Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1951 — Page 1

Vol. No. 269.

CHARGE MURDER OF 12,790 UN PRISONERS

Reds Demand A Cease-Fire On Own Terms Communist Demand Made For Complete; Korean Cease-Fire . Panmunjom, Korea. Nov. 14.-* (UP)-—The Communists for the first time today demanded at once and on their own terms a "Complete Korean cease-fire—on the ground, ~ in the air ams ar sea. v Red truce negotiators said the Cea.«e-ffte must cotne now or never,. Unless the allies yield, they,said, they will refuse to. go on to ! othef items on thfc armistice agenda. United Nations representatives on the cease-fire subcommittee again refused to consent to any tiuce until an agreement has been reached on such items as the release of thousands of allied war prisoners: < t ■ • The stalemated subcommittee nevertheless decided to “meet again at 11 a.m. (8 p.m. today CST). ; : t The subcommittee set a new eh: durance record Wednesday with a single session of five hours and five minutes against a backdrop of a sharp firefight in the hills southeast of the conference tent. "■ - I. - . 44 ■. - j• -< Brig. Gen. Wftliam Nuckols. UN spokesman, said the Communists stated their position “clearly and ainmistakeably." “They made it clear that what \ they want is a complete defacto _* cease-fire, not only on the groutid. but ip the air and on the sea," he said. j Previously the Reds have indicated by their insistence on making the present battleline the cease-fire line that they envisioned only a truce in the ground fighting until agreement has beeh reached -on other _items on the armistice agenda. They already had reversed their original position that the fighting go on everywhere* until the complete armistice agreement is ready for signing. , Recapture Hill Bth Army Headquarters. Korea. . Nov. 14—(UP)—United Nations forces today recaptured a hill on the western front they had yielded last night after killing or wounding hundreds’ of attaching Chinese 4- Reds: , ' . ■ No opposition was met in the latest push. The Reds were so badlybattered in their attack last night ' that they apparently pulled back to theirV>#n lines before, dawn. V An estimated Communist bat-talion-800 to 1,000 men—backed by the fire of up to 11 tanks hit 1 ' the UN-held hill west of Yonchon last night. An allied briefing Officer said "hundreds and hundreds” of Chinese were killed or wounded. UN tanks subsequently engaged 10 of the enemy tanks in a moonlight duel, knocked out two of them and put the rest to flight. Tw<? more Communist infantry attacks elsewhere on .the western front were repulsed today. , On the central front, a UN patrol pushed to the northern edge of the noman’sTand-city of Kumsohg, 29 miles north of the 38th parallel. , •- and dispersed a Communist platoon in a brief fight. Action subsided on east coast following the UN’s repulse of an attack by five Communist battalions—up to 4,000 men—Tuesday south of Kosong, 46 miles north of (Tin To Page Seven) I — t . A Local Business Man Lions Club Speaker 'V ■ "• Jack Gordon, owner of the West-, ern Auto Associate store in Deca- > tut and a former agent for the de-/ partment of interior, was the Tuesday speaker at she regular meeting of thje Decatur Lions club. -Showing movies of his stay in the northern country. Gordon pointed out that “Alaska is a land of extremes . . . but also a land of opportunity." Mayor John M. Doan was in charg'd of the program and introduced the speaker. ’ . j 1 7“' 1 ' • 1 Indiana Leather Mostly fair, windy and colder tonight, except considerable cloudiness extreme north. Partly cloudy, with diminishing winds Vhureday. colder north. Low tonight 32-38 north, 38-43 south. High Thursday around 40 north and 45 south .

