Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX.No.

CEASE-FIRE TALKy REMAIN INDEADLfICK

AllietfPlanes Attack North Korea Capital ‘ /UN Ground Forces S In Major Victory By Capturing Hill Bth Army Headquarters, Korea. Tuesday. July 11-V (UP) —Allied warplanes attacked the North Korean capital of Pyongyang Monday. and a Red broadcast said the "city people's comma tee bulldinr —apparently the city hall was demolished While the allied planes were striking l*N ground forces won a - major victory on the east-central front by capturing the last of a series of bills dominatinfl that entire area. The combined air and ground attacks were made as UN and Communist negotiators in Kaesong agreed that the war will continue unabated until a ceasefire is signed , Allied jet and fighter bomber planes took the war to the enemy capital, starting fire* so large that the smoke made it impossible U, estimate damagb Three allied planes were lost. Including two F-4U corsairs which collided la extremely bad visibility near Pyongyang A third plane exploded when small arms fire bit It just north of the battle line Pilots of all three planes were given up for loot

The North Korean Pyongyang radio, reporting that the “city pls's eanunlltea' building wm_ destroyed by the plan—, comptakaad that Americana attacked the rtty “whea eaaee fire talk* are being coed acted” Pyongyang radio anta M American planes bombed and strafed the moot congested . residential! ares of the city toe about one hoar and that many women and | dree were killed. 9*Uota returning from the Pyong- 1 yang attack said smoke from the 1 flrwa and explosion rose so rapidly. merging with low rlottda. that they were unable to estimate the damage B-29 amperfort resses attacked j the ports of Cblnnampo and Kjoaljki on the west coast southwest of Pyongyang, and Hambung on the east coa*L UN Infantrymen climaxed a savage day attack by fighting tbelr way to a mountaintop.north •ast of Yanggu on the east central frosst and taking it in hand-to-hand fighting They smashed through veteran Commnntat troops fortified In aoF hily built trenches under mortar, machine gun and small anna fire. The allied forces had previously taken adjoining hill*, linked Into a line of defense which dominated the front for miles A* the allies reached the crest of the remaining hill in an attack which covered three sides of IL the Reds fled the area. Commissioners Meet In Special Session The Adams county board of rounty commisaioners was in spe rial session today reviewing an budgets of county officials prior to passing them along to the coun/ .y council, which will meet in Ita tegular session September 4 to reMew. approve or alter the budgets I-efore they are forwarded to » representative of the state board ut tax com miss loners Rites Held Today For Wait Infant Funeral service* were held thlx afternoon at the Oillig A Doan funeral home, with burial in the catholic cemetery, for Rodney Allen WaiL stillborn at 4:10 a. m. today at the Adams county memorial *u»pital. Surviving are the parents. Don and Fern Bierly Wait of tbis city ; two staters. Susan Marie and Linda Loutae, both at home; and the rrandparenta. Mr. and Mrs. Milo Cal Wait, of Columbia City, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Remy Bierly of this city.

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Crawford Fired As Arsenal Commander Fired For Accepting Contractors' Favors Washington, July 30 — (UP) —/ The army fired Brig. Gen. David J. Crawford last night as commander of the Detroit arsenal for accepting favors from defense contractors and taking government material for bis own use. Crawford got the stiffest punishment short of a court-martial that can be given a high-ranking army officer—a formal reprimand and relief from command; Army secretary Frank Pace, Jr., ordered the disciplinary action. He said Crawford “has not met the high standards required of an army officer.” Steps have been taken. Pace said, to make Crawford '"reimburse” the government for government material which he used to build pleasure l>oats for himself. and for transporting personal goods from. Detroit to his Maryland home at the army's expense. I Crawford said in Detroit that■ be "did nothing that anyone else I wouldn't have done—only, someone caught me at IL” Pace said that Crawford would be succeded by Brig. Gen. Carroll t 11. Deitrick. now commander of the Watertown. Mas*.? Crawford was ordered to slay in Detroit pending his next assignment. The army secretary said he fired Crawford on the basis of a report by the army inspector general. who was sent to Detroit last ***k after public hearings in the motor city by a house armed ser

