Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 243.

TRUMAN MAKES NEW PEACE BID TO RUSSIA

New Deadlock On Resumption | Os Trace Talks j ’ 1 • ■*..*' ~■' ” s. Another Meefmg Tonight; Capture 10 Strategic Hills j | UN Advance Base; Munsan, K«* rea.’ Oct. 15. — (UP) — LinfeOn officers trying to arrange resumption of the* Korean armistice talks ran into a new deadlock today. if A United Nations, spokesman sais UN and Communist .liaison teams made “little progress” at a threehour meeting inPanmunjbfn be cause the Reds: T.—Refused to reduce the fiv4< mile neutral sone around theijr base canip in Kaesong even though the truce talks are to be shifted tp Paumunjom. six miles to the souttj.<sgast. i 2. —Insisted that the UN conimand bear responsibility for any attacks on the neutral zones by KO- - partisans. , , - g The liaison teams will try agaih to break the deadlock at a meeting in Panmunjom at 10 a.m. (7 p.m. today CST). ( Neither side came up With any compromise proposal at today’s sion in the circus tent pitched by the Reds for the armistice In a bean -patch opposite Panmurp jonfs three mudhuts. | Capture Hills . JI 8th f Army Headquarters. Korei. Tuesday. Oct. 16.—(UP) — tank-led United Nations divisions captured ten strategic .hills jn a , fast three-mile advance Monday and smashed into a strong defense line manned by up to 17.006 Chinese. i ' The Chinese put up fierce resistance to halt the allied push at somfc points along the ofr-mile attack from south of Kumsong.- After three days of ineffective resistance. th£j Chinese apparently were ready fqr a strong fight. • Allied briefing officers said the Chinese have thrown all their re serve units into this area and their total strength on the line was placed at between- 12.000 and 17,000 men. ■ ' I N officers said the Reds were firing Russian made rockets at allied positions. \ . L in one four-mile sector of the Up,l attack fronts demoralized Chinese; abandoned stockpiles of guns and ammunition Monday in a hasty retreat toward their main base kt Kumsong. UN officers said they pulled back to solidify their lines. An Sth ariny communique report--ed That enemy resistance along the remainder of the east-central assault front ranged from light to, “stiff.” Two counter-attacks weje beaten'off. More than 5.000 Red troops have been killed or in the past three days. ' I Demoralization also has spread to the home'Tront'.in North Korea. Refugees from Pyongyang said, rioting against the Communist gov ; eminent has. broken out in the North Korean capital and the nearby towns of Chinnampo, Taejyopg apd Chinji-Dong. . 1/ ■ Police quelled the riots and ar--rested the ringleaders, the refugees f (Turn T® Pajtr Four) J ’ ; I] Farmers Institute | Dates Are Announced Farmer’s institute dates for tfe 1952 season have just been released, states county agent K JE. Archbold. Adams Central, undjer chairman Eugene Arnold, indt Pleasant Mills. Elisha Mernman> chairman!,‘ will be held Jan. 2VUnion township, with Richard Geimer. chairman, and Root, Fred Fuelling, Jr.; chairman, are dated for Jan. 30. Geneva, Robert Long, chairman, and Berne, . Dennis Lehman, chairman, are schedufed for Jan. 81. ' ' , . The wombri/speakers. Mrs. L. G. Vannice of Danville, and Mrs. James R. Lawson. Greensburg, .are prepared to give inspirational talks. I- ■; / The men speakers. George Nasser. rural health department, Purdue University, dnd F. R. Willsey. Purdue engineering specialist, Will present some very pertinent facts on health and INDIANA WEATHER \ Fgir tonlflht, Tuesday partly cloudy and mild. Low tonight 44 to 48. High Tuesday 74 to 78. ‘

