Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1951 — Page 1

Peace Talks ‘May Be Resumed Soon-But See Little Chance Os Armistice

Tokyo, Aug. 30.—(UP)— The United Nations command said to* day that Korean peace talks may be resumed soon, but there Islittle prospect of an ■ armistice agree* rnent. * • “The resumption of the talks no longer seems to hold the promise of a possible agreement on a ceasefire that it did a month ago,” the UN command said in a broadcast ~—■ I • ,

Vol. XLIX. No. 205.

Roundup Lions To Resume Tuesday When Vacation Is Over Decatur Lions will start roaring again Tuesday night at 6:30 o’clock at the K. ! of P. homer ( This is the date set for the f it's t fall meeting of the Decatur service club, following a two-m4nth • summer vacation. Glenn Mauller, .president of the club said that, as customary, 'the club will meet —each Tuesday night starting frith the first Tuesday in The club haa observed the two month summer holiday from meetings for several years. The last \ project prior to the suspension of meetings during the summer months was the cleaning of the Soldiers’ Monument on the court house square. Several community projects are planned for the fall and winter months, Mailer announced. Meet Friday Carl Mies, manager of the Mies Recreating Alleys, has announced a meeting of representatives of .teams to play in the Classic Bowling League for Friday, 8 p.m. This; will complete the meeting sched- 1 qle, Mies paid, with representatives of the Merchants, Rural adn Major < Leagues meeting earlier. During Ibe sessions, representatives outlined details of the forthcoming winter bowling season and formulated plans for season’s play. Parking Problem Slight damage was reported to police in a parking of automobiles on Third street Wednesday. Cars owned by Anthony Spangler and Harold Whitwright both of near in the incident. Total damage to both cars was estimated at less than $25. •' 1 —— Fleeced. Weslaco, Tex., Aug. 30.—(UP)— Nimble-fingered thieves invaded a cotton field and picked three bales in ope night before escaping, the sheriff’s office said today. ilt Ain't The Heat; . . , St. Louis, Aug. 30. —(UP) humidity was so bad in St. Louis Wednesday that even the clocks and elevators slowed down. Officials in the civil courts building .said the 98 percent humidity made the clocks run 15 minutes slow. And condensation inside the elevator signal , apparatus prevented from hearing Moor sig#nals. Going Up Washington, Aug. 30—(UP)— Th* defense department today identified 106 more American bat, tie casualties in the .Korean war. The. 387th casualty list included 25 dead, 65 woimded, nine injured and seven missing. To Hold Conference The tenth annual Methodist School of the Prophets will meet at Purdue University Sept. 3-7. Indiana Methodist pastors will be in attendance. Dr.’Harold Bosley, nationaly known pastor of the Methodist Church in Evanston, Illj, will be the keynote speaker. Dr» Bosley is the former dean of the Duke University. He will speak' dally at the “Inspirational Hour.” Bishop Richard C. Raines, resident bishop of the Indiana area of v ' the Methodist Church, will preside. Demarcation Line ! .'P ■ r , . * ' New York Aug. 30. — (UP) — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said today that the United States should draw a line in the Pacific and “tell Mos, cpw: beyond that line you shall not CW’

to Korea. “The initial enthusiasm that the war soon might end has died down as it has become obvious that the Communists do hot care how long the war goes oh . t The broadcast came as the allies were awaiting the official Communist reply to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's latest offer Wednesday to resume the suspended armistice

DECATUR DA ILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS OOUNTY

$845,284 bi,Total Budgets On Review Before Council Tuesday ■ • ■ • L_ X. ..2 ' • 1 . -

