Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 284.

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B-29 Crashes Into Row 0! Denver Homes Police Report 14, All Crew Members, Are Dead tn Crash i' Denver. Colp., Dec. i—(UP) — A B-29 crashed today into a row of houses as it made an approach tor a landing at Lowry air force base, and- police reported at least 11 persons, all members of the plane crew, were killed; ± The big four-engined ship was returntfig to the hiise after a twohour training mission when it less than a mije short of .its destination. i ;' Five bodies of the plane’s crew ■were recovered from the plane . end the iratrtediale vicinity of the trash.* Police said nine bodies were still inside the burning plane. Police, firemen and rescue workers at the scene shid they had been tinable to determine whether any residents of the houses or any other civilians had been killed. The plane hit at r least ' five houses in the new hilltop residential district of East Denver. An air force spokesman said shortly aft|»r the crash that four homes were destroyed. At least one resident was reported injured. Mrs. Murphy Tinsley. FS, was taken to Denver general hospital. The hospital 1 Also re-, ported that an injured crew memI er Was brought there. Searchers still poked' through the tangled wreckage of the plane and houses an hour after the crash trying to determine if there were any other casualties. A woman who lives in the block where the plane hit, Mrs. Dave Cohen, said she was talking on the phone to a friend when she heard a "ripping noise.” She said the noise was not loud apd she had no idea what was happening until she saw power lines outside her house sag. Pilot Killed Reno. Js’ev., Dec. 3 ---(UP) — A twin-engined private plane hit the roof of a. house during a snowstorm and crashed and burned in a street near Hubbard field, today, killing the pilot. The plane was eh route from Oakland, Calf!., to Sterling. 111. Clarence W. Booth, 38, an air forcereserve captain, pilot of the craft, was killed and two of the four passengers were injured, neither seriously. They were George Loorz. 53, Alameda, Calif., owner of the Scolte Construction Co., which operated the plane, and Miss Reymond Rousseau, 26, Anders, France. Richard Combs, 30, Cupertino, CaL. ?n engineer, and Mrs. =Loorz. 54, ‘ also passengers, required only (Tarn To Paae Sixt r ■ . m — ■ LATE BULLETINS Key West, Fla., Dec. (UP) —President Truman today ordered tighter enforcement of non-discrimination clauses in contracts with the federal government. Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 3.—(UP) —The government announced tonight that Egyptian t police and British troops fought a gun battle in the {Suez Canal zone and unofficial Egyptian sources said 17 persons were killed. Berlin, Dec. 3.—(UP)— Communiat East Germany cut off coal supplies; to West Berlin today In retaliation for a western economic blockade of the eastern area. Ernst Krueger, East Berlin eity oopnCil director, said the, ppai embargo would remain until western authorities resumed e shipmenu to the east of goods needed to fulfill the East German fivd-year economic plan. . INDIANA WEATHER • Showers and m|td tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Slightly cooler. Low tonight 45-50. High Tuesday 52-57 north, 55-60 south. »

