Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 174.

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Three leaders Os Underworld Are Indicted Costello One Os x Three Named Tor Senate Contempt U 1 , New York, July 25 — (UP) Underworld big shots Frank Costello, Joe I Ado/nis and Frank Erickson were indicted by rt federal grAnd jury, today for contempt of the United States senate. A warrant for Costello’s arrest \ was issued immediately by federal Judge John F. X. Coghey. Adonis and Erickson are both serving prison sentences, in New Jersey and New York City respectively, for gambling. I ■ . ' Costello’s / attorney, George Wolf, said he would .surrender his client to the U. S. attorney “in an hour or two.” The indictments grew out of appearances by the three men her fore the senate crime investigating committee here last March. Costello was charged with contempt in a nine-count indictment which would subject him, If convicted on all /counts, to a nineyear prison sentence and a 19,000 fine. ■' 1 The suave, middle-aged CostelIq. accused "by the Kefauver committee of beading with Adonis the rackets underworld of the entire ' east coast, was cited for his refusal to testify on two days because of alleged illness and his" refusal specifically to tell the committee his net worth. There wrtre’74 counts in the Indictment against Erickson and 16 counts in the one charging Adonis with contempt. Conviction carries, a possible penalty' of one year and SI,OOO-. fine for -each count. Costello testified for about 15 hours before the .committee, answering a number qf questions about his past but refusing to disclose his wealth. Both Erickson and Adonis defied committee questions. Erickson, > brought to the hearings from jail, refused to testify about any of his activities after his “graduation” from the fourth grade. Adonis appeared before the committee only to read a statement in" which he refused to be\ * questioned because, be said, he had been pre-judged; in an interim report of the committee. Costello Las not been tried’ on any charge for 25 years. His only prison record is a brief term served in 1016 or 191 V on conviction .foit. carrying a gun. V ’ Blame Leaking Fuel For July 12 Blast Indianapolis, July 25.—(IJP)— The explosion and fire whic'i. killed eight men and cause! ' 17,500,000 damage at the Allison ) division of Generaj Motors Corp, here July 12 was blamed officially today on leaking fuel. Coroner Roy B. Storms said an investigating committee of comparty officials reported a “consider able quantity of fuel had spilled' in the corridor of a cell where jet airplane engines Were tested. “The report said a broken feeder line to one of the engines could have spilled 250 gallons of fuel a minute. It said rapid evaporation ■, formed a vapor which “possibly was ignited by a running engine.' July 31 Hearing | On Adams Central ' la a\story appearing ip the Democrat Tuesday, an omission was made in referring* to a tax hearing to be conducted July 31 by George —Gable, .field representative of the state board of tax commissioners. The particular bearing on that date will be held as the result of a remonstrance signed by approximately 750 taxpayers objecting to the Inclusion of a 75-cent cumulative sinking fund in the budget for ' the Adams Central Consolidated school corporation. The notice of this meeting was included in a \ story concerning a hearing held on an appropriation for Wabash township and left the impression that the July 31 hearing would also concern Wabash township; actually, the hearing will concern taxpayers in Washington. Monroe and Kirkland townships.

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Flood Crest Passes < Cape Girardeau, Mo. Devastating Trail J In Wake Os Flood ' : Cape Girardeau, Mo, July (UP)—The crest of the most costly flood in the nation’s history r<sledr past here today, leaving a trail of <r decantation that took 40 lives, left r>O<X(g)O homeless and caused!a billion dollars damage. The muddy Mississippi river swept A along—4l.9 feet deep/ toward the Gulf of Mexico. All major population centers in its path were thought to be safe frotn flooding. 'r \ Water covered about 40 blocks of this .likeless city of 21,500- driving 200 persons from their watesfront homes. But most long used to floods, went about their tasks as usual. Upstream, however, 26,000 acres of farmland bordering the river in Perry county, Mo., and at Chou-/ teau 111., opposite St. Louis| still were endangered. V The expected drop in the river there was slowed by the run-off of heavy rains that hit parts of Illinois and Missouri. About 2,000’ soldiers and volunteers patched levees in the critical areas along the river. \ At McClure, 111., across the Mississippi from Cape Girardeau, there was severe seepage through the 50-foot levee and water covered more than 250\dcres of farmland. But though the Mississippi and Missouririver were dropping, thousands of families still were homeless.

