Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 162.

NO CEASE-FIRE PACT IS IN

Russian-Made Planes Downed In Jel Battle American Fighter | ? Planes Shoot Down Three In Air Fight Bth Army Headquarters. Korea, Thursday, July 12 —(UP) —American fighter planes shot dofwn three RuSsian-made MIG-15s over North Korea Wednesday in the longest jet I plane fight in history, y A .fourth communist plane was riddled by. bullets. Thlrty-foijr American F-86 sabirejcts and; 30 MIGs fought a blazing battle for 34 minutes, twistihg. diving, climbing, at altitudes ranging air the way from 3,000 to 33,000 feet. ,• I Capt. Milton E. Nelson, ot Tarrant, Ala., shot down his fourth enemy plane to become the Korean theater’s top current MIG"; killer. Capt. James Jabara, \nuw back home, holds the record for the war, six. t On the ground United Nations Infantrymen, their ears tuned to ' reports of cease fire talks but still- fighting grimly, stabbed into the enemy lines all along the front in commando-type -patrol forays. The raiders shot up Red entrenchments and their artillery spent the day sending shells into the enemy lines. ‘ It was the fifth straight day of air combat over North Korea, and for once the enemy planes stayed to fight instead Os engaging in sneak hit-and-run attacks. Thirty Red MIG-15s swarmed in on 34 F-86 sabre jets south of the Yalu river on the Manchurian bor--4 der in thev biggest air action since the communist pilots resumed their vain efforts to block allied attacks. .'y The battle shot from 33,000 feet to 3,000 feet with blinding speed in a number of wild dog fights lasting 20 minutes. Beneafh the \ fighting planes, 31 F-80 shooting stars dumped napalm and 500pound bombs on a communist ammunition plant. One MIG was damaged in addition to the three shot down, running the U. S. airmen’s score for five daya to eight MIGs destroyed and five damaged. No losses have been reported by the U. S. airmen. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Stla army commander, warned that beefed-up communist troops could throw a heavy assault against UN troops anywhere ,bn the Korean front and said hik forces w\ere ready for anything that may come. Van Fleet said there would be no let up in the Bth army’s alert until communist sincerity for peace is proved at the Kaesong conference table. The Chinese army “is capable of launching a sizeable assault nearly anywhere on the front,” Van Fleet said when he visited a front line strip for a battlefield conference’ with his fighting commanders. “I can not evaluate their present striking potential in regard to their previous assaults, but they are in greater strength now than they have been for some time.” — Van Fleet said "we are all hoping the enemy is sincere in his wishes for; a cease-fire but the iSth army is on guard and will not) let up 'its be-preparedness for an at(Tiira Ta Pace Six) Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death -r Funeral;' services vHll \be held Thursday < for Mrs. Gertrude Fast, 65, who died Monday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Willard Boroff, at Neptune, 0., of <omplicatipns following a hip frac- ■ ture. Services will be held at 4 p.m. at the Mt. Zion Evangelic?.! United Brethren church at Celina, C., with burial in the RoebucK cemetery. . • \ Surviving are three sons, Harod Fast of Decatur, and Ivan and Oreal of Celina; four daughters, - Mrs. Boroff, Mrs. Lewis Hart of Jackson Center, Miss Edna Fast of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Dillon Shaner of Celina; five brothers, I Boyd, Orval, Kenneth and Ed VanTilburg of Celina and William of Louisville; Ky., and two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Deyermand of Toltdo end Mrs. John Richwood of New Weston, O. . .

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Permit Newsmen To Enter Truce Area ,I. •. j ’ r No Newsmen Allowed In Conference Room UN AdvanceL Base Bejow Kaesong,- Korea, 'July 11 —(pP)—Fi ve accredited to the UN command today provided the first allied 'nf’ws coverage of cepse-ffce negotiations at Kaesong. At the same time, Gen. Matthew B. .Ridgway’s Tokyo headquarters announced 20 UN press representatives will be ’permitted “within the area of negotiations” in Kae’song tomorrow. - They prill not, howdver, be allowed to enter the conference room itself. The five photographers travellejl to Kaesong in an unarmed, unescorted truck flying white flags. It was halted for an hopr nine miles south of Kaesong by burpgun carrying Chinese troops. The photographers reported upon their return j here thejy were treated well but forced to sit around until the. Chinese consulted “higher authorities” about their trip. Jn the conference city itself, the photographers encountered five North Korean cameramen; who also were permitted to freely arouhd -the truce compound. The photographers — communist and UN alike —were' permitted to take any photos they wished in the compound but were;toot permitted to enter the conference room.. n ' j J The UN photographers told about their experiences in pooled dispatches circulated to more than 100 other allied newsmen covering negotiations from this advanced base. H They said that while thqy were held up outside Kaesongj - one pf the tense Chinese soldiers said “we hope this peace talk will be successful.’’ .U

