Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - December 12, 1950, Kokomo, Indiana THE KOKOMO 39 CITY EDITION DECEMBER 1950 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Tribune Photo RUSH IS ON Downtown streets were thronged Monday night by Christmas shoppers who were out in strength as the trade began to hit its full This view was made at the corner of Main and Walnut With only 10 shopping days re maining before merchants already have gone to an There will be store hours on Wednesday afternoon this the second time in the Christmas season that downtown stores will have remained Suggests Plan For Regulating Public Events Bid For Choir At Notional Meet Copeland represent ing the Kokomo Lions sug gested to the board of school trustees Monday night that some means should be devised to reg ulate the type and frequency of both at Memorial gym and at the high school aud In making this Bowers asserted that the com munity cannot properly Christmas Trade Points to Record public programs when they booked too closely are Bowers also proposed an al ternate He said a regulating comprised of members from organizations that sponsor public should be formed the near He suggested that a member of the Kokomo Ath association and a member of the high school faculty serve on the any group proceeds with plans to sponsor an event it would be required to get the date approv Final author for the use of either place come from the Kokomo Ath association or the school principals Bowers ex Accompanying Bowers to the meeting was Glen of the Kokomo Chamber of Maple said that organization would offer its services as a clearing house lor the The of would merely in form sponsoring organizations as to the schedule of events booked at cittier Maple pointed i Although the board agreed there was considerable merit in the plan proposed toy it did not feet that it should be bound to an agreement whereby it would be responsible for approving program Says Board Not 1 dont believe the board should set up as a regulatory body in this Superintendent Swihart Board members Paul Royster and Noel agreed that the plan was a good but added that organi should take steps them selves so that are not sched uled too closely In voicing the unanimous opinion of board Ralph president of the said the Continued on Page Column 6 Set Formula For Adjustment Of Chrysler Wages A pay increase for the hourly rated employes of the Kokomo Chrysler corporation plant will be paid as soon as com officials in Detroit rati fy an agreement signed Fred manager of the Chrysler plant said Tuesday that he had been by the Detroit office of the proposed pay He added that the in crease would be local checks on the first payday after the Union officials In Detroit also signed with the corpora tion a new agreement gearing future wages to the cost of according to the Associated The new Parker ex will run until and will guarantee Chrysler work ers four cents an hour pay boosts on June 1 of 1953 and Except for guaranteed wages will rise or fall only as the cost of living goes up or A penny will be added or taken away each three months for each rise or fall of points in the consum ers price index of the Bureau of Labor This is the same system first adopted by the General Motors cor in and renewed last May for five The Ford Motor company switched to an Indiana Weather cloudy tonight and Wed Occasional light snow or snow Not much change in Low tonight 15 High Wednesday TRIBUNE WEATHER REPORT For period ending 2 Tuesday 28 mini At 2 Tuesday Heading December 1949 Max 64 Sun sets Tuesday at Sun rises Wednesday at Radio Tonight Cavalcade Ulysses of Labor day in a fiveyear Economic sections of the three con tracts now are virtually Arrival of the agreement brought wide speculation in automotive circles as to whether Chrysler will follow General Motors and Ford In raising prices on forthcoming 1951 model Both General and Ford boosted prices a week former said its increases averaged something less than five percent Fords was percent Chryslers new models in its four lines will be introduced next Even before Mondays there Continual on Column 3 Merchants Report Sales Ahead Of 12 Months Ago By MARQUISS Tribune Staff Writer Business this Yule season i booming and the best is yet t That was the consensus of ion among Kokomos merchant And after a night in which scores of tive purchasers thronged the city streets and stores to continue thei Christmas the storekeep ers were bracing themselves fo the coming weekend and That sales this season to date have exceeded last years volume o Christmas buying by 25 to 30 percent was the word re from many of the retailers Several of the merchants were looking forward to their greates holiday season yet as they added the excellent sales thus far to th anticipated volume of business during the next week and a half One downtown manager de clared that business had nearly doubled over the Yuletide of 1949 Another more conservatively esti mated that sales were even with last years and probably would sur pass the 1949 volume th next week and a One store anticipated its finest holiday busi ness in history if purchasers con to pack the area as they have been and two others that their sales had risen one fourth and See Reasons for Sales Some factors that were advanc ed as being responsible for the in