Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1952 — Page 1

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UN Holds Out For Rotation - Os 40,000 Men Red Demands To Cut Ports Os Inspection Are Also Rejected Panmunjom, Korea, Feb. 2. — (UP) —Truce , negotiators settled . three more minor disputes today, but the United Nations command served notice it will hold out for the rotation ot at least 40,000 troops a month. The U.N. also rejected Red de* ; mands to trim the number of ports of, entry to be inspected during an armistice from 12 to three on each Bide. The allies contended that the smaller number would be “entirely inadequate.” c U.N. and Communist staff officers reached agreement on the following three points during a “second trip” through a 54-paragraph U.N. proposal for supervision of a truce: 1. The number of joint observer teams roaming the demilitarised zone between the opposing armies shall be 10 rather than 15, as first sought by the U.N. the joint mili__tary armistice commission will have the right to reduce this number still further after the peak load of the early days of the truce. 2. Each side shall decide the rank of the members it wishes to assign to the military armistice commission. 3. Armistice headquarters at first shall be in the cease-fire conference village of Panmunjom, but the armistice commission shall have the right to shift later to another site. ' The Ccnnmunists delayed again their nomination of three nations to serve on the neutral supervisory commission. They also postponed » their reply to a U.N. proposal that staff officers begin at once discussing the fifth and final item on the armistice agenda — recommendations to the belligerent govern-. „ ments. Coir Don A. Darrow of the U.N. held fast to his demand that each side be permitted to replace at least 40,000 warnweary troops a month with fresh arrivals from 'overseas. The Communists demanded that the total thus rotated be limited to - 25,000 a month and include allied soldiers sent to. Japan on te-m---porary rest leaves as well as those sent home. Darrow rejected the demand. However, Darrow agreed to redraft an allied proposal that truce inspection teams at ports of entry be permitted to operate in a radius of 30 miles around "each port. The Communists called the 30-mile radius excessive. Darrow suggested that the solution might be to withdraw the 30mile proposal and then determine the specific inspection area around each port separately. .The allies and the Communists both again claimed five U.N.-held _ islands should be given to North Korea. The U.N* said it intends to hold on to the islands. Minstrel Rehearsal Sunday Afternoon «aU persons who are taking part in the Lions club minstrel, “Dixie Scandals,” which will be presented 1 Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Decatur high school auditorium, are asked to report for rehearsal at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at. the high school. A full dress rehearsal will be held at 7 o’clock Monday evening at the school. All persons in the production and all others who can assist in any way are asked to attend both of these rehearsals. Paul Nelson Rites Sunday Afternoon Funeral services will be held at /Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, for Paul (Doc) Nelson, 48, who die?! suddenly x of a heart attack Thursday. , ■ i Nelson spent most of his lite in Geneva, where he was employed as a substitute mail carrier. He was a brother of the late Nathan Nelson ot, Decatur. Burial will be at Riverside cemetery at Geneva. Noon Edition

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Two GOP Senators Denounce Morris / Hit Appointment As □Sector Os Cleanup Washington, Feb, 2/— (UP) — Two Republican senators today criticized appointment? of Newbold Morris th head the government cleanup campaign because he is involved in a senate Investigation of surplus tanker deals. Sen. Karl E. Mundt said “it would be much better it a man were selected who could devote his full time to investigating corruption and not hate to jspend part of it being investigated j in another Case.*’ “ft is a bit unfortunate,” the South Dakota Republican said., “that the president selected to head his corruption cleanup squad a man whose name has been linked with the elements how under investigation.” ’ f 1 ' J The senate’s permanent invOsti- . gating committee is looking Into reports that a firm headed by former Rep. Joseph E< Casey CDMass.) made a quick $2,800,000 profit by buying surplus tankers from the government and reselling them under favorable tax conditions. r : Ji There have been nocharges that Morris profited on the tanker deals. However, chairman Clyde R. Hoey (D-N.C.) said Morris figurges in the Inquiry by the investigating group. The committee plahs to begin public hearings on the tanker deals soon. Hoey said he did not know whether Morris would be called to testify. Morris, New York Republican attorney, is president and a trustee of the China International Foundation. Inc.