Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 2.

RUSSIA URGES UN SEEK TO END DEADLOCK

Savage Battle Is Renewed On Korean Front ' Chinese Reds Hurl r? Back Allied Troops • On Western Front \' ■i \ U ‘ ■ ■ Bth Army Headquarters. Korea. Jan. 3 —(UP.) —Chinese Reds backed by strong artillery and mortar fire hurled back attacking allied troops on the western front today in a savage see-saw battle. United Nations infantrymen drove the Communists off two heights in the Korangpo sector in a surprise attack starting at 10:30 a. th. They regained ground which the Reds had. taken last Friday and radioed at 12:30 p. m. '•objective taken.** Chinese infantrymen counter-at-tacked. By 1:25 p. m. they had been thrown back. The Reds attacked again, this time with the support of their artillery and rijortarS, and regained theilr position at 2:30, p. m. after oak hour of bitter fighting. ** A United Press dispatch said that fighting continued late Thurso dayaf ter noon. ,The Korangpo fighting marked a sudden Intensification of action after a long lull. On the rest of the front only patrol • action was reported. One Communist plane Was badly damaged in a dog fight betweensahrejets and Red MIG-15 jet fighters. '' - x, The Bth army announced that allied ground forces inflicted J 6,441 casualties on the Reds during December. It was indicated that allied troops in the Korangpo sector would continue attacking until they had regained the two positions which they won and relost Thursday. The first U.N. attack, though limited in objective, was carefully planned. . V ' • Allied artillery laid, down a heavy barrage all along 'the western- front during the attack to pin down Chinese forces which otherwise might have tried to yinforce, the defenders, i r <e The two heights are in no-man’s land midway between the main U. N. and\ Communist lines and provide valuable observation posts. An Sth ’army communique at midday reported two minor Communist probing attacks farther east, one by two enemy squads east of the Pukhan river on the central front and the other , west of the Mundung valleyon the eastern front. ‘ £ Both were repulsed without loss of ground. . . An Bth army spokesman announced that allied, ground forces inflicted 16,441 casualties on the Communists during December — 10,520 killed. 5,677 wotinded and £44 captured. In the air, 25 American dabretangled with 30 Communist MiG-15 jet fighters in a 20-minute dogfight over northwest Korea and badly damaged one of them. Lions Club Planning For Minstrel Show To Hold Annual Show February 6 and 7 • ' ' ' ■• ■' •- f'! ■ ' • i - Dust off the jangles, prep the end men, dig up the jokes for the interlocutor, for the Decatur Lions .club today, announced its annual production. * - The organisation has scheduled an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness minstrel show for February 6 and 7 in the'Decatur high school auditorium. , \ The show will be listed as the second annual production of the k club, whose last year's “Womanless Wedding” set the pattern. While much of tne casting remains to be completed,' all committees for the production have been named by co-chairmen Os the event, Paul Hancher and Walter Sittman. The latter, by ■ the way, is also chairman of the casting committee. Other committee chairmen are J. Clark Maycttn, theatre; Doyle Cottier, floor; Joe Morris, canteen; Norman Steury, advertising; L. E. Anspaqgh, tickets, and Robert S. 1 Anderson, publicity.

