Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 255.

LOYAL DOCK WORKERS CRASH PICKET LINES

Stage Set For Callifhumpian On Wednesday ♦ i City's Celebration Halloween Set; ; Stores Remain Open i X ■■ 1 . 1 ►V. The stage was all set today tor ./ Tipcat Ur’s biggest one-night celebration. the annual Callithumpian *-I&rade. which be held Wednight at 7:30 o’clock as the t city’s Halloween observance. ' The annual event is sponsored by the division of the Chamber oft Comijierce and ail Decatur stores will tie open during the evening asan accomodation 14 parade viewers. Indications point to pne of life city’s finest Halloween parades. I Twelve high school bands from' Decatur and. other-cities have signified their intentions of participating in the celebration. -In addition to the bands of tire ~*two Decatur' high schools, other -planning "to take part are: Wren, —•■o.; Convoy, 0., Huntertown, Bluffton, Willshire, 0.. Rockford. 0.. Woodbjurn, Hoagland, Harlan, and ' the Bluffton American Legion.. Cash prize awards will be thp largest this year in the history ejfl the Callithumpian. ' ’ • ' ; First band prize of SIOO tops thf awards. Other band prizes will-bp $75 fol. second place, SSO for third and $35 for fourth. In addition, bands hot drawing down prize money wijl be awarded $25 each’-as __ an appearance award. ’ Paraders will report at the jaiU yard. First and Adams streets, and' are asked to be present not laterj than 7 o’clock, in order that the parade may be started promptly at 7:30 o’clock. . ' The line of mareh will start at - Five Points, movenorth on Second - to Marshall, east to First, south to' Jackson, west to Second, and south on Second.■ where .nt will disband , near Five Points. . Louis Jacobs is general chairman I of the Callithumpian. Al Zink Will be parade marshal, with William Bowers and Clyde Butler as assistant marshals. Robert Holthouse. W illiam Gass and M. P. Cass, will be in charge of welcoming bands and parking buses. * v Prize Winners will agayi \receive their awards in the office of the Decatur Daily Democrat, with Richard C. Ehinger chairman of the awards committee. ’1 Judging stands will be located 'along Second street, and a|l contenants will pass these stands twice. . ' Prizes to c*bstumed individuals and groups will be awarded in the ■ following classifications: • Best drum major leading band, $5; second $3 and third $2; best - comic strip comic strip woman, best comic strip boy, best comic strip girl, tallest man (ovei 7 ft.), best tat man or woman, best fat boy, best fat girl, best decorated boy’s bike, best decorated girls bike, most original adult, most, original, boy. most original, girl, best decofated pet-drawn tor vehicle, best adult clown, best kid clown, best witch. Best ghost, best decorated toy wagon or tricycle, each receives $4: best -masked group of 3 or more, beet masked couple and best coipic band, each $6. t in addition, an amateur photography contest will be conducted, with Paul Edwards and L. A. AnspaUgh to judge photographs taken during the celebration. Entries must be presented at the ChtAnber of Commerce office by Wednesday, Nov. 7. Prizes of $5 s/.and $3 will be aw-arded. / Several show ponies are also expected to be in the line of march and antique vehicles will he welcomed. f _ . x./ ■ ' Research Contracts . Made To Indiana U. Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 29.— (UP)—lndiana University President Herman B. Welle said today new grants of $48,500 from government and non government sources ' raised the total government research contract held by the university to $1,004,281.

