Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1951 — Page 1

di. XLtX. No. 192.

NEW UN BID TO BREAK 15-DAY DEADLOCK

Allies Battle Reds On Two War Sectors Communists Offer Desperate Bottle / With Heavy Losses Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Thursday. Aug. I®— (UP)—United Nations forces battled desperately* resisting Communists on two sec* tors Os th® Korean front Wednesday and drove them back with heavy losses In one of the fights _ Infantrymen stormed three Communist positions- on the hills southwest of Kumsong on the central front in face of machine gun and mortar fire. - The allied troops took the heights ands sent the enemy retreating toward the north. < ■ , In a battle Srhich still was In progress at' last report, allied troops fought to capture the third of three hills dominating the east-i ern end of the front. • j The other two hills west southwest of Kansong, 27 miles north of the 38th parallel, were seized yesterday. It was the third time in three weeks J\that the key i heights had changed hands. The : allies advanced only 600 yards up the third hill in 10 hours yesterday. They renewed the assault, at dawn today and the result still was in doubt at last reports. ' » . » Elsewhere along the 135-mile wide front only scattered patrol activity was reported- An undetermined number of Communists Clashed with an allied patrol Tuesday south of the cease-fire conference city of Kaesong. _ Night fighters combing North Korean skies early Wednesday l reported flresset by B-29 superfortresses in a daylight raid Tuesday ion Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, still reflected in heavy clouds. •' ’ At sea, UN warships carried their noh-stopjbombardment-of the Communist east coast port of Wonsan through its 183rd day and night. A navy announcement said the rain of shells and bombs had shut down industrial plants and slowed almost to a standstill Com-* munist efforts to supply their front lines through Wonsan, one of the maih junction points on > east coast highways and railways. Moreover, the navy said, the Reds have diverted 20,000 troops from the fighting front to ward off possible allied amphibious landings at Wonsan. Yduths Selected By 4-H Club Council 1 ;' ’ ' The county 4-H club council has selected William Bertsch, Jr,, of French township, and /'Aijno’d Gerke, of Union township, to attend the Indiana state fair boys’ camp Aug. 28—Sept. 7. The council also named Alice Ann Alt, Hartford; Gloria Crownover, Monroe; “Nolan Kirkland, and Chrl Bluhm, Watehlngtop, tj attend the 4-H-club camp at Lake McClure Aug- 19*22. This j trip is awarded by the county artificial breeders association. Council members who made the selections are Ervin Schuller Ralph Bluhm, Harry Lehman, Delmore Wechter, John Bilderback. Ann Smith, Mrs. Arthur Koene man, Mary Ann Ewel, Mrs. Ben Anna K. Williams, *tioine demonstration agent, L, E. Archbold, county agent, and Gloria Koeneman, 4-H club agent. David Teeple Is Reported Improved • David Teeple, of this city, who aDout three weeks ago WM Mriclp ?n with epinal meningitis and rushed to an Angela hospital, has been returned to his Clear Lake cottage; it w»« learned here today. Relepaed to his cottage home a week ago, Teeple Is shewing Improvement, though Mtlir in serious condition. INDIANA WtATMIR Mostly cloudy. Lee a I thunk tiershowers east and south portlons early thia evening. Cool|j er north and central. Thursday partly cloudy and cooler. Low tonight 6065 north, 64-68 south. High Thursday 75-80 north, 80 1 85 south.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NBWBRAPKR IN ADAMS COUNTY

