Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 295, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 295.

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Numbing Cold Wave Moving Across Nation Eight Major Cities Smothered By Snow; 21 Deaths Reported I By United Press ' A numbing cold wave moved eastward across the nation today on j the heels of a snarling, record snowfall that buffeted the northern half qf the country, smothering at least eight major cities. » The snowfall brought death to at least 21-persons. The wide-sweeping arm of the etorm hit Chicago, Columbus. Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington. , s lowa City, la?, recorded the deepj eat snowfair with 12, inches official* ly reported on the ground. But Chicago was not far behind with 10 inches as ropes were put up along Michigan Avenue to aid windblown pedestrians. The semi-paralyzing snow was a vanguard for a sut>serofront spreading eastward from the Rocky mountains. Miles City, Mont, reported a low of 23 degrees below, zero and Dickinson, N.D., bundled up against 21 below. Denver reported three below at midnight and forecasters, predicted “much colder” temperatures for the east. The cold was expected to invade even the Florida Keys—the most southerly tip of the United' States. The temperature dipped down to 1.2 degrees below zero at Chicago early today, a record for the year, i A 2-11 alarm fire brake out in ithe basement of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railway station, and firemen fought the cold along with the blaze. The snow and the clutter of fire fighting equipment combined to * make busy Wabash Avenu'e in the loop impassable. All traffic was, rerouted around the scene. Seven firemen were injured fighting the stubborn blaze. In the nation’s capital, many . government workers were let off early from work as four inches fell there. Philadelphia reported a hopeless snart—of traffic as five Inches dropped on its streets —a three-year record. Homebound workers were delayed up to three hours and thb Philadelphia Transportation Co. reported that it was the' worst traffic snarl in the city’s history. In Baltimore’ Md., hundreds of commuters stayed at hotels or with friends as they gave up the struggle to reach their home* through the swirling snow. New York City was caught under 3.3 inches of snow which later turn-, ed to rain. The combination made for hazardous driving conditions. Police reported “hundreds” of. (Turn Te Pare Five) Good Fellows Club Previously reported $638.10 . A Friend 2.00 A Friend —2,00 Eagles Auxiliary 8.00 Rose Garden Club --- , 2.00 Friends 4-43 The Gang ' — . -9 A Friend — 2.00 A Goodfellow —_ 10.00 Rotary -- 23.50 American Legion Auxiliary 25.00 Rnsary Society — j ; jIO.OO Decatur Emblem Club _ 5.00 A Friend 10.00 TOTAL —— $742.32 Second Interceptor Wing Is In Action Tokyo, Dec. —(jUP) —A" second interceptor wing of Sabrejet fight-» er planes has gone into battle il( Korea to reinforce the veteran 4th wing, the air force announced tonight. ' The new wing is the 51st. Its pilots started to go into action Dec. 1 and additional planes have joined daily si no et hen. Already the 51st has shot down two Russian-built Mig u ls jet fighters and six. Ist LL- Paul E. Roach, of Muncie, Ind., shot down the first Mig. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief of staff of the air force, decided oa the reinforcement several week* ago when it became evident that the Communists were increasing their air strength, LL Gen. O. P. Weyland, commanding the far east air forces, said. - / ' • • - I

