Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 278.

Suspend Pork Price Control At Wholesale Suspension Order Os Little Effect On Retail Prices c WASHINGTON, UP -4 The office of price stabilization today suspended wholesale price controls on pork and removed restrictions which had limited the number of new livestock slaughterers. The pork action has--no direct effect on prides the housewife pays at the butcher’s shop. Retail ceiling?, which fluctuate With wholesale prices, were kept in force. - r Price stabilizer Tighe E. Woods suspended wholesale pork ceilings while trying to decide whether to order a rollback in beef retail prices. He may do so later today By merely suspending the wholesale pork ceilings. Woods left the way clear to reinstate them later —4f prices jump sharply. He said he didn't think such a step would. he necessary, although he forecast a minor rise early in 1953. Pork is well under ceiling now, and many cuts are cheapen than before the outbreak of the Korean war. The regulations had forbidden* slaughtering quotas for any packer not in business in 1950 or 1051, unless it was certified his community needed a new plant. ‘J’he aim was to keep relatively small livestock supplier in established channels and prevent fly-by-night blac market operations., The suspension order today ap-' parently will have little Or no Effect on the housewife's shopping budget. Retailers are required to lower ceilings when . Wholesale prices go down, and are permitted to raise them when wholesale prices go up. ’ y W r oods stafl advised him against (Tolling back retail beef prices. ; He own decision was expected later. Price officials said that at most the rollbacks would amount to four or five cents a pound, on some ;cheaper cuts. In many areas, they - said, retailers already have, reduced their selling prices oh these cuts. .' jr While better grades of beef generally'are pressing against retail' ceilings, price officials said, the rollback in those ceilings probably would amount to only a couple of cents a pound. Wood’s staff has advised him that rollbacks are legally possible. Their objection is that lower, ceilings might be to enforce and “more troublri tiian they’re worth.”. ' Woods said last week that he would roll back the ceilings if possible and promised a decision on the mailer by today. The issue was raised first almost twp-lnonths ago by a California cattle-raiser who complained that retail ceilings) should, be lowered to reflect. lower prices for cattle. Since then, Woods has noted. housewives have taken up the , cry. - , v Since the spring of 1951. beef has been Under easily recognised dollars-and-cents ceilings. To getrollbacks at retail, the price agency must abandon these for complicated percentage-markups regulations. Retailers* ceilings would be based on their individual costs plus these markups—a. Hard type of control to police. . ’.j - ' ■

Mrs. John Schafer Is Taken By Death Funeral services will !\be held Tuesday for Mrs. John Schafer, 79; of Fort Wayne, who died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne.! Survivors include her husband, John; tour daughters, Misses Mary and Helene, at home; Ven. Slater M, Joann, St. Joseph’s hospital, and Mrs. Celeste Schaefer of Payne, O.; two sons, Edward, at home, and George ;of Fort Wayne; a brother, Joseph Appel* man. and three sisters, Misses and Rose Appelman, all of Decatur, and Mrs. William Faurote of hear Monroe. ’ SerVicesy will be held at 8’: 30 a.m. Tuesday at the Tom Mufiigovan funeral home and at 9 o’clock at St. Paul’s Catholic church. With burial in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. — | ‘ Indianapolis Pilot Killed On Kyushu TOKYOi UP —The army today identified Lt. Richard E. Smith of ladianapolis, Ind., as one of two members of the 187th airborne regimental combat team killed last Thursday in a light plane crash on Kyushu Island. Smith’s widow, Billie Jo, lived at JgM Olney St, Indianapolis.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Dwight D. Eisenhower has announced the addition to his “official family” the t names of George M. Humphrey, (left), Cleveland industrialist, to become Secretary of the Treasury, an<i Harold G. Stassen (right), at 31 Governor of Minnesota and currently president of Pennsylvania U., to replace W. Averell Hardtnan a.4’director of the huge Mutual Security Agency, a non-cabinet post of great rtnportance. General Eisenhower also announced the selection of Herbert Brownell of New York as his Attorney General All have accepted.

Ike Supports Study Os Armed Forces Needs ! Gives Full Support For Non-Political Civilian Study NEW YORK UP — Presidentelect Dwight D. Elsenhower assured Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff Rdt. today full support of a poncivilian niudy of i manpower and material requirements of the armed forced Sarnoff, chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America. was named by defense secretary Robert A. Lovett shortly before the election to head 1 ah 11member commission on manpower utilization. > kU , “I am in full sympathy with the purposes and objectives for which this commission has been created and believe Its studies and recommendation? will be helpful to the new CohgresS and to the new administration,” Elsenhower said after his meeting with Sarnoff. “In my. meeting ; with chairman Sarnoff ip New York today we discussed this subject arid \l assured him that in the important and difficult task that he ’has undertaken at. the request of the government, he can count on the support of the incoming secretary of defense and myself.” The comjnissiqp formally natned the citizens \advisory commission on manpower utilization in the armed services will hold its first full meeting at the pentagon in Washington Tuesday. '• - J\ Asked whether the commission study might consider the drafting of women in event of major was, \Sarhoff | said, “That vis not >within our immediate purview;, but it is not excluded.”

