Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 251.

AERIAL BATTLES RAGE OVER NORTH KOREA

Two New York Tax Officials Are Suspended Ousted Brooklyn * Collector Foils To Appear For Hearing / Washington., Oct. 24— (UPX—- * The internal revenue bureau suspended two more tax officials of the New York area ioday as house investigators sent subpena-armed agents looking for Joseph P. Marcelle, ousted Brooklyn collector. •’ Marcelle, ousted last night, fail-, ed to show up for a house ways and means subcorn mi; tee hearing he had agreed to attend. The newly suspended internal revenue employes are Theodore Isaacs, a tax agent in the upper New York City division, and Elias ’rt Schulman, deputy collector in Mar- - celle's office. f The bureau said Isaacs was suspended pending completion of _ an investigation of hjs testimony before bureau agents about his tin- _ ancial condition. - It said Schulman was suspended pending investigation of misconduct charges. ' Subcommittee chairman Cecil R. u King (I>Cal.) was angered by Marcelle’s failure to appear. He said, “this is the first occasion on which any. government official who has agreed to make a voluntary appearance has violated his word.” Subcommittee and revenue agents sought Marcelle in New York to serve him with papers compelling him to appear before the house Investigators. Meanwhile. King announced that the suspended internal revenue col? lent,or is Nashville. Tenn... Lape Henglee, will be granted a request that his office be investigated thoroughly. _ King said the search for Marcelle * was extended to New York after efforts to find him here had failed. King said the subcommittee expects to question internal revenue commissioner John B. Dunlap about the bureau’s action in requesting Marcelle's resignation. The Brooklyn, N.Y.. tax collector, linked by senate crime investigators with underworld operator Joe Adonis, was fired late last night by internal revenue commissioner J4»hn B. Dunlap for ‘(personal actions" uncovered by bureau investi- ' gators. Marcelle, who met for five hours yesterday with Dunlap and secrs> ; taVy of treasury-John W. Snyder, could not be reached for comment. Ladies Entertained By Decatur Lions The Zuer'cher accordion band, from Berne, provided the entertainment and was featured on the program for the Tuesday Lions club meeting of which Noah Steury waa in charge, and intro- -• duced the musicians. It was ladies tight, the first such since the resumption of meetings since t|ie summer vacation. Surprise Strategy On Welfare Bills Seek To End Special Session Wednesday Indianapolis. Oct. 24 ? (UP) ~ Indiana Republicans grouped confidently today t behind ; surprise strategy they expect to result in passage of two "home-rule welfare measures and end the special session of the legislature tomorrow. Governor Schricker willing. If they succeed? Indiana will have “just ip case” legislation providing for the financing of a welfare program in the federal aid again is cut off, as it was last August when the state opened welfare rolls to the public. * The GOP majority in the house uncovered the strategy late yesterday. Democrats promptly called it a “shabby maneuver” and a ’‘sham.” The Republicans, however, mustered enough to get their program on the floor, but Democrats refused to help suspend rules and .pass it immediately. j In the house judiciary “A” committee, Republicans amended out tTera To Pa Ke Six)

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Body Returned Edwin F. Franz Funeral Sunday For Pvt. Edwin F. Franz Pay Final Tribute , To Victim Os War •: ■ I Final tribute will be paid Sunday afternoon to Pvt. Edwin F. Franz, 2&year-old Adams county man, who was killed in action ; with the United States army in Korea April 20 of this year. Funeral services be Conducted Sunday for the son of Mr. and Hetman J. Franz of Root fownship. the, first Adams county veteran to be'killed in action in Korea. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwitk funeral home and; at 2. o’clock a: S'. Petef* Lirherah church, the Rev. {Fred W. 1 Area gemueller officiating. Burial will be in. the church cemetery. Adorns Post 43. American; Legion, will: conduct full military) rites at the‘cemetery. The body will arrive in Decatur Friday afternoon and wilt be, i emoved tp the- funeral home, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Saturday afterifoon. Pvt. Franz was born in Root township Nov. 4. 1924, a son 'of Heyman J, and Minnie ‘FuellingFranz; He attended the Monmouth high .school and was engaged in farming with his father at, the time he entered service Sept. j2O, 1950. Her had been overseas, with the 19th infantry regiment, 24th { oiijy one .month before dying in action. ' T Surviving the veteran, ill addition u to his parents; are three {brothers, Elmer E. Franz of Root township; an 4 Walter H., and Herman Franz, both at home, and two sisters. Mrs.) Alvin Witse of Preble and Miss Ella Franz, at home. v t s . I RFC Contacts Made By VP's Secretary Barkley Secretary Denies Taking Fees Washington. Oct. 2(1.|-(UP) — RFC records show that vice president Albfh W. Barkley’s secretary and counsel. Charles E. Shaver, of Mhfr senate small business) comrnit-ti-e made scores of contacts on be- , half Os several firms, it was learned totiay. Mrs. Flo has been oh Barkley’s staff for almost 26 years, admitted to reporters yesterdaythat she has contacted the tion Finance Corp, “hundreds" oMimesi over many years. The sellateV permanent investigating cdhimittee. whose staff is conducting a “preliminary inquiry” into the activities on Shaver .and Mis. Braden on behalf of two firms last year, is Studying the daily office records of at least three RFC officials. They show' frequent contacts, by Shaver and Mrs.] Bratten during the past two years, the United PretßS learned. Staff investigators are looking into several of these incidents. The inquiry was ordered by chairman Clyde R Hoey (D-N.C.) of the investigating group at the request of Shaver’s boss, chairman John J. •Sparkman df the small business committee. The Alabama Democrat requested the inquiry after newspaper reports that Shaver and Mrs. Bratten with RFC last year on behalf of the Fleisher Engineering and Construction Co., Minneapolis, and the Mercury Record Co., Chicago. < Shaver and Mrs. Bratten \ were (Turn To Page Six)

