Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1951 — Page 1

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UN REBUFFS SOVIET RUSSIA ON FOUR VOTES

20 Killed As Trains Collide During Blizzard l f MB j j Two Union Pacific Streamliners Crash tn Wyoming Monday \ Evanston. Wyo., Nov. 13—(UP}; —Railroad -crews today worked to separate a pile of wreckage "fivez layer* deep" to reach six bodies' trapped in the remains of bra Union Pacific streamliners thatcrashed yesterday, killing 20 per-j sons and injuring 49 others. ■ ] . A giant, railroad crane, and tractors tugged and hauled at] the mound of ripped steel and snow- i covered upholstep*. The pile of wreckage was moved! , clear of the three-way tracks. Ths* t eastbound line on which the crash] occurred was cleared at 3:15 a.mi] \ (MST) (4:15 am. CST). Railroad officials said the bodieg] still in the wreckage were mangled. They were sighted neat*] the center of the mound of debris? i "The wreckage is in layers,” azworker said. "So far we’ve got| down past two —there are three to go yet.”i Lights were rigged at the wrecks ... scene and snow—which caused the, City of Los Angeles to slow down just before it was struck by its sister train the City of San Fran- ' cisco—swept down from the surrounding hills. r The temperature was ’ freezing. The force of the collision was evident in .ther-debris scattered ; around the tracks. "We Still haven’t found two of ■ the coaches.” a workman said, pointing to the wreckage which was scarcely recognizable as the remains of railroad cars. Those bodies still in the debris j were thought to be near the core qf the pile where the observation . car of the City of Los Angeles and the locomotive of the City of San Francisco lay .in one tangled mess. Meanwhile, authorities planned to question a badly injured fireriian to learn the cause of the crash. John Brahstitter, 38. Evanston, was the only survivor of the threeman erew in the four-unit deisel engine of the City of San Francisco. The Los Angeles to Chicago train had halted briefly at the Wyuta siding, four miles west of Evanston, so its engineer could determine if a snow-cdvered signal indicated he should proceed. The City of Los Angeles had just started up again when' the City of San Francisco smashed through-the silver-painted observation car, rim ping it apart like a tin can, and telescoped on through three pullmans. ' .. ? > Witnesses said there were several moments of horror-filled silence before screams of the injured rose from the snow covered wreckage. - A woman who- saw the scene described 1 ir as looking “like my boy’s train when he goes to bed at night.’;! ’ M__AU .the passengers who were kill-, ed were on the City of Los Angeles.86 were most of the 49 who were injured. 40 seriously. The Lqs Angeles’ rear brakeman, two porters and ..the observation car steward wefe killed. Witnesses said that the fact the City of San Francisco was moving relatively' slowly because of the j poor visibility'prevented the casfe ualty list from being much higher. Verdict Os Suicide . In Death Os Woman Seymour, l Ind., Nov. 13. —(UP) — Deputy coroner V. J. Burkholder A- returned a verdict of suicide today for Mrs. John Rieckers, 55, whose body was found by two duck huntterday. . - " : ers in White River near here yesInfant Boy Dies As Fire Destroys Home ■ v ' La Porte. Ind., Nov. 13.—(UP)— , Mrs. Marion Loop took two of her children to visit a neighbor half a block dowtz the street yesterday, > leaving her; youngest, four-months-old Walter Ellsworth, unattended. When they returned, their home was in flames, and the infant had perished in the blaze. Authorities said faulty wiring apparently caused the blaze. ! ■ ) ‘' ' ■ ■4' - ' ' r

i DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT f ONLY DAILY IN ADAMS COUNTY / I

