Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1952 — Page 1

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di Tours POW Riot Scene rTj- • WB* ” — Hi UsTi I H ' W? 1 ft: . ! ■' > .>■ I ■ fcH - MrjSS- "■•■ EjKy WHILE REBELLIOUS Communist POWs in Koje Island's compounds flpu( their derisive signs (below) and continue their tent pole “bayonet practice,” U. 'S. Eighth Army commander Gen. James A. Van li'leejtgj (standing-top phbto) makes a jeep inspection with the island’s new! commander, Brig. Gen. Haydon 'L. Boatner acting as driver. The han J l f r shown stretched in Compound 95, reads “Boatner! Declare what is held in the riegotion with Dodd.” With Gen. Van Fleotf riding in the back seat are Brig. Gen. Paul Yount, and Brig. Gen! £hrißtenberry. Bth Army Chief of, Staff. —■■■jl—'’- n-H.-/''. .H-b-H;' k Hb:.T

Deaths Os 15 | Additional War Prisoners Told Enclose Deaths Os More Prisoners In Clash With Guards Ko 4 Island, Korea, May 27. — (UP)The deaths of 15. more Communi war prisoners in clashes* with Allied guards on turbulent Koje island were disclosed today. . | s*h ?.|e brought the over-all total of Cyjsimunist prisoners killed by gtianlf or my their fellow prisoners on Koje to at least 238. " A Dr. Stephen Gelenger of Flint, Mich commander, of the United Nations hospital at Koje, said the 15 pi piously unreported deaths ocin scattered minor ciashes witfi guards over a period pf we4k9» All major outbursts had been reported earlier, he said. He ‘put the total number of pri- ? oners known to have been killed in ightjs with allied guards at 123. Another 115 were known to have been by fellow prisoners after before Communist kangaroo courts within the prison compounds, he said. were unconfirmed reports that some prisoners executed after the “trials” were chopped into bits, their skulls smashed and the" remains hauled outside the compounds in sewage buckets. There .werA pother rumors that many prisohersTiad beep buried ;inside |he : cqmpfoanjds at night and thus! hever listed by the allies as deaq.i Although bulldozers are knowing down inud and stone buildings of some empty compounds, there has been no extensive digging. The number of prisoners that! piay . have been buried inside probably never .will be known., 'Ah uneasy peace today prevailed in thdj compounds holding some SO,000 j prisoners, i most of them lastditclji Conimunists who have declared their intention to return th Comtn|unism . after an armistice. jeeps and. tanks, armpied cars and combat-toughen-ed tjr|ops of six allied nations patrolled outside the barbed-wire erff Inside, the prisoners were Relieved hammering out crude weapons for possible resistance to the |f|rthcoming allied attempt to split! |he 6,000-man compounds itJ’to sma|l4r\ groups of not more than 500 b|isoners each. Il fkNA WEATHER sloudy. Showers Wedxf in north and west Y A little warmer exith and extreme east ;i; Coolers north Ineeday and in southven log. Low tonight 4 hwest, 60-65 south- ? gh Wednesday 67-711 , 75-80 southeast.

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Four Slates Name Delegates Today Top Presidential, Hopefuls In Battle BULLETIN Washington, May 27. —(UP) -—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today pocketed 20 of Connecticut’s 22 votes in the Republican national convention), but proTaft forces , gained 'the upper . hand .in the battle for the 38 : Texas GQP votes. In Texas, the state GOP executive committee appeared to have presented Taft with most if not all of the states 38 dele- i gate votes. Pro-Eisenhpwer forces promised to hold a rump convention and name a 38-dele-gate slate of their own to the Chicago convention. In that case, the final decision on which of the rival delegations will be seated will be up to the t Chicago Convention. I | 'I Washington, May 27 — (UP) — Presidential "candidates of 'both parties clashed today in four states in critical contents involving national convention On the Democratic fide, 102 delei gate votes (were at stake in the Texas and Kentucky state conventions and the Florida primary.!. Republicans elected 60 delegates in Texas and Connecticut conventions. ' The major contests involved supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft and Gen. DWight D. Eisenhower in the Texas GOP convention, and Sens. ‘Richard B. Rugsell and Estes Kefauver in the Florida Deniqcratic primary. | ! ' A ■ Kentucky [Democrats were expected to jgife Vice President Albert Berkley delegate votes for, the lleihocrajtlc presidential nomination. The [Eisenhower cam-? paign organization figured on winning almost all tl|e 22 Connecticut GOP delegates. ' A heated battle was under way among Texas who will have 38 votes at the GOP national convention. j A. Taft won a bitterly-contested round victpry last in the fight for control of the Texas delegation. However, Eisenhower supporters! said they may take the fight all the way to Chicago. Taft's backters were firtnly in control of the state Republican organization as Eisenhower hopefuls were bedteh in bid after bid to' win seats in Texas' convention which met today to choose the state's 38-man delegation to the national convention, [i >' There was a battle in the Democratic ranks in Texas, too, as proTruman delegations from 27 coun- ’ J tlds were fjrozen out of the party’s state convention. This? assured a pro-Truma# holt from the convention today and two Texas delegations at the national convention. (Taro To Pace Kight)

