Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1949 — Page 1

/ Kll No. 249.

DEMIES U. S. SPY RING IN PRAGUE EMBASSY

>®ention ! Ulope In B Disputes "HHction Likely HHE C Tuesday In I Gil Steel Strikes !*■ ,■ i nit.d s,KJK. I§3M ... :ii. . r»l> l> th • »WiIXM- !.:«•» 11 nioVillK swif'ly i , . > i '■BeJv 1 1,1 " k * ("Wald 11 ' (j. | t.d.-ial Hl-dia , EWiht.' ' axtre I . ...in"-- 1 A' >l'l '»><• 11 *1- <|U'• lKtt|Bh «"'i!<i .Kt < ■flj&.pl'n'. Aho was on a r >1111“*' for the week ■t<! *Hj»rt-nt!' -'HI 11 ’ B* 9S u: ‘ ll, ' ir "” wi:h . m'ion Invuk »>K tlß'f: Hartl, y law nported. had for industry hut he 1 KM'S I’hin- for a coal negotialEdKtui: Monday at Washing iß> ' '* w tneetllig With a' Xtw Yolk on Mon I • ■iJßtn the steel and coal skidded to a weekind ’ KuSh'l .n - supplies of th >se ' ISP pnnluctw were dwindling !h " economic danger the KkkSfa than 25 days of coal on putting orders re ■m>B| burning trains service 25 cmotives supply 2K per MGHb)< na'ion's passenger serv said Thus percrnt of all pass« n would he affected I reports, an stockpiles had the the auto industry would shut down temporarily MBI< -t.e| and coal walkouts |>r Edwin G Nourse. yUBI chairman of the presi i! adv IsBdß r tt"i that selfish groups labor, business and the B* < w tl 111 ‘ 111 Wfr * throwing Bmß- in’.. the nation's tconom B *B K^W' 11 ' : '!• I'Urltnent reported hie -'tikes apparently had their initial Impact and B^B* W unemployment among ■"B covered by state jobless Sk’Br- j.tmrrams dropped 27 <>"'> week ended Oct M*B tli:i, ' a 111. an agricultural MT*B d that decreased in iFSM ’"'"ng laborers due to cause a drop In cattle a,,M ’ ~n| t farmers I !<^gf r labor disputes: Kjßj'” "pokesman at St I.oui< ■r*B that a stubborn attitude ' had caused a in negotiations to set S?B 4.’day old strike agsin-t Pacific railroad IMP S Kohler | lln Nebraska Arne. Yager and Miss Ma received word gZW*"'"* of the death Friday iar ah un< !he H e » p s lOm 5? at hl " h,,m ‘' 1,1 Lincoln. ||fl Kohler was a native of lW h»hip and spent fid K|^V r ' the ministry of the E'->n-»r>d Reformed churi h prtor He served as pas *” M »T ». O . for 30 years ”Tvirea will tn- held at Tuesday afternoon I ■ WEATHER and colder with I w '"ds 25 to 35 miles I K“’ ***• * nd c0 " 1 I tX''. s "' , * ;r *'» h I .IT y h, 9*’*r afternoon tern I Xhl?*' M '* h 48 *• 52 |;M ? a>t ' M *« M aevthaaet. V Wni,M 34 to 30.

