Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1951 — Page 1

Vol XLIX. No. 173.

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Allied, Red Annies Trade ■■. Light Punches Korean War Enters 14th Month As Reds Build Up Strength Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Wednesday, July 25—(UP)—Allied and Communist armies, now massed I , across the Korean battlefront at peak strength, traded (light punches as the war entered its 14th month . today. UN patrols jabbed more than ' three miles into the North Korean no-man’s land separating the rested apd re-equipped armies, testing the enemy win th fight on the eve of resumed cease-fire talks at Kaesong. • A feared ‘'doublecross’ Communist offensive during the four-day recess in the truce conference failed to develop. But allied officers - warned that the Red army had gained additional time to stage a summer offensive and now has enough troops supplies along the ( front to launch a 300.000-man asI sauft "at any moment.” £ ■ | Operating from patrpl bases well out in front of main lines, UN and Communist troops prowled through the narrow belt of land separating the. two armies and clashed in a dozen short but sharp firefi'ghts. The deepest penetration of the . United Nations troops was made north of the Hwachon reservoir on the eastern front where a patrol thrust forward 3-’,£ miles without making contact. Two patrols moved out more ' than two miles northeast of Kumwha. the southeastern cofner of the bld “Iron triangle.” also without ' t making effective contact with the Communist, front line. The sent out patrols in some sectors, and there was a brisk flve-mihute fight before one was thrown back on the western front. \ Four waves of B-29 superfortresses b!asted\ the key west Korean railway junction , of Sariwon with more than 70 tons of bombs. The B-29s aimed their cargpes of 2* 200 and 500-pound bombs at two; n adjacent railway marshalling yards at Sari won, which lies almost midway between Pyongyang the North Korean capital; and the cease-fire ' conference city of Kaesong. The bombers ran into some antiaircraft fire, but all returped safely. It is at Sariwbn that the main enemy u 'upply route in western Korea divides, one line running . directly south toward Kaesong and the other east toward the battle zone. [ Other allied planes also struck at Communist supply > routes And convoys- despite overcast skies. Dive-bombing F-80 shooting 4tars ripped the Kandong railway yards with 1,000-pound bombs. * At least 40 supply vehicles were destroyed or damaged by allied night bombers last night and early * (Tare T* Paw* aix> V ' -■■ ' County Council To ' Meet On August 7 Plans arc being completed for a special meeting of the county council August 7 to\ consider additional appropriations which are . ‘ deemed necessary to meet present emergencies. Such emergencies, according to law, might be termed flood, fire, tornado, or an act or God, but more loosely, can be-in-terpreted to mean that the counci' will meet to appropriate funds to * tide the county over uhtil the next, year's budget becomes effective -January 1. Paramount reason, of cbursc for the special session and the j-dd it tonal appropriations is the ever increasing cost of govjern- ' mental operation. Labor and ma|terials, especially the latter, will ( consume most of the appropriations. County offices} will be contacted to determine the fuh , amount of appropriation? needed for the next five monhs. It is believed that not all offices are in straitened circumstances. . A \ * INDIANA'WEATHER Fair .north portion Wednesday. Mostly cloudy south portion with occasional thundershowers extreme south tonight. Partly cloudy We dnwsd ay. V Warm Wednesday. Low toq night 60-65 north, 65-70 south. High Wednesday abound 9(k . - : . - v iA

