Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No.. 306.

Traffic Deaths In Nation Hit All - Time High 581 Person? Killed In Traffic, Violent Death Toll Is 764 By UNITED PRESS Traffic deaths during the fottrday Christmas holiday soared to an all-time record for any holiday period since the advent of the automobile, a final count showed today. From\ 6 p.m. Christmas Eve to midnight Sunday night. Americans were killed on streets and highways at the rate of one every 10 ft minutes. - •- r The final United Press tabulation showed 581 killed in traffic, seven in plane crashes. 79 in fires and 97 in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 764. / ' - The traffic total was nine short \of the national safety council's advance estimate of 590. Texas led all other states in the grim parade with 57 traffic fatalities. Wyoming was the only state in the union that had none. The old record of 555 auto deaths was set last Christmas- The overall accidental death record, al* so set last Christmas! is ss*;. Although motorists wrote a bloody new page into the record books this year, other types of accidents were below record proportions. It was not likely that the overall record would be surpassed. The national safety council, anticipating the crush of holiday travel, had predicted that 590 \persons would be killed on the highways.and streets this ChriAinas. Nbd H. Dearborn, president of the safety council, said he believed that traffic deaths would' not exceed the 590 prediction and had hopes that “it mighVeven fall under that.” j /Texas led all the states with 57 traffic deaths and was ’the scene of Sunday’s two worst highway tragedies. Near Hawley, Tex., three persons Were killed in a spectacular collistcMK. involving five automobiles and a crude oil truck. Four persons were killed when a train smashed into their car near Arlington. * ; Two flying fox hunters were killed Sunday when their light plane, skimming low over trees, 'crashed near Albert Lea. Minn., while the sons of one victim looked on. r? i Generally . good weather across the nation lured mcyforists onto the' Jammed highways, and the death toll jumped/alarmingly Sunday. Many of the accident reports will not come in until later today. » “The last, day of the holiday is always worst,” Dearborn said. An Illinois state highway policeman was' killed when his sirenwailing patrol car went out of control and swerved into a ditch near Kankakee. 111. The patrolman, Glen (Turn To Page Five) 7/ ?' ■ > Light Co. Building Is Picketed Today Protest Refusal To Hire Union Workers The . building and traded council pbf Fort Wayne, an A. F. of L. affiliate, is picketing the nearcomplete light and power department building, Seventh and Dayton streetsAjn protest of the Yost Construction Co.'s refusal to hire union workers. J / Secretary of the hod carriers'and laborers union 213, A. F. E-. lEmest Redden, said today “I have spoken to Yost off apd on for the past J24oars about his not hiring union men and told him that some day a picket would be put on one of his buildings. He never did anything about it.” > / Cal Yost, president of tile Yost •Construction Co. had a brief reply in answer: “it’s a free country, and if j don't want to hire union men that's up tq me.” / — , /\ Redden Reclined to say whether he would picket Yost buildings from - now on. ■ \ t . ; ' Electrical workers, in sympathy with the picketing, have ; walked off the jdb. i -U. Canadian Holiday , Death /Toll Is High \ OTTAWA UP — The worst holiday death toll in Canadian history was counted today. \ ' At least 98 persons died violently 57 in traffic accidents, during tpe fqur-day Christmas holiday! that 'Mfided at midnight Sunday nighW This compared with the previous record of 92, set on the Dominion Day week end earlier this year/ Police, feared it would soar higher* before a final count was made. F

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AMONG THE FIRST TRAVELERS from Alaska to face screening under the r|ew McCarran-Walters Immigration Act, Sgt, Lex Utter, with Ms wife and two children, are given clearance to the United States in Seattle, Wash. Here, immigration Service Board Supervisor John L. Laponis hands the sergeant the required identification cards. , \

