Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol, XLIX. N0.'152.

RUSSIA PROPOSES MILITARY CEASE-FIRE ? • 1 ■ ■ \

Ask Truman To Intervene In Iran Dispute Premier Mossadegh Asks President To Mediate Oil Scrap BULLETINTehran, Iran, June 28. — (UP) —lranian official* today seized the Abadan headquarters of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company aftr er Britain ordered 130 key technicians out of the.oil fields. ?‘ Tehran, Iran. June 28. —(UP.)— Premier Mohammed Mossadegh asked President Truman today to mediate Iran’s explosive oil dispute with Britain and expressed hope that a solution could be found. The ailing premier voiced his concern. at the same time, lest the crisis over nationalizing the Britishowned Anglo-Iranian Oil cpmpany disturblran's - relations with the - United Stated. The appeal to Mr. Truman was handed unexpectedly today to U.S. ambassador Henry F. Grady. He was summoned, to the foreign office by foreign minister Bagher Kazemi even as Britain began pulling 130 key technicians from the oil fields. \ Iran, in another surprising diplomatic development, formally protested to neighboring Iraq against British efforts to convert that coun try into “a military base”'against Iran /-' ■ The protest urged Iraq to take action against the presence of British troop reinforcements on its territory and of the 8,000-ton British cruiser Mauritius on the Shatt ElArab river dividing the two nations. ■ : '■ ?v’ Only certain paragraphs o f Mossadegh’s letter to Truman were released here. He said-Iran had been “bound” to nationalize the oil industry but, “because of the president’s message and the friendly mediation of the American ambassador, the Iranian gpvernmerit gave greater attention to the Q ueSr tion.” The message was considered by official quarters as tantamount to an invitation to the U.S. to use its good offices to settle Iran’s bitter oil dispute with Great Britain. He referred to Truman’s letter June 1, appealing for a negotiated settlement of the oil crisis. Without referring to U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson’s blast in Washington yesterday on Iran’s nationalization methods, Mossadegh declared: ' “In view of the fact that between Iran and the United States, friendly relations have always existed, I earnestly hope that these good relations will not in the least be disturbed. .. . / “I am convinced that the free governments of the world, especially the American nation and its friendly government, on this important question will not fail to help the Iranian nation.” Acheson had deplored “the atmos-/ phere of threat and fear” in Iran and asked the government to reconsider its actions. Give Band Concert Here This Evening The Decatur high school band will present a concert at 8 o’clock this eveningon the court house ramp. The band will ineet at 7 O'clock at the school for rehearsal. This will be the final concert of the hummer for the band, with the ' Catholic high school band to present other concerts during the season." ' - -• High School Yearbook To Be Issued Friday The “Ravelings," yearbook of the Decatur high school, has been <qmpleted and the 1951 edition may he obtained at the high school office at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon. INDIANA WEATHER * Mostly cloudy through Friday except becoming partly cloudy north portion by Friday. Cooler tonight, leas humid Friday. Low tonight midSo's north, 60-65 south. High Friday 75 north, 78 south. . 'J ?- ■ '

