Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1951 — Page 1

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Gen. Ridgway Confirms Story Os Atrocities Communist Radio At Peiping Broadcasts Indignant Denials Tokyo, Nov/ 17 — (l”P> —Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway formally accused the Communists, today of mass murders of V n * ted Nations war prisoners in Korea, ’but an \ahie said an Btfo army report that 6,270 Americans had been slaip appeared exaggerated. The supreme United Nations commander mentioned no figures t in his first official comment on what he called Col._ James Hanney’s “most regrettable”, announcement that the Reds have murdered' 13,400 UN war-prisoners. However, a. headquarters staff --officer said specific and proved cases of Red Jatrocities were considerably fewer than those charge ed byHanley, chief war crimes investigator for the Bth army. Hanley’s controversial statement that 6.270 Americans. 7,000 South Koreans and 130 other United Nations prisoners had been murdered was based in part upon “unscientific ■ investigation,” generalizations .and possible duplications., the officer said. - Ridgway may release. Sunday, a further statement clarifying and qualifying Hanley’s figures, the spokesman said. . However, he said no disciplinary action “was taken or is Intended” against Hanley for releasing his statement to the press. ! Despite Ridgway’s confirmation of mass Communist atrocities. the Communist radio at ‘Peiping broadcast an indignant denial and counter-charged that the UN hda “inhumanly slaughtered thousands” of Red- prisoners. Ridgway’s said it be- > came evident to the UN more than a year ago that Communist protestations they were adhering ; strictly to the Geneva convention in their (treatment of war prisoners were/ ’Talse.” T UN investigators went to work; at once, Ridgway said.'- ] "It had been concluded some’ months ago that at an appropriate! time, when-the accumulated evidence warranted and when dye;! (oordibatidn had beep, effected; wild the proper authorities ;; in-j Washington, this evidence should] be made public,” he said. < '■; J ‘That this coordination was not ;j properly effected at the/time . of| this release is of the utmost re-1 gret to this headquarters.” Ridgway said the publication of! Hapley’s statement "had. off . course, no connection whatever’ with the current armistice negotia< tions.” ' / . ? Brig. Gen. William. P. Nuckdl>.» spokesman for the UN truce delegation, said ,he believed, the Han-. ley' statement would ] not- affect! the frame of mind of the Com-' munist delegates at the armistice talks in Panmunjom. "They are told what to ask for. and what to say,” he said, "anti nothing can influence that." H- \ I Initial Concert Is Presented By High School Choir ; Displayfhg their usual talent <)tinterpretation, the Decatur higb school choir inaugurated their 195152 season with a varied program that delighted the audience of be-; tween 300 to 400. The) concert pre' ceded the annual ,epen house held in cod junction with national education week at which parents of students followed the schedules of the students. * Outstanding solos by Doyle Keller, Mary Ann Swearingen and Dick Reidenbach featured the 40minute concert ranging frfmva dynamic “The Lord is a Mighty God," to the fast-paced “Where in .the World.’’ These numbers opened / and closed the program, and inbetween were enough selections to satisfy every taste. Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music in the Decatur public schools, directed the choir, and Mbs Carol Elsey served as accompanist and soloist for the evening’s program. Noon Edition 'f ■■ V ■. ' ■'-

