Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 250.

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Reds Insist On Own Terms In Cease-Fire . - ’ ■>- | i r- ■ . • - ’ • - r ■“ Red's Delegation Continues To Delay Resumption Os Talks IUN Advance Rase. Munsan, Korea, Oct. 23 4UPI- 1 Chinese Premier Mao Tse Tung' indicated today that Red Chit)* will agree to a Korean cease-fire only on her termSi Mao called for increased Chinese efforts in the Korean war "until the Americans agree to peace”while the Communist cease-fire delegation continued to delay resumption of armistice talks. The Chinese Communist leader in a speech broadcast by Peiping radio indicated that the Reds will continue to insist on a truce along the 38th parallel. The United Nations, which has been ready for two days to resume negotiations at any time, wants a cease-fire along the present battleline. "This agreement was the original stumb-ling-block to a cease-fire agreement. Mao said “anti-American and — pro-Korean movements are now being continued and will be continued until the Americans agree to peace.” “We must increase our efforts in our fight,” he said. "We mufet continue our efforts against the Americans and support of the Koreans . . "The struggle of the Chinese jieople continues and will con? tinue until the United States desires peaceful of the Korean ceasefire negotiations. 7 ’ Mao said the Chinese Communists wanted a settlement on a “fair and reasonable basis,” But ob- . servers here saw no reason for optimism’in his speech and believed the Chinese would force the North Korean to follow their line whenever cease-fire talks resume. \ Only the signature of North Korean Gen. Nam 11. Head of the Communist truce, delegation, on a conference "ground rules” agreement already approved by ~ his* liuison officers blocked reopening of the talks at Panmunjom. Allied officers waited vainly near a radio-telephone at their base camp at Munsan, fl miles southeast of Panmunjom. for word from the Reds that Nam II had ratified the agreement. ■, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy. head of the United Nations truce delegation, ratified the agreement soon after Its completion yesterday and proposed that the talks he resumed at 11 a. m. on the day, following Communist ratification. Th prolonged delay in Communist ratification meant, that tile talks cannot be resumed before 11 a. tn. Wednesday (8 p. m. today CST> • The Chinese Communist radio j at Peiping indicated that the Reds | fully intend to ratify the agreement reached by the liaison officers. It announced, that two mem* berslof the Red truce team would be replaced when the talks are resumed. 'Trick Or Treat' - Raises sll2 For Hungry Children Monday night’s “trick or treat” in Decatur will enable more than 1,000 of the world’s hungry children to have a glass of dehydrated milk daily for a week, or 100 children to have milk for two weeks.-through the United Nations international children’s relief committee. - s V A check for sll2 was mailed this morning to the UN committee in New York which takes care of the world’s neediest. < • ’ Approximately 30 young people from several churches, ‘ including the host Westminster fellowship of the First Presbyterian, could only partly canvass Decatur with milk cartons in the “trick or treat” last night. For the most part, residents awaited the canvassers and gave generously. Each official “trick or treater" had credentials to verify the purpose of the visit. Indiana Weather Rain ending tonight, cooler by morning. Wednesday pert* 'ly cloudy and cool. Low tonight 42-50, high Wednesday 50 north to 55 south. A-.; j'--?’ ‘ A : if . r V. 1 ’'- 'a t i