Reds Threaten .I'.-’ New Offensive In North Korea Hint Retaliation y For 'Massacre' Os Prisoners On Koje Panmunjom, Korea, May 27. — (UP) —The Communists threatened today to unleash their 1,000,000man army in North Korea against the Bth army of the United Nations in retaliation for the of Red prisoners on Koje island. North Korean Gen. Nam 11, senior Red delegate, delivered the gravest threat of renewed full-scale bloody warfare in Korea since the truce negotiations began last July 10. He told the U.N. that the masses of North Korean and .Chinese soldiers massed in front of the 155mile allied defense line could not “sit by” while Communist prisoners of war were being “slaughtered” on Koje. The warning brought varied reactions jfrom U.N. officials. The chief UIN. spokesman, Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,. described it/ as a military threat. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, new allied senior delegate, said it was “propaganda.” Nam’s threat came as allied troops on the western front Were alerted for a possible Red attack down the classic "Uijongbu corridor” of invasion leading to Seoul. A Communist attack pommeled U.N. outposts 50 miles north of Seoul on Monday, thv» day before Nam II made his threat. U.N. patrols thrusting out in search of the enemy found the Reds in unusual strength. “1 strongly warn your side," Nam told Harrison at today’s 43-minute meeting, "that dur barehanded captured personnel is in*the custody of your side. / “Your side must bear full and absolute responsibility for any new atrocities and acts of massacre. "The Korean people*® army and the Chinese people's volunteers decidedly can not sit by while seeing their captured fellow combatants being slaughtered by your side at will." It was disclosed yesterday that 238 prisoners have died violently in the camps—l 23 killed by U.N. guns and 115 executed by their fellow captives. K \ Hit Allied Lines Seoul, K<?rea, May 27. —(UP) — Communist infantrymen hit allied lines in six attacks on the western front today and bn American jet ace knocked down a Mig*ls in renewed air combat. Maj. Donald E. Adams, Mount Clements, Mich., shot down one of two Migs engaged by his flight of 21 Sabres 20 miles south of the Yalu river. The Mig spun into the Yellow Sea for Adams’ sixth kill. It was his 94th mission. I The Reds sent 300 men against a single hill 50 miles north of Seoujl, at the head of the traditional invasion route through the Uijongbu corridor. Eighth army troops were on the alert all across the 155-mile battlefront, but they were especially (Turn To Pase Klckt) \ . - , ' ' , Bierly On Democrat Platform Committee Serves On Advisory Party Committee State representative G. Remy Bierly, who represents Adams and Wells counties in the Indiana general assembly, has returned from an all-day session at Indianapolis, where he served as a member of the advisory platforrh committee of the Democrat party. Representative Bierly is one of six house members and other prominent Democrats who are forming the preliminary draft for the 1952 Democrat platform for Indiana. ] 1 The committee plans several meetings before the state convention scheduled for Indianapolis June 24. Suggestions tor planks \ in the 196® platform are invited from all Interested Democrats and Bierly has asked that they be sent to him as soon as possible. These local suggestions will be taken to the next meeting of the advisory group for general discussion. Representative Bierly was one of the leaders in the general assembly last year and was chosen to be the Democrat state committee for his present task. A tentative platform will be compiled by the advisory committee and will be turned over to the permanent committee selected by the convention proper.

