Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 289.

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Reds Block UN Attempts At Armistice UN Delegation Says Negotiations Have j J Reached Stalemate 1j ’ ’ ' I. > *;j Pan mun join, Korea, Dec. B.—(UP) —The Communists blocked every United Nations effort to: write a compromise armistice pix>. ~ gram today and the UN delegation said negotiations ha.ve reached a stalemate. ’ • 'j ' ' The five-hour truce subcommittee meeting ended with the Red* again turning aside a UN proposal for appointment of a second subcommittee to begin work bn an t exchange of war prisoners. : ““We have delivered your proposal to our senior delegate (North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam 11) andwe will deliver it again today,” !the chief Communist -spokesman said. *: A Communist newsman at Panmunjom told UN reporters that ,<a wave of excitement is sweeping allied prisoner of _ war camps In North Korea as the truce talks, enter what may be their fjnal stages. / . 1 But that optimism was not sharr. ed here. U.S. Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner. one of the two UN subcommitteemen, said the negotiators had reached a “stalemate" on .all -major points in disagreement. However, there was * suspicion that both sides were awaiting orders from higher authorities before answering questions that might break the logjam and lead th a compromise program, - The UN still has not given its I formal answer to the Communist proposal sos "neutral” instead of joint UN-Communist inspection of behind-the-lines "ports of entry" during, a truce. And the Communists have stalled on the prisoner exchange question. x . - WiW Ah- Battle Bth Army Headquarters. Korea, Dec. g._(UP)— United States air force Sabrejet fighter planes, outnumbered four to one. damaged two Russian-made Mig-15 jets, to day in a wild battle oyer North . Korea. All the Sabrejets returned safely to base. Fifteen of the swept-wlng American fighters took on 6v of the vaunted Communist planes. fodght. them at altitudes from 25,000 to 40,000 feet, and sent them fleeing A to the sanctuary of Chinese Manchuria. Two earlier fights batt ended f without damage to either side. f- Thirty-one F-86 Sabrejets screening a flight of fighter-bombers fought 75 Mlgs tor 15 minutes between 27,000 and 22,000 feet in the first UN-Communist dogfight since Thursday. _•’ > ' Fbrty other Migs jumped American Thunderjets just after they had cut Communist rail lines south of Sinanju, but the U.S. planes fought their way clear. The sth air force announced that its planes shot down 13 Communist jet fighter planes in dogfights during the past week, but lost five UN jets—the largest combat loss for any sevep-day period! of the war. The five planes comprised tjiree Rrlttstebuilt Gloster Meteor jets, an American Thunderjet and an American Shooting Star. Another Thunderjet and an AD-2, ’ Marine fightebbomber were shot down by Communist ground fire. A Activity tlong the 145-mye ground front still was confined mainly to patrol skirmishes and artillery duels. , | X —H . Good Fellows Club Previoas total -$134.00 A Friend — — 5 Bob’s Confectionery ------- 3.00 A Friend 2.0(1 Eta Tau Sigma Sorority —5.00 A Friend --- - 5 -®° Riverside Garage - 5.Q0 Wertsberger’s Confect. ——, ‘ 3.00 Cole’s Market rT —— 5.00 - .George Wemhoff -——l.oo Ivan Stucky 1-00 Mary Beth and s,. Juliana Tarveer 5.00 Mies Bowling Alley A Friend — 2.00 The Gang 10.00 _±:4. ; . . .<■ Total 1191.60 ■.-' ■ ■ . \ ,

