Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 209.

TREATY PARLEY SQUELCHES RED DEMANDS

Bloody Ridge Captured By Allied Forces UN Troops Dig In For An Expected \ Counter-Attack , Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Thursday, Sept. |6^*-(UP) —United States and South Korean troops captured “bloody ridge” on the east central Korean front Wednesday..' Allied forces all along the front dug in to await an expected Communist counter-drive:. , Dispatches! from the front indicated that infantrymen of the crack American 2nd division and picked republic of Korea shock troops won hioody ridge which was taken after I' 18 days of savage fighting. .Demoralized' Communist troops broke and fled, abandoning many starved and wounded North Kt): reans who were taken prisoner. The final phase of an important allied victory was won without the firing of a short. - ( UN infantrymen took the tjiree ‘ hills along the east-west ridge line at 9 p.m. (5 a.m. Wednesday \CST) ’and found only wounded and halfstarved North Koreans awaiting them. \ The prisoners said that the defending ofrces had withdrawn hours earlier. ; . Bloody ridge fell to the allies, after the heaviest artillery concentration of the Korean war against! a single objective. Since the. start ;i of the offensive 18 L days previously 5 ! the UN artillerymen had fired 390.000 rounds and had inflicted an estimated 6,500 casualties on thy Reds. Farther north, below Kumsong; the main fohtingents of the three U.S. divisions, witch won a 17-day battle to break the enemy's east-* Central and central Korean defense; line and knock him off-balance fdt| an offensive threatened by 850,0Q< Communists, dug in and braced for? the expected enerty attack, * f The main body of Communist troops on bloody ridge pulled out during the night. ’ / ' Part pf the one hill on bloody ridge and a portion of another secured this afternoon. Threq miles to the west of the ridge, anl other hill was seized and a fourtt) (height was under close attack with small arms and machineguns, * ' Allied artillery and bomber# blasted Communist targets through the' early morning darkness, .pouncing relentlessly at the, battered Reds who lost 26.000 men—onethird of their froht-line forces in the 17-Vlay battle—when they broke before the advancing American marines and soldiers. From the heights won by the U.S. troops, artillery poured round after \ j tTani T* Six) Mrs. F. H. Willard Is Reappointed To Board Mrs. Mary M. Willard of Decatur 'today was reappointed to the . Decatur library board by Judgje Myles F. Parrish. The new ap.pointmerit *is for a four-yegr term. Judges Parrish also announced the reappointment for *a' two-year term of Mrs. Stengel of Berne to the Berne "library board. | Mrs. Willard wife of the Ret. F. ’H. Willard of the _Evangelical-y United Brethren "church. has» served An the loc.il board tor .several years. | ' J J 11 Men Leave Today j For Physical Exams |j Eleven men left Decatur eari/ today for Indianapolis and thejr pre-induction physical- examinations. One other inductee w>s transferred to local board South Bend, and will leave for * examination from that point. The Adams county selective service board had previously announced a call for Friday of eight men to leave for induction. i .■ Those who left today for physical examinations included Eugene J. Heimann, ! Carl Menno Nussbaum, Robert Edwin . Owen Dale Laute©schlage|r,: Robert Gene Steffen. Albert Vergaia, Doyle Eugene. Strayer, Richard Conrad. Leonard J. Kifig. .-Keith? Bernard Schnepp and Gerald Edwin Lehman. Ira Kingsley . was transferred to South Bend board.

