Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 222.

FORCE ONLY DETERRENT TO REDS-TRUMAN

Reds Propose Resumption Os ; Truce Talks Communists Hurl Counter-Attacks Against Allies Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 21. —(UP)—* A note by hen. Matthew B. itidg- \ wary to .the Communist ccunmanderg in chief accepting their proposal for an immediate resumption -of Korean cease-fire negotiations wa.4 believed imminent today. j ’ / It was that the United Nations supreme commander mighC send at any hour his message td Kim II Sung, North Korean premier and cotnmander-in<!hief, and Chinese Communist commander; Gen. Peng Teh-Huai. A A highly, optimistic supremeheadquarters statement said lastnight that there was reason to' believe the\ Communist proposal to} resume negotiations may lead to “some Sort of a cease-fire in Ko--1 rea.’’ ; The truce talks may start again a before the week-end. , • The Communist Commanders proposed resumption of the talks without further bickering over alleged violations of Kaesong’s neutrality in a note to Supreme UN command' er Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. Smiling Red liaison officers' de> » livered the note to their allied at Pan Mun Jom on the' southern edge of the Kaesong neutral tone at a 2(>minute meeting at 6 a.m. today (3 p.m. Wednesday CSTj. The text was broadcast by radio Peiping. l . note: 1. —Proposed immediate resumption of the armistice negotiations “without apy need for further discussion of the Conditions for the resumption 2. Suggested that the truce fieldgates at their first meeting set up machinery to guarantee Kaesong’s neutrality and deal with “unsettled" Communist complaints of prior UN violations. • 3. —Expressed hope that RidgWay would order UN liaison, officers ■to consult- Communist liaison officers / at once "concerning the date and time for resuming the negotiations.” Call Helicopters Bth Army Headquarters, Korea. Friday. Sept. 21.—(UP)— Communist troops hurled themselves in screaming counter-attacks against the allies on the eastern front yesterday and the United States marines called helicopters into action to fly combat troops to the battle, line. A dispatch from a United Press correspondent with the Ist marine division said the Reds came shreiking out of their foxholes arid bunkers in forces up to regimental strength to Charge the allied lines. The Reds forced withdrawals in some.sectors but were stopped cold In others, b- Y The marines’ helicopter airlift to the front lines was believed to be the first of its kind in history. A fleet df the marines’ new “whirllblrd” Sikorsky helicopters were summoned to fly a marine reconnaissance unit to the blazing front and supply it in an isolated, important mountain positioninaccessible by road. The huge whirlibirds flew from an advanced base with marine infantrymen carrying full packs. They landed in the front lines at one minute intervals without the loss of a man and formed an aerial supply train throughout the day. They laid wire communications and ' took in supplies’and ammunition after all troops were landed. The helicopters flew in a total of 228 troops and 17,772 pounds of gear- - .. Communist resistance on the whole eastern front was intensify-: ing steadily and aerial scouts reported", an increase in enemy road traffic toward the front. BULLETIN James Andrews, 77, retired' Monroe mail carrier and well known Decatur resident, died about 3 o’clock this afternoon ; at his room in the Rice hotel, { after suffering a heart attack there shortly before rioon today. Mr. Andrews’ children were summoned to his bedside soon t „ after he sustained the. attack.

