Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1952 — Page 1

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Carrel H. Cole Dies At Fort Wayne Hospital -Decatur Assistant Postmaster Dies At Lutheran Hospital . i - Carrfl H. Cole, 44, assistant Decatur ■: postmaster, died at 9:35 o’clock' this morning of multiple fractures inflicted in a leap from a fourth ?floor window at the Lutheran hospital* in Fort Wayne. His body landed dn the roof over the ambulance entrance on the west side of the hospital; The hospital, facie# east on Fairfield avenue. He made nis fatal jump at 2:05 a.m. A woipan visitor in the five-bed* ward noticed Mr. Cole’s actions and ran to notify hospital attaches. She said ~tftat the window was closed and that Mr.' Cole smashed * the glass and, then jumped. He fell 100 feet in his fatal plunge. Suffering a breakdown in health three years ago, Mr. Cole had a relapse December 13 and was admitted to’ the Adams county memorial hospital December 20. The death of his father, the late Jesse H. Cole oh December 19, was a severe shock io hint- He suffered acutely from spiatic rheumatism and it was believed that a spinal fracture aggravated : his suffering. He was J taken ;toi the Lutheran hospital Wednesday.f -At about 1:45 this morning, Mr. Cole had asked a nurse for a hypoE. C. Moeller, / hospital superintendent, stated. He was informed by the nurse that it wasn’t time fpr the sedative and 20 minutes later, driven by intense pain, he jumped from the > window. With Root Office Since 1932 Mr. Qole begun his postal career in November, 1932 as a temporary employe in the local office. A diligent and thorough worker, he was appointed a substitute clerk in February, 1934. He was promoted to the * assistant postmastership in November. 1938. He Was born in Decatur July 29, 1907. | f - ■ \ , b'i A graduate of Decatur high J school? Mr. Cole was married to Miss jestine Hocker of this city. They have two children. Tommy and Kpthy. Besides his wife and children', he' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Jesse Cole, Decatur,; one sister, Mrs. Paul Saurer, Decatur, ■ and brothers, Jesse L., of Michigan City, 4- Warren of San Francisco, 1 , Gerald 0., and Robert , D., of this city.* 1- • Funeral arrangements have not ' bf>en Announced. I Authorities Report v ■' L . ■ V \ Four Accidents Here One Traffic Arrest Is Made By Police City police investigated three accidents and made an arrest fallowing one of them Friday, while i sheriff Bob Shraluka > shortly after midnight today investigated the accident which occurred ori U. S. about a mile south of Coppess Corners when a car ,driven by Janies Spears, of Fort Wayne, and a trunk driven by Clayton Wenkles, of Bridgeport, sideswiped Sheriff 7 Shraluka reported that no one was Injured but the car was-, badly damaged. , Dortald of Chicago, was haled into justice of the peace court, cited for improper passing, after his car crashed into one driven by Mrs. Phyllis Pettibone, route ; 1. Monroe.’ as the lattpr was in the act of making a left hand turn off Thirteenth street ont<s .Monroe. Earnshaw was fined $5 and costs by Justice Hunter; total damage t • was estimated by police at S2OO. Police estimated the total damage to the cars driven by Lola Cook ' of route 0, and Leo Ulman, 503 • West Monroe street, at SSOO when the cars collided near the Fourth and Monroe street intersection. The accident occured when the Ulman car Slid through the intersection the* Cook car. vQ The fthird accident happened < (Turt> To Pace ) / 1 ’ *- Noon Edition

