Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 215.

MARSHALL RESIGNS AS DEFENSE SECRETARY

United Stales Forces Smash Against Reds Marines Use Tank Fire To Crack Red Strong Positions !;•' Rth Army Headquarters. Korea. Thursday. Sept. 13 —(UP) —United States marines ripped into *the Communists with point-blank tank fire, flame thrpwers and the bayonet yesterday in one of a series of allied “killer" offensives. Other American forces surged ahead for miles against Chinese Reds. 7 • ' The marines, on the eastern front, used tank fire te crack Red strong points. They moved in •with flame thrpwers. hand grenades and bayonets to clean out bitterly resisting in' . hand to hand fighting., J United Nations* troops, tanks, artillery and planes joined in a new assault on the central front. * Gen. 'James* A. Van Fleet in a statement dared the Reds to attack and “give us the chance to slaughter them.” . At the front with his men. the tough UN ground 1 forces comfnahder predicted that the Communists. “will, want peace before winter before' we’re through with them" J(lh Tokyo, prospects for. resumption of the' armistice talks - seemed a bit brighter today. Agreement pn the isstfe of Kaev song’s neutrality appeared nearer after the UN admission that an > American plane strafed Kaesong mistake- Sept. 10. It was up to the Reds to decide whether to ' accept the and resume talks or use it as an excuse for new propaganda attacks against ' the UN.) ? Allied troops hacked out gains along a 75-mile sector of the flaming battlefront from the “iron triangle" in the center, to the sea cf Japan on the east as American infantrymen plunged into the UN’s second limited offensive in two days. h * Van Fleet said he hoped the Reds would open ah offensive of their own because: "A Communist offensive would give us' the . chance to slaughter them. That way we could get them in j wholesale lots and not have to kick them piecemeal oht of the hills the way we are doing now.", ’ J ' The Reds, have the potential for a powerful [offensive or a limited objective drive aimed at shoving the UN hack below the 38th parVan Fleet said. /But, he added, “most indications point to a defensive attitude ‘ on their part." “They're hurting," he said: 'r- “They’re in bad shape and we ard hurting them more and more. They will want peace before win- , ter before we are through with them.”, . [ - Van Fleet made an aerial survey of the central front battle area and then made a quick» f isit to one American unit. He arrived as the new central front driVe won two strategic hills north and northehst of the old iron triangle area above Kumhwa. But strongjy-entrenched were fighting * back viciously. ’’ screaming a challenge of “Wolf-:, hounds Yah” at the f charging Americans —a reference ' to the famous 27th Wolfhound regiment of the 25tH infantry division, an old and feared enemy of the' Communists. - * " . ’ ■’ ■ • V ; y| Dates Are Set For j ■ 5 t - S. S. Conventions The executive board of. the .Adams county Sunday , school association in session last evening in the directors* room of the First Bank Os Berne, scheduled the fall township school conventions to be held on the following dates: v Hartford, Oct. 7; Union- /■ Root, Oct. 7; Blue Creek Oct. 7; Wabash Oct; 14; Preble-Kirkland, Oct 14; St. Mary’s Opt. 14; Jefferson, Oct. 21J Washington, Oct--212: Monroe-French Nov. 11. The date for the county Sunday school convention was set for Sunday and Monday, October 28 and 29. More details ' s will beannounced later.

