Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1952 — Page 1

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CHARGE REDS HOLD UN PRISONERS IN CHINA

Denies Fight On Tax Plan Is Political Hoey Soys Truman Utterly Mistaken On Foes' Position Washington, March B.—(UP) — Chairman Clyde R. Hoey of the senate’s permanent investigating Committee said today President Truman was “utterly mistaken” when he charged that opponents of his plan to shake up the internal revenue bureau put political pat- , ronage ahead of public service. ( * The North Carolina Democrat’s reaction to Mr. Truman’s statement was fairly calm. Some of his colleagues called the president’s remark “insulting” and “intemper- • ate.” 1 They said Mr. Truman had hurt the chances of his program to replace the 64 pdlitically-appointed tax collectors with 25 collectors under civil service. ' Mr. Truman also was rapped for ordering federal agencies not to give information to a house judiciary subcommittee investigating the justice department. The president wrote chairman Frank L. Chelf (I>Ky.) yesterday that the group was taking a “dragnet approach” which would “seriously interfere” with government business. Chelf said Mr. Truman’s directive would make the subcommittee’s job “more difficult," but that the group "means to accomplish our original purpose and complete this job of making an honest, fair and thorough investigation.” Chelf said he would confer with Mr. Truman “in due timg,” and hoped “an amicable and satisfactory solution can be reached.” Rep. Byron G. Rogers (D-Colo.), a member of the subcommittee, said he didn’t “see how the limited request would be> a big burden on the’government agencies.’’ ' The house has approved the internal revenue reorganization plan, which will go into effect automatically next Friday unless the senate votes it down. A resolution to throw put the plan is scheduled to i come up in the sepate Wednesday. Hoey was one of the 7 to 5 majority Os the senate government operations committee which voted this week to kill the plan. 1 Mr. Truman wrote vice president Alben W.-Barkley yesterday that next week’s vote will show “who it is that is just talking about corruption and who it is that really wants to do something about it.” , The president said the taxpayers “will be greatly interested in seeing whether senators are more interested in their political patronage than in good public service.” Hoey retorted today that not .much patronage is involved in appointing the tax collectors —“one appointment in five or 10 years, and no senator would care anything about that.” Hoey said he opposed the reorganization plan because it would not cut the cost of operating Jhe internal'revenue bureau, and would pot increase efficiency. National 4-H Week .Observance To End National 4-H week observance will be concluded in Adams county Monday. The adult leaders training conference sponsored by the Rotary clubs will climax the week. Approximately 90 leaders from Adams, Alen, Jay, Wells, and Huntington counties will be coming to Berne. The state 4-H office will present the program both morning and afternoon. The Berne Rotary club will meet with the leaders for a noon dinner at which time a Rotary speaker will give an imspirational address. Reports of clubs of their enrollment received this week Indicates that Adams County 4-H members Will be increased. The Adams county 4-H leaders will continue-to accept enrollment- cards throughout March. The deadline date iis April 1. INDIANA WEATHER * Mostly cloudy tonight with occasional snow north portion, . Sunday mostly cloudy. Not much change In temperature. Low tonight 25-30 north, 30-35 south. High Sunday 32-38 north, 88-50 south except 55 extreme south. i