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Gen. Ridgway > Denies Plan To End Korea War Arrives In Paris To Assume Allied Supreme Command Paris, May 27 — (UP) — Gen/ Matthew B. Ridgway, arrivinig to assume the allied supreme com- . mand, said today that a Russian attack on western Europe was possible. At the same time, he dented reports that he had outlined in Washington a plan for ending the Korean war. ; ' ! \ ■-, ■/ -i At a carefully screened press conference at Orly airport where he landed from New York, Ridgway was asked if there was a chance of a Soviet attack on western Germany. "Anything which has capabilities | is a possibility and there is great capability there,” he said. He was asked then about ington reports that he told the senate armed services committee that he had “a very definite plan” to end the Korfcan war in case the truce talks failed. “I have not seen the report in print yet >so I can not comment on ’ its authenticity," u Ridgway said: "If that report) has been carried ,the report is not correct. I made no such statements.” (The armed services committee made public a heavily, censored transcript of Ridgway's testimony to it. According to the transcript Senator Leverett Saltonstalh R., Mass., questioned him on whether he had “a military plan to end the fighting in Korea” in case of failure of armistice negotiations. Ridgway was quoted as replying: ■ “I had a very definite plan.”) Ridgway, the first United States (Tur* To P«(re Kisbt) . ~‘ - --f- ■ ; / Suspend Business For Memorial Day Vets Organizations To Sponsor Program Observance of Memorial Day, Friday, will bring practically all business to a stop with the exception of some eating places and the movie houses. ; \ ; Most retail stores will also be closed Thursday afternoon, as us-' ual, with the First State Bank, however, staying open until 2:30 o’clock. I Factories in Decatur will remain closed all day Friday. A stations will stay open to take care of the holiday traffic.’ The Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Friday. |' A combined program of the’ American Legion and the V. F. W. will be held as the official ob- ; servance of the city of Decatur Friday morning. . | A great many people will head for resorts and baseball games wit i a large number of local people planning to attend the 500-mile race at Indianapolis. All taverns will be closed In compliance with, state law. All business of city and county departments will be suspended for ; the day. The rides which are set up around the courthouse for this week, will open on Memorial Day at 1 o’clock. It is under the aus- ’ pices of the Decatur free fair association and will close at midnight Saturday. Services On Friday At Two Cemeteries Memorial services Friday morning by the American Legion arid the Veterans of Foreign Wars will take place in the Decatur cemetery at the gravA of George Harding; In the Catholic cemetery at the grave of Leo L. Weber.

r-i ■ - < . j Monroe Pastor / Wh i B- ■ - The Rev. Ralph R. Johnson will conduct his first service as pastor of thp Monroe 'Methodist church Sunday morning. ■ Rev. Johnson,' pastoir at Pleasant Mills and Salem Methodist churches in 194841. succeeds the Rev. W.. L. Hall, who reItired jfrom the ministry last week. Rev. Johnson has been pastor; at Ashley since lehvlng Pleasant Mills. _ \ Urges Senate Reverse House On Foreign Aid Pres. Truman Warns Cuts To Undermine Atlantic Defenses \ Washington, May 27 —(UP)—* The senate went back to work today on the $6,900,000,000 foreigu aid, bill with a warning from President Trumann that a watered-down ven sion of the measure would undermine the defenses of the North At-* lantic community. Mr'. Truman last night criticised lawmakers who support cuts in foreign aid funds and defense spending. He ,appealed to the senate to follow tl(e leadership of vice presi-l dent Alben W. Barkley and reverse the house’s $1,600,000,000 cut in the ‘ administration’s requested program. The house-approved limit of $46,000,000,000 on military spending, Mr. Truman said, might require “Substantial” demobilization of the UjS. armed forces “in this hour of peril,” , The president denounced “peot pie who would rather play politick than have strong defenses, \who would rather embarrass the White House than the. Kremlin.” ■ Mr. Truman said the house’s action would about wreck the ppint four program (and) actually endanger 4 American cities and farms” byj reducing the protection arid security oJher nations could offer the United States. , Meanwhile, Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper told a reporter he would vote to slice another $1,000,000,0001 from the controversial measure. . The lowa Republican, who voted only ‘‘present” when the other 1? committee ihembers approved the iputual security bill with the $1,000,-000,000-acros®, the-board cut, told a reporter he will support a pending amendment to make the cut twice ds deep. However, other members of the committee depended the bill as the <Tura To Pa*c Kicht) ATTENTION PASTORS The Dally Democrat will -not publish an edition Friday, Mo-. ; modal Day. church an» ? nouncements will be published Thursday and /pastors of rural churches are asked to have announcements of Sunday services In thia office by Wedne* <ay afternoon. City church announcements will run Saturday and Decatur pastors are requested to have ? their copy in this office early Thursday afternoon.

