Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX, No 286.

NATHAN DENIES ANY HUGE TAX SHAKEDOWN

-A Reds Suggest Five Nations As Observers List Five Nations’ i. As Acceptable For i Truce Observers Panmunjom, Korea. Dec. 5 — -‘I (UP)—The Communists suggested two~ Communist and three nonCbmmunist countries today to supply “neutral observers’* (or a Korean armistice. Red representatives told UN delegates in a subcommittee meeting that observers from Denmark. Sweden, Switzerland and Commun--Ist Poland and Czechoslovakia would be acceptable to them. The Comntunists said there would be “no boss’* of the inspection group “except the terms of Jhe armistice itself.’* UN briefing, officer Lt. Col. Howrad & Levie reported. The naming by the Communists of five nations acceptable to them as “neutrals” was one of the few positive developments in a day of mapy UN questions and few Communist answers. t - ’* The Communists had suggested that observers from neutral states visit entry" behind both lines to see that neither side brought in fresh troops or supplies during* an armistice. '[ Until .today, however, the Reds had refused to name the countries they considered “neutral” and thereby eligible to supply observers. There seemed some question whether the UN would accept er Communist .Poland or Czechoslovakia as truly “neutral" in ■ the Korean war. The 1 ‘Communists still refused to . clarify what they mean by “ports of entry’’—whether these would include airports and NortluKorea’s rail erpsstngs“lnto Manchuria and Siberia- in addition iRU North Korean seaports, j j They * also proved slippery on other technical ’ questions about their program. J Blazing Air Battles r. Bth Army Headquarters, Korea. Dec. s—(UP)—United5 —(UP)—United Nations jet planes destroyed or damaged 10 Russian-made jets today in a series of blazing battles over North Korea. .••••. Five Red planes were destroyed and five damaged. No damage to any UN plane was reported by the sth air force .In Wednesday’s fighting. • It was the loth straight day of deadly jet-to-jet - battles, in which UN pilots had fought the Russianmade MIG-15- jets at great odds and won. While the air war raged and a lull continued along the 145-mile front. United States and British marine commandos raided the 1 . rorth-eastim Korean coast for th.e secong straight night Monday, the American navy announced. The combined force waded ashore from landing boats below’ Songjin. 140 miles from the Siberian border, for another attack on North ,Korea’s main rail link with the Russian far eastern base of Vladivostok. A United States sth air force briefing officer said that a total of 232 Communist MIG jet planes / were sighted over North Korea today. ; Auto License Bureau To Be Closed Friday The Decatur branch of the auto license bureau win be closed all day Friday. Mrs. Dale Death announced today. Mrs. Death will attend a one-day instruction session at Huntington. The conference was called. Mrs. Death said, by state officials to inthe bureau managers concerning issuance of 1952 auto license plates. D - p Six Are Overcome By Stove Fumes I Indianapolis, Dec. 5.*-tHJP) — Six persons were overcome by gas fumes from a coal stove today but f only one was taken to a hospital. Officials at General hospital said Jane Collins, 29, was fair condition. zPolice treated the other five at \- home. They were Herschel Griffin. 38; Steven Griffin, six; Frankfn Griffin, four; Linda Fay Collins, eight, and Linda Collins/five,