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BULLETIN ‘“'London, Sept. 20.— (UP) — Great Britain, cut off from its . main source of oil in Iran, has made a’deal to buy 200,000 tons of oil from Communist Romania,' it was disclosed today. The deal was made by the governmjeafrowned Anglo-4 ran- ;‘ A j an OU .‘Company, whose immense interests in Iran have been notlbiialized. I Truman Backs Parly Leader ■ William Boyle Says Nothing Wrong I In Party Leaders 1 Aiding \Contacts \ I Washington. Sept. 20. —(UP)’ — i President Truman said today there i is nothing wrong with the Demb- < cratic committee staff helping peoi} pie in their contacts with the r government. But he Criticized the acceptance-of fees for such services. The President again supported Democratic chairman M. Boyle, Jr.,: whose relations with tht? American Lithofold Co, are being investigated by the senate’s permanent investigating committee. He has Boyle’s word that he did {not accept fees for making coni tacts with ’ government agencies, the President said, and he believes Boyle on .this. Mr. Truman made his remarks at a news eonference’as the senate committee studied the relations of 'Boyle and other Democratic apd .administration > figures with the American Lithbfold Corp, of st. ‘Louis. „ 1 Boyle once received legal feies from the printing company but bps denied he had anything to do with |the loans, totaling $645,000, it got from the RFC. ; The senate group was told yesterday that Shirley Green, daughter of Cecil A. Green, Lithofold’s Washington representative, was working as a stenographer “in the President’s office” when the firm got the loans in 1949. i Sen. Richard M. Nixon. R., Cal., isuggested that Mr. Truman may have tried to apply “the'whitewash brush” to the Lithofold dealings because Miss Green used to work in the' White House. ; The President was not asked about Miss Green at his news conference. But he was questioned about the propriety of Democratic committee staff members arranging meetings with federal officials and agencies for persons wanting . to do. business: with the government. L Mr. Truman replied that is proper for paid and volunteer committee workers to contact government agencies in behalf of persons outside the government. But he said they should not take money for doing it. :» •. : ' Mrs. Laura R. Towle Is Taken By Death i . ' i ; ■ 7 ■ I | Local Lady's Sister Dies At Union City Mrs. Laura Rickord Towle, 70, of Richmond, sistey df Mj-s. Clara M. Rayl of this city, died Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Russell Farmer at Union City, after a long illness. A daughter of John and Ella Rickord, she spent the first 25 years of her life at Monroe. She was married twice, first to Albert -N. Keller and many years after his death to Elmer Towlei who preceded herein death several years ago. Surviving ate onh san. Alvin Keller of Florida; three daughters, Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Ruth Marshall and Mrs. Thelma Anderson, both of Richmond; two grandchildren, and two aisters, Mrs. Rayl of this city arid Mrs. Cecile: Bowers of Bradford. Pa. \ ' Funeral services and burial Will be held at Richmond Saturday. Goshen Man Killed As Auto Hits Tree :■ \ : Goshen, Ind., Sept. 20 —(UP)— Robert Hudson, about 50, was killed last night when his car struck a tree and rolled over on Ind. 19 a few miles north of Nappanee. Hudson died enroute to an Elkhart hos- »«»• >. j

Czech ‘Casey Jones’ And Family Safe In Germany _ -. " 1 ® Z aZW * PRI if JiMl HEKfijo iwF THE FREEDOM-LOVING Czech engineer who ran his family and mends through the Ifon Curtain from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia into Germany sits with wife and Ohlldrenr in Selb. Germany. Hq is Jaroslav Konvaiinka. Reporting on conditions in his homeland, he sal<L.th« Communist terror is mounting daily. Asylum was granted to 23 of the train’s passengers on thely request. ' _________________—„„ „„ , .....y,..,, ■

Moose Addition Is i Formally Dedicated Director General Os Lodge Speaker In l a moving 30-mlnute address last evening at the dedication of tha annex to the Moose home in this etty. Dr. Malcolm Giles, director general of tho GOyal Order of Moose, painted a rword picture cf the phenomenal growth of the fraternal organization, which he attributed v to the program of human riervicris ■ performed by Moosedqm. r Dr. Giles paid tribute to officers and. members of Adams Lod|;e 1311 on the progress of the local lodge, so well "demonstrated in the dedication of the commodious addition to the main building.”}! The original building was constructed in 1941 and in the past 10 years local , membership has doubled, now jritaling 1,176. “This kind of a lodge doesn’t just happen,” said thel\ director general of the million membership national fraternity. "It has taken work, fervor and sincerity to bring about this achievement. Few. if any Iridge in the country, has a larger membership, considering yolir population,” he said. is the cradle of Moosedom, Dr. Giles said. The first lodge was established in Crawfordsville in 1889. the second at Frankfort. Under t-he leadership of the late (J. S. senator James J. Davis. the\ fraternal organization grew. Mooseheart, the Child City, was established in 1913 and for a time Muncie was being considered as the site for the home', through a suggestion tnade by Ball Brothers. to donate the former Ball Normal college to the organization. L The director general, who received an honorary degree of doctor of social sciences from the University of Maryland last June, in recognition of his leadership iff! the Moose movement and as head of Mooseheart, stressed the “human services” of the fraternity in his address. He told how Mooseheart was operated as a home for nearly 1.000. orphan children and how the aged a warm and friendly home -*in Moosehaven. The Moosehaven home Is in Florida. He referred to Child City as the “sunrise” and Mobsehaven as the “sunset” of the Moose# program.' From a small beginning, Moosedom has grown into the mightiest of oaks in fraternal organizations, the director general said. Mayor Extends Welcome Mayor Johln M. Doan extended a welcome to Dr. Giles and visitors, assuring all that the hospitality Os the city was extended to them. j\ } Awarded "Merit Os Award” i Past governor Russell Baumgartner. under whose administration work was started to build the new addition, was awarded a "Merit of Award” by Dr. Giles. With a Moose emblem the pin is attached to a clasp in the form of a torch. Baumgartner was prais<Twra To Pace Six) '

