Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1951 — Page 1

vol. XLIX. No. 158.

COMPLETE PLANS FOR CEASE FIRE TALKS k \ ' 5 - -

Seek Federal Levy For All Retail Sales American Retail' Federation Asks Tax On All Sales Washington, July 6. —(UP) — The American retail federation—whose members normally are allergic to sales taxes —called today for a federal on all retail sales. * /The recommendation somewhat surprised members of the senate nnance committee to whom it was made. Sen. Eugene D. Millikin, R., * Colo., said it was like "a fresh breeze” to hear someone putting the national interest first. John F. Lebor, Cincinnati department store official, presented the federation’s proposal. He urged it as better than the stiff incoihe tax boosts voted by the house or new and heavier excise taxes. Lebor said retailers traditionally oppose “all types of consumption taxes.” But he said they are worried about inflation's threat to the < national welfare. He said “most retailers” are willing to take on the burden of cpllecting and accounting for the sales tax if it is enacted. * Lebor’s plan was seconded by _£ Ralph W. Button. representative of ? the dry goods association. Request Pressure Washington. July 6. —(UP)* The Democratic national committee “urgently requested” Democratic party leaders tn every state today to put grass-root pressure on congress, to keep it from weakening price. controls. But Rep. Jesse P. r Wolcott, R., Mich., said a groundswell is developing in congress against any extension of wage-price controls. He said it reflects a shift in the { thinkin? of the American people. Wolcott made the statement as 1 the/house moved into the second day/of debate on an amendmentriddled bill to extend the defense prbduc’ion act to next June "30/ He is senior Republican on the house banking committee which drafted the measure. \ L; The senate already has passed «n eight-months watered-down controls measure containing the new ban on price rollbacks written into the present stop-gap law which expires July 31. - \ Wolcott told a reporter it would tike a shift of only a few votes to get the bouse to vote to knock out , all price-wage controls. But he \ said some form of these controls should, and probably will, be continued. He said they should be used sparingly, however. . 1 Chairman William M. Boyle, of the Democratic national committee telegraphed all members of the national committee and all state chairmen and vice-chairmen ap pealing for support in the controls fight. ' Noting that the house plans to start voting Monday, Boyle urged them to get mayors and other elect ed officials and civic leaders to (Tnrs To Pare Two) ~ " Knights Os Columbus Officers Installed A Newly elected < officers of the Knights of Columbus were installed at the K. of C.' hall last evening. District deputy John H Logan was the installing officer and 'Robert E. Bangeret, both of Fort Wayne, was the installation warden. The officers are: Walter Heimann, grand knight; Paul Loomis, deputy grand knight; Joe Kelly, vhancellor; Theodore Eyanson, recording secretary; Carl Braun, financial secretary; Arthur Heimann, treasurer; Norbert Hess, I advocate; Ralph Loshe and Ben Webster, lecturers; Robert Osterman, warden; Robert Meyer and Kenneth Loshe, guards; Charles Cook, trustee. Herman Geimer, a past grand knight, was elected a trustee to fill the\ unexpired term of Herman Knapke, who resigned. * INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Saturday fair and warm. Low tonight 50-55. High Saturday 8286. ■: r

