Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1951 — Page 1

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Ridgway Waits > Reply To Plan To Shift Site New, Faster Red Jets In Challenge < 1 To U.S. Sabre jets Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 28—(UP) — The United Nations command and the Communists exchanged radio denunciations today while Gen. Matthew B Ridgway awaited a reply to hip proposal to phift the site of cease-fire talks to a village in Korean no man’s land. Ridgway’s supreme UN headquarters said the Reds iwanted to, resume the ations on their own term*. and then possibly try to make the; Allies call them off for good “out of sheer frustration and futility’' by continued stalling. . / . The Communist Peiping radio, In turn, said that the UN command was putting off resumption of the talks and attempting to/ "escape responsibility"’ for alleged neutrality violations by shifting the scene of negotiations. » Ridgway proposed ‘ yesterday that the armistice negotiations be shifted to the tiny ■ village of ' i-Songhyon, eight miles southeast of - Kaesong. There had been no reply from the Reds early today. Little hope was- held that they would agree tor move the negotiations from Kaesong to a village in nto man’s hind, lying (between the UN and Red armies. / Planes Driven Back , Sth Army Headquarter*, Korea. Sept. 27—(UP)—'New, faster Communist jets challenged American sabrejets over northwest Korea for the third straight day today, hut were driven back into Man ; churia with two damaged. ’ ; The 84-plane battle ran the United Nations score in threp days of heavy aerial fighting to 26 - Soviet-built MIG jets destroyed or damaged. The Red pilots were becoming increasingly aggressive in their challenge to American air supremacy over the northwest corner of Korea. An air force spokesman said the Communists appeared to be using a modified, faster version of their I MIG-15. \ However, they have not begun using Russia’s new MfG-19 jets yet. he said. > .. „ t . Communist pilots also have improved, the spokesman said. ft was believed that European supervisors —German, Russian or both* — were giving the Chinese and North Korean pilots v intensive' (Tarn T» Pare Twa) Spencerville Youth Is Killed By Auto Auburn, Ind., Sept. 27.—-(UP) —*. - Michael L. Kummer, nine. Spen-’ -cerville, was killed , when he was ( struck by a car driven by Donald E. Lohse, 19. Auburn, as he ran across a county road in front of his home west of Spencerville last night. Associated Church Banquet October 5 The annual * associated church 4 banquet has been rescheduled for Friday night. October 5. at 6:3Q o’clock at the First Presbyterian church in Decatur, it was an : nounced today by Ed Jaberg, president of the Decatur church group. Dr. John W. Meister, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Foft Wayne, will be the principal speaker at the, meeting ’ following the dinner. Committee chairmen wil make = their annual reports and election ‘ of officers for 1951-52 will be held at the business Men and women of all member churches are invited and tickets are available, from pastors of the member churches. No reservations for the dinner will be • accepted after Wednesday, October 3. it was an-, nounced by the ararngement committee. . ‘ INDIANA WEATHER Fair, and cooler tonight, heavy f.rort north and central portions. Friday fair and cool. Low tonight 32-36 north, 35-40 south. High Friday 55-60 north, r 60-65 south.

