Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No 280.

GROUND FIGHTING STOPS ON KOREA FRONT

Reds Formally Reject Freeze Proposed By UN Demand Immediate *■> Withdrawal Of.All Foreigner Troops Panmunjom. Korea. Nov,_2S. — (TP)-)—Communist truce negotiators formally rejected today a United Nations proposal for a freeze on armed forces and demanded instead the immediate withdrawal of “all foreign troops” from Korea. Chief UN delegate Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy retorted that the Communist stand indicated the wanted to build up their depleted armies to strike again after only\ a temporary truce- ' Joy said the withdrawal of troops from Korea could not be negotiated in the military armistice conference. It was a matter for the governments concerned, he said; , Both sides agreed .in general, however, on UN proposals for a cease-fire within 24 hours of the signing of an armistice, formation of a joint armistice supervisory organization, and the withdrawal of all armed forces from a demilitarized buffer zone. - The full armistice delegation will meet again at Panmunjom at 11 a.m. tomorrow (8 p.m, today CST). . / - They have 29 more, days m which to agree on the remaining three items on their agenda and sign an armistice if the present battlelfae is to becomfc the ceasefire line. t Although the location of the tentative cease-fire line has- been settled, the Bth army emphasized in a itatement tongiht that the shooting will go on until a doirnlete armistice has been signed. ■ “There is hope (of a cease-fire), but that hope must not be sabotaged by wishful thinking,” the sth army statement said. A UN communique said the Communists “moved into the open" Wednesday in their opposition to a ban on .the reinforcement of the opposing’ armies during an armistice arid to “any concept of joint inspection by both sides to enforce such limitations.” North Korean Gen. Nam 11. the chief Communist negotiator. Said both UN proposals. were “inappropriate and impractical.” He contended that the\ “freeze” proposal was beyond the scope of a military armistice and could be settled only at a higher level. He called for &n immediate political conference to consider tt|e Withdrawal. of “all foreign troops” from Korea after the sign(Tarn To Free Stx) Terre Haute's Bus _ ’ j | Drivers May Strike Terre Haute. Ind., Nov. 28—(UP) —Drivers and. mechanics for the Terre Haute city bus lines posed a strike threat -today unless the company meets their demands for higher wages. Some 90, members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway workers f union voted last night to call a strike Dec. 8 unless they are given a 30cent hourly pay boost. The men also a*sk a five-day week and costof diving contract clause, q George Keneipp. president of the union local, said the employes have had no pay increase for a year and a half. Company officials declined -comment. Watch Red Troops Smoke Cigarettes - On the Western Front-. Korea. Nov/ 28.— (UP) — Allied troops, ready for combat, peered out across the nearly silent front tonight and watched 'Chinese soldiers standing around fires smok- ./ ing cigarets. Earlier in the day. opposite their ‘‘little gibraltar’’ positions, the troops watched the Chinese play a volley ball game. INDIANA WIATHER Fair tonight **»<! Thursday. Mild daytime temperatures. Low tonight 25 to SO. High Thursday 50 to 55 north, 55 to 60 south. •

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Corn King MM ■ a ® FIRST OHIOAN in the 29-year history of the hay and' grain show of the International Livestock Exposition to be crowned “Corn King/ Willard C. Kirk of Jeffersonville, displays ; the yellow’ hybrid grairi which brought him the, title. San Francisco Collector Fired By President Internal Revenue Bureau Announces 18 Others Fired Washfagton. Nov. 28 — (UP) — President Truman fired James G. Smyth is San Francisco tax collector today and a few minutes later the internal revenue bureau atinouncecL f * r * n £ °f other emjSloybk. . [ Twelve .others were asked to resign, p The firing of Smyth, who was suspended Sept. 27. was announced at Kipy West. Fla., by Mr. Trur.ian who said Smyih had failed 'oJtnanage his office properly. ■ The internal revenue bufeati -aid the other 30 firings and forced; resignations resulted from ”ihxestigations by the bureau into charges !of irregularities.” The ousters touched: tax bureaus in 14 cities—New York, Boston, Los Angeles. Philadelphia. Detroit, San Franqisco. ' Baltimore, Nashville. Tenn I '. Newark. N. J.. Springfield. 111., Harrison. Ark., Fargo, N/D . Denver. Colo , alnd St. Louis. Some of the employes previously, were under suspension. The internal revenue ( bureau said that in a number of other caifas "disciplinary actions less (Turn To Pa Ke Six) js 1 ■ r Mrs- Brown Speaks At Lions Meeting Secretary For TB Association Speaks ’Mrs/ W. Guy Brown was the principal speaker at the weekly IJons club meeting Tuesday, explaining td the members the work of the Adams county tuberculosis association, of which she is secretary. i L(on Robert Zwick, president of tlie ; tuberculosis association in the couptyintroduced the speaker as well as Lowell Smith, of the De•'Mtur high school faculty, w'ho urireefad movies pertaining to the work of the association. Noting the main project of the tuberculosis group oh the local leiel. Brown pointed up the ntlinerqus, achievements in, say, course of a year. She outlined ti\e clinics, the patch testing programs in the and the constant search for and relief of tuberculosis. .Predicated on the belief that if tuberculosis is nabbed enough,’ arresting the disease will l-e simpler, and the association utilizes i all its resources toward this eradication: W. Guy Brown, past state president of the »überculoßls association, wgs a guest of the club, v. hose piembers dined on venison supplied by Dr. Joseph Morris, relent ly feturned from Canada.

