Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 241.,

REDS CHARGE NEUTRAL ZONE VIOLATIONS

Allies Battle Hand-To-Hand Against Reds Die-Hard Reds. Fight Fiercely On Captured Heartbreak Ridge ■Sth Army Headquarters. Korea. J Saturday, bet. 13.—(UP)—United Nation's soldiers fought hand-to-hand against two die-hard Communist groups on captured “heartbreak ridge” Friday night. . VN warplanes gave the Communists three-to-6ne odds and still beat off the, attacking jet fighters northwest Korea while ground troops seized two more hills 'and thrust another strong tank forte into Red territory. , *;• Weary U.S. 2nd division infantrymen and French troops, on heartbreak .'ridge were officially “mopping up” the enemy. But soldiers still dodging grenades from two oldsters of Reds who refused to give up though surrounded .called the grim night struggle "dead man's buff.” On the western front, however. UiS. Ist cavalry division troops suffered a setback in their attempts to close a pincers on savagely-re-sisting Chinese Reds eight miles northwest of Yonchon. The advancing Yanks ran into a fierce enemy "banzai” counter-at-tack--and were forced to make a limited withdrawaly Two more Communist countepgttacks south southwest of Pyonggang at the apex of the old enemy “iron triangle” off the central.front were repulsed without loss of ground. American and French troops of the 2nd division's 23rd regiment won "heartbreak ridge's” northernmost' peak after one of the most prolonged and costliest battles in the 17-month-bld war. Fierce fighting with isolated enemy holdouts determined to die in their bunkers rather than yield still raged on the bloody ridge, but the issue had been decided. € Communists north of the peak, however, were reported retreating | toi avoid encirclement by other 2n|l diVision troops pushing deeper enemy territory. \ f West of “heartbreak ridge,” fe large American tank-infantry task fofce began its third deep foray into the Mundung valley in is many days, •J , Sherman tanks bombarded enen y positions on both sides: of the vi 1toy with 76-millinheter guns as till y rumbled north on their- mission Os death and destruction.' „ ! Still farther West, South Korean troops captured two strategic‘|hil s ■northwest of Yonggu in hand-ip-hand fighting with a mixed forje of-Chinese and North Koreans. | Hand-to-hand bayonet and gfenade fighting also raged, on t ie western front above Yonchon <1 id some 40 miles north of Seoul. ?. 1 *•' ~ 3 Adams County S. S, Convention Oct;. 28-291 The annual Adams bounty Sunday school convention will be heki Sunday and Monday. Oct. 28 ap>l 29. The Sunday afternoon session at 2 o'clock will be held at tje Monroe Methodist church. t|e Sunday evening session at o’clock pt the First church in Berne and the aiinmd fellowship banquet at 6:30 P-m-Monday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Decatur. J . • * : I Leaders <well acquainted with the various phases of Sunday school work will address- ea|h session. There will also bep large exhibit of Sunday school materials which will be free to £ll teachers and leaders. .The puh|c is invited tor attend. | ■ ■I • Decatur Jeweler. Undergoes Surgery Carl C. Pumphrey, well known jeweler and president of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, underwent major surgery at the Adaainscounty memorial hospital at 9:30 -o’clock this morning. \ |j . His! surgeon stated “his condition is good, he came through just fine” ■ - INDIANA WEATHER Fair and mild tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 40-47. High Saturday 7078.

