Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 285.

141 ARE KILLED IN VOLCANIC ERUPTION

Propose Talks On Exchanging War Prisoners I z % United Nations In * Proposal Talks Be Launched At pnce T'anmunjom. Korea, 'Wednesday, De'e/B — (UP) -r-- The Communist truce negotiators may reply today to a United Nations proposal that talks toj arrange the exchange of prisoners of war as part of a Korean armistice be started immediately. The . ( UN command, delegates mar|,e the proposal yesterday. They suggested that a sub-committee'be " named, to start negotiations on item four, off the truce conference program—ltito question of . ers—while another sub-committee continued negotiations bn enforcement of armistice’terms. The fate of thousands of missing Americans‘is at sltake. The Red reply may be given at a meeting set for 11 a. m. today <8 p. m. Tuesday CST.) At yesterday’s meeting the ComI munists demanded that the United States stop its troop rotation program in Korea during an armistice. The Reda offered to let the present American troons dn Korea, go t< Japan temporarily on “rest.and. relaxation" leaves, but- banned • their replacement by fresh soldiers. _ . w Communist truce delegates went into details of their proposals for a total arms and troop freeze with “neutral” inspection at a meeting of a subcommittee, ,to which the full truce teams entrusted the Red program. The “gimmicks” in the enemy proposals became clearer as the Communists gave nine answers to the 21 questions posed by _the' allies yesterday. Seeking further clarification, the two UN representatives on the subcommittee gav^the Reds a new series of questions just before the meeting adjourned for the day. .LU’’ A Communist liaison officer will deliver the answers in writing to an allied officer at Panmunjom at 11 a. m. Wednesday (8 pL m. CST). The allies will study them and go to the subcommittee meeting at 1 p. m. (10 p. m. today CST) prepared to discuss them. • Is their replies so far, the Com munists made these points: : ' 1. AH rotation and replacement c f troops during an armistice is “impermissible.” " .■> ’ 2. introduction of new or replacement of wrapt)ns, including ~ -aircraft, is ‘-‘impermissible.’’ 3. There shall be no ban bn building of any kind during an armistice, especially on the building of airports.' 4. The armistice commission shall decide wthat ‘ ports of entry" stMll be inspected by neutral observer teams behind the * respective lines and the “same kind of representatives shall conduct the same kind of inspection on both sides.” ? - i • 5. The proposed neutral super-’ visory organization shafl decide whether to send neutral inspection teams on flying trips aroundKorea or station teams peripan(Twm To Pace Six) i■■ • . Jurors Sought For 1 Kenneth Roth Trial p Members of a petit jury to hear the case of the state of Indiana vs Kenneth Roth were being selected in the Adams circuit court to- • day, the first day; of the trial for l._ jailbreak. Lath today prosecutor 'attorney Severin Schurger for the state was interrogating prosper- ; five jurors; Hubert McClenahan, Attorney for the defendant, questioned those called to serve on the jury. Roth is charged with breaking out of the- Adams county jail late Oi.e night early last month, gaining freedom for less than an hour. He broke from the eell block • after being placed there last August; for bis alleged pant in the theft of a' safe from the Harold ’Barger home. INDIANA WEATHfeR Fair and cooler tonight, Wed- ■' netday increasing cloudiness and mild followed by showered Low tonight 35 to 40 north, 28 to 42 south. High Wednesday 52 to 58 north, 58 to 64 south.

