Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 194. \

INDICATE CONCESSIONS ON TRUCE LINE

Chinese Reds Withdrawing Vet Soldiers Veteran Units Are ' Being Withdrawn On Central Front Bth Army Headquarters, Korea. -■ Saturday, Aug. 18— (UP)—United Nations officers reported., today that the Chinese Communist command has suddenly withdrawn its veteran units from the west central front to reserve areas. The reason for the shift was not known, nor was it known whether > the veteran troops were being replaced by others. But UN patrols' _ in the area met only artillery fire during their probes into enemy , positions yesterday. The withdrawal of hardened Communist troops was reported between the Yonchon and Chor- , won sectors, along a front Os about 20 miles. The reserve area to which the veterans have been sent is about ten hours’ forced march from the front lines. > At the same time as the j ed withdrawal, ’between Yonchon and Chorwon. the Communists apparently have extended their of- ’ tensive buildup to the western end at the front above Seoul. A front dispatch said both .. ground and air observers reported increasing numbers of Chinese troops north of the allies’ Imjin river line, 25 to 30 miles northwest and north of the former Korean capital. ■ The Reds also stepped up artillery fire in this sector. Intelligence sources said . the Cbiriise and Korean armies aiJ ready had built up strength along the central and eastern fronts and soon would be in a position to stirke anywhere along the 135- . mile battle line if armistice talks collapse. The Rbds kept a steady stream of men and supplies flowing south toward the front. Returning UN night fighters reported the heaviest enemy highway traffic in the - Kangdong and Koksan area, near Pyongyang., capital of North Korea and the enemy’s main supply base. . Despite rain and low clouds, UN planes attacked 260 Communist ~ vehicles last\ night and early today. poor .Risibility obscured results. ■ ■ Only minor -attacks and patrol activity were reported along the battlefront, r , A Communist squad attempted to knock the allies pff a hill south <>f Kumsong on the central front Thursday, .but gave up after losing seven men in 15 minutes. Democratic Women Invited To Al I-Day Meeting Wednesday Mrs. Charles Lose of this city. Adams county Democratic viecchairman, [announced today thnt the Democratic women’s club 'jaf Allen county has invited members of the' Adams county club to attend an all day meeting at Fears park, one and one-helf miles souLi of Fort Wayne, next Wednesday. Mrs. Ella Whitten, state president, will attend the meeting, accompanied by het secretary, Miss 0. Kelly. ' A pot luck luncheon will be served at noon and V attending areasked to bring one covered dish and table service. Meat and dessert wil be provided by the Allen county tfomen. Those . planning to attehd are asked to contact Mrs. Lose, Mrs. Editn Beer of Berne, Mrs. Thurman Baker of Geneva, Mrs. Maude Baumgartner of Berne or Mt*- ; Thurman -Fenstermaker of Geneva. Plans for this outing were announced at a fourth district meeting- at Columbia City earlier this . > week, attended by Mrs. Lose, Dr Harry Hebble, Adams county chairman, and Pierce Harnish and "Mr*. Dale Huffman, Wells county chairman and . vice-chairman, respectively. , / y ~ • •V INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with scattered showers. Saturday \ s cloudy to partly cloudy. Not much change In temperature. Low tqhlght 56 to 62. High Saturday 78 to 84. v .

