Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 252.

UN PROPOSES CEASE-FIRE LINE IN KOREA

All Fort Wayne GE Plants Are Idled By Strike Production Halted In Three Plants By Spreading Walkout Fort Wayne. I»d„ Oct. 26—(UP) —About 12,000 worfcefe struck three Fort Wayne General Electric Co. plants today, causing a complete production stoppage.: The company charged the walkout was a contract violation, and \ officials of tire CIO International Union of Electrical workers retorted the strike wan caused by pay 'rate cutting when the company Introduced pew machinery in bne division. The strike started Tuesday wljen 600 workers walked out in a dispute over job status. They claimed a change in methods curt the pay rate on pertain type work 25 to 30 percent.'. But the company, through public relations director Ken Michaels, said the new machinery created an entirely new job /and argued It ■ has the right to set up new scales. The company said it would refuse th negotiate until the workers return. ; \ \ President Virgil Brown of lUElocal 001 said all blit a few production workers and maintenance personnel respected the picket lines. He said pickets were withdrawn at . mid-morning. But company spokesmen believed picketing would be resumed when the night shift is scheduled to report at 3 p.m. Might Affect Local Plant A prolonged shutdown of the Fort Wayne works would have its effect < on the Decatur plant, as the local industry depends on itfe supply trt '< wire for motor winding I from one of the Fort Wayne units, i J Walkout In Schenectady Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 25, — (I'P)— Approximately 12.000 members of the Independent United Electrical workers union at the huge General Electric Co. plant failed to return to work from their i regular lunch period today. .’ Y- The workers threatened yesterday to stage a “token walkout" Jn support of their demands for a 15cent hourly wage increase and other benefits. A union spokesman said the - group was meeting at union hall to discuss their grievances. United Electrical union membership is scheduled to vote on a strike call Nov. 2. Meanwhile, the ÜB-GE negotiations are underway in New York City through a wage reopening clause of-a two-year contract. The contract was signed Sept. 15. [ 1950. The union says it represents some 50,000 workers in 46 GE plants across the nation. ■. ;• ■ ■ . South Bend Man State's 100th Traffic Victim . By United Press ’ \ A South Bend man killed when his truck was hit by a freight train today became Indiana’s (00th traffic death victim thirf' month, J Daniel R. Tindle, 27, di6d in the accident early this morning as a “ new wave of fatalities kept- the October average at four a day-. If the average apace ' the rest of the month, a new onemonth record for the last two years will be set. . Three other persons were Wiled last night and yesterday, aH in northern'lndiana. The victims were Mrs. Dorcas Smith. 38, Wabash, killed when a car hit a tree near Pierteton; Richard R. Lipke.j 55. killed in a car-true® collision near i Grovertown, and William Kokenburg. JI. Monon, a soldier thrownout of his car when it overturned and hit a tree near Franceville . while he was home on furlouo. Driver Questioned In Hit-Run Death Hammond, Ind„ Oct. 25. —(UP) —Chester Wojcik, 38, was held for questioning today in the 'hitrun death of Joseph Wojcik.’ 68, at the north side intersection here Tuesday night. Wojcik, not related to the victim; was arrested yesterday when it was learned he -was the owner of a .car with a broken, odd-shaped headlight.