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> Mayor Reappoints Three Decatur Men * Mayor John M. Doan today announced that he has reappointed three Decatur men to serve on Committees, Sylvan ißupert to the board of zoning appeals for four years, and Charles W. Kent and Clarence Ziner, city planning commission. All reappointments are effective until December, 1955. [ ' , i '< i Truman In New Plea To Avert I Steel Strike Special Convention Os Steel Workers Is Opened Today Atlantic City. N. J.. Jan. 3 — (UP) — President Truman has made a new appeal to the 'CIO United' Steelworkers to hold* off a threatened industry-wide strike that could cripple defense production. ' CIO president Philip Murray read Mr. Truman’s second* jd pa for continued work to the opening session today ot a special 3,000man convention the. union’s loaders called to consider staying on the job. » : Mr. Truman ‘ said it is the "clear obligatioji” of the union to sthy at work the wage stabilization board considers its wage •fioit with the steel industry., ;<7 The letter to Murray, whom .the president addressed as ‘Tear Poll.” was Dec. 31 fend praised the union’s executive board for calling : off a national walkout scheduled originally for New Year’s day' rThe convention is to decide whether to keep (the union’s 650,000 basic steel workers on theyjob. , “I am sure the American people applaud you ‘for (he decision to Stay on the job’,’’ the president said. . I . “I have made the request to the steelworkers uniop to postpone use of Its economic strength with a full realization of the signifi- • cance of that request. II do so bet cause 1 hate confidence in the 1 wage stabilization board and coni- * fldence in the capacity of the pars ties, with the help lot the to ■ arrive at a fair settlement without ; a costly- loss of production.” Applause which greeted Tthe reading of the message indicated ! here is little question the coriven- ' tion delegates will go along With ■ the plea. The union’s executive 1 board already hast voted unanimously to recommend holding off 1 strike .aciton, at |eas£ -while the case goes to the board. The Con- - vention will vote on the board’s i recommendation! . • . ' ;7/ ,7//l/‘./ ' ' Hansel Foley Rites Saturday Morning Final Services For County School Head - Funeral services [will be jsondpctedSaturday morning for Hansel L. Foley, superintendent -of the Adams county schools, who died Wednesday afternoon at the Billings hospital in Chicago after an illness of two months. Services will be held at the Zwick funeral home, North Second street, ? at 10 Saturday morning. » The Rev. W. H. Moeller, 'of Van 5 Wert, 0., former pastor oY St. Paul’s 1 Lutheran church at Preble, and an Jntimate friend of trie educator, will 1 officiate. Burial will be. in the Des oatur cemetery. I 1, The body will be returned- this - afternoon from Chicago, and ( friends may call at the funeral home after a 10 o’clock Friday nprning. ; 4 a Principals of thei six rural high s schools in the county will be pallbearers for Mr. Ifoley's funeral. - They are Willis Robert, Adams Cen- - tral; Gail Grkbill, Monmouth; Glen i Custard-, \Pleasant i Mills; Lester , Singer, Hartford: jack Lee, Gene- . va, and L. Dallas Albright. Jeffer--3 son. Superintendents of. other . schools* in the coujnty and the 12 e township trustees Will be honorary e pallbearers. ! ; Mr. Foley, in addition to his many I. activities in school affairs, was a I. member pf t>e Masonic lodge and v the Scottish Rite Fort Wayne. ■ r I. *' I

Announces Tax Bureau Shakeup I ■ ■ ■ . ■ • H||, I I Ik. ''X. ■ PRESIDENT TRUMAN confers with Treasury’ Secretary Snyder otdPplans before announcing hjs “sweeping reorganization bf the internal revenue bureau.” The plan offices of 64 revenue collectors within 60 days. >' ' \ .- 1 # l iX —l—

Annual Report Made By Clerk-Treasurer Increased Balance In City Treasury j Operation of Decatur’s city government in 1961 cost the annual report of H. Vernon Aurand, clerk-treasurer, shows. The civil treasury increased its balance by $759.30. for. a total of $60,383.35 on Dec. 31, 1951. Most of the income came’ from rropesty taxes and the state gasoline tax. Local taxes paid amountad to 191.348.43 and receipts trum the gas tax were $26,631.51. Dog owners Contributedj $6.50 for licenses. The largest expenditures were in the -street and sewer department, $52,523.60, the police department, $27,510.64 and, $18,252.84 for the fire department’. Plant Balances • fclerk-treasurer Aurand incorporates financial statements for the electric sand -water departments and all »ther 'funds held in trust by him in his annual report; The electric department had bonds and cash on hand at the end of December of $1,175,’995.82, including receipts of $908,070.21 from ahe bond sale to finance the -new diesel engine plant. The city has made an advance payment of on construction of the P$ nt - 1 : The department had an operating balance of on Dec. ’ 31 - ‘ : V ' / The watef department had balances exceeding $13,000, after initial payments on the new water softening ptant. The operating balance was reduced to $547.40. Other City Departments The park department expiended >6,283.31 last year and had a balance of $4,482. In pennies and nickels the city collected $12,810.46 in parking meter fees.-i This is an average of more than SI,OOO a mqpth. Ex- . penditures were $11,579.69. The i balance on hand including $5,50813 at the beginning of the year is $6,738.90. * r Withholding tax froih city employe pay checks totaled $15,986.56' list year. City employes had $3,254.83 deducted from pay checks , for 0. S. savings bonds. : Seal Sale Response ‘ Is Reported Lower • The. response to the sale of Christmas seals is slipping a hit i behipd a year ago, according to a i release issued by Mrs.- W. Guy ■ Brown, secretary of the Adams county tuberculosis association. She i urged all those who have to date • neglected fb return their money .\ for the sent prior to Christ- - mas do so ah quickly as possible In i order for the organisation to reach r its goal. This goal for the year has been - set at $4,600. Os this, $3,337.34 has r received the organisation. 1 This figure is opposed to the z $3,658.95 received January 3, 1951. The seal sale, officials of tfaeas* >’ soclation point out, assists in cllni* i cal visits, mobile X-ray unit work, 1 as well as other allied projects designed to eradicate tuberculosis. ■ " - i ■■

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 3,1952.