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BULLETIN Prague, Czechosloxakia, July 6.—(UP)— Numerous iaW’ have been arrested foe the murder of three Communist officUls at Babice In Moravia; it was announced today. A fourth official was seriously wounded. \ .. United States Cancels Reds Trade Pacts Trade Agrements To Russia, Romania And Bulgaria Out Washington, July 6 — (UP) -4The United States announced to, day that it is cancelling its trade agreements with Russia, Romania and Bulgaria. | <• The United States also is asking for amendments in the agreements with Hungary and Polind, and threatens to cancel these pacts unless the two satellite countries agree to the changes. The action was taken tinder the new trade agreements /extension act in which congress decreed that benefits of newly-negotiated tariff cuts should be denied jthe communist bloc. Congress also ordered certain furs from Russia and Red China barred from the United States. ; \ . | The state department announced that the new law forced the United States to cancel trade arrangements with Russia and some of its satellites because the agreements had provided for “most-fav-ored nation” treatment. ’That is, the communist countries would be granted tariffs as low as |any other country gets when p ships goods to the United Stai|s. The' Soviet-American i trade agreement could not be cancelled on less- than six ihonths notice. The state department has now served this notice and the agreement will end Dec. 13, After that, the U. S. \will import from Russia no more ermine, fox. kolinsky, marten, mink, muskrat or weasel furs. A ban on the h*ame furs from Communist China and other Soviet controlled areas around the world will go into 'effect about 35 days from ndw. The ban on the in port pf these furs is required by law. > On other goods, cancellation of (Tura To Paue Sevew) | Bloodmobile Unit i Makes Third Visit Red Cross Unit |n This City Tcday t Local volunteer workers and officials for the third visit of the bloodmobile unit from the Fort Wayne Red Cross regional center today were hopeful of maintaining the planned schedule (oi* the r£mainderjof the day. Such schedule, which calls for 177 donor* to contribute 125 pints of blood the day. Was being maintained today. j The first donors werej processed beginning at 10:30 a. tn., a latei starting hour than itsual, but bloodmobile workers ah accelerated processing would gain the necessary amount. . The first six donors,in order, for today’s contributions included Bob Meyers, Catherine Andrews,Mary Catherine if Schafer, Mrs,. David Macklin, David- Macklin and Mrs. Ed Ashbauctier. It wks the sixth contribution of the ■ latter donor who has pledged eight pints to the blood bank. Mrs. Max Schafer, secretary of the Adams county Red Cross, noted that 33 donors from the Central Soya company contributed today, thus making up the feared deficit in the number who indicated they would give blood to the unit. y i Twenty-pne volunteers and nurses were on duty throughout the day to assist In the work, according to volunteer service chairman, Mrk. Ed Bauer. '[ ? \ These persons included Mrs, • (Tun To Po«e Seveo) ' -

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN congratulates four of the nation’s 27 winners of the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Korean conflict, In the Rose Garden of the White House. The four, (1. to r.) Capt. Raymond Harvey of Pasadena. Cal., Capt. Lewis G- Millet of South Dartmouth, Mass., M/Sgt. Anley T. Adams of Olathe, Kan., and Corp. Einar H. Ingram of Tomahawk, Wjs., all infantrymen, are among only seven thus decorated still living, \

Youngdahl Named To Federal Judgeship ! Republican Governor Os Minnesota Named Washington. July 6.—(UP) — President Truman’s method In .picking federal judges left one ’Democratic senator highly pleased today, another piqued, and political pundits guessing. / Pleased was Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D., Minn. Still piqued was Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D., Hl. And? what the pundits wanted to ,know\ was—-what is behind Mr. STruman’s selection of Minnesota’s Gov. LUther W. Young idahl to be a federal district judge of the District of Columbia. By custom, the president consults with the home state senator naming a Ynan for a federal fudgeship. Mr. Truman consulted with Humphrey last week about the Youngdahl appointment and got the answer that it would be a “very, very wise appointment.” It is also customary for a senator to submit a (list |of candidates to fill vacancies on the federal bench in his state. Douglas on Jan. 26 handed the justice department his recommendations ,for three northern Illinois judgeships., pince then, the White House has |een silent. Asked at his news conference testerday about the; matter, Mr. I’ruman snapped that Illinois |e lacking in judges/for long, and Reporters would be informed about ft pretty soon. I President Truman’S surprise se(Tara To P«*e Slx» DAV Officer To Explain Benefits | I Seven Officers J’ In City July 19 5 Two national service officers of ithe Disabled American Veterans will be in Decatur Thursday, July ?19, it was announced today bj' Gerald Smitley, commander of Adams county chapter, number 91 and state chaplhin of the DAV. The visitors, John and Russell Cunningham, both Os Indianapo’is, will be cotspeakeri at a meeting of AdamS county DAy and all eligible war veterans of Adams county at the DAV hall in Decatur at the regular Thursday night meeting of the group. Benefits of recent legislatiop will be explained by the visiting officials and local disabled veterans will be aided in filing claims. These two men have been responsible for obtaining, more than 110,000 for disabled county veterans in the last yea£ Smitley said. ' At last night’s regular meeting of the DAV, John Doan was the first Korean war veteran to become a member of the Adams county chapter of DAV. Commander Smitley presented the initiatory work.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 6, 1951.