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Death-Truck Driver Given Prison Term Crown Point* Ind., Oct. 23.— (UP) — Ralph E. Martin. 37. Columbus, 0., a truck driver, was sentenced at Lake cbiinty criminal court yesterday tp one to five years for reckless homicide nin a highway aoeident in which three persons were* killed. Police testified that Martin was driving On the wrong side of the highway and had a high alcoholic content in his blood when his truck side-swiped a car driven by Donald Hope of Hope, his wife, arid their son, Donald 12. were killed in the accident at Highland last December. G.O.P. Solons Stand Pat On Standby Bills Special Session Is Resumed Today After Three Day Recess ... Indianapolis, Oct. 23—(UP) — Hoosier Republican majority members of the Indiana legislature re? mained steadfast today in their drive to enact ‘•standby” legislation for use if federal funds are again withdrawn from the state public welfare program. House and senate of the special session gd back at 2 p.m. after a three-day recess, amid reports the GOP has no intention of backing down from its stand that an appropriation bill with an “escalator” plause must be. passed before the legislature adjourns. This is the fifth week of the session called by governor Schricker to iron out the welfare problem posed when federal security administrator Oscar Ewing withheld $20.000,000 a year in federal funds because Indiana passed a law opening .Welfare rolls to the public. Congress and President Truman fcolved the immediate problem last week in enactment of the tax bill a| rider allowing states to publicizes their rolls without jeopardizing federal aid. \ > t But Republicans claim if Ewing Could do it once, he can do it again and the state had better be prepared to meet another . emergency by. enacting permissive legislation now’.’ That would make a special session later unnecessary, they said. : Democrats agreed to support the Appropriation bill, if only to end the special session quickly. But the GOP wanted to pass two companion bills, one of which Would set up a •formula for dividing the cost between state and counties in the ' event federal aid is withdrawn later. The Democrats balked on this, saying they feared the GOP would get the state in trouble again wi\h federal Welfare regulations. The special session must end by 1 Nov. 2. last day of the constitutional limitation for special ses(Tura To Pane Six) £ L — | Urges Appointment Os Election Boards Democrat Workers Will Meet I Frank Bohnke, Democrat city phairman, has requested that the Democrat procincf committeemen name the Democrat members of the city election boards, including in1 spectors, immediately. A meeting of all Democrat election board members has been called i for Friday night at Democrat head-\ ' quarters. < Bohnke stated that be- - cause every election year there are * numerous new board members, he ; has asked Edward F. Jaberg and ' David Macklin, members of the ■ county board of election commis- : sioners, to with .the 1951 : boards and explain the taw. i While this j ear’s election is s strictly a mtihicipal affair, it was • pointed out -that the county board ’ of election commissioners conducts the city elections. In a legal advertisement in to* dAy’s Dally Democrat, county clerk Jaberg issued ’ the legal call for elections in Decatur and Berne and his notice of election was subscribed to by sheriff Robert Shraluka. in accordance with the statute. . ■ J ■ i- $ W I -A ■

Greatest Air Battle 01 War Fought Today 14-17 Communist Jets Downed Or Damaged In Scrap Tokyo, Oct. 23 —*(UP) — AmerL cah B-29s and escorting jet fighters shot down or damaged 14 to 17 Communist jets today in the biggest air battle of the Korean war just fcoupi of the Manchurian frontier. One American superfortress and a thunderjet fighter were lost and several other M-29s damaged in the wild 250 to 280-plane battle over northwest Korea while ground fighting far to the south diminished in apparent anticipation of new truce talks. \ However, two columns of American 47-ton Patton tanks rumbled up two parallel valleys to a point more than a mile northeast of kumsong and killed an estimated -200 Chinese- in a, hit-run raid. They wounded 150 other Chinese and destroyed large stocks of supplies. Still other Pattons bombarded Kumsong itself. 29 miles north of the 38th parallel on the central front, for she third time in four days. They kindled fresh fires in the apparently abandoned Communist stronghold. ~An estimated 150 to 180 Russianbuilt MIG-1:5 jets — the largest number ever encountered at one time over Korea —pounced on the 100-plane American air fleet as the B-29s dropped 50 tons of bcmbs on a riearty-compWted Red airfield at Namsi, 15 miles soutji of the Yalu river frontier. First reports from.the half-hour air battle 15-000 to 30.000 feet high in "Big Alley” said five enemy jets were shot' down in flames, two probably destroyed and seven to 10 others damaged. It was the largest toll of enemy fighters in a single battle in jet | history. Far east air force head- £ quarters said the MIG attack was "one of the heaviest and most determined” ever launched by enemy jets against the B-295. One heavily-damaged B-29 crashed In the Yellow Sea off the west Korean coast, but the crew was rescued by amphibians. An unspecified additional number of damaged B-29s made emergency (Twrn To Pace Six) Churchill In Last Speech Os Campaign British Election \ Set For Thursday London, Oct. 23 — (UP) —Winston Churchill makes his last big speech of the British general election campaign today in southwest England where his son Randolph again is trying to get into the house of commons. Randolph’s opponent Is socialist left-winger Michael Foot, Foot' licked young Churchill last year and is toil ted to repeat on election day, Thursday. The constituency is in Plymouth which startled the empire more than 30 years ago by-sending to commons an Amer-ican-born woman, Lady Nancy Astor. ' t . . Foot is a left-winger. Aneurin Bevan is his leader. "Nye” Bevan, the bull-necked .Welshman who hates wealth and calls conservatives “Vermin.” Bevan, Foot and company are straining to break Great Britain away from its K close anti-Comrriunist alliance with’ the \ United States. ' Many Brtiishers love Bevan. > But more fear him. Socialist ! Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee I felt 'compelled in his last big s campaign speech to assure voters • that Nye, Bevan would not become prime minister — at least, not soon. Os those British who still 1 Jiave wealth, Bevan Says:, 1 '“We are going after them.” He I means that. ’ All British politicians are leftwingers or at least left-of-center by American standards. And that • includes Winston Churchill, leader of the so-called conservative' 1 party. ... ,\ Churchill and his party are not ■ socialists. But if they win the (T»r« To Pa** Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesdoj?, October 23, 1951