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State Senate Cost Taxpayers $40,000 -»■? Indianapolis, Dec. 5.—(UP) — Secretary of State* Leland Smith announced today it cost Indiana taxpayers almost $40.00h to oper-afe-Jhe state senate during the rer6nt special legislative session. / Expenses listed in the senate journal were $£5,943, which did nbt include 113,970 which senators received at the rate of $)5 a s day fo# each day they -attended the session. The'fotal expense -was ■- T Expenses of the Indiana house I of representatives will be filed later. —— Decatur Fair To Be Held At ' - ' ■' ■ A ' ' '■ Hanna-Nuttman 1952 Fair Dates Os . August 25-30 Set J By Decatur Board J ■ ’ -= ■ | [ . ’ .Tfie Decatur free fair and agricultural exposition, formerly the: DecAtur free street fair, will be held In 1952 on August 25 to 36'.-, irfclusive, at Hanna-Nuttman park at the northwest edge of the Clts t ' . ? The dates were set Tuesday by the .-Decatur free fair board, which indjides the directors of the Chamber of Commerce and executive; manager Walter, Ford. Ford willalso act as secretary of the fair. • ' r During the last two', years considerable money has been spent jointly by the city] and the fair boaiidi jin conditioning the area for af<tr. Tlie 1951 fair was cancelled be causa? the grounds were not completely ready. The last fair, held in Decatur ’ was the 1950 street] fair heldlin the uptown section of the cityJ The move to Hanna-Nutman park?; will’ mark the end of streejt in becatur. / A ‘.large parking area has been set aside at the park at the en trance, just west of US road 27.\ The|e will be a double midway straight west from the entrance and j several acres <jf ground havq beet) set aside for exhibit tents and j buildings. Rfest rooms have been erected and- r the city light lines have been extended throughout the area Roads have been hard-surfaced. The last week in August will be made the permanent dates for the Decatur fair in the future, it was pointed out by secretary Ford\ Formerly the street fgirs were held in July, but the later date ir was adopted because it was believed it would make the affair more attractive to farm and garden exhibits. 1 Complete details and appointment of committees will be announced soon, Ford Indicated. ■. I. ■. ■, 1i- / 1 • ,i ■ Bilskie Speaker At Lions Club Meeting Decatur Club National Blind Week Charles Bilskie. Fort Wayne, was 1 *hc principal speaker at the Deca--1 tur Lions club meeting Tuesday night as that organization joined Lions clubs throughout the nation 1 In observance of national blind week. Bilskie. who has the lunch concession at? the Fort Wayne federal building, was blinded eight years ago. He brought his seeing-eye . dog with him and told members a brief history of the dog. T s he guest speaker also told of taking a-training course with the dog and also gave a demonstration of how the dog helped him get arduhd barriers. yClyde .Butler, who recently returned from a trip with Mrs. ButI ler . td Honolulu, presented mem- ■ hers with otchids for their wives. The local club will give its an- ■ nugl Christmas party for members' children Tuesday night, i .December 18. Last night’s program was arranged by Dr. N. A. Bixler.

—■ ■ I ■ i ■ i " : • i ii i ‘ ' '* Jkct To Protect 26,000,000 People In Four States 1, I / ii- >•"- < A ■ ■ "Hlw - f s ■ * 1 ' CIVIL DEFENSE representatives of four states examine equipment items at;a meeting in New York to discuss mutual assistance for their more than 26.b0U.U00 total populatkm. Th| four states! will attempt to establish similar protection methods. From left: Brig. Gen. William.fHgskeih. Connecticut; Leonard Dreyfuss, New Jersey; Lt. Gen. C. R. Huebner, New York; Wilfred Ti Uy*. Massachusetts.

Sheriff Office To Be Moved To Jail 1 Sheriffs Request i Approved By Board' ( The office of the Adams county ( sheriff will be moved from the second floor of the court house to . rhe jail on First ?treet. The ret quest Trom sheriff Robert Shraluka to make the move was approved by the county commissioners . Tuesday. The radio equipment will be moved immediately, but the radio tjwer will remain on the top of the court houser^erftt-ShcalUka appeared before the commissioners some time ago with tbe request, and afte? studying it for a month the request was granted. The Sheriff stated that this would make it possible for a man to be at the jail 24 hours a day; without the necessity of hiring another deputy. 1 The commissioners have not as- • signed the sheriff’s quarters in the court house to any official yet. 1 It is understood that in the event enother county health nurse is em- ■ ployed, these rooms will be used tor -that office. ~ ! The move to the jail,\ which will ‘ be completed within the next 10 1 days, will mark the first time that a sheriff has not had quarters in 1 the court house. For many years 1 the sheriffs office was located on the first floor, where the office of county surveyor is now located. k —-- : Contracts Are Let By Commissioners i .Two-Day Session Is Closed Here Tuesday The Adams county board of commissioners closed a busy two-day session late Tuesday by awarding several contracts and setting December 20 as the date for the final session of 1951. Bills and salaries will be allowed at the special session. / Petrie Oil Co. of Decatur was. awarded. the county tire and tube contract. There were three bidders and the Petrie concern was low’. -77’ Gasoline and oil were awarded to Sinclair of Decatur, that concern being the lowest of five bids. Diesel fuel went to Pearl Oil Co. of Berne; kerosene to Petrie Oil Co. and grease to Beavers Oil Co. of Decatur. Lubricating oil was awarded to D. and A. Lubricant Co. of Indianapolis. No bids were? received for repair and replacement parts foir county machinery. . The commissioners decided that replacement 1 parts should be purchased from the original sellers when possible. There were no bids on reinforcing steel, eye beam?, garage access series, calcium chloride and brick. Grader blades contracts were awarded to Indiana Equpiment Co. and Korte Brothers, both of Fort Wayne. ’ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional showers tonight and Thursday. Warmer tonight. Continued mild Thursday. Low tonight 3844, high Thursday 4854.

