Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 208.

JAPANESE PEACE PARLEY OPENS TONIGHT

City Schools Opened Today, fewer Pupils Slight Decrease In Opening Enrollment Os Public Schools I When school bells rang this' morning signifying the end of the vacation, approximately -1,128.. students heard them ‘ ring, according to the of students la the city’s public schools released today by superintendent W. Guy Brown. . This total 'can admittedly be -( changed. Brown said, with new students coming in throughout the week. Included in the total were 110 kindergarten students, the number which had "Registered• Vby ■ 1 p. tn. I" -■ ,» This number is expeoted to be increased before the official figure iS known, “for more were registering this afternoon.” v The 1951 Decatur public school attendance is lower than last yearns official number, according . to a check made of last year’s school census. At that time there Vaa a -total of 1.141: students, including 128 kindergarten children who. Were in school for the first timers A break-down, of figures reveals there were-57 seniors this year (compared to 79 graduates ! in *" 1951). 68 juniors, 60 sophomores, aLd 79 freshmen, * for a total of 264.. 4’ ' Y \ ' In the junior high, there, are 87 enrolled In the eighth grade and 75 in,the seventh. These figures a year ago were 75 and 88 re- ■ The two high schools lost enrollment this year compared to September. 1950. The 264 total which represents this year’s-high school enrollment is 20 less than 1950’s 284 for the top four grades. Last year there were 163 students iin the junior high grades compared to 161 today,, / < The ; Lincoln school, though, , which houses the first six grades, increased itAr population from 666 last year to 571 today. Broken down, these enrollment figures are J 119 in the first grade, 104 in the sdcond; 85, third; .84, fourth; 91; fifth.. and 88 in the* sixth grade. School officials expect the kindergarten population to approxl- \ mutely equal the 1950-51 enroll--’zment. of 128 before the end of the vteek. Registration for the beginners was spread over most of the day, accounting for ho definite figure, V * ~ 1 County ■ superintendent of schools Hansel L. Foley said today that .no official attendance figures coul<f be released before the next few days. . New attendance officer Albert Coppeas assumed 1 his duties today, but has received only a scant portion of the returns. “Not enough to even offer an estimate.” The Decatur CatftAlic schools will re-open their doors for the first day of school •j ■ )l September Term Os < Court Opens Today 1 { The Adams cotfntyi circuit; court convened in September term today after a tw<>months’ hiatus with, the calling of the criminal docket. Judge Myles F. Parrish, as is the . custom, rtesenies the first three days of the term for the dobket. to set down cases for future action. The first day of court is taken up with the criminal docket, wherein prosecuting attorney Severin I Schurger sets all cases for the coming term. The next two days will be devoted to the civil With the summer vacation fended, when court was open only; on Fridays, Adams county attorneys were busy today filing civil cases for prompt action. ; Slight Damage Done In Fire Here Monday i ‘ : Firemeh late Monday morning extinguished the flames that resulted when paint exploded in the gat ~ rage at the home of Theron Dull, I 754 Mercer avenue The cause of ' the explosion was not determined and damage was slight. “Only the loss of -the paint,” firemen reported.