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Two Escapees Killed By Night Watchman Two Others Caught At Arizona Jail Phoenix. Aria.. Oct. 22 (VPr Five prisoners tried to shoot their ! way out of the Maricopa county ■ jail early today, bnt a crippled night watchman killed two and two others were captured before they j could get out of the courthouse. • The fifth man. Jack L. Tatum, member of the notorious Tatum gang which once terroiited the southwest, apparently escaped the bullidng Hoad blocks were set up to tty to halt him Sheriff Cal Boies said that for two hours officers thought all six men In one tank cell had broken loose. But the sixth man was later found cowering In the cell, where he had been beaten and left by the others. The prisoners slugged a jailer and a watchman and wounded a deputy sheriff In the break, which Boies said they had carefully plan ned for several days. Hero of the battle was crippled watchman Tom Stowe. 40. He sac j ed the desperadoes alone as they burst from a ground floor elevator. and killed two of them Instantly with his 3s automatic. When the alarm first sounded, every available policeman, fireman. depu y and highway patrolman was called to the scene. A cordon of 100 heavily armed men surrounded the courthouse, prepar- i ed to kill the men in their tracks if they showed themselves. Powerful searchlights played on the building and a hook and ladder fire engine was backed up to the wall. Officers climbed Into the top floor where the jail is located, and worked down through the five-story building, dropping gas grenades before them. The dead prisoners were Charles Mcewen, who had been awaiting trial for the murder of an Arixona rancher, and Edward Corcoran, an itinerant printer awaiting trial for the murder of his wife in the de ( serf. Mcewen previously had tried to break jail in Oregon The two prisoners captured were i John Bridges, awaiting trial for robbety. and Oinxel McDonald. > awaiting trial for forgery They told officers that Corcoran. 1 the ringleader, had armed himself with a table leg and a blackjack made from a brass door handle entwined with cord. The men broke out of their cell i by slugging jailer W. A. Millett, W, when he opened the door to give I Mcewen an aspirin he had request ed. The prisoners took Millett’s keys and gun and descended in the elevator. while Millett yelled the alarm from a cell block where they locked him They stopped at the second floor and exchanged shots (Turn T« Paar Stlabll Republican Unify Is Urged By Hayes Unity Os Purpose Urged On Hoosiers Indianapolis. Oct 32— (UP)— ' Wil! Hays. Republican national chairman during World War I, called on the GOP last night to ■ achieve the same "unity of purpose" that Theodore Rooscrelt believed in. Hays, of Sullivan. Ind address | ed a banquet audience of Indiana Republican leaders as a kickoff to the ItM election campaign He cited a deathbed message I which Roosevelt wrote in the middle of bls last night of life, com missioning Hays to get the Republicans in the house and senate together and prevent a party split on domestic problems in I*l*. “His last thoughts were for the party as the unified Instrument of the national good.'" said Hays, i "That simple message remains as decisive for 1»« as it was for 1919 "In effect. Col. Roosevelt called I for unremitting vigilance in achlevi ins unity of purpose and action In i meeting domestic problem* It was a true soldiers call to his party I to close rank* and accept the challenge of the time ” Roosevelts call for party unity in 1919 "must be heeded now as It was then." Hay* **« M "It must be expressed in actlM. he added “I »peak for unity, not uniformity'" * Hays war national chairman in 1919 when the former president died on the eve of an important (Twra Te rw-

Children Born With UN Celebrate Anniversary —•— -rsafe qrn > V. • JL i. a ■ ’ mSkbL* ■ ■ / / J al I■ ■ » ’a a v I > wI ■ IX’ wa W Jihtw II F 1 '■’***- ' "—-—ill, IL li — -.-72— CHILDREN of Ecuador. Chile. India and the Philippines blow out four candies on birthday cake at Lpk«> Success. N V.. commemorating fourth anniversary of Oct. 24 birth of United Nations. Fiom left. Arturo Fernandez. Ecuador; Evallna Correa. Chile; K. Nathur. India; Rita Jimenez. Philippines. E. h Is 4 years old. Hostess middle) is Mrs. Carlos P. Romulo, wife of the president of UN Gem-ral Assembly and Phi ipplnes ambassador to the United States.

