Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 156.

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Decatur Man Is Slain In Fight At Fort Wayne Rolph D. Vannette _ Is Fatally Stabbed During Argument Ralph O. Vannette. 31. a resident of Decatur most of his life, was stabbed to death during an argument in an alley in the (NMlJrtock of South Harrison street in Fort Wayne shortly before 5 o’clock, Monday evening. 1 Vannette, who resided -at Monmouth until about a month ago, was employed as a truck driver by the Radabaugh Trucking Co. of Fort Wayne. > George E. Conkle. 40- 61 Ausiell, Ga., is being held by Fort Wayne police without bond in connection with the stabbing. Police said Conkle stabbed Vannette during a drunken fight over S4O and some car keys. Vannette collapsed and died on the sidewalk on Harrison street after Conkle walked out. of the alley with him immediately following the stabbing. Conkle admitted being in the alley with Vannette but denied the stabbing. Police said Conkle brought a pickup - truckload of tomatoes to ■j Fort Wayne last Friday and Sunday hired Vannette. and Roy Ramer to help him sen the tomatoes. Cont kle yesterday told the men he had been drinking too much and told them to dispose of the tomatoes at a certain price. Pblice said they were told that Conkle later heard Vannette and Ramer were spending the money they obtained for the tomatoes. — Cookie wafted ft Vann eye’s parked car for the latter’s return and when they met a violent argument ensued and both men began [ fighting. When it ended, Conkle threw his right arm around Vannette's shoulder and walked with him out of the alley. When Conkle released his hold. Vannette slumped to the pavement blood pouring from wounds in his chest. He was dead before the police ambulance arrived:. Conkle was arrested two hours later. > Adams County Native Vannette was born in Monroe township Jan. 6, 1920, a son of James and Pearl Vannette, both of whom now reside in Decatur. Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife, Edith; two children, Arthur and Diana, both of Decatur; a stepson; and five f brothers, Russell of Fort Wayne, blames, with the army at Seattle, Wash., Charles of Columbus, 0,, Wttliam of Coldwater. 0., and Burton of Linn Grove. Funeral services will be- held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Robert Hammond officiating. Burial will be Jn Uhe Ray cemetery, west of Monnje. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o clock this evening. ? <■ , - _ Fritzinger Funeral Held This Morniiig Funeral services for Mrs. Harry -■ Fritzinger were held this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church. The requiem high mass was celebrated by the Very Rev. J. J. , Seimetz, pastor. Pallbearers were \ Leo Kirsch, Maynard Frifeinger, * Carrel Cole, Charles Hite, J, K. Eady and Joseph Laurent. Burial was in the Catholic cemetery. I Services ~ for Miss Margaret Conter, sister of Mrs. Fritsinger, who also died from injuries receiv- > ed in an auto collision last Friday evening, rill be held Wednesday morning at St. Mary’s church. Swimming Pool Open Wednesday Afternoon Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor of the city swimming pool, announced today that the regular Sunday anti holiday schedule will be observed tomorrow, July 4, at the pool. The pool will be open from to 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and closed during the evening. * INDIANA WEATHER Showers and scattered thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday. File northwest portion Wednesday- Warmer tonight. Low tonight 60-65 north, 64-68 south. High Wednesday 75-80 north, 80-85 south.

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Letdown Ferd in Rearmament Effort Nation's Allies Not ? / Giving Strong Aid Washington, July 3. — (UP)— Officials who talk fearfully of a rearmament letdown when the Korean war ends are not telltn.; quite all of the story. There are other factors. They/ bear particularly pn the administration's $8,500,000,000 military and economic aid program which Mr. Truman asked from congress. There would be $6,300,000,000 for military assistance and the rest Jor economic aid, largely foi steppe. T ” The appropriation will t>e authorized ft some, form, but without eny conspicuously hearty congressional enthusiasm. The word is going Hvouad the grass roots that most of our various allies against world Communism are not coming up to scratch in the common es fort. ' 1 ' I X ; Take Korea, for example. Peaca talks are being scheduled ►as that war enters its second year. ifCasualties and costs have been sejvere. Yet, only 15 members of] the United Nations put men |ih the battle field. Some of these; groups wvre token forces only, btit welcome just the same. As of last April, a breakdown re ported 580,000 troops, in the UN line or supporting it.’ Os these, 25C.000 were South Koreans and 250,000 from the | United States Canada’ and the United Kingdom contributed about 30,000. The others were distributed among 13 nations. For an international army that is mighty limited participation. TJ«e European front at whjch the SB,-600,000,00# aid is aimed is /not PhAftfedtory"'". - otficftiA .admit it. Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall said to the house foreign affairs committee last “1 regret to report that some European governments for one reason or another have not seemed to do all that they do.” He said that this country was taking “more positive! stepsp than | were some iff the European governments toward ’mutual defense, Marshall believes big scale foreign . aid mpst continue for three more years, by which time North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members should have nearly 5,000,000 Europeans armed and .organized. The United States would contribute six divisions — about 240,000 men. counting support, supply and service ijnits. \ Here and in Europe Marshall’s testimony has been interpreted to mean the United States must continue hugh appropriations as a (Turn To Page Twoj