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Allies Attack On Nine-M ile Front » I Advance Two Miles J In First Six Hours .Sth Army Headquarters. Korea. |<ov. 17. —(UP) — Tank-supported United Nations troops attacked on a nine-mile front ’ below the burned-out ..former Communist Stronghold of Kumsong today and advanced nearly two miles in the first six hours. | The Allied infantry lumped off ■in the pre-dawn darkness south- , east of Kumsong on the rugged central front. Tanks laid down a steady barrage of dire as. the daughboys moved forward. Most units met only to moderate resistance, but heavy hand-to-hand »combat brokh out at one of the many hills under attack. - The' assault was the biggest , along the 135-mile Korean ground front in recent weeks. It may be another "persuader” offensive designed to show the (Communist the advantages of concluding an early armistice. i By coincidence or otherwise, it began only a few hours before the UN delegation at Panmunjom presented the Communists with a proposal to make the attleline a cease-fire line ■if the rest of an armistice agree- . hnernnt can be cleared up in 30 ■days. ’ , - kb The G.l.’s advanced over] rainsoaked ground below Kumsong against some of the most deeply"entrenched Communist troops on ithe Korean front ! .UN forces also attacked before dawn on the western and east-cen-tral fronts. = Allied infantry thrown back by an enemy battalion shortly/ before ’midnight northwest of Chorwon Ton the western front i counter-at-tacked and regained the lost ground before dawn. 1 They met >only light opposition, . > ■ Oh the east-central front, UN units ran into heavy opposition northwest of punchbowl valley in a similar attempt to retake ground lost to an enemy battalion Friday night. In the air, ;35 Russian-built yMig-15 jet fighters pounced on a •’flight of American sabrejets es- | ebrting shooting star jets on a | reconnaissance flights near Sinui|ju ;on the Manchurian border. School Teacher Is Kidnaped And Raped South Dakota Father | Under Questioning ? Brookings,- S. D., Nqv. 17—(UP) I—A 28-year-old’father, was - held ;| for questioning today in connec- , tion with the alleged rape-kidnap-. 1 ing of a young rural school teach- “ er. ~ '• i' . I ’ * Robert Thwihg, Aberdeen, S. D.. was arrested yesterday _in the trailer where he lived with his - wife and two-month-old baby. His arrest came after Mrs. Marj Caret Stadler, 24. told authorities j she was kidnaped from her oneLroom schoolhouse Tuesday, raped j fend held for four / an(l a half ’ hours in her assailant’s car. She provided police with a de- ; scription both of her Alleged atj tacker and the car he was driv- * ing at the time. ’ i; r Brookings police, found the car ", and arrested Tlywing"Sfshort time = later- I ' ■' 1 Mrs. Stadler said she! was alone in the rural school neir Kimball, J S' D., after classes were dismissed when her alleged ’ bred on the pretext that he was looking for a lost hunting dog. She said he drew a? knife and . forced her into the car where he \ attacked her. { For a time, she said, he threat: ! ened: to kill her until’ ahe pleaded with him that she had |a two-year- . old child. . < I “Every two-yeair-old yhild needs a mother,” she said her attacker 1 replied and released hpr. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and jiomewhat , ' colder tonight exedpt anew fturrlM continuing near Lake Michigan. Sunday partly cloudy and continued ©old With snow ’ flurries near Lakei Michigan. ' Low tonight 15-20. High Sunday 28-34. -{ I j ■

UNToStody Disarmament Plan Monday West's Proposal To Be Debated; Shelve Soviet Counterplan Baris, Nov. 17.—(UP)—The United Nations voted overwhelmingly today to begin study of the West's disarmament proposal Monday and to place the Sbviet counterplan near the tailend of the agenda. j The .UN’s political committee voted 45 to 5 with five abstentions to begin debate -Monday on the global plan sponsored by the Unit/d States, Britain and France. U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson will lead off the debate. The move was made over bitter objections from Russian delegate Jacob A. Malik. He said it was “bizzare” to relegate the Soviet proposals to the background and accused the U.S. of trying to “guillotine" them. Before Malik spoke, Achesqn told the committee that press reports he had just seen about a near agreement in Korean cease-fire talks were good news. He warned, however, that two vital issues remained to be settled even after agreement on a cease-fire line. The issues, he paid, are supervision of the armistice line and the return of prisoners of war. Malik described the Korean talks as “the most shameful in American diplomatic history. \ “Mr. Acheson talks about wanting so end the bloodshed," he said. “Well, why don’t you end it, Mr. Acheson. It all depends upon you. AU you have to do is to tell Gen. Ridgway and Jbe Pentagon to stop putting obstacles in' the way of agreement.” p ’ \ After a three-hour procedural wrangle between - the Soviets and the west, the committee adopted the following agenda: 1. The .west's disarmament proposals. ' ' -j- 1 2. Atomic energy control. 3. New proposals for strengthening the general assembly's power to deal with crises like Korea. 4. The problem of Korea’s independence. • \ ; • 5. Russia's disarmament plan. 6. Admission of new UN members. «_ , 7. Nationalist China s charge of Soviet aggression. Even though the committee cleared the decks for action dn the disarmament proposal, there \were <Tnra To Pace Six) Union Thanksgiving Service Thursday Aqnual Service On Thursday Morning Protestant churches of Decatur will hojd the annual union Thanksgiving service-’at 9 o’clock Thursday morning. Thanksgiving day. The service, sponsored by the Decatur . ministerial association and the .associated churches of Decatur, will be held at the First Christian church on South Secend street. _ , The Thanksgiving sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Romaine D. Wood, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Other ministers taking part will be the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander, First Presbyterian; the Rev. Dwight R. McCtirdy. Church of God; the Rev. Lawrence Norris. Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren, and the Rev. William C. Feller, Zion Evangelical and Reformed. Rev. Wood received his A. B. degree from Missouri Wesleyan College, Cameron, Mo. He came to Decatur thsi past summer, succeeding the Rev. Ralph Carter. Rev. a*d Mrs. Wood have two children. 4x>is. a high school junior, end the eighth grade. Urging a good attendance at the Thanksgiving morning servk*e, a spokesman for the associated churches said, “Church people of Decatur, as indicated by last year's erwod. are becoming aware that ‘thanks’ belongs to Thanks- * giving even more than turkey and cranberry sauce. - : V - ; ■ ■ .

