Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1951 — Page 1

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CEASE-FIRE CONFERENCE IN NEW DEADLOCK

Terms Foreign Aid Bill Best ~ U.S. Security Wyoming Senator Warns Against Any Cut In< Aid Program Washington, Aug. 13.-v-(UP)— Sen. Lester Hunt, D., Wyo., said today that . congressmen seeking big cuts in' the 18,500,000,000 for ‘•- 1 eign aid bllT are "Joying with the security of the United States." ! J He told a reporter the giaht bill for arms and economic aid to non* Communist nations is “the best investment We can make” for the nation’s survival. Hunt is a member of the armed services committee which met in closed session with the foreign re lations committee to begin drafting - the measure. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., R., Mass., had been scheduled to report on his recent visit with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower who, it was disclosed, may ask for more American troops for Europe. But Lodge decided to postpone the report until Wednesday. j Hunt defended the administration’s program as Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga., opened a; drive to , . cut “at least" $2,000,000,000. from the program and Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., said that Americans must face the question of "how , much can we stand” in domestic and foreign military spending.” “What I am most concerned , about,” Taft said, “Is the total amount of military spending—at home and for arms aid abroad — rather than how much we are going ~ to spend for Europe.” .\ * Eisenhower toM Lodge 1 and the otheir members of the foreign relations group who recently inspected European defenses that the United States should “get out” of Europe entirely unless it steps up the program to halt possible RusJ sian aggression, j The official views of Eisenhower, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of, i . Spain, British prime minister Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill and other European leaders ere reported yesterday by the United States In a copyrighted dispatch. ' Eisenhower told the senators that : some day he may need more than ’ the six U.S. divisions —a total of about 344,000 ground and air force troops—now set for duty in the pact army. He said he would "hesitate to ask for if necessary. Other highlight istatements re- \ ported by the touring senators: , 1. -Franco, said Spain was a "be- ’ sieged country” unable to give its citizens the freedoms oF press and assemblage granted in America. 2. Attlee scoffed at America’s increasing cooperation with Spain, saying that some people still think they can "sup with the devil safely with a long spoon.” Churchill criticized the prime minister’s attitude. •J. Churchill, Britain’s conservative leader, also said that western defense policies must be based on estimates of the relative atomic bomb* stockpiles of the United States and Russia. President Vincent Auriol of France said admittance of Spain to the Atlantic pact would anger many Frenchmen because “people - always led by ideals,” and Frenchmen never would permit Spanish troops to be stationed on their soil. 5. King Paul and Queen Frede- / rika of Greece said their country should be regarded “as a place to build strength for attack instead —of merely a place to defend.” S, President Celal Bayar of Turtold the touring senators that his country would send troops "anywhere” if admitted to the western alliance. \ a -■ Decatur Boy Scouts 'Return Fpm Outing Decatur Boy Scouts and Scooters arrived home at 6:15 o’clock Sunday evening following an out- ~ ing at Philmont ranch In New Mexico. . ' , ’ ■ " — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight. Scattered thundershowers this evening, and occasional rain or ' drizzle extreme north tonight. Tuesday mostly cloudy and A A cool. Low tonight 55-60 north, 1 60-65 south, high Tuesday 7278 north, 78-84 south. I '' I „ .