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Newton Anderson And Wife Burn To Death Word was reiceivfcd here that \Jr, and Mrs. Newton Anderson the former a pikt of Decatur—were buritod” to death hi their home in Gideon, Mo. A terfce telegram received by a piece in Fort' Wayne' and related to Fred Smith, cousin dfj -Mr. Anderton, spared any details df the fire and • consequent deaths. Mr. Anderson was formerly married to Mrs. Helen Kintz, es this citjy r There are two children, Kenneth and Marjorie, both of whom lived Jin Decatur and now reside near Gihleon. Slate Senate Seeks To Pass Welfare Plans Third Os Eight-Bill r Home-Rule Program ; Out Os Committee Indianapolis, 0ct.,12 —(UP) — Republicans .moved the. third of an eight-bill “hdme-rule” wqjfare pblicy parcel- out of committee in tile - Indiana senate today. < \ A bill setting tip a formula for dividing the of welfare between state and counties, in the event federal aid is not restored ih the controversy over publicizing welfare rolls, came out of the finance committee; and passed first reading without objection and with only minor technical amendments, i | I ■- ''.The senate, finishing the third vfeek of a special session called Uy Governor Schricker in the welfare crisis. moved the first two “home-rule” bills out of committee late yesterday. But when one of those two — t appropriating $29,000,000 for the present biennium in ease of? delay in congressional restoration of U. js. funds —came üb; on second reading this afternoon, a motion to suspend rules and- pass it, failI ed. |... | - The vote was 25 to 22, and a t wo-thirids j vote was necessary with Democratic minority support. -The vote .was strii tly on party i|nes, with Sens. Roy Conrad of Monticello and Jack Stone \ of Evansville, erstwhile GOP •‘rebels.” voting with the Republican “regulars;” | i ; The GOP majority lawmakers •v.£re( confident ; they can enact their policy program now. confident thaj congress will restore federal aid to the state. ' But they considered the special session pf the state legislature for a week or so, to a low time for legal study of the remainder of the |ng certain the jbiltts will conform ! to federal regulations. •* * - The measures they want 'to pass now would set up a welfare program financed :solely by the state and counties' ip the event any of the *‘home-rule\’ legislation violates federal security administration rules. Both these bills pass- \ (Turn To Page Elrht) xDemocrat Workers Win Meet Monday Candidates Attend Monday Night Meet Democrat pnecinct committee members and city election workers IwlIT meet Monday bight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hutker on street. Plans for openjug Democrat headquarters for the hast three weeks of the campaign will'be made. I? | J ! The Hutker meeting will be ope of a series of hohje meetings held? the last three months by the Democrats at which time John B. Stults, Democrat candidate for maydp, and ‘he councilmatjic candidates answer questions which have arisen among the precinct workers. \ Frank Bohnke, city chairman, said today that in addition to completing final plans for the opening of headquarters next week, committee members also will discuss the advisability of closing the city campaign with an open air rally. In addition to candidate Stults, all councilmanic candidates will attend the Monday night meeting and each committee member will bring a guest. j

Truce Teams Meet For Cease-Fife Talks ?‘ 3 ‘ J'' "WS- ' V I Y H ■ V xjk ■•wWwRW L U. N. AND COMMUNIST officers walk down a road toward the bridge fcross the Sachon river to Pan Num Jom. Korea, where they, discussed a proposed site for resumption wp the long delayed cease-flrO talks. In the group of liaison officers who held the preliminary discusslfma are (front row-l. to r.) an unidentified Chinese; Chinese Col. Tsai Cheng Wan! North Korean C(il«;<Jhang Chun Sae|, head of Communist delegation; North Korean Col. Lee Pyong II; and U. S. MarinejCdl. James C. Murray, head of the U. N. liaison team. Others are unideplified. ' "J*.

Armed Forces Hike Manpower Sights Stiffer Deferment Policies In Offing Washington.' Oct. 12.™(UP) — The armed forces have raised their manpower sights to a target of 4.000.000 men. with a goal of 000 men in uniform by next June. Pentagon officials said last nigbt\ that the move "will scrape the bottom of the draft manpower barrel.” They said stiffer deferment policies will be the only way to provide the minimum of 500,000 additional men needed to bring the air force up to about 140 groups and expand the army navy during the next three years. , j The Pentagon had not previously given an official figure on how many more men will be needed to bolster the armed services. Most of the 500,000 will be channeled by selective service to the air force, which—-unlike the army knd marines—has been getting its men through volunteers. Selective service officials expect their biggest headache next July, when they will have to start replacing draftees who have been in uniform for 24 months, the present legal limit. * ; I I - As many as 80,000 mep were being drafted every month daring the early stages of the Korean war. Their replacement pext summer is almost certain to produce demands for further tightening of the draft law. J ' Selective service director Lewis B. Hershey said ip Cleveland yesterday that'several steps could be taken to relieve the expected shortage of men jor mlitary service. “We could abolish all recruiting and use selective service only," he said. “We could take more married men and we could start taking fathers. I don’t ( see why we throw a halo around fatherhood anyway.” Other possibilities, he said, include "lowering of phiysical and mental requirements and extending the period of service beyond the current two-year period.” ' . ; ; j One-Day Strike At Fort Wayne Settled Fort Wayne, Indi, Oct. 12.— (UP) —Sixty members of the International Unibn of Electrical Workers were scheduled to report back to work at the Van Arnam Manufacturing Co. todajy following settlement of a one-ddy strike. \ Company and union reached a contract agreement last night but refused to disclose details. IUE Local No. 902 called the strike in a dispute over several contract provisions, including an eightcent hourly pay increase demand. First Polio Death Reported At Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 12— (UP>— Joy Jeanette Powell, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Powell of Valpaaiso, died yesterday of polio. She was Porter county’s first victim of the disease this year. \

Decatur, Indiana, Friday* (fftober 12, 1951.