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—— Primary In Oregon Shapes Up As Battle Truman, Taft Only Big Names Missing Washington,* Mar. 8 —• (UP) , — The- Oregon presidential .primary <stacked up as ah ieven more furious battle rcfyal than Tuesday’s curtain s contest in New Hampshire. j When tht deadline for filing in ♦he May 16 Oregon race passed late yesterday, every ”blg name” in the presidential derby had jbeen entered except Sen, Robert A. Taft of Ohio, an avowed candidate tor the Republican, /nomination, and President Truman, whP aoll hasn’t announced his ; political plans. V ■; Uj;! j Five jGOP candidate# were, entered in Oregon—Gen. I)wi|:ht D. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthus, Gov. Earl Warren <fl California, former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and Sen. Wayne L. Morse of Oregon. 1 The Democrats were Spn.JEstes Kefauver of Tennessee, -jthe. only avowed Democratic candidate, Gov. Adlai E. Stevensoh of Illinois and U.'S. supreme court justice William O. Douglas. • Oregon law permits t|e filing of candidates without; ttjeir conrent and does not perrHit ./withdrawal. MacArthur, Morse and Douglas said their nam#s were filed: without their consent. H Delegates elected in Oregon are oomn|ltted to exert thiir best efforts in behalf of the candidates winning the presidential primaries. In New Hampshire,. Tkft. i Stassen, Kefauver and leaded of the Eisenhower-tov-president organization were winding up, campaigns. “ Eisenhower. Taft and , Stassen are entered in the GOP presidential preference “popularity congest,” and Kefauver atod Mr. Truman in the Democratic raiice.: tn a Manchester speech last night, Taft suggested that Eisenhower’s ties to the Roosevelt and Truman , administrating might make the general unableii toi “call a spade a spade” in tht presidential campaign. ’ | J f _ At Concord, Sen. Frank Ckrlson (R-Kan.), director of the, national Eisenhower headquarters, hinted again thajt the Atlantic defense commander rpay come hoibe before (Tur* T® Pace Thre«>' — — r j y . Young Couple Found Dead In Automobile Indianapolis, March — An 18-yearold youth whoi jast received his draft notice and a girl were found dead in his car parked, in a garage today. . *■/ Police said James D. Freeman,; 18, Indianapolis, and > Barbara A.: Henderson, 20, Bedford, who has; been rooming here recently, were asphyxiated by carbon niionoxide. The ignition was turned op but the motor had died. Freeman received a notice to report for selective siervlce induction yesterday, authorities sgid. Assessing Work Is Compared At Meet Assessors, Harlow Meet This Morning r . ■ s !• S ii ' R After a week of assessing in all townships of Adams county, assessing officers and township'trpstees, who have the job to perform in all townships except Washington township, met this morn|ng with county assessor Albert Harlow. The chief purpose of the meeting was for the officers to compare ♦heir first week’s figures so that equitable assessments could be made throughout the county; In several pf the townships, trustees have named assistants to help with the annual task of assessing nersonal property. Washington township assessor Will Winnes also has three assistants helping him in his work. Assessor Harlow presided at today’s meeting and progress reports were given by the officers of the various townships. Certain base figures were given each .'officer a week ago so that assessments would be about the samp any plape in the county. \ The work will continue throughout the month and will extend into April. i -v ’ ■■■ : ! r/'ln/

