Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 10 July 1951 — Page 1

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RESUME CEASE-FIRE TALKS THIS EVENING

W. Guy Brown Named School Superintendent Veteran Principal - Hamed Successor To Decatu; School Post W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high schobl since 1930, was elevate?! to the superintendency of the Decatur school system in a -decision made by members of the board in the selection of a successor to the late Walter J, Krick. \ Brown's appointment as superintendent of city . schools, was announced this morning by Roy Mumma, president of the school board. .With the other two members, Gerald Cole and Dr. Harry Hebble, the "trustees arrived at their decision at. 11 o’clock last night. Brown yhs notified of his appointment by telephone. • Selection of 'a principal to succeed Brown was deferred until next Monday/ Mumma said- He added that the board had 12 applications for the post and that Supt. Brown would be invited to advise with the trustees on their selection for the principalship. The board expects additional applicants before next meeting. When interviewed this morning Supt. Brown commented, "I feel deeply honored with the appointment and grateful to all for the trust placed in me. I love the Decatur schools and shall always try to keep the interest of our children and the progress of the schools foremost in my mind and heart. ( Under the beloved Walter Krick, I was given expert tutelage in the < office that lam to fill.” . • , Became Teacher In 1916 ( With the exception of two years. , Bi-own'i 35 years aV a teacher and school administrator have been with the Decatur schools. Following his graduation from Valparaiso University Jiigh school in 1914, he taught school in Upion township in 1916. The following year he was named principal of the Monmouth school, north of Decatur. £ In 19’8 he was named principal of Central school in this city, a post he held until 1936 when he was appointed principal of the. Decatur high: school. Earned His Degrees Brown’s career as an educator and school administrator covered several years in which he earned his degrees at summer schools. In 1920 he was awarded his first bachelor’s degree ifom Valparaiso University in elementary and pedagogical studies. A bachelor s degree in sociology apd English was awarded him by Ball State Teachers College and in 1939 he obtained his master’s degrep in education and school administration y from Indiana University. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa at the latter university and bf l|appa Delta Pi, Valparaiso university. A past president bf Northeastern Indiana State Teachers Association, Supt. Broyn is a member of the National Education Association, and the national and state associations of secondary school principals. Locally, he is a member of the First Methodist church and the Rotary He is a past president of the Indiana tuberculosis association and also served as president of the Adams county welfare board. Taugjht At Summer School For five years Sijpt. Brown was a member of the summer faculty of the Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute and taught in that school. • . , £ Summer School Here With his life bislt around the school and pedagogy, Supt. Brown made one of his numerous contributions to the youth of the city in the establishment of a summer school at Decatur high school. Established during the war years in 1943, this short course enabled many students to finish their high school course* before induction in the armed service?. The summer course still operate* with resultant benefits to seniors Aand juniors who are subject to calj in the armed forces during the (Current rearmament program. | , Boy Scout # Executive Among his varied activities in the interest of 'youth is his identification with the Boy Scout organization. He is district chairman of advancement in scouting and. for many years has served as chairman <Ture To P«a® six)

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Superintendent ?W-' : I ... K r : W. Guy Brown Truman's Request Hailed By Congress Congressmen Favor Ending State Os War Washington, July 10.—-(UP)— President Truman’s request for a resolution ending America’s state of war| with Germany got an enthusiastic reception , frqm congressional foreign affairs leaders today. Chairman Tom Connally' of the senate foreign relations committee said he was “desirous of terminating the state of war with Germany as quickly as possible.” Thp Texas Democrat said he would “place it before ithe committee dt tHe earliept opportunity.” Chairman James P. Richards, D., S.C., of the house foreign; affairs committee said Mr. Truman's request was a “logical move I'in for it.” Richards added, however, that he would have to consult tfith his committee and with administration leaders before deciding whether the resolution would be taken up before action is completed on Mr. Truman’s request for an $8,500,\>00,000 foreign aid program. ?‘lf it looks as if it wouldn’t take more than a day or so to approve the resolution,” Richards - said, * I should think we might slip it in right soon.” ' I f Connally said his committee prbbably would not take up the matter until late this month because most of the members of the group a r e not due tb return from Europe until the July 22 {Weekend. It was likely, Connally said, that the absent senators would discuss Mr, Truman’s request with German overseas, and “have information overesas, and "have information and Opinions on it,” when they » return. ' hl Members of both foreign relations groups predicted speedy, congressional action, and sa|id there was no apparent opposition to the resolution. I v i

