Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 287.

Ike Is Enroute Home From Korea

' Wage Board's Members May Resign Posts Industry Members May Quit z As Result *v Os Truman's Orders ■ , WASHINGTON UP — The new chairman of the wage stabilization board indicated today he feared ft will collapse if industry members ntake good a threat to walk out. Charles C, Killingsworth, hr- - stalled as ehairman by President Truman when Archibald Cox angrily resigned Thursday, told a news conference ’that the dent’s coal wage decision "has uri-. denlably added to our difficulties.” It was Mr. Truman’s reversal of the WSB, which approved'* only sl-50 of a negotiated $1.90 daily'pay increase for miners? that caused Cox’s departure. Killingsworth said he expected to hear from th®' industry representatives on WSB latent today. - Theirl deArture, Killingsworth said, would place the problem of WSB’s future functioning up to Mr. Truman and economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam. Killingsworth said other public members agree with him that the board should not . recognize Mr Truman’s' decision as “a new pattern or precedent.” Cox had take® a contrary j Cox said Mr. Truman’s decision would lead either to favoritism fojr a “powerful few” unions or to general relaxation of the whole line against wage increases. The wag® board had held that any increase for the miners above $1,50 would j be inflationary. , Killingsworth, a 35-year-old economics professor at Michigan Stat® College who had served previously as vice chairmap of the board,, declined immediate comment on the turbulent Situation he inherited. The six industry members of th® board, Who have boycotted its sessions since the coal wage decision was announced Wednesday, scheduled a private caucus to consider resigning en masse. ’ \ A labor member of the board, Elmer E. Walker, warned that if 4 the industry members block Operation of the board,- it would in a nationwide wave of “quick, spontaneous strikes.” Walker, vice president of the AFL Machinists Union, said there is a lajrge backlog of wage in-, crease pasep still pending before the board in which the unions have "patiently bided their time” awaiting board approval. - - Despite Mr. Truman’s rapid action to fill the vacancy left by - Cox, the key to the future of the ' wage stabilization program — and ultimately to price controls—was held by the Industry members of the board. t \ The board—a tripartite A panel made up of industry, - labor and public members —cannot legally (Turn To Pace Eight) .BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — Secretary - General ;; Trygve Lie told the United ' h Nations today that he accepted •. a legal recommendation that . known or suspected American j Communists should be ifired ... from the U.N. Good Fellows Club Delta Theta Tau -—-SIOO.OO I .4 lFrl®nd J. \ 10.00 ■" ' Hr, and Mrs. Alßeavers 10.00 Auto License Bureau Managers Reappointed ' 7 Reappointment/ of the three Adams county auto license branch managers was made today by Crawford Parker, secretary of btate. The appointments have been cleared with state Republican chairman Ntf' land C. Wright, and will be oonfirmed by Gov.-elect, Georg® N. Craig when he takes office. -Those reappointed, are: Mrs. Eb Ifen Lavelle Death, Decatur; Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, Geneva, and Glen Nepenschwander, Berne. , , ‘ INDIANA WEATHER !l| Gradually clearing tonignt 1 but not in extreme north until, Saturday morning, A little colder tonight Saturday fair and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 26-32. High Saturday 4G46 north, 45-50 south.

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— t r ... - — . ' Reuthdr Elected CIO Head & F »■ O MUTUAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR W. Averell Harriman (left) and federal mediator David Cole (center) of-fer congratulations to Walter Reuther, head: of the powerful United AuLp Workers union on his eTection to the presidency of the CIO. Both Harriman and Cole had addressed the convention at Atlantic City before voting placed Reuther iri office/by a more than 400,000 majority.

