Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 267, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1952 — Page 2

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Storm Trooper Club Os Boys Is Smashed Crackpot Adult Is Blamed For Action NEW ORLEANS, UP — Author- - Wes believed today some “crackpot adult” must have stirred a Kroup of “average American kids” to form the "Nazi Storm Trooper -• _Club” amazed officers broke, up here over the past weekend. Police arrested nine of the teenI agers and seized Nazi swastikas, 4,000 rounds of AS-cgliber ammunition, a quanity of shotgun shells and 36 knives when they moved [ln on the secret headquarters In *■ a burned grocery store. “We don’t know yet wiiere they got all this stuff,” said deputy sheriff Cy Ernst of Jefferson Parish. ‘‘but some crackpot adult must have started them out.” He Said the defiant youths belonging to the "dangerous mob” believe Adolph Hitler is still alive in Argentina and someday will return to power. “I am going to fight for him.” ■said ope 15-y ear-old boy, who proudly told, authorities he was the leader of the mob.' Ernest said this youth, as well as the others, is a “native Ameri- , can,” but is of the surly, boasting, "Storm Trooper type.” K "The whole bunch —or at least the ones we have seen—seem to be average American kids, but they sure have sopped up a lot of wild nonsense about Hitler,” Ernest said.

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At School < WgJK k I Truth McFarlin, noted, radio and concert tenor, will present a concert at the Decatur high school antlitorhim Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. He has been praafed by many artists, including Opera star James Med ton. who sage of McFarlin, ’"one of >'the greatest voices I’ve ever heawl.’v ■—■j . .tA- ............ : I "fr' police. tipped off by an eight-ydar-old boy who was denied membership. believed the gang was responsible for stoning of a Southern Railway passenger train in which two persons were injured. The leader told police qualifying for membership Involved breaking a certain jmumber of street lights, hitting a Negro with a brick, and jumping from a fast-moving train. A prospective member Also had to sign a membership card printed in the German language, carrying a picture of Hitler on one side and on the other the words. "I am a member of the Nazi party.”

Justice Jackson Is Called To Testify To Be Questioned On Katyn Massacre WASHINGTON UP —A house committee called Justice Robert H. Jackson for questioning today on whether the government “withheld from the American people” -evidence that Russia murdered 15.000 Poles near Smolensk, Russia, in 1940. court justice was the first of 27 witnesses called by a special house committee Investigating the so-called Katyn Forest massacre. Jackson was chief United States prosecutor at the Nurenburg war crimes trials. Russia at that time tried and failed to indict the Germans for the Katyn Forest massacre. The special committee was set up a year ago to determine whether Russians or Germane were to blame for the slaughter, which took place in an area that changed hands several times during the war. Each side blamed the other. The Committee already has bound Rus: sia guilty, and has charged that the |U, S. government—a wartime' ally, of Russia—didn't disclose all the facts. Today's hearings, which will run through Friday, were called t<s “determine why details' of the American people and whether there was any collusion by American authorities to Cleanse the Soviets of guilt for the y hideous crime.”

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Gqv. Stevenson To Vacation At Ranch SPRINGFIELD UP _ Gov. A<l lai E. Stevenson will leave Wednesday for a five qr six day vacation at an Arizona ranch. The governor, almost -ontinuous ly on the go except for one brief Wisconsin rest since he got the Democratic presidential nomination last July, will rest at the ranch of Richard Jenkins, an old friend, at Sasabe. Ariz., 60 mihrs south of Tucson. ■ Churchill Charges Reds Block Truce Renewed Communist v Demand Is Rejected LONDON UP —-\ Phi me minister Winston Churchill charged Monday night Russia is blocking a Korean armistice because she wants to keep Allied armies dispersed in the Far East. He rejected Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky’s renewed Communist demand for the return of Red prisoners in Korea who have renounced Communism as the price of an armistice. | !• Churchill also endorsed Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower’s plan to visit Korea and said, he would work with the United States "for those great causes which we have guarded and cherished in ever-' growing unity.” The prime minister spoke before 80Q guests at' a banquet in

I.ondon’B Guijdhall city hall in hon or of the lord mayor, Sir Rupert De LA Bere. Churchill charged that the Kremlin had ordered the original North, Korean aggression in Korea and' the dragglngjout of the subsequent truce talks “because the war keeps' so large a proportion of the United States and United Nations resourc-. es tied up th’ the Far East.” “it’s a convenient way of dispersing th« ’strength of the free world and preventing or at least delaying the| building tip of a secure defense against the subjugation of Weefern Europe.” \ Church.Asdd he is anxious for the Korean war to be brought to an end ak j speedily as possible and be kept |within the strictest limits whilejit lasts.” “But there is one thing it is never worthwhile doing,” he added. "That is! to purchase peace at the price <h’ dishonor. It would be dishonor; to send thousands of helpless prisoners of war back by force, to be-massacred by the Chinese Communist government, which - boasts 1 it actually has rid itself of i 2,000.000 of |its people. "AU history shows such bar- ■ gains, though they may afford momentary' rijief, have to be paid 1 for'on a fail larger scale later.” ’ 't South Bend Woman Is Second Crash Victim SOUTH SEND UP — Mrs. Doro- ■ thy Cruse,” 31, South Bend, died t Monday of | injuries suffered in a two-car craih\ last| week end which Allied her Clyde, 31. The couple's two small children injuria critically.'