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Six Leave Today For Armed Service Six Adams ebunty young men left Decatur tiiily this morning for Indianapolis and induction into the armed forces. Five of the departing men aie married, according to the list released by the Adams county selective service board. Included in the group werA Donald Richard Ftgley. John Henry Poorman, Lenard Janies Steffen, Howard Dale Keith Bernard Schnepp. all of whom are married, and Daniel Franklin Herman. None of inductees has children. - The local selective service board also announced last week that a calLfor 29 Adams county youths to take pre-induction physical examinations Thursday. United Nations To Debate On German Unity Russians Reject Invitation For Eastern Germany Paris. Dec. 4—(UP)—The United Nations voted today to invite Loth East and West Germany to send envoys here for debate on German unification, but Russia rejected the invitation in advance for the Communist-controlled eastern zone. The proposal, backed by the western powers and presented formally In a resolution by Pakistan. Was approved with 50 votes for, six against and one abstention. The yfrte followed Soviet delegate Jacob A .Malik’s rejection both of the invitation move and ;a western proposal to send a neutral survey team to all parts of Germany to see df conditions are ripe for genuine free elections to unify the nation. *- The five-nation Soviet bloc was joined by Israel in opposing the debate proposal. Burma abstained. Immediately after the vote, American delegate John Sherihan Cooper said the west believes a UN survey of Germany's free-elec-ilon possibilities is needed to nmVe sure Germans will be- able to vote “without fear of intimidation or reprisal.” • Cooper charged that the history of Soviet-occupied East Germany is one of repression of freedam. is one of repression of. freedom, •accept the survey scheme. In view of Malik’s declaration., it seemed certain that only West Germany will take advantage of the chance for a UN hearing. The western plan for a survey of free-elect ion possibilities appeared assured’ of adoption. but it could scarcely be carried out against Red opposition. fc Malik argued that German affairs ate the exclusive concern of the four occupying powers, ’and that the UN has no business meddling in llihm. He insisted that the UN special political committee debate the whole German question first. i-X ‘ , .1 G.E. Club Christmas Party December 15 Entertain Children Os Employes Here ' The Decatur G.E. club will have its annual Christmas party for employes children Saturday, December 15, at 10 a.m. in the Aijams theatre, George Roop, president; Announced this week. Tickets, available free of charge, may be secured from foremen op at the Decatur G-E Club, The usual rule of admitting only children of employes will be in effect, Dick Steele, chairman of the party stated. Steele asked that parents should accompany | only very small children, so that the theater can accommodate everyone who wishes to attend. Children up to 12 years of age will be welcome at the party. The hour-long program will include a Christmas movie and selected shorts; Santa Claus will give treats to the children at the close of the movie. The committee, assisting Steele with the arrangements are Rosemary Miller, Harriet Pollock. J.J. Baker, George Cramer and Jay Moser. ~ |

22 Killed In Series Os Air j Crashes In U S. -A •, Six Plane Crashes Across Nation Take Lives Os 22 Persons By. United Press A United Air Lines DC-3 training p ane crashed and killed three persons near Denver today only 10 railes from yesterday’s B-29 wreck, and raised to 22 the total dead in a series of six plane crashes across the nation. The DC-3 cargo plane, carrying a pilot and two students, crashed ir an open field on the Rocky Mountain arsenal reservation seven railes northeast of Denver. The scene was 10 miles from thfe lesidential district where an air force B-2'9 attempting an emergency landing smashed into a row of houses, killing eight airmen and injuring six other crewmen, find a woman and a fireman. > The DC-3 had taken off from Denver's Stapleton airport on a "raining flight. Fire fighting equipment was sent to the scene from the arsenal, but no fire broke cut. y J. M. Weart, a construction company employe, said the big cargo plane was flying at only 500 feet V hen it went into a spin add crashed. Wreckage was strewn for 300 feet. , At. Evansville. Ind., three airmen were killed when their C-45 s air force plane crashed with a noise described by witnesses as resembling a dynamite blast. \ The crash occurred last sight during a rain and wind storm. Officers at Scott atr force bake, 111., where the plane was balled, said all three men aboard were killed. Residents heard the plane flying over the north edge of Evansville and said the pilot may have been hunting a place to land. The' plane plunged into a field about 10 miles north of Evansville. Although many persons heard the crash, about 100 farmers (Tarn To Page Eight) Stale Os Emergency Proclaimed In Egypt 116 Dead, Wounded In Latest Clashes Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 4.—(UP)— Ejp"ptian police tired over the heads of rioting students here today and the government proclaimed a state of national emergency after BritishEgyptian clashes in the canal zone yesterday in which- 116 persons were killed or wounded. More than 5,000 university students, led by their professors, surged through the demanding armi to fight the British and yelling “blood for blood” and “Egypt will avenge her martyrs.” Two thousand students massed outside parliament and nearby government departments, shouting “we want arms.” Police fired over their heads to keep them out of the Khedive Ismail Square in the heart of .the city. , !\ ■. Other police fired over the heads of 3,000 students, some of whom shot pistol bullets into the air, who paraded in military formation at Fuad El-Awal University, shouting against the British. Latest announcements of casualties in yesterday’s bloody clashes in the Suez Canal zone gave a total of 30 killed and Bf> wounded. The breakdown according to official Egyptian and BritLsh figures was: killed, 19 Egyptians and 11 British commonwealth troops; wounded, 78 Egyptians and 8 British commonwealth personnel. Anti-British student demonstrations spread through Egypt. The Cairo demonstrators also shouted anti-government slogans. They charged the government had remained “inactive” in face of aggression by British troops, r In Aexandria, hundreds of students' swarmed through the streets, shooting, “we want revenge- Give us arms. Let’s drive the\ British into the sea.” In Suez, British troops in Bren gun carriers guarded strategic, points after the heaviest fighting in the two-month-old Suez Canal- zone crisis. ’ \ 4

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 4. 1951.

