Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1952 — Page 1

Vol L. No. 50.

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Seek To Break Deadlock Over War Prisoners Forced Repatriation Issue Is Potential Dangerous Point / Panmunjom, [Korea, Friday, Feb. 29—(UP) —Subcommittees of the Korean truce negotiating teams will .attempt today to break a potentially dangerous deadlock over the issue of forced repatriaiton of prisoners of war. Staff officers wrestled with the problem for three weeks. The Communists insisted prisoners of war held by the allies be sent home, by force if necessary, regardless of their own desires. The allies said they would “never” egree to do that. - Confessing failure to find any basis of agreement, the staff officers decided to turn th*,issue -back to the main delegations. „ As the result Rear Adm. ButhVen E. Libby, for the allies, and North _Korean Gen. Lee Sang Cho will meet today with a staff of fellow pub-committeemen to restart talks on the sub-committee leveL After the problen} was turned over to the staff. officers Feb. 6 Libby said of the repatriation issue; . i } ' "We are still 180 degrees apart.” That still held good today as the sub-committee prepared to meet, at 11 a. m. (8 p, m. Thursday CST.F Negotiations are deadlocked also over the Communist demands that Russia be made a member of a “natural” armlstice-obseeVdnce •earn and that the allies permit the construction of air bases in North Korea during an armistice. At their meeting [yesterday the «taff officer teams an war prisoners completed the drafting of agreed items on the exchange of prisoners after the conclusion of a truce.'' ! The staff officers exchange final f drafts of the completed portions | of the prisoner agreement in English, Chniese and Korean. These provided for Red Cross visits to prison camps after an armistice, a Red Cross escort from camps to the exchange point at Panmunjom. and completion of the exchange within 60 days. I U. N. staff officers at the same c t.ime renewed their I offer to give the Reds information about 44,000 “missing” Communist war prisoners if the Communists provide similar data 0n v 53,000 missing allted prisoners. The Reds did not \ reply. The U. N. also handed over the names of two additional foreign nationals —a French Catholic missionary and a Swiss hotel manager —missing behind cthe Communist lines. When the Reds asserted that the allied statement yesterday on the fatal riots in the Kpje internment ramp last week was unsatisfactory, U. N. Col. James C.j Murray again ’said the question was none of their business. (Turn To Pane Ki«bt> TICKETS TONIGHT Hugh, J. Andrew#, Decatur high school principal and sectional tc-qrney manager, announced thia afternoon that there will be approximately 150 ticket# for tonight’# session on sale at the school tonight.* These tickets will be sold only at the east entrance door on the Jefferson street side of the building, not at the principal They are priced at 60 cent#. Andrew* also [ announced that Yellow Jacket fans who received tickets for the Tues-day-Wednesday bracket may obtain their tickets for Saturday’s two session# at the high school office Friday morning. All persons whose names were drawn previously will have tickets available for the semifinal and final games. In addition, there probably will be more tickets available, and other season ticket holders who did not obtain tiekets earlier will be notified by telephone If the ducats are available. The Saturday tickets, good for both session*, are priced at sl. |