Flood Relief Goal May Be Met Soon It appeared today that*the *1,200 Red Cross flood relief goal would be reached by the end of the week the fund now totaling 1974.62, R. E. Glendening, chapter chairman, announced. One factory group took up a collection for the flood relief fund Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary, said. Church and Sunday school membership supported the drive with substantial i contributions. Chairman Glendening said the chapter hoped to reach the goal by Saturday, or at latest day, when special colections will be taken in several churches to put the -fund over the top. Three-Point Ultimatum Is Given By Iran Iran Threatens To * Break Negotiations. Oyer Oil Dispute Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15. — (UP) — Iran handed Britain \a three-point ultimatum today and threatened,to break off oil negotiations unless it is accepted. Iranian vice-premier Hpussein Fatemi said \Britain must accept these threte points. ; 1. — Britain must buy oil from the Iranian National Oil Company. 2. — Iran will decide the amount of compensation to be . paid the British-owned Anglo-Iranian. Oil Company, whose nationalization by Iran led to the present dispute. 3. — British employes of AngloIranian must remain on duty at the huge refinery in Abadan, Iran. 'I Fatemi said Britain’s eight-point memorandum, handed the Iranians by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes Monday, covered only one of the three points — the purchase of oil from the Iranian National Oil Company. Iranian officials emphasized the ultimatum did npt mean that Iran had /rejected Britain’s proposals. The two delegations \ still were thrashing out disputed points at further meetings today. \ Fatemi complained that Stokes’ proposals were not the-ones originally relayed to Iran through U. 'S. roving ambassador W. Averell Harriman, who brought the disputants together. Fatemi said Stokes proposed a 50-59 sharing of profits | between Britain and Iran for all oil shipped during a 25-year agreement, Britain would have priority on Iran’s oil, but other nations could buy the bil if Britain's rights were not “prejudiced.” Bird Sanctuary Is Accepted By State Limberlost Tract Formally Accepted Robert H. Heller, of Decatur, a member of the Indiana state conservation/commission, revealed today that I the commission, in session Tuesday at Indianapqlls, formally accepted the Limberlost bird sanctuary, near Geneva. The commission, by. its action, adopted a resolution, subject to approval of the abstract and other legal details. The bird sanctuary, of approximately 12 acres, ia a 'part of the proposted Limberlost [ like and put*, which Is planned ultimately as a part of the state park system. Officials of the Limberlost Association, a- group of Adams and Jay county citizens backing the project, have obtained an option on 80 acres of land; Which must be obtained for the proposed luka, and are now funds to purchase thia tract, \ Heller, in revealing the commission's action, stated that engineer*) and officials of the comtnlssiorj will visit the sanetuary within a few weeks to inspect {Hk\property and Interview! Interested, citizens. ■ The resolution for the ‘ tuary was submitted to tn? state legislature at Its 1951 session by G. Remy Bierly. Decatur, and Ralph Hines, of Portland, representatives in the state assembly.

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MEMBERS OF SENATE finance committee are sho«wn in conference in Washington on the House-passed *7.2,billion tax increase sought by President Truman tp cover the nation’s defense bill for fiscal Seated (from left) are Senators Harry Byrd (D), Virginia; Chairman Walter George (D). Georgia; Eugene D. Millikin (R), Colorado; Robert A. Taft (R), Ohio. Standing, Senators Robert S. Kerr (/D), Oklahoma; Clyde R. Hoey (D), North Carolina; John J. Williams (R), Delaware; Ralph E. Flanders (R) Vermont, Senate rules committee member. '

Citizens Telephone Asks Rate Increase '' : I Petition Is Filed With Indiana PSC Indianapolis, —(UP) —The Citizen* Telephone Co., Decatur, today petitioned the Indiana Public Service. Commission for\a rate increase. President Charles D. Ehinger, who described the service his company gives as "better than any other telephone company,” Mid the firm needed “ino less than *35,000 more a ' year to operating properly.” The Citizens Telephone company today filed a petition asking the public service commission of Indiana to "conduct an investigation and hold a public hearing . . '. to determine the current fair cash value” of the local utility, with the idea of “fixing reasonable, just and compensatory rates” for the service rendered by the telephone company. The petition was filed with the PCS in Indianapolis today by Charles D. Ehinger, president of the local utility, which now serves more than 5,300 patrons through Its exchanges in this city, Berne, Monroe, Bryant, Pleasant Mills and Linn Grove. < President Ehinger explained that the fixing of rates for local telephone service will be a matter enfor the Indiana Public Service Commission to determine. However, he said directors of the company hoped that an increase would be granted in .view of the much larger investment made in company property when it converted to the dial Taxez And Investment The petition also sets out thgt the company’s “operating expenses and especially, local, state and federal taxes are substantially higher than those estimated in order No. 19238.” Order No. 19238, made in 1947, approved higher, rates for telephone service throughout the company's system. These rates were placed in effect when the dial system was completed. The switchover In Decatur was made last Sept. 30 and the higher rates were jthen charged to local patrons. In commenting bn the capital investment In the local utility, Ehinger explained that since 1946 It has grown from *360,009 to *1,180,000. The company financed *591,000 ot the Improvement project through the issuing of long term notes to an Insurance company, and through th* sale of preferred stock, Tbe FHC will set a dale for tbe hearing and also name the place tor holding the public meeting, Officers and directors of the company besides Ehinger, are, Leo Yager Chairman of the board; H, E. Hite, vice-president; C..E. Beil, treasurer and A. E, Voglewede, Secretary and general counsel, The coiipany was incorporated In August. JIBM and has operated con* tinuouslf in this community* lajter extending its system with purchase of the Bryant utility.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 15,1951.