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,- l ; . . 1 r! • • \ ... Decatur G.E. Plant Cutting Production It was announced jtoday that the Decatur Plant of thd General’Electric qompany will reduce its production rate of motors approximately one-third, effective immediately. John F. Welch, plant manager, stated that the reduction was due to lack of arid cancellation of on dears. "probably caused by material shortages and lack of at the -plants of our customers.” The reduction in motor output Will reduce the : working force at the local plant by approximately 250 people. It (s hoped that the reduction will be of short duration. Welch stated., • ’ ‘r ' .. ■ f :j ■ { . • ■. British Vote Today On Fate Os Socialists Churchill Favored r To Return To Post As British Leader London, Oct. 2t—(UP)—Millions of British voted today in what appeared to be a reqord turnout for a general election. Aging Winston Churchill was expected to be returned to his old job of prime minister. I ! Polling officials in- London said that 20 to 30’ percent more people Voted before snoon 'this year than when 84 pehcent of the electorate balloted ; before the polls closed. ; - ; .' \ Newspaper pons and betting odds were cef-taih that the voters will throw out the socialist government which has ruled Britain I for six years' under Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee. But if Chdrchill’s conservative party wins-aj majority of seats in the next 625-eeat house of cornmops. its margih of victory, may be small. ] , ' Bookmaker Douglas Stuart reported at noon a. m. CST) that betting odds ? on a conservative win had shriink from 6 to 1 to ft to 2. Closing oiltls last year were even money. I | Up to 85 percent of the nation's 31,914,912 registered voters were expected to fasti their ballots before the polls elose at 9 p. m. I (3 p. m. CST.) : If Attlee s labor party is beaten, the prime minister will ask for an audience with (King George VI probably either tomorrow or Saturday and submit his resignation. Then the king would summon the 76-year-o|d Churchill to Buckingham Palade And appoint him prime minister, the post he held through most of World War 11. Night workers)and early risers were lined up outside polling stations when the doors opened at 7 a. m. (1 a nj. CST.) In the borough of Chilkea—London’s Greenwich Village+six charwomen and i "bobby" were first in line. Hundreds voted on their way y (Turn To Pagr Seven) Local Lady's Father Is Taken By Death Jennings funeral To Be Held Friday William Price Jennings, 90. of One mile west of; Markle, and father of Mrs. Hersel Nasif .of this city, died Wednesday at tlje Huntington county hospital after an extended illness. He wqs well known in Decatur, having spent the past several winters at this home of his daughter. A native of Blackford county, he was a.] retired farrper. Mr. Jennings was a member of the Markle Methodist church and had been a inember of the IOOF lodge for 69 years. s Also surviving are a son. Ray Jennings iof ■ Mdrkle; two other daughters. Mrs. l Ross Miller of Markle and Mrs. Lawrence Geiger of near Markle; 10 grandchildren and Yjght.great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the McGuffey funeral home at Markle, the Rev. Claude McCallister officiating. Burial will be In the Markle cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Allied Planes Blasi At Rail Communications Fight Way Through Communist Jets To Blast Rail Targets Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Oct. 25.-4 (UP) — Allied planes fought their way through waves of Communist jet fighters today to deliver the heaviest single blow of the war to North Korea’s rail communications with Manchuria. An estimated 80 red-nosed Mig15s pounced on three Allied air formations in an effort to protect vital rail arteries. They were blasted back across the Yalu River into Manchuria , with one damaged plane. No Allied planes were lost or damaged in the air battles but one fighter was shot down by ground fire. It marked, the fifth successive day of gun-blazing \ dogfights for control of Korean skies) \. Some 300 United Nations fighter bombers caught Communist rdlling stock completely by surprise in the first two air battles this morning over northwest Korea. In the afternoon. F-84 thunderjets blew up rails at 54 points despite a brief, bloodless encounter with 10 Red jets. ; A sth air force spokesman described the damage for the day as the largest ever inflicted on the enemy’s rail system—in a concentrated area. ' ■ . The UN planes destroyed nine locomotives and 99 rail cars before they could duck Intoplhe shelter of tunnels. The attacks fell on the two main' supply lines from Manchuria, between Sinanju and Pyongyang and between Kunu and Sunchon. , One Allied corsair plane crashed and burned in enemy territory during the' day after being struck by groundfire. The pilot- was killed. \ ' 4 On the ground, the fighting was limited to patrol action except on high ground southwest of Kumsong, the qow abandoned Red bastion 29 miles north of the 38th parallel. There, an Allied tankinfantry force stabbed 1,000 to (1,500 yards through thick, small arms fire on a hit-and-run raid before returning to the main Allied line. ■ Girl Scout Week To • ■ \\: - ? ' '' ' | Be Observed Here A Week's Observance \ Will Open Sunday Girl Scout week, which includes the birthday anniversary of Juliette I Gordon Low, 1 founder, will open Sunday with Worship by the girls and their leaders in their own| churches. Pastors have been asked i to recognize the scouts and their leaders during some part pt the worship service. . Girl Scouting has adopted as its slogan for 1951-52, “Girl Scouts—a growing force for freedom." Living displays of Girl Scout activities will be displayed each afternoon next week. Monday through Friday, from 4 to 5 o’clock at the Publix Service store. 119 North Second street. \, Dramatizations, each day will be: Monday—Yhomemaking; Tuesday—citizenship; Wednesday — health and safety; Thursday—international friendship; Friday—arte and crafts. Saturday will be observed as out-of-doors day. Girl, scouting was founded nearly 40 years ago. Decatur Girl Scouts serve their community |n many ways, patriotic and religious, from helping with tag days to baby-sit-ting for parents who wish to attend worship during spiritual emphasis week. No religious social barrier is recognized in the troops. Like their brothers, the feoy Scouts, Girl Scouts are able to demonstrate preparedness for any emergency. ° In Gary troops declared “X-day” and proved their ability in a simulated disaster to make the beet of “makeshift” cooking arid sanitation. All leaders of troops, in Decatur and vicinity are specially traine4 for their positions. ■

\ Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 25, 1951.