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«a»> war <■*■■■ Criticize Use Os ■ L’E Stale-Owned Cars ' I I Pooling Os Autos Is Recommended | ■ IL 111 'hiid " } Indianapolis. Feb. 28—(l|P) Indiana's “Li 1(1* Hpoverff commission reborn meiided in its first report today that the state’s fleet of 1.380 cars be pooled to cut costs and that they! be operated by a central control authority. , : ( The commission "ipis- , use” of some atate-oWned vehicles und said records on the operational costs and assignments of many eats are inadequate. ' Created by the 1951 state legislature to investigate means of streamlining state goVernmwt. the commission devoted tis-entire first report to the, $1,471,065 fleet of cars. It recommends that (he . s-tate:' ’I , 4 , L Establish a central authority within the division, pf public works and supply to handle assignment and records of IcaM .I i ■ i L ; 1 L f 2. Procure permanent and standardized license plates for; cars. 3. Establish a car pool or pools whenever' the jtteed may be indicated by operational costs.* 4. Reassign cans when it is shown they ‘are hot being used at .maximum efficiency or ' Within the limits established by laiy. 5. Supervise then repair and Servicing of cars from the ... single authority. | 1 ~ “State-owned cars are being used at times for purpose* other 'han strictly official business.” the report said. “Some action must Ue taken to discourage any mis-' ÜBe ' M ' ' A member of the commission =aid some stated have reduced operation costs on vehicles as much as 15 percent by similar “Streamlining.” Such result*, here- would 'cut deeply into! the $2,540,719.15 bill paid by the (state in th* fiscal year ending Jdne a). 1951 J for operating all its ; motorized > equip- “«"• . J . | Governor Schriclcer said he was aware o( the problem and that it l ad existed foir a number otf yegrs. He said that at <|ne time', three state employes [wrire disciplined fur abusing their riuto privileges. The report; (said Indiana’s’ law on regulation of state-owned cat’s is •‘inadequate.” / i I “Onljr a few departments were found that kept extensive records covering all phases of .’car opera- ■ (ions,” the report said. It ad so told , of a “lack of control over the jssui unce and usage of gasoline ciedit . cards” and said “it would appear , that their use far exceeded th* . emergency stipulation" of a state budget committee rule governing travel. ' I [ '■■ ' '[ J I e i Communist Troops j Attack Allied Lines ■ J : " Beaten Off Afteh I 30-Minute Battle (■ Bth Army Headquarters, Koreii, Feb. 28.^-(Uy»)—Cominuhi«t troop o . attacked the Allied lines *outh of the Panmunjom truce negotiation area ( under ffover of darkness today but were beaten off: after a 30-minute battle at close range. ■ An enemy platoon, armed with hand grenade* and; small drms, attacked a hill [held by the United Nations foi;ce* at 2:10 a mi. Allied artillery was called into action and 2:40 a.m. [the enemy withdrew. ; Allied fighter-bomber plarte* “making every bomb count,” destroyed a 250-foot steel and concrete bridge, in north c*nt|ral Korea, damaged two other bridges and cut railroad tracks at 1120 places. Other planes attacked 1|,1518 enemy supply vehicles during the bight and destroyed 112. , Capt. Robert H. lUurris <|>f TulsU. Okla., led the successful attack/m the big ‘steel and corcrdte span near Huichon. j | ■ “We cam* ■[ in low and dropped our 1,000-poynd bombs right down the middle of the bridge,!’ Durrjs said. “We made every one of the bombs count. ■ i .[s ‘‘i . | 1 "When th* ties and rails stopped spinning around and settled down, I counted three big hples in the bridge—one right in the middle and one at either end, ’ he said. \ ■ if ; '