* ownqr of ail coatt* mon stock of the United Tanked Corp. p | The flatter firm acquired three surplttn tankers from Casey’s company and transferred; them to the non-profit Chinese educational cA-ganization as a gift. ! i i Attorney general J. Howard MeGrath. himself under Republican, tire, announced Morris’ appointment yesterday. Morris said his first move will be to investigate the justice department, and McGrath pledged his “complete, enthusiastic and unlimited cooperation.” I- , ' - However, Sen. Richard M. Nixon (R-Cal.), dike Mundt a member of the Hoey committee, said the appointment of Morris was “too (Turn To Fm» Sts) Youth To Conduct Rally Here Sunday / . ’ - - ♦*- r ' Hj h ■ ' i V ~ Mass Rally Sunday IJ. Evening For Youth J Young people of the , churches of Decatur and Adams county, are taking part in a mass rally to be l?eld Sunday evening at 6 o’clock in the First Presbyterian church. Those participating in the worship are: Lois Strahm, mietress of cere-, monies; Roger Blackburn, Sunya Stuckey, Nancy Kirsch, Luann Davidson, Luther Schrock, Jerry Kolter, Anita Smith, David Blackburn. . v i. i I | Inspirational speaker of the eveping is the Rev. Robert W. Roschy, director of the associated churches of Fort Wayne.. ; ; Ushers will be Verlin Egley, Jerry Bair, Don Metzger, and David Runyon. I Young people are asked .to bring a pencil with them sign ihelr commitment cards and their envelopes, by which they will join one million or more Christian youth in the United States answering “The Cali." 1 . j : There will be sandwiches in| the basepicnt of the Presbyterian chhrch at 5:30 for all young people. Mrs. Carrie Haubold will begin the organ prelude at 6 sharp, and it is requested that all keep silence on entering the worship part og the church. ’ t' j ■ 9 — i—--2,225 Veterans To Return From Korea San Francisco, Calif., Feb. (UP)— 2425 Korean-combat soldiers will arrive at Fort Mason to morrow aboard the USNS General William Black. The veterans are returning from the far eastunder the combat rotation program. if ■ j i 1 fc ! A I' / A

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Seek Reopening Os Egypt Negotiations British Make Move To Settle Dispute London, Feb. 2.(UP)— Britain has moved toward reopening negotiations tor a settlement ot the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, it was learned today. Reliable sources said the British embassy in Cairo has been instructed, to make suggestions to Egypt which Britain believes would help negotiations get started -Foreign office officials however said they must “reserve comment” on the reports. y The British suggestions were said to include: ■4. Dropping of the bill in the*, Egyptian parliament to arm the Egyptian population. ' 2. Scrapping of an Egyptian government bill to impeach anyone who “cooperates with the British.” 3. Taking of effective measures by Egypt against "liberation army units” which may continue to harry the British in the treaty sone In the Suez Canal area. I Informed quarters said U.ST secretary of state Dean Acheson through diplomatic channels had urged British foreign secretary Anthony Eden-.to make an offer which will allow** fefhtaptlon of negotiations with Egypt. Acheson was said to want negotiations to .start quickly on proposals for a four-power defense of the canal zone and for the future of the Sudan along\lines agreed upon in Washington between himself and Eden. Cabinet Meets Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 2—(UP)— Premier Aly Maher Pasha’s weekold independent cabinet met for- , mally today for the first time, pre? sumably to plot Egyptian policy in expected negotiations to settle the Anglo Egyptian dispute. Mohylie El Din Fahmy, secretary general in Maher Pasha’s cabinet, said the* premier was "prepared to negotiate and accept any proposals which would satisfy Egypt’s national aspirations."*’ Jeep patrols of the Egyptian police cruised Cairo today reinforcing already heavy police patrols Circulating in trucks around the city, which a week ago was the itcene of bloody riots and arson. The independent weekly news- \ (Taro To P«K« Six) , ■ X— : Ask Legion, Auxiliary Attend Church Sunday The ninth anniversary of the sinking of the S. S. Dorchester will be observed Sunday, On that date in 1943, four chaplains of thre® faiths, John P. Washington a Roman Catholic der D. Goode, a rabbi; George ! Fox and Clark, V. Poling, Prates-« tant ministers, stood < united iri prayer as they went down with the troopship in the North Atlantic. All members of Adams. Post 43, American Legion, and the auxlli- . ary are asked to attend the church of their choice tomorrow and pay homage to the memory of these men. Donald R. Wilson, national commander of the Legion, j has asked all Legionaires and auxiliary mlsmbers io attend church Sunday. '.hi.! 7--' k-. I'