Young Girl Killed By Auto At Peru Peru, Ind., July 6.—(UPI-w-Olga Mary Catherine Werher, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Werner, died in Duke’s hospital yesterday of injuries received when she ran / • from behind a parked car into the path of anoth er auto. She was a grand niece of radio and stage. comedian \ Qle O-sen., J y Propaganda By Reds, Cold War Continue No Sign Os Soviet World Peace Desire Washington. July, 6 — A cease-fire may bring peace to Korea, but the worldwide cold war of nerves and propaganda will fiercely continue pending the next. Communist aggression. \ „ •Os desire for world peace there is no sign beyond iron curtain. The Reds are stepping up their war propaganda against the west at the tnoment when fhey stand sponsor to the Korean peace move. If the Korean war did actually get too hot for them, they still intend to make the most ot United Nations and. their own moves to end it. e z Communist western front propaganda centers now around the phoney trisfl conviction in Czechoslovakia of Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis on charges of espionage. He is being cited worldwide as the espionage agent of a war mongering United . StatqS. Their far eastern propaganda is a smartly perverted version of the s-fdets. i'he Communists arte ignor-. ing for the moment yhat the Korean peace move was sponsored by themselves through Jacob A. Malik, chief Russian delegate to the UN. The way they tell it. the United Nations forces commanded by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway were licked in Korea and now are suing for peace under circumstances t causing the Reds to be fearful of a trick. \ ? ♦ Moreover, the propagandists of Chinese Communists who barged into the war last November after the Korean Communists were defeated now cKim theM want to talk about over-all peacte. Whereas the United- States does not. The Communists say there is only one qualification to their yearning for peace. That qualification is “removal of the threat to China’s borders." The threat to China’s borders, if any, came last autumn when Gen, Douglas MacArthur’s UN forces smashed the Korean Communist army and chast ed its defeated elements to the Yalu river. But all hands knew MacArthur was not going to cross- the river and invade The United Nations even had forbidden his air forces: to pursue enemy aircraft based beyond the Yalu. threat to China’s borders did not exist (Tara Ta Pace Twa)

Swollen Missouri Floods Farmlands Southwest Plagued By Drought, Fires I By United Press .The swollen, Missouri river rolled across 55,000 acres of rich farmland today while drought and forest fires plagued the southwest. The ntg Mp, almost iz feet above flood stage, swept over lowlands around St. Charles, Mo,, after pounding through the last barrier, a railroad embankment, yesterday. ; The flood waters spilled into the Mississippi, which rose over Front, Street in St. Louis and forced evacuation of 35 families. About 80 families were moved out of the St. Charles area, including George Ansler who had refused to budge earlier even though his home was only a stone’s throw from the doomed railroad embankment. More rain pounded down on eastern and central Kansas and westr ern Missouri, adding to the flood danger. More than 1,500 miles of rivprs and streams were out of their banks in northeast Oklahoma and a flood warning was issued at Sioux City, la. Gov. Edward J. Arn proclaimed an emergency in Kansas, even though major rivers in the state were falling. He said the State would seek federal aid ,to help repaid $750,000 damages th the state highway system. Kansas farm officials said the floods have worked havoc to the state’s crops. Only 10 percent of the Kansas wheat crop had been harvested by today, when half the harvesting would normally be completed. But in the southwest Indians prayed for rain and helped battle a raging forest fire in the Gila national park. . The fire broke into a lush stand of Ponderosa pine near Silver City, aftpr already charring 15,000 acres’ of timber. Apache Indians were among the 700 men fighting the blaze. Battered lowa, which was swept by floods earlier this year, braced for new overflows as the Floyd river swelled to 20 feet at James. Residents, of nearby Springdale, suburb of Sioux City, were alerted to evacuate at a moment’s notice. John Welch Installed As Rotary President A John Welch, manager of the Decatur General Electric plant, was formally instated as president of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting Thursday evening. The installation was conducted by Wilbur Petrie, retiring president. Other new officers of the service club are: Harold Engle, vice-presi-dent; Jerry Leitx, secretary; Dr. Rdy Stingely, treasurer; W. Guy Brown and P. Bryce Thomas, directors. On behalf of the club, Welch presented Petrie witli a past presi dent’s pin.