FBI Conducts Investigation 01 Lattimore “ \ Justice Department Conducts Thorough Probe Os Lattimore Washington, \Feb. 28—(UP)— Assistant attorney general James M. Mclnerney disclosed today that [ the justice department is ing “an extensive investigation” or far eastern expert Owen Lattimore. The FBI i;s in charge of\fhe inQuify. Mclnerney would..not [reveal its purpose, but said he to receive [a report soon. He mjade the statement Ho a reporter When asked for comment on Lattimore's demand that the justice department prosecqlte hint pr exCoimnunist editor Ix>uis F. [Bundenz for perjur.y Budenz has swlorn that Lattimore was once a Coiimunist. Lattimore has denied it under oath. Lattimore was recalled before the senate Internal security committee today fpr his third straight (day Os testimony, In an impassioned outburst before the! committee yesterday, l>attimore sgid: * 1 “I knbw I am not a IJar bf any kind. The evidence is that Budenz is a perjurer. 1 think th*[ case should be followed up, to[ (■ lead where R may.” Sen. Jlonier Ferguson (R/Mich.) and Sen. Herbert \R. O’Conpr (DMd.) cohimlttee members, promptly agreed that all the testimony; in the case should be sent to the justice department to determine if perjury prosecutions are warranted. [ Lattimore and Budenz also clashed in I*so before a senate foreign relation* subcommittee investigating the] charges 1 of Sen., Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.). At that time, also, Budenz Charged Lattimore with being a Communist and Lattimore denied It vehemently. i < In reply\to inquiries by reporters, Mclnerney, head of tire depannent’s criminal division, said the department |Ba* not investigated Budenz in connection with his controversy with Lattimore. \ f The internal security committee is investigating the institute of Pacific relations, a private research! organization. Lattimore, an IPRj trustee, continually hasl denied charged that the institute fas Com-| muhist-Controlled. ■ I ' ■ [ ■ Police Car Purchase ] I Approved By Board City Council Must Approve Purchase \ The Decatur board of works, including Mayor John Doan, city at-l 'orney Robert Anderson and councilman Don Gage, has approved the purchase of a new automobile for the police department from Ithe Phil Li Macklin Co. of Decatur. Cash, purchase price is $924.50 and trade-in allowance for the present police automobile is sl,004.44. The Macklin concern, dealers in Plymouth and Chrysler automobiles, was the only bidder last -week and submitted two bids on two different styles of Plymouth. The purchase price includes the transferring of radio equipmnet from the old autobiobile to tjie new one. An ordinance 'is beiig ! drawn upl by attorney Andersen and will be submitted to the council at the regular meeting next Tuesday. Under the statute, any expenditure of more than SSOO mufct have approval of the entire council in the form of an ordinance. The new police ca? will have a spotlight, seat covers and a heater and will be equipped similar to the I old car. The! new automobile will he delivered as soon as the ordinance is approved 1 by the council. Sylvester Everhart Reported Improved vl. I . ' ; J ..; Sylvester Everhart, well konwn' Decatur high school teacher and Boy Scout leader, was reported improved today at the Adams county hespital. Everhart, who has b*en suffering from a severe attack of influenza, was removed to f the hospital Wednesday afternoon for observation and treatment. ■ ■ <!’ [■

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday,! February 28, 1952

Witness Shows Up I ' it I r ofc jwA a ivo»wtw [ ... ■ , f" ' ' f ■■■ 1 -Bn * : Ml IKBK .j Ifec • ■J3 L ; ? 4 V—• MRS. ELINOR LAFFREY COOK MAKI, Detroit art instructor named a Communist before the House un-American [ Activities hearings in\the motor city, who has been missing since last Thursday, strolls Ito the hearings on Wednesday with her husband. She was served with a subpqena, and is under fluspenslon from her job.

World Prayer Day Here Friday Night Annual Observance By Local Churches * The annual world day ©f prayer will be observed ri®r e Friday night at 7:30 o’clock at the First Baptist church on Fourth street. The program is sponsored by the 'Decatur council of church women and all women of thle city and community are invited to attiend. [The 'following program [has been announced: ; [ Prelude, “Our I God, Our Help hi Ages Paat.” I Mrs. C( E. Bell J will preside at the organ. [ Call to worship, Mrs. JL F. SanI mann, president of the cjouncil of 1 church womejn. [ • A dramatic ipterpretatipn of the world day of prayer projects, presented by the laqies of the \Unibn Chapel Evangelical Unitrid Brethren church. Special music, double of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Mrs. L. A. Holihouse is the director. World day of prayer, sermon, ‘ Christ. Our Hope,” the Rev, Samuel Emerick, pastor of First Methodist church. ? r| 'I L i 1Offertory: ‘ll Need Th*e Every Hour.” The offering will be allocated for interdenom [national, missionary work with the American Indians), sharecroppers, migrants and fen* the education of Christian leaders in Christian colleges in the Orient. \ ! The reception committee and ushers will include the ladles of ‘he hlazarene church and the officers of the council. The Rev. Robert Hamipond. pastor of the First Baptist church will offer the benediction,. The observance of the world day of prayer was [started in 1887 and ’he response wasi so gredt that a (Turn Tn Puk* Four)