Two National Guard Divisions To Europe 28th, 43rd Unitj > J To Europe In Fall ■ T /' ' ’ W Washington, July 10;-U(UP)— The army said today that the 28th and 43rd national guard infantry divisions have been alerted for movement to Europe in the fall. Tlie is from Pennsylvania and his been training at Camp Atterbury, Ind. It is commanded by Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Columbia, Pa. -The 43rd division, composed pri- ! marily of men from Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont has been training at Camp Pickett, Va. It is commanded by Maj. Gen, Kenneth F. Cramer, Wethersfield, Conn., former chief of the army’s national guard bureau. Both divisions ‘’have been on active duty since last fajl. The two national guanj divisions: w(ill complete the six American ground divisions which! were promised to Gen. Dwight D. EisenHower’s European defence command. L_ \ : The United States had two regu-° lar army divisions in Europe when the defense command was set up, and later sent two additional regular army divisions. Before going to Europe, the 28th (Twra To Powe 81x)

Troops Battle On As leaders Talk Os Peace v Allied Troops Drive Into Red Lines On East Central Front Bth Vmy Headquarters, Korea, July 10—(UP)—United Nations troops, fighting on while their leaders ’alked peace drove several hundreds yards into Communist positions today in the Yanggu area of the east central front. United States warplanes downed their fifth Russian-built jet fighter plane in four days ov^r' * North Korea. An Bth aYmy communique Summarized thb day’s action as: “Light enemy contact reported along the majority of the Korean fg«Mit._ Attacking UN forces northeast of Yanggu reported light to moderate enemy resistance.” The Yanggu action was the only Sizeable one of the day. Chinese Red patrols fifed on UN patrols in the old Chorwon-Kumh-wa-Pyonggang triangle, and scout planes reported many small groups of Red troops filtering into that area on the west central front. A B-29 superfort gunner, Sgt/ Gus V. Opfer (4)5 Ban Mater St.) Opportunity, Wash., destroyed ‘the enemy MIG-15 when a flight of jets struck vainly against bombers blasting the Sinanju airport. In four/days of futile challenges against a/llied air might, the Communists have had five jets shot down and four damaged No allied losses or damage have been reported. Sharp local battles flared along the east-central and the eastern fronts. Chinese Communist and North Korean troops launched several probing attacks' and poured heavy mortar and artilleryjirp Into United Nations positions. All attacks were repulsed. South of Kumsong, stubborn enemy troops reeled back from oqe assault, regrouped and came back again. But they were thrown into retreat again. f U.N. patrols stabbed north of Yonchon, northeast of the confer fence si’e at Kaesong, and ran into heavy fire from entrenched Communists who drove them back. The only sector where there Was no fighting was around Kaesong. Allied and Chinese soldiers even met face to face there Without fighting.) Both sides retired from the meeting without incident.

To Seek Funds For Limberlosf Tract To Close Option On • Tract Os 80 Acres 1 Lester W. Stucky Ear J Dawaid. of Geneva, and E. J. Schug, of Berne, were in the city today contacting Decatur citizens in behalf of the Limberlost Conservation Association, Inc., a non-profit corporation devoted to perpetuating ;the memory of Gene Stratton Porter. Stucky announced at a meeting of the organization, held last night at Berne, that funds are on hand to make final payment on the 12acre tract along the Adams-Jay countj\ line toad selected as the site for the Gene’ Stratton Porter Sanctuary. Only drafting and processing ok the necessary legal papers remains to be done before the title will be vested in the state and the development of Indiana’s, first public bird sanctuary will get underway./ • ( The association officials announced that they are now launching a fund-raising campaign to close an option .on 80-acres of land which will be the key tract for the proposed 600-acre Limberlost Lake, Dawaid and Schug. both officials of the association, also remarked that the organization had promoted and raised the funds for the Llmberlost State Memorial. The bird sanctuary, Dawald said, “will be a memorial tribute to Mrs. Porter, who, through her authoritive and accurate bird studies was popularly known as the Bird Woman.” In further explaining the purpose of the group, Schug stated that “a most fitting memorial to the famed writer Is the planned development of conservation and outdoor recreation in Limberlost land.”