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Russians May Seek East German Treaty May Be New Peace Move For Russians BULLETIN ' '■ Wash!ngotn, Aug. 1&-(UP) —The Soviet Union hap decided to attend the Japanese peace treaty conference next ' ' month—presumably to oppose the pact drafted by the western allies. Washington, Aug. 13 — (UP) — Moscow's next major “peace” move may be a separate peace treaty With East Germany to counteract an expected Soviet boycott of .the Japanese peace conference in San Francisco, diplomatic officials said l today. ] A prod for such action by the Kremlin <is a rapidly-developing , big three plan to scrap six-year occupation controls over western Germany. This would place Russian occupation authorities in the 'eastern zone at a serious propaganda disadvantage. According to the plan, the United States, I Britain and France would remove controls under a i “contractual arrangement” that would fall just short of a formal peace pact with the non-Commun-ist German republic. Troops of the three powers would remain in Wes|t Germany for defensive purposes. I , •. ’' Other strategy moves regarded as open to the Soviets in advance of the Japanese treaty conference in San Francisco Sept. 4-8 are -proposals for a big four meeting, a meeting of the chiefs of state of four or five powers including Red China, and a major propaganda barrage against the Japanese pact. There. is dwindling expectation in western capitals that Russia may try to block the Japanese treaty at the last minute by at- ‘ tending the San Francisco -conference. American officials said Sov- ’ let attendance would not disrupt the conference, although it might prolong the talks. Moscow has ignored an invitation so far. The United States expects more than 40 non-Communist nations to attend the meeting, thus assuring enough signatures for the proposed treaty. The final draft text will be circulated in foreign capitals during the next two days and will be made public here later this week. Informants said the latest draft includes no major changes in the general policy of a peace of “reconciliation” with Japan. Any Moscow plan to write a separate peace treaty with eastern Germany would be accompanied by Soviet demands that western troops get out of West Germany. Such demands would be rejected. Meanwhile, the state department took another swing in the propaganda battl.e over the current East Berlin; world youth festival sponsored by the Communists. The department charged that East youths were being regimented - by the Reds along old Nazi lines. Cleo Bunner Riles I| On Tuesday Morning | Native Os County Dies In Fort Wayne 'Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Cleo G. Bunner, 47,of 1005 Huestis avenue. Fort Wayne, who died unexpectedly Saturday shortly after being admitted to St. Joseph’s hospital. He was borif in Adams county but had resided. In\ Fort Wayne for the past 27 years and was a machinist at the Fort Wayne G.E. He was a member of the G. E. quarter century club. . Survivors • his wife, Zola M.; one son, Earl Bunner, with the U. S. air force at Warren air base, Wyo.; five sisters, Mrs. James Bebout, Mrs. Lester Brunner, Mrs\ Theodore Bentz and Mrs. Vilas Elzey, all of Decatur, and. Mrs. Gladys Rauth of Wren, CL;*’three brothers, Gifford and William Bunner, both of Decatur, and Forest Bunner of Fort Wayne, and a number ot\ nieces and nephews. Services wjll be conducted at 10:30 a. m. 'Tuesday at the Getz & Cahill funeral home, with burial in Mt. Tabor cemetery in Adams county. ' !' • ■ ■■ - ..A . »*’ . ' ' ’ - ’

Say Tax Bill Os 10 Billion Is Necessary Tax Experts Report 10 Billions Needed For Pay Go Basis Washington, Aug. 13— (UP)— Staff experts of the house-senate committee on the economic report said today that a 110,000,600,000 tax bill is necessary to keep the nation on a pay-as-you-go basis and avoid a budget deficit during fiscal 1952. The expert economists also said that any additional taxes above the $7,200,000,000 bill passed by the hoiise will have to come from mid-die-income groups making from $3,000 to SIO,OOO a year. Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney, D., Wyo., chairman of the joint committee, made the report public as the senate finance committee got down to work behind closed doors on the house-approved tax measure. • Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga., of the finance group said it would take the committee about two weeks to agree on a tax bill, but that the measure probably would not be in formal shape for senate debate before September. The committee staff said In its 41-page document / that military spending, based on present “assumptions,” should soar to a peak of $55,500,000,000 in fiscal 1953, and then level off. to about $35,000,000,000 by fiscal 1956. v Staff members emphasized that these were "nqt recommendations: they are not forecasts: they are merely projections in terms of present prices . . . pay scales (and) plans.” Meantime, the twentieth century fund said that a $16,000,000,000 tax Increase was the “only” way to halt inflation. The well-known private research foundation said in a report that realistic tax program would provide increases more-than twice as sharp as voted by the house and 60 percent greater than proposed by the administration. 1 Junior C. Os C. To Meet This Evening The Junior Chamber of Commerce will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the Clhamber of Commerce office in the DeVoss building. Several new projects will be discussed and the officers have requested that all members attend. >lli " . / Ecuador Charges Peruvian Attacks v Border Incidents Charged To Peru Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 13 —(UP) — Peruvian troops have fired on Ecuadorian border forces six times since a 100-year-old territorial qukrrel between the nations broke out anew five days ago, unofficial sources said today. The government claimed the Peruvians made five attacks —the last coming yesterday morning on the southeastern frontier. The sixth skirmish was reported to have taken place later in the day. The two South American naV Hons have hurled charges and countercharges at each other but few details have emerged from the scene of the clashes. (Peru claimed the trouble started Thursday when “drunken” Ecuadorean troops started shooting across the border.) Ecuador charged Saturday that' two border garrisons in the Zumba area_were fired on by Peruvian troops four times /Thursday and Friday. Two Ecuadorean soldier* were reported killed '* and two wounded. ' ' " ‘ " F l / The new reports came after Ecuador’s foreign office reiterated its demand for an outlet to the Amazon river through the Maranon river. The Ecuadorean announcement declared: “Peru is trying once more to solve pending questions by force.” \\ There was no indication, however, that the shooting had been extended beyond the Immediate border areas. ' ‘ ■ '/ ■' I. ' ' ' '■ r ' <'j i ■'

Decatur, Indiana, Mondays August 13,1951.