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Additional Rain In | Mississippi Valley P|ace Sandbag Dike 3 Around Power Plant Girardeau, Mo.. July 24. — (UP)—A sandbag dike was thrown around the Cjape Girardeaufppower plant today to hold back tbs rising waters of the rain-swollen j Mississippi river, i The murky water/ rose three to four feet over the| ground level of the plant as they (spread across 40 blocks of the unprotected city, causing some waterfront industries to ctose down. Additional rain was forecast for the upper Mississippi valley today but the St. weather bureau said the Mississippi was receding slowly although its drop was retard ed by the runoff of yesterday’s downpours. I. The river crept slowly toward a crest of 41.9 inches here, second only to the all-time high of 42 5 in 1043. v And as it did, the wateij lapped higher into this dikeless cityuf 21.500. v Upstream on both sides of the river, soldiers and volunteer? worked tb patch water-?oaked levees. Army engineers reported severe seepage and recurring sand boils — where wate£ bubbles u!p inside dikes—along the Perry | County, Mo., levees and at Chouteau Island on the Illinois side of the Mississippi opposite St. Louis. Flash floods hit five Illinois coinmunities near the Juncture of the Missouri and Mississippi river yesterday. Punips were employed to drain sewers'already overburdened by the Mississippi. M. Nearly 80,000 acres of farmland tn St. Charles and St. Louis comities, Mo, were flooded damage to the St. Louis are| was estimated at more than |ls| 000,000. | Ip Washington. Sen. James I|. Murray, D., Mont., along with 1| other senators Reintroduced legiijlation to authorize the Missouri valley authority.] He said the devastating floods (T*ra T* P«ae Six) 113 Enrolled Here < In Auction School y The first actual experience for the fledgling auctioneers attending the 61st session of the Reppeft School of Auctioneering will tip held next Saturday, according tb officials of the school who note# that two sales will be conducted on that day. ' It was also announced that 11G students were enrolled in the school today. Names of these students, who hale from all, over the country and Canada as well, will be released ' The first sale will begin at |2 p. m. and the second at 8 p. m. Beginning hext Monday there will be nightly sale? at the Madison street site, with all students participating. The sales wil’ be held on West Madison street,; adjacent, to the Reppert offices, and near fcorth Second street. The students will auction off itens contributed by townspeople. ; Monroe Republicans Meet Friday Night To Name Candidates For Town Election Notice for a Republican town convention at Monroe nbxt Friday night to nominate a candidate for town clerk and members of" the town board was pojsted at Monroe this week. I f The meeting was galled by Junioy Burkhead, Republican town chalti man, for Friday ni;;ht at 7 o’clock at the Burkhead he me' Under thq present state law 2 I eligible voter? must attend the ccnvention. Dr. Harry Htebble, Adams count Democrat chairmab. said today that a Demqcsat town chairman at both; Monroe and Geneva would be named this week, prior to the- July 28 deadline, and these chairmen would set dates for the Democrat conventions in Monroe and Geneva. Democrats already have organize ed in Decatur an Berne under the statute providing for city chain men. Candidates in both Decaturand Berne were named by primary elections, while candidates in Mon•roe Geneva will be named by town conventions.

GOP Senator Urges Defense Spending Hike Sen. Lodge Warns Against Slash In Defense Spending Washington, July 24 — (UP) — Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.,’ R., Mass., said the 1 United States should boost its defense spending and should give Europe as much military aid as the administration proposes. 1 Ix>dge has just returned from Europe where he and other senate foreign relations committee menibers made a survey of needs before taking up President Truman's $8,500,000,000 foreign aid program. / He said it would be “courting disaster” for congress to cut the -.5'>,200,000,000 earmarked ,ln the program for European military hei P- I'- I President Trumqp in ‘his ’ midyear economic message yesterday said that this country may have ‘lto raise our sight?”' in getting ready to resist aggression. Asked about thi?t Lodge replied* "Os course we will. We should have started last summer.” ' Lodge's support of the president contrasted with a statement by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D„ Va. Byrdj accused-the president of wanting to "squander the nation into bankruptcy.” Other congressional developments: Controls —'President Truman expressed concern over the chances of getting what he considers a workable controls bHI -from congress., The issue is now up to a house-senate conference committee. Price controller Michael V. DiSalle is preparing a list of objections to the bills passed by the house and' senate. Trtiman voiced his concern at a meeting of his national•' advisory board on mobilization policy. t Taxes-Inflatibn — Secretary of (Twr* t*i Face six) Sen. Byrd Lashes Economic Report Would Spend U. S. Into Bankruptcy Washington, July 24 — (UP) — Sen,. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., charg-e-1 today that President Trumen seeks to "squander the nation into bankruptcy” by Increasing federal spending. ' . Mr. Truman’? mid-year economic message to-congress yesterday, in which he served notice that he may call soon| for more defense funds and more men undqr arms,; got reaction from Ibgisla ors who said they wanted to see details first. The senate foreign relations committee, seven members of which returned yesterday from a tivo-week inspection tour of European defense preparations, called secretary of state Dean Acheson to testify Thursday od the administration’s request for $8,500,000,000 for foreign military-economic aid. .. i Byrd, leader of the congressional economy bloc and one of Mr. Truman’s most outspoken critics, hit the ceiling when he saw the president’s economic report. “One can be for proper and adequate national defense —something for which some of us have fought for many years—without squandering the nation into bankruptcy,” Byrd said. \ “He (Mr. Truman) seems to be determined to squander us and tax us into federal bankruptcy.” It appeared that the spending fight, rekindled by <Mr. Truman’s statement that we may have to “raise our sights’* on the defense program, appeared headed for a big showdown on the foreign aid bill. Legislators agreed thgt if sizable euts could not be made in this measure, they probably could not be made anywhere in the president’s budget requests. Elsenhower was said to have warned the legislators to keep the economy ax off arms funds or risk a crack-up in the entire western- European ; preparedness program before it even begins to roll.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 24,1951.