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BULLETIN ML Pleasant, Pa, Feb. f.— | (UP)—An explosion deep wlthin the Carpentertown Coal and Coke Co. coal mine near here! ] today killed at least five men and injured four, others. One man was missing. Officials said the blast, gw Uevod to have been “fairly deep In the mine,” occurred In a ,i “thred-room” section whore ten men ware working. They said other miners working nearby told them it was apparently , confined to a small space because they "didn’t even hear •; It" Residents nearby said they , heard nothing. . , -v _ r ..... , «, "‘m Say Horsemeat Not Necessarily Harmful Legislative Group Probing Scandal Chicago, Feb. 2 — (UP) — A legislative commission investigating the Illinois horsemeat scandal said today that the stuff wasn’t necessarily harmful -to eAt. It’s just that when you pay for beef, or pork, you should getlt. State Rep. W. B. Westbrook, bead of a group looking into possible horsemeat sales to state institutions, urged that the health hazards of- horsemeat should hot be “over-emphasized.” “The bad thing is that peopld who buy horsemeat are paying for something they’re not getting,” Westbrook said. .1 | ’ He even went so far as to say that in some cases horsemeat was fitter from health hazards than beef and pork. • Westbrook’s group id a part of an overall commission charged wish investigatnig the alleged sale of UP to 2,000,000 pounds of horsemeat Jn and around the meat packing; capital of the world. | -j State Sen. Peter Miller, in charge of the larger group, yesterday said he would ask for a meat inspection code "with teeth in lt v when the 1953 legislature convenes. / He said such a code should permit state inspectors to examine carcasses and separate cuts, which now only federal inspectors are permitted to do. He also urged that any new code adopted by the legsilature should specify more "severe fines” for violators. During the hearing conducted by, Miller’s group yesterday, a major supplier of meat to state institutions said he bought some of his meat from a slaughter house Under investigation in the horsemeat scandal. Frank J. Balkan,' vice-president of the Balkan Packing company of East Moline. 111., said his firm never sold any hamburger to the *etate but it did* sell sausage. He I said his company never knowingly bought any horsemeat and Jhat none of it was eVer found at his plant by state inspectors. Mrs. Ethel Boyle, chief dietitian of the state welfare department, said there was only “a slim possibility” that any’horsemeat ever was bought for use at state institutions because of'the “very tight” specifications governing purchases of meat.

WinfstHßlood ' Contributed Friday 96 Percent Os Goal 1$ Met Here Friday | . Blood donors contributed 120' pjnts of blood to the Red Cross; bloodmoblle yesterday, equivalent; to M percent of the 125-plnt goal. . t / Approximately 139 persons were tapped for blood. Mrs. Max; Schafer, executive secretary of the’ chapter, and Mrs. Ed Bauer, chair-; Man of the day, stated thgt sever-: al persons who had reservations J were unable to keep their appointnuipts? ■''' This deficit was largely? offset by persons who dropped in. at the American Legion home and| offered to contribute to the blood program. ■ 5 Mention was made that Mrs. Roscoe Glendening, a canteen worker, was among the contributors. ’ Late in the afternoon when; it appeared" that donations would full short of goal, she joined theHue pf donors. » The Red Cross blood program: has been enlarged this year due to military and hospital demands and? for (hat reason, the blood mo bile will visit Decatur eight times inj 1952? The next visit will be Im March. ? a t *'-y ' : '.