Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 271, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 271.

RUSSIA PROPOSES TO OUTLAW A-BOMB

UN Negotiator Warns Reds Os Continued War' Fighting In Korea To Continue Until Armistice Signed (’’P) —Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes,United. Nations .truce negotiator, warned the Communists sharply today that fighting in Korea will continuV until* an armistice is actually signet! whether it be days, weeks or months. ' In a confused and quarrelsome meeting in the Panmunjom truce tent, Communist Gen. Lee Sang Cho asked Hodes to redefine the allied objective in insisting that f.ghting be continued., during negotiations. “You know what that objective i-..’; Hodes said firmly. “We are a‘ter an armistice and not gain on the ground.?? l “ = “If the delay (in negotiations) last four or five months, the fighting will continue until the armistice is signed. Or. if negotiations continue for two days, three days or three weeks or longer, the fighting will continue . until an armistice is achieved. . i, “You might as well know this now if you not known it before.” ' A UN communique said the Reds argued in the longest subcommittee meeting yet held that the al* • lies had strayed far from their , earlier proposals based on definite demaracation lines drawn on a map. , i Hodes' replied that the earlier allied proposals were new .outdated. / i The meeting ended “without at? any tangible results,“ the UN communique said. \ However, the subcommittee, will meet again at 11 a. m. tomorrow (8 p. m. to*day CST.) The latest meeting lasted five, huors and 15 minutes in a new conference tent erected by the Communists to replace the leaky former meeting place. The Reds took up the morning s« salon' with the argument that Bodes was . trying to evade .com- * prance with the second item of the agenda — settlement of a - cease-fire line and buffer tone , across Korea. »Hodes replied that the UN proposal to base the cease-fire line on the battleline existing when the rest of the armistice agreed meat is ready for signing contains (Tarn To Pare Eight) r Charles H. Houck Dies This Morning Charles H. Houck, 72, former Adams county resident and architect for the Adams county home, was found dead in his automobile early this morning near Tri Lakes fish hatchery. The body was taken to Columbia City, pending funeral arrangements. . A son of the latd George M. T. ! Houck of Kirkland township, Mr. Houck was born in this county s March 19, 1879. He formerly lived in Muncie and about 15 years ago built a new home at Tri Lakes. Recently, Mr. Houck had been confined to the hospital in Columbia City. Details of .his death and funeral arrangements were not received here at press time. Eleanor Pumphrey Elected President Announcement was made today that Miss Eleanor Pumphrey, Decatur high school librarian, was recently elected president of the northeastern school -librarians sec r tion of the Indiana state teachers association and will continue to be a member of the \ executive council of the school slibrariart association. * / The announcement was contained in a letter to Decatur high school principal Hugh L Andrews, and was sent by appropriatelynamed Miss Orpha Book, president of the Indiana school librarians association. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight and Saturday. Occasional snow flurries north Saturday. Low? tonight 25-30. High Saturday 30-35. I

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT 1 < ON IY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

truman Prepares To | Continue Fair Deal I ■i- I I J Platoning New Battle - With Conservatives d. ’ M J .Key West Fla.. Nov. Ife—(Uß)—; President Truman prepared today (dr another battle with conservative elements within his party who Want fi> tone down the fair, deal in 1952. :.Mr. Truinan stirred, the fire With his flat assertion yesterday thgt . ,-ihe fair dehl program which has , received a congressional kicking,on jsome of its maor points would ' isought again in the* state of' the unieri message. ■ What seemed more politically interesting. however, was the.presh ‘dent's firm statement that, he could guarantee that the fair deal profgram would be included in the 1952 pemocratic platform. He had said earlier that he intended to haye a ■ ?pig hand in writing the platforin. j This meant, for one thing, 'that (he chief executive was not planning to make concessions on Such A’olatile political items as his civil lights program, his renewed de1 "rnands for a national health plan ■° pind drastic economic controls. ’ A strong stand °” c * rights .will have about the same effect as tgasoline on a bonfire in many parts ’of the “south. The president, how<ever, doesn’t seem to be too impressed by his southern opposition 'fWho have.Mmde clear they want a (new Democratic presidential cdndiJdate regardless of what Mr. Truhban says or does. The > president won in 1948 wUh|i>ut the solid south and he said that, it was a grept source of Ibride io be able to do po. 1 While Mr. Truman has been decretive about his plans for hat be has been seeing numerous 4iiinority delegations representing JtroupS' that have relatively small, |p;ut tightly-knit members scattered the nation MY. Truman in TOcent months has talked in Washling’.on with many of these groups ♦whose piemberships are brought together by reasons of religion, racial gpr national origin. The president undoubtedly would pe the first to disclaim any ppliti■?cal mptives in these White Hpuse meetings with minority organizations, but it has long been accepted |hat.the welding together of minority factions in this country can projfluce majority strength at the polls. I- T ' | ,608,266 Veterans Enrolled In Legion i Indianapolis, Nov. 16. —(UR)— ,X total of 1,608,266 American war Veterans have enrolled in the Legion for 1952, the group’s national headquarters here Announced today.' The. figure represents nearly Jialf of the legion’s 1952 national . membership l goal \of 3,312,332. Legion officials said this year's total paid membership was |,730,449 in 17,314 posts across ; Ihe nation. ?*• ■ L_—_—.—u—- . | ■■ IB Officer Speaks At Rotary Meeting l r Association Work J Is Discussed Here Mrs. W. Guy Brown, executive secretary of the Adams- county tuberculosis association, discussed wprk of the association'a| the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club'Thursday evening. . .Mrs. Brown touched briefly on various projects conducted by the TB association, both On the local and the national level. A thorough research program has been launched by the national- organization!. I The~ Adams county group, which 1 Conducts patch tests in*the first, ninth and 10th grades in schpols in f the county each year, made 964 of ' these .tests last year, with 11 posi- ■ live reactors revealed. ■■ The local association sponsors visits by the mobile x-ray unit, fouP free clinics each year, and health programs for the schools. Pollowing the secretary’s address, a movie from the. national TB association was shown, with Lowell Smith operating the projector. W. Quy was chairman of the program. John Welch, club president, announced that the (Rotary club will not meet next week because the meeting da'te Tails on Thanksgiving day. | I

