Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1952 — Page 1

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Six Children Burn To Death Friday Night

n ■ PITTSBURGH, UP —Five brothers and a sister burned to death, streaming in the flames that trapped them in their beds. The bodies taken from the wreckage\of their frame house'today. ' - j The parents and another woman escaped. They were; in a state of shock. The house of Mr. and Mrs. Rob--ert Moulis, both 37. and their spt children, caught fire just before midnight Friday. A ear had crashed near the ' house and gas from a leaking line exploded. Debris flew for hundreds of feet and fire broke but immediately/ \ ; The first lasted 10 minutes. Firemen. summoned by a general alarm put it out. But the children, were dead. ‘ The victims were. David, 14; Louise, 12; Richard, 13; James, 10; Gary, 6; add Robert, 4. Rescuers tried to save them but were forced back by the flames. George Kushner, driving by at the time of the blast, said he* rushed to a window of the Moulis home and saw a child’s hand writhing in a crib. J “I smashed the window.” Kushner said/ "but then the roof coh lapsed.” j? Kushner was joined, by Joseph ; Pash, who was working- for a ’ trucking firm nearby. I ’ . J‘l heard weird cries," Pash said. “They mpst have come from the kids.” "You could hear the kids yelling and moaning,” Kushner Said. “Air I saw was a hand disappear.” b Another tenant in the threestory building. Mrs. Ruth doll, also escaped serious injury although she was buried in the debris. , Police said the blast occurred from a gas line leak caused when an automobile crashed info a retaining wall below the buildjftg. The driver, John Liput, 17, of New Kensington. Pa., was held, for mansldu/hter. . Liput had just returned from the Moulis apartment to telephone an uncle that he had wrecked his car. Liput was sitting in the aiitomobile when the explosion blasted the front wall of the building into the street. His car was covered with debris but he escaped injury, Wreckage was strewn for hundreds of feet in the street in front ©f the home. A curtain hung at a crazy angle from a trolley line. (Turn To P«kv Five) Good Fellows Club Previous total ......1120.00 Elks Lodge: 25.00 A Friend 10.00 t TOTAL 155.00

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——— President Os Korea Seeking Win-War Drive. j , I ' I ; Recommendation To L Ike For War Drive Into North Korea SEOUL; Korea UP — president Syngman Rhe# said Zoda|r he had recommended ' to • President-elect Eisenhower that the United Nations launch' a wih-the-vfar drive into North Korea. 4 In an exclusive interview with this correspondent, President Rhee revealed jjfor the first ti|ne some ; of the points contained in a letter he gave Eisenhower herel ' In a reply, Eisenhower promised to give the South: Korean President’s recommendations; ‘bareful study and consideration.’? Rhee said his letter to fcisenhower contained A"somef suggestions, including some off an inti- ( mate nature.”’ | He listed these as being among his recommendations: if J • 1. “The stalemate in ■ the war and jtrucf shpuld be The present situation is prevdhtihg our army from going forward; We should drive to the north,” \ 2. “The forces $f tie Republic of Korea must be; strengthended- If they are, it wiR be possible to relieve foreign forces of frontline duty.” ? ' . 3. “If‘. the : Republic Os Korea forces ate sufficiently jfprepared, strengthened in 4ize a|id given more equipment. w*e will j not need the U. S. army.” , I 4. “The economic situation in Korea must be stabilized. Ate are doing out best, but we ne«. help and assistance.” 1 . ' Rhee said Eisephowet “agreed that we need both military and economic assistance." i The text of Eisenhower’s letter in response to one from Rhee was released today by the Sputt Kor- 1 ean government, but the full text of the Rhee letters to the presi-dent-elect was not disclosed. Rhee sgid Eisenhower Was “greatly encouraged" by What he saw on his personal visit to Korea. Speakfog gbout his recommendations to the next U. 3. Rhee said “We hope to #ee these question# settled within tiro or three months;” |j • ‘He calne here to find;out( what (Turn To Pa«e Five) I 1 ■ I ’