Pickup Os Christmas Tfees Here Monday Floyd Acker, city street commissioner, said today that his dOr partment 8 - 1 will pick up all ‘t Christmas trees next Monday, “weather permitting." All those with trees i to dispose of are asked to place : them at the point where their ; trash is normally gathered, and * the trucks will cart them away. ? | 13 Boxes Os Clothes Shipped To Koreans t Collection Is Made • By DAV Auxiliary Thirteen boxers, packed with 387 pounds of wearable clothing, have been shipped to Capt. Robert Stalter in Korea, .who will deliver the packages jto a Methodist mission orphanage in Ichon, Korea, Mrs. Florenz Leonard, chairman of the DAV auxiliary, announced today. , ' ; A clothing drive ;was sponsored, here by the DAV auxiliary in response to an appeal from Capt.' Stalter to this newspaper. The captain's letter was published last month and the DAV decided to help the Korean orptthns. The boxes were shipped parcel post from the Decatur post office.. Postage on the 13 cartons totaled $57.55 and all of the amount, except; $5, i was paid by the DAV. A doria-: tlon of $5? was received on the postage bill. i I Mrs. Leonard explained that good clothing was donated. The clothing, mostly for children, was sorted by the DAV women arid carefully packed for overseas ship-: ment. Postal employes assisted in seeing triat the packages were securely tied and properly' labeled. Mrs. Leonard and her committee (Turn To Page Five) '—F-—I 1 *

Sephus Policeman, Quits f Force

When city patrolman Charles Arnold was sworn in Tuesday noon as a member of the Decatur police department, he was, perhaps know-* Ingly, helping to create a precedent that will be many times in the doming years. For Arnold, like others, including Mayor John M. Doan who administered the.; oath of office, probably realized tliat the city’s police pension fund was making its initial start, ( ’ The subject of the addition of Arnold t© the force, and the beginning of the pension fund machinery is Sephus Melchi, Who oh the 16tl ©f this month wilt be 80 years of age. i And during those 80 short {ears, Seph—as everyone knows him—' Completed 41 years as a law enforcement officer. Four of them from 1919 , through 1922, Melchi served as the county sheriff. The next couple of months will Also mark other milestones for ► Seph, and Mrs. Melchi. For March, 18 they will celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary* ' They were wed in Bobo, and have lived all their mayried life in De- ! - 4 ' ' 1 ■ ’ ■ 4 '

Skipper Fights On To Save Freighter | Clings All Alone To H Foundering Vessel; j Ij London, Jan. 3j—(UP) —Capt. menrik Kurt Carlsen clung to l>is foundering ‘freighter “Flying Enterprise’’ today while an American destroyer stood by to save him: if -(he ship sinks and a British trig raced through bbiling seas to aid. j/A dramatic radio message , from the United State# navy destroyer John W. Weeks, standing by the flying Enterprise 400 off the southwest coast of I England, said Carhen is staying in a cajb(n amidships, living on tea And jßts of diry food., , ~H /, f The Flying Enterprise is listing as much as 80 degrees as it wrillows in the heavy seas, decks at times are nearly vertical. Carlsen was determined not to socent rescue unless his ship sinks beneath him. The destroyer Weektf, unable to tbw the ship, tried to send hot coffee, . meat sandwiches, and magazines by at thin line riggted between the two ships. The giant British tug Turmbil nearing Carlsen and hoped to reach him tonight, its skipper radio-telephoned the; United Press, in fan attempt to tow Carlsen and hh ship to port. l A radio message from the destroyer to the Unitrid States nayy heye told the story of Carlsen’s heyoic stand, aboard his ship: ?He is staying in a cabin in a midsship deckhouse without light or i heat, living more on the bulkhead (wall) than on deck, hia ship has a 60 to 65 degree ll|t and is rolling to 80 degrees in the high gusts of the prevailing winds and very heavy seas. | The navy said, on the basis qf iTbhi Tu Paw Blx>.