Budgets totaling $845,284 will be ’reviewed by the Adams County Council next Tuesday when the seven-man appropriating and tax legislative body meets in annual session at the court house. Only three "bf the four budgets carry a tax levy and of the total appropriations asked in the four bud, gets, only $268,036, need be raised by tax levies on. the $38,869,440 worth of taxables in the county. The'county highway budget totals $196,080. based on the estimate of income from the state gasoline tax and auto fees, which will be remitted to the county. This budget does, not carry a local property tax levy, the department operating entirely from revenue received in the distribution of the state gas tax and auto fees. Appropriations requested in the county budget for next year’s operation of county government and institutions total $237,873. Os this amount $188,770 will have to be raised through taxes. It is esti—i, — - . f Y • \ Trouble Elsewhere Washington, Aug. 30.—(UP) — The already-trimmed $7 billion 535 tmillion 750,000 foreign aid program headed for another economy battering on the senate floor today. Economy advocates, ready to fire with a series of amendments, picked up aysnpporter from the Democratic ranks. Sen. John L McClellan, D., Ark., said he wil support cuts of up to another $1,000,000,000 (B) dollars in the economic and military assistance program. I ■ 1 ; >Jmated that a 49 cent levy_ on each SIOO of taxables will be needed to produce the amount. The county welfare department’s budget totals $215,080 and it will be Necessary for the county to raise 1 $44,502 as its share. } It is figured that a 12.5 cent rate on the SIOO of taxables will produce the amount The budget for the Adams county Memorial hospital totals $196.251 and income earned by the hospital is estimated at $161,487, leaving $34,764 to fie raised by taxes. An eight cent rate wilLproduce the deficit in operating expenses of the institution. The three proposed levies for 1952 total 69.5 cents compared with 81 cents on the SIOO this year. Pruning of appropriations in either the county or hospital, budgets will make a corresponding reduction in the amount of money to be raised through taxation. Following the county council’s action on the budgets and tax rates, the rates will be submitted to the Adams County Tax Adjustment board, which meets September 10. Th rates will not be finally approved until Reviewed by the State of Tax Commissioners. ■V ' __—; Veteran Held , Gary, Aug. 30.—(UP)—Bernard A. Burleson, 29, was held today on charges of violating the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. Special FBI agent Harvey GFoster said at Indianapolis thatj Burleson accepted unemployment checks from the veterans administration during 1946 while .he was “gainfully employed” at Detroit, Mich.

—______-5 Gang Warfare Breaks Out Between. City, Other Youths; Police Busy County and Decatur police officers have had a busy week attempting to break up a feud between a number of Decattfr and Monroeville youths which at times has almost bursted into gang warfare. The groups, some alleged to have imbibed freely in intoxicants, liave driven the count¥y-side the last few nights and engaged in fist fights, bottle throwing and window breaking in several Indiana and Ohio communities? 1 • ' Several of the youths have been taken to the Adams county jail for questioning and then have been turned over to their parents. Monroeville authorities have aided local authorities in the round-up and have uncovered a place In Monroeville where it is alleged the youths, alt minors, have obtained beer and wine. No Decatur beer and wine retailers have been mentioned by any of the youths and it is believed that they have made their pur chases outside the county. The Sheriff’s office and city police officers say they will continue to break up the gangs and make arrests if The policy this week so far, however, has been to turn the rowdies over to their parents. •

talks. • M The reply may not come until sometiftie Friday or Saturday. It took the Red commanders 52 hours to reply to the supreme UN commander’s last previous v A high United Nations officer suggested that the Chinese Communists may break the deadlock by insisting that the North Koreans, who are under close Kremlin con-

Korean Reds Fiercely Attack Allies

. R_ . J Propose Monthly Teachers’ Meetings To ‘Exchange Ideas In Teaching’ "