4 i H-i I. r—a<. ■ ' • . ’• Banquet Speaker f A w WL » I J ■ / f Earl B. Teekelneyer || • ' e ■ -J f' j ' ‘ (Earl B. Teckemeyer 1$ Banquet Speaker 10 ■' v *'• I * | McMillen Owners Banquet Thursday jf Earl B. Teckemeyer. realtor and president of the Indianapolis eal estate board, will be Rile principal speaker at ' the 17th annual banquet and award meeting of the SlfcMjllen Home Building Corp.. at 6:30 p.m. at Zion •Lutheran parish hall. A former member of the Indiana general assembly, and secretaryJreasurer of Schmid & Smith. Inc., realtors, Teckemeyer has been connected with brokerage and appraisal business for 26 years. He is of the Indiana Savahgs & Investment edznpany of Indianapolis and is a member of the Wai estate and appraisal boards in Bzat city. jg A graduate of Indiana law school. Se has lectured at Indiana university, Indiana extension and the universities of North Carolina, Michigan and Ohio. State. He is author articles published nationally on Seal estate sales, management and brokerage. He acts as real estate Appraiser for more than 20 banks Itnd insurance companies. v E. T. Scheie of Fort Wayne, sec-retary-treasurer of the McMillen Some Building sorp., will be toastmaster of the .meeting. More than $41)0 in. awards will tge distributed to winners in \ the ■annual beautification and house improvement contest by 11. W. McMillen. president of the corporation. gi Dale W. McMillen, Sr., founder president of Central Soya company and McMillen Feed Mills, will a brief talk at the meeting. The banquet will be served by the i?ion Lutheran women. I* = 'V':, ILa.I y'.. Mrs. Pau! Reynolds Is Taken By Death i> -'V > ? ,r Former Local Lady P Dies Near Orland <HMrs. Pearl Alice Reynolds, 56; ■former Decatur resident, died at ||iOs o’clock Monday afternoon at infer home near Orland fallowing a fehort illness of complications.. She was born In Upion township l|jct. 1, 1895, a daughter Os August ifed Anna Cramer-Brodbeck. and ifjas married in 1930 to Paul ReyH>ids. The family moved th Orland i)|yen years ago. \ | | hShe was a member of the Victory t|.B. church in Union township. | Surviving in addition to her husbjihd are her mothen who resides in Union township: bne daughter. Mrs. Patsy Ann Leland of Fremont: "tMreesons, William C. of Orland, Esiward of Decatur and Don of De- > tioß, Mich.; two grandchildren; tyo. brothers, Chalmeit Rrodbeck of Wren, 0., and Vernori Brodbeck of iputh Bend; and three sisters. Mrs. ■Nellie Price, Miss Bernice Brodbeck and Mrs. Fred Marbaugh, all 61 Adams county. services will be conducted at l\3o p.m. Thursday at the black funeral home, the Rev. L. A. Jbtiddaugh officiating. Burial will ■pi in the East Salem cemetery, fiends may call at the funeral Kfeme until time of the services. 4 INDIANA WEATHER Shower*, yvindy and mild pearly tonight, turning colder tonight. Cloudy, windy ‘fend colder Wedneaday. Low •’feonight 40 to 45 north, 45 to south. High Wednesday 45 •feo 50. Ml • ‘ ■ I

