Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 195.

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Thousands Os UN Troops In Attacks On Reds Steady Gains Made By Infantrymen In New UN Offensive 3th Army Headquarters, Korea, Aug. IB. —(UP)— Thousands of United Nations troops attacked Communist positions along a 25mile front today under cover of one of the biggest artillery bombardments of the Korean war. Tn suddenly intensified aerial ; warfare American Sabre jets' and MIG-15s battled twice Corer northwest Korea. One Red ~ plane probably was destroyed and one was damaged. The infantrymeh Di \ the new offensive hacked ouv steady gains against fanatical Red resistance, to the accompaniment of screaming allied air strikes over the front lines arid the thunder of the artillery. . . . ' The attack was made in the general area of the Hwachon reservoir east of the old “iron triangle” bastion. It was made to styalghteri the line and eliminate a bulge in which the enemy was able to over* •Jook the UN defense line. Allied officers said the'operation was “necessary militarily to 'straighten our lines and to prevent > the enemy from observing the posi- ‘ tions we currently hold.” Allied guns emplaced far behind the lines poured hundreds of grounds of fire on the Communist positions. Under cover of their fire, the UN troops moved up slowly against an undetermined number of veteran Red troops. v \ “It’s been a long time since I saw anything like the show those artillery boys put on,” al UN soldier said. <f ’ ; /- . Communist resistance was officially termed moderate to heavy along the 25-mile front. In the first of two aerial dog fights over northwest Korea, about 30 enemy jets jumped a flight of 29 Sabrejpts. One Communist plane was damaged before the Reds fled to the safety - t of their Manchurian sanctuayr. I--1, 1 In (he second battle 28 Sabrejets engaged 24 MIGS in a 10-minute hattlri which ranged between 15,000 and 35,000 feet. Ist; Lt Charles F. Loyd, of Marion, Ky., made a probable kill when he put several bursts of 50 - caliber slugs into .a MIG. The * enemy plane spouted flame and dived toward the earth across the Yalu river in Manchuria. p A ; It was the first big aerial warfare in 5-\£ weeks. Fighting started when the Com- ! munists rient the first fleet of their ; fighters into northwest Korea. The UN Sth army seized the initiative north of the Hwachotf reservoir oh the east-central sector ■with an attack on a Communistheld mountairi peak. The allies drove within hand grenade range of the peak in an ikli-day battle Friday, but the Reds still held their commanding post

tions.early today. On the west-central front, the j. Communists for the second straight day assaulted high ground held by the allies west of Yonchon, 35 miles north of Seoul. Two attaicks wqre repulsed, but a third touched off a battle that still was under way at’ a late how. To Complete Pouring For Silos Tonight Final pourings of concrete in the construction of the second battery of 10 silos at Central Soya company is scheduled for 8 o clock \ tonight. The slip-form construction of she huge soybean storage tanks started August 7 and work has been continuous since that date. . I -The MacDonald Engineering company of Chicago are the general contractors on the job. More than 100 men have been employed at the site. The silos will be com 1 pleted for the receipt of soybeans from the fall harvest, officials stated. The 20 new silos have a capacity of about 1,300,000 busheta. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cool tonight. Sunday partly cloudy with scattered showers In northwest. Low tonight 56 to 60 north, 58 to 62 south. .' , : . ? .• r - ' \ -

