Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 285.

Pinpoint Hill Recaptured By South Koreans Push Chinese Reds Off Vital Hill In Savage Bottling SEOUL. Korea. UP — Howling ■raves of Chinese Communists captured Pinpoint Hill on Sniper Ridge early today, but hard-Ught-in K South Korean infantrymen' pushed the Reds off the crest after hours of sawage' hand-to-hand fighting in bitter weather. The South .Koreans,' stalled^within 100 yards of the crest they, lost before dawn, smashed into the Communists after dusk and won control of the vital central front i peak for the 18th time in six weeks, x The final, close-quarter battle that resulted in victory for the ROK’s lasted four hours. Today was_the first time since Nov. 15 the ROK’s lost possession of the height north of Kumhwa, which guards one of the invasion routes to Seoul, capital of South Korea. 1 \ ■ / ’ Allied artillery and warplanes threw a crushing avalanche of bombs, shells and flawing jellied gasoline at the Chinese to soften ud their defenses. Then the dogged ROK troops, struggling up‘the,icecoated slopes, began their counterattack. The South Koreans drove to within 75 yards of the crest while the Chinese rolled grenades and satchel changes down, on them. Finally, they made their way into the Chinese trenches, fighting at clbse range until they drove the Reds to position Yoke at the northern tip of Sniper. The Chinese holed up in the maze of tunnels and caves onYoke. It is from this area that they have launched repeated attacks, large and small, oh the Koreans defending Sniper Ridge. ‘ United Press correspondent Victor Kendrick reported the ROK’s were solidly in charge pf Pinpoint, the dominating peak on the ridgeline, at 9 p.m. Although the weather was- icy •cold, it cleared up enough during 1 tn% day to let U, N. fighter-bomb-ers fly 142 sorties over Chinese positions on Sniper.. . I Eighth army headquarters has never recognized the loss of Pinpoint Hill as reported by Kendrick. He said by telephone from the front that ROK troops who lost the position withheld the information ip the hope of “saving face” by quickly regaining the key hHI. Fighter-bombers flew the second largest strike of the battle of the Kumhwa Ridges in support of the parka-clad South Koreans. ■ Mustangs from the 18thi 58th and 474 th wings teamed up with marine Corsairs and Skyraiders and ROK Mustangs in the raid on' Sniper and positions directly north of it. ‘ ■ “They really made that damn hill dance,”, said Kendrick, who watched from an observation post. Fifth afr force headquarters reported that the planes destroyed or damaged nine gun positions- 12 bunkers and two caves in the lowlevel attacks with 1,000-pound bombs, bullets and flaming'jellied gasoline. U _• ■ There was no late information on a report of heavy fightihg on Rocky Point, a pinnacle running (Taro Ta Fight)

43 School Children Escape In Accident FORT WAYNE, (UP) 4- Forty three School children escaped injury Tuesday when a Bethlehem Lutheran school bus collided headdn with an auto near here. Stater police said the bus ?kldded on icy pavement when the driver attempted to make a left tprn. Two passengers in the auto were injured slightly. \ \ Buys Health Bond The Odd Fellows lodge has voted purchase of a |5 health bond, officials of the Christmas seal campaign in Help Fight Tl Adam a county

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WITH THE IMPORTANT Mutual Security Administration In Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower’s administration assigned to him, former Gov. Harold E. Stassen (left) begins a serie* of meetings in Washington with W. Averell Harriman, the man he will replace. Harriman has long been one of President Truman’s top foreign affairs advisors.