Ups Number Os American War Prisoners Slain \ Hanley Discloses Increased Figure Os Slain Soldiers - . ; | j • Pusan| Korea, Nov. 16.—dUP)The BthJ army’s chief war crimes investigator boosted today his-total figure of American war prisoners murdered by the Communists in Korea tp 6,270. \ ll f Col. Jernes M. Hanley disclosed tire new figure in an exclusive interview just before two high U.S. officers arrived in Pusan and began questioning him about his unexpected? disclosure of the Red atrocitidk. Col. George Patrick Welch, public information officer for Gen. Matthew B- Ridgway, and Col. Kenneth L.! Booth, public Information officer for the Bth army, talked with Hanley in his Pusan office for several holers. \ v \ Afterwards, Welch would say only :■ | “I caihe over here to discuss the rtiatter .with Colonel Hanley. But "the conjerence was informal.” Hanley’s new Statement, put the total nuhiber of UN war prisoners slaughtered by the Communists since outbreak of the Korean war' June 25, 1950, at 13.400. Os the total, he safd, 7.0Q0 were South Koreans, Far frpni retracting his disputed earlier Statement that the Chinese alone had killed 2,513 American pri-\ soners. he repeated it and enlarged his repqjrt to include 2,757 Americans slain by North Korean troops. Hanley sajd information gathered by -gth iarmy investigators, survb vors of J executions. South Korean police and other sources showed these; “maximum” numbers of 1 Americans to have been murdered: By thy Chinese since they entered the war in November 195(1 2.513 The the North Koreans; .since November 1950 1 147 By thle North Koreans before November 1950 3,610 .t v Totiil Americans slain 6.270 He said Chinese Communists have slain 130 UN war prisoners of other nations. v , ? Hanleljr gave the interview while two high y.S. officers were en route bjs air to Pusan to confer with him ovejr his unexpected release of the original atrocity report at a■, press conference Wednesday. Ridgway postponed a promised j, “clarifying” statement on the atrocities pending further investigation. Both Tokyo and Washington were reported fearful of the repercussions of Hanley’s release on the a (Turn To Pave Six) r \ ; I r 1 Anti-Strike Vote Herels Disclosed I UE's Anti-Strike Vote Was 218-74 ■ 1 Results from the November 2 1 “strike vote” election among De- ( catur General Electric employes were given to members of Local . 924 U.E. at the regular meeting of the organization at Union hall last J evening. ~7 p \ \ ’ The tally Is: Against strike, 218; for Strike, 74. The meeting was ' well attended and a discussion on 1 wages, hinged to the “ever increap- • ing cost of living,” took place. “This vote does not mean that the membership repudiated the 1 union or its officers. It does show 1 that the people in Decatur have ' the right to exercise their opinions in a democratic wayA a member of ' the election committee explained. “A majority of the members, exer- 1 cised the democratic way of our ' American lite to vote on issues which pertain to their well being. The issues involved were weighed < against the cost of such actions and results in the future, with the high 1 cost of living being the main topic, ■ along with probable future advances in living costs in the.months to come,” the officers explained. 1 Voting in the special election, which was conducted In a very orderly manner and under strict supervision, was supervised by a seven-member board appointed by i the members. . -■ 1 Henry Stauffer, president of Local 924, presided at the meeting. . :

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 16, 1951.

