Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 40. "...

ACCUSE RUSSIA OF BLOCKING ARMISTICE

UN Infantry, Tanks Plunge Into Red Lines Biggest Series Os 'Killer' Raids For Near Three Months Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Feb.l6 —(UP) —United Nations tanks and infantry plugged into Commuhist lines through seven snow-blanketed valleys today in the biggest series of “killer” Vaids in nearly three months. At the same time, allied warships harried the longest non-stop taval siege in history into its second year at the battered, smouldering Communist east coast port of Wonsan. Altogether, warships of nine na- ' tions have hurled 16,000,000 pounds of exploding steel into Wonsan at the rate of 22 shells an hour day and night since the continuous bombardment began last Feb. 16. All seven Sth army raiding parties hit the Communist line along the westerp half of the front. Their object was to kill Communists and scout out enemy strength. It was the biggest such effort since the “ease firq” began one month before last Christmas. At the western end of the front, .U. N. medium tanks lumbered p.cross frozen paddies north of Korangpo and peppered Communist junkers with 90-millimeter shells. Other tanks loosed their big guns and machineguns against Red positions west of Yonchon. Still another raiding party crossed the frozen Yok river northwest of Yonchon and exchanged fire for nearly two hours with an enemy group so well concealed it was Impossible to determine its strength. Two other infantry raiding parties in thte same vicinity pushed back Communist troops to reach their assigned objectives. A joint tank-infantry task force west of Chorwon plunged through Communist small arms and automatic weapons fire to reach its objective. Still another infantry, raiding ; party nearby fought five battles -in seven hours. It was ordered to return before reaching 1 its objective. \ Far to the northwest. U. N. planes sowed their bombs and rockets across Communist com* m'iinicatlons in "operation strangle.” Fifth air force fighter-bombers blasted oift two railway bridges, cut tracks In more than 60 places r.nd destroyed or damaged two freight cars, three trucks and seven supply buildings. Two American sabrejets exchanged firing passes with two Communist MIG-15 jit fighters over MIG Alley, but made no claims pending of gun > camera films. Other sabres screening fighter-bombers sighted about 75 additional enemy je ( ts. The sth air force reported that It lost only three planes during the past seven days, its Smallest less since it began “operation strangle” against enemy communications last August. The weekly pvefhge has been 10 planes lost. Only one plane was lost in com<T«m Tn Pure six!

Local Man's Sister Is Taken By Death Mrs. Nellie Schrock Smith, sister of Will P. Schrock of Decatur, died Friday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Kenneth Speicher, Indianapolis, according to word received by relatives in Decatur. Mrs. Smith was the widow of the late Dr. Orron D. Smith. She was born in Decatur but had resided in Indianapolis since, her marriage. Surviving are the daughter; two brothers. Will P. Schrock, Deca* tur, and Dr. Robert Schrock, Omaha. Neb.; and two sisters. xMrs. Hunter Myers and Miss Elizabeth Schrock of Union City. Fun* erarservices will be held Monday morning at 10 o’clock at Indianapolis and burial will be in an Indianapolis cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, not much change in temperatures tonight and Sunday. Some snow or sleet mostly light over south and extreme east portion* tonight. Low tonight 20-26 north, 25-30 south. High Sunday 30-35.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NKWBPAPKR IN ADAMS COUNTY

PTA Speaker • i 1 • n I • M r jyi OB MM » OKSsHI - >1 Prof. Paul D. Bagwell, head of the English department at Michigan State college, will be the principal speaker at a joint meeting of all PTA groups in Adams county next Thursday‘s night 'at 7:30 o’clock at Decatur high school. The public; is invited.