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. I BULLETIN Miami, Fla., Oct. 15.—(UP) —The Miami weather bureau reported at 11 a.m. today that thje hurricane menacing Florida arid the American Legion convdntion "may have dissipated" soil th of Cuba. The weather bureau said Florida was not in any danger - “today and tonight.” l J —I , .... v Egypt Rejects Invitation To Join In Pact Refuses To Join A Middle East Pact Against Communism Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 15.—(UP)— Egy|)t rejected today a spur-power invitation to joip a middle east pact against Communism, and parliament approved ending of the AngloEgyptian treaties covering the Suez Canil zone and the Sudan. Interior minister Fuad Sirag El Din/Pasha announced in Uie chamber of deputies the government’s decision not to join tjie United States, Britain. France Turkey in- tjie middle-east pact. Parliament was expected to give its quick approvad. | The decision against joining the middle east pact was revealed only a s|ort time after the chamber of .deputies approved abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaties. \ 1 The two moves gave a new and dark turn to Egypt’s quarrel With "Britain over the stationing of British troops in the Suefc Cana! zone and Abe -status of the Sudan. ( (In London, authoritative sources said the four powers offering the defense pact will provide “unified resistance” if Egypt or any other provokes a middle east exFremter M usta f a Nahas Pasha announced the four-power proposal to &lace the Suez Cana) under inter® al ion al supervision [ had been sullied by the cabinet last night. Ht/said foreign minister Salah ElDig Pasha will hand Egypt's formal reify to the four western ambassadors today. The 10,000 British trpops garrisc'aed in the Suez a _ rea prepared toI (Turn To Paar Foi»r» .| A I Rents Rolled Back At Camp Atterbury i ‘J r- ' Washington. Oct. Ijs.— (UP) — The government today I rolled back pn all residential housing units in •• critical aregs around Cajnp Atterbury Ind. The move Was ordered/by rent sterilizer Tighe E. Woods, who “F rent controls needed be|au§e of “acute. housih£ shor*ag|s.” It was approved pY defense i secretary Robert A. Lovett \ and economic stabilizer Eric Johnston, i Areas \ around Camp LeJeune. :N.U. and the naval base at Breniertbn. Wash., also are affected by thi order. Democrats To Meet Here This Evening ■l■ ' , C s jPlan For Opening 1 iOf Headquarters I'lie Democrat, city corhmittee an| other Democrat party ’Workwill meet tonight ait 8 o’clock atf. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hutker on Cleveland street. \ flans for the opening Tuesday of | Democrat headquarters in the K.sof P. building gn' Third street wl|l -be completed and a program fo| the last three weeks of the campaign will be discussed. Frank Bohrike, city chairman, sajd that the committee and worker! ■ also would' decide on the advisability of haying a closing camp:fgn rally either, at headquarters or? on ‘ the court house square. S.|me members of the committee ace favorable to an old time rally w|th a hand and parade. I 'John Stults, L Democrat candidtit'e for mayor, and all five counJc|e Brennan< Al . Beavers, Adrian Bgrke and Dorphus Drum, will atth® meeting. Each coinmittw member has been asked to bsng his workers with him to the n|petiug.