; Voice Strikes Back At Red Propaganda Voice Os America In Flat Denial Diary Is — Official U.S. View XVashington, March B—(UP)-*-The voice ,of America struck back today at Communist propaganda which claims the stolen diary of a U.S. general proves the United States wants war. The voice acknowledged that the diary of Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow had been stolen and that excerpt# were published in the Soviet zon£ in Germany. \J But it told the iron curtain countries that this government in nd way supports Grow’s call for an attack on Russia. “The diary contained the general’s flews that war with the Soviet Union is imminent, and observations on anti-air craft Install!* tions in Moscow.” the voicb said: At the same time, the script quoted liberalif from a Washington Post editorial which said the general’s opinions ’’bear no resemblance to official American foreign policy.” Officials said the opinion of an independent newspaper was felt to be more convincing for foreign audiences than a statement by the government.! The Post editorial called Grow "singularly lacking in common sense,” and said he had no business serving as the American military attache in Moscow if he did not support the American policy of preventing war through.strength The army said a Soviet afeent appatently stole the diary from Grow’s room in a Frankfurt, Germany, hotel last summer and photographed parts before returning it. Red propagandists took-full advantage of the diary’s statements that the United should at»ck Russia and hit the Kremlin "below the belt.” H ■ Charged With Assault For Shooting Husbaqd i Plainvieuf, Tex., March 8. —(UP) -v-Mrs. Kathrene Bourne, 50, today was charged with assault with intent to murder. 1 Police said she shot her deaf husband. ,A. W. Bourne, 72, after he removed the hearing aid from his ear white she was arguing With him at the breakfast table. He wats expected to recover. Shock Estate Final : Report Is Approved Pay Beneficiaries Os Large Estate Checks for beneficiaries in the I Arthur' Shock estate, one of the largest to be probated in Adams county in recent years, are in the hands of county clerk Ed Jaberg and Judge Myles F. Parrish has approved the final report and discharged the executrix, Mrs. Elizabeth Butler. The final report was examined Friday by Judge Parrish. Mrs. Butler delivered a check for $65,033,41 to Jaberg for the Indiana Masonic Home at Franklin: one for 159,033.40 for the Shrtners Crippled Children fund and also a SIO,OOO check to be held by the county clerk, i The latter check is to be used to pay the state of Indiana taxes in the event their appeal from the decision of Judge Parrish on a tax suit against the Shriner’s Crippled Children fund is upheld in appellate court. Judge Parrish ruled that there was no tax due but the state claimed that because the Shrine organization was a Colorado corporation, certain taxes were due Indiana. The cause is now in the appellate court on appeal from Adams - circuit court. An amount of $'2,000 of the SIO,OOO being held by the clerk is to be used in case the Indiana Masonic Home owes any further taxes. If none of the money is used, the executrix has been ordered by the ' court to distribute the money in accordance with the will and court 1 order. Mrs. "Butler, a niece of the late Arthur Shock, served during the I entire settlement as executrix. The law firm of DeVoss, Smith and Macklin represented the estate. •I ! ■' ' -J '

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‘The4-H Stow* To Truman ,JL j boMHHSI 4-H CLUB MEMBERS Carl Baldtte, Spring Hill. Md.. and Elizabeth Ann Mason, Montross, Va.. prMwt President Truman with a first edition of new history of 4-H eluu wckk. "The 4-H Story,” by Franklin M. Reck. Presentation in behalf 0f’2,000,000 members --‘fa m. ..e,. 1 1,®,--.’,. .... J. I. I . l.nn . I. T' ! ! •.

21 Filed In Stale In Congress Races 50 Or More Likely To Seek Nomination Indianapolis, March B—(UP)— Indiana's; congressional primary lineup of candidates is shaping up slowly, but it appears there will be 50 or more hopefuls seeking 22 nominations. Already 21 candidates have filed formal declarations of their intentions in less than two weeks of the 30-day filing period. At least onia .candidate has filed in each of the 11 congressional districts. But thus far races have been ail. ■ured in only two districts—the first and the eighth. Eight of the 11 congressmen now in Washington have filed for renomination. Nobody knows of any of any of the other three having plans not to run again, so presumably the nine Republicans and two Democrats all win be in the act again, j' ■ ij Both Democrats have filed—Winfield K. Denton of Evansville in th» : eighth and Ray J. Madden of Gary in tpe firgt. The six Republicans are Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer in the eiecond, Shepard J. Crumpaqker of Souih Behd tn th,e third, E. Ross Adair of Fcjrt Wayne In the fourth, Mrs; Cecil M. Harden of Covington in the sixth, ; Earl Wilson of Bedford in the ninth, and Ralph Harvey of New Castle in the tenth. Harvpy, who filed his declaration with the secretary Os state latq yesr terday, previously was mentioned as a possible GOP gubernatorial nominee. Harvey attempted to quiet such rumors, telling friends he preferred a return trip to Washington. The lineup thus far includes 12 Republicans and nine Democrats. Madden already has one primary opponent y in Lake county. But the heaviest volume of candidates thus far is in the eighth, where Denton is opposed and three Republicans seek the GOP nomination. Three candidates also ran in 1950 but lost primary facies. These are Waltet Strahal (D-New Albany), In, the eighth; Randall S. Harmon (R-Muncie) in the and 4. J. Jewitt (R-Farmersburg) in the seventh. In 1950, the last congressional (Tur® To P»ce Sixt V: ■'..■/■ i ; >■ : ■■ -H ———~~—zr —zr