Officials Guessing On Ike's Statement Says UN Position Will Be Improved WASHINGTON, UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower’s assertion In Korea that “much wild he dona” to improve the United Nations position touched off a, guessing game today among officials here. The big question was: What does Elsenhower have in jnihd? No matter what the answer for the future, however, responsible sources in the outgoing Truman administration conceded Efisenhow’er’s Korean visit scored a big point quickly. These sources noted the presit dent-elect’s statement that he has ;“no panaceas, no tricky ways” for solution-of the problem, evten while also assuring the world is “far from defeatism \on tfiis business’ and “we are all her*e to. see it through.” The essence of the statement’s value, these sources saidj was its timing. They said it put the Korean i war picture in proper focus, paving the way for >Eise|nhower’s administration to take, over amid\ realization in other friendly capitals tiny, probably no quick end of the war is in view. £ The effect will be to. forestall letdown of morale among 'the Allies later. 4 Only Eisenhower and a small handfull of his confidantes, now enroute home, know how* he proposes to go about improving the U. N. position. among diplomatic pnd military sources,, none of wham would consent to being quoted directly, several possibilities wero raised. Thehe include, foremost, vastly intensified training of mors Republic of Korea division*, a blow’ and unspectacular process. This one is classed as a certainty. Eisenhower hit on this point in his campaign, suggesting even the possibility that one day the ROKs might be able to man the entire battle line in defense of their homeland. In a buildup of strength the possibility also was noted that Eisenhower might be able to get additional troops from other countries. Allies of the United States now furnish the equivalent of more than two front-line divisions. There has been pressure on them to contribute more, but' they have been reluctant. - i \ , The United States now has seven divisions in Korea and two in Japian, and furnishes mbst of the supply and transport troops. Whether more will be' sent is another question. . 18 Persons Injured In Bus-Truck Crash JONESBORO, Ark. UP — Eighteen persons were treated today for injuries suffered when a loaded . school bufc and a'truck collided late Friday. > Both drivers swerved desperately to avoid the crash. They were injured seriously. Sixteen students, returning from a basketball game, suffered piinor injuries.

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MacArthur Has New Plan For Ending War Anxious To Present - Plan To End Warfare To President-Elect NEW YORK UP — Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Friday night he had a “clear and definite" plan for ending the Korean war and. It was learned today, he is anxious to present it to President-elect Els-i enhower. MacArthur told the annual dinner of the 57th congress of American industry, sponsored by.'the national association sos manufacturers. that his plan , could be executed "without either unduly heavy price in friendly casualties or any increased danger of provoking” a third world war. The former supreme Allied commander in the Far East said his plan involved “basic decisions” which mad? it improper for public disclosure or discussion. MacArthur himself refused’ to comment on whether he planned to communicate his solution Elsenhower p but a source close to the general said he was “willing and ready" to present it to the president-elect if an invitation were forthcoming. MacArthur and Eisenhower, while both Republicans and old military comrades, never, have been close personal friends and prior to the Republican national convention' last July MacArthur endorsed Sen. Robert A. Taft R-O. for the GOP presidential nomination. However, in hid speech night, his first since he made the keynote address at; the Republican convention. MacArthur spoke approvingly of Eisenhower. < “Our respected president-elect has gone there, Korea, yn search for an honorable end to so tragic a slaughter, and all Americans joiil in prayer that he may safely pass through the hazards involved and accomplish his self-appointed task with vision and wisdom,” MacArthur said. • ; Eisenhower’s headquarters herei sa|d it would have no comment on MacArthur’s speech, but it was pointed out this did not preclude comment frojn the president-elect himself, who is en route home from (Tura.To P««r* Stx) ~~ Last Os Escaped Convicts Caught PITTSBURGH, (UP)—The FBI announced today that Andrew Lee White, «the last of eight convicts who escaped from Western Penitentiary here, has been captured .Id Virginia. White was apprehended at the home of an unde near Fredericksburg. He was unarmed and offered no resistance. L White’s capture brings to a dose the largest single break ever Staged at the penitentiary here.

