Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 35.

AT LEAST 30 KILLED IN AIRLINER CRASH

UN Challenges Reds'Right In Peace Parleys Communist China's < Right Is Challenged By United Nations ‘ • 1 Paninunjom, Korea. Feb. 11— <UP) —The United Nations today challenged Communist China’s right to take part in a posbarmistice Korean peace conference. Vdce Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the U.N. truce delegation, asked the Reds how China could claim a seat at the peace conference if she still contended that the only Chinese troops in Kofea were f’vplunteeijs.” t < : ‘“They could not answer that question, ” Joy said after the plenary session. “It was the one Choice bit of the day.” Joy also told Communist’negotiators that the U.N. would refuse to take any further action un<|er the final item on the truce agenda if the Reds insisted on widening the proposed Korean peace conference toUnclude other Asian problems. The final agenda item calls forrecommendations to the belligerent government regarding a final peace settlement in Korea. It would be held 90 days after a truce has been signed. “It is our view that if the commanders must make inappropriate Irecommendations . . . then the U.N. command will be opposed to any recommendations being made,” Joy said. \ Moreover, he said, the U.N. does not consider any of the recommendations proposed by the Reds essential to a truce. At a later meeting of staff officers on the question of exchanging war, prisoners, the U.N. yielded to a Communist demand that both sides hake the same time limit for returning prisoners. The U.N. previously had asked for 60 days in which to turn over the 132,000 Communist war prisoners it holds, bpt asked the Reds to return all their 11,559 known allied prisoners within 30 days of an armistice. * No definite new time limit was fixed because the U.N. asked more time to study how long it would take to move the huge number of Communist prisoners to the exchange point. The U.N. also offered to give up its demand that neutral interview teams comb Cominunist rear areas to assist displaced civilians to, \return to their homes. — But the allies asked the Reds in J return to “spell out” the mission and functions of the joint U.N.Communist prisoner exchange committee and the Red Cross teams which, will visit prison camps. At another meeting of staff officers, the Communists offered to permit five neutral nation truce observation teams to roam behind their lines if the allies would agree to limit ports through which troops might be rotated' during an armistice to three. U.N. officers rejected the offer. They held out for eight ports of entry on each side. Both the full truce delegations and the staff officer groups will meet again Tuesday. Court House, Bank To Close Tuesday Court house offices and .the First State Bank will be closed .all day Tuesday in observance of Lincoln’s birthday. There will be regular mail delivery service and all business homes, except the bank, will observe regular hours. ' Schools wiU hold regular classes, but appropriate programs honoring . the Civil War president will be held hn the afternoon. J Adult Achievement Banquet On March 4 The annual adult achievement banquet will be held Tuesday, March 4, instead of March 3, as previously planned. The change was made because the Berne Rotary club will meet with its district governor March 8, and many ' ; of the Rotarians also wish to attend the achievement banquet. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 23 to 28 north, 28 to 35 south. High Tuesday 42 to 48 north, 48 to 56 I south.