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Proposes UN Security Council Meet To. Break Korean Truce Deadlock

Communists Reject Compromise Plan For Repatriation t Os War Prisoners ■r'tl ■ !■ . ■ • ‘'H' Panmunjom, Korea, Jan, 3.— (UP)—The Communists today Categorically rejected a United Nations compromise plan for' voluntary repatriation of war prisoners and civilians during a Korean armistice. However, the U.N.’s rear admiral R. E. Libby refused to accept the Communist rejection. and told the Reds to study the six-point plan further. He said the Communists still haven’t the “remotest concept” of what the proposal means. . > Chinese .Col, Tsgi Chang-Wen suggwired the feature of the proposal wpuld permit the allies to railroad some Communist prisoners into Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa, but Libby denied it. While one armistice subcommittee wrestled futilely with the prisoner exchange problem, another found itself deadlocked for th* fifth straight day over the U-N. demand for a ban on airfield Construction and repair during a truce. Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner of the U.N. delegation told the Communists that their insistence on the right to build air bases during an armistice was turning world opinion further against them. “We believe that not on,ly our delegation, blit all the people ot tjie world are beginning to doubt your sincerity in wanting an armistlbe/’ he said.Both subcommittees will meet again at 11 a.m. Friday (8 p.m. today CST)„ • ’ The U.N. on Wednesday presented its complicated six-point plan for the voluntary repartriation of all war prisoners, civilian internees and displaced civilians. The program calls for the exchange first of war prisoners on a mah-for-man basis. Once all 11,559 allied war prisoners who deiire repatriation had been returned, the U.N. would trade'Communist prisoners for U.N. civilian internees or even displaced persons until the last of the 116,000 Communist war! , prisoners had been released. Then The allies would abandon the man-for-man program and mit the return of anyone else who wished to cross the. cease-fire line regardless of numbers, ''' ' '~' "1- ’ J y ' School Bond Issue To SIO,OOO City Will Retire . Bonds Jan. 1, 1954 Civil city bonds which aided in ’.he building of the Decatur juniorEenior high school in 1937, will be on Jan. 1, 1954, the annual financial report of H. Vernon Aurand, clerk-treasurer, shows. The ' original issue was for 850,000. The amount outstanding at the end df 1951 is 810,000. A federal grant, plus 190,000 of I school-city bonds, financed the building, which contractors estimate would cost more than $750,000 to, build today. , I The electric department of the municipal plant has bonds outstanding of $1,015,000.00. There I are twd issues, one dated 1939 and I the other 1951. / The water department has bonds I.outstanding of $70,000. . xl j I Bonds for the two departments I were issued to finance hew plants I ttnd additions, the two most re- | cent developments being the water I softening plant and the diesel elecI trie plant. Fire Whistle Blast I Today Only A Test That fire whistle, that blasted I long and loud this morning didn't herald a fire —it was simply to ’ telst an innovation. An automatic ’ switch is being put into use for the fire siren, and the test is necessary. Firemen said there were j other refinements and adjustments to be madein the signal, A so other alarms could be due to this.

Speaker Os Week wBOWiI Sr* lIM Dr. Clyde W. Meadows Dr. Clyde Meadows Is Special Speaker Spiritual Emphasis Week Opens Sunday Dr. Clyde W. Meadows, pastor of the King Street United Brethren church, largest of that denomination in Chambersburg, Pa., win speak nightly next week In the union spiritual emphasis week ?erv’ceis. All Services wi.ll be held in the Zion Evangelical Reformed church at Third and JackteoA streets. Each service will/ begin at 7':30 p. m. ’ Dr, Meadows’ first sermon/wiA be given Monday evening,; arid will: speak each evening through Sunday, January 13. / Thd Thylor University choir ejemet / win be given in the opening At-r/ice oh Sunday, Jabuary/6. Y ? y- •/ Dr. Meadows child he way a Baptist; Jn his ■teehs he attended y Presbyterian Sunday from [Gettysburg Lutbferan /Seminary; and is now 4 UriitOd Brethren pastor./ He has been pastor of the Chambersburg church Since 1928< He has an average Sunday school attendance of/nearly FO, and his yJtivypgrish supports'six full-time missionaries. ATh’-" Meadows is a Conference superintendent of his denomination; a vice-president of the Pennsylvania council of churches national vice-president of Christian Endeavor union, and vice-president 4 bi the / Pennsylvania Sabbath school association. At present Dr. Meadows is a trustee of Huntington College, from which he received an fyoriorary degree in j. 940. He is author of _the book, “Why. We Choose Christ.” In addition to preaching in the evening services. Dr. Meadows will also serve as song leader. Music (Tira To Pose Sixt Mrs. Alfa Tyndall Dies This Morning , Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Alta Oleve Tillman-Tyndall, 51, wife of Albert Tyndall, died nt 1 o’clock. this morhing al her home in Bellefontaine, 0., following an illness of two years df The Tyndall family formerly lived in Decatur. \ She was a member of the Church of 'God at Bellefontaine. Surviving in addition, to her husband are five daughters, Mrs. Margaret Armstrong of Kenton* 0., Mrs. Odessa Rutledge of (GrilttOD. 0., Mrs. -iFlorence M a ttT§on of Marion, 0., Mrs. 110 Lamb of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Leona Shatter of Peru. Funeral services, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Black funeral hdme in this city, the Rev. C. Cummings, of Bellefbntalne, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 o’clock Friday morning. / 1 .'h b • ; K'