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- 111 ■ - — — Tribune Replies To McKinney's Demands ■ < * - ■ I' J P Scathing Editorial Rants At McKinney Chicago, Dec. — (UP) —The . Tribune today replied to hiatibnal Democratic chairman Frank E. McKinney’s demands for \a retraction for : calling him a “'crobk" by referring to him as hpoor McNinny”, and a "get-rich-' ■quick boy.” . J In a scathing editorial, the Tri- ! bune came back at McKinney in ( -the second round of a battle which , began Thursday night when Me* : ’Kinney srpoke at a Democratic Jackson Day dinner and attacked • l the Tribune. > ' || McKinnley’s blast prompted Tri- , Ibune publisher Gol. Robert R. Mc- . Ipormtek to say that the Tribune - P‘ha* shown McKinney up as a ®rook.” ’ r ■ ■ The Democratic chieftain said • yesterday that McCormick’s statement "will be retracted, or else.” I ‘He declined to say whether he i wo&id mie. , . ► But the Tribune editorial seemed to indicate that Do retraction | would be forthcoming. The editorial delved deep into McKinney’s stock profits from the {Empire Tractor company. J It. was the disclosures of the v this week that obviously formed the basis for McCormick’s ■ jerook” label. ’ ; The editorial said that MciKnney’s “dear friend and sponsor” Js Frank McHale, whom the Tri- ! tune identified as the Democratic Iboss of Indiana. St Another friend, the Tribune Atkid, was Frank Cotten. The newspaper said Cohen formed the Empire Tractor company out of die former Empire Ordnance company. iHcHale, the Tribune said, got five percent of the ordnance company’s profits in return dor 125,000. . McHale put 11.000 \inio Empire Tractor. "So did his friend, McKinney, but . McKinney says it was another ' friend, not McHale, who tipped him off on the dealt* the editorial said. McKinney has admitted that he vestment, but he said there was nothing dishonest about the deal. The editorial went on to say (that Cohen *oii some of his friends” bought the ■ stock- ' back from McHale and, a few , months after the original purchase. ■ The firm went; a year later, the Tribute aiaid, and the lawyer for th* trustee in bank- . ruptcy is trying to learn whether she payments to the two men exhausted the treasury. I .' 1 ' i ; . - Final Rites Monday For Ramon 0, Hunt Geneva [Teacher To Be Buried Monday Funeral serviced will be held Monday morning for Ramon O. Hunt, veteran Geneva teacher and former Geneva high school principal, who died suddenly at noon Friday at his homd as he was pre- ; paring to return to school for “the afternoon session. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Geneva Methodist church, the Rey. Paul Irwin officiating. > Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. The body, At the Hardy 4b Hardy funeral home, will be taken to the church at 9 a.m. Monday. > Mr. Hunt, who: served 25 years as Geneva principal before reslgn- . ing last summer although remaining as teacher, was a native of Adams county. I ' He was a member of the IHSAA athletic cpaocil,| the Methodist ' church, Masonic and IOOF lodge*, the Geneva Lions club and the Scottish Rite of Fort Wayne. Surviving Mr. Hunt are his wife. Ruth; two children, Elaine and Larry, at home; his mother, Mrs. Mina Hunt of Geneva; three bro there, Roy Hunt of oPrtland, Henry Hpnt of Huntington and the Rev. True Hunt of Dallas Center, la., and one sister, Mrs. Cecil Smitley of Berjie. ! . INDIANA WEATHER v Fair end oolder tonight exoept anew flurries near Lake Michigan. Low temper*turns tonight 8-10 below zero north to \ zero to tonally five be tow south. Sunday fair *nd ©old with high temperatur** 10 to 18.