The Red Cross in Washington announced that a “substantial oversubscription" of its 85.0(H),000'flood relief drive to aid 52,076 families in the stricken states of Kansas, Missouri, parts of Oklahonia and Illinois would be needed. E. Roland Harriman, ARC president. raid a survey of the area showed that destruction was “far greater than anticipated.” A t giant “mop-up” campaign to rid / the flooded areas of mud, silt,' and debris left by the receding, waters was underway in and parts of Missouri. State and federal agencies begad the job of giving assistance to floo<| (Turn T« Paicr ElahO rr ' I Fort Wayne Girl Is Killed By Automobile j ■ f Fort Wayne, Ind., July 25.—(UP» Ernest Smith/. 39, faced charges pf failing to yield the today in the death of old- Margaret Ann Yentes. Pol|c2 said Smith turned at an intersection yesterday and hit the girl pud her mother, Mrs. Mary Joseph Yentes, 29, who was injured Seriously. \ I .. ■ I /■/■ -,s - .j~ | ■ Traffic Injuries Are Fatal To Woman Valparaiso, Ind., July 25.—(flP) —lnjuries suffered In a traffic? accident six miles north of here Sunday were fatal yesterday to Mrs. Lois Davis, 23, South Bend. j - I • \J T. Rev. LG. Wright [ Is Taken By Death | Geneva Evangelist| Dies Unexpectedly, - The Rev. Leonard G. Wrigh|, 46, Geneva evangelist, died unexpectedly Monday night at New Lisbon, where he was preparing to conduct a revival service. | ' Rev. Wright, who had mads his home in Geneva tor the patt 14 years, was formerly pastor; o| the Geneva He; had been in the ministry for 30 yijears. He was born near Winchester Jan. 31, 1905. a son of Alton? and Bessie Steed-Wright and was>ap ried to Evona May March 16, 4927. Surviving in, addition to hls?wife are a son, Gordon L., in the air force at Yale University; \a daughter, Norma 1... at homp; his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs, Whistler of Farmland, and | one brother, the Rev. Lemoine Wright of Farmland. f Funeral services will be conducted at* 2 p.m. Thursday at the Methodist church at Portland, the ’Bev. Paul Todd of Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Fountain Park cemetery at Winchester. Friends may call at the Baird funeral home/ in Portland until 1 p.m. Thunglay. ' * * ■’' f ■' 1 ‘

Anti-Acheson Move Running Into Obstacle Unexpected Party/ Opposition Shows To G.0.P1 Proposal ' Washington, July 25—(UP)— House Republicans In a caucus today voted in favor of cutting off secretaiy of state Dean Acheson's payBut the count of 71 to 33 showed unexpected party opposition to the proposal and foreshadowed its defeat in the house. J \\'lT The Republicans plan to offer their anti-Acheson proposal as an amendment to the appropriation bill for the state, justice, and commerce departments, which is now v under consideration by the house. Despite the fact that Republican leader Joseph W. Martin, J?., of Massachusetts and other GOP leaders backed the move, many rank-and-file members opposed the “get Acheson” move. . Rep. James G. Fulton, R., Pa., /said that no GOP member of the ‘house foreign affairs committee ♦voted for the proposal at the Republican caucus. I Rep. John Phillips, R., Cal., is Chief sponsor of the move to force resignation. He said /that by direction of the Republican conference, he would offer an amendment that would have the rffect of cutting off Acheson’s pay. The amendment provides that iione of the money in the bill Could be used to pay the bead of a policyforming department if, \ within the fast five years, the department head had represented a foreign government. This means that the |Phillips amendment would apply fonly.to Acheson. > The law firm of which Acheson ' was an active member before becoming secretary of state /has represented the Polish government’ within the five-year period'. As a last-minute .concession to some who were not too keen about the original plan, sponsors of the anti-Acheson proposal narrowed it down so that it would apply only to the secretary of state. Carpenter Killed When Hit By Bin ' / ' I J J « Mt. yernon. Ind., July 25. —(UP —Chris Snyder, 60, ML Vernon Carpenter, was killed yesterday when an overhead gravel bin fe>l on him and crushed his skull.

