standing and caused dimage estimated at i wore' than here and at nearby Crystal dake. The winds ripped a house from its foundation here, leaving a woman and -two children In her arms standing lon the bare floor. Near Sidney, Neb., twister flung a trailer t(ouse into an airplane hangar hl,e occupant Was thrown to the ground. ‘ At least \ fivw persons were injured, one seriotisly, In the, lowa and Nebraska twisters. And southern Minnesota farmers feared heavy damage to their corn and wheat erbps as a result of three twisters that hit the Area, The blhst ripped but light and phone lines here and at Crystal Lake. Their only contact with the outside yesterday was by a two-way radio at nearby Garner, la. on the Milwaukee railroad siding were tumbled about by the gale. < Officials said the tracks couldn’t be cleared until today. Only thte bell tower and altar of a large britk Catholic church and community hall in this town of 100 population were left standing. The top of a house was ripped off and three\ homes leveled at Crystal Ltike. The twister cut a well-defined path throiigh Crystal Lake, a town of 300, after it left here. It smashed every blate glass window on the town’s mqin street. The school bus garage whs ripped up, but three buses inside were undamaged. Heavy rains followed the tornado and several farms reported out crops, The Nebraska twister struck a mile south of Sidney, picking up a trailer bbusp and throwing Mrs. Erwin Prdhal, 30, from it. She suffered shock, cuts and bruises. The blabt swept through the CAA airport near Sidney, demolishing an airplane hangar. Three Separate tornadoes roared through the Minnesota countryside near Fajrmont, and Sherburne. Northwest Airlines was forced to cancel several flights at Minneapolis. I Learn Missing Son Korean War Victim Indianapolis, June 26. —(UP) — Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bauer received the first word they had about their son, John William, in almost two years yesterday. John left home Sept. 8, 1949, “to go to work,” his mother said. The Bauers had heard nothing from him since. Yesterday, they received a telegram from the defense department telling them John, a “sliver star ’ hero of World War H, was killed in action- while serving with the marine corps in Korea\June 8?

Plan Band Concert Hgre This Evening T|ie Decatur high school will present a band concert at 8 o’clock this evening on the court house ramp. All band tnembers are asked to meet at the school at 7 o'clock for rehearsal prior to the ebheert. Demand Archbishop Pay Death Penalty ] [Prosecutor Urges Severest Penalty Budapest, Hungary, June 26.4(UP) —The prosecution 'today demanded the “severest punishment]” — death penalty—for Archbishop Josef Groesz, Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, on charges of conspiring to overthrow Communist government. ! Gyula Alapi, the government prosecutor, his voice throbbing with hatred, demanded the “severest penalty” for all other defendants in the four-day-old trial. The tail,, black-haired prosecutor did not mentibn the death penalty but that is the maximum punishment for espionage or leading a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Groesz is charged with cdhspirhey. Five other defendants are subject to the death penalty as Conspirators or traitors. 4 (Previous Budapest dispatched had said Groesz was subject to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.) I Alapi alleged the Archbishop was leading a conspiracy to restore th|& Hapsburg monarchy in what hie calljed “a continuation of the plqt of Cardinal Mindszenty.” Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1949 for treason. AJapi said he was speaking nqt only as prosecutor, but “as the voide of the working people which demands that the strongest etample should be given to those wha committed a series of crimes.” “This conspiracy can not be considered as a separate case,” the prosecutor; said. “It is the organised part of the imperialist plap which aims in every part of the woU|d to bring ‘hot war’ where they can 'achieve it” Archbishop Groesz stared straight ahead during the prosecutor’s charge. The .other defendants watched Alapi attentively. Charging that the defendants were the ‘‘fifth column of the lityperfialists" who wanted to bring back the old fascist regime with capitalist rule and ruin the achievemeats of the Hungarian people, Alapi said: “Evepr little aspect of this appalling, disgusting case is proved with: piles of evidence provided by the court and so the prosecutor cannot consider, the defendants confessions as an extenuating circumstance.” U — i INDIANA WEATHER [Partly cloudy with some scattered khowera. Not much chahge In temperature. ,Low tonight 60 to 66 north, 65 to 70 * south. High Wednesday ranging from 76 to 82 extreme ’•north, near 90 by, the Ohio river.