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Confusion Caused ■ £ \ I ' ' ByAmish School §eek To Clai-ify School Situation .V second meeting between county superintendent of schools hansel L. Foley and representaof the Amish faith is sc.hedwibd tor Friday in an effort clarify the “private” school cotyfhsien created when certain Amish/families starred I their own school. ’ T|e school, which is one mile south and one ahd one-quirter milts west of Berne, is\now in use, butt V s not operating with : the sanction of state education authorities. i “ib fact," said Foley, "the state education department knew nothfngjof it until this week." The. superintendent said that he ~^- a s acting on the matter on|y on Orders from the state school superintendent's office. J Accordingly. Foley, served no,Belton the Amish that the studerifls there. were- truant as far a.; the county’s records show. Representatives of the., nine Amiph families who are sponspring/the school which Is attended Ly SB) students met with the superintendent today to discuss the atiensancei probleta, and the school’s future. At present, only the state board cf Wealth has approved the building, nite and the land; state educational authorities were ; not officially notified t>y the Amlfh .s< hjgd officials. Tlie building, it is learned, is liotliyet completed, but the students are in attendance (here as 'been since ppening day. About a month ago plans for buihiing the school were learned. Midi! construction I was begun at that® time. However, neither bounty nbr state school officials were notified.' , ’ ! Foley says that the matter has heed turned over ,to the state for further action. The Friday meeting -will be to determine whether the ? Amish will permit a representative' of the state superinteirdent j office to inspect tffe site, Or whether the school will continue la d private; unsanctioned capacity- ' [ (Me of the tenets of the Amish faitn is a deep-felt belief that education is good up to a certain poiift; but once this point is attained— usually albout 15 years—there is a greater need for the student at home. I ' . Tpe state and Amish ijiaVe v.rahgled on the matter of,,school age I before, until now the legislature has modified the law to keep the student in school through the IGtli year. Spokesmen for the. Amish, CleJus I Christener, John Girod and Noah Wengerd, whq met with Foley today, they were willing to abide by the Jaw. ' Fidey in turn said that his was an |attendance concern; that he was; not opposed to the creation Os the school as long as it complied with state responsibilities. The bulk of the students are ! (Tara To Pace Six) — Busche Speaker At Lions Club Meeting biscusses Recent LJ trip To Germany Relating the experiences of his recent trip to Germany, supplementing the talk with slides. Adamd county farmer and businessman E. W. Busche pointed up to members of the Lions cluHj the contrasts in. progress. Fpr bne thing, said the speaker, travel when he came to the United ’"States was comparatively .it took 17 days in a ship to mafe the crossing. For his .recent trips Busche returned to his native laiui by plane; most of the trip took approximately 13 hours.: TJhen, too, he noted, farin equipment is advanced here; plentiful and constantly being improved. Thd German darner, said Busche, siiffply doesn’t have the j equipment to produce in a like manner; The old gray mare is just whit it used to be. Club president Glen Manlier wa4 in charge of the meeting' which was hailed in advance as “Idio percent attendance night.7 Ths goal was not achieved. I I * . ■ 11

Peiping Radio Charges U.S. Inviting War Feel Prospects Os Resuming Talks On Truce Brightening Tokyo, Sept. 12.—(UP)— The Peiping radio complained bitterly today that ;Ge'n. James A. Van fleet’s United States Bth army was Vopenly inviting” full scale war by fts vTgorous “killer" attacks on,the Korean front. The broadcast, by the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist government, tended to confirm a statement Van Fleet made at the front a few hours before that' the Reds are “hurting'. . . In bad shape” and “will want peace before winter Peiping complained thafe Van Fleet openly admits “the American forces are taking advantage of the breaks they have forced in (truce) negotiations to launch attacks on the hope of grabbing more Korean' .territory. : ■ “He has made it clear that he is for war, not negotiations.” \ The Peiping broadcast strengthened the belief of many officials here that despite; all their blustering and their incessant allegations that the United States is trying to wreck truce negotiations, the Reds really need and want peace. , Van Fleet has made a series of statements on the military situation. emphasizing that he had nothing |to do with arm Ist ice negotia, tioni but has the job of killing Communists until they bay “uncle” to h|s United Nations army. in its broadcast referred to ah interview, Van Fleet gave the United PreMs in Pusan Monday. In that! interview Van Fleet repeated that! “1 have nothing to do” with talks, that his job is to fighl and that “I’m doing it and winding it.” z “/he Americans are now openly inviting war in an attempt to attain their aggressive objectives through new military adventures following the exposure and_ firnt protests concerning their provocations in Kaesong.” Peiping said. Even before the revealing Chinese Communist broadcast, the feeling here was that prospqcts for (Turn Tai Pace Blx» R.A. Adams Dies At Hospital Tuesday : Former Teacher In High School Dies j A. Adams, 72, for 20 >ears a teacher in the Decatur high school until his retirement in 1940, died Tuesday afternooff in the Lutheran hospital /in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patienV three weeks. Mr. Adams, following his retirement. moved to Huntington. where he was appointed deputy Huntington county auditor. The veteran teacher came to Decatur in 1927, and taught science and mathematics in the public high -school until his retire-; ment five years ago. He [was recognized as one of the outstanding members of the school faculty during his long period of service in Decatur. He first taught school in 1899 ijr district 13 in Huntingdon county. Prior to coming to Decatur, Mr. Adams was a teacher in Huntington and Wabash county schools and Manchester college. He yras a member of the Church of the Brethren at Huntington. Surviving are his wife, Minnie; three daughters, Mrs 5 Ruth Stivers of Hammond, Mrs. Fern Bright of Royal Oak, PMlch., and Mrs. Evelyn Krick of Fort Wayne; four grandchildren; a brother, Norval Adams of Elkhart, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Ulrich 7)f Elkhart, Mrs. Mary Miller of .Peru _ and Mrs. Nova Ccuch of Huntington county. Funeral servefies | will be conducted at 10 a. m. Friday at the Bailey funeral home In Huntington. the Rev. E. R. Fisher officiating. Burial will be in the Lancaster cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The family has requested friends to omit floral offerings. h

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1951.

