Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 151.

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Chinese Mass Thousands On Western Front New Offensive By Reds Is Predicted Within Two Weeks Tokyo, Thursday? June 28 — (UPH The Chinese communists massed thousands of troops, supported by artillery, on the western front in Korea today. United Nations foont line officers predict- . ed a new. Red offensive within two “They can hit us anywhere at “They can Iht us anywhere at any time in any strength,” an allied briefing officer said. It was indicated that the communist troops pouring into the lines were fresh from the Manchurian sanctuary. A Red build-up was reported all the way from the western IJront t> the east coast, with emphasis on the sector north of the old Chorwon-Kumhwa, Pyonggang triangle. The enemy front lines were just outside allied artillery range. Z , Most estimates at the front placed the enemy’s kick-off day in the second week in July. The Reds seemed to, be planning ‘a new assault down the Uijongbu corridor toward Seoul, former capital of South Korea. The Chinese mounted a very strong screening -force in front of their buildup and even were digging in on the flatland just south of Pyongyang, northern apex of the former “iron triangle” and 29 miles -above the 38th parallel. Defense of level ground, is a complete departure from former “ communist tactics in Korea, and Indicated the Reds’ determination to. keep allied probes from disrupting their attack buildup. ' However, the communists showed some signs of preparing to ' abandon their outer defense line below the big bastion of Rumsons, 17 miles east of Pyonggang, presumably for a stronger line farther n north. Enemy resistance stiffened considerably on the eastern half of the front. Only one UN patrol could probe north any considerable distancje. It struck three miles ahead of the UN lines. y Elsewhere, the communists opened up with machine guns and mortars on patrols 1,000 yards and less in front of UN positions. ; 'Allfod troops north of Hwachon sparred to' a standstill with elereglment—about 2,500 men. North ments of an estimated communist Koreans drove the allies off one hill in the area in a bitter -hand grenade battle. \ i L Allied positions north of Inje were shelled for the first time in a week by both artillery and mortars. I ‘ 1 . Farther west, UN troops battled to hold 6n to a strategic hill east of Kumhwa that has changed hands 12 times in the last three days. The allies recaptured it yesterday, but two enemy platoons attacked them again this morning.! ' _ \ . . . i Air observers also reported increased communist activity along (Tin To Pace Six* \ " . Crabill Funeral Friday Morning Services for Bernie Crabill, 54, 7 whose death occurred Tuesday, will be held Friday at 10 alm. at the Scheumann funeral home, Fort Wayne. The deceased is a brother Os Mrs. O. P. Mills of this city. Also surviving are the wife, two daughters and two sons. The body will be brought to this city and burial, will be in the Decatur cemetery. 4 John Stump Dies At Hospital In Kansas John Stump. 56, a former resident of Adams county, died at 8: Tuesday evening at the Veterans hospital in Wichita, Kan. - • Survivors include a brother, Lewis Stump, and a sister, Mrs. Meda Mar shand, both of near Decatur. The body will be returned s to the Black funeralhome in this city, but no details have been received concerning arrival of the body Or funeral arrangements.