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’ k - - *■ kJ -- _ | Over Ton Os Clothing Dispatched To Korea The Shipment of clothing and blankets from St. Mary’s Catholic fhurch to the Korean poor and destitute, totaled 2,695 pounds, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, <> nuounced Sunday. The material was donated by members of the parish, carefully sorted and packed in about 35 boxes. The shipment is already enroute to Korea. Communists Claim Seizure Os Two Islands Claim Two\ Islands Off Korean Coast , Taken From Allies Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Dec. 3—(UP)— The asserted tonight that they had captured two allied held islands off the far northwest coast of North Korea. \ The plain) was made .while negotiators of the United Nations command were offering in truce talks to trade all allied-held islands north Os the tentative cfease-fire line in return, for adequate concessions by •the Reds. 4 , • • North Korea’s Pyongyang radio, in a Korean language broadcast, said that North Korean troops captured the islands of Taehwa and Vol about 50 mites south of the mouth of rhe Yalu river which is .the boundary between Korea and Chinese Manchuria. - The broadcast said that 400 South Koreans "and Americans” were killed or wounded and three allied ships captured. The islands were captured by the allies Nov. 2 in an amphibious at dark. During the day Monday, an unidentified plane bombed and strafed -U.S. 3d infantry troops on the western front. i’ .The attack was the first iri daylight on UN front line positions in recent months. But there was some doubt tn the minds of air force exp<itb whether the plane was Communist or was a UN plane which made the attack by mistake.! An investigation of bomb and shell/ fragments found on the spot was ordered. . v Far to the northwest. UN jet plahes damaged two Russian-built Mig-15 jet fighters in two dogfights over “Mig- alley.’ 1 Altogether, UN jets have shot . dowu/18 enemy planes and damaged 12 in'the past tour days. The plane which, attacked the allies on the western front <flew too high to be identified. Apart, from the raid and similar American air , attacks on the Communists, only artillery. duels and brief patrol skirmishes' disturbed the quiet along the 145-mile front. Pacific Ocean Hit By Violent Storm 11 Persons Killed, Two Others Missing ? ' By United Press A violent weekend storm —with winds up to 105 miles an hour—lashed the Pacific Ocean off the /California coast, forced the Golden Gate bridge to close and left 11 persons dead and at least two missing today. » . A Weather forecasters said a new storm was headed for the San Francisco Bay area, but they predicted it wbulli not reach the intensity of its predecessor. rTlje worst single accident was caused by the fringe of the gale outside Mission Bay near San Diego’ where a cross sea flipped over h converted landing barge carrying a fishing party. Four persons drowned and two, perhaps three, were missing. \ The' party was made up of navy chief petty officers, civilians, their wives and two youngsters. The group set out despite small craft warnings hoisted all along the California coast because of the rough (Tnr» T« Page Two) \ - /-’I fe - • ' I' . '

Red Fighters ‘ * Forced Down U.S. Plane Hungary Announces All Four Crewmen Os Plane Are Safe London, Dec/ 3 — (UP) —Russia said today that Soviet fighters had forced down a United States air force plane missing two weeks with fdur crewmen, and the Communist Hungarian government announced it was holding the airand the men. Alt are safe, it said. The Soviet news agency TASS said the Soviet fighters forced down the transport, flying from Germany to Belgrade. Yugoslavia, with diplomatic pouches, after it had -violated the borders of Romania and Hungary;/ Hungary charged in a formal note to the United States that the Plane violated Hungary's borders • with pre-determined intentions.” The note was handed to the U.S. legation in Budapest, according to a dispatch from there; The charged that the plane violated- the border Nov. 19 near Gyula, in southeast Hungary about 125 milas of Budapest. It was issued shortly after the Hungarian government confirmed that it was holding the American plane and its four crew members and that all safe,: Western obsefvAs feared * that Hungary may demand return, of the 11th century crowm of St. Stepheh as .ransom for the men. The note said the plane flewover Hungarian territory for an hthir and 14 minutes and was "forced to land” by Soviet fighters who remained over Hungarian territory near Papa. It added that the plane contained a military map showing parts of Czechoslovakia. Romania and "the most important parts ofi the Soviet union,” a radio set and heavy blankets wrapped in 20 bundles. The plane, it said, was "placed at the disposal of the Hungarian government.” The note said the objects were not needed “on an ordinary flight." It said the blankets were packed "ready to be parachuted from the piane’’-and that this proved “that the plane violated Hungary’s borders with pre-determined intention.” : y' , Hungary said it appeared from these facts* that the plane, was to (Turn To Page ’Pwo) ‘ • . —; Senator Capehart Speaks Here Friday • Executive dlub To Hear Indiana Solon \ From advanced reservations, indications are that a capacity audience wilb hear Sen. Homer Capehart at tfee meeting Friday night of the executive club of the Decatur Chahiber of Commerce. The meeting at the Elks home, will start with a dinner promptly at 6 o’clock and the Capehart address will follow. \ George Laurent Decatur General ; Electrih personnel supervisor, will preside as toastmaster at the meeting, which will be limited to executive club members and one guest each. \ * Members are invited to write questions conzerning national issues and mail them to Walter Ford, executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce and also secretary of the executive club. These questions will be presented to Sen. Gapehart at the (question and answer forum which will follow the address. The Indiana senior senator has long been a platform favorite in the middlewest and his frank answer to queries always leads to an interesting session. The meeting will be non-political Ford pointed out, and reservations must be madie at the Chaonber offices in the DeVoss building by Wednesday of this week.

