Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 193.

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Says Russians Cannot Block Japan Treaty President States belief Reds Can't Block Peace Treaty t Washington, Aug. 16 — — President Truman said today he does not believe Russia could succeed in any effort to block the Japanese peace treaty in San _ Francisco next month, p > - Mr. Truman, who will open the _ treaty signing on Sept. 4, also told reporters at his weekly news conference: i 1. He would be most happy to talk with Andrei A. Gromyko, chief of the Soviet delegation to the conference, before the San Francisco meeting if Gromyko so f desires. 2. He is perfectly willing to GenA Douglas MacArthur I speak to the,.peace conference; and is sure MacArthur would make such an address if invited by the state department. The president, however, said he did not know whether MacArthur will be invit*d. —\ (It was understood, however, that John Foster Dulles, special ambassador who handled the treaty negotiations, had asked the general to attend. It also was understood that MacArthur refused.) Mr. Truman said the Philippine government definitely will partlci- ' pate Jn the San Francisco conference and sign the Japanese peace treaty. His statement came shortly after the U. S. ind Philippine governments announced agreement J on a new mutual defense treaty Os their own. . The Russians, after months of intensive criticism of the treaty negotiations, suddenly reversed . their field and announced last week that they would send a delegation to San Francisco. • Mr. Truman was asked whether he thought Russia could do any. real damage. He replied that he does not think the treaty arrangements could be upset by 'anybody. Mutual Qefense Washington, Aug, 16 — (UP) — The United States and the Philippines announced agreement today on 4 mutual defense treaty to fur- ’ ther tighten anti Communist defenses in the .Pacific. , A joint announcement issued here and in Manila, said the treaty will be “during the Wrst days of September.” The key clause of the agreement states that “each party recogPacific area on either of the parnizes that an armed attack in the ties would be dangerous to its own. peace and safety and declares that it . would act to meet the common dangers in accordance with its constitutional -processes.” The treaty further provides for concerted action in case of attacks on Pacific iaiand territories of either \couiitry ‘ “or bn its armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the _ \ < ■ ' Two Teachers Quit Rural School Posts County superintendent ' of schools Hansel L. Foley today announced the resignations of two instructors in the county schools, one of them in -the Jefferson tpwn- ■ ship high . school, the other at Monmouth The resignations, Foley said, leave four vacancies in the entire county teaching staffs, vacancies, incidentally, which Foley believes trustees will fill In the very, near future. “I have applications before me,” he said, “lb fill all but- one of the — existing vacancies, and I don’t predict any difficulty in filling the fourth.” The resignations announced today were from Fred Boiler, who taught commercial stud- < les and English in the Jefferson . schools, but accepted a teaching position near his home for the coming year. The other Fas from Mrs. Ethhl Dewey, mathematics* and Latin instructor at Monmouth, who has moved to North Carolina.

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Junior C. Os C. Plans Project For \ New House Numbers Every resident of Decatur Fill have the opportunity in the next few weeks to purchase new houso numbers, erected either on their house or in the yard. The Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce has decided to sponsbr the project. The new numbers will be sold *or three numbers for 50- cents, erected”, and members of the Junior Chamber will ■ canvas every resident of Decatur. Persons who are away from home when the soliciters call iare asked $o call the Chamber of Commerce office if interested an 1 they will be contacted by one of the members. ,< The numbers wil be uniform and they will be placed whenever the zesident desires them, it was announced.

Chambers Says IPR Identified As Communist • ■ \ 'lf ■ Says Alger Hiss, Five Others Aided Communist Cause Washington, Aug. 16 — (UP) — Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist whose testimony sent Alger Hiss to jail, said today that Hiss and fivq others connected with the Institute of Pacific Relations were either Communists or sources for Soviet espionage apparatuses. Chambers, testifying before the senate internal security subcommittee, named: . Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Joseph Barnes—Chambers said he was told by J. Peters, head of the Communist underground in this •country, that both men were members of a secret Communist unit that used to meet in a house belonging to Field’s mother.' Barnes, former foreign editor of the ! New Ybrk Herald Tribune, has\ denied this. \ . Alger Hiss, former state department official —a Coinmuinist and a supplier of information for Chambers’ Soviet apparatus. The late Laurence Duggan a former assistant secretary of state — Chambers testified that Duggan was approached about joining his apparatus, but that he refused on grounds he already was working with a ring headed by sing. late Harry Dexter White, (Tarn Ta Pn*e Five) < \ ■