Answers Protests On High Egg Price Government Answer To City Residents Washington. Oct. 22 (UP) — The department of agriculture ha* i lieen getting letters from city folk* i protesting the high price of eggs. J All blame the government price ' support program Under the program, the govern ment Ixiught more than 2.000.000.- ■ 000 eggs during tlxg* first eight I months of the year. The eggs were in powder form from drying plants in 12 states. To protestor* against high egg, prices, the department has this rePly: 1. If the government stopped its egg buying now, egg prices in cities wouldn't be any cheaper. 2. The purchases are only accomplishing what the law requires j —holding farm prices of eggs on I a national average at a level equal I .to the mandatory support level. I Since May. 1948. the government has had a standing offer to buy at : fixed prices all the egg powder processors want to turn over to It. 1 The only condition is that the’l processors pay the farmer a floor prh e of at least 35 cents a dozen The government still is picking | up eggs under this 35 cent support , program. The protestant* are' consumers who have to pay 75 to 90 cent* a dozen. A department spokesman said the consumer price wouldn't be any lower if purchases were stopp- ; ed now. I>ecaiise all the 35-cent . eggs being bought now are of low > quality They are not the kind; consumers want to eat. The spokesman said the gap*! lietween 35 cent* on the midwest | farm and 90 cents in cities is big | enough to guarantee that any mid-j (Tatrn Te Pace K4«b<> Coal, Steel Strikes Boost State’s Idle Overcome Gain As Made In September Indianapolis. Oct. 22 —(VP) — The Iryliana employment security division reported today that there was a general increase in employment a month ago but a later report showed some 2 500 workers Idle in Hoosier land as an Indirect result of coal and steel strikes A monthly survey by the division and the V. 8 bureau of labor statistic* showed that burines* activity picked up from mid August to midSeptember and U percent more people were employed at the end of the period than at the start. ' However, the 1.184.000 worker) on the Job In September represent ed a five percent decrease from September of 1941. During the week at Oct. IS. some 2.500 were out of work as an Indirect result at the strikes, and the division said "more drattic effect* may be expected unless settlement is made within the next two or three weeks " The number of strikers, who do not get unemployment compensa tlon ehscka. waa estimated by othsr (Tara Ta CM- Kl«b«'

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 22, 1949.

Monroe Citizens To Meet Monday Night The Monroe civic committee will hold u special meeting for all citizens of the town of Monroe and vicinity at 7:20 o'clock Monday evening at the Monroe town hall. It was announced today by officials. A statement, prepared and limed by officials of the committee, notes that "matters of vital importance to all will be discussed at this time and It is hoped by tha committee that a fino crowd will be on hand." Russia Faces New Setback From UN To Send Dispute To International Court Flushing. N. Y. Oct. 22 - (UP) I —The United Nations general a.» i sembly prepared to hand Russia another major setback today. i Observers said the assembly | I would vote overwhelming approval lof a western motion to send the I human rights dispute with Russia * Balkan satelitrs to the international court of justice. i i The court will be asked to rula ’ ,on western charge* that the satellites violated human rights proviIsion* of lheir peace treaties in their | prosecution of Josef Cardinal Mftidzenty and other church leaders. The United Stab* yesterday inIt reduced the Czechoslovak purge arrests into the debate on huma i > rights in the Balkans, but drew no 'immediate reply from the eastern j European countries. I V. 8. delegate Benjamin V Cohan | told the assembly: "Reports come to us regarding ' waves of a new despot!*” l sweeping lover the once free Czechoslovakia '. . . men lacking in confidence in the genuine vitality of their own Ideas, forsake the paths of reason and freedom and resort to the eternally discredited and illusory shortcuts of tyranny and force ' The general asenibly delude centered about protests from Britain and the United States concerning the Balkan church trials. The Balkan countries, with Russia support, contended that the trials did not violate human rights provision* of their treaties with the western countries and the Soviet union The United States and Brlta.n sought to Invoke arbitration macnInery provided in the peace treaties, but Russia refused to join such a procedure, contending that no dispute existed. Russian foreign minister Andrei (T«r« Te )•■••■ MgMl ' 39th Polio Case Is Reported In County Adams county's polio toll for the year was Increased to 39 today, with the illness of IHmothv Murphy. elght-year-old son of Mr. snd Mrs Hsro'd Murphy. 724 West Adams street as polio. The boy. ill since Sunday, was removed Io the Lutheran ho pltal In Fort Wayne, where the polio diagnosis was made It Is of the nonparalytic type, with some weakness of the logs and back.