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Commissioners To Meet Here Monday Members of the board of county commissioners will meet in.special seagion next Monday morning to allow election claims for the cities of Decatur and Bejme for the recent elections. • Four Midwest States Lashed 1 By Tornadoes One Killed, 12 Are Injured; Gary Hard Hit By High Winds By United Press Cooler weather moved in today on the heels of midwestjern tornadoes and. - windstorms which ,i ipped homes from their foundations, knocked out power lines, killed one man and- injured at least 12 other persons. Twisters and high w’inds yesterday struck many towns in Illinois, southeastern Missouri, northwestern Indiana and Kentucky. The damage at industrial Gary, Ind., alone was estimated at 3100,009. Ben Starr was killed ait Gilbertsville. Ky.. when the w’inrt blew gaiage timliers through a house. Starr was erushed in the debris. Forecasters said the tornadoes and strong winds were- spawned by a collision between a cold front moving eastward from lowa and sprink-like air sweeping up from the; south. \> j L \ Seven persons were injured, two critically. in Campbell Hijl, lIL, and sheriff Roy Carter sdfd the town was ‘SO percept flattened.” Red Cross rescue workers set up emergency cots in the grade school gymnasium , for members of 50 to CO homeless families. ] i s The twister swept' through Campbell Hill from ihe southwest, levelling the town hall and prying off the top story of a brick storeThe fire station wasjarried away — lut th\e engine remained. A '2O-minute tornado j slashed through. Gary. Ind., one of the ‘tion’is major steel centers. Tfwo garages were tossed across she •street and trees were ripped top like -weeds. | i ‘lt’s darn near a miracle no oijje was killed or badly hurt.” said fire chief Russell Balhard. i ' -I '■ | The home of James McManus was blown off its foundation and the family garage picked up and dropped on the top of a neighbor’s ■parage. \ _ •!. The Campbell Hill school builld•ing was unroofed blit students* inside, were not injured. Herman Schoenberg, janitor of the school, saw the twister coming and shouted warnings to the teachers; Teachers herded the children under desks as debris , . (Turn To Pa*e Eight) U.S. And Yugoslavia Sign Aid Agreement— Modern Weapons To Anti-Soviet rorces Washington, Nov. us— GUP) — The United States and Communist Yugoslavia signed a military aid agreement today to assure delivery of modern - American to • Marshall Tito’s anti-Soviet forces. The agreement was the first signed between the ynited States and a (Communist country guaranteeing American arms shipments. It was signed at Belgrade by American ambassador George V. Allen and by Marshal Tito. The state department, in releas- • ing the text of accord, did not reveaj the dollar total, of arms aid to be supplied. But it is certain to include modern weapons as well as some surplus World War II equipment. i H . The American-Yugoslav move is designed to build up Tito’s armed forces in the face of continuing and increasing threats of attack by Yugoslav’s Communist neighbors supported by Moscow. Gen. J. Lawton Colins, army chief of staff, discussed the agreement early in October when he made an inspection visit in Yugoslavia. The agreement has been under discussion between the\ two governments since last June.

■ "-f ; High Point In Monroe Is New Water ; Tank Which Overlooks \Town—Plan • To Start

Probably the biggest municipal improvement of general utility ever made in Monroe is the installation of the town's new water system, including mains and a 130-foot high tank, from which an adequate supply of water will bq furnished to hydrants under 40-pound pressure. (Tank and building pictured at right). \ The project is nearing completion: and the system is ex) pected to be in operation by January 1, 1952. The 40.000-gallon capacity tank which rises from a steel structure at the well site on leased land on ; the Homer: Winteregg farm, adjoining the-south edge of the town, is being filled. Painting of the name ’ — MoUkh on the tank in large let- - ters that cin be seen from any part i of the town, will complete the job. Water is pumped from the well . at the rate of 250 gallon a minute. l From, ground level to the tank, the stand pipe holds 4,500 gallons pf water. The tank was erected by W. E. Caldwell company of Louis- - Ville. Ky. j . - ■■ ( Construction of the Monroe tvater , system started in October, 1950, following approval of the project in a .referendum on August 3, 1950. The vote was: For 134: Against. 40. Monroe, residents wanted water piped to their homes, along with the added and voted accordingly Already 145 customers have signed for the sjervice. The town council, composed of Homer ‘Win ter egg. president. Arthur Raildenbush and George Cramer, and Gene Hike, tow* clerk, accepted thte mandate and Immediately took official irteps toward bringing the improvement to tion. -\ ' A driller was employed and a2lO- - deep well,•'lso feet through bed rock, with a ten-inch pipe leading to the water? bed to surface, was brought in pn October 25. On a hour fist the was pumped at the rate of 250 gallons a minute without lowering the water level one iota. Operations were delayed about eight months while state requirements on filtration and chlorine of water were State approval has been given for all operations pf the system. Iron is' - 1- i 1 I -

