Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 276.

NEGOTIATORS AGREE ON CEASE FIRE PLAN

Charge U.S. Plane Over Vladivostok f U.S. Reconnaissance Plane Fired 0n By Russian Fighters i V , ■: ' ■ .* - .. . Washington, Nov. 23. — (UP) — Russia has notified the United States that an American reconnaissance plane flew Over Vladivostok recently and that Soviet fighters chased and fired upon it, reliable sources revealed today. The Russians said the plane disappeared toward the sea. The state department declined comment. 3 But it was learned that Soviet . deputy foreign minister Andrei *A. \ Gromyko handed a protest to U.S. charge d’affaires Hugh Cumming. Jr.. at Moscow Nov. 7. Reports here said that the U.S. command in Japan had investigated bu’t found that no plane such as the one described by the Russians was in the area of Vladivostok, the big Russian far eastern base. One source said the plane was a land-based naval patrol aircraft. _ This source said the U.S. version of the incident is expected to be announced soon, either by the state or navy department, or possibly by the United Nations because the plane was reported to be serving in the UN forces in the far east. Continue Search v Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov.; 23.— tUP)—Search by air and by diplomacy for a U.S. air force plane and its four-man crew widened to cover five .countries today. Sixteen planes. including 0-82 • flying boxcars," hunted over Italy and Yugoslavia. The weather over Italy was clear for the first time since the twin-engined C-47 vanished last Monday after reporting Romanian and Hungarian [frontier guards had fired on it. The search area over Yugoslavia was blurred by clouds and rain. \ Diplomatic inquiries to both Communist countries produced onlycurt notes that (he plane, lost on a flight from Munich, Germany, to Belgrade', had violated their borders. The protest notes to the, U.S. - government did not shy what happened to it. ■ _ . I - iFoday, the American emba’ssy in Belgrade lodgedT an inquiry with ’ Bulgaria.. It was conveyed through Swiss, diplomats since the US. has no diplomatic representative in Sofih. Two reports ..that the * missing plane had been located now- appear doubtful. ( Capt. Marshall .Falls, Minn,, director of the air search from the Treviso, Italy, base, said a report the plane wreckage had been found in the Italian Alps proved groundless. Italian Alpine police patfols said they were still searching the area near the town of Pieve Di Cadore but have found no signs of the plane. L embassy officials cast , doubt-pn a second report that the plane had been shot down in Romania and its crew interned. The account was given by a woman who said she had just flown in from Romania. She did not identify her- ■' seff. -7 ,’ ’ . 1 - ’ •’• -kin embassy spokesman said "we dd not put much Vstock in her story." • Grand Jury Session Is Reconvened Today Homer Arnold, of Kirkland township, and president of the •> Adams Central Consolidated school board, today wap called before the special grand jury as a witness. He is the only witness called since the jurors were impanele. Tuesday. Following a two-day lay-off. the grand jurjjr resumed its deliberations today, presumably to concern itself with the contents of two envelopes. For it was two manila envelopes that the jurors huddled over in their investigation, literature, incidentally, that remains comparatively secretive, though the subject of considerable speculation. No indications were forthcoming from officials or jurors whether or V not any other witnesses would be subpehaed during the cobrse of the discussions.