All-Out War Charge Denied By MacArthur Makes Bitter Reply To Truman Statement On Reason For Ouster ■ NEW YORK (U|P) — General cf the Army Douglas MacArthur charged 'Sunday that President Tfuman was using phe Korean war for “self-glorification/’ ~ •MacArthuf issued a brief but biting reply to Mr, Truman’s statement in ah interview Saturday that ,he fired MacArthur as Far East commander in 1951 Irecause he believed MacArthur wanted ’to involve the United States in an all-out war in the Far East. \ * j The five-star general said the Truman statement was “inaccurate ind-\ Hiisleading.” He said his desire wiis “not to extend the wak- but Only to end it." ' Mr. Truman said Saturday in an interview with United Press White House correspondent Mer- . riman Smith that\ his “primary reason” for firing MacArthur was because the general “wanted us in an all-out war in the Far East.” He said Russia would welcome such a step. f MacArthur's rerply was issued in a statement through his aide, Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney. It was the general’s first public cpmment on the Korean question since his speech in New York Dec. 5. jn which he said "There is a clear and definite solution to the Korean conflict . . . without an unduly heavy price in friendly casualties oriany increased danger of, provoking universal conflict.” \ \ This remark drew a demand from Mr. Truman that MacArthur offer his “clear and difinite solution” immediately to avoid further loss of life in Korea. V In his statement Sunday MacArthur said:' \ . “President Truman’s statement yesterday, as reported in the press, that I wanted to involve us in an all-out war in the Far Egst is inaccurate and misleading. My -purpose and desire was not to extend the war but to end it. “At that time in April, 1951 this could have been accomplished with only a fraction' of the approximately 70,000. American battle casualties which have since resulted. Actually, the longer it lasts the greater the chance of its spreading/ / "How anyone could use such a bloody drama as a means of selfglorification is quite beyond my eomprehensjiqn.’’ In WashtHtton the White House (Turn To Pa*e Six) Jury Commissioners Regppotnted Today J/d Berling, Democrat, and Frank 0. Roivley, Republican, were reappointed -3ury commissioner* l today by Judge Mylfes ’T: Parrish, of Adams circuit court. s "' '\ \ These two commissioners, with county cldrk Ed Jaberg, draw the ; grand and petit juries for each term of court. Appointments are made for one year. Rowley operates the Conimercial Print shop and Berling operates the Ed F\. Berling Insurance agency. Both have served as jury commissioners "i for several years. *

Finances And Budget Included In Survey Group Os Questions Compiled By PTA Here follows a group of questions compiled by the Lincoln P. T. A. and dealing with the way -the city schools get the money to operate; “finance and budget." James Cowan is the chairman of the committee and serves' k with David. Macklin. Leonard Soliday and Ray Heller. „ . Finance and Budget (1) Who prepares the budget? (2) When is the budget prepared? (3) Should the ijitlsen’# committee participate fa matters concerning the budget? Does It? (4) Who approves the budget? (5) Does of*education open budget meetings and is the community well represented? ' | ' (6) Do peoiple have a chance to study the proposed budget before the budget meeting? \ (7) Does* the >school fiscal year coincide with the school tax year? (8) Xf the fiscal year does *Not’ coincide with the tax year, are financial, reports distorted by this difference? (9) Who is responsible foi; handling funds? (10) What are the practices in making purchase or service contracts? ‘ \ (11) is all financial information available to the public in a published, easily understandable form? \ / (12) What are the sources of all all county and all local revehue(s)? (13) How much does each source provide? (14) Is any of these sources earmarked for schools, or does all the school money come from a general fund? \ \ (15 Do earmarked taxes result in spending more monqy than is ’necessaVy some years and a shortage of funds in other years? \V j. (16) What percentage of the to«tal state revenue goes to the schools? f (17) What percentage of all county revenue goes to the. schools? Local > revenue? (18) How is the rest of the state revenue divided? \ I (19) How is ■ thd rest of the cdunty revenue divided? (20) How is the rest of the local revenue divided? A (21) How much money for the school 'budget comes from school activities? ' (22) Does any of this money come from donations? (23) If so, is this desirable? (24) Is any l of t()e money received by local school system from th© federal, state or county governments restricted to special uses? V - ' \ (25) If we need more money to get the schools we want) what social, political and economic pressures must he overcome? (Note: The above question is paradoxical when applied to the general public as a whole: presumably, the “we” In the question means the committee members and the ip. T*«4- and not to be construed a» being necessarily contiguous, with the will or desire of the outside public.) .* . X 426) What are the forms of..taxati&n in the local school districts? \ (27) What are the rates of each? ' \ ;V’ fc - (28) What does this mean in terms of dollars and cents per , « (Tur> Te Page Five) •>

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Charges Congressman Recommended Hiring Os Some Subversives