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.Opposition Shown To Universal Training r Senate Committee Asks Early Action : Washington. Oct. 29. —-'(tTP) — Early rumblings—of opposition today greeted demands | for quick congressional action on universal military training for IS-year-olds Members of the senate" armed services committee called for final action on the plan early in .{•the next session of congress. . which reconvenes Jan. ,8. ih. , Senate and house leaders, al- . rqady pledged to give the program . immediate consideration in committees, were expected to jnake room for floor action on their ■ crowded calendars. Debate on the controversial - UMT program—in a pre-election congress—promised to be extensive, however, even though UMT j has been approved in principle by {both house, and senate. ;The national security training commission cleared the way last night for congressional action by laying out a six-morith compulsory “intensive and \realistic” training program for 18-Vear-olds. The fiveman group recommended approval of the plan ” without delay" to meet “the Kremlin's challenge.” "The ■ .comrtilssion noted that 1 ’ Americans of rthe frontier era j i “Calmly accepted” military train-j I ing as necessary protection against ' warring. Indians. It said the naI tion again faces, the threat of an enemy" which can strike, “swiftly add unexpectedly,” and added: “This return to frontier conditions demands a frontier response.” - The commission's plan includes a code of conduct and measures ; designed to "* protect trainees’ health. „safety # and welfare. It recommends that only physically and mentally-handicapped youths be defered from the training program which is designed to train ' 80t),000 men a year—the usual Crop of 18-year olds. » The cost, of the new program was one item which appeared certain to draw criticism from congressional opponents. The commission said it hoped that the.firo- ‘ - (Turn To Png* Two) Two Hoosiers In Kentucky Accident - Indianapolis, Oct. 29.—(t’P) — Services were planned here todaytor'Francis Estill Denton, 40, and Dorris Spears. 27. who’were killed When their car hit the rear of a gravel truck near Upton. Ky., Saturday. ’. I _ —• : v - Elizabeth Scaer Is Taken By Death. Funeral Services - /r Tuesday Afternoon . ’ ' :’ ■ ' , Mrs. Elizabeth Scaer. 81. died Sunday at her home, two miles'east of Willshire. 0., following a stroke. She had been an invalid for eight years. - a She was born in Willshire township April 23, 1870, a daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth SchummS< and was married to John Scaer April 15, 1894. Her busband died Feb. 2, 1940. She was a member of the Zion 1 Lutheran church at Schumm, O. Surviving are one son, Oscar Scaer, at home; three daughters, Mrs. Cornelius Schumm. Mrs. Emanuel Schumm and Mrs. Paul Poehm, all of Willshire township; one brother, Henry Schinnerer of Willshire township; three sisters, •Mrs. Hannah Scaer and Mrs. T. C. Hoffman, both of Willshire township, and Mwk B. D. Balyeat of Alledena. Calif,, and nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. (ESTJ Tuesday at the home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Zion church at Schumm, tie Rev. W. T. Kuhlberg officiating. Burial-will be in the church cemetery. The body has removed from Jhe Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call until time of the - services. . J

'Red Offer Al Trade Refused By UN Leaders Refuse To Abandon Important Defense 1 Positions In Korea i ’panmunjam. Korea. Oct. 29 — . (UP) —United Nations truce negotiators rejected today a, Commun- - ist offer to trade two swampy peni insulas in western Korea for,cen- - tral and eastern mountains cap- > tured by the UN at high cost. The rejection came during a “completely inconclusive" meeting I of a subcommittee set up by the i UN and Red armistice teams to . find a mutually agreeable cease- • fire line across Korea. Brig. Gen. William Nuckols. UN spokesman said the subcommittee , would resume its discussions at 11 a. m. tomorrow (8 p. m. today . CST)., i . (Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U. S. . chief of staff, told, newsmen just i before taking off from a South Korean airfield for Tokyo that he is certain a cease-fire agreement will but said he didn’t believe it Uould be in the near j future.) ’ s A UN communique said the j negotiators spent two. .hours and .50 minutes today in a “fruitless I effort «to arrive at a militarily ' sound demarcation line . . .’’ It said\ Red proposals would deprive Btir army troops of “import- 1 ant nositions from • -which to protect themselves against a surprise resumption of hostilities.” The Communists offered, to turn over to the UN Ongjin and Yonan peninsulas, two completely indefensibly peninsulas which jut down from the 38th parallel Jnto to Yellow Sea northwest' of Seoul, In return, the Reds said, the Bth anny should withdraw up to 15' miles along 95 percent of the battleline bn the central and eastern sectors.! This would: mean the abandonment of such hard-won ■\Turn To Pane Five) Five Men Missing In Bomber Crash Two Others Escape With Minor Injury Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 29 —-(UP) —Artiiy engineers, after a nightlong salvage operation, reported today they had not recovered any ■of the hodies of five men officially listed by the air forcie as missing in the crash of a B-? 5 bomber in the river here late Saturday afternoon. , Listed as missing Uer«: Capt. Edward M. Grey, the pilot. Cloversville. N. Y. First ! Lt. Charles A. Hamill. 32. co-pilotj Mills. Md. Tech] Sgt. Stanley ; L. Esty. 28. Washington, D. C. Two passengers* —Cpl. Dan H. base, Washington. Two other persons escaped with mipor injuries. They were identified as Pfc. Nolan F. Lbderle. 20, St. Louis, stationed at Larson air force base, i Washington, and seaman Leo Hibkk, 21, of Dupo. 111., stationed in Japan. Hicks and Lederle both were thrown • clear of' the wreckage and were picked up by rescue boats. Both wiere reported in good condition today. Lederle wad removed to the station hospital at the Olathe, Kan., naval air station. Army engineers said parts of the plane had-been recovered, but the “main part still Is anchored solidly and we haven’t been able to budge it.” The salvage operas tions were being continued today’. Junior C. Os C. To Meet this Evening > The pecatur Junior 7 Chaipber of Commerce will meet at thq C. of C. office on South Second street at 8 o'clock this evening. Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Chamber, will be in charge of the meeting. All members are urged to be present.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday# October 29, 1951