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—“—l \ ? Two Elevated Trains Crash, 45 Are Chicago, Jap. (UJf*) j —Fopr persons were in serious condition today as the result of a two-trafri elevated crash last night. , Chicago transit authority official# said altogether 45 persons were injured when one- rammed into the rear of anbthfer train as it was leaving the 35th St. station. ij ■ p i Firemen and police worked more than aii hour to free engineer John Brokopp from the cab of the rear train. William A. Sheffert. Frank Martinez, Sjami Brown and Brokopp >-ere kept in |hb hospital and 41 olheri passengers were released after treatment. .■ Conned Line To Freighter, Start Towing Tugboat Turmoil Is Towing ■ Skipper To England London, Jan. 5.--(UP)—The tuig|>oat Turmoil reported today that it had connected a line; Ito the stricken freighter Flying Enterprise |tnd was towing it in the rbtigh Atlantic southwest df Ireland. London shipping received a radio message from the tug ®t 9:3" a.m. (3:37 a.th. CST) saying' it had attached a line add was taking the ship to Falmouth, the [southwest tip jof Ehgland, milts away. I , 1 i [ The freighter’s skipper, Capt. 'Henrik Kurt Carlsen, apd al ytpung English seaman, made fast tpe towrope on the crippltd vesaelJ i) Earlier reports skid effects to Connect the two were made throughout the night but; were thwarted by | The towing gear was parsed to the Turmoil at 9 a„m. (3 a.ni, CST). The U.S. destroyer'’Williard 'Keith radioed that this took place in an parly morning fog and drizzle. marked a victoi-y fbr Carlin first of his fight to save the ship and its cargo--to gether worth an Estimated $2,000,- , ;000. The skipper had fought turbulent sean for a week. inOstpof it alone. Yesterday he was joined by the English Seamap. The Overseas Towilig ahd Salvage Company., wtiich operates the tugboat Turmoil, estimated the towing speed probablyfwould be Sloife—two o^three knots. i This would; meap it would t&ke about a week to reich Falmouth;.; Carlsen, who messaged on New Year’s day that he.would stay v(ith his ship until it was towed/or stink, had worked against time tugboat matei Kenrteth R. Dancy to get a toeing howlwery aboard (the drifting Thei weather threatened to deteriorate.; \ | —— Convene Tuesday To Name Superintendent Trustees To Select Foley's Successor County auditor Thtirman I. Dfrew Friday mailed notice# to all Adams county trustees [for the ; special meeting which wiilj be held Tuesday to select, a successor to fill the unr expired term of county superintend*ent of schools Hapsel L. Foley, who died Wednesday in a Chicago, hospital- ; . h 'h: j v According to the; statute, the auditor must release the notices three days 'prior to the proposed meeting, which w|ll be held in the commissioners’ room of the court house. . ■ ! J - L- 7 The newly-selefcted superintendent will serve the approximately one and one-half? years remaining of the late Mr. I'Qley’s term. Mr. Foley was selected in June, 1949, and took office AtigUst 15 t of that' year for the foui-year tenuye. To date, according to officials;; there are no applications fjor the > position reported, * ; , . 4 —. \ ' • INDIANA [WfcAtHER Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, a >• little I warmer ■ southwest. Low tonight to 20,’ high Sunday 32 northeast to 35-40 southwest. • ( • I ■ ; ' 7 . I

—, : H 4-4 , Optimistic For “Man-Against-Sea” r 7" 'r~' 'JmwiiiiiiiiiiML -- f I I ' I i' L ~ .‘if mm »• i . • ®F<* ’ j-Hgjjc | . /„.a HIM till / wBBB Be ** I, Mk IJP® "i t nfl »■ Lr-V : - 'MHhKO WHILE. THE BRITISH deep-sea tug Turmoil (top) awaited a break in the weather beside the badly listing American freighter, Flying Enterprise, the family of dauntless* Capt. tyenrtk Kurt Carlsen (below) get latest' word of his battle to save his ship at their home in Woodridge, ,N. J; Mrs. Agnes Carlsen and daughters Sonia and Karen read reports that the Turmoil, rated most powerful tug afloat, had put a seaman aboard the Enterprise after the captain had spent $ days aloue on his stricken vessel. —t——— — — ——4 —-——— ■- _L_. —

Allies Drive Reds Back On War Front ■I - \ ■ .* " Three-Prong Attack On Western Front . • _ ■' . 4 ’» i Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Jan. 5 —'(UP) —United Nations forces struck north in a three-prong-ed attack on \the snow-covered western front today tp regain the last of the ground yielded to the Reds. Dec. 28. 1 Far to the\ northwest, 20 Atneri-'.-in sabrejets beat off 40 Communist MIG-15 jet fighters trying io break up a raid by other U. N. planes on vital - fehemy railway lines running from Manchuria to the front. - - p The airmen awaited the development of gun camera films before making any victory claims in the 30 minute dogfight., i Allied ground forces oh the western front jumped off in the pre-dawn darkness west of Kordngpo. Thpy dispersed one enemy platoon with the aid of artillery and forced two\ more’ ht .other point? to withdraw at least GOO yards. One of the enemy units fell back only after a. four-hour battle. Then it brought up reinforcements in company strength and. counterattacked, but was repulsed. The U. N. attack was believed tdt have added scores\ more to the 1,057 Communist troops estimated o have been killed in the fighting since the Reds captured it Dec. 28. for the strategic high ground Successive allied counter-attacks gradually have driven the Reds back to their bld positions. The latest U. N. push was believed to Lave restored the lines existing before Dec.' 28. Tjie only other action reported in an Bth army communique was a light enemy probing attack which was repulsed north of Punchbowl Valley on the eastern z i| ' An embattled hill position far tlier west near Mundung Valley was firmly in allied possession' af’er changing hands twice more' ''ester day. U. N. infantrymen moved up the snow-covered slopes Friday night. ' >. American sabre jets Coriimunlst MIGS which tried to break up an attack by American •huhderjets and shooting stars on rail; lines in the" SinaniujSukchon-Kmju-Sunchon area. The fighterbonjbers claimed to have cut the rail Inies in 27 places. Tjhe sth air foree reported that U.'jN. jet fighters damaged four (Turn To Page Seven)