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Cuban Transatlantic I - I Airliner In Crash Only Four Persons Are Known Rescued HAMILTON, Bermuda, UP —A Utiban transatlantic airliner enroute from Madrid. Spain to Havana. Cuba, crashed info the sea off Bermuda today with 41 persons aboard. Only four persons were khown to have been rescued but an air-sea search was underway. It was reported an explosion occurred aboard the crack plane. Star of the Orient, before it crashed. Survivors were taken to the United States Air Force Kindley Base hospital. - • i | -\ The four-engined DC-4 liner of the Compania Cubana De Aviacion carried 3,3 passengers and eight crew members. It arrived from Madrid via the\ Azores Islands at the American Air Force Kindley base at 2:20 aim., and took off at 4:40 a.m. onthe Ust leg of its flight to Havana. Minutes after the plane got under way it crashed into St. George’s harbor two to three miles offshore. (_■ • Burning oil spread over the sea mound the plane and the rescue sliins which raced to the scene had difficulty in approaching. *Ta n women were among the survivors. !. Alive Eubanks, a -resident of Hamilton, was one survivor. Cuban Orlando Lopez Suarez of Havana, a fellow-passenger, held her up uhtil the first rescue boat arrived. . i ! ‘ A second woman was in such hysterical condition that she could not he identified. Harbor boats, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Yakutat and planus ;of the American] air force from Kindley Base converged on the scene. | — Koeneman Funeral Monday Afternoon . Oscar C. Koeneman Is Taken By Death ■ V ■ J -11 Funeral 1 services will be held Monday afternoon for Oscar C. Koeneman. 38, of two and one-half miles north of Preble, who died unexpectedly Friday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Koeneman, well known Preble township farmer, had been a poliomyelitis patient at the hospital' since : Aug. 8. He had been In ap iron lung until being transferred to a portable lung approximately a month ago. He apparently was recovering satisfactorily until pulmonary developed early Friday. Hb was born ih Preble township Feb. .17, 1914, a son of Carl and Wilhelmina Sphultz - Koeneman. His father died Aug. 27 of this year. Mr. Koeneman was married to Della JAumann'Jan. 14, 1948. Ho was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church near Preble. Surviving in addition to hi? wife are two sons. Stanley and Jerry, a daughter, Rosella. and a stepson; Norwin, all at home; and. three sistas, Miss. Louis KrueckeSberg of Vnlon township,: Mrs. Hubert Krick of Decatur and Mrs. fcelma Harbert bf Font Wayne. Services will be conducted at 1:3-0 p. m. ’Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at. the St. Paul’s ; Lutheran church, the;Rev. Otto cj Busse officiating. Burjal will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ! t luL-X-.- •. w ' ' ■ 11 4 INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Slightly warmer Sunday. Low tonight 2531 north, 3034 couth. High Sunday 4252 north, 52-60 south.

Big Night Air Raid From Red Planes Repulsed May Have\ Been An Effort To Intercept Eisenhower's Plane r SEOUL, Korea, UP —American fighter - planes and anti - aircraft guns drove off the biggest Communist night air frfvasion of the Korea war Friday night as 11 Red fighters forged south; in what Appeared to be\ an attempt to intercept President-elect Dwight Eisenhower’s plane. Fifth air force headquarters issued a brief statement which said its planes had “engaged and repelled the largest enemy night air attack of the Korean war.” An air force spokesman said that for security reasons the fifth air force not immediately reveal how miny Communist planed were shot down. Radar installations, directing Allied hight fighters toward the Red ihvaders, were boipbed but the air force would not reveal whether any United Nations casualties were inflicted. The air force said that between 7 p.m. and 8 p.in., five enemy aircraft were spotted on radar scopes heading toward Seoul. During a three-hour\ period a total of. 11 hostile airpraf| were tracked by radar. Eisenhower’s plane, a military air transport service Constellation, left an airfield near Seoul at 8:01 p.m.t and could have been intercepted by the Communist planes if it had not been fpr the American pilots and anti-aircraft batteries. It was not disclosed immediately whether the Red planes were propellor-driven craft or jet fighters. There were several engagements between the Allied and Communist planes but they were fought under adverse weather conditions and complete results could riot be verified. All contacts with the Red planes by the U. N. night fighters were in clouded .skies misted by light snow’,'. • .1 ■ + 3 A high Far East air force official in Tokyo said the timing of the big Red raid might have been a “coincidence,” but he said if it was an attempt at intercepting Elsenhower’s plane “the basic fact is that the attempt was turned back very promptly.” \ However, observers in Seoul (Tara To Pace Six) I Mittens For Needy Children Project Girl Scout Troop Sponsors Project The Girl Scouts of Decatur, tropp 16 in particular, will this year spohsor a Christmas tree at the Lincoln school —of a different nature,' however, than is traditional. y Usually, the tree is hung with beautiful crystal ornaments lovely to look at and meant to be packed away for the coming year. This year it’s mittens. ’ Mittens that will be worn by less fortunate children abound the world. Instead of the children covering the Jree with glass globes and the usual ornamentation, they will now chip in, with other children in the city, ancl hang mittens to little hapds tha,t' have never been fortunate enough! to wear mittens. The project is sponsored by the American friends service coinmip tee of Philadelphia, Pa. The tree will be prepared to re-ceive-.the mitten offerings Tuesday at the, Lincoln school I auditorium, the project reserved for children. Only new will be accepted. Adult head of the girl scout project is Mrs. J. E. Thacker. After Christmas the mittens on tree will be packaged and sent to Philadelphia, where \they will be shipped overseas to needy areas.

