Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No, 92.

Prod Russians To Act Quickly On Peace Plans U. S. Stepping .Up 4 Pressure For Quick Action By Russians ■ *■ - ■ . WASHINGTON UP—The United States stepped up the pressure to/day to get Moscow to act quickly Jto solve east-west troubles as the free world registered a landslide U approval for President Eisenhow- ‘ er s new peace program. Informed sources predicted that sec retary of state John Foster Dullest will stress tonight the urgent »' need for Soviet replies to Mrs. Eis-i enhower’s call for “deeds not words” in Korea, Indo-China, Westj erh Europe and other tension-rid-;den areas. v /fDulles' aim is to press the initiative gained by the United States in the “peace battle” with Moscow during an address before the Amer-, ican society of newspaper editors 10 p.m. e.s.t. ' - The importance the administration places on the need for quick' * , Soviet action was spelled out by! Pules after he had conferred at length Friday with senators anti representatives who deql with foreign affairs. \ ’ Dulles said the ter|ms of the President’s peace plan “creates.a situation where it is very obvious that unless there is a very prompt' response from the, Soviet Union it will be . . . necessary to move ahead on all fronts, east and west, to develop a strong position.” To give the / Kremlin no excuse for delay, th e 'United'States delivered a copy President’s j’ address directly'to the So--14 viet foreign office and emphasized ’ that it was a “serious and construe- ; tive” program. Mr. Eisenhower Wednesday challenged the Soviet Union to end the - war in Korea, unify Korea and Germany, agree to an Austrian treaty/ end Red wars in Indo-China and Malaya, and disarm with 'th* rest of the world. He recommended that arms savings be used in part to build a world aid and rth construction fund; State department officials reported that the free world’s response had been overwhelmingly In favor of the President’s plan. Re; ports sent in from foreign capitals « were said to be surprisingly enthusiastic. The Communists reacted cooly, if(at all. \ ' •Interest was voiced over the fairly mild Moscow t eaction as reflected in Soviet newspapers but . it was not regarded as' “final.” The Soviet account denied any Rite*ian blame tor the cold was. Th? ‘‘hstate department was informed that a Communist newspaper ig Helsinki. Finland, had played the President’s plan in a “two-inch story on the back page." Another Red newspaper made no mention >of it at, all. Still another called it' . “disappointing proof that the U.S. had no desire for peace.” Propose New Order On Hog Shipments \\ Disease Spread By Raw Garbage Feed WASHINGTON’, UP — AgricUl ture department spokesmen said a proposed new order controlling interstate shipment of hogs raised on raw garbage would “go a long way” toward wiping out vesicular exanthema; a dangerous and costly hog disease. The order announced'' Friday. |i- will be formally proposed by publication in the Federal Register here, probably next Tuesday. The proposed order would re- ' quire: 1- Hogs fed raw garbage to be moved across state only for immediate slaughter and special, processing at approved establishments. 2. Products from hogs fed raw* garbage to foe moved Interstate [only* if specially heat processed to kill the VE virus. Veterinarians believe the virus is spread through raw garbage feeding. The disease, which has symptoms resembling those of foot and mouth disease, has caused millions of dollars in losses in the last 10 months. Before a hog fed raw garbage Could be shipped across state lines under the proposed new order a permit would be required from the agriculture department’s bureau of animal industry. Veterinarians would have to certify that J'- the hogs were inspected and found <T«ni T« P«*e Six)

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Discuss NATO Policy • l!1 £ LLL ■ KI J. JJI PREPAR NG to attend NATO, conferences in Europe next week. John Foster Dulles, secretary of state (center), confers with acting chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. Sen. Alexander Smith ; (R» N. J. (1.) add Sen. Walter F. George (D) Ga. F „ i — r- .-H ' h— ——-— - 1-4 U — ‘