beaten "Jftedttatiw \ \ I'l 1 :■/ ; ' (Rev. Robert Content, assistant pastor, Bt. Mary’s Church) « I ARE WE DOING OUR PART? ' • P : I'- ■■ : ,1 There is one subject that, has taken possession of the collective mind of the free people of the world today. 411 are agreed that the evil of Communism must be eradicated. Most of us feel that the basic issue is much too deep tin be settled finally by the victories of war. We have teamed the hard lesson that it is altogether , possible to win the war and lose the peace. There are those who ’ hold that our greatest weapon ip the cold war of ideas is the emphasis on material prosperityjthat we and other free nations possess. The fact of the matter is that this strategy must fail, because it is based on the divorce of the spiritual from our every-day lives leaving only rank materialism. This is the very evil that gave birth to Communism. We must fail in our efforts if. we simply compete with the Communist system instead of offering something in which Communism is outclassed. That needed something is the spiritual view of life. During this Lent each t»f us hhould put his faith in God and the spiritual view of life that resiilts from,it above all other considerations. This victory in our own lite coupled with a new-found purpose of millions of others will Ido the Job. Western civilisation as been saved before—it can be done agala I > ’’ 7 ■ . ' ■ ! i;1 IT \ j '

" r I"*"*" *" f . Trench Troops Hit Communist Rebels Saigon, Indo-China, Mar. .8 — , ;UP) —French troops have thrown tanks qnd dive-bombers against Communist rebels in positions . .orjy 20 miles from Hanoi, it was enndunced today. Two Are Indicted On Mail Fraud Charges Couple Indicted By Federal Grand Jury ■; jS'- > . J TndiwnapoTls, March B.—(UP)— An -Indiana man and woman may have cleaned up SIO,OOO or more a year in a fraud telling hundreds of persons they are heirs to’ New York City’s lower Manhattan, federal authorities said today. U.S. attorney Matthew Welsh announced that Anna Edwards Wile j', 69, and Frank E. Van Winkle, 79, both of Washington Ind., were indicted on a charge of mall fraud by a federal grand jury Wednesday. The tndictihent was not immediately disclosed pending arrest of , the two. They offered to establish identity of heirs to land once owded by Thomas Edwards Welsh said. The land, which Includes Wall street,, now is worth about $16,00(1,000,000, he said. Persons throughout the midwest allegedly were contacted and told they must return a SSO fee or lose their right as an heir. Authorities believed the scheme netted the Hoosiers SIO,OOO to $20,000 a year. It was charged the two told prospects they t prepared a bill for the New, York legislature which would establish claims for heirs. "The idea of becoming fabulous- ’ ly‘ rich was presentedto a victim ' very temptingly,” Welsh said,” and when his claim was established, he was asked to pay annual dues.” ' Mrs. Wiley and Van Winkle were released on their own reconUance pending a federal court appearance Thursday. Mrs. Wiley denied the charges, said she really is an heir and hired Van Winkle as her secretary “because I don’t write too clearly." ■- ■ . — — T— ; ——— —