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■ < BULLETIN . Riegelsville, N.J, Sept. 4.— (UP)4-Louis Adamic, 52, noted immigrant writer, died of a \ ? ‘‘supposedly -«elf - inflicted*’ Stillet wound early today at his r farm house near here, assistant Hjinterton county physician J<hn Fuhrman announced. Ridgway May Suggest Talk Site Changed IL- 1 I JA- ■ Preparing Note To Reds, Hopeful Os ’ > I Ending Deadlock I Tokyo. Sbpt. 4— (UP) —Gen. MaUhew B. Ridgway is completing a note to the Communist high command which hopes may 4)reak the deadlock in Korean trdqe negotiations, it was , disclosed tonight. I .. - • There are strdng indications that; Ridgway may suggest that the I cease-fire negotiations be switched to a new site. High level officers of the Unitid I Nations command expressed confidence that the. truce talks Will be resumed \despite the hysterically angry i ConoCmunist complaints of repeated Violations of the; neutrality of Kaesong, where were held until the ReiU broke theni off Aug. 23. The UN cease-fire negotiating tea os’ led by Vice Adm. C. Turner /cyj who came here to discuss die? deadlock with-Ridgway, postponed their departure for their base- camp below Kaesong for “maybe two days,’’ The negotiators were und<rst odd to fee assisting Ridgway draft; his latest bote to the Red commanders in <shietf. 1 > Ritfgway may suggest that the cease-fire negotiations be resumed in a tent city in no\man’s land between the UNf and Communist armies. There are even suggestions that the i negotiations ( may be held in British Hong KohgiX Chief UN negotiator Joy, in the latest exchange with the Communists over alleged neutrality (Ton Te Paae »>lx) » Youth Is Shot To Death By Detective : Chicago. SgpL 4. —(UP)—Andrez Alvarez, 20, who slugged a policeman and escaped arrest last Friday, was shot to .death today by a detective. Police traced Alvarez to a rooming house, and when detective Charles Fitzerald ehtered, the youth tried to’ climb through a Fitzgerald shot and killed? him. Two-Sfafe Gambling .. « 1 House Is Raided Operators And 70 Customers Seized Michigan City. Ind., Sept. 4— (UP)—lndiana and Michigan authorities teamed up yesterday in a two-state holiday raid on an alleged gambling house straddling the state line. ' . They arrested 70 persons they tagged as “customers,” and eight alleged operators. ’The patrons and operators were tgken to St. Joseph. Mich., in a chartered bus (where a Michigan prosecutor said bond was set at SIOO each for the customers on charges of frequenting a gaming house. 1 The eight charged with operatwere \ James Kaps, 66; James Denigs, 67; Kenneth Wellman, 49; Joseph Shlkany, 40; Harry Williams 55; Willis Schaviak, 41; Kermit Knox. 45, all of Michigan. City, and Charles Genulado, 50, Bridgman.;* Mich. ;Th£y were scheduled to be bound over fto a Michigan circuit court under bond of SI,OOO each. The troopers, from Dunes park post in Indiana and New. Buffalo post jn Michigan, said they found; evidence of handbooks and various othei| types ot gambling. They confiscated six pistols, a rifle.ia shotgun.- three slot machimfe, three Iroulette wheels, a erapS table, a television set, furniture And other equipment.

707 Violent Deaths Counted Over Holiday 'Moron Motorists' | Held To Blame By National Council By United Preks Traffic, fatalities for the long Labor Day weekend mounted to a new all-time high for the holiday and the national safety council today blamed “moron motorists” foi most of them. Between 6 p. m. Friday and midnight, 707 persons were killed, 446 on streets and highways. There were 118- drownings. Nineteen persons were killed i# airplane crashes. Other mishaps killed 125. The council estimated that more than 15,500 persons were* injured in weekend automobile smashups. Os these, about 133 will die of their injuries, council Statisticians said. Council president Ned H. Dearborn said the traffic toll was “all the itaore tragic and shameful cause\ many of the victims were, in a sense; innocent bystanders who died because they had the misfortune to enepunter the crazy fools who infest our highways these days.” | Dearborn scathed thq “relatively tew people, who refuse to act like decent human beings and behave like morons.” t'They .drink while driving,” he said. “They drive too They pass on hills and curves regardless. They weave ip. and out of traffic. They take wHd chances - not only with thMr DVh peeks, but with yours. ~X H 'i “The disgraceful traffic f toll points dramatically and • clearly (hat we must take more drastib steps to rid the highways of these crazy fool drivers if we are to mhke things evep passably safe for the decent, thoughtful people Urho sharfe: the roads with these highway killers,” be said. The council hafl predicted 390 (Turn To P««e Slx> Cool Weather Cuts State Fair Crowds Labor Day Crowd Is ißelow Record Mark

