Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 287.

RfflS REJECT PRISONER EXCHANGE TALKS

Testifies To Buying Plane “ Through Caudle Knohl Says Plane Purchase Held No "• Bearing On Case Washington, Dec. 6 —(UP) — Larry Knohl, Long Beach, NX„ businessman who once bought a $30,000 airplane through then assistant attorney general T. Lamar Xlaudle, testified today this had nothing to do with a tax caseJn which he was interested. ' He also said he knew nothing about the fact that Caudle got a $5,000 commission on the sale. • Members of a house ways and means subcommittee investigating tax scandals expressed amazement that he should go to an assistant attorney general to buy plane rather than to airplane dealers. Knohl replied?' 'that is very simple." t He said Caudle, since ousted ‘by President Truman for his “outside activities,’ ’had run into him in the Mayflower hotel bar and asked him what he was doing in Washington. Knohl said he' was looking for an airplane to buy. Caudle said he knew of one for sale, y : Although he didn’t buy the first plane recommended to him by Caudle, which one of Caudle’s friends wanted to sell, he told the justice department official to look > out for another one. ?. Subsequently he called Caudle from Kansas —or maybe Chicago, he said, and. got-a line on another plane which turned out to be; a bargain. -He bought it, still usee k in his oil business, and since has been offered as much as fl CM),000 for it. he said. Caudle pocketed” a fs.ooo.fee tor the seller. The committee is investigating government tax scandals in gem eral and the-activities of Caudle in particular. It had been told earlier that Caudle, prior to the airplane purchase, intervened three times to get .the trial of Knohl’s friends postponed, and that shortly after he picked up his commission on the sale, his assistant advised the U.B. (Tara T» Piute Slx> Fined For Violating State Gambling Laws' Vincennes, Ind., Dec. 6-r-(UP)— James Robert Coonrod, Monroe City pool room operator*, was fined $25 and costs in Knox circuit conn yesterday for violating Indiana gambling laws. I He was arrested Tuesday night □after authorities said he failed to remove punchboards from his establishment. Coonrod was believed to-be the first Hoosier federal gambling tax stamp buyer to fee convicted for violating state gambling Mrs. Lucy Kiggins Dies In Michigan Funerdl services for Mrs, Lucy Kiggins. mother of Mrs. Marvin. ' Stoutenberry of- Bellmont. Farm, will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the Langeland funeral home, Kalamazoo, Mich. _ Mrs. Kiggins’ death occurred Tuesday evening at her home it) Kalamazoo. .T* * , J Offer New Proposal For Bus Drivers Indianapolis, Dec. 6 —?(UP)--Striking Indiana Railroad Co. drivers and mechanics will be bffered a new proposal today to end their Sunday-old walkout. State labor conciliator Charles * Wilson said the plan was worked Out yesterday nshen officials of the, L company and the AFL Amalgamat- ?! ed Motor Coach employes association resumed negotiations. He -rtv fused to reveal details of the pro? 90841- . The strike ctjt bus service from . here to Louisville. Ky., and seven Indiana cities and intermediate points, including Fort Wayne, Muncie. Hartford City, Feru, and - Haute. \ INDIANA WEATHER ' Partly cloudy with scattered showers windy tonight Friday parti) cloudy and colder with rain .beginning southeast ■ and extreme south by after*, noon. Low twiight 42 to 46. High Friday to Mk