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Donald Mansfield Still Unconscious Don Mansfield of this «jity, injury eg 4o days ago in an aujo mishap near Fort Waynef, remained uncon* scious today in SI. Joseph hospital. Don has not regained consciousness since the accident:. H,e has lost much weight, mem--bers of his family repom, due to the difficulty of feeding t|m. How? eves, physicians still h|ld soind Jjope for his teccvery. j Senate Downs Move To Ease Rent Controls 37 Percent Boost J - In Rent Defeated By Senate Action ■ • " r i Washington. June 28f— (UP)—The seriate today overwhelmingly defeated an effort to permit rent increases up to 37 percent in some, cases. The action came on a proposal by Sen. Everett \M. Dirksen, JR,. 111., ter write a peaker rent control pro? vision into the senate’s |new controls bill. He was defeated, 68 tc| 19. I The action came as tie senate continued work on its eifeht-montltf controls extension despitefhouse decisions to content itself this week? with only a temporary |ne-month; continuation of the preset law. ; The house banking com|nititee approved, 21 to 3, a stop-gfep bill to extend present controls ovier prices,! wages end rents for |3l days: through July 31. Administration leaders to bring? it- to a house vote tomorrow —less than 36. hours before all controls are scheduled to expire. I The house has a new one-year bill before it too, but leaders? said con-1 gress could not finish it this week! President Truman and price con| troller Michael V: DiSallib held ary emergency conference at the White House signs the might make an 11th houriappeal tog congress for stronger legislation. ? The senate bill as it new stands would put rent control tinder thd general controls rent ceilings to be extended to “cri-; tical defense areas,” anil permit increases up to 20 percentfiver 1947 levels plus "hardship” inegeases for landlords. # Dirkseri’s proposal would have set up a sliding scale ot rent Increases up to a maximum of 37 percent in some cases <jver 1943 levels. I , I On the* showdown, only 19 Republicans voted for the Dii|<sen proposal. Democrats opposed it solidly along with 24 Republicans. The senate planned to remain in session tonight to work on its controls bills. But e|en if it finishes, a temporary measure like the house stopgap bill profably will be necessary to controls from lapsing while the tvjo houses get together on a permanent law. . —1 Delay Is Granted To Complete Brief State Given Delay In Shock Estate The gross income tax Aviston of the- state of Indiana, i|heritance| tax section, has been gijhnted un| Lil August 8 to complete; brief an<| transcript filing beforfe the ap| peltate court in the case bf Indiahi| vs the Arthur Shock estate and? the Shriigers association! for pled children, (Coloradc| Corpoiyas tion), it was learned todly. . The deadline to file fcn appeal? from the decision of tie Adami circuit court in which Judge Mylcf F. Parrish held that the should not collect the 310,000 iif taxes w-hich it claimed, because? the Shrine was a charitable organ* ization, was originally June 8. | The state division, however, coff ♦ended that it did not have suff| pient time in which to prepare it> btlef before the deadlirie and th| appellate court granted Jhe 60-day extension. During the hearing ! the stath contended that because the Shrine organization was not an Indiana corporation, the inheritance tai was due to the state (Vi Indiana. _ ■ \ : I

j 7 ISnyder Sticks To 10 Billion Tax Increase y 1' '■ ' _ ■ a■ • :ii Treasury Secretary , Urges Senate Boost House-Passed Bill Washington. Jung 28. —(UP)4Secretary of treasury John W. Snyder stuck to the administration’s re- : {quest for a $10,000,000,000 boost in jtaxes today and urged the senate -finance committee to restore most of the $3,800,000,000 knocked out ?by the house. I Snyder called for prompt action,' jsaying each month of delay will Icoet the treasury millions of dollars fin lost revenue. And unless the full $10,000,000,000 ?ta,x increase Is voted, he said, the will go billions of dollars into the red in fiscal 1952* ' | Snyder bald the $2,859,000,000 iri- ’ {crease in individual income taxes ? /voted by, the house should be ratekHed by another $1,000,000,000 at •least. He said the $1,252,000,000 in- < crease in excise taxes on such things as automobiles, cigarets and liquor, should be \more than doubled. The administration originally i asked that corporation taxes be inI creased by $500,000,000 more than the $2,700,000,000 increase voted ? by the house. But Snyder jraived 1 that goal. The secretary noted that the 1 house bill, passed last Friday, used fan entirely different method of increasing individual income taxes ,-from the one the administration /proposed three months ago. He said be did not object to the method! only \that it was not carried far enough. ' The administration had proposed ;a flat four percent increase in the Vtax rate of all individual incomes, j The house, however, junked that in i i favor of an overall 12 % percent I tax on the amount due under pre- | sent schedules. | • Snyder said Mr. Truman’s goal of f $3,800,000,000 could 'be reached ? merely by retaining the house forI mula and raising the basic rate one i percent. : Rev. Vichuras Is {Assigned To Gary Assistant Pastor To Leave Decatur, 4 v v ■ j Rev. Ignatius C. Vichuras, Assistant pastor *at St. Mary’s Icatholic church since July, 1946, ' *has been appointed pastor' of St. jcasimir’s church in Gary, effective next Tuesday. ' Rev. Robert Contant, an psistant at St. Patrick's church, Ifort Wayne, will become assistant to the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimfetz, pastor of St. Mary’s in this geity. *• With the appointments of clergy announced today by the Most Rey. IJohri -F. Noll, Bishop of Fort 'Wayne, is the appointment of the jßev. Joseph Hennes, pastor of St. HRose church, Monroeville apd » : former assistant at the local Catholic church, as pastor of St. Monica’s church in Mishawaka. 1 \ ■ \ \ . V ’ | Father Vichuras was assigned P here following his release from the | United States army. He served | 44 months in the chaplain corps I? with the rank of captain and was ? stationed in the South Pacific | during the greater part of his military career. Previously he was h assistant pastor of Our Lady of I Hungary church in South Bend. s. St. Casimir’s parish is compos>el of about 150 families. Father » Vichuras was ordained to the priesthood in 1938 by Bishop Noll. His parental home is Gary. a\ Father Contant has been serving t at St. Patrick’s since his ordinai ticn four years\<go. \ i In addition to bis assistant pas- ' tor duties. Father Vichuras was ’■ director of athletics at Decatur ! Catholic high school. He also j was active in youth training rnovei' ments among high school and t young peoples groups in the parish. A ' ! - ■ *. u

