Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 267

* - ■ • I —**— 1- «... Fine Response To Community Building Fund

Tn the first round-up of committeemen who contacted pledgers to the Decatur Memorial Foundatidn, Inc., enthusiastic reports were made by a score of workers who reported cash receipts of >6,047.33 at a meeting last night which launched a 10-day campaign to have a0 pledges redeemed before 1953. in the business office of Oittzed^iTel phone company, the teams turned in checks and cosh from more jthan 25 of the orlgnal pledgers exceeding >6.000. J. Ward Calland and "Charles D. Ehinger ’of the pledge solicitation committee named by the Memorial Foundation directors. ’ were elated over the , first day's result of the personal canvass. \ Payments ranged all».the way from >5 to >1,500. In practically eVery case, the donors paid thoir pledge in full or made arrange■nients to liquidate the last onethird payment by December 31. The campaign to call on pledgers was organized a few weeks ago, the idea being to collect payments from those who pledged funds tothe Decatur .Memorial Foundation for the Community Center before the first of the year. Central Soya company contributes >1 for every I >2 paid to the Foundation and the agreement with the company expires December 31, 1952. As an I example of how the plan works, the company will pay >3,023.50 on th’'; amount collected yesterday, which will boost the Community Building fund by more than >9,000. More Payments At Bank Payments reported last night In eluded only those for which the; committeemen and soliciting teams received checks or' money. “Pronibses to pay” were not included- the solicitors explained. Tsie receipt* did not include payments made directly to the First [State Bank during the past few Weeks and up iol closing time yesterday. One repojt came to the meeting that a pledger; redeemed his >SOO pledge at the: bank Monday afSrnoon. A report on payments made, at; the bank, which acts as receiving;’ agent for. the Foundation, will be? compiled this week and it is known - that these amounts will give a sub--stantial boost to the fund. Will Pay With Bonds A number of civic and social organizations told solicitors that savings bonds held by them would be turned over to the Foundation in lieu of cash and in payment of; pledges. The directors have agreed to accept the bonds at face value. Many of the bonds expire at the', end of the year or run into 1953. Full credit! .will be given the or-; ganizations for these securities, the , directors explaining that maturity of the bonds will coincide with plans for letting of contracts for the Community building. Carl C. Pumphrey,' president pf the 'Memorial Foundation, organlz-? ed in 1949 to receive donations audk pledges for a Youth and Community; building, beamed with pleasure oyar last nights reports. "The people' want a memorial building and civic center sor 1 the youth of the city,” he said. „ : ; _ Rumors Are Squelched ] Directors of the Foundation mentioned that many idle rumors were circulated by persons, who unknowingly gave othets wrong impressions about the proposed community and youth center. One director said, “The rumors about the piths and operation of tile building would fill a bopk. The directors themselves htve not yet ordered final plans for the building. The pattern will be cut to match the funds: We believe more than >200.000 will ne available by next year and since the building cannot be bonded, construction costs will necessarily be kept the amount of money on hands,” the spokesman said. •Another rumor is. going around that the children will be charged -for using the youth center. The directors explained that no sdeh idea ever entered the thinking, of any director or any person wlp pledged amounts for the building. . The center will\ be free for the children.lt will be operated In part from recreation funds for which thb civil city can make a tag levy, it was explained. Final details for the building will not be made until the Foundation; has the money to order and pay contracts, the directors said. '<? Meet Next Monday The directors, team captains and committeemen will meet again; Monday night, Nov. 17, at. the telephone office for a second report on the result of the canvass.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT • ■ Il ONLY DAILY NIWBPAFIR IN ADAMB COUNTY