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Convicts In Oregon \ On Sit-Down Strike ♦X \ ’ Removal Os Guard Captain Demanded Salem, Ore., Aug. 18 —(UP) — Oregon state prison officials said today they were prepared for “any eventuality” and would enforce their “no work, no food” policy to starve T. 600 convicts into abandoning a sit-down strike. --The convicts refused to eat or work in support of their demands sot the removal of guard Captain Morris Race, who allegedly was “brutal” when he broke up a fight between two convicts. The men passed up their fifth meal last night and prison officials speculated that they were subsisting tin candy and Cookies hoarded in their cells. 7 V There had been no search of the cells and officials were unable', to estimate how long the hoarded supplies would last. Prison guards and state police, however, were alerted for any eventuality that might develop as tempers grew short after a prolonged period without food. One. threat of violence was thwarted yesterday - when guards discovered several bottles of gasoline in the prison yard. The gasoline, all in bmall quantities, was stplen from Supplies sent into the yard for construction work. Deputy warden Eugend Valley estimated that as much 4s 40 gallons had been stojgn in the past two or three weeks. ' However, he said that most of it had been recovered. The strike was called Tuesday by the prisoners’ grievance committee and for the first two days, warden George Alexander, allowed the inmates to loaf in the yard. But Thursday, when the convicts -appeared determined to press their cause, Alexander issued the "no work, no food” ultimatum and ordered the men locked in the cells until they abandoned the strike. He also disbanded the grievance committee and sent three men he called the . “ringleaders” of the strike into isolation 6r punishment cells. -, • j * Halley said the guard captain was “one of the most satisfactory guards at the prison,”, and other officials termed the dispute a “phony beef.” Goy. Douglas McKay said he en(Tnrn To Pace Three) ■ - ■B\ 1 < / Plan Company-Wide Wage Negotiations Akron, 0., Aug. 18—j(UP)\— The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Qo. and the CIO United Rubbier Workers’ union have agreed to v|aive a prior notification contract clause and begin company-wide wiige negotiations in Cleveland Wednesday. i The union represents 30,000 Goodyear workers iri plants throughout the nation, including Muncie, Ind. - I ' A Goodyear official said although a 30-day prior notification clause* was waived, any agreements made would not be retroactive.

Charles J. Poehler Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Charles j\ C.Poehler. 89, died at 1:30 o’clock this mortaing at his home in Wayne township, Allen county, following short illness. He was born in Allen county June 25. 1862. and was married to Anna Gerke Mav 16, 1889 v She preceded him in death Oct. 7, 1921. He was l a member of the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church on the Decatur read. Surviving are two sons and one daughter. Herman? Herbert and Miss Adejine Poehler. all of Wayne township, and one grandchild. One daughter and two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home on Hanna street extended, and at 2 o’clock at the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto Marshke offlciatiagh Burial will be in the church cemetery. The hndv will he removed from the Zwlck funeral home to. the residence. where friends may call after 2p. m. Sunday. '|\V ■ f .

Eight Planes Start On Ist All-Jet Race Highlight National Air Held At Detroit First Time UL .. J ' ' Detroit, Aug. 18— (UP) —Eight air force planes streaked through the stratosphere Vat speeds approaching 600-mi’,es-an-hour today in the first all-jet Bendix air race to Detroit. f >, The sleek fighters and bombers swooshed away from Edwards air force base at Muroc, Calif., beginning at 7:56 a. m. (CST). Three bombers, three fighterbombers and two fighters were determined to set a new speed record fqr the event, a highlight of the national air races being held here for the first time. The record for the Bendix is 529.614 miles an hour, set by Maj. Vernon A. Ford, of Middleton, Pa., in 1949. i The Bendix Aviation Corp, made this year's dash, an all-jet contest to keejp the race “symboliq of the fastest trans-continental speed.” First to zoom off the runway was Lt. . Col. George Thabault, 36. Winooski, Vt., flying a North American B-45 tornado four-jet bomber. He was followed by Col. Keith K. Compton, 36. St. Joseph, Mp., in a North American F-86 sabre fighter. ;\\ ... The others took off in 6-minute intervals on the L 919.51 mile dash. The F-86 E’s were to pause at Denver and Omaha where crack teams were to refuel them in three minutes. J The thunderjets and tbe bombers wene to fly non-stop. Neither of the thre\s plane types had a clear cut advantage, according to air force experts. While the sabre* would make two stops, neither probably would cost them more than 15 minutes of top-speed straight and level flying, including time to descend, taxi, refuel and climb back to altitude. The sabre, an interceptor, has a i!0 percent speed advantage over Jhe ground support thunderjet, Which carries heavy external fuel tanks. The V-45’s are rated slower planes than the fighters but may gain somes time by virtue of carrying navigators. In any event, they were expected to show how the speed gap has narrowed (Tara To Pause Six) fr-