Unseasonable Weather Hits Much Os U.S. Late Season Snow Blanket; Tornadoes Hit In Southland By tJNITED\ PRESS . IJeavy snow and cold: shattered spring in eqstern states , today and tornadoes hit communities in the southland. - /. ■. A late season, snowstorm, accompanied by biting cold that proke some recordls, blanketed a belt extending fyom northern Ohio-. eastward through northern Pennsylvania and j central New York. Four 'inches of snow fell in Western Pennsylvania and eight Inches was expected in mountainous areas. Children went sliding hnd pelted fbbiris with snowhalls instead of playing their usual springtime games. ’ i U Tornadoes skipped through northeaost vkrkansas, killing at least one person and injuring a score of others. Tornado warnings were Issued for western and central Tennessee and northern Alabama. ] Wintry weather covered most of the northern and central tier of states eastward [ from the' Rocky . Mountains. \Residents of some western and miswestern cities shivered in recorq-breaking f low H \ J ' Cheyenne. Wyp.. (Reported a low of three <legree<\ above zero. Denver had ai record-breaking nine degrees. Sp Louis had an inch of snow and 28 degrees, an all-time Ipw for the 4ity for April 18. ; ' Freezing [or below freezing temperatures | were predicted for Kentucky ahd\ most of Tennessee by Sunday morning. I|.ain, shotyers and thunderstorms Were predicted for southern states sputh of the snow belt, p , The Arkansas tornadoes jiit at least four communities fusing widespread damage. Trees blocked highways and communications were interrupted. \ A woman was reported killed and 25 homes damaged at Winer. Two persons were injured, at New Pbrt, about 12 at Cherry Valley, and two at Glyphant. The tornadoes were attributed to a squall lilne preceded the cold front moving into the areas. Tornatlic winds were reported 20 miles northwest of Memphis, Tenn. The unseasonable cold was caused by a mass of frigid Canadian air moving southeastward over the Dakotas and into the central midwest. A low pressure area cdusen rain, sleet and snow in an area stretching from Kansas and Oklahoma eastward through Missouri and central Indiana, j Indianapolis had two inches of snow and tlie mercury dipped to \ 29* Snow and sleet covered most of Missouri. In New Mexico, hundreds of fire \ fighters battled a wind-swept fire in the Lincoln national forest.The flames already had burned Over more tban 5.000 acres. A with guests up to 40 miles an hour \fanned the flames and stirred up dust so thick the smoke from fire was not visible 15 miles awiy , in Alamagordo. Winds clocked at 40 and 50 an hour kicked up dust clouds on western Oklahoma pnfl iVest T'exasj Light snow or rain was reported iij Wyoming, Colorado and northwest Kansas. The \wintry jveather disrupted sports scheduled in sbme cities and forgejl postponement of the “Apple Blosspn? Sunday” in Cal(Turw/Zre Pace six)

— ——j— — r. —. — Survey Reports On School Equipment Fifth Os Surveys Conducted By PTA Equipment is the name of \the fifth of seven- Lincoln P. T. A. surveys, researched ahd reported by Mrs. Lowell Smith, chairman, Mrs. Georgia Barnett and Hubert Zerkel, Jr. ' jh> • This group recommends that the heat be adjusted at |Ke Lincoln school so that there Ws an Sven distribution. They found that “some of the rooms are too hot while others don’t have enough heat.” a i "The soutn rooms heed some type of shading to take away the sunlight of spring and fall? better and more toilqt facilities land drinking fountains.” I It was Also found that the “playground should be resui-faced and trees be kept alive, if possible, to 'provide shade for the primary grades who play in ; the playground.” U ■ That first-aid rooms be reconditioned and put to use; a stretcher be secured and also a fire blanket for each floor; that winflows be washed more often and the floors \be more (thoroughly cleaned so that “a deposit of dust is not there.” The committee wants hot water ifor the rooms. i ? In this survey the group confined itself to the strict limits of the questions and founo that: There is suitable Venti|latiod using windows; there are adequate sanitary facilities ! biU several small toilets should be provided for children in Hie lower grades. They point out that the same toilet facilities have been in use since the building was first, constructed.. The’ appearance of the building could be improved and some rooms need repainting. Blackboards should be lowered “bat it wouldn’t pay t®i[ change tljem now.” Also, they find there aren’t enough lockers but the coat racks, they