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Childless Husbands To Face Draft Call blew Drqft Rulings Signed By Truman Washington, Sept. 27. —(UP) — About 385,000 childless husbands and 4-F“* soon will lose their draft deferments and become (eligible for milkary service. v ; The. White HPuse announced late yesterday that President Truman has signed new draft regulations which will reclassify these men 1-A. The regulations were issued under the new draft act passed in June, which prohibits deferment of a man Whose- wife is his only dependent, except in cases of extreme hardship. The law* also lowered mental standards tor induction into the ayrned forces. Congressional experts have estimated that 150,000 4-F’s will be affected by this provision. whi|e 235,000 childless husbands will be hit by the dependency regulation. . f ' ■ ; Officials have warned that the ppol of men 18 through 25 will be “dangerously low” next year if tbe-present draft rate continues and eyes) tighter deferment policies will be necessary. The new regulations also: 1., Require some 9,006 conscientious objectors to perfptm work of national importance for two years. They will not be placed in work, camps but must take jobs which boards regard as contributing to the nation’s health and safety. I • 2.* Make aliens who permantly in this country liable to the draft.. Diplomats and citizens of 20 cvuhtrles wi.th which the United States has spacial military exempUoij treaties are not affected. Meantime, selective service headquarters announced that 'college men who missed the four earlier Student determent tests because of ineligibility or some other reason will be given two more Chances to take the’examination. 3«lective service officials said all local draft boards will have the new. deferment regulations within 10 days. The boards then' will reclassify chlidless j husbands and 4-F’s who now qualify for military Service. ,' : | Democratic Women Meet This Evening Members' of the | Democratic j Woman’s club are asked to note that their opening fall meeting will be held tonight atS o’clock in rodm 205. at Decatur high school. Wednesday evening the Democrat inadvertently anno in cf d the meeting was to take* place last night. AH members ate urged to present. it ; ——4'-. \ ■ ' ; ; s-<.. - Urge Appointment Os 14 New Judges Backlog Os Cases Cited By Judge Washington, Sept. 27. —(UP) — •Th| nation’s top federal judges urged,today)the appointment of 14 .new judges to break a backlog of cases and assiire “speedy justice.” The recommendations of the jurists, including chief justice Fred M, Vinson and chief judges of the U.S. circuit courts, was included in a report by Henry IP. Chandler, director of the U.S. coiirt’s administrative office. I’* * Chandler said there' is a “plear heed” for an expansioil of the federal bench in view of lopg delays in settling civil cases. .Th* report said it iiow takes more than a year to get the average civil spit through a U.S. district court, and in New York the average time is nearly three years. ' The backlog of cases. Chandler reported, now Stands at 55,084. * The report mentioned particularly the mounting workload in Illinois, where more thaß 4,000 cases were pending before)the Chicago federal courts last mprfth. Chandler said the appointment of two new judges tn northern Illinois “should enable the difficulty to be overpome.” * | President Truman has named two judges for the north Illinois bench, but their appointment has been blocked by Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D., lIU who has objected to the president’s method of -appointment. Douglas recommended two other men. ; 1 %

Public Hearing Held On State Welfare Woes Senate Committee Conducts Hearing;, ’ No Solution Found 1 Indianapolis, Sept 27 —(UP) — The Indiana senate judiciary committee held a public hearing on the ■ perplexing public welfare problem 1 today but found in the testimony ■ of many witnesses no answer to the big question of how* to solve it Those who appeared in a long 1 session in connection with the Special session of the legislature offered solutions as varied as those ' expressed earlier by the “man in the street” and by Republicans at a mass meeting attended by 800 persons last night. The legislature Is meeting because the federal government Withdrew $20,000,000 annually in federal aid aftdr Indiana enacted a law opening welfare rolls for public inspection. , The hearing still was in progress at 12 noon CDT, and during the first three hours the majority of Witnesses favored repeal of the law. At the GOP mass meeting last night, the majority favored continuance of the law-. . County welfare directors, board members and “just plain taxpayers” unfolded their opinions in the hearing this morning. They ranged from aggressive support to violent opposition to the law, f ’ . \ Maurice Peak, an Indianapolis attorney, supported th* law as backed by the Republican legislative advisory committee which wants to stand pat on its action in the 1951 regular session. Frank McCullough. Floyd county, said the effective date of the law should be postponed, as suggested