Ten Killed In Mine Blast In West Virginia. Cause Os Explosion Uncertain; Foremaii And Crew Victims Morgantown, W. Va., Oct. 15] — (UP)—Ten men were killed today in an explosion at the Bunkjer mine of the*Trotter Coal Co. near 1 here. , Rescue crews, hampered by lack of oxygen and tons of debris ripped from the mine tunnels. dugA through the blast area about 3Va miles from the mine entrance to reach the victims., g James F. Trotter, president of the said no fire followed the explosion, the cause of which has nose yet been determined officially. Rescue icrews said the bodies of seven victims were found in a shattered loading section about tinee hours after the blast occurred and that two others were later found beneath piles of rqck. > Trotter said the explosion killed section foreipan Joseph S.lavensky and all of his nine-man crew. Slavensky’s bgdy was the first to be found. / 4 .J , : \ The body of the seefiop boss uas found lying alongside a telephone where he apparently was preparing to report a change in shift to the "surface when the blast the shaft. 11. L. Schweingsberg, director of safety and rescue for the Mate department of mines, said the explosion took place shortly after a fire boss inspected the mine. He said the department is tryinigi to locate his report to determine whether gas had been reported' in the pit. The mine official said the blast apparently was confined to a single loading section and that there was no fire. He said the .explosion apparently occurred as 1 the men were getting ready to leave the section. • ' 7 ' A ' ■ I A Lu ■ —T —7 * — -h® 7 High School Pupils Plan Tour Tuesday All-Day Journey To < ' Dearborn, Michigan Sixty-one persons—mostly students in the Decatur ligh school junior history class of Deane Dorwin—will leave this city at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday for an all-day journey to Dearborn, Mich. J This is the third such annual trip taken by high school students, and Dorwin indicated that a sophomore class trip to Chicago is contemplated in the near future.. The itinerary tor the day includes a breakfast stop at 7:30 a.m., arrival at the Edison Institute, an hour and one-half sojourn in Canada, a visit through Ford’s River Rouge plant: theh home. I Miss Jean Steller, Miss Rebecca Walters, and Dorwin, teachers on the high school staff, will accbm- ! pany the two busloads of students who will include: Carol Baumgartner, Barbara Bowman, Robert „ Brokaw, Betty Brunner. NOma Brunner, Richard Callow. Allan Cole. Barbara Cole, Paul Conrad, Jerry Cowan, Louann Davidson. Genevieve Draper. Richard Duff, Beverly Elliott, Caroll Elzey, Zelda Ensminger, Shirley Fisher, Shirley Fuelling, James Helm, Rosemary Hetric|<, Marilyn Jaberg, Carl Johnson, Carol Kalver, Norma Kelly. Shdron Kimble, Robert Kiser, Ferris Kohne, Kent Koons, Joan Kt;use, Gaynel Lankenau. Jack Lawson, Sharlene Lehman, Henry Lehrman, Walter Lehrman, Robert Lobsiger, Roger McDonald, Ann McKean, Eugene Morrison, Ronald MuV\phy, Douglas Rambo, Donald Reinking. James Rennels, Marilyn Robinson, Donald Roop, Ronald Secaur, Lois Strahm, Carolyn Strickler. Karen Striker, Sunya Stuckey, Shirley Sudduth, Daniel Thomas, Patricia Treon, Eugene Vetter, \ Neoma W r enger, Deloris Werling, Lois Wood, Shirley WorkInger, Leroy Yoder. ! Mary Swearingen, Vernon Thieme and Don Dale.

' - '—MW ' Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 15, 1951. ; j.

J Ike Greets Parley Delegates / ’■ '• •ai ■-.■a.-L 1 |-1 •. ■ ~'t!i ' SMILES' ARE THE ORDER of the day:4o> Gen. Dwight D.' Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Powters in Europe, welcomes the principal delegates to the NATO conference now being held in Parli. In the gfoup (1. to r.) are: W. Averell Harriman. President Truman’s special advisor on foreign affairs;, Gen. Eisenhower; Jean Monnet. vice president of the temporary committee of the Atlantic Pact, and -Hugh GSltskell. British Chancellor of the Exchequer. i

/_ jW i IranjCloses Door On Oil Negotiations Only Sale, Amount Os Indemnity Will Be Negotiated United Nations. Jf. Y., Oct. 15— (UP)—lran today clorfed the door to further negotiations with Britain except on the questions of the sale of ml and the amount of indemnity |for the nationalized An-g!o-lranian oil company. Deputjf Iranian Premier Hossein Fatismi told a news conference here that hU government is ready td start selling oil without farther talks about liquidation of the |sooj<H)e,oo(* company. Fate mi said th,e oil dispute had plunged; Iran Ibto an economic crisis aml that the government of Premier, 1 Mohammed Mossadegh, who will plead the Iranian case before the security council this afternoon, “may face the danger of disintegration;” “For months,” he said, “Iran has received no revenue from the c'.l industry. As a result of insufficient revenue. there is unemployment'and poverty throughout the country , . . \ “The Entire government may face the. danger of disintegration. Tor thietf reason, the government ol Iran is resolved to exploit Its oil immediately. The \ifatiohalizajion law provides th'et Iranian oil should be sold to any country which purchased oil. from the AIOC in the last three years. The list includes most western European countries, India, Pakistan, some other middle' eastern countries and Czechoslovakiaand Poland—but not the Soviet “Does this mean that you have _ (Turn To Pace Six)