Peiping Radio Rejects Truce Plan By India ■ H Red Radio Asserts Plan Supports U. S. Military Attitude TOKYO. UP —The Chinese Communist radio Peiping rejected the Korean truce plan proposed by In- . jdia today* because it the attitude of the U. S. milipaty leaders In Korea,” • It was Peiping’s first direct continent on the truce formula adopted Wednesday by the United Nations. The broadcast obviotism took its cue from the attack oh the plan by, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky at the General Assembly. Peiping said the proposal that unrepatriated prisoners of war would be transferred' id effect to American forces insteadjiof to the U. N. Peipidg repeateid its demand for | repatriation of all prisoners of .-war. ' | C j “The Indian delegate VJ|T. Krishna Menon said that he spoke as a representative of the people Os, Asia.” Peiping said. “However, no one except the U. S. dominated bloc has given the Indian delegate such authority.” , h i J • The broadcast said Mdnon gave no reason for opposing the Soyiet truce plan. “The Indian attitude shows clearly that the persons who proposed the plan and those delegations which supported it do •not want to end the whrjin Korea, but intend to continue thpit hostile actions.” . 11 £ I ■ - V : " \ > • Hit Red SEOUL, Korea. UP —United Nations medium and light bombers attacked Communist targets from : the Yalu river to the battleline today as South Korean and Red troops resumed the ‘'twilight wmr” on the sndw-fro?en slopes of Sniper Ridge. i Okinawa-baped B-29 l|uperforts • flew through 100 - - hoyr winds to the approaches of the Manchurian Yhlu river Sanctuary, bombing military target)? for the second day in a row. The Superforts unloaded 100 tons of 500-pound bombs at Qholsan, a Communist communications center only 25 ihiles from the gigantic MIG baso at Anting. £ The big bombers k blasted a “flaming square” at Chplsan. Pilots reported “good to excellent*’ results. j , Black-painted R-26 bombers struck during the night |t Koksan in north central Korea and southeast of Yangdok, Other Marauding light bombers set up aerial roadblocks from Yongpori to Namchon-’ jom in central North Korea, destroying 90 Communist ijrucks. Red battlefield positions in the Kumhwa Ridge sector ofi the Central front were shaken by bomb runs during the night.| ? i. Th underlets and Mustangs flew more than 200 sorties p north of Kumhwa and Chorwxm Thursday, and American Sabre jets Shot down one MIG. | On the freezing battlefront, South Korean infantry meh drove 1 off Red harassing probes at Pinpoint Hill and Rocky Po nt on the Sniper Hill mass. '• . I 1

Russians Producing ■' ■■■ ■ ■ ‘ . Huge Super-Bomber >1 . ( Capable Os Carrying Atom Bombs To U. S. LONDON UP —Russia is producing a huge super-bomber, capable of carrying atom bombs to the United States. \ The giant planes—rated among the most formidable striking weapons in the world—were described today in the authoritative Jane’s “All the World’s Aircraft.” . . Here Is 4 description of the new Soviet super-bomber, pieced together by Jane’s from known facts, reports circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, and the publication’s own intelligence sources: It is powered by six jet or turboprop engines. It has swepf-back wings. \ ■ Its speed and range are considerably greater than the American Superfort. \ It is larger than the American wartime B-29 but not so large as the Uj S. B-36. It Is about 167 feet long and has a wingspread of 223 feet. It carries two complete crews, totalling 22 men. . Its heavy armament includes five gun turrets, one' of which is located in th * tail. It is capable of taking off from bases in Soviet territory, dropping atom bombs on United States targets and then returning home. Thu exact type and designation of th s big Soviet plane are not yet satisfactorily , established, Jane’s says. The aircraft is listed in a new section of the so-caljed “Bible" of work aviation information titled “Miscellaneous Unidentified Aircraft,” devoted entirely to Soviet hush-jhush plane developments. Apparently, Jane’s says, the planel was designed and developed by Dr. Inge Baade, a German formerly associated with the pre-war Junkers aircraft works and Andre Tupe|ev, veteran Russian designer. Significantly, , Tupelev earlier this year was awarded a Stalin prise for “new work” in aircraft construction. Also listed in the “miscellaneous unidentified” section is a hew Soviet helicopter with a fuselage as big as an American DC-4 and capable of carrying 44 passengers. Russia also has two large amphibious planes; a twin jet nightfighter and two fast MiG-type jets, one of Which is faster than the MIG-15 the Reds sire using in Korea. Jane’s says it may have rocket boosters for greater speed. Jane’s says Russian production of the MIG-15 alone is reliably placed at 450 per month. That compares with an estimated monthly production of 900 warplanes of all types in the United States. - - I - .I - BULLETIN Oscar Koeneman, 38, of one and one-half miles north of Preble, died this morning at the Lutheran hospital In Fort i Wayne. He had been confined to the hospital since stricken with polio Aug. 6. He had been in an Iron lung most of that time, and in the past month had been in a portable resplrThe body will be brought to the Zwick funeral’home here. Funeral 1 arrangements have not been completed. ■ 'l' , V If

