Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1951 — Page 1

' Vql. XLIX. No. 221.

GOV. SCHRICKER CALLS SPECIAL SESSION

• • • r . ; »• UN, Reds Meet In Mysterious Parley Today Reds Call Meeting At Early Hour, No Statement On Cause Tokyo, 'Thursday. Sept. 20 — (VPI-r-UnitecF Nations and Com- ’ munist liaison officers meet today ip a mysterious dawn conference which allied officials believe may be the first step toward resuming cease fire talks. The Reds called the meeting for the unusually early hour of 6 am. (3 p. m. Wednesday CST) without .saying what they wanted to talk about. The UN command at once accepted. ,i Optimists among offices of the UN command believe the Reds .may deliver a reply—possibly favorable—from the Communist high ’ command to the. note of UN su- / preme commander Gen. Matthew Ridgway offering Ito resume the armistice talks whiclr the Reils broke off four weeks ago'today. Pessimists believed the Reds might want to make some n<jw Charge of a violation of the neqtrality .of Kaesong, where ceasefire talks have been held. 4. But Ridgway in his note Monday suggested a meeting of liaison officers to discuss resumption Ipt negotiations. • j :? Three allied correspondents Wi.ll be permitted to, go to Pin Mun Jom. the liaison point, with the UN command delegates. A series of rapid-fire developments pointed toward a decisive ’turn soon-in the long deadlock over alleged. UN neutrality breacbes. t \ I—At1 —At a meeting of liaison officers at -Pan ’Mun Jom yesterday, the Reds announced their capture of four South Korean soldiers whom they had accused of.a neutrality breach. It developed that the soldiers were unarmed members of a DDT spraying detach ‘ ment who drove their truck into .the neutral zone by mistake. Without the usual angry denuh-’ cJa.tions. the Red liaison officers released the soldiers and their truck. The meeting was conducted “in an atmosphere almost completely devoid of tension,” a UH (Tara T® Pave Severn) :- ' . Embezzled To Pay'Off Boy Friend's Alimony ! Detroit, Mich., Sept. A chubby brunette bookkeeper embezzled $3,000 by forging cheeks and by boosting her own pay to give her boy friend money for ali- ■ mony payments.* police said today. Evelyn, Sobeck, 20, told police she took the money from the Northern Electrowork Company, where part of her job-was to write company checks, to help Frank Banas, 31, pay alimony to his former wife, support his ,two children and give him “pin money” to buy drinks and play the horses. She was arrested when the firm discovered an $11,159 shortage. Director-General Os Moose To Speak Here This Evening Lester Sheets, governor of Adams Lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, said that Dr. Malcom Giles, director-general of the Moose, would arrive in Decatur at 7:30 this evening. •' Dr. Giles will be the principal speaker at 8 o'clock this evening at the Moose, marking the'dedication of the annex to the local ; Moose home. A committee headed by Gov. Sheets will meet the head of the. fraternal organisation. . '? Today is “Open House” day at the Moose home, center of the week’s program in the observance of the dedication of the $75,000 addition to the building. A special permit was isued granting the open house program and the public; is invited to the newly re--modeled building. .. ...i— I INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, Thursday »lovely increasing cloudiness, not much change In temperature. Low tonight 54-58. High Thursday 7583.