Stevenson And -T i VTruman Honor Phil Murray Stevenson Speaks At CIO Service f Honoring Murray :■. C ' A ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. UP — Gov. E. Stevenson asked the CIO annual convention not to consider thil.Republican election victory “a disaster or even a misfortune fpr labor," The defeated presidential candidate joined CIO leadqriY in honoring the memory of the labor organization’s revered leader, the late Philip Murray. Stevenson's appearance and the tributes to Murray, fdreed a truce in the fierece fight among CIO Union chiefs over a n?w president. But as the 4ssue nehred a showdown, Walter P. Reuther, chief of the Auto Workers, seemed to hold An insurmountable lead over Excutive V|<*e President Allan S. Haywood. > i “Perhaps as the defeated candidate, whom you were good enough to support, I can be permitted to |ay. that the election should not be considered a disaster or even a misfortupe for labor," Stevenson said. ! \ _ >• "What, wpufd be a misfortune and perhAps; even A disaster would be to thiink so, and lose sight of labor’s larger responsibility to. a nation which is also groping Us Way into a new era,” the Illinois governor said. ’ . |. \» He tom the labor .leaders, “Your largest task now . . . is the conduct of your relations with' industry, always in the larger framework of the national interest 1 Stevenson said “there are inequities -and injustices in our laws that still demand i rfemedy,” but added tblat “labor’s lohg battle for. status aind recognition has been largely won.” • I “Violence and ruthlessness by employers and unions alike are obsolete/’ he said. :“li it isn’t, the doctrine that the end: justifies the means should be a thing of the past in 'labor relat|oris.” Stevenson said d MiirrAy’s “life and work spanned a dramatic evolution in the of; labor and in our thinking about labor in this country.” “How soon will the modern idea that big labor is here to stay, that your constituency is no longer just the union members but the nation, pervade the ranks of labor leadership?” Stevenson asked. Stevenson said that:, in the lifetime of Murray, labor had made great strides in termi of elevated wages aM working conditions and warned them, “You dare not gamble with these advances. Now there is too tnuch to lose.” " “Phil Murray’s life ayas a success 1 story,” the.'governor said. “The world is better off because he lived In It. Without that fact as a basic Ingredient, you cannot give validity to a success story.” Pre%idjent Truman also told the contention today of h|s admiration f4r Murray. The President said he ahd the late labor leader had a “greal kinship.” Mr.’ Truman, in a message |o the convention, described Murray as “gentile, 1 religious man . . . firm in his convictions and fierce in his Ipve for the form of government hb found in the United States. “I shall miss him as you miss (Tara To F«*e Right)

Begin Mutual Aid Talks

State Institutions Ask For 74 Million Big Sum Asked For -Better Facilities INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana’s institutions and departments requested a whopping 374,917,141 today to Improve their facilities during the? next two years. Budget Lytle J. FTeehafer, who compiled ihe requests to the state budget committee, said it was the largest amount ever sought for: constructor, rehabilitation and repair. If approved by the committee, the request* will be included in a budget presented to the 1053 state legislature, in 1961, the committee and lawmakers slashed,a similar >61,000,000 request to >26,000,000. Mental hospitals and educational institutions, long the most'expensive properties for the state tl operate, asked the biggest amount* —>24,672,955 for mental hospital* and 335,294,7(|9 for educational Institutions. ; In addition, the state’s tuberculosis, and children’s hospitals asked 33,446,644, charitable : institutions 31.458,240, penal and >correctional institution* >5,478,222, and state departments <4,566,371. p The budget committee will study the requests when fleets about Dec. 15. Ijhe committee also will receive institutional requests for normal operating expenses in addition to the! construction and repair totals. Among the . state departmental requests, the adjutant general’* office asked <44.640 each for national gu?Erd armories at Danville, la Porte, Angola, and Peru, and <72, 850 for an armory ai New Albany. The office also sought >42,000 each for additions to guard storage buildings at Bluffton and Huntington, >25,000 for extending a runway at Baer Fields Fort Wayne, and >413,000 for extending a runway at Stout Field, Indianapolis? State educational requests included >9,040,000 for a hew medical science building at the Indiana University Medical Center. Enrollment has more than doubled since the center started, it was explained and facilities are inadequate. It was (Turn To Face Right) ' ' -I 1 Wafer Rate Boost I I Hearing Dec. 23 State Commission Sets Hearing Date The hearing on a fair quarterly charge for water in the city of Decatur has been set for 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, December 23, at the state house, Indianapolis, the state public service commission announced today. The hearing will be held follow- 1 ing a request for an examination of the Decatur records by the city council to. determine a fair rate for local patrons. The water department has been operating at a loss recently. ! Engineers from the state commission hhve examined the local books and will make their report prior to the hearing. The hearing will be public and legal notice will be publiched prior to the hearing date. j_ j 1 Word of the getting of the date for hearing was received from the commission by telephone at noon today by Robert Anderson, city attorney, and verification will be mailed today, it was said.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 3, 1952.