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saw?.. - } yld d m Truman Won't Submit New Judicial Names j Washington, Sept. 20.-—(UP)—-President Truman said today be does trot plan to submit new Judicial nominations to replace the two Illinois appointments on which th< senate judiciary committee has refused to act. Mr. Truman told a nbws conference committee refusal did not constitute senate rejection, although he accepts the fact that a* impasse exists. Despite this, he said, he does not intend to submit further nominations because he As satisfied with the original: ones. Three Youths Admit Slaying Os Nurse Bludgeon Slaying j Confessed By tjrio East Lansing, Mich., Sept. 20.— (UP)—A cold-blooded college freshman and two teen-aged companions admitted they killed a purse for $1.35 beer money. “We needed some beer money so we went ouL looking for someone to rob,” said Willianj Morrey, 18-year-old freshman at Normal College. “But we only got $1.35 among us.” Max Pell -of Ypsilanti, Mich., and David Royal, of Milan, M|ch., both also 18, confessed to the bludgeon slaying of nurse Pauline (pampbelh 34, at Ann Arbor last {Saturday night," ' \ ;L, ‘ "I’ve never seen a cooler, more cold-blooded bunch in my Mf0;” said Ann Arbor police chief Casper Engemann. The three were arrested last night after Dan of a Ypsilanti Methodist {minister, told police Morrey had iconfided in him last week that he had attacked another nurse three days before tjie murder, i Police had been searching for a “nurse-hating maniac” because of recent attacks on ! riiirses climaxed by the Gampbell slaying. I '}\ 1 Pell confessed first because, he said, "I don’t want you tearing my car apart for evidence.” He said there were bloodstains on the floor of the automobile. Royal confessed next, and Morrey, faceri with the two coirfessions, admitted he actually did the kilting. “We had been drinking and decided to rob someone,” Morrey told police in a blase, off-hand manner.“I got out of the car when we saw her down the street and (Tara To »»»*• Six) ■ Oil Refinery Blast \ Claims 16th Life . Wood River, 111., Sept. 20. — (UP) —Five burned victims of an explosion knd fire at the Shell oil refinery here were in critical condition today. The blast claimed its 16th life yesterday. Leon Schmitt, 41, of St, Jacob, 111., died at St. Joseph’s hospital in Alton 111., of injuries he received in the SIOO,OOO fire Monday night Cause of the fire still was being investigated. :

House Group Refuses Welfare Bill Change . ■ ' •!'' ■ f Refuses To Consider , Change In Measure ’ I Indianapolis. Sept. 20.—(UP) — _ fhdiana’s hopes erf. congressional action to put it back in the good ■'graces of the federal security . ’administration suffered a set-. , back today as the state legislaj tore prepared for a special session next Monday. While a group of high-ranking Republican officials opened a drive,to' postpone the effective : date of the new. Indiana '*antisecrecy” welfare law which got the state into trouble with the FSA, the house ways and means committee in Washington refused by a narrow margin to consider a bi|l designed to back up the Hoosier GOP welfare attitude. \ '■ * ■ 5 * u ’ ' Secretary of State Leland L. Smith spoke out in contrast to his fellow Republicans who rank high in the legislature, saying he and others favored extending the effective date of the i “anti-secre-cy” law until a favorable court ruling or congressional action occur. ;,IThe house committee voted 1? to 11 not to consider a bill to lei states make public the names of recipients of relief. It was the first direct test on the issue, and backers said it amounted almost to a rejection, a Smith said his proposal did not constitute a split in GOP ranks and added jt would not be opposed by democratic Governor Schricker. But the plan was not in line with .that of majority' legislative leaders. Smith proposed the lawmakers amend the new law baring welfare records—which cost Indiana $20,000,000. a year in federal aid and led to the special session—by postponing its effective date. “1 think this is the only logical program,” Smith said. ’ \ \ He said it had the support of state auditor Frank T. Minis,\ superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young, state treasured William Fortune, and Thomas Williams, clerk of the supreme court. All are Republicans. Several supreme and appellate court judges also discussed the plan yesterday in Smith’s office, he said. And many county GOP chairmen and “a good many” legislators hare pledged support, he added. “This is very definitely not a bolt from the Republican party, ’ r Smith said. “But we are unhappy With the present situation and don’t believe Indiana should lose federal money and jeopardize pension checks. “Wjb are opposed to outright repeal of the law and believe there is a principle involved which should go to the U.S. supreme court. We should also allow congress time to act on the federal social security law.” :v■ i ■