by a "rebel” faction of the GOP leadership headed by secretary of. state Leland Smith and state auditor Frank Millls. But others urped outright repeal of the law that got Indiana into trouble. K -Among them were Ffed H. Steiningen Lake county welfare director, and David Stanton, wife Os > the epunty prosecutor. Mrs; <T«n> Tv L; ij • ’ J House May Rescind Secrecy On Welfare House Committee Reversing Stand 'Washington, Sept. 27. —(UP) — House members, spurred by alleged scandals in the multi-billion dollar relief program, pushed today for quick action to let states make publid and names of persons drawing federal-state welfare aid. iv ' i Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N.C., of the house ways and means committee said his group would reverse Its stand against consideration .of the move and would take up the matter “early next week.” The committee voted 12 tp 11 last week against considering a bill by Rep. Burr P. Harrison, D., Va., tp\ lift federally-imposed secrecy on ' names of those getting federal aid for the aged,- dependent children, the blind and the disabled. Harrison in an hour-long speech ' told the house yesterday that the secrecy rule has covered up “shame- 1 less cheats, extravagance, ineffici- ' ency and socialistic administration.” T • ; • L He said the federal provision , hides gamblers, prostitutes, recipients and wealthy chise- I lers who “are stealing public money in the relief program.” Rep. Charles A. Halleek, R., ( Ind., charged that a ruling by fed- j eral security administrator Oscar ( R. fcwing to cut off federal relief f funds to Indian* because the state j insisted on publishing was against the intent of congress. He £ said Indiana 'stands to lose $22.- 1 000.04)0 a y*ar in federal funds under Ewing’s order. Halleck demanded that congress 1 take immediate action to clarify 1 “this very critical matter.” ‘ The Indiana legislature has overridden a veto by the state’s Demo-j< cratic governor to make Indiana • I welfare lists a matter of record. 1

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, , r IW • \ ; Hf.. 1 Sign Friendship Treaty «*• *■-' -’W' ; 1 dr J > ‘ Ks ry I f.- j ™ ly * Dean XchasOh (left-seated) and Italy’s minister of the budget Guissepi Pellr sign a mutual friendship treaty between the U. S. and Italy at Wasblngfpn. The signing Highlighted the 3-day visit of prime minister Ajcide de Gasperi (standing-left) who watches with Italian Alberto Tarchianl, and assistant U. \S, secretary of state for Euiifcpean affairs George Perkins.

At Least 11 Killed By Midwest Storms Wisconsin Family Wiped Out By Storm ’ By United Press Tornadoes and thunderstorms killed at least 11 persons itL midwest as autumn’s* first cold wave swept eastward today ok the heels of violent winds. The worst'tornado rtpged through two Wisconsin areas yesterday, killing seven persons and twirling trucks and tractors like playthings. Another tw’ister dropped down on Bitely,' Mich., caving in a tavern wall and killing a woman patron. v . . High -winds and pounding thunderstorms struck elsewhere ih, Vhsconsin and Michigan and in Minnesota, lowa, Indiana and Illinois. snow fell in Minnesota and upper Michigan and cloudy, topcoat weather was forecast for the area today. * The Chicago feather bureau said the midwest’s slorm would move eastward today, but was losing much of Its punch as it did. The ( forecasters said winds followed by falling temperatures were in store for the North Atlantic and the New England states. \ • “It is a very intensive storm for this time of the year,” a weather bureau spokesman said. “But we f can’t forecast Whether it means the country’s in for a tough autumn.” The devastated community in the storm’s wake was Waupaca, Wis., where a family of five was wiped out when the tornado walloped their farm home. The bodies of Howard Rasmussen, his wife, 35. and their two small children were swept a quarter of a mile from their home into a swamp. Rasmussen’s father, William, was fatally injured whVn a beam fell on hjm. Dale Donikowske, who lived across the road from the Rasmussens, said the! tornado ripped his home from it£ foundations, leaving him and his family huddled in the basement under the sky. “Right afterwards that twister dropped a twoton ■ truck into our basement, right beside us,” he said. The National Guard and a Red Cross disaster unit were called out to aid the Wisconsin sufferers. At least a dozen persons were.injured, some critically. Eight farms were destroyed and telephone and power service was cut off at Waupaca. 12 Year-Old Boy Held For Robbery Os $761 Connersville, Ind., Sept. 27. — (UP)—A 12-year-old boy was held in a juvenile detention home today on charges of robbing auto sales company of $761 by boosting his seven-year-old girl accomplice so she could reach a high cash register. The girl, seen running from Riedman’s Motors Co. after the burglary, was found hiding by police near a bowling alley. She confesed and implicated the boy. Police said they recovered $762 of the stolen money—s72o buried behind a cagar store and $32 from a billfold found under the boy's bed at his home.