The photographers reported that "shabbily clad Chinese soldiers” guarded every turn of the road leading the post whete they were halted to Kaesong. They said tfie ; Chinese soldiers were willing to be photop'aphed but refbsed to pose.. Outside of one North Korean driver, the Red troops refused all offers of cigarets and candy, they said. Communist negotiators agreed earlier today to allow , the five photographers to enter Kaesong but had barred the entry of any newspaper Elkhart' Boy Drowns In River Tuesday Elkhart, Ind., July U.tyr(UP) — James. Wright, 12, Elkhart, urowned yesterday while swimming with a companion in the St. Joseph river her®; ■' V ' - I U.S. Casualties In Korea Now 78,726 Increase Os 616 Above Week Ago Washington. July 11 — — The defenses department itbday reported a new total of 78,726 American battle casualties in the Korean fighting. This was an increase of 616 over a week ago. Today's total Included 13,176 deaths, 53,412 wounded, 158 prisoners of the communists, 10,644 missing, and 1,336 missing who have been found. • The total represented casualties whose next of kin had been notified through last Friday. ' The ac,tual number is higher since oneto three weeks fire required to notify next of kin. A breakdown by services showed: Army—Total casualties 64,399; dead 10,933; wounded 42,146; prisoners 155; missing 9.890; missing who have-been found 1,275. Navy— Total casualties 911; dead 157, Wounded 681, missing 69, missing who have been (found K . i Air ForcA Total' \osuklties 687; dead 196. "wounded, 27, prisoners 3, missing 424, missing who have been found 37. Marines — Total casualties 12,792; dead 1.890, wounded 10,558, missing 261, missing Who have been found 20. . ’ i 1 >

Give Up Hopes Os Any Further | Food Rollbacks Drive For Stronger Controls Collapses Before Coalition Washington. July 11.—(UP)- 1 - Battered administration forces gave up hope today of getting congress to allow- further food price rollbacks. They said the high-riding coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats in the house may even kill last month’s 10 percent rollback in cattle prices. Price controller Michael V. DiSalle has said such action would force a 10 percent boost in retail ceilings on beef prices. The drive for stronger controls collapsed before a driving coalition which yesterday began ramming through amendments weakening price controls. The present law expires 31 and the house is debating extension legislation. Rep. J. Pejrcy Priest, D.; Tenn., Democratic liquse whip, told a reporter: “we can concede there will be no further farm price rollbacks. There still is a chance we may be able to prevent killing last month’s cattle' price rollback. I don’t know.” Rep. Brent Spence, D-. Ky., leading the administration’s floor figh|, said his forces have no control over the kind of bill the house will pasjs. - The coalition handed the administration a smashing defeat yesten day, pushing through 200 td 112 ah amendment to kill the government’s program of (quotas for slaughter of meat animals. The administration said , the amendment will lead to black markets and “butchering behind the barns.” Price stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle has said it could lead to the end of the entire meat price control program. Chairman Harold D. Cooley, D., N.C., of the'’ house agriculture committee, said the whoppipg vote meant the house will accept his own amendment to repeal last month's 10 percent rollback on cattle prices. Spence said that on the slaughtering quota vote he counted “40 or 50 Democrats voting with Republicans to riddld the Democrat’s price control program.” Republicans said it means the bill that finally emerges from the house generally will provide “no (Tara To Face Six» \ '( Government Spends At Enormous Rate Billion Dolldrs In First Week Os Year Washington, July 11. —(UP) — The way things are going, government will be'spending so much money 20 years from now* tha. adding machines won’t be able to compute it. The figures will be too big- z \ , ' L' - The money belongs to the taxpayers or is borrowed from banks, individuals and corporations. But the average, citizen might- aa- well try to understand nuclear physics as to the facts relating to the argument whether government is spending too much. What everybody can understand is comparative figures, even large ones. For example, the treasury has just dropped its expenses and revenue during the first business week of the new fiscal year which began July 1. The treasury spent approximately 11,044,000,000. It took in $736,000,000. It accumulated a red ink deficit of about $308,000,000 —all in six days. \ That billion dollars spent in a week would have run the government for nearly four months 20 3 ago. But a lot of things have been t added to government since then. Millions of persons are getting belief and other checks who were getting nothing way back yonder. The government is in the subsidy business in ways which were unheard of 20 years ago. Atomic energy, riyer bas|n developments and many other things have hiked government costs tar beyond anything which could have been imagined in v 1932. And, of coures.tthe whopping national defense and foreign aid spending is (Tara Ta Fa*e Six)

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- 1 * i T Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 11,1951.