South Korean Troops Crush Chinese Drive Heaviest Attack In r Five Days Crushed By South Koreans | SEOUL, Korea UP \ — South Korean infantrymen. In a bitteh close-range battle, today crushed the heaviest. Chinese attack along the frozen Korean battlelines in five days—-a 300-man assault on Rocky Poipt of bloody Sniper Ridge. ! . > When the five-hour encounter ended the Chinese had left 42 dead and wounded on the field. At dusk, the Communists retaliated with a blistering shell barrsge on the western front east y of Bunker Hill. A front report more than 600 rounds of artillery hit one area “in a short tirhe.” - The earlier infantry battle was fought in numbing, zero weather. The Reds staged their attack unexpectedly. They swarmed up ihe 1 caves and tunnels only 40 yatds from South Korean positions. Their ma?n thrust was at Rqcfky Point, a key position of the sprawling hill mass of Sniper over "which many bitter batttti? hdve beeh fought in recent weeks. Two Chinese platoons made the first, attempt to storm the U. N. outpost positions. Then the batered plaoong were reinforced by| a Chinese company. Massed Souh Korean firepower broke up the attack before’ the Communists could breach the defenses of slit frenches and coiled barbed wire. Okinawo-based American Superforts, continuing the intensified air War, pounded a Communist airfield near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, with 120 tons of bombs. The Superforts blasted huge craters in the airstrip which was believed to be a base for light Communist planes which have been dropping propaganda leaflets on Allied front line positions and staging nuisance raids on Seoul. •One of these planes, an outmoded propellor-driven biplane, has been nicknamed “Bed Check Charlie.” It makes sporadic raids over the Seoul area, dropping light bombs or mortars, but has caused little damage. 7 Ix)w-hanging clouds hampered air operations over most of the rest of Nbrth Korea today. Marine Cor(Tnrn To Six) Injunction Granted Under Taft-Hartley BUFFALO, N. Y. UP — Federal Judge John Knight today upheld the -constitutionality of the TaftHartley law national emergency provision. • Knight granted the government an «0-day injunction against the striking CIO United Steel Workers at the American Locomotive Company’s Dunkirk, N. Y., plant. ; The union said previously that it would fight the decision to the U.S. supreme court.

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k s Rich Young Rancher Suicides By Plane Death-Dives Plane ‘ Into G/avel Pit SWEETWATER. Tex. UP — A Wealthy young rancher, sobbing pver his airplane radio that "“everything is all messed up,” horrified \ ground Observers foq two liours with his suicide plans SunJay and then put his ‘plane into screaming death dive. The Victim,. William Cox, 24, ignored the pleas of friends and officials watching helplessly from the ground and aimed his aircraft for the ceqter of the gravel \pit he had chosen as his suicide target. Cox took off from Sweetwater Airport Sunday morning. A few minutes later he radioed to the CAA epntrol tower at Abilene, Tex. about 40 miles east of Sweetwater: . “I’m not going th land. I’m going to crash into the gravel pit.” He Circled fOr more than four hours, weeping into.his* radio transmitter and resisting (the frantic pleas of those on the ground. As his gas ran low, Cox crashed his five-place Cessna' 170 headon from 400 feet, into the Hillsdale gravel jpltv x>n the edge of Sweet water. i > ’ - ; Cox, whose father operated a 10/ ianch sontheast of Marathon, Tex., owned a ranch himself near Sweetwater. CAA officials said an investigation they planned would probably take about 10 days. They planned a check' into Cox’s record as a pilot, the Os His plane amt the reasons for his action. ' Don Patterson, Abilene control tower pperator, said Cox did not explain his motives. The rancher’o rqdio conversation consisted mnirily, Patterson said, of reports on his position and altitude. After Cox’s first message a desperate little group was quickly assembled at the control tower—two close friends, two detectives and the CAA men. Cox told them: “The reason I’m going to do it Is because things are a|l messed up.” His two friends, L. M. Hubbard Jr. and Earl Critz. both amateur pilots, pleaded with him to come down. “Come on down and we’ll have a cup of coffee and talk this over/’ said “You know I can’t come down” answered Cox. “I’m going to fly it until it runs out of gas, then 4ive It into the gravel pit.” \ CoX, whose w|fe is expecting a seco'ndJchild in six weeks, seemed to falter only once —when he was' reminded of his three-year-old daughter. , But then he said: “If you want to see me, come on out! to the gravel pit. I’ll be there.” \ Wheiji Hubbard asked'him to land Cox replied: “I don’t want to. You know what will happen If I do. I’ll lose my license,' in addition to mher things.” After more pleas from the ground, Cox radioed: “I’m going to crash from 10,000 feet altitude.” > \ He continued to message his al titude and position. "I’m at 8,300 feet, circling over (Torn Tn Pare Flv»»