General Motors To Study Pension Plan To Begin Study Os Retirement Benefit Detroit. Od. 22—(VP)— Gen «tai Motor*. la<t of the "big three” I ' au’o mak'r* to be drawn Into ptn-l n talk*, announced today It w .uld begin studies of retirement lon.fits with the CIO united auto worker* and united electrical u iikct •> nt xt hionth. A Gt neral Motors spokesman ,*ld the pension talk* were being ! held at the reque»t of the unions, I . mphasising they were not to be eon idertd negollatlon* on a new contract. The Ford Motor company last month granted 3100 monthly pen J I sions to 115.000 production work | er*, setting a pattern for the rest I of the industry. The GM spokesman said the pen slon studies would begin Nov. 7. with the UAW representing 228.000 Gt neral Motors workers, and she united electrical workers union | which has a 30,000 membership at GM The present contract for auto, workers run* until next May. Gen eral Motors pointed out. and "in will there be any change; ' in the contract before that time." the spokesman said During contract negotiation* with the. UEW last year. GM agreed that "when a court of last resort hold* pensions and insuri ance matters a* subject to collecI five bargaining, we will reopen I negotiation* " The U. 8 supreme court ruled earlier this year that pension* and insurance plans could be included for bargaining in a case involving Inland Steel company. Gary. Ind The UAW now is bargaining with Chrvsier for pensions and in surance benefit* for 93.000 work er*. The union said it hoped to achieve "slightly better” benefit* than workers got at Ford The GM announcement came as the Ford p« nsion plan oqueaked by with a marrow margin in a ratifliTasw T» !••«» »:t«b4» Radio Station WASK Studios Destroyed Mfayette. Ind. Oct. 22. --(VP) Fire destroyed the studios of radio station WASK and smoke and water damaged office* on two other floors of the Wallace build ing today. Two firemen were injured fighting flames which swept the third »loor of the three-story brick structure at Fourth and Ferry street* in downtown Lafayette. The radio station occupied remodeled studios on the top floor. Mellett Named To Economic Council Indianapolis. Oct. 22- — (VP)— Governor Schricker announced yesWrday the appointment of John C. Mellett of Indlanapolia a* a member of the Indiana economic coeacil. .Mellett. public relations executive for the pupil, service eom , pany of Indiana, will serve the un expired term of F. B Culley of Evansville, who resigned

