Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 226.

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Senate Group - Would Restore Stock Quotas Restore Quotas On Slaughtering, Forbid. Meat Price Rollbacks Washington, Sept. 25 — (UP) r— The senate banking- committee voted today to restore government ' quotas of livestock slaughtering but to forbid meat price rollbacks. The actions, by voice vote, came &s the committee sped efforts to , amend the new economic controls - law along the lines demanded by President Truman* The president "* has said that livestock slaughtering quotas must be restored to prevent a black market. Chances of congressional , approval seemed rtim. In voting to,restore slaughtering quotas, the committee added a provision that If the number of animals offered by farmers exceeds the quotas already set. - an upward adjustment must be made. It also accepted an amendment by Sen. Homer Capehart, R„ Ind., that quotas must be accompanied by allocation to make sure .< that every processor and wholesaler g( ts a “normal” jshare of the avail-* • able civilian supply. - Step Up Investigation Washington, Sept. 25 — (UP) ~ Price enforcement agents descend- ’ edsm 500 slaughter houses across the nation today in the. government's drive against black market operations in beef. The office of price st&bilizktiqn announced the sudden stepup in its investigation of slaughter house operations after uncovering beef price, violations in at least eight of 14 ctiies visited in \the last month. Today's action expands the : . investigation to covpr slaughter house operations in a total of about 50 cities, OPS officials estimated. o The drive was started about a month ago by complaints from some slaughterers and packers that they cannot buy cattle at * ceiling prices" because they are ." beipg outbid by others willing to pay more. * * The OP6 has received information that some slaughterers are upgrading cattlq and falsifying weights of cattle and records no beef yields of cattle in attempts to justify illegally high prices paid for them. They also" are reported to be charging customers for inore beef than they are selling them in order to cover up the toher violations. Truck Driver Robbed Os $503 Collection Chicago, Sept. 25—(UP)—Three z bandits in an auto stopped a Bourdon, Ind., truck driver today and . forced him to hand over a $503 COD collection orer. . Don Eberly said the bandit car followed his truck a mile before it pulled) abreast at a stoplight. One of the men pointed a pistol at he said, and ordered him , to giVe up his wallet containing the collection he had received for a delivery in Thurston, Ind. . — . ' Newsman Appointed To Studebaker Job South Behd, Ind.. Sept 25,-r---(UP)--W. R. Walton, managing editor of the South Bend Tribune Since 1941, has been appointed public relations director for the Studebaker Corp. Harold S.Vance, president and chairman of the Studebaker board, announced the appointment today. Walton has been a newspaperman sice 1924. He resigned as city editor of the Tribune in 1932 to join the Associated Press. » . Walton , wil join Studebaker late Hn October, filling ' a vacancy caused by the death last year of Gaston Marque. \ ... • ' . ' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler tonight Rain or drizzle near the Ohio river. Wednesday partly cloudy, scattered showers extreme south. Lew tonight 4552 north, 52-57 south. High Wednesday 68-72.. jd >