’ £ f j , Win Nobel Awards K..□■Ha K '■ Ik I PROF. GLENN T. SEABORg (14lS. University of California and his co-disj-overer of the atomic efeinMt Plutonium. Prof. Edwin M. McMillan,;. 44, have been awarded; tne 1951 (Nobel chemistry prize, valued at? $31,290. Sir, John D. Oscifroft (right)., head* of Britain’s Harwell Atomic Energy project, shhre* the 11)51 physics Nobel award with Dr.’ ternest T. S. gallon, mtytear physicist at Trinity College, Dublin, Iceland.

12 1 U Home Owner Banquet Held Thursday Night ! ? ■ * '' I Over 70 Families Are Honored Here j Emphasis on the advantages of home ownership , and tributes to those who built solidly on the of a home and family were' Inspiringly expressed by Earl B. Teckemeyer, Indianapolis realtor. at thf 17th. annual banquet J and award meeting of the McMillen Home puilding Corp, las’t evening in Zlion Lutheran parish hall. More than 70 families who own homes in (he three McMillen additions in tim north part of the city, were honored guests of endowed home building organization and Dale tV. McMillen, founder of Central Sbya Company and Me-; Millen Fded Mills. Edward T. Scheie, df the company’s Fort V.’ayn® offjee, was toastmaster. Awards |tb 15 families for improvement® to houses and beautification of grounds macle during the pat# year, were presented by H. W. McMillen, Fort Wayne, president of the McMillen Home Building Corp. L H|ome-Owner Os The Year An; award of “McMillen Home Owner Os The Year,” was created last evening with the distinction 'going to and Mrs. Paul Sharpe. 1133 Master tlrive. The certificate of recognition for outstanding improvements made to their newly acquired home was awarded to the couple by Harry Maddox, vice*president and general manager of the company. Watch Fob Presented Founder Representing the home owners, Chalmer Bollenbacher, 910 Walnut street, presented an ehgraved gold watch fob to) Dale W. McMillen; in appreciation ;of what the home building founder has done for families ip acquiring their own home. Engraved with a sentimentality, V’To our Mr. Mac—Who has done po much for so many.” it expressed the attitude toward the man , who made home ownership, possible among a large number of McMillen industrial employes. In response to the tribute, Mr. McMillen remarked, “The home is the first thing in the life of man and woman. It has been a personal pleasure to he p in your desire to have ybur own home.” ' Intermingling his nostalgic theme. “There’s no place like home,” with verbal lilt, Teckemeyer emphasized “As long as thousands! upon thousands of people own their homes, America js safe. Your spirits are revived when you see a group of happy home owners.” The speaker visited the local home additions and remarked “You have aq excellent investment and live in a great community.* Stressing th® importance of home ownership, he phrased the axiom. “Right things turn out to be profitable things.” The four-course turkey dinner, was served by the women of Zion Lutheran church, ./torn ,the new kitchen in the recently dedicated parish hall. The tables were attractively decorated in fall flowers and women guests were presented mum corsages. Music was furnished by Jean Brown Bosselinan (Twn* To Page Six)

I | : ; L 'Automobiles' Death [Toll Is 995,600 r Chicago, Nov. 16.—(VP)—The ; national safety council’ reported ttoAay that the numbbr of traffic deaths in. the United States since ’.the automobile was invented has breached $95,600. * i’he 1 council said the total, complitte through yesterday, does not change ita previous estimate that £h® natiop’s millionth traffic death will occqr during the third week in . December. Plan Lunch Program At Geneva School --I I *• Form Shop Program Is Also Proposed t’relimi’nary plans vrere recently completed by the Geneva PTA for the institution of a lunch program and th® building of a farm shop in the high school. Facilities for the projects are being considered, and 1 financing is to be largely a PTA venture. \ Jleceqtly the acquisition of the Idfich program and the shop building wer® discussed with Geneva and county school officials, and as a result, according to superintendent Hansel L. Foley who was consulted iii the proceedings, plans are underway to get the programs into “earliest operation.” Tentatively, it is hoped to clear a basement room dn the school, currently used for storage, to be\ utilized for the lunch program. .The farm shop building is to be at,tacheift to the high school building because of the recent innovation of an alfday student 1 vocational agriculture class that necessitates Working space. The Geneva PTA has agreed to underwrite a certain portion of the costa, and it is anticipated fnat the township will have to approve an appropriation for further expenses. But PTA officials are hopeful that the bulk of the work and much of the material and money will be contributed to enable the’ f-ehool to undertake such programs. Foley noted that should the lunch program be adopted by Geneva ' will be the fifth in the county to have it; Jefferson at present has only a partial program. While officials have definitely decided for the farm shop, trustee L. A? Mann has made inquiries of the state school planning commission,, who have in turn supplied him with the necessary data sheet for the approval of these plans. Four Men Killed As Light Plane Crashes Palmdale, Calif.. Nov. 16—(UP) —Race drivers Mack Hellinks and Jim Barker and two other men apparently were killed instantly when a light plane in which they were flying to a racetrack crashed in the; Tehachapi mountains, sheriffs deputies said today. The bodies of the race drivers, photographer Lee Harvey and pilot Robert Harris, were removed from the wrecked plane yesterday by a rescue party. I'-'. '