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10 Boy Scout, Cub Groups In County 42nd Anniversary | ( ' Os Scouts Marked ;■ i ' 'l' ffl \*LJ> ' There are five Boy Scout troops two Explorer posts and three Cut Packs in the county, Clarence Ziner, district chairman of the Boj Scout organization, stated today in commenting about the American Boy Scouts 42nd anniversary. ! 1 1 j “These 10 troops and packs offeH Boy Scout training to about 225 boys,” Ziner said. ' j The county organization includes three troops in and one each in Berne and Geneva. There are Cub Packs in each of the above places and Explorer troops in Decatur and Berne, Troop 61 is sponsored By Decatur Rotary club, with Kenneth Secaur as vscoutmaster. The adult members are, R. D. Glendening, chairman, John F. Welch, representative, E. E. Ry dell, Jerry Leitz. Robert Smith, committeemen, David Macr Lean, assistant scoutmaster.. Troop 62, sponsored by Lions club, Victor Porter, scoutmaster. Joseph E. Morris, chairman, Glenn H. Mauller, representative, Herman H. Krueckeberg, Richard J. Macklin. Merritt J. Alger, committeemen. Troop 63—Sponsored by Adams Post 43 American Legion: Nilani Ochsenrider, scoutmaster: Lawrence Rash, chairman, Robert H. Ashbaucher, representative, Chai'les Morgan, V. H. Runyoii, O. W. P. Macklin. A. C. E, Gillander, Committeemen, Richard K. Schnitz ani Ted Wemhoff, assistant scbUttnaikters. . Hubert Zerkel, Jr., is eubmaster of Pack 3061, sponsored by Lincoln School PTA, With 59 registered members. James Yoder fe cub mauler of troop 3067, sponsored bv Berne-French school PT A. 20 members. h Wendall Long is pt troop 3069, sponsored by s4ethbdiiit Mens club of Geneva. ! | • Raymond Beer is scoutmaster of troop 67 in Bqrne, sponsored ty the Berne Mothers clubj | b Hubert Leatherman is scoutmaster of troop 69 in Geneva, sponsored by the Methodist meh’s cliib of Geneva. ; . • ! ! The two Explorer rfcsts are sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce in Decatur land Berne. Howard B. Eley is! advisor of the Decatur post and Sylvan Zuercher is advisor of the Berne! post. Last June 1,000 scouts and 150 adults attended the Anthdny Wayne Council Camporee at. Hanna-Nutt-man park. Fifteen explorers and six adults from- this city made the trip to Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, 'J4.M. ! Six units attended camp at Camp island last summer. During the ptrijt year 68 individual advancements from tenderfoot to Eagle Scouts were made and 208 merit badges wbre earned by Scouts through participation In scout programs. : Uli I I ' ~" t? I Berne Jeweler Dies Suddenly At Home Elmer E J Liechty Dies Early Sunday .1 ! M - / Elmer R. Liechty, 43, prominent Berne business man, died unexpectedly early Sunday morning of an acute heart attack at his home. He had been ill two -weeks. Mr. Liechty had been in the jewelry business at Berne for 22 years,! and was a former clerktreasurer of Berne. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church at Berne. ■; | I i 1.1, Surviving pre .his wife, Katherine; his mother, Mrs. 'Aldine Liechty of Berne; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Richard L- Lehman of Berne; two stepgrandchildren;. four brothers, Harry H, Liechty of Angola, Dr. Ralph W Liechty of Wooster, O„ Dr. Clintoh S. Liechty of Loudenville, 0., and Dr. Palmer E. Lftechty of Decatur, and a! sister, Mrs. Albert Yoder of fterne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Trinity E. U. B. church at Berne, the Rev. Karl Tauber officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friend# may cadi kt the lager funeral home until noon Tuesday, when the body will be removed to the church. ■ ■ ; •

— ....... Pres. Truman Renews Battle For Controls ,\ . I President Renews „ I Plea For Stronger Laws For Controls Washington, Feb. 11 — (UP) President Truman today renewed his battle for stronger anti-infla-tion controls with a;request that congress cast aside “weak” economic laws which threaten to “Capehartize” the entire prick structure. Mr. Trurnkn, in a lengthy message asking extension of the defense production act, his criticism of the present law on three amendments—including one by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (RInd.) —which were added to the law last year over the chief executive’s opposition. |! He asked immediate repeal qf these three amendments. He alsq recommended that the present 82,100,000,000 ’limit op government loans and purchase for critical -materials be raised to $3,000,000,000. ! ! j Mr. Truman requested a twoyear extension of the controls law. He said there is danger that “new Inflationary fires” might break out “all through the economy.” 