Plan Blistering Denial Os Czechoslovak Charge Americans Ran Spy Ring

Os Chill Air Sweeping Midwest Temperatures Drop Over 20 Degrees By United Pres* A wave of chilly air swept the - midwest today, plunging tempera-1 tures 20 degrees, and forecasters said it would creep eastward over the Atlantic coast. The cold front was the same one that swept strong rain and snow . storms over the west thi* week and set ott tornado< s In some prairie area* yesterday. Weather experts said the cold would "moderate somewhat" before arriving in the New York area. The weather in most section* was marly perfect for today’s football games txcept for scattered showers in some sections of the ea,t. The cold hid moved tastward through all of Michigan, part of Ohl and south as far a* northern Tex is. It sitoved the mercury down to I ;!7 degrees during the night at Chi < ii' 23 degree* below the pre- ! vi m night's minimum. Many Illi , nols, Wiscon-in and lowa cities reported low* 20 to 25 degree* be--1 lew t"n< prtvlout night. New York, meanwhile, basked In a ba'tny *>• warmtr than the night's minimum as 62 at Atlanta, tji anl « no-' as warm as Newfit hans' 6>> It was 74 at Miami. Fla . 32 at Albuquerque. N M . 41 ,at Phoenix. Arlz. 39 at Seattle. Wa-h 3t at Salt Lake City and Billing . Mont., and 31 at MlnneI apotis. Minn. The cold was dissipating along I the west coast where fruit and {vegetable grower* had feared for ; their crop* earlier thi* week Will Write Life Os Francis Grandstaff Will Depict Story Os Life Prisoner "The Grandstaff Story." depicting the life of Francis Grandstaff, former Adams county man. now a life prisoner at the Tennessee state prison, will be written by Douglas Morrow, author of "The Stratton Story" and other movie hits, according to a story written in a recent issue of the Nashville Tennessean Mr. Morrow has spent the last week at the Nashville prison interviewing Grandstaff and has received permission from Governor Gordon Browning, provided the story was written In such away as to "bring some good to the youth of the world " Grandstaff, who recently wrote the music for a cantata for the centennial celebration of Big Springs. Texas, and who was grant ed a six-day parole to attend the celebration, has expressed his willingness to cooperate with author Morrow. According to the author, most of i the "Grandstaff Story" will deal with his musi-al talent* and the fact that life can be made worth { while even in a prison The story will atart. however, with Grand staff as a youth. *on of a country physician, and take him through his high school day* and his leaving home " on his own " Grandstaff ha* signed a contract with Morrow on a percentage basis I for his life story and a 15.000 guarantee The latest story of {author Morrow which ha* not yet I been released i» "The Jim Thorpe ’Story." The author told newsmeu at the prison re<ently that his chief Interest is ari'lng life stories "which can do good and teach a lesson " The Dally Democrat today received a letter from Grandstaff telling of hl* visit to Bis Sprints. Texas and also stating that Governor Browning had granted him a hearing for a parole on November 13. Ho stated that he was "not too <T«ra Te »’•<•

Gen. Bradley For Reasonable ; U.S. Security Hit Hoppy Medium In Spending For National Defense Washington, Oct. 22 (UP) -- j Gen. Omar N. Bradley believes the nation should strike a happy medium in its spending for national dedense. It was disclosed today. Bradley told the senate appropriations committee in secret session recently that the United States should try to obtain "r<asonable security.” "I have rhosen the word 'reasonable’ to describe the security we must strive for," he said, "because the alternative — absolute security —ls unattainable "I feel that reasonable security will exist when we have such military forces that It would he fool- | hardy for an aggressor to attack us. and yet forces not so strong tha’ their maintenance would sap o'l.national strength and exhaust o.ir resources." Bradley's testimony has just been released At the time, the commit-1 tec was considering the >1,814,010,-, UOO arms aid spending bill. Release of the testimony also showed that defense seer*-'ary Louis Johnson assured the committee that the U. 8. government would never disclose any arms aid information to a Communist, even if be were in the cabinet of a recipient nation. If the United States does find It has to <leal with a Communist he I said, "I will even come back and • talk to this committee about stop ping aid that k'is to go through su< ,i a channel.” Two members of the house armed ' services committee, meanwhile, a- , greed that their hectic investigat'oo ’ into the unlficaton row would havo , some immediate bad effects on the efficiency of the defense department But the two men—Reps. Overton Brooks, D. lai. and Dewey Short, It. Mo , said they believed the hea--ings helped to clear the atmosphereand. on a long-range basis, would give the nation better — and cheaper — military strength. Chairman Carl Vinson. D. Ga, (Turn Tu l'»s» i:ishl> Jurors To Consider Watts Reindiclment Indianapolis Killer Faces Reindictment Shelbyville. Ind. Oct 12—(UP) —Rolwrt Austin Watts was held In jail without bond hero today awaiting a session of a Slr-lby county grand jury which was to consider his reindictment for the 1947 *ex slaying of Mr*. Mary Lol* Burney at Indianapolis The former Indianapo'ls cltv ' truck driver cho*e to stand trial 1 here yesterday when special judge William F Marshall invok'd a 1905 law which let him choose between Marlon and Shelby counties (or retrial. The law. which Marshall said he almost overlooked, gives a defendant the right to choose the county once an Indictment against him ha* been Invalidated after a change of venue The first Indictment, returned i by a Marlon county grand jury, was voided on the grounds that negroes were "systematically <xeluded" from the panel. Earlier, the V. ft supreme court ordered a retrial for Watts on the grounds that bls constitutional rights had been violated. He was convicted of the rapeslaying of Mr*. Burney and sentenced to die in the electric chair but received repeated stays of execution until the high court issued Rs decision.