Conference On Conference r I H'l bR ■'• ® BKL jhl ■ ■■'' • ' ■ | U- —.—J SEATtD ON THE STEPS of the U. N. truce meeting house in Kaesong during a lull in negotiations with Cdmmunist representatives, Maj. Gen, L. C. Craigie (left) and Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy compare notes on developments; Along the battle line hostilities con-, tinued on a modified scale as the truce progressed. (U. S. Signal Corps Photo via international Radio-Soundphoto)

More Rain Falls In ( Flood-Hit Kansas V Manhattan Is Badly Hit By Flood Waters *. L Manhattan. Kan., July 11.—(UP) —Manhattan’s fire and police de\partmeritß were flooded out today by waters that covered 20 city blocks, but in Illinois flood waters receded. More tain fell over the flood-, stricken Kansas area, hastening the rise of the bloated Kansas and Blue rivers Which join here.

At least 65 persons sought shelter in Red'CrQss refuges. Six farm families werb evacuated by boat. No casualties were reported. The water’ began to seep the \clty’s municipal building night. The fire department wak the first to pull out, but the policemen hung on until today. when they up headquarters “on the streets” in a canvas radio shack. RiVerrrien refused to predict the crest at Manhattan because of the continuing rain. Earlier the rivers had beeil expected to run 10 feet over their banks by this afternoon. The rivers were rising eight inches every hour and water stood five inches deep over much of Manhattan. . , Red Cross disaster chairman Roy Cartee said "there is every indication that this flood Willtbe worse than the one we had a week ago.” \ Cartee said “morale is high and neighbors are helping neighbors.” The Red Cross had k to rescue 240 hogs, he said, and countless boats were being used to evacuate more livestock. In Illinois, thlp flooded Vermillion river was receding, but the 20,000 residents of Streator were still out of drinking water. The city’s water supply stopped when flood waters spilled intq the reservoir and pumping station and officials estimated it would take more than a week before service is restored. Neighboring cities sent emergency water supplies in railroad', cars, fire engines and a 2,000 gallon milk truck. Fluoriding kits were distributed to residents so they could purify their water. Police evacuated 37 Streator families in the western part of town. Thousands of farm acres were flooded and many farm families were forced from their homes. The sltuatidh eased more rapidly at Pontiac, 111., despite heavy rain? last night. A few families weii evacuated in the south and east parts of the city. The big Missouri river was above flood stage along most \of Its course. St. Charles, Mo., which just ended a long fight with the rampaging “big muddy” last week, looked for another crest tomorrow. It was expecFed to reach within a halt-foot of last week’s high. i 1 ; INDIANA WEATHER “ ' Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Occasional showers , or thundershowers Thursday. Cooler extreme north. Low tonight 6066 north, 66-71 south. High Thursday ranging from 75-80 extreme north, middle 80’s south.

Mansfield Reported Steadily Improving Don Mansfield, Decatur young man injured in an automobile mi» hap near Fort Wayne several weeks age continues t<> show improvement at St. Joseph hospital, according to of his family. Mansfield was jn a critical condition for two weeks following the accident, but attending physicians state how that he has an excellent chance to recover. He was u» for 10 days. Little Increase In J Water Consumption Water Usage Here f Runs About Normal While Decatur has been nothing but a steam bath the past couple of days—despite Intermittent showers —oddly enough, there has\ been little or no increase in water consumption, according to city\. water superintendent, Ralph E. Roop. I* i Os course, Roop noted; it is difficult to judge on a per-day basis whether more water is being used because of the extremely hot weather, but the engineer said he thought consumption “was just about average.” \ ; The difficulty in judging such use, he pointed out, hinges 0n the two facts that everything there is done automatically, and the huge storage tank (900,000 gallons) fluctuates only slightly. When tank gets down so low, Roop explained, machinery automatically is set in motion and the tank is filled io a specified lim|t. ' He did say that a clearer check could be made If there was a long, hot dry spell. Then a comprehensive gauge could be made. I The city’s water plant is capable of \dlßCharging 600 gallons of water d minute and oh a 24-hour basis that would be approximately one million gallons that would through the mains. Os course, the plant is never pressed for its peak performance all day long, and consequently the amount consumed •li considerably t less than that. But whether there was more or less water used recently doesn’t detract for a minute from the fact (Tun To Pace Right) ♦ ■ . . \i - > Four Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto North wood, la., July 11.—(UP)— A speeding Rock Island rocket smashed into a family car last night, killing four persons. The northbound passenger train, going from Kansas |'city to Minneapolis, carried the car and fljree of its passengers abuot a half mile. A fourth body was found 500 feet from the point where the train stopped. \ The dead were identified as Ove Jacobson, 46, his 43-year-old wife, a son, gwen, 11 an an eight-year-cld daughter.