—i-- -1 f " > " Nam II Takes His Time At Kaesong ; 11| LJiiß TRUCE TALKS DRAG ON at Kaesanfc, where chief Communist delegate General Nam II glances at his wrist watch before entering the conference hall with General Lee Sung Cho. The Reds stubbornly insist on the 38th Parallel as the armistice line which the United Nations would put at the present battM front, north of the Parallel.

Three Slightly Hurt In Traffic Accident Auto, Truck Collide Early This Morning Three persons suffered minor injuries and another escaped unhurt when a car and truck collided almost headon just south of the Adams-Allen county line on state road 101 at' 7 a.m. today. All of them were brought to the Adams county memorial hospital where they were given emergency treatment, then released. Those receiving injuries were Mrs. Harry Lehrman, of route 3, back and head; Russell Fleming, also of route 3, severe facial lacerations, his son, James, knee and bead injuries. Fleming's daughter, Alice, escaped unhurt, but was also brought t<s the The accident occurred when Mrs. Lehrman veered her car onto the grass as she approached the Fleming truck being passed by a car driven by Harold Fast. The grass apparently was slippery and Mrs. Lehrman lost control, and returned to the highway where she collided with the Fleming truck. Sheriff Bob Shraluka, who investigated, estimated the total damage at S6OO. Sheriff Shraluka estimated the damage at $125 after a car driven by Jean Snyder, of Bluffton, and a truck driven by Loren Burkhead, of Monroe, collided at the east edge edge of Monroe on state road 124 Saturday when Burkhead started to make a left turn off the highway into a drive. The Snyder car was starting to pass when the accident occurred. There were no injuries. Mrs. Grace Moser Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon . Mrs. Grace Moser, 75, of 928 South Thirteenth street, died at 10 o’clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in a serious condition since May. j [ Born in Van Wert county, 0., she was a daughter of Wilson S. .and Margaret Teeple-Johnsoh, and was married to Albert Moser Jan.. 11, 1905. She had resided in Decatur since 1915. Mrs. Moser was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. J , Jj . , \ Surviving in addition to her husband, and a son, Audley Moser of Decatur, and one brother, Joseph Johnson of Wren, O. Two sisters preceded her in death. ' I Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. John Chambers officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

22 Youths Leave For Physical Examinations |Twenty-<wo Adams county youths left today for Indianapolis and their pre-induction physical examinations, the first such to leave since April 4. Those included ih the contingent which left today are; Clarence Edward Amstutz, Delmer Frederick Thieme, David Alpha Barkley, William Trexel. Jr., Robert Wayne Steiner, Lester Arno Backhaus, Richard Jerome Wemhoff, Hilbert Hugo -Thieme, Robert Bernard Kruse. Halden Schueler. Gien Grandlinard, Lynn Warren Poorman, Hubert Gene Isch, Christian Joshua Liechty, Clarence Edward Wanner, Roland Keith Foreman, Donald Lee Warthman, Eugene Costello, Loren Affolder, Paul Edward Kohne and Herbert Christ Marbach. 13 Violent Deaths Recorded In State Heavy Weekend Toll fs Token In State v By United Press Drownings and highway crashes ganged up to produce a one-two (punch that staggered Indiana with a big weekend accidental death toll. 1 A check showed at least 13 persons died violent deaths in the state ‘since midnight Friday. Three Chicago children became drowning victims as a direct result of a highway accident. Seven-month-old Morris Myers and his foster brothers, four-year-old Irwin Lee and six year-old Oliver Center, drowned Saturday when their parents* car collided with another vehicle at Hammond and overturned in a water-filled Rescue workers pulled the parents, Francis Myers, 35, and his wife, Bernice, 26. from the car. It landed on its top in the ditch after colliding with an auto driven by Preston Singleton, 19, also, of Chicago. Three other persons died in a collision on U.S. 50 near Hayden Saturday. Killed were Jacob Brinkerhoff, 38, Cincinnati. O.; his six-year-old daughter, Barbara, and Don Purtlebaugh, 23, believed to (Twra T« P»w® Three) Sobay Funeral Rites Held This Morning A . , I r .j.. , \ ' Funeral services for Ambrose J. Bobay, 61, of Fort Wayne, were held at 9 a. m. today from the Cathedral in that city. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A. Dapp was celebrant of the requiem mass. Mr. Bobay’s death occurred Saturday morning in St. Joseph’s hospital, following a few days illness. t He. was a brother-in-law of Mr. and Wn. W. A. Klepper of this city. He operated a shoe store in Fort Wayne tor 25 years and recently was employed in the shoe departments in department stores In that City. Survivors include one daughter and two sons. Three sisters and three brothers also survive. His wife preceded him, in death several years ago. ■ i ' 5 ' ’ v ■ - ■ ‘ "