Rev. Vichuras Is Honored Last Night Assistant Pastor?ls Honored At Farewell Hundreds of friends extended pood wishes and\ bld farewell to the Rev. Ignatius Vichuras at the K. of C. hall last evening, prior to his leaving this mferning for Gary to become pastor of! St. C&simir’s Catholic church in that city. Edward Heimann was chairman of the program whicli honored the former assistant pastor tof St. Mary’s church. Brief talks were made by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. jJ. Seiinetz, pasfor, and a response was given by Father Vichliras. President Heimann of the Holy Name society presented Father Vichuras with a purse in behalf of the congregation. . ! ■ W. Guy Brown, principal, of Decatur high school, was called on for a talk. Principal Brown related" his associations with Rev. Vichuras in school athletic affairs and cs a member of the Adams county tuberculosis association. During bis five years residence here Father Vichuras w'as director of athletics at the Catholic school. The Rev. Robert Cohtant, a former assistant at\ St. Patrick’s church, Fort Wayne, arrived here this morning to become assistant to Msgr. Seimetz. | The appointments announced last week by Mofet Rev. John F. Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne, effective today. Father Vichuras was accompanied to Gary by T. J. Metzler of this city.

Four Missing Reds Fail To Show Up Today Fail To Appear For Jailing, Bonds Are Ordered Forfeited ft- ■■ ■ ■ ' '' ;| J New York, July 3. — (UP) — Four musing members of the American party; politburo failed Ato appear in federal court for jail•ing today, and their SBO,OOO bail was ordered forfeited. R; Federal judge Sylvester J. Ryan Ordered attorneys for the four into Court to explain their absence. y The failure of the four members as the Communist national committee to appear in court at the 8:30 |.m. CST deadline set by judge Ryan yesterday intensified a nationwide FBI search for, theta. * The four and seven of their cob leagues were convicted In 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate; overthrow of the government by force. The other seven appeared in court yesterday and Were rs- - jail to begin serving! five-year prison terms. 4 A Gus Hall, Gilbert Green, Henry Vi'inston and Robert G. Thompson failed to show up. The FBI feared they might have joined four other missing Communists, indicted June 20‘ on similar charges. Edward Scheldt, special agent in charge of the New York FBI office, hurriedly le f t the courtroom after jiftge Ryan had declared that the bonds of the four convicted men wfere forfeited. , / In addition to the attorneys, judge Ryan ordered intb court Rpbert W. Dunn, who had aigngd th* bonds of $20,000 each which tbHP clyft right* congreep ported folr the four fugitives at the time tt»ey were cpnvicted. Judge Ryan issued bench warrants for the arrest of thp missing] four yesterday. When U.S. attofnfy IrViug H. Saypol *ld the judge the opening of court today that warrants .had not been executed, Ryan ordered the clerk to call t|e names of the fugitives. ,|As he called each name, a marshall echoed it in the hall outside the courtroom. There was no anler. / informed the court the atrest warrants were’in the hands (Tarn Te Page Tw#)

'- ? . Consider Repairs To County Garage f Commissioners In ? Monthly Session ■w Members of the board of county commissioners, in the afternoon session of their all-day meeting Monday, considered emergency Repairs to the county garage, took Cognizance of several • petitions filed late in the day, and awarded a 'bid for supplying groceries to the county home \ for the next Ifrree months. S One bid was received by the Commissioners \ofr the groceries to the county home — Spiegel’s Market of this city-—and that concern was awarded the contract on their bid of 1334.61. ' \ Board members noted that “you can stick your hand" through borne of the cracks and in the front of the highway garage lon First street, and deemed it an Essential thing to get the building Repaired as quickly as possible. 'J Consequently, the first step in this direction will be to close as Many of the. gaps as possible in the facade for an estimated >SOO. v The board ’was also Confronted With placing the sum of y 112,227 |n the budget to maintain the TB Cattle testing program which the Mate has declared necessary. The hoard met with Dr. G. F. Eichhorn, of the state livestock sanitary board, who told them of the curtent need for an extensive TB eradication and testing program, footing |he disease is on the upgrade, the state* stepped-up its testing, declaring that henceforth fjOO percent testing must be accomplished where heretofore only so percent of the cattle were tested each three fears. |Garfield Yoss, Jacob Sommer, Biebereteln and Herman Burke, of Wabash township, ap--1 (Taro To Page Throe) S • s■' ’ ■ g? ■ ■ "