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Argos Couple Loses Second Son In Korea - > :■ ’ I Argost, Ind., 'jSept. 25. — (UP) — Mr. aftid Mrs. John Miller received vbqrd today of the death of their son, Edison, 21, in Korea —their Second son to die in the Korean fighting. ’ ?T - ■ ' . • • A telegram froiA the defense •department said Edison died Aug. His brother? fegt. Johnny Miller. wa< killed near Waegwan Sept. 3, 1950. and later was awarded the distinguished service cYoss. j-The' Millers have three other Hons. 1 ’ ' ; ‘ I g —“— - . ■ 1 Revenue Agent Testifies To Splitting Fee Split Commmission From Lithofold In Obtaining Contract ; Washington, Slept. 25 —A (UP) — Walter Dpxon. a veteran internal revenue emplyOe. testified today that be and a labor department wage-hour official split $14,400 in, commissions fori helping American Lithofold Corp, get a printing c«»traej, from a single firm. Doxon. who was suspended for SO days withoutj pay yesterday as a revenue field agent in* Atlantic City, said he and John L. Kelly, a long-time friend* split the ; money. Kelly was then? regional director of the wage-hour division in Newark# Doxon toldfinvestlgators. } The disclosure followed testimony to a aenAte, investigating subcommittee by James B. E. OF si>n v resigned New York alcohol tkx official, that he thinks many federal tax collectors have “outSide businesses.” ' Olson sold printing contracts for Lithofold to liquor firms. -g - ' Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wls,. said that it what Olson said ?s true, then the investigators are into a scandal that Will make the Teapot Dome Idok like | 19 cup of tea.” ■ Doxon said that he asked Kelly to -get specifications from his friend, Elmer Bbpst. president of the' William H. .Warner Co., for piinitng business which Lithofold, i St. Ixruis firm< was trying td get. tithofold got the contract and Xi. ■A. Blauner, son- of the Lithofold jnesident, told him and-Kelly they would get commissions ou the business, Doxon .said. lloxon said he and Kelly were longtime friends and that Kelly wAs married to-a relative of his. He said, he asked Kelly to help at the request of the younger Blaun<Turn T» F««e Eight) SenafeTax Measure Hit By O'Mahoney Bill For 'Relief' Os Corporations Washington, Sept. 25.—(UP) — Sen. Joseph C, O’Mahoney, D.; Wyp., charged today that thq senate*s $5,500,000.5)0 tax,-boost meas» ure is a bill for “relief” of corporations who don't need it ® j, ! O’Mahoney skid the bill’s excess profits tax. provision, should be scrapped in favor of the higher house version. H’ 1 The Wyoming senator said the house excess profits plan would yield the year more revenue than the senate version. \ ' O'Mahoney fold reporters that (he’ senate bill yvould provide “unneeded relief” to corporations w’ho Already have adequate protection under the excess profits tax enacted last winter. Th the tax debate! O’Mahoney and other administratrbn senators fought t,o increase the senate measure’s revenue yield. -j \ The issue of -excess profits was expected to set off another heated tussle‘in the . senate and further upset the adrqinistratioh’s timetable for senate action on the tax increase measure. < Sen. Walter George, D.. Ga., chairman of finance committed, was obviomsly disappointed at the slow pace the senate was setting on the tax measure. He predicted the senate would hot wind Up debate on the measure until the “middle of next week.”

Children Add Prayers For King v i : iBhHH SCHOOL CHILDREN ’at SL* Bartholomew’s Churjch in London stand with bowed heads as they added their prayers to those of I the entire Empire for recovery ot King GeOrge. Physicians report the King “growing stronger” following his lung operation. ,

Democrat Nominees Meet Monday Night Further Plans Are Made For Campaign More than 50 Democrat precinct eommitteemen, vlce-dommitteernen and volunteer workers met with mayoralty candidate John Stults and the democrat councilmanic candidates M the Stults home Monday night. Plans to complete the registration of voters and organize. for the November municipal election were made. . L- i \ “i. i’J '' Frank Bohnke, Democrat' city chairman, presided at the meeting and following a short business Session of the city committee, candidates wereintroduced and several made short informal talks. An hour was then devoted to the answering of questions which have been brought to the attention of the deputy registration clerks during the registering of voters. Registration work will continue until October 1 8. deadline for registering to become eligible for the November election. Bohiike urged the. deputy clerks toflevote as much time as possible to the registration of voters the next two weeks. The Monday \ meeting was the second of'a series of Irbme meetings planned by the city committee. Volunteer workers are invited and are asked to bring any interested voter who desires to ask the candidates, any questions concerning the coming election. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hutker, Cleveland street, have invited the committeemen and volunteers to thefr home for the next meeting Monday night, October 15. At the business session. Leo Ehinger, treasurer of the city committee. gave a financial report and stated that his committee was sitill fn the process of raising funds for the campaign. ' . y Stults in his informal talk to the group, explained the importance of electing a Democrat council and said that if successful in the N6* vember election he already had toldthe councllmanic \ candidates that* he would counsel | with them on every important issue before reaching a final decision. . Four of the Democrat candidates are. incumbents. They are Al Beavets, Dorphus Drum. Joe Brennan and Adrian Burke. Ed Bauer is the fifth candidate seeking the post now held by Democrat Joseph Krick, who is not a candidate for reelection. b 1 , Jaycees Pton-For Picnic On Saturday Plans are complete for a junior Chamber of Commerce picnic for members and their wives, to be held Saturday night at 9 o’clock at the Boy Scout cabin in HannaNuttman park. A program will be held, with members participating, and following, this a social hour will be conducted followed by. a picnic suppeh All members and their wives are invited to the festival.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 25, 1951.