Hungarian Couple Live Home Near City

Mr. Mrs. Laszlo UregdyNagy are a ! couple from Hungary who live/jat Stdwart W. McMillen’s Valley southeast of the city and they- the (Uregdy-Nagys) are finding '’ th<e language barrier® probably! thfe most difficult to surmount. A Whiles being strangers in this country lends itself to a certain tdifticillty of understanding, “I Understand the words you say,” said once during the course df a protracted interview, “but idea ... no,” the couple know tMat someday this 4rUl be J .. “NextAyegr,” Mrs. Uregdy-Nagy said, “iWnalte speech.” She w-as perhaps more taciturn than het husband who carired on most the conversation in a grasping, hopeful manner by constantly Consulting a small dictionary whlsi he held on his lap, and the patient Interpreting of Mrs. l/McMillen. He slowly unfurled the couple’s story hife’s 58 and she’s 53, from the time’ he was a colonel in the\ Hungarian army to the dair they left Bremerhaven for the United States.

r —V— '— iL—UN Troops Removed From Grounded Ship ' f. if- i ' : " ’■ • . j All 500 UN Troops ! A*e Rescued Today I■.' a - d : Tokyo, Oct. 15.—(UP)—All 500 United Nations soldiers arid 70 Japanese crewmen of the grounded U.S. Lnavy transport Kongo M»ru Wero; taken safely aboard a rescue vessel tonight. f A bavy public information officer at Sasebo said all were,safe and none were injured. ' I The navy attack transport USS George C. Clymer used landing craft Jo take aboard the allied soldiers 1 front the beach at Uku Shima. 35 from Sasebo off southern Japan. The men went ashore when heavy seas began pounding the Kongo Maru. which was grounded stern-first 400 yards from shore. Clymer ..was due to Sasebo early Tuesday. Forty crewmen and the master remained aboard the Kongo Maru. a Japanese ship leased to the U.S. navy to carry irobps tp Korea. The Clymer and two other fescue craft previously tried to reach the stranded troop ship bui heavy wafek lashing the listing ve4sel forced them back. The finally got a salvage boat alongside, put communications aboard and started transferring troops by. small craft. U.B. navy headquarters in Tojkyo did not identify the nationality of the troops nor give the number aboard beyond saying there were “several hundred.” 7'l, ' '' < < 7' ? jX————— _ v NEW SERIAL "Miss Doctor,” an absorbing Stciry by Elizabeth Seifert, It the new serial story which will start in Tuesday’s Daily * Democrat. It is the story of two young doctors falling i|i love with the same girl. y You*l| enjoy every installment

fn ■ between Hungarian afmy dtfys and todays the Uregdy-Nagys wete'dispossessed by the Russians in.; 1948, and they immediately ; left; for Bregenz on foot. They walked three weeks from Bqldaid Bregenz, and they applied sos 'Mie necessary visas to get to this; United States. |ATha Uregdy-Nagys were brought ■ to/ this country by the efforts! of the united chiirches organization i and sponsored by the Presbyter- , fans. Latizlo is of that, faith; Jiilia, i hls wife, is Catholic. | s Several such families are how located in the county, all of them forming a link with the Old World, and perhaps mutely* expressing i the futility of mankind, but all i hayitig a certain bond. I /There are Mr. and Mrs. Erhard • BHwernita and son Holger, 2, front the British zone of Germany I who make their home at the Peter ; Lehman home west of Berne. And • family of five. Mr. and Mrs. i Wasyl Swawzzenko and three i children from the Ukraine, who l|ye on the E. W. Busche farm, eMt of Monroe. I Laszlo, a slightly I built, gray &/? (Tara Ta Pu» Mil