The commission was created by Lovett at the request of the senate armed services arid appropriations "committees. The committees ; requested the appointment of a group of outstanding Americans to make a comprehensive study of the armed services and submit recommendations . for bringing about ' manpower and dollar in the defense establishment witijout cutting down combat effectiveness, “Eisenhowei - had a heavy list ofcallers as he! put the finishingtouches on preparation? for his visit to Korea. Callers at his Commodore Hotel headquarters hare during the da£ will include two men who have figured in speculation for posts in. the new cabinet —Ezr(a T. Benson of Utah, mentioned prominently for secretary of agriculture, and John Mipor Wisdom, GOP national cbmmitte«man from Louisiana, Eisrinhbwer also will ipeet today with Vice President-elect Richard M. Nixon in thejir first conference since the election. 4 i ; Cabinet posts, remaining to ;be filled were those of agriculture, labor, commerce and postmaster, general- It was said the presidentelect hoped to complete these appointments before leaving .for Korea. The Korean trip—departure time, ’Arrival there and time of return—will be clothed in secrecy for security reasons. "1 ■ Elsenhower rested most of Sunday at hiS Morningriide Heights residence except for attending church service# and for a conference with Paul G, Hoffman, head of the Ford Foundation and former chief of the economic cooperation (Tore Te Pare Six)

Wait Coal Increase Decision By Putnam See Intervention \ From Whitey House WASHINGTON UP —lnformed sources predicted today the White House will intervene in the soft coal wage case unless economic stabiliser Roger L. Putnam soon approves a |1.90-a-day pay increase, for John L. Lewis* miners. Putnam has been trying for more than three weeks to make up his mind whether to approve the full increase the soft coal Industry last month, or to uphold the wage stabi-’ lization board which put a |1.50-a---day ceiling on the miners’ Incaeasp Informants said the WhV efltome fayors approval of the full Increase, and may take the case out of Putnam’s hands unless he comes up with a favorable ruling within a few days. Putnam has tentatively promised a decision early this week. It was learned that public members of the wage board will resign if Putnam grants the full increase by reversing their ruling. There is a good chance that the board’s Industry members, who joined with .the public, members to slash 40 cents from the pay raise, also may resign if the full increase is approved. Such a move probably would cripple the wage control program. ■ ' . I . ' If Putnam upholds the board limit, Lewis’ miners are expected to walk out of the pits in protest Lewis has warned that paring the, (Turn To Pace Six)

11 Persons Die In i Traffic Accidents One Soldier Killed At Camp Atterbury INDIANAPOLIS UP — A soldier was killed and eight others injured on the Camp Atterbury military reservation during a week end in which at least 11 persons- died in traffic accidents, many of them attributable to the weather. Pvt. Walter Brewster, Red Sulphur Sprints, W. .Va., (lied Saturday night as a truck loaded with men en route to their quarters from a banquet on the post overturned on wet pavement. Brewster was driving the trtfck. Another death occurred south of Franklin near Camp Atterbury when auto driven by Herman Attebray, J 4, a Camp Atterbury soldier, struck a bicycle ridden by Richard Bahling, 13. Indianapolis. The boy went on an adventure down U. S. 31 with a pal on another bike. ’ Two auto collisions Sunday were fatal to Mrs. Frances Greenwait, 73, Delphi, and lienry F. Kron, 21, Evansville. \ Mrs. Greenwait was killed when a station wagon in which she was a passenger was struck by another' car at an Intersection near Kokomo. Kron -was pinned beneath thtruck he was driving when it was struck by a car near Evansville. Two men were killed Saturday near (New, Castle in a two-car smashup. The dead were Willard D. Day, 37; Mount Summit, and Farmer Ramey, 39, New Casile. - Wet roads brought death to two Anderson youths, John E. James Jr., island Howard Hoppes Jr., 20. James’ car skidded on a slippery, blackfop road and crashed into a tree. \ Two trucks smashed up at intersection of Ind. 1 and Ind- 427 near Fort Wayne, killing Eugene (Twrw To Pose Mx)