beaten 't/tectitetton I'•• : h'M (Rev. L. W. Null, Antioch CTpited Missionary Church) I | FORGIVENESS And He said unto her. Thy sins are forgiven. Luke 7-48. In the context of this text we.find the story of a pharisee and a woman which was a sinner. ; M i H The Pharisee supposing himself to He righteous sought no forgiveness. His righteous pride held him aloft so. that he never even followed the Of the day, such as washing pt guests feet, and the greeting of epnipany with a kiss. i While Christ was feasting the woman came into the house, knelt behind Jesus and in humility and adoration washed his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. The comparison of the two tell us that it is not the depth Os c sin that makes one a sinner above another, but our relation to Jesus Christ. t : Christ •did not look at works pr he Would < have said to the Pharisee “thy sins are forgiven:” but the woman by her action and attitude expressed a deep love and faithHn Christ. Therefore he said unto her. “Thy sins are forgiven, thy faith hath saved thpe.” Have you put your faith in Him?- ■ : H . . •' ?• li ’I . J . -V ■ I ?•' •4 ' * ' ?• ■l. i; l! ■’ • t-? -

Girl Scouts Founder Program On March 13 Girl Scouts of Decatur will brat© the birthday of Juliette Lowe, founder xjf Girl Scouts in America, with a program at Lin<Wln school Thursday night, March 13. at o’clock. Parents of Girl Scouts are asked to set aside the date. The public is also invited. This will be the 40th anniversary [ Os the founding of GirL Scouts in America and an interesting program is being planned. ([ Expect Government ; Acf In Oil Strike Strike Threatened At Midnight Sunday By United [ Oil industry leaders said today they expect the government to intervene in the public interest If 275,000 union worriers carry out pieir threatened strike at midnight Sunday. , 1 Industry spokesmen said there |s enough oil stored, to ;,[ last for { some time,” and a [spoti check indicated that the has made ho preparations to I increase the stored supplies despite the strike threat. [ The unions were polling their [membership today on a government mediator’s request for a< week’s delay in tt|e threatened’ Walkout, which potentially could curtail the life Ulosd 0f the nation’s transportation system. Refiners In the Texas and .Louisiana gulf coiasf. area — the greatest processing section in the world—reported no, Efforts were beipg made to in-; [storage of gasoline and oil In hulk storage tanks to meet any possible shortage odcasfoned hy a strike. . h ■ (Turn To Pare