I vices subcommittee beaded by Rep Porter W Hardy. D.. W. Va. Pace emphasized that the army’s tav«s(igatlhu revealed no evidence st “any contractual Irregular trie* or. the part of Gen Crawford ". He I added that the general had done an “outstanding” job in. organlzI ing and developing the tank-auto-I motive renter. •Nevertheless." Pa ce g*jd “Gen Crawford's failure to meet the | high standards required of I army officer cannot be condoned." Pare said the array Inspector j general found Crawford guilty of violating army regulations by accepting free hospitality from a i contractor Crawford adfltted that he occu4 pled a suite In Washington's done gressional hotel twice during June as guest of a representalivJ of the Continental Foundry at fl Engineering Co.. East Chkagd. ‘lnd., and the Pacific Car -ail Foundry Co. Seattle. The tvdi companies had 633.000.000 worfh of lank turret contracts with tie Detroit ordnance center. f Pace said Crawford also Uc- • cepted "the gift of a boat keel ffcr his personal use from • repre*« tative of a steel firm” which had some contracts with the arsedal <Twrw Te Pace rive) Ask Contributions For Flood Relief I Only One-Tenth Os Goal Donated Here J A little over one-tenth of the 1600 goal for Red Cross flood |relief has been raised, Mrs. jjax Schafer, executive secretary, Announced today. Contributions totaled >66.95 at noon, which did not include de nations made by Sunday school classes at several of the churches ] esterday. Announcements of :he Red Cross flood relief drive wpre mads from the pulpits in local churches Sunday. Gift boxes were placed at the First State Bank and the Daily Democrat office today. It yas announced, that Red Cross volunteers in uniform would be statloni ed at the bank frtftn WedneiSiay t through Saturday in promotion of ( the drive. . ; A campaign will be conducted . In Berne and Geneva and 'gift boxes will be placed at those points by the chairmen in charge of those divisions. i Contributions may he sent* to the Red Cross office in this!city - or placed In the boxes at the |»ank » and newspaper office. The mpney > will be used to aid flood er- ! ers In the Missouri and Krnisaa areas. Where the loss Is estimated at more than a billion » I

Expect House Passage Today , Os Control Bill f Economics Control 1 I Bill Likely To Go W * To Truman Tortighf *! I- Washington, July 30 — (UP» — democratic congressional' leaders old President Truman teday that he new economic controls bill kould be before him for signal ure late today. House speaker Sam . Rayburn said after talking with the president that he expects the house to Approve a conference .'committee import on the bill during the day, tending the finished-legislation to tie White House, I "Will he sign Rayburn was abked. ' | "1 don't know.” he-said. .“It is а, better bill than M thought we wuld get at the start Frankly, 1 think it's a Vdrkable bill." iOther sources said there is no question the president will sign tile bill although ft does not give h|m the added jnobilixation powers he wanted: Controls author,tL?Xplreß Bt mU,BiKhl Tuesday. JThe measure, drafted by a ?>'• ->■ senate conference cornmitl*s* t»y the senate Ute Friday The house must fol--I<A* suit before midnight tomorrow. wb4n a 3d-day extension of pfesent controls empires. ;Co«grejssional leaders predicted that Mr. Truman would approve t|r bill, .odtiapaghdenies him ntany of the and anti liflaiion powers which be request eyi It J;-pearw<\:lHrely that Mr. Truman >‘«n the uraavure with an angry aimed particularly th< bill's price ntrol authority. ’ The bill MkO Perm It some roll-, to pre Korean levels on prices of fton-ajjrtcultural c6ta> podities retain the present It) pertent.heef price rollyback. HowevuV, tg 1, would open ‘the way for price Increases where current ceiling prices do not take into account cost <tareases since the Korea No rollback cueK be effected and no celling that was not based o< the highest price during th»-Jsi£jnonths pre ceding the Korean outbreak, ad(Twrw Gary Is Second In Slate Population Decatur Figure Os 7,271 Certified July 30-HUP)— Final official 1950 population figures certified to governor Schricker today by the U.S. buireta of the census showed that the biggest dosen cities in Indiana In 1940 held their rank despite fluctuations over the 10-year period. There was a little juggling for positions on the list of 12. But the high doxen remained Indianapolis, Gary, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, Hammond, Terre Haute, Muncie. East Chicago, Anderson, Richmond and Kokomo. Gary, which, jumped about 20.000 in 10 years, took over second place by a narrow 304 from Fort Wayne. Evansville leaped from fifth to fourth, replacing South Betid. Muncie stepped up from ninth to eighth, replacing East Chicago. Population of the Wop doien: Indianapolis, 427,173, first; Gary, second, 133,911; Fort Wayne, third, 133,607; Evansville, fourth, 128.636; South Bend, fifth. 1 116,911; Hammond, sixth, 87,594; Terre Haute, seveoth. 64,214; Muncie, eighth, 58,579; East Chicago, ninth, 54,263; Anderson 10th, 46,820; Richmond, 11th. 39,539, and Kokonjo, 12, 38,672. Other final official totals announced on the certification by Roy V. Peel, director of the census bureau, included: Auburn, 5,879, Bluffton 6,076, Columbia City 4,745, Decatur 7,271, Hartford City 7,253, Huntington 15 r 079. Kendallville 6,119, Portland 7,064, Wabash 10,621 and Warsaw б, ■ .| Peel reported that the total population of all 'lndiana- cities and towns, and unincorporated. with a population of 1,000 or more was 2,436,945.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Jyly 30,1951.

