Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 199.

HINT CEASE-FIRE TALKS WILL BE RESUMED _ ■ ■ \ r.. . ‘

UN Forces In Readiness For Red Offensive Free Nations Brace For Drive hr Event ' Talks Definitely Off * Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Friday, Aug. 24—(UP)—The fighting men of free nations manning ithe 1,35-ni'ile .Korean battlefront girded today to meet a ferocious Communist offensive in the event ¥ cease-fire talks are broken off for . good . ~ L It was indicated this, morning that the talks would be resumed. Hut Gen. / James A. Fleet, commanding the Sth army that has smashed Red attacks again and again, took no chances. In the-Jine or in reserve were troopi from 22 free nations of six continents. They were backed by an immense concentration of heavy weapons, massed mile by mile V from reserve areas to the front lines. M The Reds had lost 9,000 meh killed or woupded under a five-day f UN attack. ' )< Fighting raged yesterday in indjvidual sectors of the entire front, in the east and east-central i sectors, in a blinding rainstorm. South Korean troops battled North Korea's rebuilt ’ army in seesaw (battles for ridgelinfca? north of Yanggu in the east. „ Only a few hours before the Reds suspended armistice negotiations. The Communist Peiping radio warned that the Allies can look for “more and heavier blows” if ceasefire talks fail. i / All available evidence indicated that the Reds completed their buildup of 600,000 or mores reserves aid ftont-line troops before stag-, ing the false raid on Kaesong they used as an excuse todrreak off the armistice conference. North Korean Premier Kim II Sung last week threatened heavy blows against the Allies‘in the air as well as “annihilation” on the ground if the truce talks The threat indicated the Chinese Reds were prepared to throw their IjjOOO first-line plane? into the fray on a large scale for thb ! . first time. ■ 7 I iHowevert, LA James >A| Van Fleet, commander of the Bth army, said last week that his forces are ready for any eventuality. His South Korean forces gave the Reds a foretaste of what is in store for them in a “limited offensive” on the east-central front durI ing the past week. * A special communique reported that the South Korean Ist corps and South Korean Elements bf the 10th corps killed or wounded am estimated 9,000 North Korean \ troops) in the'“moßt severe action on the UN front since early June." I ; Farther east. South Korean /troops still were fighting to wrest (Tara To P»«e Severn) 7 I Fprt Wayne Store Damaged By Five r Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 23. —(UP) * —Fire whipped through a furniture store in the downtown area today and officials said damage prpbably would run “very higih.” The blase at the Sigrist Furniture Co. was under control two hours after it broke out, but fire fightihg equipment from nine of the city’s 11 engine houses remained at the scene. Morning rush-hour traffic was tied up. 1 '. —_ t f ' :' Geneva Democrats Select Candidates ~ ! i - - ’’ • ; ■ -iy Geneva Democrats named a complete town ticket for the November election at Geneva high . school Wednesday night. The convention was called by Thurman Baker, who, according to statute, lAalso presided over the session. I Wendall Long was nominated for clerk-treasurer. Sanley Baumgartner was nominated as town board member from the first district; Ray Umpleby, second district, and Walter Hofstetter, thirid district.- , .■ ' j ’ ''-I" ; , The list of Democrat candidates , will be certified /to the county clerk and the ticket will be placed -a- on the official ballot in November.. *; '

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT —ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAME COUNTY