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Human Crusade Pledged By New CIO President , Reuther Elected u CIO President Tp Succeed Murray ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. UP — Walter P. Reuther, battling young new president of the CIO, served notice on the nation today that organized labor ia going on a "great human crusade." Reuther fired Warnings on industry and government that the 4,000,-000-menaber CIO, under his leadership, would aim to “recapture the crusading spirit.” in the aftermath of his dramattic election victory Thursday over rival CIO candidate Allan S. Haywood, the 45-year-old president of the United Workers that "failing to get economic justice ... we shall march tpgether on the picket lines of America getting what is rightfully cfurs." Reuther pledged a new militancy to the CIO warned that labor was out tb get "economic, justice.” But the Boyish-looking scrapper, head of the powerful auto union the past six years, set his sights on wider, international goals. He promised that the CIO would "stand and work with free men everywhere . . . you cannot make freedom secure in the world as long as hundreds of millions of people are denied the necessities of life, as long as millions and millions of people are committed to belong to the have-not nations But Reuther vented most of his feelings against "our enemies” in a summary of his program aa president of the CIO. He said these were the "fat men on the plush cushions . . in th® union league clubs and millionaires’ clubs all over America . . J who would drive us back and rob uSj of our hardwon social arid economic gains.” \ Reuther stated his program in an hour-long address to the convention aftqr his ejection and one critic promptly remarked: "He’ll be using the platform of the CIO to make that speech ail across the country." " While holding Ul9 esteem of his fellow union members, Reuther is not considered “one of the boys.” After'the election, it was announced that the npn-smoking., nondrinking Reuther jvodld drink a beer to his victory.! ’ But the betting was that the beer was never downed by the purposeful labor chieftain. Reuther has been battling for labor since the age of 15 yrben he went to work as an apprentice tool and die maker He was fired soon after for organizing tie workers against Sunday work. In 1926, -Reuther first tangled with the-auto industry and seven years later was again fired for union activity. He climaxed his early fight in leading the sit-down strikes at the auto plants in the middle 30’s and rose to vice president of the Auto Workers union in 1942. On his way up, Reuther: made a lot of enemies. In 1948, while sitting in the kitchen' of his Detroit home, an ' unidentified assailant fired a shotgun blast through th® (Teni To Page RlxhD

Recommend For All-Out SEOUL, Korea UP — American military leaders and Korean officials who attended conferences With Dwight :\D. Eisenhower recommended that the United Nations “prepare for all-out war in Korea if there is no peace by spring.” v Decisions made as the result of the top-secret talks may never be known except through events. And •Eisenhower made it plain he does not want to expand the war in Korea at the risk of touching off World War 111. ’ 1 But it was learned the following reports and recommendations were made to Eisenhower: From The Military , Present forces can continue the stalemate battlefront action almost indefinitely. Alternatives would be to build up U. N. 'forces and threaten the Communists with an all-out unless they accept U. N. truce terms, Or get set for a ■ • : i ■ ni l

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Lodge Requests FBI To Check His Record 1 ■ ’ . Evident Purpose To Set Example To UN WASHINGTON UP — Sen. ftenry <|abot Lodge Jr., who will he chidf American delegate tb the United Nations under the Elsenhower administration, revealed today/J he has asked the FBI to eheqjk his own record. |. ' I 1' ; Hi® evident purpose was to set an example for Americans eonpected with the world organization to cooperate In clearing up any {possible doubts about their loyajty. s ! ' Lodge disclosed his action as reliable sources reported that nine American employes of the U. N. would be fired \for refusing to tell the Senate internal securi’ty subcommittee whether they-have engaged in subversive activities. Sen. Homer Ferguson R-Mich. meanwhile told reporters the sub* committee wil return to New York early next week to resume its pul> lie hearings on charges that American 4'ommunists are employed on the staff of the world organization. AR the Communist cnarges to date; have involved Americans working on the international sechirrfd by the U. N. organization itself. The American delegation, a branch of the U. S. diplomatic service which Lodge .will head, has not been Involved. LbOge indicated, however, that he will insist that all members of tha /American delegation undergo an FBI check just as he is doing. "Ii will ask nothing of my colleagues which I myselk am unwilling to undergo,’’\ h® said in explaining yrhy he asked the FBI to look over his own past. that past includes distinguished service in World War II as a high-ranking combat intelligence officer, Lodge presumably’Jias nothing to fear from an FBI cheek. The army subjects its intelligence officers to an extremely rigorous loyaltyrsecurity check. Fgrguson said he abk the newu congress to keep the senate intetyal security subcommittee in business as an investigating agency ri»x't yean Itj is now scheduled to disband on DOc. 31. • F®frguson said he would discuss the . matter soon with Herbert Browneß Jr., incoming attorneygeneral, and that he '‘assumes” Brownell will welcome j the committee’s renewal as a "good adjunct” to his office. Ferguson said the subcommittee should follow up a New York grand jury’s allegations that the state department cleared "disloyal Americans” for U. N. jobs. Specifically, Ferguson said, the committee should find but “what American officials put these perof questionable loyalty in thetf jobs and . . . who kept theiri in those jobs in the face bf derogatory security information.” *