Indianapolis, J Slept. ; 4-\-(UP) — Indiana state fair officials blamed cool weather and overcast skies to-, day for the lack of a new Labor day attendance record. 1 Only 127, 992 Hoosiers stepped through the turnstiles yesterday compared with 132,786 last year and the record Labor day crowd ot 161.798 set in 1946 Carl Tyner, secretary-managhr of the tglr, said about 60,000 were expected for "'legislators’ and governors’ day”: today end about 80.000 Thursday for farmers day. Invitations were mailed to State and nation&l legislators, Tyner said. The lawmakers, governor Schricker* who hasn’t missed a day Since the fair opened, and fdur living exchief executives will be admitted free. i;' j Today’s activities also include judging of Percherons, grade draft horses, Shorthorns, Holstein-Fries-ians, Poland Chinas, Chester Whites, Shropshires, Suffolk *and Dorsets. . . . For the Women, a style show will be conducted in tqe women’s building. Another feature will be the second xiay of grand circuit racing. \ Tyner said horse events and the state fair follies played to capacity crowds for the second day day - 1 ''l ■| ' Four Men Executed For Abdullah Plot j J", . "} -. Amman, Jordan, Sept. —(UP) —'Four men convicted .(tf plotting the assassination of tfjng Abdullah of Jord An on July 20 were executed today. Ther four, put to death in an Amman prison, included Dr. Mousse El-Hussteini, cousin of the exiled grand rdufti of Jerusalem; Abed Oukki and .his brother, Zakkaria. and Abdul; Kader Farhat, a Jerusalem fcoffee house keeper. The Oukki brothers were cattle merchants. '' a 4■■ r

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN wave* 4 cheery farewell as he boards the presidential plane "lndependehc4” x At Washington for,' a non-stop flight bo San Francisco. He will attend at the signing of the peace* pact with Japan; ( < i 9 \ ' 1 .

Senate Seeking To | Adjourn By Oct. 1 Important Measures Still Await Action Washington, Sept. 4 -n-(UP)— The senate starts 4ts speed-up this week hi an effort to( reach the Oct. 1 adjournment target date. It scheduled a routine session today. But the rest off the. wtsek Will be a busy one. , Legislation scheduled for tomorrow includes a bil| to authorize the transfer Os destroyer escorts io other nations and ancth-' er to authorize a SS,BOO,O<)O,’MM) military .cohstruciton program. Senate .Democratic |eader Ernesh McFarland also wAnts action this week on the , $561,600,000,1100 armed seyVices appropriation bill. He has promised to hold a Saturday session if necessary. \ * McFarland said that prospects Iqok good for adjournment on Oct. 1. He hopes to have 1 “must” bills passed by mid-sjep-tember, leaving two Weeks ‘ for a cleanup. ~ : Among other must bills are the big foreign aid measure and the tax-boosting bill. The tax bill is still in committee, but should lib ready soon. V > - t the house members are still enjoying their vacation. The hodse returns to business Sept. 12. ' . ’J L' ' ‘ Other congressional develop, ments: * \' ' h ■(. ' ’ Rubber-T—The; senate preparedness subcommittee reported that the national interest suffered in a decision last spring to slow down the rubber stockpiling program* It added that “private groups e4 c ‘ ceeded. to some extent,’ in advancing their interests at the experise of the nation’s defence. Generally, however, the group reported substantial progress toward an adequate' rubber program. But it said it was uneven and there is still much to be achieved. Russia, the .group warned, already may have built up a two year stockpile of natural rubber. Boyle—‘Rep. Russell V. Mack, R„ Wash., demanded that Deipocratic national chairman William M. I Boyle, Jr., make public the names and government business (Tarn To Pare Tbree) \ ,4 4 1 * Iran Preparing To Offer New Proposals Tehran!, lian, ;Sept 4—(UP) — Iran is preparing to offer Britain new proposals to reopen oil negotiations, deputy premier Hussein |Tatemi announced today. Fate mi disclosed earlier that two Communist countries, Poland and Czechoslovakia, have sufb-. mitted requests to buy oil from Iran. He said the proposals for resumption of oil talks thfat collapsed last month would be handed to Britain provided they are approved by parliament.