1 ' / ■ 1 ——y— —H Litterer Appointed As Judge Pro Tern Judge Myles F. Parrish of Atjams Circuit court will leave Friday morning for Bloomington and«from there he will go to French Lick to attend the Democrat parley in session there over the weekend. It will be Judge Parrish’s first absence from the city during the summer vacation weeks. The Court has named Ferd L. Litterer. local attorney, to serve Friday and Saturday as judge pro-tem. Killing Storm Moves Deeper Into Mexico At Least Three Are Reported Killed In Tampico, Mexico Mexico City, Aug. 23 —(UP)—Emergency radio \ messages from the storm-battered city of Tampico, Mexico’s richest port, said the hurricane which killed at least three persons there yesterday was 100 mties west of the city at' 4 a.m. (OST) today. “It is quiet in Tampico,” a message said, although Winds of 30 to 45 miles per hour still were blowing and heavy rain was falling. The tropical storm which already has killed 154 persons was believed driving still deeper into the interior of Mexico, with diminishing winds, but it snuffed out communications, concealing the extent of its death and destruction. Emergency contact with Tampico was re-established on a radio circuit of Companta Mexicans De Aviacion. the Pan-American Airways affiliate. Employes at Tampico airport sSrtd the Violent storm was last reported to be in the vicinity of Tamuin, 100 miles west of the city.v Before communications with Tampico blacked out yesterday, United Press correspondent Robert Prescott reported that Tampico’s 90,900 residents* were without a Water supply and that the danger of the fire and electrocutions from downed power lines was so great that light and power services had been shut off. The storm ripped into the Mexican coast with 130-mile-an hour winds about 30 miles north of Tampico yesterday morning and the city was lashed with winds up to 90 miles an hour. A woman and her one-year-old son were electrocuted when they stepped on a fallen “live” wire shortly after the hurricane tore into the coast from the Gulf of Mexico. Another woman died of exposure at at school where she had been evacuated with other refugees. On Jamaica Island, 148 were killed by the hurricane last Friday night, one died on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and two men were killed in the gulf. Hundreds of Tampico residents were injured as heavy winds tumbled telephone poles into the streets as .though they were matchsticks. Among the injured was Tamaulipas’ Gov. Horacio Teran, who was struck in the face by flying debris while conducting an in(Tara To race Six)

Andrew McConnehey Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Andrew McConnehey, 74, of 922 North Twelfth street, died at 9 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to complications. • He was born in Adams county June 24, 1877, a son of Joseph and Lucy McConnehey, and lived practically his entire life in Decatur and vicinity. He was a retired labpt-er. His wife, Ida,. preceded him in death. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Edith Bailer and Mrs. Minnie Burke, both of Deca|ur, and Mrs. Sarah Baker of Muhdie, and one brother, Willard McConnehey of Decatur. , / Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Glllig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. H. J. Welty officiating. Friends may call at thb funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.

Nine Men Die In Air Force Alaskan Crash Plane Disintegrates Within 100 Yards Os CAA Tower In Alaska Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 23 — (UP) —An air force C-47 —one wing missing and afire —roaded out of the darkness of an Alaskan rainstorm and crashed within 100 yards of a civil aeronautics administration tower, killing nine men the CAA said today/ The CAA said that four bodies had, been recovered and that other five men aboard could not possibly have survived. The plane was in radio contact with the CAA only one minute before it burst out of the rainclouds and plowed into the emergency landing strip. The plane disintegrated on contact. Richard M. Cross, the CAA radio operator who spoke with the plane, eaid • the pilot reported he had been flying at LI ,000 feet and asked permission to change altitude. “At 8:22 p.m. (12:22 -a.m. CST) I called the pilot back to okay the change in altitude,” Cross said. “At that time he gave no indication whatsoever that he was in any kind of trouble.’/ “Then at 8:23 p.m, the plane roared over the CAA quarters like a ball of fire It was burning and had lost a wing It was fluttering and turned over and over “There was not much sound of an wing missing and afire —roared out taneOus burst of flames. Wreckage was scattered all over the runway. It hit only 100 yards from the CAA station.” J ’ The station is 145 miles north of here at Summitt, Alaska, in a pass between rugged Talkeetna and Alaska mountain Ranges. \‘ The plane was, on a routine flight from Elmendorf air force base at Anchorage to Eilson AFB near Fairbanks, frames of those aboard were withheld. The crash brought to 68 the number of persons dead or missing in Alaskan air crashes since July 21, the worst month in territorial explosion, Just sort of an instanaviation history.

Democrat Midwest Conference Opens National Leaders > To Address Parley French Lick, Ind., Aug. 23 —(UP) —The Democratic party opened a three-day practical political workshop" conference today to train party workers -from 15 midwest sltates in the best methods for electing Democrats in 1952. They chose the plush French Lick Spring hotel iSj. the site for their get-together. They will hear speeches by vice president Alben W. Barkley, price stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle and secretary of the navy Dai> Kimball. J Most of the states tn the conference -sent their s'tdtn chairman, vice-chairman and national committee members. Tfae of conferee?, however; wefe grass roots party workers Who will do actual leg work among the voters. 5 \ » . The governors of five states also were on hand. i The conferees had 'pieir work cut out for them. Eight of the 15 states attending the conference now have Republican \ governors, with the terms of 13 of these' scheduled to expire next year. And the congressional situation was even more serious.* Democrats now occupy only 10 of 30 senatorial seats, and 43 of house seats. ( The largest delegation attending the conference was from Indiana because many of the Hoosier members also were attending the Indiana Democratic editorial association's annual summer meeting, held in conjunction with the conference. But Nebraska. Minnesota, Ilik nois, and lowa also sent large delegations. Smaller groups came from Kansas, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, the Dokatas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Governors Henry F. Schricker of Indiana, G. Menneii Williams of Michigan, Adlai Stevenson of lIH4 (Tura To Pace Five)

Decatur/lndiana, Thursday, August 23, 1951.