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAME COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 10,1951.

oil St -1 - MJH Ek. -A ME'mM m - I MBs 9 i 11 K&l ' W ' L I WITH A QUICK END to hostilities in mind, Geh. Matthew B. Ridgway (second from left) meets with his \ top officers in Korea on the eve of truce talks with the Communists., With the Supreme Commander are (I. to r.) Gen. Janies A. Van Fleet, Bth army comma nder; Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy. senior U. N. delegate to armistice negotiations; Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie, USAF., and Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke. USN.

Calendar Announced For Rural Schools Classes Will Open Monday, August 27 The Adams county 1951-52 school calendar, approved recently by the county board of education, wasure--1 eased today by Hansel JPoley. county superintendent of County schools will open August 23 and actual classes will commence Monday. August 27. .‘j Five township school systems will operate on an eight and a half month school year basis and the rest .of the schools in the county will \ise the nine month system. The snorter term schools will close May 1, 1952 and the longer term schools will close May. 15, 1952, Foley explained. \ \ The short term schools will be jHartford, Jefferson. Blue Creek, St. Mary’s and Union. The calendar in ah instances is the same except the/closing date next spring. There will be a two day Thanksgiving vacation and all schools of the county will be dismissed Monday, December 24, until Wednesday, January 2,_ for the annual Christmas vacation. On Monday, September 3,. Labor Day and on Good Friday, April 11, 1,952 there will be oneday vacations. j / Following is the complete calendar: \ Tuesday, August 21, principals’ meeting. Wednesday, August 22, Institute. Thursday, August 23, organization day. , Monday, August 27, clashes begin. Monday, September 3, J-abor Day. no school. ' . Thursday, October Teachers and trustees’ party: Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26, teachers’ convention. Thursday, November 22 and Friday November 23, Thanksgiving vacation. Monday, December 24' to Wednesday January 2, Christmas vacation. Wednesday, January 2, 1952, first semester ends.* j Thursday, January 3, 1952, second semester starts. ' i \ Thursday, January 10, Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12, county basketball teurney. Tuesday, February 19 and Wed nesday, February 20,\ Junior high basketball tourney. February 25 through March 1, sectional basketball tourney. Friday, March 28, music festival. (Turw To Pas* Six) BlusHon Pilot Is Air Crash Victim . Denison, Tex., July 10—(UP)— A Perrin air force base training plane crashed yesterday 10 miles southeast of Denison, an instructor and a student. The instructor-pilot was identified as Ist Lt. Richard D. Brickley, 27, bf Denison and Bluffton, Ind. His survivors include his widow, two children, and his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Dwight E. Brickley. route 1, Lebanon, O. The student was identified only as a Frenchman. His name was not released.

Ridgway Ready To Talk Peace

Shoemaker Funeral Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will be held at 2 p.ni. Thursday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church at Berne for James W. Shoemaker, Berne youth wi/o was fatally 1 injured in an auto accident north/ of Decatur Monday morning. The Rev. C. A. Schmid will officiate and burial will be in the MRE cemetery. The body was removed from the Yager funeral home thjs afterfloou tb the hpnre of the parents, Mr. and Mrs,' Paul Shoe 1 maker of Berne route 1. Flood Wafers Recede In Midwest States Streams Falling In Missouri, Kansas By United Press Flood waters recefied . across the battered hiidwest today, leaving a heavy toll ln| crop and property damage and human lives. The major streams were falling in Missouri and Kansas, giving farmers hope that \ the long and costly flood siege is over. The Missouri river, which has already caused an estimated |5,000 (1 000 damage, was cresting again but was not expected to hit earlier levels. - However, a 4.15 rainfall at Malden, Mo., raised (ears of a new flood threat in southeast Missouri. Most of the bloated Kansas rivers had returned to their bank?. A Flash floods which followed the weekend’s Heavy rains were subsiding tn most stricken areas. The Vermilion river was still rising at Pontiac, 111., where all streets in the south of the city were un-der-water. But state police did not fear any serious danger provided rain again. The Pecatonica river, which went over its banks following a six-inch rain Sunday at Darlington, Wis., was back tq normal. The Floods and, weekend storms and tornadoes killed at least eight persons. , ' ' The latest victim was 12-year-old Robert E. Olmstead of Cornell, 111., who drowned while playing in a flooded pasture. Coroner Nernon Von Qualen said Robert had just given a playmate 1 a push on an innertiibe when he slipped off a bank and drowned. Some residents in the southeast sectiop of Pontiac, 111., were pre(Tura Te P«*e Six) Churubusco Man Is Legion Commander Alva Miller, - Churubusco, has been named commander of the fourth district, Amerlcah Legion, succeeding Emory Boyd of Angola. A veteran of World War 11, Miller is ; a past commander of the Churubusco Legion, The Rev. Otto C. Busse, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, and state chaplain of Legion, has been selected as one of the district’s 19 delegates to the national Legion convention, which will be held in Miami, Fla., in October.