1 Mr. Truman said “a great deal' of damage”; had been done to the economy by the Capehart amendment allowing manufacturerers price hikes offsetting ■ cost increases up to July 26. 1951. - Demanding repeal of this amendment, the president said that "the longer remedial action is delayed, the mdre completely and irrevocably our whole price structure will be CapehartizedJ” i Concerning this and ~ other amendments he considers “bad legislation,” the president said: “AU of them are hurting us In the fight against inflation. Each glvek special treatment to certain favored groups—lightening their share of the mobilisation burden —while saddling a disproportionately heavy burden on the rest of the public, both as consumers and as taxpayers.” Civil Defense Meet Here Tuesday Night ! Public Meeting To (Bq Held At Legion i Plans have been completed for the county-wide public meeting (on civil defense organization Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the Legion home in Decgtur. Capt. Forrest Schaffer, of the Indiana civil defense unit, and several other officers of the group wiH be»in Decatur for the meeting, Floyd Hunter, head of, the Decatur unit*, announced. Capt. Schaffer will spend Tuesday afternoon visiting the three other units of civil defense in Adams county and at 6:15 o’clock will address the joint meeting; of Boy Scouts, Rotarians, Lions and Adams post, American Legion ;at the Decatur Masonic hall. This meeting is being held as parti of the Boy Scout week observance, i Lack of interest in a civil* defense unit in Decatiur has caused a slowing down in activities recently, Hunter said, and the Decatur chairman has been contacting various civic groups in an effort to have a good turnout Tuesday night at the public meeting. “Many people are of the opinion that Decatur will never suffer an air attack,” Hunter eaid, “and it is difficult to get sufficient persons interested to fill all offices.” Hunter emphasized the fact that the Tuesday meeting will be public and all interested | people of the community are invited. j r— Wilkinson To Speak . To School Students i Warren Wilkinson, of Decatur, will speak at a special assembly program at the. Decatur high school auditorium Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. Wilkinson, who has spent much of his life in prison, will relate to the students the folly of law-breaking. The public is invited to attend. '. 'b ; ; V. -■ . ;\■ J ■

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TEN MILLION “BUCKS” r Wt- -JI ire , **!■ , JtL vHR A GROUP of Menominee Indians gathered in the government building at Keshena, Wis.. Saturday to discuss what they would do with $10,000.00(1! awarded .them by the Federal government. On the left is < John Rain, leader of the “Pagans” in the tribe, talking with thk Rev. Paulinus Grosskopf, Francisian Priest. -First order of business was a proposed $300,000 for a Catholic school on the reservation in Neo- ? pit, Wis.. but Rain was opposed. After taking a vdte, it was decided the -Christians could have their school. | <

16-Year-Old Kills Three Os Family * Fit Os Rage Leads To Family Tragedy Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 11.*— (UP) —A "quiet" 16-yearold boy said today he killed his mother, brother and sister in a fit bf rage brought on when he was denied the use of the family car, Milwaukee police said. •' ; Two detective® immediately flew to Kirkwood, Mo., where the youth, John Schulz, was arrested yester-' day by Missouri state troopers. Ironically, it was the family car which Schulz took after the killings that led to his arrest. The officers spotted it parked on highway 66 and tried to pull alongside for a routine check. Schulz sped away and led the troopers on a-nine-mile chase before they caught up with him. The youth waived extradition and police in Milwaukee said his father, Arno, demanded the youth’s return. They said murder charges will be filed against him immediately after his return, 1 ij The slayings occurred, late Satur day afternoon, but were not discovered until last night when the father returned from a trip to find the bodies of his wife, Catherine, 38, his 10-year-old son Robert, and six-year-old daughter, Katherine. There also was a note on the kitchen table: ‘fDad —Sorry things happened this, way, Maybe we’ll meet again. I’m going to see somp of the places we’ve been. Goodbye ... . God bless you . . . Your twisted son John." I ; Police said the