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Five Persons Killed j In Kansas tornado , • i i ' Il 7 L' v I Levels Seven City Blocks In Wakeeney ( Wakeeney, Kans., June 27. — (UP) —A tornado leveled sevgn blocks of Waketjiey early today, fjoods swept across sections of Kansas and Missouri, and a great pounded llinois and Indiana. Gov. Edward F. Arri said thst four persons were known dead in the tornado, and the Aipericrin Rtril Cross put the toll at five. At least 43 persons were injured, several critically. The storm wiped out a fifth of the town's minutes. . - jlj '■ Property damage frobi the twister. and booming electrical storms in central and southern Indiana, and central- lllino|s, rsn into trie hundreds of; thousands ©f dollars,'? In Illinois; roaring wipds snapped power lines and trees.'and ripped off roofs of many small building; The storm hit Springfield, Decatur and rural areas. -i l l In Indiana, a wind dwven electrical storm swept the Indianapolis anil Franklin fareas, damaging homes and littering roq|s with trees and wires. | The tornado here destroyed $x residential blocks. Thr|e of the victims died when the twister struck their homes. The lourth was killed when his car wan frbmfa highway. j Russell a for the Russell (Kans.) tally Nevfs, said he visited the injured, iijLclqding Robert Jackson. f Hoisingtrin, Kans.,, and Robert Shofos of Gre»t Bend. Kans. ■ “Thfey were in s (motor car fi|e miles northeast of Wakeeney,” |e said. “Jackson wlas driving arid said he noticed that th| car didn’t feel right, »o he started to slow down from 70 miles an ‘-hour. “The car wouldn’t s°w down, although he was jamming ti|| brakes,” Townsley , said? He quoted Jackson: | “‘The next thing I knew, I saw a two-by-four.. boa rd sail in front of the windshield and then we were I • . j & * ■ *4 Policeman Is Killed By Berserk Gunman '< N , J ( J Indianapolis Negro ■Dies In Gun Battle ; -1 | Indianapolis, June 27 -fp (UP) —r One city patrolman wasi dead and another lay critically wounded toy day following a gun (battle in which the berserik gunman who sprayed them, with shotgun fire was killed l>y police bullets. John Hoard, 35, a negro authorities said h..M a kng petty Criminal record, opened fire dri patrolman Clarence G. Snordeh- 29, and Thomas H. Williams, $9, after drawing them to his hirine on a ruse last night. ' Both were caught by? surprise and didn’t have; a change to return Hoard’s firel. Sno|den died of chest wounds at general hospital and Williams wasjrHsted as critical but Was expected to live. \ ' f '.L Hoard’s wife, Mary, said her husband laid in waiting for the squad car and then blasted away when its oeupants wal|ed up to the front door. \ g b “I’m going to st oot nfo a coupl| of cops so they'll shoot me an® get it over With,” Mrs. Hoar® quoted her husband as?(saying after a family quarrel. ? She said he telephoned policy headquarters and said *|l just kills ed a man” so olficers| would be sent to their hone quickly. | Mrs. Hoard said husbanffl turned out the lights rind waited by a window witl a shotgun uril til he saw Snorden wafting up to the house. He fired without warning. Mrs. Hoard »said, and then shot Williams asjhe ran to Snorden’s aij. | | Neighbors called police the shotgun blasts an<| additional squad cars, containing about' a dozen policemen and | were dispatched to the scene, g Hoard opened fire |oh thejnn while his wife ran oqt the bach door of their house. He was killed after a blazing gunfight. • \ :t isl

Begin TV Drug Hearing I ■ * ' ■■iff M SEN. ALEXANDER WILEY (R), Wis.; Sen. jlerbett O’Connor (D) Md., chairman; committee counsel Richard Moser, and Sen. Estes Kefauver (Dl.iiTenn., of the Senate crime committee (I. to r.) face Dr. Victor H. Vogel of the U. S. Drug AiWlct Hospital of Lexington, Ky., across the table as the committee begins a two-day television hearing into the 'nation’s drug traffic. ' ; j; :« j ’ > ar- ■ 1 'J I , - -

11'Day Old Marine Strike Is Settled i Agreement Reached With Ship Owners \ By United Press Atlantic anti gulf coast shipping was resumed- after settlement of -.the 11-day-old maritime strike but walkouts in the communications and airline industries dragged on. A strike deadline by 35,000 Western Union employes drew nearer with little indication that the dispute would be resolved before- the scheduled Monday walkout. V Bakers and teamsters in the New York area threatened to strike Sunday in a tie-up that cut off 80 percent of the area’s bread supply. The maritime strike ended late yesterday when the Marine Engineers Benevolent Association (CIO) reached agreement with ship owners in a dispute over hiring halls ’ and “contract inequities;” ' \

The union immediately .notified its members to man 200 ships loaded and ready for sea. Earlier, two other CIO unions, the National Maritime Union and the Ainericaln Radio Association, had reached agreement with the shippers. ( ’ _ The UAL wired the White House that it was ready to resume service at midnight Tuesday, provided that the first issue to be discussed thereafter would be the refusal of pilots to fly the speedy new DC-6B airliners. < The AFL Airline Pilots association in another telegram to Mr. Truman; said it would agree to discuss the iasue, but not apart from others in the dispute. '• . r v . ■ v v-. -J . . ■ ■ Injuries Fatal To LaPorte Resident Michigan City. Ind., June 27.— (UP) —Ralph H. Lawson, 47, a .LaPorte carpenter, died in Clinic hospital today of injuries suffered six days ago in the collision of a .'truck and autoipbbile pfor hqge. 1 • ■ A ■ ' County Fann Bureau Picnic Next Sunday Annual Picnic Will Be Held At Berke The annua, Adams county Farm Bureau picnic will be' held at Lehman park in Berne next Sunday, opening with the usual basket dinner at noon. Every family is Inf vited to bring a well filled basket and enjoy a 'fellowship dinner. Cof4 fee will be served. Music following the dinner will be -provided by the county 4-H band and a variety program will also be presented. John J. Haramy, of Indianapolis, a native of Palestine, will be the principal speaker. 5 He served as Associated Press correspondent In the Near East for many years and has an Interesting story to relate. Don Raudenbush, county chairman of the Farm Bureau, will be general chairman, and will be assisted by other county officers and the various township chairmen.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 27,1951.