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■ i - - ■ . ' ' Over 500 Known Drug Peddlers Are Arrested Narcotics Agents Now Turning Fire On Big Operators Washington, Jan. 5.-r- (UP)— Narcotics agents turned their? fife on “large-scale operators” today after a nationwide roundup of more than 500 known drug peddlers. 1 1 Narcotics commissioner Harry J. Anslinger the mass arrests in every major city 1 in the nation would be completed today. The next step, he said, will be indictiijient of many big narcotics operators by a grand jury which has been investigating secretly for more than a‘ month. ’ | Yesterday’s widespread crackdown, the greatest haul of. dtug peddlers ever made in one day, laid the groundwork for the’grarid jury investigation, said. Sorqe big operators were nabbed, he said-, but they were not necessarily the ones to be Indicted by the grand jury. Every person arrested in tha lightning-like raids has sold drugs , to a government agent, Anslinger said. The narcotics bureau has hid about 250 agents working under cover for more than a month preparing for the crackdown, he said. New York led the list of cities in the crackdown with 66 arerats, 13 of them women. Fifty persons were arrested in Philadelphia and more than 40 in Chicago. There were more than 30 arrests in Washington and 24 in San Francisco. By states, Texas led with 100 arrests. Anslinger said "we always have large-scale problems there,’4 mostly with heroin brought from New York. Marijuana traffic from Mexico also is a problem in Texas, . he said. ■■ Anslinger said the large scale crackdown was sprung to show peddlers 5 that practical effect of the recently-tightened narcotics law. The Boggs law, signed Nov. 2 by President Truman, made jail sen fences mandatory for. the first time for repeat narcotics offenders. First offenders get a two to five-year sentence, second offenders five to 10 years, and third offenders 10 to 20 years in prison. Anssllnger refused to identify (Turn To Pago Eight) I ‘

n-T f 1 U-Yeas-Old Bride Back With Parents Tennessee Girl Is Returned To Home .. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 5.-— ..(UPj?— A 23-year-old Tennessee mountain youth declared today nothing can kill his love for the 11-year-old girl he married in a “snfegk" (ceremony before a Georgia country squire. . Aryell Ott and brown haired Eva Dean JBaggett were reupited briefly here when the lanky, lantern-jawed riba) (.miner came down from his hiding place on Etna mountain to make a statement he hopes “would |give| everybody my side” of the Since-voided marriage, ! The boy’s father, “Teebow” Ott* returned Eva Dean to her destitute parents’ home on Signal mountain yesterday after Hamilton county authorities ' threatened to bring charges against Arvel for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The boy’s stepmother said an FBI agent from Atlanta came to the Ott home yesterday to question her about the marriage. Georgia offlcigls declared the marriage void since “no female under 14 is copipetent to marry in the state “ and saldj the case would' be placed tye--forea grand jury. “They can separate us,” said Arvel, “but they can’t make us stop 'loving each other. 1 didn’t know all this fuss would be made about us marrying and I’m sorry about it a&. But I’m not sorry I married her and we’re going to be married ajl over again as soon as she’s Old ' enough.” J , Arvel said he courted the cute, curiy-haired child by taking her to the movies, in which she would sit clutching her. doll. She has one brother, four-year-old Jimmy, and four sisters, Joyce, 9: WlJma, 7; ■ rfelen, 6„ and Carolyn Ann, 2. ! > Eva Dean’s mother, herself a Child bride at 14, had visited her daughter’s honeymoon retreat three times to beg her to return, Mtrs. Bgggett is now 30. Baggett,a strip mine operator, is 31. The Baggett family had kdpt their Christmas tree up for her return. Under it remained her huge doll, about half her size. She will re-enter her, fifth grade elapses at the one-room Edwards Point school next Monday. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday | ’the Decatur ministerial association! will hold itsi regular monthly meeting at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Monday morning at 9:>o o’clock. • ••'4P ■ f | ■ ' Pt, 1 I i ■ !' 1

