Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 257.

Two Chaplains Fail Os Truce With Rioters j ' L..L- | ''l ? *’' 300 Convicts Still Holding Out Today In Illinois Prison Renard, in. up 4- two prison chaplains failed today to negotiate a truce with 300 hungry and rebel* Hous convicts/who arc holding seven guards as hostage Hn a barricaded dell block at .Menard state prison. ] ,The convicts permitted the chieT of prison guards to see all seven hostages, ' but refused to release them. 7 .! ' The Rev. Joseph. Strzelec, a Catholic priest, and the Rev. Samuel S. Reeves, a Baptist minister, entered the strife-torn east cell block this morning to renew discussions with a committee representing the rioting prisoners. “the chaplains hoped to pave the way for a' meeting between the tdonvicts and LL Gpv. Sherwood Dixon, who Wednesday helped persuade 38 mentally detanced prisoners to surrender and release three guards. But today's conference ended after the prisoners insisted, that their list of 12 undisclosed demands be,published in Chicago and St. Louis newspaper*, along with i an endorsement by Dixon.

Robert Rees, information direc- , tor for the state department of public safety, said tne.j ultimatum would not “be dignifiedby a reply, because it would be tantamount to complete surrender.” j; \ V Reas said the ebnViets wanted Dixon “to agree to tljeir demands without discussions.” , . Strzelec said some of the de- : mands involved the-jstate parole ' board and would require legislative action which Dixon could not promise. ; i Chief Leonard Wood of the prison guard said he talked briefly with all seven hostages ajid "’fhey're all okay.” i Frank L. Trapp Jr., superintendent of prisons, Wednesday night talked to four of the sjeven guards still being held. He akked to see all seven, but only four were brought to him. They were guard Lt. {Loren Stewart. 55, Walter Miller,.sl, Ignatius Castellano. 4'6 and Ernest Richardson, 57. i Thdre was an unconfirmed rumor that the prisoners were taking turns walking Stewart up an\d down the galley in an effort to “walk him to death.” But prison officials said there was no evidence to support the rumor. Trap said Stewart and the other three he talked to wfere tired and hungry** but otherwise appeared to be in good condition. - Strzelpc and Reeves visited the strife-torn cell block twice Wednesday nighs, and brought back the rioters’ demands, J said there “were about 12 jof them, but prison officials did j n ; ot disclose •what they were. ! '' Earlier Wednesday Dixon and . other prison officials including warden Jerome J. Mtfnie met with a committee of eight, representing the rioters. At that' time Dixon would make no promise about reprisals and insisted the guards be released.' ' ' | . The prisoners at fiHj discussed releasing fourof their hostages while still holding three off the guards. ' . » ' But it was later learned that (Turn To pear Six) i X --Irrrrl rn . Fa// Festival Os Lincoln PT A Here On Friday Evening, i The , annual fair ahd fall festival. under sponsorship of the Lincoln school parent-teachers association, will be held at the Decatur high school gymnasium Friday night, immediately following the annual Halloween parade. The gym is being , gaily decorated flor the occasion, with varied entertainment offered and innumerable delicacies for sale. The. phblic is invited to the festival, -which has attracted big crowds in past years. % Tickets were distributed to the school children Wednesday. u_ INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight and - Friday. Low tonight 4045 north* 35-40 soutn. High Friday 69-75.