Accuses Communists Os Holding Prisoners In China Prison Camps

U.S. Marines Beat Off Patrol Attacks At Least 11 Enemy Soldiers Are Killed Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, March B.—(UP)— U.S. marines beat off North Korean patrol attacks with machine-guns, rifles and grenades for the seventh straight day today on the fog-shrouded eastern front. At least 11 enemy soldiers were killed and one prisoner captured tn the skirmishes. The Reds atfrom nicknamed ”luke the gook’p castle” by the leathernecks. An air force summary showed that American Sabrejets destroyed or damaged 17 Communist Mig-15 jet fighters without loss to themselves during the past seven days. But Communist ground fire knocked five other United Nations planes out of the skies, three more were lost to unknown causes, and a marine F9F jet fighter crashed in enemy territory after developing mechanical trouble. The toll of Migs brought total enemy air losses to 370 destroyed, 104 probably destroyed and 460 damaged since the Korean war began. Allied air losses not Including carrier-baaed planes, reached 545. Fighter-bombers in the week ended Friday destroyed 10 Communist tanks, 380 buildings, 27 locomotives, 180 rail cars and 535 vehicles. Rail lines were cut in 630 places. ; -T | 14-Year-Old Boy Is Killed In Accident Indianapolis, Mar. 8 — (UP) — Ronald Carter, I|, Bargersville, was fatally injured and six companions hospitalized last night when their car struck a tn|ck on Ind. 135 south of here.* Ronald Straley, 13, also of Bargersville and a fellow-passenger, was in general hospital in a critical condition, as was the driver of the car, Rev. Myron McKltuch, 31, pastor of the Bargersville Christian church. Police said McKitucb’s car smashed/into the rear of a truck driven by Maurice Yates, 37, Indianapolis. Yates told officers he drove onto the highway from a drive-way and was moving about 15 an hour. r' | ■ s Aiden Babcock Dies Early Last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Alden Babcock, 38, a salesman at the Schafer store until forced to retire because of ill health, died at 5:30 o’clock Friday evening at his home one mile east of Salem. An employe of the store for four years, he lived at 104 North Thirteenth street until moving to Salem two months agoJ \ 1 | ... He was born In Napoleon, 6., Jan. i 5, 1914: a son of Arley and Clara Glore-Babcock, and was married to Virginia Wilson Aug. 24, 1935. The family had live«f in this community for 15 years. Mr. Babcock was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in this city. Surviving in addition to his wife are his father, who lives at Napoleon, O;; ono daughter, Jeanene, at home; one brother, Lorin Babbock of Fort Wayne, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lyman Benskin ol Napoleon. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at th« Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening. The casket will not be opened at the churchy |

Sight Wreck OfC-47 With Eight Aboard No Sign Os Life Is Reported; Wrecked On Alpine Glacier Zurich, Switzerland, Mar. 8 — (UP)—-The wreckage of a twinengined U. S. air force C-47, which /Msappeaned with eight persons aboard on a flight from Spain to Germany yesterday, was sighted today on an Alpine glaceir. The aircraft, apparently broken in two, was visible from nearby Hotel Jungfrau. There was no sign of life. Ground rescue parties hoped to reach the scene in three hours. Ulrich Eymann, manager of the hotel and a Swiss air force officer, said the plans) apparently crashed head-on into 13,668-foot Jungfrau mountain and tumbled onto Guggi glacier at its foot. He said the wreckage appeared io be at the 9,000-foot level of-the glacier about 35 miles east of Bern. Jungfrau hotel Is at Webgeralp, a station on ths Jungfrau railway. \ The C-47 had taken off from Madrid at 10:47 a. m. (5:47 a. m. EST) yesterday for its base at Fuerstenfeldbruck air base at | Bavaria. The manifest showed j eight passengers and crew members aboard. The plane last radioed its position 9,000 feet over Dijon, France, at 3:50 p. m. Swsis time (9:50 a. m. EST) and said it expected to pap* over Stuttgdri, Germany, at cbont 5 p. m. It gave no indication of any difficulty. Eymann said he informed the Swiss air force base at nearby Inetrlaken, but nothing could be dond until morning because of bad weather. “When the fog cleared this morning.” he paid, "we discovered ♦he wreck on Guggi glacier partly covered with snow which fell during the night. It appeared to be broken into at least two parts. No (Tara T® Pace Tkre*) Two Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto Pendleton, Ind., March 8. —(UP) —A New York Central railroad freight train struck an auto here last night, killing two persons. Police said William Essex, 31. Anderson, was killed in the wreckj age, Mrs. Lillie May Essex, 58, New Albany, died enroute to a hospital. Easter Seal Sale Opened In County Place Cannisters In City, County The Rev. William C. Feller, chairman of the annual Easter seal sale in Adams county, announced today that cannisters are being placed in Decatur and surrounding territory today. Decatur Boy Scouts distributed , the cannisters to stores and offices throughout the city this morning. The county chairman expressed the hope that contributors to the ( campaign "will be generous, as ( much work remains to be done for j crippled children and adults in 1 the community.” The Easter seals will be placed in the mails in the near future. < but the cannisters are distributed ( in Order that persons wishing to j contribute to the fund and having; t no other method may do so. 5 Funds derived from the Easter < seal campaign are devoted to aid tor crippled children and othpr t hanicapped persons. j