ALL’S WELL ' . JIM Hl \ ' HEIR w* Wk ■ AN ANONYMOUS DETROITER who a boy’s best pal is his dog. brought joy and a new pup, “Sparky.’wto 5-year-o|d Paul Rhoads, to replace -the pet two policemen are a<ciaed of wantonly killing while the lad looked on. ' E

Women Outnumber Men In Indiana ■ ■ .. „ More Women First -- Time In History Indianapolis, Aug. 23 —(UP)' — Women) finally gained the upper hand in Indiana — numerically speaking, that is. The U.S. bureau of the census released a preliminary report on population today which shows that the 1950 census dug up 17,192 more females than males in Hoosierland. It [was the first time, the bureau saidi that a decennial Census in Indiana ever recorded an excess of females over males.” The report also showed that: 1. Indiana’s total population was just 65,000 short of 4,000,000. 2. The spate’s population gaim was 14.8 percent in 10 years. 3. The white population increased 13.7 percent and non-white 43.5 percent. 4. The number of children under five increased tremendously and persons over\6s increased considerably while youths 15 to 24 were fewer. The report set the total population at 3,934,224, compared with 3,427,796 in 1940. Os these, 1,975,708 were females and 1,958,516 were males. Ten years ago, the count was: males 1,females 1,702,595. That gave the males an edge of nearly 23,000. The figures showed that 4.5 of every 100 persons calling Indiana their 1 home were non-whites—in-cluding Negroes, Indians, Japanese, and Chinese.- Ten years ago, the percentage of non-whites was 3.6. The total non-white population was 175,785 —equal to the present population of Fort Wayne and Anderson combined. More than 1,000,000 of Indiana’s population is made up of children 14 years and younger. More than 361,000 are 65 years old and up. More than 800,000 are between 45 and 64, and the remaining 1,700,000 fall in th? 15 to 44 age groups. In 1940, the census showed only 800,000 children 14 and under, and the gain in 10 years of children under five was 57.2 percent. The gain in 10 years of persons 65 arid older was 25.3. ' r f The figures also reveal that men lost their numerical superiority because of the cities and urban- areas. Men outnumbered women on the farm by some 30.000, and in rural non-farm areas by around 3,000. But In the urban areas, there were 51,000 more females than males. \Of eight age classifications listed in the census breakdown, the figures showed that there were more persons in the 5-to-14 group on the farm and in rural aon-farm areas than any other age group. However, in the urban areas, the largest group was 25 to 34 years old. ~L K .

—Jta ? Eichhorn Infant Dies In Illinois Word was received here today of the death last Sunday of a twoday old baby, bpm to Pvt. and Mrs. James' Eichhorn at Belleville, HL was born Friday and lived only two days. Burial was at Jefferson Barracks national cemetery near Belleville. The Eichhorns formerly resided in Decatur and Pvt. Eichhorn Is a' member of the U.S. air force, stationed at Belleville. ' ' Probe Communism In State Os Illinois House Group Plans UE Investigation Washington, Aug. 25 —(UP) — Rep. Harold H. Velde, R., 111., said today the house committee on unAmerican 'activities shortly will launch an investigation of Communism in Illinois. Committee ‘ investigators will start with a study of the left-wing United Electrical Wdirkers union, which Velde said is flburishing in the Chicago area. The UE was kicked out of the CIO because of alleged Communist domination. Velde said he hopes the invest!-! gation - will be followed by public hearings of the committee, and that these also will go into the question of subversive activities at the University of Chicago. | Velde, a key Republican on the un-American activities group, disclosed the plans in a statement. He said the committee has conducted many hearings on the UEW, and that testimony showed that its leadership "was almost entirely composed of members of the Communist party.” "Our committee has previously studied the influence of this Com-munist-infested union in the New England states, -Pennsylvania, and New York, but has not . . . made any extensive investigations into the union’s manipulations in the Chicago area. He said the Communist party in Illinois has been trying to extend its operations into both state and federal government. He said this and other subversive activity ini Illinois properly should be investigated by a state committee, but that a bill to creat such a committee had been vetoed by Gov, Adlai Stevenson. Velde said the University of Chicago is not alone in having been used by the Communists, but was a special target because of its “socalled! liberal and fitee-thinking policy.” ■ “I sincerely hope,” he said, "that the proposed investigation by the un-American activities committee of Communism in Illinois have the support of the patriotic citizens that state who have knowledge (Tan Ta Rasa Kiaht)