Steel Union To 'Convene Monday On Strike Action > Serious Threat Os Strike Is Seen By Federal Mediators Pittsburgh, Dec. 15—(UP) — The last joint CIO-U.S. Steel Corp, wage bargaining session before the United Steelworkers wage policy coni- ■ mittee meets Monday to consider strike action was cancelled today. A U.S. Steel spokesman said today's session in the crucial pay . talks was called off because of a snow storm. He pointed out that i Pittsburgh mayor David Laurence , has appealed to the public to stay out of the city’s downtown district because of traffic tie-ups. ■ The joint talks will resume Tuesday after the union's policy conference. Federal mediators who entered the negotiations yesterday re- . ported a "serious” threat of a L \ strike of the nation's 650,000 basic steel Workers. CIO president Philip Murray and U.S. Steel vice president John A. Stephens met separately with medi : ators Walter A Maggiolo and Clyde H. Mills. Maggiolo and Mills then returned to Washington to report to U.S. conciliation chief Cyrus Ching. J " ’ Murray, meanwhile, was scheduled to meet Monday with his 170man wage policy commutes Industry observers said the meeting presumably was to authorise Murray to call a strike after the big steel contract expires, Dec. 31. In Washington, economic stabilizer Roger L. Nutnam yes* terday that th* government will not allow steel producers tq pass any wage increase they might grant to the form of a boost in the price of steel to the consumer. Neither union or management spokesmen would comment on the warning. Putnam’s statement' followed by less than 36 hours one by defense tnobilizer Charles E. Wilson to the effect that the government intends to hold the wage ceiling line at any cost—even a strike in any major industry. S i . The union’s Official position in the dispute, centered around 22 demands including a "substantial” wage boost, will be known Monday following the meeting of its wage policy committee. Suspended Doctor Resigns Position Dr. Andrew C. Ivy Resigns Position Champaign, 111., Dec. 15 —(UP) — Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, recently auspOnded by the Chicago medical association, resigned today as head of the foundation exploring the controversial dancer drug krebiozeiA He gave no reason for hi* resignation. Ivy, vice-president of the University of Illinois and a world-tam-ed scientist, was suspended for three months by the society because of his “unethical conduct” in connection with th* promotional activities of the drug. He al*o asked for a two month leave of absence from the University so that he could continue bis research on krebiozen, however, and. hoped to conclude the research “a* soon as the facts permiL” George D. Stoddard, president of the University said he would ask the University board of trustees Monday to approve the leave of absence. » The board refused to take any action against Ivy when the scientist was suspended but asked him to complete his study of the drug as soon as possible. Krebiozen attracted world-wide attention when Ivy announced it* discovery by a refugee Yugoslav scientisL Dr. Ste Van Durovic. Ivy also has been under fire from the American Medical Association for his activities in connection with; the dfug. The Chicago medical society votj ed to suspend Ivy after the AMA: reported that the drug did not apt pear to be effective. The AMA: said that 100 patient* were treated; with the drug and “very Utte evit' deuce of value” wa* found. Noon Edition

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— "T— I Wanger Free On Bail ° „ ,|. .. J._| ■■■ II II. J ............. . I ' i i - b BLd|| I \ ■ . ~'. r - M 11 ► WALTER WANGER, prominent Hollywood movie producer, husband of actress Joan Bennett, and one-ttoie-.head of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, pkfiks up his personal belongings at Beierly Hills Hall of Justice after Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Cunningham ordered his release op $5,000 bail He had a night in jail after admittedly shooting hip wife's agent, Jennings Lang. Lang is undergoing treatment in a hospital. , ’ i L U -_4 I

:_r •”-•V— 3 Report American f Soldier Kidhaped Sentry Disappears L I At Czech Frontier Heidelberg,* Germany, Dec. “ (UP)—A young U.S. constabular trooper on eentry duty on the Czech-German border disappeared Wednesday and “probably was kidnaped across the frontier,” an army spokesman said today. : ' 1 • . IL- ; The spokesman refused to identify the sojdier, but said he was a I regular army private in the frontier l guarding crack, 15th constabulary 'squadron. He discounted z e P°ris that the trooper, who arrived in Germany recently had planned \to desert. “In fact odr information is quite ■to the contrary,” he said. “All the information In our possession indicates he probably was kidnaped across the frontier. “Tracks in • the snow showed he walked towards the frontier only a few hundred yards away. Since then, nothing has been heard from him and theVe is qo word bf what happened to him.” The spokesman > saip the trooper apparently went i to answer a call of nature. army said the trooper disappeared on the Bavarian-Czech border, but refused to identify the exact spot. An investigation has been started the spokesman said- “ However, there has been no iword from the Czechs yet and until we hear from thenj it is unlikely 'that we shall have any definite in(Tmhi To Pkko Mil