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Ike Adviser May Reply To ' '- ' v Taff's Blasi ' . 1 ,-\' ■ . ■ „ ' ' ' ■ .i T Sherman Adams May Answer Criticism On Martin Durkin ' NEW YORK, UP —Gov. Sherman Adams, one of Presidentelect Eisenhower’s top advisers, may reply today to Sen. Robert A. Taft’s sharp remarks on the appointment of Martin P. Durkin as secretary of labor. Adams, who will become assistant to the President when Eisenhower takes office next Jan. 2d, headed a list of four callers at the general’s Morningside Heights residence. The other callers were listed, a* Republican Reps. Hugh D. Sdotj of Pennsylvania and Clifford P. Case of New Jersey and Gov. John Lodge of Connecticut. Albert Leman of the Eisenhower press staff said Adams would go from Moniitigside Heights to thi president-elect’s Commodore Hotel headquarters and probably would issue a statement shortly after his arrival. Taft voiced his displeasure Tue* day on Eisenhower’s appointment of Durkin, Chicago lanor leader \who supported Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson for president and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. . , ; > The Ohio senator called the appointment of Durkin “incredible” and an "affront” to millions of union members and officers who had ignored their leaders and voted for Eisenhower. But George M. Humphrey, an ardent Taft supporter whom Eisenhower named secretary of thetreasury, said he was hopeful the Durkin appointment would not cause any major dissensioh within the party. Humphrey went to Morningside Heights Tuesday and commented (Tara To Page Kight) z Contracts Awarded ... By Commissioners Award Contracts On Highway Supplies County commissioners awarded contracts on supplies for the county highway department Tuesday. The contract tp supply stone was awarded to dual bidders, the Meshberger Bros. Sfone Corp, of Linn Grove, and thd John W. Karch Stone Co. of Bryant. Gravel will be supplied by the Ybst Construction Co. of Culvert pipe will vbe supplied dually by Armco prafnage and Metal Products, Inc. of Indianapolis, and the Logansport Metal Culvert Co. of Logansport. Contracts for grader blades went to Korte Bros. Construction Equipment Co. of Fort Wayne, and 'the McAllister Machinery Co. of Indianapolis. Gas for six months of next year will be supplied by the Pearl Oil Co. of Berne, and oil to be supplied by the D-A Lubricant Co. of. Indianapolis. - § The Petrie Oil Co. of Decatur will supply oil and kerosene. > > Knapp’s of Decatur was awarded the contract for grease. The Goodyear Tire Co. received the contract as low bidder on tires of all types for all county vehicles for the following year. ■ < INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional light snow oc freezing drizzle gradually changing to rain or snow tonight and Thursday; not quite so cold tonight Low tonight 28-36. High Thursday 3338. ■ .'

11 Czechs Hanged After Convictions Former Red Leaders > In Czechoslovakia VIENNA, r Austria UP —Former Czech foreign minister Vladimir Clementis, Rudolf Slansky, onct the most powerful man in the 'Czech Communist party, and nine other one-time Czech Red leaders' died on the gallows today, Prague Radio said. The 11 one-time Czech Red party and government leaders were hanged less than one week after they were convicted of treason, espionage and murder. They were found guilty of the charges last Thursday following an eight day trial in grim Pankrac prison in Prague. Prague lywiio said today the announcement of the execution was released by the Czech justice ministry. The others executed today with Blansky and Clementi? were: Bedrich Geminder and Josef Frank, former party deputies to Slansky; Rudolf Margolius, former deputy foreign, trade minister; Otto Fling, former party chief to the Brno Region; Gen. Otto Svam former deputy minister of security; Lt. Gen. Bedrich Reicin, former deputy minister of defense and chief of Czech intelligence; Andre Sjtmone, former writer and editor for the Czech party newspaper Rude Prdyo; Ludvik Frejka, former economic, adviser to Red President Clement Gottwald and Otto Fisl, former ambassador to East Germany. other defendants —Vavro Majdu and Arthur London, former deputy foreign ministers, and Evzeii Ix>ebel. former deputy minister of foreign trade, were given life imprisonment sentences, 1 accordihg to Prague Radio. The; announcement said the executions were carried out immediately after the trial because none of the defendants appealed for clemency. ■ ‘ BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP — President Truman invoked the TaftHartley law today, attempting to halt a strike of CIO United Steelworker* at the American Locomotive Co., Dunkirk, N. Y. where atomic energy materials are produced. ; Plan For Inspection Os Damaged Streets Gds Company Men Plan Inspection City councilmen finally got to the crux of the problem concerning some, streets that seem perennially to be in bad repair. The state highway commission Was being blamed for the condition of the road on Monroe and Seventh streets. It has been learned since the last meeting that the place to put the blame for the Streets is with the gas company. Each time the gas company rips into one l of the city streets it was hith|erto made liable to put the streets back in good repair. Also, they had to pay a fee to the qity for being permitted to dig up .the rpads. The gas company has of late been complaining about paying the city and also fixing the streets. Two representatives of the gas outfit were in town yesterday and it was hoped that they could be shown some.of the bad streets due to the gas company. However, it snowed and the Inspection had to be 'put off. i Robert Anderson, city attorney, said he was told that the gas officials weren’t aware that t%e streets were bad because of them and Anderson expressed faith in the declaration.