DECATUR DAI LY DEMOCRAT ONLY 1 DAILY NEWSPAPER in ADAMS COUNTY

Orders Stephenson Jj' *|* f V\ x Li 1 Return To Indiana Minnesota Supreme Court In Decision St. Paul, Nov. 23.—(UP)— The Minnesota supreme court today ordered #x-Ku Klux Klan leader David C. Stephenson returned to Indiana to serve out a life term for the murder of a woman statehouse worker in 1935. The decision apparently ended Stephenson’s year-long fight against extradjtion to the state where he was once a powerful political figure and grand dragon of the.Klhn. Stephenson has been Confined in Hgnnejin county jail in Minneapolis since Nov. 15, 1950. when he was arrested for parole < in suburban Robbinsdale where he was employed in a printing shop. Indiana authorities claimed Step henson broke parole by leaving the statk of Illinois’without permission. He was Treed from Indiana state prison on March 23, 1950, after being imprisoned since Nov. id? .1925 for the second degree murder bf Madge Oberholzer, Stephenson fought Extradition on the grounds .that the only condition imposed by his parole was that he should not return to the state of Indiana. He depianded his release on a wHt of habeas corpus. ' The Hennepin county > district court rejected h|s claims and quashed the writ. Stephenson appealed to the slate supreme court which appointed retired district judge Alfred P. Stolberg of Center City as referee. Stolberg-upheld the district court and Was sustained bytue supreme court in a unanimous decision delivered by chief justice Charles Loring. ’ Stolberg" said he was "Satisfied" that "no such condition” ot banishment from the state was,, imposed by Indiana parole • Even if 'it had been, "it "Would be no defense in this prbceedingr’— Stolberg ruled. ’ The referee also rejected Step henson's claim that he did not know what his prison release papers said When he signed them. Stolberg pointed out that Stephenson was a lawyer and before he was released his forked in the prison office Where parole matters Were handled. The parole releasd agreement required Stephenson to gt pVmission from the supervisor of paroles before changing his address or place of employment. The supreme court ordered sheriff Ed Ryan of Hennepin county to transport Stephenson to the state Tine, on Minnesota gnd deliver him to W. W. Pence, appointed by the governor of Indiana to take Stephenson into custody arid return him to the prison. Students To Make Trip To Chicago To Leave Saturday On Three-Day Trip Members of the junioj- and senior home economics classes and the, |vocational agriculture classes of the Decatur high school will leave early Saturday morning for a three-day trip to Chicago. The 26 students will be aac&mpanied by Miss Jean Steller and Vaughn E. Miller, teachers of the classes. The trip itinerary will include: Saturday—tour through the Board of Trade and explanation of activities, visit the exhibits at the international livestock exposition at the stockyards, and a' tour of the Marshall Field department store; Sunday—visit the \. museum of science and industry ana attend a horse show at the international amphitheatre, Monday will be spent observing livestock buying and selling methods, and a tour of the Swift Packing Co. >, The group will leate at 3:45 a.m. Saturday and return about 7:30 o’clock Monday evenings Students who will make the trip are: Leroy Walters. John Frank, gpnald Price, Les Sautbine* Allen Grote, Fred Evans, Russell Plumley, Lisle Knittie, Henry Lehrman, Arnold Gerke, Eugene Fuelling, Marvin Grote, Richard Marbach. Ronald Vetter, Gerald Grote, Stanley Allison, Carl Lehrman, Ilene Shaffer, Shirley Workinger, Phyllis Barr, Susan Bowman, Norma Kelly, Naomi Wenger, Elnora Gaunt. Veverly Elliott and Pauline Roth.

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FIREMEN, POLICE and rescue workers remove one of the twenty-seven injured in a collision between two trains on parallel under New York’s Park Agenue on Thanksgiving,Day. A local New Haven train was sideswiped py an express travelling in the shine direction, through faulty switch operation. There were no fatalities. A year ago Thanksgiving evening. 77 were- killed in a New York area wreck on the Long island railroad. \ i

Lutheran Church To J Mark Anniversary Services To Mark (\ 50th Anniversary - Plans have been completed by the local Zioh Lutheran.church, to celebrate its golden anniversary of organisation December 2, and 9. Special services of thanksgiving have been arranged for both these Sundays by the anniversary committee of the church: Oscar LankdnAu. chairman; Aaron Weiland. Karl’ Reinking and the Rev. Edgar P, Schmidt, pastor of the church. It will be 50 years ago on December 1, that a small group of men. ipcluding Lankenau, the only living charter voting member, organized the Zion Lutheran church of Decatur, and, shortly after, purchased two lots at Monroe ; and Eleventh streets, on which to erect a church building, yoday the congregation numbers souls and 420 communicant members, with property valued at over 1200,000. Divine’services will be conducted at three different hours Sunday, December 2: at 8:00 and 10:30 ilflt the morning; and at [7:30 in the evening. The first resident pastor of the congregation, the Rev. Herman D. Wehmeyer, now of Bridgeport, Conn., will be guest speaker at the two morning services. Rev. Wehmeyer served the congregation from 1909 to 1915. In the evening, at 7:30, the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of Zion church from 1926 to 1947, and now national representative of Valparaiso Univers- ‘ ity, will be guest ,pastor. The evening service will be a homecoming and reunion of ciassies Confirmed at the church’s altar from 1909 to 1951. The present pastor. Rev. Schmidt, will serVe as liturgist at all festival services. Sunday, December 9, the Rev. Arthur W. Hinz of Cleveland. Ohio, and pastor of the local church'from 1915 to 1926, Will be guest speaker the two mortting services, 8 and Ip: 30 o’clock. A commemorative booklet of the anniversary services, carrying a brief history of the congregation, has been prepared by Rev. Sctfmidt and will be distributed to the wop shippers. ~--T— J Clothing Donated Here For Shipment \ To Korean Families More than 35 boxes of wearable clothing, bedding and shoes have been packed by the St. Mary’s Catholic church for shipriient to the needy and homeless families in Korea. 1 Parish delivered the clothing and other useful articles to the Catholic school, where it was sorted and carefully packed for overseas shipment. .Donations included baby clothing and a tew layettes. The appeal made by the Very Rev. Msgr. J.J. Selmetz, pastor, also included a request for blankets. _ The local shipment will be incorporated in a cargo of similar merchandise gathered this week in Catholic, parishes in the Fort Wayne diocese.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 23, 1951.