—— > —— " Vishinsky Proposes Great a! • ’ ' • • r. • J ‘ Powers Agree By February On Pact To Outlaw Bomb

Christmas Savings Checks At New High Over $115,000 To Be Mailed Saturday Christmas savings checks total-, ling $115,335.25 will be mailed by officials of the First State Bank Saturday, the largest amount to be distributed since tile club was instituted In all, 1,673 checks will be mailed this year, also an increase over former Refers, according -to Mrs. Betty “Shockley, who added this is th® earliest these' checks have been mailed. Assistant bashier Earl Caston attributed this to earlier shopping seasons, ‘‘and we try, to get the checks out when the customers 1 most want them.” The amount to be distributed this yekr is the greatest since 1 the inception of the clhb, compar--1 ing with the checks totalling $102,972 sent out last year, which ■ was the previous record. Each year, bank officials noted, more people take advantage of 1 the club, pointing up that 1,673 members saved through Christmas savings this year whereas the previous high of last year was approximately 1,500.Bank officials eaid tha’t Christmas savings for next year will open next Monday and resume for. the usual 50 weeks. Savings can be made for 25 and 50 cents; also one. two, three, Jive or 10 dojlars. Caston said that another window will be opened to the anticipated number of members who wish to open Christmas savings accounts. 1 County Council To Meet November 27 A special meeting of the Adams county council has been called for November 27, to consider emergency appropriations totalling a little over SII,OOO. A one-day meeting will be held. . ! The largest requests are two for the hospital budget amounting to $9,009. Choir Concert Will Precede Open House Program Tbnight At Public High School Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music m the Decatur public schools, has announced the program the high school choir will present tonight at‘7:3o o’clock in the school auditorium. The concert will precede the annual “Open house” held during national education week. Principal Hugh J. Andrews stated that cards containing schedules for the abbreviated sessions to be held in classrooms will be handed out to parents before the concert. The program follows: 1 | The Lord is a Mighty God-+Men-delssohn Addramus Te, Christe —Palestrina . , j Aye Maria —Bach-Gounod . i( Choir The Lord’s Prayer—Malotte ■ Doyle Keller The Green Cathedral —Hahn Girls’ Glee Club Ah, Meadow —Bohemian March■ing Song Choir 4 Grandfather’s Clock —Work Boys: Glee Club They Didn’t'Believe Me—Jerome Kern Li Mary/Ann Swearingen Your Land and My Land-r-Rom-berg Freshman-Sophomore Chorus Sylvia—Oley Speaks 7 ‘Dick Riedenbach * Malaguena—Lecuona Carol Elxey Donkey Serenade —Friml Workin’ on the Railroad —Arr. Childe \ Where in the World —Waring Choir