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-4 Norris 7 Condition Is Still Critical v Latest word received here by relatives indicated that the Rev. f ranklin Norris, of Wren, 0., was tn “critical” condition at a Freeport. 111., hospital. Rev. Norris has not regained consciousness since his plane crashed Monday as he was coming In for a landing to refuel at the Illinois airport. there cannot determine fully the extent Ct hi's, Injuries: it is known that both legs were broken below the knehs, and “he is suffering from severe shock,” The Rev. Lawrence Norris, pastor of the Union Chapel United Brethren church and a ifrst cousin of the accident victim, I had not returned from Freeport late today, where he had Jaken Mrs. Franklin Norris. Ex-Director Os RFC Testifies To Committee Says Presidential * Secretary Called To Inquire About Loans Washington, Sept. 194—(UP)— Former RFC director William E. Willett testified today that presidential secretary Matthew Connelly- called hinL twice to inquire about firms trying to get RFC loans and that Dr.' Johri R. Steelman, President Truman’s assistant, .called once. , 4; 1 -y Willett also told the senate's permanent investigating committee that William M. Boyle. Jr.,' asked him to see people on RFC business op three occasions after Boyle became chairman of the Democratic national committee in April, 1949. He, said he. received “probably more” than 100 calls frohi various persons at the Democratic national committee during the three years he served on the rebently-abolished RFC board of directors. Most Os tftese, his records showed, came from E. Merl Young, Robert Moord, Acey Carraway and,4tt. Turney Gratz, and Neal Roach, all Assistants at one time or another to the party Chairman. !. Willett .said he cpuld recall only two inquiries from Connelly. J One, he said, was about “a little $5,000 ‘ loan somewhere dow if south.” Willett could not recall any details. ;• (The other, he said, was an inquiry about "a fellow from Key West who wanted to buy A hotel.” But Willett said “the poor fellow didn't have any money' r amj never even filed an application for a loan. ■ The former RFC director said Steelman called his office once about a controversial proposal to ■ build an underground (Tura To Pace Mix) v Blood Donated Here Given Colter Youth Badly Burned Boy t At* Riley Hospital Blood donated by Adams coukty people to the Red Cross bloodmobile is being furnished free to Paul William Colter, nine-year-old son of . Mr. and Mrs. Donald Colter of route three, at the Riley hospital in Indianapolis. The boy received third degree burns on July 30, as he lighted a trash fire at his parent’s home. His jeans caught fire and his body was seared from the waist down. He was taken to Riley hospital August 14 and already has undergone nine blood transfusions. His father stated that possibly 20 transfusions would be necessary. Patiently, the boy has undergone two skin graftings. Skin from his back and his •stomach. has been used in the process of healing his badly burned body. The father stated that William was coming along very satisfactorily. He is responding to the treatment and hopes Mr complete recovery. The Fort Wayne Red Cross center, which served Decatur and counties in this area, furnishes the blood free to the suffering boy,, who tells his parents that he wants to walk and play around the farm as he did before the accident occurred. The father expressed his appreciation to local Red Cross blood donors.

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Two Ordinances Are Adopted By Council Third Ordinance To Be Studied Further ' • .. ' ■. I ' Members of the city council Tuesday passed two ordinances, and referred a third to thd ordinance committee for further study, the letter, if it ever becomes effective, to curb the activities of door-toi-door salesmen. Robert spokesman for the Decatur Chamber of * Commerce presented an ordinance which would forbid the excursions of such persons as, say, the Fuller brush man into the house., Accordingly, anyone engaged in personalized enterprise would be stifled by the ordinance, unless specifically invited by the householder. ’ ; At the same time, city engineer Ralph E. Roop presented preliminary plans for the sewerage system which will serve the Homewood and Porter additions of the city. He remarked that with intensive research and further details, thet work on the sewers should begin possibly yet this year. Roop was given ' approval by ccuncilmen to make further, more detailed plans of the project, and estimates of the assessments will be completed. Later, a public hearing on the [matter will be held- in which objectors may point up their grievances and city officials will get a better perspective on the extent of the project. Roop explained that the proposed sewerage system, which will be - vital to the northwest section of the city? will allow for future anticipated growth. ■Chamber members noted that the proposed ordinance has been upheld by the supreme court elsewhere: they tendered the thing to councilmen for study. The ordinance committee is to report, back 4o council for further action. At present, it, wks explained, the “peddler’s” ordinance forbids house-to-house salesmanship from outside persons: fundamentally, it> was explained, the new ordinance is designed to avert “belligerent” salesmen. One of the ordinances passed by the council approved the contract between the city and the DeHaven Engineering company for the zeolite water softener to be utilized by the new auxiliary light plant. The other set up new costs for Installation of water service to new additions to th£ city, or extension of lines outside the city. The provisions are that labor and ■ materials be paid for by new users within the city and a cost plus S2O is charged for outside water lines. It was noted that any extensions outside the city by the water department must first be approved by councilmen. The water committee of the <T®ra To Pare Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1951.