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Fight Extradition To Italy On Murder Former Intelligence Agents Deny Charge Washington. Aug. 17 — (UP) — Two former army intelligence agents said today that they will fight extradition to Italy on charges or murdering the commanding officer of their World War II cloak-and-dagger mission. 4 Former Lt. Aldo Icardi, New York, and ex-Sgt. Carl G. Lodolce, Rochester, N. Y., denied any part in the 1944 slaying of Maj. William V. Hiolbhan; 40, New York, behind German lines in northern Italy. ' They were backed by two other American members of the spy mission who said the charges were "far fetched.” • The defense department, which revealed the bizarre story of dis-\ sension and murder on the \OSS mission, has said that legal quirks prevent Icardi and Lodolce from being tried in either civil or military courts in tihs country. However, the department left the door open for their possible* removal to. Italy to stßnd trial. \ The court of Assizes at Novara, northern Italy, moved yesterday to have the men extradited. Italian authorities said they had been named in the confessions of two Italian partisans held on charges of complicity in the murder. A state department spokesman said no formal request for extradition had been received. He refused further comment.; \ {Although the (department (declined to say whether it would permit extradition, i) has called the attention of the Italian embassy to the case. Extradition would be possible under a treaty between the United States and Italy. / - If the state department approves extradition of the men, they presumably still could appeal to U. S. courts to block Italy's request. The defense department said in its announcement that Holohan, Icardi and Lodolce parachuted into northern Italy with 1100,000 in gold, U. S. currency and Swiss francs. It said the army started an investigation in 1946 when it was learned that ; Icardi had a considerable amount of money in his possession. However. Icardi said \the mission ‘never received a total even approaching $100,000.” He called the report "an utter falsehood." Icardi, who left his job with Pap-American-Grace Airways in New York yesterday and returned to his parents’ home in Pittsburgh, called the possibility of standing trial in Italy a “farc£.” Icardi, who said he last saw Holohan during an attack on their hideout behind enemy lines, said the defense department charges were "fantastic” He predicted “complete vindication.” -7 ■ i In Rochester, attorney Thomas ■' G. Presutti said that \ Lodolce would fight any extradition proceedings “for he is innocent of the charges.” Lodolce denied through his attorney a purported confesITyra To Pace Six) ' I

Jesse H. Franklin Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Jesse H. Franklin, 76, of Decatur route 3, died at 9:58 p.m. Thursday at the Rockford, 0., nursing home following an illness of two years of complications.. , , He was born in Randolph county March 6, 1875, a sop of Samuel and Sarah Horney-Franklin. His wife, the former Mary E. Miller, died,in 1926. A retired farmer, he and his sons operated the Franklin filling station east of Decatur. Surviving are five sons, Cecil, Lawrence and Otho Frahklin. all of Decatur, Darrell and Maurice ,Franklin, both of Fort Wayne; ode daughter, Mrs. Celeste Cramer bf Roanoke; seven grandchildren ahd five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be In Gravel Hill cem'etery at Bryant. Friends may call at the funeral home gtter 10 a.m. Saturday.

Doctor Tells His Story Os Tragic Deaths V . ■ » ‘ ■ Continue Probe Os 'Human Guinea Pig' ! Deaths In Dakota \. ■ *-. A 1 ' ■ \ ■ ■ Vermillion, S.D.. Aug. IT.—(UP) —Dr. Louis Michalek, 28. said today that his tragic mistake, which cost the lives of two "human guinea pigsV’ will haunt him "the rest of my life.’’ , Michalek, a medical research worker at the University of South Dakota, poured out his stoi\ in an interview whjle authorities continued an investigation into the deaths of Jack Clifford, 30, a laboratory technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson. 26, a secretary. The young doctor, only two months out of internship, admitted at an inquest late yesterday that he picked up the wrong bottle and injected fatal dosages of methadone during an experiment in pain relief Tuesday. > Authorities said further investigation would be required to determine whether there was evidence of criminal or culpable negligence. Michalek met newsman this morning at the front doof of his old-fashioned house and invited them inside. Someone placed on the table a newspaper with a headline which said, "Doctor admits tragic mistake.” The doctor glanced at it, and then at the floor. Then, he began his story. He said he knew he had made a "terrible error,” and that it would always be with him. But he said nothing else about the Incident. *; Michalek told newsmen that when he was a boy of 16 a personal incident brought him into close contact with his hometown doctor. "Ever since then,” he said, “I wanted to be\ a doctor. I've always wanted and tried to do something worthwhile." \ : As he talked, he leaned down to pat the head of his brown and white Cocker Spaniel. The dog looked up at him. Michalek said be spent 11 years working his way through medical school. "I worked at everything and anything,” he said. "1 worked as a janitor, a gardener and a handyman, -and / worked 4n the fields at harvest time.” Throughout the interview, his wife, Leona, an ex-army nurse, did the family ironing on a board set up in the living roomThey were 'married in 1946, Michalek said, and together they “scrimped and saved” so he could get through school. :