FBI Agent Testifies I EX-FBI UNDERCOVER AGENT«Jlerbert Philbytck shown testifying before the House un-American Activities committee In Washington, named more than a score of peraortlf he da id he knew as Communists in the Boston defense area. Philbrack told the committee that he became an FBI spy after finding that the Cambridge Youth Council, which he joined in 1940 because he was interested in youth work, was espousing Red doctrine.

Adm. Sherman Body Enroute To States .■: - ■ f ' - Simple Service Is Held On Flagship Naples, Italy, July 24. —(UP,) — A special plane bearing the body of Adm. Forrest P. EhermaU left for Washington today shortly after the late chief of naval operations was honored in a aimpie segr borne memorial ceremony. * An honor guard of U.S. sailors and Italian servicemen stood qtiffly at attention .as the fourengined navy plane dipped its wings over Naples' Capodichino airport •in a final, tribute and set out across the Mediterranean./Sherman’s flag-draped casket was placed on the deck of the Mt. Olympus, flagship of Atlantic pact southern commander Adm. Robert B. Carney, for a 12-minute religious service. < i The ship’s officers and men totaling 570 stood, in reverent silence as six U.S- marines in full dress placed the casket on the deck. Chaplain Lt. bmdr. G. R, fcekard of Hickory, N.C., conducted the service, attended by U.S. ambassar, dor to Italy James C. Dunn, Ernest; Sherman, the dead admiral’s brother, and many other dignitaries. The theme of the service was world peace and the late chief’s, contribution to it as an qrganizer oY the free world’s defense system. Upon completion of the service, four marines and four sailors lifted the casket and marched slowly down the gangway to a black hearse in the dock area. The procession wound through the streets of Naples to the airport. Men of the U.S, Mediterranean fleet, commanded by Sherman before becoming ot.the nation’s topranking navy man, stood silently through the service on the ship’s Four American destroyers recently returned from the Korean war hovered in the background. Upon completion of the service, Sherman’s coffin was removed without fanfare to the waiting plane at the nearby airport. Ah honor guard of American seamen and Italian soldiers, sailors and air men stood at attention the body was placed aboard. Accompanying the coffin home was a marine guard of honor led by Capt. Clifford D. Miller of Tol,ed(#, 0., and Maj. Sherman Smith of Salt Lake City, Utah, Sherman’s personal aide. • The flight is expected to take about 29 hours. , f 1 ' I .' t, William Bultemeier Dies At Fort Wayne 1 * Funeral services tor William H. BultCmeier, .of 2803 Gay street, Fort Wayne, whll be held Wednesday "i at 2 p.nj. at Wellman funeral home. Burial will be la Concordia cemetery. | 'X u. A native of Adaijnu county, Mr Eqltemeier had lived in Fort Wayne tor 28 years. He was employed at thef Zollner Machine Work?. He is survived by his wife, a son and three daughters, all of Fort Wayne, and three sisters. \

Report Breakin At < Kocher Lumber Co. A breakin and entry of the Kocher Lumber company offices being Investigated by city police today, after receiving a report that prowlers entered the First business by removing the glass of a northeast office door. Desk drawers in the office were , tansacked and mail Vas strewn r about, but a check of the premises . ievealed nothing was missing . the breakin. according to compauv , ofticUla. occurred between 9 p.m. ‘Hlohday and 8 a.m. today, i— — ] ! Women Threatened L For Drug Testimony More Members Os Drug Ring Sought Chicago, ‘ July 24. —(UP) —Three relatives of teen-aged drug addicts were under police protection today as they waited to testify against a $ 1,000,0(M>k-year narcotics ring despite threats against their lives. I ( The three women said they received telephone calls threatening / them with death if they persisted in their intention to testify against the gang which allegedly enticed teen-aged girls and-boys into drug and sex parties. ! \ Juvenile and narcotics 1 squad officers meanwhile, searched for more members of the ring. Nine persons under arrest in the case were scheduled to face trial Thursday. The trial had beeh scheduled tor yesterday, but narcqtics judge Gibson E. Gorman postponed it after Mrs. Lena Pieroni, Mrs. Rose Fish-, er and a third woman told him of the threats. Gorman ordered police to give the women knd their families close protection. Juvenile officer William MqHoney revealed that a 15-year-old girl’s chubbiness had broken the case. The girl’s arms were too fat to permit her to Inject drugs into their veins with a needle. So she sniffed the drugs, causing a nasal condition which her mother thought was asthma. L When the mother ordered the girl, identified only as “Frances,” to go to a doctor she broke down and confessed thdt she had been taking narcotics for three weeks. The first raid resulted in the atrest of Joseph Girco, 19, son of Mrs. Fisher, Mary Lou Cqx, 23, Dennis J. Nolan, 22, and Joseph Galassi, 19, All were charged with (Tura To Pa«* Throe) r - " ■' • i \ , J. 4-H Band To Present Concert Wednesday \ The Adams county 4-H band will present a concert at the Memorial park on Winchester street in thia city Wednesday . evening \kt 8 o’clock. Jerry Zimmerman, director, stated that this probably would ■j be the final concert by the band prior to its appearance at the Indiana state fair. An iqe cream social will also be held at the park prior to and during the Concert.