Young Boy Is Held For Shooting Woman 11 -Year-Old Boy Is Taken Into Custody Knox, Ind., Aug. •18—(UP)— Eleven-year-old Joseph Lapacek was held today fori shooting a 74-year-old woman whb stepped in front of her grandson to shield him from the boy’s rifle bullet. Mrs. Anna Lorencs was in serious condition at La Pbrte’s Holy Family hospital from a wound in her right shoulder. 1 She was shot, sheriff Lee James said, while protecting her grandson, Rocky Lorencz, 12, with whom the Lapacek boy had quarreled. Joseph was captured in a barn on a farm near hjs home late last night while curled up asleep in a haymow. James said the rifle was found hidden in a hog house nearby, loaded with bullets, one of which was in the firing chamber, The capture ended a long search through the Jasper-Pulaski game preserve near the.barn where the boy was! found. James said the boys'had feuded ever since Joseph was ordered away from the Lorencz home several months ago when he went there to play with Rocky. Mrs. Lorencz said Joseph approached Rocky with the gun and said he was goihg to shoot. She said she jumped in front of Rocky just as Joseph fired. South Bend Man Is Killed By Lightning Laporte, Ind., Aug. 18. —(UP) — Keith Kent Johnson, 26,1 South Bend, was killed last: night by lightning while standing under a tree during a storm wfhich came up while Johnson was fishing at Hudson Lake, northeast of here.

Kaesong Subcommittee Meets , J w«g /• B* . '■ -W mb wi ■■■ ■ - ««■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ SHOWN ABOVE are members of the joint subcommittee meeting in Kaesong on an informal basis toUttemfrt to resolve the touchy buffer zone differences between the UN and Communist sides. No official record is kebt of what is said gt its meetings, \and no information officer attends to report to newsmen. A U. S. general, a U. S. admiral, North Korean general, Chinese general are members.

Drug Deaths Studied By University Board Verdict To Await Reports On Tests Vermillion, S.D., Aug. 18.—(UP> —The University of South Dakota board of regents meets today to consider possible action against a young doctor who accidentally administered fatal drug injections tb two “hurnkn guinea pigs.” ; Chairman E. M. Mumford declined to say whether any disciplinary action would be taken against 28-year-old Dr. Louis B. Michalek. However, he indicated that the board would study evidence brought out at the inquest into the deaths of Jack Clifford, 30, a laboratory technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson, 26, a secretary. Clifford and Mrs. Pearson died after Michalek inoculated both with massive overdoses of methadone, a pain relieving drug, (hiring an experiment on the “pain threshhold” of human beings. i Michalek had intended to give injections to himself f and a third volunteer, but Clifford and Mrs. Pearson became ill before he was able to do so. The inquest adjourned indefinitely yesterday after Mrs. Pearson’s husband, Everett, testified that he bore no bitterness toward Michalek despite the death of his wife. • j .“It was a mistake,” Pearson said. “It could have happened to , anyone.” Mrs. Marjbrie Stuvland, the third volunteer guinea pig, testified that she took part in the experiment voluntarily the same as Clifford and Mrs. Pearson." “I came very close to death,” Mrs. Stuvland shuddered. '>>>!. Coroner Myron Iverson said that a verdict in the deaths must await a report from the University of Minnesota where tests were being conducted on the bodies of the victims. ' ’ Michalek said in an interview ,that he intended to make no excuses for what he had done. “I know I made a tragic error," he said. “I’m very sorry, but what can I say? It’s something that will follow me all my life.” State’s attorney Martin Weeks, Jr., said the chances that criminal charges would be filed against Michalek were remote. To do so. Weeks said, it would be necessary to prove Michalek acted -with “intentional omission or culpable negligence” which the evidence did not indicate.

45,065 Persons Added To Federal Payroll Washington, Aug. 18.—(UP)— Some 45,065 persons were added to the federal pay roll during June, making a total of 2,489,531 civilian government employes, the civil service commission reported today. Military departments accounted for 60 percent of the increase and seasonal increases in the interior and agriculture departments accounted for 20 percent. Only the veterans administration reported a sizeable decrease, the report said. Condemned Killers End Hunger Strike Brief Cook County / Jail Strike Ended Chicago, Aug. 18.—(UP)— Ten condemned killers ended their hunger strike at the Cook county jail today when they docilely filed into the mess room for their regular breakfast of coffee and rolls. ’ The convicts, Who hadn’t eaten since yesterday’s breakfast, came in for their moaning meal today “without any comment whatsoever,” said warden Philip Scanlan. “Everything was perfectly calm,” he said. \ Scanlan said he would not take any disciplinary action against the men. “There’s no way of punishing them,” he said, “All their privileges had been removed any way.” J The men, all inmates of “murderers’ row,” began the hunger strike to protest the loss of privileges and “rights” that followed the escape of fellow prisoner Harry Williams, 20. Williams, a slayer who beat a tower guard to death in his escape, was recaptured on a State Street streetcar Thursday night as he sat reading a Bible. Another strike was threatened by 17 guards who demanded higher Babb fired the groups* spokesman, Leo Kozici, yesterday. 1 The sheriff said he was sympathetic with the guards* demands for higher pay, but added, "I won’t stand for mutiny.” Meanwhile, it seemed certain that Williams would die in the electric chairr September 14 as scheduled. Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois supreme court has denied a motion to stay the execution so that a court appeal could (Tw Te FMe Six)