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School Superintendent To Chicago,Hospital 5 Hansel Foley, bounty superintendent of schools, who has been -ijl at his honie at :Prebl£ for several weeks, was yesterday to a Chicago hospital. ’ His address is Billings hospital, SM East 59th "street, room 502-8.. Chicago, 111. Foley's condition is I'dgarded as serious. ; f . ’•► |‘ 3 Communist Jes Fighters Are Shot Down f’’’' I | UN Planes Pound At | Positions Housing | Enemy's Artillery c Bth Army Headquarters. Korea. Dec.. b’— (UP)—Allied planes today destroyed or damaged three Communist jet fighters in “MIG Afyey” gnd knocked out at legst 35 enemy At tillery positions whith have been allied troops.. American sabrejets' shot down one Soviet-built Mlfc-15 jet flghtei;, probably destroyed another and damaged a third dogfights dn the 11th straight day of jet cpmbat over northwest Korea. The boosted the sth air force's' 11-day bag to 22 M4G« destroyed, two probgbly destroyed and 29 damaged. J. ; All UN planes returned safely from the latest dogfights, but one thunderjet was lost to enemy ground fire in another operation. The plane crashed and burned behind enemy lines with no chance that the pilot survived, The air force sai<L " UN planes attacked Communist artillery positions all along the western front in what the sth air force said was “one of the most successful operations of its kind" of-the war. 'i The Communists J altogether put more than lOQ MIGs over Korea during the day, but most avoided combat. Five Red jets were shot down and five damaged in dogfights yesterday. _ ' On the ground, a| small force of* Red troops drove the allies from Vi a<*vance hill position on- the east-central front tn a 70-minute sght. The allies recaptured the iflU in a counter-attack, however. Communist troops also drove V'N force? from art outpost north of Korangpo on the western front Wednesday. Three other smallscgje Communist attacks were repulsed Wednesday South of Pyongyang and southeast.-of Kumsong, (Turn To Page I ■ “ ' Otis 0, Hocker Dies Early This Morning ; Prominent Monroe Resident Is Dead Otis 0. Hocker, drug store proprietor and a former postmaster 4t Monroe, brother of C. E. Hocker of this city, died at his home at S a.m. today of a heart ailment, pireet cause of death was attrlbut- . ed to angina pectoris. l A lifelong resident of Monroe, Mr. Hocker was born August 3, 1886, a son of Joseph and Jesteen Hocker. For the phst 30 years he operated the Hocker drug store. His place of business was a community gathering pibint and one of his hobbies was .gathering local historical facts and incidents. He was a chronologer of births and (jeaths of residents, of the Monroe area. | He was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose of this city. Besides his brother, he is survived by his wifej Belle Hocker, two daughters, Mrs. Mardelle Bowman, Napoleon, Mich., and Mrs. Mabel 1 Vizard of tfiis city. A bro tiher, the Rev. Harvel H. Hocker of Monrovia, Cal., and a sister,- Mrs. Busie McKeeman Os Fort Wayne, also survive. Three grandchildren, Vizard and Marilyn Sue Vizard this city and John Franklin Hocker of Grass Point, Mich., also survive. One brother, John F. Hocker and a sister, .Mhl Aldeena Oliver, are deceased-' Funeral services Will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the I/>ben»tein funeral home in Monroe. The body may fbe viewed after .9, a.m. Friday. _T ’ .

Fire Threatens Tank Farm ._ ' - ---J— L T » tgafe l I ' 1 r ** -Mr jHB. ■ I ] & |“hi WITH FLAMES and smoke billowing skyward, firemen pour fuming oil tanks following an explosion at the Socony Vacuum Oil Co., tank farm at Trenton. Mich. ,lu ‘ n a hundred storager tanks were endangered by the fire.

Archbishop Sfepinac Defies Government Rejects Decision To Take Away Title Krasic, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6—(UP) —Archbishop AloyMus Stepinac, released from prison after serving five defiantly rejected today a Communist government decision to deprive him of his title as highest Roman Catholic prelate of Yugoslavia. “I am the legitimate archbishop, not the former archbishop," he said In commenting on an official government announcement calling him "the former archbishop of Zagreb.” The 53-year-old leader of Yugoslavia’s 7,000,000 Catholics tlold newsmen after saying his first mass 'as a free man here in the ancient grey-stone church where he was christened: . . “I shall remain here until the holy father (the Pope) says otherwise.” The archbishop was freed on a parole basis yesterday after serving five years and 55 days of a 16year sentence imposed by a Yugoslav state court on charges of collaboration with the Nazi puppet government of Croatia during World War IL Under the terms of his release, he must remain inside the village limits of his native Krasic unless he gets special permission to make a journey. “The holy father will never be satisfied with this. Though for myself I am very content,” he said to correspondents who interviewed ' him in the vestry of the tiny church after the mass. “I never sought any high church dignities and I will relinquish my archbishopric only if the holy father desires," he said, “but I will never give it up under pressure.” The archbishop said he never asked for his freedom because *“I do not feel guilty.” ■> He declined to discuss his prison experiences beyond saving, “I cannot complain. At first there vfere great difficulties, but it is better not to talk about them.” “He who talks too much cannot remain without sin,” he said. “For that reason, I do not wish to talk too much.” ; Charles Meyer Dies At Home In Michigan Charles Meyer, 76, Niles, Mich, variety store proprietor and former Decatur resident, died Tuesday night at his residence, according to word received here today bv relatives. Mr. Meyer was born In aAdms county and was in the retail furniture business here when Adams fcounty and was in the resided in Niles tor many years, where he operated a five and ten cent store. Surviving are the widow, Elizabeth Patterson Meyer and three sons, Kenneth Meyer, Miles; Frederick Meyer, Hastings, Mich.; and Richard Meyer, Fort Wayne. A I sister, Mrs. H- M. DeVoss of this city, also survives. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon lat 2 o’clock at Niles and burial wil be in the Niles cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 6, 1951.