See Possible New Blockade Info Berlin Start Cutting Wire, Telephone Service To Outside World Berlin, May 27 — (UP) — The Russians and their East German Communist henchmen started cutting telephone - telegraph service between West Berlin and the outside wxsrld today and barred allied patrols from the lifeline highway to the west. What may be the start of a new Berlin blockade followed by a few hours the East German decision to seal Its borders in retaliation for the separate peace signed yesterday between West Germany and the U.S., Britain and France. The Reds cut off 12 East Berlin telephone exchanges which have 69 underground cables into West Berlin. They then cut' 17 of the 180 long distance lines, eight teletype circuits and all but one of the interzonal telegraphic connections between West Berlin and the main East German telegraph office, the central relay for all normal communications between West Berlin and the West. During the 194&49 blockade of Berlin, allied officials countered the Communist cutting of communications by installing a powerful radio transmitter at allied military headqarters in West Berlin. This maintained radio-telephone and telegraph service to the West. West Berlin postal authorities rushed their emergency short wave radio service into operation todgy and set up their own telephone information service. With the heightening of tension, East German propagandists seized upon a shooting incident on the Bavarian-East German frontier for a new propaganda attack on the West. German Ijorder police said (Tun Tv Pp«e Kl*ht) 5 ' Over 300 Enrolled I For Bible School C Vacation School Is / Opened Here Monday More than 300 children enrolled Monday oh opening day of the daily vacation Bible school, sponsored by the associated churches of Decatur. Fifty-five teachers and helpers from all the cooperating churches make up the teaching 4taff of the school, held at the Lincoln school buildlag. Boys Apd girls between four years of age and high school freshman age who have not enrolled are urged to do so as soon as possible, in order to prevent loss of much valuable training and instruction. Classes are held from 8:30 to 11 o’clock each morning, five days a week. No classes will be held Friday, Memorial Day. The close will close Friday, June 6, with an evening program to feature closing exercises. \ Opening devotions were given Monday by the Rev. Samuel Emerv ick, pastor of First Methodjst church. Devotions this morning were given by the Rev. Herald Welty, pastor of the First Missionary church. The Wednesday morning devotions will be in charge of a group of laymen, representing the Gideon organisation, who will also present Testaments to the pupils. Thursday morning devotions will be given by the Rev. John E. Chambers, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. An offering is received each morning, a portion of which goes for a special offering. This year, the benevolent portion of the offerings will be presented to the American Bible society, which has for its chief aim the distribution of the scriptures. The balance of the offerings will be used tor the school expenses.