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r ' ; Vishinsky Gets/The Bird I - ■■■■ - - ' ■ ■ —li i------ ■ , . 9I ’ ■ HP? 1 ' JM Is ’ . A ■ - • 1 j!- ' <1 /'' ’ ' kK . t < z.' . RUSSIA’S VITRIOLIC Foreign Minfsder Andrei Visbinsky smilingly displays a live white dove, the symbol of Peace, handed him by Ai>ny Gould, a Paris cabaret star, as he arrived at the Palais de Chaillot fqr a UN assembly meeting. Other delegates to the meetings have been having trouble selling Vishinsky the real article.

Charge Conspiracy To Official Os WO Western Union Head Held For Violation New. York. Nov' 17 — (UP) — Western Union officials today called the arrest bf one of their vice-presidents on charges of conspiracy to violate gambling laws in! Michigan “an outrage.” Samuel Barr, vice-president in l charge of plants and engineering, was arrested yeslerday by two Michigan officials,! assistant attorney general Eugene F. Townsend anjd Roger O. McMahon, Kent copnty prosecutor. |Townsend said the charge arose frdm a raid on a Grand. Rapids. Mich., bookmaking "establishment Sejpt. .1. 1 Townsend told magistrate John F. X. Masterson in felony court that Barr knew Western Union facilities were being used to transmit information in violation of Michigan law. “This ip an outrage.” John L. \ Waters, Barr’s attorney and a WU lawyer said. “The firm’s machines r.re merely leased under a federal tariff and as soon as we receive information from any law enforcement authority that machines are being used illegally, they are immediately taken out.” Barr was released on his own recognizance for a hearing Dec. *7 after W’aters assured Masterson that Barr did riot "know gamblers Frank Costello and Erickson. Meanwhile in Bridgeton, N. J., the company and the irianager of the WU office were fined SI,OOO each for operating a place where horse hets were handled. Witnesses at a 25-day trial had testified the Bridgeton office handled $300,000 a yfear in bets. Western Union claimed the action was not illegal because the messages were not libelous or obscene. Charles Frake, the manager of the office, also was given a one-to-tw'o year suspended sentence. \ Michigan authorities also arletted John J. Gorman, 60. oper(Turn To Pane —— —.. ’ v Mrs. George Davis? Dies In Dayton; 0. Gerald Vizard, of this city, received a telegram today informing him of the death of Mrs. George Davis, of Dalton, O.‘ Mr. and Mrs. Davis owned and operated a store In Pleasant Mills a 4 number of years ago. Funeral services wilt be held Monday afternoon at -the Leo Walters funeral home, 123 ft North Main street, in Daytori. \ ( I / - A'

{County Ministers 'Will Meet Monday The Adairis county ministerial association Mrill meet at the Fin it i Presbyterian church in this city Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock. Dr. Earl K. Lashley, a Baptist evanwill be the guest speaker. J- . •’ ” t I ' Scrubs Floors To Pay For Son's Defense I Convinced Son Is i Framed On Charge L la., Nov. 17 —(UP)- 1 - The ft-ey-haired mother of an e{cconvict scrubbed floors arid did odd jobs today to finance her ?on’s defense against another conviction. Mrs. Lorena VI McAdams, 63, a widow, said she was convinced her sdn, Clifford, 28. w'as framed when a,circuit court jury convicted him of larceny last Oct. 30 at Princeton, 111 i ik “As sure as I know there’s a Gpd.” she said, “I know my son, is iifnocent.' Another man implicated h|m in this thing simply for spite.” McAdams and Lloyd Watson, CWar Rapids. la., both were charged j in the robbery of a Princeton jewelry store last July 13. Watson later told police that McAdams had giyen him stolen jewelry found in his possession. \ '“Cliffdrd’S attorney was so certain of acquittal that Ife apparently didn’t bother to present all the facts in trite Case,” Mrs. McAdams said. “There is much evidence in my son’s favor that the jury didn’t know about?’ Records showed that McAdams and Watson served terms together at Anamosp, lowa, reformatory in the early 194 Q’s. They later were allowed to! enter military service but were returned to the reformatory for parole violation while in uniform. Both later were released again. McAdams returned to Davenport and took a job in a packing plant and worked , part-time • as a weekend manager of a small motion picture theater. ’ 'When questioned about (the Princeton robbery, McAdams told authorities that Waston once suggested that he turn the theater’s re- , ceipts oven to him and claim the theater had been robbted. The two men would split the money, *McAdamS quoted Watson. It was his story about the proposed theater robbery, McAdams said, that prompted Watson to implicate hitp in the jewelry store theft McAdams and his mother said evidence that he was in Davenport pt the time of the Princeton robbery wasn’t submitted at his trial, primarily through an oversight. ■ J < : ' . ' \ ' • ;