Geneva Democratic / Chairman Appointed Thurman Baker Is Geneva Party Head « Thurman Baker, Geneva, employe of Central Soya Co. here, has been named Democrat town chairman of Geneva, it was announced today by Dr. Hqp-y Hebble, Adams county Democrat Chairman. • Mrs. Ityirriam Brown has been chosen as vice-chairman and Mrs. Clarence Buckingham has been named secretary-treasurer of the town committee.' These three officials will meet in the next few days. It was learned, and set a date for Democrat town convention at which time town board members and a candidate for clerk-treasurer will, be selected. With the announcement of Geneva Democrat party officials,this leaves only Monroe to be organized and Dr. Hebble said the Monroe organization would be completed in thrt, next day or two. Decatur and Berne held primary elections last May to nominate candidates for office on the Democrat and Republican tickets. Monroe and Geneva will name their candidates by town conventions. • \ According to the statute, the party officials set the date for town conventions and the chairman and secretary act as chairman and secretary respectively of the rtonventions. The Monroe Republican convention will be held Friday night, it has been announced.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 25,1951.

Plumb Discommoding > IT TAKES the Loe Angeles fire department to extricate 14-month-old Candy Johnson from this predicament, and she’s letting everyone know She doesn’t like the situation. Her foot became stuck while her mother (right) was in another rbom, and to get her out firemen had to uproot the bathroom plumbing.

Education Deadline For Gl's Ends Today Deadline For Filing School Applications Indianapolis. July 25 — (UP) — A 8250,000,000 honeymoon with education ended today for the majority qf Indiana’s 875,000 World War II veterans. This was the deadline for filing applications for schooling benefits under the GI bill of rights. The Indiana Regional office of the veterans administration esti-, mated it cost the federal government a cool one-quarter of a billion dollars to finance the project in Hoosierland alone. *■ Since the bill became effective June 22, 1944, a total of 155,338/ Indiana veterans traded foxholes and helmets for ivy-covered walls and caps and gowns. That’s 41 percent of all - ndiana veterans who participated in the last war. / The bulk of the government-paid student\s already have taken advantage 'of their rights. have finished their schooling. ; But there are 23,847 still'eligible, still in school, or awaiting acceptance in schools. ' They are unplaced in pre-med., dental, osteopathic students, teachers and others eligible to reenter will boost considerably the 8250,000,000 VA officials say between 66 and 75 percent of thq money goes for subsistence and the rest for tuition, supplies, equipment and administration. ". v Equipment might range from a slide-rule for a /Purdue engineering student to a /piece of rosin for a musical course at “the violin shop” at South Bend and a powder puff for a cosmetologies! college student. During the seven years of OI education, 243 Indiana vocational training institutes were approved. Flying schoqls and schools for beauticians led the list. / Today, 100 vocational schools still are accredited and reinain open to 10,565 veterans still ertrolled. Altogether 62,274 entered them. ( M. D. Cummins, VA regional manager, said many emotionally unsettled veterans found release in these schools, Cummins said 49,213 Indiana vets entered 46 approved institutions of higher learning z in this state. Most were graduated. Some completed degrees at their own expense. A few quit short of graduation. “There' are thousands of mess in engineering, medicine, law, arts and other fields contributing to the welfare of Indiana who would not be doing so ts it were’s for the GI bill," Cummins said. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warm to- • night. Partly cloudy, warm and humid Thursday. Low tonight z 66 north, 66 to 70 south. High / Thursday around 90.

Scout Honor Court Thursday Evening A Boy Scout court of honor will be held at 8 O’clock Thursday evening at the Decatur high school, with awards to be made to members es post 3060 and troops 61, 62 and 63. W. Guy Brown, city school superintendent, will conduct the court. More Funds Asked To Continue Probe Detroit Tax Arsenal Case Barely Started Detroit, July 25 — (UP) — Congressmen said today they have .“barely scratched the surface” in their investigation of five percenters Involved in getting war .contracts from the Detroit tax arsenal.' Rep. George H. Bender, R., 0., said he would 'urge congress to appropriate 81,000,000 to continue the investigation which halted yesterday when the hquse subcommittee ran but of fuqds. \ The FBI meantime hunted Wayne Campbell. 40-year-old exccnvict who failed to appear to testify during the two-day hearings. A federal subpena was issued for him. Rep. John Shelley, / D., Calif., said testimony giveq so far was sufficient in his mind to warrant .the removal of Brig. Gen. David J; Crawford as commander of the vast center. Crawford admitted that he, accepted the hospitality of an agent for Jwo companies he Awarded contracts. ' Secretary of the army Frank Pace said at Washington that "appropriate disciplinary action” would be taken against any army personnel involved In irregularities at the arsenal which hands out contracts worth up to 816,* 000,000,006 annually. Campbell was named as the agent who helped Joseph Weisner get defense contracts for his Fairchild Engineering company. Weisner said that Campbell, who served six months In federal prison for stealing 3,600 gallons of antifreeze from the arsenal while employed there, gave out more than 8200,000 in loans to contractors of the arsenal and at least one arsenal employe. c —L Evansville Youth Held For Holdup Mt. Vernon, Ind., July 25.—(UP) —Robert Wesley Phipps, 20, evansville, implicated in the ' July 14 hold-up of a Wadesvllle service station and case, was to be re tul-ned here today from Elkston. Ky., to face robbery charges. Phipps was ■ implicated in the hold-up in confessions by Edward O’Dell Taylor, 20, and James T. Epps, 24, Evansville. Both pleaded guilty in Posey circuit court and were sentenced: to 10 to 25 years Jn the state reformatory.