UN And Red Negotiating Teams Meet Tonight; May Propose New Compromise

New Indiana Laws Become Effective Proclamation Made By Goy. Schricker Indianapolis, July 24 — (UP) — Indiana’s anti-secrecy welfare law with a possible $18,000,000 penalty tag and the state’s other new 1951 state laws became effective today. Governor Schricker promulgated the laws at 12:15 p. m.. minutes after secretary of state Leland, Smith certified all 92 Aoosier county clerks , bad acknowledged receipt of copies of the L296-page, four-pound acts. The governor’s proclamation af-' feets 72 laws enacted during the 61-day January-to-March session of the state legislature. ’ That is about 22 percent of the 324 new laws enacted. The remaining 252 carried emergency clauses and became effective* when Schricker signed th#m. Major laws made effective today open county welfare records to public inspection, outlaw membership in the Communist party, and enable city, township, county and state employes to become eligible for -federal social security coverage. The welfare law is the big political football. Republican lawmakers passed it over Schricker’* veto tn the closing minutes of the general assembly while the governor warned "the* federal ment will have no option but to discontinue federal (welfare) grants to Indiana.’* Those grants —about $18,000,000 a year—could be cut off by Oscar Ewing, federal security administrator. if he decides the new law violates federal security provisions. Republicans asked removal of the “veM of secrecy’’ on grounds it will drive chiselers off welfare rolls, but Schricker feared the law will violate the federal statute and deprive Indiana of ’its fair share of aid.” Ewing’s decision has been delayed, partially of a welfare law amendment sponsored by Sen. William Jenner, R., Ind., which would forbid denial of fedfunds tb states whose laws permit publication of names dos persons bn public assistance rolls. The amelndment was approved by a senate roll call vote last Thursday. / Iran Gives Terms . n To Reopen Talks Terms Kept Secret Over Oil Dispute Tebraa, Iran, July 24—(UP)—■ Britain received Iran’s terms today for reopening oil negotiations—the first such offer to start oil flowing again since the Anglo-Iranian talks broke down 35 days ago. Significantly, the Iranian memorandum was banded to British ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd by W. Averell Harriman, President Truman’s special oil envoy. Terms were kept secret. Until Harriman’s arrival here July 15 on a delicate mission 4o bring the two quarreling parties together, the oil dispute had been hopelessly deadlocked. The Iranian memorandum was forwarded to London. The British government decided only yesterday tb hbld off an important statement on the cil crisis. i There were reports, not confirmed officially, that the memorandum contained tour basic demands. The first called tor a payment of $56,000,000 by the British-owned AngloIranian oil company to the Iranian government. The second reportedly insisted that the company recognized Iran’s nationalization. The third and fourth points were said to deal with the sale andd istribution of oil—at present reduced to little more than a trickle.