Reds' Proposal Is Rejected By United Nations UN Says Acceptance Os Plan Would DeJay Release Os Prisoners < J Panrtiunjom. Korea. Nov. 13. — (UP)—|The United Nations rejected today a virtual Communist demand for_an«. immediate ceasefire in Korea. ■ | Auk communique said acceptance o|’ the Red proposal at this point plight delay if not forestall the release of thousands of allied war prisoners in Communist hands. The UN will not agree to end the shooting until the disposition of war prisoners ( and enforcement of the trujje have been assured, a UN spbkesritan said. The ishowdown came during a marathon five-hour meeting <ot the joint subcommittee seeking tarirace a ceasefire line. and buffer zone across Korea. The subcommittee will meiet again at 11 a.m. tomorrow (8 p.m.-today CST).* ■ The UN communique said the Commuhists made it clearer than ever before that they want a ceasefire to take effect as soon as the truce line has been agreed upon “rather; than jWhen other essential matters! are settled and an armistice is Signed.” "Today’s stand by the Communists was virtually a renunciation of their previously stated position that hostilities should continue' during the armistice talks,” the communique said. “They would thus obtain surcease from UN. military , operations. Agreement on other agenda items, including question of prisoners of war, which is viewed With extreme iriiportance by the UN command. cbuld be delayed thereby, if not forestalled.” The Communist proposal specifically- called for the line to be based on trie present battleline. with each side withdrawing two kilometers (1 % miles) to form a buffer, zone. ~ Entire Communist Jet Force In War Fighting In Korea Slowed By Weather Tokyo*. Nov. 13 — (UP) —Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U. S. air force cliief of staff, said today that the Communists have thrown their entire jet air strength in Manchuria into the growing air war over northwest Korea. Vanderiberg’s comment' came during a’ lull in both . air and ground fighting in Korea. Rain and fog'. grounded both UN and Communist plants, but it was evident the Communists would renew their challenge to allied air supremacy over Communist territory the skies clear. Vandenberg said/ he saw nothing alarming in the Communist effort. He said sth air force fighters are more than holdings their own with the speedy Russian-built MIG-lSgjfet fighters. American F-86 sabrejets are shooting down MIG-s at the ratio 14 to |l, he said. Despite occasionally heavy bomber losses under MIG attack, he said, overall bomber losses have been "extremely small and greatly exaggerated.” In order to. send up 100 to 150 MIGs dally in good weather, the Communists are using the|r full "jet potential” in Manchuria, Vandenberg said. The Communists are Jbelieved to have 600 or more jets. . ) Vandenberg said v he had learned nothing riew on the identity of the Communist jet pilots, whom he described! earlier as speakingl’ The air general made his comments oij his departure for Okinawa after a week’s visit to Japan and An Btk army communique' reported that UN ground repulsed a series of small coordinated enemy attacks by a Communist unit of- undetermined strengtb across a three-mile front soutri of Koßong cyn the east Korean coast. Oh’y pitrol activity was reported frmo .’the rest of 135-mile Korean front. •' " 1 ■I ; .

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Would Adoptjll Orphans 1 JF’ W ■L Vl'■ I II J l. 1 kfl 5 B I Ik 1 JOHN DONALD BABB, Pittshurgl, Pa., insurance man and his wife ’ (above,, parents of three childrei|. want to adopt the 11 children of * Murray J. Moore of Leonard. Miclfewho. with his wife, was killed in a head-one highway collision Sawrday. Tpe Babb’s only condition .is that they get all eleveif ol the cwildren. The children’s parents died 1 when their car was'struck by another carrying five teen-agers, four of whom were killed. Jhl ’ L _

May Reject Offers ? • ■ 1To Adopt Orphans ’' \ I Pittsburgh Couple Offers To Take 11 J Pontiac, Mich., Nov.l3—(UP)— An aunt of 11 children orphaned by an auto accident said today of- . fers to adopt the children ni&y I»e f turned down in favor of peeping t them in their home. : “We haven’t definitely decided . what willi )>e done though.” said Mrs. John Bosslck, sister of Mrs. > Mary Jean Moore. 33, who with her . husband. Murray, 36. was last Saturday Ih a highway. csisiF 1 that cost four other lives. “It is very nice of all those • people to want to adopt the chil- ■ dren.” Mrs. Bossiok said. “But I’m against it. They should be kept to- ’ gether where their relatives will ‘ have something to say about their ’ upbringing. ’ “I don’t know who would look 1 after them if they stay at home but their grandmothers are taking bare of. them now and probably could stay permanently.” she said. One grandmother, Mrs. Grace Moore of Royal Oak, Mich., said the children all wanted to stay together. “But all the grandparents are getting -up. in years and we might not be around until they grow up.” she said. ■ . ] The children range in age from Six weeks to 15 years. Their parents will be buried today at Royal Oak where the family lived until six weeks ago when they moved into a new home at nearby Leonard. Mich. The future of the children, some of whom were boarded in the Oakland county juvenile home fpr seven mofiths because the family’s old house was too small, may be decided tomorrow by probate judge (Turn To Pace Six) \ * ‘ Byrnes Fans Flames Os Southern Revolt Sam Rayburn Pleads For Party Loyalty riot Springs, Ark., Nov. 13—(UP) —Gov. James F. Brynes of. South Carolina fanned the flames of the southern revolt against President Truman today with a declaration that loyalty to the nation is more important than party loyalty. Byrnes told a news conference he disagrees in many respects with a speech to southern governors last night in which speaker Sam Rayburn pleaded for party loyalty. Rayburn told the governors he will support the Democratic party nominee in 1952, regardless of whom he may be. He cautioned that Democratic split could elect a Republican ticket and southern Democrats in congress would lose ' powerful committee chairmanship. “I do not agree that loyalty to party would demand that we go along with the nominee, of platform because some one might lose their jobs." Byrnes declared. He added that the'south will never agree to a platform which includes FEPC or "socialised medicine” and which lacks a definite acknowledgement of traditional (Tara To Page Four)