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U. N. Assembly Voles Today On India Proposal General Assembly | Likely Tq Approve India's Peace Plan UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP— The United Nations general assembly was expected to give its final approval quickly today to India's compromise Korear) -pieace plan. ■ j Assembly President Lester B. Pearson of Canada called a session of the 60-nation assembly for this afternoon to approve the plan, passed despite Russian objections by tfae main political committee earlier this week. The final vote in committee: was 54-5, wßth Russia and hpr four Cominform partners opposing : and Nationalist China abstaining. This assured a comfortable margin beyond the two-thirds vote* needed for passage of t|ie plan in the assembly. As soon as the assembly acts, Pearson plans to send thei Indian peace offer to the North Kdrean and Chinese Communists anr| Intheir reaction.' Ui N. officials kept alive a wistful hope that the Indian plan—already rejected by Russia and cold-shouldered by Peipipg and Pyongyang—would not get pan! immediate official turh-down from the Oriental Reds. If the two governments thke ; sufficient time to study it, the assembly probably will adjojur.n without further action on Korea and consider the replies ala reconvened session next February. I Although there was > nothing official, U. N. sources talked ot the possibility of adjourning the: assembly next Saturday, Dec. 13, and reconvening Feb. 2 or shortly (Tarn Tn Page Five) 1' ■ ~ ~' Seek Traffic Light At Monroe, Fifth L State Turns Down Request For Light Downright concern pervaded a discussion by city councilman Tuesday evening concerning traffic'control at; the corner of Fifth and Monroel streets. Councilmanj Don Gage was especially outspoken on the heed for a control at that corner because of the school children who must cross Monroe street in the fade of ponderous and steadily increasing traffic. . Mayor John Doan expressed the view that a light would be beneficial to students of both the public and parochial schools and should be installed. The council was informed that the state highway commission. rd fused to put up a light bn that intersection because the volume of traffic didn’t warrant it. In View of this refusal, councilmen agreed to initiate some action even at the city’s expense. The stated highway commission p,greed to, put up a signa! at Mon roe and), Thirteenth street but turned down Monroe street Signals at Ninth street and Fifth itECML The estimated cost for a light at the school corner, is it would be of the overhead type and in four directions. With the installation the cost rose go S4OO, expressed by light superintendant L. C. Pettibone as being ’’well worth it if it saves the life' of only one child.” The councilmen agreed wholeheartedly and directed that the state highway commission be ndtifieb that the city be permitted to erect a signal kt the corner even if it is at the city’s, own expense.

