Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1952 — Page 1

01. L. No. 269.

•s' i < Truman-Ike Parley Set For Tuesday ; President Truman, President-Elect ij To Hold Conference WASHINGTON UP -Secretary Os state Dean Acheson and at least two other cabinet Officers Will sit in bn the Trurtiab-Eiueji-hower meeting at the White House next Tuesday, it was learqed today. Tentative plans call for an initial private talk between President Truman and President-elect Dwight D, - Eisenhower, followed by a full-dress-.conference with their top advisers. High administration officials said Mr. Truman’s “team” for the talks will include, . Acheson, who will make a special trip herefrom the United Nations meeting in; New York: ; defense secretary Robert A. Lovett; and secretary of the treks-, ury John W. Snyder. J The administration does 1 n6l know yet . who will accompany Eisenhower to the White HoUse. It is assumed, however, that his advisers will include Sen. 'Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-Mass., tkrhb is expected to arrive here" tonight to serve as the; president-elect's' personal “liaison” with the \outgoing administration, and petroit banker Joseph M. who came here Wedrfesday to scout the administration’s budget for Elsenhower. The White House announced late Wednesday the aG hange-of-adminis-tration talks will begin at 2 p.ni. e.s.t Tuesday.' sihee Eisenhower had requested thaf date. Mr' Truman earlier had; suggested; Mom day, but the pneHdent-elect; sent word from hjs'vacation retreat at Augusta, Ga., that Tuesday w*puld be better. *• i , ' Administration aides working on advance. plans said Mr. Truman and .his-advisers will not ask E'is--enhower to share responsibility .for any major decisions on domestic and foreign policy problems. : ' ■ The plan. is to inform Eisenhower as, fully as possible in one afternoon on current protjleins, listen to any advice he has to offer and then discuss arrangements to make a smooth transition - between the Democratic andj Republican administrations when Elsenhower is inaugurated ; next Jan. 20. Planners believe it is imperative that the meeting develop copplans for consultation tin quick notice should any emergencies develop in the United Korea, Iran, Indo-China, Western Europe or, any other scene M the cold war struggle between! and West. Strategists said such a working liaison, between the outgoing and incoming administrations might’ discourage the Communists from making any new thrusts in th.e belief that American reaction ijjight be immobilized during the transition period. Lodge is expected to arrive hetfe tonight for pre-White House talks with top state and defense dejpartment officials. — i. V/

Say Congress Will' Back Present Plans Prediction Made By | ' Three GOP Senators WASHINGTON, UP —three Republican senators predicted today the 83rd congress will support present U. S. defense and foreign aid programs. I But they agreed, in separate in'terviews, that the OOP-controlled I house and senate wjll take s “hard look” at the cbst of these programs and try to effect economies. Sen. Bourke By Hickenlooper, (R-la.) a ranking member Os the foreign relations and atomic energy committees, put rt this way: •The two major problems which the new Republican majority in. congress will face are those of; the military budget and foreign aid-t I doubt tha|t there will be much , questioning .on such basic issues as building wp American military strength, participation in the North Atlantic pact, or military aid for allies abroad. [• ■>. “But there will be plenty of questions as to -whether we are getting our money’s worth in our own rearmament and our efforts to aid others. Th* extent to which our alllea are producing, the extent of their cooperation and determ? {nation will be important. Uke? wise, possible savings in our own 1 military program will be upper?. (Turn T* I*o Si ») ' V' .?

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JOSEPH M. DODGE, Detroit banker named by President-eledt Eisenhower as his “envoy” to the Bureau of <the Budget, tells reporters on his arrival in Washington that his joh is to “look, listen and find put.” Dodge explained, “It will not be my fiinotion to concur or disagree with any proposals connected with . . . present budget.”

