Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1951 — Page 1

Yol. XLIX. No. 288.

AGREES TO DISCUSS TROOP WITHDRAWAL

Oliphant 111, Appearance In Probe Delayed Resigned Counsel i J Os Internal Revenue Unable To Appear Washington. Dec. 7 —(UP)— | Charles Oliphant, who resigned Wednesday as chief counsel of the* bureau of internal Trevenue. can-* celled, his scheduled j appearance, ' before house investigators today because pt illness. '* - I Chairman Cecil R. King (D-Cal.j; of the Jiouse ways and means sub-’ committee investigating the scandais said he had been notified by Oliphant's attorney that "the map ' is in no condition to testify today." King added, "said he heeded the weekend at least to rest up?’ Oliphant spurned a subcommlttee "invitation"" to testify in private and demanded an opportunity to appear at an open hearing to pair the damage done my &pnta? ition.” Hte said that charges that he was one of a “clique” of tax shakedown artists were “baseless scurrilous." . ; .! ' The subcommittee agreed to hear his story today. But the investigators were notified shortly before the hearing was scheduled to begid ' that he would not appear. King said Oliphant will get another chance to testify but it is unr certain when the subcommittee will hear him. 1 ■ Oliphant resigned as chief conn? sei for the" Internal revenue bureau Wednesday after he was accused of being a member of a "Washington clique” of high government officials which was said to take part in a shakedown of delinquent taxpayers. U.S. attorney Charles Irelap meantime prepared to give a federal grand jury conflicting testimony about the alleged extortfop scheme. » ~ 7 \ - \ Irelan was acting on orders of attorney general J.* Howard McGrath, who directed that the case be presented to a grand jury within 10 days for possible prosecuttop for perjury. It was understood that irelan hoped to have the case ready to late next week. -• ! Change In Hocker Funeral Services A change in time tti holding funeral services for Otis O. Hocketjj a druggist at Monroe for 44 years, was made today. ' Services will be held at she Monroe Methodist church Saturday at 8 p. m. with the Rev. W. L. IlaM, pastor, officiating. The body will lie in state at the church from noon until the funeral hour. Bur-j ial will be in the Decatur cemte-f tery. C “'rf ; *•! | The name of Mr. Hocker’s son.; Kermit Hocker of Grass Lake? Mich., was unintentionally omittedj in the list of survivors in yesJer- ; fays paper. | -r — * Jobless Pay Claims Doubled In Indiana i ’* 1 i Indianapolis, Dec. 7 — (UP) ■ Unemployment claims for the last week ui November were twice that L of the same time last year, the Indiana employment security division reported today. Many of the 36.336 claims fi|ed| last week were from automotive; workers laid off during a change-t over period, the division explain-t ed. Meanwhile, placements inf creased seven percent last week| mostly for temporary pre-hollday| sales jobs. '7j,( • > Tax Man Speaks To Decatur Rotarians Robert L. Pun sky, of 'Wayne, was the kuest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club. Punsky, a tax cou-j eultant, discussed proper methods? to set up estates to prevent ruinous inheritance taxes. Roy Kal-> Ver was chairman of the program. INDIANA WEATHER . ? Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight Rain over most of north portion by Saturday morningand entire state Saturday after noon. Low tonight 36 to 40 : north, 40 to 50 south. High Satiirday 40 to 45 north, 45 to .56 & south. <