American Casualties Now Total 83,257 Washington, Sept. 19. —(UP)-— The defense department today reported a new total of 83,257 American battle casualties in the Korean war. ■ . , J’ • T£is is an increase of 895 over last week’s report and reflects the total number of casualties whose next of kin were notified through last Friday, it does not account for all casualties because of a time lag of orie to. three weeks In notifying next of kin. ■ \ — , A Copeland Released, Ordered To Leave ' V Embezzlement Story • Found To Be Hoax John Copeland, of Brooklyn. N.Y., self-confessed embezzler, was released late Tuesday from the Adams county jail and-admonished by local authorities for being a fraud. After three days of thoroughly checking the wFerd story of Copeland, in which he admitted Embezzling SIO,OOO from a Brooklyn clothing firm and spending the bulk of it on narcotics, police concluded but one thing: Copeland'lied. There were several opinions also expressed by chief of police James Borders and sheriff Bob Shraluka, who interrogated the man diligently, and recorded hts testimony for posterity, but most of it was evasive. ‘ > l • , ; Copeland merely pointed up the efficacy of the newly-obtained wire recorder owned by city police, and proved that he “could make up a story and\ stick with it.” Although apprehensive \ from the 'beginning, there was enough legitimacy in Copeland’ v s story to make police check with New police authorities, federal bureau of investigation officials, and representatives ’ o! the federal narcotics bureau. In all instances but one local police officials received negative replies. Copeland told of previous altercations and sentences; this was correct. , f ’ Copeland gave himself up to sheriff Shraluka and deputy Jim Cochran last Saturday, stating he had embezzled from a former employer. He told in a straightforward manner how he also had recently worked in the Irene Byron sanitarium, in Fort Wayne, and had stolen narcotics before leaving there. : He sai(} the narcotics were kept in a tan-striped suitcase which he the fact was later disproved—he had when he came to Decatur. * Copeland freely told his story for police who recorded it fdr their files. This is one of the first instances of utilizing the wire-record-er for future records. “Not only is it exact,” said chief Bordets, "but it eliminates later retractions.” The new interrogating procedure will eliminate the necessity of “trying to get everything (Tnra T» Pace Six) ■ ■ . A ' l . i

Red Spy Sentenced To Death By Iran Postpones Trade " Talks With Soviet U" . • A Tehran, Iran, Sept.' 19 —(UP) — lr|M ; condemned a Soviet spy to death today and declared a threeday postponement In' the scheduled opening of trade talks with Russia. ! . _ The move came amidst other kwift developments cropping out bf Iran’s, bitter oil dispute with Britain. They included: '■ |• f j '' 1. Finance Minister Mohamed All Varasteh resigned and a cabinet reshuffle was anticipated shortly. i \ 2. Iran asked four British communications experts to return to their jobs because no franians c<mld do the work. 3. Opposition newspapers urged the Shah to “use his prerogatives;” to halt Premier Mohammed Mossadegh’s drastic Oil policies. 4. Retiring U, S. Ambassador HEnry F. Grady left for home by plane with a ringing denunciation Mossadegh as a man who “cam not see beyond Sis nose.” Grady told associates: “It is a government of chaos. It; is not a strong but rather a Stubborn government. This governriient is getting Iran nowhere.” Only a-few Iranian officials appeared at the airport for Grady’s departure. . Iran had sought a conference today with Russian officials to airrange a barter deal for vital materials cut off by Britain last week. The postponement was announced as the military court of appeals Upheld a death sentence orjginally passed two months ago on ! Abdullah UzhEik, a Soviet citizen., He was arrested last March r.eaf Gorgan on Iran’s northeastern border with Russia. Uzbek was carrying a pneumatic tire at the time o.f his arrest. Evidence showed a radio transmitter was concealed inside the tire. S Car Prices Boosted By General Motors Detroit, Sept. 19. —(Uf*) —General Motors boosted the retail prices of its automobiles s6l to $209 today to bring all 12 of the “bjg three’’ makes of cars under higher, government approved price tags. . '' J ' Ford raised prices of its cars $55 th |95 last Friday midnight and Chrysler hiked its retail prices from S9O to S4OO on Monday after both firms received approval fro mthe office of price stabilization in Washington. The OPS last night gave GM the go-ahead for higher price tags on Chevrolets. Pontlacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks . and Cadillacs.