Comigunists. Knock Allies Off Korea Hill -J ■■ - ■ : i ? : - ■ UN Planes Step Up Aerial Offensive Over North Korea Sth Army Headquarters, Korea, Nov. 16. —• (UP) —. Communist troops knocked the allies off a hill on the east Korean front in a ninehour battle today. I \ The United 1 Nations force regrouped and counter-attacked shortly after dark tonight in an attempt to recapture the height. The' fight was the only noteworthy ‘ ground action reported along the muddy 135-mile front. United Nations planes at the same time stepped up their aerial Offensive against Communist North Korea clearing skies. ! B-29 superfortresses flew through rain and snow before daWn to hit nearly-completed enemy airfields in northwest Korea for the second straight day. Bombing by radar, the raided > the airstrip at Teachon twice and that at Namsi one®. The Reds are trying to complete the airstrips as bases for Russian-built Mig-15 ■ fighters now flying from Manchurian airfields. . The rain and snow ceased during the morning, f and allied planes swarmed north In force for the first time in 36 hours. They sighted Migs over northwest Korea for the first time in ;f»ve days, butfdid not engage them. At east 116 Communist jets were seen during the day but all refused battle with the allied planes. United Nations fighters ancj fighterboriibers cut Communist rail lines in at least 22 places and destroyed or damaged 22 enemy supply buildings, two locomotives, 32 railway cars, two railway bridges, and six, anti-aircraft gun positions. Fall Tax Payments Here Total $470,000 I County treasurer Richard D. Lewton said today that his office collected "approximately” $470,000 in taxes when the fall installment\was paid by Adams county taxpayers this; year. He added that he had no Specific figures as to the dumber of delinquents—those who failed to pay on time—but he thought it “would be about the average number.”, ; v Teacher Is Added To Jefferson Staff O'Brien Declines To Take Coaching Spot County superintendent of schools Hansel L. Foley today announced the appointment of Robert Forsythe to the Jefferson high school faculty by trustee David Mosser. The new instructor, who will teach social studies, will as- 1 sums duties Monday. ' The appointment was made; following the acceptance, then almost immediate resignation of Walter O’Brien as coach of the Jefferson high school Warriors. O*Brien’s appointment was necessitated by the recall to service of regular coach Peter Mett. However, O'Brien, who is from In-j dlanapolis- obtained employment there and failed to appegw\ atl the Jefferson township school. ' | In the absence of Metz, and awaiting the appearance of O’Brien, Jamfis Moore, commercial and mathematics instructor, took over at the helm of the Warriors. Since O’Brien’s resignation, Moore agreed to remain coach for the mat of the season and Forsythe was then made a member of the teaching staff. , f ’ 'i ’’ L .

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Foreign Minister ? Os Soviet Russia Again Rejects Plan Os World Disarming Paris, Nov. 1 6t- (UP)— Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky proposed today that the great powers agree by next Feb. 1, on a treaty to outlaw the atomic bomb. Speaking by special permission for the second time in the United Nations general assembly’s opening debate, Vishinsky again rejected the sweeping world disarmament' proposals Offered on Nov. 7 by the 1 Dieted States, Great Britain and France. Russia will accept no disarmament plan that permits continued production of atomic weapons, Vishinsky said. “The ‘three-power proposals do not fill the bill,” he said. .“The Soviet Union can’ not now and never could in the past accept a plan such as proposed by the three powers which allows continued production of atomic weapons.” After a tirade denouncing the western plan for disarmament, which proposes a census of Weapons including. atomic ones and the limitation and control world armaments, Vishinsky offered a new resolution of his own. Vishinsky proposed: 1— That the UN committees on . conventional armaments and on , atomic energy submit to the secur- ’ ity council by next Feb. 1 a convention celling for prohibition of the atomic weapon, seizure of existing atomic energy production facilities and the use of existing stockpiles thenceforth strictly for peaceful needs. 2— That as soon as Russia’s proposal is approved by the general assembly. the assembly recommend that the big five powers reduce their arms and armed forces by one-third, within one year. . i 3— That all countries submit within one month after approval of the Russian resolution complete figures on their armaments, including data on atomic weapons and on ; war bases they maintain in foYeign territory. 4— That a special international control organ be created under the auspices of the UN security council to carry out the provisions on atomic prohibition, arms reduction and verification of arms census figures. In earlier debate today, Egypt accused Britain of waging -a “rear war” against it in th'eir. dispute over the Sqez Canal zone and the future of the Sudan area. ! Egypt’s foreign minjster Salah ' El-Din offered a plebiscite to determine the future of the'Sudan. In explosive terms tha|: astonish-V ed the assembled diplomats. Salah) El-Din charged that British actions in the Suez Canal zone represented an actual breach of ,the peace. _ But in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, claimed by the Cairo government as territory under the crown (of King Farouk, he proposed a plebiscite to determine its future. Egypt will withdraw its armed forces and officials from the jointly administered Sudan for the plebiscite it Britain will do the same, he said. “The necessary machinery, atmosphere and preparation” for the plebiscite, could be provided with cooperation from* the UN, Salah El-Din told the general assembly, I Otherwise, in his torrent of accusations against the British, he did not request any specific. UN action. The 25-page address, delivered in a breaking voice, was aimed chiefly at arousing world opinion. A British delegation spokesman described the address as “a rehear sal,of a frenzied harangue." ( _ “ng ■ Place Brackets For Holiday Decorations City street- department employes today were beginning th® job of placing brackets in place prior to stringing the city’s Christmas decorations in business district. Department officials hope the work will be completed the latter part of next week or the forepart of the following week.’