UN General Assembly To Meet Wednesday To Study Proposed War Cease-Fire

Asks Billions For Foreign Aid Plans - Dean Acheson Asks Congress For Fund Washington, June 26 —(UP) — Secretary of state Dean Acheson today asked congress for a 18,500,000,000 foreign aid program to beef up the arms and economic strength of our allies so that the United States will not, be forced to “go it alone." Opening the administration’s case for the biggest peacetime foreign aid program ever asked, Acheson told the house foreign affairs committee: “To put it bluntly, the Soviet Union wants to see the United States try to ‘go it alone.’ By sporadic aggression, by cautious retreat, by unending propaganda, by economic sabotage: by utilizing control over one area, by playing on differences in another —by all such acts, the Kremlin seeks to produce a situation in which the United States* will ultimately be . pushed into a position of trying to ‘go it alone.’ ” Acheson’s remarks followed President Truman’s denunciation year terday of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and others who advocated a “gp it alone, if necessary” policy in Korea. Acheson said the proposed aw sistance to the-’worid’s free nations would * yield a larger and faster return in terms of our national security than we could obtain by increasing the budget of our own armed services by the same amount.” It appeared that the administration’s request for $6,300,000,000 in arms aid and $2,200,000(000 in economic and point, four help under the “mutual security program” will, face heavy going ih congress. | It will be toward the end of the summer before a program in any T® .Pa*® Mix) Erie's Centennial Train Draws Crowd Stops In Decatur Three Hours Today Hundreds of persons today tiled through the Erie exhibition train that stopped in Decatur for hours, parked at the Erie station, and divided into tWo sections that flanked Winchester street. The exhibit could be roughly classified as the old and the new in railroads. . On the east side of Winchester were the modern cars, diners, pullmans and even a cut-away diesel engine which propels today’s fast train. On the west side of Winchester was the history of railroading during the past 100 years, comparing it with the present Everything about railroads has changed in the last century, it seems, from the ties on which the locomotives and cars glide along to the cars themselves. Pertinently, so has the safety measures changed. And all of it was there in replica for the most part, showing how a modern railroad functions in a fast moving world. From semaphores in miniature \to teletypes and radios which transmit messages ahead and clegr the path for oncoming trains, were detailed in the museum car. Whoever designed the exhibit, and there were probably many hands and minds involved, caught the complete significance of what makes railroads run and told the story in probably as interesting a manner as imaginable. Draped in bunting, and with a loud speaker filled with old and new songs, the exhibit had all the trappings and atmosphere of a street fair. People, thronged to the site and fHed through the different cars in a steady stream, assisted by a crew of probably 50 persons of the Erie railroad who answered quer(Tarn T® Paie Tw®)

Strikes Hamper Transportation,! Communications Ship, Airline And 7 i Telephone Strikes In Effect In U. S. By United Press • The nation’s transportation and communications facilities were crippled .today by strikes and additional walkouts were threatened against the telegraphic and automobile industries. Ji Most sea-going shipping froin Maine to Texas was kept bottled up in port by a strike of the Mto cine Engineers Benevolent Association (CIO). j A strike. by 900 pilots againqt the United Airlines —the fourth, largest common carrier in the country—went into its eight day with indications that Truman wdtrtd set a precedent by: seizing the line. Nearly 10,000 CIO communica-; tions workers walked oft thqfir jobs at the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company which serves southern California. Other worker® refused to cross thd hit-and-run picket - lines set up by the union.,\ ' i The Commercial Telegraphers Union (AFL) voted to pull 35,000* Western Union telegraphers,; clerks and messengers off the job! next Monday to back up demands; for a 25-cent houriy' wage increase. Workers at the Hudson Motor Car company in. Detroit voted 3 to 1 in favor of strike action in a dispute over production schedules. More than 10,000 CIO United Auto Workers would be affected if the walkout came off. In New York, the International Fur and Leather Workers union, independent, toas ready to begin picketing today against 650 fur ahd leather companies. The 8,000union sought a 10 percent general wage increase and a 37% hour wedk for skin processors. Meanwhile in Windsor, Canada, the Ford Motor company closed down that nation’s largest factory until July 3, idling 11,000 workers. The company said credit re- <’!’■» To Pas® six) Senate Probes Teen Age Drug Problems Young Negro Addict In Testimony Today Wasington, June 26. ; —(UP) — An 18-year-old negro, dope addict testified today that teen-age white girls in Chicago engaged in prostitution with negro boys t<) get money for drugs. The bespectacled, well-spoken negro youth was one of two young narcotics patients put on as witnesses in a dramatic senate crime committee hearing, .partly staged before vast television network audiences. The committee was delving into the teen-aged drug problem. The first addict to testify was a 17-year-old Puerto Rican from New York. The TV audiences saw only his hands. No pictures at all were permitted of the Chicago negro, who was sent to a federal hospital after being caught stealing from the mails to get* money for “mainline” shots of netoin whieh he ipjected into his blood vessels. Or. Victor H. Vogel, medical director of the Lexington, Ky., public health hospital for drug victims, testified that an “epidemic” of teenage drug addiction is “raging 4n the big cities.” James R. Dumpson, a New York social worker, cited one three-block area of east Harlem in New York City where half the youths use marijuana. The youth from Chicago, whose (Tmna T® Pag® Six)