Summons Legislators To Special Session Monday Over Welfare Problems , 1 ' \ ’ \ ’• ■ - _■ '■

General Wedemeyer Testifies On China \ Tells Os Advise To Work With Commies ■ \ Washington, Sept. 19 —(UP) — Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, wartime commander of U. S. forces in China, testified today that his state department advisers counseled him to recognize the work with the\ Chinese \ Communists instead of the Chinese nationalists. In testimony before the senate Internal security committee, Wedemeyhr discussed the attitude 0! four foreign service officers who served with him in China — (John P. Davies, Jr., John S. Service, Raymond Luaden, and John; Emerson. \ ' Wedemeyer said he specifically remembers receiving oral and written reports from all of them except Emerson. . The substance of the reports, he said, was that he “shCtuld give more support to the Communists in lieu' of the nationalists.” / \ 4 “If I had followed Wedemeyer added, "I felt I would not have been carrying out my directives of following U. S. policy in the area." At the time, the general said, he bblieved it was the official U.S; policy to try to keep China in the war and to support the national-* Ist regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. When he took over cbmmand in China from Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell in 1944. Wedemeyer said, it was the almost “universal opinion” among both military and civilian officers there that “only a miracle could keep' China in the war.” Wedemeyer was asked particularly about a report from service to Stillwell in October, 1944, in which Service stated thaLt “we do not fear the collapse of the Kuomintang, (nationalist), government.” ' “All the other groups in China (Tprw To -Pave Four) To Sell Shares In Preble Department First] Meeting Held On Fire Protection Shares of $25 each will be offered residents in the Preble vicinity in a volunteer fire department, it was decided Monday night in a first meeting of interested property owners held at the Preble restaurant. More than 80 persons attended the public meeting, which was addressed by Martin of Poe and Ted Kline of Hoagland. Volunteer departments owned by residents in those localities are maintained in the two places. George Bultemeier of Preble was elected temporary chairman of the group and announced that the next meeting woujd be held at the ble school October 15. A large crowd is expected. ( solicitors were named at Monday’s meeting and these representatives are explaining the proposition to prospective stockholders. One share for each property unit entitles the owner to free department service in the event of fire, r \ ■ These representatives are: Preble and Root townships, Victor Bieberich and Fred Biteberich. Peterson, Richard Arnold and Harve Mankey. Magley, Franklin Fruchte and Carl Snyder. ? Tocsin, Paul Bauermeister and Frank Woodard. Chairman Bultemeier explained that an attorney would be employed to draft a set of by-laws and to complete the necessary legal details for the volunteer department. More definite information will be furnished at next month’s ipeeting and the chairmen invited all interested property owners in the Preble area to attend. V \

p'' ""j. ’’ ' . j J. ’ ' i Report Heavy Red Build-up On West Front UN Forces Beat Off Vicious Attacks By V Reds On East Front 1 ■ i ’? - ‘ £ Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Sept. 19 —(UP)—Front dispatches reported a heavy Chinese Corn* munist build up in infantry add artillery on the west-central front today as United Nations forces beat off vicious counter-attacks, in the east and smashed ahead uputO 1,000 yards. , . ' 5 UN ground patrols and aerial observers the build-up, centered ' about the sector north of Kumhwa. the southeast corner pf the old Communist “Iron triangle” defense bastion. The Reds were lining \ip along a river in groups of up to 500. An allied briefing officer said is was that the enemy build-up might be defense, in anticipation df a possible drive by allied troops. . < The Red build-up was observed* \in detail partly because of improved weather which permitted better aerial scouting, he explained. > '’ 1 — The improving weather brought a step-up in the air. Forty-eight United Nations jet fighters tangled with 64 Communist Russian-built jets ijn three separate battips over “Mig Alley" in northwest Korea. One enemy plane was destroyed and five damaged. Thpre was no report of allied losses. The Reds UN hill positions on tljie eastern front under a curtain of heavy mortar and artillery .fire, but failed to dent thp allied line. UN trobps northwest of Yanggu at the easterh end of the Hwachon reservoir punched but a 1,000-yard advance. U. S. marines routed the last Communist diehards from a strategic hill farther east after breaking their resistance with a spectacular attack with flame-throw-ers last night. ' The .height was the third to be; taken in 18 hours by. hard-driving United Nations forces on the central and east-central fronts. | On the west-central front, tankled UN infantrymen were believed to have resumed their northward thrust toward a suspected \ (Turn To Pace Eight) Oil Refinery Blast Takes 14th Victim ! '■ 1 * • I 4 1 i - \ Static Electricity May Have Been Cause Wood River, 111., Sept. 19.—(UP) —An explosion and fire which cost the lives of 14 men and injured 18 others &t the Shell Oil Refinery plant here might have.’been touched off by static 1 electricity, a spokesman said today. The 14th victim, John gan, 36, of Alton, 111., died last night at Wood River Township hospital. Os the 17 men still hospitalized, three at Alton Memorial hospital were in 'critical condition. The others were reported h fair.” Several were literally swathed in bandages covering the burns they, received when the huge No. 17 cracking unit burst into flames Monday night. ? Clemi Cunniiigha.m, ; superintendent of ithe plant, said he had investigated the fire which started while a crew .of experienced workmen were cleaning the unit. ■ "But it is impossible to determine at this time the, cause of the accident. However, we can state definitely that no equipment failure was involved,” he said. ! Another company spokesman (Ton T» rage six)