\ Chicago Murder -j; Ka K..- I r rvl ■- j - IB ■ ’- B i THE AUGUST 29 murder of Chicago furrier Nathan Jenkins who was shot down as he stopped his automobile at a traffic lyjht, was solved with the arrest of Neunjecib Cervantes/ (center-left), 17, and Allan Adamaitls, 1«. They wlere artekted b> .Richard Nelson (left) and Philip Epste|n, shown handcuffing them, and Lt. Daniel F. Healy. They confessed that Adamaitls had “accidently” shot Jenkins during a holdup attempt, and darned two teen-age accomplices. Lt. Healy is at the right. \ ; 1

Central Soya Power Plant In Operation Supply Principal i Needs Os Company During a* three-hour dedication ceremony this morning at the locM plant ofjthe Central Soya cotnpany, D. W. McMillen, Sr., chairman of the firm’s board of directors, of* ficially ;put the new 4,000 KW steam power plant which will sup* ply the principal power needs for Central Soya’s local operation into fuGscale production. In energizing ths hew r power installation., McMillen expressed appreciation (or what he termed the “excellent cooperation? Decatur city officials have.shown since the company’s.organization here in supplying most of Central Soya’s past power requirements from municipal sources. “We are fully aware of the increasing burden our plant <has put upon ybur city power facilities,” McMillen told Mayor John Doan and plant superintendent Lester Pettibone. "The decision to install our own power plant was made largely With the view in mind of relieving this situation, and thereby making available broadened service to the citizens of this community, together with the critical power reserve you would need in the event of an'emergency. “Had we continued to draw entirely from your resources.’VMcMillen added, “It would have eventually imposed an added burden upon your municipal power facilities to meet dur needs. Consequently, we feel that both from your standpoint and ours, it is a sound move.” McMillen also stated that the new power installation was the first move in a long-range expansion program the firm has planned •here. In a brief address at a luncheon following the ceremony, Mayor Doan stated that "the! citizens of Decatur and the whole rural area (Turn To Pace Twa)

Neighbors Do Lifetime Work For War Veteran

Galloway, Wis., Sept. 12 —(UP) — A marine veteran arose \at dawn today and stood holding his wife’s hand as they viewed the work done by thousands of neighbors who performed a lifetime’s task in 24 hours on his farm. At the same time yesterday morning, they looked out on 80 stony acres, a dilapidated barn and a one-room lean-to in which they lived. But thanks to thousands of “good neighbors”—many of whom had never met the couple-—Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'Flees and their youngsters had these blessings: A modern five-room house, a new barn, a milk house, a machine, shed, a livestock watering [fond. x In addition, the farm was cleared of stones: 20 acres of woods were also cleared, and? another 25 acres were plowed, dragged and fertilized. The lawn was landscaped. J “I doh’t think I’m deserving of all this,” was all Fjees could say. Altogether, 6,000 persons turned out. Many came just to watch, but stayed to work. Schools were dismissed so that

Tliird Os Farnsworth r Employes Laid Off Fort > Wayne, Ind., 1 Sept. 12.4-(UP)--One-third of the CapehartFarrhßworth plant’s 1,500 \employes Were idle today. The Company said it ordered the layoff} on a permanent basis f because I of lack oft orders for commercial television sets and material snort-' igeffjj ? ' . .L : -,J — ■ ■ ■ ; Two National 6uan Units To Be Called Ohio And Illinois Units Facing Duty) Washington, Sept. 12—*(UP) — The announced today jthat two more National Guard divisions —the 37th from Ohio apd the 44th from Illinois—will be called to active duty early next year. The 37th, commanded by Gen. Leo Kreber, will report aoout Jan. 15 at Camp Polk. La. : , for training-. pj - ■ The 44th, under the commanq of Maj. Gen. Harry Bolen, will report at Cftmp Cooke, [Cal., about Feb. 15 The call-up of the two divisions brings to eight the total of National GuardJ infantry divisions ordered on active duty since start of the Ko ; rean war. t , The two regimental combat teams and an unspecified number of smaller National Guard outfits also have been mobilized. Tlfe army said still another National Guard division will .be called later next year. The division was not identified. ' It will receive a minimum of four months advance notice. , / Two. National Uuard divisions called up last fall—the 40th infantry Os California and the 45th infantry -of Oklahoma-4-have been sent to Japan. , TWO others —the 28th infantry of fTun Ta Pare Twa)