crease in holiday buying were that Mayor Makes Appointments 3 Plan Commission Gets New Member One new appointment and three reappointments to governmental boards for the coming year were announced Tuesday by Mayor James Lillian 903 East Wal nut a teacher in the Col has been appointed to the city plan commission for a period of four Mote replaces Sam who submitted her resig to Mayor The resignation of Toney also creates a vacancy on the board of zoning appeals since she was the plan commissions repre on that Mayor Maguire said that plan commission will recommend an other serve as its representative on the appeals Mote will officially take her place as a member of the commis sion on January SnideY was reappoint ed to the plan commission for a period of four more Snider served as president of that group for two and a half Other members include Wil the current Frank Lesfer Her bert Williams and Otho Simp Simpson represents the park board on the and Her bert Williams represents the city Other reappointments made Tuesday by the mayor include Richard Good to the city board of health for four and Jeorge to the board of Of Northern Korea escalator pay arrangement last none of the local industries has been closed by strikes as was the case in 1949 and employment is a1 a high level In the city and county Some observers indicated that the threat of rationing or shortages in some fields may be causing per sons to spend their money more freely now and one advised thai tightened federal credit tions were slowing the of appliances such as home freez Other items such as television sets and radios have been selling like hot it was The opinion that the Monday night opening dl many establish en Column 3 Letters Asking Good Fellows Assistance Still Coming In love Baby Snooks Show Bob Hope Fibber and Molly Big eighth year of present series Are Mystery North lafe With Truth Or Consequences Dollar A Minute Capitol Wnu Can Yon Top This Op Auditions Americas Town Meet ing Noble Count of Monte Cristo Drama John Adven turer Mysterious Traveler i Television Show AHM Sore As Vaughn Monroe Game of Week Louisiana State Texas Baiy Hose Drama at to most of Cavalcade of Star I have heard of you helping needy a woman writes to the Good and I know a family that needs help There are five one a boy aged 13 and four girls aged and They all need boots and The little girl needs leggings and is going to school without Their father has been out of work except for a few odd jobs he picks up here and The letter was one of a dozen or more appeals for the Good Fellows to brighten Christmas for children who have A telephone call also four children in a family in South Kokomo who would have little Christmas unless the Good Fellows The father has been ill for two and the income of one married son who lives with the family barely keeps the go The range from 6 to A family whose house burned on Easter Sunday is another family referred to the Good The father is but had to another home spare little lor the seven children and four and 12 Some of the are as follows From age Dad Column 3 Good Fellows Fund Previously A Chumming Club In memory of Pattie Lou Julia Ann Mary Kathryn Frazer LOO Ladies Auxiliary of and John Kepler V Tommy Broil and Dan Skeet Spurgeon Family Kathy and Bruce Young Dickie and Bickey and Bandy Ful wider In Loving Memory of Frank land Bowdy Suzie and Kokomo Boiler and Welding In Memory of Arch LOO Bickey and L and A A Friend A LOO Flowers cemetery regents for a fouryear Besides who Is the current president of the health other members include Paul whose term expires January and Clare whose term ends January Other members of the board of cemetery regents include Rich ard Richard Blacklidge and Leo Panel Tonight To Large Officials of the Kokomo Pore mens club announced that a crowd of more than 600 persons in anti for Tuesday nights to night panel Mirror for Management scheduled for oclock at the high school Tuesday nights which is designed to stimulate thinking about industry and its relations with the is admission free and open to the Participating in the panel dis cussion will be sup of Kokomo public schools Russell comp troller for Delco Radio division Judge Merton Stanley of the Howard county circuit court and the Thurman pastor of the Grace Methodist former president of the National Association of Fore men and president of the Peerless Saw company of Ohio will attend the admission free meet He will summarize the talks of the four Kokomo He has Retrospect as his Don club said women as well as men are urged to attend the Other enter Is REST UP TO FIGHT AGAIN Oblivious of bitter Korean exhausted Second division soldiers rest somewhere on the northwestern front after walking all day and night through Chinese Communist lines and roadblocks during United Nations Army photo via AP Wirephoto Allies Pass Critical Point in Korea Retreat By forc es in northwest Korea today were safely south of a critical point on their retreat before the massed might of Red Chinese The Eighth armys exact positions were a closely guarded military se But the bulk of its combat elements were south of a hazardous bend in the road south of 50 miles south of the Red The army is in a position to fight an orderly rearguard action toward the apprehensive capital of the Korean The Chinese have lost any chance