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Teachers Institute ' . i ■- 1 \ v Thursday, Friday Public Schools To Be Closed Two Days While ’ the vast majority or Decatur apd Adams county teachers will journey the short distandb to Fort Wayne for the annual Indiana state teachers’ instltste. soma, cf them have indicated they frill attend the sessions in Indianapolis—in jfact, six from the city schools will go to the capltol city. One county instructor is even cbntemplating attending the Terre Haute institute during the two-day session iThursday and Fridays AH public bschoolsi frill be closed for the two days. General sessions of the Fort Wayne, or northeast division/ of the' institute will he conducted in 4he Quimby Auditorium, with Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, president of Bowling Green State University, listed as the principal speaker. Amos Ketchum, of the Decatur high school staff, is one of the delegates at the Indianapolis convention where business will not be conducted as usual. Instead of throwing the business meetings open to all present, delegates from the assembly will conduct the business. Hubert Zerkel, Jr., of the Lincoln school staff, has been appointed a member of the nominating committee to represent this distiict at the election, in which local committees present slates of candidates at the convention at Indianapolis. Previously, elections were conducted by local ballotting. Superintendent of Decatur (TSrx To Pace Six)

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Things are becoming quieter now, the doctor wrote to his wife’ from Korea, and one of the main concerns of everyone is the forthcoming winter months. “He wrote yesterday,” Mrs. John Terveer, of 415 West Madison, “that it gets down to 28 below where he is.” She was referring, of course, to Dr. John Terveer, who practiced in his home town of Decatur three years before being called into active service June 4. Two i months to a day after going into the army. Dr. Terveer less for overseas duty. Thirty-two hours of flying time later he was’ in Toyo after a couple of abbreviated stops, one of them at Honolulu, the other at Wake Island. The pecatur doctor notes the shift tn the fighting now, perhaps as much as does the in the front.-line foxholes five miles In front of him. And the front is Heartbreak Ridge. Dr. Terveer, by being at the point of first return for the casualties, can serve as a barometer of the fighting. By the numbers who pass through hie station the bitterness of the engagements can

’ r ; f Slightly Over Inch Os Rain In Decatur A little over an inch of rain fell In Decatur last night, Herman “Hi” Meyer, local weather observer, reported. ' ‘ Rain was measured at-1.09 inches, Meyer said. It was the first rain In more than two weeks. Farmers said the new wheat crop was in need of rain. Agriculture Night Classes Are Planned Held Durirfg Winter At Decatur School * ’, • A series of agriculture night classes will be offered this winter under the supervision of Vaughn E. Miller, vocational-agricultural instructor on the Decatur high .school staff, according to an announcement released today by principal Hugh J, Andrews. \ This is a resumption pf the classes instituted last year and whicly proved to be widely attended by farmers of the surrounding areif —to whom the class is open. Two adult farmer and one young farmer classes are planned for tlijs year by the department. i The organizational meeting for the adult -classes —which will be conducted through a lOweek period —is scheduled for November 5. Miller stated that any farmer who wishes to enroll should neither contact Ben Gerke, Lawrenp/’BeCkmeyer, Edgar Thieme, Oscar Fuelling, Henry Heimann, Dewey Plumley Or Miller, or be present at the meeting. The stress on the adult agricul(Tuns To Pace Six) t

be gauged. Dr. Terveer notes the shift in the fighting now, perhaps as much as does the infantryman in the front foi-holes. For the doctor is but five miles behind the line where he, along with two other! doctors, serve those casualties frbm the front. The front is Heartbreak Ridge. This hospitalization is the first that the combat veteran receives on-his way to the rear. Here only those slight cases where an infantryman can return to duty within 10 days are kept. The remainder are sent to hospitals further to the rear. . • \| Heartbreak Ridge is a combat enterprise • engaged in by UN forces and their opponents solely to gain highly strategic hills. To the holder of these hills, goes the military logic, belongs the advanThe struggle is attested to by some statistics that Dr. Terveer Included in his letter to his wife: during Septamber, he wrote, his of -doctors treated 3,700 These wore men returned from (Tam Ta Page 81*) I I