Examine Counterfeit Money w -At ■* a B . TV ' iA* 1 --<r \ *1 i /I f ■ ’ I K _ ' -Li.

AN INTERNATIONAL RING doing more than ten million dollars a year business in dope smuggling and counterfeiting, in operations believed bossed by Charles “Lucky" Luciano, was smashed Saturday with the arrest of nine persons. Shown above are U. S. Commissioner Edward McDonald (left) and assistant U. S. Attorney Louis I. Kaplan examining the phoney 6100,008 found in a satchel when they naebbed Anthony Martello, said to be a member of the ring.

19,000 Are Idled By Peoria Strike . Caterpillar Tractor Company Is Struck East Peoria, 111., July 30—(UP) — Production workers wept on strike at the Caterpillar Tractor company today idling a total or 19,000 workers. The— workers, members of the CIO United Auto Workers union, began their strike at midnight to enforce their demands for a 28-cent hourly wage increase. More than 2.000 pickets surrounded the plant this morning. They were broken down into groups of 25 at each gate. Picket lines were orderly. > / The plant, largest manufacturing concern in downstate Illinois, employs 24,000 persons.- There are (42.000 on strike and 7.000 others idled by the strike. Only office and maintenance employes were working today. The plant manufactures all types of tractors, from heavy bulldozers to farm tractors. It has been handling some defense contracts, and at present was filling two navy contracts for tractor-type earth moving equipment to clear land for air strips. Officials of the company, the CIOUAW, and the federal mediation and conciliation service met three hours last night in an attempt to head off the strike. However, negotiations broke off shortly before midnight and the strike was called at 12:01 a.m. The union asked for a 28 cents an hour increase. It said this would bring Caterpillar wages in line with those paid other farm implement company workers. The company offered from 7 to 10 cents. It said thta' was based on the cost of living increase sincs> 1950, when the company granted its last pay bike, a 10 cent a* hour boost. Several meetings had been held since the union and management opened negotiations 60 days ago. The union notified the company of its strike date last Friday. At that point, the federal peacemakers headed by Charles H. Alsip of Chicago were called in. Government stepped into a Caterpillar wage battle last year and baited a strike that lasted five hours. \ Pfc. Nile E. Lough Back From Korea J f*. ' . Pfc. Nile E. Lough, of Decatur, is one of 1,411 army combat veterans aboard the transport, Sergeant Howard E. Woodford, expected to dock today at San Francisco. These veterans* are being returned to the states under the army’s rotation system.

Junior C. Os C. To Meet This Evening There a'lll be a meeting, of all members of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce at * o’clock Svrrfuht the Chamber of Commerce rooms in\the DeVdes build ing. All members are asked to attend, tonight's session as several important matters will be disposed ct f-- - - Airman, Girl Friend Brutally Attacked Couple Critically Hurt By Attackers Denver, July 30— (UP)— Three mep stepped and attacked a 16-year-old girl while they took turns clubbing her air force companion with a tree limb when the couple' refused to buy marijuana cigar* ettes, police said today. The attack took placeln a deserted schoolyard as Cpl. Frank Baerga, 19, Bronx, N.Y., bid goodnight to the girl after a party. The girl, hospitalized in critical condition, could \ give only a sketchy account of attack. She regained consciousness and was able to talk to police for the first time yesterday—three days after the beating. // She told police’ the three men approached and offered to sell them marijuana cigarettes. ' "I don't use the damned stuff,” Baerga replied. The girl, a high school honor student, said one of the men leaped forward and struck Baerga with his fist, knocking him down. She sprang to his aid, police said, and oq? of the men seized a tree branch and &egan striking them With it; . j 1 ■ ' /During the attack, most,? of her vidthing was stripped /from her, police said,?-/.-. The young victim said she vague* ly remembered one of the:-men saying, “lay off of them and let’s get out of here.” | The next thing she /knew she awoke in the hospital. However,* police said both she and Baerga were knocked unconscious by the brutal beating and lay where they fell until thjtey wbre discovered the itext morffing. Baerga underwent ; a delicate brain operation but was still in critical condition with five skull fractures. ■/,? . jl : The party was a farewell get-to-gether held in honor o( Baerga who was to have left on a jurlough. The girl named three men as her attackers. They were .picked up by policfe and all three deeded any connection with the beating. Two*of them were to be questioned further today. The third man, under intensive (Turu Te Pe<e-Flve)

