Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 200.

50 PERSONS KILLED IN AIRLINER CRASH

Gen. Ridgway May Suggest Sife Change Prepares Reply To Reds' Breakoff Os Truce Negotiations . I . Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 25.— (UP) •—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway may propose to the Communists that cease-fire talks he resumed at some ■ plkce other than Kaesong to end the long series of disputes over alleged violations of neutrality, it was reported today. Sources in close touch with the situation here and at the United Nations command advance base below Kaesongin Korea said: I—Ridgway, the supreme UN comthander, probably will reply within 36 hours to the allegation by Communist/ leaders Kim II Sung and Teh-Huai that an allied . plane bombed Kaeaon£Jn an at--1 tempt to "murder" Red truce deleH*eaj. - _ undoubtedly will re-’ jedt completely the Red allegation. He has already announced that no UN plane of any description flew A’er Kaesong at theumeof the "alleged bombing. J may ease the path of the Communists by suggesting himsei?. that the incident be 1 filed and forgotten and that the talks be resumed. Alternatively he mayleave that to NTm. i 4—lt is virtually certain that, after all the shouting, the armistice talks will be resumed. They may start Monday. . - it was suggested that Ridgway may propose that the,talks be held right on the border line between , the UN and Communist armies, with each side policing its territory. f Ridgway received the latest Communist formal protest early yesterday afternoon. Gen. Kim II Sung, North Korean premier and , commander in chief, and Gen. Peng Teh Huai, commander of Chinese forces in Korea, charged that a UN; plane bombed the Kaesong neutral zone Wednesday night in a "deliberate attempt to murder our (truce) delegation.”

The protest note broke off the L cease-fire talks at Kaesong pending a “satisfactory reply" but added: , "It is our hope that armistice negotiations will proceed smoothly and, that a just and reasonable agreement acceptable to both sides will be reached." Ridgway had the Communists in ” an embarrassing position after their confused statements on the alleged \ Kaesong bombing. He was expected. in his message to Kim and Peng, to offer to resume the armistice talks. But It was entirely up to him whether tomake the Reds do all the proposing. \ Ridgway already has Indicated the. line he will take In bln reply and from the Communist view point, it was beTTeved far from “satisfactory.” In a statement issued Thursday — midnight. Ridgway said an investigation had showed that u 0 air * craft was over the; Kaesong area during the night add metal scraps ' by the Reds were not from UN bombs. He implied that the Communist ' decision to disrupt the cease-fire talks whs reached even before the “raid” had Recurred which was to serve as the pretext for the\break. Ridgway’s United Nations 'command radio said Jh a broadcast to Korea Friday that the so-called raid was “the most clumsy and thorough- * ly ridiculous farce the Communists have yet staged in their effort to distort the facte.” . I Chalmer C. Enos Is Taken By Death ■i ■ i . ■ . 4 . . Chalmer C. Enos. 81, former Decatur resident, died at his home in Darke county. Ohio, Thursday morning. Mr. Enog was formerly employed in Decatur by Lee Hardware Co-, but moved to Ohio several years ago. p are the wife,. Flora /Enos; two sons, Roy Enos of p /Greenville, 0., and Floyd Enos, ; Fort Wayne, and a daughter, Mrs. 7 R. C, Dull of Van Wert, Q. Funeral services beheld at the Miller funeral home in Greenville Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

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Took $130,000 w * K" ■ “ Hr v w H ' wl! ■ ■ >• i Jb Mr! > si Il JI Calmer Minard Stordahl, manaager of a Detroit branch bank, has confessed to embezzling $130.000 during the 14 years he has been tn charge. He said he lost It all betting on race horses add "couldn't afford 11,000, or even d|6oo” to pay a hail bondsman. Report Amish Plan Parochial School \ ■■ T ' . Erection Is Planned ( v 'fn Wabash Township While it could not be learned officially from .spokesmen of the sect, ft is understood that work was to begin today on the construction of an Amish t parochial school “south of Berne.”; , The building is being privately built, and as far as county superintendent of schools Hansel L. Foley is concerned Without sanction of stateand county educational authorities. ? However, the erection of a parochial school in Wabash township, as; tentatively proposed, would necessitate state sanction I upon completion. When queried. Foley said that the school "is news to me,” that he had never been officially contacted.