_ Asks Soviet Union Join Sincerely In Efforts To Prevent Atomic Warfare

Infant Is Kidnaped From Hospital Crib Infant Boy Taken At Michigan City Michigan Uity, Ind., Oct. 15. — (UP) —Detectives said today they planned to run a series of lie detector tests on "ail persons concerned” in the kidnaping of a five-day-old • baby from his hospital nursery crib. , Det. Paul Wilhelm of the Indiana state police said the tests would be run in an effort to get some sort of lead on the disappearance of tiny Lawrence Lyons, kidnaped from the St. Anthony hospital nursery Saturday evening. ; “We haven’t got any leads at all —no motive and no clues,” said Det. Abe Muckway, who is in charge of the investigation. Wilhelm indicated the tests * would be made on all person! as-J 1 sociated. with the case and particui larly persons known to 1 have been i near the fourth-floor nursery at the i time of the child’s disappearance. * The infanfs father, James Lyons, • 3'., a filling statiori attendant, yesl terday Sobbed out a appeal jo the abductor of his son. . "Please take good care of our baby,” he pleaded. harm j h|m and returp him to the hospital, i the police station or to our home.” , Lyons also gave the child’s formula. , At the same time, a etate-wide , police alarm was widened to in- [ dude Illinois and Michigan. Police believed the child was , taken from his crib by some mentally upset \ woman with a "mother complex” or a mother who had lost ' a child of her own, , The time of the kidnaping was fixed at between 5 and 6 p.m. Saturday. Nurses’ aide' Donna Rowlands said she came on duty at 5 p.m. and checked !11 the babies (Tun To Pare Sl>) ' ' . J ■ J ■/! '■ . Republicans Open Headquarters Here City Attorney Is t Opening Speaker Pointing up the accomplishments of the Doan administration during the past four years, and outlining, the projected plans for the forthcoming years, Robert S. Anderson, principal speaker at the official opening of Republican beadquarters Saturday, told the almost 100 persons present that This city \now finds itself one of the most solvent of any its size in the country.” jAnderson was introduced at the opening by city GOP chair- , man Robert G. Smith, who briefly outlined the work that must be done “for a successful campaign.” Harry Essex, fodrth district i GOP fehairmari, introduced the candidates, and incuihbent Mayor John M. Doan concluded the evening’s speeches reiterating his candidacy< City attorney Anderson related past projects in considerable detail, emphasizing the advantages accrued from the installation of the water department’s new softener plant (“there’s an i astounding increase in the number of users”); explaining the erection of street signs (“the money was obtained from perking meter funds and didn’t cost the taxpayer a cent”), and noted that Decatur’s tax rate is among the lowest in the state (“there are only 10 cities in the entire state which have a lower rate”).. The city, he remarked, places second in a couple of important departments: it is runner-up in “low insurance” rates, and has the second-best equipped police department ih state ratings. Anderson then outlined future plans; the completion of the electric light department’s auxiliary power plant, and the construction of biore sewers which will network the city. v. i i

Legislature In Fourth Week Os Special Session Weary Members Os Legislature Seek Early Adjournment Indianapolis, Oct. 15 : — (UP) — The Indiana legislature reconvened in its fourth week of special session today with interest among weary members sagging in a Republican “home-rule” I welfare program. . L 1 . ’ Many /lawmakers urged party leadens to wind up business this Upek \»nd adjourn. They indicated they would rather go home than score federal bureaucracy by enacting the “home-rule” program in its entirety if it Lakes much time. . : s1 j : They believe congress will solve Indiana’s financial problem caused by the loss .of |20,000,000 a year in federal aid alter the state enacted a law opening welfare records to the But GOP chieftains held out fbr passage of at least a portion ot the “homerule” legislation sos the . state's 75,000 needy. I Congressional actidn was probable (his week on an amendment to the federal publip assistance program introduced by Sen., William E. Jenner, R„ Ind. j It would nullify federal security rules prohibiting. the publication of relief rolls, the provision f which fleost Indiana the federal aid. There were rumbjipgs, voiced by Democrats and one Republican’ who; declined use ot his name, that the Jenner amendment has the blessing Qf Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., 0., in a political deal. The talk was that Tass forces will push it as a timely help to Indiana Republicans sin exchange for Hoosier support df Taft ip the 1952 presidential nontinating convention. Hoosiers of both political faiths expect the amendment tb be biassed and sent to President Truman. But forces led by Sfen. John W. Van Ness. R., Valparaiso, urged passage of a “jusbin-case” bill which 4ropld permit ; welfare financing from a general fund surplus should congress turn thumbs down. . i j There was only a slight chance all seven other bills in the GOP policy parcel — stripping control from the state welfare department and giving it to counties — will pass the senate. They already are safely through the house. 7—l 7.. 7Mrs. Elizabeth Ball Is Taken By Death ■ ■ — r •a ; k Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon - ' ■ 'U' I ■ . j ■ \ !! A Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Railing Ball, 89, died at 11 a.m. Sunday at the' home of a grandson, Robert Witham, 429 Line street, hftfer a year’s illness of complications. A lifelong resident of Adams county, she was born here Feb. 17, 1862, a daughter of and Martha Gessinger-Railing. H!r husband preceded her in death. Surviving are a sop* Charles Ball of Avon, N Y.; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and one C h e r i Jacobs. One daughter is deceased. Private funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gilllg & Doan funertU home, the Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. .Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock , this evening until time of the services.