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Reds Retaliate By Threat Against UN Lawless Activity; UN Claims Proof Panmunjom, Mar. 8 — (UP) — United Nations accused the Communists today of holding allied prisoners, Including Americans, in prison camps in China and assured the Reds they had "convincing evidence’* to prove It. f The Reds retaliated with the ■ threat that if the “lawless activities (of the United! Nations) are not stopped immediately, their development will go beyond the scope of the Korean question.” Gen. Lee Sang Cho, who ! read the ambiguous threat from a prepared text, did not elaborate on the "lawless activities.” Rear Adm. R. E. Libby told Lee in prisoner discussions that captured Communist soldiers had described one prison camp in Harbin. Manchuria. “We have convincing evidence that you are holding prisoners of war in detention camps outside Korea without having reported them to our side.” Libby told the North Korean general. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said a captured Chinese lieutenant of escorting some United Nations troops tq a Harbin center last July. Thepe were about 1.000 men in the eamifc the Chinese officer said, including Caucasians, Negroes and South Korean troops. In another development, the P.eds apparently backed down in their bld to extend the scope of the armistice agreement to cover United Nations and Red territory everywhere In the world. They indicated they would agjree to the insertion of the dword I “Korea” in armsitiee agreement paragraphs which limit the future use ol forces now engaged in Korea. 1 j Before Lee launched his tirade, which took up most of the 45 minute session, Libby laid down what he said Were the three conditions for prisoner negotiations. 'They were: 1. Return of all allied war prisoners—not just part ot ihpm. (He referred to 53.000 South Korean soldiers the Reds say were “re|teased at the front,” but actually were Impressed into the Communist forces, according to the U. N.) . TT 2. The U. N. command will not be a party to a forced repatriation. 3. The allies are willing to give back all citizens, either soldiers or civilians who wish to return to Cbmtpunlst territory. Add New Twists Tokyo, Mar. B—(UP)—Communist8 —(UP)—Communist radio Peiping added two new twists today to its campaign Charging that American planes are dropping disease-laden insects in North Korea and China, The broadcast said American ; planes had dropped “infected leaflets ? . ..northwest of Kuwari” and ■ thqt artirrery, had fired "germ-lad-en feathers” on the western front. Radio Peiping carried a warning by the Chinese premier that any American aviator whom the Communists capture and suspect of dropping diseased insects in China “will be treated as war criminal?’ The Communist broadcast said ‘ ! <Twr® Tn Paar* si X ) Australia To Cut Imports In Half jUT 'li > ■ J. •' ■ ‘ ! Canberra, Australia, March 8 — (UP)—Australian imports will be cut 50 percent under the government’s new restrictive credit policy, orime minister Robert Gordon Menzies said today. Menzies told a press conference the restrictions would apply |o all countries, including United Kingdom. He said the k cuts were not permanent and would be reviewed and modified as soon as possible. Australia will have an adverse trade balsbetjot $1,344,000,000 by June Mi