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May Accept Soviet Proposal To Meet May Accept Meeting To Discuss Cold War /'' * ■ ' 7 * ‘ ~ Paris, Jan. 5*—(UP) —Authoritative sources said today that the western powers probably Will accept conditionally a Soviet proposal for a high-level meeting of the United Nations security council to discufcs the cold warBut they were expected to reject the Soviet demand that the meeting be held immediately to cake up the Korean armistice deadlock as well as the cold war. They favored a? security council session upon Conclusion of an armistice at Panmunjom- 5 7 The United States yesterday expressed grave Concern that, the Russian move would seriously delay or even disrupt the cease-fire talks in Korea. Britain and Ftanae also expressed strong opposition to the Soviet idea for immediate, council meeting to consider the Korean truce issue as well as key east-west disputes. Thfr new western move wap planned at two special caucusses last night and this morning. It probably will not be agreed upon finally until Monday. * It resulted from sizeable support which small nations gave to the Soviet proposal, and wm an attempt to attract that support toward thp western blueprint. The Russian# also want to abolish ithe UN’s collective measures committee which] is studying s, proposal to bolster veto-free machinery against aggression.. 7 The western, proposal, it was understood, would merely call for topdevel- meetings by the security council —presumably attended by foreign ministers— when it decided the time was ripe. In the main political comipittee (Tun To Paae Seven) ‘ Admits Starting SIOO,OOO Fire ' H' I ’ « Started Blbze To Collect Insurance ’ .Macomb, 111., Jan. S—(UF)—A5 —(UF)—A 25-year-old merchant who confessed he set the fire that destroyed the Prairie City, JU., business trict so that he could collect $3,250 insurance, was free on $25,000 bond today. I\' | Marvin O. jjlmith. was arrested Thursday night and signed a confession to the arson yesterday. His statement told how he torched off gasoline-soaked merchandise in his dairy store, beneath h secondfloor apartment in which a family was sleeping. The family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Freburg and their three children,* as well as two other families who lived in the two other buildings destroyed by the. fire, escaped the Lames. But the damage to the buildings and contents was estimated at SIOO,OOO. The fire occurred early on March 29, 1951. \ r , Smith tojd state’# attorney Roger W. Hayes that he set the fire after failing to sell his business for $3,500. He said he “needed the money.” He got $3,250 frdm the insurance; company for the merchandise destroyed in the blaze. Smith, father of five, did not own the building which housed his store and lived some distance from the business building#. In his statement. Smith eaid ho drained three gallons of ■ gasoline from his truck and poured the gas over his merchandise the pvenlng before the tire. He said he “lost my nerve” and went home about p. m., but thought “a# long us I had everything ready I had better go through with it” and returned to the store. Smith said he placed a book of matches on top of a hot plate <T«n» To Pago Kight)

Red Delegates On Truce Team Stall For Time Apparently Waiting * As Russia Seeks To Shift Truce Parley 4 Panmunjom, Korea, Jan. 5 — (UP) —Communist truce delegates stalled today, apparently to give R'ussia time to try to get airaistice negotiations shifted, to the UN. security council. The Reds for the third straight day refused to budge in their categorical rejection; /of United Nations proposals for a ban on airfield construction and a voluntary repatriation of all war prisoners and civilians duripg a truce. Both subcommittees sank to a new low in exchanges of Jinsuits between the Communist ana U. N. delegates over blame for the stalemate in the talks. The day’s only agreement was to meet again at 11 a. m. tomorrow (8 p. m. today CST.) Rear Admiral R. E. Libby said It was obvious the Reda were killing tjme in the meetings pending new instructions from Pyongyang, Feiping and .Moscow.. . It was. berieved Aim (Qommunist delegates hadAeen ordered to stall while Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and his Communist associates try to push their proposal' at the U. N. general assembly in Pari# to shift the, truce talks Jo a high-level security councL' meeting. • Western delegates in Paris are determined to block the Soviet move. ' 7'' In the prisoner Libby told North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho that “no man can be as obtuse as you appear to be except (ieliberately." He countered all Communist arguments against the U. N. plan for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners and civilians and added: “Your analysis is faulty, your arguments specious and your conclusions wrong. Outside of that, it was a good piece of work.” In the supervision subcommittee, Maj. Gen. Howard M. Turner bite’rly informed Chinese Gen. Hsieh Fang: - “You have* cist yourself in the (Turn To Pore Eirht) i ■ 1 ' I— Carolyn Miller Is Baby Derby Winner Gains Awards From Decatur Merchants 7 - The winner, and still the baby derby champion is the daughter born at. almost noon New Year’s Day in the Adams county memorial hospital to Mrs. Richard L. Miller, of route 1. The Miller baby, named Carolyn Arlene, was unofficially, named the winner that day, but according to the rules of the contest the official announcement was delayed until all returns were in. No other returns were forthcoming. There was t*e expectation, they said, that babies might be born at home in one of the northern townships, or in another hospital. Carolyn Arlene, all seven pounds and 15 ounces of her at birth, is the Millers* first child/ She was born at 11:24 a.m. January 1. x Twenty nine Decatur merchants combined for the annual New Year’s baby sweepstakes to offer a flood of prizes to the baby and. the parents. (The complete list of these prizes will be found on I two Jnside pages of the Democrat today.) Mrs. Miller is the former Alma Williams, maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, or Hoagland, and paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs, Herman Miller, of a Decatur rural route.