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Monrhouth School -• 1 . Addition Approved t | $124,000 Addition Planned To School | A Rational production authority Bernitt for 30 tons of steel and ether critical materials, and state |ax l»oarA approval of $124.000 in appropriations to remodel and construct and equip hn addition to the Monmouth school building, north pf Decatur, have been received by August Selkihg, Root township .‘trustee. The sale of bonds to : finance the gchbol project, the second to be made to the Monmouth school in 13 years* will be held next month, D . Burdette Custer, attorney for the township.. staled. Application for the NPA, allocation of steel, ; :|35 pounds of copper and $16,750 worth of pipe and other critical ;materials, was made through the Jpuster and Smith law office, t’ Permit No. 4661, was issued to •the township for the'school addition. NPA allocation of steel ia 'trade over three-quarters of 1952. The order allots eight tons during the? first quarter. 14 during the second and eight for the third Quarter. The permit is signed by ißall I. Grigsby, director, civilian ■educational requirements, division of NPA. -J State Approves Appropriations I The Indiana state board of tax commissioners has approved appropriations for $124,000. Os this emount $47,000 will be charged to £he school township and $77,000 to Sthe civil township of Root, ? Attorney Custer has prepared the legal notice for- the sale of fjonds. Bids will be received from Imaging and security firms on January 12, 1952, at the Monlaouth school on the entire issue. ? The purchaser will bid the interest rate, at hot to exceed four ■percent annually. Although the law permits a 20-year finandW period. the bonds will be amortized Hn 18 years. The first. Bonds of the issue will be paid in July, 1953 and liquidated entirely in 1971. [/ - Gym Built in 1938 The addition to the Monmouth School, including the gymnasium and other quarters for the school, |was, built in 1938. g ; Enrollment in the Monmouth school has steadily increased and this year Preble township transferred its high school students to LMonmouth. [ The ,proposed addition to the .building incnudes new and modern ‘class rooms, purchase of adjoining land, remodeling of the old building and -complete equipment -for the consolidated building. The front of the building will >he modernized so that, the entire structure will -harmonize with the latest afchitectura'l design for the new addition. ji “ Construction In Spring Following the sale of bonds, proposals from will be received and it is expected that construction of the addition will get underway early next spring. Packers Prepare To Take Strike Votes Vote Is Authorized By Union President Chicago, Dec. 7.—(UP)—-CIO United Packinghouse Workers throughout the country today prepared to take strike votes to back up their demand sq a ss,ooo minimum annual wage. ( The votes, which were authorized yesterday by the union President Ralph Helstein, frere to be taken beginning Monday by more than 100 locals In plants of the “big four packers—Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy—and other firms. | y The vote wbuld effect about 80’. 000 workers. Meanwhile Earl Jimerson, president, and Patrick E. Gorman, secretary treasurer of the AFL meat cutters and butchers, said they already have authority from members to call a strike. They said, however, that they will meet- with negotiators for some of the packers next week before taking further strike action. The AFL union represents some 100,000 pickinghouse workers in major plants and branch houses. Both Union* submitted demands ClWa* *• Pag* Bight)

New Flood Os Searing Lava From Volcano Volcanic Eruption Death Toll Increased To Manila,, P. I„ Dec. 7.—(UP)-« The Red Cross said today the death toll from the, vo|eahic, eruptions of- Mt. m a 7 reach 2,000 as a new flood of searing lava trapped 200 persons in the village of Nasag. Philippine naval vessels began a mass evacuation tq the island of Mindanao today of thousands of persons left homeless by four eruptions of the mountain on the island of Camiguin. A Red Cross representative on the island said earlieip estimates of 2,000 r dead are “within the limit of possibility.” Rescuers have recovered 266 bodies. • ‘ The Red Cross said sanitation and housing problems at the relief center of Maninog on the southeastern coast arte becoming acute. \ The decision to begin the mpM evacuation was made by Col. Isidoro Javier and Joaquin Canuto Red Cross disaster director. They have been directing relief among 12,500 persons crammed into relief centers since the first violent Explosion of the volcano Tuesday morning. A flow of refugees moved into the relief centers today following the .fourth explosion of the volcano last night. A flood \of boiling lava, four feet deep fn soma places, threatened a wide area. It trapped 200 villagers in Nasag and it was feared they may have been killed. Twenty-two inhabitants of the little village escaped and were picked up by a Philippine naval vessel as the volcano erupted again. Mt. Hibok-Hibok Continued to rumble today and there were no signs of its quieting down. A tremor shook the island last night’s explosion. Flame-red smoke spiraled three miles over the mountain. A shower of hot ash and flaming rock again blanketei the mountain sides. Hot lava flowed Over the crater and down the moqntqjn. ♦<s ,I ' f Suggests Few U.S. Prisoners To Return Fewer Than 5,000 May Be Returned Panmunjom, Korea,,, Doc. 7. — (UP)-—A Communist newsman suggested today that fewer than 5,000 Americans may come back from Communist captivity inKorea. \ ' , The Communists ■so far have disclosed the names Os only 174 American war prisoners. However, the U.S. defense deportment says 10,865 Americans are missing in Korea. 1 “On the basis of any said Chu Chi-Ping, a newsman from Communist China, “you can ekpect less than half the missing to turn up prisoners.” ! \ Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme United Nations commander also has indicated that fewer than 5,000 of the Americans listed as missing in action may be found alive in Communist prison camps. However, he based his estimate on what he said was evidence indicating that more than 5,000 American prisoners have died in Communist atrocities. He put UN troop deaths altogether from Communist atrocities at nearly (Tura To Seven) Indian Summer End Forecast In State Indianapolis, bee. | —(UP) — Hoosierland’s Indian summer weather will end “some time today,” weather bureau officials predicted. The mild weather of the past few days was climaxed yesterday when the temperature hit 6$ degrees here for an all-time Indianapolis higi} on Dec. 6. The previous maximum for the date was 63, |n 1883. |-