Working On The Big Tax Increase Bill

\oung Swimmers' Hair Turns Green Indianapolis, Aug. 15. —(UP)— Youngsters in a southside neighborhood here turned up with green hair today. They got the dye job free at one of the city’s swimming pools where a sack of chemical used in purifying the water was dumped into the water accidentally. Pool officials said that except for turning hair green the chemical is harmless. Plan Addition To Monmouth School $124,000 Addition Planned To School '• Announcement was made today by D. Burdette Custer of the law firm of Custer and Smith, that the legal advertising in connection with the sale of *124,000 in school and civil township bonds for Root township would be started in local newspapers Friday of this week. The purpose of the issuance of the bonds is for a large addition that has been planned for some time to the Root township school and community rooms at Monmouth. A joint petition signed by 62 percent of the owners of taxable real estate in Root civil township and ovei* 76 percent of the owners of taxable real estate in Root school township, which contained 606 names, was presented to the township trustee, August Selking, who immediately called of his advisory board composed' of Hugo Boerger, Winfred L. Gerke and Martin Aumann. The meeting was held August 10, at the law offices of Custer and Smith, township attorneys, with the township architect, Albert Heeter and his associate, William C. Baer, of Fort Wayne, also attending. The board, after being presented with the petitiop duly notarized by the petition carriers and certified by Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, determined that it was sufficient and contained more than the necessary 51 percent of signatures of owners of taxable real estate in the township, and ordered the legal publications to be made in preparation for \the ’ starting Os eonstructiAi on the addition. The overall measurements of the school addition, which will be or the north side of the present school, will be 82 feet by 89 fe«L and be two atories Mgh, plus Him remodelling of the present dining room whic/h will double: the present space soy the hot lunch program and for community banquets, There will be constructed an underground coal atorage room 12 by 32 feet that will hold twd car loads of edal. Th? main ehljrance of the remodelled building will be changed to the west side. Gelling heights will be 12 feei. A music and art room 24 by n| will be on lhe first floor. In the basement there will be a shop area and manual training room 61 by 32 feet, a vo<Tera T* Page 8100

Approve Contracts On Plant Equipment Bulk Os Contracts C To General Electric Members of the Decatur board of public works and safety Tuesday approved seven contracts to provide auxiliary equipment for the proposed city power plant. The total amount was *191,524.80, for seven contracts approved by the board. Members of the city council were also in attendance at the i meeting and gave their tacit approval to the contracts. However, the contracts will be submitted to the city council at a later, regular meeting for official action. The General Electric company? at Fort Wayne, was awarded the bulk of the contracts, both In numbers and amount of total cost. Os the seven contracts approved by the board, GE was awarded four of them at a total contract price of *132.050. ' v \ - | The Fort Wayne company was in competitive bidding with Westinghouse to supply switchgear and auxiliary equipment, addition to the present power plant’s switchgear equipment, a substation, and power transformer. GE was low bidder for the total bid by approximately *4,300. Westipghouse representatives, who submitted a total bid of *136,353 for the equipment, had first credited the city with \ roughly *5,600 from a previous payment for equipment that was never utilized. However, though this credit made Westinghouse low bidder, the company at the last minute withdrew the credit, and the board of works awarded the entire contract to general Electric. There was some discussion of splitting the contracts between the two companies but when officials learned of the withdrawal of credit, it was proposed to give the lew bidder —General Electric —the entire contract, especially when consultant engineers informed jitty officials that the engines would be materially the same in performance though differing in design. The complete list of board of works’ approval contracts includes: zeolite water softening installation, for the nrevention of lime accumulation and assurance of cleanliness, toYtlte DeHaven Engineering company, of Indian spoils, contract price, *7.232. Acid-feeding equipment, to work In conjunction with th« wator treatment system, to controLaUfi* Unity, te the Graver Water’/Conditioning company, of New York City, 12,228, The Harnlshfeger Corporation, of Milwaukee, for an overhead traveling crane, at a contract price of ***.*2o. The Reld-Holcbmb company, of Indianapolis, for an auxiliary generating unit, for bid price of *13,497.80. The four General Electric contracts are for switchgear and aux(Twra T* Page Ms)