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HANDCUFFED together are Berijamft Davis, Jr., 47 (left) and ®ugene Davis, 46, general secretary <rf the Conimu'nist party as they left court ft Nejw York/for the Federal House of Detention to begin | ■serving sentences. They were two of seven Communists who surrendered and FIB! agents are searching for four others who failed to do so. ’ C <■ !■ -

Rampant Missouri Breaks Down Levee 1,000 Acres Os Rich '** Farmlands Flooded '• '< I , St, Charles, Mo., July 3 —(UJP) —The raging Missouri river broke through the major Cui Du Sac levee neaY here today, flooding at least 1000 acres of and threatened to sweep , over 25,000 more acres toward the Mississippi river. \ ‘ ‘ Coast guard Lt. Ira Bratcher? said the swollen “Big Mudqy” beat its way through “several” places in the Cui Du Sac soon after thd last naVy volunteers gave up \their night-long 4 ff °rts to , hoid lt back. ‘ “It was coming through faster than they could sjtop it,” Bratcher said.. '■ J.'y <The rivet rushed northward toward the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad fill whicn acts as a second levee. However, Bratcher said, the 100 flood workers who retreated to the levee had “little hope” that they could save the 80 homes and expanse of farmlands between it and the Mississippi. More than 200 farm families had been evacuated from the St. Charles area, but the city itself was not expected to- be hit by the flood.. The Missouri already had risen above the predicted —crest. It stood at 35.9 feet early today, .2inich higher than the crest army engineers had expected tomorrow: Bratcher said flood workers load of sandbags and removed a atop the railroad fill dumped a heavy work train from the scene because of its weight on gin# levee. I > ’ Meanwhile, flood waters gradually receded in most of the stricken flood areas of Kansas. But a new dike failure at Maize', Kan., sent water pouring intd Wichita from the Arkansas river. Two . ’ (Tara To Page Six) Disabled War Vets Receiving Bonus Disabled Adams county Worh War II veterans today were re reiving their state soldier bonus checks. Dale Death, local police officer was reported to be the first to receive his check. Payments are being made for days in service dpring the actual t : me of World War 11. No payments are made for time served before or after the war. The 1951 legislature made the money available this year to dis* abled veterans. Other World War II veterans will receive their payments after sufficient money is collected from the added gross income tax to completes all P a V ments at once. /

T ? —“.— q —n Fireworks Display |y VFW Wednesday ■ The Decatur VFW is sponsoring a free fireworks display at Clem's lake Wednesday night, beginning at 9 o'clock. There will be no admission charged for the display, which is sponsored jointly by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Decatur merchants. UN Diplomats Hail Reply By Ridgway Feel Good Progress Made Toward Peace United Nations, N.Y., July 3.— (UP)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s call to the Communists to start preliminary Korean cease-fire talks op Thursday brought enthusiastic approval from United Nations diplomats today. U A UN Spokesman said that Ridgway’s reply denoted “gooq progress” toward peace, I UN delegation Readers were gratified that Ridgway was working to get the main talks started before July 10 to stop the killing in Korea as quickly as possible. Although Wqrren R. Austin, chief U S? delegate and his deputy, Ernest A. Gross conferred for / a half an hour late yesterday with UN secretary-general Trygve Lie, they were not aware then of precisely what Ridgway planned to shy, ah American spokesman disclosed. The delegation had known only that Ridgway had been given authorization by the united command in Washington to accept in general the Communist conditions for starting [truce talks. Ridgway delayed his latest communication to thq Communists, for almost 40 hours from receipt of the Reds’ acceptance of the idea of cease-fire tajks. One diplomatic source theorized that the UN commander might have withheld his reply to counteract whatever propaganda value the Communists hoped to reap from the developing situation. When Ridgway, in response to Russian delegate Jacob A. Malik’s suggestion, first proposed truce talks, Peiping and Pyongyang authorities kei)t the world waiting 39 hours' before they replied. The Red propagandists were certain to »spread ! ' the word behind the iron curtain that the Communist commanders—far from weary of the war—took their, own time abotit acceding to the UN request;' Ridgway’s refusal to hurry a reply to the Communist counterproposal might have been designed to show that the UN was not desperate to| end the war. Heavy action by his allied troops on the battlefront bOre out this Impression, for the Communists’ benefit. . \ UN diplomats were prepared for (Twrn T« Pace debt)