Price Chief To ] ; Keep Up Fight J For Controls i|i DiSglle Prepares Renewed Fight For Hi Stronger Controls Washington, July 24 — (UP) 44 Price stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle rolled up his sleeves for another battle for stronger price controls and said he wouldrfi "give up until I’m burled.” i i DiSalle and his aides hurried to prepare an itemized list of the administration's objections to tiie house and senate controls bilh and the effects they will have on the nation’s economy. He was expected to reveal the list at a news conference sometime this week. The rotund price boss hoped to disprove statements by members of both house and senate that (the bills are adequate, before a 12man conference committee which meets tomorrow to work out a compromise measure. The current 31-day extension iff the defense production act expire? a week from today. DiSUlle’s main objectives : aiV power to control slaughtering! and to roll back beef prices. He and economic stabilizer Eric As Johnstort have warned that black markets will appear it slaughtering is not controlled, and that the whole level of prices will rise without rollback authority. Both the house and senate tossed out two future beef price rollbacks which DiSalle said would clip the retail price of beef by eight to 10 cents a pound by fail. However, officials es the offiep of price stabilization (OPS) said the house measure probably would leave room for slight beet price rollback. _ . ; U The first beef rollback, which was left intact by both was a 10 percent curb, but applied only to live cattle. President Truman expressed hope yesterday that the conference committee would come up with the anti-inflation powers requested by the He has hinted that he would veto any legislation which he did not consider a "workable” bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn and; sedate Democratic leader Ernest W(T«ra Ta Pace Ka) ■ ;I, ' - JI — Hearing Conducted For School Repairs! $13,000 Fund Asked For H George Gable, field representative of the state board of tax commissioners, today conducted a public hearing for additional appropriations for Wabash township, the money to be utilized for repairs of the Geneva school building. I ] Wabash township trustee C. A. Mann and Decatur attorney John DeVoss met with Gable in the commissioners* room of the county court house to further discuss the appropriation, which amounts : tq $13,000. - ] The matter was referred tb the state board of tax commissioner* |or final approval. Gable will also conduct the hearing on the remonstrance filed; by approximately 750 persons Monday seeking the cut-off of the cumulative building, fund for the 1052 budget. The hearing date is set tor July 31. | ||l j The remonstrance asks that -the hearing be held and the building fund not be allowed. A previous sinking fund, put in the budget in 1949, was recently voided by Judge Burr Glenn in the Huntington circuit court. He decided at the tiine that the fund was not properly initiated. >

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Ninth Cease-Fire 10 MW I- *1 H • ■ * |Session To Follow Four-Day Recess; Fateful Conference Vn Advance Base Below Kaesong. Korea; Wednesday, July 25 —(UP) —United Nations negotiators prepared today for resumption of cease-fire negotiations in Kaesong witbin a few hours. They believed that the Communists may propose a compromise that will lead to eventual agreement. The UN and Red negotiating teams, meet* at 11 a. m. (7 p. m. Tuesday OST) in their ninth cefise-fire session after a four-day rebe>s which was ,asked by the Communists when talks stalled over their demand for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. - It is a fateful meeting on which A the iseue of peace or continued war may hinge. The Korean conflict entered its 14th month today. • The. Communists, on the ‘eve of the resumption of negotiations, renewed their demand in a radio broadcast, last night that UN troops get out of Korea. Despite this, optimism increased at this advance cease-fire base 20 miles below Kaesong. The feeling is that the Chinese Communists especially have their fill of war | a*d w*«rtly want an agreement.lt I i* !i >*ed that they may propose a I face-saving formula which the al- . lies can accept. The situation as the UN team prepared to leave tor Kaesong this morning is this: The eight meetings so far have been concerned solely with drawing up a program for actual ceasefire negotiations. * The UN team is prepared to start these negotiations on the basis of program items so far agreed upon. ( i ? ’ ' i - But,the Reds have insisted that the question bf withdrawing foreign troops be put formally on the program.' The UN has rejected thisNow the question is whether the Reds will give in and permit actual peace negotiations to start. One UN informant said that if the Communists go back with a desire to agree ou the troopl issue and present an acceptable compromise the program can be completed rapidly and actual peace talks can be started. If the talks fail, the UN command is prepared f -' to fight. The' negotiations came to a temporary halt Saturday in a deadlock over the Red demand tor withdrawal of UM forces as a condition of an armistice. Somie allied circles believed the Communist negotiators, after con•ultlng their superiors in Pyongyang, Peiping and possibly Moscow, will introduce some sort of I face-saving compromise proposal tomorrow. The early feeling that the Communist - requested postponement was a ruse to cover offensive pre- - pa rations was almost gone. Most source* felt that .if the Reds were planning some treachery, something would have happened batore\ tbis. j i ' \ Ground fighting along the 135- \ mile front continued to be on only g minor scale. Don Mansfield Out Few Hours Each Day jDon Mansfield. Decatur young man who whs seriously injured a month ago in an automobile mishap at Fort Wayne, and who wau unconscious at St. Joseph hospital more than 10 days, is able to b#'outside tor a few hours each, r*#-1 ■ I * Mansfield visited the Daily Democrat office this afternoon for a few minutes. Attending physicians, who tor several days held little hope tor his -recovery, believe now that he will completely recover. He suffered a fractured skull and < rushed chest in addition to severe cuta and bruises.