Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XUX. No. 291.

MCGRATH TESTIFIES IN SCANDAL HEARING

Reds Reject Man-For-Man Captive Trade ? Reject Proposal Os Man-For-Man Trade * Os War Prisoners ‘ ' T'. f ' • ' .■ \ ■ Panmunjom, Korea, Dec. 11 —: (UP) — The Communists rejected today a United Nations proposal for a man-for-man exchange of war prisoners during a Korean armistice; - They also refused to \ disclose the location of their prison camps or permit international Red Cross representatives to visit them unless the allies agree to free all. 120,000 Red prisoners durrrig the truce. • ") ’ ~ ; The Reds at the same time’ took back an offer- made only a . few hours earlier to permit the American troop" rotation program' to continue if the allied agreed to ‘ neutral” policing of j the armistice. ■ ■ i The stubbdrh Communist stand in twin, simultaneous subcommittee meetings in adjacent tents at Panmunjom left the armistice negotiations still deadlocked with only 16 days temaining’before.thODec. 27 target for agreement. Both 'subcommittees will meet again at 11 a. m. tomorrow (8 p.m. today CST). v t The day’s sole favorable development was the sudden Communist agreement to appointment of. the new subcommittee on war' prisoners and* the holding of its first meeting. \ ‘ But the new group ran into an immediate stalemate. - ► North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho opened the session wish a proposal that all war prisoners of both sides be released after an armistice has been signed. ' \ / “All /prisoners, possessed . by both sides, should be released,” he aa*d. “Release all the prisoners; and let them go home." 1 In effect, he was proposing an exchange pf up to 120,000 North Korean and Chinese war prisoners in tTN hands for an unknown number of allied prisoners in Red hands. In all. fewer than 100,000 UN and South Korean troops, including about | 11,000 Americans, nre missing in action, and the Reds have refused adamantly to say how many’of them have been captured. tRear. Admiral Is. E. Libby, representing the UN, counter-proposed: 1. “That thgre-be'an early regulated exchange of prisoners of war on a fair and equitable barfs and under suitable supervision.” 2. “That there be suitable sup/ ervision to assure humane treatment of and comfort for the sick end wounded before and during the exchange.” t ; - ——_• r j ■' \. j Start Excavation. At City Auxiliary Plant Mayor John Doan this morning started activities at the site of Decatur's new auxiliary municipal power plant building at the corner of bayton and Seventh streets/ The mayor turned over the first shrivel of dirt and Yost Construction Co. employes immediately started the task of excavating for the foundation. - Lester Pettibone, superintendent of the dity power plant; H. Vernon Au rand, clerk-treasurer; Ed Kauffman. auditor for the municipal utilities; Lester Mitchell and AF bert city power plant employes, arm Dick. Heller, member of the city plan commission, attended the informal ceremony. The building will house the re cently purchased diesel plant which wi[l become part of Decatur’s electric power supply when it is inretailed. . _ J Five-YearOld Boy Is Burned To Death Indianapolis, Dec. 11.—(UP)— James Edward Thurman, five-year-old negro, was burned to death last night when fire detroyed the family’s three-room home. Mrs. Minnie Thurman, 28, the boy's mother, carried another son. Anthony, two to safetly when she discovered the blase. Firemen said the fire started around, a flue.