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bulletin: Denver, Sept. 5. -*-(UP)—< The government today asked Inj U.S. dixtrjct court for an injunction seeking to halt • strike, called by the Interna--5 tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers, which has. crippled the nation’s output of defense vital cooper. V I A court attache said the Im. Junction action was filed ad 10:20 a.m. MST (11:20 a.m. f CBTI - -j X y v; Council Cuis Hospital Tax Rate Two Cents i * Recommendations Made By Council To Reduce Deficit Members of the county council, Hin the second day qf their annual budget inspection, reduced the rate fop- the Adams cdunty me- ! mortal hospital by two cents. The rate reduction —from eight cents to six cents—will 'chop off ! $9,450 from the total tax outlay ih the county. ' At the same time councilmen ’ made several recommendations to the hospital's board of trustees ' which would materially reduce the ' usual operating deficit. Councilmen also reduced the 1 budget for the county highway de--1 partment -by $20,000, explaining j that it is not known how much ■ the county will receive from gaso- ’ line taxes' and license fees. ; It; ii f that Adams couity'si highway department w’ill i receive $200,000 from such spurt ces.hut there is no definite assurance it will be forthcoming.’ j Consequently, councilmen deem- ; ed t Wise that such budget be resi duced slightly, then the full ( amount \ come through, a special ? meeting can be called and the | amount restored by appropriation, s The welfare department’s rate • was a tsp reduced; from 12t£ cents ; to 12 cents, but councilmen said 1 that the tetter rate, coupled with > the increased valuations, would » give the w-elfare department the • same amount as previously. i After reducing tl)e hospital’s i rate byl? two cents, affecting the anticipated income from taxation i by .more than $9,(100. cnuncilmen i recommended to trustees that a ■ change in bookkeeping system and 1 An increase in room rental would ' help defray costs. ! 1 The bookkeeping system should J be changed" to one which would be 1 endorsed by the state board of accounts, cbuncilmen i noted. At ■ present, the hospital’s system j is partially acceptable to the state board of accounts and the rest is locally improvised. Room rentals, according to the (Tum To Paice Four) ; City Councilmen L In Brief Session ■ ■ ' I ' ■ • I ~\J l Is * ! (Approved By State f- ; i d|y, members of the city council ■ were notified that their request of a ’ special appropriation for $9,362.46 i was approved by the state hoard of I tax commissioners !The report from the istate referd. to an August 21 hearing wherethe special appropriation—for e general fund for materials; salies.V election expenses and city iIF repairs—was discussed, then < approved. ’ \ i. r j The state board of tak commis- - Moner’s report was signed by Noble j foliar, chairman, and Ralph Wil-. , son, secretary. . : | r > Councilmen also referred- a pe|i- > son for an aliey light between Sec- } Ind and Third and Cort and Jeffer--1 |on, signed by James Karie and 11 , others, to the electric light committee in conjunction .with the light department superintendent; »made e matter of record an easement grantfed by Earl and Alma Coltef, be- ** tween Ninth and Tenth street just ’’ gouth of Adams, for the erection of H transmission lines, as well as two * htral line extension agreements. 1 ‘ One ,of the agreements was be- • tween the city add Max and Helen ' pgg and Forest and Ada Owens in 1 Washington township; the other J Ivas with Ernest Fore|nan, in Union township. : .tu 1 . I i