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♦■. » 11 1 1,1 "• New Soviet Atomic Blast Is Revealed Kremlin Seeks To Overtake America Washington. Oct. 23 — (UP) — Members of the congressional atomic energy committee believed today that Russia’s latest atomic explosion showed the Kremlin is trying to overtake America In “tactical” atomic* weapons for use cn tjte battlefield. The stea<yjjr-acpe)eratttig atomic arms race was dramatized by she White House late yesterday when it announced the new Soviet atomic explosion only a few hours . after U. S. technicians achieved history's first “small” A-bomb blast in the Nevada desert. Lt was the second Ttlme in less than three weeks that the White House had announced an atomic blast somewhere in the vast Soviet Union. Press secretary Joseph Short said It was “apparently part of a test series” may bring “more such explosions.” Members of the congressional atomic energy group, who got an advance briefing on secret intelligence reports of the Soviet test, noted that two years passed between Russia's first test in Sep-tt-wiber, 1949. and, its second last montV. The comparative quick staging of’ the third test was taken as evidence that the. Soviet stockpile Os ’ completed A-bombs now is big enough for the Krem--I’n to feel justified In expending a few of the weapons for research. At the same time, informed quarters agreed that test statistics alone demoriktrate graphically the long lead which the United States ' s(ill holds in atomic developments. It is considered axiomatic among atomic scientists that no real progress in w-eapons development can .be made without test explosions to check results. Russia has had three, spread over 25 months. The AEC L has staged eight so far this year, and is planning at least two 'or three more during tljie current series of tests at Frenchman’s Flat. Optimism Shown At Democrat Meeting City Committee In Meeting Night Optimistic reports from the precincts in Decatur were made by .Democrat committeemen and vice committeeman at the weekly meeting of the city committee, held at Democrat headquarters' in the K. of P. building Monday night. A request 'also was made by several north side and west side residents for information as to where the new city power plant would be located. The location of a -proposed power plant was one of the main issues in the 1947 election. Reports at that time were current that the diesel plant would be located in the south part of the city arid many protests w’ere registered by residents of that locality. Now the both® owners of other sections are protesting and insisting that the plant be “Ideated outside the corporation limits.” 1 Frank Bohnke, city chairman, presided at Monday’s meeting and started plans for a closing rally to be held Saturday night. November 3, at Democrat headquarters. Kiusic and all the trimmings are being scheduled for the dosing meeting. John B. Stults, Democrat candidate for mayor, recalled in a brief talk to workers that his previous administration had purchased the present fire fighting equipment i and he stated that he believed with the present size of Decatur a thorough study of the present fire fighting set-up should be made w’ith a view to increasing the strength of the department. Can(Twr* To Po*« Six)

Anfi-British Demonstrations In Cairo Today Police Fire Over Heads.Of Students Parading In Cairo ; Cairo. Egypt, Oct. 23— WP) — Police fired over the heads of demonstrating students- and hurled tear • gas bombs today to disperse an, anti-British parade through Cairo streets. The fusillade, followed by the gas bombs, scattered student demonstrators from three secondary schools as they converged on the campus of King Faud I University. Police acted under the government’s state of emergency orders to prevent violence that might endanger Egypt’s still undisclosed “action" program to expel increasing British forces from the Suez Canal zone. Earlier, heavy police cordons jinged the American and British embassies to block incidents there. A- - senior Cairo police officer sr.id his forces opened fire when students converted anti-British demonstrations into an organized parade. Meantime, British authorities slashed all regular train traffic to and from the tense canal area after Egypt refused to supply trains for the movement of British troop reinforcements there. A i British military epokesman said the cut will remain “until further ijotice.” The only trains to and from the canal zone were those carrying supplies for the Egyptian army and food for civilians. • Premier • Mustapha El Nahas Pasha announced last night that r.is government will not “remain idle in the face bf criminal acts committed by the enemy.” Today, former, Egyptian army chief of staff Azis Al Misri Pasha, one of Britain’s bitterest foes in the middle east, revealed he may head a nation-jwide underground movement against the British. > Al Misri announced he has. received invitations from “several ipolitical parties” to launch <the underground campaign. He said a meeting' will be called shortly to discuss formation of the resist(Tnra To Pa** Six) Charge Girl With Robbery Os Bank 14-Year-Old Girl Held In Wisconsin Green Bay, Wis„ Oct. 23—(UP) —A 14-year-old girl, her brother and their mother were charged today with two others ih robbing a bank of $11,534. Federal bank robbery charges were filed before U. S. commissioner John B. Kehoe ugalnst Patsy Whiting, her brother, Charles French, Jr„ and her mother, Mrs. Esther Amelia Whiting, 41, all of Green Bay. Also named were Wilford Joseph Smith, 32, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., 5 and Albert Curtis Small, 30, Appleton, Wis. R. L. Murphy, special agent of the Milwaukee FBI office, said three bandits entered’ the Laona, Wis., State Bank last Friday. All wofe overalls and knitted army face protectors as disguises, he said. Three employes were forced to lie.oij) the floor while one bandit took the money from a cash drawer. Murphy said that Patsy, who was disguised as a boy, entered the bapk with French and Smith, and that he mother drove the get(Tiura T« Pa*e Six)