Family Picnic Held . By Decatur Lions Decatur Lions and their families, totalling more than 100/ attended the annual Lions club fhmily picnic at SuriSet park Tuesday night. The plcniri took th ® of the regular w-eekly meeting. The club u ill not njeet again until in September. f Following the picnic supper games and roller skating were on the prbgrrim. No formal program was held. Roy Price, recently appointed district deputy for northeastern Indiana was present and his formal appointment w'as announced to club members. . H: Paris! Os Indiana Lashed By Storms Central, Southern Indiana Hard Hit &- . ' By United Press A booming, wind-driveri electrical storin lashed central and southern Jndiana for two hours today, damaging hqmes and littering roads; with trees, limbs, and utility wires.

The stiorm’s destruction was concentrated in the Franklin and Indianapolis areas where almost continuous lightning and rolling thunder sharked its intensity. A downpoiirtof rain flooded drainage systems land winds reached 60 mile-an-hodr velocity. At least three-fourths of Indianapolis’ jfiremen on duty Were called to /homes struck by lightning after the storm broke loose shortly after 4 a. m. No personal injuries were_,reporte<l. Electrical service was cut at Franklin, and fallen trees blocked Ind. 44 through the city In several places. J The Indianapolis weather bureau reported heaviest rainfall — 1.71 inches —at all Jailing within an hour and a half. Spencer, r Indianapolis, Greencastle, KnigHtsto-wn, and Terre Haute . each more than an inch of rain tai; the same period, j . Trees and utility wires cluttered lawnsjin Mooresville, Spencer, and Greencastle, and Edwardsport reported fliniisually high winds which sheared off many tree limbs. • ? Lightning which pierced the cloudy sky caused at 16ast three fires in fodianapolis. In an apartment hotfse and two homes, and at least i'five other capital city homes also were sturck. Firemen’ battled a blaze at the Linwood apartments more .than and hour/’Nearby electrical wires were damaged, disrupting early morning streetcar service. The weather bureau said there was only a trace of rain in most |bf northern Indiana, but a bucket-ful-type downpour was reported in all othQr sections. ' 4 Spencer recorded 1.33 inches in less than two hours, Indianapolis airport 1.25, Greencastle 1.15, Terre Halite 1.14, and Knightstown 1,04. f There vras .95 inches In West Baden and .93 in Seymour and Newberry. More than four hours aifter the storm, electrical service still was out over much of Franklin. INDIANA WEATHER Showers and scattered thunderstorms tonight and Thure day. Cooler Thursday. Low tonight 65 north, 70 south, high Thursday 78-84 south.

Federal Narcotics Czar Sorely Needed | . ■ | •! ■, r Fund Inadeqyate For Proper Enforcement 4 Washington, June 27 — (UP) ■' What this country needs righ| now is a hell raising federal com-; mission of narcotics with the, nerve to ask congress some quesHe should ask congress why the bureau of narcotics has" been the forgptten agency of government during the greatest speeding spree? of all time. More specifically: how come we will be spending in the next fiscal year 15 times as many dollars to control diseases ol farm animals and poultry as we will spqnd on narcotics control? Another good question would be; who decides how milch money the bureau needs and on what information is trie decision based? a The record will show that congress for has been appropriating peanuts dr pin money to the narcotics bureau while appropriations to practically every other agency of government have doubled, tripled, quadrupled or more.

. Way back In 1939 congress voted 11,267,000 tor narcotics control. It voted the same sum the year before that. Now, 12 years and a lot of war and inflation later, congress put up a measly $1,850,000 for narcotics control in the fiscal year which will end next Saturday. For the next fiscal year beginning July 1 the sum is to be upped a little to $2,115,000. Considering the inflation factors involved, the narcotics bureau is getting less now than in 1938-39. The $2,115,000 voted for parcotics control compares with $32,700,000 for control of animal and, poultry dis? eases in the same fiscal year, j I During 12 years in which narcotics control funds have increased by only $848,000 appropriations for other projects of government have jumped over the moon. In 1939, for example, the appropriation for "international affairs and finance” was $19,000,000. It was estimated at $4,711,000,000 for the fiscal year ending this week. The cost of Education and general research” was budgeted for $36,000,000 in 1939 and for $434,000,000 in 1951. "Finance, commerce and Indus-, try” jumped from $51,000,000 to $212,000,000, Labor functions of government which cost $70,000,000 in 1939 were budgeted at $343,000,000 for fiscal 1961. f With the $2,115,000 which President Truman asked congress tq vote the bureau of narcotics for fiscal 1952, it will be possible to employ an average of 335 persons —that’s all. Most of those will be aictive agents seeking law breakers, say 200 men. What happens when 200 federal agents attempt to cope with the narcotics racket has been the recent subject of newspaper, rafilo and television report. Nothing much happens except failure to cope with the racket. Probably the greatest lie ever circulated by a government appears in the 1952 fiscal year budget in describing the “program and performance” of the bureau of narcotics. Here is what it says: "The bureau investigates, - de,:V (Tara To Pace Sevee)