Students To Hear Senator Capehart Hugh J. Andrews, principal of the Decatur high school, ainounced today that Sen. Homer Capehart. Indiana’s senior U.. 8. senator, will speak at a hiigh school assembly Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Students of both the public and Catholic high schools will attend, and the public is invited. Jail Breaker Trial h Again Recessed Kenneth Roth Trial , Recessed To Monday A recess until Monday in the jury trial of Kenneth Roth, for breaking out of the Adams county jail, was ordered today by Judge Myles F. Parrish after a second jury in the case was sworn in. The personnel of the jury is| substantially the same as the first chosen two days ago to hear the state’s case against Roth, who made good an escape from the jail early last month. ' He was free for less than an hour, however, before being returned to the cell block. He was in jail for the triple charges of grand larceny, entering to commit a felony, and first degree burglary. Roth was represented at a heazing. Monday by his attorney, Hubert McClenahan, who filed for a continuance of the case. At the time Judge Parrish overruled the motion with the announcement to the defendant that ample time toprepare the case was allowed. The trial was then ordered 1 to begin Tuesday as scheduled. At that time, jurors were impaneled and sworn in.' Wednesday, however, one of them, Oscar Moser, of Preble, became ill and was unable to participate as a jhror(Turn To Page Five)\

Leaders Doubt Workable Cease-Fire For Kprea

By FRANK BARTHOLOMEW <United Press Staff Correspondent) San Francisco, Dec. 6.—(UP) — Every American general commanding a frontline division in Korea with whom this correspondent talked expressed doubt that a workable ceasefire can be attained with the Reds by\negotiation. r There was similar unifonhit'y of Opinion upholding the hard>-and-fast stand of general Matthew B. Ridgway and the U.N. negotiating team In support of the basic principles for which the United States entered the Korean confHct. . A division of opinion exists as to whether the peace effort itself has been worthwhile. One substantial school of thought bolds that the war will eventually have to \be fought to a conclusion anyhow, and that the sooner we cease to mark time and to get about the inevitable job ahead, the sooner the troops can come home. It becomes clear to an observer in Korea that the aggreseive military opinion stems principally from the American And South Koreans; many of whom believe In essence that no truce line will result in a permanent peace any> more than

To Ease Monmouth Parking Congestion To Resurface Area \ For Parking Autos The parking congestion manifested at most Monmouth high school basketball games should be eliminated within the “next couple of days if the weather permits,” according to an announcement today ’by August Se.lking, Root township trustee. ~ - r . The relief the parking situation as the school shonlrf\jninlmize complaints from neighbors about the "careless” parking of. vehicles. Selking stated that a consider-, able-sized area, which is currently used as a playground, will be resurfaced as a parking lot to ease the strain for motorists and school 'Officials. He said that the prdjject was long considered; indeed, was: a project outlined for next spring, but the additional parking sphee was obtained for the winter ihdnths and in anticipation of the forthcoming crowds at basketball games as well as other events. To create the lost playground space, Selking said, the plans are that additional land, on which the school has first option, will be obtained north of the schooL It is alsp planned to open the east-west road on the south side of the school to connect with the new parking place. This east-west will connect with' old U. S. 27;.; Selking said, and provide access to and exit from the parking lot. Parking at the Monmouth school had created something of a stir among nearby residents who protested to some of the haphazard parking committed by motorists. The complaints elicited a warning ftpm sheriff Bob Bhraluka to the effect that flagrant violators would ' (Tara \To Pace Six)

did the ill-fated artificial border ,of tne 38th parallel. They feel that the garrison force ■ required to defend a new dividing l line across Korea will come pain- - fiifly close to approximating the ■ present number of troops in the i *lihe, and that, in addition, there wjll be- the danger of fifth-column t political eruptions tn the rear, t The opinion of the South Korean ■ people themselves is vociferously i demonstrated in parades, demon- ! strations and street scenes in • Pusan keynoted by banners in Eng<llsh and Korean reading "on to the > Yalu!" and “give us unity or give s us death;”. ' l - This desire to fight the matter s out in Korea to military conclusion s is pointedly not shared by lother I component units of the United Na- : tions forces. They urge a more ■ compromising attitude, a negotiated ? peace and an end to the Korean fighting at the earliest possible mo ? mefft. This policy is spelled out in the Bngliah language newspapers i at Hong Kong and elsewhere , through the Orient, with the ex- » oeptlou of Manila, and is heard in i the foreign diplomatic missions in 1 , (Tara Te Page Six)