Report Hurricane To Miss Jamaica Havana, Cuba, Sept. 4—(UP)— The leather bureau here reported lib a special bulletin at 11 a. m. today that a hurricane threatening ' Jamaica had changed its course to the south and Would not strike the island. ni„ the storm was 354) miUs southeast of Kingston, Jamaica knd had losit much of its force, tile bulletin said. Future movement of the storm will be ito the southeast, the bulletin ,ha|d, and if there is no .further change in course the hurricane will pass\ to the south add far from Jamaica late this afternoon, ’ ’ 1' I ‘ ~ ■ Indiana's Holiday \ Death Toll Is Low h 1 ’ ■ 'i • ■ Only Nine Traffic Deaths In Indiana By United Press ■ ' \ ’ Indiana closed out; its weekend Labor day holiday today with a traffic death to|l less of the 1950 record. ,4 ■Jstate police reported the '24 hours of the holiday itself passed by,. without a single report of a fatal Accident in the state, although the pghk of the weekend traffic was in yesterday’s waning hours. A year ago, 21 |raffic Reaths oejn Indiana during the Labor day holiday period. But this time, only nine highway deaths; were reported after 6 p.m. Friday. All of them occured Friday night, Saturday add Sunday. There were no drdwnings, no plane (Crashes and only \-twp miscellaneous fatalities. 1 : Temjear-did Benjamin Jewell was strangled by a dishcloth when he fell, from a ladder while playing in a garage at his home near Duggef lajEe Saturday. Mrs; Mary Steinke, 68, was killed last' night when she walked into the si4e of a Grand Trupk Western railroad freight train at a crossing in; South Bend. The c last fatal highway accident on police records occurred \ late Sunday afternoon hear Columbus on Indi :7. It killed James L. CarSon, 2fi4lnilianapolis, and his father-in-lgw? Allred Jines, 40, Elisabethtowp. Their car hit a bridge railing. *- J — . . Rev. Settlage Named : Magiey Church Pastor The Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Settings asd daughter Miss Faith Ann have arrived in Adams county to make ;|heir home. Rev. Settlagg will be pastor of the Salem Evani gelicaljand Reformed church, onje mile nprth ot Magiey. Rev.; Sebtlage was here Sunday, but wth deliver his first sermon on neist Bunday at 10 o’clock. Miss is a junior in high school ; and has enrolled at Monmouth.;.- ; \ ’■ I ■ i

