Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 211.' ■

REPORT PLOT TO KILL ANDREI GROMYKO

Two Key Hills Recaptured By U.S. Infantry Hurl Chinese Reds Into Retreat After J.* J Heavy Casualties Bth Army HeadquSrterswtfltorea, ' Saturday, Sept. B—-(UP) —Counterattacking American infantrymep recaptured- two key hills on the western /front 'from the Communists Friday. /. , • ; ... Advancing behind a blistering 'bombardment by their tanks and artillery, the Gl's captured one hjll nort h west of Yonchon; about 35 miles north of Seoul. In the Chorwon sector about miles northeast of ,Vanchon the j infantrymen threw Chinese Reds from another key hill. Chinese Communists who had thrust into the United Nations lines in a savage attack were now in retrept- after suffering an estimated 2.000 casualties. There was no iign pf a new enemy drive un to y last night though Red pa?- , trols were active. The surprise i Chinese thrust down rhe apciejit war road to ~Seoul cut off three advance-Unit; ed Nations patrol bases before the allies uncorked their own drive. The eptrapped allied units fought their way back ter their own lines wtth the dead and wounded and then turned to join the. counterattack. Allied troops regained a hilt northwest of Yonchon and of that city 1.100 Chinese’ Rede were, reported -in retreat. The surprise Red assault may have been a softening-up blow before a full-scale offensive. But ' the Reds found.no soft points in the allied lines. J 1 ? Far to the east; defeated Communist troops who ihve up Bloody Ridge and the hills above the?hot-ly-contested "punchbowl” valley streamed northward and an allied officer said there were reports of many Communist desertions and assassinations of Red officers. J- The Western front assault cost thS* enemy at least 400 counted dead and 23 prisoners in addition to an estimated 1,600 wounded while warplanes knocked out at ’least five of the Russian-built T-34 tanks aiding the Red attack. Despite the f ‘setbacks on the western and eastern ends of the Korean war f/ont. the Reds were desperately i jamming supply trucks and carts, through a day-and-night UN air blockade. Thursday’s non-stop air patrols destroyed or damaged a record 857 enemy vehicles, to bring’ their. 12-dpy toll of enemy trucklng\to 5,667.* One. of the war’s biggest -air strikes against enemy troop concentrations also came Thursday i --when navy -planes from the 11SS Boxer ripped a column of 3.000 Reds southwest of Majop-Ni, 'ls- - due, west of the Cotnmuniyt east coast port .of Wonsan.- At least 100 soldiers yere killed. Other navy pilots In that region struck at Red troops too and brought the fleet air arm’s toll for .the day to about 340 Reds. , j The warplanes over\the western front were marine and/army fight-, crs. The marine ’planes 'knocked out two Russian-made tanks west of the tlmjip river and army F-80 shooting star jets got three more: in raking passes at an enemy-held ridge below Chorwon. , ' '*• J * r * . * ’ 1 : *. Investigate Fire In Bank Building Washington. Ind.. Sept. T.—\ (UP)—A 125,000 fire broke out in, the state bank building here today; and authorities were investigating the possibility the fire may have) been started by robbers. The fire was “ discovered bytwo - policemen in a second floor office of the jCommumnity Loan? Corp. The officers said they inj vestigated when they heard an explosion and. found the blaze. | Firemeri said the flames were confined mostly to .the loan company where a safe was discovered* . brokea.;. open. Manager Oral. * Gregory said S4OO «and ? a file of loan papers were missing, L-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NKWSPAPIR IN ADAMS COUNTY " W