Combined PT A Meet Here Hext Thursday ! County-Wide Meet To Be Held Here ■ The founding of parent-teachers associations in the United States will be observed in Adams county next' week, with 4 a county-wide meeting at Decatur high;; school Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. The meeting will be open to the public. / J H'l Participating associations. Include: Monmouth, Mrs. George Sormer. president; Pleasant Mills, Mrs. Carl Fry, president; Adams Central. Mrs. Harold Schwartz, president; Berne, Leslie Lehman, president; Geneva, | Sylvan Bauman, president; Decatur, Mrs. <Randolph Brandyberry, president. ! I The combined meeting wi|i be the first ever held in Adams county and a special founder’s day program has been arranged. The Berne-French township high school a cappella choir under the direction of Freeman Burkhalter will present several numbers at the opening of the program. ' [ Paul D. Bagwell, head of the department of English at Michigan State college, regarded as one of the top 10 public speakers in the nation, will be the principal speaker. 1 ’ The arrangements committee spent several months in an effort to secure one of the nation’s best for the first annual joint gathering of the PT A In Adams county. Prof. Bagwell served! as president of the UiS. Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1948-49 and d wring that tenure he visited each of the 48 states and many foreign, nations. His topic will be 'iHnts off to the past, coats off to the future." . The arrangements committee has stressed the fact that the meeting is open to the public. Employment Levels Off In January Payrolls In Decatur Below Previous Year . Employment in six lock! industries leveled off at 1,240 in January, the monthly report of the Chamber of Commerce Shows. The January payroll exceeded December by >36,000, reported at $381,692. For January, 1961, it was reported at >443,769. g. [ Population was on the increase with 67 births recorded in January,, compared with 13 deaths. Births in January a year ago were 46 and deaths 12. Carloadings in-and-out of Decatur slacked off to 1,292 cars \ln January, compared to 2,949 a year, ago. Fewer soybean account for the decrease, railroad officials said. \ Three building permits for >6.150 were Issued in January, j Noon Edition). J

Coronation Os New Queen In Autumn Likely Early Coronation Is Likely; Still Plans 3 Trip. To Australia ; London. Feh. 16— (UIP) — The coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 is likely to be held late in September or October, an- authority close td the royal fatuity said today. • The new queen is determined to carry out the thrice postponed tour of Australia as soon as possi•ble, i the source said. ; But she would want to go as a crowned sovereign, not in the interim period before the coronation. j • After the ordeal of yesterday’s procession through London and the funeral of King George VI, Elizabeth spent the day quietly at Clarence House. The Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princesg Margaret were at Buckingham Palace. . Queen Juliana and Prince hard of the Netherlands returned to Holland today, but most of the Other royal and distinguished visitnrA who came to London for the king’s funeral, were staying \in Erigland, at least the weekend. i ; ] The new queen will very seldom be seen in publfc during the Mourning period through May 31 She is expected to go to Balmoral tn Scotland in the spring. For I'vely Princess Margaret, the court mourning will mean that: she will forego all her frequent appearances at theaters, balls and public restaurants. ' If Elizabeth is crowned fit, the autumn, it will be the firUt time In 200 years that the coronation has’ been held in the same year as the death of the previous sovereign. But the royal authority said today that it was more than likely' <Tara To Pace BIX)

Push Investigation Os Twin Bombings 1 Heavy Damage Done At Vandalia, 111. Vandalia, 111., Feb. 16J—(UP) — Federal agents and local authorities pressed an investigation today of the mysterious twin bombings of a government aircraft aid station and a Vandalia feed store and grain elevator. The explosions shattered the early morning quiet at about 1:30 a.m. (CST) Friday, causing considerable damage in both areas but injuring no one. I • 11 FBI agents and Vandalia police were working on the theory that newly poured concrete iwork appeared to be the objective in each bombing. The government project, a building to house electronic equipment for the recently selected directional radio station, is 10 miles north of here. The bomb blasted the walls and roof. *- ( Leo Myers, acting police chief, said that authorities “had a pretty good idea what it’s all about but we can’t say yet.’’ The blast in Vandalia appeared less mysterious. I ]The objective apparently was the Kelly Feed and Grain company and the operator of the feed store hinted that the bombing was connected with some complaints he received over the use of non-union: labor in the construction of a concrete driveway. \‘ ' V.A. Kelly told he was called on by a business agent of the AFL Common Laborers union who told Kelly he had : Received complaints from members of; the union that the feed store operator used his regular to pour concrete for a parking lot. Kelly said he told the:business agent he used his own men “because It was a slack time for them.” said the agent: walked away saying “how would .you like a picket line around your plaice’” The 'blast rocked Vandalia, blew a Ijarge hole in one of the elevators, tore a hole tn the concrete Work, damaged plumbing In the elevator and blew out numerous windows in buildings near the elevator* J

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 16, 1952 u

The Final Chapter ; ■ JH ’-AB - AS DR. GEOFFREY FISHER, Archbishop of Canterbury (left), faces the bereaved Queen Mother Elizabeth across the crypt containing the body of King George VI, the hew Queen Elizabeth II (right of crypt) writes the final chapter in her fahtef’s life by dropping a handful of soil upon his casket. Behind the widow are Princess Margaret and the Princess Royal. Mary. Behind them alre <e four British Du>es. Kent. Windsor, Gloucester and Edinburg and behind them, King Frederlk of Denmark and King Haakon of Norway;.