! 260 Patients Rescued From Hospital Fire Heroic Nuns, Nurses Guide Patients To Safety In Dallas Dallas. Tex.. Oct. 24—(UP) — Heroic nuns and nurses shepherd- , ed ,260 patients out of St. Paul’s hospital today as a five-alarm fire burst through the toof and threatened to send it crashing down On then). - i ' The blaze was discovered ht 12:27 a; m. ami was extinguished an hour ahd 26 a _mrnutes later. It roared thfbugh the roof of the fi\’e-story brick building as members of the hospital staff carried and guided the patients out into 50-degree weather to await removal to other institutions. Patients who underwent surgery less than, 24 hours before the blaze i walked down as many as three flights of stairs'. A mother whose baby was born yesterday dashed to the nursery and carried her , child out in her arms, A child was born in a nearby nurses’ home five minutes after . the mother was removed. [ Nuns under the direction of Sister Alberta, mother superior of the Order of Daughters ibf Charity. and student nurses called from Uielr beds, removed mothers and i babies first.. The 30 infants W’ere taken to the nearby nurses home and 1 “assigned” to trainees for care. The fire, believed to have resulted from defective electrical ■Wiring, broke out in the fifth floor of the nuns. Sister Alberta said she awoke to see the ceiling of the room "spluttering and then it and a wall broke into flame. It spread quick-, ly through the dormitory.” Every ambulance in Dallas, dozens of police and sheriff’s department cars* countless, taxicabs aid a city bus were used in the evacuation. Sixty-two patients were taken *o Baylor hospital four blocks away: 3(1, were received at Parkland hospital: four were taken to Methodist hospital, and patients ‘ not seridusly ill were taken home \ (Turn To PAkc KishO t■• j * i Damage Suit Trial Now In Third Day $35,000 Damage Suit Aftermath Os Fire Evidence was being heard in the third day of the jury trial iw Adams circuit court before special Judge John Decker to ftilly determine whose spark was responsible for a Fort Wayne fire. : ‘ \ The suit, the Hardwarel •and Sporting Goods company vs Allen Dairy Products company, Was venued here from'the Allen county superior court. Plaintiff’s witnesses were parading to the stand today to be queried and cross-examined in the $35,000 damage suit. <, •Members of the jury were impaneled Monday "by Judge Decker, tol serve during the trial which is climactic to the fire which burned the Kruse warehouse in Fort Wayne. ‘V *\ , The plaintiff alleges the defendant was responsible for a trash fire which set oft the warehouse fire: the defendant, of course, has not alleged anything to the jurors; their time will come. rrhe fire occurred in 1949. Parrish and Parish are attorneys from Fort Wayne for the plaintiff, abetted by Hubert McClenahan of this city: Shoaf q.nd Keegan, also Fort Wayne attorneys, and Ferd Litterer represent the, defendant. This, incidentally, is the first of two trials originally scheduled for thisv wieek. However, the second is being con’inued tp the November term of court. j Jurors impaneled for the trial, hearing evidence, : include Boyd Booher, Geneva: Dale Lantz, Berne: Reuben Romey, Geneva; Selking, route 2; Alfred Grote, route 5: Richard Geimer, I route 5; James Meyer, Linn Grove; William Noonan, Decatur; Daniel Neireiter, Decatur;; Reuben Gerke, route 3; Ray Myers. Decatur, and 1 Albert Braun, route 4.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 24, 1951