Snyder Predicts Federal Deficit Federal Sales Tax Opposed By Snyder Washington, July 10— (UP) ? - Sqcretary of the treasury John W‘. Snyder, has predicted a\ federal deficit of $1,209,000,000 for thia fiscal year even K congress approves all the tax increases requested by President Truman, it was learned today. Snyder also has held the door epen for administration approval of deficit spending next year. He is hostile to a federal sales tax, which is drawing growing support from business Spokesmen. Snyder’s views were contained in a statement submitted to the senate finance committee in response to questions from Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va. \ While he has urged a $10,700,-/ 000,000 tax program/ Snyder’s forecast of , a deficit this yehr was based on the lag in collections 'which would -hold the tax yield below that figure in the first year. The $1,2(00,000,000 \ deficit prediction also assumed that the ad ministration forecast .of $68,400,000,000 for government spending in this fiscal year would not be i educed by/congressional cuts in appropriation bills. However, cuts appeared to be in prospect. Snyder estimated a $9,00,000,009 deficit for the current fiscal year ilApresent tax rates continued in and a $5,500,090,000 defic’t under the house-approved tax bill to raise $7,200,000,000 in a full year of operation. There Is > almost no chance that congress will approve a tax increase .of the size asked by the administration and little chance that the senate will be willing to go as far as the house. Snyder’s of possible approval of deficit spending next year came in response to a query about how much of the national iucome can be taken in taxes. Wounds Are Fatal To Camp Atterbury Cook Indianapolis, July 10 — (UP) — Sgt. William M. Jagloski, Camp Atterbury cook, died last night of a gun wound received in a fight with fellow soliders who teased him about the “chow” he prepared. Jagloski, of Williamsport, Pa., was shot Jhne 29 when case owner Edwin Husbands, 43, tried to break up the argument. Witnesses said Jagloski became angry when three soldiers tormented him about his cooking os| the group ate dinner in Husbands’ Case. Jagloski dumped a bowl of chili over one of his tormentors and ignored Husbands’ demands to leave the case, witnesses told police. Husbands was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and freed on SI,OOO ’bond.

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Senators Fearful ■ - t ’ ; ;■ Over Peace Talks Fear Truce Talley Mask Soviet Plan Washington, July 10 — (UP) Some senators were gravely concerned today lest, the Kaesong truce talks mask a giant Russian “sdftening u>p” process designed to discourage American rearmament. President Truman, defense secretary George C. Marshall andother officials have warned for weeks against a let-down in preparedness preparations. , But not until the start ,of actual /cease-fire negotiations has this concern been reflected, in congress. d Sen. James H. 'Duff, R., Pa., one of his party’s leading foreign and defense policy spokesmen, told a reporter that the United Statet faces a “fatal mistake” if it eases' off military preparations in the event, of a Korean truce. \ j, “If a cease-fire is obtained ih Korea,” Duff said, “there will be a neutral tendency to let dqwn in this country, i To allow «this to happen would <be so grave a mistake that it would be impossible to overestimate the consequences. “The danger we face today ia due primarily to the fact that after World War 11, we allowed All etir military might to deteriorate ht the very time Russia used this opportunity to build up hers to . a new maximum. repeat that melancholy chapter of history could be a fathl mistake to the security of our nation and actually be plying directly into the Kremlin’s hands.’,’ His warning coincided with ope from chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, D., Tex., of the senate’s preparedness subcommittee. He held that the cease-fire negotiations Could be “just the feint that precedes a crushing body blow” which could be launched by the Soviets in a half dozen places. Johnson moved forward with plans for a new, over-all investigation of defense targets and how fast the nation is meeting them. He disclosed that the nation’s top military leaders probably will be called to review America’s precise ability to meet its global foreign military commitments. Actually,’ Johnson disclosed, the military services already have (Twr»‘T« Pace Six)