Seek Clarification Os Malik's Proposal For Korea War Cease-Fire

Yost Awarded Bid 1 •; To Furnish Steel Housing Unit For City Diesel Plant Members of the city’s board of works and the common council Tuesday awarded the Cal Yost Construction company the bid to furnish steel for the erection of the housing unit for the city’s auxiliary power plant. . Yost’s was the lowest of foUr blds received riy the board of works. Th#’ council apd board 1 allowed the bids in a stepped-up, special meeting to beat the deadline set down by the specifications of tl)e defense order priority. According to the terms of that order, the bid for steel must have been let Tuesday, the final of a 15day period granted the city by the government to submit the'* approval of the allocation. The defense order was granted June 11. City officials believed upon receipt that it did not allow proper time for advertising and receiving the bids, and their first reaction was “to let it ride” •However, after consultation, It was agreed that the process of obtaining another defense order would delay final construction too much and that action, if;possible, should be taken immediately. It was noted that thp diesel engine will be finished sometime this fall, and a housing unit must be available at its date. State officials were tfien contacted by Mayor Doan who was assured the matter of obtaining the defense order’s allotmentJcould be accomplished through Receiving hide, approval of the board;of works and the council, and finally that the steel wpuld be paid for oqt of current earnings of the electric light department. < Consequently, fabricators of the specific steel necessary • for the structure were contacted, and bids were received. Yost’s bid of >73,996 wasi the lowest of the four. Others included bids of $77,480 from tjie Fort Wayne Structural Steel cjompany; $79,560 from the Bridge and Iron company; $86,31i.50 from the American Steel Dredge company; Fort Wayne.

The bid from Yost calls for furnishing 192 tons of structural steel at $298 per ton; 10 tons of miscellaneous steel at SSOO |per tori, and 62. ions of reinforcing at $l9O per ton. ' Yost’s ' bid states that the steel will be properly detailed and fabricated, as the specifications: demand. As was true with all bids, yost stated that “the above quotation is based on present, prices w|th a centage added to protect uh against any extra cost that may show up (Tara Ta Paar FJi:) Deadly Poison Drum Lost Along Highway Ohio Citizens Are Warned Os Dangers Geneva, 0., June 27-U(UP)— Northeastern Ohio residents were alerted today by highway patrolmen trying to locate a lost! drum of deadly poison. The 20frpound metal Container dropped from a truck yesterday, it held enough lethal sodium cyanide to kill thousands, police said, if it should be thrown into any local water supply. The drum was one of two that fell /rom an Indiana-bound truck on U.S. route 20- State highway department workmen rolled < the two barrels to the side of the I road, when they returned to carry them away one was missing. Merely inhaling fumes from arf open drum, patrolmen warned, bring sudden death. If it was disposed of in a water supply system. ♦‘it would kill thousands.” Sodium cyanide Is used in the auto industry. for chrome plating. Pqlice using radio broadcasts to alert, the people.

— T H British Plan j| For Evacuation j Os Oil Experts British Cruiser At f Iran Oil Port If j Evacuation Needed | London, June 27. —(UP) — The 8,00(Kton British cruiser Mauritius arrived off the Iranian oil portSof Abadan . today ready to assist |ln the possible removal of more 2,500 oil technicians at a momeiri’s notice? t ' Prime ministet* Clement Att&e and Conservative patty leader Winston Churchill decided to hold urgent conference in connection with the mounting Iranian crisis. There was no immediate indication as to when they would get sfogether. '■ || An admiralty spokesman said Oie Mauritius, which mounts nine irixinch guns, had stepmed approximately 40 miles from the Perslhn Gulf Shatt*El-Arab rivert — which forms the estuary pArt of the Tigris river—and reached “the vicinity of Abadan." The spokesman declined to bay just how close to Abadan the cruiser was, hut said she had carried out ier orders. Britain not \only finished plins to pull out the oil technicians. 4>ut alerted army and navy units:'to speed to the rescue if Iran tries to interfere. ’ ; The Attlee-Churchill quested by Churchill, will mark |he first time the two bitter political ► rivals have conferred in Foreign secretary Herbert Morrison told commons: ’ j "The latest information suggests that the Iranian authorities are Continuing to interfere in various wriys with the "(AngloHranian oil) pany’s operations, and their altitude as regards tankers remafos unaltered.” Morrison said he shared the view of ! Iranian premier, Mohammed