Sixth Birthday - -fop '■ ■ K I ■. : : ■ THE LETTERS “UN” shine brightly from windows of the United Nations building in New York, marking United Nations week and the organization’s sixth b}rthday r '

| — - — ■■nW N'■»l lb j-.!., .( Indict Remington On Perjury Charge Former Commerce Official Indicted New York. Oct. 25 — (UP) — William W. Remington, (ormer commerce department official, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on five counts of commit-, ting perjury during his perjury trial last February. An announcement by U. S. attorney Myles J, Lane said the evidence which led to the new indictment came from minutes of.the last trial. Lane said they involvJed testimony by Remington' iff which he swore he never had passed government secrets to Elizabeth T. Bentley, admitted courier for a Soviet spy ring at the\ time Remington worked on the war production board. Lane said that Remington lied a second time when he said that; he “never knowingly attended Communist party meetings.” The other three counts, Lane said, involved Remington's denial that he (1) had ever paid Com-; munist party dues; (2) had ever, asked anyone to join the Com-, munist party; and (3) had known! of the existense of the young; Communist -league at Dartmouth College until 1950. Remington's perjury conviction February was reversed last Aug. 22 by the U. S. court of Appeals. It sent the case back to the lower (Turn To Page Sis) ■ ' ' iTwo Hospitalized After Accidents L Man, Boy Hurt In Separate Accidents A man and boy were in the Adams county memorial hospital today, both of them suffering from occupational the man’s sustained' while working at the Krick-Tyndall company, the! boy while at play. Noah Sheets, 915 Dierkes street, suffered a lacerated right eye when it was pierced by a nail. Attending physicians claim it will be “another week” before the full extent of the injury can be determined; whether or not Sheets will lose sight in that eye cannot be stated at this time. The accident happened Wednesday while Sheets was pounding a rafter, and a loose nail hit his eye. The other accident occurred tht® morning when John William Walter, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Walter of route 1, Bryant, fell from a tractor on which he was riding and the vehicle apparently rolled over him. He told i hospital attaches that it happened so quickly he doesn’t know all the details. The lad was never unconscious from the injuries, the extent of which have not been determined; he was undergoing X-rays late today.

To Cast Absentee Ballots Saturday County clerk Ed Jaberg today announced that his office will remain open until 5 p.m. Saturday to handle abaenttee voter?’ ballots for the forthcoming city election November 6 : In Decatur and Berne. Saturday is the first day sUoh ballots may be cast. Absentees from the polls ff»ay cast such ballots !Wrongh Hbvember 3, according to Jaberg. -• .■ ’ i y World Community Day Here Nov. 1 Church Women To Hold Observance Mrs. J. F. Sanmann, president of the Decatur council of church I women, today announced plans for the world community day, which will be observed in Decatur at the First Methodist church at 2:30 p. m. Nov. 1. The observance will, he held lt| iconjunction with the anniversary, tea of the Methodist church. Dr. and Mrs. John penson will ; interpret Leonardo Da Vinci's (Vorld famous masterpiece, “The Last Supper.” Believing i that “peace is possible and if Christian women live their faith wherever they \live, peace can become more than just \a' word,” world community day has been set aside since 1943 by 40.000,000 Protestant women to Minister to those in need. ' \ The 1951 theme and project for. the council of church women are:; theme, “Live Thy Faith," is the militant call to overcome evil with' good; the project, each church Woman is asked to contribute a clean lightweight cotton! or wool blanket tor the refugees. These blankets are to be brought to the church next Thursday. An offer- ■ ing wi|l also be taken, with the funds used to supply > scholarships for international * students in Christian leadership, as well as to alleviate suffering in the most critical areas of need. The Decatur council of church women invites all women of the city and surrounding community to attend the meeting Nov. 1. Churches cooperating as co-chair-men in the program are the First Methodist, Church of God, First Christian and the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren. Plant Foreman Is Crushed To Death East Chicago. Ind., Oct. 25. — (UP)—Wilson Twyning, 35, Dolton, 111., an iron worker foreman, ; was crushed to death yesterday ’ while working on a construction . project at the Inland Steel; Co. . plant when a crane boom buckled . and caused a girder to fall against / him. ]•' V • I. •.