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U. S. Objects To India Plan On Korea Truce v. '■' . r v ‘. • b Revamped Proposal Is Submitted At * Meeting On Sunday UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP —Secretary of State Dean Acheson was expected to detail today American objections to India's revised ‘compromise” proposal for settling the Korean war. The revamped Indian proposal was submitted .Sunday after the United States had turned (|own flatly the original version in hn open break with Great Britain, which had refused to agree to amendments proposed by this country. At a meeting Sunday night of the 21 nations endorsing the United States stand against forcible repatriation of war prisoners, Acheson was said to have attempted to minimize, reports of the ■ AngloAmerican split. > ’ The 21-nation meeting decided to ask Indian delegate V. K. Krish- ; Menon, chief author of the In « <tian plan, for clarification on ene * or two points before taking a final stand. A However, informed sources said that general sentiment was in favor of the revised Indian proposal . and that an American plan for ending the Korean conflict probably would be shelved in favor of II Th® - main points of the pew In- j dian version were: 1. Under the early version, the fate of POW’s still refusing to go j home 90 days after an armistice would be put before the East-West political conference tentatively a- ' greed on at Panmunjom. The re* < Vision provides that the “neutral” I repatriation commission that is ter make recommendations to the poll- ; tical parley on the POW’s would ’ include a recommended “target 1 date” for ending their detention 2. If the political conference is unable to decide their fate in 60 days, the remaining POWs would be removed from custody, of the neutral repatration commission and handed over to d U. N. group. The U. N. group would be responsible (Tun To p«*e j»tx) - j Elizabeth Molthan Dies This Morning : V i 96-Year-Old Lady I Is Taken By Death* J Mrs. Elizabeth Molthan, 96. life- ? long resident of Allen county, died unexpectedly at 7:30 o’clock. this 1 morning at her home one mile east 1 of Hoagland. She had been in fairly , good health until becoming ill about ; 1 o’clock this morning. . She was born in ofar|on town- 1 ship, Allen county, Nov. 4, 1856, a 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George 1 Brouwer, and had lived on the same • farm in Madison township for the past 65 years. She was married to 1 William J. Molthan Dec. 18, 1887, ‘ and he died Jan. 12, 1947. Mrs. Mplthan was a member of 1 St. John’s Lutheran church at Flatrock. j J < Surviving are five sons, Henry, * William, Charles and Martin Mol- 1 than, all of near Hokgland, and 1 Edward t Molthan of Fort Wayne; ’ one daughter, Mr?. Edward Melcher 1 of New Haven; 13 grandchildren 1 and 19 great-grandchildren. A daaghter, Mrs. Charles Knipstein, 1 was killed in an’ auto accident in 1 1948. Four brothers and two sisters 1 also preceded her in death. > Funeral services will be conduct-Ji ed at 1:30 p;m. Thursday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the St. 1 John’s Lutheran church at Flat 1 Rock, the Rqv. Henry Abram of- I ficiating. Burial will be in the church cemetory.; The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 6 o’clock Tuesday evening. \ n.„ ■ 3 t

Clark, Van Fleet Arrange Ike Visit I Make Arrangements: For Trip To Korea j SEOUL, Korea UP — U. N. Commander Gen. .Mark Clark met Gen. James A.'Van Fleet today to plan policy recommendations and secd- ( rity ./plans for President-elect E>Wij?l»t Eisenhower's forthcoming visit to Korean. Clark flew here today from his headquarters in Tokyo. He planned to remain in Korea "a couple' of days” to make arrangements for the vf.hit. • Authoritative sources in! Tokyo said Clark would not be on hand to greet Eisenhower when he arrives in Korea. Clark 'said Uie last saw (Eisenhower “just before he went to Europe to take over the NATO, command.” * ' Clark said 'he and an Fleet, eighth army commander, V'will be looking forward to seeing Eisenhower/’ under whom \they once served. j The;«Korean Daily News said “perhaps" 'Elsenhower will arrive here Tuesday, but no official word was given out. t Ofl plane were Sir Elser .Denftig. British ambassador to Jgpan, and French Ambassador Madrice De Jean. jClark said their visits had no connection with the EisenljoWer trip. Clark and Van Fleet accompanied Dening on a visit to the British Commonwealth division. They later returned to Seoul where they immediately went into a closeddoot session to make their plans,; j Also closeted with them was Lt. (Jen. Glenn O. Barcus, \ fifth air force commander. - It was believed the two commanders were consolidating their views Jon recommendations on the conduct of the war to jbe made from the Far East command. ' j 'Preying for equal attention art problems of insuring Eisenhower's absolute security in Korea against the threat of Communist air at- { (Tara To Page Six) ' { Mrs;‘Von Gunten To Be Deputy Auditor ’ j Krtson's Daughter Appointed Deputy -Mrs) (Marguerite Von Gunten, Berne,* daughter of auditor-elect and Mrs. Frank Kitson, today began learning the duties! of the auditor's office. Mrs. Von Gunten will become chief deputy In the office' January 1 when her father the Republican auditor ever to in Adams county. , The; new deputy auditor is a graduate of Monmouth high school and has had several years of bustness and, secretarial experience. She Will continue to assist auditor Thurman I. Drew-and his two deputies throughout December so she will be acquainted with all the procedure in \the office before the January 1 change. . The -; auditor-elect stated today that he Would name a clerk or second deputy some time in December, thereby completing his perpersonnel. | r Mrs J Drew and -Mrs. Marjorie GHlioni will continue after January 1 tor an indefinite time, Kitson said, until the new staff has learned all the office procedure, The two present deputies will alternate after January 1 in the office. ? > Auditor Drew has not announced his plans following his retirement from the post, which he has held for more than 10 yearsi He wad not eligible to succeed' himself in tpe office in the November election. He sa(d recently that as soon as poslble after January 1, he and Mrs. Drew planned a short vacation, probably in Florida. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy -with occasional rain and’ warmer tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 38-46. High Tuesday 42-52. 1 r.. > ’ ' ■ •