I' . , A movement developed Wednesday at the Adams county teachers institute among\ jjthe teachers of the *varlouß schools to hold regular monthly group meetings as a method of exchanging ideas in teaching and it has the approval of Hansel Foley, county school superintendent. z It is likely that the teachers of various subjects tn the schools will meet at regular intervals starting with the opening of the 1951 school 'term. Meetings probably be held at various schools over the county. Superintendent Foley announced also that one of the two Jefferson high school teaching vacancies had been filled. Peter Metz, Jay county, who taught in Miami county last year has been contracted to\ coach the high school basketball team and teach social studies. There is still one vacancy at Jeffersqn and that is It is believed likely that the vacancy will be filled Friday or Saturday. Today was organization day in all the county schools and pupils received their book assignments preparatory to the actual opening of school \next Tuesday naming. ' Holthouse Drug Co., local depot for school books was a mad- ‘ house Wednesday afternoon as pupils who already knew what books they would need hurried I , I Fall Revival Meetings From September 2-16 Are Planned In Monroe Evangelist James Payton of Hicksville, 0., will be the principal speaker, at the series of\ fall revival meetings to be conducted by the Adams county holiness association at Monroe starting Sunday September 2, .at 2 p.m. < Services will be held each night at 7:30 o’clock from September 2 to September 16 inclusive. A special joint service will be held Monday afternoon (Labor Day) at 2 o’clock with the Victory Prayer band joining the Holiness associa* tion in the sponsorship of the event. Sunday afternoon September 9 at 2 o’clock there will be a special missionary service with Miss Helen Hammer, of Haiti, as speaker. Music and singing at all sessions , will be in charge of Rev. and Mrs. Virgil Tucker of Marlon. The general public is invited. j — INDIANA WEATHER ~ 1 Partly cloudy warm humid tonight and Friday. Scattered showers or thunder showers beginning north and west portion* Friday. Low tonight 68 i to 74. High Friday 82 to 87 north) 85 to 95 south.

trol, accept a “realistic” armistice. The Chinese do not want their military machine to be reduced to the pitiful situation to which the North Korean military machine has been reduced,” Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said.’ ! Nuckols, who served as briefing officer at the UN advance base below Kaesong in Korea, is in (Tokyo on his way to the Japanese peace conference in.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Augst 30, 1951. '■■■■

\ to beat today’s crowd of purchasers. 1 % The local drug store’ remained open until 5 o’clock this afternoon to acommodate the book purchaser». School supplies other than books including pencils, tablets, ink and other required material also are handled at the two variety stores, Newberry’s and Morris and at the other two drug stores, Smith’s and Kohne’s. commerical subjects. I -■' 'A- •' Stand-By Orders Issued Police In Bourbon Strike Bourbon, Ind., Aug. 30. —(UR) — Gov. Henry T7' SJchricker ordered 200 Indiana state police troopers to stand by for possible service in a labor dispute at the Joyner Corp, plant here today. The plant a small radio-tele-vision parts' industry employing about 70 women and few men, has been closed by a strike of CIO United Auto Workers since Aug. 15 when contract negotiations broke down. Pickets \ were Joined by others from nearby. 1 cities and towns. State police said 50 troopers were sent to the plant late yesterday on orders of the governor to Enforce a Marshall circuit court estrainlng order. The order dissolved picket lines and prohibited the union from barring employes who wanted to work. » About 150 more troopers were dispatched to the Bourbon area this morning But state police said they were ordered only on the alert and that they would stand by not far from Bourbon for the possibility of radio orders to speed to the plant The additional troopers came' from northern Indiana posts. A few previously assigned to patrol duty at the Indiana state fair, which opens at Indianapolis today, were sent. A hearing was scheduled for 10 a.m. (CDT) before Judge Alvin F. Marsh at Plymouth, Ind., on his temporary order becomes permanent. There was no violence at the plant. But the union defied the restraining order and increased its picket lines this morning. State police ! Supt. Arthur M. Thurstcgi remained here to supervise his troopers. He has been studying the situation for two days. . - Spokesmen for Schricker said at Indianapolis that the troopers were not sent in anticipation of violence but only to enforce the court , order. They described the governor as “insisting” the order be enforced. Marsh issued the order Monday. The picket ; lines remained. J ! » Condition Os Fighter Is Reported Serious New York Aug. 30.—(UP)— Twenty-year-oid Georgia Flores, middleweight boxer who was knocked out in a “preliminary fight” at Madison Square Garden last night, was in “very critical condition" in St. Clare’s hospital today with a brain hemorrhage. An operation uto “relieve the pressure* of the hemorrhage was performed early this morning in an attempt to sate the young fighter’s life. •I. I ' ♦ . - .