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More Firings From Federal Jobs Seen Truman Determined \ On Cleaning House Key West, Fla., Nov. 17—(UP)— The word passed from the winter White House today to get rid of any federal official whose outside activities, however legal, ar,e adding to charges of corruption against the administration. The latest example of what President Truman wants is the sudden requested resigtiation «of T. Lamar Caudle, assistant attorney general under congressional investigation for his operations while head of the justice department tax division. ;New departures from federal service were expected to fall into three well-established categories—firing, resignation or bad health. - “He' really means business,” said one highly pleased official, “he’s sick and tired of a few men in official life bringing discredit to his administraton.” Whte House officials said Mr. Truman, was deadly earnest in dr dering the dismissal of any official caught using his federal position for advantages on the outside. The White House made it plain that “as far as the president knows,” Caudle “has done nothing illtgal." But he said Mr. Truman asked the assistant attorney general to quit because he had “engaged in outside activities which the president feels are incompatible” with his federal office. The fact'that Mr. Truman wants a government-wide cleanup does not mean, however, that he will oust any federal job-holder who happens to come under congressional investigation or criticism. * There is no better proof of this than the arrival here last night of Donald S. Dawson, the administrative assistant to the president who was accused of using undue influence in behalf of-R.F.CL loan applicants. I- • He in here to join t|he staff for (Turn To Page Five) Charles Houck Rises Monday Afternoon Native Os County Is Taken By Death Funeral services for Charles H. Houck, who died Friday morning of a heart- attack, will be held feonday at 2 p.m. at the Smith funeral home, Columbia City, with the Rev. Graham L. Kleespie, pastor of Grace Lutheran church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenhill cemetery. Mri \ Houck was found dead in his Car, which he had parked in the driveway of the; Tri Lakes state fish hatchery. Hhe had gone from his Trf Lakes home to pick up his morning’s mall. ( Mr. Houck was born in Kirkland twonshtp in 1879. He was widely known as an architectural engineer. In addition to being the architect for the Adams county home, he designed the Muncie field house and the new Whitley pounty hospital. He was graduated from the Scranton school for architects and began his practice with William Powers in Bluffton. After World War I, in which Mr. Houck served in the quartermaster qorpe in France, he moved to where he remained until 1941 when he moved to Trt Lakps. He was a member of Grace Lutheran the Free & Accepted Masons, the Scottish Rite, Post 98, American Legion, the Muntfie VFW, the Colummbla City BPO Elks and the American Institute of Architects. < Surviving are the wife, Amelia; a daughter, Mrs. Colby Armstrong, Columbia City; one grandson and threi sisters, Mrs. Frank Barweiler, Fort Wayne; •'Mrs. Lillian Sprague, Hartford City, and Mrs. Hilliard Bell, Cralgville.