Preparations For Korea Cease Fire Negotiations Are Reported Completed

Report Communists / Building Up Army Os 350,000 Troops On Western Front Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Saturday. July 7— (UP) — The Communists attacked in some force on the east-central front in Korea Friday, two days before the scheduled opening of cease fire talks, and were reported building up an army of 350,000 to the west. An Bth army communique said that a reinforced Red battalion, probably up to 1,000 strong, attacked United Nations troops forward of the main allied dine north of Hwachon and forced them to withdraw after a 45-minute baftle. It was the heaviest enemy attack since the allies offered to discuss a cease fire. ' A United Press dispatch from the west-central front quoted UN Officers as saying that, the Chinese Reds had 350,000 men ready for an attack if cease fire talks failed. The core of the enemy force was reported to be in the vicinity of t|he old Chorwon-Kumhwa-Pyong-gang triangle. An allied tank-infantry patrol entered Pyonggang. northern apex M the old Chorwon-Ktnnhwa-Pyonggang “Iron triangle” 'without opposition Friday. Pyonggang is 50 miles northeast of Kaesong, picked for cease (ire talks. In reaching it, the allied troops got to the high water mark of their spring-summer coufiOffensive. \ v Only light patrol skirmishes and occasional artillery duels vere reported along the remalndm of the 100-mile front. One UNjatrol today drove within 4,000 yards of Kaesong,' where ceasefire talks will begin Sunday, without opposition, The communists appeared to be (Twa To Pave Two) High Court Denies . Bell Rafe Increase Rescinds Grant By Lower Court Judge Indianapolis, ' July 6 —(UP)— The Indiana supreme court wiped out today a multi-million dollar annual rate increase a lower court judge granted the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. y The high court, in an order signed by justice James A. Emmert, granted the state public . service commission a temporary writ of prohibition and mandate. It restrained Marion circuit judge Lloyd Claycotabe from , proceeding further in the base anii ordered Claycombe .to show on or before July 18 why the temporary writ should not be made absolute. The court acted only a short time after the PSC asked the writ. The increase, estimated at up to $6,200,''000 a year, involved 82 cities and towns in Indiana served by Bell. Jt became effective last Saturday midnight. \ ! • Actually, 1 the supreme court action did not deny Bell the increase Claycombe gave the utility. But in effect, that’s what it did. Emmert said the ruling merely gave the PSC the right to establish rates without interference from the lower court. Thus, the PSC order granting Bell an annual hike of $730,G00r-4esß than 10 percent of its reqiitest—remains operative. The ruling was based, Emmert said, on the state attorney general’s , contention that Claycombe ordered the increase without an accompanying judicial finding. PSC spokesmen said the ruling meant the five-day-old increase was voided- ' ' / , J The the Increase at $6,200,000 a year—far above, the 14,100,000 figure cited by Claycombe when he granted the increase. .« j

Millionaire Field Jailed L' 1 | For Contempt 1 Federal Judge Sendlf \i Field To Jail For Contempt Os Court z New York, July 6—(UP) —A federal court judge sent millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field to jd(l today for refusing to reveal the names of persons who put up bail money for four fugitive corhmunUt leaders. ' 1 ■ / J fe ■ Judge Sylvester J. Ryan* wlto yesterday held Field in contempt of court for refusing to 'bring Ri the list of depositors in the tudl fund of the left wing civil rigHs congress, committed Field to the custody 0 of a deputy United States marshal. Ryan sentenced/ Field yesterday to serve 90 / days .ln prison for contempt. The court action came aftei Field’s attorney, Vic/Lor witx, told Ryan that Judge Thonrni W. Swan of the U. S. court of ap peals had agreed to hear argu ments on appeal; from th« don tempt citation at 1 p. m. CST to day in New Haven, Conn. 4 2 Field had been paroled overnight in his attorney’s custody. The judge told Rabinowitz he had hoped Field would change his mind overnight about producing the names, and asked if he had done so. \ RabinoWitz said- he had not The attorney asked the court to continue Field in parole, but Judge Ryan ruled he should go to jail immediately, Rabinowitz asked if any member of the U. S. attorney’s office would be at the courthouse row to accept bail if Judge Swan should decide to admit Field to bail. U. S. attorney Irving H. Saypol arose and said: “The FBI can be called in any part of the United States or its territories and will produce me at any time of hours of any day?’ Judge Ryan smiled at him and remarked: “It would be fine if they’d do the same with' respect (Twr« To Paae Severn) ■ 7 ~ \ 1 Bible School Opens On Monday Morning / Community School J At Church Os God The annual-community daily vacation Bible school, sponsored by the Church- of God, du Cleveland street, two blocks northwest of the, Adams county memorial hospital,/ will open Monday morning, and will continue until July 20 with the closing exercises Sunday evening, July 22. Classes will be held Monday through Friday of both weeks. Time will be from 9 to 11 a.m. each day, and all the children of the community are invited to at? tend, the Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy.j pastor of the church, announced (oday. ' ' Mrs. William Hawkins, will be; dean of the school, and classes: will be provided for, children from four to 12 years of age. The list of teachers is as follows: Miss Caroline Strickler, Miss Norma Agler, Miss Jane Mrs. Kenneth Watkins, William C? Hawkins, Mrs. Paul Strickler, Mis* Reba Taylor, Mrt. C. W. Strickler, Mrs. william Hawkins Mrs. Elmer Scott, Emery A. Hawkins, Miss Jane Rayer, and Rev. and Mrs. CUrdy.

