Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1951 — Page 1

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35 Superforts Blast Korean Freight Yards . ■ '' ' ■ ' ■ Great Base Blasted; Communist Jets Are Repulsed In Attack; Headquarters. Far East Air ,v Force. Tokyo, Aug. 25.—(UP)— ■ B-29 superfortresses bombed the grtaat freight assembly yards at Rash in. North Korea, about 2" miles from the frontier of Soviet Siberia, for the first time in more j than one year today. ‘ Tbirty-flve superforts, escorted by navy Panther jet fighters, blasted the great base with more than 300 tons of bombs. All planes returned to their basest the bombers to Japan and Okinawa, the navy planes to their mother carriers. Rashin. on the far northeast Korean coast, is only about 105 miles from Vladivostok, the base 5 of the Soviet forced in the far east.. ... Targets Included a locomotive •epair yard, a round house, a track storage yard, a freight assembly yard capable of handling 750/cars an many small structures. 4 f 1 No anti-aircraft fire was encountered hnd no enemy interceptor planes! appeared. , Rashin was last hit on August 12, IPSO. when almost 50 superforts ' pounded the rail installations, Yy RNorthih ' /-J . Beat Off 'Jets Bth Army , Headquarters, Korea, Aug. 25; —(UP) — U.S. planes beat off Communist jets for the second straight day today and knocked out, iK 400 Red trucks rushing rethforeements and supplies to the fighting front. On the ground, ' North Korean • forces-cbunter-attacked South Koreans who had jilst cleared “bloody \ ridge” on the,eastern front after a week-long battle. ' I. A North Korean regiment drove Republican troops from one hill on the ridger-but elsewhere the South Korean line held. Allied air and . artilery was called in to pound the enemy. -• t \ Thirty of the Communists’ crack Red-nosed MIG-15 jet fighters challenged 211' American Sabre jets northeast of Slnuiju pn the Manchurian border during the morning. One enemy jet was damaged before they Tied to the safety of Manchuria. . - Returning American airmeh said the Red pilots were much more aggressive than they had been yesterday. when the Sabrejets destroyed two MJG-15S. All Sabrejets re- - turnedA safely to base from both engagements. /• /' j]. Other U.S. planes —bobmers and fighter-bombers—raked Communist convoys moving reinforcemetns end supplies south toward the battlefront foir an expected Red offensive. The yspotted more than 1,000 .trucks, many of them running through ' the pre-dawn darkness with headlights on full in defiance of the allied air raiders. At least 400 of the trucks were destroyed J or damaged. \ Tllots reported the road between Pyongyang, the North Korean capita), and Namchonjon on the western front “loaded with trucks.” Heavy activity also was noted in the Yangdok area behind the east ern front. —I — ■ ' • l; - • ; /'•■- I Decatur firemen In Poe Contest Today The state champibn water ball team from the Decatur fire department will participate in a con's test at 4 o’clock this afternoon at the Poe firemen’s annual festival. Members of the team who won state honors recently at Gary, are Russell Baumgartner, Joe Mc- -• Bride, Vernon Hill and Ed Hurst. The firemen’s festival attracts thousands of guests. Among the all-day attractions are a horsepulling content, the water battle and a dance on the new bridge ai cross the St. Mary’s river at Poe. A large tent has been erected to house the lunch counter and concessions. Many people from this city, planned to attend the festivities. ' ,|' , ’ ' I- , ■' Noon Edition