Report Gain As Catholic Schools Open • Enrollment Is. 14 Higher As Schools Opened Here Today A, total of 409 students Were registered in both the Defeatyr Catholic high school and the St. Joseph grade school, according to figures released today, the opening day pf . school, by Sister ; If. Rosemarie. principal of the schools. This is a to.tal gain in the Cathblic schools of 14 over opening day a year ago when 395 students were registered. Oddly enough, the high school figure for the two years is the same —120 —while all the gain is made in .the St. Joseph school. 5 There,? 289 students are enrolled wherfeas a year ago 275 were registered. Os the 120 students in high school. Recording to the enrollment figures released by Sister Rosemarie, there are 37 seniors (last yegr there were 23 on opening day)p- 31 juniors, 27 sophomores and 25 freshmen.. In the latter' three grades last year thefee were! 38. 32 and 27 student's, respectively. 1 I . There ; are 26 eighth grade students enrolled, as compared lyith 24 last year; 214 seventh graders. 27 sixth* grade students. 25 in the fifth grside, 47 in the fourth grade, 44 third|grade students. 52 second grade sthdentsjand 44 first grade is erne ShowaGafn A gaih of 16 pupils is reported in the; opening day enrollment of the Be|*ne-Fretach schools, with a total bf 621 students registered as compared to 605 on opening May last year. The nigh school enrollment is 189, a giain of 20; the junior high school dropped from 115 to 103. and the: grade school ' increased from 331 to 329? , | —i — . - Merchants Planning ! J ■ • ’ 1 " ’" \ For Treasure Hunt * Three-Day Event In Decatur Next Week K ' '' • ■ \A prize in every package is still pretty descriptive of a bhx of crackerjack, and it could almost apply to Decatur businesses the first three days of next week. For the merchants, through the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, are going to donate merchandise prizes up to $5. And there isn’t a thing tq buy.; Indeed; tickets will be distributed —about 42,000 of them —by the merchants and all that must be done is mqteh the ticket number with a like number in a merchant’s window. Approximately 90 DecatUr businesses ate going to participate in the three-day affair —September ikk 11-12—an affair that is a means of advertising the fall merchandise k throughout the city. This is one of the monthly projects sponsored by the Chamber in their year’s program. Once numbers are matched, the holder of the ticket merely shows it to' the merchant in whose window the number U displayed, and the prVze in merchandise is obtained. While the Chamber is billing the event as a treasure hunt, officials are certain that it will create a prodigious number of window shoppers. Chamber secretary Walter Ford said that tickets are available to merchants at the office how and urged all those cooperating in the fall festival to get their tickets by Thursday noon for Friday distribution. - INDIANA WEATHER i J Partly cloudy to through Thursday. A few light showers northwest and extreme north portions Thursday. Not so cool north and central portions tonlghL Low \ tonight 55-60 north, 60-65 south. High Thursday mits, 70’s north, around 80 south.

- — r- ;'J;.. l — Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1951.

Korea Quadruple Amputee To Wed \ Bank; -® 'I Btlhi 2?nzlii •- - jfkz WOUNDED IN THE KOREAN WAR, Pvt. Hubert E. Reeves. 19-year-old quadruple amputee, and his fiancee, Beverly Jean Hall, admire her engagement ring as they make plana for their wedding in Joliet, 111., Sept. 9. He flew from Valley Forge General hospital, Phoenix-i rille, Pa„ for her 18th birthday celebration. Their romance when she wrote to him while he stliltwas confined to a hospital bed.

23 Are Killed In Series Os Plane Crashes Worst Os Crashes Involve Military; Another In Alaska B, UMMI PrM. ! Twenty-three persons have been killed in plane crashes sipce yesterday, including the loss of another ship in Alaska’s “graveyard of aitplaftes.” | * The worst crashes involved military ships. -■ Seven navj men were killed last night when a patrol bomber crashed into the and exploded 57 miles Southeast 'of Quonset Point, R. 1., during nigljt exercises with a submarine, The (submarine made a search for survivors but found none. ' I ) Seven air force men were killAd last when' a superfortress bomber crashed and exploded after a practice tikecfff from Mountain Homie air force.'base in Idaho, qn air force boafed df inquiry was convened to investigate* the crash, whith qccurired in good flying weather,; /T\ j A twin-engine plane crashed into a residential} area near Anchorage, Alaska yesterday, killing five persons; It w|s the 12th crash in the area in six' lyeeks and brought the number of persons dead dr missing to 92. An investigator salid that it appeared that the pilot’p last ,efforts were, to avoid crashing into homes. T|el pilot was identified as Norman ijdaither of A single sleater airplane crashed today into a home near El Monte, Calif., killing the pilot, whiol. was unidentified, and Raymond Howell, 17, who was sleeping in the house when-the plane hit. The• sheriff’s office said that another person was injured by the crash. At Gila Bond, Ariz., deputy sheriffs reported that the pilot of an F-80 jet fighter was killed when his plane crashed in rough desert country 10 miles north of Sentinel, Another air force pilot was killed yesterday when his plane collided with ■ another over Plum Island, off Newburyport, Mass., whije on a routine flight. He was identified as Lt. Donald D. Stewart, 27, Dincoin, Neb- He bailed, out of his F-51 Mustang fighter and landed In the ocean where he was picked up by a helicopter. He was dead (Twr> Td Page Six) /[' . ' Young Truck Driver Killed In Accident Cairo, |ll., Sept. 5.-<(UP)V-Rescuers worked more than bne hour to get 4 20-year-old Clinton. Ky., truck driver out of the cab of his demolished vehicle last night, .but the agonized dries of the victims ended shortly before he was pulled from the wreckage. The driver, George Burgess, was fatally injured when his pier of k concrete railroad undertruck ploughed into the center pass. j