It is since;, learned that-perhaps state health officials have contacted on the project in outlining regulations for sanitation and water supplV, but school authorities are “in the dark." It is known that a similar institution was established in a nearby county for she Amish and at that time state health officials were very lax in their requirements. The purpose of the school, probably. is to somehow circumvent at-, tendance laws. It is on record that ■the Geneva schools, normally loadcd with a considerable number of Amish students, has the poorest attendance records bf any of the county’s schools. The Amish have been rather kit|enlsh on the matter of attending school, especially on the matter of age. While Foley said he knew little bujt rumor on they Amish school, he did state that other parochial schools before erection were cognizant of the services offered hy the office of the county school superintendent and were quick to utfllze (Tan To Sl*) \ High School Pupils Register Next Week Schedule Listed By Principal Andrews The schedule of registration for students in the Decatur high school for the* 1951-52 school term was announced today by Hugh J. Andrews, principal. ♦ Registration of all -high school students will be held next week. Seniors will register Monday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Juniors yvill register during the same hours Tuesday. .. -. There will be no registration Wednesday because of the annual Adams county teachers’ institute; Sophomores will register from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, and freshmen during same hours Friday. . ’ Saturday will be set aside for pupils of the.-seventh and eighth of the junior highschool. Eighth graders will register at 9 a.m. Saturday, and seventh graders at 10 am. ' School will open Tuesday, Sept. 4. U

U.S. Officials Growing Tired Os Red Tactics Truman Says Latest Allegations By Reds A Mere Masquerade i , . \ 1 Washington, . Aug. 24.—(UP) — Top American officials were growing, tired today of (pommunfat tac|n the on-Mgaln-off-again Ko rdkn truce talks. .One senator demanded a surrender ultimatum be •gifen the Reds. Informed sources said, however, 'that this v government would continue trying to get an armistice so lohg as there is any "reasonable hope” of achieving a Korean aeh tlement. But there was no question of' the increasing Impatience, Reflected by officials and in congress. . ’ V * t ' Sen. llarry P. Caln, R., Wash., demanded that "we send a surrender ultimatum to North Korean forces immediately ... or use every force at our command to defeat the ehemy.” Cain, a Mnember of the armed services committee, said the ultimatum should be-simply: “do you (Communists) Yant to stop fighting? It you don’t, we are going to whip you.” - President Truman said yesterday that the latest Red allegations amounted to a "Communist masquerade.” t Experts long-schooled in Communist maneuvers think that the enemy negotiators are merely using the truce talks to bolster their “propaganda and prestige” positions for further negotiations. The attitude is that the Communists will work up new oharges’from time to time in an effort to win their demands for a truce line on the 38th parallel. There is no in-. dicat|on the allies will retreat to that line unless they are forced to by military measures. Mr. Truman’s statement on the truce talks was made at his news conference after he had studied Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s report on Red charges that, a United Nations plane had bombed the neutral area at Kaesong. "I f

“There is, of course, no truth in the Communist claim that a United Nations plane had bombed the Kaesong area,” Mr. Truman said. The president said the “flimsy nature of the so-called ‘evidence’ shown to the United Nations liaison Officers makes it extremely doubtful that any bombing took place at all.” \ “We do not know the purpose of this new Communist masquerade in Kaesong,” ,Mr. Truman added, Sonny Andrews Is - Korean War Victim Hoagland Youth Is Killed In Action Mr, and Mrs. Fred Andrews, of Hoagland, were notified late Thursday evening that their only son, Kenyon (Sonny) Andrews, 22, was killed in action while serving with the United States army in Korea. A telegram from the army informed the parents that their son was killed August 4. The message gave no details. The w-ar victim graduated from Hoagland high sbhool in 1948. While in schol, he was a member of the Hoagland Wildcats basketball team for three years. The Andrews youth had been in Korea only about six weeks. The last letter received by his parents was written late in July, stating that he had ben in a rest camp and, was returning to t,he front lines. 1 After completing his basic training at Camp Breckinrdge, Ky., young Andrews was married to Miss Rose Stemmier, of New Haven before being sent overseas. The ’ veteran’s father was a native of Decatur, residing here for many' years, during which time he was employed at Lose’s barber shop. The lad’s mother was the former Pauline Jackson of Monroeville. V. , Hugh J. AnrdewS, Decatur high school principal, is an uncle of the war victim. ,