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1 Army Secretary Returns To U. S. ♦ / ' _ „ , A-?", .. . .... — ' : ■. '. •i- '. <- I * . * 1 I ' 'h' ' * ... ' I I I MM - v K II 1 ON HIS ARRIVaV at the Washington National Airport from a tour 5 of Europe, Secretary of the Army Frnak Pace (left) is warmly greetl ed by Gen. J. Lawton Collins, X’. S. Anny .Chief bf Staff. Pace conferred with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in Paris.

; No Report Yet On O : Grand Jury Action i Report Filed Last Week Still Secret i What tie grand jury reported at ! the cfmctusloh ‘ <>r it% receht ’ liberations still remains somewhat . a mysteiy because there are no officials, apparently, who will discuss it other than to admit they cafi’t i discuss it. i At least this was the reaction to i queries on the part of the Daily, Democrat which tried to clear up some queries received by this of- . fice. ( Reminiscent of d turn of the cenI tury spy thriller, in which po one > was certain of anything, the feport I after three days since its filing, is > still shrouded in an atmosphere i bordering on finger nail biting sus- , pense. What? everyone is asking. What did the report say. Then ( comes the usual speculation on • the part of the speculating public.. Much of this speculation follows a well-tread line: there must have bden one, or possibly more, indictments returned by the grand l jurors against something or somebody in their report to Judge Myle? F. Parrish —or else, why the «ec- ( recy? Everyone, it seems, is pledged tp silence on the matter? Well, Sometimes the silence is broken, but only by “mum.” It seems that muni is the word. “Seems incredible,” said one man, "all this mumming. Ain't like when I was a (Turn To Paxe Two)

______ fr— ——4- t H Annual Drive launched By Good Fellows Club

(By A Good Fellow) Once again, the “Good Fellows Club” wishes to remind the citizens of Decatur that the Delta Theta Tau sorority is asking for their full cooperation and generosity. since the origin of. this club in, 1917,: the ambition of the Good Fellows is to lend a helping hand to the needy and less-fortunate fapiilies that live in our community. There are many more of these families existing than -most of you are aware, and it is our hope that each and every one of them will be remembered at this Christmas season. Our “Good Fellows," together with the help and assistance of the. . Junior Chamber df Commerce members are endeavoring to provide toys for each child in these sp deserving families. Toys in need of repair or any new toys that anyone would wish these little children to receive from Santa Claus should . contact,Mary Martha Terveer 3-3623 Ted Hill. 3-2253, or Joe Kaehr. 3-3154. and they will be picked up i and repaired by the Jaycees. Last year tj»e “Good Fellows" with your generosity were able (o furnish new clothing, food, and toys

■i — —— \Milk Price Boost Os Cent A Quart Made Here Today Milk prices in Decajtur followed the spiraling lead of surrounding cities today and continued to rise with an announced increase of one cent oh most items. ik, Today’s shoppers learned that pasteurized milk is now 22 cents a quaft, while homogenized rose to 23 cents. Coffee cream jumped to 23 cenip for a half-pint, and buttermilk to 22, according to the local dairy price lists. Whipping cream went up two cents a half-pint, or 44 cents. i This is about the fourth sUch increase in milk which a little more than six mouths ago was 18 cents a quart for pasteurized milk. Dairymen attributed the latest increase ,to rising costs in production and labor. Funeral Held Sunday For Robison Infant * Funeral services were held at the Zwicjc funeral home Sunday, with burial in the Decatur cemetery, for , Kenneth Alan Rhbison, infant son of Ralph and Virginia Beam- Robison, Decatur route 1, stillborn Saturday afternoon at the Adams countyr/memorial hospital. The Rev. H. J. iVelty' officiated. Surviving aiT the parents: two brothers, Edward and Jarpes; two sisters/ Gloria and Cheryl, all at homf4 and the graiidparents, Mr. and Mrs; Dale Robison of Rockford. 0., Mrh- Cecil Beam of Decatur and Cloice/ Beam of Decatur.