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; 1 Surprise Proposal By Russia; Would Also Seek Means To Ease Cold War Status Paris, Jan. 3 — (UP) — Russia proposed today that a United Nations security council meeting be palled, immediately to attempt to break the deadlock in the Ko- > rpan armistice talks. P| 1 p•' The . surprise proposal also would call on tojHpvel delegates ~r~ perhaps foreign ministers — to survey all phases of the cold war to determine it iehsion could be easdd. ~ i ■ I' ■ The resolution submitted before the UN assembly’s main political crinymiitee under a special UN charter provision authorizing ’‘periodic”; security council meetings attendPd by high goverrij V ment officials/ (ind specially-deV/ signed delegates.' \ . 'lt' was believed the western, powers Atoulq tyastily reject the move. / They have maintained persistently . thiyf a Korean cease-fire is al purely mllitary problem that., must/be negotiated In battle-field talks. /;' 7 / ' l ' 7 ' / ; - The resolriitiqh was submitted durihg a , committee 'debate in 5' ‘ h Soviet foreign minister 'AnY/ l/ishinsky accused the ed/states of trying to hatch a korea/stylft / war in southern ■ Cfesn /- ■/ ■ /He made the/charge ih answer Zod proposal, by 11 nations, hacked/ by the U. fe., to streamline the UN’s cottectlvei security machinery to enable it to deal with any /.new aggression as rapidly &b possible./ Ttyfe plan would authorize /the UN io delegate regional defense gruops like the North Atlantiy’ treaty organization; to action " its. behafi to repel an aggressor. 7 A'ishjnsky said the ripw program /“would not enforce but would beejome a threat of a new was.” ' 7 . ' ' , -“[We will vote against .the program,” he said, “and wp appeal to ' tbojie who seek /peacri /to vote against it as a further step on the/path- of unleashing a new world waA” 1 ' ' The Soviet mbve for ri toPrlevpl UN security coujncil. came.' , as the Pahmunjam talks continued to make little progress. / T The Russian; resolution also proposed abolishment of the UN’s collective’ Pleasures icomriiittee ' that has beeni .working on a Streamlining program. - j The Russians (apparently intend- t ed that Communist Chiria would takd a segt on she council at the proposed meeting." This would represent a second major snag to weft|ern of the plan. An earlier proposal by Vishinsky urging that the jassembly call tbr an Immediate Korean cease-fire still is before the UN. It was not Scheduled to up until near the e®d' 6f the current session, Ute thiw riaonth or in early February. , , •• In hi» reference to China, Vish(Tuirn To Paxe Seven) LATf BULLETINS Washington, Jan. 3—(UP) — Harold Stassen said today he plang .to enter the Mlnne- i k sots, Penneytvania and Ohio primaries In a direct challenge to Sen. Robert A. Taft for .the Republican presidential nomination. » Washington, Jan. 3—(UP)— i Sqn; Estes/Kefauver said today he Will decide about Feb. 1 whether to {be a candidate V for the Democratic presidential nomination regardless of Whether President Truman de-' cides 'to run. The » Tennessee Democrat l told a press conference his ' decision will not *be influenced by Mr. Truman's plans, which ?re yet undisclosed. / INDIANA WEATHER < Mostly fslrJ north, partly cloudy dOuth tonight and Friday. A‘/little polder tonight. ’ Low tonight 5-10 above north, 1(>20 south, high Friday 24-28 north, 28-32 south. •77 •' 7' "7 ' ‘