Continue Hunt For Escaped Murderer Dea th-Row Convict Chicago, Aug. 16 — IUP) A- a death-row convict who escaped from Cook county jail after beating a guard to death attempted a daring burglary on Chicago’s south side to finance his flight, police said today. Police squads .with orders to "shoot to kill on sight” rushed to the home of Joseph Moore, 65, after Moore notified them that he had surprised Harry Williams, 20, ransacking his bedroom/ ~. Moore said that he was passing his bedroom last night when he heard a noish inside. "I looked in and saw a big w.ild,eyed man going through my dresser,” he said. Moore later, identified the prowler as Williams when police showed him pictures erf the six-foot, two-inch negro. Moore said that Williams ordered him to hand over his wallet, but Moore »told him he did not have any money. Moore then became panidky, he told police, and dashed from the room screaming, “there’s a burglar in the house.” Williams, he sgid, fled out a window and escaped. Meanwhiie, detectives were assigned to guard a woman Williams once raped. Police 'said the woman had ed in Williams* capture and that (Ten Te Page Five) -. \ ’ r

Former T-Man Testifies At Crime Probe Says Confidential Income Tax Reports Os Qangsters Stolen Washington, Aug. 16. —(UP) — .A former “T-man” testified today that he thinks confidential income tax reports on the'nation’s biggest bootlegging gang were stolen from government files by “members of the mob.” He said the gang was headed by Joseph H. Rheinfeld and Abner (Longie) Zwillman, and centered its operations in New Jersey. Earl A. Baldwin of Summit, N.J., who retired recently as a treasury agent, told the senate crime committee he is confident the missing records were stolen. He said a copy of one turned up in a 122,000,000 lawsuit that one member of the “mob” brought against Rheinfeld. I Baldwin described the ZwillmanRheinfeld syndicate as the “biggest operators in the whole country” during the prohibition era. He said Dutch Schultz and Waxey Gordon, two other notorious bootlegging kings, “were pikers compared with these guys.” The committee is trying to find out whether. Zwillman, a missing witness, now pulls political strings in Jersey City. Baldwin testified after committee counsel Richard G. Moser said U.S. attorneys may want tp study the testimony of New York mystery man Irving Sherman for possible perjury action involving under world boss Frank Costello. Sherman, a power in New York's politics and underworld, is a friend of Costello and one-time associate of former New York mayor William O’Dwyer. He testified yejsterday ithat O’Dwyer, now ambassador to Mexico, ordered him to leave town in 1945 just before the mayoral election to avoid newspaper questioning about O’Dwyer’s connection with underworld figures. Baldwin said ■he discovered “about 1948” that (the reports were stolen when Nig Rutkin, a memper of the mob, brought suit against \ (Turn To Face Six)

UN Forces Launch Small-Scale Attack Air Force Pounds At Enemy Convoys Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Friday, Aug. 17. —(UP) — United Nations troops launched a smajlscale attack agajnst.the dug-in Communists on the east-central front Thursday but the hir force carried the heaviest punch to the enemy with raids on Red convoys speeding reinforcements and supplies to the front. * Allied units north of the huge Hwachon reservoir slugged away at a Red infantry company entrenched in a hill position. The assault on the hill went on throughout Thursday and the Reds fought back with heavy mortar fire. Bombers and fighters made 250 sorties by nightfall Thursday. They attacked vehicles heading for Communist positions on the west and central front and destroyed 50 and damaged 30. The largest volume of traffic was sighted near Sinmak on the main Pyongyang-Kaesong highway in western Korea and in the Songchon and Yongdok areas in eastern Korea. The situation on the ground was the quietest in recent days, an Bth army spokesman said. In the east, firmly-entrenched Communist forces on high ground between Kansong and Inje turned back an allied attack Wednesday. (The UN troops gave up their assault about midday without taking their objective. Allied patrols in the west crossed the 38 th parallel east of the ceasefire conference city of Kaesong and north of Korangpo, but ran into stubborn resistance. They returned to their own lines south of the parallel at dusk. The Bth army spokesman disclosed that Ethiopian troops have gone into action for ti*e first time in Korea. He said they clashed with the Communists recently south of Kumsong, big Communist base of the central front '

Decatur/ Indiana, Thursday, August* 16, 1951.