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IF ' :[■ \. 1 Japs Sign Pact To Grant U.ll Bases I ■ . ' " Agreement Signee With United States Tokyo, Feb. 28. — Japan signed an agreement today granting the United States air, naval and army base* in Japan to serve as a defense of the islands and a barrier to Communiat expansion in the Pacific. The agreement implements the U.S.-Jfapauese security treaty. It' becorjies effective with the ratification bf tljei Japanese peace treaty and the end of occupation. Special American < ambassador Dean Rusk and assistant secretary Os the army Earl Johnson signed the agreement for the United ‘[States. State minister Katsuo Okazaki signed for Japan. Clauses in the agreement giving: [legal jurisdiction to American commanders oyer crimes committed by American troops manning the bases , has aroused considerable minority and press Criticism. . The: agreement does not list the [specific base a/eas, buildings and communications lines the American forces will use. These details will be worked out by a ihS.-Japanese committee which will ilneet regularly in Tokyo. All American forces in Japan. 4nclmling those serving the U.N. in Korea!, are lifted as “U.S. security forces,” under the agreement. Th* negotiators made no attempt to work out a formula for sharing defense costs. U.S. accepted Japan’s 1952-53 budget appropriation of 65,000,0100,000 yen (about $175,000,0v0 as its share of the first year’s jjost. American costs probably will be twice that amount, an American spokesman said. I \Tl|ie agreement was reached after four weeks of negotiations here. It grants the American forces general assurance of adequate facilities > tor operation, exempts them ftom Japanese taxes and immigration 'rules and *llows them to carry out pertain business activities on th* bases. The Americans are barred from Japanese politics and prohibited to violate Japanese law. Red Cross Campaign Will Open Saturday Chairmen Listed For Annual Drive City, town and \township chairmen for the Red dross drive which epen Saturday, were announced today by. Leo Kirsch, county drive chairman.' Chairmen haye been named In ■ the 12 townships, along wish leaders In Preble. Pleasant Miljs, Linn Grove and Monmouth. b Headed [by Earl Fuhrmap, Decatur chairman, the roster of Red Cross chairmen for the drive with a goaf of $9,915. follows: Berne, Earl M t Webb; Geneva, Mrs. Hazel Bantj*: Monroe. Paul M. Bahnet: Preble, William Lister; Pleasant .Mills. Mrs. William Noll; Linn the Rev. Robert Fox; Monmouth, Mrs. Herbert Braun. ' Township Chairmen The township chairmen are; treble, Charles Fuhrman; Root, Gustav Schueler; w Union, Raympnd Eichenauer; Kirkland, Lester Adler; Washington, Williarti Linn;', S(. Mary’s, William Noll; French, Lewellyn Lehman; Monroe, the Rev. W. L. Hall; Bide Creefti Dejmore Wechter; Hartford. John Duff; Wabash, L. A. Mann; Jefferson. Hugh D. Mosser. Chairman Kfrscb said that most solicitors \would wait until Monday to begin the canvass for donations. Although the whole month of March is set aside for the Red Cross drive, the local organization hpoes to complete it within two weeks, the chairman said. \[ |

U.S. To Supply Most Os Aerial Po*er Buildup Additional Power For Eisenhower's y European Forces Washington, Feb. w-jXUP)f\~ Defense officials indicated today that the United States will supply the portion of the buildup in Gen. Dwight D., Eisenhower’s air power this year. [ i Defease secretary Robert A. Lovett told a news conference yesterday [. that “considerable” additional U. S. air power will be sjent to western Europe. [ He Would not saji how many wings are earmarked * or transfer abroad. He said Chat when they , go dephnds upon completion of air fields.!: ... ] I, 1 . Loveitt reported on the North [ Atlantic treaty organization meetings at Lisbon. I Secretary of state Dean Acheson is scheduled to make his first report on the meetings at a closed session of the hou*ei foreign; affairs committee (at a. m, CST •today.; He also will report to the people! tomorrow at 8:30 p, m. CST over nationwide radio and television hookups. Lovett said this nation will not sent aby more ground divisions to Europe this year. equivalent of six |U. S. divisions already are under [Eisenhower’s command. The defense secretary also disclosed that only a little morel than half of the 50 ground divisions planned for Eisenhower thjs year vtill be combat-ready. s The j rest will be i so-called reserve divisions, fully equipped but wtih only a partioh complement of'meij. This; country will supply none of the reserve divisions, even on a basis pf their remaining on this side of the Atlantic, Lovett said. Although only aboht half of the ground divisions will be combatleady, Lovett said ; he expects ICisenbower to have a powerful fighting force by this year’s end.. Further buildups are contemplated In ,1953 and 195'f, Lovett said. The 1953 plans were; approved provisionally at the North Atlantic treaty organization meetings in* Lisboii, he said. • ; ‘ ' J —-a-A —rj i ■ ’ „ Warren Entered In Wisconsin Primary ! ' • ''l i • Fourth Republican Hopeful In Primary Madison, Wi*., Feb. 28— Gov. £arl Warfren, the fourth Republican presidential hopeful to enter Wisconsin’s April 1 primary, arrived today with a slate of proEisenhower, anti-Talft nie.a. He met briefly With his dele-gate-cindldatek. then lift for the secretary of state’s offic e to /lie his sliate, pay an official call, on Xfov. Walter K°hlet, land meet local Republican*. - , Warren's candidacy served as the rallying point f(j>r Republicans »nd former LaFollette Progressives who stayed off the filed by Sen. Robert Taft. Harold Stassen, and a Gen. Douglas* MacArthur favorite son, Grant Rittqr, Beloit. • Big[three in the; Warren) slate are former Progressive Philip LaFolJette and Ralph Immell affd secretary of state Fred Zimmerman. ! a strong macker of Gen. pwjight Eisenhowerp and one of trie strife's best vote-gettprs. •the Eisenhower group shifted Us support; to Warren when it became apparent that th* general would not give his consent to enter his name in Wisconsin’s presidential primary. .