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House Bill Puls End To Penny Poslcard First-Class Letter Mail Is Unchanged Washington, Sept. 20, —(UP)— The pe'riny postcard was routed to the dead letter office today, but whether it will cost the same or more to sejid regular and airmail letters was up to a house-senate conference committee. The house yesterday passed a bill to raise postal rates by an estimated $126.000,<hM a year. The bill doulMs tlfe price of the penny postcard, but leaves alone the three-cent rate tor first-class letter mail and six cents, for airmail. The bill was designed to catch up with the $550,000,000 postoffice deficit, but today the house called up postal workers’ pay raise bills which would twkje as much as the house rate increase bill would raise. • , . The rate bill now goes to conference with the senate, which earlier passed a $400,000,000 a year boost in postoffice revenue. The senate likewise put a two-cent rate on postcards, but also raised ordinary mail,to four cents and airmail to eight cents. an ounce. The house saved the nation’s publishers about $12,000,000 a year by wiping out half a proposed 60 percent increase in newspaper and magazine rates. The house approved three annual 10 percent boosts in the second-class rates, for a total of 30 percent. Both senate and house bills retained the free-in-country mailing privilege used ' mainly by smaller publications. —— Rev. Busse To Head Crusade For Freedom Appointed County Chairman Os Drive The Rev. Otto Busse, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church at Preble, has been appointed Adams county chairman of the 1951 Crusade For Freedom by Carl J. Suedoff, of Fort Wayne, fourth district chairman of the Crusade For Freedom campaign. crusade chairman Glen R. Hillis today approved the appointment of the local chairman who will organize county committees of all elements of the community’s religious, soqial, business, labor and farm activities. t' In Indiana this year, the crusade Is being sponsored by the American Legion as a public service and has the active support of the Legion's auxiliary. The campaign will continue through September and October In an effort to enlist at least 1,000,900 Hoosiers to enroll in the freedom movement to suppress the advances of Communism. A goal of $175,000 in voluntary contributions has been established fpr Indiana. Rev. Busse, in accepting the appointment, stated that "although the American Legion is sponsoring the crusade it is a job.for all segments of the community.. We hope to give every and child in Adams Couhty an opportunity to enroll. With a population of 22,395. a quota of $950 has been set. If the government were to attempt such a program the cost to the government would be many times that of Radio Free Europe which is by private American citizens. Certainly $950 is a nominal amount as our contribution to halting the infiltration of paganifrtic Communism.” Contributions may be made in an envelope addressed to “Crusade For Freedom,” care of local poet office. x ■ A , INDIANA WEATHER ■ t Partly cloudy and mild tonight. Friday cloudy with occasional showers turning cooler north portions Friday. Low tonight 60 to 65. High Friday 70 to 75 northwest, 85 southeast.