Walter Ford Speaks At Rotary Meeting Walter Ford, executive secretary of 4he Decatur Chamber of Commerce. was the guest speaker at , the weekly meeting of the Decatnr Rotary club \ Thursday evening. Ford urged all present to exerciae their right of franchise a4 the forthcoming city election and distributed copies of the “Voter's Manual.” prepared by the Chamber of Commerce td acquaint citizens of Decatur with blty government. Roh*Tt\Macklin iwas chairman of the program. . j— — '■' ' t Great Quantities Os A-Weapons Stored '■l ■ p Atomic Energy Head Reports Development Frenchi Lick, Ind., Oct,. 12.— (UP) —Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; said today that the United States is storing, up “great quantities” of. atomic weapons. Dean said thd rate of development. both .of weapons and" atomic energy for peacetime use?, was on the availability of uranium, “but our .uranium supuly looks better todayj than it ever has. before.” , 1 \ Dean's speech was prepared for delivery before the Indiana con*' vention ?of electric power engineers. It was read by Alfonso Tammard ‘manager of AEC’s Chicago' operations office. He said the AEC had not lost! sight of its long-term job of developing j atomic energy for the achievement of the “fuller life” for this ’ : country and the world. •But he said it necessarily , had taken a i>ack seat to defense production. “We are, frankly, in the weapons business i more than anything else,” he. said of the commission’s work. ' . “Our main goal is to obtain uranium-4-our' basic raw material; —from every source that is available to us to purify this uranium, to produce from it the explosive substances known as “fissionable materials’’ and to get these materials into weapons form aq rapidly and as efficiently as we can.” He said j the task of the AEC was fourfold:, (1) improve public welfare; (2) Increase standard of living; (3) strengthen free; competition in private enterprise: \(4) promote world peace. To that end, he said, “discussions are! now going on in Washington concerning proposals that the natibn greatly expand its atomic energy , productive capacity ... ” ( Fundamentally, of course, we can grow no larger than our uranium supply will let ns. But our uranium supply looks better today than it ever has before, and this coupled with technological, advancement, leads us to believe that we Jean expand.” ; r, I - • ■ ■ "

aS. Urges Iran To Resume Negotiation Acceptance Os * ; Resolution From UN i ■ United Nations, N.Y., Oct. 12. — (UP)-—The United States aligned Itself with Britain today and called ujton Iran to accept a United Nations resolution calling for resumed ’ ''yvYnMiHown - tn the Anglo-frenian oil dispute, y But Iranian deputy premier Hossein Fatemi. spokesman for the Iranian delegation until his chief, Mohammed Mossadegh, is well enough to leave New York hospital, was on record with a flat declara* tion that: \ “We definitely not accept any security council resolution telling qs to negotiate.” Britain made public today the watered-down version of Its original militant resolution. The revised proposal wifi go before the council when ! if meets at Flushing Meadow Monday. The metisure makes only a passing reference to an international court injunction which ordered both Britain and Iran not tq interfere in operations of the giant Anglo-Iranian Oil company pending a final decision by the tribunal. The resolution's operative part would have the council call for: ' \ “The resumption of negotiations at the earliest prqyticable moment in order to make further efforts to resolve the differences between the parties in accordance with the principles of the provisional measures indicated by the international court (Turn To ra*o , ' 1 1 !'} Meet Monday Night To Organize Class Second sEffort To Form Adult Class A second organizational meeting for a class in elementary economics, accounting and tax problems for small businesses and individuals, will be held in room 201 oj the Decatur high school Monday, according to Arnold Conrad, who will be in charge of the class. The second meeting was necessitated when an insufficient number Os persons reported for the first meeting last Monday. Since thfen, Conrad reports, further interest has been displayed by others, and the second attempt tjo form the class will be made. The meeting will begin at 7 p m., and should a sufficient quyiber enroll, classes will be conducted from 6:30 to 8 p.m. . “At least 10 persons must be enrolled,” Conrad said, “to assure continuing the class.” It is believed that this number 4ill be met or surpassed at the next meeting, and classes will get underway the following week. Typing classes will moije into their second week next Monday under the tutelage of Maynard Hetrick, of the high school staff.. Nineteen were present tor the organlzar ttonal meeting held a ? couple of iveeks ago.