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Ike Charges Democrats Are Spreading Lies Eisenhower Makes • Thorough Campaign In New York [City ' NEW YORK UP — Dwight D. Elsenhower charged today that the Democrats are spreading “just plain lies” about him they are "really afraid . . .. that they’lj lose a lot of bushy jobs down in Washington.” I I, * "But the day of reckoning is here;” he said, °and they: see the handwriting on the wall.’’ .■ The general was off,early for the third straight day of his painstakingly thorough campaign in the New York City area.. Pushing his assault by water for the time, Eisenhower shook hands’ on the Staten Island ferry and blgsted the Democrats in a Lower Manhattan motorcade. 1 • He told an audience of: 2,000 in front of |he Staten Island'borough hall that one of the\ big | reasons the Democrats Criticized jhis personal to Korea wias their fear of a Republican next Tuesday. ■ Eisenhower referred repeatedly to the Korean issue following re.celpt of « letter from Gep. James A. Va,n who sajd tlje South Korean army was in “ai>Pl® pie' order.” Wan Fleet’s letterfindicatr ed to Elsenhower that the” Koreans do mjore of their own fighting and save American casualties. . | ? After the Staten island* speech, he returned across the hirbor to, continue his sevep-speech pchedule in the New; York area, winding up tonight at a tally in -Madison Square Garden. , I Eisenhower ajtmed himself with “ammunition" from G&n. James A. Vah Fleet as he kept pushing Korea as the top issue. ■ The ammunition was to the Republican presidential candidate in the form of la letter wdijch Van Fleet. eighth army commander in Korea. recently wrlpte to a friend in Washington, Maj. Gfen. Orlando C. Mocid. i ■ Eisenhower indicated he would refer to the letter repeatedly in winding up a three-day Stand in thg New York metropolitan area, which ends with a five-hdur rally tqifight at, Madison Squire Garden. to support his plan for reducing American casualties in Korea. -He figuratively fired shrapnel at his political enemy Wednesday nighti by reading excerpts of the Van Fleet letter during a? 45-min-ute nationwide radio-television show which featured 25 GOP governors. : .. Eisenhower produced the letter fTrnru To Pace KichO ■.■■: i ■ J ] ■.l . • . ' I :

Five Percenter Deal Contract Cancelled ;\ : Ji i j . » Democratic Party Official Is Fired WASHINGTON, UP — A new “fiye percenter” deal involving a $9,000,000 government contract resulted today in the dismissal of a high Democratic party official. Lawrence Westbrook, Texas businessman nad former New Deal administrator, was summarily fired from the staff of the Democratic national committee by chair-, man Stephen A. Mitchell. Mitchell said Wednesday night that he dismissed Westbrook irtimediately upon learning that he was involved in a deal whereby he and associates would receive 5 percent on a $9,000,000 contract for tungsten which the government granted Compania Atlantica, a Portuguese firm. This would have amounted to $450,000. How’ever, general services administrator Jess Larson said he 'cancelled the contract Monday after receiving reports the firm was buying the tungsten in the iha.rket\ instead of delivering it from its own mines as agreed. He said he "did not know” that Westbrook had any sort \of “contingent fee? deal with, the firm. No federal money was actually paid! out on the contract before it was cancelled, Larson said. Thurman Hill, former chief counsel of the treasury department’s procurement \o ffl ce , confirmed meanwhile that he and Westbrook were associated, as attorneys, in helping to negotiate the contract. Disputing Larson’s, account. Hill said government officials were formally notified months ago that Westbrook stood to profit personally from the contract He said papers were filed with the GSA to show that Westbrook and Heinz Pulyermann, of Rye, N. Y., were sales agents for the Portuguese firm and were to get up to 5 percent of any government contract they negotiated. Mitchell said there wasi “no indication” that Westbrook made use' of his position as an assistant to the chairman of the Democratic committee t<) “bring imptoper influence to bear” in obtaining the contract He said Westbrook also “explained to me that he had entered these negotiations long before his employment by the committee and In fact thought the terms of a government contract had been settled before his employment." ' Despite these facts, Mitchell said, he dismissed Westbrook from the r°nimittee staff immediately” because "I do not think any exception can be made to the policy that an employe of the committee must not engage in business with the government.” O — 0 12 PAGES '

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 30, 1952.