t - - i — - • 'i : ■ —“ Local Lady's Father Killed In Accident Jay County Farmer Is Killed Tuesday Aloysius Minch, 64, Jay county farmer, residing six miles east of Bryant, was killed Tuesday afternoon when he, was thrown from his auto on a curve a short distance north of Portland oh U. S. highway 27 and state road 67f Minch apparently lost control northbound car when it, jp*nt off onto the* berm. His head was crushed. Drivers of two trucks which struck his car escaped with , minor duts and bruises. As the victim attempted to swing back onto the highway, his \car careened into the right front fended of a southbound pickup truck driven by Clair Shoemaker, Bry «nt grocer. ♦ Another southbound truck, loaded with steel, and driven by Howard W: Moore, of Fremnot, 0., swerved into Minch’s car to avoid hitting the vicitm’s body on the highway. 'j Minch is survived by his wife. Salome; three daughters, Mrs. Hubert • (Reisler of Decatur, Mrs. Thomasi Kohlmeyer of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Florentine Langas of Tacoma;, Wash.; five brothers, Joseph, Henry and George, all of Continental, (X, John of Coldwater, 0., and Mike of Celina, 0.. and two esiters, Mrs. Gus Wagner of Bryant and Mrs. Charles Pricker of Celina. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:20 a. m. Saturday in the Holy Trinity Catholic east of Bryant, the Rev.; Victor Wagrer officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. \ The body is at the Baird fuperal home at Portland. Friends are requested to omit floirers.

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removed from the down to 0.2 parts per million gallons. State analysis shoW« the water contains 1.8 parts fluoride per, m*lr Hon gallons, which ia more than the average in jhe discovery.that fluoride: iir water is a (protection to the life of teeth. Connection from thle mains will be brought 40 feet inside of the customer’s property. Persons whose only income is old qige pensions, social security or other government pensions, Will 'receive Tree installation of water Hjnes front the mains to their property. ' Latest Water Mains r' ‘ The mains laid through the town are of an asbestos-glass material, running from eight, sik, four down to two inches in diamt ter. Sixteen

\ J i Plane Carrying 36 Servicemen Still Missing I Search Suspended To Thursday For Air Force Plane Lyon, • France, htov. 14 —(UP) — A search by plant* of two nations for a U. S. air force plane lost with .36 American servicemen ‘ aboard was suspended tonight until tomorrow/ A fleet of 30 American, planes and a number of French aircraft battled mist/icy rain and the danger of. jagged mountain peaks, from dawn today until darkness made further observation impossible. \ ‘ Several hundred weary French police and civilian mountaineers also gave up the ground hunt ii,n-‘ til tomorrow. i 1 Two parties of climbers who struggled to the snow-tipped peak of Mont D’Or planned to stay •tnere overnight and resume their search at dawn. The C-82 ‘Flying Boxcar” vanished in foggy weather yesterday while tranferring 30 troops from Germany to Bordeaux, supply base for Gen. Dwight D r Eisenhower’s Atlantic army.| Six creWmen were aboard. Weather was"so menacing that it forced many search planes from the treacherous Mont D’Or mountain. One helicopter participated in the hunt. \ A picked team of 1 American paratroopers, chutes strapped to their backs “at the ready,” rode one bucking search plane into the mountains. Another team of paratroopers, rushed here by plane, traveled by autbmoblle and on foot Ito the 4.000-foot high Mont D’Or; I (Tara To Page Eight)

Mueller-type l\ydrants. which are freeze proof, have betin erected »t strategic points in the town, > assuring Monroe residents of an t ample aupply of water to fight fires. A Revenue Project Liquidation of 396,000 bond issue wifi ,b« made from plqnt inebmte. The four percent reverie bonds were purchased by the Municipal Bojtd Corp., of Cincinnati last September, and a premium was paid for! the securities. ' The General Contractor The general contractor on the project is E. A. Bock Construction company of Fort Wayne: The engineering was done by Snyder, Rhoads, McLellan & Watson, with Nelson Watson. Jr., as resident engineer. ./ ; 1 i- ' ’’’ i -j —i