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Eisenhower To Confer Tuesday With Sen. Taft sa» ■ First Conference Since Taft Blast At Durkin Appointment NEW YORK UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower will confer. Tuesday with Sen. Robert A. Taft in the first meeting the have had since Taft called one of Eisenho’wer’s cabinet appointments “incredible.” The president-elect w-ill meet at lunch with fiver senate leaders in the second of a series of “cooperation” sessions he has announced with the congressional high command. \ Eisenhower's press secretary, James C; Hagerty, saidhe had not been informed whether the'senators would seek the opinion of Eisenhower on the question of changing senate* ruUs to outlaw the filibuster. The Republican senators who will attend the meeting are Taft, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, prospective senate president pro* tempore; Leverett Salonstall of Massachusetts, party w-hip; Eugene D. Millikan, of Colorado, prospective chairman of the Republican conference. and Milton R. Young, North Dakota. All of the senators except Bridges are members of the senate Republican policy . committee. \ Taft is expected to be elected senate majority leader when tht? 83rd congress convenes Saturday. While Eisenhower was gone on his Korean trip, the appointment Os Martin P. Durkin ds secretary of labor was announced? Taft Immediately issued a statement calling the appointment incredible and a\n affront to labor unionists who had voted Republican. Durkin, a trade unionist, had supported Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate. V: The president-elect went back to work at his' hotel headquarters today after a Christmas rest al honae. Eisenhower schedulde conferences with Robert Cutler, a Boston banker who served as his personal secretary during the election camfTnrii To El*ht) 53,000 Draff Call ', Set For February Largest Draft Call J Since March Os 1951 WASHINGTON, UP -r The defense department has ordered selective service to-draft 53,000 men during February, all to be assigned to the army. This will be the largest monthly d'raft call sincd March, 1951, when 810,000 men were called, and one of the largest calls since inductions began in September, 1950. total of 50,000' draftees were called in September and October of 1950 r and 70,000 in November of 1950. The call dropped to 40,000 in December of that year. , The draft calls, were 80,000 each for the months of January, February, and March, 1951. Draft calls dropped substantially after that, the lowest calls being 7,000 in Decembtr, 1951. The calls picked up again fall, rising to 47,000 each for, the months of October, November, and December. The call for next January is 48.Q00. The call for February brings to 1,255,430 the number 3f men to be called into military service through the draft Os this total, 1,174,000 have been for the army and 81,430 for the marine corps. The last draftees taken by the marine corps were last May. The defense department announcement said the higher calls are to replace men who have completed their two years of active service and to maintain approved army strength of 1,552,000.