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Borders Reappointed As Chief Os Police 13-Year Veteran Os Force Reappointed 1 Mayor John M. Doan today announced that chief of the Decatur police department James Borders “has been reappointed to serve in the same capacity fbr the next four /years. ’ . i A 13-year veteran of. the police Borders will’th us serve tiis third term as chief, beginning the first of the year. | He served tar almost four years gs police chief from 1939 to 1942 when he entered the armed forces, f After his return from arrnv service. in which he served in . the criminal investigation division in Italy. Borders perved in 1945 as a patrolman before being named chief again when Mayor Doan first entered office in . During Borders' stewardship, the Decatur police department has become one of the top investigative units’of its size in the state. Integrated closely with Adams county and state police forces, the Decatur department, is also one of the best equipped for its size. Chief Borders 4s constantly seeking still further improvements in .the force. He is staunchest supporter of the police radio system that has cut jdown immeasurably on time and has increased effectiveness: He realties the true value of rthe department's 'laboratory, anct is always ready to expand its facilities. | But the chiefs main project these ♦days is simple enough: try to get |“a policeinan back on the beat.” This might entail' switching the present nine-man force around somewhat, or possibly the addition of another recruit. Whatever the case, chief Borders believes this will be an important ‘step toward making the department even better than it is today. I ?: ' Alert Prosecutors Against Gambling Worn On Shield Os Non-Profit Groups Indianapolis. \ Dec. 8 —(UP)— . Indiana prosecutor* were alerted today that gambling may be moving -behind the shield * of non-profit organizations to avoid the new federal gambling stamp law, U.S. district attorney Matthew E- Welsh told the Indiana prospcu- . tors’ association / convention late yesterday of several reports \that private groups in the state are “filling in the vacuum by going into the littery business.” He warned fraternal and religious organisations may try to take advantage of a “loophole” in ; the federal law and thereby cause ’‘problems" to local law enforcement -officials. Locations of the non-profit gambling activities were hot disclosed, ,J| ■ , Groups exempt from the federal gambling stamp must have a legitimate reason for gaming activities, Welsh said. He believed it might be a year before authorities could determine the scope of such operation*. State attorney general J. Emmett McManamon said it was his per(Tw*To rage Star) r . I ■ • F i i ' ■

Quakes Add To Volcano Terror In Philippines Rescuers Forced To Flee As Earthquakes Rock Volcano Area ' Mahinog, Philippines, Dec. B.— (UP) —Rescue workers fled from the foot of erupting Hibok-Hibok volcano toda/ when violent earthquakes started crashing open the earth beneath them. Unconfirmed reports said the quakes tumbled a small village into the sea. The temblors were reported generally over the northern part of Camigtiln Island, where the erqpting volcano killed hundreds of persons and caused inestimable damage. „ Refugees who had remained near their destroyed homes in the vicinity of the volcano joined roecue workers in flight when Vne earthquakes added, to the terror and destruction. The tremors sent hundreds mpre tons of rock crashing down toward villages half-buried in lava and volcanic ash from Mt. Hibok-Hibok’s initial eruptions. The volcano itself still was belching lava, mud and smoke today. A United Press staff correspondent Who flew over the mountain said wide streams of crimson molten rock could be seen creeping down the mountainside. Refugees from stricken villages were herded into refugee ceifters in the southeastern part of Island, across the island from the volcano. / L 1 , At least 10,000 persons were crowded into Mahinog alone waiting transportation to Mindanao, which lies south of Camiguin. A food shortage added to the terrors of the eruption and earth quakes. U.S. air force planes flew in 7,000 pounds of foodstuffs. r— GE And UE Agree On Wage Increase \ Decatur Employes i Affected By Pact The General Electric company and the United Electrical. Radio and Machine Workers of America, (UE-Ind.) the latter representing Decatur G.E. workers, have agreed on a 3.58 percent wage increase. Negotiations for the wage boost started last September. increase will range from 4.8 cents an hour to employes earning $1.20 an hour to more than eight cents an hour to those earning $2.25. The increases will be retroactive to Sept. 15, on approval by the wage stabilization board, it was reported by Lemuel R. Boulware, vice-president in charge of employe relations. Boulware said the settlement with UE places more than 96 per cent of the company's 200,000 employes in line for the pay raise. This figure includes non-union employes and those in other unions which have signed the agreement and joined in the WSB application. The company also has agreed to provide three-week vacations for employes after 15 years of servick \ Boulware said the 3.58 percept increase was based on a straight 2.5 percent raise plus a cost-of-living increase equal to the percentage of increase in Che bureau of labor 1 statistics cost-of-living index between March 15 and September 15, 1951. The index rose two points, or 1.08 percent, ih that period, bringing the combined total of the increase to 3.58 percent The increase, \ coupled with a 1 ine-cent-an-hour increase last March, brings GE increases this year to a range of about 14 to more than 17 cents an hour, the company said. v General Electric made the same pay offer to all its employes, and the CIO International Union oC Electrical Workers signed an agreement last October. Noon Edition - — _

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday 8, 1951.