Urge Watkins For Gubernatorial Race Seventh District Urges Nomination Indianapolis, ) — Lt. Gov., John A. Watkins had a one-day-late Valentine gift today |from his Democratic party colleagues in the seventh district-en-dorsement for the gubernatorial nomination. Eight of the district’s 11 county Organizations presented a resolution to the state committee yesterday urging the Bloomfield newspaper publisher to become a candidate and pledging him their support. The resolution was; presented ht a meeting during which June 24 was ratified for the party’s state nominating contention and party rules were revised to ad? vance by more than five weeks the date for choosing a national compiitteeman. Jj Thus, Frank McHale, veteran committeeman from Indiana, now faces a showdown test of strength on May 17,the day the state commlttee meets for reorganization after the May 6 primary. Under the old rules, McHale’s showdown would have: come on June 23, the day before the state Convention. ‘ The state committee members Jrere also asked to name their preerences for a successor to R. Earl peters as director of the federal bousing administration: in Indiana. Peters, of Foj-t Wayne* was discharged recently because he handled through the FHA a mortgage on an apartment house he owns State chairman Ira L, Haymaker read a list of six men he said were nominated by party leaders for Peters’ job. Haymaker asked distrct chairmen to inform him -of their preferences. \ • The six : were Henry J. O’Neil, Gary; Leonard Rauscher, Evansville; falter Larson, Elkhart; Estel Jones, Plainfield; Tom Lemon, Bloomington, and George Brown, Fort Wayne. The name of Conn J. Sterling, state revenue commissioner, was withdrawn at his sponsor’s request. The state committee also revised a rule regarding appointment of precinct vice-committeemen. As revised, it prohibits committeemen from appointing their wives or other relatives as vice-committee-men. ; Also at the meeting, Herbert M. Spencer of Indianapolis announced he plans to resign soon as a member of the state election board. Spencer and governor Schricker comprise the Democratic majority (Tara Te Page F<mr)

Willis Fonner Rites On Monday Morning Funeral services tar. WilllaA: Fonner. who died Friday noon after a brief illness, win be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Zwjck funeral home, the Rev. George Brittenham and the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be 4n the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o’clock this afternoon until time of the services. -J 55,000 Hamburgers | Given Away By Chain ‘ ' I J ® * Says Confidence Os Public Is Restored Chicago. Feb. 16.—(UP)- A snack shop operator, after a 22hour marathon of giving away harpburgers, said today he < wad sure he restored the confidence of horsemeat-conscious Chicagoans in the dobbin-free hamburger. Chris Carson said the exact count of how'many 77-cent hamburger specials given away at his seven Peter Pan shops would have to await a final tabulation, "but it was. well bver 55,000.” This would place the cost at up| wards of >25,000, Carson estimated. “But it was worth it,” he said. “I didn’t see a suspicious face anywhere, except some people who weren’t convinced we really were giving them ayray.” The biggest demand for the free Hamburgers developed early today at the Peter Pan shop far out on Chicago’s west side. ,| |i t Carson estimated the crowd there at 2,500 persons waiting their turn at the coutner. Carloads of teenagers toured the area shouting to passersby that the shop was dispensing the free "all-American hamburger." Carbon sped to the scene and ah was reported well in hand. Policemen acted as doormen at each, of the shops to maintain order! AU comers, except children not accompanied by their parents,; were served. “Some of the people were skeptics] about IF all,” Carson said. Tliey would order he Said, then quietly inquire if. the free-, hamburger deal was on the up and up. “Then they wanted to stay for seconds,” he said, “which, of course, we couldn’t do . with •so many people waiting.” During the noon hour rush, patrons waited 15 to 20 deep outside the shops to get their on-the-(Tm. Pa«* to)