President To ! Submit Budget Os 85 Billions 15 Billion Higher ~ Than Hoped Ceiling By G. 0. P. Leaders " WASHINGTON UP —President Truman win hand the ecqnomy.mihded 83rd congress an >85.000.900,000 .budget for government operatlonk in fiscal 1954, accpr/ling to preliminary unofficial estiinates. This is almost as much As he requested last January f<j»r ijfiscal • 1953. and some >6,000,000.000- more than the - 82nd congress finally voted. It is also considerably higher than the >70,000,000,000 Celling which Republican congressional leaders have said they hope |o impose on federal spending next year. Mr. Truman will present the new budget, covering federal "expenditures and revenue from Jdly 1. 1953. to June 30, 1954, just a few days before he yields his post tb President-elect Dwight . 1), feisen- ; bower. \ \ Eisenhower, who is comihitted to trim the budget to >60.000.0b0,000 by; 1956, will be free to! change the Truman budget as he sefs fit, £y sending further budget recommendations to Capitol Hilt ! Budget experts say most df the prnney in the new budget.; as now anticipated, will be earmarked for projects already approved by congress, particularly the defense effort. To cut expenditures td this year's level — >79.000.000.000 — ' Eisenhower or. congress must cut r back parts of the progrand atjready established, the expsrt& say. The ' p r.e sent administration’s plans do not envision a major cut ’in defense spending \ until fiscal i 1955. 1 Tn trying to bring the budget into balance, Eisenhower and his GOP planners Will have to i cope ; with the fact that about >|,500,000,000 worth of taxes expird dur- : Ing fisual 1954. These are: The excess profits tax on corporation earnings; the 1951 increase in per- ; sonal income taxes, the 1951 excise tax on liquor, atitos. cigarettes and other items, and the 1951 tax ‘ increase on regular corporate income. \ 1 L ? - Federal revenue in the current fiscal .year, with all these kaxes included, is estimated at >68,700,000,000. which means the governs ment will operate about >10,000,- ; OOOJIOO in the red. If congresg lets the expiring taxes die, the deficit i in fiscal 1954 will be correspotjding- ’ ly greater, unless spending is cut ; drastically. B L \ Eisenhower’s specific plank for i the’fiscal 1954 budget are still unknown. Detroit banker Joseph M. Dodge ■ arrives In Washington toTo Powe Sid) Mrs. Martha Lachot Dies At Fort Wayne Former Local Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Martha Ann Ladbioti 85, former resident of Decatur, | died Monday at her home, 1331 Michigan avenue. Fort Wayne, following an illness of one year. Mrs. Lachot was born at Monroe and had lived in Fort for the past 39 years. Her? husband, John, who died a number of years ago, was a former coupty treasurer. | Mrs._ Lachot was a member of the First Evangelical United brethren church. Surviving are three sons. Herbert S. Lachot of Richmond, Dr. N. (N. Lachot of South Bend and “D. K. Lachot of Fort Wayne; one daughter, Mrs. Louis Weisenberg of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, \ and a halfjslster, Mrs. Emma McCleary of Bloomington, 111. ■ Funeral services will be coriduct- ; ed at 1 p.m. Wednesday at tMungovan funeral home, fhefßev. Petznjk officiating, burial t ‘jvill 3>e in the Decatur cemetery. ; -Friends may call the funeral home and are asked to omit flow- ' ers -

Pinpoint Hill Recaptured By Chinese Reds Vital Hill Retaken For 13th Time By 1 Screaming Chinese SEOUL, Korea, VP — Fifteenhundred screaming Chinese Communist soldiers captured Pinpoint Hill on Sniper Ridge tonight, storming the crest l>ehind a thundering artillery Barrage. It was the 13th time Chinese troops have re-taken, the vital Centra! front position since its capture by the South Koreans Oct. 14. Attacking from the eeet, north and west, the Chinese seized the crest at 9 p. m. Communist big guns fired 4,000 rounds into Allied positions during* the first -two hours of the attack, which began at 5 p. m. South Korean troops fell l>ack to basic defense positions on the outlying spurs of Sniper Ridge after fighting savagely to hold the wave® of horn-blowing and whis-tle-tooting Chinese. \ The two-battalion Attack ended a three-day lull in the battle for the* Kumhwa ridges. Tonight’s assault was believed to be an allout effort by the Chinese to regain the last of-the central front hills seized by the United Nations in m ki-Oc tober. About, a mile to the west lies Triangle HUI. seized by U N. soldiers at the same time they captured Sniper. However, the Communists recaptured all but a email portion of the four-domed hill mass in 24. days of fighting. \ Earlier today. U.yN. soldiers, fighting with fists, rifle butts, knives and hand grenades, hurled back, 800 flame-throwing Chinese from Porkchop Hill on the western front invasion route to South Korea. The Rede hit Porkchop west of Chorwon under orders to “win or die.” When the survivors finally stumbled back down the slopes just before dawn, they left behind some 300 dead and wounded. Elsewhere along the front! North Korean Communists hurled new attacks W Anchor Ridge on the, far eastern eector and overran 9 U. N. outpost near Chorwon. The Reds’ first attack on Porkchop, a rise of ground between old Baldy and T-Bone hills, came at 11:30 p. m. Monday in a chilling rain. They were beaten off t*o hours later. In 30 minutes, they came back, 800 strong, and plunged into -the lacework of trenches and bunkers on the crest. Observers on nearby hills saw flickering tongues of flame from Chinese flamethrowers lick dowh -the trench lines and (Turn To Pace Six)