Nine-Day Slate Fair To Be Closed Today Attendance Lower Than During 1950 J Indianapolis, Sept. 7 (UP) The nine-day Indiana state fair moved into the windup I stage today jvith little chance that paid attendance would top last year’s.: Total attendance climbed to 557,230 last night, and more than 53,000 visitors were needed today to top the WSO nine-day figure. Secretary - manager Carl Tyner said 73,641 paid admissions yesterday compared to 79,7,99 on tho game day at last year’s fair. Tyner expects only about 35,00(1 to visit the fair today. , V, I. “Even with the best of breaks.!’ Tyner said, “it’s very doubtful if we’ll break last year’s attendance mark and there’s no possibility of topping the all-time total set in j? 46. L j. ’ There was no letup in entertaip- • |nent scheduled for the final day Os the fair. Another day of grand Circuit racing, led by the midAmerican free-for-all trot artd pacp, for purses of sro|oo(>. -was planned- L- ■ < I f Judging also will continue in the Herefords and swi^e y classes, knd 4-H calves and the grand |hampion barrow will go on thp ■Auction block. \ I I About 250 animals will be sold. Included; are the grand j-H steer —a 1.104-pound Aberdeen Angus exhibited by Aran Holder. <3. Benton county—and the grand Champion 4-H barrow. lit., a 215pound CuCoc, was showp by Jeannette Pierce of Marion county. Mori? blue ribbons were passed but yesterday. In the swine class, the grand champion boar—a spotted Poland China—was phown by (Hogg and Nixon of Peru, and the Reserve champion was exhibited by Herbert C. Grogg, Peru. j The Pinntey Purdue farm of fWanatah exhibited the grand |champion bull, a red poll. The ygrand champion female Was shown fey S. P. Burton and family of Lidgevillejn Randolph bounty. | George Naftzger and family, Lo|ganrport, collected several ribfbqns in the Ayrshire judging. fShirecrest Firlie won a first place jin judging of Ayrshire cows five /years or over and theri went on To become senior champion female land grand champion female in (that class. | - i I j The junior champion bull in the •Ayrshire clgss was shown by Ray-1 mohd Skelton and daughters, Bra- ■ zii. •, / -• ■ * [r[. -■ Yesterday’s grand circuit racing .saw Meadow Rice, owned by William G. Reynolds of Louisville, R*y., win ’ the $13,459 Hoosier futurity for two-year-old pacerS. Joy .Hanover owned by R. T. ;Morrison, won the $13,289 Hoosier futurity fpr two-year-old trotters. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Saturday fair and slightly warmer. Low tonight 44 to 50 north, 50 to 55 south, high Saturday 72 to 76 north, 76 to 80 south. Decatur Man Hurt In Auto Accident John Bleeke Hurt As Wrecked John Bleeke, proprietor of the Mirror Inn. today was in “fairly good” condition at the Adams county memorial hospital where he was taken following an accident on U.S. 224. about one mile east of the city, Thursday evening about 6 o’clock. The driver of the car, Bleeke lost control when he was returning to Decatur from Van Wert, O. The car veered to the left. ramme4 into and snapped off an electric utility pole, tore down telephone lines, and crashed into a metal fence along the Ruppert farm. Brought to the hospital, it was revealed that Bleeke Buffered a ■ fractured right shoulder and considerable bruising of the face and i legs. , City police assisted sheriff Bob Shrahika, who investigated, in di- ; recting traffic along the highway over which three 220 volt lines were | stretched. Persons in the vicinity . also aided in traffic direction until utility men could arrive to repair ; the damage.

Upholds Ewing In Withholding Welfare Funds Judgedn Federal Court Rules Ewing ; Correct In Action Washington, Sept. 7 —- (UP) *— Federal Judge Alexander Holtzojf ruled today that federal security administrator Oecar R. Ewing had a right to withhold from Indiana $2)0,000.000 a year in federal welfare fund payments. Ewing, ordered -.the payments withheld because a new’ Indiana law opened, the state relief rolls to public inspection. Federal law requires that the name of all welfare recipients he kept confidential. Indiana brought suit against Ewing to force resumption of the payments, which were cut off effective Aug. 10. \ After hearing arguments, on both sides, Holtzoff ruled that: “This court is of the opinion that it can not he said that the ipterpretatiop placed upon the Indiana statute by the federal administration is clearly wrong. At best it is debatable. Therefore his ruling should not be disturbed bC the courts." i Hqjtzoff noted that courts may noj review an administrative action so long as the head of the agency involved has a proper basis for vdiat be does. i He *oid he is not unaware of the difficulties faced lijr Indiana in administering its welfare program without thb customary federal contribution. But be added that the state legislature waswell aware of tjie situation when. it passed the new law last spring. Howard Boyd of the Washington law firm of, Hogan and'Hartson, atgued on behalf of Indiana. He said Ewing’s action has “bled the state white” and that some people ih Marion county, where Indianapolis is located, rwill be without benefits as early as next month. “The state cannot carry on alone,’’ he said. ' v ' jU. S. * attorney George Morris Fay discussed the history and purposes of the federal social security program and Indiana's participation in it. He said congress intended to get away from 'the old “poor law” theory. That was why it stipulated that names should be kept confidential, he said. Boyd contended that regulations laid down after the Indiana law was passed providKsafeguards (Turn To Pane Eight) Boy Scpufs' Outing Shown To Rotarians Colored Movies Os Outing' Shown Club Excellent colored movies of the Decatur Boy Scouts opting at Philmont ranch. New Mexico, during the past summer, were shown at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Sylvester Everhart, commissioner of Adams county Boy Scouts, who was irt general charge of the 2.1 Scouts v and Scodters who made the trip, took the fine movies which he screened last t night, also presenting a running commentary on the'various Scenes. X The Phllnjont ranch, consisting of 270,000 acres in New Was given to the Boy Scouts of America by Frank Phillips, of the Phillips Oil Co. During the present season, approximately 8,000 Boy Scouts have participated in the various outings at the ranch. The Decatur group chose the “cavalcade” outing, spending a week in the saddle in rugged territory, caring for their own horses, campipg out at night and preparing most of their own meals. Many interesting 1 and colorful Scenes during the trip were shown in the movies taken, by Everhart. The trip to the rahch and return was tnade in private cars, with many interesting and historic spots visited,, including the Will Rogers memorial in Oklahoma, the Garden of the Gods in Colorado and Boys Towh : in Omaha, Neb. Roscoe Glendening, chairman of the Rotary club’s Boy Scout committee, was chairman of the meeting. I . •HI • ■ IJ-