Senate Committee Begins Probe w ® a1 - \ :■«jl .;O ■ a li MRS. FLO BRATTON, secretary of Vice President Barkley, has been secretly questioned by a Senate influence committee on her Connection with a $1400,000 loan for a proposed Florida hotel. Harvey Gunderson, former RFC director, touched off the investigation when he said Mrs. Bratton, shown with Mr. Barkley, and Charles E. Shaver, counsel for the Senate, small business committee, had called on lijin seeking his support for the loan. The than was finally approved in May 1950 but the mon(ty was never dlspursed because the building plans fell through. ' ,

Shooting Adds New Unrest In Troubled Suez Report Israeli fatrol Vessel Is Object Os Attack . 5 \ , . • Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 24. —(UP)—Reliable sources said Egyptian coastal batteries opened fire today on an Israeli patrol vessel near Egyptian-occupied Gaza in southern Palestine and forced it to with-' draw. The shooting erupted about 125 miles northeast of the tense Suez canal zone and brought near anxiety to the troubled middle ehst. The sources said Egyptian coastal guns blazed forth when ‘the Israeli coastal patrol entered - Egyptian ter ritorial waters. In Cairo, the Egyptian government banned all anti-British demonstrations throughout the land today and threatened drastic penalties for any recurrence of the bloody battles yesterday between demon- ■ strators and police. J At the same time, the Egyptian government ordered its officials in the Suez canal zone to follow a program of rigid non-cooperation with the British forces there. The order was issued in defiance of a British threat to invoke “severe measures” against strikings Egyptian workers. (A London dispatch said that 4.000 troops of, Britain’s 19th infantry brigade were preparing to depart by plane tor the ?uez canal zone.) The port of Suez, southern gateway to the canal, has been partly crippled by the walkout of Egyptian dock Workers. In addition. Egyptian canal pilots have paralyzed ship movenients at the port by refusing to guide vessels with British military eqiiipment. In Cairo, klexandria! and other centers, police were ordered to deal ruthlessly with any efforts to disturb law and order, informed sources said. Authorities took rigid precautions to prevent a repetition of yesterday’s clashes in which police employed bullets, tear gas and clubs against nationalist demonstrators. , The worst riot occurred in Alexandria where one demonstrator wks killed and four injured after police drove back a stone-throwing crowd with clubs and shots.. One police officer and several policemen were reported injured. Interior minister Fuad Serag ElDin Pasha denounced the anti-Brl-tish demonstrations last night and threatened stern reprisals. ‘These traitors of country do not deserve the pity of the people and the government,” he said. Serag El-Din said the government will not hesitate to use “the severest measures” hereafter to repress unruly elements. The crack-down against demonstrations was taken under the state of emergency orders to the government shortly after parliament approved junking of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty. In Suez, the British garrison command warned Gov. Ibrahim Zakl El Kholi to get striking dock workers back to their jobs. The I (Turn To Pa*e Eight)

Halloween Parade Week From Tonight Annual Celebration Here On Wednesday One week from tonight \Decatur will be host to its annual, outstanding entertainment feature, the Calllthumpiko parade; to be staged through the city’s business district Halloween night, Oct. 31. Mounting indications point to the finest parade in the history of the Hallowben celebrations, which date back more than 30 years. Chamber of Commerce officials, sponsors of the event. disclosed to-day-that band prizes dione Will total more than >4OO, according to word received from majoy high school bands planning to participate fn the parade and vie fbr the Top prize award of >IOO. In line with tho splendid array of bands. n. of C. officials today urged YeSidents of the community, young and old alike, to ready their costumes for the night. . j Many,, many cash prizes will be awarded in numerous categories for the costumed individuals and groups. Paraders will assembly in the jail yard. First and Adams streets, not later than 7 o’clock next Wednesday night. The line of march will start at the Five Points intersection, move north on Second to Marshall,\ east to Fifst, south' to Jackson. west to Second and south to Second to disband at. the original starting point. Several show ponies will be included In this year’s Callithumpian, it has been announced, and antique vehicles of all descriptions will be welcome to join in the parade. Boy Stout Committee Meets This Evening The Meeting of the Adams district Boy Scout committee will be held at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the Dechtur high school. The meeting was originally scheduled for the Scout cabin in Hanna-Nuttman park but was changed because of a schedule conflict. Pfc. Robert Roop Wounded In Korea Decatur Soldier Reported Wounded Walter G. Roop has received notice from the department of defense that his son, Pfc. Robert R. Roop, was wounded jn action in Korea about October 8. Details of the veteran’s wound are not definite, but it is thought to be in the jaw. Roop was operated on the same day he was wounded and is. now in a Norway hospital in Korea. When sufficiently recovered.’ he will be moved to Pusan and later :to Japan. Pfc. Roop entered army service Jan. 16, ISSI and completed training at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., May 24. 1951. Dispatched overseas with the fifth regiment of the first cavalry division, Roop arrived In Korea July 8. The soldier’s wife, Dorothy, reside! in Van Wert, O.