of trapping the Eighth army north of the boundary be tween North and South The Reds have not yet struck with a second massed attack in the It is nearly a week since they swept into aban by the Allies in their bitter retreat from the first onslaught of Chinese But there is no indication the Chinese have been Nobody in the field expects them to stop at the unless some diplomatic arrangement has been concluded It is evident that the Allies have made plans to continue the as hard as with an eye on escape routes to prevent being surrounded by superior num and cut to In the the 10th corps has set up a defense box around industrial city near the Sea of Prom that AP Correspond ent Tom Stone reported there is no longer a fighting marines and infantry and some commandos have fought their way to Hamhung and neighboring Hungnam over a bloody escape An American fleet is standing by to evacuate them by sea if the battered 10th corps units were in a position only to set up a defense to at tack the to protect themselves for their next Atilee Says Stay 2 Pennsylvania Trains To Change Schedules Friday Schedule changes affecting two Pennsylvania passenger trains that serve Kokomo were announced Tuesday by agent of the Kokomo Pennsylvania The new schedules will go into effect December Hoerdt leaves Kokomo Pennsylvania train number a northbound train which has been due in Kokomo at will minutes earlier It is scheduled to arrive in Chicago at oclock Jn 45 minutes earlier han it now arrives at Hoerdt pointed The other train which will be af by a schedule change will be train number It now is due in Kokomo at Under the new schedule it will depart from Kokomo at four minutes earlier for Christmas Packages Are Lost in Fire de half a train carload of mail destined for northern Illinois resi dents The Postoffice Transport service said the car contained about 920 sacks of of it Christmas Loss from fire and water damage was estimated at 50 per The fire broke out on a Chicago and Northwestern train eft Chicago for The burn ing car was detached from the rain at where firemen ex the In Far East 12 3 Prime Minister Attlee told the House of Commons today I have good hopes that the forces of the United Na tions will maintain themselves in Parliament members cheered the made as a report on the Prime Ministers world crisis talks with President Truman in Washington and Canadian leaders in The Prime Minister re turned by plane from his North American trip immediately reported to King George and held a conference with his Outlining to the house the re sults of the Attlee said On Korea and the Far East we have agreed on the Immediate course which our representatives at the United Nations should We are agreed that egression must be halted and we are equally certain that every effort should be made to prevent an extension of the Our long range objective Is to reach a stable position In the Far Conservative Leader Winston Churchill asked for further infor mation on any projected use of the atomic bomb in these words The President has made a num ber of very important and far reaching and whether any fresh statement is to be made on his behalf I do not But L feel some clearer definition of th position of this extremely impor tant issue should be before us when we debate the question on Thurs Attlee replied that he was com satisfied with President Trumans position on the use of the I would ask the House to accept my assurance that there is no dif ference of opinion between us on this vital Near Border New Foreign ministry sources said to day Communist Chinese forces have been sighted within a few miles of the border near north eastern Assam To Nation About President Truman is arranging to address the American people by radio Friday or Saturday night on the World situation and the home front steps he are necessary as a result of the threat of This was learned today from high White House un quotable by name At the same there was official word of the broadening of conference Truman has called for tomorrow with con gressional leaders of both Chairman George DGa of the Senate finance committee was added to the group of senators and representatives Truman will consult at 9 cst to morrow on plans for the mation of a national emergency step expected to be ary to a rapid series of moves placing the economy on virtually a war Curfew Clamped On Singapore As Riots Continue clamped a curfew on Singapore The toll from two days of the ofa Dutch girl rose to 10 dead and more than 140 The British colonys supreme ruled today that the girls Roman Catholic Dutch could take Maria Bertha Hertogh back to Holland with Thousands of fanatic Moslems in wo days of bitter rioting have ried to kidnap the child and return her to the Malay woman who for eight years reared and to the Moslem her Maria Bertha married last The dead included four British two Eurasians and one Three other bodies were Among the injured were two American 36 and 52 The rest were In Malays and 7 Murdered There were Unconfirmed reports that seven had been murdered by Moslem mobs in the eastern part of the which began with a mob attack yesterday on the su continued in the citys Moslem It was cordoned off by police and British troops and armored the city violence was but demonstrators made a new small scale attempt to day to rush the building as the