Senate Group Votes Bill To Hold Price Line -Votes Restoration * Os More Powpr To Hold Down Prices Washington, Sept. 20 (UP) — The senate banking committee voted, 9 to -4, today to restore to’ the administration more power to hold down prices and profits of manufacturers and processors. it ( approved a bill wh|ch would drastically revise a provision of the new controls law which President Truman has described as ‘the terrible Capehart amendment.” The action was announced at a committee news conference .at which committee members themselves quarreled over what affect the bill would have on operation of price control. Sen. Blair Moody, p., Mich., said he thought the measure would meet most of President Truman’s objections” to the con? troversial Capehart amendment, which permits sellers to pass .on to consumers virtually all cost increases. since the start of the Korean war. Sen. Homer E. Capehart. % R., Ind., who voted against the substitute, replied that Moody “didn’t understand” the) bill at all and stalked angrily from the room. Under the revision, it nb longer would be mandatory for the government to grant to individual manufacturers, processors and sellers of industrial services price ceilings boosts upon a showing tltat their costs increased during the prst year of the Korean war. Thfe amendment, adopted in July, permits these firms to pass on to consumers virtually all cost increases from the start of the Kbregm war to last July 26. Economic stabilization officials said it was unworkable. Under the new provision, firms could serik ; upw-ard adjustments ouly if they are suffering “finan(Turn T« Pace Kfxht) '■ : T ■■■. Report Over 200,000 ? Examined In Stare Indianapolis, Sept. 20— (UP)— The Indiana Tuberculosis Association \\ reported tbday that more than 200,000 Hoosiers v had chest X-rays taken during the first six months of 1951. At that rate, the association hopes) to . exceed last year’s X-ray total of 342 296. — u— Jay County Farmer Seriously Injured Joseph Laux Badly Hurt In Accident /'■ 1 I Joseph C. Laux, Jr., 25, of route 1, Bryant, is in the Jay county. ! hospital in ‘hrery seHous” condition after the car driving struck a bridge and caromed into an on-coming truck shortly after midnight this morning.. The Jay county farmer suffered severe chest and head injuries and was unconscious on arrival at ' the Jay county hospitil after the accident which occurred about one-fourth mile south of the JayAdams county line. State trooper Earl Warnock, who Investigated, said ;Laux’s car, traveling south, apparently hit the bridge, then bounced into the path of the on-coming semi-trail-er truck driven by Chester Ray, of Detroit. Roth truck 'and \car eaught fire < and were completely destroyed. The Geneva fire department was called and extinguished much of I the flames. L i

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Says Possibility tor Peace Great If Defense Plan parried Out Here Washington, Sept. 20. —(UPJ — President Truman said today that it is necessary tor this country to rely on force, rather than diplo- K macy,- in fti, future relations with Russia. He told his news conference that as much as he dislikes it. this is so. His discussion of relations with Russia -was touched Off by a reference to his speech Monday in which he said a Russiata agreement , was “not worth, the paper its written on.’’ “If that is the case,” he was asked, "will this country coritiftue to seek agreements with- the USSR?” , . • Yes, the President said. When a nation is in a position to enforce an agreement, he added, then ,it_ will be kept. That is tlie reason for the lathe defense program in this countm/ the President said. Mr. Truman said that, as a result of diplomatic,Victories by the free 1 nations at San Francisco and the progress made at Ottawa, there is • a stronger possibility for peace ' than.ever —if we stick to our knit--1 ting and go {ahead with the defense ’ program. > “You seem to infer?’ a • reporter 1 noted, “that in the future in our, • relations wtih Russia you placed- ’ our relations oh force rather than diplomacy.” ■ r !, ■ The President answered gravely and deliberately that under the circumstance's this] is necessary. He added that he dislikes it very much. Alleged Car Thief Indicted By Jury y Keith Rex Atkinson, 28, of Lima, 0., was indicted Wednesday by a .federal grand jury in Hammond for allegedly transporting a stolen car from Decatur* to Van Wert, 0., Monday of this week. Atkinson was arrested in Van Wert Tuesday, for the theft of ah {auto in this city Monday owned by Richard Johnson* of route:s. Retailers Close Today For Usual V Weekly Holiday ( Decatur merchants returned to their usual \ Thursday afternoon siesta today a brief flurry I created the past j couple of weeks when some stores stayed open, For the past sieveral weeks the Economy Department store remained open op the usually-closed halfholiday. A couple of weeks ago the two 10 cent stores —Newberry and Morris —followed {suit. But today [ Decatur's business district has returned Ito its “old look”—where it would be’ safe to Shoot a cannon down Second street with little fear of hitting anything. No retail stores—and none of the three-*—remain open. , ' — - ■ Rev. Emerick And Wife Return Home The Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church, and Mrs. Emerick arrived in Decatur this morning after touring European countries, including France, Switzerland. Belgium, and England, for the past six weeks. After attending the ecumenical conference in Oxford, England, they toured Epworth, birthplace of tite Wesleys,. and the parish which was served by their father; Birmingham, the center from which Asbury, the first American Methodist bishop, migrated; and Bristol, where the first Methodist chapel was built and where John Wesley organized the first Methodist school. They also visited historical Methodist centers in London, including the \ - chape! where the Wesleys were converted, and the place wheta John Wesley is buried. They left Southhampton last Friday, sailing on the R.M.S. ' Queen Mary. ' .

Rev. Emerick And