rangy, well-built high school junior quarreled with his mother when she refused to lOt him use the family car. The youth became furious, police said, and stormed upstairs Where he found a .410-guage shotgun. x Then he returned to a bedroom Where his brother and sister were playing. His attitude apparently frightened them, police said, and they tried to take refuge tn a closet. Schulz, police said, cpt thetn down in the doorway to the closet. Both the brother and the sister had been shot four times, police said. Schult, mother, meanwhile, was washing clothes at the kitchen sink. t \ , Police* said the youth went into bthe kitchen tnd killed her where she stood with three blasts from his shotgun. The concussion knocked out her fs.lse teeth, h j “I started shooting—five, 10, 11 times," Milwaukee police said Schulz told the troopers in Kirkwood. I The youth dragged hie mother’s (Turn T® Page Two) • : -i ■'V '' i ■!<' I-T M'

GIVE TONIGHT! Decatur citizens are urged to give generously this evening as Boy Scouts and Girl , Scouts make Jtheir house-to-house canvas for the March ol Dimes fdr funds to continue ’ the fight against ’dread polio. The Scouts,' . escorted -by adult volunteers, will call at'' f' every home iri Decatur, start- - ? dents-are asked to turn ?on their porch lights as a help to the volunteer workers. The . Scouts and their drivers will ; meet at the Decatur high school gym at 5:30 o’clock to detail their districts. 1 Price Os Horsemeat Is Up 25 Percent ? May Cause Shortage In Food To Animals Chicago, Feb. 12.—(UP)—The traffic of disguised horsemeat to the dinner table eventually! might cause a hardship on dogs; cats and even mink who depend on horseflesh in their diet. An animal breeder said today that the ip id west horsemeat scandal; currently under investigation by federal and county grand juries hat# boosted the price of the meat for. legitimate packers and has cut deeply into the normal supply of horses available for legal slaugh ter. . ■ . i .i' Qtto H. Grosse, who buys about 3,0d0,000 pounds bf horaemeat a year 1 for his mink farms, said the price of horseflesh has risen about 25 percent since began buying it for illegal distribution. Horseflesh formerly wais less than 5 cents a pound, he said. Grdsse predicted that the prospering illegal market of horsemeat would absorb all the country's available horses for slaughter in five years. M || Grosse said he believed publicity of the horsemeat racket would tend to spread the illegal operations, rather than curtail tljem, by revealing the huge potential profits? He pointed out that choice) steers cost 37 % cents a pound compared with the five-cent price for horseflesh. ‘ ' J Meanwhile Lake county, 111, state's attorney Robert Nelson prepared to call the first of 101 witnesses subpenaed for a grand jury investigation of the scandal opening in Waukegan today. Rock Island county stage’s pttortey Bernard J. Moran said Edward F. McCarthy. 50, Chicago, an ousted state food inspector, would be arraigned tomorrow on -charges of; accepting a bribe to ignore il(Twra Te Fuse Three)

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One Communist Jes Fighter Shot Down Damage Four Others During Air Battles I ! . I- 1 ; <Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Feb. 11 —(UP)-—American sabrejet idiots shot down one Communist jet fighter plane and damaged four others today in air battles over Nortli Korea. ' ! First Lt. James E. Arnold of Walla Walla J Wash., and Ist Lt. Raymond E. Steinbig of Tulare, S. p., shared credit destroying one SUG-15 in a fight between .tt FWB atfd 60 JUKI’S. * Four MiG's were damaged in other ~ Allied planes also shot down one MIG Sunday. In addition, they claimed two probably, destroyed, subject tq further check by gun camera films, and five damaged. In a continuation of “operation strangle,” United Nations planes blasted enemy rail lines along both coasts of North Korea despite an almost slold overcast covering target areas. • ,\| I However, clear visibility Sunday permitted far east air. force to mount 1,057 sorties, greatest number of the past three month. Ground action Monday was confined to probing attacks and patrol encounter* at| several places along rife front, Ace Shot Down Tokyo. Feb.' 11— (UP) —Maj. George A. Davis, world’s leading jet ace, was 'shot down in an air battle with Communist MIG-15s ‘ over northwest Korea yesterday, it was announced today. He blasted t4o enemy jet planes Jrom the skies before crashing. Before then Davis — known as “One Burst” Davis—had shot down down nine MIG-15 jet planes and three TU-2 bombers since Nov; l.