tribunal denied a Malay appeal to halt Maria Berthas transfer to Troops and police drove off the Moslems with bayonet charges and tear gas Peter New Zealand Dies New former New Zealand prime minister and a foun der of the United died to Jailed as a Socialist objector to World War he rose to become one of the Commonwealths great leaders in World War The farmers who headed New Labor government from 1940 to had suffered several heart attacks since he was stricken with pneumonia in Yesterday he rallied and left his bed for the first time since October Then came the fatal He was 66 years As leader of New gation to the 1945 San Francisco conference at which the was he was considered a cham pion of the small He was the first to object publicly to the big power Widely known as a defender of the working Fraser looked on World War I as a capitalistic strug and was jailed for refusing to After his release In he carved a notable ca reer in the service of his After nine years as prime min ister his government went down to defeat at the hands of the free enterprise Nationalists in last years general Since then he had led the Labor Civilians And Commie Spies Moving South Fighting Lulls As Red Chinese Regroup Forces Lake The United States and Britain today threw their support be hind a Middle pro posal a Korean The that other Asian problems cannot be dis cussed until the Korean light ing The two bif Western powers spoke immediately after Indias Sir Senegal Ron laid be fore the General political committee the plan of the Asian and Middle East PJ Some 27 Chinese Communist divisions to Mongolian today pressed menacing feelers to ward South Korea after driving the bulk of the United Nations forces front the Shaggy little Mongolian pon ies and supply caravans of two humped camels such as the mediaeval conqueror Genghis Khan used centuries gave bizarre but effective mobility to the vanguard of Bed Chinas one force as it streamed unopposed over al most all of North Almost all North Korea was abandoned by United Nations troops today to tho massive Communist forces of and Red Koreas remnant In the the bulk of the Eighth army had withdrawn to Parallel the old boundary be tween and South In the most of that 10th corps was huddled oa thai Hamhung coastal This fores was 130 air miles deep ta Red Ko but it was surrounded by Com munist forces and the road south was At the nearby port of a fleet was standing by in readiness to ate the encircled 10th An American army Seventh divisions 17th that ones stood on the Manchurian was somewhere in the frozen waste land and presumably withdrawing toward Its movements were shrouded for security rea Positions Kept Secret were the positions of South Korean the Third and At full strength they would total about They had struck along the north east coast within 40 miles of So viet Siberia when masses of Red Chinese turned the tide and the order was given to The climactic point of collapse In the campaign sponsored by OS nonCommunist nations to smash Red Korean aggression and unify the divided country was by among Ko Hordes of nonmilitary and probably some fifth col swarming southward across the frozen They into every available ve hicle or trudged through the and along roads and Whole villages were on the move in queues of desperation or opportunity in iie case of disguised Merchants Aiding Nurse School Benefit Hobby Show This Week Ten Kokomo merchants indicated Tuesday that they are solidly be hind the Nurses home fund raising drive by announcing that they will donate merchandise which will be given away as prizes at the Koko mo hobby show Friday and Satur day at the high The entire proceeds from the two day exhibit will be turned over to general chairman for the It also was Tuesday by Harry Dalzell and Tom Syl that the hobby show will be held in room 204 of the high school instead of room 120 as previously The show will be held from 7 to 10 oclock each Highlight of the display will come Saturday night when the pieces are to be auctioned by John Peter local who Is donat ing his services toward the The chairmen announced that each hobbyist entered will donate one piece of work which is to be auctioned off at the close of the show at 10 oclock Saturday Door prizes are to be given away each who have donated merchandise are Engles Jack Maher Leath Palmers Jewelry An drews Roger Briney Jewelry The Fashion Galbreath and Stewart clothing and Sam local theater has donated for the door prize Cochairman Sylvester said Tues day that members of the Kokomo Camera club will donate cameras and Anyone interested fa donating pieces for the hobby show is urged to bring them to Harry insurance 918 South Main street or the Victory Cycle com 104 South Union street as soon as Further about the hobby show be ob by calling Dalzell at 8223 or 4207 and the Victory Cycle com No less than a dozen local hobby enthusiasts have announced they will donate pieces of Any hobbyist is according to the These pieces are valuable andl cannot be purchased at any Many hours of work have gone into the pieces that will be ons A good turnout for the show wiH help boost the nurses home driva Sylvester Although no admission fa to Da charged for the hobby thera will be a free will Record music is being boths nights and appropriate Christmas decorations will be put ra the dis play