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_ -I t Britain's Leader z Arrives Today For History-Making Truman Parleys New York, Jan. 6.—(UP)—-Prime minister Winston Churchill arrived today for a history-making conference with President Trumim and said he .hoped to Pre-establish the .“friendly atmosphere” which enabledjhe allies to win War ”■.- I ! . ‘fWe hope to get ourselves alittle above paper level,” Mr. 6hurhill told reporters as he arrived at Brooklyn army base aboard a cut- - ter from the liner Queen Mary. Mr. Churchill said that, “the tyo' governments—British and' American —must understand each other’s ' point view and try to do all they can to help each •■other in the common cause.” V' ! The prime minister said he-.trust-ed that in his talks with Mr. Truman “we shall build up again some of that intimacy without which a * fair and easy settlemeat” of common problems could not be realized.” ■ r- ;\ ■ Mr. Churchill said it was not the purpose of his cold war talks with Mr. Truman “to make all kinds of agreements or exchange (diplomatic documents.’* He said that he frac! come to this country “to see again some of the friends and good com-, rades of the war-time days.” Sitting on a platform with foreign- minister Anthony Eden and \ speaking into a battery of micro- . phoHM 1 On before Mm. Mr. ChiU-cW said he believed it was , of great importance, when a new British government came in, that its leaders should “get in touch with their American friends and colleagues.” * a Mr. \Chufchill warned that the public should not “expect too much” from the Later, in a question and answer period, Churchill was asked if a three-way conference between Russia, the United States and Britain 7 would be an aid so peace. A i “It all depends on the setting events leading up to It,” he answer-q ed. “It would be satisfactory if we \ could settle our differences in the ■ easy and friendly spirit with which we worked in the Asked if the Russian threat to \ peace had increased in recent. months, he said, “I’m not a membet of their cabinet. I don’t think that we are ih greater danger now than we were in thF time of the Berlin airlift, providing we take certain precautions?’ In anewet tio a question on his opinion of the situation in Korea, he said he really hadn’t studied the latest reports but understood the armistice talks were continuing. He said he still enjoyed cigars., ’ Eden, speaking for the newsreel cameras, after Churchill, said “this is an occasion on which I find myself in complete agreement with Mr. Churchill.” w lie said that he and the prime- . minister had come to the United States after ia useful understanding had been reached in Paris. ‘ . It was his first return to America as British prime .minister since the war. He came to America in 1946 and again in 1949 but he then Was of His Majesty’s loyal opposition.’ He last saw Mt. Truman in 1949, having met him for the first time at the Potsdam conference in 1945. ./ . He stepped ashore at the Brooklyn army pier at 10:05 a.m. t to ruffles and flourishes played by band of the First army. The coast guard cutter “Navesink” took him oft the liner Queen Mary at Quarantine and carried (Turn To Etcht) < ' \ ' ■ ■ Sole Mine Survivor - Is Fully Recovered West Frankfort, 111., Jan. 5 — (UP)—Cecil Sanders, 44, the only i . nerson to survive the New Orient ~ ' mine blast in whijeh 119 miners lied, was home today and doctors said he was fully recovered. Sanders was found in the mine T 8 hours after an explosion rocked the world’s largest shaP coal mine. He wa# hoppitalized with shock and gas poisoning. 4 \ •' ■ -