Decatur, Indiana, Kember 7, 1951.

Open Huge Texas-Hlinois Gas CHICAGO’S MAYOR Martin H. KerihWly gels an assist from Joseph J. hedrick (left), president, and F. Baltes. Jr., board chairman of the Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co., as he opened the valve on the company’s 30-lnch, 1.417-mileglong line which brought Gulf natural gas from Falfurrias, Texas, ,tbia six-state area. The ceremony sending {the fuel to consumers in Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska, was held neap Joliet, Illinois. Oates, Who is also chairman of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company of Chicago said the fuel would flow at a of 374,060,000 cubic feet daily.

Postmaster Urges - First Class Mail Yuletide Season Is Officially Underway “First -class friends deserve first class mail!” Postmaster .Leo W. Kirsch declared today, as the arrival of gift packages in’ heavy volume indicated that the Yuletide season has officially begun. Byway of explanation, the postmaster said, “Most of our grief is caused each year by hastily scribbled addresses that we can’t read, or Christmas cards being sent as third class mail which can’t be forwarded or returned if the addressee has moved. Loosely wrapped gift packages are other troublemakers that can be avoided." To offset these perennial problems, the postmaster recommends that you begin now to correct and bring your address book up-todate. “And by all means," he continued, “mall those precious packages early—next week, if possible!" “Wrap your shipping , cartons carefully, with a good cord pulled over and under several times around. Stuff your packages properly to cushion any fragile items they may contain. Use heavy wrapping paper tb hrip insure safe and sound delivery. “And remember, packages are limited to 70 pounds in weight, and not exceed 100 Inches in length and girth combined?’ Special care should be given to (T«m To Page Sit)

Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack 10 Years Ago

(Edtior’s note: The following is nn exclusive interview with the Japanese admiral who planned the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 10 years ago today.) By EARNEST HOBEREC>4T (U. P. Press Correspondent) >I f : Tokyo, Dec. 7—(UP)—The Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack 10 years ago raid today he realized later that he had picked the wrong targets. “The purpose was to destroy the fleet,” Rear Admiral Sadatoshi Tomioka said in an exclusive Interview. “We . realized later that we should have concentrated on the oil tanks and naval shore facilities.” ' He also said the attack was not planned as a surprise, and that he regretted it had turned out that way.

| BULL fT I N *■ ffi Air,Jforce Base, uMass, Dec. 7.—(UP) — A mfss- • 4|ng B-29 apparently has crashed on one of the Azores Islands,' it |was announced today. i Reporta that there were 18 .persona aboard the B-29 when |fehe accident occurred could not be confirmed here. Stephenson Heads Back To Indiana j | Jo Finish Serving J Ouf Life Sentence ’Minneapolis, Dec. 1. —(UP)-+-Farmer Indiana KU Klux Klan leadef D. C. Stephenson headed back to i«(liana today to finish serving o(it a| life sentence for second degree liurder. who this week gave U»> his fight of nearly 13. months agglnst > extradition to Indiana on phrole violation charges, was turned over to Indiana authorities in niid morning. |John ; O’Connor, deputy attorney general:for Indiana; detective Sgt. Janies Osborne of the Indiana state pjilice, and J.C. Copeland, acting <ll- - qf the Indiana department of correction took custody of Stephenson. j They said they would arrive in Michigan City, Ind., krith him at aj>out 9:3© p.m. and would take him immediately to the penitentiary. was treed from the Iltenitentiary in March, 1950, after S . (Tom T* Page KMght)

jThe original idea, he said, was Uiat an ultimatum was to be delivered in Washington with the taking place an 'Jiour latter, ultimatum was delayed, and attack became a siirprise. “I fetel haunted by the ghosts of Americans who died at Pearl f|Brbor,” he added. “I regret the 1411 happy circumstances which actfil to make the attack a surprise.” Oml ka said the assault was armed for a SundajP because the largest number of U. S. warships normally concentrated at Pearl Harbor over the week ends. He i&id the Japanese had no intention trying to capture Hawaii. | “If the fleet had been elsewhere &e would have attacked it there.’ said. “We were more Interested in the U. S. fleet than Pearl Harbor." _ * The admiral was chief of the section of the Japanese ’ (Tar* T* Pift Eight)