9,000 Are Evacuated From North Topeka Bridge Ripped Out By Flooding River Topeka, Kan.. Sept. S.—(UP) — The Kansas river today ripped out a railroad bridge here after. 9,000 persons were evacuted from North Topeka when the r|ver threatened t to repeat its performance of last Jbly, \ .However, heavy rains that had Wen predicted for the area failed 1 to materialize and the weather bureau announced that the river had leveled dff. ' Arniy engineers, working furiously. to plug the dikes protecting North Topeka, called for additional equipment. AH dikes holding back • the river were shattered ih the disJ astrous flood in JulpL Mayor Kenneth Wilke yesterday • ordered North Topeka evacuated 1 nfhen the Kansas threatened once 1 again to invade the dity. ' However, the i U.S. ' weather bureau here announced early today 1 that the “river has steadied up1 stream and thus diminished the flood threat greatly.” 1 “Conditions \ indicate now that 1 thete will not be ainy flooding”] in North Topeka, the lorecasters said. ; The only heavy in Kansas ’ last plght fell in the Hutchinson and #ichita areas, where the flpod 1 threap was not sevjjre. j - ’ Aidhough the prediction raised hope’that additional flooding might ' be avoided, the angry waters of the ■ Kaw- ripped I away a\ temporary : SantA Fe railroad bridge erected after* lhe permanent structure )vas * (Tor* T» Pace six) i ' s ' •; ! \ < Lions Club Ends Summer Vacation * Members of the Decatur Lions clubjended their summer vacation Tuesday with an informal meeting 1 while new club president Glenn Manlier * presided. The order of business was! confined generally ‘ to farious reports of chairmen. ‘ For example, program chairtnan Watson Maddex outlined 4he (joining year’s program for the club; . finance chairman iohn Halterman . gave his repprt, and Dr. Joe Moir- , ris outlined the forthcoming Boy ( Scout program. i The meeting was highlighted, , perhaps, with the announcement ! that next Tuesday’s meeting • would be strictly for attendance: - Manlier stated that the goal will I be 100 percent with the “club getting right down to business” after the summer holiday. : S' . '■ :: : ' ' . - 4’ j""jr 1 : Wawaka Man Drowns . When Boat Upsets 5 Cromwell, Ind., Bept. (UP)— Chffford Moore, 31, Wawaka, drown- ’ ed! in Indian Village lake three ’ miles south of here last night when hte fishing boat upset. ! state police said Moore’s father, • Frink, 54, stood up in the boat and . caused R to flip over. The elder ’ Mdore clung tp the boat and an- ■ other occupant. Jack Roe, 28, Wa- ’ waka. swam to shore. > The- body was recovered.