To Draft 300,000 Men By Next July Low-Rank College Students Face Call Washington, Aug. 17 — (UP) nThe government plans to drkft 300,000 men by next July 1, and may call low-ranking college students at mid-term if they already have been deferred. Cpl. Richard H. Eanes, representing, selective service director Lewis B. Hershey in recent testimony before a house appropriations subcommittee, admitted that 300,000 was a “guesswork figure." Eanes said that selective service has been ordered tb supply more than 300,000 men if necessary. Defense officials have told congress that the army alone may need as many as 430,000 men this year to fill dipcharge vacancies. 4- Deputy draft director Brig. Gen. Louis H. Renfrow warned that students failing to get passing mark on nationwide deferment tests or who slide below the required top part of their class may be palled by their draft boards at mid-term If their induction had been postponed once before. The current blanket deferment for college ptudents ends Tuesday. Local draft boards then may use the test results as a basis for deferments. Colleges must provide local board with-academic ratings. \

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Conduct Baptism In Korea River

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H/C 3RD CLASS THEODORE M* HOPKINB (left), Lansing, Mich., conducts baptismal service In Korea for Cpl. Curtiss Caldwell (right) in a river near a Marine command post In middle is Lt. Cmdr. John p. Hollingsworth, chaplain who supervises the ceremony. Hopkins is a theological student who in addition to regular duties aids chaplain.

South Korea Seeks Payment From U.S. American Officials Shocked At Demands Washington, Aug. 17 — (UP) -5 Shocked American official* turned thumbs down today on South Korea's atempt to collect a quick $100,000,000 “debt” ed States. The South Koreans did sorte fancy bookkeeping and made a liberal interpretation of p war time agreement to reach the conclusion that the United States owes them $100,000,000. South Korea wants the money now. The United States may pay South Korea some dollars at this time but nothing pear requested. South Korean ambassador You Chang Yang presented the bill for $100,000,000 yesterday to Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of state for far eastern affairs. Yang told reporters later that the< United States owed that sum for South Korean currency which his country turned ovbr to the U, S. army. - The American army used the So x uth Korean currency to hire local laborers, buy some supplies on the open market and pay rent on American-occupied buildings. The U. S. army also sold some of the South Korean currency to American troops for spendnig money, Yang told reporters that the United States acknowledged the debt, did not question the sum. and favored quick payment. But American officials disputed these statements as well as South Korea’s bookkeeping on exchange rates. American authorities said the United States, in a formal agreement of July 28, 1950, pronged to “discuss” settlement of these transactions aftef the Korean war ended. There was no commitment to repay them in full, American officials said. \ This government also may raise the poipt of how far the United States is morally obligated to repay South Korea for the services of South Koreans who were helping defend South Korea. The United States, however, is considering paying at this tinta for the won—South Korean currency—which went to American troops. This represents only about one-third of the won which South Korea says it turned over to the United State*. Drivers Warned To Have Valid Licenses Indianapolis, Aug. 17.—(UP)— State police Supt. Arthur M. Thurston warned driver* today to make kure their license* are valid. Thurston said 17 of 40 arrest* n recent traffic check near Evansville were made of driver* who had failed to renew their licenses. Under a 1947 state law, licenses expire every two year* in the birthday month of the driver.

Commissioners Meet in Speciol Session Members of the board of county commissioners wil meet in special session Monday when they w»ll consider bids for two bridge abutments in the county, one of them in Washington township, the ‘ other in Jefferson township. FI ~ v Escaped Murderer Nabbed In Chicago Negro Is Captured ’ By Four Detectives Chicago. Aug. 17—(UP)— Murderer Harry Williams., who killed a guard in his daring escape from a row cell, stonily refused to answer questions today after he was captured reading a Bible on a streetcar. Williams, a burly ( 20-year-old negro, gave up docilely to four detectives who brought a two-day city-wide manhunt to a quiet close last night. Five heavily-armed policemen guarded his special security cell in county jail today. But, after hours of questioning. Williams stolidly refused to tell how he broke out of the jail’s execution row Tuesday. Police brought his 40year-old mother into the cell where he was being questioned in hopes of breaking his silence. But Williams stared fixedly ahead and would not look at her. Later, when his mother was brought in again, he muttered: “I read what you said about giving mys*lt up in the papers. I was thinking of coming in when they arrested me.” \ Williams was sitting Quietly in a streetcar reading the New Testament when Sgt. Vincent Cunhingham and three other policemen found him. » Cunningham, holding his gun beneath his jacket, sat down beside (Turn T® Pa*e Tkre«) Three-Vehicle Crash Is Fatal To Woman Terre\ Haute, Ind., Aug. 17. — (UP)—Mrs. Bertha Mann. 56, was killed yesterday in a three vehicle crash at' a street Intersection. } ' Police said a car driven by 0., hit the auto in which Mr*. Mann was riding and then crashed Charles M. Roger*, 58, Columbue into a small truck. Industry Is Urged To Disperse Plants Washington, Aug. 17. —(UP>Defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson has appealed to industry to follow President Truman's plan for dispersing new plants as a de- > sense against possible enemy bombing. 1 “Industry had much to gain aid • nothing to fear," Wilson said .a I a statement. “We are not asking - vital industries to move their factories, but only to locate new ■ factories a few mile* from existing ones.” \ >