UN's Chief Negotiator Makes Clear Position Over Truce Deadlock

Warning Is Issued On Welfare Crisis October Payments By State Doubtful Indianapolis, Aug. 18 — (UP) — Indiana’s County welfare directors looked today to October as the crisis month in the welfare department’s financial troubles. They heard a warning of an upcoming crisis from Maurice O. Hunt, state welfare director, at a cqnnty directors’/association meeting yesterday afternoon. He said the state cannot afford to pay its frill share of welfare aid that month. Indiana will bear 60 percent of welfare costs in September as it did in August, despite the fact it will not be reimbursed for halt that amount by the federal government, Hunt said. Federal aid was withdrawn because of a new state law making welfare records public. Hunt said October’s payments are in doubt. He cited a report presented to Governor Schricker by the state welfare board earlier this week which indirectly said a special session of Jthe styte legislature is needed before October to appropriate more funds or slash welfare checks in half. State aid must be revised In October unless something is done. Hunt said. He said after the meeting he felt most county directors agreed with the state board’s conclusions. But at least one county welfare leader disagreed. Henry county’s Carl Strother asked the association to adopt a resolution criticizing the state board’s report to Schricker. ■| Strother said he saw no necessity for drastic cut ln v October and that these isn’t as much of a crisis as the state board thinks. Association officers said Strother's resolution was outside their orlty. They declined to act on It. Hunt also informed the county directors the state will be allowed to use only 1300,000 or approximately $1,500,000 left over from the last federal aid distribution. Hunt said the federal security administration will allow Indiana to use the $300,000 as reimburse(Twr» To »*•«• S|x)

Meat Institute In Attack On Controls Claim Black Market Crackdown To Fail "Chicago. Aug. 18 — (UP) —Government efforts to thwart a black market in beef and to crack down on ceiling price violators just won’t Work, the American Meat warned today. An announcement by price stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle in Washington that he is going to crack dpwn on ceiling. price violators brought the attack on the price control system. “Mr. DiSalle’s announcement," the AMI said, “is reminiscent of the similar promises of the OPA in 1945 and 1946, that agency almost daily amended regulations to try to make them work. They.did not work any more than they can work now,” Nathan Kinnally, district OPS enforcement director here, said that his office was after the “big violators’’ and was “stepping up” its investigation of black market and price ceiling irregularities. The AMI agrees that beef has been moving into illicit channels for months and said that the institute has been aware of such actions. It said the diversion, which began about the fifst of the year, grew worse wiien the beef rollback was imposed in June. Yesterday Kinnally listed several ways meat companies have devised to dodge the controls law. He said that soine slaughterers, in (Tara Ta Pag* six)

See Adoption Os MacArthur Plans By UK - Two GOP Solons : See Adoption If Truce Talks Fail Washington, Aug. 18 —- (UP) — Two Republican senators said oday that a breakdown of the Kaesong cease-fire talks would force the United Nations to adopt the? controversial Korean battle plans of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., senate GOP policy-chief, said that if the armistice conferences collapse, the UN could not “do anything else but follow MacArthur’s recommendations.” MacArthur has called for use of Chinese Nationalist troops, bombing of Communist supply bases in Manchuria, naval blockade, against Red China and other actions to carry the war more aggressively to -the enemy. “Already we have adopted some of General MacArthur’s policies," Taft said. He referred to tbe recently * imposed UN economic blockade of the Communist China coast and beefed-up American aid for Generalissimo Chiang' KaiShek’s regime on Formosa. Sen. H. Alexander jSmith,. R., N. J., said that “tbe Communists haven’t seen anything yet.” compared to what they would face if an armistice is not achieved. “If this occurs.” ,-Smith said, “the Communists will be in for real trouble, and I believe that all of General MhcArthur's recommendations will be implemented." Chairman Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., of the senate MacArthur investigating committee told newsmen that one result of the long inquiry into the general’s dismissal would be to make certain that it the truce talks fail, “there will be a better understanding l with our United Nations allies and result in the war being waged more vigorously in Korea.” • Russell said the inquiry had “firmed” American policy toward Formosa and “expedited” UN action on the economic blockade. “It forced a definite policy in the far east when we did not have one,” he said.