UN Ready Warfare offensive and lash out Without warning in a drive to . the Yajp River. Th© U. N. should consider using email atomic bombs and artillery shells and other new weapons such as guided missiles. - The South Korean army can not be -counted upon for quite some time to defend Korea alone, tjtft Koreans can be used more than they have been with mpre equipmerit and supplies. \.~ ’ Other members of the U. N. increase troop contributions. It might be wise to use Chinese Nationalist troops If they can be without too severe a J. From South Koreans ' There can be no truce which leaves Korea divided. - Sleuth Korea opposes the withdrawal of American threes, and the South Korean army must be expanded to at least 20 divisions.

Lie To Fire Known Reds Iri UN Ranks Recommendation Os Legal Advisers To •' Be Followed By Lie UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — Secretary-General Trygve Lie advised the United Nations today he /has accepted a legal recommendation that known or suspected American Communists should be fired from the U. N. Lie circulated to the 60 member countries of the U. N. a copy of the report made by three outstanding lawyers he recruited last month to adv|se him on cases of American employes who refused to testify > befdre the senate internal security subcommltte on whether they belonged to the American Communist , party or were engaged in subversive activities. There was no official word whether Lie had yet fired nine U. <N. employes, slated to be dismissed today, for ducking questions before the McCarran commit- ' tee and hiding behind the protec- ’ tion of the fifth amendment to the, U. S. constitution. Lie advised he U. N. he would appoint a new advisory panel soon to deal, with specific cases of U. N. employes who refuse to cooperate with U. S. investigative bodies. The nine employes due for discharge had spurned a secondchance ultimatum under which Lie gave them until noon Thursday to agree to answer the committee's questions or be fired. This was ip line with the recommendation of the jurists to Lie. J . . 'A Memorial Services At Elks On Sunday Decatur Elks will hold annual mbmorial services for deceased members of the lodge at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the lodge home on North Second street. R. 0. Parrish, Fort Wayne attbrney and a native of Adams county, will deliver the address, with special music by a Berne male quartet, George Laurent, exalted \rulqr, will conduct the services. Families of deceased members and the public are invited to. attend and lodge members are urged to be present to pay tribute to deceased brothers. William H. Jackson Is Taken By Death Funeral Service Sunday Afternoon William Henry Jackson, €B, native of Adams county, died at 2:45 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home, 1018 Archer avenue, Fort Wayne, following a x heart attack. He was born in St. Mary’s township Dec. 28, 1884. Mfr. Jackson was a member of the Memorial Presbyterian church, Detroit, Friendship Lodge, 417 F. 6 A. M. Monroe chapter 1, Detroit; Moriroe, consistory 1, Detroit; 'Knights Templar, 42, Detroit; Royal '. & Select Masters of Canada 4; Mispah Shrine, .Fort Wayne, and the IOOF of Decatur. 1 Surviving are his wife, Eva; one daughter, Mrs. Esther E. Huston of South Bend; Cour grandchildren;' ,twb great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Elmina Hilton of Decatur. « Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Bobo United Brethren church, five miles east of Decgtur, the Rev. L. A. Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. The body removed to the C. M. Sloan Sons funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening. The body will.be taken to the church (o lie in state from 12:30 p.m. Sunday until time of the funeral.