Education Week To Be Observed Here Program Friday At Public High School National education, week is being observed in Qecatur high school with an elaborate program planned for Friday evening. First, the parents df the students of the high school, will take the pUces of their children and go through almost the same routine as the pupils. Instructors at the school will deliver talks tri the parents on the various problems confronting the students and the ways modern instructors have of coping with them. Later, at the high school gym, a musical program will be presented by Hye students, under the direction of Decatur high school musical director, Miss Helen Haubold. The accompanist for the evening will be Mies -Carol Elzey. Following is thd program for Friday night: \ •'Come Christians, Join to Sing Alleluia”—-Gillette. ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” — Negro spiritual. "So’s I Can Write My Name”— Negro epiritual. “Pilgrim’s Chorus”—Wagner. "Because You’re You,” . . “The Red Kwil”—by Victor Herbert; "Prblude in C Sharp Minor”— Rachmaninoff. \ “Dry Bones,” Eugene Morrison, James Rowley, Jack Lawspn and Dan Thomas—Spiritual. The remainder of the program will be selections by Victor Herbert. Soloists on the program will* include Sharlene Lehman and Carol Elzey, besides the students in the spiritual rendition.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 11, 1952. .

Eden Rejects Russia’s Proposal; Asks Lie To Reconsider Resignation

No Help From Russia On Korea Peace [ i aloily jHaOl - - & W; ■ • ANDREI (right) Soviet commissar at the United Nations- brands as an "ultimatum” the 21-power U. N. reeolutlOß ctlling on Communist forces to accept the principle of voluntary repatriation of all war prisoners Ip. Korea. Ii Vishine ky offered a counter-resolution for a committee which included Red -China, to rvsMve the .repatriation stumbling-block to peace. V. S. secretary of state Dean Acheson Ustotw pensivwly at thte left with Anthony Eden (center) of Britain. z -

Reveals South Korean Army Strengthened I Two New Divisions, Six Full Regiments Activated In Korea - v . | ' I 7 TOKYO, UP -Gen. James A. Van Fleet disclosed today he 1 ' strengthened the South Korean army by th© equivalent of four pew divisions last Saturday, only six days after receiving an “okay” from higher headquarters. The eighth army commander told a press conferences two new divisions and six full regiments—the equivalent of an additional two divisions — were activated three days ago. It was learned from other sources that Van Fleet received orders from Gen. Mark W. Clark’s headquarters to activate the new units on Nov. 2. This was during the height of the U. S. election campaign controversy over the use of South Korean forces. A few days before, Dwight D. Eisenhower had publicized a Van Fleet letter stating Washington had ignored his repeated requests for authority to build up Republic of Korea forces. Van Fleet said the new divisions may be used eventually to replace American units tn the line, but not immediately. It will be several months before *the new units are ready for combat duty. He told newsmen proposals for more South Korean divisions were rinder consideration in Washington. ■ \ ' The new divisions are the ROK 12th and 15th. Van Fleet did not say whether the six additional regiments would be formed into divisions or used to replace South Korean Regiments badly hurt in recent fighting. - Van Fleet ©aid the U. N. army is growifig stronger and is now' “in better shape today that it has been in a long time.” "The Communist armies are in worse condition- than they have been fore a long time,” he added. “The shooting has been good and. most beneficial to the eighth army,” he said. I The recent, fighting iri the Kumhwa area of the central front cut two Chinese armies in half, he said. t* \ "We destroyed some regiments entirely and reduced the Chinese armies by about 50 percent.” T Asked about his plans to retire, Van Fleet said only? “I am subject io\ military orders. So far as I know, my status now is the same as when I first came (Tara T® Page Eight)