the children could pick up rocks littering the farm. Local- merchants donated overalls and gloves for the workers. Others sent food. Lumberyards provided wood for the buildings. Bulldozers and more than 100 tractors—so many they got in. each other's way—scored over the little farm The project was organised by Dr. B. J. Przedpelski, a University of Wisconsin extension agent. He heard that Flees, a 27-year-old veteran wounded on Guam, had lost an eye in a farm accident. The time Flees lost because of the injury put him far behind in his task of getting the tract in shape. Przedpelski originally recruited 200 persons. The actual response! overwhelmed everyone connected with the venture. “The way the people worked was next to a miracle,” one volunteer said. “They sent so many tractors we couldn’t use them all —they got in each other's way.? He refused to give his name. "Everybody deserved credit,” he said. They worked from sunup to sun(Term Ta Pa*e Six)-

Gen. George C. Marshall Retires After Serving As Secretary For Past Year

Seek To Hike I I i ■■ , • : 1 1 ■ J I ' ' Senate Group Tax Increase \ t -l\ • \ . . < ■-I Senate Committee Approves Measure Short Os Requests Washington, Sept. 12.—(UP) — Administration supporters mustered forces today in an attempt to increase the $6,000,000,000 tffx increase bill voted by the senate finance committee. President Truman requested a $10,700,000,000 tax boost. The comniittee finished work on the measure \ yesterday, failing not only to grant Mr. Truman’s request but also falling short of the $7,200,000,000 annual tax increase passed by the house. The bill faces a challenge 'on the senate floor next week not} orily on grounds that It is far less than the amount urged by the administration. but also on a clause setting up taxation of forms of now-un-taxed gambling which are illegal in m-ost states. ■ Preliminary estimates showed that the measure calls for a $2,367,000.000 annual hike tn personal income taxes. $2,100,000,000 in "eggular corporate income levies and $1,300,000,000 in excise taxes. Other congressional developments: Grime —Sen. Homerj E. Capehart, RJ, Ind., said he will afsk the senate to. provide $150,000 f6r the senate commerce to continue the crime lnvestigati|n. The special crime committee [Which invests gated gambling and richer criminal activities throughout® the country expired Sept. 1 and turned, over Its files to the commerce committee. ! Capehart said f the senate should : keep track of|the criminal racketeering .uncovered by the special committee "for Snany years” until crime in America has been destroyed.” 4 “Truly fantastic”—Sen. Brien McMillion, D.‘; Conn., said “the destructive power in our atomic stockpile today is truly fantastic by any standards we have heretofore kqown.” Ue said all A-bombs can (Turn Ta Pam siaven* ' J~ k Plan Paten Testing '. I I . ■ ! J ‘ ‘ Program In Schools / TB ? Association In Meeting Last Night Preliminary' plans were outlined Tuesday at the board of director’s meeting of the Adams county tuberculosis association for the forthcoming “pffCch testing” program to be conducted in the county’s schools. First work on' the [project will begin 4 next; week, said Mrs. W. Guy BroWn, secretary of the Organization. with actual testing to get underway September 24. All fifst grade studeifts as well as ninth and tenth grade students in the county will undergo the patch tests, the association announced. Students in those grades will be given the tests, then 'a fol-low-up will be made of anjy reactors.

At the Tuesday meeting, two appointments to the board of directors were also niade, of Hugh J ; Andlrews. principal pf the Decatur high school, Itd succeed Walter J. Krick, and the Rev. Robert Content, assistant pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, to succeed the Rev. Ignaitus Vichuras, who was formerly assistant pastor here. ifrs. Brown further outlined to the members, who met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zwick. the health education plans fok the schools, noting that six films* as well as health education materials iyould be available from the association., B ;' I ' ■