Oil Workers'Strike Is Drawing To Close Over Two-Thirds Os Strikers Returned Denver, Colo., May 27 —(UP) — The four-week-old walkout of 90,000 of the nation’s oil workers was drawing to today as union officials ./reported two-thirds to three-fourths erf the strikers were back on the job. ! I O. A. knight, president of the CIO Oil Workers Union, said only about 1| percent of the nation’s reCinery production still was shut down, compared to 35 percent at the height of the national walkout. At the same time, the petroleum administration for defense announced a slight modification of its original order controlling aviation gasoline supplies to civilian flyers. Effective at 4:91 a. m. EDT today, buyers will <be able for the next three weeks to! purchase up to 19.5 percent of the gasoline they bought in, March. The original order limited their weekly purchases to 16.2 percent of the March average. The latest contract settlements sent some 1,600 emloyes of the Cities Service Co. back to work in Texas and. Kansas, and another 300 workers back to their jbbs at the Tidewater Oil Co. plant in Drumright, Okla. Although bargaining still was in progress. 475 workers returned to their jobs at the Utah Oil Co. refinery in Salt Lake City. The CIO and 21 other AFL and independent unions went out on strike April over a demand for a flat 25-cent an hour wage increase. In subsequent bargaining th edemand was reduced to cents, and finally to 15 cent® by a wage stabilization order. Reports Craig Leads In Gubernatorial Race Indianapolis, May 27 — (UP) -L The Indianapolis News today reported George Craig a better than 2-to-l favorite for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in its poll of state convention delegates. The poll was answered by 1,543 of 2,116 delegates, the News said, with these results ixi the governor race: ' I.' Craig 531 votes, Leland Smith 229, John Van Ness 211, Samuel Harrell 168, W. O. Hughes 152, Francis McCarty 16. Harold Handley, i who since withdrew and announced for lieutenant governor, received 72 votes. Human Fly In Action Wednesday Evening Climbs Court House Tomorrow Night Johnnie Woodsy internationally known "human fly,” will climb the Adams county court house Wednesday night starting at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced today by 'members of Adams post 43 American Legion, j . J The event will be sponsored by the American Legion post and proceeds from a- free-will offering which will be collected will go to the Legion youth activity and junior baseball funds - ' I Woods, who has been performing the climbing stunt for 37 years, has operated in three different countries and almost every state in the United States. He claims to have fallen only seven times in the 37 years. He has climbed buildings as high as 34 stories and states that he enjoys his Work. e . The local committee announced that in event of rain Wednesday night, the performance will be given Thursday night at the same time. I In event darkness comes before the "fly” reaches the top of the court house, a spotlight will be used to guide the spectators* eyes. Membera of the Legion will assist in taking the collection.

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Merge Armies Into One For Joint Defense ' Pact Unprecedented In Peace Time; Serve Under Gen. Ridgway Paris, May 27—(UP)—Six western European nations including Germany today signed a treatyunprecedented in peace time to merge their armies into one to defend democracy against Communist aggression. \ Under the treaty the troops of Western Germany, France, Italy. Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxenrbuorg wilt combine to serve under Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway as allied supreme commander, along with separate American, British and Canadian armies. As the treaty was signed at the french foreign office, the United States and Great Britain pledged themselves in a special declaration to defend the six nations, and the allied-held sectors of Berlin, against attack "from any quarter.’* '' In Berlin, the Russian and East \ German Communists, enraged at the signing of the six-nation army treaty and the peace pact With Germany in Bonn, started cutting i telephone and telegraph commnnL cations to the outside world. They also barred allied military patrols from the main highway to the west ' f | Fearing this might be the first move toward a new blockade of Berlin, secretary of state Dean Acheson, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Robert Schuman summoned an emergency meeting here tomorrow to discuss the situation. , The signing of the six-nation anny treat#, j establishing a his- 1 t'oric “European defense communy ity,” was carried out in the famous clock room of . .the Qua! D'Orsay, the French foreign office. It still must be ratified >by the various parliaments and by the U. S. senate. Along with the six-nation treaty, 14 other documents —two of them 'Secret — were signed by varibus members of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Taken along with the German peace treaty signed in Bonn yesterday, the new agreements will effect a vast merger of dett)ocratic ’ forces, one neter before attempted in world history except in actual wartime,/ to meet any Russian attack ion western Europe. f Ridgway, arriving here to take over the supreme command from Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, said at once that he believes such an attack possible. Secretary of state Acheson said at the signing ceremony that today’s action is “one of the most important and most far-reaching events of our lifetime.” The 131-article, 60-year treaty establishes for the first time in (Tars Ta Paa* BUaet) 130 Children Enroll In Lutheran School One hundred thirty children and 30 officers and teachers enrolled in the vacation Bible school Mon-' day mortiing at Zion Lutheran church, West Monroe street, reported Mrs. Enos Osterman, secretary of the school, and more children are expected to enroll today. Registrations will be accepted every day this week. Each day’s classes open with chapel exercises In the church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Edgar Schmidt, and begin promptly Ut 8:30 o’clock. Bible stories, work-book exercises, singing, recreation, handicraft are the schedules each day, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 to 11 o’clock. Parents whose children not enrolled In another vacation Bible school are invited to enroll them at the Lutheran parish hall tomorrow morning.