Only Minor Damage Is Caused By Wind Over Inch Os Rain In 24-Hour Period x Decatur and vicinity escaped i the major portion of the storm that swept Indiana during the last 36 hours, with only slight damage reported by utility companies, t During the 24 hour period ending at 8 p. m. today, Hi Meyer, weather observer, reported 1.25 ihches of rain fell; the previous 24-hour period, report nqted .46 of an inch of rainfall. . L. C. Pettibone, |ight departments superintendent, reported that “about 20” utility poles were down, most of them in Root township but some in Union. Light department K employes worked throughout the night making repairs to the lines and today there- was complete service throughout the area. The Citltens Telephone coip- ; pany got off a little easier from the Wind and rainstorm, with ‘ only a couple” of poles reported < down. Service was not disrupted, ( recording to officials. Most of the more than one inch < of rain that fell Tuesday did so i in a shbrt space of time during the, ( evening When the wind velocity j was the highest. ' V 1 During the height of the storm < a couple of airliners roamed < around over the city, probably (Tun Ta Page Six) \ , _ 1 1 Adams County Road To Be Surfaced > The state highway commission * will receive bids until Dec. 11 on f surfacing 2.98 miles of an Adams ( county road, extending north from j Indians 184 four miles' west of t Monroe. The improvement is part ( of the federal aid program, and j the road is eventually to be im- ; proved \ north through Preble 1 township to the St. Mary’s river.

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.BULLETIN Clifford Houk, 59, well known farmer living seven miles north of Deeatur just north of the Adam&Allen county line, died at 1:45 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Gov. Warren 01 California Enters Race - Makes Announcement Os Candidacy For GOP Nomination Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 14 — (UP) — Governor Earl Warren of California announced today he is a candidate for president. Warren thus became the second avowed GOP candidate for president. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio announced his candidacy four w< eks ago. Warren said he would outline his views? and opinions on national policy in a speech Friday night at San Diego before a meeting of the Republican state central committee. . Warren was a “tavorite son" candidate of California Republicans both in 194 f and 1948. In 1948, he consented tb become the viceliresldentiab candidate under Thomas E. Dewey. The 60iyear-old Warren, three times governor, told a crowded press conference that "with all humility, I shave concluded to become a candidate." He said he would permit a group of top-ranking GOP leaders in the state to submit his name in the presidential primary in California next June> MHe said he woul<l decide “in the proper season” whether he would urge his candidacy in othbr states. 7 have no Intention of making it a divisive campaign" the governor said jn a prepared statement. “The necessities of the situation (Turn To Pa are Six) Guarantee Building Industry Profits Price Ceilings Are Raised For Profits Washington, Nov. 14 — (UP)— I'.he government guaranteed the construction industry its preKorea profits ‘ today by raising price ceilings new homes, factories, highways, and scores of other building projects. Price stabilizer] Michael V. DtSallq that, effective Nov. 20, contractors and other , construction firms will be permitted to figure increased costs . of and materials in their , ceiling prices, j The new regulation establishes ceiling prices on the basis of curreht costs for labor, material and ; equipment, plus nine-tenths of the ( highest profit inarglh which the | builder collected pn similar proj- j ects between July 1, 1949, and June j 24, 1950. i Disalle said ceilings will ( give builders about the skme dol-lars-and-cents profit they made be- . fore Korea, because construction . labor and material costs have 1 risen 10 and 12 percent, respec- i lively, since the Korean outbreak. Officials of the office of price I Stabilization, said they colild not 1 estimate the added cost Jo the pub- i lie because they do not know how ‘ many of these cost increases have 1 occurred since the construction 1 industry went under the general c price freeze last January. They said, however, that the |' (Tun Ta Pa*<r Riskt) e

India Appeals To Big 4 For World Peace Foreign Ministers Os Big Four Urged _To Meet At Once Paris,. Nov. 14—(UP)—India papealed to the big four foreign min-» inters today to meet here in secret session at once and agree to a ‘nowar declaration” as a. first step toward making world peace secure. Sir Benegal Ran, India's chief delegate, made the appeal to the United Nations general assembly. llau also deplored the continued exclusion of the Chinese Communists from the UN and said it ■would be “unreal” to discUss disarntanient in the absence of a. country which hijs one of the most important armies in the world. Rau urged the foreign ministers of the United States. Great Britain, France and Russia get together while they are attending 'the present assembly- meeting. Rau said the minimum to be hoped for ai Mich a-conference would be a joint four-power promise to settle their disputes by peaceful means. Rau spoke after delegates of small nations implored the great powers to toiake a fresh start toward an understanding before all countries are-swept into a third world war. — ( Fervent appeals to both east and west came from Denmark. Pakistan, Colombia and other smaller powers. Behind their words was the hope that Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky might offer a “surprise" proposal wheij he speaks for a'second time in the UN general assembly debatfe Saturday. I - Pakistan foreigil minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan warned the major roadblock to a cold war settlement was “fear of each other’s designs and suspicion of each other's motives.” He deplored the rearmament drives of east and Danish foreign minister Ole Bjoerp Kraft condemned Vishinsky's statement that he laughed so much at the west's disarmament proposals that he couldn't sleep. Colombian foreign minister Dr. Gonzlao Restrepo Jaramillo said disarmament was the only way to solve the grave problem of economically under-developed nations.) G.A. Christen Dies In City In Florida Former Decatur Is Taken By Death G. A. Christen. 78, a former resident of this ctiy, died recently in Cbral Gables, -Fla, of a heart , attack, according to word received here from his sister, Mrs. B. B. Uhl of Springfield, Ohio. A son of John and Katherine Magjey Christen, the deceased was born in Root township. Adams county, Oct. 12, 1873. After completing his elementary education, he entered Wittenberg College, Springfield. He taught school in this county and at Fortville for several years. Mr. Christen married Miss Iris i Jay of Fortville, who survives. A’JO surviving are two brothers, i Bert of Toledo and Ray Christen : of | Rome City. Retiring from the teaching profession. Mr. Chriafen moved to / Louisville, Ky., where he engaged i in business and became president 1 and treasurer of the Louisville Lumber and Millwork company, tie was prominent in Methodist church circles in that cjty. i Information was not received 1 when funeral services were held i or where burial was made.