Proposes Sub-Committee Os Two Men In Attempt To End Cease-Fire Stall

Woman Blind For 11 Years Regains Sight Credits Recovery To Prayer, Faith Scranton, Pa„ Aug. 15 —(UP) — Mrs. Frank Cerra, stricken with blindness in childbirth 11 years ago, has regained her sight completely within the past five days, physicians disclosed today. The doctors could not explain her recovery, but the 40-year-old woman credited it to “prayer an<t faith, lots of faith.” In 1940, Mrs. Cerra suffered an optic hemorrhage,, while giving birth to the youngest of her three children. She lost her sight completely. “I prayed constantly for recovery and then, last Friday, it began to happen,” she said. Mrs. Cerra said she awoke that day with severe pains in her legs. Her family physician was on vacation and she went to another doctor. Dr. Alexander Muncbak, who thought she might have arthritis and gave her some pills. She came back to Munchair on Saturday and confided to him that shp believed she could see “just a little bit.” * \ / “And white I was, sitting in hie office my sight kept improving all the time,” she said. ‘T could see a scale and his class picture on the wall. “I didn’t tell my family when I went home, because I was afraid It might not be permanent. 'Then the next day. Sunday, I wept back to the doetpr and he tolcj me that it was permanent.” Mrs. Cerra was overjoyed. But still she withheld her recovery from her family until yesterday. . When she came home from the doctor’s office yesterday she told hter husband in a “kidding” fashion : J \ “What would you say if I told you I can see again?” Her husband replied in like: "Why I’d send you out to look for a Job.” When she told him the truth, he was speechless. Mrs./ Cerri’s “greatest thrill” came when she saw the youngest child, Joseph, for the first time. The boy is in Scranton state hospital with rheumatic fever. •He’s handsome,” she said, ’’just handsome.” . Adams County Home Condition Excellent Inspection Report Is Made By State Offering only one major recommendation, the inspection report for the Adams county home was generally good, according to the release by Warren L. Edwards, supervisor of inspections for the state. The report was prepared by Russell E. Goodrich, institutional inspector for the state, who noted that action should “be taken to prevent further seepage of water into the basement.” The report says that the seepage is damaging the flooring of the basement. One other recommendation was offered by Goodrich, as if it were an afterthought, to the effect that "the roof of tbe dairy barn is in need of repair/* Otherwise, Goodrich wm pleased with what be saw. Ranging In degree from "fair” to "excellent" the report covered the physical plant of the home as well as sanitation and health measures, food, religions life, and all phases of the place. At the time of Goodrich's inspec tloo, there were 35 residents In the home, 24 men and 11 women, of whom 32 are 65-years-offage or more. Mr. and Mrs. George Fosnaugh are the superintendent and the matron respectively of the home.

British Reject Ban On Trade To Eastern Europe Rejects Demands In ) U.S. Banning Trade To Communist Bloc London, Aug. 15. — (UP) —Britain said today she cannot abandon trade with eastern Europe aad appealed to the United States to understand that trade embargoes will not “put ah end to Communism.” , Sir Hartley Shawcross, president of the board of trade, rejected demands made in the U. S. for a ban on all trade with the Communist bloc. Speaking at Truro, Cornwall, to open the Cornish industries fair, Shawcross said: “I beg our American friends to realize that if we have trading relations with Communist countries as well as with them (the Americans), it is no indication of disloyalty to the common cause ot freedom and democracy which our countries are pledged to defend.” \He said that “Just as the American recognize that trade between Japan and Communist China is a normal pattern in the Far East, so trade between east and western Europe has always been a regular and Important feature of Europe’s economy.” In the first five months of this year, Britain bought *58,988.000 worth of commodities from Russia, nearly twice as much as in the same period' of last year. However, this Increase is due partly to higher prices. In the same period, Britain reduced exports to Russia by more than halt — from *16,388.888 in the first five months of 1950 to *5,*90,000 this year. "To deprive each part of Europe of the resources of the other will not put an end to Communism. It may merely depress the economic welfare of both parts without giving either side any relative advantage,” Shawcross said. Wilhelmina Miller Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs; Miller, 81, of eight miles northwest of Decatur, died at 2:10 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been confined since fracturing a hip In a fall. She was born in Allen county Jan. 23, 1870, a daughter of Ludwig and Christine Schlaudroff, but had resided in Preble township for nearly 60 years. She -was married Oct. 2, 1892 to John G. Miller,, died Oct 27, 1926. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Aurch at Frledhelm. Surviving are one son, Herman L. G. Miller of Preble township; eight grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Griebel of Fort Wayne. Fogr brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conduct ed at 1:80 p. m. Saturday at the Zwtck funeral home and at 2 d’elock at the Zion Lutheran church at Frledhelm, the Rev. Otto C Busse officiating, Burial will be In the church cemetery, Friends may call at the fuoerai home after 7 p. m. Thursday, BULLETIN Berlin, Aug. 11. — (UR) — Several thousand Communlet youths Invaded West Berlin today and fought hand-to-hand battles with club-wielding police before being driven back In to the Soviet sector.