New Truce Inspection Program Proposed By UN In Cease-Fire Talk

Decafur Community Fund Goes Over Top Final Reports Are Made For Campaign The Decatur Community Fund, which embractes the Red Feather agencies, is over the top! At a meeting of the directors held last evening with Harry Dailey, fund chairman, at the First State Bank, final reports in the campaign made during October and continued through November, put the drive over the top. The goal was Th? amount subscribed and pedged is $9,857.76. William tinn and John Halterman, were cochairmen of the drive;A month ago the lacked $l,(M)0 of goal and the chairmen “kept everlastingly” at the job until success was attained. .4“ The Community fund finances Boy and Giri Scout activities, t<e youth center, and provides equipment for children’s playgrounds. It also subscribes Decatur’s quotas for the Salvation Army, the united defense Jund, (USO) and the cancer society. A member of the in expressing the director’s appreciation to donors said, “the only shadow on the otherwise bright picture is tpe local unemployment situatibn, and the recognition that some of those having made a pledge are now unemployed. Os them, donations cannot be fairly expected until they are re-employed. It is hoped that those with steady employment who have not yet pledged or donated to the fund will call at the First State Bank and make their contribution, taking up that part of the burden which their unemployed neighbors are unable to carry. No good citizen of Decatur would want to see the Red Feather of cotnmunity spirit tall back into itk trench after once having gone\ overthetop.” ' — i Tornado, Blizzard End Warm Weather . .J - - ■ J-1, Herald Eastward Cold Wave March By United 'Press A tornado, blizzard and neargale winds today heralded the eastward march of cold weather destined to rout q record late-fall heat wave -that tricked some vegetation into thinking spring had come. From west to east, the nation’s weather picture showed rain and chilly temperatures on the Pacific coast, winckdriven dust storms in the southwest, up to six inches of snqw ip the northern midwest and a heat wave in the east. M • But the weather forecasters said it all fitted into one general pattern and the different disturbances were nothing more than the local manifestations of the eastward advance of cold weather. One man, was killed and another critically injured in Spring Valley, 111., when a tornado sneaked into town through a ravine then churned through the community of 5,000, levelling two railroad stations, two private homes and deroofing three others. ~ A The entire cqunty was blacked out whe-n the twister snipped, electric power lines and dropped them from poles. Six inches of snow fell in Bemidji, &inn., seven inches blanketed Valentine, Neb., «nd up to four inches fell in parts of the Dakotas as a “baby” blizzard, driven by high winds, struck the north central plains states and parts of the upper midwest. Normally sun-baked Arizona sported a blanket of frost everywhere except al Yuma. During a heavy rainstorm in Phoenik yesterday, court house employes swore they saw show falling ,but most loyal Arizonans scoffed «t the report. However, there were confirmed reports of snow yesterday in San (Tara To Paige Two). j ’