Cease-Fire Truce JSHe Precautions 2 - A I ' -y 1 1 ! A I ■ TO AVOID ANY POSSIBLE INCIDENTS in the neutral zone surrounding the cease-fire conference site at Panmunjom. Korea, a bril*liantly colored balloon float* over the area to warn aircraft away. In the foreground. U. 8. Army eagineers prepare one of several search-) lights which will be used dto identity the truce site at night, or when visibility is poor. ' ' ' , A .1 ui.i.— I. ■ ■ 1111 ■IM II 111 .1..— — mil —■ I «H» I—I ■ I mil I »• «* I ■■■ll. ■■ ■ ■ I II ■< «■*

Britain May Change Ambassador To U. S. -)• J Sir Oliver tranks May Be Replaced London, Oct. 29.— (UP) —Britain may shortly replace her ambassa<Rjr in 'Washington, Sir Oliver Franks, it was learned on good authority today. The change in Britain’s top matic outpost would be designed to have 1 it filled by a representative who has Winston, Churchill’s closest confidence. A choice has not yet been made, it was learned. The report of Franks’ replacement came as foreign secretary Anthony Eden recalled the British ambassador in Iran. Sir Francis Shepherd, for “consultation.” Re* liable sources said he could not return to Tehran. It was reported that reshuffle would be made in Britain’s entire diplomatic service. • Franks may be called to London for consultations and then return, to Washington for a short time before' being replaced. A new ambassador in Washington (Turn To Pare FI«M)

Political Parties Plan > ? 3 ■ ' ! 0..' Final Rallies Saturday

Democrat municipal candidates! and precinct workers started the last full week of the pre-election campaign today with plans for a closing rally next Saturday night at Democrat headquarters. Frank Bohnke. city Democrat chairman, said that plans for the closing rally would be announced in a day or two7~The meeting will include speaking and close with a smoker and refreshments. John B. Stults, mayoralty candidate, is completing a house-to-house solicitation of voters and he reported today that reception at many of the homes had been splendid, Coupcilmanic candidates, Al Beavers, Dorphus Drum, Ed Bauer, Adrian Burke and Joe Brennan, in addition to precinct campaigning, have been taking turns presiding at Democrat headquarters in the K. of P. building each j night to answer questions of voterjs. Interest is quickly rising to a high pitch and precinct workers predict a record vote for a municipal election. Plans have been made for a strong election day organization in each precinct. Chairman Bohnke has cautioned his city committee against overconfidence. He said today, however, that optimism prevailed in everyone of the 10 Decatur precincts and tpat he was confident of “a complete Democrat victory.” • 'va ; ' . ■

4-H Leaders To Be Honored Tonight The 4-H leaders recognition banguet -will b* bald at S;3U this eve-, ning at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. r Herman H. Krueckeberg. cashier of tbe First State Bank, will be tbe toastmaster of the program. Jay Gould, radio announcer of Fort Wayne, will deliver the main address of the evening. Decatur iberchants and business leaders are co-sponsoring the annual meeting. ; ' V' H ■ Egypt Planning For Mobilization Draft Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 29-(UP) — Egypt prepared today to set up a Supreme War council and register all men between .the of 18 and 50 for a mobilization draft as ?iolence again flared in the tense Suez Canal zone. ~ The Egyptian State council approved a general mobilization bill outining measures to be followed 1 In case of war. The bill must be approved by the cabinet and the Egyptian Parliament before beconi- . ing law. . V