judge, will suffice. It is noted that new bulletin boards have been provided for all rooms. Efficient use of the school facilities is “being made tb the fullest extent,” they observed. \ It was foiind that the fire protection at the Lincoln school consists of 20. soda-acid type fire extinguishers; \two of the ichemical type; and th)? fire alarm system. The extinguishers are filled each August. . They fouhd that teachers make' requisitions at the end of the school year through the superintendent and the needs are “usually” supplied. In the opinion of the group this results in the best selection since “it is what the teacher feels he needs.” Monday: “School Board.” , Report Eisenhower Is Much Improved AUGUSTA, Ga., UP — president Eisenhdwer was ’reported much improved today kfter his brief bout with food! poisoning and hoped to get back on the golf course. 1 T f On orders of his doctor, Maj. Gen. Howard M, Snyder v the president spent much of Friday in bed, but came out of dooiri in the afternoon to bask in the foot sun and watch the more fortunate fellows playing on the Augusta National 1 course. ; ‘i. ; • U ' \ INDIANA WEATHER Moetly cloudy, colder ex-L treme south tonight Sunday partly cloudy, not so cold central portion. Low tonight 2530. High Sunday 38-44. Noon Edition — —"

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Communists Agree To Meet UN Negotiators To Arrange Truce Talk

: .H'X '"L j' " Red Assault On Pork Chop Hill Crushed Thousand Chinese Infantrymen Are Near Annihilation 3EOUL, Korea, UP -— cah artillery almost annihilated an* estimated 1,000 Chinese infantry-' men today as they massed for counterattacks against Pprk Thop Hill. The big guns fired in the\ light of giant searchlights sweeping no-man’s-land. i Air force and marine bombers pounded (Red staging areas near Pork Chop with '8(|.000\ pounds' of bombs later in the Aay. Sabre jets patrolled MIG alley but flighted no Red jets for the first time in three days. The artillery site trapped the three Chinese forces, preventing the reinforcements from awarming up the- slopes of Pork Chop Hill Where hand-to-hand fighting raged in seventh infantry division trenches. [J ' v J. Division officers estimated] more than 1,000 Chinese have been killed or wounded in two days of fighting for Ue ChOrwou Valleydefense line blocking the northern ITwvi. T® «»•*• fcix) ' . ( I . Local Lady's Nephew Is Taken By Death A 'Robert Gehm, 36, of *near Celina, O„ died Friday at the Clinic hos\ pital in Biufjfton. Survivors his wife, .Ruth; a son, Michael, at home; his parents, Mr.land Mrs. Andrew Gehm .of near; Celinq; three brothers a|nd a sister. He was a nephew of Mrs. Jack Smith of this city, i Funeral services will b<£ held at 2:30 p.m. EST Sunday in St. Paul’s Evangelical arid Reformed church in Liberty township. Burial will be in the church cemetery. School Patrol Boys Are Honored Friday Safety Awards For 'School Patrol Boys Thirty-nine patrol boys of the Lincoln and St. Joseph’s schools received seryice award pins Friday from the Chicago Motor club for the record they have maintained, going one year without a fatality. ■ i [ \ For the Lincoln [school: . *Jphn Krueckeberg, captain, Bob Jr., Jim Burk, Ronny Feller, Lynn Smith, Pat Franklin, Jerry Bauman, Stev? Edwards; Nick Conrad, Jerry Holtsberry, Jerry Schieman, Bill Jacobs, Mike Beery, Ritter and Jim Corah. For St. Joseph’s: David Schultz, Steve Suttlon, Roy Litchfield, Pat Durkin, Mike Durkin, Gerald Baker, Alex Pursley, Keith Brickjer, Dale Hake, Donald Gase, Tom Meyer, Daniel Costello, David Kitson, Michael Murphy, Phillip Reed, Mike Ellenberger. Term Case, Bill Beal, Stephan Litchfield, James Schnepp, Laurence Ehinger, Patrick Teeple, Edward Laurent and Tom Ehler. Marion Kirkpatrick, district representative of the Chicago Motor club, made the presentations with W. Guy Brown, superintendent/of city schools, and Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school, looking on. A certificate was also presented to each school for the accomplishments of their students in keeping a clear record. Brown complimented the boys for the work they are doing. The school patrol was established by the CMC 30 years ago and the: familiar white bands of the patrol boys have long since become a trademark of safety-mind-ednesa. Members of the patrol will participate In the CMC annual picnic at Worthman field May 16.