- ■ ? BULLETIN Washington, Sept 27.—(UP) —(UP) —lnternal revenue collector James G. Smyth of San Francisco and eight of his top assistants were suspended today on charges of incompetence. One of the assistants was charged with embezzlement and another was charged with maJ ? niplation of tax records, e | ' ‘ Strikes Cut Infs ■ U. 1 Production * I ' Defense, Domestic Output Is Reduced > • __ \ By United Press Strikes of more than 70,04)0 workers in aircraft, atomic enerpy, manufacturing and transportation today cut into the nation’s r defense and domestic production, t Management, labor and governi meiit officials, meanwhile, worked to head off additional strikes which 1 cotild idle more than double this s number.\ s ; Nearly 160,b00 aut4 workers—- » 70,0(10 at Chrysler, 21,000 at / Briggs: 40,000 at Ford, 14,000 at 8. Studebaker, 8,000 at Hudson and ? 4.000 z at Packard—faced brief layoffs to keep the motor industry r within government quotas and bes cause 1 of materials shortage* snd J planned inventories. > Tho largfest strike in the nation ’ was ihe eight-week-old walkout of r 22XMM) men at the Caterpillar Trac- , ter company in Peoria, ill., i The strikers, members of the • CIO United Auto Workers, Union, sought a 19-cent hourly wage in- • crease- , The company countered > vrith; bn offer for 10 cents. Feder- ■ al mediators reported that nego- ’ tiations failed to budge, either ' side. ) 1 Production of the “world’s most I powerful jet plane engine,” tl)e Sapphire J-65, • was halted at the s huge Wright Aeronautical Corp.’s , plant* at Woodridge and Garfield, ; N. J 4 by a strike of 9,806 UAW production workers. Six' thousand white collar and . construction workers refused to cross': picket lines set up by the I strikers. 'Both company and union officials,, said the strike was 100 percent The union Asked a')10-cent an hour wage boost , and Welfare benefits. Th* $500,000,000 atomic energy project at Paducah, Ky., was 'threatened with a complete shutdown. affecting 11,000 workers after operating engineers walked off their’ jobs! reason for the strik* was not known. < ; Officials said that unless the engineers returned to work tbday, all work on the project would stop. It w*s thfe sixth major dispute at the sprawling operation. ? At: Long Beach, Calif., 10,000 striking Douglas aircraft workers went into the 23rd day of their walkout. Company and union representatives were ordered to Washto mediate the crippling dispute. Construction on another atomic energy plant, the $50,000,000 project iat Dana, Ind., was held up by 1 strike of 1,500 AFL steamQtters and welders. The seven-day-old strike was called because of a travel pay dispute. \ . r

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King Continues To Show Improvement Duke Os Windsor At Buckingham Palace London, Sept. 27. — (UP) —King George Vi’s doctors, today issued their most encouraging bulletin since his lung trperatlon and Princess Elizabeth re-scheduled her postponed Canadian tour . for Oct. 9. AiK official announcement by Clarence VHouss. said the Princess and the Duke Os Edinburgh were arranging to .leave by plane Oct. 7 for Canada and will start their tour two days later from Quebec. ' The announcement said nothing about the princess* previous plan to visit Washington. ? ; With today’s optimistic report on the king’s condition, the duke of Windsor called at Buckingham Palace to pay his respects. The doctors said the ' king is stronger, his appetite is improving and his progress continued. Part or all of one of the king’s langs and one or more ribsy were Removed Sunday. % The duke of Windsor, whose abdication as King Edward VIII “the woman I love” in 1936 put his younger brother on the throne, drove through tha palace gates in a black limousine at noon (5 a.m. CST). The duke remained in the palace 55 minutes. He talked: to King George’s private secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, but did not see the Ring. It is understood that not even a member pf the royal fam- ( ily * except Queen Elizabeth has' been permitted in the sick room. Ironically, Windsor is in London to participate in the publication today of his memoirs, “A King’s Story,” ih which he tells bis version of the abdication and his romance with his Americanborn duchess, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson. The two brothers who played major roles in the greatest royal romance in modern history shared space in the Bitish press