St&lemated Fourth Day On Fixing Armistice Line On Battle Front

Phone And Aluminum Strikes Are Settled; Strikes Threaten Major Auto Firms . By United Press Strikes in the telephone and war-vital aluminum industries were settled, bht widespread walkouts hampered transportation today and strikes against two major automobile manufacturers were threatened. United Auto Workers (CIO) agreed with officials of the AluminunwCompany of America to end. a aqgen-week wAlkout -the “nation’s most critical strike” — at ALCOA-’s Cleveland plant. On the west coast, 10,000 CIO .telephone operators reached an agreement with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company providing for a 10 percent wage boost. ,/ . jv However, a strike of 300 mechanics against Western Airlines went into its third day with little hope of an /early settlement. Negotiations airere called off after a meeting yesterday with no indication whe< they would be resumed. Strike votes were scheduled for this week against the Ford Motor cumpauk* and Chrysler. Ford said that if the 2,000 workers la J its Monroe, Mich., parts plant Walked out, it would force a shutdown of production in company plants across the nation. The union said the dispute was over a ‘‘breakdown in collective' bargaining.” . j ■ '1 Another 24,000 employes at Dodge main plant said they would vote on a strike Fridial'j/. /''// / A / Meanwhile, 10.000 auto workers at Hudson remained off their jobs as their wildcat strike over production schedule entered its sixth week/r' t The UAW strike at ALCOA In|J ■ ! (Twrw To Pave g; M ) Five Os Arrested AnfStilllliJatt Five Others Unable To Meet Set Bond j Five of the seven persons arrest-1 ed the latter part of last week re- • main in the Adams county jail to-1 day, for failure to meet the bond set for them by Judge Myles F. Parrish at their arraignment Saturday. I ■ . One of those free is the juvenile .who was arrested in the eight-hour long series of apprehensions by sheriff Bob Shraluka and city patrolman Dale Death. The 14-year-old girl was released on a recognizance bond, while Judge Parrish remanded the others to jail under bonds ranging from |SOO to 61,500. Mrs. Lucille Bodie was released from jail when she met the bond set against her by the court. She was charged at her arraignment Saturday with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All of the defendants, who. were brought before the court singly, pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them. All had been arrested Thursday evening or early Friday by police officials. The arrests culminated several weeks' and were made when one of the defendants was quizzed, admitted his part tn the proceedings and implicated others. ' This bad a mushroom effect, in that everyone implicated someone else, until ultimately the seven per sons were arrested, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, as wete Mrs. Bodie, of Tenth street, ♦ Eugene Dillon and Robert Gray, both of route 5; or of prostitution, as was Mrs. Bernice Hirshey; conducting a house of prostitution, as was the charge against Harry Hirshey, or o£ indecent exposure, charged aglinst Harold Martin, pf North Tenth street. . t

British Will Send Mission On Oil Dispute Plan Negotiation With Iran Leaders Over Oil Dispute Xr ' — London, July 30.—(UP) —Foreign secretary Herbert Morrisey -announced today that Brital* will send a special ■ mission, to Iran to negotiate the current pil dispute as soon as "certain points” are clarified. / < Morrison told the house of commons the group would be headed by Richard 'Stokes, Lord Privy Seal and minister for raw materials. Stokes is a wealthy industrialist. As Morris made the announce ment, U.S. roving ambassador W. Averell Harriman Hew fback to Tehran after a weekend of conferences with British "We have every sympathy with the natural desire ofthe Iranian people to control the mineral wealth of their own soil and we have agreed to accept the principle of said. ■ "What we have asked is thai agreements freely entered into un der international' auspices should not be broken qnHeterally witbpdt discussion or ' Morrison discussed ttje--bn crisis in the opening speecli of- a major foreign affairs debate on the middle eastern situation. U.S. embassy officials said Harriman hqd held “very aseful” talks with British leaders>c~mtconferred with Morrison for moreYhan an hour earlier A Teeple Stricken By Spinal Meningitis / David Teeple of Decatur, stricken last week with a. strange ailment and taken to the Cameron hospital at near where he was vacationing, is atil seriously ill, it was learned today. Attending physicians qtate that Teeple is with spinal meningitis. I He has lost the sight of one eye, least temporarily ahd his condi- | tion is regarded as Critical. How 'ever, members of the family ber.eve he is slightly improved and Sunday evening he Aras’ able to take some nourishme&L No visitors are permitted. - : 1 , v . Margaret A. Ehler Dies At Bluffton a 'I Local Man's Sister Is Taken By Death Funeral services for Miss Margaret A Hine Ehler, sister of J< L. Ebler, restaurant proprietor of this city, will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m. at St. Joseph’s church, Bluffton. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. / Miss Ehler’s death occurred Sunday evening kt 5 o’clock in the Wells county hospital. She had undergone major surgery and complications developed. She was secretary of the Wells county AAA office and was a lifelong resident of Bluffton. Besides the brother in this city, she is 'survived by three other brothers, Robert Ehler, with) whom she made her home, Hoy, also of Bluffton, and Charles of Hunting ton. Two sisters, Mrs: Fred Russell and Mrs. Charles Murphy of Bluffton, also- survive. Miss Bhler was a member of St. Joseph’s church, the Altar society Os tha church and'the Sigma Phi Gamma sorority. The body is at the Mcßride funeral home, Bluffton, where friends may call. ' ’ .