Korean Central Front Ablaze With Chinese Blasting Allied Lines

Adlai Lauds ] Party's Aid For Business Nominee Asserts Democratic Party Opposes Socialism EN ROUTE WITH STEVENSON UP —Adlai Stevenson said today that if his “destiny takes me to Washington" he will seek to end the “war” between some augments of business and other elements of society. "The name for all government is not bureaucracy; the name for all business is not reactionary," he told a crowd of 3.000 at Reading, during a whistle-stop swing through Pennsylvania. He said the Democratic party is "against socialism in any form,” including "creeping, crawling or the kind that shows up in Republican oratory.” The party, he said, actually "has done more for business in the last 20 years than was done in any other interval of our history.” Business, he said, is enjoying “bigger profits, both nefore and after taxes” than ever before, because the Democrats have increased consumer purchasing power. In an earlier speech at .Pottstown on his tour which will taTce him to Pittsburgh for a major speech tonight. Stevenson accused Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower of “pwallowing Sen. Robert A. Taft -hook line and sinker.” j Stevenson predicted that Eisenhower would hear about the “sinker” on election day as a result of his, alliance with Taft. “I don’t think I’m going to be in the coffin” Nov. 4, he said. Stevenson said the Democratic party has a "specific and positive” program to keep the nation economically strong, and a program to combat Communism, curb high prices and strengthen the social security system. “When we say that what we need is a new labor relations law we mean just that —a law designed in the best interests df the workingmen, business and finally the public,” he said. He termed the war in Korea "our great overshadowing probI (Turn T» P«ke Kl*ht) \. i Discusses Possible New Industry Here C. C. Secretary At Meeting In Chicago Walter Ford, Chamber of Commerce secretary, has returned from Chicago and appears enthusiastic over his talkd, with industrial heads therei over the possibilities of building a 1 new plant here. \ Ford said he was bound by the businessmen not to divulge exactly what industry may settle here, but Ford said it would suffice to say for the present that it -was a “big money business.” The meeting was arranged by officials of the Pennsylvania railroad, railroads often taking part in such negotiations as liason messengers, and was held on the sixth floor of the Union station building in Chicago. Ford said if the parties involved decide to come here they will not take over an old building but work from the ground up. He said both men and women are employed in the work, which, he hinted, is on the retail as well as the manufacturing level. 4 1 The Chamber executives said a group of the industrial heads will soon pay Decatur a visit to search out the facilities of the town, water, power, transportation, and so forth.

Halloween Parade Here Friday Night Annual Parade To\ Be Held In City Witches and goblins and. black cats, too, pot to mention a ghost or two. The Callithumpian parade, to be' marched in this year by hundreds of kids and grownups from in t *apd out of the Decatur area and /in nearby towns in Ohio. Myriad costumes, of wondrous and tolorfpl hue, will stretch the kngth of Decatur, accompanied by'least 10 bands of high school musicians all decked out at their uniformed best. Hahoween is the traditional night when the spooky dead of disrepute arise and float among > the living and make abounding mischief at the stroke of the black hour, midnight. In the past, to give aid to said spirits, the diminutive generation has felt it their duty to < aid the cause by taking over tasks ~th«it an etherial body might find > 'bit difficult ... overturning garbage chns . . . vandalism to autos . J i doorbell ringing and practical jokes galore. And sometimes the fun went out of it because here and there some real losses were incurred. So ... 35 years ago, wise Decatur elders conceived the idea of leading the mischievous energies Os their loving offspring into sortie: planned albeit unbridled funmaking, to wit, the Callithumplan parade. \ With the passing of the years the event ' blossomed out \ and some years as many, as 25 bands took part and folks came from’all ardund to see what Decatur can Whip up , for its children. It is uow an institution. Friday evening at 7:30 a carousing horde of maskers will proceed with , floats and horns and music and noisemakers through the city, the &sth anniversary of the Calli(Turn To Pa*e Ei*ht) Expect Hard Coal /i/ \ X ■ Operators To Sign Lewis Demands Pay Hike By Saturday WASHINGTON UP — Hard coal operators today were reported ready to boW to John L. Lewis demands that 65.000 anthracite miners get a pay raise by Saturday. Facing a -deadline two days away, the i operators were scheduled to resume negotiations, with the’United Mine Workers’ chief on a new hard coal contract. Informants said the producers werd ready to sign a new agreement rather than face a shutdown in the anthracite fields. Lewis has insisted the contract *be signed in time to give the miners the pay boost by Nov. 1. Throughout the negotiations, the miners' boss has been demanding a 31.90-a-day wage boost —the same increase he won for 375,0b0 soft coal miners. When the wage stabl’itatlon board trimmed the soft coal hike to $1.50, the miners staged a ’ walkout, returning this week on direct orders from Lewis. Lewis and soft coal industry leaders have appealed to econom(Turn To P«l* Six) Teeple Funeral On Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda Teeple. who died early Wednesday morhing, w|ll be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Black funeral hotae, the Rev. Robert J. Tinsky officiating. Burial will be in: the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the fuperal home until time of the services.