Overwhelming Support For Pact Is Assured I ' ■' \ I . i ' DesnMe Reds 7 Stand

Study Os Budgets Opened By Council I ■. \ J- ' *■' hi z - ’ County Councilmen In Airnual Session \Four meetings Were held In--the onunty auditor's office today, two of them tax hearings for separate townships, the third a regular meeting of the county commissioners, ;and the fourth the annual county council conference.' The latter will be bt two-days’ Buration.jJAp that time the seven members,'Mil study all ?fcoupty budgets with an eye to pruning them or eliminating certain items, or leaving them intact. Councilmen vjtll inspect budgets totalling >845,284 during the two dayd. Broken down in specific categories, the county budget yill be for $237.873y the welfare budget, 1215,080, the hospital, $196,251 and highway, $196,080. More specifically, the county’s rate of 49 cents is expected to raise $1'88,770, the, welfare’s 12% eentp, $44,502, Xnp the hospital, $34,764. The highway budget, while Undergoing scrutiny by the county maintains itself on monies leceived from the state, from gasoline tax and license fee distribution checks. After the coupcll finishes Its work, the budget# then come under Jthe collective eye of members pf tiie county's tax adjustment IroMrd. ' , \ s This unit, with scissors in hand frady for clipping, likewise has ihe chance to further prune the various budgets. Indeed., the (county’s tax adjustment board will be exposed to even more figures than councilmen; they will review also city' budgets arit! tdwnship budgets and (school budgets, all bf w|iich by-pass thexcouncll. Members of the board of county commissioners in their morning session allowed all claijns. and ,pnief item on thb afternoon agenda is to allow the contract Ifbr a bridge ; abutment in Jefferson tbwnshipj .• ’ ’ ’ \\\ George Gable, field representative of the state board of taxi commissioners, conducted the hearings for additional appropriations for Wabash and Jefferson townships, The conclusions obtained were forwarded to the state for (Tara Ta Pace Two) / Four Slightly Hurt In Auto Accidents : Two Minor Are Investigated The sheriff’s department’ investigated two minor accidents ovdr the Weekend, both; of them on Sunday Within minutes of one and resulting in four persons being injiired—none of them seriously, however. ♦ Also, in company with state tfooper Walter Schindler,4 sheriff Bob Shraluka < arrested Herschel E(pothby, of Bobo, when the latter Was reported ? for creatingi a disturbance in that communiyi. Cited for disorderly conduct, Bpothby is scheduled to appear in cil|ty court later (oday. Thrse persons were brought to the Adams county memorial hospital late Sunday when cars driven by Ray Herran, Sandoval, 111., and Harold Hakes, route 1, collided one mile west of Preble., Taken to the hospital, given emergency treatment, then released were Jack Williams, a passenger in the Herran car: David and Donald Hakes, passengers in their father’s car. Mrs. Hakes was uninjured. The accident occurred as Hakes startedxto make a left-hand turn oft U.S. 224> The 'Herrafn car, in the act of passing, tried to return to the right lane, and clipped the rear end of the Hakes car, according to the sheriff’s report. Rose: Chronister suffered minor (Twra Ta P«»* Tw»

U.S. Infantry Moves Against Reds' Buildup Red Puppet Troops . Reported Included In Reds' Buildup Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept. 5.-4- | (UP) —Two crack ynited States infantry divisions encircled bloodsmeared valley” on the eastern front Tuesday night as part of a limited offensive against a Communist buildup which includes “large of while Soviet puppet troops. ' \ ; • The ' United States Ist marine and 2nd infantry division linked in the,encirclement of the strategically important valley north of Inje on the eastern Korean front Their drive put them in possession of dominating heights which permit artillery observers to spot targets in the enemy lines. ,The United States 7th infantry division, backed by a battalion of Ethiopians, drove close to the great Communist supply base of Kumsong and allied artillery Started bombarding the city. Bet veen the punchbowl and Kumsong sectors. South Koreans continued a two-weeks-old drive on “bloody ridge” north pf Yanggu.' Gen. Matthew B. Rridgway, UN fSupreihe commander, made it •known that L“large numbers-bf Caucasian Soyiet puppet troops including technical experts from east Germany and other European satel-, lite countries were in Korea, apd that a Communist air and ground offensive is “strongly suggested,” Gen. Janies A. Van Fleet, commanding the Bth army, announced that he had thrown the marine, 2nd infantry and 7th infantry divisions of the American army into action, y Allied artillery and planes ripped into the Reds day and night in the | allied offensive. A United Press front correspondent said enemy prisoners are visibly shell -shocked? The (allies are trying to j break up an pnemy buildup which Van lheet has disclosed includes a total of 850,900 troops backed by 1,000 1 planes, 500 tanks and heavy artil-< .iery and armored car units. yan Fleet said at; Sth army head- 4 quarters that at the start of the I present hot action in Kotea" Aug. 18. Red units included one Chinese Comihunist corps and elements of (Turn To Page Two) ' ' T" Heart Attack Fatal IA ■ ■ To Roy Hiser Today Dies This Morning At Local Factory Roy L. Hiser, 57, of Portland, died sudpehly about 8:30 o’clock, thik morning of a heart attack suffered while at work at Decatur, Industries, where he was employed as a millwright. He was born in Jay county Jan. 20, 1894, a son of j: O. and Ida Dague-Hiser. He was a member Qf the Portland Methodist' church and the American Legion, also at Portland. Surviving wife, whb resides in California; two daughters, Mrs. Calvin Lehman of Decatur and, Mrs. Gayle Eley of Alaska; six grandchildren; three brothers, Robert and Delma, both of Salamonie, and Cledith of Portland, and one sister, Mrs. Jack Hale of Salamonie. One daughter And one brother are deceased. funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Portland Methodist church, the Rev\ Bennett officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside cemetery at Salkmonie. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, from where it will be taken to 4he Baird funeral home at Portland this evening. • - X