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t-4 — \ President States h No Announcements On Politics During f Florida Vacation Washington. [[Feb. 28. —(tfP)— [President Truman put in a plug today tor GovJlAdlat 'Stevenson of Illinois, who ha* been’mentioned as a Democratic presidential possibiltty if Tnjmah does nqtSseek re-electtonl f \ But at a news conference, gave no bint of hie own political plans ojr whether he might be grooming Stevenson in caae he does not run himself. / ; All he Would I say about his own was jthat he will make no anhounceirierit during his forthcoming vacation qtt Key West, Fla., which is expected to fast until March 28. Stevensdn’s name;*came up when Mr. Truman was asked whether he would be happy with the governor as the Democratic presidential nominee. He replied that> Stevenson is a good man and one ©f the best governors 'llinois has had. In his opinion, Mr. Truman Sai<L this is the best recommendation a man can have |or president. \ Since Stevenson conferred with the priesidtent at the White House last month, there has been speculation that the governor njight be Mr. Truman’s No. ) choice if the chief executive himself (joes not, seek reelection. J Mr. Truman ’side-stepped a num- ; ber of p©Uti*al n|uestlon.A. These S were the other maiin political qae» ■ tions: ' i. 1 He was asked whether he Shared the reported concern of some of hi«\ friends about the New Hampshire presidential primary March 11 in which he Is opposed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (DTennD Mr. Truman said he had; pot been consulted about this. Mr. Truinan))ri*aS asked what h© thought about] a statement attributed to Philadelphia U.S. district attorney fiicardson Dillworth, a Democrat, jthat Pennsylvania would be lost td the;-Democrats if Mr. Truman is £re-nominated. The president said he could not answer because he djd not know. A reporjer .asked Mr. Truman which Republican candidate, in his . opinion, would get Douglas support. The president said he didn’t kpow, but that he was sure the general would be glad to Say. i Mr. Trunaan also: [ * 1. Named 71-y ear-old Paul Walker as chairman of the federal communications coinmission to succeed Wayne Coy, wl|o resigned recently. ' Walker now is)FCC vice chairman. ■» 2. Announced his selection of Robert T. ißartljey, nephew of house. speaker Sam Rayburn, for the FCC \ vacancy created by the elevation of Walker? to t[he chairmanship. i 3. Said (n response to a question that po his made no progress in his search tor an ambassador to thfe Vatican. As To whether he still intended to name an ambassador to the Holy S*e, Mr. Truman said he would make his intention* known wrien he got ready to make an announcement. 4. Dodged questions about Rayburn’s bad on television and radio broadcasts of house committee hearings, saying it is a matter for congress to determine. 5. Said he is determined to continue bl* fight for statehood Alaska and Hawaii, and disclosed he may intervene with the senate to save the Alaskan statehood bill which the senate shelves yesterday by a 45 to 44 vote. [ ‘ 6. Hailed the recent North Atlan-' t,ic treaty meeting at Lisbon as very excellent and successful. , 7. Denied that he is contemplating a trip to Korba. 8. Said this is doing everything possible to free American newsman William bL Oat is from a Czechoslovakian jail. :? f . [TE P—3 .■ ' INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder with occasional snow flurries near northern border and scattered shower* extreme south tonight. Friday mostly clc-udy, ’ colder central and south portions. Low tonight 22-30 [ north, 30-35 south. High Friday 30-35 north, near *0 south.