Trip To Korea May Be Delayed Until December •’-•»i ■ I • Commitments May Delay Eisenhower Trip To War Area Augusta, Ga. up — Presi-dept-elect Eisenhower’s ; trip to Korea may bfe delayed until late November Or early December, authoritative sources said today. Eisenhower, on the basis of election campaign promises, wants to get; to Korea as fast as possible to promote the greater use of South Korean troops in the front lines and explore the possibilities of Working out the earliest possible "peace “with honor.” !) ' The Republican election victor was- faced, however, with a lot of :demanding Commitments in Washington and New York. His presis secretary, James CL Hagerty. would not haxard a guess as to the starting date' of the Korean trip. \ [,l Elsenho.wer has three fixed commitments: Thomas E. pewey\of New York\on the-Korean trip and certain other “po|icy matters.” ' Npv. 18: Meets; with President Truman in the White Hopse at 2 p.nn e.s.t. '• . Elsenhower also’ was scheduled •ti (nCet “th\e week of Nov. 25” with Sen. Alexander Wiley RWis| in New York. Wiley is a member of the American delegation- to the United Nations General, Assembly. Members of staff said the president-elect will meet shortly—in New York next week, iti ail probability—with Sen. Robert A. Taft R-O. \ 1 Unless there has been some public misinformation on timing. Eisenhower would not have time —short of an emergency plane flight—to go to Korea and return between his meeting with Mr. Truman and conference with Wiley. Hagerty, in talking with newsmen late Wednesday At Eisenhower’s vacation headquarters here, said the president-elect would apehd most of; negt week in New York City. Hagerty also said the White House conference would be brief, involving at the most only a feW hours.

County Auditor To Meeting Dec. 10-12 County auditor Thurman I. Drew will attend hfyt last county-wide meetings at Indianapolis December 10-12. The meeting is called for county and township officers and the highway superintendents of each qounty in the group being called. 1 Auditor Drew will go out of office January 1 to make way for his successor. Frank A. Kitson. ■ —— ' \ Decatur's Mayor To Conference 'Friday Mayor John Doan will go. to Indianapolis Friday to meet with the legislative department of the municipal league to discuss legislative ' matters concerning the league which may be before the future sessions of the state law body. The meeting to which Mayor Doan was in terms and probably has much to”' do with the sharp switch in stdte politics due to the Republican'landslide last week.

Minimum Wage Scale Is Set For Project Special Meeting Is i \ Held By Councilmen At the special informal meetinc of the board of works and the city council Wednesday \ night, a, wage scale- rate was set for workers-to-be on thq 1100.000 sewer project. For common laborers,a minimum wage scale has been set at $1.30 hourly. Two local unions are organized, brickmasons and carpenters. $3 and $2.45 an hour respectively. \ An extensive discussion of the problems besetting the water department was carried on with water department auditors to get at the reason the department thinks a raise in water rates is necessary. Firstly, the department maintains —and the view Is concurred with by the city council —that whereas wages of water department workers have been hiked macy times* and' the host of materials has jumped 10-fold from what it was a few short years ago—the water rates have remained static. And now the water department and the City think the time has come, if service to the public is to remain on a high Ipvel, to raise the rate from the present $lO yearly minimum. Officials, howeyer much in agreement they are that rates should go up, have decided not to take that task on their own shoulders. Instead the Indiana public service commission will be petitioned to send a group of engineers and accountants to the city to see for themselves and accordingly set the rise in rates, rather than the city raising the rates, subject to the approval of the commission. All Ordinances pertinent to the petition and the minimum wage scale rate will come up at the next regular meeting Tuesday, November 18,. of the city council for passage. In addition, the proposed petk tion of John R. Worthman, developer of the Stratton Addition, came up for discussion and was favorably held. However, before flat permission is given Worthman concerning the extension of the sewer Serving the addition, the board of health and city engineer Ralph Roop will have to pass on it first, to see whether, as Worthman says, the extension wilj not overload any existent sewers hnd not cause a dangerous drop in pressure at \the water plant because of the constant exchange of water in both directions across the St. Mary’s river.

State Committee On Budget Meets INDIANAPOLIS UP — Budget director Lytle J. Freehafer said today the state -budget committee will meet Nov. 2b to start work on budgets to be considered by the 1953 state legislature. It will be the first meeting for the newly-named ‘budget committete. Governor Schricker has reappointed two representatives and newly appointed two senators to the committee. Two Truck Drivers Are Burned To Death CHICAGO UP — Two truck drivers were burned toj death when their gasoline trucks crashed together. and exploded southwest of Chicago early today. They were identified as Marvin Lilly, S 4. and E. R. True, 30. Both men worked for the Central West Co. of South Rend, Ind. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight and Friday. Low tonight 35-40. High Friday 65-72. \

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 13, 1952.