Good Fellows Club Is Devoted To Aiding Needy

(Editor's note: In this, the third in the Decatur Daily Democrat'o series on the work of the Good Fellows club, it is pointed out that Christmas is for children. The club, in itself and through the enlistment of assistance from others, tries to maintain that credo in their annual work.) i I ■ \ *' - * ” \ !.H When a member of the Good Fellows club, who must be a member of the Delta Theta Tau sorority, investigates a "case" the concentration is naturally on any children in the family. The members long ago decided that is where the bulk of the money should be spent. Yet they rever ignore other • cases; ~ their take them all as they come. But a serious attempt is made to create a semblance of order in this whole business giving for “the good of the heart" by concentrating on the youngsters. "What does your youngest child need?” is probably the most popular question of the members when they visit a home. They take the names and ages of all children, and work toward the goal of supply- ’.' ■ ■ u

r Terre Haute City Buses Roll Again Tbrre Haute, Ind.. Dec. 15 — |l*P)- —Terre Haute city buses rolled again today after a week long strike. Service was resumed late yesterday after 80 employes approved a new contract giving them T»-cent hourly pay bodats, si on plan and improved vacations, ff ’i- ■' i-v I ! : • V ■ ■■'■: : -i ■' Brother And Sister Are Drowned Friday 1 Fall Through Ice Into Excavation \ Indianapolis, Dec. 15—(UP)— A bretber and sister drowned while playing in the snow yesterday when they fell through thin ice into a Water-filled excavation at the site for * new home, j State police recovered the bodies pf Sharon 'Harness, eight, and her frother Steven, *lx. Another brother, Richard, 14, followed the children’s tracks to the sixbfoot deep trench dug some time ago as a septic tank for a new house. Police said the youngsters apparently slid onto the Ice from anopnds of dirt piled nearby. Their mother, Mr*. Vernon Harness, believed the boy fell, in first and his sister tried to save him. Richard was helping his mother hunt the children to c«Il them in tor supper.- He said he saw the broken ice and “knew right away (Tnrv Tn Pace St»» -- - - * • • —

I * tpg them. The Good Fellows club doesn't attempt to approach this work from the sociologist's view; In the first place, it’hasn’t the time. For most of the members, It’s a matter of leaving their own homes and families and devoting much time to Investigating those families Whose names have been submitted to them by either the schools, the welfare department, trustees, or by letters. they lhave little time'to study the causes and effects of the circumstances. Their trained eyes, Instead, scan the home, they listen to the list of needs, and attempt to meet these requirements. \ ~\ , For the most part, club members feel that supplying basic family needs arei club requirement*. They must meet them, if possible. ? ' There is still the matter of toys, though. But who is ; to argue with a member of the Good Fellows club, or anyone else, that toys aren't essentia) to the needs of a child at thjs time of year? Members this year are soliciting <tm t» p««e ato) ’ .1 ■' T’\ ; ■ ' / .r ' '</ '