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h To Speak At Dedication Rev. Edwin Nerger Armin Oldsen The newly completed Zion parish education building on West Monroe street will be dedicated Sunday. Rev. Nerger, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at Fort Wayne, will speak at both the 8 and 10 30 a. m. services. The special dedicatory speaker for the 2:30 p. m. service will be Prof. Oldsen, of Valparaiso University, future full-time speaker over the International Lutheran Hour. An open house for public inspection of the building will follow the afternoon service. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church, will officiate at the dedicatory ceremony.

Two Tornadoes Hit In Central Illinois One Person Killed, 23 Others Injured By United Press Two tornadoes crtss-creasel central Illinois last night, killing one person and injuring at \least 23 others, as the midwest suffered its third Straight day of violent weather. n - The death toll from this week's series of storms stood at sit today. About 80 persons had been injured in Illinois. Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Kansas and lowa. Illinois state police, sheriffs deputies and rescue crews searched through flattened homes nnd farms today in Logan county in search of other victims of last night’s tornadoes. The first of the twisters roared out of the northwest onto the area around Hartsburg, 111., in Logan county, and swept on to the adjoining county of Macon. An hour later another tornado cut through the southwest corner of Logan county and intQ adjoining Sangamon county. Thomas McGuire, his , wife and twx> children were blown out of their house when the first tornado struck the Heman, 111., area. Mrs. McGuire walked a fourth of a mile despite a serious- back injury to get help for her husband, who suffered a fractured skull. / The family was separated by the blast and their two-year-old daughter was found later sobbing on top of the wreckage of their home. William Jaggi, 53-year-old Hartsburg farmer, turned out to help a i eighbor whose home was wrecked and suffered a fatal heart attack. A Mrs. of Heman, hospitalized at Decatur, 111., threw herself on the floor over her eight-month-old baby when the twister bit their home. A iightning bolt hit the Logan county jail, at Lincoln, knocking a microphone from deputy sheriff William -Keyes’ hand as he was summoning aid. Keys said the twisters apparently\ sidestepped heavily populated areas, but flattened fatms throughout the county. At least nine farms were levelled in the northern part of the county alone. As the injured were brought into the Deaconess hospital a; Lincoln the telephone operator reported "we hardly have time to count the injured. They’re all over the place.” The first tornado ripped out telephone and electric wires at Hartsburg and nearby Atlanta, isolating Atlanta temporarily. The blasts toppled an elevator at Heman, overturned a big transport truck at Willfhmsville and blew telegraph poles across the Illinois terminal railroad tracks •at Union, halting service, i ’*• The twisters culminated 24 hours of dirty weather in the midwest that started when a tornado ripped through Wakeeney, Kan., killing at least four persons and injuring 43. \ Near Richmond, Ind., a lightning bolt struck Arthur Cox, 39, as he (Tara Ta Paca '

BULLETIN \ New York, June 28. —(UP) — Stocks broke sharply in the late trades today. Tickers fell behind floor transactions. Pricea showed losses of 1 to 2 points tn the main list and as much as 4 points in some \ hlghpriced shares. Archbishop Groesz Given 15-Year Term Hungarian Prelate Given Prison Term Budapest, Hungary, June 28.— (UP) — Archbishop Josef Groesz was sentenced by a people’s court today to 15 years in prison for leading a plot to overthrow the Communist government. Archbishop Groesz who succeeded imprisoned Josef Cardinal, Mlndszenty as Roman Catholic primate in Hungary, had been liable to a death sentence. . However, the 64-year-old prelate had pleaded guilty to all four \shargeo against him, announced that he was repentant, and asked for the mercy of the court in a final plea Tuesday. V In passing sentence, the court announced that it had convicted the archbishop of leading an organization seeking to overthrow the government and restore the Hapsburg monarchy, black marketing, aiding people to flee Hungary, and “crimes against the people.” Archbishop Groesz heard his fate in the same courtroom and from the same presiding judge —Volmos Olti —as did Cardinal Mindszenty in 1949 and American businessman Robert Vogeler last year. Cardinal Mindszenty is serving a life sentence. Vogeler was released and expelled from the country as result of American intervention after he had served 15 months of a 15-year sentence. Witnesses at the current trial testified that American officials connived with Archbishop Groesz in the plot to oust the government. Casad Contract To Yost Construction The Yost Construction Co. has been awarded the general contract at the Casad army depot at New Haven for the enclosures of two buildings. Their low bid was 1322,900. . The buildings are 180 feet 'by 300 feet, the contract calling for exterior reinforced concrete walls and six reinforced concrete fire walls, also numerous overhead doors and fire doors. A sprinkler system for fire prevention and plumbing and electrical wiring are also included. The next low bid for the contract was $330,000, with cement block bids ranging from $340,000 ta 1 $380,000. Purdue President Is Named To Board Washington, June 28. —(UP) — President Truman today appointed president Frederick Lawson Hovde of Purdue University to be a member of the board, of foreign scholarships. r '.‘lt ' 7 ■ '