< . A large crowd attended the Saturday night meeting at Republican headquarters in Decatur. Workers, candidates and friends discussed the last week of campaigning and the issues involvedl Candidates answered questions as to their on various issues and precinct workers expressed a feeling of optimism. Methods of getting the vote out November 6 were discussed. Election board members were named by some of the committeemen and Chairman Robert Smith asked that all appointments be made by the middle of this week. A meeting is planned next Friday njght for the purpose of instructing .election board members concerning municipal election lawk. I \ Because a number of people present Saturday expressed a desire to know more about the laws, 'it was decided to open the election board schooling Friday night tol the public. . \- • i : ' Plans are underway ,to close the 'campaign with a speaking program and smoktr next Saturday ’ night. Details of the meeting will be an* nounced later in the week. _ INDIANA WEATHER L,Cloudy and warmer, rain tonight ending most sections late tonight or Tuesday forenoon. Low tonight 40 to 45 north. 45 to 50 south. High Tuesday 55 to 89 north, 60 to 65 souths '.V-' u .. . i i

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Seven Persons Die When Bus Crashes Dislodged Piece Os) Concrete Is Blamed Oakland, Calif., Oct. 29.—(UP) —Seven persons were killed and 22 others injured yesterday when a Greyhound bus struck a dislodged piece of concrete, plowed through a guard railing and plunged 50 feet off the San Francisco Bay bridge. Witnesses said the bus was traveling between 50 and 60 piiles an hour when it h|t the chunk of concrete which had been knocked loose only three k minutes before in an automobile accident. The bus driver" Vane Edward Elshire, 37. Sacramento, Calif., immediately lost control of the speeding vehicle and it roared ahead, swaying and skidding as he fought to regain control. The bus . smashed through the heavy guard railing, rolled in a lazy half-turn in the air and landed on its roof on a concrete railroad ramp. ■ The impact raptured a gaaeAtae tank and fuel trickled out onio the concrete. I “Cut the motor! Cut motor!” a woman screamed. "Do something; why doesn’t somebody do something!” another shouted. | A crowd of 1.000 presons gathered as police and firemen worked to remove the dead and injured. Eleven ambulances rushed to the scene and removed the injured tb four east bay hospitals. During the rescue \ work, a Catholic priest iiitoned the last sacraments over the dead » and critically injured. Two heavy trucks were brought in and worked with jacks and a crane to lift the wreckage in order that yictims could be removed. The crash occurred at 7:20 a.m. GST yesterday. Police said a catdriven by boatswain's mate Orville Russell, Jr., 26. of Richmond, (Torn To Kiaht > Four Injured When Car Hits Abutment Michigan Residents Injured Near Here Four persons early Sunday were brought to the Adams county memorial hospital after the car in which they were riding Crashed into a bridge abutment about two mjles south of the city. The accident occurred when one 1 of the tires bn the southbound ' vehicle blew out and the i driver ' lost control. ' James \ McGilbray, of Battle Creek, Mich., was driver of the ve- T hide? that left the road. He was ■ admitted to the hospital suffering from abrasions about the body, 1 and was in a semi-conscious condi- 1 tion upon arrival, Others injured were Annie Me- : Gilbray, three years of age, who sustained a fractured leg; Mrs. ; Elizabeth Young and Mrs. Ocie j Lowe, both of whom were also from Battle Creek, and suffered cuts and ( bruises. ’ I Mrs. McGilbray and another < daughter, eight months old, also ‘ passengers in the car, were unin- j jured. \ j The car was one of a convoy of four headed for a church convention in Richmond. One of the group ‘ continued its trip, the other three ears returned to Battle Creek. i Ambulances were employed to ’ transfer the injured from the 1 Adams county hospital to Battle < Creek. . * " J Investigating officers estimated > the damage to the McGilbray car 1 at S3OO. - 't * . >