Two-Year-OM Girl Killed In Accident Monroeville Child Killed This Morninf A two-year-old girl was killed instantly this morning, and five others—all of the same familyare in the Adams county memorial hospital after the mother, Mrs. Valeria Wass, 38, route 2, Monroeville, lost control of the car she was (Jrivlng and crashed at 11:30 o’clock this morning two miles southeast of Monroeville on the Lortie road. The victim Is Sheryl Wass, dead of a fractured skull and a broken |ieck. Mrs. Wass has abrasions, shock, a fractured right arm and a lacerated forehead. ! Jane Wass, 12,/has bniises and shock. , ■ ... Jean Wass, 12, bruises and shock. Loretta Wass, 11, an injured hand, contusions about the eyfe. Dean Wass,\4, abrasions, bruises and shock. Allen county sheriff’s department deputies Frank Robert Henry and state trooper Richard Wirth investigated. Their reports state that they believe!.Mrs. Wass’ attention kras distracted for a moment and the auto went across the road. Turning back, she applied the brakes, —there was evidence of a skid—tocT late, however, and the car struck a tree, then turning completely around. The car was extensively damaged in the front vnd e and right side. —— r — r . South Korean leader To Meet With Clark Japan Views Tvent With Misgivings TOKYO UP — South Kbrea’s Japanese-hating President Syngman Rhee will pay a “social visit” to U* N. supreme commander Gen. Mark W. Clark here next week and today the Japanese press and public viewed the with Misgivings. r The influential newspaper Mainichi recalled that Rhee is so bitter against Japan that he openly promised to order South Korean troops to.fire on any Japanese force sent to Korea to fight with United Nations troops against the Communists. Rheq, Mainicti said, should reconsider his determination to keep his anti-Japanese feelings alive. Rhee will fly here from Seoul next Monday. Both he and spokesmen for Gen. Clark have emphasized that the visit will be “social . . . fentirfely unofficial and without, political significance.” But many Japanese refused to accept such statements.' Th6y recalled that Rhee has used his' anti-Japanese policies to reinforce his position as head of the South Korean government. He was the head of the Korean government in exile and a bitter opponent of the Japanese during their 40-year occupation of Korea. Mainichl said Rhee has been “more hostile than necesary” to postwar Japan and recommended that he make use of his visit here to confer with Japanese officials with a view to improving relations between; the two countries. Most of the Japanese press reacted unfavorably to the announcement of the South Korean president’s plans to come here. Several Japanese editors pointed put that South Korean officials have placed heavy restrictions on movements of Japanese correspondents assigned to cover the (Txra Ta Fave Five) INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with occa- ’ atonal rain southweat Tuesday afternoon. Warmer Monday night and continued mild Tuesday. Low tonight 28-34. High Tuesday. 40-45 north, 45-50 1 south.

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Federal Grand Juror Appears To Commitfee Charge Justice And State Departments Hamstring Jurors WASHINGTON UP —■ House investigators heard today that % present- member of congress once “recommended” for federal employment four or five “subversives” who were hired later by the United Nations, 4 - The testimony was given by Joseph A. jCahil; a manufacturer and member of the federal grand jury in New York which Earlier thia month criticized Communist infiltration into the U. N. secretariat, Cahil refused to name the member of congress. He said the member may have acted “unwittingly/* Hp said he would name him “in a moment” if he t hough tthe member, had acted intentionally. Cahil would not say whether he is u house member or a senator. Cahil told a house judiciary subcommittee that the New York grand jury wanted .to “find out who recommended subversives” for U. N. employment and “traced several” to the member of congress.- ’ k Cahil and other witnesses accused the state and justice departments of trying to hamstring the New York grand jury’s investigation of subversives in the U.N. “Disloyal Americans holding high-’’ pdsts at these tremendous salar-1 ies?" asked, subcommittee chairman Frank L. Chelf D-Ky. “That’s right, and still holding them,” Cahil replied. .'The subcommittee, heard also from Charles J. Harsany, another of the grand jurors, that government officials indicated 'they wanted to “frighten” the grand jury into suppressing its report. One member testified before house investigators that the grand jury delayed handing up a presentment until Dec. 2—after the national elections —because the grand jury might be accused of “playing politics.” The first witness —Charles J. Harsany, an attorney, — said on the day the presentment was signed the grand! jurors got the impression U. S. attorney Myles J. Lane and Roy Cohn, an assistant, were telephoning Washington about it. Harsany said some grand jury members heard them “arguing and telling somebody they couldn’t\ do anything with us.” Harsany and Joseph A. Cahil, a manufacturer, described to a house judiciary subcommittee hoy they tried to track down the means by which American employes of the Us. N. evaluated by state department authorities. They said they were unable to find out through whom in the state departmen the names were cleared. Harsany said the grand jury thought of handing up a presentment on its-investigation in October but decided to delay because, among other reasons, the national elections were close at hand. Cahil added that the grand jurors felt they might be considered (Tara Ta Pa«v> Six) Court House Offices Will Close Wednesday Except for the court room, all activity will be suspended in the dburt house Wednesday, .December 31. it was announced "today by auditor Thurmari I. Drew. •I . Drew is leaving bffice January 1 to make way for the new Adams county auditor, Frank Kitson; bedcause of this, said Drew, state, board of accounts field man Ora M. Hutchins recotnmended that courthouse business be suspended in order foiF Drew to bring >all transactions to him to a sharpand definite close. All- of Wednesday will be spent “cleaning Up” and ‘balancing out his books, said Drew, so as to give die incoming auditor a clean field on which to start work.