Homecoming Qi if A asJusHMK ''-jwi'u..... Miss Joanne Braun b- ' -’.\ 'V - ' ." V 1 I IE Wj: - MS 1 wj E El * Miss Vera Galmer i . ,>4- :/ .• r. VH’ " ' • The Commodot e-Ossian game January 24 has been selected by the Commodore Booster club as the “homecoming game.” This is the first, time a homecomizg,party has been planned since the Decatur Catholic high school vrfas completed 25 years ago. A good attendance of the alumni is expected at this game and at the party after the game. The homecoming queen’ Will be crowned during the half-time intermission by the president. of the Booster club, Bob Bolinger; \ ♦ Each class, freshman, sophomore. junior \ and senior, has selected a candidate from its membership to be voted for queen. To stimulate attendance at the home games, each admission is entitled to one vote at the December 11, Commissioners In Study Os Contracts Some Contracts Are Awarded By Board Members of the board of county’ commissioners late today were concluding all contract awards to end their two-day meeting. \ Still to be awarded were contracts for gasoline, oil, tires and tubes for the highway department. Other highwajr department were earlier awarded in most instances. However, there were no bidders for reinforced concrete, pipe, glazr ed sewer pipe and Portland cement. The contract for white oak bridge planks was not awarded, the only bid was rejected as too high, and commissioners decided to buy on the open market. During the Monday afternoon session, commissioners awarded the printing and office supplies' contract to the Haywood Publishing company, of Lafayette, the only bidder on all five classes of supplies. These (items are to be used by ►he different county- governmentaloffices. The stone bid for the county was ‘ split between the John W, Karsh Stone company and Meshberger Brothers, when their bids fcr higher grades tfas identical, and only a nickel per ton separated Ahem on the other items. For sizes 11, 12. and screened stone, both bid 31.30 per ton;, for thst rest. Karsh bld 31.25, Meshberger 3L20. Commissioners decided that the stone would be bought from the (Tara To Pane Six)

ueen Candidates ■ j; A sis • ie* : v 4 , ; i iHHaBBHBBBBBBBBHKt * Miss Charm Wine Des Jean bB BE» » W yr # f M ''' WWIiSSRIIr BMSMm. rho~ - wt W^W'P MJm June Kelley \ : - Photos by Tom Brittle 19, and January 17 Commodore home games. ' The queen candidates selected are: Miss Joanne Braun, daughter of Mr t and Mrs. Lawrence Braun? Miss • DesJean.- daughter of Mrs. Florence DesJe'an; Miss Vera Geimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Geimer; and Miss June Kelly, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Richards. 1 ? The runners up will serve as atto the queen at the coronation and when an appropriate trophy is awarded to the queen at the homecoming party. The graduating class of any year since the high school has been completed that is best represented (by percentage) will be honored at the home-coming party. .The high school students will be guests of the Booster club. Good Fellows Club Delta Theta Tau Sorority SIOO.OO Delta Theta Tau Aluipnae 5.00 American Leribn-j. 10.00 Beta'Sigma Phi-Delta Lambda ~ 5.00 Holy Family Study Club—.. 10.00 Herman Meyer — 1.00 The Fifth St. - 1.00 A Friend 2.00 TOTAL L—— $134.00 : • .— — T • Stephenson Gives Up Extradition Fight To Return Jo State On Parole Violation Minneapolis. Minn., Dec. 4—(UP) —Farmer Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader D. C. Stephenson said today he has decided tp give up his fight against extradition to Indiana on fearole violation charges. “I’m done fighting. I intend to return to Indiana and let justice take its course,” said the pudgy Stephenson, once a political power -hr Indiana. His decision was made today ' after a conference between Stephenson. Hennepin county assistant attorney Otto Morck and Stephen,soi|’B lawyer, Frank J. Warner. Indiana authorities will pick Stephenson up Friday morning and return him to Indiana by train. VVarner said Stephenson “made the decision to discontinue his fight because everything hds been done here that could be done.’* Stephenson indicated, however, •that ne might appeal to the Indiana court for freedom once he has been returned to Indiana state peni- , (Tens To Page fix)