Caudle Tells Os Pressure From Solons Says Congressmen . Exerted Pressure v For Constituents ' Washington, Nov. 28 — (UP) — T. Lamar Caudle, ousted justice department tax official, testified today that senators and congressnun exerted “tremendous pressure” on him in behalf of delinquent tax-paying constituents. Caudle emphasized, however, that he did not recall any members of congress ever asking him to do anything wrong. daudle’s testimony before a house ways and means subcommittee was given as President Trui.ian announced in Koy West. Fla., (hat he had fired James G. Smyht as collector of internal revenue in tnat he had fired James G. Smyth had failed to manage his office properly. \Smyth had been under suspension along with six other employes in his office; The president’s action was only the prelude to other firings, suspensions and other disciplinary action expected to he announced quickly by the scandal-rocked infernal revenue bureau which collects more than $50,000,000,000 a year of taxpayers’ money. Caudle, a former assistant attorney general was dismissed by Mr. Truman for “outside activities." said that no one in the executive branch of the government —the president’s domain—ever put pressure on him in tax cases. When Caudle spoke ftf “pressure” put ob him by congressmen, subcommittee members questioned whether it could properly be called that. Caudle said he didn’t know what else it could be called. “You don’t realize the pressure brought on the assistant attorney general in that office." Caudle said. Caudle said that “highly reputable men”—he did not identify them —would plead for leniency in behhtf of “constituents they l>e- ( \ (Turn To Pace Eiarhtl Memorial Service i . ■ < At Elks On Sunday v Van\Wert Mayor To Give Address Here Annual memorial services honoring deceased members of the lodge will be by the Decatur B. P. O. -Elks at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Elks home on North Second street. Memorial services are held on the first Sunday of December each year in all Elks lodges. Martin W. Feigert, mayor of Van Wert, 0., and prominent in Elks activities for many years, will deliver the memorial address at the Decatur service. Feigert. reelected early this month ’to his second term as Van Wert mayor, has been a resident of Van Wert county his entire life. After serving as a school teacher and principal for several years, he established a general Insurance agency in Van Wert, which he has operated for the past 30 years. A member of. the Van Wert Elks, he has held all elective offices in the lodge, was activities chairman of the northwest Ohio ' district Elks for four years, and is a past district deputy\ of the Ohio Northwest fclks. A veteran of World War t' Feigert has also been active for years in Boy Scout work and holds the Beaver award for this service. \ . \ The • memorial service Will be conducted by Walter H. Gllliom, esalted ruler, and his staff of officers. Special music during the service will be presented by ' the ladies’ double trio from the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, comprised of Mrs. William C. Feller, Mrs. Arden Arnold. Mrs. Joseph Hazelwood, Mrs. William Johnson, Miss Pauline Britzenhofe _and Miss Alice Roth. Mrs. L.’ A. Holthouse will be the accompanist. All members of the Decatur lodge and their families are urged to attend, and a special invitation Is extended to families of deceased members. The service is also open to the public and an invitation is extended by club officers I for the public to participate.

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IN WHAT is expected to be a series of s t faenuous debates that may vitally affect the ntaion’s economy. Philip Murray, president of the CIO-United Steel Workers meets with U. S. Steel officials in Pittsburgh to Iregin contract negotiations. Shaking Murray’s hand is John A. Stephens (right). Steel’s vice-president In charge of industrial relations. At the left Is operations- viefe-president Clifford H. Hood.