Chinese Reds Recapture Crest Os Sniper For 14th Time Today

Navy Bomber Crashes, 11 R Feared Dead !; Navy Bomber Falls t In Flames In Wild { Mountain Reaches | SHELTON, Wash. UP —A giant rescue team, utilizing helicopters, paramedics and walkie • talkies, fought through wild underbrush, fog and snow in the remote southern Olympic Mountains today’, in an effort to reach a navy patrol bomber which crashed in flamesi. The four-engined P4Y2 Privateer, believed to have 11 men aboard, smashed headon into a hillside 20 miles northwest of here, three’ to four miles away from the neatest primitive road. An eyewitnes&t to the crash said, “I don’t see how anybody could have lived through that.” \ [ Don Ragan, a dairy farmer, saw the plane explode against the fdde of a hill after hearing it roar tow over his house. V “There was a big flash wheij it hit,” Regan said. “Then the gas tanks exploded. It sounded like it was right out in the barnyard.” I . He said the terrain was toe rugged for him to venture ipto alone. The crash scene is one of the most rugged sections of the North American continent. It contains forest so dense even deer hunters refuse to fight their way through it. First reports of the crash came about 6:43 p.m. p.s.t. Wednesday, five minutes after the Privateer made contact with a range station here. > j Thirteenth naval. district beadquarters at Seattle said the plape was believed to be one which Sand Point naval air station rat Seattle, at 6:11 p.m. The air force, navy, coast guard, state highway patrol and sheriff’s deputies launched an immediate allout effort to cut a path to the scene of the supposed crash on the southern fringe of the razor-tipped Olympic Mountains. Two air-sea rescue planes from McChord air force base near Tacoma, Wash., one with paramedics aboard, flew over the area. 1 A coast guard PBY rescue plane from Seattle also flew over tAe area late Wednesday night. (Turn To Page Five) MacArthur's Files { Removed From Vault Army Historians Will Study Files NIEW YORK U<P — The arniy disclosed today it has removed tbje files of Gen. Douglas MacArthqr from a Brooklyn storage vault and will make them “generally available to anybody with a direct interest.” v The files presumably contain ■MacArthur’s personal records (if his Far Eastern military command and his administration of occupied Japan. Lt. Gbn. Willis O- Crittenberget commander of the first army, was ordered to take custody of the files, which fill 32 packing cases. They were removed two weeks ago from a locked room at the Brooklyn Nayy Yard to headquarters of the military district of New York in Manhattan. , | Army secretary Frink Pace Jr. disclosed in Washington he had ordered Critenberger to carry out the transfer, which was made “amicably” and with MacArthur’s knowi edge. A Pentagon spokesman said thA decision to remove the files wag made after “prolonged correspond dance* between Crittenberger and MacArthur had failed to, produce ’“specific action.” • *. j* MacArthur has a key to the y>f* : (Tara Te Page Five)

"Wright And Allen likely 60P Choices r. ' J Wright Likely To •Be New Chairman ■■ ~ INDIANAPOLIS UP —Two men approved by Governor-elect George N.J Craig appeared today to have the best chance of winning leadership roles in the state Republican high command. Craig endorsed Anderson Mayor Noland C. Wright for ‘ Republican stale Chairman and Rep. James D. Allen of Salem for speaker of the Indiana house of representatives. Wright, who was Craig’s manager in the recent election campaign,, will, be suggested to the GOP state committee Sunday as a likely successor to Cale J. Holder. Holder rescued Wednesday, claiming he had become a “whipping boy” in the ■ midst of disharmony among factions of the Republican party. A large measure of that disharmony centered about whether Allen Should succeed Rep. W. O. Hughes of Port W’ayne in the speakership. Craig forces accused Holder of attempting to “stampede” Hughes' re-e%ction: Holder' denied it. AUen can gets pretty clear notion of whether he will be elected speaker by counting noses at a meeting of representatlvea-elect scheduled by the Craig faction here this afternoon. If a majority of the 81 GOP lawmakers come to support‘him. he can’t lose. ’ \ v Craig's preference for Wright as state; 'party chairman was no surprised Last spring. Craig suggested Wright as Holder’s sucessor when Holder submitted his resignation to the committee. The committee rejected Holder’s resignation at that time. Craig referred to this previous reconynendation and said, “I have not, changed my thinking.” “I still believe that his, Wright’s, outstanding qualifications would be a booh tb leadership in cementing a united party, forwarding a programHto keep faith with the people I (Tara Ta Pag* Six) l|' 'W ; - Ignoring Wartime Charge Criticized Committee Studies , Massacre Evidence WASH inqton UP — Congressional investigators criticized the U. S. government today for ignoring a ? wartime charge by Nazi Germany that Russia had brutally massacred several thousand Polish leaders'at Smolensk, Russia. The complaint came from members of] a special House committee which has concluded after investigation Jthat Russia' actually was of the Katyn Forest atrocity early in World War 11. Russia has Always blamed Germany far the mass murders. Top diplomats have insisted during two days of questioning that there was no reason at the time to believe the enemy, Germany, was telling the truth; there was every reason to believe Germany was just trying to divide the Allies With propaganda. •Rut 'Committee memtyens were hot satisfied with that answer. Several] told newsmen), that they suspend “appeasement of (Russia" was involved. The committee is trying to prove that this government deliberately suppressed evidence Russia was guilty. Foreign aid boss W. Averell Harriman, former ambassador to Russia, and Sumner Welles, former undersecretary of state, swore un der oath Wednesday they knew of no such -attempt. Welles said, however, that the United States, in general, had hot been inclined to get too tough in its wart|me dealings with Russia for fear that Russia would “sue for a separate peace with Nazi Germany.” r The committee revealed Wednesday that the late President Roosevelt. sent Soviet Premier Josef Stalin a note in 1943 labeling as a (Torn Ta Pa*a Seven)