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Two Breakins Here Reported To Police Garage And Poultry Market Are Looted City police are continuing theic, investigation of two breaking on North Thirteenth street, both of them committed from the same point of operations. The one or more parties involved in the breakins and thefts, apparently parked the vehicle which was used behind the Reinking Garage, on North Thirteenth street, leading tracks indicated. The garage and the Decatur Poultry Market, at 651 North Thirteenth street, were both burglarized “sometime during the night” according to Edgar Reinking : And Charles Treon, who reported the respective burglaries to city police. 1 ’ I ’ Entry was made into (he garage through a rear window by breaking a hole near the latch and raising the window. Stolen were one battery and one case of motor oil, a total estimated loss of $31.70. The breakin and entry into the poultry market was made through a rear window on the north side of the building by breaking the pane and unlocking the windoW. Departure was through a large rear door which the burglars closed after them. The owners estimated the first check of the loss to be $55.70, which consisted bf dressed poultry products.

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Allies Want Purely Military Pact For Truce; Reds Seek To Broaden Program Imjin River Peace Camp, Korea. Wednesday, July 11—iUP)—United Nations officers returned from •a momentous four-hour conference with communist generals last night and indicated that progress had been made toward a cease fire in Korea. After presenting their ideas for j a program .of negotiations at two meetings, morning and afternoon, the allied and Red teams adjourned their meeting at Kaesong until this morning, when business -talks will begin. The UN program, it was announced. is that the allies want a purely military agreement for an armistice in Korea and will not discuss other matters, military, political or economic. Communist broadcasts Abdicated that ihe Reds will try broaden the program and that they xnay demand the evacuation of- Korea by the UN armies. Yesterday’s two meetings, from 11 a. m., to 12:3-1 p. m. and from 4p.m. to 6:36 p. m. were describ- f ed officially as held “in an qpen and formal atmosphere.” An army communique said that the conference was adjourned until 9 a. m. today (5 p. m. Tuesday CST.) (A general headquarters communique issued in Tokyo said earlier . that -the meeting would start at 10 a. m. (or 6 p. m. Tuesday CST.) . | J The UN officers came back smiling to this “peace camp” set up at an advanced base between 1 * ; 1 Seoul, the South Korean capital, and Kaesong. Officials who talked to them as they landed from helicopters said they gave the impression that they made pragress in first day’s talks. Nevertheless, a plan to permit 16 allied' correspondents to go to Kaesong today was cancelled on the ground that negotiations wera not yet “bn - the track safely?’ as a briefing officer put it. i In keeping with the phere of the cease fire talks there were no smiles and. no hand shakes in Kaesong, . according to reports. The helicopter crews had to send back to this camp for lunch. All during their stay in Kaesong tjie allied negotiators were under Chinese communist troop guard. At the opening meeting, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, United States navy, leading the allied team, bluntly told the communists that only a guaranteed peace can stop the war. The cease fire talks were held .in 'a 15 by 18 foot room in a oncepalatial mansion, under a heavy guard of Chinese communist troops. ] . * A general headquarters communique said late tonight:, “The first meeting of armistice negotiation was Held at 1100 (7 p. m. Monday CST) as scheduled tn an open and formal atmosphere at Kaesong. /‘Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, United States navy, .senior delegate of the UN command, reported that each delegation presented ita agenda for consideration.” “The second meeting of the Negotiating parties will be held at 1000> Wednesday, July 11 (6 p. m* Tuesday, CST.) joy talked to the communists bluntly at the morning and afternoon sessions held at Kaesong Tuesday. ' - \ He said he was prepared to discuss solely the military situation in Korea, and terms for a cease fife. He ruled out other military subjects and all political and ecoj nemic topics. H ; ’ A—j INDIANA WEATHER j < Partly cloudy. Scattered and thunderstorm* tonight and Wednesday. Cooler extreme north tonight Low to- -• night GO-65 north, 65-70 south. High Wednesday 70-77 north, -I 78-84 south. i (' It • I ■ • ■ i“! ' ■ i' ” /