On Guard Sneak Attack W KSr * V A GUNNER scans the sky at advance airbase in Korea, alert for enemy planes. Ack-ack guns are ready for sneak attacks as ceasefire conferences drag on in Kaesong. On runway are transports of the 315th Air Division. —-Defense photo.

Human Guinea Pigs Die In Experiment Die Os Injections Os Mystery Drug Vermillion, S.D., Aug. 16.—(UP) —State crime investigators today checked Into the deaths of two volunteer “human guinea pigs” in an experiment with a mystery drug at the University of South Dakota. Jack B. Clifford, 30, a laboratory technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearsons, 26, a secretary in the university’s pharmacology department, died yesterday. Injections of thC drug were ma'de Tuesday by an unidentified doctor of the university medical staff. Coroner Myron Iverson said autopsies had been performed, but that the results were inconclusive. He said laboratory tests would be needed to determine the exact cause of death. He said ap inquest would be held later. Attorney general Ralph A. Dunham ordered Roy Milliken and Merle Melsfad, agents of the state criminal investigation division, to investigate the case to protect the interests of the state. President I. D. Weeks of the university said the experiments were being conducted with funds provided by a private drug concern. He said that although the university’s facilities were used, the school had no direct control over the experiments. Mrs. Pearkon’s husband, Everett, a native of Milford, Conn., and a student at the university, said his wife had submitted previously to injections of drugs being tested. He said earlier experiments involved enzymes and pain killing drugs. Pearson said that his wife had promised not to submit to any more experiments after he pleaded with her that they were dangerous. “She promised me faithfully she t wouldn’t do it anymore,” be said. “I guess she changed her mind.” He hurried to- Irene, S.D-. to be with his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Christensen. Mrs. Fred Christopherson, Clifford’s mother-in-law, said that she was told by physicians that a type of sedative was being tested and that Clifford and Mrp. Pearson had received an overdose. Mrs. Pearson collapsed in the .mepical school laboratory abo<? 2 p.m. yesterday. She failed to regain consciousness. Clifford also collapsed at the university. University officials stressed that both Clifford and Mrs. Pearson had volunteered for the experiments and that they were employes of the state and not students. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with no change In temperature* tonight and Friday. Low tonight 54 to 58 north, | 58 to JoUth. High Friday middle sv* north, hear 80 •outh. . I

BULLETIN New Kensington, Pa., Aug. ♦| 15— <UP) —The FBI accused Ludwig R. Schlekat, president of the Parnassus National bank, today of embezzling more than $600,000 of the banks funds. Climaxing a whirlwind investigation, the agents filed formal charges of falsifying records and misappropriating *4 f«M*ds against the 40-year-old bank executive and civic leads'-. ; Truman Brushes Off Campaign Questions Shows Displeasure At News Conference Washingotn, Aug. 16 — (UP) — President Truman showed open displeasure for the first time at discussing the 1952 political possibilities today. He told his news conference there are many more important things to be discussed. With that, the president brushed aside all questions about the campaign and candidates of 1962, particularly questions Involving [Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. | When a reporter tried to get Mr. Truman to amplify his statement of last week that he did not think Eisenhower is a candidate for the Democratic nomination, the presideht’s face lost its usual smile. I ■' He said he thought that vein had been worked to the vanishing point. He thought, too, that there were more important things to talk about in his news conference. Another reporter referred to the president’s remarks about Eisenhower last week, plus the fact that Sen. Patil H. Douglas., D., 111., has said he was n<)t a candidate for the Dembcratic nomination. “Who is left besides you?” the reporter asked. Mr. Truman daid he is sure there are plenty of people ambitious for the job. but 'they do not know what they are getting into. Asked to name these people, the president said it would not be seemly for him to do that. The {president j was told that Douglas' had said that despite their differences over Illinois judgeships, he would support Mr. Truman in 195ij. The president was asked if he would welcome that support. Mr. Truman nodded and said he certainly would if-—he added quickly —he were a candidate. Mr. Truman plainly showed his pleasure at an article in the current Look magazine. The ; article, entitled "a few ( kind worda for Harry Truman,” was written by historian Henry Steele many standard a the record of the Truman was highly successful. , Asked what he thought of the article, the president pronounced it very good.