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Auction Graduate Exercises Friday i 'Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of sessions of the Reppert auction school, Will be the principal speaker at the 61st commencement exercises to be coiyjucted Friday noon in the Kk of P. home, in this city., The commencement will conclude, the three intensive weeks of study for 50 tledgllng auctioneers who ’ represent T 9 states and one Canadian province. School officials said >that the complete roster of those to appear on the progra nrwill be announced at a later date. - r ■, Air Warfare Resumed Over Korean Front Report Communists Put New-Type Jet Plane Into Action Bth 1 Army Headquarters, Korea, Dec. .11—(UP)— jet fighters clashed with Communist Mig-15 jets for t he first ti,ne Tn three days today and probably shot down two« Red planes and damaged two others. -H /- Sixty-two F-86 Sabrejets fought with about 115 of the Russian-built jets in two battles oyer northwest Korea. The sth air force said all Sabrejets returned safely to bases. An air force source disclosed today that the Communists have thrown a jet into action ever North Korea. He said the straight-wing plane, a marked contrast to the swept-back wing of the Mig-15, was spotted by two F-51 Mustangs yesterday near Sariwon, south of Pyongyang. The Mustang pilots reported “negative claims” on the new enemy jets and “negative damage” to themselves, indicating <hat, at least a fight occurred. Although \there hate been reports of improved MigS in North Korea, thia was the first report of a new jet with a conventional wing. Renewal of the air war coincided with the end of bad weather that caused atwo-day lull. One enemy jet was probably destroyed and two damaged in a 15minute fight late this afternoon between 36 Sabrejets and 65 Mig’s between Sinuiju . and the Chong Ctiong river, 75 rgiles to the southeast. / ( j . Credited with a probable kill was Ist Lt. Donald Q. Griffith of Columbus, O. It was his first claim. The other probable Mig kill occurred in a morning encounter between 26 Sabrejets and . about 50 'Mig’s. / ~ Flying as a screening force for fighter-bombers attacking rail targets, the Sabrejets attacked the .Mig’s near Anju in the/lower corner (Tun T® Pane El«ht) Wilhelmina Dierkes Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Wilhelmina Diesrkes; 7?, a native of Germany, died unexpectedly at 3:35 o’clock this morning at her home. 1409 Nuttman h venue. Although she had been ailing for several years,; her death was unexpected. Born in Germany Jan. 9, 1874. she was a daughter of Johann and Anna Weshelmann-Winner, and came to the United States in 1896. She was married to Herman Dierkes Nov-17. 1896, aM he died June 29, 1909. H Mrs. Dierkes was a member of the Zion Lutheran chmich. P ’Surviving are four sbns, Henry at home. Dietrfch (Dee), Hetman and John Diethe** all of Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. John Kiess of Decatur; one grandchild; and one brother. Henry Winner of Flushing. L. I. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted .at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Zion Lutheran church, the /Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt officiating.' Burial will be in the Decatur tery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to ths residence, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Wednesday Th® casket will not be opened at the church.

At Top Level Conference | bL « H I kL/j I B ®l 9H AMONG THOSE attending a White House conference for which Presitlerr^Truman cut short his Florida vacation were (1. to r.) Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint fchfef” of Staff; Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr.; and Air Force Chief jjtaff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, all showp as they"arrived for the talks. Despite the military, of the gathering, the White House announced discussion of Korean peace problems was A>f many

East German Reds Condemn Proposal Voice Opposition To Free Election Plans i • / Paris, Dec. 11—(UP)—Communist East Germany made its United Nations debut today by condemning a western proposal for a "Un on-the-spot inquiry to see if free German elections are possible. The Communist representatives insisted on immediate adoption of their own plan for a strictly Ger-man-conducted inquiry under control of the four occupation powers. The belated appearance of the East Germans, came /thfree days a r ter the West Germans accepted the western pow-ers’ formula for UN inspection. ’ Dr. Lothar Bolz, Soviet zonle deputy premier, said that \CjonA-' mun'ist “Nlew Germany" was i determined to steer clear of vihat he called the aggressive war course followed by the “criminal Hitler regime” of West Germany. Bolz said in iyhe western proposal for\a UN inquiry into conditions of democracy in Germany ‘would be tantamount to inter-' vention in this domestic peaceful problem in Germany." Bolz blasted the contractual agreeinent negotiated by ern powers and West German Chancellbr Konrad Adenauer as a device tp bring a new West German wehrmabht into a European army commander, by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said it was “without parallel and precedent" And constituted “treason.” To Mail 1,300,000 Gross Income Forms ftidianapolis, Dec/ 11.— (UP) — Indiana revenue director Conn T. Sterling said today his department will mail p 1,300,000 preaddressed state gross income tax forms during the last week of December. Mailing Reports On Collection Report Mailed To Donors Letters, containing a report on collections for the Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., are being mailed to the approximate 400 donors to the proposed Community Center. .. Collections have been increasing during- the past month and an ef-\, fort is being made to get payments in during December, ahead of the semi-annual contribution from Central Soya abmpany. " ,£ *' Central Soya company contributes $1 for every $2 coljected. Settlement la made ivith the company at the end of the year. Payments to the Foundation exceeded $125,000 at the report and foundation directors' who met last evening with T. F. Grallker, treasurer, at the First State Bank, believe steps toward building the Center can be taken in 1952, if government restrictions on steel and critical materials are removed,