PMA Committeemen Named In Townships County Election To Be Held Thursday elected in the 12 townships in Adams county in the production and marketing administration election last Monday, were announced today by Winfred Gerke, county PMA chairman. The chairmen will meet Thursday in this city to elect a county IMA committee. The township and county committees wih take" Office December 1 and serve one' year. Following are the committees, the chairman, vice-chainman, regular member, first alternate and second alternate, being listed j,n that order: Blue Creek: Elisha O. Merrfmatf, Chester Bryan. Glenn White. Frank Dellinger,-; John H. Neadstine. French: George Ringger, Henry Pchaffter, Elmer J. lach. Martin Moeschberger, Harold $5. Zeigler. Hartford: Robert C. Augsburger. Leonard M. Wasfay. Harvey L. Garboden. Tillman H. Lehman. Charles Weikel. Jefferson: \Ray Teeple, Arthur Weaver. Arlie Foreman. Glenn W. Adams, Glenn T. Bolltenbacher. Kirkland: Oliver V. Dilling, Samuel Yager, Thomas Griffiths. Emil Steffen. Evan Yake. Monroe/ Franklin P. Steury. Victor P. Sprunger. Eli M. Schwartz, Elmer C. Beer; Dan Striker. Preble: Robert J. Werling, Lorbii Kruetzman. Vern Linger, Paul Fuhrman, Glen E. Girod. Root: Hugo J. Boerger. Everett 0. Singleton, Chauncey A. Sheets, Frederick W. Aumans, Paul Becker. T St. Mary’s: Harvey J. Sells, Edward Koos. Benoit P. Johnson, Chester Braker, Elmer E. Winans. Union: Herman Geirner, Victor Hleeke, Oscar H. Fuelling. Simon A. <Lehrman, Herman F. Steele. Wabash: Chester Roth, Herman Burke; James Lybarger, Sherman Von Gunten. Washington: Frank' R. Braun. David Roth, Lewis Stump\ Eddie R. McFarland, Ralph Bluhm. Committeemen are directly responsible for the local administration of the agricultural ! conservation program, price support operations, and the sugar program, in addition they cooperate with the federal crop insurance corporation in the writing of all-risk crop insurance and with other U. S. department of agriculture agencies and groups in duties connected v.ilh the nation’s defense efforts. J' • ; 1 ' ' ' YW- — v * , Judge Corn, Soybean . Exhibits Saturday The 4-H county corn and soybean exhibit will be judged in the coun ty extension office beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. Township crop projects have been exhibited in the varioub township achievement meetings. The top exhibits in each township have been brought together for the Saturday show. Exhttits may be removed after 11 a.m. Saturday. - ' ,

Steel Wage Talks Start

One Juror Still 111, Grand Jury Recesses While five members might be a majority, it is not a sufficient number of grand jurors to keev them in session, so again the group recessed. until a later date because of the illness of one of the members—Harvey Koos. Still but one witness has appeared be fore tAem since they were eled more than a week ago. No indications have been forthcoming about ihe nature of their work, though serious speculation from observers alleges that one of the county’s schools or at least a board member or official ig'underseatiny \ ' Probing Cigarette Frauds In Chicago , Stamp Tax Fraud Is Under Investigation Chicago/ Nov. 28 — (UP) — Special; assistant attorney general Ren W) Heineman today said that 100 cigarette dealers and distributors will be . for heaiS ‘ags tri investigate the ramification of. an alleged $10,000,000-4-jear stamp tax fraud. None of those to be questioned was involved fa yesterday’s raids on eifdit wholesale firms by 50 state police officers. Heineman, a Chicago attorney, was named a special assistant attorney general to conduct the investigation into the alleged frauds. State, Officials estimated that three out of-every 10 packs sold in the Chicago area last year carried counterfeit tax stamps printed with stolen machines. The state lost three cents on each of the more than 333,000,000 packages of cigarettes sold, Heineman said . V Heineman also hoped to discover if remnants of the old Capone mob piloted the alleged fraud. Four officials of firms raided were arrested and held in the detective, bureau lockup. They were Prank SeverfaO. 30, Mox Dolgin, 3T, Vito De Stefano, 39. and Christ Cniarariionte, 25. -Police were believed to be hunting Ralph Buglio, an official of still another firm. < Hefaeman said the raids followed the theft of four tax meters from cigarette distributors here in 1949 and: 1950. The irietersnsrint a number on each pack of cigarettes and record the number of inpressions made.. Heineman said the counterfeiters made phqny plates and dies for the stolen meters but sometimes Used tax numbers identical with those of legitimate distributers; Gov. Adlai Stevenson said none of the stolen mcahines had been found but officers found a safe and experts were called in to open it. i The raiders, however, did find : quantities of contraband cigarettes at seven of the eight places raid- ( ed. they said, f Stevenson ordered the raids which, were at aged simultaneously * on the target firms. The state * trooper* acted without the know!* e&ge Os Chicago authorities. Stevenson emphasized that the well-kept secret did not emphasize (Ter* To Pace