San Francisco. J* The Reds so far had given no Brf the nature of their reply to ray. p»e indication of the nature of tommunist reply was seen, rer, in a Chinese propaganda east by radio Peiping. 4 Although somewhat milder than previous Red broadcasts, it charged that Ridgway had

■ I i * Ta al v v ’ * t 1 ■[ gdrK. ■MK U ■ |£\ O AVrvgf ( »w\ i i r vvF ’ m ng 1 dpi ! '' l . MEMBERS OF THE VETERANS of Foreign Wars recently had a con- . vention in York and they called it an encampment. They chose a pretty girl to pose for them, and they called her their queen. The ; VFW delegates have been voiding some dramatic legislation at the conclave, notably calling for the release of Newsman William Oatls. ' The girl, accordihg to the vital statistics, is 18, named Dorothy Swisher, ’ and has outstanding measurements. But we understand the redeemi ing feature of the young female is that she has lovely hands.

ProMMtor Schorger Fibs Motion To Quash JP DaWald’s Action Prosecutor Severin H. Schurger 1 this afternoon filed a motion for nolle prosequi tn the Geneva Wabash township' justice of peace 1 court in the alleged case of state vs. Robert Shraluka, sheriff of * Adams county. 1 Schurger gave as his reason that: ' “The affidavit had not been pre--1 sented to the Prosecutor for his approval.” >’ Sheriff Shraluka personally serv- . ed the paper on Justice DaWald at I 1 o’clock this afternoon. Schurger contended all the time ■ that there was no; cause pending In the DaWald court because Da- ■ xyald had not proceeded ptopetly, . abd he followed this contention with the motion to quash. So ends another chapter in the DaWald story. ' J - . I--St .1 la •A 1 * nSHr ; * * I FILM STAR Robert Walker, former I husband of Jennifer Jones and Barbara Ford, is dead in Hollywood at s 32. Star of many pieties in which J he often depicted the harrassed i male, Walkey failed to respond! to ! two hours of treatment by a fire department rescue squad.

“lied,” "distorted facts” and“slandered” the Communists in his denial that a UN plane had bombed the conference city of Kaesong the night of Aug. 22. It, was on the pretext of this “raid” that the Reds broke off the cease-fire talks the next day. Ridgway an on-the-spot investigation the night of the incident showed only that the “raid” had

, Monroe Wafer Bonds To Go On ; Sale Sept. 21 i « Monroe waterworks revenue bonds totalling $96,000 will be * offered for sale at the town- hall » in Monroe September 21 at 7 o’clock p.m., ‘ according to a legal * notice offering the bonds for sale t which will appear in the Daily Democrat Friday. s The bonds are in denominations * of SI,OOO and cannot bear an interest rate larger than 4H per- * cent., depending on the bid price. 1 The first of the bonds w-ill be- ; come due January 1. J 952 and ’ then a certain number of them mature each year until final redemption on January 1, 1991. The sale of the bonds is to raise money to install a modern water system in the town of Monroe which w'as voted by the citizens of that town several months ago. The law firm of Ross, McCord, <Twra T» Pace Six)

U. S. ABANDONS IRAN MEDIATION

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 30. —(UP) —The United States abandoned today its prolonged efforts to > ' mediate the Anglo-Iranian, oil crisis. U. S. ambassador Henry F. Grady con- • ferred with Premier Mohammed Mossadegh for--45 minutes this morning in a final effort to settle the oil nationalization dispute. Later, he told newsmen he failed to win a change of heart from the premier and the American government would make no further efforts for the present at mediations. He added gravely: » “We are all seriously disturbed that there is no settlement.” r Informed sources said at the same time v that there was little chance that U. S. presiden- . 11 tial adviser W. Averell Harriman would return ' to Tehran. 1 Harriman, who brought the two parties toB gether for renewed negotiations earlier this jg month, left here last week after the talks were ■

now had elapsed to make another been faked. In his note, Wednesday, i Ridgway rejected a Commuiist demand that UN liaison officers be sent back to Kaesong for another look at the “evidence.” He »aid the chief Communist liaison, * officer/ Col. Chang Chun San, had refused to permit an investigation in daylight the morning after the raid, and too much time