UJV Rejects Communist Move To Name Russia As Truce Supervisor

10 Former Members Os Klan Arrested ! Charge. Abduction, Flogging Os Couple Washington. Feb. 16—(UP)—FBI director J, Edgar Hoover announced the arrest today of 10 former members of! the F&lr Bluff, N.C., Klavern of the Ku Klux Klan on chages of kidnapping and violation of civil rights. The 10 mhp were charged with the abduction, interstate transportation., and flogging i of Dorothy Martin and Ben Grainger of Fair Bluff in a Klan foray on Oct. 6. 1951. / Hoover said an investigation was started after reports were received that >brutal J floggings and I other abuses of negro and white residents of the vicinity had been committed by hooded bands of klansmen. Arrested were: lEarly L. Brooks, 40, exalted cyclops of the klavern and former chief of police of Fair Bluff; Bobby Brooks, 19, fcon of Early R. Brooks; Ross Enzos. 43, JoaUss (vice president) of the klaVer(j; L. C. Worley, 25. kligrapp (secretary) of the klavern, Cerro Gordo, N. C.; Bob Hayes. 38. Fair Bluff; Pittman Foy Strickland, 29, Ccerro Gordo. N. <?.; George Miller, 19. Cerro Gordo, N. C.; Sherwood Miller, 26. brother of George Miller ■ Cerro Gordo, N. C.; Steve Edmond. ‘ 26. Fair Blusf; and Horace Btriok- ’ land. 38, deputy sheriff, Columbus ’ county, N; C., frbm Cerro Gordo, ■ : : 4 r r ' | Hoover J said Miss Martin and Granger were awakened from their . riioner T. L- Horn, Fayettesville. ; n.c.3 1 ■ : Hoover said Mis Martin and Gran ger were awakened from their sleep by hooded and robed armed men .on Ocit. 6,1951, and were blindfolded and driven across the state line into Horry county, S. C-. Vhere both were jheavily flogged. Move Adams Central Offices to Monroe I Move Into Building • \i Near Monroe School ’ *■ ■ -M ; -I -’i Members of the board of the Adams County Central Consolida- ; ted School corporation were busy • \today moving theiir office into a i building near the' Monroe eleznen- , tary school, part Os the consolidation, in Monroe, r Offices have been temporarily • -maintained i on the second floor of the court house. Esther Sowards, office assistant of the school cor- . poratlon, will continue to be in change and the office will >be ► opened Monday morning in the loi cation less than a b(pck from the Monroe school. i ; The new location will be used - as the central office until the con- ; solidated building is constructed. The proposed site of the new struc- ! ture also is in At present school facilities of the Consolidation are div|ded. with-the , Monroe and Kirkland twonship School 'buildings 'both being utilized. > Eventually both of these buildings will be abandoned. Townships In consolidation are Monroe, Kirkland and Washing- ; ton. Coupty superintendent Glen B. Custardj also is superintendent i of the consolidated school.

X 'T Defense Bond ‘ Sales $45,810 In January T. F. Graliker, chairman of the Adams county U.&. defense bond committee,; reports county bond sales for January revealing total sales of >45,810 as compared with 348,430 for; January, 1351. Total bond sales for the state tor last month were *13,206,127 compared with >14,154,054 for the corresponding period Os last year. -l • '

Disclose Nunan Paid Advance Commissions Recqrds In Senate Show Comiftissions To former Tax Man Washington, Feb. lg.— (UP)— Former internal revenue commissioner Joseph D. Nunan got “ad-i vance” commissions from the American Lithofold Corp. In its dealings 4?ith a New York |iquor firm—listed as a delinquent (axpayer—Wbijch he also represented as an attorney, senate records showed today. A Lithofold official told senate investigators last fall that the Caph tol Distributing Co., a New York liquor Kirin, was listed as one of Nunan’s accounts whep he was A Lithofold ‘‘salesman" after leaving government service. The treasury department revealedyesterday that i Nunan requested aind received special permission ito represent Capitol as a lawyer in alcohol tax and license payments. Nunan’s connection .with Lithofold, ** disclosed when the senate's permanent investigating committee conducted an inquiry to see whether former Democratic national chairman William M. Boyle, Jr., playqd a role In getting the St. Louis printing firm |645,0Q0 in loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Boyle, who quit his political post following the -investigation, wai cleared by the committee. : i Nunan resigned as tax commissioner in June, 1947. The senate testimony; shows that; Nunan received 14,055.30 in “advance” commissions for trying to get business for LithofOld from to 1951. Also receiving Lithofold "commissions" at the time, according to the senati testimony, was James B. E. . Olson, then of the internal rfeve nue bureau’s alcohol tax unit in New York,; Olson his since quit the bureau under fire. The treasury department included Capitol Distributing Co. in a list of nine tax clients which Nunan got permission to represent during the 2-% yfars following his resignatipn fro nithe revenue bureau. Unr der the law, a former federal employe may not take part in standing tax ckses for two years after leaving (he government except (Tira T« Pace Five)