Boobytrapped Rotation Plan Rejected: Turner Denounces Communists

| ... F | \ ’ 7 rir' ■ ■ Sensational Trial Looms In Hollywood Authorities Probe , Jealousy Shooting Hollywood. Dec. 15. —(UP) — One of movieland's most sensational trials in a decade loomed today in the Joan Bennett-Walter WangerJennings Lang love shooting.. Miss Bennett, a glamorous 42 year-old grandma, hotly denied she was interested in Lang and eaid she’d like! to forget the whole thing. So would Lapg, the 40-year-old agent who was wotinded Thursday night Wanger, 57, tired two Slugs in Lang's groin because he thought the younger man stealing Mis* Bennett’s But the law said nothing doing. "As far as the district attorney’s office is concerned.” district, attorney S. Ernest Roll declared, “if the police sign a complaint—and Beverly Hills chief Clinton Anderson *ays they will —this office will prosecute the case—regardless of the desires pf the participants.” \ ’ Roll said he and his assistants will interiew Lang at the hospital today at 10 : a.m. "We have also discovered a small suitcase in Wangen’s car," Roll added, "which contained reports made by private detective*.'* But he refused to say what they revealed or whether they concerned Miss Bemwtt Lang. v Roll made his announcement after police located * key witness who could relate details of the shooting ini which movie producer Wanger wounded Jennings. “I aid it because he was threatening my home,” Wanger confessed, running shaking hands through his thinning silver hair. “A year ago Joan's affections for me chilled. I suspected an affair with Lang. I hired private detectives- to follow my wife. Last i August I bought a gun. I had to shoot him. It was the only tiling I could do.” Wanger; told police that after Miss Benriett **changed her attitude, they dlsfe|usßed the possibility of divorce, but continu’Sd living together.”'- !•; Roll ideihtifled his key winiesS as Sam Scott, a service station*attendant, who told police he heard Miss Bennett stream!: "Don’t . . . don’t! Please Walter!” Scott said her anguished pleas were followed t)y two shots. ■'■l r s Eight State Deaths Linked To Weather Below Zero Reading Predicted In State Indianapolis, Dec. 15 — (UP) —* Strong windh drove a mass of cold vlr from Canada Into Indiana today, steadily shoving down tempertaures since dawn toward an expected low of five to 10 degrees below zero. The cold wind* drifted northern Indiana’s 10-inch snowfall, blocking secondary roads, as new snow Lurries fell this morning. Snow tn southern sections Os the state, packed dwon by a freezing rain, sported an ice-coated crust. At least eight deaths in Indiana were linked with the weather. Two fell through ice and drowned, auto and train accidents claimed four lives, and two men died of heart, attacks brought on while shoveling snow. It was one above zero in Lafayette at 7:30 a. m. today—Hoosierland’s coldest reading this winter —and the worst was yet to come, Fred Maher, meteorologist at the U. S. weaAer bureau here, said ’“we’re still ijot in the center of the cold mass.” He said earlier forecasts of zero lows tonight would be revised to five to ten below. ♦ It might he even colder, he said, were it not for\ a cloud oov*r blanketing much of the state from frigid winds. The cloudiness kept cities like (Twra T* Wk)

r ; ■- ■ . • . . . » j : • -n*; • ; .. . . Aerial, Ground Action Step Up On Korea Front North Korea Supply , Center Blasted Into A Sea Os Flames Bth Army Headquarters. Korea, Dec. 15— (UPl— U. S. jet fighters today shot down one Communist MIG-15 jet, damaged sig. other* 1 and fire-bombed a North Korean ’ supply center, into a “mass of flames.” The victories in two dogfights over northwest Korea 1 increased the sth air force's toll- ’ ,of Russian-built MIGS in the past three days alone to 2.7 destroyed ’ or damaged. , One sabrejet was damaged in ' one of the dogfights,but it and 1 al| other UN planes engaged re- , turned safely to bases. However, a propeller-driven F-51 mustang on another mission was lost to enemy ground fire. The sth air force at ,the same [ thne acknowledged the loss of 13 plants this week, the largest num* , bfer lost during any seven-day per- . tod in Korea. Eleven of the planes ejtere lost to enemy gnti-alrcran ( fire and two F-86 sabrejet fighters ( failed to return from sweeps over > enemy territory. Fifth air force fighters during the same seven days shot down . in conibat 14 enemy planes, prob- , ably destroyed four more and > damaged', nine. No allied fighter i was lostj in combat. (American: thunderjets swooped lok over a , supply aregl in wood* Forth of Yangdok, a key transport , hub on the Pyongyang-Wonsan i railway, in a devastating fire raid Saturday morning. ■Returning airmen reported they uapalmed. "everything in sight” and'machine-gunned ever/ moving target. At least 25 buildings housing enemy troops and supplies were destroyed and 40 others damaged. Grouhd fighting also increased. Tank-supported United Nations infantry tabbed at the Communist line in nit-run raids all along the 145-mile front. In one action alone yesterday, they killed or wounded 200 enemy troops. The Chinese Communists struck back on the central front with one of their biggest probing attacks i (Turn To Paar Five) -.' J ; . Auction Graduate Exercises Friday j ' Awarded To 50 Students Fifty diplomas were issued in Friday graduation ceremonies of the Reppert Auction school, climaxing 61 sessions since the school’s founding and three weeks of intensive training. The winter convocation of the sqhool was held in the K. of P. home with Col. Q. R. Chaffee, director of sessions, the principal speaker. \ ' The presentation of the diplomas ended a meeting that disbursed th? group to their respective homes, representing 19 different states and a province of Canada. V' ' Before leaving the men listened to Chaffee, who is from Tonawahda. Pa., tell them of their obligations ko the. community. He told them how they must prepare for leadership, and assume a high position i? civic affairs. Chaffee said that the whole business of “getting along with one’s neighbors” should be treated in a philosophical light, as if viewing all circumstances through a window. He expressed the need for objectivity. and the "wisdom of patience." r .■