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Oasis Verdict To Be Given Wednesday Heavy Punishment Demanded By Czechs Prague. Czechoslovakia, July 3 —(UP)’ — The prosecution closed its case/'today Against Associated Press correspo|hdent William N. Oatis and three Czechoslovak codefendants, charged with espionage, by demanding “the heaviestprnishment’’ for them. After demanding the heaviest punishment, the prosecutor added in his summation: “The law also prescribes that when there are extenuating circumstances this punishment may be/alleviated after a term of imprisonment.” A’, The verdict will be given by the “peoples’ ” court at 8 a. m. tomorrow ((1 a. m. CST). * ' Oatis, 37, and a native of Marion, Ind., was head of the Associated Press Prague bureau when he was .arrested. His co-defend-’ ants are former Czechoslovak employes Os the Associated Press. The prosecutor pointed out the difference between the "crimes” of Oatik and co-defendants Tomas Svoboda, Pavel Wojdinek and Pater Muntz. “Oatis is a foreigner who was sent to thia country by his breadgivers to harm the people’s democratic regime, to slander the republic and ft every way to work against our people,” he said. The prosecutor added that the< t,rial of men “who committed crimes in the service of the dollar should be a warning to all -who embark on a similar road.” Oatis returned “voluntarily” to the stand today to denounce his | western newspaper colleagues and western diplomats in Prague as spies. His shoulders bowed, lobking tired and 1 speaking in a voice so low that it whs barely audible, Oatis read a 15-minhte statement in which he named former United Press, bureau chief Russell Jones. Reuter’s news agency Correspond-, ent Robert Bigio, French press agency correspondent Gaston Fournier and nine diplomats as (Turn To Page Three)

Scheel Board Will Meet Next Monday To Study Successor To Walter J. Krick The Decatur school board Will meet Monday night, Roy Mumma, president, said today. The regular Jply meeting was originally scheduled for yesterday but was postponed until next Monday because of the death of superintendent Walter J. Krick: \ ( Other members of the board are Gerald Cole and Dr. Harry Hobble, The selection of a successor to the late superintendent Krick will be considered, Mumma said, but selection will be made at the MOnday meeting depends on developments, it was indicated. Principal concern of board members is the preparing of the 1952 budget and completion of arrangements \for the start of the 1951-52 school term. "Mumma will retire both as president and member of the board at the August meeting and will be succeeded by George Helm, Decatur .grocer. Mumma refused to be a candidate for a fifth term on the board. Requirements for (he superintendency are similab to that of high school principal and call for either a master’s degree or sufficient tenure to have been a principal when the new school law became effective. / ' Several teachers in the Decatur school system are eligible for the post, it was learned. None of the board members cared to make any predictions concerning the filling of the vacancy but all agreed that it would be the first order of business at the Monday meeting.

United Nations I Forces Battle I To Oust Reds ■ ■ \ ■: . ; ■ ■■ I Cease-Fire Seems Long Way Off To ? Battling Soldiers Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, July 3—(UP)— United Nations forces battled for the third straight day today to clear 3,000 to 5,000 bitterly - resisting Chinese Reds from the Sobang mountains in central Korea. , ] A cease-fire seemed a long way off to doughboys storming enemyinfested Cliffs south of Pyonggang, 29 miles north of the 38th parallel at the apex of the old. Communist “iron triangle." .Front dispatches said the Chinese fought “like maniacs” to stem the allied drive. But the allies inched ahead in bloody, close-range combat. \ “I haven’t seen this many Chinese since the spring offensive,” one officer said. “They’re dug into every mound and have incredibly strong bunkers- K’s up to our artillery and air to get them. Those bunkers have a clear path of fire on every trail our infantry ctm take.” ; i Despite Gen. Matthew ,B. Ridgway’s acceptance of a Communist proposal for a cease-fire conference, duels and patrol' skitmiahes continued all alatig the 10(k mile Korean fighting front except around Kaesong, scene of the expected talks. An unofficial truce prevailed at Kaesong. 35 ‘miles northwest of Seoul. \ Allied planes were ordered 1 ’ to keep away from the ruined noman’srland city and patrols of both sides stayed clear of it. 11 UN planes and warships kept up their bombardment of the enemy. F-80 Shooting Star jets ed or damaged almost 100 enemy railway cars ft: a blazing napalm attack on the Kyomipo marshalling yards. Smoke and flame billowed high in the air and debris scattered over a wide*area after the 32-plane attack. - B-29 superfortresses again rained bombs on enemy airfields at Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and Hwangju. A security blackout delayed details of the fighting below Pyonggang until today. The battle started at 1 a.m. Sunday, when strong United Nations task forces jumped off from Chorwon and Kumhwa on the southern (Tarn To Page Tfcre«) Rudolph Fuelling Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon ! =■ . Rudolph Fuelling, 47, prominent farmer and lifelong resident of Root township, died at 6 am. today at his home, six miles northeast of Decatur, following an illness of six months. Born in Root township July 16, t 903, he was a son of Henry and Mary Heidegger-Fuelling, was married to Ida Bohnke April 23, 1630. He was a member ol St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to his wife are four daughters, Arlene, Joan Alice' and Cynthia Diane, and a son, Delmore, all Aat home; one brother, Paul Fuelling' of Root township, and one sister, Mrs. Benjamin Gerke of Union township. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the home and at 2 o’clock at St. Peter’s Lutheran church, the Rev. F. W. Droegemueller .officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the resl-l ? fence, where friends &ay call after p.m. Wednesday.