Says Entry In Korea Averted 3rd World War President Truman Speaks To 20,000 At Muskegon, Mich. IEN ROUTE WITH UP President Truman, making the Democrats’ last big bid for Michigan’s 20 electoral votes, said today U. S. troops are fighting in Korea “to keep from fighting here on U. S. soil tomorrow.” Mr. Trutnanly told a crowd of 20,000 at Muskegon that U. S. entry into the Korean conflict had prevented a third world war. “If we follow the advice of the Republicans.” he said, “we will weaken our defenses and let Communism take over the world.” Muskegon was the President’S first whistle stop in a one-day swing across Michigan, to be capped tonight with a nationhMy teleyised and radio address |in Detroit. Sen. Blair Moody and incumbent Gov’4 G. Mennen Williams joined the presidential campaign train at Muskegbn | where the President spoke from the rear platform at 8 a.m. e.s.t. In\Chicago Wednesday night, Mr. Truman' accused Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower of playing "superman.” , "We are fighting in Korea so we will not have to fight in or San Francisco or Grand Rapids.” Mr. Truman said in Grand Rapids, the home town of the late Republican Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. “Korea marks the greatest test, the most important landmark in all that done to hold and counter Soviet imperialism. The free world met thar test, as it never had the will or courage to respond to Japanese aggression in Manchuria, or Hitler’s march ipto Austria,” he said. Mr. Truman praised Vandenberg as a "tower of Strength, a leader and a counselor at every step” in the program to stop Communist aggression. ' y | From the time that Vandenberg became ill, the President said, the "Republican party in Congress has slid into the hands of the Old Guard isolationists, who always hated Vandenberg and made haste to reverse the whole direction of his work.” > Mr. Truman said th£ technique of Republicans '"is to attack i (Turn To Face Six) Forest Fire Threat In Northern Indiana Fire Threat Near ( Dunes State Park j MICHOGAN CITY, Ind. UP — A Hoosier brush and forest fire threat spread Into Northern Indiana today as fire fighters warily watched the embers of a blaze which earlier cut an eight-mile swatch through the Beverly Shores area near here. Three fire departments and about 200 volunteers late Wednesday night brought the wind-fanned conflagration undar control raced through brush near a dozen homes and" touched areas about a mile of Dunes state park. Michigan City, Pine township and Beverly Shores fire departments joined local residents in battling the blaze which charted the shore line but did little damage. Dowhstate, foresters said they were able to keep up with recurrent outbreaks of previous blazes in which 15,000 acres of tlmber(Tarn To P«i* E2t*M)