Resigns f reg HL. J ' K f I ■ I ■ ; George C» Marshall 1 1 Indiana To Appeal From Welfare Rule To Take Ruling To U.S. Appeals Court Indianapolis, Sept. 12- —(UP) Gov. Henry F. Schricker today authorized Indiana to take to the U.S. district court of appeals a judge’s ruling that the federal government had a rjght to cut off the state from $29,000,000 a year for public welfare. Schricker’s decision tb appeal was announced’ by state attorney Gen. J. Emmett McManamoii following a second conference in three days between them and stale welfare director Maurice O. Hunt. They met after U.S. judge; Alexander Holtzoff ruled in Washington last Friday, that federal security administrator Oscar Ewing had a right to Withdraw federal aid to Indiana’s welfare prograrii*. Ewing disinherited his native state because of a new 1951 state law open- ; ing welfare records for! public I inspection. , J id ' McMariamob: believed Jt would be sis months before , the appeal , court handed down a decision. In the meantime, it appeared a special session of the Indiana legis- ( latured Would be called because ( state and county welfare appropriations fbr old age and dependent ( children’s assistance were shrink- ■ ing. . * 1 Thb federal funds cut off , early in August. Since then, state ; and counties have had tff go it ( alone., ! Yesterday’s discussion on what to do about federal judge Alexander ( Holtzoff’b ruling was called off so McManamon could attend the funeral of his deputy, Frank Caughlin, pt South Bend. Hotlzoff ruled last (Turn Ta Paae Jeff ersop School • r Staff Completed Appointments Made Today By Trustee ■ij ~ i County superintendent of schools ; Hansel L. Foley today announced the appointment of two additional ] members of the Jefferson ’township i staff made by trustee David Mos- ; ser. ® l\ ‘1 James Moore, of Monticello, has been appointed to teach! commer- < cial and mathematic subjects in i the school, and Mrs. Geneva John- i son, of Celina. 0., has been named i English instructor. i Moore, a veteran of World War 11,1 is married and the father of one < child; he has had five years’ teach- i ing experience*. Mrs. Johnson had experience in i Ohio and Kansas schools befpre being appointed to the Jefferson post. Ait the same time it was announced that Geneva high school music instructor ’ Delwyn Elliott will also serve as part-time music teacher ip the Jefferson schools, i These appointments, Foley said, complete the Jefferson school staff.

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Concludes 50 Years Os Public Service; Robert A. Lovett j Named Successor Washington, Sept. 12. —(UP) — Gen. George C. Marshall, regarded by President Ttupian as'“rt)e greatest living Ameriban” resigned to day .after a year as secretary of defense. i 1 Hff will be succeeded by deputy defense secretary Robert A. Lovett. In retiring from the government for the third time since 1945, the 70-year-old Marshall concluded a half-century of public service during which he filled with distinction the posts of army .chief of staff, secretary of state, iftd secretary . of defense. • Marshall resigned— «-as of the end of business today—fbr private reasons other than health. He did not y say what they were, although he - noted.that in. taking the job he had agreed to Serve only to last June 30. Mr. Truman in addition to acclaiming Marshall as the greatbs,t living American also 1 has pronounced him the greatest military commander in * history. In accepting K the old soldier’s resignation today, the President said he did so very great reluctance.” * “No main,” he told Marshall, “has ever given his country more distinguished and patriotic f service than have you.” Marshall in his tt|rn told his[ chief that “I will Always be avail-; able for whatever temporary service you may desire; oft ine.” * [ He Mr. Thiman “bf my loyal devotion to you and the national government.?’ i r “ • , The map picked by Mr. Truman to succeed Marshall i had been his friend and associate fbr more a decade. • - -X After llYorld War it service asJassistant secretary of war for air, Lovett returned l to tti4 government in 1947 as Marshall’s; undersecretary of state. Lovett,[ who will be 56 on Friday, is an authority on air warfare and a of longrange' heavy bombing. In taking leave, of newsmen at the Pentagon, Marshall sa,id of Lovett that “no other man the United States has his ability and competence to take complete charge.” J Marshall also praised the whole defense departmentorganization z as “an immensely competeni group of men and women.” ; And he said congress in “this very critical year” had given his department “practically everything we have asked for." H Marshall was the nation’s third . defense secretary. The late James Forresfal was the firftt to fill the post created by congress when it unified the armed services in 1947. A. Louis Johnson, the second, resigned tender heavy criticlspj a y ear a K° and Marshall took I Marshall quit exactly a year to the day after Mr. Truman named him to succeed Johnson. yj News Jeff Marshall’s resignation was received by congress with re-, ’ g ret - ■ ’ _ \ , • House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., commented: . i “General Marshall hM had a long , ind distinguished career and his retirement will bring! wide regtet. “The appointment; of Robert . > Lovett is within the spirit of the unification act which intended the position oi secretary of defense be* held by a civilian." X Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Gdbs of the house armed Services committee lauded Marshall's service and expressed regret .at his Resignation. He said of Lovett’s appointment : > “That is magnificent, a, very fine selection. Mr. Lovettjs one of the ihost outstanding men: in America.” Mr. Truman will isend nomination to the senate shortly. INDIANA WEATHER ■. Increasing cloudiness. Oc-_ caeional showers or thunderstorms tonight or! p Thursday. Much cooler Thursday. Low tonight 65 to' 70. High Thursday near 75 north, 80 south. L. -:k ’? : 1® ’l® 8 ~ ‘