Informal Negotiations Opened; Peiping Radio Hints At Compromise

Welfare Funds For State Are Frozen Prohibits Use Os Fund Now On Hand Indianapolis, Aug. 17 —(UP) — Oscar Ewing not only cut off Indiana from future federal grants for public welfare but also froze $1,200,000 left over from the last federal distribution. Ewing, federal security administrator, recently ruled Indiana no longer could collect some $20,000,000 in federal grants because of a new law making welfare rolls available for public Inspection. After Ewing ruled, Indiana asked him if it could use $1,200,000 surplus remaining from the government’s last welfare distribution to the state. State welfare director Maurice O. Hunt disclosed today that he had received a telegram from Ewing this morning which prohibits Indiana from using the leftover money. The telegram said Indiana was i "not free to use the federal surplus funds.” Meanwhile, county welfare directors from all over Indiana came to Indianapolis this morning to attend a conference at which a comprehensive report on the welfare crisis will! be discussed. The state welfare board last Monday presented the report to Governor Schricker. It said" Indirectly that * special session of the legislature was necessary to iron out the problem, regardless of whether more money was appropriated to keep the welfare payments at normal levels or whether the rate of assistance was slashed because of the federal fund withdrawal. The meeting was scheduled for this afternoon in the state board of health auditorium. Monroe Democrats Select Candidates Town Convention Is Held Last Evening Gene Hike was renominated for town clerk by the Democrats last evening to head the Monroe town ticket in the November election. The nominating convention was held in the Monroe town hall, with Milton Hanni presiding as chairman. Mrs. Emmit J. Cowens served as secretary. The town clerk nomination was a contest between Hike and Arthur Moeschberger and was decided by the delegates by secret ballot. Three men were nominated for town trustee. They are. Paul Zurcher, ward one; Arthur Raudenbush, ward two, and Homer Winteregg, ward three. The , latter two were renominated and Zurcher takes the place of George Cramer, who was not a candidate. The Monroe town election will be held ) simultaneously with the Decatur city election on November 6. The Republicans nominated their candidates in convention held last month. ' ” — 'j Worthman Field To Be Closed Today i■-■ . ■ * • Worthman field will be officially closed this afternoon for craft work and supervised playground activities, which have been conducted throughout the summer months. Democratic City Committee Meets The Decatur city Democratic committee held its first formal meeting Thursday to discuss plans for the city election Tuesday. Nov. 6. Franke Bohnke, city chairman, conducted the meeting, which was attended by committee members, party workers and candidate*.