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—— Rescuers Brave Heat, Dust In Volcano Area Press Reports Say r - At Least 500 Dead From Volcano Blast Manila, Philippines. Dec. 5; —- (UP) —Rescue workers dug “hundreds” of bodies from piles or steaming rock and hot ashes at the foot of Mt. Hibok-Hibok today. Press reports said at least 500 persons died in the volcano’s two eruptions, but verified deaths totalled 169. Rescue teams -fought blinding ash heat and fumes to search for bodies in the area of three to four square miles covered by debris hurled out in the two eruptions. Red Cross officials in charge of operations refused' to give any casualty figures beyond the Verified dead. They said a provincial governor’s estimate that 2,000 persons may have,died was “too staggering.” ‘ ' (ABC correspondent Raymond Spencer-said in a broadcast that at least 2,000 persons were buried alive. He said voices of persona coud be heard screaming for help and added that an estimated 10,000 persons were endangered.) The volcano spewed no lava. But It blasted forth tons of fiery rock and thick ash, spraying it down upon five cities around the mountain. ■ | Most of the casualties were caused by falling rocks, or the collapse of flimsy dwellings under the weight of rocks and ash. Injuries were mostly severe burns although many suffered from acrid fumes -arising from the volcanic mass. Mambajao, the biggest of the five towns affected, was a silent city today, with most of its 25,000 inhabitants halving been evacuated in a night of terror and panic. Cititens, largely Catholic, knelt and prayed in the debris-strewn streets to offer thanks to St. Nicholas, the city’s patron saint, for having spared tpe city proper from the destruction spread through the suburbs. Then the civilians trudged or rode to safer areas, t Only rescue workers remained, weary from night-long digging into the hot rubble and ruined buildings in search of dead or . wounded, Authorities reported that calm had been restored to the stricken sone today after villagers overcame their first panic as Mt. Hibok-Hi-bok’s rumbllhgs Subsided. \ ? V Kenneth Roth Trial v Delayed To Thursday - f Judge Myles F. Parrish today temporarily recessed the jury sit ting in the case of the state vs. Kenneth Roth, charged with break ing jail, because of the illness of O. R. Moser of Magtey, one of the jurors. . \ . After a conference with the attending physician, Judge Parrish called in the 11 other jurors and excused them until Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, at -Which time the ease will continue. ,

: : ? Auto License Tags On Sale January 2 Tags To Be Used Wh 1951 Plates The;l9s2 automobile license tags will go on sale in Decatur January 2. 1952, Mrs. Dale Death, bureau manager, announced today. The 1952 tfgs will be one inch by eight inebew and will be' used with the 1951 mates. Thejnew tags are gold with black numbers and the 1952 tags will not (necessarily be the same as the 1951 numbirs. Adams county bode let•trrs, however, remain JA, JB and jc. r ' . ’ Lost 1951 plates must be replaced with | duplicates, because these numbers will be used to identify automobiles throughout next year. Mrs. Death explained. No will be sold unless the applicant presents his personal and pblt tax receipt or a statement signed by the county treasurer, Richafd Lewton, that no taxes are due. I|upiicateß of last fall tax receipts; can be obtained from the county treasurer. Mrs) Death also has requested that any persons desiring special numbers for 1952 should file application! now. The following requiremental were posted in the office, by Mrs. Death: You| must have your fall tax receipt. t ' You must have your application tor registration from the state. Brir>g your 1951 registration card. Be mire the 1951 license numbers on your automobile are correct. « I; ; ;- J p Decatur Ministers In Monthly Meeting ■Jii V ■ 7 The; monthly meeting of the Decatdr ministerial association was .Held Monday at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The present reported on the observance of Spanish-Ameri-can Sunday in the churches of the count#. Those churches which have not yet held their observance* and taken their offering are urged to do So as soon as they can. Each pastor’ was reminded that each youth 1 fellowship is to have a representative on “The Call” interchurch youth program. Plans were carried into execution for each of the churches to bring Its choir to sing one evening during. the Christmas rush shopping Reason on the lawn of the court house, the music to be amplified throughout the shopping district. | A complete schedule has been set up for the spiritual emphasis week program, in which all pastors of the city who cooperate, and the choirs of cooperating churches will have part in this important week of meetings. The peoplel of Decatur are v reminded that spiritual emphasis week 13 January 8-13, with Dr. Clyde MeadoUw as speaker. " Hi' ; i - Manjlt Killed When Traij Strikes Auto Shoals. Ind.. Dec. s.*— (UP)— A Baltimore and Ohio railroad diesel a car at a crossing here 7 list night, killing its occupant, George Wagoner, 38, Shoals.