Winchester Youth Is Drowned In Pit 1 V -i * ■. Winchester, Ind., Au£. 25 —(UP)Authorities Returned an accidental death verdict in ithe gfavebpit drowning of Raymond E. Burchnell, It. Two brothers-in-law Who accompanied the youtft on a drinking party said they didn’t report his disappearance because -7 tliey thought he was Vplaying a joke pn them.” Wreckage Os Plane Guarded By FBI Agents Possible Clues To Sabotage Sought In Crash Killing 50 Decoto, Calif., Aug. 25—(UP)— Six FBI agents today guarded the splintered remains of a United airlines DC-6B pending the arrival Os technicians who will determine whether sabotage played a part in the crash that killed all 50 persons aboard. L - r k Chief Agent Harry M. Kimball said fingerprint experts and laboratory technicians were called in from Washington to help identify the dead and to examine the fragments of wreckage for possible’ 1 clues to sabotage. Six special agents, meanwhile, stood guard on the fatal hilltop to keep everyone - away from the plane’s propellors and engines. Kimball\ declined to say exactly what the experts would look for in the wreckage except that his men were “making an inquiry to" determine whether sabotage has been committed.” "T . <■ Nine twisted bottles lay amidst the scattered wreckage. The search for them was called off last night because of insufficient lighting. Deputies were to return to the scene at sunup today. - ( , * Thirty-two bodies were* removed from the crash scene by rescuers who carried them out of the brushchoked canyon on foot and by horse pack train. Nine more were en route to the temporary morgue set up in the auditorium of the Decoto grammar school. * The giant airliner—carrying 44 passengers and \six crewmen—smashed the hill only 20 feet from its 1,500 summit/ The impact ripped the plane to bits and fragments bounced over the crest of the hill and skidded down a slope into a 500-toot canyon. • ■ The missing and dead were (bought to be concealed in the deep brush of the canyon Where they were thrown when the plane bursts apart. , 1 " J At least eight children, ranging in age from eight months to 14 (Torn To Paare Six) Remirid Farmers Os Monday Night Meet Seek Improvement Os Farm Services All Adams county farmers were once again reminded of the special meeting Monday in thp Monroe school building, which will afford them the opportunity to make suggestions for improving government agency programs. Officials of the Adams county mobilizhtion committee have sent notices! to specific rural inviting them to attend the meeting, but urged all farmers to be present —even those not affiliated with any organization. Winfred L. Gerke, chairman of the mobilization committee, will be in charge of the meeting assisted by members L. E. Archbold, Donkld Norquest, Henry Rumple, Fred Meier, Lawrence Beckmeyer and Hqmer Arnold. ■ The purpose of the meeting will be to utilize all suggestions to forward to state and federal agricultural officials. These suggestions, in turn, will be given serious consideration in future plans of all agricultural agencies. \ 1 The intent is, as federal officials stilted, “to obtain recommendations . . . for improvement of service to agriculture.” r \ The meeting Is for 7:45 p.m.

FIFTY DIE IN CALIFORNIA AIR CRASH ■ FIFTY PE RSONS,; including six crew-members and two infant passengers, died in the crash of a United Air Lines XJ-6-B-hear /Oakland. Calif., just minutes before it was due tO land after a non-stop flight from Chicago. I’he plane (t|fp). newest and largest in the line's fleet, struck’the top of a canyon, caught fire and scatteied wreckage and broken bodies over a half-mile radiul. In the bottom picture, rescuers search the" wreckage as a small fire still burns at the right. «.

Schricker Denies Senatorial Hopes Party Leaders Hope For Change Stand French Lick, ’ Ini, 25' — (UP) — Governor Schricker says a movement to draft him for the U. S. Senjatorial nomination next year is a waste of (time. “My answer was given a long time ago,’j the white-hatted Hoosier chief executive said last night \at the 15-state midwest Democratic conjferenbe. “There will be no change. I’m going back home and take (life easy." But Horsier party leaders, up a stump for a strong candidate to run for ijlepublican Sen. William E. Jenner's seat im< : l9s2, remained hopeful despite this latest denial of further political aerations. They Recalled that Schricker said in 1948, and before that that he woulA not welcome a “draft" movement* for a second gubernatorial However, he was nominated aij> accepted reluctantly. \Democrats in Stricker's -home ‘ town of Knox said They’d “like to see him in \Vaihhington” and “think \that’B wh£rs| he will go." William Sha w\ Democratic chairman of StarW’ county, said the governor has ftfrt in hometown political ?ffriends on the subject. However. £sjaw said they believe he will hen# the party’s call. > “The governor shl the same thing four years Shaw said. “He told us not tbi|push him for governor — he didti’t want it — "but the jeople wanped him. He’ll run for senator, toct if the party wants him.” ; Schrick jr made his latest reference to talk of hii, candidacy at a press He and the Democratic sjoverndr of Illinois and Michigan also said President Truman’s popularity is on the upswing in their states. However, they told newsmen they see no indication whether Mr. Truman will seek Gov. G. Menneh Williams of Michigan said tlw Democrats could carry his State with Mr. Truman ii 1952. Schricker gave the prevent a “50-50 chance” in Indiana»|f he runs against Sei- Robert J® Taft, R., 0., and Goy. Adlai Shetenson of Illinois said he tie president’s political strengthens grown in the past three mbht|rs. Williams said IwrUTru man’s upswing iur seemed to stem from the impression “he is a fighter for the little guy.” “Mr. Truman thought his recent reception 1 in DetjiSit. was exceed? ingly warm,” Williams said. “He got the idea ’those people out - (Tur* T® Six)