Communist Jet Planes In Bold Challenge As Truce Talks To Resume j ' • .

Conservatives Are Favored In Britain Britons Will Cast Ballots Thursday London, Oct. 24. —(UP)— Britain's general election campaign ended r today With odds at an overwhelming 6 to 1 for a Conservative victory returning Winston Churchill as prime minister. Odds at London’s biggest betting houses rose overnight from 5-l ( to fr-1 for a Churchill triumph tomorrow. On the day before the 1950 general elections, the houses offered even money. T 4 wo newspaper polls by Con-servatfve-aligned newspapers said the Churchill forces will win at least 50 percent of the votes. The final Gallup poll prediction appears tomorrow morning in the NewsChronicle. ' . ' Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express reported in its poll that 51 ' percent of the electorate thought • the Conservatives would win and • 34 percent thought labor would conI tlnue in power. Fifteen percent t were undecided. An election-eve poll taken by the ? daily graphic said 50 percent will - vote Conservative, 43 percent labor ! and sev)?n percent other parties. \ In a windup campaign speech, » Churchill declared: “It ia the last prize I have to I win.” I But he didn’t mean the prime 1 'minister’s office. He said the prize • he wanted was one more chance to ! help prevent World War 111. Tomorrow morning Britons will r begin voting to determine whether ■ Mr. Empire, in the 77th year of his > age, shall have chance. It is ’ not likely that Churchill ever again will; make a campaign speech as > leadeY of a political party. He) is 1 almost through now. 1 But “on his way to the Abbey,” aS they put it here, he has cam1 paigned in this contest like a colt. : The “Abbey” is Westminster Abbey ■ and it is there that Churchill most 1 likely will rest when his time comes. It is more than 20 years since the Conservative party has governored 1 Britain in its own right and with a solid mapority. Since 1929 there have been nd-majority parliaments, National government parliaments, and, since August, 1945, Socialist 1 parliaments. ! p V ' Community Fund Is Short Os Goal Urge Participation In Community Fund \ Earl Caston, executive secretary of the Decatur Community Fund, announced today that donations and pledges to the current drive amounted to $7,469.45. This is $2,345.80 short of the $9781545 goal. “Lack of participation on part of the workers at their place of employment and reluctance of employers; to solicit employes seem to be the contributing factors for the low total of contributions from eraloyes,” Caston explained. “Only five uptown business houses have reported employe contributions for SB6. and in this case one concern donated nearly SBO of the total," the fund secretary said. “If the fund cannot be raised, then Decatur will have to resort to the outmoded system of running a dozen drives.” Then too, Caston explained, “the youth programs, Boy and Girl Scouts programs and building of our playgrounds will be curtailed as a result of the lack of community participation.” The secretary stated he felt confident the goal could b* reached this month if full participation Was given by individuals, business concerns and fraternal groups. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight with scattered Thursday fair and warmer. Low tonight 30 to 35 north, 34 to 39 south. High Thursday 64 to 68.