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Communist Complaint Os Kaesong Bombing Denounced As Faked

Influenced liy Reds Former Communist Continues Testimony Washington, Aug. 23.—(UP)—Former Communist Louis F. ,Budeni today quoted Earl Browder as saying in 1942 that he had prepared an attack on anti-Communists in the state department* “by arrangement with Lauchlin Currie.” At that time, Browder was the top American Communist- and Currie was an administrative assistant to the last President Roosevelt, Budeni also testified that Henry A. Wallace was “under the influence” of Communists, when he made a good will trip-to China in 1944 as vice president. Wallace was accompanied by John Carter Vincent and Owen Lattimore. Budenz said he knew these two men as Communist from the party’s “official reporta.” Budenz told the senate internal security committee that Browder called him into bis office in October, 1942,\t0 show him a statement certain government officials for aiding Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Chinese Nationalist government. ' “He said that his statement had been worked out by arrangement with Lauchlin Currie,” Ppdens said. Asked what Browder meant by this. Budenz said he did not know and he could only repeat Browder’s words. \ Budenz, former editor of the Communist Daily Worker and now a professor of economics at Fordham University, said the Browder statement was printed in the Worker edition of Oct. 4, 1942. After the article appeared, Budenz said, Browder and Robert Miner, “technically his second in command.” went to Washington to confer with Sumner Welles, then undersecretary of state, and with Currie. He said this conference resulted in a Daily Worker article announcing that Browder had withdrawn his charges against the. department’s China policy on assurances from Welles that 'the state department made “bo distinction between the (Turw T* Eixht) Officials Glum On i Truce Breakdown U.S. Officials See x Situation As Serious Washington, Aug. 23. —(UP) — High American officials glumly reported today that the Communist breakoff of truce negotiations at Kaesong forecast resumption of major Korean fighting. They feared* the fighting might spreads Officials regarded the situation ias “serious.” All were unanimous in dismissing the Communist rear son for rupturing the talks as a “frame-up.” Many congressmen have been dubious of the truce talks. Sen. Alexander Wiley, R., Wis., top Re publican on the senate foreign relations committee, said the talfs have been “a phony to me all along.” “I only hope we are ready, alerted and thoroughly equipped to give them the works,” Wiley said-. The incident *was expected to touch off new demands for an allodt fight. Eight GOP members of the senate committee which investigated the ouster' of Gen. Douglas MacArthur Sunday night lambasted the administration tor failing to have a “plan to win.” “If is too much to expect that our people will accept a limited war,” the ysaid. The White House was silent. President Truman holds a news conference at 2 p.m. CST. State and defense department officials had no public comment, but said privately that statements from the Reds In the next 24 to 36 hours probably would determine whetther the talks can be resumed.