Jenner Tabbed As * Enemy Os Labor' > ; Sail Francisco. Sept. 2.5. —(UF) —Sen. William E. Jenner, R., Ind., described by an American Federation of Labor political spokesman as ■ “extraordinarily vicious,” was tagged by the AFL today as one of 19 Senators to be opposed in 1952 campaigns as “enemies of labor.” Joseph D. Keenan, retiring director of the AFL’s labor league’ for political education, read off the nameH of the senators yesterday in' the union's "Oth annual convention. Jenner was one of, 14 Republicans on the list. BloodmobHe Unit On Fourth Visit Here Regional Red Cross Unit In City Today While threatening weather throughout the day almost assured success for the fourth v&li of the Red Cross bloodmbbile unit in Decatur this year, volunteer' donors were filing Into the American Legion home while officials were | confident the “minimum I would once more be attained. ' Fpr three of the four visits have been attended with either snow and sleet dr driving rain, and every time the 125-pint goal was achieved. The weather today broke cloudy and a Slight drizzle beat a tattoo> k on the pavement for much of morning. However, the rain stopped before the Btoodinobile unit officially went to work, with its contingent of doctors atid nurses from the Fart Wayne regional center, and the 22 local Red, Cross women who are assisting in the day-long program. That officials are confident t of achieving their goal is attested to by the fact that 160 had pledged themselves to donate blood today, ff 'Ordinarily it takes an average (jf 175 donors to obtain the 125 pints, but executive secretary of |heiiAdams county Red Cross, Mrs. jfai Schafer, stated' that “several persons who were not on the list yronntedj’ / Ed Bauer, chairman ,of\ the volunteer services, Adams county Red Cross, listed today the aids are making the work a success;. She also paused to give credit to the members of the junior police— Robert Lobsiger, Waylie Brunner, klchard Gaskill and Earl Sprague I—who assisted 'in unloading the equipment. The roster for the local crew working in the Legion home includes Mrs,_ Harold Hoffman and Mrs. Charles Holthouse, nurses; jkrs. Robert Freeby, Mrs. Robert TTelm. Mrs. Lester Lehman, Mrs. Everett Lehman and Mrs. Chester Heare,* purses aides; Mrs. H. P. Engle, Mrs, Ruth Keller, Mrs. Anriette Schulte. Mrs. Agnes Wemhoff, Mrs. Pauline Case, Mrs. Marjorie; McKean and Mrs. Genevieve Brandt, staff aides. * ■ Mrs. \ Robert Railing responded as a member of the motor corps, and Mrs. Joe Oelberg. Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. R. C, Hersh, Mrs. Oren Schultz ai(d Mrs. Wendell Seeman, serviced the canteen during the day.

Republicans Favor - • Using General Fund r-4.-Home-Financed Plan On Welfare Studied Indianapolis, Sept. 25—(UPp— Republican majority members of the Indiana legislature studied a hcfrne-flnanced, home-administered state welfare program devoid of federal ’’bureaucracy” today but proponents atill needed to win over wme of their own flock before they cohid make the idea law. The plan, which included appropriating from the state general fund the next two years to pay 75 percent of the welfare costs, was frowned on in part by enough GOP senators to place thh proposal in jeopardy. The GOP had pnly a 26-24 majority in the senate, and at least one‘senator openly expressed dhof draining the general fund. Sen. Roy Conrad, 'R., Monticellp, who advocates postpdning the effective date'* of the controversial • anti-secrecy" law and .thereby getting'back in the good graces of federal' security administrator Oscar Ew(pg, said he waS against the idt'C bf a annual state appropriation. if Conrad alone balked amis colleagues’ idea, suggested bjt a GOP ad visory committee last night, it would split the senate 25-25 politically and stop bills encompassing the proposal dead in itlieir tracks. The advisory committee submitted .part of its program ip majority eaugtises this morning in ond day of the special session of the legislature, called by Governor Schricker to meet a fund crisis he said threatened the state’s economy. LAT£ BULLETINS ) — A- 825 bomber on a routine training flight crashed three miles from here today killing all three crew members. The public relations officer at Wright-Patterson Field, Payton, 0., said the plane tpok off from Patterson Field 'at 8:53 a. m. today on a routine flight. Identification of the victims was withheld pending notifica- = tion of next of kin. ' "'ll ; Washington, Sept. 25—(UP) —-Czech Ambassador \ Vladimir Prochazka said today that negotiations looking toward the release of American newsmarl William N. Oatis might be .possible if the Untied States abandons its polltical#economic warfare against Czechoslovakia. Oak Ridge, Tgnn.i Sept. 25 (UP) — Wildcat striker* agreed today to end a two-day construction walkout which :*hut down a top-secret atomic project and slowed work on Mother Aifaomb production - Business agent A. E. Gayion of the Knoxville Building Trades Council (AFL) said the wlakout was “all settled”, and that the striker* were returning to work.