Lie Test Clears Weitelbaum S’ i'R ABRAHAM TEITELBAUM, attotaicy for Al Capone, takes a lie detector test in Chicago whiclOHcconl.ng to polygraph specialist William G. Wilson (leftl. indicated keloid the complete truth before a House tax scandal inquiry. Teitelnaflwa charged in Washington that a “clique” tried to shake him down for a half-million dollars on threat of Income tax prosecution.

Mystery Witness May Supply Missing Link Subpenci Grunewald In Tax Shakedown '\n 7 . 1 Washington, Dec. 8 -— (UP) — House Investigators believed today that “mystery man” Henry W. Grunewald, finally put under subpc na. can supply vital missing attorney Abraham Teitelbaum's story of a $500,000 tax shakedown plot. ' An internal revenue bureau official has testified that /intervention by Grunewald with Charles Oliphant. resigned counsel for the internal revenue bureau, helped shove toward prosecution a tax fraud c*se against Teitelbaum. th< Chicago lawyer who said he Was the intended victim of the alleged shakedown. Teitelbaum said his tax troubles got much worse after he refused last July 17 to pay oft a Florida pair who were represented to him as having Oliphant and T. \Lamar Caudle, ousted assistant attorney general, “in their vest pocket.” I The house wyas and means subcommittee investigating tax scandals hunted Grunewald for several days before a U. 3. marshal located him yesterday At Georgetown University hospital here. His doctor said Grunewald was suffering from “severe ‘ emotional attain” and gastro-intestinal disturbances. Grunewald told a senate subcommittee last year he is a public relations counsellor and an investigator. (He said an investigator is not the same thing as a‘ private detective.) Except for this selfidentification, his activities have been shrouded in mystery. The subcommittee wants to question the South African-born and German-educated Grunewald about his intereat in Teitelbaum’s tax troubles. Testimony so far is that he was not an attorney in the case and that he had no “proper” interest as far as the reconl disclosed. The sensational hearing* were tn recess over the weekend. They will be resumed Monday, with Caudle on the witness stand. -■ - I Congressman Adair In County Monday j Congressman E. Ross Ad,air will make a political tour of thie county Monday. H® will be in Decatur from 1 to 4 o’clock Monday after; noon and friends may call on him et Republican headquarters t in Harry Essex’s office. Congressman Adair will be in Geneva from 8:30 to 10 a. m. From if- to 12 noon, he will be in Berne at the Witness office. Chairman Essex invited friends to call' on their congressman. INDIANA WEATHER Rain south and rain or show spreading over north portion this afternoon and tonight* ending early Sunday. , Sunday cloudy add ooldor. Low tonight 3035 north, 35-45 south. High Sunday 32-36 north, 3S-43 south. ■ A'

yi m iii i■ ■ II—I HI.-I . »nw ■ I > Two Men Are Killed When Autos Collide < Peru, lnd r , Dec. B—(UP8 —(UP) — Two men were killed last night when their car collided with another on Ind> 19 north of here and then struck a tree. ; Jack Rise, 20, Peru, and Bernell Carey. 18. Chill, were killed and ’Robert Boswell, 20, Denver, driver of the car. and Marion Hopper, 28, Wabash, were injured. .State police said the four men wtre returned from , a basketball game at Gilead when their car collided with one driven by William Bert, 66, Denver. ; - T Senator Capehart Speaks Here Friday Executive Club In Meeting Last Night Urging industrial executives, business and professional men to “fake an active part in government as the best method to keep communism and socialism out of American government,” Sen. Homer Capehart. senior United States senator from Indiana, was the guest speaker at a forum held by Die 1 Decatur industrial executives clili,- branch of th* Decatur Chamber of Commerce, held at the Elks home Friday night More than 60 club members and theit guests attended the dinner and took part in; the round-table forum conducted by the senior senator. The widely publicized Capehart amendment was, explained, it is a nbw formula written by congress to govern price and wage controls. “The reason some government officials don’t like it,” Capehart said, “is because congress wrote the regulations instead of giving the administration blanket authority.” ' The amendment will go into effect in the next few weeks. Several questions were asked •concerning the Korean war and Sen. Capehart explained that neither honor anyone else could authentically predict the outcome but:.he did say firmly that the I nlted States should either withdraw completely or enter the situation completely and win. Other points made clear by 'the senator included: Favpring \ a strong two-party system of government. Elimination of the present double taxation of industrial profits. u Opposition to government entering private business of any sort with the exception of education and protection. Preceding the forum, George Laurent, president of the local group,; introduced | the other officers of the recently organized club: • Charles Ehingar, vice-president; Walter Ford, secretary-treasurer; Harold Engle and C. I. Finlayson, directors. * • . Ben. Capehart also conducted a quest I on-answer forum at Decatur high school Friday afternoon and • i (TW* Te race Mi)