■ . ,E, . for 77 -families in Decatur. We/ will have el o * 6 t° the same number of again this year, so vtre ask each aind every qne to be as generous as possiblet We intend to contact the merchants who have helped make a success of our Good Fellows venture. 4’hiß year wp are going to try to contact every merchant in Decatur. and if they can donate food, clothing and toys, that will be very appreciated, and those who cannot give any of the above mentioned ; items, cash donations will also bd willing donations. The have offered their , services again this year, together ‘with t|je use of the fire statiop, for i the packing and the storing pf the many jzOxes. They jvill also help’ ‘ in any i way the Gpod Fellows may . need tjjeir services. . ’■ No Used Clothing We wish to stress the fact that this ypgf as last year, we are forced to drop ouri dealings with used clothing. This . has always proved l to be a difficult job as some of the clothing received has been in verf: bad condition and since the sorority girls are kept so busy with their investigation of the families, (Tun Te Page Twa> ' sM ' i \ •' -i ■, • . ' • '

Agree To Total Freeze Oi Arms, Inspection Behind Iron Curtain •I .

s Father Rescues 11 Children From Fire f Indianapolis Man Saves His Family Indianapolis, Dec. 3 — (UP) A 43-year-old furnace salesman herded 11 of his children from their burning home early today v. hen his pregnant wife woke up screaming “I smell, smoke.” Boston McQueen, 43, said “my heart was in my mouth” all the time he groped through sipokettiled house to Rescue the children. He burned |lx>ut the head hut not sgriottsfy. vi i The,fire broke' out in a room where their 15-year-old son. Fred - -oldest of the 11 children at hbme —was sleeping. Smoke roused McQueen’s wife. Florence. 43. McQueen said\ /flames were spurting from the dobr of Fred’s room as he dashed past carrying (neir three-year-old twins, Sharon end Caroni and leading Mrs. McQueen and another daughter,/ Pat-, ty, 13, to safety. 1 ) McQueen sent - the four to a neighbor’s hf>me and ran I nick into the house. . “As I passed the davenport. I felt someone. It was six-year-old. Preston,” McQueen said. "He either had been overconie by smoke or was so sleepy he just decided to ■ go back to bed.” McQueen said he scooted Preston outside and ran to Fred’s room. Flames drove him back and he ran outside to get some fresh (Tarn Tj» Three) \ j| i . ! ' i ■ ; i '. ' County Health Nurse Resigns Position Miss Jean Shockley \> Quits County Post Miss Jean Sholckley, county public health nurse, today resigned frpm that position effective December 31. resignation was contained in a letter to members of the Adams eouiity board of county commissioners who were meeting in regular session today. In a brief letter to the commissioners Miss'. Shockley wrote: **l wish to submit my resignation as Adams county public health nurse, to be effective December 31. "Thank you for your consideration while I have been working here,” Miss Shockley will complete three years in service as public health nurse here upon the effective date of her resignation. Contacted in her office, phe said she had accepted another nursing position In Fort Wayne. i“An opportunity presented itself in a hospital there that I simply could not afford to refuse.” She added that her associations here were always pleasant, “and I have enjoyed my work here and contact with people thrAighout.the county,” Miss Shockley came to Adams county from ' Members of the commissioners I accepted the resignation \in the morning session of their meeting, when they also allowed claims for the month against the county. This afternoon, commissioners 6were to receive bids for office supplies and equipment. . / ' - Memorial Services , i Are Held By Elks Memorial services for deceased members were held at the Decatur B. P. O. Elks lodge Bunday afternoon. Martin W. Feigert, mayor of Van. Wert, O„ delivered an inspiring address during -the service, conducted by Walter H. Gilliom. exalted ruler, and staff of officers. Special music was presented by the ladles double trio of the Zlop Evangelical and Reformed church, accompanied by Mrs. L. A. Holt house at the piano- . •/H . * '- n '