■’j Contract Proposed ; For Testing Cattle. J 5 L ■ J > Submit Contracts To Commissioners •! ' Proposed contracts for the test* ing of all cattle in Adams county during 1952 for the purpose of eradicating tuberculosis in the herds, will be submitted to the Adams county board of commissioners by Mie Indiana, livestock sanitary .board and federal bureau of anil mal husbandry at the February meeting of the county board in thig city Monday. j - * The contracts have been drawn by the state department and mailed to the commissioners for their approval. The. contract calls for-the testing of all herds and any animala found to be tubercular will be slaughtered and the owner will reimbursed from federal funds available. The county would have to pag the inspector furnished by the state board at the rate of |350 a month! phis six cents a mile for actual miles travelled during working periods. ; inspection Would continue, uni •rfer the terms of the contract, un» til the percentage of tubercular cattle in the county is found to bo below the standard set by the state And federal bureau. | The matter; will be presented to the commissioners and the contract (Tam To Fare six> . t‘ , INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, mostly .1 cloudy south with showers ex- I teems south tonight. Warmer I northwest. Bunday cloudy i - and mild with showers spread- | ;■ Ing northward over state. J Low Saturday night 32-38 |.| norht, 3848 south. High Bun- | j day 48-50 north, 500 sputh« • *’' I ■ I

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’I*"*"**" 1 *"*"**" * ty. Planes Damage T|ree Red Fighters peek Vengeance For J f Loss Os 14 Planes |th Army Headquarters, Korea, W 2.—(UP)— The fifth air force, oust to avenge the loss of 14 planes ihh|s second most disastrous week of* the war, damaged three Commpnist Mlg-15 jet fighters in a runn|pg 4Omile air battle today. Eighteen American Sabrejets fought 55 Mig 15s all the way to the YaWl river |fanehurian border at annudes df 3t’(MM>-tb 40,0 W feet. The three enemy Jeta damaged brought the sth air force’s claims to 183 Migs destroyed, 33 probably destroyed and-M4 damaged. Sabrejets also exchanged firing passes with other Migs over northwest Korea during the day, but no additional claims were made. Altogether 135 of the eweptback-wing fighters were epotted. FMO Shooting Star jets at the same time destroyed ofte Communist task and damaged another in raids behind the Communist lines. Sabrejets pilots credited with damaging Migs were Ist Lt. Ernest F. Neubert, 166 Chestnut Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Maj. Zane 8. Amell. 1033 Ann Street, East LaaeJni, Mich., and C&pt. Kenneth D. Critchfiold, 3 West ridge Drive, Columbia, Mo. i The air force Mid it lost 14 planes during the past seven days. Pommunist anti-aircraft guns shot down 13 of the planes. The 14th, an American Sabrejet fighter, was lost because of, mechanical failure. The total was only two less than the record 16 lost during (Tara Ta Page Ms) r • Study Proposal For Firemen's Pension Ordinance Up For Action On Tuesday Members ot the Decatur city council, Mayor John Doan and Decatur firemen have been in several huddles this- week concerning the proposed ordinance creating a fireman’s pension fund here. The ordinance is ready for final action next Tuesday night at the regular council meeting. •Jt is believed likely that the firemen, board of safety and an attorney for the Indiana firemen’s association will confer Monday afternoon on the matter. The pension fund is mandatory in. Indiana cities of more than 114,SW population and optional in all cities of lesser size. It would be necessary for the council to pass ar ordinance in Decatur if the pension fund is to be established. ’The law would create a pension board and the future pensions would be applicable to only full time firemen. Four firemen Would be elected to serve on the board with the ffre chief and mayor. The city clerk-treasurer would handle al| funds. All firemen would pay monthly three percent of their wages into the pension fund and the city would ndt be required to pay into the fund until the first retirement Was made. . z One feature of the act'which is creating considerable comment, and which might cause a delay in final enactment of the ordinance, is a provision that all firemen must pay into the fund an 'amount equal to three percent of each annual salary tot each year he has been a merer her of the force.’ This payment could be made in a lump sum or in three installments over a period of three years. The amount owed by some ot the firemen might create a hardship ort them if they were required to P«y such a large amount into the fapd. h |dsyor Doan said Friday that he planned to talk the matter over with the firemen prior to Tuesday’! >uncil meeting.