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20 Percent Fewer Automobiles Built Detroit, Dec. 11 —(UP) — Twenty percent fewer passenger cars were produced this year than in 1950 because of government restrictions on materials, the i: automobile manufacturers association " reported today. Although production was “relatively high" during the first six months of 1951.,it dropped sharply during the July-to-Decembgr period, the AMA said. ’ \ Total output of motor cars reached an estimated 5,373.U09 this year, compared with 6,665,863 last year. '■ ' J .1 . '/■. , Jail Breaker Trial Goes To Jury Today Kenneth Rath Case In Hands Os Jury Members of the grand jury retired to their chambers in the Adams circuit court late today to consider the evidence presented to them in tjhe state’s case against Kenneth Roth, charging the latter with breaking from the Adams county jail November 1. The jurors received their instructions froth Judge Myles F. Parrish after counsel for the state, prosecutor Severin Schurger, and defense counsel Hubert han, presented their final arguments. . The arguments culminated a full day of testimony presented Monday by witnesses called to the stand by either side. The "crux of 'the cake,” said prosecutor Schurgei* in his closing remarks, “is whether or not this man (Roth) broke from the Adams county jail.” : \ However, during much of the trial this issue had become clouded defense argument that was unlawfully arrested. No terj, “were it true,” said Schurgerj “he wajs not unlawfully confined.? To attest to thia, the prosdcutoij ‘read the court order confining Roth to the Adams county jail, among other documents. Roth was there because he was. arrested August 1 for his alleged part, in the burglary of the Harold Barger residence. He is charged with that offense. McClenahan throughout the trial intimated that he should never have been there in' the first place: for he was wrongfully arrested. McClenahan said sheriff Shraluka arested him. The sheriff, on the stand, denied this. Shraluka • said it was state police who made the arrest.- r “The jury," summed up Schurger in his first arguments, “must decide that Roth whs lawfully lodged in jail, was awaiting criminal prosecution, and be escaped. Those three things.” The defendant's attorney argued that the sheriff voluntarily allowed Roth to escape. “Poof,” said Schurger to this statement, when the time came. \ In the sheriffs testimony on the stand he pointed out that Roth was given some trusted duties, “which he was more than willing so perform for the sake of getting in.to the open air.’’ ‘ The focal point at issue tn thia particular case — whether or not Roth escaped the Adams county lost in the maze of testimony and arguments presented to skirt the issue. For ths moat (Tun Te Page Klcht)

Report 35 Injured In Iranian Riots Riots Outside And Inside Parliament jrehran, Iran, Dec. 11 —(UP)— Riots inside and outside the Iraniaih parliament injured at least 35 persons today as opposition deputies shouted down Premier Mohamed Mossadegh with taunts of “|»t the hell put of here.” About 500 newspapermen and sifectators took part in a free-for-all In the parliament grflery as an open session of the house was to hpgin this morning. ' « ’ The parliamant guard broke up tti| fight inside the building. Cries of “I’m killed” and ‘ Tve been struck fatally” were heard above the other shouts of the 'rioters, |The guards drove both governident and opposition supporters cut of the building and the fight continued there. 'Truckloads of black-helmeted armed troops were rushed to the parliament building to guard the g|)tes following this morning’s clashes. s /After the guards cleared the chamber the session began. When Mossadegh went to the rostrum to speak he was shouted "down repeated»ly by opposition deputies, ’who are camping in the parliament because of fear of the knobs outside. - “I’ll go outside and address the true Iranian nation if you don't Iql pe talk here, and then they chn truly judge for _themselves,” Mossadegh said. ; “Don’l threaten us,” shouted opposition leader Jamal Emmai. “Get the hell out of here." “Let me speak first and then ypu can jiidge if I’m at fault.” Mossadegh cried. “If I’m at fault I’ll resign.” He was to speak on the government decision to give former customers of the nationalized Anglo-Iranian oil company 10 days to buy oil on a priority basis. ; Emami charged that Mossadegh was responsible for all local disturbances throughout Iran. , One newspaperman . and one, spectator were hospitalized after the fight inside the parliament building. At least 23 others were reported injured. I Outside the parliament the fighting .continued in a court yard more than 10 persons were reported injured. The police barricaded the parliament gates and newsmen and spectators were held in the yard fqr hours. " At one point the crowd attempted to crash through the huge metal doors of the parliament building. Military guards used theif fists and uniform belts to break up he fight inside the building and drive the demonstrators out. I■/ ■ ■ , ' ■ / Terre Haute Vote Recount Continues Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 11 — (UP> ( —A recount of votes cast in this City’s Nov. 6 mayoralty election today, and a final tblly was not expected for nine days. The first-day count of four of 56 prectnota showed no change late yesterday. Republican John Ennis, who asked the recount, earlier wm Hated as having lost his election bid to Democratic Mayor Ralph Tucker by 52 votes.