'■ ’’ ’ V j • Monroe Is Planning For Christmas Party )The Monroe merchants and Monroe volunteer fire department will join?; again this year in entertaining all the children of Monroe at a Christmas party. The affair will be held Tuesday night. December 18, at the Monroe high school auditorium. Santa (?laus will arrive on the fire truck and will i distribute a treat to all the children. This will be followed by a free motion picture program. I ' Nation Overloaded With Too Much Brass Senators Complain Os Inefficiency ' Washington, Nov. 13.—(UP)— Senators jcomplained today that too many admirals and civilian employes are tending to make the -defense, effort “inefficient, wasteful and dangerous.” The senate preparedness subcommittee iri its 33rd report on the mobilization program said there are almost al many generals, admirals ahd civilian defense employes in the capital,now as there were on V-E day.: :It said Jt could find no reason why as many are needed for a military machine of 3,500,000 men as were necessary at the V-E day peak of 12,000.(?00. “It is obvious,” the subcommittee said, “that the defense establishment is tending toward an administrative top-heaviness that is inefficient, wasteful and dangerous. “Unless the trend is halted now we could, in the classic phrase, wind up with the fighting forces > composed of ‘ail chiefs and no Indians.’ ’’ The report recommended that defense secretary Robert A. Lovett review the number of general and flag offices stationed in Washington. Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tejt.) told Lovett- in a separate lejter to prepare for a public hearing on the matter. Irhe subcommittee said \its survey showed that 361 general and fl|g officers and 91,081 defense department civilians were stationed its the, Washington area on September 30. On April 30, 1945, there were 397 general and flag officers and 98,071 civilians. \ “On the face of-it,” the subcommittee said, “there can be no justification for these figures. The high concentration of ‘upper brass’ is apparent to the most casual observer of the Washington scene. ?’Eveh a noonday stroller down atjy street in the midsection of the city is likely to encounter at least a few —officers of general or flag , rank.” Researcher Dies Os > _ Sleeping Sickness Pittsburgh, Nov. 13—(UP)—A voting University of Pittsburgh researcher, stricken with sleeping sickness while wprkiug on an army ] ’ research project, died in St. Johospital last night. The 2 8-y ear-old scientist, E. Wiliam Vensel, had been in a coma Tor eight day#. Hospital physicians salt} he had been gaining strength ’ gradually in that time but took a < sudden turn for the worse shortly ? before he died. L ■ ■ ; '