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Talks Scheduled To Be Started Sunday; Safe Conduct For Parley Arranged Tokyo, Saturday, July 1. — (UP) — Preparations for cease fire ' negotiations in Korea starting to- . morrow were completed late Friday / night. ' United Nations quarters predicted an agreement would end the fighting by the end of next week—unless the Communists stall the talks. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, United Nations supreme commander, gave ’ the Chinese and N<brth Korean Com- ' munists a promise of safe .conduct * for their negotiators to the one-» 1 time Korean capital of Kaesong, ■ the meeting place. At lltJs o’clock last night (7:55 a.m. Friday CST) ‘ the Reds sent oyer their Pyong- : yang radio their reply: . 1 “We received your message of 1 July 6. We agree to it.” ’ The message was signed by Kim » 11 Sung, premier and commander J in chief of North Korea, and Gen. 1 Peng Teh-Huai, the Chinese com- ) mander. UN patrols reported that Red r troops were repairing and cleaning > the Kaesong city hall for the meets ing place of the cease-fire negotla- >- tors. ■ I,f i • i- Each side has ndw guaranteed i- safe conduct of the other's delega- »- tion en route to Kaesong, which lies 1 % miles south bf the Sgt* ■- parallel on the western front. It.. Gen. O.P. Weyland ordered. I all far east air force planes to I avoid combat strikes within a five-, r mile radius of the center of KaeI song, and the same distance from the Pyongyang-Kaesong highway which the enemy negotiators will i use. The order is effective from , 4 a.m. today (noon pm. Friday I CST), an hour before the Red delegates leave Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. ." ’ The Communists have allowed more than 24 hours for their con- . voy of ffve jeeps and five trucks under a white flag to travel the 100 miles from Pyongyang to the conference City. Allied planes have cratered the highway in hundreds ■ of places and seeded the remainder with tetrahedrons — four-pointed i castiron devices which puncture tires. - ■' J / ’'’ l| . . j An allied patrol which probed the Kaesong area Friday reported the Communist soldiers were cleaning out* and repairing the city hall in • the ancient Korean capital. The patrol said work on the two-story red brick building apparently began yesterday in preparation for Sunday’s conference. There also was evidence that the Communists are directing traffic in the city,; but the patrol saw .nothing to indicate that barricades or defense positions were being ’constructed there. No booby traps were found in the city, patrols said. ‘ The Reds have kept a token ’ force in Kaesong since it first was mentioned as the site of cease-fire talks, but the enemy’s main /Strength is in mountains to the north' and east. \ ? Kaesong has been about 60 percent destroyed by allied bombs and whells.. j Preliminary cease-fire talks are expected to begin in Kaesong nometimd Sunday piorning (Sat(Tarn Te Pace Sevea) first State Bank's Deposits 10 Million | ; Deposits in the First State Bank |une 30 totaled |10,469,638.36, ona <>f the highest records\|n the history of the bank, the semi-annual Statement published today shows. ' Assets are listed at 111,316,759, ■Composed of cash, bonds, loan,s / imd discounts and the bank’d !, building and fixtures. The capital ( account shows an Increase to ■ 1810J24.32. The statement is pubi iished at this time in compliance J wlth the regular call of the /Federal Reserve Bank. ft ' ; ' '' ' ' ’