Two Others Are Missing As Three Planes Crash On Military Missions

Roy Price General Chairman For Fair r ! Price Is Selected ] By Fair Directors Roy Price, prominent Adams county farmer and former county treasurer, Friday was named general chairman of the 1952 Decatur free fair and agricultural exposition, to be held August 25 to 30 at Hanna-Nuttman park. Price has had considerable experience in fairs and agricultural exhibits and his selection was by unanimous vote pf the fair directors. He formerly served as general chairman of the Decatur free street fair and has been active for several years in the Indiana fair association. ’ Walter Fordr executive manager of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. was named secretary of the 1952 fair and Price and Ford will name other-committees to present the 1952 exposition. The 1952 event will he the~first to be held at Hanna-Nuttman park. Much work already has been done in readying the land. Drainage has been provided and seVeral road-ways-already have been constructed with more road work scheduled in the early spring. | For the first few years tents and temporary buildings will be used, but the board plana eventually to construct permanent buildings. Price and plan to attend the annual meeting of the state fair association at Indianapolis in January and to this meeting they will appoint committee chairmen. .U— ■ . D.C. Stephenson , Returns To Prison Seems Resigned To Serving Out Term j Michigan City, Ind. t Dec. B—(UP) —Former Ku Klux Klansman D.C. Stephenson, who harangued audiences\with “I am the law in Indiana.” returned to the prison today where he spent 25 years for the rapeslaying of a young girl, j The one-time hyll-voiced orator. | now balding and paunchy, was met at the gates of the Indiana State prison last night by Warden Alfred D, Dowd. 'Before being taken inside, Stephenson gazed around him. as if taking one last look at the freedom he fought so hard and long to obtain then threw away »by his parole. “I whl say the weather is surprisingly warm for thia time of year.” was his only remark to newsmen. Then he walked inside. Dowd said Stephenson would appear Dec. 21 before the prison board of trustees to determine his status and how long he would have to serve before once again befog eligible for parole. — His return to prison marked the end of a long trail for Stephenson. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1925 for the brutal rapeslaying of pretty Madge Oberholtzer, 26. • 7 \ The strongest evidence against him was her deathbed statement accusing him. She said she took poison after Stephenson raped her. However, the. state contended —and the jury accepted—that she would have died of her injuries even without poison. Stephenson contended from the first that he was railroaded into* prison for “political” reasons. He began a series of legal moves to obtain hii freedom. Altogether he presented 36 appeals, and most of them he argued himself. Court observers said his presentations were “brilliaiirt.” "In 13 years of watching Federal court proceedings. I have never beard a better presentation,” one attorney said of his appeal. “He referred to statutes and laws at will (Tant Ta Face Six)