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Sept. 7,1951.

Gromyko’s Lighter Moments 1 ’’K* •’ 1 !-.■ • OiiROI « ’ 5 ■ ■ < - mA-# -Mr M -J : ■■ QMI: 11 j flM| HMfl I a. - ... — . RUSSIA’S chief delegate to the Japanese pea?e conference at San Francisco pauses to get a-light from an unidentified friend while taking a stroll in a corridor during the second day’s session.: He read a newspaper during part of.(he proceedings, and made no new move which might reveal what his new from Moscow might be.

Driver -Of Wrecked Auto Under Arrest - Michigan Resident> Lodged In Jail Here Formal charges vrere expected to be placed today against Victor Gilbert, 23, of Port Huron,\Mich., who is in the Adams county Jail suspected of driving a vehicle with a forged driver's license and of operating a stolen vehicle, with stolen plates. Investigation by fWeral, state and county officials is continuing. Gilbert was the driver of the car rammed a bridge abutment about six miles north of the city on U.S. 27 early Thursday. He and three others were injured as a result of the accident. At lirst it was believed Gilbert was suffering fpfftn a possible skull fracture, but later observations revealed a concussion. s Mrs. Mirty Varney, ®f Fort Waynb, suffered a fractured jaw which pierced her ear drums as the result. of the accident. She remains in the Adams county memorial, hospital. Six others in the car have either been released or were uninjured. j Al eight were returning from ..West Virginia to Fort Wayne when the accident occurred. ItMs believed thkt Gilbert dozed at the wheel, the car veered 1 to the left and struck the abutment; It flip-i flopped onto its top, completely demolishing the car. \ \ .. . Eight Leave Today For Armed Service . Eight young men left Decatur early today for Indianapolis and induction into the armed services. Although the local selective service board has not received any information “in several months” concerning the displacement of the inductees, it is assumed they are transferred 1 from Indianapolis to Camp Custer, Miclh. Those included in today’s contingent were Roger Dale Borne, Glen Richard Zimtnerman, Kenneth Nell Funk, Byford Edwin Smith, Max Leroy Myerp, John Victor Kable, Merlin D&le Zurcher and William Oliver DeWeese. k—— I'' / ' ' '-jj ■ / Lake County Lists Seventh Polio Death Gary, Ind., Sept. 7—'(UP)— Lake county listed its seventh polio death of the year today with the death of Mrs. Thomas L. Waffjer, 23. She died of bulbar polio yesterday while enroute to Gary Methodist hospital.

A ! "■| \ , ■ f Commissioners Will Meet September 17 The -board of coupty commissioaPrs wilf meet hi' special session. September 17 to receive -bids for one ton of commercial fertilizer: for ttye county farm; for rffwiring the county highway garand pointing the exterior of the county jail. i T“ • LI ’ . MacArthur Speaks I To Defense Workers Tota itarian Rule Drift Is Assailed Cleveland, 0., Sept.} 7—(UP) — Gen; Doijglas MacArthur told cheering defense plant workers today that V. S. industry and labor must keep supplying “the basic sinews that have brought through to victory.” Touring Cleveland' industrial plants, MacArthur stopped first at the | Thompson products factory which makes parts for jet motors. Addressing workers gathered in front of the plant, he said: you for having supplied the Jorces at the front wi|h the wealpons that kept us up and kept the jenerhy down.” | ( MacArttur climaxed a civic i;ecepfion yesterday with lan address In #hich he charged the Thiman administration With Suppressing personal liberties arid embarking >in a “steady drift toward totalitarian rule,” ! , . Mac Art! ur asserted in his speech las t night that "this drift has resulted in an increasingly dangerous paternalistic relationship between the federal government and private citizen, with the. mushrooming of agency after agepey designed to control the individual.’* , I ' ( “Are we; going to maintain our present course toward state socialism with Communism just beyond, or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our Lm'ltagelcf liberty and freedom?” he' asked. | MacArttur said the totalitarian drift was I reflected in a shift ■ centralized power in the government and “in '•the violent manner ip whlph exception is taken *to the ciltzen’s voice when rafted in criticism of those who exercise the political power.” “There ieems to be a determination to suppress individual voice and which can only be i regarded as symptomatic of the i beginning of a general trend to- > wtfd thought control,” he , saidhit at the statd department,; charging that it was exceeding its established role and (T»ra To Face Ei B ht>