Western Powers Break ' 11 I . .( • Up First Big Russian Attack On Japan Pact

Advises Against Refunding Os Tax ‘ County Treasurer Advised By State Otto K. Jensen, state examiner of the state board of accounts, advises Richard D.» Lewton, county treasurers against making refunds of the 75 cent cumulative bond levy to taxpayers In the Adams Central Consolidated tahoolt district. In a letter to Lewton', the State! examiner said: “We wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter in which fdu inquire about the advisability o|your making certain cash ers who had paid their tex prior to the order of the Huntington circuit court. \- . . ' “We would strongly ijhcommend that you Refrain from making cash refunds. I do,not recap that; the order made any prhvisi<jnj for cash refunds nor did it direct you, as county treasurer, to majrfe such refunds. If U claim is filek jfor a tax refund aqd allowed by the board of you part in’ that proceeding I appreciate ihe fact that this phoney that you have collected sldc<| jHay 7 has not been distributed ai yet tq the school corporation. I dadot beslieve that I would c<nnpll(:atd|Gi® Situation with cash refund|j you were not so directed by?the . iourt order.” >1 ! ' t Taxes collected priop t° Mgy 7, have.been distributed tq the Adams Central Consolidated (befool : Corporation and thereforeiare beyond the jurisdiction of the goiinty commissioners. i "|h| t ; William Kruse,\.spokesman for the “freeholders committee.” said that suit would be brought by Fort Wayne. and becaturif attorneys against the consolidated;, school trustees tb refund the tax money collected in 1950 and up to May 7 of this year. He said that attorneys would take legal actiop on a fee basis. ■ .i - I .U '. Kruse uisb said tha| the committee which he represented also was considering spit ajgainst certain signers on the petition asking that the 75 cent cumulative bond levy be reinstated for 1951, alleging forged signatures. ■"■m • —■" 1 '■ -7 JIV ■: ' ■ DaWald Dismisses Contempt Citation Contempt Charge On Shraluka Dismissed '- • ' : In 'a decision written by Geneva justice o< «thei peace Earl DaWald to sheriff Bob Shraluka, the former dismissed the contempt citation \ against the sheriff. '■ , The matter —for all practical purposes closed last week — (was definitely put rest by the justice’s letter. Actually, there was. no case left after prosecuting attorney Severin Schufeger filed a tejdl® prosequi againdt the DaWald Station. DaWald had chatg|| in an affidavit signed by a G4iieva woman that his court had been blasphemed by the actions of the sheriff. ' . ' .!'.•■ Sheriff Shraluka Jjad relieved all Wabash township deputies of their cards and deputy powers recently, and DaWald considered this a personal affrontrio bis court wherqin the charges f£arig that he sat as arresting officer, prosecuting witness and the The sheriff arguejl that such contempt if there were any, slioud com< through the office of the attorney. The latter agreed, the case was then dismissed * for several reasons, all of them valid arid all of them legal, bpt most of them creating considerable discussion by laymen and attorneys alike.

Ridgway Note May Be Final Word On Talks 1 . ■' ■ ' 1 Y • I : I'A . 1 B Final Approval Os Text By Washington Awaited By Ridgway Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 6—(UP) —k»en. Matthew B. Ridgway plans to send a note to the >pommunists today or tomorrow giving what may be hisl “last word” on the cease-fire negotiations* it was reported today. It is understood ttldgway has completed his note! and awaits final approval of its , tfext by Washington. 4 '■ ■ ■ *1 |L The note will reply, tb the latest pffofest by the Communist high command in Korea against alleged violations of the. neutral zone at Kaesong, where ceuae-fire talks have been held; It was reported that klidgway may: |: 1. tTry tb get the talks restarted by suggesting thai the ceasefire talks be switched to a new site where! violations pf neutrality would be unlikely* a 2. invite the Redsjelther to resume cease-fire talks without furthefr bickering over alleged neutrality breaches or \ end them for gqod and it out on the battlefield. , f Ridgway’s reply will be addressed to Kim 11 Sung, premier ahd commander in chief of North Korea, and Gen. Peng Teh-Huai, Chinese doilnmunist dohimander. It was believed, tftat the _long delay in his answer is diie in part to thb absence of President Truman and Secretary Os state Dean Acheson from Washington, and consequent delay in at the American end*', While the joint chiefs of staff are in Washington. Ach^ son 1° San Francisco and the' president left there today for Kansas City. Ridgway has a free hand in jthe handling of the cebse-Bire Jjalks and the Kaesong nueirality controversy. , But therb was no doubt! here that his moves require at least informal approval, from higher headquarters. The last Communist message demanded that the UN re-investi-*' gatet he Red charged of neutrality violations ahd then:, either give guarantees against repetitions 'of the violations or definitely end the talks. Tax Review Board Appointed By Judge j Adjustment Board | v Will Meet Monday t Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court has named four men to the Adams cdunty tax adjustment board, which will convene Monday at the auditor’s office. 1 Besides the foUr appointees,: there w 1 !!! be three members who serve by virtue of thfeir public office. One will be named by the 1 county council, one by the township trustees and the third.; will be Mayor John M. Doan, the' law specifying that the mayor of the largest city in the county shall sterve: ; ) County auditor Thhrman I. Drew, by'virtue of office, lyili be the secretary of the board, Which will review the tax levies and have the power to reduce rates. Judge Parrish’s four appointments are: Clifton H. Sprunger, manager of the Berije Witness and Everett J. Schug, insurance agent of Berne; Charles Biirdg of Union township and Arthur R. Holthouse, newspaper editor of this city. The mertibers servfe without compensation and may continue sessions until October I. i ' ' $■ V • '