2,000 COMMUNISTS IN FRONTAL ATTACK By ROBERT C. MILLER , UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPCMfDENT Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Friday, Aug. 31.— Two battalions of North Korean shock troops fiercely attacked United Nations positions on the east-central front at 6:30 p. m., Thursday. The issue was still in doubt at last report. Up to 2,000 of the Communists made a frontal attack on the UN lines on “Bloody Ridge,” where fighting has raged since Aug. 13. They were met by mass artillery fire and a lashing attack by allied planes. The Reds attacked in an attempt to surprise the allies after trying to infiltrate their positions during the day. Enemy infiltration tactics were a serious danger early in the war, but they met little success this time. One Red unit’ slipped through UN positions north of Yanggu on the east-central front last night and forced an allied command post to withdraw, bdt a counter-attack routed the enemy. Sixty other North Koreans were intercepted and killed by an allied tank force northwest of Yanggu. Clear skies enabled UN fighters and fighter-bomb-ers to hit Communist railway lines and marshalling yarife throughout north Korea. . 8129’s Lead Attack * B-29 superfortresses led the parade of destruction with a 50-ton raid on the yards at Yongmi, north of Sinanju in northwest Korea. The air. forces announced belatedly the loss of two planes in Wednesday’s raids. One was a twin-jet British Meteor, the first loss since the new-type planes went into combat recently. The Meteor was one of eight piloted by Australians which joined 20 American Sabrejets in a brief but furious air battle with about 40 Communist MIG-15 jets over northwest Korea. Communist bullets sent the Meteor crashing to earth. £ The other allied plane lost was an American F-80 Shooting Star jet shot down by ground fire in another action. *« ’ ** *1 On the ground front, South Korean troops captured three hills northwest of Kansong on the east coast Wednesday, but lost one of them to a heavy’ North Korean coun-ter-attack. An estimated 232 Communists were killed in the fighting. Crackdown On Czechs On The Home Front — The United States has started secret pressures on Czechoslovakia and probably will crack down openly on Czechs trade next week, informed, quarters reported today. The action is in retaliation for Czechoslovakia’s imprisonment of Associated Press Correspondent William N. Oatis on trumped-up spy charges. Czech ambassador Vladimir Prochazka said yesterday that his Communist government will not yield to America’s “trade, propaganda or political pressures.” Some American pressures on Czechoslovakia are being kept secret — t so the Czech’s could free Oatis without admitting publicly that they yielded to U. S. retaliation. This appeared to be a last try of the United States to make it comparatively graceful for Czechoslovakia to turn loose the correspondent who is serving sentence in (Continued on Page Six)

suspended. - Grady said he tried to talk Mossadegh into offering a compromise. “He is expecting proposals from the Britfab,” Grady said. “He had no intention of making any proposals. There was no change in the premier's attitude.” *. . j. The American ambassador* said he told Mossadegh the next move in the stalled negotiations was up to Iran. 3 This is the same position the British have taken. No concrete Vropoeals emerged either from today's conference nor from his session yesterday with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Grady said. Loss of oil revenues formerly paid by the British to Iran has produced a mounting economic crisis in Iran. The government has been I hard pressed to meet Its army, navy and civil service payrolls. \ 17:

investigation worthwhile. Radio Peiping said Chang denied that he had refused to permit a UN investigation in daylight the morn* ing of Aug. 23. “This is a pure lie from start to finish,” Peiping quoted Chang. . I even made It clear we would welcome their coming back for reinvestigation if they considered it necessary, and that they could come at any lime.”

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