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Willing To Talk On Lasting Peace Only If American Threat i To Border Removed Tokyo,,; Wedaeeday, July 4 — (UP)—A Ptiging broadcast said today that Cotemnnist China entered the Korean war largely to protect Manchuria and is willing to talk about a lasting peace if the American ’’threat ”* to her frontier is removed. The broadcast waq recorded a few hours after the United Nations agreed to communist proposals tor cease fire negotiations in Korea and suggested a preliminary meeting on the battlefield Thursday to arrange details i But meantime fighting broke out at both ends of the - Korean battle-line. | Allied and communist artillery fought a three-hour duel Tuesday the eastern front. A One allied officer said, ‘We never encountered anything like is in the way of counter-battery fire.” On the western front allied infantrymen Captured a dominant peak after a bitter three-day battle, f A Peiping's broadcast • was not in reply to, allied commander Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,, who sought to speed- up cease tire talks by starting them tomorrow instead ' of between July 16 and' 15 as the ’ Reds Quoting an edi» 1 torial in the Chinese Communist newspaper People’s Daily:of Peiping, the broadcast said: \ “Disregarding the desire of the peoples of the world for peace and the repeated warnings of the Chinese people, the American government . . . ordered its invasion troops to cross the 38th parallel, and made a fierce and headlong drive toward the Yalu and Tumen rivers on the Chinese boundary. “The Chinese people, of course,, cculd not sit idley by in the face of such a serious situation, which directly threatened the security of bur country. : ‘*Consequen(iy they rose up to oppose America and aid Korea, and organized volunteer formations to help the Korean peoples ’ . . ■ In order to assist their neighbor apd defend themselves.” The Chinese entered the war “just to secure a peaceful settlembit of the 0 Korean question,” the broadcast said, but despite Chinese desire for peace the Unit-ed-(States “still dreamed of conquering all Korea and menacing northeast China with military forces.” Ridgway had urged the Reds to seftd liaison officers under a white flag to the 38th parallel “ghost” cify of. Kaesong tomorrow' morning to ‘‘insure efficient'/arrangement” of the cease fire talk*. 'lie accepted the Communist proposal to open the main talks in Riesong on the western front “no-man’s-land” July 16, but asked thfe Reds to makb it sooner, if possible, to save lives. 1 /"Since agreement on armistice tetms has to precede cessation of hdstilitiea, delay in initiating the meetings and in reaching agreement will prolong the fighting and iibrease the losses,” Ridgway ttlid. ■||The supreme commander’s reply wp.s broadcast to the Reds at s>37 p. m. (10: S7 p. m. CBT), 39 Moura and 37 minutes after they' proposed the Kaesong meeting. ; ’AUN monitors immediately tuned t<| the wave lengths of the Peiping apd Pyongyang, capitals ot Communist China and North Korea, for the enemy’s answer. ;Red China already has Indicated, however, that July 10 is the earliest date on which it is prepared to open cease-fire talks. /Radio Peiping quoted an editorftl in the official newspaper People’s Daily as saying that' the 'Chinese proposal for a meeting dbring the July 10-15 period was i|“very quick measure” considering the devastated state of Korean ebmmunicatlons. ; |lt also said Communist negotlatiators will demand a “demilitarized sone" between the opposing armies "ks one condition of a truce. II i' ! ! ’