Comm unists Throw Talks In New Deadlock; Insist Armistice Based On 38th

Report Naval Plane Missing, 12 Aboard Navy Privateer Is Missing In Alaska Kodiak, Alaska, Aug. 13—(UP) — A navy privateer with 12 men aboard was reported missing today on a flight .from Kodiak to Adak island, bringing to four the number of planes lost in the northwest in the past three weeks. LL Frank Brink, public information .officer at the naval operating re, sMd .the four-engine plan* was from yesterday at 9:84 i. m. Alaska time (3:84 p. m. EDT.) The plane reported its position at that time as 285 miles due west of Kodiak and said it had enough fuel to last until 4 a. m. (EDT) today. , Search planes covered the overwaler flight route of the missing plane yesterday, but they were hampered by poor weather. Planes of the 10th air rescue squadron at Elmendorf air force base. Anchorage, stood by to take off as soon as possible. i The plane was a PB4Y-2. It carried nine enlisted men and three officers, Brink said. Their names were withheld. Since July 21, three other planes have vanished in the northwest and today’s report brought ;to 60 the number of persons aboard the four missing craft. A Korean-airlift Canadian Pacific airliner 'disappeared July 21 with 38 persons aboard.; Six days later 4 ski-equipped Norseman plane vanished carryin g Mrs. Wood, the wife of a New Jersey scientist, her daughter, Valerie, 18, and bush Pilot Maurice King. On Aug. 4. another Norseman with a pilot and six passengers aboard disappeared on a 45-mile flight from Muchalat Arm to Tofino on Vancouver Island. The passengers were from logging camps in the area. Elizabelh Benlley To Give Testimony Former Communist* Courier To Testify Washington, Aug. 13 — (UP) — The senate internal security, committee announced today that Elizabeth Bentley, admitted former Communist courier, will testify publicly tomorrow about, the Institute of Pacific Relations. Chairman Pat McCarran, D.. Nev., said Miss Bentley already has been questioned by committee investigators in secret session. He identified her as “a former Communist and former member of the Russian military police.” At hearings before the house unAmerican activities committee in 1948, Miss Bentley implicated several government officials as participants in a .Communist spy ring which functioned here during World War 11. She said that William Remington, then a commerce department official, was one of her best contacts while he was serving in some war agencies. Remington since has been convicted qf perjury in connection with his denial that he was ever a Communist. The committee is investigating the institute—a private research organization—in an effort to determine if subversive forces have had any influence on U. S. policy in the far east. It already has questioned several far eastern experts. Congressional sources earlier revealed that senate investigators questioned slate department official John Paton Davies, Jr., at a super-secret hearing last Friday. Davies, a member of the department’s top policy planning board