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" 'J?‘' J ■J - r UN Accuses Reqs • Os Seeking To Win <At Truce Table For. * Losses In Warfare „ Panmunjom, Korea, Ded. 16 — (UP) —The United Nations rejected a boobytrapped Communist troop rotation offer today and ac- , cased the Rede of trying to win' ?t the truce table what they lost in battle, i ' \ UN delegate Maj. Gen. Howard Turner scathingly denounced the ' Communists in rejecting a sixpoint. i Red Compromise proposal tor limited troop rotation and policing an armistice. ' . ■ r The Offer would have limited the replacement of > combit-weary troops during an armistice.to 5,000 - a month—well under th? present ' UN rotation schedule—and sub- \ jected eVen those to a possible Communist veto. i i Turner’s blast came in a joint . UN-Cotnmunisfc subcommittee still deadlocked after 19 days of trying tq. work .out a progran for injuring observance of an armistice. A second subcommittee debating an exchange of war printers also was- stalemated. UN delegate Rear Admiral Ruthven E. Libby told the Reds that their refusal to permit Red Cross representatives *o visit prison camps only “feeds , j.he fire of suspicion.” / C. Despite the lack of progress, , both subcommittees agreed to \weet again at 11 a. m. Sunday (8 p: m. today csr.) Geheral Turner angrily denounced the Communists for refusing to permit unlimited troop rotation ' jand inspection of their interior Communications during a truce ; and. I for demanding the right to build new airports in North Korea. I Turner said the UN already was Rotating troops, keeping, Communist airfields in Korea unusable, making aerial observatlojn drily lover North Korea and threatening , ithe Cemmunist rear by I holding |s!ands off the R?d coast., “You seek to gain through negotiation what you could ?ot win LhroUgh fighting,” Turner said. :‘You seek to avoid, through negotiation, what you could not avoid {through fighting." Turner told the Comlnunlsts that Jhe UN still is willing to consider, jny new realistic Communist proposal on how to police the armls- ■ M* 5 ®- is ' ’ ■ ! J "We told them we wfere: willing to negotiate when they have something in the nature of a forward Step,’? he said. “We wduld be right there to go a?ong." In the prison subcommittee, Adpilral Libby again told thje Reds that the allies could not i discuss the mechanics of an exchange of jvar prisoners until the Common(Tors Tn Pttf Slxj| ♦ Jobless Pay Claims! Decreased In State r I ' ! Indianapolis, Dec. 14-4(UP) — Unemploymeht in Indiana {dropped considerably last week friom the preceding weekly period, |the Indiana employment security division scald today, * [ Total unemployment SbsuVance claim* fell 25 percent to 27,197, and Initial claims dropped: 61 percent. to 4,311. Post-inventpry lay- j — dff recalls end improved weather Conditions fpr quarry and construction work were contributing factors for the lowpr unemployment rates, the division s'aid.

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