Form Committee To Study Conservancy Informal Meeting f Held Here Tuesday Plans were staged Tuesday afternoon at an informal meeting at the city hall i)ere tq set up an Adams county v information committee for the purpose of getting all available information pertaining to the proposed northeastern Indiana conservancy district and passing it on to all citizens of the county. - The meeting was attended by representative farmers of the county; Mayor John Doan. Decatur, Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of ComTnerce. Sen. Lucius Spmers of Allen county also attended the meetint. Y : ' Others present included: Delmore Wechter and Don Rgudenbush of Blue Creek township; Lawrence Beckmeyeif, Fritz Aumann, and Ed Aumann of Root township; J. J. Yost pf Washington township, Lawrence Archbold and Dick Heller, Decatur. The decision to set up; a committee, which eventually would have a representative of every affected Adams county township; towns, cities and property owners, was reached after an hour’s discussion concerning the proposal. Fear that the statute as now tn effect might give too'much power to a three-man board if a conservdistrict is established was freely expressed atithe meeting. However, the (decided that in all fairness to everyone who will have to pay tor the entire cost of the conservancy projects, they should have all the available information obtainable both for and against the, proposal. At the conclusion of the discussion Mayor. Doan was" named temporary chairman of the committee and Ford was named secretary. Various organizations df the county interested in civic affairs will be invited to name representatives pn the committee, and a permanent organization will be made soon. A representative ot the new information committee will accompany eight or 10 others interested Decatur and Adams county -people to a meeting at Auburn tonight. This meeting will include representatives of the six counties of the proposed district. Several engineers versed in conservancy problems are scheduled to talk. 1 ' «■ ' ' i! i ’ . Junk Yard Question Referred To Board Petition Referred To Zoning Board At the last meeting of the city counciLjwo weeks ago, Tony Meyers and several other petitioners requested the council; to stop William G. Smith from operating a junk yard on High claiming it to be a “nuisance” pleading for an abatement. Meyers and the petitioners claimed also that Smith started the junk yard;only a week before, to which Smith countered that he’d been in operation since 1945. I. At last night’s meeting of the 'council, Smith in answer declared officially that be had, been in operation since 1945. Meyer*, however, said the operation existed for a few months, in a later communication. The dllema was thought resolved with the proposal that the question be submitted to the city board of zoning appeals; Robert S. Anderson was (*ked concerning the position of secatur’s zoning ordinance in yiew of the recent decision of Judge Myles F. Parrish in the Jehovah Witnesses’ case. Anderson said the portion of the judge’* decision, stating “it may be (Tarn To Page Five)

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Pleasant Mills Man Is Killed Today By Truck Jumps Frdm Auto In Fear Os Crash Early This Morning Thomas Preston (Mutt) Halberstadt, 37, well known Pleasant Mills man and veteran of World War 11, was killed almost instantly in a freak accident on Uj. 3. highway 30, east of Fort Wajyne, shortly after 6 o’clock this mprns Halberstadt was riding in a car driven by- True Andrews, of northof Decatur. The two men were enroute to work on construction at Defiance, 0., where they have been employed for eome time. Andrews, enroute north on, the Tillman road, had stopped before entering 'U. SL 30. As he started onto the federal highway, ipade extremely slippery by tjie snow and resultant thaw and fiieeze, his car skidded slightly. J Seeing an approaching truck, Andrews then drove straight across the highway to avoid a collision. Halberstadt, however, evidently fearing Andrews’ auto W&s about to b'e struck, jumped from the car. He apparently slipped on the icy pavement and fell directly in the path of the approaching truck, whose right wheels apparently ran over him. Th£ Pleasant Mills man suffered a skull fraeture and 4 crushed chest, and'was pronounced dead on arrival at the Methodist hospital in Fort Wayne. The truck, an oil tanker, owned by the Gladieux Oil Sales of Fort Wayne, was driven by Charles M. Murphy, of Fort Wayne. Murphy apparently swerved his truck in an effort Ito miss Halberstadt and the vehicle jacknlfed, part of the truck in the ditch and part on the highway. Two cars following Murphy rammed into the truck, and were in turn rammed by three other autos. Murphy and occupants of the\ five cars Were not seriously injured. .State troopers from the Baer Field post, Robert Endres, jack Stewart and Robert Deßard, who investigated, said that the highway was extremely slippery' and that there was also a heavy fog at the time of the fatal accident. No blame was attached to Andrews or Murphy following the investigation. Native Os County The accident victim was a lifelong resi4ent of Adamp county. He was born in St Mary’s township Dec. 8, 1914,'“a son of James F. and Flava Ploghe-Halberstadt. He graduated from the Pleasant MJlls high school in 1933, and during his senior year was nAmed to the all-county basketball team. He enlisted in the armed forces in June, 1943, and took training as underwater welder and deep sea. diver aboard the Normandy in Ne# York and Cape Cod. After further training in New Orleans, he was sent overseas and participated in the invasion of New Uuinea, where he served eight months. , r Wounded, in action New Guinea, he was returned to the states and received his medical disfTara Ta P«ce Kl*ht)

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