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Overwhelming Vote Defeats Demand To Invitei Red China To Treaty Conference San Francisco, Sept. S.—(UP) — The, western powers today broke up Russia’s first big attempt to torpedo ! the Japanese peace ' conference. J . j 1 By an overwhelming vote, of 453 the conference voted down Soviet demands that the meeting consider inviting lied China to the peace settlement. A shoutipg match broke out only , ai few seconds after the business session of the conference opened at 11:09 a.m. CST. It was called to A consider rules of procedure and Russia’s Andrei Gromyko immediately demanded the floor and launched a lengthy tirade. » He said Soviet China had an “indisputable right” to participate in the signing of the treaty: Secretary of state Acheson ruled him out of order, but - Gromyko bohnced right back and said “we challenge” the ruling. . y • The shouting and confusion continued until Acheson, who served as presiding t officer of the cbnfer- , ence, ruled that eMph delegation should have but five minutes to raise points of objection. | ? Again Russia challenged the ruling. so it was put to a vote Os the floor; and it was carried, by an overwhelming majority. I • Only Russia, Poland and Cxecbo. , Slovakia—the three iron, curtain - countries represented voted against the move. Indonesia, whrefcV still is on the fence on the treaty, ' abstained, ■ • By voting against the Soviets, the conference, in effect. ; voted against Russia’s demands that the body immediately consider the inViNation of Red China. :, Acheson said the conference was not called to invite representatives of the Red Chinese government. PjAcheson then quickly rejected a proposal by the Czech delegate that Gromyko’s request for Red China lo be invited be On being ruled out of order, Gromyko im- , mediately .returned to the speaker’s stand. 1 The tense conference, hall listen-?; *ed to every' virord of the exchange between Acheson and the Commun- ' Ist. delegates. The fight broke out' only a minute 1 after Acheson called the first business session to order. ,1 Gromyko said it was “most important” that\ the question of, inviting Red China should be immediately considered. | “I protest this procedure,” he declared. i > \ Gromyko said that the speeches, j • rather than votes, were in ordeY. Gromyko promised to drag put \j the conference unless Achespn would allow speeches on the question of inviting Red China. He said angrily; v ' j I “The Soviet delegation will raise this question until the conference decides it.” \ Pplish delegate Stegan Wierblowski joined the shouting match and tried to get the floor. He refused to leave the platform when Acheson recognized Kenneth Younger, the British, delegate. • ' , The Communists kept'the floor for nearly thirty minutes before i Younger urged a vote supporting Acheson; pn his position that the Red; Chinese question raised by v GrOipyko; was out of order. Acpesdn was sutained by a heavyiv , majority.' ( } r II —~ ' Resurfacing Os 224 Reported Completed State highway were placing the white center line dlong the resurfaced state road 224 east of Decatur Wednesday? Contractors have completed thd resurfacing and in the next few days thet.,sides will be levelled off. State, road 224 was resurfaced from the Monroe street bridge to the state line thin, summer and the job will be turned back to the the contractors soon, it was; learned. A m(le on the same road just west of Decatur Miso was resurfaced. i