Says Alabama Solon Sought To Stop Case / Justice Department Attorney Testifies - In Tax Fraud Case Washington, Dec. 3. —(Ulh —A justice? department attorney testified Uxlay that Rep. Frank Boykin (D-Aia.) tried to stop prosecution of arf Alabama tax fraud case. Government > attorney John ’H. Mitchell, who- was assignM ./to prosecute the case, gave the testimony. He testified that Eloykin said prosecution of the case would be “a grave mi&carriage of justice.” Despite Boykin’s objections, the case was presented to a grand jury. Indictments were returned against four persons. Two pleaded guilty ; and went to jail. The cases against the other twp —-Wives of the men i who went to jail—were dismissed. Mitchell described Boykin's interest in the-eftse to a house ways and means subcommittee investigating , tax scandals. He testified after subcommittee chairman Cetil R. King (D-CalJ am ~ nounced that supreme court justice Tom Clark and attorney general J. Howard McGrath will he invited to testify latef this week. / King said he thought Clark “wojild want to clear the record" ■ regarding, his aiiTlane trips with T. Lamar Caudle, former assistant attorney general fired by President *Truman (or "outssde activities.” "He also quite naturally probably will be questioned about how' Mr. Caudle got his job w-ith the justice department in the first place,” King said. McGrath has said he would be de- * lighted to appear before the subcommittee. Among other things, the investigators want to know why he approved Caudle’s acceptance of •a $5,000 fee in the sale of an airplane. Mitchell said Caudle had shown keen'lnterest from the beginning in the fax fraud case involving the. Gulf Coast Tobacco Co., of Mobile, Ala., Boykin's home city. Mitchell said Caudle never in(Turn To Pare TkrX) 2 Orders Roth Trial By Jury Tuesday / dverrules Motion For Continuance Judge Myles F. Parrish today overruled a motion by defense attorney Hubert McClenahan for a continuance of the cause of action of the state vs Kehneth Roth for jailbreak. A A i Instead, the case will be tried by a jury at 9 a.fn. Tuesday. McClenahan, in his motion, stated that the jailbreak was a later offense, that Roth should be tried first for first degree burglary, entering to commit a felony apd grand larceny, offenses which were set for jury trial .December 10. “This is like putting the horse before the cart—but putting the horse in backwards,” McClenahan said. He continued tht(t should Roth be tried first for the safe btirglary charges,' then acquitted, the escape would have to be thrown out of court. . J-; Roth, apprehended last August for complicity in the theft of the safe from the Harold Barger residence, escaped from the Adams county jail last month. \ ' . At the time, he gained freedom for less than an hour, and was returned to the local jail. Immediately after, the charge of jailbreak was levelled against Roth, and McClenahan made his apearance last Friday as his attorney. \ McClenahan cited that as another reason for requesting the continuance: he has not had ample time to prepare his case.

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. UN Negotiators Seek To Clarify Proposal By Reds — Gathering Data On Prisoners ranmunjom. Dec. ?. — (UP)- -The Communists broke (he Korean armistice deadlock today by agreeing to a total arms freeze ' and proposing that "neutral” inspectors come behind the iron curtain to enforce it. It marked the first time that, the Communists a/nywhere have accepted the principle of arms in- ( sneetion behind their borders or lines. But they phrased the concessions i in language that might end the t’. < S. army’s rotation program, prevent replacement of battleworh units and permit the Communists to complete new jet airfields. United Nations truce negotiators sought to clarify the Red proposal by posing 21 questions. Tbe Communists promised to answer them at the armistice meeting at 11 a. m. tomorrow (8 p m. today CST.) The replies may go a long way toward determining whether there I will bp an armistice in Korea by : Cnristmas. If the allies accept the Red pro- \ J gram, it will be turned over to a ‘ subcommittee to work out in de- ? tail. ’ , - However, the allies are particn- ’ larly anxious to know just (which "neutral nations” the Comniunists • have in mind to police the irifce.* In Communist eyes, both /Russia and China are neutral. So alho are lied Czechoslovakia, Poland' apd the Balkan countries. On the other / hand, most other UN members aVe involved in the war oh the allied side. /■/< The Communist compromise offer nevertheless marked the biggest step toward an armistice since both sides agreed last Tuesday that the cease-fire line shall / he along the present battleline If the rest of the truce terms can be settled by Dec. 27. North Korean Gen. Nam 11, chief Communist negotiator, pur the pro- \ pdsal before the allies at the beginning of the' afternoon session in the form of two additions to the five-point program he introduced last Tuesday. i It was a complete reversal of the Communist stand. Previously, the Reds had adamantly refused to' ' - consider any arms freeze or inspection' behind their lines on grounds it /constituted interference in North Korean affairs. Data On Prisoners Panmunjom, Korea, Dec. 3 — (U£)—The Communists are gathering data oh allied war prisoners they hold in preparation for a mass exchange of prisoners if a Korean armistice -agreement is signed, a Communist correspondent today. The United Nations command truce team asked the Communists on Nov. 2V to start gathering facts on the prisoners in preparation for negotiations on the question of exchange. The Reds have not yet men|ioned the subject in the truce talks here. But Wilffed Bprchett, correspondent for the Paris Lefitst newspaper Ce Spir who is reporting the talks from the Communist side, spid today the Reds had tak- I en the first steps) toward an eventual exchange. . . M«1» Nflht Tll