Ban Army Shipments Os Tanks To Berlin Soviet Guards Halt Shipment Os Tanks , BERLIN (UP) — The Russians today refused to let the United States army ship tanks to Berlin on the army train which runs through Soviet-occupied territory from Western Germany. An American army spokesman said Soviet border guards refused to pass eight new Patton tanks, destined for the United Sftates garrison here, through the Mar-ion-horn check-point on the border between Western and Eastern Germany.' The tanks were sent here to replace old Pershing tanks used ;by the tank company of the 6th infantry regiment. The Russians passed six Patton taliks _ on the army train two weeks ago. Bdt last Saturday they started to interfere with army supplies by refusing to pass 18 army buses on tlie train from Berlin th the west. In banning the rail shipment of the airmy’s buses and tanks, the Russians alleged they were too heavy for the! trains. But the trains had carried buses and tanks in the past. American authorities apparently made no immediate protest over the tank ban. A spokesman said negotiations had been started with the Russians/to get clearance for both tanks and busies. Thh Red action marked a new step in Russian interference. Dehpite all their other provocations,: the Russians had not previously attempted to stop movement (jf army supplies. i It was not immediately clear whether the Russians were merely making a new move in their harassment campaign or actually sought to prevent the United Stated, Great Britain and France from : sending new battle-ready equipment to Berlin. ' Meanwhile, for the fourth straight day the Russians bs.nned an Allied„ “courtesy patrol" from the 110-mlle superhighway which links Beirtin with Western Germany; An American patrol which tried to get through the Babelsberg checkpoint outside Berlin was turned back. Memorial Fund's Directors To Meet Plan Canvass Os Donors Next Month A meeting of the directors of Decatur Memorial Foundation. Inc., and committeemen will be held at 8 o’clock this evening in the club room® above the Citizens Telephone company’s office. Jt is proposed to make a canvass of donors during a two week period beginning Nov. 10, for the redemption • M pledges to the Memorial Foundation before the end of the year. Central Soya company, which has and Will continue to contribute $1 for every $2 contributed to the Foundation, wishes to make final payment before 1963. When pledges were made in 1949, donors were given the privilege of extending payments over a three year period, final payment being due bp December 31, 1952. At the last report more than $153.0)0 had been received and'the directors are hopeful that final payments will boost the total to $200,000. Steps toward construction of,the community building Will be taken Us socn as funds warrant the making of contracts, the board announced at the September meeting.

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Bloody Battles Rage On Central Korean Front Triangle Hill And Sniper Ridge Sites Os Bloody Battling* (BULLETIN SEOUL, Korea* UP—United Nations drove back a 1,000man Chinese assault force at Jane Russell Hill Friday but front reports said another Red \ force twice that size was attacking at Triangle Hill. SEOUL, Korea UP* — United Nations infantrymen smashed back a 2,000-man Chinese assault against Triangle Hill Friday, while ianother 1,000 Communists were attacking nearby Jane Russell Hill. ; The Chinese pwarmed dotfn from Pike’s Peak iq a two-pronged attack Thursday night agaijnst the key United Nations defense positions on the central front Iron Triangle sector. ' It was the Isecond major Communist effort of the day oh the suddenly blazing central front. On Sniper Ridge just to the east of Triangle, N. N, troops stormed back to the crest for the sixjth time in 14 hours of confused, bloody fighting. The Bth army has blacked out identification of units in th<s sector but at last reports American troops of the 7th division were on Triangle dnd Sout|t Koreans on Snil,er - At 9 p.m. Thursday night 6 a.m. Thursday, e.s.t Sniper was reported "relatively quiet” but U? N. troops were braced for a renewed attack. Allied troops on Sniper were stopped cold In three attempts .to drive the Reds from tunnels and bunkers at the northwest edge of Sniper Thursday. The Reds fought back with grenades, machine guns and rifles. The peak has changed hands 12 times since 1 a.m. (10 a.m, e.s.t.) W’ednesday when the Reds launched their first assault. The Reds tossed U. N. infantrymen off the peak at noon. Some 1,500 veteran 'Communist troops. screaming "kill, kill,” swarmed over the ,U. N- defenders from an intricate system of tunnels thkt led from Red territory on the ridge to Pinpoint. \ 1 The Allied riflemen regrouped and | counterattacked. At 3 p.m. (12 midnight e.s.t.),' they pushed' the Reds off the hill and 50 yards down the forward crest. Communists losses were heavy but as yet undetermined. Allied officers said that Communist artillery during the day outshot U. N. artillery by a ratio of 2% to one for the first time in the war. “There was on hell of a lot of artillery on that hill today,” said t\t. Col. Sidney €. Carpenter, Bowling Green, Ky., senior American adviser in the sector. The Reds tossed in an average (Turn To Pane Six) — , World Community J Day November 7 World Community Day, sponsored by the council of united church women, will be observed Friday, November 7. at 2 p.m. at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church. This year the theme is “Building Lasting Peace.’l All women are asked to share in the project of “Packets for Peace” by bring childrens clothing up to 6 years of age. Rev. Herald Welty, minister of the First Missionary church, -will be the afternoon speaker, using as his subject “Our Children.” Mrs. Lowell Harper of the First Presbyterian church will have charge of the meditation period.