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16 Negroes And One White Woman Dead In Atlanta; Still Others In Hospital Atlanta, r " Jet. 23. — (UP) — At least 29 persons were dead or in dhngerous condition here today after drinking a lethal liquor apparently made ; of methyl alcohol and water and sold illicitly in large quantities during ttye week-end. The death toll as 10 a.m. w’as: 16 negroes and ope middle-aged white woman. Twq other victims wpi* listed in extremely critical > condition and ten others were said to be “in danger.” J Grady hospital’s emergency de- \ , partment called in every available doctor, nurse and orderly to take care of the piatientp who were still being admitted at mid-morning. ‘ At least eight other persons were ’ hospitalized in less serious condition. . \ j Grady hospital, ■ superintendent Frank Wilson said 'it was the ’ instance of “mass; poisoning” in ’ the hospital’s long [history. I i The first reported white fatality of the week-end of drinking the powerful highballs. Which contained 1 the stuff used in paipt remover, was Mrs. Louis Thomas, 41. She was 8 pronounced dead op arrival at the 1 ! hospital at 9:30 a.m. s Her brother. James Taylor. 38, of I nearby College Parp, was admitted r in “fair” condition. jHe said he and 1 sister drank the mixture late yes--1 terday. ’ 1 Grady hospital expected more ar- \ rivals all day as news spreads of 3 the malady. Attendants figured a ’ number of persons have been strlck--1 en biit are attempting home treat- ' ment. Pot knowing (he real trouble. 1 Detectives seized four negroes in 1 a' series of flying raids on suspected 1 liquor dives and jailed them on sus- • picion of manslaughter. \ Police thought at first t£at most ’ of the drinking went on in a negro f housing development known as I “peoplestown.” But’as more victuns came in today, the poisoning i appeared to be spread over a wide - area of the city. Dr. J. H. Talley; Jr., on dutj at the negro ward, said his patients apparently drank “almost methyl ("wood”) alcohol.” Negroes said they bought their "drinkin’ likker” from bootleggers in a negro district. 'An officer said one bootlegger had been admitted to the hospital after drinking his own concoction. Talley said methyl poisoning has these symptoms: extreme nausea and blindness, followed by depressed heart and respiratory action.” Death, however, is not tiolent, he said. 1 \ A negro orderly,said he personally had taken out six dead since yesterday. “They are still coming In,” an attendant in the emergency receiving room of the hospital’s negro section said.: "1 don’t have time to talk now’.” Detectives seized four negroes in a series of flying raids on suspected liquor dives and jailed them on suspicion of manslaughter. Lt. l\ T. Bullard, of the homicide squad, | described the incident as even “more widespread” than a Christmas eve party in 1949 that resulted in death for 12 persons. Hospital, authorities said three of the victims died Shortly after arrival Monday morning. By nightfall, they said, automobiles and ambulances began streaming in with (Ton Ta Pace Si*) 1 1 Breakin Is Reported At Service Station J Investigation continues today of the breakin of the Bellmont Service station on Thirteenth near Nuttman, when 150 in bills was taken \ from the cash register. The subjects brok;e into the station by knocking out a south side window pane of the station. - unlatching the window, and climbing through. Victor Braun, station operator, reported to police . that nothing other than the bills was missing. Nearby change kept in the station was left intact., ? W' ‘J ■ ',.r ' ■ ' '1