Jobless Pay Claims Increase In State Indianapolis, Nov. 23 —(UP) — Jobless pay were "up in Indiana for the fourth\ straight week to a total of 22,736 for the week ending employment security division said today. • The report said the total was 18 percent above the previous week and more than double the figure tor the same week in 1950. , ■ —— County Extension Meeting Nov. 29 Committee To Meet Here Next Thursday The Adams county extension committee will meet in the home •economics department, of the Decatur high school at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, November 29. They will be asked to discuss a set of articles that were \ developed by a special committee. If adopted, |tiese articles will clarify the workings of this group. the extension committee is also asked to ' name’ a to serve on a Maumee water shed committee. There is a movement on foot to set up a| conservancy district that would involve the entire Maumee water shed in states.? ■ „ 1 J Township extension representatives will also be asked to corhe prepared 1° ■ name the dates of their township extension confer- ’ j ■i LA , ' f Member? of the extension copv mittee are: Mrs. Herman Mrs. Albert Beineke, Mrs.. Glenn Schaadt, Mrs. Edwin C. i Bauman, Mrs. Chajrles Baker; Mirs. R. jC. Hersh,] Holman Egly» Sylvan Habegger, Ervin Schuller. Mary Ann Ewel, Mrs. C.W.R. Schwartz, Victor Stucky. Otto Hoffman, Henry Denner, Hansel Foley, E. W. Busche, Rby Price,\ Leonard Kingsley, Waltefr Ford, Myron Simmons, Robert Long, Elmer Baumgartner Theo. Grajiker. Lester Sipe, Ralph S. Myers. William Griffiths, Henry Getting. Eugene Reiman, W. L. Gerle, Mir. and . Mys. Lawrence Grote. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mazelin. De Im ore Wechter. Mrs. , William Neadsiine, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wagley, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Freels, Mt. and Mrs. Edwin Reifsteck, Carl .Frey. Mrs. Darrelll Clouse, Mr. and Mrs. James Lybarger, Mr. and Mrs. Menno Augsburger, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rumple, Mrs. Wilson Beltz. August Selking, John Kintz, and Mrs. Charles SChnepp. INDIANA \ WEATHER Mostly cloudy and colder tonight. Rain and local freezing , rain south tonight. Saturday mostly cloudy and cold with ra|n or snow south portion. ■ Low tonight 26-31 north, 30-34 south, high Saturday In the 30’e. L

Atlantic Pact Meet Will Open Saturday No German Soldiers * Likely. Until 1953 Rome; Nov. 23-r-(UP) —Atlantic 1 pact' leaders have abandoned ; all plans, to get a single German soldier available for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s western defense forbefore 195& at the earliest, authoritative sources said today. The new deadline of 1953 instead of may itself by. optimistic, informants said. The disclosure was made on the ,eve of a meeting iere of political and military leaders of the Atlantic pact countries. V \ , It is planned, as a basic part of the western defense organization, to include German troop units. But ’negotiations with the German? themselves have proved difficult and the entire defense plan has run into technical obstacles. As the result, present effort is concentrated on getting a combatready atmy of other troops into the field; as soon a» possible. The question of incliiding Germans must wait. ” I Secretary of state Dean Acheson arrived from Paris today for tomorrow’s meeting. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman; of] the U. S. joint cheifs of staiff] already was here. The German situation. European economic crises and bogged-down military production schedules in the United States have forced a fundamental revision in European defense plans. , r; , A ne.W; “Eisenhower plan" will be; placed before 12 Atlantic pact foreign ministers and\ the defence leaders during their meeting which begins tomorrow. The Eisenhwoer plan, which supreme allied commander .himself will present to the foreign ministers Monday, calls for coni? cefttration on the creation of 28 td 30 divisions, all ready for combat, by tfye end of 1952, There will be approximately, six American divisions. 10 French, four British, tiiree Italian and five others. The chief problem in forming the divisions is that of getting weapons and officers and non-commission-ed officers. Agreement was reached in Paris yesterday on the draft of a plan to give Germany practically full sovereignty as a partner < of the western countries. But negotiations to include actual German fighting forces, started 11 months ago. have beet! subject to manj( delays. Youth Is Accidentally / Slain While Hunting New Castle; Ind., Nov. 23 —(UP) —Cbarles Medara. 22, Chesterfield, died in the Henry county hospital here yesterday a short time after he was shot accidentally while rabbit hunting. Authorities said Medara’s shotgun apparently die charged when he tried to hit a wounded rabbit with it.