today. Almost every London newspaper devoted many columns to review's of the duke’s book/ They generally wbre favorable. The memoirs disclosed Windsor’s deep affection for his broth(Tbhi To Pace Six) Heifer Is Slain On Adams County Farm t 400-Pound Animal Reported Butchered Deputy sheriff Jim Cochran is investigating the loss' of a heifer from the Hugo Thieme farm, northeast of the city, when rustlers not ;only made off with the animal but slaughtered it on the spot. Thieme, whose cattle roam the range and woods of his farm, and sometimes don’t check in for a day or two, didn’t discover the loss until Wednesday. The discovery was a pool of blood and evidence on the nearby fence where the rustlers had committed murder on a, 400-pound heifer valued at probably $l5O. k The size of the “take” (or steak) precludes the estimate of only a one-man operation, according to the deputy’s report. Cochran suspects the motive for the theft, and he’s beginning to suspect a couple of characters for the He said that perhaps a glance at the price of nieat these days would be the answer as to why the heifer was killed and removed; he would nod however, say who he thought did it. * In line with this—rustling, that is—Marlon McKean, whdseiffarm is one-fourth mile west of Corner, reported that vandals rustled the corn stalks in his field. He said that they tore up the field sometime last Tuesday, and he discovered it late Wednesday. He estimated the loss at probably S2O.

United States Seeks To Avert . Crisis In Iran i Secret Message By ! Truman To Britain Studied By Leaders ; ‘ ; 1 - j-A > ( 1 London, Sept. 27—(UP)—Presi- ! dent Truman sent a secret person- - al message to Britain today giving U S. recommendations in the - Iranian oil crisis and leaders of • > both major political parties have 1 met to give it grave consideration. The president was repotted to ■ have urged Britain to avoid use ’ Os armed force to keep Irin from i throwing the British out; of the great Abadan refinery and oil i port.. ; The U. S. also appealed ;to Iran l to revoke its order expelling the i British. ,? ; • ''Britain’s high councils face one of the most momentous decisions ► since the war, and the; problem [ has risen above the political level. » Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee j followed a tense three-houf emerg- » ency .cabinet' meeting' with a 47- ; minute conference with opposition party leaders Winston Churchill > and Anthony Eden. The crisis neared a climax at a . moment when King George VI was , desperately ill and a general parliamentary election, on which the life of. this labor' government depends. approached pn Oct. '25. Developments were: 1 — 'President Trumah ‘sent a i secret message to. Attlee,• urging Britain to take all possible measures to avoifl use of force in Iran. 2— The state department disclosed that tly* U. S. is ready and willing to mediate the dispute, but gave solid support to Britain’s determination to keep its technicians in Iran. . Churchill and Eden were solemn after their meeting With Attlee and would not make any statement. V Reports from Cairo said everything was ready “down tohithle last detail’’ to rush British troops from hte Suez Canal zone and Cyprus into Iran if necessary. Military and civilian planes were standing by to transport them. In Tehran, Premier Mohammed Mossadegh told a crowd outside parliament that his government will struggle against Britain “with all our to preserve the country’s “rights’” v - _ JfV > f ■ 7l I ■ Two Youths Admit j Robbery Os Station Qne Admits Other Lootings In Area City police Wednesday turned two youths—one of them trom {his city, the other from Ossian—over to juvenile authorities Rafter in-' vestigation and querying divulged they had participated in the Sun- , day theft from the Community Oil company of more than SIOO. Under questioning, the Decatuij youth admitted participating in several other lootings of stations—none, incidentally, including Sunday’s robbery, ever reported to police —in the vicinity; the Ossian boy said he was involved only Sunday. ' ' < \jT?he youths are 12 and 12 years of age. . The thefts, the admission from onet of the youths revealed, had been “going on” for the Vast several months. Nothing serious, all of them minor breakins and burglaries, mostly ot filling stations in ' the; area. 1 Most of the money stolen from the. Community Oil company, said chief James Borders, who conduct- 1 ed the investigation, was recovered.