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Institute Speaker . ■ * Leo R. Dowling Results Os X-Ray Surveys Announced 1,540. X-Rays Are Taken In Surveys Results of two X-r»y aurveys sponsored during the summer by the Adams county tuberculosis association are in the mall, according* to Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the organization. A total of 1,540 X-rays were taken during the two surveys, one extending from July 23 through 27 in which industries and the public were served throughout the county, and the other from August 7 through 9 during the 4-H fair at Monroe. but of this totgl, Mrs. Brown reported, Il cases were considered tuberculosis suspects and there were 26 cases of other pathological disturbances. While all those who were X-rayed will be notified of the results, those who are tuberculosis suspects, according to the X-rays, will be urged to contact their family physician 'for further medical advice. These surveys are projects Jsupported by the sale of Christmas seats in the county.- The X-ray pro<Tura To Pace Elgfct) ' Samuel Gentis Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon

Samuel Gentis, 78. prominent Wells county farmer and father of the late Ralph O. Gentis of this city, died In his sleep last night at his home, seven miles west of Berne lon state road 118. ; He was found dead in bed by his grandson and granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gentis,who made their home with him. The time of death was set at 1 a.m. Born In Harrison township, Wells county, March 25; 1873. the deceas» ed was a son of Noah t and Sarah Hill Gentis. His wife, the former Rose Shoemaker, diyd a number of years ago. Mr. Gentis owned and operated a couple of farms in Wells county. A son, Dan Gentte of Bluffton route three and a daughter, Mrs* Frank Neff of Bluffton route two, survive. Thirteen grandchildren, including Robert and Roger Gen thy of this city, and four great-grand-children also survive. Brothers and sisters who survive are, Purl and Cletus Gentis and Mrs. Jacob Bossert of Bluffton. Three brothers are deceased. The body I will be moved from the Yager funeral home in Berne to the Gentis farm home, where friends may call after 10 a.m. Saturday. Funeral services will Jbe held Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Old Salem Evangelical United Brethren church, with the Rev. George Holston officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery. Four New Members Inducted By Rotary \ Four new members of the Decatur Rotary club were formally inducted at the weekly meeting of the service club Thursday evening. Avon Burk first president of the, club when ’it was granted its charter in 1917, inducted the members, Joseph Kaehr, James Kocher, Jr., Robert Macklin and Robert Smith. The new members gave brief autobiographies as another feature of the program.

Dowling Speaker At Teachers Institute D.C.H.S. Graduate At Local Institute - Leoß. Dowling a 1931 graduate Os the Decatur’ . Catholiic high school and currently a professor ft Indiana University will be the Ikrtneipal speaker at the Adams knunty teachers institute, to be Ijeld In the Lincoln school next Wednesday, it was announced today by county superintendent of schools Hansel L. Foley. ; The institute wil consist of two sessions. During the morning, in addition to the first of two speeches by Dowding, a regular business session will be held as well as question period. Prof. Dowling is the astlstant dean of students ad Indiana Uni* varsity and a native of thfa city. He was graduated from Decatur Cathode high school In 1931, and received his bachelor's and master'd degrees from Indiana University. ' He has also studied in Prance and Mexico and in addition to his i duties as assistant dean of students he has taught in the \ university's department of French and Italian :* and the school of business. I The co-author of “Counseling Foreign Students/* one of a series of publications of the American council on education, he is coordinator on the campus of the - U.S. department of state aid pro- ; gram for foreign students and adviser Tor the Fulbright program which provides funds for American students to study abroad. ’ In line with |his, Prof. Dowling will speak during the morning ' session on “Foreign students in American colleges,” and during ! the afternoon on “The experiences ‘ of exchange teachers.” During the morning business , session at the institute, selection , of I.S.T-A. representatives and speakers for related school subjects will be completed. i In the afternoon, groups meetings will be held among county school teachers attending the meeting. Devotionals, to begin the institute, will be’ given by the Rev. Robert H. Hammond, of the First Baptist church, of Decatur. . Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music in the Decatur schools, will be in charge of the music.