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Secretary Lie Calls Special Session To Study Proposal For I Korean Cease-Fire Washington, June 26.—(UP) —Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today stopping the|| Korean war at the 38th parallel would be a “successful . conclusion” of the war. / i Acheson told the house for-1 eign affairs committee that HR) “not the policy and should hot be the policy to unify Korea by armed force.” United Rations, N.Y., June 26.— (UP) —Russia’s proposal for a Korean cease-fire will come '.before a special session of the UN general assembly tomorrow afternoon, UN secretary general Trygve Lie announced today. i Lie made the announcement in Oslo before' departing by esr for New York to participate in,peace negotiations. He will arrive hhre at 5 ajn. (CST) tomorrow. Lie \ said the Russian proposal for a ceasefire in Korea "must be taken Seriously,” and added that he is hopeful about peace prospects. Lie declined to discuss further a statement he made earlier in ! Oslo, Norway, that the, UN gener&l assembly would take up the ceaaa* / fire matter tomorrow in a special session. , -’j J - A UN official who talked with Lie at London airport said there was no reason why the matter could not be brought up at the session. 11 . ILie said it would take several days (o reach a final judgment of the Russian proposal. The Soviet proposal, made last [Saturday by Russian UN delegate Jacob A. Malik, brought these swift fworld developments today: h 1. The U.S. state department was [disclosed to suspect the. Russian proposa) may be a ruse to force ?UN troops to retreat 30 miles, to below the 3sth parallel, giving the [Communists a miHtary advantage. A • 2- The South Korean cabinet at !Pu"san unanimously rejected the proposal as “conn»|et e ly un- ; acceptable.” ' • 3. A high British in London disclosed UN< [building pe|rmament [along the 3Sth parallel and back to ‘hem at once if an armistice is concluded. M’ l. 4. An allied official in Washington said In Korea were trying “to get our jjßide lined tjp firmly so we can act promptly when we know what Malik means. We are still suspicions of the whole thing.” 6. UN general assembly president Nasrollah Entezam prepared ' to hear derails from Malik at a [private meeting tonight. Entezam [Said to cease-fire could be arranged ' Tin a very few minutes.” ' 6. Communist China announced ►"full endorsement” of the Malik but called for a settle- , |nent based on previous Soviet and demands. | 7. Gl’s on the Korean battlelines Raised a cry of , “phoney’ f over the ilussian proposhi. Ninety percent If the] soldiers [contacted by correspondents believed the UN, not the tiommunists, should set the ceasefire terms. ' 1 ; | 4 '■/ i A U.S. state department memotandum issued by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s headquarters in Tokyo \{[ Questioned whether the Russians Bherely sought a shift in the battlelines since UN forces are now well -•'Crswlu T® Pag® Bix)\ ? 'i ■ ; - North Judson Man And Daughter Drown fKno?, Irid., June 26. —(UP) — Grube, 38, and his daughter, Julia Ann, 12, North Judson, drowned yesterday when tha motorboat in which they were taking a pleasure cruise overturned 1| Bass lake about six miles south ? of here. •. .. v | Authorities said three other persons,,'Who clung to the craft and Were rescued, were in the ■ boat When it overturned about a'quar-tfer-mile from shore. •I '' : r 'p i ! ■ 1 !• / .