Communists Accept UN Proposal For Four-Man Group To Work On Truce

: —f ~ Two Men Are Killed i In Refinery Blast f $300,000 Damage In Blast In Louisiana Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 16 — (UP) —An explosion so violent it shattered windows three miles away rocked the Standard Oil refinery near here today, killing two men and causing damage estimated at 1300,000. ’ W. B. Cotten, Jr., public relations director for Standard Oil, said/he blast badly damaged three 37,000-gallon tanks and two distillate \treating units. ' Cotten identified one of the victims as J. E. Carmena. The identity of the other was not immediately determined. Nine ESSO workers were injured, two seriously, and Cotten said “three or four” Illinois Central railroad employes were hurt. A fire which raged through the gasoline and tractor fuel and blanketed the countryside with black, greasy smoke was controlled two hours and 45 minutes after the explosion. \ The railroad men were injured on the I. C. tracks, which run I along the Mississippi river west of rthe refinery. Plate glass windows were broken in a department store three miles from the scene. The explosion shook the countryside for five miles. Black smoke shot skyward, with the explosion, but air currents forced it down and it spread over Baton Rouge like a cloud. Brady B. Foreman and Robert Percy, both Standard employes, were seriously injured. The other injured, none in serious condition, were G. C. Arnold, Bernard Cannon and John Brooks of the I. C. railroad, and Stanley F. 'Smith, Moise J. Brasseaux, Jackson J. Kearns, Everett Mitchell and Elbert A. Dumas of Standard Oil. The Stancfard Oil* Os New Jersey refinery at Baton Rouge is one of the three or four biggest in the world. It covers about 1,100 acres along the Mississippi river and supplies a considerable part of the nation’s gasoline supply. The refinery is part of one of the most important concentrations of war industry in the nation.

Held For Abetting Jail Break Attempt Young Fort Wayne Wife Under Arrest Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 16 —(UP) —A tearful young wife today turned against her convict husband after she was arrested for smuggling hacksaw blades to his cell. Mrs. Wilodean Cocklin, 22, was held under |I,OOO bond on charges of aiding and abetting an attempted jail break calculated td free her husband and 18 other prisoners. •T tried to talk him out of it but I loved him too much.” she sobbed. "I never should have listened _to him.” The frail, blonde mother of a two-year-old son was arrested Tuesday night after an alert deputy spotted a sawed cell bar as he w/s taking a group of school children through the jail. Mrs. Cocklin refused to confess until sheriff Harold Zeis gave her seven lie detector tests and urged her to think of her son “Butch.” Mrs. who is six weeks pregnant, confessed that she sewed two two-inch hacksaw blades into a cuff of her husband’s work pants and gave them to a guard to take to him. When she was arrested police found a note from her 24-year-old husband instructing her to be waiting .outside the jail Tuesday night with a car. Zeis said the 19 prisoners in the cell block at. the Allen county jail w (Twb Ta Pa*a *lx)

Reveal Bizarre Murder Os OSS Major In Italy Murder In Italy In 1944 Revealed By U.S. Government Washington, Aug., 16.—(UP)— Seven years ago, three American soldiers parachuted behind enemy lines in Italy on a cloak-and-dagger mission with 1100.000 in gold and currency to aid anti-Fascist partisan forces. The mission ended when the major leading .the daring venture allegedly was murdered by his two comrades. t The defense department revealed last night the bizarre details. The story resembled the “perfect murder” of a dime novel because, through a series of legal quirks, the government is unable to prosecute the accused slayers for their crime, although one of them has confessed. The victim was Identified as Maj. WilMam V. Holohan, 40-year-old New Yorker who served with the office of strategic services. The department said the murderers were ex-Lt. Aldo Icardi, New York, and former Sgt. Carl G. Lodolce.l Rochester, N.Y. The three parachuted into northern Italy in September, 1944, to aid Italian partisans who were waging a fierce underground war l against the Nazis and Fascists. They carried |IOO,OOO in gold, American currency and Swiss francs. The department got its first clue when it said army investigators in 1946 learned that Icardi had considerable money in his possession. The mission touched off a “bitter quarrel” between the Communist and non-Communist partisans and resulted in a “fatal division" between Holohan and Icardi, according to the department report. Holohan, dubious about the intentions of the Communist group, called off further airdrops of equipment until he could size up the situation. Icardi, according to the department, “took the position that the Communists were the strongest underground fighting force and that therefore the mission should play ball with them.” Some 40 days after the mission had landed; Icardi radioed that Holohan had disappeared when the party was attacked, and presumably was killed or captured. Icardi took charge of the mission and called for 50 airdrops of arms during the next five months. The case might have been closed as “mission scuccessful, one killed,” had it not been for the Americans’ two Italian accomplices, Guisseppl Manini and Gualtiero (T«r» To Pace Rix)