Communist Cease-Fire Team Charges Three UN Warplanes Strafe Area

To Cut Production Os Durable Goods 10 Percent Slash Ordered January 1 Washington, Oct. 12 — (UPW — Production of consumer durable goods will be cut another 10 percent beginning Jan. 1 and automobile output will be slashed somewhat more, it was anhuonced today. The defense-dictated cuts were anpouneed by defense production administrator Manly Fleischmann who said there also will be further pinches in other civilian output. Fleischmann and defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson told a joint session of four congressional committees that civilian production in the first three months of 1952 will be “moderately lower” than in the last quarter of this year because the rearmament program is "beginning to hit its i stride.” Fleischmann also warned that the nation will be luicky if supplies 6f steel, copper anci aluminum for the first three months of 1952 come up to estimates. And Wilson said that the first half of next year will be a period of “acute shortages” in scare metals. But he expressed hbpe that the “sharp squeeze will not extend for too long a period.” Fleischmann said the consumer durable goods industry will get about llti percent less steel than in the last quarter of 1951. The reductions in copper and aluminium will be even more drastic, he said. But he said the supply of refrigerators, stoves. TV sets and other home appliances “should be sufficient” because of ample inventories on dealers shelves. 1 ~ He confirmed that the :auto in(Tnrn Tn ’l'arr Elxht) Jai| On Wheels' To Be Displayed Here Parked On Streets Today And Saturday Displaying all the paraphernalia of modern crime fighting, the compact,, educational “jail on wheels” will be parked ion the east side of the\ court house today and Saturday, in its nation-wide tour.. Making a-day and one-half stop in Decatur, the* $15,000 trailer will be complete with all pertinent devices used by police officials in apprehending law violators. The equipment includes a drunkometer, all police weapons; sub-machine guns, rifles, shotguns, revolvers, gas and riot guns and gds bombs. Exhibited wilLbe leg-irons, handcuffs and ironclaws; bullet-proof vests; detection powder and ultra-violet ray 1 equipment: complete teletype and fingerprinting apparatus; and a jail pell. \ \ Outstanding feature is a genuine electric chair, an exact duplicate oi the one used at Connecticut state prison, as well as an. electric He detector. Conceived by former sheriff J. Edward Slavin, of New Haven, Conn., the trailer measures 33 feet from bumper to‘bumper. The (exhibit is heartily esdqrsed by sheriff Bob Shraiukd and Decatur police chief James Borders. The trailer will be open to the public until 10 p. m. Saturday. King George Makes Steady Progress v V London, Oct. —(Up)—King George VI ia making “uninterrupted progress” following his lung operation, his doctors said today. / Th® king was operated upon Sept. 23 for the removal of all or part of his left lung.

Income Taxes Will Increase On November 1 Compromise Bill Approved; Boost Os 11.75 Percent Washington. Oct. 12 — (UP) — Income taxes will go up, Nov. 1. and It will cost you more to buy a pack of cigarets, liquor, or beer, and to take that Sunday drive in your car. ■The income tax increase will be are in a relatively high income bracket.. In that case, it will be slightly less.; J I . A compromise biU to increase taxes .on individuals, corporations and on some items subject to excise, or so-called sales taxes, was approved yesterday by a senatehouse conference committee. The committee adjusted the differences in bills passed by the two houses. The house is expected to okay it Tuesday, and the senate that same day or the day following. President Truman’s signature then fffl make The measure Taw. tax increases provided in the legislation will yjeld the government about $5,750,000,000 a year in additional revenue. President Truman asked ! for $10,700,000,000 to help pay for . the rearmament program. Excise taxes are to be increased on liquor, \beer, cigarets, automobiles, gasoline and numerous other items J The liquor tax increase will be 30 cents on a fifth of 100 proof whisky; the cigaret tax one cent a pack, making the tax eight cents instead of seven; the gasoline tax becomes two cents a gallon instead of one and one-half ceriU; the beer tax $9 a barrel instead of sß,.and the automobile tax I J(T percent instead of seven. . The present 10 percent tax on electrical, gas, and oil appliances would be extended to many other appliances not taxed now—such mangles; dishwashers, clothes driers, and power lawn mowers. The tax on corporations will go up five’percentage points. Under the individual income tax increase, a single person earn-, ing $3,000 a year will pay $544 in (Turn To Page Rlsht) ■ ? > ■ Mrs. Sam Frank Diei Early This Morning Funeral Services Monday Morning Mrs. Mary Elizabeth BaxterFrank, who observed her 92nd birthday last’ summer, died at 1:40 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for some time and in the hospital for several weeks. Mrs. Frank was born in Adams county June 6, 1859, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George *Baxter, and whs a lifelong resident of county. She had resided on High street' for many years. Her husband, Sam Frank, for many years a night watchman in Decatur, preceded her in death. She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. Surviving one daughter, Mrs. Cora Badders of. Decatur; six grandchildren, 10 ’ great-grandchil-dren and eight great-great-grand-children. One daughter, one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Cfatholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating, Burial will be in the becatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Black funeral home, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon until time of the services.