6,000 British Troops Dig In At Suez City Egyptian Forces Turned Back By British Artillery Cairo, Egypt, Dee. B.—(UP)— Egyptian fqrces advancing on a British position outside Suez City tos ‘‘meet force with force” , were turned back today by an jmposing ring of British artillery. RAF jet fighters roared over the tiny village of Kafr Abu Amr where 6,000 British troops were dug in with heavy armor to protect the building of a “safe” military road between British headquarters and a vrater filtration plant. Abbas GCneina Bey, Egyptian deputy governor of the Suez Canal zone, ordered Egyptian police forces to the area this morning and said he expected them toelash with the British "momentarily.'? But they failed to arrive by? noon and the Egyptian interior ministry annon need they had been unablb to "go into because British gup positions blocked their way. The interior ministry communique said police forces "moved under serious conditions but could not get! close enough due to longrange British guns and because the British concentrations were out of roach of their firearms.” The communique reiterated that strict orders had been issued to the plolice to carry out the Egyptian cabinet decision to use force to prevent the building of the road. It said a total of 10,000 British troops were in Kafr Abu Amr and the area surrounding it. From Suez City, United Press j correspondent Zaki Salama reporti ed that Suez governor Ibrahim Zaki El Kholi had called the Egyptians back. He said the order was issued ’ at the request of Suez City officials (Turn To Pare Tfcree) — »- ' Cool Air Masses Sweep Eastward Severe Snow Storms In North Midwest By United Press Indian summer was served with .sg eviction notice today as cool air masses swfept eastward collided vrithVaTWAnn - air front and caused severe snow storms in the northern nrtdWest. S i: South Dakota appeared hardest hit and a courageous band’ of 16 farmers battled ice-covered highways,, to donate blood that was> credited with saving the life of a woman. ' It the farmers 90 minutes to make the short trip -from! Onida to Pieqre but hospital attendants Said that Mrs. Elroy Rivenes, injured when a shotgun accidentally discharged, was tn satisfactory condition after the multiple transfusions. Many schools were closed Friday by the storms which reached bits- ( zard strength in Pierro, Murdo ! and Gettysburg. S. D. Communications and transportation were crippled in\ the area and highway travel was extremely hazarddus. The eastern section of the country, however, looked at the calendar and the thermometer; and shrugged its shoulders- Philadelphia basked in a record. 7p'degree temperature. x Weathermen said the unseasonably mild spell appeared doomed "at least for the time being” and near normal temperatures for December were on the way. Temperatures dipped abruptly in the Rocky Mountain area and enow flurries were reported in the Grest Lakes area and the northern plains. * ' A new storm in the far south- 1 (Twm T» Page Mk) r ■ t

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] • 16 Airmen Killed 4 In Azores Crash; - Eight In France;* > Three In Japan By United Press Twenty-seven American' airmen and two others were missing today after three U. S. air force planes crashed on military missions—one in France, another in Japan and the third in the Azores. The crashes involved a C-47 transport plane, a C-119 “flying boxcar" and a B-29 bomber. Nineteen of the d*ead were all crewmen aboard the superfortress which crashed.into the sea Thursday three miles off Terceira Island in the Azores. TTiere were no survivors, the air force said. One l>ody was recovered five miles south of Lages air force base ' from which the big ship had taken off for Mac Dill air ba«e at Tampa, Fla., on a routine training mission. . The B-29 pilot radioed the tower at Lages just three minutes after taking off. He did not report any trouble. Debris from the wrecked plane was discovered otily a S|tort; distance from the airport. U. S. air force planes joined with Portuguese planes and surface craft in a seatcji for additional victims, but they were hampered by low visibility and heavy rains. . The C-47 transport was found, today on a mountain crag near Marseilles, France, i It disappeared Thursday on a flight from Tripoli. North Africa. to v Marseilles. A French rescue Squad found eight (barred bodies in the wreekagq which lay 900 feet below the 4,224-foot summit of one of the area’s highest peaks. The squad Searched for two other men “Reported aboard the Ship. Discovery of the crashed plane ended a wdiespread search by 25 American and French planes and. by naval vessels of both nations. One crewman was reported to have parachuted to safqty shortly before the C-1119 "flying boxcar" crashed in the narrow portion of Japan's inland sea between the Japanese main islands of Honshu and Shikoku. * The air force announced that at least three othem crewmen were killed. An extensive air-sea search for a fourth victim Wad underway. v The plane wa« on . a l routine flight between two American bases in southern and central Japan. The sole survivor parachuted to safety then swam to Kitahl Island, south of Hie Honshu city, of Okayama. according to the Japanese newspaper Mainichi. 127 Million Dollars' In State Bonus Fund Indianapolis, Dec. 8 —(UP). — A total of $127.0(W,000 rested iq the Indiana World War. II servicemen’s' bonus fund today-but state officials said payments to non-wounded vets won't begin for three years. . Clinton Green,, director of the Indiana department of veterans’ afl fairs, said 341,973 claims are on file but added general claimaiqts probably won’t receive checks until late 1954. Green said $23,705,323 has been paid to 48,318 disabled Gl'a or next of kiu and 2,000 similar claims axe being processed. Such claims have priority over regular applications.

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