Super Ceiling Is Studied On Cattle Prices Price Stabilizer Denies Intent To Scrap Meat Control ' Washington. Oct. 24.—(UP) — Price stabilizer Michael DiSalle said today he may put a “super” , ceiling on cattle prices as. part of his effort to enforce beef price controls. He rtiade the statement in denying again that he intends to scrap all meat price controls as a result of refusal by congress to restore his power Jto control the distribution and slaughtering of livestock. “We’most emphatically will not,” he said. 1 ; DiSalle also said his field offices have reported that enforcement agents ; have uncovered beef price violations in 1.408 slaughering plants out of a total 4,2?4> plants investigated to date. Despite numerous over-ceiling payments for live cattle by slaughterers. he said, “no serious short- ’ age” of beef has developed at <jonstimer outlets. • , ' He said a seasonal increase in cattle marketing “can reasonably 1 be expected” in the near future. ' This, He said, should cause a soft- ' ening of live cattle prices. , \ The “super" ceiling would be a lid on the price that a slaughterer could pay. for any one steer or cow. > Undeir present beef <price xegulations, a slaughterer must make the prides he pays for all cattle merely average out to the ceiling pri(ie for each grade of cattle in each accounting period — usually four weeks. The present “average" ceilings range from about sl9 to about $37 per 106. pounds depending on the grade of the animal. The “super” ceilings also would vary from grade to grade. They would tie designed to help pievent the kind of beef price violations that the officq of price stabilization has found in more than one-third of the slaughterhouses investigated during a crackdown that began Sept T 24.' ■ ' * These violations generally involved upgrading of cattle and false weighing, according to - OPS. Slaughterers have overcharged customers in order to cover up {illegal buying. OPS claims. Agehcy sources admitted that the “super” ceilings would not supply , the whole answer to the problem. , (Tun To P««e Six) City Voting Places Will Be Unchanged Voting Places Same As General Election AH voting places in Decatur for i the November 6 municipal flection will be the same as in the 1950 general election, it was decided Tuesday by the Adams county . board of commissioners, who I have charge of selecting voting places in city elections. i A legal notice designating the 10 places In Decatur will be pub- 1 lished Friday in the Daily Demo- i crat. ! . ’ ' The of election commis- < sioners also decided this week to : allow extra clerks in two Decatur precincts, because of the number i of registered voters. The two pre- 1 cinctf which will have two addi- : tional clerks, a Democrat and a ] Republican, are 3-A and 1-A pre- i cincts. These are the two largf- i est in the city. I Election hoard members will be nominated this week by precinct i committeemen of both •political 1 parties. These nominations are I approved by the respective city i charimen and) given to the election l commission.

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Build Tent City To House Truce Talks For Resumption Os Parleys Tonigfit Tokyo, Thursday, Oet. 25 — (UP)—More than 150 Communist jet planes swept out of their Manchurian Wednesday and battled a United Nations air fleet l<B within 60 miles of the - Korean battle front in the boldest Red air challenge yet. • Air battles raged all across the 100-mile waist of North Korea as Americanj and Australian jet fighters shot down at least one Rus-sian-built MIG 15 and probahly destroyed another. ' Other enemy* jets may have been knocked down by B-29 superfortresses on a bridge-busting raid. » The yVedneisday score ran the I allied bag for four days of ! combat to 28 enemy planes destroyed, probably destroyed or 1 damaged. One American sabrejet was lost in the running air battle, which extended all the way from the. # west coast just below “Mig Alley 1 ’ i > to the east coast, northwest of Wonsan. There was no indication whether any H-29s had been hit. It was the deepest mass penetration of Korea ever made by Communist jets. ‘The battle carr!ed them nearly 200 miles from their Manchurian bases. A The day’s tentative bag boosted the UN toll of Communist MIGS s>in four days of swirling air battles ovOY- North Korea to nine destroyed, five probably destroyed and 14 damaged. Ground fighting in Korea dwindled to a series of allied hit-run “killer” raids and patrol action. Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet I served notice that his Bth army is prepared to exert whatever added pressure js necessary to force the Red armies, in Korea to make peace. U v . _ Van Fleet issued the warning in a statement for United Nations day on the eve of resumption of Korean trqce talks. The latest air battle over Korea v.as touched off by a raid by eight B-29s on a railroad bypass bridge at Sunchon; 93 miles southeast I of the; Manchurian border and only 23 miles north of Pyongyang, the North Korean? capital. To Reopen Talks Panmunjom. Korea. Oct. 24 — (UP)—U. S. troops built a tent city today for tomorrow’s reopening of truce talks with a speed that left Communist onlookers Wipe. ! Resumption of the talks at 11' tomorrow (8 p. m. today CST) was announced today following Communist ratification iof the conference {“ground rules.” Less than an hour later, U. 8. troops arrived in a 22-vehicle convoy. The Americans installed a woodeir floor, heat and Tights in the Communist • erected conference tent and threw up six additional tents to house, feed and guard the United Nations delegation while 25 North Korean and Chinese onlookers gulped at theii- speed. Even while the work progressed, U. S. Lt. Col. Norman B. Edwards of Diamond, W. Va„ and North Korean Col. Lee Pyong fl tnet in the conference tent to arrange the mechanics of joint policing the 1,000-yard radius neutral zone around the tent. First business on the conference agenda Thursday will be the location of a cease-fire line and buffer zone across Korea — the sama problem that deadlocked 22 con-, secutive meetings before the truce talks were suspended Aug. 23 two months and two days afco. THie Communists want the line to be along the 38th parallel, prewar frontier between North and South Korea. The UN command says the line must he along the present battlefront, at some places miles north of the parallel. \