1 1 U.S. Disturbed By Slowness 01 Truce Parleys Seeks Adoption By UN Os Resolution Proposed By West Paris, Feb* 2 —(UtP);—The United States told the United Nations today that It is “disturbed by the slow course” of the; Korean armistice negotiations. , “We share with all other peaceloving nations a profound sense of disappointment that a satisfactory end to the hostilities has not yet been reached despite the sincere and patient efforts of the U.N. side,” American delegate Ernest A. Gross said. He urged adoption of a western resolution calling fdr a special session : of the general assembly as soon as a Korean armistice has been concluded or if the need arises from new U. N. military measures against the Communist aggressors. Gross told the combined political economic-social committee that the west opposed the Soviet demaad an on the political future ot Korea -because it might further snarl the “already complicated _ problem” facing truce negotiators at Panmunjom. ' The unprecedented combined committee rejected the Soviet motion for a full-scale Korean debate at this time by a vote of 40 to S wish 12 abstentions, Soviet delegate £ Jacob Malik charged that the western postponement move had bean plotted illegally in a "kitchen or black cabinet" by the U. fc.» Britain and France “In the interests of the aggressive policy of the U. S. A.” Gross retorted that the U. S. continued to give the “highest priority” to the U. N. aim of a unified and democratic Korea, but added: ‘ “The United States is disturbed by the slow course of the armistice negotiations at Panmunjom. “Precsiely because we are. anxious to go forward, w e desire to avoid premature political- discussions which cuold postpone or complicate the conclusion of an armistice. It is the armsitice wheih will open the way to constructive consideration of political issues . .. “Discussion here and at this (T»r» T. !>««• it*! Harold L. Ickes In Serious Condition Former Secretary Os Interior 111 Washington, Feb. 2. —(UP)— Harold L. Ickes, former secretary of interior, was reported in serious condition today from arthritis. Dr. Stephen Jones, Ickes’ physician, said he hoped to move the 77-year-old former cabinet officer back to Georgetown hospital today from his farm in nearby; Olney, Md. Jones; said Ickes “looks better than yesterday,” but would benefit by regular nursing care at the hospital. He said he planned no special treatment for Ickes. “Earlier I would have called his condition critical,” Jones said. “Now I would rescribe it as serious.” i • Ickes “took a turn for the better” when he rallied from a semi-coma last night, Jones agid. The physician said he permitted Ickes to return to his farm Jan. 18 after spending several weeks in the hospital suffering; “excruciating pain." Ickee suffered a setback Monday,. Jones said. Ickes served nearly 13 years as secretary ot interior.in the cabinets of presidents Roosevelt and Truman. , - ! ' ' i'J • ' I .

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——• Strikebound Cities Beginning To Feel Effects Os Walkout By Truck Drivers r J By Übited Press Union leaders representing 16.000 striking long-haul truck drivers today claimed scattered victories a* the widespread, wailkcut bpgan to be felt atf the consumer level in strikebound southern and midwestern cities. <, However, spokesmen for the truckers were just as insistent that their ranks Were firmly closed against the demands-made, by the jAFL Teamsters union. Abd in Chicago, 4,000 dockmen, idled by their own choice in a wildcat walkout over what they considered an unsatisfactory settlement. forced a 75 percent shutdown of the city’s trucking industry; A spokesman for the union at Memphis, TCnn., claimed that 34 ’ of the 70 firms involved in negotiations there had come to terms. He also j said that 80 of the 120 negotiating firms tn Ohio had Callen ;in line with the union’s demands. The officials —particularly \hose representing the Ohio firms —retorted that no such situation existed. A..E. Qreen,**chairman of the management team, said none of the 60 firms he represented there had come to terms. \ The one-day-old strike Idled 10,000 long-distance drivers tn the 10 southern states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas. \ J' Another 6,000 men were out in Ohio. Frims in 11 other states settled with the union by granting a new three-year contract providing wage boost* for employes. 11/ The federal government, represented by federal mediation chief Cyrus S. Ching, urged both the union and the companies to resume negotiations “immediately.” „ He wired the southwestern nad southeastern groups to set up special meetings In Memphis Sunday because a-continued walkout would “vitally affect the domestic ecqnomy and defense effort." Th some locations, however, Ching’s fears seemed already to have been borne out. Almost all trucks at Knoxville, Tehn., which normally _handle 4.000,000 tons of motor freight daily, were idled which stopped consginments to the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic plants. The Chicago wildcat stoppage was felt among Idea! truck driver* not direetly Involved in the dispute. The dockmen refused to load or upload ariy trucks which created a' false scarcity of consumer commodities. - \ . The number of secondary layoff* brought on because office workers and other employes had r.othing to do without the trucks rolling increased. 1 \ Negotiators at Chicago were involved in the Ohio dispute.lt centered around the union’s demand lor wage increases up to 19 cents an hour for drivers paid on an hourly basis add up to % cent per mlie for those paid on mileage basis. ; Trucking firms in Illniois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, ! North and South’ Kansas, Missouri and Michigan earlier settled with the union on these terms in Chicago. Three Killed When Two Autos Collide 'll' ’ - G Loogootee, Ind., Feb. 2— (UP)— Three persons were killed and a fourth Injured critically yesterday when two automobiles collided head-on in Ind. 45, four miles south of here. The dead Were Frank Morris. 74, apd.his wife, Grace. 65, both of Loogootee, and Delmar Potts, 57, Owensboro, Ky. Potts’ wife, Henrietta, M, Was taken to Daviess county hospital in Washington tn critical condition. ' \I