■ r : ; . I , 4 UN, Communists Agree To Try To End Korean Shooting By Christmas

A-Bomb Threat Aids UN Forces In Korea Massed Manpower Tactics Abandoned Washington, Nov. 23 — (UP) — The U. S. Arbomb has scored a notable victory in Korea without ever leaving this country. It has forced the Reds to abandon the massed manpower tactics with which they came close to overwhelming outnumbered United -Nations forces. That, some observers believed today, is the real significance of a recent remark by Gen. i Hoyt S. ■Vandenberg, air chief of staff. Vandenberg said on Wednesday that there are no targets in Korea these days which warrant use of the kind of atomic weapons now in the U. S. arsenal. In other words, without ever being hit by an A-bomb, the Reds have learned lesson No. 1 of atomic warfare: dispersal. That is smart of the Reds, but it also is a big boon to the comparatively small UN forces opposing, the military might of Communist China. fhus, without ever leaving home, the atomic bomb has accomplished great things on the fighting front. A-bomba - are effective against concentrated targets, whether cities or massed armies. Military experts agree thait they Would have been ideal weapons against troop concentrations of the kind Russia threw against the Germans in World War F(. ? Vandenberg confirmed this last night on the Mutual Broadcasting system radio program, "Reporters’ Roundup." He said i that recent crura To Paue Sfat) Finnegan Pleads Not Guilty To» Charges St. Louis. Nov. 23.—(UP)—Former internal revenue collector James P. Finnegan today pleaded innocent to all five counts of an indictment charging him with bribery and other misconduct while in office. 1 r Fiqnegan appeared briefly in the court of U.S. district judge Rubey M. Hulen to enter the pleas. He< was accompanied by his attorney, former U.S. district attorney Harry C. Blanton. . Hulen\\set Finnegan’s trial for hearing on Monday, [March 3. 1 Traffic Death Toll Light In Indiana Five Traffic Deaths Reported On Holiday By United' Press Highway deaths in Indiana were light despite rain-slick highways and heavy Thanksgiving day traffic. State police reported at least five persons dead since 6 p.m. "Wednesday. Mrs. Willie J; Oliver, Indianapolis, a 17-jrear-old bride of four months, was killed Thanksgiving day in a collision on U.S. QI nehr Jeffersonville. Three persons, including jier husband, Earl, were hurt in the crash. Bernard SllYerstein, 46, Detroit, Mich., was killed yesterday when his car skidded into a truck at Michigan City. Police said Silverstein Was thrown out and run over by his own spinning auto. , Chester Haag, 31, La Porte, was killed when his car went oft Ind. 2 five miles east of La Porte yesterday. Authorities said Haag was enroute to South Bend to eat Thanksgiving dinner with relatives. Two pedestrians died when they were hit by cars Wednesday night. Mrs. Bertha Blutler, 84, Richmond, was struck down on a Richmond street when she stepped from behind a vehicle, and Wilbur Leming, 63, Lafayette, was killed in a similar accident at' Monon.