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Cost Os Living Hits All-Time High Mark All-Time High Is Set In September Washington, Oct. 25 — (UP) — The government reported today that the cost of living hit an alltime high in September. Some 50.000 to 100,000 other workers covered by escalator clauses also will get immediate pay s boosts. The GE workers getting automatic raises are represented by the CIO International Union of Electrical workers. , Not affected by the September index are auto and railroad workers, even though they are covered by cbst-of-living escalator agreements. Quarterly cost-of-living pay adjustments for these groups come at other months. But the rise in last month’s index will be added in when these adjustments are made. ! The bureau of labor statistics said that its old and new cost-of-livfng indexes for measuring consumer price changes jumped six-tenths of one percent between mid-August and mid-Sep-tember. > The jump Automatically boosts pay of 70,000 general electric workers 1.1 percent retroactive to Sept. 15 under cost-of-llving escalator clauses In GE contracts. The bureau’s figures showed that the cost of living—spurred by higher clothing prices—resumed an upward trend that started in February, 1950, and halted temporarily last August. > As of Sept. 15, the bureau’s old index stood at 186.5 percent of, the 1935-39 average. The revised index stood at 186.6 percent. Both indexes were about 9,5 , percent above the pre-Korea level and nearly 3 percent higher than last January 15, the base date for determining permissible cost-of-living pay hikes over and above the allowable 10 percent pay Increase over January, 1950, . The biggest single increase in living costs was in clothing prices, which tose an average 2.7 percent during the Aug. 15-Sept. 15 period. Increases -were reported in all 10 cities surveyed. The increase reflected! higher prices on overcoats (Tnrw To Pace SIM) ‘ 1 ; I Y ' S. S. Convention Program Is Listed Annual Convention Sunday And Monday The program for the annual Adams county Sunday school convention has been released by convention officials. The sessions vzill be held Sunday afternoon and evening and Monday evening. The Monroe Methodist church will be the site of the Sunday afternoon session at 2 o’clock. Speakers will be Miss Ruth Streblow, “Reaching and teaching children," and Joseph Wade, Jr., "Why the Sunday school.” The, Sunday evening service at 7:30 o’clock will be held at the First Mennonite church in Berne, withi addresses by Miss Streblow and Wade. Special music will be presented by the Berne-French high school a capella choir and the Mennonite mein’s chorus. The convention iyill close with a fellowship banquet at 6:30 p. m. Monday and the final program at 7'45 o’clock, both at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in this city. 'Special music will be presented during the banquet and a brief address will be made by George E. Hays. Hays, prominent Cbrtstlah layman and teacher of a large Sunday school class, will deliver the principal address at the closing session. Special music will be given by a men’s group from