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Proposal Made At 25th Cease-Fire Meeting In Effort L: To Break Deadlock UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea, Thursday, Aug. 16. — (UP) —■ The United Nations command proposed to the Communists Wednesday that a two-man subcommittee be named in an attempt to break a 15-day deadlock over fixing of an armistice line in Korea. The Reds are expected tp reply today. ' Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief UN truce negotiator, made the subcommittee proposal at the 25th cease-fire meeting at Kaesong. Gen. Nam Il f chief Communist negotiator, shewed unusual interest in it, a UN briefing officer said. He asked for and was given a written copy for study overnight It was believed that the Communist reply would be given at the 26th ceade-fire talk set for 1 p. m. today (9 /p. m. Wednesday CST). The usual meeting hbur Is 11 a. m. Nam II asked that today’s meeting be delayed two hours. No rear son was Specified. It was . made known that if the Communists offer a counterproposal which follows that principle of Joy’s offer, the UN delegation is ready to consider it, UN command officials seemed to have sotee hope that the Reds would accept Joy’s proposal. It was pointed out that the sub-com-mitteemen. each of whom would be limited! *<£ two aides, could work without the glare of publicity. There were hints that ls the subcommittee was agreed Upon, the main ceasp-fire talks might be recessed while It met. iljhe Reds have refused repeatedly to discuss other armistice items until the question of fixing a Cease-fire line is decided. While Joy made his attempt at a compromfsgi te was disclosed in Korea that Gen Matthew B. Ridgway’s ‘‘Voice of the UN Command” radio had b -oaucast a warning to Korea that |f the Reds choose war instead of pface “their soldiers will be met by the fury of the weapons of the UN forces.” The broadcast said that the UN forces if necessary will continue the mission of “destroying or driving out of Kdrea those forces which now seek tb deny the Korean people their right of self-determin-ation. It emphasized that UN troops will remain. in Korea until the Korean people are ‘Tt’ee of the threat of foreign military domination and political pressure.” Developments In Wednesday’s cease-fire talk included: I.— The Communists admitted for the first time that allied air and naval bombardments were having a “definite amount of effect on our military actioh.” ! < , 2. —UN chfef negotiator vice admiral C. Turner Joy summarily rejected a Communist protest that UN planes had violated Kaesong neutrality/agreements bk , Wounding two members Os the ICommunist delegation/ and knocking out three of its trucks in an air attack Monday. 3. — Joy proposed the appointment of committee of both sides to insure observance of the neutrality of Kaesong and make on-the-spot investigations of reported violations. I. The UN proposal for a subcommittee to tackle the buffer zone question came ala time when the armistice conference seemed hopelessly deadlocked and in danger of collapse, | r s. 4 41 h American Casualties In Korea Now 80J50 Washington, A«g> — <kHP> — The defease detriment reported a new total es American battle casualties In /the Korean fighting today, afl Inirease of 320 over a week ago, '-.; i The week’s total was the lowest since the <W?n«<te department started issuing weekly casualty summaries last Augiist. Totals for the previous two weeks were 351 and 356 respectively.; ’• ‘ I I-I ■ ’’ill'! ’lll-..