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Republican Leaders Say Anti-Secrecy Law Will Not Be 1 Repealed By Solons IhdianapoliX Sept. 19 —(UP)— A special sesshm of the Indiana legislature wds Ixalled for next Monday by Governor Schricker today as an\aspirln *pr the state’s public welfare fund headache, and Republican majority leaders predicted it would last two wbeks\ and that the “anti-sehrecy’f law\v-ould not be repealed. \ u' Schricker summoned the house and senate for 10 a. m. (CSTV‘ Sept. 24 in the first special ses-\ Sion since World War 11, hoping it would invalidate a : 1951 law opening welfare rolls to' public inspection. The law cost Indiana $20,000,000 a year in federal funds, for federal security administrator Oscar Ewing jcut off the state without a -penny last month. Sen. John W. Van Ness. R., Valparaiso, president pro tem of the GOP-controlled senate, believed . the session would last two weeks. He and house speaker W. O. Hughes, Fort Wayne, both said they would oppose any move io wipe out the law that caused the ‘ fireworks. ' , i r ' Schricker told newsmen he did not want the spiecial session to sink Into a political battle. ' ‘This is not a political question,” the governor 'said. "This is an economic problem. We still have thousands who need this welfare assistance to I’ve.” ' Schricker said it “would be one. of the worst tragedies if. we let these poor people go without aid." A, , • “I’m hopeful both sides can get together and work out some solution so welfare recipients might not puffer this loss,” he' said. It wa.s the first special sesison called in more than seven years. The last was called by Schricker in 1944 during his first term to amend an election law he believed threatened- disfranchisement for thousands of i Voters. The session Schricker called today could last 40 (lays. Schricker finds hU Democrats in the minority in both houses and the Republican majority stoutly defending Its enactment of the “anti-secrecy” >law over his veto. Democrats blame the GOP legislators. and Republicans blame Ewing, fpr the‘crisis. Sincp; Ewing disinherited Indiana last iJuly 31, numerous GOP leaders said a special session would not the controversial.’’amendment. The only alternatives seemed to be to raise more millions nad keep the program going on its present basis, or arbitrarily cut the rate of aid in half for 75.000 old people and dependent children. Observers believed the Republicans might drag out 4he session to its full 40-day legal limit and introduce much legislation having 1 (Ts™ To «lx) •1 ' '■ _ * Safety Patrol Boys Lions Club Guests Members of the Lincoln and St. Joseph’s grade schools’ safety patrols were feted Tuesday at the regular meeting of the Lions club at which Decatur chief of police James. Borders ahd Marion Kirkpatrick, representative of the Chicago Motor club, Were the principal speakers. The latter organization, ip conjunction with, the Lions club., sponsors the safety patrol program in Decatur. Both speakers lauded the work of the youths, noting their accomplishments in reducing accidents to school children school hours. j Chief Borders s|aid their work was “something special,” in that it concerned saving lives; Kirkpatrick outlined briefly t|ie work done not only in Decatur but everywhere by siich safety patrol groups. Arthur Suttles. Jr., w’as in charge of thef annual program honoring the boys. ' '1 • . i'■ 1 - ' I