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Four Persons Killed When Train Hits Auto Lake Forest 111, 111., Aug. 25. — (UP)— A housewife, her two ehildrert 'and a tiny playmate bundled into an auto and aet off for a railroad station io meet their father’s train. j’ As Mrs. Rose Brown pulled across the railroad crossing yesterday, a train hurtled into the, car, killing the children, Kenneth, 2, his brother Howard. 4, and the playmate, Susan Flynn, 4. Mrs. Brown died a few mihutes later in a hospital. George Brown, the husband and father, was on the train. Iran Ready To Sell , Crude Oil For Cash British Withdraw Experts From Field Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25. —(UP)— Deputy premier Hossein Fatemi today that Iran H ready to sell crude oil from its stpcks in Abadan for cash to “any foreign customer" ‘ —presumably including Russia. He made the statement after all British technicians withdrew from the oilfields on the heels of the breakdown in Anglo-Iranian *oil talks. Fatemi said Iran did not need any foreign experts to produce crude oil and some refined products because Iranian engineers could do the job. Although the big British refinery at Abadan is still in possession of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian dll company, Fatemi made it plain that Iran intends to go ahead with the production and sale of crude oil. •’ He said Iran is in a position -to sell large quantities of crude oil, but only a limited amount of refined products at present. \ He also disclosed for the first time the text of a letter handed U.S. mediator W. Averell Harriman before the envoy boarded a plane for Belgrade last night. The letter, signed by 1 premier Mohammed Mossadegh, said British •> cabinet Richaid Stokes’ proopsals for settlement of the oil dispute were incompatible with Iran’s economic independence. Moreover, he said. Iran would not consider giving a 50 percent discount to a purchasing organization. While Iran wants to keep British personnel, he said, it would not sign an agreement with a for eign government for this purpose. The letter expressed Mossadegh’s thanks for Harriman’s efforts to resolve the dispute. Hundreds of Britons moved out across the sun-baked desert country to the port of Abadan after Anglo-Iranian negotiations broke down Wednesday. For the first time since Britain founded the Industry in 1909, Iran possessed ex(Tir» T® Page Tfcree) A ■

Senators To Probe St. Louis Company Probe Dealings With RFC, William Boyle Washington, AuK- 25 —(UP) — The senate’s permanent investigating committee decided today to conduct a full • scale investigation of the American Lithofold Corp, of St. Louis and its dealings with the RFC and Democratic national chairman William M. Boyle, Jr. \ V Chairman Clyde R. Hiey, D., N.C., said the inquiry also- will include company dealings “with other officials or agencies of the government.” The committee decided on a full scale investigation after hearing a report from committee investigators who made a “preliminary” inquiry into charges that Boyle received a big fee from Lithofold, a heavy RFC borrower. "Hearings probably will start early next month. The St. Louis Post Dispatch recently charged that Boyle received large fees for representing the firm, which received >565,000 in loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the government's big lending agency. Boyle has denied any wrong-do-"S (Tara T® Pace ««x> 5 \ ; One Alleged Safe Robber Is Freed Kenai Duncan Free Under $3,000 Bond < ? Kenai Duncan, of Fort Wayne, was released today from the Adams county jail on bond of $3,000 by order of the A(iams circuit court. \ Kenneth Roth, who albng with Puncan was apprehended for the burglary of the safe from the Harold Barger residence, remains in jail; ‘ Both men were charged with first degree burglary, breaking and entering and grand larceny. Another man was implicated in the burglary, Dallas Gunther, also of Fort Wayne, who is currently serving a six months sentence at Pendleton. Sheriff Bob Shraluka has sent a warrant te that institution for Gunther for a local hearing. Roth’s tenure in the Adams county jail will serve principally as a prelude to further confinement. Retainers from .Ohio and Indiana reformatoriee await his discharge from local authorities. Both Roth and Duncan have been confined for more than three weeks since their capture by sheriff Shraluka in company with state police detectives.