PROSPECT YET One UN Negotiator Says Armistice Much Nearer After Second Conference

AFL Tax Proposal. Is Given To Senate Says Lower Income Group Oyer-taxed u Washington, July 11.—(UP) — The American Federation of Labor proposed today that congress raise up to $7,000,0p0,000 a year from higher personal income taxes, but with no increase for bottpm bracket taxpayers. I [ The AFL recommendation would provide Staore than twice the tax increase for individuals proposed in the house-approved , tax bill |hd .almost twice the anjount requested by the administration. Middle and upper bracket taxpayers would be hard hit, particularly married couples who would forfeit their present income splitting advantages. Arthur Elder presented the AFL’s $10,000,000,000 tax program to the senate finance Committee, which is considering the house bill to raise taxes $7,200,000,000 a year and the administration request for $10,700,000,000. The AFL plan calls for: 1. Personal tax increases to yield between $6,400,000,000 and $7,000,000,000 a year. 2. (Corporation income tax increases to yield the $3,200,000,000 a year asked by the administration and a capital gains tax increase from, 1$ tn 3ZJS jjercsat as asked by the administration. * 3. 1 No increase in federal excise taxes, which would produce SI,OOO, ■ 000,000 under the house bill or $3,250.00Q.000 under the administration program. r

Elder prefaced his individual income tax recommendations by asserting that taxpayers earning less than $3,000 a year “are already paying a disproportionate share of the tax bill.” Sen. Ralph E. Flanders, R., Vt., said high taxes eventually; may slow improvement of living standards. Emil Schram, consultant for and former president of the New York Stock Exchange, told the committee that many small business firms "will die from finarfciial malnutrition if tax legislation , frightens away people who would be willing to risk their savings in an unseasoned business.” Marines Will Take Draftees In August tirsf Marine Draft Since World War II ' Washington, July 11 — (UP) — The marine corps, traditionally proud of its ability to maintain its manpower through volunteers, ■will take draftees next month for the first time since World War 11. 1 About 7.000 oc the 35,000 men scheduled for the August draft call wiM go to the marine corps, the rest, to the army. The marines also will take about 6,000 of the 34,000 September draft call. It will be the first time that any service except the army has called for draftees sine? tl|e beginning of the Korean war. The August and September calls will bring to 634.000 the number of draftees called up since the war began a little more th?n a year ago. The defense department said the marines would start taking draftees to make up manpower deficienices. Present marine corps strength was reported to be close to 200,000, but the corps had hoped to have 204,000 men by June 30. The marines accepted I draftees from Feb. 1, 1943, to September 26. 1945, to maintain their strength. Voluntary enlistment? always fall off when draft calls are law. Enlistments in all services were high in January, February and March when the army drafted 80,000 men each month.\ ’Enlistments slackened as draft calls gradually were lowered for ! (Tara To Paso Six) V

Iran Accepts i U.S. Offer To Discuss Scrap j Accepts Truman's f Offer Os Personal Adviser Harriman ! ■ ' ' ■? Tehran, Iran, July 11.—(UP)—( Iran today accepted President Trm? man’s offer to send his personal ado visor W. Averill Harriman to Tehran to disqass the oil crisis oiere. A spokesman of the Iranian national oil board made the announcement. An official invitation was expected to be forwarded to Washington later today; “We have no objection to anyone coming to Tehran to talk over nationalization within the framework of tbe law,” the spokesman said. In yV asbin Kt° n ' Harriman declined immediate comment but Iran’s action was viewed as mildly encouraging. Official White House reaction was not expected until an official message is received from Tehran. It was learned three American, generals identified only as Taylor,; Partridge and Olmstead will arrive here from Washington Thnra-: day for a thread ay “visit.” No further details were Immediately available. At the same time, senator Matin Daftari, chairman of the oil nationalization board, disclosed the, huge industry taken over from the: British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil company may be forced to shut: down soon. :