Denies Any Knowledge Os T. Lamar Caudle's Improper Associations

Boastful Gunman Is Sought In Arizona / Young Couple Kidnap Victims Os Gunman Yuma, Ariz.,; Dec. 11—(UP) — Men and airplanes fanned out across the desert near here today in a desperate search for a boastful gunman in the sunbaked wastes with a young, couple he kidnaped from a roadside. Authorities said the gunman boasted of being “smarter” than mass-murderer Billy Cook, killer of six persons. The sheriffs office sent men on foot across the mesquite-covered sands and up all sideroads leading into the area from U.S. highway 80 while civil air patrol planes took off to scan the region from the air for the missing couple’s car. The FBI also was asked to join in the search. Undersheriff Lloyd Mabery said the desert search was ordered deputies petroling all highways and manning roadblocks in northwest Arizona and southern California failed to find the car in which the desperado was believed fleeing. Authorities believe the man eithec is hiding out on the desert or has slipped over the border into Mexico with his captive*, Mabery said. . . The kidnaping was reported by a Casa f Grande, Arig, mechanic, James E. Beaird, 44, who said the egotistical gunman kidnaped him near Casa Grande and forced him to drive to a spot near here. Beaird said the bandit flagged him down on the highway and robbed him of $36 at gunpoint. The man then ordered him to drive nearly 200 milds at 80 miles an hour before he spotted the couple’s car parked beside the highway 22 miles from here. The - mechanic said the couple was standing > beside a 1951 model car with green out-of-state license plates and appeared to be watching the sunset. The highwayman ordered Beaird to stop his car, Beaird said, and he ripped some wiring from the engine. He then approached thfe <Tmr* To Pa*e Six) Scout Honor Court Held Monday Night Honor Court Held Here For Troop 63 A Boy Scout court of honor was held Monday evening at the American Legion home tor troop 63,' sponsored by Adams Post 43, | American Legion. \ / W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, presided ba chairman, Ith Bill Hunter serving as scribe. Second class awards were presented by Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, and first class and merit badge awards by Herman H. Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank. Second class awards were made to Larry Strickler and Doyle Egley. First class awards went to Steven Deßolt and Harold Van Horn. I Merit badges! were presented to the fallowing: Dwight McCurdy, firemanship, fingerprinting, art, bookbinding, first aid; Bob McCurdy, tiremanship, fingerprinting, reading, scholarship, first aid, art; Niland Oschenrider, citizenship, pathfinding, fingerprinting; Steven Dwßolt, fingerprinting; Lawrence Ehinger, fingerprinting; Roger Eley, fingerprinting; David Runyon, fingerprinting. ; j — 1 ’ Indiana weather Partly cloudy and colder tonlght with snow flurries in extreme north, and scattered farther south. Wednesday increasing cloudiness with light •now again northwest by evening. Colder couth. Low tonight 15-20 north, 20-25 couth. High Wednocday 32-36. t