Stevedores Refuse To End Wildcat Strike Pickets Hurried To Other Ports To Tie Up Other Shipping New York. Oct. 25. —(UP) —Rebel AFL stevedores hooted down a proposal today to end their 11-day 1250,000,000 wildcat strike here and hurried pickets to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chester, Pa., in a move th paralyze .shipping at those ports. The pickets got their travel orders w’hile spokesmen for the insurgent 20,000 dockwallopeYs were wrangling at an early niorning ees- < sion with president Joseph P. Ryan,J, of the International Longshoremen’s Association. i The (strike has tied up 144 ships in New York, New Jersey, Boston and Albany, N.Y. Clyde Hills, No. 1 trouble buster for the federal mediation and conciliation service, who had brought >Ryan and leaders pf the rebel faction together, said the conference broke up shortly aftet midnight without any progress being made. The strikers turned down a proposal by Ryan that they return to work i while a federal board studied their grievances and demands for a renegotiated contract. The picket mission to Philadel; phia. Chester and Baltimore was de signed to persuade longshoremen from handling “hot” ships original- , ly scheduled, to dock here. Mills said he would;, meet with Ryan and John (Gene) Sampson*, leader qL the insurgents, again this afternoon, an »hour before the luxury jinAr America is scheduled to sail (or France .with United Nations delegates to the Paris conference. Whether the Amejica .would steam o!ut of port on schedule with secretary of. state. Dean Acheson and his party of 81 American delegates. advisers and assistants depended on the National Maritime union (CIO). J : A spokesman for thd ship said NMU seapien had signed up for the voyage several days before the CIO union agreed not to gp Varough the rebel longshoremen’s picket limes except on piers whpre military cargo was being loaded. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and not so cool tonight. , Friday fair and warmer. Low tonight 40 to 45. High Friday middle 70's. First Polio Case Is Reported In County '!'■ <■' 1 .. ■ J7/ fJ Two Year-Old Is Stricken By Polio Adams county’s first polio victim of 1951 was reported today, when diagnosis revealed the illness of a two-yean-old boy is poliomyelitis. The year’s first victim is Alan Gene Ringget, 2&month-old son of Mr. and Mrt. Raymond Ringger, who reside in Monroe township, three and onq-palf miles southwest of Monroe. The child had bepn suffering from a slight cold for several days but definite diagnosis of his Illness was not completed until Wednesday. The boy was taken to Riley hospital at Indianapolis last night. Extent of the affliction has not been determined, but the boy’s legs were reported affected. , This is not only the first case reported in Adams county this year, but only the second case since the severe outbreak in the cojmty in 1949. Only one case was reported last year, a minor attack approximately one year ago. . v ' ' ' 1 ' 1-' J L .

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2Yt Mile Wide Buffer Zone Is Proposed By UN As Cease-Fire Talks Are Resumed Panmunjon. Korea, Friday, Oct. 26—(UP)— United Nations truce negotiators ■ proposed Thursday a cease-fire line which would <give the Reds 200 square miles of hardwon UN territory in North Korea. But the historic battlegrounds of "Bloody Ridge” and “Heartbreak Ridge” would stay in allied hands. The Communists give their answer to the UN buffer zone pro posal at today’s cease-fire sub-. committee meeting at 11 a. m. (8 p. m. Thursday CST). The answer, its tone as well as its substance, wilt decide whether au armistice can be agreed upon In a relatively short time or whether „ there will be another winter I of fighting. UN officers proposed a 2% mile wide armistice buffer zone which ( Would exchange 200 square miles icf UN-held territory in eastern North Korea for an equal amount of . terrain iri the west. UN spokesman Brig. Geni William PjNuckols. said the Reds appeared : anxious to start the hew series qf truce talks with a “clean slaie” sind to let “by-gones be bygones." ; “Thete is hope progress will he made,” he said; \ There was speculation the Reds may z dfop their previous demand that thje buffer zone be based on the 38th parallel instead of the? pt esent, battle-front. As proposed by the UN, the buffer zone would start about eight miles south of the 38th par- \ a'.lel on the west coast, giving the ? UN a big chunk of the hill territory now held by the Communists but uncontested by the UN since last winter. The line would swing up over.' the parallel to a point * four miles above Kaesong, putting the former cease-fire conference site in UN hands, thrin move eastward with only slight changes in the present Hatjtle line on the central frpnt. The buffer zone would bit the east coast about 35 miles north of the 38th/ parallel, forcing a UN withdrawal of about 12 miles to a point nine miles north of Kansong. It was in thia area that the . UN drove farthest north in their recent assault. For the UN, it would mean sacrifice of most of the gains made in the “persuader offensive" on\ the east-central front earlier this month and in the bitter fighting south of Kumsong on the central front last week. It also would mean a withdrawal of up to 10 miles by the South capital division on the east coast. The truce meetings at Panrnunjom Thursday were the first since the Communists broke off the negotiations last Aug. 23 'on trumped-up charges that UN planes had bombed the then conference sitej Kaesong, five miles to the northwest. The full five-man delegations from each side met at 11 a. m. (8 p. m. Wednesday CST) in a joint-ly-guarded, Communist-erected cir(Ttira To Pace Six) — p. Democrat Election . v Workers To Meet Democrat pfecinct committeemen and the Democrat members of the election boards for the November 6 municipal election] will hear the latest interpretations on the election laws at a meeting Friday night at 7:30 o’clock at Democrat headquarters in the K. of Pi building. The meeting has been called by Frank Bofihke, city chairman for the Democrats, so that all election board members can be versed on the election laws. Counting of ballots, challenging of votes and oth* er Important election day activities will be explained by David Macklin and Ed Jaberg, Democrat members of the board of election commission.