Mrs. Mary Hennes Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary Hennes, 85 mother of the Rev. Joseph Hennes, pastor of St. Monica’s Catholic church at Mishawaka, and former assistant at St. Mary's church in Decatur, died Thursday at the Sacred Heart home near Avilla. Also surviving', are two daughters, Mrs. Marie Speicher and Mrs. Rose Rickey, both of Indianapolis, two grandchildren and two brothers, Frank and Charles Strasser of near Kirkland. i Funeral services will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday In St. Joseph’s Catholic church at Kentland, with burial at Kentland. Rev. M. T. Simon Is Returned To City Muttman Ave. U.B. { Pastor Is Returned The Rev. M. T. Simon, pastor of the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren church for the past year, was returned to the local charge by the 99th annual conference of the Xuglaize district, held at Rockford, p. Rev. Simon, 36 years of age, will mark his 16th year as a pastor this year. He served churches in Missouri and Kansas arid prior to coming to Decatur was pastor of Fairview church at Hartford City for seven years. The\ pastor and the executive committee of the church are planning a much enlarged program for the coming year for the congregation and the community. Attendance at the church is reported steadily increasing. The church, located on Nuttlnan avenue, is being redecorated and additional space tor the Sunday school is being planned During the past year, the church was presented with an outdoor bulletin board in memory of the late Rev. G. A. Eddy, a former pastor.

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Allied Planes Smash Hard At Enemy Convoys Savage Attacks On Red Reinforcements Made By UN Planes . - * l ■ Bth Army Headquarters Korea, Aug. 24.—(UP)—Powerful fleetz of United Nations > planes destroyed qr damaged 137 Communist trucks, 28 barges, an underwater bridge and huge amounts of supplies today In threw savage attacks on Communist reinforcement convoys. A force of 116 planes, mostly jets, caught one convoy at a bottleneck fery crossing on the Chongchon River in northwest Korea. Streaking in from every side, the planes left the entire area a mass of burning trucks, barges and ply dumps. Only a handful of Red trucks escaped. Thirty more trucks were destroyed or damaged in a second attack and an underwater bridge across the ferry point was destroyed in addition to several barges, la a third strike nearby, shooting star jets left seven trucks aflame. Some drivers in the convoys, trying desperately to escape, collided headon with pother trucks. In heavy ground fighting. South Korean troops battled grimly to recapture three hills from which they had been thrown by Communist counter-attacks during the night.

Vengeful S|outh Korean infantrymen jumped off at dawn against North Koreans who ■ had driven them from newly-captured hills on the east-central and eastern fronts onty a few hours earlier. Two of the hills were on “Bloody Ridge,” so-called because of the heavy casualties inflicted on the Reds by the South Koreans in their / , (Turn To Page Kight) Boy Slightly Hurt When Struck By Car James Hake Slightly Injured Thursday James Hake, foutyear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hake, Jr., 910 Dierkes street, Thursday suffered minor Injuries when he was struck by a car driven by Delbert Haviland, 340 North Ninth street. The boy, according to Haviland’s report to city police who investigated, ran diagonally across the Meibers and Dierkes street intersection in front oC.the southbound vehicle. Taken to the Adams county memorial hospital by Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, neighbors, the boy was treated and released with “a few scratches and bruises; nothing serious,” according to hospital attaches’ reports. City police also investigated another accident Thursday, and deputy sheriff Jim Cochran one Thursday and another -todhy. The latter occurred when cars driven by Ellen Jones, of route 3, and Louis Shook, of Wren, 0., collided at a crossroads one mile east of Bobo. The accident. It was reported, resulted from the blind intersection created by the corn and weeds growing there. Total damage was estimated at $790. ' Cochran estimated the total damage at |450 to three cars which were damaged Thursday as the car driven by Chauncey Manley of route 6, in backing from a driveway onto the Salem road, was struck by another vehicle operated by Thelma Bilderback, also of route 6. The latter car caromed off the Manley car into one owned by Mrs. Eli Beer, route 2, Berne, and parked by the road. City police estimated a total of (Tara Ta Page Fire)

Relieved Bl With a House subcommittee charging it had evldence*of “improper dealings” at his command. Col. S. W. Mcllwain has been relieved of his post by Army Spcre-< tary Frank Pace. jr.. The army began investigation of the Rossford Ordnance Depot at Toledo. Ohio, Col. Mcllwain's command on Aug, 16. No charges have been placed as yet. Blames Republicans For Welfare Mixup Special Session Os Legislature Urged I French Lick, Ind., Aug. 24—<iUP) —An Indiana Democratic congressman has suggested that Republicans take the pressure off governor Schricker by asking him to call a special session of the legislature to iron out the state welfare fund problem. Rep. Winfield K. Denton. Evansville, said the mixup was the iault Os the GOP and that party should agree to a special session to end the crisis. It is up governor to call a special session. Republicans reportedly have considered introducing other types of legislation if a session Is called.