Johnson Slated As Democratic Leader Slate Senator From Texas Floor Leader WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas apparently will be the Democratic floor leader in the Senate next year. Intoned sources reported today that about 30 of the 47 Democratic senators who will serve in the 83rd congress already have been lined up to vote for Johnsdn. _ Although he la only 44, Johnson has spent 15 years in congress—--11 in the house' and fiuf in the senate. He was Senate Democratic whip in the ,82nd Congress. He told reporters that; he felt honored and grateful at the endorsements coming from other senators, but he would not say whether he would accept the floor leader job. His fellow Democrats ha I no doubt he would. Senate Democrats must elect a new floor leader to succeed Sen. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizopa, who failed to win re-election last week. Republicans, probably must elect a new floor leader, too, because the incumbeqt. Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, wants to step out. Although the GOP situation has not yet shaken out, S'ens. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and William F. Knowland of California are now regarded as the strongest candidates. The Johnson bandwagon started to roll Monday when Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, leader of the southern Democratic bloc, endorsed the Texas senator. < Russel] could have the floor leadership post himself if he wanted it. He told a reporter, however, that he thought he could be more useful in othr ways and that Johnson deserved to be promoted to the leadership. The Georgian’s endorsement was followed by others from Sen. Earle C- Clements of Kentucky and J. Allen Frear Jr., of Delaware. Still others were understood to be in the offing. Clements expressed doubt that there would lie any candidate opposing Johnson. - 4 Johnson has followed the administration line more closely *|ha:i many southerners. But he has broken with the administration on several major issues such as. civil; rights, tidelands and labor legislation.; \ Injuries Are Fatal V To 10-Year-Old Boy SULLIVAN. Ind. l UP — Lloyd Smith- 10, Dugger, died in a hospital here Monday of injuries suffered Saturday when a car in which he rode crashed on Ind. 154 west of here. Trade In a Good Town—Decatur!

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1 YUGOSLAVIA'S Marshal Tito and his 28-year-old wife make their first public appearance together, attending a performance of the opera “Aida” at Zaprel Opera house in Zaprel. This is their first appearance together at a public function, although they have entertained diplomata and others at private affairs. (International)

Build Up Treason Case On Sergeant Provoo On Trial On Informer Charges NEW YORK. UP The government attempted to Jiuild up its treason case against former army Sgt. John David Provoo today with testimony from two witnesses, who said they heard Provoo demand uiaU a captured U. S. officer give the American military code to the Japanese. G ProVoo is on trial in U. S. district court on charges he served the Japanese as an informer and propagandist after he was captured with other Americans on CorregidOr in the Philippines in 1942; The. trial was scheduled to resume tbday.. Testimony of two witnesses Monday corroborated a story told earlier that Provod threatened a U. S. colonel with a beating if he refused to betray the code to the Japanese. \ Cpl. Robert M. Brown and Col. John Raikes Vance said they witnessed Provoo’s attempt to extort the code from Col. Theodore Teague. a signal officer under Gen. Jonathan Wainwright when Corregidor fell. Teague testified ear| Her that he refused to disclose the code despite the threat. The witnesses told how Provoo Wore Japanese civilian clothes and carried a riding crop as he filled the role of “Master of Malinta Tunnel” in the underground pris--6- x , Brown described a beating administered to Sgt, James Palone when the latter refused to tell his captors where the Americans had hidden a fortune in Philippine currency before the Japanese arrived. He said he stood “petrified” hs Provoo and a group of Japanese kicked and jabbed Palone dntil the victim was unconscious. Vance? a 35-year veteran in the army, is now stationed at Trieste ahfl was iflown to New York to testify.

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Tuesday, November 11,

One Os Decatur's Runaway Quartet Is Still At Large Halloween night, Oct. 31, two boys and two girls, two of them 16 years old, one 14,and the other 13, mysteriously disshppeared from their homes; in Decatur. Last week, the sheriff’s department received word that , the local police department of Hoffman, Tex. had the couples in custody, whereupon the parents of one of the boys drove doWn and picked them up. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end there. The car was passing through St. Ixiuis, Mol, when gas was running low and a stop Was made at a gas station. One of the couples sitting in the back seat evidently decided would make for freedom when the car stopped. That s exactly what they did- and the St. Ix)uis police managed to retrieve only the’ girl. Police here hitve' reason to suspect that Lie lone youth may- be headed south, perhaps as far as South America. The three young runaways were brought back intact and are now at the county jail awaiting their turn in juvenile court. One of the more heartbreaking aspects of the strange affair is that the the boy still at large made a of 2.200 miles, and don’t have their son to shcriv fdr the backbreaking trip, f Gambling Still Big Business In State \ INDIANAPO-LIS UP - Gambling is still- “big business” in Indiana. The,, bureau of internal revenue collected nearly >90.000 in Indiana last month through the 10 per cefat gaming tax. bringing the take of gamblers to alxrnt $900,000. Some “00 SSOO gambling stamps Were sold in Indiana since July 1. the bur Catt reported, bringing total sales this year to around 1,000, Hoosier collections since the gambling Itax went into effect a year ago amounted; to more than $“00,000; Gambling tax revenues 1 brought in an additional $71,398. Trade in a Good Town—Decatur!