Renew Strike Threat At Big Atom Project Company Rejects Union Proposal To End Labor Dispute AUGUSTA, Ge. (UP)—Work at the government's sprawling atomic energy project here continued today despite a management rejection of a union proposal for settling a labor dispute that idled 29,000 workers earlier in the week. ; ' tJnion leaders threatened to reinstate picket lines today If a sule contractor turned down a dispute* settling proposal offered by the affected union., the American Federation of Technical Engineers. Joseph M. Garvin, business manager of the union, said that his union would re-establish picket lines “soon—probably in about two days.” , Garvin said it would probably take about two days to notify all union trades in this area and sell up pickets at the Aiken, S. C., plant entrances in an orderly JasMo*. The union head said he did not want to cause another traffic tieup similar to the miles-long jam that occurred when AFTE pickets suddenly appeared at plant entrances Monday morning. i ’■ Although Garvin did not set a specific date for resumption of picketing, hb hinted that it wo\ild come next Monday morning. After the Monday work stoppage, a “truce” was effected until this morning while ‘ the Miller Electric Co., of Jacksonville, Fla., sub-contractor involved in the dispute, considered a union settlement proposal. The dispute arose over the AFTE's organizing efforts at the plant. Frank Gary, attorney for the coinpany, delivered management’s rejection of the proposal to Garvin by telephone. Garjf said the Electric Co. “is unable <o comply with the demands 1 of the f 1 (Turn To PaaelSilt) Suspected Spy Is Seized In Belgium Held In Theft Os Top-Secret Plans BRUSSELS, Belgium UP — A German-born suspected spy was arrested today in connection with the of top-secret plans for iNorthzAtHntic treaty organization air bases.. The plans were stolen from the NATO headquarters of Allied supreme commander Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway at Fouiftaihebleau, France, officials said. Agents of the Surete NationaleBelgiums equivalent of Scotland Yard —-arrested Erich Klare as the suspected spy. Klare was seized in Herbesthal. a frontier,station near the German border, after hundreds of police had blocked off the area in a dramatic search. . p It was reported that Klare posessed certain documents the nature of which was not immediately disclosed. Secret police arrested a suspect in the plans theft in Brussels Tuesday, reportedly after an alert from NATO headquarters. They received a tip that Klaro was due in the Verviers area, attempting to get to Germany. Civilian and military police were mobilized. Road blocks were thrown up. All vehicles were searched. The police were givert a description of Klare but were not told he was supposed to carrying stolen secret military plans. Klare was brought here for questioning. 1 Surete Nationale officials said Klare is 40 years old and is a native of Hamburg, Germany.