Island In Philippines Rocked By Eruption Os Volcanic Hibok Hibok

Demands Release Os Airmen By Hungary U.S. Demands Four Airmen Be Released Washington, y Dec. 4. —(UP)'— The United States today demanded that Hungary release four American airmen whose plane was forced down in Hungary by Russian planes Nov. 19. State department press officer Lincoln White said George Abbott, U.S. charge at Budapest made the demand orally to the Hungarian foqpign Office. . Li ‘White' said Abbott “has been in constant touch with the Hungarian foreign office’* since Tass, the Russian news agency, announced Sunday night that the transport plane had been forced down. The plane, a 047. was forced down whil4 on a flight from Munich. Germany, to Yugoslavia with supplies for the U.S. embassy at Belgrade. White said U.S. demands thus, far have been oral, but that a formal note “undoubtedly” will be dispatched to Hungary now thit the United States has official written notification of the seizure. White could not say yet whether f the United States also will file a protest with Russia. White said Abbott made the demands to Hungarian foreign under-\ secretary , Andor Beret. So far, White said. Berei has agreed only to forward the demands to higher officials. . A protest to Russia is considered a distinct possibility because Rus. sian fighter planes forced the C-47 to land and Tass, an official Soviet prganization, first disclosed the incident. Tass had charged that the plane was prepared and equipped to drop spies and saboteurs behind the iron curtain. • The department) said it now hast received a 3,oo(Mv’ord note which', Hungary sent befdre the plane incident. \ ■ •The note accuses the United (Tv-n To P*«re Elgfct) A ■ ■*'* ■. |A * George Auer Named New Plant Manager Farmer Decatur Man Tq Linton GE Plant ■ George Auer, formerly of this city and since 1946 manager of the General Electric plant at Tiffip. Ohio, will become manager of a new G> E. plant at Linton, Ihd., It was announced today. ; . Harold E. Boles, superintendent of Hermetic motor manufacturing at the Fort Wayne G. E. plant, will succeed Auer at Tiffin. Eldon J . Vosburgh will succeed Mr. Boles fin the Fort Wayne assignment. , , Announcement of Auer’s appointment and fyuilding of a new G. E. plant at Lipton wks made, by M. E. Lord, general manager of the fractional horsepower motor department, Fort Wayney Concerning the new plant, Lord explained, “The General Electric company, having completed purchase of property in Linton, is now planning to build a branch plant to manufacture fractional horsepower motors and to provide for long-term expansion; but it is not expected to reduce employment in existing facilities.: “The need for specialized fractional horsepower ipotors to > fill government contracts has increased at such a rate that it has become necessary to establish additional facilities. ' “Construction of the new plant will start as soon as the contractor can move on the site, and the beginning of production is dependent upon the approve! of the various stages of our application fdr construction materials with the national production administration. The plant will be 'a General Elec-; trie owned facility.” , The Auers lived here from 1936 (Tant* T® Page