Mrs. Perry James t Dies This Morning < Funeral Services f Saturday AfteraoW Mrs. Jennettie McDaniel-Janies, 85, widow of Perry James, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning \ at her home in Jefferson township, east of Geneva. tj She was born in Ohio April 127, 1866, a daughter of John and Mary I McDaniel, and was ' married jto Perry James Feb. 6, 1883. ■She was a member of the Mt. Carmel E. U. B. church. Surviving are three daughters, Goldie, at home, Mrs. John Lett|of Fremont and Mrs. John Christeher of Monroe; two sons, EarJ, at ho&e, and Albert James of Craigville; ils grandchildren and -15 great-grand-children. She was the last of; a family of seven. | Funeral services will be held .at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Mt. Carmel E. U. B. church, the Rev. Karl Tauber officiating. Burial will be Un the Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton. The body will be removed from the Hardy & Hardy funeral home to the resldence Thursday morning. r ’ ' j| J '• I Missing Boy's Body ■ Found In Sand Pile Gary, Ind., June 27.- i -(UP)-r-The body of a 13-year-old boy missing since Friday was found yesterday buried undpr a pile of sand at an excavating-pit. £ Deputy cordner Henry Lebioda said there was no suspicion of foul play in the death of Leonard Broadway. He said the boy wab apparently buried under a landslide while playing. I

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State Department Expecting Further Word From Moscow On Truce Proposal - ■ ■ / 4 I \ Washington, June 27 — (UP) — Secretary of state Dean Acheson said today that the U. S. hopes to get “somd further light” within the next tew hours on Russia's proposal For a cease-fire in Korea.., He told the house foreign affairs committee that the state depart-' i ment has no further information at the momjent on the proposal made last Saturday by Jacob A. Malik, chief delegate to the United Nation's, i "We hope ‘ today will bring forward spme further light on that,” Achesori saijl. “There is no further enlightenment at this moment.” -i * - ■ ' j 1 He reiterated what he had told the committee yesterday—that the United Btatris is “trying to find out by the most direct questions to the Soviet government" What the Malik proposal me.ans. Although Acheson did not say so. It was learned that U. S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk in Moscow, has been iriptructed to ask the Soviet government what Malik ipeant in his proposal. (A Moscow dispatch reported that Kirk was received the ■ Soviet foreign office today by deputy foreign minister Andrei A. Gromyko.) This is what Acheson apparently referred to when he told the committee that the United States hopes to geit “some further light” today on the Malik proposal, which, he described as “somewhat'[ vague.” . j' ’'i Instructions were sent ; as this government and its alliescast about for further clarification of the Malik proposal.

American officials at the United < Nations also were attempting to V reach Russian officials there for further elucidation. The new moves came as th» 16 '{ nations wito fighting forces in i/ South Koreq prepared to meet today to discuss.the cease-fire proposal whicq they don’t quitfe know how to .handle without further- information. AU want peace, but are afraid of being; tricked. So at the meeting they probably wiM do little, if Anything. until United States and British diplomats _ finish ' sounding out communists on how they expect |>the war . to end. : . The only i western decisions so far 'have been to query the Russians for further details. Today’s ls-power meeting at the state department marks the first conference of all the powers that sent combat unitjs to South Korea’s defense.. South Korea itself, which opposes any cease-fire at the 38th parallel, has not been i invited. Diplomats attending the conference are being polled for any further word that they might have (Tan To Pare Sevea) Custer Is Slated To Head rßar Association ; ' I D. Burdette Custer, Decatur attorney, is slated to become presi- ' dent of the Adams county bar association at the annual picnic and election of officers to be held at Pretty Lake, Thursday? Hubert McClenahan is slated to be elected vice-president; al Remy Bierly . J will be namqd treasurer and David Macklin is scheduled to become secretary. , The election will be held at the short business session as the first z order of business at the annual outing. The members will be guests, as is customary each year, cf McClenahan at the McClenahan summer home at Pretty Lake in LaGrange county; Following the election of officers, - the balance of the day will be used for boating, bathing and fishing. The nominating committee filed the slate of officers at the May meeting and since that time there has been no indication that there'would be any .other candidates for tl|e association’s posts.