South Koreans Shafter Reds’ Attack Force American Bombers Deal Severe Blow To Supply Bases SEOUL,, Korea, (UP) — Alert South Korean soldiers shattered -a Chinese attack force forming near Sniper Ridge today with an “iron curtain” of bullets -while American night bombers handed the Reds’ supply * system one of ifbe worst blows of the Korean war. I The ROK’s loosed deadly-accur-ate rifle and machine gun fire on some 400 Chinese fanning ut along the slopes of Sniper Ridge in an attempt to surprise South Koreans on Pinpoint Hill. But the ROK’s were ready for the Reds. A withering fire of bullets blunted the enemy advance and the Rede inched their way back to their hideouts on position Yoke on the northern tip of the ridge. A It was the biggest force the Reds have mustered in the open for several days. The Red's alsq tried several smaller attacks Sunday night and today, but all were repulsed. Two platoons of Chinese nuisance raiders probed ROK defenses shortly after dusk, but U N. mortar and jirtillery fire stbpped them before they could reach the South Korean trenches. U. S. B-26 invaders wrecked 200 Reid trucks moving to the front laden with supplies. Moving boldly with their headlights glaring, the trucks were an easy target for TT. N. airmen. Today’s latest toll of trucks was one of the most stunning blows ever delivered against , enemy tracks by the B-26’8, which have consistently been tearing up Red and \ supplies during the war. ' -h v ■ Snow- arid rain grounded all but a few Allied warplanes during the day. U. N. pilots reported snow apd rain over North Korea, as well as along the eastern part ot the 155-mile battlefront. Most of the snow turned to slush during the day on the front. The latest series of Red attacks rip the central front began Sunday night with an attack by about 600 Chinese On Sniper

Ida A. Kleinknighl ! Dies This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Ida Alice Kleinknight, 90 a resident of Decatur for the past 14 yearfc, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She suffered a fractured hip in a fall a year ago and suffered a st/oke a week ago. She was born at Tocsin Oct: 14, J 1862, a daughter of Samuel and Catherine Archbold-Yarger, and was married to George A Kleinknight June 30, (1887. Her husband preceded her in death ;in May of 1928. Mrs. Kleinknight was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving are one son, Chester Kleinknight of Decatur; three daughter#, Mrs. Elva 'Pursley and Mrs. Edith Blocker of near Bluffton and Mrs. Esther Blocker of great-grandchildren; one brother, Clem Yarger of Warsaw, and one sister, 1 Mrs. Ella Johnson of Tocsin. One son, one brother and three sisters are deceased. ' Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the -funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday. I V i s .''