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Throws Shadow On Hopes To Resume Cease-Fire Talks Over Korean War UN Advance Base, Mnnsan. Korea, Saturday, Oct. 13.—(UP) —The Communist cease-fire team charßed Friday night that three United Nations warplanes strafed the neutral zone around Pan Mun Jom, killing one Korean boy and wounding another. T|»ey also claimed a second neutrality violation occurred near Kaesonf. UN liaison officers sped to the area within an hour after the Reds made their telephoned accusation and returned just before midnight. They will return to Pan Mun Jom at 9 a.m. today (6 p.m. Friday CST) to continue their investigation. The Red charges of neutrality violations —the 13th and 14th claimed since late August—threw a shadow on brightening prospects for an early resumption of Korean eeasefire talks. , The incidents may force postponement of today’s scheduled meeting of liaison officers who are trying to get the talks started again. ' Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols.; spokesman for the UN Cease-fire team, said these officers 1 will accompany the UN investigators to Pan Mun Jom “in case a decision is reached to continue the regular liaison meetings in addition to the investigation.” ■ Earlier ihe‘ Reifs had " charged' that a single plane had bombed the neutral area. | : No details of the attack, the type of plane involved, or the extent of damage, if any), Were given in the terse Red complaint which sent UN officers off to Kaesong without delay. . ; j The investigation will continue today if Friday night’s preliminary check bears out the Reds’ charge, their 13th accusation of neutrality violations since late August. The charge came in a radio-tele-phone call from, the Communist base camp in Kaesong three hours after allied and Red liaison officers had met and agreed on all “ground rules” for resumption of the Korean armistice talks, except the size of the neutral zonie about Kaesong. Brig, Gen. William Nuckols, spokesman for the UN truce, delegation. said the Communists never have given formal notice that the five-mile Kaesong neutral zone no longer exists and therefore “this gives us an implied obligation to ’ respect it.” / Nuckols said that because of darkness UN officers probably would be unable to do more tonight than get additional facts from the Reds on the alleged violation and prepare for a full-scale investigation “if the preliminary .reports bear out the statements.” United Nations and Communist liaison teams will meet again at 10 a.m. tomorrow (7 p.m, today CST) for another attempt to resolve the Kaesong zone 1 problem, i Brig. Gen. William Nuckols, spokesman for the UN truce delegation, Confirmed that Pan Mun Jom had been agreed upon as the site for resumption of the ceasefire conference. ,- 1 i Pan Mun Jom is a dusty village of four mudhuts six miles southeast of Kaesong, where the truce talks were held until their rupture by the Communists Aug. 23. Nuckols said the liaison officers also have agreed that: 1. The truce conference shall be resumed in the same Communisterected “circus tent 6 in Pan Mun Jom where the liaison officers have been meeting since Tuesday. 2. A neutral zone extending for a radius of .1,000 yards aropnd the tent will be policed jointly by Communist and UN military police, who shall be permitted to carry small arms. 3. There shall be “no action of armed forced” inside either of the , proposed neutral zones around the UN base camp at Munsan, 11 miles southeast of Pan Mun Jom, and the Communist camp at Kfiesong. Armed troops [ may be in both areas, however. 4. The neutral zone around the UN camp at Munsan shall extend for-si radius of 3,000 yards(Tura To I'agra Eight)