Armistice Day Is Marked In Decatur 11 a. m. Ceremony Is field By Legion The eleventh hotir of the eleventh’daj* of the eleventh month. And so passes into history thb 34th .anniversary of the signing ot the to the first of the bloody world conflicts of modern times. Here ifr Decatur, aS in the rest of the country, heads were bowed in a mcAnent of reflection and site nee honor of those many thousand! who died protecting their freedom Thouglj, prior to World War 11, much greater significance was denoted byj the coming df Armistice day eaclf year—because that was the fihst World War, Armistice day has coma to oe more symbolic of the dead*; of all wars. It used to stand only as a monument to the courageous dead of each country. That pail of it has remained unchanged. |but .another note has been added,. It stands now as a monument to the violent folly, that men engage ii|: the calculated brutality and insanity that periodically overtakes segements of the world’s population. ' Miembep of the firing squad who stood . inj front of the American Legion hbme at 11- a.m. today com l memoratfing once; more the gallant dead of the'first World War, and indeed all wars the United States has engaged in, were, Don Cochran, Elmer parwechter, Robert Ashbaucher, <Rd Bauer, Adrian Baker, . ' ' (Tura To Paare Six) ' Hower Infant Dies Here This Morning Stevehj Ernest Hower, two-day-old son df Bryce Edward and Nellie Armapda Nash-Hower, died at 9:30, o’clbek this morning at the home, North Twelfth street. Surviving in addition to the parents are two brothers, Thomas Edward an 4 Rickey Harold. Funeral services Will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Black funeral hpme, the Rev. H. J. Weltys officiating. Burial will be in the Dfecatur Cemetery. s Normal Weather Is Forecast In State INDIANAPOLIS UP — Hoosierb can forget about mufflers during the next’ five days, weathermen Indicated | today. \ The outlook is for "normal” temperatures — from 32 to 48 degrees iji the north and 35 to 56 in the south. The weatherman expected rising temperatures Wednesday apd 5 possibly colder weather over the Week end. Rainfall will be slight, with a chance of light. showers Saturday or Suhda|. I . . ■ V > ,'4 .

Truman Will Seek Advice Os Eisenhower Will Not Ask Ike To Share Responsibility For Any Decisions WASHINGTON UP — President Truman will seek Dwight D. Eiseiihower’s advice on foreign policy during the next two months, but will not ask the President-elect to share responsibility for any decisions, administration officials said today. They said 'Mr. Truman will ask for Eisenhower’s suggestions how to handle urgent problems in Korea, Iran, and Indo-China when the two meet at the White House next week. The retiring chief executive realizes he must accept full responsibility for everything the government does between now and (Eisenhower's inauguration Jan. 20, informants said, t But 1 they pictured him as feeling that current policy decisions should as far as possible reflect Eisenhower’s ideas as well as his own so they will carry the full weight of-a united America.. There have been reports Eisenhower may' be unwilling to make any recommendations before he actually takes over as President and is fully briefed bn the issues involved. I, - • In naming his representative with government agencies, Eisenhower made it plain he was> not accepting responsibility for any decisions. But officials here said) this should riot rule out "recoinmendations.” An agenda for the White House meeting still hasn't "been set. Secretary of state Dean Acheson and defense secretary Robert jV Lovett are expected to attend /but (Tara To Page six) Springer Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Lydia Orah Springer, 58, a native of Adams county, who died Saturday night at (her home in Harrison township Van Wert county, O. Surviving are. her husband, Cloyce; a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Dauler of Convoy, O; two sons, David of Pettisville, O. and Mason of Convoy; her mother, Mrs. Mary Hawk of Continental, O.; three brothers, Earl Hawk of Leipsic, 0., Z. G. Hawk of Bowling Green, 0., and the Rev. Russell Hawk of Montepelier, 0., and a sister, Mrs. Flossie Myers of Van Wert,, and three grandchildren.

Believe Negotiated j Peace Is Impossible Force Only Language Understood By Reds TOKYO, UP—Top military commanders will tell President-elect Dwight: D. Eisenhower when he goes to Korea that the only chance for an armistice lies on Che battlefield. He will find that most military men tn Japan and Korea believe negotiated peace with the Communists at Panmunjom is impossible—that the only language the Reds understand is force of arms. It will be up to Eisenhower to decide whether -to continue negotiations or bring all available military pressure to bear on the Communists. The purpose of trip apparently is military. The rew President wants to know what it-would take to win a victory by force and 'how to etrengt lien Republic of Korea units on the front line and relieve other UjN. unite. But he is sure to examine prospects for a negotiated truce at Panmunjom, and there he wiH find a near-hopeless situation. The Communists want all their war prisoners back. The United Nations would return all those prisoners willing to go back* to Commundem, but not those who have said they would forcibly resist being sent back to the Reds. « Despite hundreds of hours of negotiation and- millions of words across the green-topp-etf\ conference table, the baAic prisoner dispute remains the same as it wa® on April 28, when the U. N. Introduced the principle of voluntary repatriation. The Communists could bring peace to Korea any time by backing down on their demand that ea*ch and every Red prisoner he returned, at the point of a bayonet if necessary. The U. N. also could bring about a truce if it would discard the humanitarian principle that all prisoners should be allowed to decide Whether they prefer to live in a free world or under Red domination. But neither side is likely to back down. The conflict already has brought about an indefinite recess in the truce talks, called by the U. N. Oct. 8. It appears rTwr»|T* Pace — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight, not so cold north and central. Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler! north, mostly fair and a little! warmer touch. Low tonight 2833. _Hlgh -Wednesday _42-50 north, 50-60 south.