“Republicans should be big enough to ask the governor to call a special session and assure him that he will have their full cooperation in solving the problem.” Denton said. penfon called the antt-secfecy law enacted by the GOP-cbnt rolled 1951 legislature, opening welfare records to public inspection, as “a peeping-tom law.” Ha said it (was passed by “hog wild” Republicans. Federal security administrator Oscar Ewing withdrew 120,000,000 annually in federal welfare grants to Indiana because he said the law conflicted with federal regulations making information confidential. Denton and Rep. Ray j. Madden of Gary, the only Democrats in Indiana's 11-member congressional delegation, spoke at the opening session of the 15-state mid West Democratic Iconference last night. Madden accused state Republicans in- congress of joining hands with states’ righters from the deep south to “push the nation into serious inflation difficulties.” “The so-called Capehart amendment (sponsored by Indiana Sen. Homer E.' Capehart, R.) .enacted with the recent control legislation has destroyed all efforts to keep the cost of manufactured articles down,” Madden said. t He said it was dangerous to “play politics, with inflation” and blamed GOP refusal to cooperate on housing legislation for what he termed “unsatisfactory living ind sanitary conditions” in trailer camps in the Calumet area he represents, INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and a little warmer tonight and Saturday, tow tonight 50 to 55 north, 56 to 60 southeast. .High Saturday 78 to 82 north, 82 to 87 south.

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44 Passengers Aqd Six Crew Members ) 1 Killed; First Crash Os New Type Liner Decoto. Calif , Aug. 24.—(UP) — A United Air Lines DC-6B mainliner, roaring through low-lying clouds and only 10 minutes from a landing, smashed into a ridge early today careened into a canyon and burst into flames, killing all 50 persons aboard.. The huge, luxurytype craft was the firpt DC-6B to crash. The IX'-BB'p, bigger and faster than the DC-2’s, were placed in service only last Aug. under a truce agreement with ktriking pilots. k The plane was making an Instrument approach to Oakland. Calif., about 20 inHes north of here, ; through a 600-foot cloud layer that seeped down*fato -th# valleys and canyons of this ruggedg hill country. :■ Ml The plane left Boston at 6:30 p.m. (EDT) yesterday, stopping at Hartford. Cleveland and Chicago. It was due to make one more stop at Oakland, 20 miles -north of Decoto. before ending its flight at\ San Francisco airiport at 6 a.m. (PDT). The plane missed clearing the top of the hill by only 20 febt. The force of the impact was so terrific that the plane was torn to hits and fragments of bodies were strewn all over- landscape. There were 44 passengers and six crew members. Earlier it had been believed the plane carried only 41 pasengers, but several hours after the crash United’s headquarters in Chicago increased the number to 44. United said reports from the scene indicated that the three additional passengers were, babes in arms.. Twenty-seven of the passengers boarded the plane at Chicago, seven at Cleveland and two at Hartford Conn. Five pf the passengers were. military personnel. Sheriff’s deputies and government officials ’at the scene be-, lieved the plane hit the hill, two propeller blades gouging out a deep pit, then careened over the top and fell down the western Hopp, disintegrating as it went.

When it was 400 yards down the slope, it flew off the edge of a | canyon about. 5Gb feet deep. I The crash caused a small grass * fire that silhouetted the plage for eyewitnesses several miles away. All the bodies were found in the ‘ canyon, with the exception of the body of one small blond child about 4 years old wearing a bright red sweater. The boy’s head was smashed. • . L . Mall wm scattered all over the ? hillside*with white envelopes dotting the brush and trees. The only portion of the plane that was recognizable was the tail section which came tb rest about 30 feet from theedge of the canyon. : ■ Trucks from the Alameda county . coroner’s office their way up a rutted one-way > dirt road to reach the seen?. Other trucks with heavy cables were used to lower men into the canyon to remove the bodies. Sheriff’s deputies said it would .take “at least' several hours” to collect the bodies from the dense tangled undergrowth in the canyon. H United Air Lines in San Francisco said the plane was making a routine instrument approach to Oakland airport through a 600-foot cloud layer extending from 2,000 feet to 1,490 feet. The elevation of the accident scene is approximately 1.500 feet. ’ “At 5:16 a.m. (POT), the aircraft pilot reported via radio to the Oakland approach ’ control tower for final approach instructions. His last radio report was made at 5:27 a.m. (PDT) over the Newark marker, with the plane apparently in normal descent; The Newark marker: is adjacent to the accident scene.” - I