\ After knockign four MiG’s from the skies to run his total to nine, Davis told United Press correspondent Leßoy Hanhen on Dec. 14 that the secret of his battle success was “just in there” and mixifffc wtlli the enemy fighters, , • “ I v 1 “It doesn't feel any different to be the number one boy,” he said then, “ft’s just my job.” Davis, 31, has a wife and two children living in Lubbock, Tex. Nine Men Killed In Operation Snowfall ,80 Others Injured i In Army Maneuvers Camp Drum, N. Y., Feb. 11 — (UP)—A make-believe war at this rugged upstate military reservation became ail too real today as arrhjlr 'Officials counted nine dead and about 80 injured in “operation snowfall.” \ ( Seven men were killed anti 25 injured in three separate accidents yesterday. Two paratropoers plummeted to their death in an earlier phase of the maneuvers staged to test operations under Arctic conditions. . A twin-engined 046 transport plane crashed while taking off from Wheeler-Sacks airfield here yesterday. Three Were killed instantly and a fourth died in a camp | hospital. Eighteen ..were hurt. The plane, on a mission with 32 white-uniformed paratroopers and a crew of four, careened 100 feet before crashing into an unoccupied parked airplane. — All of the dead were members of the plane’s crew. • ; Less than three hours after, the crash/maneuver officials were told two members of the lith airborne division had been killed when a; speeding 83-car New York Central freight train etruck an army truck at an open grade crossing near Spragueville, K. Y.. about 50 miles (Tern T® Pa*e Foar)

King George On Final Journey To Capital Great Crowds Wait ! In London To Pay Homage To Ruler Sandringham, England. Feb. 11. 7~UP) —King George VI left thej place of his birth and his death today on a final journey to the capital from which he reigned over one-quarter of the globe. While bagpipes skirled a lament, the king’s plain oaken coffin was taken from St. Mary Magdalene church on the royal estate, drawn bn a gun carriage three miles to Wolferton station and placed aboard the royal train. The train began its sorrowful 110-mile trip to London at 12:05 p.m. (6:05 a.m. CST). ftiding in a blue and gray salon cajr behind the hearse of polished teak were Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family. More than 20,000 ot the king’s tenants, neighbors' and subjects—from old men and women to babes in arms—watched the procession from Sandringham to Wolferton. • Still greater crotvdg wohe waiting in London, where the king’s body—with the great Imperial crown resting on the coffin —Mill be borne through the Streets from King’s Cross station to Westminster Hall. There it will lie in (state until the funerpl Friday. Queen Elizabeth, mother, her husband and her sister attended a final memorial service in the St. Mary Magalene church with 100 villagers just befqre the king began his final journey from Sandringham, irherb he died last Wednesday. ■. \ j Sitting only a scant three paces from the king’s coffin, the royal family sang the late monarch’s favorite hymns, “Abide With Me” and “The King of Love My Shepherd is" with the rest of the con-* gregation. . i As the half-hour service ended, eight six-foot four inch Grenadier guardsmen lifted the coffin trestles before the altar and carried it outside to a 13-pounder gun carriage drawn by four bay horses. ! Maj. Alexander MacDonald, the king’s piper, played the lament, “The Flowers .O’ the. Forest,” as the procession started. He was in (Tira Ta Pu» T*>) Fred Nye's Funeral Tuesday Afternoon Saleman For Local ( Firm Dies Suddenly Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at St. Luke's Lutheran church at Fort Wayne for Fred' W. Nye, 61, Salesman for F. . McConnell and "Sons of this city. Nye died Saturday afternoon of a heart attack as he was driving hi# Automobile to his residence in Fort Wayne from Decatur. The auto struck 8 utility pole and the pole snapped in two. from the impact. Nye ha 4 left Decatur about 12 o’clock. | Surviving are the Wife, Harriett; one daughter, Betty Jean, and a son, Robert Nye, at home. A brother, Frank Nye of Warren, 0., and two sistprs, Mrs. Goldie Shotenburg of Decatur and Mrs. Mary Betinbrink, Washington, D. C„ also surtive. A son died a month ago following a heart seizure. The body is at the C. M. Sloan ahd Sons funeral home at Fort Wayne where friendi may cell today and tomorrow until funeral time. The Rev. J. Luther Seng, pastor of St. Luke church, will officiate, and burUl will be in Greenlawn Memorial cemetery.