Big Four Will Resume Talks On Disarming To Resume Talks On Outlawing A-Bomb, General Disarming Paris, Dec. 11. —(UP) — The. big four announced today they have agreed to resume talks on outlawing the atomic bomb and on general disarmament in a new United Nations commission. Britain immediately warned against letting hopes for disarmament be raised “falsely.” The United States. : Britain, France and Russia disclosed the agreement in a communique summarizing the failure otherwise of their lOday effort to reconcile conflicting east-west views on disarmament. Both held out strongly for discussion on their own terms. Debate on the big four report in the 60-nation political committee of the UN was opened today by British delegate SelWyd Lloyd. The debate is expected to bring a Russian vote against the .Whet’s disarmament plan. Speaking for all big three western powers, Lloyd said that although there was agreement in principle bn the machinery for discussing disarmament, the big four totally disagreed on the major issues to be discussed — especially ■control of the atomic bomb. ’ Lloyd said mutual east-west distrust was the crux of the problem of disarmament. “We.say we have no aggressive intentions against the Soviet Union. Mr. Vishinsky says /he does not believe it. He says the Soviet Union has no aggressive intentions against the rest bf the world. We unfortunately . . . are unable at the present time to* accept such an assertion.” I t ' Lloyd said there was no sign that the Russians will ever accept the so-called Baruch plan for the banning and control of the atomic bomb and declared th® west will riot accept the Soviet demand for an immediate ban of the bomb unless Russia simultaneously reduces “under international regulation” her own weapons and forces.L The committee adjourned after Llpyd spoke and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky told newsmen he probably would reply tp the west tomorrow. j —T* * A ,■ A''''' Daniel G. Railing Dies Last EvenMg Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Daniel G. Railing, 6L farmer and lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:45 o'clock Monday evening at the. Adams county memorial hospital following a long illness of complications. He was born in Adams county June 23, 1890, a son of Jacob and Anna Buckmaster-Railing, and had never married. He made his home Witjh a brother, Morton Railing, Decatur route 4. ' - He was a member pt (the St. Paul United Brethren chtfrch. Surviving are two brothers, Morton A. Railing and Forrest J. Railing, Decatur route 6, and a sister, Mrs. Maude ; Morgan of Monroe. Ona brother is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pi m. Thursday at the home, the Rev. Lawrence Norris officiating. Burial wflL be in the Pleasant Mills cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral: home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. ’ . .. I ’ /’■'•

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Reports Continue Attorney General Will Resign Or Be Fired By President \ Washington. Bee. 11 — (UP) 4Attorney general J- Howard McGrath said today he never heard of T. Lamar Caudle’s improper associations and didn’t think he should take the rap for them. McGrath said it was up to Caudle, who Was ousted by President Truman as assistant attorney general only after house tax investigators dug into his activities. to ,get rid of friends with sliady backgrounds. "I never heard the names of these people until’ this investiga- > tion started,” McGrath told tipuse tax investigators. “Nobody ever called my attention tothem. He (Caudle) never mentioned; : their names to me." I . McGrath was called on the carpet by a house ways and means subcommittee ' t which < has heard testimony that Caudle took free plane rides, cut rates on fur coats - and automobiles, and commissions on oil and plane deals, and that he' heard last August a report his name was being used in a $500,000 tax shakedown scheme > and did nothing about it/ ~h ?' I McGrath revealed that President Truman still hasn’t told him the teasons why he ousted Caudle on Nov; 16,' McGrath raid Mr. Tra man asked him to demand Caudle’s resignation last month ‘because bf information which the Subcommittee developed secretly and sent the president. . ; r McGrath indicated this, came as a surprise to him because the’ subcommittee did not send the infbr-,/ mation to him. McGrath said he at no time recommended: Caudle’i resignation. It was not until sometime after Caudle's ouster that thei subcommittee / disclosed Caudle’s; 1 outside activities in public hear- - ing.s McGrath’s rejection of responsibility for Caudle’s associations with men “convicted of crimes" came amid reports he himself may ' resign hr foe fired by s’ President Truman; for having allegedly '“dreadfully mismanaged" the justice department. McGrath, unlike earlier witnesses, was not initially sworn. But alter he had testified for some time Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.) protested thia omission. Chairman Cecil R. King (D-Cal.) retorted it was not'his policy to put cabinet officers under oath ‘‘unless they so desire.” McGrath volunteered that he had* “no objection” tb being sworn. V King theh administered the oath. whereupon McGrath stated he wanted it made retroactive. He said he wanted the oath to apply to “everything I have said on the record today." While rebuking Caudle for his indiscretions, McGrkth said he did and still does have great affection for Caudle—a man of “great heart and a great love for’ people. ’’ He said he had every reason to trust Caudle, and that he still feeds his ousted assistant has a conscience that. “Would not let him compromise the justice y department.” . However, he said Caudle, according to earlier testimony, failed in his duty to “get rid of" undesirable acquaintances and that I Caudie also failed to tell him the full (Tura To Pit* Six! > 44 SHOPPING ' . 11PAYS LEFT 7 t ■_ ■ I Hfki r» —-