Wants Commanders In Korea Battlefield To Negotiate Cease-Fire < , ■ ' ■ • — 'I

Blackford County Treasurer Nabbed Embezzled Funds To Pay Living Expenses Hartford City, Ind., June 28— (UP) —Lester ftiser. 30, former Blackford county treasurer who disappeared last’year leaving a SIO,OOO shortage in his accounts, admitted today/yhat he embezzled funds to help with living expenses. Hiser was arrested by state police at Indianapolis yesterday ks he walked away from an industrial plant where he had tried to get a job. The arrest cleared up one of Indiana’s strangest missing person cases. ' Capt. John Barton, head of the state police Investigation division, said Hiser first denied his identity and said his name was Paul Lester. However, Bartoin Sad Hiser later admitted taking the money. Prosecutor William E. Ervin said Hiser was indicted on an embezzlement charge last November. Earvin said Hiser “prpbably would be arraigned within a few days on the embezzlement charge.” Hiser disappeared last Oci. 10. He was last seen driving a panel truck he used in his part-time electrical Business. \The truck was found burhed the same day along a country road near here. Barton said Hiser, who was -reelected to another tern, as treasurer shortly after bis disappearance, told a strange [story.of being chas>ed by two strangers the night he was last seen; Hiser told police the\stringers forced his truck off the road and 11? caught fire. After the crash, Hiser said,' the Strangers forced him into their car. the next three days jwere a blank. Hiser was turned over to Blackford county 1 authorities shortly after \his arrest. He would plead guilty to whatever charges are placed against him arid “will be glad when the whote thing is over.” ’ Since his disappearance, * Hiser (Turn To Pace rive) No Serious Damage Reported By Winds Utility, Telephone 1 Lines Are Damaged The weatherman, a benign fellow who does something about the weather by predicting it, said we would have scattered showers Wednesday—and hi was tight. We had a shower/that scattered people for shelter, limbs from trees and other debris that was not tied down. \\ Although the velocity of the wind is unknown, it drove the rain down Decatur’S Second street with a roar, lashing at windows in business establishments. 1 Local weather observer Herman Meyer said that considerably less than an inch of rain fell —.32 of an inch, in sact —during the brief but furious shower. The wind did cause considerable damage to utility and telephone lines, however, both of which have been corrected. Falling limbs, Citizens’Telephone company president Charles Ehinger said, did disrupt service locally and in Pleasant Mills, “but was taken care of early this morning; there was nothing too serious.” The electric light department’s circuit serving part of the business district and west end residences was disrupted by the windstorm. Utility poles were downed by the wind, and electricity was cut off In places on the west side of Second street. ’■ \ However, the lines were restored to normal use in about an hour. Limbs, and in some instances even small trees, were blown down by the high winds that came up suddenly. ;CUy street employes were busy clearing up the debris from the streetk, debris that in some cases even blocked the flow of traffic immediately following the storm. * • ■ 4 ■