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Third Huge Plane To Crash In City In Two Months; Closed Elizabeth, NJ., Feb. IL—(UP)— A huge fotir-engine commercial airliner from Newark airport crashed into an apartment house here early today, killing at least 30 and possibly 34 persons. More than 40 were hurt. The LG-6 transport was the third big passenger plane to crash inside Elizabeth within two rponths. Within two hours after the plane hit an apartment house and burst into flames, authorities closed the airport, which adjoiqs both Newark and Elizabeth,\until further notice. Most of the victims were killed outright or burned to death. But the toll rose about noon when a young woman died in a hospital. She was the 30th victim. She was\ not identified. ! County mortician Alfred C. i Haines reported that he expected to receive four additional bodies. He said he had been notified that , several more injured had died and one more body had been found at the scene. The tragedy immediately set off a chain of investigations and protects which even reached the floor of congress in Washington. The New York port authority, operators of the airport which is one of the’biggest in the country, revealed that ;it . had received bomb threats against both Newark and New York City’s La Guardia airport. The Civil Aeronautics Board, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the New York Port Authority, New Jersey officials, the city of Elizabeth and National Airlines, operator of the plane, agreed to meet tomorrow jto organize a thorough inquiry info the disaster. Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey talked by telephone with , Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, and the Port Authority called , the general conference to be held in New York City tomorrow. Representatives of 17 major airlines also were invited. V. In Washington, Rep. Alfred D. Sieminsky of New Jersey introduced a resolution to stripffhe port authority of its jurisdiction over Newark airport. The New Jersey Democrat also demanded a “full scale congressional investigation” of the authority which operated all major tunnels, bridges, and airport facilities in- the New York-New Jersey, metropolitan area. Meanwhile, CAB officials ,~aqd county authorities began an onrtheepot investigation of the crash. Stewardess Nancy Taylor, only surviving crewmember of the plane, said she believed two of the plane’s four .engines failed as the craft climbed to 1,000 feet in |ts takeoff for Miami shortly after midnight. '. ' .. ’ * So grave were the implications that the authority shut down Newark, one of the country’s biggest and busiest airports, at 3 a.m. “In the light of these traffic events and pending further investigation.” In Washington it was understood the tion would have ordered the closing if the Authority hadn’t acted promptly. Today’s disaster plane was owned by National Airlines. It smashed into a tour story, apartment house in which 60 families were sleeping two minutes after its take-off for Miami. Both building and plane wreckage hurst into flames. It occurred within the same square mile of Elizabeth in which the two other airliners crashed Dec. 16 and Jan. 22, the first just after leaving Newark, the second > while attempting an instrument landing. The newest crash was on a clear, moon-lighted night. The first crash occurred in good weather too but the second was on a rainy, foggy afternoon. Engine trouble was the Indicated cause of the latest disaster as well as of the first. Fifty-nine passengers. Including three babies in arms, and a crew of four were on board. TwehtytwO passengers, three crewmen, and four residents of the building . were killed. Thirty-one passengers (Tarp To Pace Five)