— — - Gambler Denies Seeking Help From Caudle To Fix Halt-Million Shakedown

Growing Soviet Air Power Is Revealed Secret Warplane Is Spotted tn Europe London, Dec. 5. —(UP) — A Russian secret warplane has been spotted over northern Europe, apparently flying reconnaissance missions, the authoritative Janehj “all world’s aircraft” said today. The aviation annual also said that Russia has developed at least five new swept-wing fighter planes —probably capable of exceeding the speed of sound —in addition to type* like the meviously-idenjified n6w Dying for the Communists in Korea.. The 1951-52 edition of Jane’s, issued 10 years aftpr -the first successful jet flight in England, said Russia has moved d sizable jet f|ghter and fegmber force into East Germany and has seized virtual control of military and civil aviaJ tion in the east European Communist satellite countries. J The Soviet mystery plane spotted ! over northern Europe was reported ’ to be of a type manufactured in small numbers in 1948, and was believed to be driven by “rather * powerful” radla| engines. American military sources said strange unidentified planes also ' had been, picked up by radar in the Mediterranean area. They also ap- . pareritly were (lying reconnaissance * missions. The sources said they * travelled at high altitudes and at ’ speeds estimated well over 500 miles an hour. Jane’s said Russia had undter- ’ taken to equip Communist China with 1,000 modem warplanes, including jet craft, by the end of this year. ! The new volume offered a, grim picture of growing Spviet air power, ! but at the same time said the expanding American aviation Industry held “pride of place” in this edi-J tion. The publication indicated that the Russians may have switched priority from building up a range atom .striking! force to* defensive fighters in the face of growing American strategic air 1 power. ’ 1 Jane’s printed a photo and (Turn To Pa*e Richt) [ CIO Leader Speaks Here Last Evening Increased Political Action Is Planned An increased political action on the part of CIO officials and members is being conducted, according to state senator Leonard F. Conrad, of Haute, “for the express purpose of securing more beneficial legislation on the state and national level for the working people in general.” Conrad, in a speech at the Elks home Tuesday, added that workers’ rights are becoming more clearly defined each year. It is with something more than definition, however, the speaker said, that the political action committee is concerned. The speaker 'is the president of the Brewery Workers’ Local Union No. 85 (CIO), of Terre Haute. A ( member of the recent legislature, Conrad pointed out that the regular session’s bill opening public wel-, fare records to inspection came perilously close to losing (20 million for the state. The welfare law itself, Conrad pointed out, was passed in 1936 to conform with the social security action of the federal government, ai)d a part of the general pattern. ‘‘lt seems to me," donrad said, “that if this pattern is to be broken, it should be by the federal government, not by the state. If the social benefits in the state are contingent upon national ' aid, then changes should, I think, come from our national congress.” He pointed up the fact that the purpose of political action should be to procure and maintain benefits, not subdue them. f \