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Plan Conditioned * J On Abandonment By Reds Os Aggressive Pldns, Propaganda Winston-Salem. N. C., Oct. 15— (UP) — President Truman tdday made ,a nhw peace bid to the Soviet Union. He asked the Russians to join sincerely in efforts to “free the world from the scourge of atomic warfare.” The president’s peace overture was conditioned on Russia’s abandonment of aggressive plans and “phony peace propaganda.” I Pending such a Soviet change of heart, he advised the free nations to build their defenses against “sneaking, creeping,” aggression. The chief executive made his proposal at ground-breaking cere- . monies on the new site of, Wake Forest College, oldest and largest Baptist college in this country, ■tie flew here this morning, There was nothing dramatically new about Mr. Truman’s peace bid. He made similar proposals before, but today’s invitation was made as Russia continued to test actual atomic bombs. . ( There was one note of optimism as the president counseled the construction of bigger and better , defenses agatnst Russia. ' , “Ab our defenses improve.” he . said, “the chances of negotiating successfully with the Soviet Union ( will increase: -"The growth of our defenses will help to convince the leaders of the Soviet Union that peaceful arrangements are in weir own self interest. And as o,ur strength increases, we should be able to negotiate settlements that the Soviet Union will respect and live up to.” The chief executive recalled that “long; before the Soviet Union got the atomic bomb," this country offered a plari Jn the United Nations to control atomic weapons. Russia, however, rejected it. as she did plans initiated by the United States for control of other weapons. Despite Russian obstruction, the president said “good progress" tov. ard the goal of disarmament had been made in the UN. He referred specifically to the merger of two UN commission® studying atomic energy and conventional weapons. “We are ready now. as We always have been, to sit down with the Soviet Union, and all the nations concerned, in the , United Nations, and work together for lifting the |>urden of armaments and securing the peace. , V‘We are determined to leave no stone unturned in this search not ohly for relief from the horror , another world but also for the basis of a durable peace.” The growing strength of this country and her allies, he said, might convince Russia’s .leaders “that it is to their own interest to lay aside their aggressive plans, and their phony peace propaganda, and join with us and the other free nations' to work out practical arrangements for achieving peace.” He added quickly that he could net guarantee achievement of world peace because it was hot entirely up to this country. “The rulers of the Kremlin can plunge the world into carnage if they desire to do so." he said. ' “But that is something this country will never do." — Nine Youths Leave For Armed Services Nine Adams county'youths left early today for induction into the armed forces: scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis, the contingent will then be transferred to'Camp Custer Mich., for basic training and further assignment. Those leaving included David Alpha Barkley, William Troxel, Jr., Robert Wayne Steiner, Lester Arno Backhaus, Hichard Jerome Wemhoff, Halden Schueler, Hubert Gena Isch, Christian Joshua Liechty, Bacardo Luentes.