High Canadian Officiallinked To Spy Probe Congress Sources Refuse To Reveal Officer's Identity Washington • Aug. 17.—(UP) — A second high-ranking Canadian official is involved in the senate investigation of Russian espionage in the United States, it was disclosed todaA- \ Congressional sources refused to divulge the identity of the official. But it was understood that his activities were disclosed by former Communist Elisabeth Bentley in secret testimony earlier this week before the senate Internal security committee. Committee experts emphasized that’Miss Bentley said the Canadian official was not a member of her wartime Communist spy ring, but operated only “on its fringes.” It was the second time that a Canadian has figured in the committee's investigation of the institute of Pacific relations, a private research organization. Former Communist Karl A. Wittfogel testified earlier this month that E. H. Norman. Canada’s United Nations delegate, participated in a Communist study group in„ Provincetown. Mass., in 1938. , Canadian external affairs minister Lester B. Pearson said Norman had been investigated and cleared of any suspicion. , The senate committee is trying to learn whether subversive, forces played any part in the formation of U.S. far eastern policy. The committee has examined many famous exrCommunists, some of whom have * played prominent roles in previous congressional inquiries. They included Miss Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, former Brig. Gen. Alexander Barmine, Hede Massing, aad Whittfogel. Chairman Pat McCarran, D., Nev., told told newsmen that many more “big names” —some of whom never have figured in Communist investigations—would testify before the committee before the inquiry is completed. He declined to identify any future witnesses. The committee was in recess today. It will resume public hearings either next Monday or Wednesday. k . Chambers, whose testimony on "Soviet espionage sent former state department official Alger Hiss to prison, testified yesterday on individuals connected with the IPR. Besides Hiss, who was once a trustee of the institute. Chambers said he knew the following five men either as Communists or as (Tara T« Pa** Sevea) Television Movie Shown To Rotarians Galbreath Officials Speakers Thursday An interesting program on television movies was presented at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Art Lewis, script writer, and Fred Freeland, production director for Galbreath Pictures, Inc., of Fort Wayne, were the guest speakers. The Fort Wayne men discussed the production of movies for‘television purposes, and following their discussion, showed a 30minute movie, the first In a series of detective thrillers produced for national distribution on television networks. The actors in this first production are all members of the Fort Wayne Civic theater. In future productions, both local and outside talent will be used. Reid Erekeon was chairman of the program.

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.■ Indications Point To Bosh Sides As . Being Willing To Make Concessions UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, Korea. Saturday, Aug. 18— (UP) — The pnlted Nations and Communist commands opened informal negotiations on a Korean true* line in a friendly atmosphere Friday and hope for a.compromise agreement rose sharply. There were . indidstjon* , that both sides are prepared to make concessions In an attempt to end a three-week deadlo< k on the line to l>e between the UN and Red A si/b-committee named to discuss the truce line on a man-to-man basis under a news blackout met for four hours and two minutes at Kaesong yesterday. The next meeting is set for 11 a. m. today (7 p. m. Friday OST). I The Chinese Communist Peiping radio, giving the strongest indication yet that the Reds might be ready to compromise, said their demand for a truce line along the 38th parallel “can certainly be adjusted where necessary and reasonable from the point of topography and the defensive needs of both sides.” A broadcast by the "Voice of the UN Command” radio of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's supreme headquarter* in Tokyo, referring ts- the allied demand for a truce based on the present battle front, said: ‘The UN camm&nd is willing to balance the land it will gain north of the parallel by making concessions on the west coast. The land •raa thus will remain about the same, whether the line is on[ the 38th parallel or along the present battle line position*.” Taken together, the broadcasts seemed to imply that the subcommitleemen meeting in Kaesong might have instructions which would lead them toward agreement; The two United Nations and two! Communist negotiators declined comment on result of their meeting, but they emerged the conference room in a jovial mood. • Maj. Gen. Henry L (Hammering Hanki Hodes. deputy chief of staff of the Sth army and chief allied representative oh the subcommittee, put his arm around the chief North Korean delegate, Maj. /Gen. Lee Sang Cho. as the group posed for pictures together. The other two delegates, U. 8. Rear Admiral Arlelgh (31 Knot) Burke and Chinese Gen. Hsieh Fang, believed the “brains” of (he Communist cease-fire delegation. also appeared in good spirit*. , Both sides were believed to have begun their search for mutually-acceptable cease-fire line and demilitarized buffer zone in a mood to compromise. The Chinese Communist radio at Peiping only a few hours eartier for the first time said the Reds were willing to make ’“adjustmenta” in their demand for a buffer zone along the 38th parallel, pre-war frontier between North and South Korea. The UN command also has expressed willingness to make “adjustments” in its proopsal for a cease-fire along the present battlefront, |n some places 30 miles north of the parallel. Reports Purchase Os Savings Bonds T. F. Graliker, chairman of the Adam* county U.S. defense bonis committee, has been notified by Robert W. Fowler, director for Indian* of the U.S. saving* bond division, that the people of Adam* county, purchased $39,800.48 worti of "E’*. “F”, and "G” bonds during July- compared with purchase* of $49,195.12 for the correspondin' period of last year, iTotal bon.! rale* In Indiana for July were $10,032482 compared with $13,529310 for July, 1950 when the Independence drtva waa In progress to increase bond sale*.