‘ 1 ■■ ■— Chicago Fire Death Toll Mounts To 28 Believe Five More Bodies In Ruins CHICAGO UP — The death toll of a factory explosion and fire rose to 28 today and officials said it appeared “safe to say" five more bodies would be found in the ruins. The 28th Victim found t in the blackened rubble of the Haber j Corp, screw machine plant was i unidentified. .Firemen expected to find the remaining victims of the blast under a two-story high pile of rubble at the rear of the 4 evaßtate( i fourstory building. ' j Eight of the more than 100 employes, who were at work in the plant \ when .the blast struck were atflij hiisslng. Officials believed the i Charred bodies of three of them Were at tlie bounty morgue, awaiting identification. ; James Heany, division lire marshal in charge of the search, said it appeared '“gafe to say” the’ bodies bfvlthe other five would be found in the wreckage. \ Thirty-seven of the workers were injured by the blast. Two of them were reported in "very critical" Condition, and three* ,in “critical” condition. Coroner Walter E. McCarron led a “blue ribbon" coroners jury to •the scene late Friday and told them that a fire escape which had been removed from the building’s front wall “should have been left up." \ “If it had been, many more employes have escaped death," he said. ■ ' A company spokesman said the third and fourth floor stairs in the front of the factory had also been Removed as part of a remodelling project \underway. The changes left only a single set \of stairs in the rear., he said. ' McCarron said he lalso had (Tar» z T« Pax* Six) State Draft Quota In- June Set At 850 INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Indiana’s quota for selective service in June probably Will be around 850. A 40 percent drop in the pational call will be reflected in the Hoosier quota, officials said, cutting the quota from around a 1,3-50 monthly average for the March-through-April period. four Red Prisoners Killed In Rioting 45 Others Injured In Riot At Camp PUSAN, Korea, UR — Al barracks full of North Korean Com munist prisoners of war rioted at a United Nations POW island camp off Korea and four were’ killed and 45 hospitalized with injuries, it was announced today. The U. N. POW command here sajd none of the IRed rioters were scheduled for- repatriation under the sick and wounded exchange agreement. Allied guards wree forced to. use 4oricuflflibn grenades and non-toxic irritants to twee the die-hard Communigtg otf&ide their barracks when they refused to line up for inspection. The mutineers then charged out of the barracks In a mob [assault and started hurling stones at U. N. guards while POW’s in other compounds joined in the, demonstration. Guards had to use shotguns to stop the attack and prevent the prisoners from seizing their weapons after two attempts to quell the riot with tear gas failed. . No U. N. guqrds were injured in the incident. I \ The U. N. said the rioting took place Friday in compound D of POW camp IB on Yoncho-Do, a small island off the southeast coast of Korea near Koje-Do, scene of .earlier violent Red demonstrations.