Truman Fires Nation’s Top Tax Attorney Spurs Investigation . • By Congressmen Into Justice Department Washington, Nov. 17. —(UP)— President Truhian’s firing of the government’s top tax attorney spurred congressional investigators today toward a full inquiiy„into the justice department's tax division. There were hints that p(her heads might Toll in the wake of Mr. Truman’s dismissal of .assistant attorney General T. Lamar Caudle. Chairman Cecil R. King (D Calif.) of the house ways and means subcommittee which has been investigating nationwide tax scandals said “this is the first individual or case we've taken up in the justice department.” "Then you are going ahead with your investigatiop of the department’s tax division?”' a reported asked. “Oh, yes,” King ref Hied. King told newsmen that Mr. Truman fired Caudle on the basis of information submitted by th® subcommittee. ~ i Meantime, Rep. Patrick Hillings (RrCalif.) demanded a congressional investigation of what he called an ouster move against assistant U.S. attorney Charles O’Gara in San Francisco. Hillings said OfGara was! “(nstruihental in obtaining evidence bf corruption” in the San Francisco internal revenue office, but that U.S. attorney Chauncey Tramutolo of San Francisco had asked the justice department to fire O’Gara. “Indications are that O’Gara’s dismissal has been requested in an effort to cover up disclosures of corruption,” Hillings said in a telegram to chairman Emanuel Celler (I>N.Y ) of the house judiciary committee. A justice department said that “as far ak I know," ho request for O’Gara’s dismissal has been received. King's subcommittee has' said that Tramutolo, O’Gara and suspended San Frapcisco tax collector James G. Smyth will be star wit ness in its open hearings in San Francisco, scheduled to start, Jan. (Tara Td Paae s!x) Two Youths Admit I '• '■ . I ■, ■ ' If, Holdup Os Grocery i Following Holdup Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 17—i-(UP) —Police today held two Rockford. 111., youths captured in a 60-mile-an-hour chaae only ,12 minutes (after a grocery holdup. ; Detective Lt. Joseph Scha|lp said Charles Verace, 21, and Frank White, 17', admitted they held up Mrs. Rose Cohen, 54, at her husband’s grocery lat<e yesterday and took about $75. Verace and White were captured by police Sgt. Harry Januchowski who fired one shot at the youths’ car ; from his pursuing squad car. Thb youtilk did hot stop until their car missed a turn and strpek a tree. Mrs. Cohen told police the bandits entered the store separately, then one drew a gun and scooped the money out of the cash, register. They fled in a car. She noted the license number and called police. * A few minutes later. Januchowski spotted the car and gave chase at speeds up to 60 miles an hour. Officers found some loose change and a German pistol in the car. Schalla said the boys told him they threw the stolen currency out the window when the pursuit began. The youths were charged with armed robbery. | . J

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Report Communists Tentatively Approve Proposal; Reply May Be Given Tonight Panmunjom, Korea, Nov. 17— (UP) —The United Nations proposed today a dramatic new armistice plan to end the Korean war before Christmas and the Communists tentatively accepted it. ; / iThe UN said it would accept the Communist demand for a bu'fer zone along the present battleline — provided the Reds agree to an exchange of war prisoners and ot;her details of a formal armistice within '3O dbys. . Fighting would go on as usual during the negotiations. Should a final armistice be agreed opou within the 30-day period, the opposing armies would return to the present battleline for the cease-fire. it no final agreement were reached, the: new battleline would become the provisional cease-fire line and the next step would bq up to the two armistice delegations. The UN compromise proposal was framed in Washington upder pressure both from anguished Relatives of American war prisoners worried by newTommunist atrocity disclosures and from other UN members with troops in Korea. U-3. Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes handed the plah to the Commurlsts at a joint subcommittee in Pafnmunjom. 11 j'-' A UN spokesman said thfe Reds gave this snap appraisal of the proposal:;- _• '! ■■.' “We have heard your proposal, but we have yet to make a full study of It. I can | tell you this much. Your proposal seems in the main in accordance with our pr ncipies.” The Copimunists presumably will give a formal reply at the subcommittee meeting beginning at 11 i.m, tomorrow (8 p.m. today CST). Hodes also suggested that, is a preliminary step, staff officers of both sides meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow (7;p.m. today CST) to see how far abart they are on their interpi elation of the actual battleline of iontact. I If the Reds accept the new (compromise proposal, it will be the biggest step toward a Korean armistice since the truce meet ngs began last July 10. ~ Af/UN communique outlining the plan 1 said that with its submission, s the UN command' has “thrown the ball to the Communists.” s “If they are sincere in their oftexpressed desires for an early armistice, they will ndt only accept the UN command proposal, but will exert every effort to help ~ us reach a full agreement on an armistice within 30 days,” the Communique said. If the present battleline is to become the ceasefire line, the UN ' plan provides that agreement must be reached within the 30*day period on these three remaining items on the armistice agenda. • 1. —Composition, authority and functions of an organization to supervise the carrying out of the armistice terms. 2. —Arrangements for the disposition of prisoners of war. \ > 3. —Recommendations to the governments of both sides on other problems growing out of the negotiations. ; - \ Layoff Scheduled . At Decatur G. E. Due to a flharj>_ curtailment in orders at the Decatur General Electric plant, a layoff of employes’, is scheduled for ne>t weekend, John F. Weloh, plant manager, stated. The layoff will affect upward i to 300 pefrsons and the reduced fotce will carry on operations beginning November 26, he said. The local plant did not operate • yesterday and will be closed next Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving and on the following Friday. The reduction in the production schedule lobmed a few weeks ago, but did not become fully effective. A further curtailment in customer's orders caused the latest revamping of schedule* in the local it was explained. -