UN Command Charges Reds Using Prisoners To Obtain Concessions

More Volcanic Area Villages Evacuated Verified Toll Os Dead Is Now 209 : Mambajao, Philippines, Dec. 6. —(Up)—The i evacuation of 30 more villages -was ordered today as Mt. Hibok-Hibok heaved out tons : of jmolten lava in the third major eruption !of the volcano this week. \ i 1 “ j'.-' The verified death toll rose to 209. Estimates of the total dead rematniaJd at 500. ButYto officii in this devastated rhgion, where six villages yrere wiped out, knew how many bodies would be recovered eventually rom the dismal ruins where dogs tore at the bodies of the dead and where dazed, starving villagers rrived helplessly in search of food. Governor Pacienco Ysalina or dered the 30 villages around the cities of Mambajao and Catarman cleared as the lava poured down the mountain. ” \t Government trucks jammed with refugees clogged the roads of the disaster tone on Camigulp island. Nearly one third of the island’s 60,000 population has been transported to other islands. -• Down the roads came farmers in carts hauled by lurching bullocks. behind them came the refugees on foot, carrying what they could on tiielr backs and in their arms. - 1 Today’i explosion on Mt. HibokHibok blasted a new vent in the mountain side. Lava oozed out slowly and there seemed no imj mediate danger to villages clustered at thie volcano’s foot but the whole area was proclaimed a “danger zone” until the volcano subsides. ‘ Army Units took over control in most of the area. Soldiers prevented looting as a shortage of food and water spread. In the village of Mabirii, destroyed in the first eruption, newsmen saw dogs fighting pver bodies. Dr. Joaquin danuto. Red Cross disaster chairman on Camigulh, said there “apparently is no immediate cause for alarm” over the continued! volcanic activity. 1 Mambajao, the Island’s principal (Tur» To Paiee Slk) ,N: ' J 26 Youths Leave For Pre-lnduction Exam List Released By Selective Service Twenty-six Adams county youths left Decatur by bus early today for Indianapolis and pre-induction physical examinations, according to the list released by the Adams county selective service office. : Three others from the county were transferred to other local’ boards within the state, and are expected to report from those sites. i . Included in today’s contingent were Nile- LaMont Williamson, Harold Ttichard Bebout, Richard Fredrick Moser, Claude Edward Foreman, William Orval Doherty, Robert Lee Mattax. Harold Mearl Johnson, George Edward Scheiner, Robert Ehigene Johneop, Melvin Dale Mapn. Leo Merlin Bailey, j Daniel Richard Everett, Herman Lou Balsiger, Carl Elmer Hart, Claris Lee Haviland, Tommy David Schaadt, Donald Lewis Reef. Robert Gape Franklin, Milton John Habegger, Howard Affolder, Dbnavon Brent Kelley, Joseph Leslie Wittwer, Charles David Rhodes, Milton Walter Lehman, William J. Goldner and Edward Brock. Those whd were transferred ,|o other boards were Leonard Marion Wagley, Jr., to local board 55, Bloomington; Dale Wayne Moser, local board 36. Portland, and Charles Arthur Tharp. .No transfer disposition was given for latter. ; r' j