Planned Highway Crash Reported; Arab Bloc To Sign Treaty

Arab Bloc Ta Sign With Reservations; Reports Only-Three Nations To Abstain San Francisco, i Sept. 7 —(UP)— The Arab bloc, pt a tense peace conference sessiop, stirred by a reported plot on the life of Russian’s Andrei Grptnyko, today announced it wodld sign the Japanese treaty with; reservations. Simultaneously; a high American official that the United States hap received assurance that 49 nations will sign the treaty with only? Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia abstaining. Delegates representing Syria and Saudi Arabiaitold the seventh business sessiorj' |p.f the conference they would ’follow the lead of Egypt, king-pih in the Arab sphere. The yesterday announced strong opposition to treaty provisions ; which would permit foreign to be based on Japan’s The Soviet delegate arrived at the war memory) building under heavy police ggard after police had been of a, purported scheme to kill in a planned highway ’ / As the 52-ipsfitfn conference opened, the Uqßed States announced its plaits lO' Jam the treaty through t<? early signing tomorrow. were to be concluded today, j “We’ll go allLjhffht, if necessary,” a member of-the U. $. delegation said. to sign the Japanese tmty tomorrow morning.” \ • ! r . i Simultaneously, , the United States memorandum to delegations casing upon all nations planning tersign the treaty to give notice ta9 the secretary general of the coherence by 6 o’clock (PDT);tonight. Forty-nine nations, including Ja? pan. are sign. Onl| Poland, Czechoslovakia and (Turn Tn ytace Slx> Gas Heat Approved I For More In Area f i ■•rS! , ■- 'I 1 6,200 Are Approved | In Fort Wayne Area j ■ I ' •I! J ' ■wT • 1 - 1 •• I John Barth, of the local) office of Northern Indiana Public! Service company, said he had not idea ixow many applications for gas heat would be allotted to Decatur out of the 6.200 approved by the Indiana public service commission for the Fort Wayne area. Robert L. Kaade, manager of the Fort Wayne division' of toIPSCO, said that no decision has been reached as to. how the additional spiice heating cusomers ,will be added to the list now being servedOther towns in tiie local area that will receive allotments from the 6,200 approvals, include Bluffton, ' Columbia City, New Haven, Waynedale, Ossian and Roanoke. Manager Faade said (hat, aP though the PSC had authorized additional customers, the company does pot have an official statement from its supplier of gas that an adequate volume will be guaranteed! He said information will be made public as soon as it is\received. | , ; A number pf gas customers krere added.to the local utility in March, ,1950. At thht lime a few hundlred applications were filed requesting gas heat, Bprth' stated: Delinquents Rush To Pay Taxes To Stqte Indianapolis, Sept. 7.+-IUP)- — The state gross income tax division '(said today anohiincement that Indiana had filed suit against delinquent taxpayers resulted in a rush of payments. Director James M. Propst said an estimated 200 taxpayers behind in their gross' income tax payments ! have paid their taxes since the court suits were filed Wednesday.