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4 UNAnd Conunuriisis , / Still In Complete \ f Disagreement Over ' Setting LiniF Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea, Tuesday, July 31.—-(UP)— Cease-fire negotiations remained deadlocked for the fourth day Monday over the fixing of an .armistice line on the battle front. Gen. James A. Van Flee L-co- ; manding the Bth army, warned his men against a possible Communist “ambush.” Van Fleet said Nations negotiators were acting in good ' faith and he hoped the Communist negotiators were also. But wanb I ing his troops to keep constant r vigilance, he said:\ L “We must not and will not per- • mit this great UN army to become a victim of a Communist ambush.” UN and Communist delegations I ended their 14th and longest single I session in Kaesong Monday still, in • I complete disagreement over the establishment of a truce line and ■ demilitarized zone along the 185-5 • mile front. - ! It was reported that; both sided • might soon agree to a recess of several days so they can give i question further study and consult 1 fully with their governments. 1 The Communists insist that the e allies give up 2,125 square mile® I- of captured North Korean territory Q by establishing the cease-fire line along the 38th parallel instead it of along the present front. »• Monday the negotiators agreed thai they will meet again -Jot day (7 p.m. Monday CST) and tfcat: the fighting will definitely continue s until a agreement i|as r been signed. , f The UN forces gave point to their 'J ’ leaders’ insistence that, ■ continue during by, 3 Winning a stirring victor/ on the 1 east-central front. They completed i the capture of a chain Os hills donjl- - d nating that entire area aftfer * bit. 4 - ter five-day battle. / The UN air forces kept up. their 1 i part of the war by battering Cnbmy ports oh the west an deast cqhst§. » A UN spokesman said on th«J . Kaesong negotiations that Vice . Adm. C. Turner Joy, the al- ( lied negotiator, hoped for a ’ > of the deadlocked but addedV “P r ’’Then* is nothing! to indlcaM that r a solemn is in the immediate offi ,ng ” • r 4 ‘ t Communist propaganda broadcasts said the Communists have no ’ intention of budging from their stand and warned that the,fate of the negotiations rests with the ai- ’ Hes. ’ ’ . 1 ,/ The Communist central Korean ‘ news agency accused the of ' “deliberately digging the talks” and trying to seize thk “rnqst important districts of NOrth Korea.” A U.N. communique, said both sides “held firm to views" on the second item on the /agenda—the whereabouts of the' cease-fire line and the creatipnf of a des, (Tur* To Page jTMbree) 7T~ Emil Baumgartner Prisoner Os China 5 .!' / ' ~;i. -k, // : I '/d ■■ Mr .and Mrs. Emil Baumgartner, ' of this city, recently received word from the war department thdHheir son, Emil, 23, was being held in Petlca, China, aa a prisoner of war of Communist China. Pfc. Baumgartner, a member of a military police battalion, was re- ’ ported missing shortly after the outbreak of the police action in Korea —July s—and5 —and it was almost one year later—July 12—that the Baumgartners learned of their son. The letter front the army explained that the parents could Writejoncq . a month to their son who has been in the army about three and onehalf years and was in Korea when the North Koreans . crossed into South Korea. . - |... . INDIANA WEATHER f Partly cloudy tonight and r Tuesday with scattered thundershowers northwest portion late tonight and most of state Tuesday. Cooler hear Lake Michigan Tuesday. Low tonight 65-70, high Tueeday mid 80's north to near 90 south. J ■' i/ : 5 ■ '- •