Bar Egypt Trains From Canal Zone British Retaliate For Train Mining A Ll'. ' British Headquarters, Suet Canal Zone, Feb. 16.—(UP)—The British barred all Egyptian food and oil trains from passing through the Suez Canal zone today: in retaliation for tie-mining of a British oil train last night. A spokesman for Ltj. Gen - Sir George Erskine, British commander of the 'tone, said the ban would continue in force until Egyptian railway Crews clear wreckage of the mined train from the Port Said-Ismailia line and , all British railway traffic delays have been made up. ; / Although the:halt order applied to all Egyptian state railway traffic through the canal zone, it affects only food and oil trains. The British banned all passenger traffic more than five months ago. The attack on the train last night marked the first major anti-British incident in Egypt since mobs sacked and burned British and American buildings in Cairo last Jan. 25. [ British authorities said Egyptian terrorists had placed two powerful mines on the track. The first derailed the locomotive and tender of . r —, r

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Says Final Outcome Os Armistice Talks Is Up To Russians; <ed Move Rejected Panmunjom, Korea, Feb. 16 — (UP)’-Tlie United Nations accused Moscow today of blocking a Korean armistice and quickly rejected a Communist move to make Russia orie of six neutral nations to supervise the truce. ' Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s headquarters said in a “Voice of the U. N. Command” broadcast from Tokyo that the final outcome of the Panmunjom armistice talks now hinged on decisions in Moscow. “The armistice talkc . . . have reached a stage where Moscow must make tip its mind what the final outcome will be,” the broadcast said. ‘'The time is at hand when the armistice terms are practically settled, pending agreement on only a few points.” The broadcast said the Red negotiators at Panmunjom were stalling while the Kremlin tried to decide: 1. so insist on the right to build bomber and tighter bases in North Korea during a truce.” 2. —“Whether to agree to allow voluntary , repatraition of war prisoners.” < 3. —“Whether to insist that a subsequent governmental settlement must talk about Asian problems not directly related to Kotea.” “When the decision is made in Moscow,” the broadcast said, “the armistice will be resolved without much delay, one war or another, end Moscow is now at a point Where it must make that muchpostponed choice.” 'tyere were two developments in the Panmunjom talks during the day—the Communists nominated Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia to the sty-nation neutral commission which will supervise the arili’stice, and the Reds unveiled their compromise proposal for a post-armistice peace conference. The U> N. promptly rejected the nomination pf-Russia, accepted Poland and Czechoslovakia, and reserved judgment until 10 a. m. Sunday (7 p. ih. today CST) on the peace conference plan. Red staff officers brsltled at the U; N»’s quick. rejection of Russia as a member of the neutral commission. “There is no justification for jour side to object to any neutral nations we are prepared to Invite,” a Communist staff officer told the allies. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, U. N. spokesman, said he thought the next move was up to the Communists.; r “It is not a point which can be debated and compromised,” he ?a»d. “The onlyXway. out I can see is the nomination of another neutral.” \ <\i ■ When the Reds asked why the allies rejected Russai, the U. N.’s Col. Don A. Darrow said the reas(Turn T» Pare Thr«r>

Decatur Students Answer Appeal To \ Write To Koreans Junior English classes of the De- \ catur high school, taught t>y Miss Catherine Weidler, in response to a letter from Capt. Robert A. Stutter of Decatur, have undertaken a project of writing letters to Kim a Korean girl, who is an English student of Capt. Stalterfs in the Methodist girl’s middle school in Korea. I’ Capt. Stalter accepted the English instruction project on volunteer \ basis and Reports, in letters to school officials, that his pupils are making excellent progress in learning English. The Decatur students, in add!-, tion te writing to the Korean girl and her schooknates. are also contributing clothing of all sizes which will be sent io the Korean school. i XX: i I- 'I X . ? X i