Informal Cease-Fire Is Issued UN Troops While Negotiations Underway

Employment Drop Is Reflected Here Hundreds File For Unemployment Pay ■ ’ • ■ ■V 7 L’ The serious decrease in employment in Decatur was manifested today |n the long lines of people seeking unemployment benefits. Early this morning applicants were lining up at the unemployment office of the city hall, and by 9 a.m. the line extended to the intersection of Third and Monroe streets. Don F. Lyons, Fort Wayne supervisor tor the Indiana employment security division, stated this was the greatest number of persons to apply since 1948, when industries temporarily reduced their forces. i He said that the bulk of today’s applicants were from the General Electric company. , who have been retracting during the last \ few weeks. v 1 Four persons from thler employment bureau w’ere processing applicants today. ' Lyons estimated that there were approximately 250 who came to the city hall office. "Normally the load here is about 40 or 50.” Lyons stated, and Ray Harris (of Fort Wayne, who was on hand today) handles it bv himself.” v Lyons went on to say that occasionally two person!* are needed to handle! the forenoon work, but in the past three years this* has been rare. Most of the applicants are from the county, officials said, but some of them are from Ohio. Whenever there is an increased “load” —the terminology utilized by the employment division in speaking of number of applicants — industries fa Decatur usually notify the Fort Wayne employment division. % i Because of this, it is generally (Turn T® Paar® Six) ’ ’1 Annexation Trial Continues In Court W Case Is Resumed In Court Here Today Several more' persons marched to the witness stand late Tuesday in further action ih the trial of Virgil Haines vs the city of Berne, Still another was to be called this afternoon when the case is resumed before special Judge Homer Byrd. Heading the list Tuesday was Berne superintendent of schools E. M. Webb, brought to the witness stand by counsel for the defendant, Robert S. Anderson and Howard Baumgartner. Others included Gordon Liechty, Edison Lehmann/ Andrew Sprunger,. currently mayor and also a plaintiff witness; Howard Gilliom, of the Berne Witness, and Leslie Sprunger, member of the Berne city council and ex-town trustee. Horace Lehman was scheduled to appear on the stand as the oply defendant’s wilness today, then counsel for the plaintiff, Custer and Smith, and the defendant, will givei closing arguments. Bond Sales Exceed Quota For County ' T. F. Graliker. chairman of the Adams county U.S. defense bond committee, has been notified by the Federal Reserve banks that the county has exceeded its quota -of sales in the first defense bond campaign. The .total of the county’s bond slips was $131,527 as cofapared with a quota of SIIO,OOO. - ' of Indiana's 92 counr ties made the|r quotas. The combined quotas for all counties was $25,000,000 and the sales reached a total of $25,224,903, thereby enabling Indiana to register an overall victory in the campaign. Many volunteer member* of the defense bond organization have expressed the opinion that the campaign just closed was the most successful since the end of World War 11.