Chinese Rush More Men To KumsongArea Reinforcements Are Rushed To Front As UN Troops Advance Bth Army Headquarters,. Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 30. — Chinese Communists rushed a fresh into the Kumsong area Monday as United Nations troops won a series of sharp engagements along the 70*mile Korean front. A new Chinese division was shifted from eastern jvorea to bolster badly mauled Red troops around Kumsong. The location of the front lines in the Kumsong area is one of the points at issue in the cease-fire talks at Panmunjom. UN troops gained from half a mile to nearly a mile at the western and eastern ends of the front Monday and in the central sector beat off three Chinese attempts to re take a strategic hill mass somheast of rubbled Kumsong. 29 miles north of the 38th parallel. UN planes again found North Korean roads clogged wrt'h enemy convoys ferrying reinforcements and supplies from Manchuria to the Red front They attacked at least 2,100 trucks last night and early today and destroyed at least 235 of them. A string of 20 railway boxcars also was set on fire. Communist jets apparently gave up at least temporarily their attempts to break allied air superiority oyef North Korea. No air battles had been reported up to'midday. The Reds lost 51 Mig-15 jets destroyed or damaged in dogfights the previous eight days. An Sth army communique that UN forces on t,he hilly w’estern front northwest of Yonchon made the day> biggest advance—Boo to 1.200 yards. The allies were unopposed in some sectors, but ran into moderate resistance elsewhere. On the eastern front, .UN elements west of “punchbowl valley” (Turn To Page Eight) Mrs. Ida Bieberich Dies Sunday Noon Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Ida Bieberich. 64, died unexpectedly at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of her soA, Gerhardt, one mile west and one mile north of Preble. Although she had not been in the best of health, death was entirely unexpected. I Born in Preble township Aug. 24, 1887, she was a daughter of August and Sophia Selking. She had lived on the same farm since her marriage Oct. 9, 1908 to Martin Bieberich, who" died July 25. 1944. Mrs. Bieberich was a member of St. Paul Lutheran church at Preble. n . ' Surviving are two sons, Arthur of Kendallville and Gerhardt; five grandchildren; one brother, Louis Selking of Alien county and one slater, Mrs. Henry Bieberich of Decatur. One brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home and at 2 o'clock at St. Paul Lutheran church at Preble, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the , residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening.

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Loyal Stevedores Obey Ryan Orders To Pass Through Line Os Pickets New York, Opt. 29—(UP)—Police .locked arms and held back an angry, yelling picket line at the Queen Elizabeth’s pier today while 150 “loyalist”/longshoremen passed through. It was the first major break, in the 15-day-old wSlkcut paralyzing the nation's largest port. i The back-to-work stevedores were loyal to International j shoremen’s Association (A FL I j president Joseph Ryan. The plck- , eti belonged to a dissident union 5 faction. Meanwhile, the New York i City anti-crime committee charged tLe Ryan leadership was honey- . combed with mobsters and urged r Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to give the i insurgent strikers a "fair hearing." 8 While this telegram was enroute g tb Albany, Deweyj ordered the B State mediation board to ‘'undertake all possible efforts" to end a the strike. A j n Some 200 policemen t cleared. a path through 175 screaming pick,t ets Jo permit the dockers to enter, >■ jthe pier where the liner docked it jesterday and hadn't been unloadh e<‘. Her sister ship, the Queen Mary, and the French line’s liner h lie De France both returned to y Europe with their cargoes still in s their holds. i < '•H e- Mounted police broke up groups t cf strikers on street corners near y the pier., , f The Cunard pier fracas was Ryan’s first move to carry out his s threat to the strike of hia rebellious union members. It had 9 been planned for 8 a. m. but Ryan - could not be found' on the water- ■ front. When found by reporters at • noon, he said police hadn't provid- • ed protection for his “loyalists” 1 but new “police arrangements’’ 5 were being made. The Queen Elizabeth had 135 ' tons of cargo and European mail. 1 Six blocks downstream, the Italian liner Conte Biancamano dock ’ ,ed at 9 a, m. with 1.566 passengers. Thelr\ luggage was carried off by ’ Italian line employes. No call wsa issued at ' either pier. Mass picket lines patroled their entrances. Pickets patroled entrances to the Brooklyn army base, jeering 311 temporary civil service workers when they went through to work the seven military ships docked there. \ The Queen Elizabeth’s pier, nor-\ i.ially worked by an International A»soci a t i o n (AFL) local which has sided with Ryan in the intra-union dispute, hid been expected to be the key to Ryan’s strike-breaking efforts. Extra policb were massed at all possible trouble spots following Ryan’s announcement yesterday that the port was now “open” and longshoremen weuld go “through' or over” the rebel stevedores’; picket lines. Rank and fillp\ longshoremen. Ihd by union local 791, have paralyzed the nation’s largest port. Their , strike, which\ today entered its third week, is against terms of a contract negotiated by Ryan and ratified by the membership.. Ryan declared the port “open” in a telegram to President \ Truman yesterday. i, He charged that the wildcatters’ ranks had been swelled by '‘several, thousand strangers" and that money was being contributed by subversive organizations, evidently to pay these strangers for the work they are performing.” j / Heavy Frost Covers City This Morning A heavy frost covered Decatur and community this i morning. Local thermometers registered from 28 to 30 degrees. Ice wiaa formed on standstill water pool*.