Advance Hill Position Is Taken By UN No Communist Jet Fighter Planes In < ' Sight Over Korea ; Sth Army Headquarters, Korea; Dec. 7— (UP) —United Nations 1 troops captured one adVapce hill position on the western front today. but lost another to the Reds farther east. For the first time inl2 days, no Communist MIG-15 jet fighter planes were sighted ovelr Korea, if ended the longest period of'daily air combat since the start of the Korean war —11 days that cost the Reds 22 planes destroyed, two probably destroyed and. 29 damaged. An Sth army communique said three Communist squads drove back a UN patrol in a 20-minute fight in no-man’sdand southeast of Pyonggang on the central front. However, the allies counter-at-tacked and captured an advance hill position. p Farther east. , Communist units up to two platoons in strength struck shortly after midnight at five UN advance positions. The at ate ker s were repulsed at four points, but the allies withdrew at the fifth. . '"i . One of the attacks was by Chin-ese-troops who slipped through the‘pre-dawn darkness to the Kum-song-Kumhwa road, but were driven off by allied machine-gun and small arms fire. L j Only routine patrol activity was reported from the rest of the front. A briefing spokesman said UN troops along the 145-mi|e front killed an estimated 175 Communist troops Thursday. t ( Far behind ‘ in the: UN lines. South Korean troops tightened their noose around an estimated 3,000 Communist guerrillas in southwest Korea. Closing in from two sides, the South Koreans mounted 6,200-foot Mt. Chiri at the climax of their six-day sweep. The ROKS killed 119 guerrillas and captured 77 in 16 Skirmishes around ChiH during the past 24 hours. It was their biggest bag since “operation rathole” began Sunday. ' -I : Defeat Attempt To Oust Nationalists Soviet Bloc Effort \ is Defeated in UN , , Paris, Dec, 7.—(UP)—A Soviet bloc attempt to oust the Chinese Nationalists from the l|N general assembly was defeated today, but it touched off one of the hottest floor fights in UN history. The vote was 39 to 17, with 4 abstentions. *- L • 1 ** i The first item before the assembly was the report of the sevenmember $ credentials committee, whfch includes Byelorussia. The committee reported it had approved all delegation credentials, but noted Byelorussia, alone, had voted against accrediting the Chinese Nationalists. K. V. Kisselev, the Byelorussian delegate, took the floor to present a resolution calling for the ousted of representatives of “the KuominChiang Kai-Shek government” by the assembly. i Assembly vice-president Sir Gladwyn Jebb, of Britain, sifting in the chair while president Luis Padilla Nervo carried on private big four disarmament talks, explained that last month the assembly had voted to ban for the duration of the session any new proposals to expel the Nationalists. However, he offered to.consider the resolution a move to reconsider the ban. The Byelorussian motion to oust (Twa Ta Page Eight)

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\ UN In About-Face ; On Discussion Os Withdrawing Troops In Armistice Talks Panmunjom, Korea. Dec. 7 — (UP)—The United Nations proposed a new truce inspection pro gram t6day and, in an . abrupt ebout-face, promised' to discuss Withdrawal of troops from Korea later in the armistice talks. The Coitimunists tentatively rejected the three-point UN inspection program at a truce subcommittee meeting, x but agreed to study it further. The Reds also sidestepped- at least three new, separate demands for an answer to the allied request for appointment of a second subcommittee to begin immediate discussion of an exchange of war prisoners. 1 The Communist delegates said they had forwarded the proposal to North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam 11. senior Communist truce delegate, and would relay his reply at “the proper time.” A UN communique nevertheless reported' that “progress was made, however slight” •toward an ultimate agreement ok carrying out a truce. It said both sides had agreed that all armed forces would cease fire within 24 hours of the effective date of an armistice, that all armed forces shall withdraw from the demilitarized buffer zone within 72 hours, and that only military police shall he permitted Jfc the buffer zone. IT. S. Gen. Henry I, Modes disclosed the billed decision to yield to the Communist demand for discussion of a troop withdrawal. He also suggested that tpe withdrawal might begin as soon as “the armistice is going wfU.” The UN previously had refused to disduss a -tropp withdrawal at any timedn the armistice negotiations. It contended the question could be taken up only at a formal peace conference after jtn armistice. • , The UN ( delegation presented this new lrueh r inspection program at the afternoon session: 1. “The armistice commission and its joint observation ; teams shall have authority to observe at ground, i sea and air ports of entry and communications throughout iftH of Korea as mutually ’ agreed to* by the two delegations, together with freedom for the ; above teams over the principal lines of communication throughout all of Korea.” 2. "The armistice commission shall have the right of joint aerial observation and photo* reconnaissance over all of Korea.* 3. “The armistice commission, shall have the fight of complete observation of the demilitarised (buffer) zone.” The Communists turned down the program on grounds that it merely was a restatement of previous UN pwfoosals. But they promised to iftudy it further. The arguments became technical and confused during the debate. The Communists proposed two admistice inspection groups —' a joint UN-Communist commission which’w-ould control only the buffer zftne, and an organization of ‘ neutrals” who - would Inspect “ports ? of entry” in the rest of Korea. ? 1 • J The UN contended ope commis(Tam Page Kight) ' - h«i> »«bt ia.