Price Jersey Herd Wins In District Takes Down Prizes In District Show Jersey cattle from the Roy Price farm, southeast of the city on highway 33, won a handful of prises at the district Jersey parish show at Kendallville today. A junior yearling bull won first prise in its class and also junior and reserve grand champion honors. Second prise was won by a senior yearling heifer. A senior calf won fourth prise and a junior calf fourth in their respective divisions. The 4-H cattle were exhibited in the show at last week and were taken to the Kendallville show by James Price, who entered the animals. The Price cattle won in a field of nearly 100 Jerseys entered from the various counties in the district.

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Start New Attempt To Fix Armistice Buffer Zone For Armies In Korea UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea, Friday, Aug. 17 — .(UP) —A four-man subcommittee meets in Kaesong today under an almost complete news blackout in a new attempt to fix an armistice buffer zone between the Unit- - ed Nations and Communist armies in Korea. Cease-fire negotiators agreed yesterday to tup-n the knotty buffer zone problem over to the sub- • committee and put it to work at once. ?•/ Two L’N delegates and two 'Communists, each side with one staff assistant and one' ipterpreter, will meet at 11 a. m. (7 p. m. Thursday CST) tfee main negotiating committee will remain in recess while the subcommitteemen talk. -T There we|-e unofficial intimations that in the informal atmosphere of the secret subcommittee meetings the Communists may wealth correspondents in Kaesong, 'agree to- a compromise. Two leftist British com monwho have proved to be weathervanes of Communist thinking, suggested yesterday that the Reds may be willing to compromise. 11 One of them said he believed the I Communists - might accept a straight truce line based on the present battle front, without any buffer zone between the . two armies. The Communists accepted- the United* Nations proposal for a subcommittee on the 16th day of deadlock over the location of a cease--fire line across Korea and establishment of a demilitarized buffer .zone between the opposing armies. The biggest step yet. toward breaking the stalemate on the second item of the armistice conference agenda was taken at a •55 min Ute meeting, one of shortest since the truce talks began pluly 10. The Reds suggested only one change in the UN proposal—that the subcommittee comprise two delegates from eac h side instead of one. Chief UN delegate Vice Admiral CT Turner Joy agreed. The' subcommittee will comprise: For the United Nations: . Maj. Gen. Henry I. (Hammerking Hank) Hodes, 52, deputy chief of staff of the Bth army. He was commander of the U. S. 17 th division during its push through northeast Korea to the Manchurian frontier last November. One g>ther delegate! still to be A named Friday from among Maj. Gen. Laurence C. Craigie. vicecommander of the far east air forces, Rear Admiral Arleigh (31knot) Burke, commander of cruiser division 5, and Maj. Gen. Paik Sun Yup, commander as the South Korean Ist corps. For the Communists: Maj. Geh. Lee Sang Cho, 38, chief of staff or advance headquarters of the North Korean army. A native of South Korea, he was educated in China and joined the Communists in ’ 1940. (Tara Ta Pare six) ; k.;. j. , Local Lady's Father Dies At Fort Wayne Funeral services for Fred H. pickmeyer, Sr., 65, whose death occurred Wednesday at. the Lutheran hospital, will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Wellman funeral home in Fort Wayne. Mr. Dtckmeyer, a member of a well knowd Fort Wayne family, is the father of Mrs. Norman Katt, 1002 Mastet drive, this city. Six other children also survive. They are. Mrs. Marie Konow, Schenestady, N.Y.:’ Mrs. Florence Strauss, Detroit; Fred, Jr., submarine base. Pearl Harbor; Ronald, Valparaiso, Leonard, with the army at Baer Field, and Mrs. Elenor McClain, Fort Wayne. Three brothers, W.C., Edwin and Alfred of Port Wayne, also survive.