Battle Heavy Odds, Down Five Planes; Reds Break .: ' ' , - I » V i- ■’’ Off Cease-Fire Parleys

Ridgway Awaiting Communist Reply To Invitation To Renew Negotiation Tokyo, Wednesday, Sept 26.— (UP) —Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway awaited today a Communist reply to his invitation fpr a meeting\of liaison officers to discuse resumption of Korean cease-fire talks. ' The Reds broke off discussion ye'sterday and an intensification of the deadlock which has existed since Aug. 23 was threatened. In a mSetipg of liaison offiqers at’ Pan Mun Joni below the armistice conference city of Kaesong, the Reds stalked out angrily. They insisted that full-dress, truce talks be at once without discussion., of conditions for them. On Ridgway’s instructions, his liaison men refused. The Reds made no arrangement for a further meeting of any i sort. Ridgway then sent the following note to the Communists last night. “Despite your unilateral action in recessing the meeting today and your abrupt departure therefrom, I am prepared to meet yith you tomorrow . . . at 10 a.m. (7 p.m. today CST) to disduss conditions mutually satisfactory <for resumption of the armistice talks.” The note was sent to the chief Communist liaison officer in the name of U.S. air force CoL Andrew J. Kinney, head of the UN liaison group, \ J « An allied'liaison officer delivered the note to the Communist at the enemy' check point at pan Mun Jom qn the southern edge of the Kaesonfe neutral zone at 6:18 p.m. (3:15 a.m. CST). The Communist bolt came at the second meeting of the liaison groups in Kaesong since both sides agreed to try to arrange re(Turn To Pnae E'cht) Purcell Forecasts v No White Christmas Two Cold Snaps Are Predicted By Sage Rushville, Ind.j Sept. 25—(&P) — Mark Purcell, Indiana’s famed weather prophet, sniffed the brisk fall air today and' said Hoosiers stand a poor chance of having a white Christmas this year. He said New Y’ear’s would be equally blpak. The Rushville sage? who boasts 90 percent accuracy in the 34 years he’s been making forecasts, studies tjhe wind directions for three days ait the change of the seasons as basis for his predictions. His outlook for winter calls for two cold snaps, punctuated by warming-up periods between December and March. Purcell warned last year at this time that the 1950-51 winter y.ould be one-of\ the coldest on record. The prediction was followed by a temperature drop! to 35 degrees below zero, ah all-time Indiana low. This winter, he said, the J first three weeks of February and the first week of March, will be severely cold. But he foresaw; milder weather between the two chills. “Anyway, it’ll be a real winter,” he said. Purcell said his four weather vanes indicated temperatures would vary. He said sno'w flurries, and some rain would pepper the state during the Christmas season. But he added it won’t be very cold. He said the mildness would linger at least through New Year’s holiday. 1 V Local Lady's Sister Is Taken By Death Mrs. Jess Liggett, sister of Mrs. Morris Pingry of\ Decatur and Mrs. Arza Goodnight of Bryant, (died Sunday night at her hdme in Muncie following an extended illness. Other survivors include her husband and a son. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday;at the Friends church at Niuncie, with burial at Muncie.