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} Proposes All High Salaried Officials Reveal Data Above Pay By Government Washington, Seot. 27 —(UP)—• President Truman called today for legislation forcing all high salaried government employes — including congressmen—to list publicly once a year all income, gifts, and loans they get in addition to their federal pay. " ■. 1 . . The proposed law also would apply to top officials of the major political parties. Mr. Truman said it should apply specifically to every ’ federal jobholder—lncluding 'judges' and flag officers of the armed services—who are paid SIO,OOO a year or more. V, / . ' 2. ■' In addition, the President said in a special message, the house ancL) senate should consider applying the same requirement to any government employes, regardless of pay, whose ouside income, gifts, and loans total more than $1,600 a year. Mr. Trumdn fired his message at congress at a time when several present or former officials of bls' » administration at;e under f¥re because they took ‘ commissions or i gifts or both from, firms doing busi- ! ness with the government. i Democratic national chairman William N r Boyle. Jr., is undergoing > senate investigation of his services . for an RFC borrower and his reja- : ,tlons with attorney Max Siskind whose clients include many firms dealing w*ith the government. Mr. Truman would make men like Boyle and Republican national chairman puy George Gabrielson list all outside income. Gabrielson, . while GOP chairman, has dealt with the RFC for a firm he heads. In his testimony today Boyle denied charges be took money to I arrange ah RFC loan. And he soid 'he never used his influence'to help / Siskind, Mr. Truman in his message to congress said the people are getting the notion that the government is riddled with crooks. He said that isn't the case, but that the best way to prove it isn’t i» to pass the bill he propose. asked congress to do »t right away. Other, congressional developTaxes —The senate voted 77 to 11 to make expense allowances of the President, vice president, and ) congressmen subject to income taxation starting Jan. 3, 1953. The senate action to tax them must be approved by the house to become ' effective. 1 Jessup—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R., Wis., charged 1 today that ambassadoriat-large Philip C. Jessup is unfit to be a U.S. delegate to the United Nations assembly because at one time or another he belonged to six Communist fropts. McCarthy put his case against Jessup before a seriate foreign relations subcommittee studying the ambassador’s- nomination. s I Foreign aid —House and senate I conferees agreed on a $7,483,400,000 program of military, economic, and technical aid for free nations. It is an authorization measure only. Labor —The house labor commits . (Tun To Poire Six I fall Cleanup Days Set In Decatur For Week Os October 8 Mayor John M. Doan, in conjunction with city street department superintendent Floyd Acker today announced that the Second week in October would be set aside as “fall cleanup days.” Then, said the mayor, all trash and tin cans are to be picked up by the city. Householders are to have such trash at the regular disposal points—in the alleys whenever possible, and on the bidewalks when necessary—in appropriate containers. While only cursory plans were » announced, city -employes wifi begin in the northwest corner of the city, and revolve around specified wards throughout the week. Further details Including-ceHaln. pick-up days in different sections of the eity will be Announced later.