Churchill Sees Allied Strength War Deterrent World War Becomes More Unlikely As Strength Mounting BULLETIN London, Dec. 6 — (UP) — Prime Minister Winston Chun, chili said today that “we‘shall not flinch” if it becdmds necessary to use American atomic bomb plane bases in Britain against Soviet Russia. London, Dec. 6 —(UP)—Prime minister Winston Churchill, pre paring to confer with President Truman ip Washington, said today that a world war was becoming more unlikely as allied strength increases. Making his first major speech on defense since his Conservative government eptered office, Churgovernment entered office, .Churchill told the house of commons: 1 “1 can not feel that the danger of world war is so today as it was during the Berlin blockade of L 948. ' ' “Our policy is one of deterring war ... our feeling is that the deterrents' have increased and that as they have increased the danger has become more unlikely.” , 1 Churchill opened a commons debate on defense in his capacity of defense minister, an ■. office he holds jointly as he did in World War II with the prime ministry. Developments as he spoke included: 1— It was announced that Churchill and foreign secretary Anthony Eden would go to Paris Dep. 17 to confer with French premier Rene Pleven and foreign minister Robert Schuman to co-ordinate policy. The visit wilj be rpade ,in preparation for Churchill’s departure for Washington Dec, 29 to confer with President Truman. It is expected that Pleven will urge strongly .that Churchill try to sell Mr. Truman on the idea of a big four conference with Russia. 2 — With the division betwden west and east on world disarmament becoming wider, president Luis Padillo Nervo <j,f the United Nations general assembly announced in Paris that he intended to hold a series of talks with individual delegates of the big four powers with the hope "of getting them together on disarmament. German rearmament — "There should |be a European army and (Tun To Pace Five) Kenyon E. Andrews Funeral Saturday Funeral Rites\For Korean War Victim The body of Pvt. Kenyon E. Andrews, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Andrews, of Hoagland, who was killed in action in Korea ■■ last August 4, will arrive in Fort Wayne Friday. The body will be taken 1 to the Ake funeral home in Poe, where friends may call after 1 o’cktek Friday afternoon. 1 ■: Pvt. Andrews, a nephew xjf Hugh J. Andrews Os this city, was inducted into the army last January 30 and was serving with company I, Bth cavalry regiment, Ist cavalry division, when killed. Surviving in addition to his ents, former residents of Decatur, is his wife; Rose, .Os New Haven. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm. Saturday at the Hoagland Methodist church, the Rev. George Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with Adams Post 48, American Legion, conducting full military rites. The body will be taken to the Hodgland church at 10 a.m. Saturday.

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Allied Spokesman Calls Communist Move 'Blackmail' j To Seek Concession Panmunjom, Korea, Dec. :—Communist truce negotiators are using allied war prisoners as hostages in an attempt to extort concessions by “blackmail,” the Unit- >. ed Nations command charged to- : night. ! The Reds angrily rejected an allied request to discuss the ex'change of war prisoners under an armistice agreement, while the negotiators are Still discussing means of enforcing a truce. North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Song Cho said \that the Reds “will not 'give any answers about prisoners tof war” while the stalemate continues on the truce-enforcement ls- = sue. - ‘... . ; “Negotiatory blackmail," allied spokesman Brig. Gen. William P.' .Nuckols said. i • “Those of us at the meeting felt something of the implication of blackmail?’ briefing officer Lt. Col. Howard Levie saidIt was 1 obvious that the Reds knew the anxiety of Americans over the fate of 10,856 Americans listed !as missing in action. The Reds have reported to the international Red Cross the names of only 1?4 prisoners. Secondly the Reds do ! not seen! to care about the fate of their own men phom the allies hold. Some Red commandefs hold that men who get captured have failed their duty. In Thursday’s meeting here, the • allies refused categorically to abandon the Amerfean troop rotation ' program for the sake of an armistice. _ The UN command also rejected a > Communist demand that it withdraw from “coastal islands and waters” north of the ceasefire line. I U.S. Maj. Gen. Howard Turner, chief UN representative on a joint subcommittee, told the Reds flatly 'that the UN command “without qualification rejects” the Communist demand for a ban on rotating itroops during a truce. j, , The Communists have sought to send the American system of sending troops home after a year in by insisting on a total arms and troops freeze which would bar any replacements, even for injured or wounded soldiers. ! The UN, «n the other hand, has proposed merely that the armed forces of each side be kept at Xheir present strength during an armistice, Fresh troops would be permitted td enter the country as replacements a? long as they did not increase the over-all size of either side. **-. The Communists rejected a modified eight-point UN program for supervising ian armistice. The program ignored a Communist proposal for “heutral observer teams” to enforce the truce and reiterated ■the original allied demand for teams made up equally of Officers trom esfch side: ' < ’ However, the plan would confine the teams to “ground, sea and 5 air ports of entry and communications centers behind both lines rather than permitting them to go iwherever they wished. ! The only completely new item in the allied plan waa i proposal to delay the effective date of the ! armistice until the joint armistice commission is staffed and ready to (functioii. } , ,i 'i’ 5 : , '' . ■ I®' 1 WnKir K -If FLIP I Hwl;