34 Treats Ago Today World Hoped For Peace

WASHINGTON UP -*-It was $4 years ,ago today that the numerous big and little Allied powers tied the whistle down and celebrated victory in what was called the war to make the world safe for democracy. That lofty title was then current for what is known now as World War I. The kaiser had beep licked as of 11 a.m., Nov. 11, ISIIB, and ever since among the Allied nations, Nov. 11 has been Armistice The name chosen for the day on which the conflict ended proved to be a better choice than Woodrow Wilson’s rolling, 'hopeful phrase about making the! world safe for democracy. ' I P ’ j The of World War I hostilities on Nov. 11 proved, in fact, to be no more than the beginning of an armistice—and peace is yet to come. Pending the start and spread of another global struggle —this one known as World War II —there was calkn of a, kind, but no real peace. | ' A great many persons believed it to be real and. others hoped. In the first months' and years after that first Armistice Day, nations

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Denounces Red Stand On War Prisoner Issue Urges Trygve Lie To Reconsider Quitting Secretary-General UNITED NATIONS. N. Y., UP — British foreign secretary Anthony Eden 1 today rejected Russia’s latest Korean proposal and declared no war prisoner may be either forcibly repatriated or forcibly detained. Eden, making his first speech at this session of the United Nations general assembly, called upon secretary-general Trygve Lie to reconsider, "at this Critical time.” his decision to resign the world organization’s top post. Lie told the assembly yesterday he had decided that "this is the time” to step aside to “help the U. N. save the peace and. serve better the cause of freedom and progress for all mankind.” Eden’s' appeal to Lie brought applause from the assembly. Briefly reviewing the world situation, the dapper British diplomat eAid the major issue of the Korean question had been "lucidly expounded" by secretary of state Dean Acheson and he promised that he would not follow Russian foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky “into the realm of vituperation.” “The difficulty in ending the conflict has now been reduced to one issue,” Eden said. “ ... if we. are to arrive at agreement, we have first to see whether we can set down the principles which should govern our conduct in these matters. Let me tell you what I consider these to be: "1. That every prisoner-of-war has the right, on the conclusion of an armistice, to be released. "2. That every prisoner-of-war has the right to be speedily repatriated. ~ * “3. That there is a duty on the detaining side to provide facilities for such repatriation. "4. That the detaining side has no right to use force in, connection with the disposal of prison-ers-of-war. “In other word®, after an armistice, a prisoner-of-war may not be either forcibly detained or forcibly repatriated.” Before Eden spoke, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India’s ambassador to Washington, called for admission of Communist China to the U. N. . ' The assembly session opened with an expression of thanks from (Turn To Pave Six)

sought to out-do each other in thanksgiving for the coming of peace on earth and them who made it so. - “The Unknown Soldier” became a phrase of grateful reverence.. It was a hint, too, that popular thought was shifting from great generals and admirals as Jthe heroes of war to a new concept: the real war hero was the ydung man or boy dead in the mud. The Trench “u nkno wn” was placed beneath Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe, itself conceived as a monument to his imperial armies. The British hurled their war hero in appalling simplicity beneath the stone of Westminster Abbey’s floor. The United States chose his resting place in Arlington National Cemetery. i \rhe British built their cenotaph ini/-Whitehall in memory of the Ejgipire dead and for many years thereafter all Britishers and all other Allied citizens lifted or touched their hats as they passed by, riding or afoot. \ The British do not do that any more, nor is much made now of Armistice Day here or abroad although it used to bring whole na(Turn To Pace Five)