New Proposal Made By Communists On Troop Withdrawal Dispute

UN Is Reinforcing Lines Against Any Surprise Drive By Communist Forces Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, July 25— (UP) —United Nations forces skirmished with Communist troops outside the cease-fire conference city of Kaesong today and reinforced the allied lines against any surprise Red offensive. ■ UN patrols north of the Imjin river on the western front reported increasingly numerous clashes with Communist patrols just outside the five-mile limit around demilitarised Kaesong. A dispatch from the UN base 'camp below Kaesong said allied tanks, troop-earrying vehicles and quartermaster supply units were rumbling north along the SeoulKaesong highway to strengthen the allied defense lines. UN .sources have speculated from the start of the cease-fire talks that the Communist peace hid might be just a cover for preparations for a new Red offensive by upwards of 650XMM) troops. Ground activity nevertheless was still on a relatively small scale.. Belated field reports Indicated the heaviest action was on the eastern front west southwest rtf Kansong, 26 miles north of the 38th parallel. Allied troops stormed a Com-munist-held hill there for the fourth straight day Tuesday, bat failed to dislodge a well-entrench-ed enemy battalion. Heavy machine gun and mortar fire forced the allies to withdraw. The Communist fire subsided Tuesdhy night. Two other allied units in the same area engaged other enemy groups dug in on hilltops. On the east-central front, a Communist company ambushed a UN combat patrol north northeast of Yanggu Tuesday and split it in two. One group fought its way through bitter Communist fire to safety. Sometime /later the second group also reached UN lines, but it had suffered some losses.

Floyd Cook Winner Os Driver's Award Winner Tuesday Os Daily Award Here Floyd Cook, who currently resides at the Porter Trailer camp on North Thirteenth, waaf the Tuesday winner of the Chicago Motor club’s 85 award for driving safely through the streets of the city. The award was made by L. E. Anspaugh, safety director of the Chamber of Commerce, and one of the officials who will present the five awards throughout this week. Cook is no novice at receiving safe driving awards, being the recipient of one of the awards sented by a brewing company in the city several years ago, and also an award for 25 years of safe driving iq Indianapolis. The driver has been operating a vehicle for 35 years. Anspaugh began checking the driving performance rtf Cook on Jackson street. The award winner was heading west at the time, and Anspaugh, in giving a detailed account, stated "he displayed caution at all intersections.” I Before turning right on Fifth street off Jackson, the driver came to a complete stop, then proceeded to Indiana, signalled his left turn, and drove to Seventh street, and again brought his vehicle to a complete stop prior to making a righthand turn, crossing over to Dayton avenue. When making the Seventh street turn. Cook slowed his car for two bicyclists, and didn't resume the legal speed until past them. Driving west on Dayton, the driver slowed for the Pennsylvani| railroad tracks, proceeded across thefn cautiously, and shortly thereafter was stopped by Anspaugh and notified that he had been chosen as Tuesday's “safe" driver.