Rejects All Communist Complaints As Without Any Foundation In Fact

\ Midwest Democrats Back Pres. Truman Rising Popularity Os Truman Related French Lick, Ind., Aug. 25 —(UP) —Democrats from 15 midwestern states unofficially threw their weight behind President Truman today and hoped he would run against senator Robert •A. Taft in 1952. The party wbeelhorses wound up their pre-1952 “school for politics” conference on an unspoken vow they'll hunt votes for the president and defend his administration. The draft-Truman talk captured the party leaders* fancy both on and off the rally floor. There was talk of his rising popularity, there were predictions of his chances and there were defenses of the administrative issues that will shape the 1952 campaign. The talk mostly pitted Mr. Truman against the Ohio senator, but som? of it had Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower* as the GOP standard bearer. Michigan’s Gov. G. Mennen Williams told delegates that Democrats, in pis state are wishing for Sen.Taft as an adversary because “we cheer the opportunity to ran anybody against Taft.” _ . Nobody hazarded a guess as to who might run for the Democrats if the president didn't. The delegates contented themselves with acclaiming Mr. Truman’s decision to enter the Korean war and to denouncing his cHtics. Vice-president Alben Barkley addresses -the party conference at the French Lick Springs hotel tonight. His talk will probably be oft the cuff. The delegates have already heard navy secretary Din A. Kimball call the multi-billion dollar military budgets of the Truman era justified as deterents to external aggression. Price stabilizer Michael DiSalle called direct price controls the answer to the internal threat of inflation. ! ‘ \ Three mid west governors, Williams, Henry F. Schricker of In(Tara To Pace Six) Marshall Warnick Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Marshall Warnick, 66, until last' January a resident of Whitley county. died at the home of a sfcster, Mrs. Lulu Robinson, 1021 Elm Friday evening. He had been in ill health for two years and had been seriously ill for several months. He was born in Wabash county but had resided in Whitley county since 1939, where he operated a farm until he became ill. Prior to moving to Whitley county he had been employed as a form setter and brick-layer at Fort Wayne. Warnick came to Decatur last January. are a son. Harold W. Warnick, Columbia City, and a granddaughter of-that address; the sister, Mfs. Robinsoh, and four brothers, ’Jack, Chunclula, Ala.; George, Whistler. Ala.; Lawrence, Indianapolis, and Clarence, Decatur. ' ’ • ‘ t The deceased was a member of the Big Lake Church of God. The body was taken to the DemoneyHollingsworth funeral home at Columbia City, where friends may call after 8 o’clock tonight until 11 o’clock Tuesday morning, gt which time the body will be taken to the Big Lake Church of God where it will lie in state from noon until 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 at the Big Lake Church of God on state road 109, north of Columbia City with the Rev. A. F. Dreger officiating. - Burial will he at the Presbyterian cemetery near Coesse on U. S. highway 30.