Reds' Leaders Are Silent On New Talk Site Meeting On Neutral , Ship Appears Only Possible Solution . . Tokyo, Sept. 7 —(UP) — A meeting on a neutral ship at sea appeared today to provide the only conditions under which either the Communists or the United Nations will agree to resume the Korean ceasefire talks. The Red leaders still were silent today on the UN demand for a new conference site. Their truce team rejected as “unsatisfactory” the latest allied notes about Kaesong neutrality violations,- But the Communist delegation made no hew protests. ' Failure of the Reds to make an immediate reply to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s proposal for a new meeting place bgpught neither pessimism nor optimism here. I; Thd official view is that it is up to the ; Reds to make the that i will either get the talks back on the road or end them for good. An answer is certain to coma, if only because the Communists do not want io take the blame for the final collapse of the talks. A meeting on a neutral ship seemed to offer the only hope fobgetting talks started again because no suitable land sites exist. It seemed the Reds may be waiting either for developments at the | San Francisco Japenese peace treaty conference or for the outcome of their sudd,ep attack of Korea’s westterp front before replying to Ridgway. North Korean. Gen. Nam 11, chief Re«d truce delegate, answered the I notes to him Tuesday by Vice Admiral C.. Turner Joy. Joy sent ■ three curt notes rejecting Communist protests against alleged UN violations of neutrality. Nam Il’s replies, contained in twd notes dated Thursday and broad? cast today by Peiping radio, insisted that the UN responsibility for the alleged incidents and. called Joy’s reply but did not go into the matter of the violations again—a marked departure from Red actions in the past ; , ■ -r-h — Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet Monday morning at 9-30 o’clock at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed, church. All members of the association are urged to be present. Third Bloodmobile Visit Here Sept. 25 Red Cross Unit On Third Trip To City The third visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile •to Decatur will be Sept. 25, local headquarters announced today. To meet the county’s qhota of 125 pints of blood, approximately 175 voluhtpers should be registered and available to appear at the blood center in the American Legion home, Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary, said. \ - J Persons wishing to contribute their blood and who’ Rave not returned a volunteer catd, are asked to get in touch with the local Red Cross office. Those ntho have returned cards will be, notified ot the time they are to apear at the Legion home. ‘ The summer months did not lesson the services of Red Cross, the August report shows. During the past month 408 services were performed at the office for patrons,:. including assistance to veterans and servicemen.

Price Five Cents

Soviet Delegation To Treaty Parley Heavily Guarded On Way To Parley \ Sah Ftanteisco, Sept. T*.-—fUPjr— The Jlussian delegation to the Japanese peace conference sped to the war memorial building under heavy guard today after police were tipped of a reported plot to kill Andrei Gromyko in a planned highway crash. The report, alleged to have come . from an FBI agent.'said that whit£ to ram Gromyko’* automobile with a beer truck on the Bayshore Freeway over whicli he would travel to the 'peace conference. 1 I ' Dramadcally, the Russian delega»' tion sped by a cbnvoy of beer trucks which had been jammed up because -a meat truck had - overturned, but police investigated the accident and said itwas completely unconnected with any plot. The trip to the opera houses frlorn the Russian s rented Hillsborough man; sion, 25 miles south of hdre, was otherwise uneventful. | The delegation arrived at the opera house, without incident at 9:53 am, PDT. after a speedy ride from the mansion. Two police cars led the party, four motorcycle > patrolmen flankedthe Russians’ car and a tflird police car followed . it. ) San Francisco police received the report of the plot from Sgt. Otto Schramm of the Redwood city office of the California highway patrol. 1 ; j Schramm said he had received the report in a telephone call from a man w’ho identified himself as FBI agent H. W. Baker. Ah FBI official confirmed that there was an agent of that name. F.BI headquarters here and in Washington 5 refused comment about the reported plot. , ■ The report said that the beer truck whs supposed to ram the chr carving Gromyko on the highway. As the delegation and its escort sped along the highway, it did meet some beer trucks in ja traffic jam Where a meat truck had overturned. • ' ' A ’ The caravan, including several newspapermen’s cars, ddt r ed,.; around the traffic jam at full speed, with the police sirens screaming. The 25-mile trip front the mansion to the opera house was made in little more than 30 minutes. At the opera house, .military police and state department security officers were waiting at the. door for the delegation. \ ’ A Russian secret' service man preceded Gromyko frortij his limousine. , r Gromyko wallted briskly to his seat in the opera hoube. The Soviet embassy in Washington said it had no knowledge of the reported plot. A spokesman said inquiries from newsmen were the first news lhe embassy had on the 4nat&r. • ' ? ' ' ' ■ ■ 5 ' A. • ■ • r ■■ Hoosiers Promised fair, Cool Weekend Indianapolis, Sept. 7 — (UP) — . The weatherman promised Hoosiers A cool weekend with generally fair weather today. A five-day outlqok showed cool weather through Sunday, warmer Monday and cooler 1 again Tuesday and Wednesday. j \ It said temperatures in the north would average four to eight degrees below normals of 56 low and 78 high. In the south, the mercury will average about two to six degrees below the normals of 60 and 35. ■ •/ \ Driver Is Killed As* Auto Overturns Knox, Ind., SepL 7. —<UP) — Louis A. Umbach, 49, Gary, was killed today his car ran . off Ind. 35 and overturned Jnto ay. ditch about six miles 1 south of here; A passenger. Henry P. Smith, of here, was uninjured when he was thrown from the car. .'■•v.w- aa Th '