15 Killed In Air Crashes, 34 Miss Death Seven Planes Are Involved In Five Different Crashes J By United Press At least 15 persons were killed yesterday in a setups of airplane crashes across the nation, but 34 others escaped alive after hairbreadtli brushes with death. Seven planes were involved in the five different crashes. Two of the mishaps! were collisions in flight. ? ' \ ' ■' / ■ The w’orst disaster cost the lives of I'l persons aboard a navy PBM when the ship roared into tjie sea seven miles off San Diego, Calif., snapped in two and sank all hands. ... . Four bodies were recovered from the sunken plane and rescuers searched for thte remaining seven. The plane, a Martin Mariner patrol bomber, had taken off 25 minutes earlier from North Island near San Diego. J The pilot and a crewman of an air force training plane were killed near Minneapolis, when their ship crashed into a bank of the Mississippi river. ' Second Lt. John Barkley of New Orleans was killed when his F-51S collided in the air with another plane of the same type piloted by Walter Baxter HI. Weslaco. Tex.. near Liberty-, Ariz. Baxter survived the crash. ' \ Near Ocala, Fla., an Eastern Airlines plane ckrying 20 persons collide with a small plane piloted by a Methodist minister. Those aboard the airliner said they felt a “light ! bump," like “hitting a bird," when • the two planes met. None of the 17 passengers even knew they had struck another ship and the plane landed safely at Ocala. The pilot of the light plane, the Rev. John Macy, pastor of the Anthony, Fla., Methodist church, plunged to his death in the civil air patrol plane. Two witnesses on the ground said the light plane crashed after it lost one wing in the collision. v A giant B-29 bomber burst into flames near Hemet, Calif., but the entire 13-man crew parachuted to safety and only one man was Injured. \ ' ' ■ ■—— To File Delinquent Tax Suits In City State Gross Income Division To File > Indianapolis, Nov. 28 — (UP) — The Indiana gross income tax division renewed -its campaign against delinquent taxpayers todgy by preparing a new’ sheaf of* 45 court suits to file in\ nine cities including Decatur, LaPorte and Warsaw. ' State revenue commissiotier Cpnn J. Sterling said a deputy attorney general would file suits today in Indianapolis'and would follow “just as promptly as possible” with suits fa Decatur, Elkhart, Frankfort. LaPorte, Michigan City, New Castle, Richmond end Warsaw. [• -! The suits will be lulled by Robert Wallace, a deputy assigned to the department of revenue by attorney Gen. J. Emmett MeManamon’s office. \ ■ ■ ” It was a tfantinuation of a policy adopted several months ago by state officials to bring in additional thousands of dollars from persons who never have paid grogs income taxes and from those who have become delinquent. Sterling said that James M. Propst, director of the gross income tax division, planned suits in cases “where the taxpayer has — (Tar® T® Pace Kistet)

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Cease-Fire Order To Prevail While Truce Parley Continues On Warfare In Korea Bth Army Headquarters, Korea. Thursday. Nov. 29. —(UP)—Ground fighting along the 145-mile Korean front stopped today under ah informal cease-fire order to i the troops. ! - United Nations troops wer£ ordered not to fire on the Comtnunists unless they are fired upon first\ Front line dispatches indicated the Chinese had received a similar order. Late last night instead of hunting each in deadly raids, the troop? of. both side? stood idly in their positions —watching each other. It was disclosed that the United Nations front line troops received the order yesterday. The order, passed by word of the frozen will hold good while the truce negotiators at Panmunjotn try to agr?e to a formal armistice by Dec. 27—unless the Communists start Something. [, - As yet there is no indication whether the order applies to Aerial and naval warfare. i A United Press dispatch mediate last night from the western front said UN troops peered acrdss a silent battle line and watched Chinese Reds standing around, a fire smoking cigarettes. Earlier they had watched 40 Chinese, soldiers play a game-of tolley ball. | Under the order: I 1— The infantrymen will provoke any Scouting out beyond the front line will j ,continue. But it win be purely Scouting, not offensive. “ . , 2 — The artillery will fire only if fired upon. 3— —The troops were told that the war is not over. They were to|d to keep under cover and not,to expose themselves by grouping, to ; possible enemy artillery fire. J \ It may mean that the shooting war, insofar as the ground forces are concerned, is over. .That up to theßed troops at the front, the arm|stice talks continue. jThe question whether the war will .end formally is up to the truce negotiators. There was savage aerial fighjting yesterday, in which allied fighter pilots shot down; three Ru&Sianmade Mig-15 jets, and eafly in) the day six small enemy ground attacks were beaten off. But by mid-afternoon, all along the front, the guns which fare booming 24 hours previously Were silent. There ewas an atmosphere i of mystery about the order halting offensive) action by •UN grojund forces , ’• First, the Btn army which under Gen. James A. Van Fleet comprises all allied ground forces in Korea, refused to confirm that the order was official. * i Second. Brig. Gen. William! P. Nuckols, official spokesman at the Panmupjorn fruce camp, said ‘’absolutely hot’’ when asked if there had been an informal cease-fire agreement. Late last\night a special Bth artny communique .was issued. It saidk “There is of this date, 28th November, 1951, no ceasefire in Korea. k “There is hope but that hope must not be sabotaged by wishful thinking. " “Until such time that an agifee(Turn Td Pace Eiaht) On sZoppw ,ji t