Great Britain To Hold Onto Iran Refinery ; Plans To Hold On To Abadan Plant; Use Force If Needed > London, Aug. 23—(UP) —-Britain ' announced tonight it intended to • hold onto the great Abadan oil refinery in southern Iran and would use force if necessary to protect ' British personnel there. 1 The announcement followed yes--1 terday's collapse of negotiations to ’ settle a dispute over Iran’s nation- • alixation of the British-owhed An- • gio- Iranian oil company. The British foreign office an--1 nounced earlier that all British staff workers were being pulled out , of the 'South Iranian oil fields into Baadan. A second, statement to- ’ night said Britain had no intention ' of giving up the Abadan refinery, the biggest in the world. Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes and his British negotiating team was en route back to London from •Tehran following the breakdown 1 of talks yesterday. Tehran reports said U. 8. presL r dential Adviser W. Averell Harri- ( man, sought to bring the two sides together in the dispute, was ? expected to return to the United ' r States tomorrow byway of Yugoslavia. J . ( Iraq's attitude seemed to involve prestige. Oil expert Ibazem Hassibi said the country would rather go Communist than “give up her honor” under the present govern- ! nient of Premier Mohammed Mos- ( sadegh. The British foreign office statement was hot optimistic. "The Anglo-Iranian oil company has been compelled to withdraw its personnel from the oil fields,” it sadi. • 1 Talks Collapse Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 —(UP)— Britain’s unsuccessful oil negotia- ' tors left by air for London today, leaving behind them a virtually bankrupt nation ripe for a Communist uprising. Before stepping on his plane, chief British negotiator Richard Stokes predicted that lose of oil revenues would deal a “catastrophic blow” to Iran’s already impoverished economy. He urged the Iranian government to reconsider his proposals. U. S. presidential adviser W. Averell Harriman dashed Iran’s hopes . that he might once again bring . the two parties together in their (Tant Te Twa) 1 ► I • Geneva Elevator is ' Destroyed By Fire Geneva Fire Loss Estimated $50,000 , Fire which presumably started through combustion in the upper i reaches of the structure today alI most completely razed the Geneva Equity exchange elevator. The fire started at about 10 a.m. i today and was still smoldering late this afternoon. i Unofficially the loss was esti- • mated at approximately 350,000. ' Fire departments from Berne and - Portland raced to the scene to asi sist the Geneva department. The I combined forces were able to save i most of the office buildings and storage apace. The 45-foot elevator burned to the office building level before it was stopped. 1 Firemen and] elevator officials . and employes were able to salvage i all office records and* equipment, while the firemen were able to keep the flames from the storage building. Although officials could not, be reached, it is believed the loss was covered by insurance. \ ‘ ! I \ ’

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Entire Situation 1 1 r Confused As Reds Quit Talks; UN Denies Any Attack Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 24 —(UP)— The Communist/ commanders in chief in Korea alleged today that. a United Nations plane bombed Kaesopg with the intention of klB-* ing members of the Red truce team and said that cease-ffyw negotiations consequently were suspended indefinitely. Kim 11 Sung, premier and commander in chief in North Korea, and Gen. Peng Teh-Huai, Chinese "volunteer" commander in chief, made their allegation direct to Gek. Matthew B. Rrigdway, UN commander, taking the new crisis over alleged neutrality violations to the highest levels. Khn and Peng that the alleged bombing of Kaesong could not be considered lightly and that Communist delegates would attend no cease-fire -conferences “on and after yesterday.” It was indicated, however, that the Communists intended to follow up)with a series of "demands” for punishment of those responsible for the alleged bombings and for assurances against a “repetition.” and tllat they expected a resumption of armistice negotiations. The entire situation was confused, as it had been several times be.fora, i-' j A dispatch front the UN cease fire base below Kaesong, Indicating it was expected truce talks would be resumed, said no orders had been received to break camp and that halt hourly radio checks were . being maintained with Kaesong for t possiblb message. ' Ridgway issued a statement at midnight Thursday saying no allied plane of any sort was oyer Kae- , song at the time 6f the alleged bombing. He made it evident there could have been no attack. Here and at UN command ceasefire headquarters below Kaesong the Communist complaint was denounced as- faked—“fraudulent” and “a frimeup.” Previously Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, chief UN negotiator, rejected earlier Communist complaints of attacks on Kaesong, where negotiations are being held, in a detailed and documented note delivered to the Reds yesterday nsorning. For the moment, the entire situation was confused. It appeared that the confusion was the result of a misunderstanding due to the difficulty of communicating in different languages, English and Korean and Chinese. A Red liaison officer summoned UN liaison officers to Kaesong and notified them at 2 a.m. (10 a.m. Wed. CST) that the cease-fire talks were “off from now on,” it was announced. At least, that was what the UN liaison men understood the Red liaison man to But last night the Chinese Communist Peiping radio, broadcasting id Japanese, quoted the Cdmmunist liaison officer: * “I meat inform you that this incident is one of extremely serious nature. Acting on ordfers from our chief delegate, I inform" you that all meetings will not be held on the 23d and that our aide reserves the ' right to present, all kinds of demands.” , I- - - . Peiping said this statement waa made with "special cordialßy.” The statement that "all kinds of \ demands” might be made indicated 47 the Reds intend to call promptly . '* for another meeting, sources here said. The (North Korean Pyongyang radio continued this theme later by saying that the UN had made no "sincere” reply to Communist neutrality violation protests., “So long as there is no sincere, o satisfactory reply,*we will consider that the UN side has no desire for peaceful settlement nor progress in future meetings,” the Pyongyang broadcast said. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued cool tonight and Friday. Low tonight 46 to 52 north, 52 to 58 ) south. High Friday 75 to 80 north, 80 to 84 south.