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■ 5,660 Americans Are Included In Number Murdered By Reds Since Start Os War Pusan. Korea Nov. 14. —(UP),-— The Chinese ,and Norjh Korean Communists haie murdered an esti- . mated 12.790 I nited biations prisoners, Including 5,660 Americans, since the war began, the United Nations command charged today. The Chinese t eds have slaughtered 2.513 American prisoners, 4G Turks, 10 Brit ms, five Belgians and 75 of othe ■ UN countries, it was asserted. ’ The North Koreans killed approximately 3,000 Americans before the Chinese entf red the war a year ago and have killed 147 since then, the UN command jsaid. 7 The Chinese mid -North Koreans have murdered about 7,000 South Korean prisoners in the last year, it was charged. In addition, :he UN command said the number of Korean civilians who have fallen vicCommunist brutality totals - 250.000. , Col. James Jhnley, judge advocate rif the United States Bth army, said: “The figures compiled by the UN command are fiir from complete* but they show a record for killings I and barbarism unique even in*'the Communist world." 1 1 Hanley's statement disclosed that ' 200 United States marines were slaughtered in a mass execution last Dec. 10 near Sinhung, on the northeast Korean coast, 1 by order of the commander; of the 23rd regiment of the ‘division of the Chinese Commuijist party. Hanley fcave Ijis figures here in the form of an official U.N. command release. It coincides with an increasingly angiy atmosphere ip the Panmunjoin truce talks and the denunria(ion of the Chinese Reds by secretary of state "DeW’Acheson at Paris UN general assembly. “This is in sharp conflict with Chinese claims o f compliance With the Geneva convention in the treatment of war prisoners," Haiiley said. I; :He released for the first time Bth army j-ecords documenting atrocities conimitled by the Chinese army since its intervention in Korea last November. : Hanley said the 200 marines comprised the single group of American prisoners known to have been execute. The marines were, slain last Dec. 10 near Sinhung; south of Hamhung. on the nprtheast Korean coast, on .orders (if the commander of the 23rd regiiiieht of the 81st division of the Chinese Communist army, he said. Although the total number of South Korean civilians executed by the Communists may never be « known, Hanley sadd. he believed it to be “upwards ■of 25,575” men, women and children, most of whom never were tried. ' An Sth army release at the same time charged that the Reds slaughtered 2.060 political prisoners—oh(Tnra To Pok« Six) Grand Jury Called To Session Tuesday Ia venire ordering members chosen to serve on the grand jury during the November term of court was issued to sheriff Bob Shratuka by Judge Myles F. Parrish, the jurors to convene next Tuesday at 9 a.m. While it is not divulged as to why the jurors are called into session next weelc, it wa's learned that i a letter awaits them In the safe of i clerk Ed Jaberg. Sealed, the letter was addressed specifically to the grand jury; the nature of t»he contents was not learned, and neither whs any information concerning who sent the letter disclosed. It is also only speculation whether any action will be taken on the letter. Judge PaiTtsh has named Tice Baker, bailiff for the grand jury, which will convene in a special session. that Is not required by Jaw. The September terjm grand Jurors conducted and repdrte(f j>n the annual inspection. V : ■ ■ .1 t