U.S., British Marines Land Behind Lines Cut North Koreans' . Link To Vladivostok During Daring Raid \ Sth Army Headquarters, Korea, Dec. 4.—(UP)—U.S. and British marines cut North Korea** main link Mfith Vladivostok at least temporarily Sunday night , in a daring 1 raid 125 miles behind ' enemy lines, the navy disclosed to day. The fighting leathernecks waded ashore under a hail of! Communist machine-gun fire and grenades near Tanchon, 20 miles squth of Songjim and 155 miles from the Soviet Siberian fyontie|r. They blasted railway lines and a railw’ay tunnel on the main east coast line _ over which pass supplies from Manchuria and ; the big Soviet base of Vladivostok. The raiders left “a wake of Communist dead” behind them, the navy said. ; The navy also confirmed that 1.000 Communist troops two nights earlier had recaptured three small islands off the mouth of the Yalu river and only 30 ip 35 miles from the Manchurian frontier oh the opposite side of Kdrea. some of the South Koreah garispn escaped in junks, -but the, rest were believed captured by the Communists, who swarmed ashore from a ragtag invasion fleet of canoes, canvas boats, sampans and: towed barges. The Communists claimed to have killed or wounded 400 UN troops in taking the islands. > On the mhih Korean fighting front, the only ’ activity reported by the Bth army was three Communist squad-sized \probing attacks. A communique said all three —tw-o southwest of Kiimsong on the central front and ou? northwest of punchbowl Valley in the east —were repulsed. i Temperatures plunged cOlse to zero at the eastern end of thp |45mild front, but were higher in the west. ' X More Buy Gambling Tax Stamps In Stale Lake County Arrests Purchasers Os Stamps Indianapolis, Dec. i 4 —(UP|— The name's of an additional 108 persons who purchased* thS new federal gambling tax stamps were released by internal revenue bureau officials today, dnd first reports indicated local authorities would keep an eagle eye on stamp purchasers. The new names listed persons who bought the stamps at district offices with South Bend leading sales at 17. Ten Michigan City , purchasers were listed and seven Terre Haute. ; - -f ■ Lake" county, meanwhile, already had arrested stamp purchasers there and Evansville police said they would keep a close check on purchasers to see wotpd be no gambling., . )i. ';. ’ Lt. Don Zirkelbach oti the Evansville vice squad, said officers searched two places yesterday where stamps had been bought but found no- evidence of gambling. He said one purchaser told him he bought “a permit but didn’t know what he would do with it.” At Indianapolis, prosecutor Frank Fairchild said the stamps will give his office a chance to “make better search waffants.” However, Fairchild said possession is not evidence the owner is a gambler. Fifteen Lak& county persons were named on the first list of purchasers released by revenue officials, (Tent To Pag* Six)

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Ji ■ ■;■ -i - j Witnesses Assert - Eruption Appeared Like Atom Blast Three Miles High Manila, Philippines, Wednesday, Dec. S—(UP) —Red Cross officials announced early today that 141 charred bodies had been recovered on Camigain Island after volcanic Mount Hibok Hibok erupted. Witnesses, said the 4 eruption looked a “like an atom blast three miles ' high.” • The volcano erupted again late last night ; and officials feared that the casualty list? would rise even higher, < J > Rescue parties fought through, blinding volcanic ash, dust and heat to reach victims near the mountain’s base. AU the burned bodies recovered were dug from heaps of hot ash and rock fragments thrown out in the first eruption yesterday. At least 20 persons were injured seriously. The governor of the area where Hibok Hibok is located estihiated that 80 percent of one town was wiped out and that the “wholt* population” of another was destroyed. c V * Navy ships have been alerted for possible evacuation of, the tiny island’s 65,599 inhabitants. and commercial vessels were askedytq stand by to help if needed. President Elpidio Quirino ordered evacuation, if necessary, after Receiving an’ urgent message from Gov. Paciencio Ysaiina of M tea mis oriental province; which includes Camiguin. , 1 - Ysalina said the island’s principal town at the foot of the volcatio, was hardest hit by the eruption. This is the third violent eruption of Hibok-Hibok in three years. In September, 1948, 29.00® persons were evacuated following an erup- V tion but there was only one death, according to Red Cross records. The volcano, erupted violently again in September, 1950, causing 90 deaths. A weather observer at Camiguin island said today’s eruption was worse than the last one. He wired Manila that an area of three to four square miles, including five Jowns, had, been devastated and said “several hundred victims are predicted.” Government geophysicists said the volcano; was not spouting lava 5 but was throwing out a heavy stream of ashes and rock frag-, ments. They said most casualties were due to asphyxiation, burning, being struck by falling rocks or crushed in homes wrecked by them. The captain, of a vessel sailing near the island reported a column (Tori To Pare 9ix» Tope Is Reappointed To Beverage Board Groce Tope, route 3, was reappointed ' as the county commember of the county alcoholic beverage board today. Tope will serve on the board with John Blakey, of route 5. recently appointed by the county council, and Ed Warren, Mayor Doan’s appointee. Also to appear before the commissioners today were Mrs. Ralph Stanley. Mrs. Wilbur Stanley Mrs. Hiram Wittwer and Mrs. Paul Rich, representatives of the roadside council, who permission from commissioners to begin plans for the creation of another park within the city lifnits. ■TpMK 1. ■ Ji M»l|k Hjk» Tl