United Nations Forces Repulse Attackingßeds Drive Mile Closer To Central Korean Stronghold Os Reds > Tokyo, June 28 — (UP) jUnited Nations forces beat off thousands of attacking Reds today and drove a mile closer to the enekny’s Korean strong* hold of Kumsongi Lt. Gen. James A. Van Flee£, commander of UN Aground ■ forced, said his Sth army would keep op pushing north despite Russia 1 ® proposal for a battlefield ceasefire conference. ■v v ~ 3 “We’re not lettirig up on the enemy even though In cur heart® we all want peace,” he told newsmen during a tour of the front. ' He said the “Chinese appeared to be "building up for future effort,”! but were not yet |n a position to launch .a heavy attac|L “They are continuing ! ground activity all across &e front,” he said. “It seem*, tttey don’t want us to push * farther , north.” j The Reds launched their strongest probing attacks in recant weeks along a 40-miles front Jin , central Korea last night and early today? ' One enqmy attack threw (wo UN battalions back 700 yards, |)ut the alies tecoinered the ground in a counter-attack sent ta&ks chasing after the retreating v The communists failed evens to dent the UN line elsewhere and fell back with heavy losses, i An Bth ; army communique j reported the allies seized the initiative again soon after dawn. 'J One UN column drove a grille closer to Kunsong, the eneriiy’s main supply and offensive bass 29 miles north of the 38th parallel in central Korea, the communique said, | g The thrust met only lightj to moderate resistance. It said. I Farther west, UN troops forced tW enemy platoons to withdraw after a six-hour fight. Southeast (Tsn To P«*e Five) • —- J John Slump Funeral Saturday Afternoon Notive Os Ctiunty Died In Wichita Funeral services will be held here Saturday for John, Stump, 56, native of Adams county, died Tuesday night at the Veterans hospital in Wichita, Kan., following an illness of two months. * Services will be conducte4 at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Black tttneral home, the Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy officiating. Burial will be iri the Ray cemetery, west of Monroi), with the VFW and American Legion conducting military rites. The body will arrive.in Decatur at< 8:30 o’clock this evening, and Mends may call at the funeral home until time of the service*. The deceased was born in Adams county April 27, 1895, a son of James and Ella Haggard-Stump, and left Decatur in 1914. He was married in 1922 to Claree Gardner. He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and was a veteran of World War L , ■ Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Hilliard Stump of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; a brother, Lewis Stump of Decatur route 6; a half-brother, George Stump of Davenport, la.; tyro sisters, Mrs. Meda Marshand of near Decatur and Mrs. Bessie Dodson of Van Wert, O.; two “half-sisters? Mrs. Frances Martin of Findlay, O-, and Mrs. Cecil Boichard of Dayton, 0., and one grandchild. ■w ' ■ i. • ' S \

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Purely Military Cease-Fire Asked Without Regard To Political, Aspects >' M ■ Washington, June 28 — (UP) — The' state department announced today that Russia wants the battlefield commanders in (Korea, ? including representatives of the Chinese communists, to negotiate a purely military cease-fire without regard to political questions. In the first official statement on Soviet-American exchanges for a cease-fire, the department said Soviet deputy k foreign minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday told U. S. ambassador Alan G. Kirk that: 1. The ceasefire should be negotiated by the UN command and the South Korean commanders on the one hand, and military representatives of North Korea and "‘Chinese volunteer units” on the other., 2. cease fire negotiations would be limited strictly jo military questions not involving any J political or territorial questions. 3. The Soviet Union has no further specific steps in mind looking toward a peace settlement, j 4. “The parties’’ |n Korea i should decide what latqr arrangements would be necessary on po- , litical and territorial problems. 5. The Sbviet government is not aware of the views of the Chinese communist regime toward the peace talks. Authoritative sources said the reply left the United States neither elated nor dejected. State department officials immediately consulted individually the representatives of all 16 United Nations that have lighting troops in South Korea. •? They will meet in a group tomorrow to try to decide what to <la. The United < States, meanwhile, - declined to say whether any new instructions have been sent to the UN military force* in Korea. ? { Secretary of state Dean Acheson had said about an hour earlier that the future of Formosa and the question of admitting commun- ? Ist China to the UN will not fee factors In any settlement of the Korean war. ! Acheson told the hduse foreign affairs committee that the United States still “steadfastly takes the position that the Chinese Reds should not be permitted to shoot their way Into the United NAUon*.” i 4 0/' I The Soviet proposal that the Korean cease-fire should be negotiated in the field by opposing military commanders presumably would omit such political questions as the future of Formosa and Communist China’s admission to the UN. John D. Hickerson, assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, received a stream of diplomats from UN countries which have combat units in Korea. He presumably gave them Gromyko’s replies to American request for clarification of the Soviet cease* \ fire proposal. '. p■ ■ **■ -t*i /' ( 1 "j l '' ■ . •f i Fired For Selling Drugs To Inmates Indianapolis, June 28.—(UP)— Ward Lane, superintendent of the - Indiana reformatory at Pendleton,’ was under orders by Governor Schricker today to investigate the case of a guard who was, fired for selling drugs to an Inmate. Arthur Campbell, the governor*® executive secretary, Said the guard was suspended late last week and would be fired officially after 10 days in accordance with state personnel regulations. “We have enough information m) far to justify removal of the * guard,” said Cambell. "The quantity of the drug sold was of such quantity that we take it quite seriously.” i 1 ' . T '• 1” 4 I - , > [. P • * s 1 ' I ■ J ' IH