Industry Members May Stick By WSB Aviert Breakdown Os j Wage-Price Controls UP — Stabilization officials were optimistic today thijat industry members will remain on. the wage stabilization board, thus averting a breakdown of wageprice cdntrols. i|One high official hinted strongly that the industry members would decide today against resigning in aj bloc in protest over President Tyuhian’s decision in the coal wage ie.' I ;, . Vhile the industry members re angry at being overruled by President, it was believed they jht decide to regain oni the <e 'board to prevent the possity of widespread strikes oughout industry. Labor offiIs have predicted therp would a '‘spontaneous” wave oj strikes the hundreds of unions which re cases , pending the if an industry walkout stalemated the wage stabilization program. :The tripartite board legally must hfcve members representing industry, labor and the public to function. The resignation of all six industry members would immobilize th® wage program and eventually force the administiiatioß tp abandon all economic controls. 1 Charles €. Killlngsworth, the new chairman of the wage board, admitted Friday that the wage briftrd probably would collapfee, if the industry members walked out. He said Mr. Truman’s decision “lias undeniably added to our difficulties,” but i expressed hope that the, board cari continue “without reference to the coal case.” : Killlngsworth replaced Archibald Cpi , who resigned with an angry b|au| at Mr. Truman’s order granting soft coal miners the full $1.90 diii|y wage increase by Jphn L. Lewis with the mine-own-ers, The wage board had held that ahy Increase above $1.50 would-be inflationary. County Grand Jury Files Its Report Nd llndictments Are Returned By Jurors JThe Adams county grand jiiry retiirped no indictments after being in steady session for four days, it whs reported today. report states the grand jury vi?|ted the county home and recoirimeiided that the ceiling in the womeh’s recreation room and in the chapel be repaired immediately. They further recommended that all be repainted and that the large barn on the property be rtipforced from the inside; also that the water seeping into the basement of the county home iriqhired into to forestall further damage to ,the basement of the home. ' ''' i ■ii Further miscellaneous recomniiendations were made regarding the county home, including one that I automatic dishwasher be pur- ( jed. ertain repairs were recopimendtor the court house: That the Ing in the attendance officer’s :e be re-plastered; that certain e Itile in the main\corridor be tired immediately: that the ceilin the boiler r\jom be replast--1: S that accumulated trash in attic of the court house be reed \for the reason that it conites a fire hazard. was found at the county jail concrete in the cell bloqks was e and it was recommended that >e repaired. Also, sheriff and . Robert Shraluka were officjalommended for the neat appears of the jail. Inally, the grand jary request:he court 4hat, it be discharged 1 further order of the court. Noon Edition

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U. S. Cruiser Stops At Wake For Conferees President-Elect j Enroute Home From Korean Inspection WITH EISENHOWER, Aboard USS Helena UP — President-elect Dwight D, Eisenhower, en route home after his three-day mission to Korea, announced today -the Helena would stop at Wake Island - to pick up “key figures” of his new administration for dramatic mid-Pacific conferences on the Ko- ’ rean situation. This heavy’cruiser carrying the next President of the United States from an unprecedented visit to a wartime battlefront w r as scheduled to make a stop at Wake Monday. James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower's press secretary, said the president’ elect was not expected to leave the ship there. Hagerty said he could not disclose who the conferees com* ring aboard at Wake would bp, but it was believed secretary of statedesignat£ John Foster Dulles might be among the party. Eisenhower boarded the Helena at Guam at dawn After flying* from Seoul in his air tprge Constellation. ' The cruiser sailed out of Guam harbor through stormy Pacific seas but ship's Capt. Walter L. Dyer announced later the storm, which had threatened to grow Into a typhoon, had disappeared. Dyer said the Helena might encounter “rain and heavy seas’’ ip the next 24 hours as the cruiser continued on its six-day voyage to Hawaii. Sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70’s greeted the presidentelect at Guam after the bitter cold of Korea. > j 1 Eisenhower settled down in the- ( ship’s flag cabin to rest from his strenuous Korean visit ana start evaluating what he had ‘seen on the war-battered peninsula. Elsenhower held early shipboard conferences with his chief advisers on recommendations and facts gathered on his first-hand tour and was expected to devote more time to “digesting” his information Sunday.. ? Hagerty said in a statement issued at sea that the facts Eisenhower had acquired in Korea “will be useful to the new administration in formulating a program for application to the Korean problem i and for combating Soviet-sponsored • aggression and propaganda in tho Fay East.” Eisenhower had specific recommendations from South Korean President Syngman Rhee, with~ whom he conferred in Seoul, and other members of the Republic of Korea cabinet. Hagerty was unwilling to go into much detail regarding the recommendations Rhee had made except to say Eisenhower had received and was studying “many memoranda from the Korean government.” Eisenhower also had conferred with <Maj. GenJ William Chase, head of the U. S. military aid advisory group on Formosa, during his last day in Korea. It was indicated there might be other conferences involving the Pacific area w’hen. Eisenhower reaches Hawaii sometime next J (Tura Te Page ’Five)

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