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Approve Yost Bid For City Building Best Bid Received For Auxiliary Plant The Decatur board of works and public safety Monday approved the bid from the Yost Cbnstruction company, of this city, for the construction of the auxiliary power plant building because it was the lowest and best of three bids received. Other bids, which were publicly opened Monday, wezfe from the Fry and Kain company, of Lansing, Mich., and the Mid-State Construction company. Fort Wayne. i Yost’s base bid for the work was $289,906 as opposed to the Fry and Kain bid of $320,000, and the MidState bid of $294,450. The accepted bid is thus $4,550 less than the next lowest. The matter will now be referred to members of the city council for final approval. It is expected that this action 'will be forthcoming next Tuesday at the regular council meeting. , According to the bids, ivbich were tabulated by. pfficials of the consulting engineering firm of Emery, Marker and Emery, of Toledo, the work should be completed in approximately one year. This will - fit in appropriately enough with much of the machinery with which the plant will be fitted. The engine itself will be by the first of the year, but will be .delayed in delivery until the housing unit is completed. The Yost company will also furnish the steel for the building, ‘having been awarded this contract June 26 when its bid was the lowest of four proposals received by the board of public works and safety. The bid for the structural, miscellaneous* and reinforcing steel amounted to $73,996, which was $2,484 less than the nearest bid. All bids were submitted minus the steel needed for the work. The steel was obtained last June to assure the, city retaining its priority, three sons, WYlliazp' C. of Orland, Once the contract for the construction of the- building is approved, it is believed (hat construction will begin in about a month. ' . I——'- : Juries Are Drawn i / For Circuit Court Grand, Petit Juries For November Term Members to serve the grand and petit juries for the November court team were selected today by jury commissioners Frank C. Rowley and Ed Berling. The Adams Circuit court is currecently in vacation, to resume next Monday. Members of the grand jury chosen today were: Edmund Auman, Root; Francis Costello. Decatur; Gorman Erhart, French; Harry S. Crowziover, Monroe; Harvey Koos, Washington; Louis Staub, Union: Forrest S. Walters, Union; Lauren Burkhead, Washington; WilI’am Bauserman, Geneva; Lloyd Deßolt, Decatur-Root; Gerald Edwards, Blue Creek; Wilbert Bake}*, Jefferson. % Petit , jurors are: Oscar Moser, Preble; Howard Bluhm, French; Curtis Baxter, St. Mary’s; Martin Huser, Monroe; Fred Brough, Wabash; Carl Neuman, Preble; Orval Arnold. Wabash; John Arnold, Washington; Walter Clem. Root; Elmer Chase. Decatur: Dewey Kuhn, Jefferson: Voyle Hill, Kirkland. . DeWitt Burk. Wabash; Glenys Martz, St. Mary’s; Ralph Staub, Kirkland; Homer Monroe; Faul Bryan, Hartford; Carl Dick, Decatur-Root; Elma Gaunt, Union; Albert Erxleben. Preble; George Sonner, Root; Henry Drayer, French; True Andrews, Root; Ivan Stucky, Decatur. • h . ■ ■ i !" , :‘r , ■ ■ lir ■ a i ■ P LllO

To Recommend Sea And Air Bases In Spain American Military Mission To Favor Building Os Bases I Washington. Nov. 13 — (UP) r An American military mission will ■ recommend that U. S. sea and air bases be built in Spain if a deal , can be worked out with Gen. Francisco Franco, it was learned today. The seven-man team returned to Washington last .week from a 10week survey of Spain's potential as a link in the European defense system. 1 The misstm, headed by Air Force Maj.. Gen. James Spry, is making a detailed report that will serve as a starting point in forthcoming diplomatic negotiations with Franco. The report is top secret, but informed sources said it will endorse the defense department’s original 1 advice that Spanish bases would be invaluably to western defense. Although it has been rumored I that Spry would discriurage. development of air basis in Spain, diplomatic sources insisted that this step would be recommended. State and defense department officials are studying, the mission's wrork and hope to draw up concrete proposals “in a matter of weeks” to submit to the Spanish government. | Franco then is expected to name his price for permitting use of the bases. Informants said this price still is not khriwn for certajh. The Spanish leader is expected to be interested, however, in U, S. aid to build upVSpain's dilapidated military forces and its sagging economy. There is $100,000,000 earmarked for Spain in the new* mutual security act. Spain also can share, in other funds at the discretion of the president. The United States is reported t 6 be interested in at least sit airports in Spanish Morocco, North Africa, and Spain, and severaL naval bases including the one at Cadiz on the southern' tip of the Iberian peninsula. The mission studied these bases and estimated their strategic potential and the feos| to modernize them. I Theiz* estimate, however, reznained a secret. But the military is said to be pressing', for a speedy conclusion of an agreement it can get started oh the big job of whipping the bases in useable shape. ' / ; ■ -—/j • ■ ' Egyptians Stage March Os Protest A ' Half Million Stage Protest On British Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 13,—(UP) — '>More than 500,000 Egyptians staged a protest against Britain today, and Premier Mustapha El Nahas' Pasha promised hny sacrifice drive the British, from the Suez Canal zone. An estimated 250,000 persons, marching in silence, paraded through Alexandria in the largest demonstrations in Egypt history. They were watched by- another 300,000 sympathizers. ' mile procession snaked through The only sounds as the threemile procession snaked through the shuttered heavily-guarded streets of the summer capital were the rustling of wotnen*s robes, the poundihg of the marchers* feet and a 21-gun salute fired by an army battery. ' Nahas called that day "the day of victory—the beginning of the end of imperialism—the approach (Tara To Page Three)