Eight Men Die When Lightning Sets Off Blast Lightning Touches Off Dynamite; Seek Additional Victims Boulder, Colo.. Aug. 25 —(UP) — Bulldozers- pushed aside tons of rock and dirt today in the search for additional victims of an explosion that killed eight men and injured Dine others when lightning touched off 1,000 pounds of dynamite. The meh, members of a blasting crew, were killed when the explosion buried them as they Vere connecting detoninp wires on the 500-foot canyon walls of a dam under conetraction. - George Collister. paymaster the construction firm building the dam. said there was a "possibility” that a ninth victim might still be buried. Witnesses said the lightning hit the north side of the. canyon wall then streaked acroee to the south Bacile A. Doyle, a machlnest working only 50 yards from the explosion, said the lightning and the blast occurred almost simultaneously. , “It happened so fast,” be said. “Everything blew at once.” “Two of the boys were killed right off. Some of the others were hit by flying rocks or burled under the rockpile.” Willirfm J. Musgrove, a shovel operator on the crew, was critically Injured in the explosion. . “I saw a streak of lightning and heard a thunder clap. After that everything went black. “The next thing "i remdmber I was fighting\ my waV out. I was covered with\dirt and rocks. Some men helped me to get out and ppt me in a truck.” Other trews working nearby rushed to the scene when they heard the explosion. They found two of the dead strewn on the road. They immediately began digging (Tara To Pace Six) Petition Transfer Os Preble Students Preble Grade School May Be Discontinued The discontinuance of the Preble grade school was almost assured today with the filing of a petition to transfer the students, to the Monmouth school. \ The move came after approximately 22 of the 25 families affected by such a move petitioned Preble township trustee Edmund Aumann for the transfers. 1 z Presently, the , seventh and eighth grade and most of the high school students in Preble attend the Monmouth schools, and the majority of parents in the vicinity chose the transfer of the grade students. Although Aumann could not be reached for a statement, the information of the proposed change was reliably reported. It is understood that the trustee, along with his board of advisors, are to meet next week to further study the matter and give it full consideration before official action is taken. ■ Last school year there Were 37 students in the Preble school. Parents of most of those due to be in |he school this year have signified their desire to transfer the students to Monmoufh. The matter was first discussed among the parents and forwarded to Aumann. The lattjer sought the petition asking the transfers and the matter was ticketed for immediate and thorough study. ,

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Stinging Reply By Ridgway Expected To Be Rejected By Communist Leaders J Tokyo. Aug. 225. — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway -jaent the Communists an offer to resume Korean armistice talks today, but wrote it 4» such stinging termathat the Reds seemed likely to reject U. i 1 J J[ / The supreme United Nations commander rejected all Communist complaints of allied violations of Kaesong’s neutrality as “malicious falsehoods totally without foundation in fact.” ( f He said the latest complaint — that a UN plane bombed the conference city of Kaesong last Wed-; nesday night — ;“so utterly false, so preposterous and so obviously manufactured for your own ; questionable purposes” that it did not merit a reply. || € The offer to resume the talkA broken off by the Communists was in the final paragraph: “When you are prepared to terminate the suspension of the armistice negotiation ~ . . I will direct my rereseiitatlves to meet with yours, with a view to seeking a reasonable armistie agreement/’ Ridgway's message to the Communist commanders was perhaps the most sweeping indictment ever to pass In modern times between generals or statesmen in the course of ah effort to establish peace. Its coldly scornful tone meant that the Reds could not agree to return to the conference table without losing “face*’ before the world. Allied observers believed it next to impossible for the Communists to accept the offer. However, the final word must come from the two Communist generals to whom Ridgway address his message — ,Kim 11 Sung. North Korean premier and commander in chief, and Peng TehHuai, commander of Chinese “volunteers” in Korea, r z lt was they who broke off the cease-fire talks early Thursday on obviously faked evidence that a UN plgne had bombed Kaesong the previous night. The two commanders protested the alleged incident and demanded a “satisfac- itory3 * reply. I — Ridgway’s reply was broadcast over the armed forces radio at 11:30 a. m. ,(7:30 p. m. Friday CST) and delivered by an allied liaison officer to (colonel Chang, chief Communist . liaison officer, just inside the Kaesong neutral zone shortly! before 1 p. m. (9 p. m. Friday CSTI. , ' I[ ,' In it, Ridgway said that none of the cited by the. Reds as UN violations of ' Kaesong’s neutrality actually merited a reply. These included alleged firing on Pan Mun Jom just insidO the neutral zone last Sunday and the ambushing of a Communist military police patrol near Kaesong the same day in addition to the supposed air raid on Kaesong. "When not fabricated by you for your oifn. propaganda needs.” Ridgway said, "these incidents have proven to be the actiovs of irregular groups without the slightest connection, overtly or covertly, with any forces or agencies under my control. “In spite of this 4 1 have consistenly required my Senior delegatee , and the commanders of the forces under my command »|o grant you the courtesy of a full inspection and report of every alleged incident, regardless of its manifest falsity. ! , “The evidence °in this most cent ! alleged violation (the "rain on Kaesong”) was' even more palpably compounded for your Insidious propaganda purposes than your earlied efforts.” _j .7 . i ■ '• - j INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with little little change in temperature tonight and Sunday] Low tonight 55 to 61 north, 60 to 66 south.