Daftari' appealed to the Majlis (lower house of parliament) for permission to negotiate the sale of oil to Britain and other interested nations. - “If no agreement is reached on the sale of our oil, we will have to* shut down,” he said. His address appeared to neutral observers to indicate a more moderate attitude towards the oil crisis. Mr.- Truiiian offered to send Harrinian to Tehran in a letter handed to premier Mohammed Mossadegh two days ago. The letter also suggested that Iran accept the ruling on jhe oil dispute made by the international court of justice at the Hague. The world court recommended that neither side take measures to ex* tend the dispute and proposed fort mation of a joint board of super? visors to run the oil industry. Although Daftari asked the Maji lis for permission to sell oil to Britain, there was no indication Britain would accept such a move as long as Iran insists upon title to the oil? L Sick Soldier Is I i . 1 . Released By Army j Stanley Amborski ? Is Again Civilian 3 Chicago, July 11—(UP)— Stanley Amborski, the sick soldier who was smuggled put of an army ;camp by his parents, is a civilian again, The 21-year-old soldier got' his medical discharge yesterday after trying throughout his entire 14 week military career to cOniyince his officers he was a sick mad. Amborski had been in the army 26 days on April 29 when ? his parents smuggled him out of Qamp Leonard Wood, Mo., and too£ him home to Chicago. y 111J He had written his parenti that eamp medics had refused him proper attention. The army denied it. I The next day Amborski was admitted io Great Lakes naval hospital with virus pneumonia. Doctors there said he had chronic bronchitis and recommended his medical discharge. The sth army complied and handed the youth his separation papers yesterday at Fort Sheridan.

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r' — — j Actual Agreement For Cease-Fire Is Not In Prospect; To Meet Tonight j UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea, July 11. —(UP) — A < member of the .United Nations negotiating team said tonight thgt an armistice in the Korean war seemed "much nearer” as the result of a second tfday of cease fire talks with Communists at Kaesong. But he added that the program for the negotiations was Under dis- \ j -cusslon and indicated that no actual agreement on a Cease fire was yet jn prospect. Col. George Ruhlen. of’ Los Cruces, N. Mex.j a member of the \ (supreme headquarters staff in f ■Tokyb who was one of the negotiators in the seCond day’s talks said ■on his icturn from Kaesong: “An armistice is much nearer | tonight than It was 24 hours ago.” After that optimistic statement, ißuhlen said that the UN Red ’negotiating teams were still discussing tbe program for their cease j fire talks and "may not get down to (brass tacks tomorrow.” The UN negotiators talked to the ; Reds for nearly five hours in Kaesong Wednesday and adjourned until 10 a.m. Thursday (6 p.m. Wednesday GST). At the "briefing” Which followed < the return of the UN team to this , advance (bake below red-held Kaesong, Ruhlen said: "I think the talks are now on the tracks.” It was oovtous, however, that numerous obstacles remained to be overcome before the UN troops who were still fighting along the 100-mile Korean front could lay down their arms. . i UN negotiators were understood to have • rejected all Communists attempts to raise political issues In ■the talks? | A general i. headquarters com- , munique ’’progress is being made” but emphasized that no agreement on a program had been reached and said there was some difference of opinion on the priority r to be given various program, items. ’ r J Evidence that the UN command was hopeful was seen in the faet that arrangement? were made for 20 newsmen to accompany the UN delegation to Kaesong Thursday. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme commander, had said he wanted the press to stay out of Kaesong “until the conference gets on the track.” Delegates indicated they refused to discuss the red demand for withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea or any other political issues \ raised in the Communist "conditions” for an armistice agreement. The communique said the five Red generals representing North Korea snd China showed “less stiffness and were less formal” than on Tuesday. -i 1 • “This atmosphere,” it said, “permitted a better understanding between the negotiating parties.” The be t t'e r understanding brought announcement that at least 20 western correspondents * would be permitted to go to Kae- -te?song for the first time tomorrow. Only five allied photographers werb allowed to. go today The news men will nbt be allowed to enter the conference room which photographs showed to be under the constant guard of armed Chinese soldiers. The Reds previously said it was "too early” to admit the free press to Kaesong. On Tuesday the Communists had stated that withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea, the withdrawal of troops from the 38th parallel, a«d a return to the prewar status quo In that area and a halt to all firing were "basic conditions” for an armistice Agreement, . The communique on today’s talks said that delays' were caused because ojf language difficulties in correctly Interpreting and understanding the statements of the two parties.