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Czechs Charge Five Americans Operated Spy Ring In Prague Embassy Os America Washington. Oct 22 — (UP) — The United States today planned a blistering denial of f’zecho lovak charges that five American* ran a spy ring from th ■ United States embassy in Prague The Unite I States also was expected to demand the Immediate release cf one of the accused men. Samuel .Mcryn of New York, who was arrest* I by Czech police. A long Czech note to the United State* said M' ryn. three other American men an l Louise S:haffner <f Ln* aster, I'.i -di rlbcd as "unusually at'ractlv* organized a spy network that reached far across Czechoslovakia. The note said Czech member* cf the ring were equipped with radios, presumably to relay reports from distant part* of Czechoslovakia. which contains the largest known uranium deposit* in the communist world American officials, scoffing nt th> charges, linked the latest cry cf "spy" wf h a growing purge of Czech and Polish government officials. Reliable Information reaclhng here indicated that between 12 and 15 employes of the Polish foreign office and economic ministry In Warsaw have suffered sharp demotion* or have dtsap- | peared These purges — comparatively ' mild so far—and the spy charges against the Americans were interpreta’ed here as part of a drive to widen the breach between th« west and the people* behind the Iron curtain The Czech note, however, repdrtedly went Into considerable detail about how the alleged American spy ring worked It said four former Czech cabinet members were Involved. In addition to Mis* Schaffner and Mcryn. the other American* Involved were Wal'er Birg -. St. Ig uis: Isaac Patch, Gloucester, M '««.: and Spencer I. Taggart. A l except Taggart were regular emhas-y employes There whs a note of myriery about Taggart. Sta’e deptUment officials dei lined to discuss hl* status at the embassy or give anv detail* of hi* background, except to ray he no longer Is in Prague. Taggart's name dnes not »pp"ar in the biographic register of state denar'ment employes. The Csech* ordered Patch, an assistant a’tache nt the embassy, to leave Czechoslovakia within 24 hours. The United State* a«k<»d for an extension of thl* deadline, but when it was refused, arranged to have Patch leave Prague today The ntn-r American* left before thev were accused. Birge Is in th" United Slates and Mirs Schaffner I* on a foreign service assignment In Palermo. Reilly. Friend* who knew her In Philadelphia said the spy charge wa* "ion percent phony” They described her ss a "charming and unusually attractive girl, but not the Mata Harl type." Miss Schaffner. 32 year* old. was born in Tokyo of American parents. She worked for an advertising agency and a weekly magazine before joining the state department in 1944. Crash-lands Plane, Hurt Climbing Fence Brrok«v1lle. Ind., Oct. 22. —(VP) : — An air force captain surveyed a well-bsndased and slightly throbbing thumh todsv snd vowed to be more careful climbing a barbed wire fence the next time he crashlands a plane. Capt. Joseph GIIIH. about 36. cracked up his P-6 trainer when a low gas supply plus rain and fog forced him to seek a landing in a corn field about two miles south of here yesterdsv He was on a flight from Romulus Field. Mich to Cincinnati. He walked awav from the crash, which caused only minor damage, then eut hl* thumh ellmbing tha fence on hl* wav bach to the plane to gat bis patrekute.