- u L Atomic Device Is Exploded In Nevada Today King-Sized Device Exploded t At Proving Ground LAS kev. UP —A topsecret, k|ng-sised atomic device exploded before dawn today, signal* ing jnarinqgjo move as close as possible to “ground zeSo” in the first Selicopter atomic maneuver in history. The blast was touched off at Yucca Flat proving ground 65 miles northwest of here. It hit Las Vegas with one of the stiffest jolts it has felt fj-om any of the. atomic tests. The sky glowed for 10 seconds, an unusually long period. Today's top-secret experimental nuclear device was fired from atop a 300-foot tower. It was the sixth atomic test in the current spring series and the 27th inside the United States. The blast also .was seen clearly at Los Angeles, 300 miles west of here. From here, the mushroom cloud following the blast appeared to be one of the largest of the present test series. On the testing ground, a group of more than 2,000 ■ marines was prepared to start the first helicopter atomic maneuver, designed as a theoretical attack on a beachhead strong point subjected to atomic bombing. ' j ■ Some leathernecks were to advance on foot as near as possible to “ground zero” while others Were flown in by helicopter to envelop the enemy defenses. .' Even closer to the blast, dummies and animals replaced living marines -behind weapons, in foxholes, and bunkers, tanks and amphibious landing craft at various distances from the explosion site, Alsb placed throughout the blast|T»v> Ty P»|t» Six) . Weeks Backs Down ’ ‘ s ’ On Asfin Ouster Temporary Reprieve To Chief Os Bureau Washington up —Dr. Alien V. Astin, ousted chief of the bureaux of standards, enjoyed a temporary reprieve today, thanks to an about face by commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks in the controversy over the battery chemical Ad-X2. 1 Astin’s forced resignation was to have become effective today. But with demands pouring in for a “full scale” study of the dismissal, Weeks pulled a surprise switch. \ He announced late Friday that Astin will continue aS director untill late summer or early fall. He said he expected to. name a successor from a panel picked by jthe bureau’s visiting committee of scientists. Congressional critics* of the Astin firing were quick to voice their satisfaction at his temporary reinstatement. "Hurray,” said Sen.- Hubert H. Humphrey D-Minri. “Justice triumphs. It’s, a new sign of the times." \ “Sen. Paul H. Dduglas D-111. said Weeks’ decision “is a tribute to\ popular indignation when groused. It is an indication that the will of people is stilfc a mighty factor.” ' The; secretary shed little additional light on why he bad fired Astin [in the first place. Praising him as a “scientist of distinction,” he said “such differences as I have had with Dr. Astin result from a conflict with respect to administrative viewpoint." In congressional testimony two weeks ago Weeks said he asked Astin to leave because the bureau was “not sufficiently objective” in testing AD-X 2, “among other reas- . Te ra«e Ma)

40 To Graduate At Berne High School / ’ ..i i. Annual Graduation Exercises May 22 Forty seniors of Berne-French high school wHI step up to receive their UiplomxA.s at commencement exercises at the Berne auditorium May 22. Commencement speaker will be the Rev. Norval E. Webb, brother to the Berne superintend- 1 ent of schools, E. M. Webb, who made the announcement. The candidates for graduation are: Marilyn Ruth Lehman. Arlene Ruth Spruftger, Margery - Ilene Lehman, Myrtella M. Lehman, Julia Ann Yoder, Marjorie Ruth Sprunger, Patsy Jane* Rumple. •Darlene Rose Heare, Shirley Kaye Heyerly, Ann Marie Kaehr, Ardena Dee Hirschy, Darlene F. Rich, Karen Louise Moser, Shirley Ann Moser, Shirley.-,A.nn Stieury. Grace X. Baumgartner. Colleen Grace Lehman, Erma Pauline Habegger, Gloria Jean Reinhard, Rochelle Rae Liechty. Richard C. Sweeney, William H. Brace, Arne -W. Liechty, Roy D. Lehman, John A. Ctucky, Evan Lynn Lehman. Kieth LaVerne Sprunger, Frederick Carl Habegger, Paul C. Lehman. Max A. Lehman, Keith Leonard Reinhard, Jerry Lee Sprunger, Chester Dale Smith, Brnest S. Isch, Ned L. Bixler. Douglas Duane Schindler, Danny R, Reginald K. Myers. Jerry i Allen Flueckiger, Charles D. Lehman. Baccalaureate services will be at the Berne Mennonite church. Sunday evening, May 17, with the •Rev. J. •J. Klopfenstein of the Missionary church as speaker. American Civilians Will Gain Release North. Koreans To Free Civilians 4 WASHINGTON UP — Seven American civilians will lively be Starting the lorig trip home from North Korea soon after nearly three years in Communist hands. The State department had no word how quickly the Reds would release the Americans. But it did i have a North Korean promise that authorities “are taking measures" to free them. The notification was transmitted tq the American embassy in Moscow by Soviet officials Thursday and made public late Friday. ? The Russian foreign ministry aleo said the North Koreans had informed it that three other American civilians “overrun” when the Korean war broke out June 25. . 