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President Truman To Address First Session Tonight; \ On TV And Radio Sjan Frhncisco, Sept. 4.—(UP)— Allied diplomats to<|ay counted 48 nations ready .to sign the Japanese peace treaty at the conference to be opened tonight by President Trujnan(. Overwhelming support for the liberal peace pact was assured despite , certain . Soviet-satellite maneuvers -to block treaty action by threatening a bigger war in the Far East. The curtain goes up tonight on the 52-natiop conference at !the Civic Opera bouse where (the LTnited Nations charter was signed and sealed six years ago. The initial session wil be addressed at 7:30 p.m. PDT, (8:30 p.ta. UST) by Mr. Truman, who flew here f j yesterday to warn the Reds ' 1 against ney, “aggression.” Hi* broadcast vt-ill be the first coast-to-coast television hookup in his- i tory. Kremlin plans to snag the treaty conference remain the secret of Russia's Andrei Gromyko ■ and his Polish andjCzech supporters. J | j ‘Jr The big cpnference, battle will begin Wednesday morning at the first full-scale bneihess session. The nen Compiunist powers headed by the United States (and Britain will try to rush the treaty through with U(N unprecedented ijet of tough ponterenfce rules. Diplomats sounding out foreign delegations predicted that* only Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia would refuse to sign the i treaty. Indonesia was 1 on the fence pending a cabineC decision in Jakarta. , \f;The prospect of a Communist _ walkout from the confeirence, at • signing ceremonies set for Saturdsiy’ afternoon was mentioned |by mdny delegations. Some par Eastern informants, speculated that the Russians ‘would (“take' a ,w’alk” with their satellite partriers, and then call a separate peace conference at nlbw Delhi or Peiping, " American officials said Mr. 4 Truman’s address would outline the “world situation,” cite rea-< . sons for speeding the Japanese treaty and pledge Jhat the free I world’s forces stand alert for hew attacks anywhere. The president the stage for his major address by ’ warning that the “Communists may try to resume the offensive in Korea? at any time.” said Red rulers “are capable of launching new! attacks in Europe, the Middle East, or elsewhere in Asia, whenever it suits them,” . ■ i “We are ready at anjf timh to 1 reach an honorable sesttlement in Korea, but we will nqt give in to aggression?’ he said in launching the ' nation’s largest defense bond drive last night. • Mr. Truman thus anticipated Gromyko’s r strategy,' 4so frighten smaller nations away from the Japanese treaty by forecasting more war if the pact is signed. A clue to the Soviet maneuvers herb was seen in Soviet Premier Josef Stalin’s message to Chinese Red leader Mao Tze —Tung assuring him of Russia’s “Indestructible friendship—against any and all aggressors and warmongers,” Gromyko will find an unfriendly . welcome when he steps down into the international political arena against heavy odds cooked up in recent days and hours. ' < / He Will have no veto; | the majority will rule! , He will meet a set of rigid conference procedures limiting speeches to one hour and only five minutes of later rebuttal. _■ “A-— ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued cool through \ Wednesday. Showers extreme southwest portion this evening. , Low tonight 49-53 north, 55-60 south. High Wednesday 74(78 north, 75-80 south. A