Meantime, eight Republican committee members were polishing up a report denouncing President Truman’s dismissal of MacArthur, administration conduct of the war and alleged far eastern policy failure. The committee voted 20 to 3 (Tara Ta Pace Six* Employment Little Changed Last Month Decrease Os Nine Reported In July Employment in six local industries from June through July was static, according to the monthly' business barometer of the Chamber of Commerce. Frond 1,612 employes on the industrial payroll in June, the number dropped to 1,603 during July. The payroll skyrocketed to >566,994 for July, compared to >414,150 a year ago. . • • | Carloading in-and-out of Decatur totaled 2,057 in July, compared to 1,411 in June and 2,198 a year ago. As previously reported, 18 building permits representing .3847,182 in proposed construction projects, were issued in July. Statistics on other phases of community activity held an even keel with the June totals, except in post office receipts which climbed to >5,093, compared to >4.888 in June and >4,163 in July a year ago. The barometer is edited by Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.

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Formal Statement By Adm. C. Turner Joy _ Made As Armistice Subcommittee Meets UN Advance Base Below Kaesong. Korea, Aug. 18.—(UP)-*- The chief UN truce negotiator warned tonight that it would “definitely be foolhardy, and perhaps be disas- > trous” to draw a cease-fire line l along the 38th parallel' as the Communists demand. 4 Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy made the statement as a four-man armistice subcommittee prepared to meet for the third time in Kaesong under a news blackout to try to agree on an armistice line. Joy pointed out that under international law the Communists could legally at any time give notice to end an armistice after taking advantage of it to build up t^eir z forces. It was reported that the UN and Communist subcommitteemen seemed to be making progress in a friendly atmosphere. I But the war suddenly flamed into fury again, while the subcom- . mitteemen talked Saturday; < I r , Thousands of UN fighting men opened an offensive along a-25-mile front' in east-central Korea under cover of a gigantic artillery bombardment and the shrieking attack of allied planes on enemy positions. r In the air, United States and Russian-btt|lt Red planes fought two battles over northwest Korea. One enemy plane was probably downed, another was damaged before the two Communist plane fleets fled. UN command headquarters at this advance cease-fire base released tonight a formal statement by Admiral Joy in which he made clear to the Communists the exact position of the UN on the truceTine deadlock*. _ The allies want a' line based* on the present front, the Communists demand a line drawg on the 38th parallel. »* "The primary mission of every, military command is to insure thef security of his forces at all times,9 Joy said. “It is a paramount and inescapable obligation of which we must never lose sight ... "... it would definitely be foolhardy, and perhaps be disas* trous, for either commander to pose his- forces along a political demarcation line rather than to place them in a sound militarily defensive position where they can protect themselves In the«untortunate event hostilities should be resumed . . . “We have a solemn obligation to our fighting men to afford them maximum security during the armistice. “An Over increasing military threat capable of being launched from across a few kilometers on any demilitarized zone which is based on an imaginary parallel of latitude would be intolerable. "We must retain defensive positions. “We must keep our military guard up until the final settlement of the Korean problem seems assured.” Joy pointed out: j 1 — Under international law either side may end an armiattoe by giving advance notice that it intends to resume hostilities. 2— an armistice the UN aerial and naval forces will be idle, as well as the ground forces. The Communists have no effective aerial or navril force*, and thus will benefit by an armistice. 3 — During the armistice the enemy may continue to build up his forces while “the UN command to-' day is already at peak efficiency, well organized in combat formation and well supplied with all of the weapons of war.” 4— “The net effect of any armistice will be of greater military vantage to the enemy than it will be to us.” Everything indicated that yesterday's subcommittee meeting at Kaesong went smoothly. Noon Edition