Meet Dec. 15 On Conservancy Plans ! Form Organization On Permanent Basis Mayor John Doan, temporary chairman of the Adams county information committee set up to provide information pertaining to the proposed northeastern Indiana conservancy district, has set Monday afternoon, December 15, at city hall at 1:30 o’clock as the date of the permanent organization meeting. \ A similar district organization meeting also has been called for the Decafur city hall for Friday afternoon, December 19, at 1:30 o’clock, it was announced today. The groups will give all available information concerning the proposal to all interested persons in ! the proposed territory. Included in the, group of interested Adams county taxpayers who attended the Wednesday night Auburn meeting were Otto Hoffman, representing the county commissioners; Homan Egly, Frit® Auman, Lloyd Kiess, and Jay Yost. These names were ommited from the list in the Thurs- . day account in the Daily Demo- ( crat concerning the meeting. j The Adams. county group j through/ their temporary officers stated tihat there was a feeling ithroughbut the district that more information concerning the cost and powers of district conservancy officers should be available to all taxpayers. Therefore, the Adams county information committee will tact as host to representatives of all counties in the district ior the purpose of establishing a district-wide committee. President Truman's Mother-in-Law Dies Mrs. David Wallace Dies. At WhiteJtouse WASHINGTON, (UP) — Mrs. David W. Wallace, President Truman’s mother-in-law, died today at 12:35 p. m. at the White House. The White House said Mrs. Wallace, who had been ill tor some tiirte, died of a cerebral thrombosis. Mrs. Truman’s mother had suffered a stroke Nov. 22 and had been in critical condition since than. Both the President and Mrs. Truman were at the bedside when Mrs. Wallace died. \ There was no immediate announcement about funeral arrangements. Mrs. Wallace was more of a dominant force in the lite of the Truman family than the public realized. If there was a matriarch of the White House during the tenure ol Mr. Truman, it was Mrs. Wallace, despite her relatively poor health from ;the time her son-in-law became President in 1946. Numerous stories about the Truman family havb alluded to Mrs. Wallace’s original disapproval of her daughter’s marriage to Mr. Truman, a hometown boy who was having a difficult time economically at the time of the wedding. Helqn Worden Erskine, • writing in Gollier’s magazine about Mrs. Truman, once said some Missourians regarded Mrs. Wallaee as “the grain of sand in Mr. Truman’s oyster” and “had she not functioned as an irritant, they say he might have never aspired to be more than a county judge.” Mrs. Wallace was born Madge Gates. She was born in Moline, 111., Aug. 4, while,, Her family was en route from Vermont to Independence. The Waggoner-Gates Milling Co. established by her father and others at Independence in 1867, was successful at the start and still produces Queen of the Pantry flour. She maintained an interest in the Waggoner-Gates firm.

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EN ROUTE HOME WITH EISENHOWER, UP — President-elect - Eisenhower got the “Teel” of the Korean war in a three-day topsecret tour, which took him within sight of the fighting line, and started for home today tb study the possibilities of peace. * The former five-star general conferred with top commanders and ate pork chops with Gl’s just in back of the 'battle line during his whirlwind four, it can now be disclosed. \ , "'Much can be done tb improve , our position,” he said. "Much will be done.” \ Eisenhower headquartered with eighth army 1 commander James , A. Van Fleet in Seoul, South . Korea’s blackened and dismal capital, travelling to Xhe front in j guarded jeeps and in a • two-seater airplane to inspect battle conditions and South Korea i arid United Nations troops. He was accompanied by two ot . the men who will ba among his . top-ranking cabinet members in the new administration. They were Charles E. Wilson, his desig- . rate as defense secretary, and t Herbert Brownell, who will be , his attorney general. , Also along w/w Gen. Omar N. - Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. I It was known Chat in these con- . Terences Eisenhower favored in- . Creased American aid to South . Korea but opposed anything which would allow the war Co spread. j However, it also was known s that both American military leadr ers and South Korean, official® > recommended preparations for t .“all-out war if there rs no peace . by spring.” , Eisenhower was told present . forces can continue the stalemat- . ed action on the bhttlefront almost indefinitely, i Eisenhower’s plane landed at an airport near Seoul at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday in bitter cold. A small party' beaded by a colonel met him, and then the convoy of jeeps and, sedans sped through the darkened city whose shell-pocketed streets were lined with banners, street arehes and posters welcoming him to Seoul. Elsenhower told newsmen he had arrived at “no panaceas, np trick ways of settling any problems.” ' _ , * . 1 ■ y Eisenhoewr’s trip, from his departure from his New York headquarters right to the battle line, was conducted behind a curtain of secrecy. He wedt up to the snow-covered forward areas where he talked with jet pilots just back from scouring the sky at 30,000 feet in search of Communist MlG46’s, r and with Gl’s juat oft the line. He told reporters that "in a war of this kind” it is difficult “to work out a plan that would bring a. positive and definite victory Without possibly running the grave risk of enlarging the war.” The president - elect said he would use the time en route home “digesting the information” he had Required so that his new administration would be better able to "pursue its policies of supporting freedom in the wbrld and con- \ ducting American business so itp, is always in shape to give thq.support demanded or needed for us.” Eisenhower went within a few* miles and in clear view of actual combat. He saw American planes plaster Chines® Communist hillside positions with napalm bombs. He watched South Korean troops in combat line duty and under live ammunition maneuvers ip areas back of the front line. .He ate with cold and weary American infantrymen { just back A L ■ (Tara To P««* Elzht) SS4ZS MMMtt