UN Votes For Special Watch Over Balkans Vote Watch Because Os Soviet's Enmity Toward Yugoslavia Paris, Nov. 23—(UP)—A United Nations committee voted over Russia’s protest today to put a special watch on the explosive Balkans because of the aggressive enmity of the Soviet bloc toward Yugoslavia. The special UN political committee took the action on the motion of the United States, Great Britain. France, Greece and Mexico, The vote was 50 for the resolution. five against and threie abstaining. This means that the resolution is; assured the necessary twoIrijs majority when it goes to the full general assembly for fin-_ al action. i , I’nder the resolution k 14-nation commission Would: he set up to witch the Balkans. The commission would maintain headquarters in New York City and send teams toi ahy area where trouble threatened. Only the Soviet bloc countries opposed the resolution. Before the committee voted, it ppiprqved another resolution to abolish a watchdog commission which had been named to observe any threats bly Yugoslavia to. Grleece. The vqte on this was 50 foil, five against and one abstaining! ” This \vote was testimony of the radically altered; situation since the Soviet-bloc countries boycotted ; Marshal Tito because he refused) to put Russian interests ahead of-those of his own country, even though he is a Communist. Tito is now friendly toward Greece and other western countries. Before this action Russia accused the United States of an “act of aggression” through the financing of subversive, armed groups inside the Soviet Union and its satellites. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Ivishinsky made the charge in a letter submitted to the United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie last night. 'fhe white-haired Russian requested a full general assembly debate of a clause in thie U. S. mutual security act that apportions $100,000,000 to support antiReks in or outside the iron curt (Tara To Paae 9lx> Decatur Stores Plan For Christinas Hours Open Nights Week Before Christmas Decatur businesses will remain open until 9 p.m! the week prior to Christmas, it was announced today by Ralph Habegger, chairman of (het retail committee of the Chamber! of Commerce. The effective datks are December 17 through 22, according to present plans. ' Stores will clb?e at 6 p-.ni. on the 24th, and will close Thursday afternoon, December 27, as übual. The stores will, however, be open on all other Thursday afternoon? in December. This is the second Christmas season annouheemeht made by the Chamber which has outlined a complete program beginning with the descent of Santa’s airplane at the Decatur airport December 1. Tentatively arranged are other parades and the carol singing of different church choirs. Accordingly, Starting December 17,; different, churches’ choirs will assemble to sing carols on the cqurt bouse step 4, then on December' 22 the choirs will combine for a massed carol program.

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Four-Month Dispute Over Location Os Cease-Fire Line Is * Ended At Parleys * Panmunjom, Korea, Nov. 23 — (UP)—The . United Nations and the Communists agreed today to try to end the Korean shooting by Christmas. They B et the stage for a 30-day race against time by settling their four-month dispute over location of a cease-fire line. The break came at a dramatic subcommittee session. It brpught the first official United Nations expression of hope that a full armistice may be achieved by Christmas. The meeting hail been going' On 20 minutes when Maj. Gert. Henry I. Hodes of the -UN team strode out of the conference tent . and said: ' "We'vle got agreement.” The joint subcommittee agreed that both siues shall return to the present battleline for a ceasefire if “the rest of the armistice, terms can be settled within 30 days. •' . ‘ If the armistice is not' completed within 30 days, the ceasefire line will be moved forward or hack to the battleline existing when the complete agreement is ready for signature. A four-man team of UN and Red staff officers worked until after dark tracing the present battleliu«l on large-scale ’map’s. When they broke np for the day, only two or three major differences remained and these were expected to_.be clyeaned up early Saturday. The battleline—which will become cease-fire line if the war ends in 30 days—was< expected > to $e approved by the Subcommittee Saturday and submitted to the full five-man armistice delegations the u«|xt day for ratification. Ratification Sunday probably will be only a formality and the negotiators undoubtedly* will move on to the next item onj the armistice agenda—inspection and supervision of the carrying out of the truce terms—the same -day. Officially the war will go on until final agreement is reached. Rut during the trial period, it- was believed there would be an actual or de-facto 5, cease-fire along the battlefront. The line will have been drawn end no commander seemed likely to send his-troops across it. No soldier was likely to vie for the hpnor of being the last man to die in bloody Korea. For the first time, a UN spokesman said there is reason for hope that the war will be over by Christmas. Lt. Howard F. Levie of New York City, the UN command briefing officer, told news-’’ men that the allies would not have set the 30-day limit in the ceasefile line proposal if they had not hoped for a truce by that time. Levie said the UN and Communist staff officers working out (Tarn T»P»<» Sts) Geneva Man Indicted By Jay County Jury Lester Morningstar' of Geneva, has been indicted by the Jay county grand jury on a charge of grand larceny, involving the' theft and sale of cattle. Morningstar is confined to the Jay county jail t and will stand trial ini the near future, authorities stated. n/* SHoppiNff