Foundation Fund's Payments Increase Tota| Collections Near To $175,000 Payments to the Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., soared with jet propulsion speed this week, with the announcement that individuals and firms had redeemed $8,785 in pledges at tho First State bank up to last Monday. In a personal canvass of the pledgers, workers in the campaign who seek to boost collections to $200,004 before the end of the year, reported an additional $6,047.33 in payments. The 1(14,832.33 places total collections at about $1)75,000. of the Foupdatiop and volunteers in the round-up campaign to collect unpaid pledges this year, expressed confidence in meeting goal. j Pledgers "Arh asked to Redeem their commitments to the Memorial Foundation pot later than December 31, so that the Foundation will participate in the agreement with Central Soya company, which contributes one-dollar for every twodollars collected, the directors explained. \ The agreement with Central Soya company expires December 31. Likewise the due date on all pledges is 1962. contributors to the fund being given the opportunity to make payments during 1950, 51 and 52. The original pledges were given in the fall of 1949. Miss Janet Shrock, a volunteer worker assisting Mrs. Roy* Kalverin the current collection effort,) stated that 16£ pledges had been redeemed in full prior to the campaign. From Nov. 3 to 9, an addl-' tional 14 pledges were redeemed. The cbllection of $6,047.33 reported last Mpnday, represented. 18 pledges paid in full, Miss Schrock stated. A second meeting of the workers will bp held next Monday in the business office of Citizens Tele(Turn To Page Five) Drought Threat To Winter Wheat Crop Prospects Are Far From Satisfactory 1 i WASHINGTON, UP— Drought, which plagued farmers in New England and the south all summer, is now threatening the vital winter wheat crop in the "breadbasket" states of the midwest. In its monthly crop \ report Wednesday, the agrkiultikre department warned that I winter wheat prospects are “far from satisfactory ...” j It said -the picture is not yet Thopeless” but added only rain can relieve the “precarious" situation. Winter wheat makes up the bulk of the nation’s total wheat \butput. It is planted in the fall aird much of it® early growth takes place under cover of snow. The government makes its first official report on the crop in April. The trouble with next year’s crop is that much of it has been “dusted. In” in dry soil with the hope that fall rains would supply the necessary moisture for germination and early growth. So far they haven’t. The drought conditions have held up some farmer’s planting, and the department said “the season is now 1 becoming too late except in the south, southwest and Pacific states.” Parmers who already have planted their crop have not given up hope that it will survive, As did the “miracle” crops of 1940 ahd 1948 under Similar conditions. They also hate their fingers crossed over fall-sown oats, barley and rye crops. Short crops of oats and barley might mean a serious pinch in livestock feed supplies next year. The 1952 oats, barley and sorghum grain crops are all below-av-erage and experts are banking on this year’s second largest corn (Turn To Page Seven)

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Retake Crest In Reckless Drive Today Ignore Bursting J Shells, Bullets To Retake Crest SEOUL, Korea UP — More than 1,000 Chinese Communists surged out of underground bunkers Thursday night and in ajjecklesa charge through bursting shells and streams of bullets recaptured the crest of Shiper Ridge for the 14th time. Some South Korean troops said the Chinese fired “gas shells” during the attack but there was no official confirmation and American officers said the report be treated with "extreme caution.” i The Chinese charged up from “The Yoke,” their maze of underground caves and tunnels, and ripped into South Korean positions at 11:10 p.m. 8:10 a.m. c.s.t. with deadly fire from hundreds of “burp guns”—light, hand-carried submachine guns. The first wave of two companies —about 350 Reds was followed by hundreds more who trotted up Pinpoint HilL the crest of Sniper, and closed in bloody hand-to-hand fighting with South Korean defenders. ' ; ’ ‘ United Press war correspondent Victor Kendrick reported from the central front that South Koreans, using kpives and fists as Chinese swarmed over their trenches, fought gallantly to stem the Red charge but finally were overcome. Republic of Korea troops had lecaptured the vital height north of Kumhwa op .Wednesday night. The hill has changed hands 28 times in a month of attack and counterattack. The Reds apparently had timed their assault for an earlier hour. Allied artillery chopped to pieces a battalion of some 800 Reds seen moving into position for an attack on Sniper at 6 p.m. Thursday night 3 a.m. c.s.t. The Chinese began their attack just after dark. However, the South Koreans were waiting for such a move and immediately called in artillery, support to break it up. During the day, the Reds continued firing artillery at the South Koreans atop Pinpoint Hill, the dominant ridge on Sniper, but on a lesser scale than in the past two days. Late this afternoon, they fired 1,300 rounds of artillery and mortar. ”1 ) Despite low storm clouds. Allied fighter-bombers attacked and burned a troop concentration deep in northwest Korea. B-29 Superfortresses also aimed bombs by radar at a rail bridge at the North Korean Capital of Pyongyang and a supply area northesat of Kuni. They ran into “meager” anti-aircraft fire. Fifth air force planes destroyed 130 buildings in attacks on North Korea, including 70 buildings northeast of Suan. Sabrejets patrolling MIG alley spotted Communist MIC--15 jets but did not engage them. _____ *' Gov. Stevenson On Arizona Vacation SASABE, Ariz. UP —- Gov. Adlat E. Stevenson began his first rest since the election campaign today at a guest ranch near here. Stevenson is staying at the La Osa Ranch owned by a long-time friend, .Dick Jenkins. The Illinois governor arrived by plane Wednesday night in Tucson and motored here. With Stevenson were Wilson Wyatt, campaign manager in his presidential try, and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl McGowan. , . , . BULLETIN NEW YORK UP — Toe United Nations top legal expert, Abraham H. Feller, Jumper or fell to his death today from an apartment building on Central Park, police reported.