Reports King Is Improving Alter Surgeq Pulse Is Stronger But Life In Danger For At Least Week London, Sept. 25.-HUP) — King George Vi’s pulse bekt was stronger today but Buckingham palace jofficials said his life will be in danger for at least, another week. - The fifth palace bulletin since ti& frail monarch underwent a Aiajor lunfe operation Sunday announced at 11 a.m. (4 a.m. CST): “After another restful night, the king continues to gain strength.”, The bulletin, signed by five doctors, meant in medical terms that the king’s blood pressure, pulste and temperature had improved but of course were far from normal. 1 It was the second bulletin > with-, in 16 hours to indicate that the fra.il 55-year-old monarch =is improving after Sunday’s operation im which all or part of one lung and one or more ribs were removed. y At the same time, it was disclosed that labor prime minister Clement R. Attlee ha* summoned a meeting of ministers for tonight at 10 Downing Street. This gave rise to speculation that the prime minister .might want to discuss the possibility of postponing the general election scheduled ‘ for ,Oct. 25. , The London News-Chronicle, organ of the Liberal party, suggested such a step this morning. Despite the apparent turn for thel better in the king's condition, he probably will not be able td resume his state duties unt|l some time next year. He, is expected tb be a sbrni-invalid for months to cqrne- ; There was discussion in some quarters of the possibility of designating 25ryear-qld Princess Elizabeth, heiress to the throne, as regent to aet tor her father. , However, court authorities said a regency could be established only if the king became insane—as did George III —or if he were a minor. Company Contacting! Gas Heat Customers New Customers Are Notified By Mail ; .. i . 4 '' . Customers of the Gas company who now have applications on file fqr gas home heating are being contacted by the company to find opt when they will be able to install gas burning equipment, R. L. Kaade, division manager, informed John Barth, local district manager, today. The additional supply, of gas available,-for this winter will not be sufficient to furnish gas to the total number of heating jobs recently released by-the public service commission of Indiana.. After it has been definitely determined when customers who already have made application can get their equipment installed, permits for the installations will be scheduled by the Gas company sp that the added gas load will not exceed the additional supply of gas, Barth stated. ' \ “We realize that we cannot furnish gas tot heating to everyone ‘who would like to have it,” Kaade said, “but we will ad A as many Seating installations thht can be adequately supplied. We believe that, by scheduling the permits according to time the customers jean get their' equipment installed, we can get the program under way promptly in order to connect as many heating plants at the beginning of the heating season as possible.” Manager Barth said that local prospective customers were being notified by mail.

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Longest Air Battle \ Os War Fought; U.S. Jets, Outnumbered, All Escape Damage Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Sept. 25.—(UP)—United States air ? force jet pilots, fightingodds of more than two to; one, destroyed five Russian-made MIG-15 jets and damaged five more today in -longest, biggest aerial battle s os the War. ~ < a ■ f, 2. Every American plane returned safely to base. Thirty-seven American F-Sfi jets fought a fleet of 80 MiG’s for 35 minutes. . ? I e It was; the longest aerial battle of the war that started 15 months ago today, it was ithfe, second biggest bag of enemy planes, and it involved a record-level nufrnber of planes. On|y on April 12 last, when the 4th fighteV interceptor wing downed four enemy plariea. probably destroyed two and damaged 15, was a bigger bag claimed. battle came down through North Korea’ 4 albng “MiG *a|ley,” from their Manchurian sanctuary to meet the Sabre-jets over-eneriiy territory. The battle started at 35,000 feet and raged from that altitude, more than -six miles up, to treetop level." A dispatch from the bloody east-. ern front said that United Nations troops had capturbd a mouptairi peak west of “heartbreak ‘hill.’* Two Communist battalions, possibly up to 2,000 men, were knocked pff the hill by the UN infantrymen after a 2-H day battle, dispatches said. ] j ' .. Determined American Gl’s. dispatches said, charged, up heartbreak hill again Tuesday on the 14th day of bloody conflict for that strategic peak north of Yanggu. Front reports said the. Gl’s slash? ed their way up slopes from twb sides in the 14th day of fighting to control the strategic peak north of yanggu. It was held by four Americans for a brief two hours yesterday. . : ’ The UN troops today fan a gantlet of murderous enemy mortar dnd machine gun fire d spitting forth from deep bunkers -on the hillside. The Reds appeared just as determined to hold the hill and thus prevent the allies Hom gaining a prominence commanding the broad, enemy-held valley to the north. The bitter, see-sawihg struggle /or “heartbreak hill?’ vividly underlined stiffening enemy resistance along the entire ISS-mfle Korean front, Northeast of the disputed hill Aggressive Red troops shot eight probing attdfcks against allines without success. \ Allied patrols at other points ' along the front were forced back. After the handful pt Americans , was thrown off the crest oL/’heartbreak” hill Monday, allied troops tried repeatedly to find a new path to the top. Fighting raged through the day until 11 p.rjb., when enemy fire against two prongs of the ah lied attack died down, ' A North Korean communique broadcast from Ypongyang claimed Communist forces on the central and< eastern fronts beat back “fierce” allied attacks and inflicted \j,500 casualties. ’ ; ——’ Report Rev. Norris Is Much Improved ' The latest word received here indicated that the Rev. Franklin Norris, of Wren, 0., who was injured the forepart of last week when his airplane 'crashed upon landing, is “very much improved.’’ He has regained consciousness, in the Freeport, 111., hospital where he is a patient, and the latest report is that he suffers from a crushed and crushed hip in addition to\ the fractured leg and concussion reported at first. Internal injuries are not as extensive as first believed, and doctors there give him “every chance’’ for recovery. He is still receiving blood transfusions, however, it was added.