1950, have since died. The Red regime claimed to know nothing about three other U. S. civilians thought to have been in North Kor- 1 ean hands. The word came about tyro weeks ' after the state department asked , Soviet officials to use their good , offices in -obtaining release of American civilians in North Korea. ( The state department renewed its ' previously lodged request when , Britain and France had obtained ) Soviet assurances of help in getting their nationals freed from North Korea. 4 The seven being released, and ( their birth places arei: William Robert Booth, priest in the Maryknoll Catholic order. New ] York City; Louis Leo Dans, sown- , er state department employe, Chicago; Nellie Arkansa*: Dyer, Meth- • odist missionary, Conway. Ark.; 'j Anders Kristian Jensen, Methodist ( missionary. New Cumberland, Pa. ( Mary Helen Rosseer, Methodist missionary, Knoxville, Tenn., Ber-\ ( tha Adkisson Smith, Methodist f missionary, Marshall. Mo., and * Lawrence A. Zellers, Methodist i mtastonary, Weatherford, Tex. x Those reported dead by the c North Koreans are Bishop Patrick t J. Byrne, Maryknoll Catholic or- I (Tua sw jßawa ate)

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' V J .. ' I • Reds Propose To Free First POW s Sunday Truce Delegates To Assemble Tonight To Set Timetable PANMUNJOM, Korea, Sunday UP —The Communists have agreefl to meet with U. N. negotiators today to draft a timetable for new truce nego*lations which could encl the Korean war. / A violent riot of hardcore Communist wax prisoners and a 48hour sit-down strike by troublemakers among the Red sicls and wounded who are scheduled for repatriation beginning Monday, clouded the otherwise ture of progress in' current nejgotia-': tions. [;L Four North Korean war pripogers were killed and 45 were injured in a riot at the island /prison camp on Yoncho-Do near pusan. None of the rioters was scheduled to be repatriated under the agteement for exchange of sick and wounded. The hunger strike ended without incident. ~ ; Today’s meeting of truce delega-.* tions will be for the purpose of agreeing on the date for resumption of full-scale armistice talks, broken off Oct. 8 when a deadlock developed on the Issue of repatriation of war prisoners. The Communists also proposed releasing the first |roup of 25 Allied. prisoners at 9 a.m. Monday 7 p.m. e.s.t Sunday, and another group of 25 half an hour later. They said they wished to continue the release of prisoners in batches of 25. Allied staff officers • said the timetable “appeared reasonable” but they [ wantedl to study it, Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief United Nations truce negotiator, arrived at the Allied truce base of Munsan near here to observe the exchange wait for the signal to resume talks on ending the war. Thus far the U.N. has agreed only to “discuss” reopening the talks. However, this was not expected to cause much debate since both sides have submitted proposals for settling the deadlock on exchanging prisoners, laying the groundwork for fullscale armistice talks. The two sides will meet Sunday ai 111 a.m. 9 d.m. e.s-t Saturday to “set the dale” for resumption of the armistice conference. The U.N. prisoner of war command said the hunger strikers at Pusan were the same Communists who Staged a two-hoar Bitdown strike aboard an American land- , ing ship Wednesday. They refused to eat from Wednesday noon until Friday noon, the command said. The hunger strike confirmed predictions by some U.N. officers that the hard core Reds among the sick and wounded prisoners being returned to Communist control would continue to “hkrass” the Allies until they are delivered. An announcement said the prisoners demanded permission to cook their own food in hospital camp No. 2. near Pusan, where they-had been taken following the sitdown strike. The command , said only a small number of the 769 disabled prisoners refused to eat, even though they were served meals throughout the demonstration. [ Other prisoners ate Without knowing their fellow prisoners had - refused food. The strike ended after they were “addressed, personally” by Col. Richard D. Boerem. Ontario. Calif, deputy commander ot the prisoner of war command.,' ! “The PW’s main complaint was that they wished to cook their own food,” the announcement said. “However, the majority who arrived with them on the first shipment and were placed in another compound have been eating every meal unaware that thett fellow PW’s had refused. The same food 4T«n Te Fa*c Three)