Baghdad Is Quiet Under Martial Law ChieflOf Staff In Government Charge BAGHDAD, Iraq, UP — Baghdad was tense but quiet today under martial law declared by Gen. Nurridln Mahmud, Iraq chief of staff, who Sunday night took over the government as premier and ended two days of Communist-led riots. * i , Iraq troops were stationed around the United States and oth-’ er foreign embassies, public utilities, hotels and ether vital parts, of the city. The streets were almost deserted early tpday. Mahmud became premier Sunday night at the request of Regent Abdul 1114. ii, acting for young King Feisal 11, who ascends the thrope next May!. The general—the third military leader to take over a Middle-East-ern nation in fotir months —immediately formed a new government and declared martial law, ending two days of antl-foreign rioting during which a United States information service office was . set afire. ; At least one person was killed and 52 others injured In the weekend rioting. However, official# said the final toll of dead and injured would be higher: Mahmud heads the defense and interior ministries in his new government as well as being premier. He retailed three ministers from the government of Mustafa «El- - which resigned Saturday. The rirmy was dramatically called out after demonstrators armed with knives and revolvers battled police in downtown Baghdad streets and 9et buildings housing American and British agencies afire. Tl|ie building housing the USIS was set afire and then the demonstrators battled firemen until an (Tar« To Paxe Six)

CIO Leaders Seek Murray Successor | Two Men In Lead As CIO President NEW YORK UP — Officials of seven CIO unions meeting here tn session were expected today to try and agree on a successor ito the • late Philip Muray as preaideht of the big labor organization. There -were two leading candidates for the post vacated by Murray’s death in San Francisco Nov. 9. They are Allan Haywood, CIO organising director, rind Walter P. president of the powerful CIO United Auto Workers Union. I . I. . ! Today’# meeting of executive board members was ’ called for diricussion of a memorial to Murray, but it wa# learned that a “terit of strength” will be mape between Haywood and Reuther for the presidency, with advocates of both claiming “overwhelming” suport. If the meeting fails to reach n decision, the battle- probably will be fought out on the floor of the CIO convention, opening in Atlantic City, N. J„ Dec. 1. \ . \ There also was a possibility that a •compromise’ candidate might get the presidency if no agreement is reached on Haywood or Reuther. Mentioned prominently in thia role were Jpseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, and O. A Knight, who head# the CIO Oil Workers. J -y—' Santa Claus Appears In Decatur Saturday Saturday afternoon, November 29, at the courthouse, Santa Claus will give a preview of his breathlessly awaited appearance on Qhristmas eve by treating all the tots of the city ana the county to’ goodies galore begihing at 2 p.m. The fabled fellow will be flown in by chartered plane.

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Search Crews Stymied By Bad Weather Hope Faint Radio. Signal Indication Os Some Survivors ; ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska UP — Search crews Stymied by bad weather, hoped today that a faint radio signal came from a big transport believed down with 62 servicemen in Alaska's “Graveyard of airplanes.” , , s The air force C-124 Globemaster vanished Sunday while it was attempting to land through heavy fog and wind after a flight from Me Chord air force base. Wash. Search craft battled high winds and poor weather Sunday and returned to their bases Sunday night with negative results. Sunday night the air force reported the civil aeronautics administration station at Yakataga, Alaska, had picked up a distress, signal on the 600 kilocycles band — the international SCS band. No time was gjven on the pickup of the signal, which was so weak no bearing could be taken on it The air force said the weakness of the signal could have been caused by the weather or could have been sent by a “Gibson Girl” hand-operated emergency I transmitter carried on all planes. A search armada of 24 planes stood by to fly oyer the search area by sunrise if weather permits. The forecast was for rain and no improvement in the poor visibility which hampered operations Sunday. The ship was the third military aircraft to vanish in Alaska in less than three weeks. If all those aboard are lost, it would he the second worst disaster, in the history of American military aviation. Searchers concentrated on the; area over Cape Hinchinbrook, about halfway between Middleton Island and Whitter, Alaska. The CAA station at Middleton said the plane was flying at 9,000 feet and reported “no trduble” at last contact, • * »

That contact came as the C-124, the world’s largest cargo-trans-port plane, winged through a dense fog over Middleton island, 157 miles southeast of Anchorage. Closest emergency landing fields were at Cordova, 70 miles to the northeast -and Yakutat, 232 miles to the East, but the sky giant did hot put in at either of those places. The plane carried enough fuel to remain airborne until 6 aun. e.s.t. Sunday. It was letting down through the turbulent “Southwest 'Passage” for Its landing here. The jinxed passage is a precarious approach on which a plane must dodge 5,000 to 6,000-foot peaks looming up off the ends of each wing tip. A crew of 11 and 41 passengers were aboard the giant plane, which is capable of carrying 200 troops ' 2,000 miles without refueling. Pilot of the plane was Capt. Kenneth J. Duval, 37, Vallejo, Calif., and his assistant was Capt. Alger M. Cheney. 32, Lubeck, Me. AU aboard the lost plane carried cold weather survival gear. The plape knifed through near freezing temperatures over the same area in which 98 persons were killed (Twra T» Pax* Six)

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