Archbishop Os Yugoslavia Is Freed By Tito Immediate Release Os Alois Stepinac Is Ordered By Tito Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Dec. 5. — Tito ordered today the immediate release from prison archbishop Alois Stepinac, leader of Yugoslavia’s 7,005000 Catholics, prison officials announced. i 'I Yugoslav officials went to the Leppglava prison near Zagreb at 2:S(| p.m. (8:30 a.m. EST), to arrange the release. | The Roman Catholic prelate has beeh in prison since he was sentenced in October, 1946, to a 161 year term after being convicted by a Yugoslav court pf rwartime collar boration with the o Germans. Tito’s government had said cently that the archbishop was to be (reed in December and officials indicated that it would be a conditional release barring him from resuming his role as head of the 1 Catholic church in Yugoslavia. ’ In July. Vojslav Varnava Nastic, >7» ! U.S. born officiating Serbian ! Orthodox Bishop of Sabhjeva, was fre«id from jail after three years of imprisonment only after it was agreed that he would give up his functions as leader of the Orthodox chufch. Nastic had been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in 1948 on charges of conspiracy against the state. Rtanan Catholic Bishop Peter Cule of Mostar, also sentenced in 1948 to 11 years in jail on a variety of Criminal charges, was freed in Otftdber, 1959, under terms which ! required him to return to his birthplace instead of to his Mostar diocese. Sihce archbishop Stepinac was sentenced, there have been frequent reports of negotiations between Belgrade and the Vatican for his release. Yugoslav officials said several > times that they had offered to freb him if he would enter a monastery and give up his functions as archbishop. The Vatican rejected such offers and stated publicly that the archbishop/could not be stripped of functions .by the government. Archbishop Stepinac’s 1946 trial in Zagreb lasted two weeks. He was accused of collaborating with (Turn Ta Page Five) ] ‘P J p, / Brief Session Held By City Councilmen Two Contracts Are i Approved Tuesday City councilmen, in a brief business meeting Tuesday—the next-to-last Regular session for four of the members Incidentally—referred three petitions to proper committees, and approved two contracts, one of them for power line extension to the Arthur Kruedkeberg residence In Union township. v The other contract was between the city and Yost Construction company for the ? erection of the auxiliary power plant Yost’s bid was lowest of four received recently for the building which will house the diesel power plant for the city. The contract calls for completion "Within 360 days. Petitions for street lights were received from Mr. and Mrs- Ray Bodie and 12 others for w light in the 900 block ot North Tenth street; from Ed Keller and seven others for a tight on the south side of Monroe street between Eleventh abd Twelfth streets, and for one on the West side of Line street between Dorwin and Reiter signed by Harrison Hakes and six others. All petitions were referred to the electric light committee in conjunction with the light department superintendent. ’• ' 4 • ! P- d ; »•’ • iJ |

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Chairman Os House Subcommittee Hits At Caudle-Nathan Friendship In BULLETIN \ Washington, Dec. 5—(UP) — : Charles Oliphant, chief counsel ' of the bureau of internal revenue, resigned today and said President Truman has accepted his resignation. Washington, Dec. 5. -A-(UP) — Frank Nathan, gambler and in-fluence-peddling friend of T. Lamar Caudle, said jtoday a “lot of people” came to hint with tax troubles but he peter asked the ousted assistant attorney general for help. However, chairman Cecil R. king (D-Cal.) of the hbuse ways and means subcommittee investigating tax scandals blasted the CaudleNathan friendship and indirectly blamed it for leading to the story of an alleged attempted $500,009 shakedown in a tax case. Abraham Teitelbaum, one-time attorney for the late Al Capone, testified yesterday that Nathan and Nathan’s partner, Bert K. Naster, offered to fix his tax case for $500,000. | j Teitelbaum said Nathan and Natter claimed to have Caußle and Charles Oliphant, chief counsel of the internal revenue bureau, in “their vest pockets.” He said they said he would go to jail unless he came across. When Nathan was dsked today about the people Who came to him with their tax problems, he said that he would “cut thetn.phort" and tell them “to go see a lawye|.” . Asked why they would eoifte to him, Nathan replied: ! \ “They probably thought I could ■get them some help from Mr. Caudle. “But I never asked Mr. Caudle for no help in no tax case at no time.” Teitelbaum had said that Nathan named Caudle, Oliphant, general services administrator Jess Larson and two\ former internal revenue commissioners—Georg© J. Schoeneman and Joseph D. Nunafi Jr., —as members of a Washington .‘‘clique” as men who were, looking foir a “soft touch.” . King opened today’s hearing with a statement clearing the government officials of being involved in any tax shakedown. He said that since there was no such direct evidence “we assume they did not” anything to do with fixing cases. AU have denied the charges. But before the subcommittee recessed for lunch, it. did not get around (o asking Nathan the $500,000 question—whether he was a participant in the alleged shakedown, attempt as alleged by Teitelbaum. . 1 King’s criticism of Caudle was severe. He also took a swipe at Larson although he pointed out that Larson had recognized Nathan as an influence peddler and listed him as “a suspicious character” on the records of war assets administration three years ago. King, said that although l^arson. saw as early as 1948 what Nathan was up to, Nathan somehow “succeeded in having Mr. Larson occufiy his hotel room in ,!New York, for whicfflie paid in the first instance.” Larson conceded -that he held at least 60 telephone conservations with Nathan after he put Nathan on his suspect list. During that time; King said, Nathan got $87,000 in fees from war asset administration dealings” to which he contributed neither talentj nor mdney.” ,JOM , SL££T Ul| ~| »l l< a • X- 1-