Reds' Probing Attacks Spread In Korean Hills Reports Indicate Reds Lose Heavily During 12 Attacks Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Aug. 13—(UP)—Communist probing attacks spread like brush tires'hrough the Korean hills today. Reports from the front indicated Red losses were heavy. • At least 12 enemy attacks, in strength from 50 to 500 men. were reported. Eleven of the attacks were repulsed by nightfall without gain to the Communists. In the sharpest fight, two Red companies slammed into allied hill positions north of Inje on the eastern front. The battie was reported still in progress Monday night. There was no indication whether the Reds had made gains. In the same sector, the allied forces beat oft an attack by a full battalion of Communists. “At least” seven .attacks by the Communists were repulsed west and northwest of Kumhwa in the old ‘iron triangle” area of the central front, reports said. "UN forces skirmished with Red troops south of' the cease-fire conference city of Kaesong Monday. > It was the sixth straight day on which UN and enemy patrols have clashed in minor but fierce fights below the five-mile neutrality zone' around Kaesong. Near the east coast, allied units stormed a hill west southwest of Kansong. 27 miles north of the 38th par&llel. Two Communist companies drove the allies from the height Sunday, but counterattacking allied troops had pushed back within 300 yards of the crest by nightfall. Elsewhere along the front, the allies beat off repeated Communist probing attacks. Ten times Sunday, the Reds charged UN positions imbedded in the hills south and southwest of Pyonggang on the central front. All the charges broke against the barbed wire, minefields and Interlocking gun positions forming the UN line. There was no paying power in the Chinese and North Korean attacks. . It seemed evident that the Communists were feeling the effects of the day and night air attacks on their communications and supply lines. Improving weather enabled the (Tara To Pace Five) ———— ■ 6 1 Vidor Tonnelier Dies In Michigan Funeral Services Tuesday Morning Victor L. Tonnelier, 66, a native of Decatur, died at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning at his home An Benton Harbor, Mich., of a heart attack following a long illneeM. He was born in Decatur Nov. 2. 1884, but spent most of his life in Benton Harbor. I . He was a member of St. John the Evangelist’s Catholic church at Benton Harbor. Surviving are his wife, Janet; two sisters, Miss Emilia Tonnelier of Detatur and Mrs. Edward C. Dawn of Benton Harbor, and two brothers, Edward Tonnelier of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Charles Tonnelier of Ludington, Mich., and a number of nieces and nephews. Five brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the church In Benton Harbor, with graveside rites at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Catholic cemetery in this city.

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Reas Flatly Insist 38th Parallel As Basis Os Armistice Line At Korea Talks . UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Tuesday, Aug. 14—(UP) — The Communists threw the Kaesong cease-fire negotiations into a new deadlock Monday by insisting flatly on an armistice line based on the 38th parallel. North Korean Gen. Nam 11, the chief Red negotiator, called the United Nations proposal-for a line based on the present battle front “diad,” Red radios said. If the allies reject the Communis* “fair and reasonable” proposal/ for a line based on the parallel, “responsibility for a stalemate in tbe negotiations must be fully borne by the UN,” Nam was quoted as saying. Unless the alliee give In, the conference “will hot* in future have trqe significance and no progress can be made,” Red radios reported him as telling the allied negotiators. 1 * As the result of .yesterday’s developments the UN and Communist cease-fire negotiations will held their 24th meeting at, 11 a. m. today (9 p. in. Monday. EDT) with only the prospect of a further tedious deadlock < ahead of them. Allied and Communist negotiators met for 78 minutes at Kaesong yesterday. A UN communique called the meeting .“unproductive.” Later the North Korean Pyongyang radio and the Chinese Communist Peiping radio broadcast statements on Nam Il’s attitude which made it clear that “unproductive” was the right' word. Peiping said: "Nam II pointed out that if the UN side continued to maintain their mad plan and reject our fair * and reasonable proposal, responsibility for a stalemate in the negotiations must he fully borne by the UN." i At Sunday’s cease-fire meeting the Communists had seemed to give a hint they were ready to compromise, j k But the meeting Monday, artd the Pyongyang broadcast reporting Nam Il’s statement, indicated another deadlock. Allied % command leaders believed the setback, lika ones, would be Overcome, anfi they still expected the conference to end eventually in a ceasXire agreement. There was no indication at Monday’s meeting that agreement was near. The Communists even rejected one of chief UN delegate Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy’s replies to a question as “not satisfactory" before he made it. The conference nevertheless did not appear to have reverted/to tbe crisis stage reached Saturday, when Joy charged that the Communists had “slammed the door” on every allied attempt to reach an armistice agreement. The UN briefing spokesman was not optfanietic in his remarks to newsmen after the meeting. But (Twra T» Six) Civil Defense Meet Here This Evening Decatur ; civil defense director Floyd Hunter today urged all those volunteers ‘who pledged their services to the Adame coun ty defense program to be in attendance at tonight’s meeting when state officials of the program win review the entire program. “While we participated In past mockXraids," Hunter stated, "and while we have’t been able to maintain our quota of volunteers, this meeting will prove Invaluable for the county’s future defense needs." Featured will be a movie of the defense program as well as the awarding of wings, to volunteers who servo in the civil j defense. Capt. Forest R. Shafer, adjutant of the civil defense program in the state, and T|Sgt. Milton Ludlow were scheduled to .arrive in the city shortly after noon today to inspect sites in the county before the 7:30 meeting.