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General Assembly Defeats Russia On Four Issues; Red China Is Assailed Parjis, Nov. 13 - (UP) — The’ western allies today defeatM an attempt by the Communists to win , a seat in the United Nations for Ped China. It was the fourth defeat during the day for Russia. IT. S. secretary of state Dean Acheson intervened in the UN general assembly debate to oppose a new Russian move to oust the _ Chinese nationalists and install I the Reds izi\the U. N. He charged i- that the international conduct of I lied China 'was so low it would . take vast improvement to bring U ,ip to “the general level of bar- , barism.” On the vote, Russia Jost by 5 37 I votes th 11 with four abstentions. , , The voite ruled out any chance of considering Red China’s admis- , sion (o the UN during the Paris j session. j I Acheson recalled 7 that Russia | . had fried about 90 tiines to get j P.cd China admitted to the UN and said “the minds bf nzost of us 1 revolt that we should again be a a«ked to seat this regime.’’ \ I Russia earlier suffered three d - I feats in kejr areas of the cold war —China, jGfermany and Yugoslavia j when the general assembly, over [ protests of Russian delegates, p, voted; s 1. By 30 to 8 with' 13 abstentions to debate nationalist China s t charge that the Kremlin threatens s Cnina’s independence. 2. By 47 to 6 with 2 abstenf tions to discuss the establishment } of a UN commission to determine the possibility of all-German elec- ; tzons to unify ihe split nation. , 3. By 44 to 5 with 4 absten- ' tzonkvito hear Yugoslavia’s charges of aggression against MazJhal I lito by and its satellites., Soviet Foreign Ministez* Andi’ei I Y. Vishinsky and his fellow dele- , gtaes Jacob A. Malik rind A. A. shouted denunciations of I the'"Kuomintang gang,” “Amerr- J can imperialists and capitalists” \"S end the “Tito gang.” ■ , Obviously displeased at the way things are going, Vishinsky sought and obtained special permission ; to make a second “opening’,’ sheecli. in assembly debate. It * ’ was suggested he might spring some sort of diplomatic , 'On the German issue, which was the first stepi in the western big three’s peace plan, Israel sided with the Soviets, but for different reasons. Israeli foreign minister Moshe Sharrett charged "the Nazi spirit has risen from the ashes of the Hitler regime” and any thought of German unification or rearmament was intolerable to his nation, and the Jewish peoples pf the world.: The proposal for a UN commission on Germany, is "morally unacceptable and legally unjustified.” Sharrett said. * ' . Soviet foreign minister Andrei 1 !• I - Vishinsky assailed the threepower German proposal as a western plot to delay I reunification, i He declared that only the big <oiir foreign ministers are competent < to discuss any German problem.” By\ taking the German issue before the UN, the big three made - the first step to implement the ; global defense plan described last ‘ ; i week U, S. secretary of state ! [ Dean Acheson. i \ Russia opened up a blast of . name-calling in its efforts to block the zpitionalist Chinese item from ( u . Additional Showers Forecast In States Indianapolis, Nov. 13—(UP)— _ Lisrht rain covered most of Indiana M today to begin a five-day period of . higher temperatures and more J showers. st ! An extended outlook forecast temperatures six to 10 degrees above normal highs of 48 to r. 6 degrees and lows from 32 to 36. . Weathermen said it would be cold- | er Wednesday, warmer Thursday through Satuz;rtay and colder Sum . day; ; 1 i 'a ' ; r ' • ■