Warn Os Likely Need To Boost Military Power Truman, Two Top Cabinet Members In Strong Warning (| Washington, July 25 — (UFj —* President Truman and the two top members of his cabinet wene on record today with strong warnings that it may be necessary to increase America’s military manpower regardless of what happens in Korea. Here is the picture as they outlined it: 1. President Truman, in ,his mid-year economic report to congress, said the site of the armed forces may have to be increased beyond the present goal of 3,500,00<? The manpower act now authorizes the armed dorces to go/up to 5,000,000, but the present spending goal is 3,500.000. 2. Defense secretary George ;C. Marshall told a news conference that there have been some, discussions of the necessity Ot increasing the size of the armed forces. He said a decision would not be xnade until October, when discussions will open on the /budget for the* fiscal year beginning on July 1' 1952. 3. Secretary of state Dean Acheson, speaking last night In Detroit said that Russia and ‘ier satellites had ground forces totaling about 9,000,000 men. He sa(d Russia had 4,000,000, the Chinese Communists 3,500,000, and Rus sia’s European satellites about 1,000,000. Acheson said the Kremlin has 20,000 first line aircraft —aboiit four or five times as many as the! United States has. Acheson said the United States and its allies do not have to match Russia and her satellites man jfot man, but that they have a long way to go before being properly prepared to meet aggression, iTI If Mr. Truman and his top diplomatic and defense advisers are preparing the public for a sizeable increase in military manpower, they can expect stubborn opposition from some quarters in con-, gress. particularly over additional money and the probable necessity of calling up more draftees. Begin Resurfacing Stretch Os Highway h Mile On 224 West J Os City Resurfaced The Studebaker Construction company, of Uniondale, and contractors to repair U. S. 224, Tuesday began resurfacing the short oue-miie stretch of that highway west of Decatur. Officials of the contracting company stated that the job “should be completed shortly,” The bridge near the Decatur golf course was recently reconstructed as part of the project, and the remainder of the highway will: undergo a face-lifting. A The highway from one mile west of the city to Markle was com-, pleted last year, making that stretch one of the few easily-navi-gated roads in this section of th* state. ''' / The Studebaker company, also contractors for repairing U. S. 224 for six miles east of Decatur, will begin that project once the current paving job is done. This will give the east and weat approaches to the city a muchneeded resurfacing, and will be what city councilman hope the forerunner of more extensive work. Counciknen recently adopted a (Twr* T» ram Six) '

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UN And Communist Delegates Reported Nearer Agreement J j On Actual Parley ./• UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea. Thursday. July 26. — (UP) —United Nations and Communist delegates meeting in Kaesong yesterday came closer than at aby previous time to agreeing on a program for actual cease-fire talks, it was disclosed today. i, The Communists introduced a new proposal on the question of Withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea which Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy regarded as so important he asked an adjournment until this afternoon. ilt was indicated that he asked tile recess so the Communist proposal not only coul.d be studied here but could be sent to Washington and to UN headquarters in New York for consideration. ' It is expected that the allied reply will be given to the North Korean and Chinese Communist negotiators at the meeting set for 2 p.m. today 410 p.m. Wednesday CST). A break in the deadlock over the Communist demand that the troop withdrawal issue be put on the program for actual cease-fire talks was made known in a UN communique ort yesterday’s Kaesong meeting. “The ninth meeting of the UN command - Communist armistice negotiations today made considerable progress toward the formulation of an agenda.” th4 communique said. “The general question of placing on the agenda the item of the withdrawal of military forces from Korea was discussed farther and the new proposal made by the Cora- . munist delegation was sufficiently interesting to cause the UN commahd delegation at 1513 hours (11|13 p.m. CST Wednesday) to suggest an overnight recess to . examine the matter in detail” Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, briefing officer, said that the new Red proposal' was “reasonable in content and phraseology," that it was “more temperate and reasonable in tone” than previous, Communist statements. “The conference ended in an atmosphere of ‘now we are getting somewhere,’ ” Nuckols said. Yesterday's events, Nuckols said, “knbeked into a cocked hat” recent pessimistic predictions regarding a cease-fire agreement. Yesterday’s meeting was a showdown one. The UN delegates had steadfastly refused to permit the troop withdrawal issue to be put on the nrogram tor cease-fire negotiations. It is a political question, and the UN insists that a ceasefire agreement shall be based on purely military questions. Ths troob issue, it is held, can be discussed if and when there are broader negotiations later. : It was indicated today that there is eice'lent hope that this crisis at least is over, regardless whether more come up later. /. • Usually well informed sources here believed the new Communist proposal might prove to be a compromise which was designed primarily to “save face” for the Reds, while actually it gave way to basic UN contentions. In the first report of the session from'the Communist side the North Korein Pyongyang radio said late last night that “there was still no agreement on the problem of withdrawal of foreign troops. / ! \ Y; . f. ■» • Bloomington Pilot Dies In Air Crash V Williams Air Force Base, Ariz, July 25—(UP)—An F-80 Shooting Star pilot killed yesterday in a mid-air collision with a training plane near Phoenix was identified today as 2nd Lt. James L. Correll, Bioomihgton, Ind. i Correll's jet plane crashed and burned on a high plateau after the collision. The training plane, - with two occupants, landed safe’v ) with only slight damage. I-i .if- "' ■■ : H ■ L . A