Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 64.

All Remaining Price Controls Brought To End Final Decontrol Action Is Taken By Government WASHINGTON, UR - The government today ended all remaining price controls. In its final decontrol actiop, the government took ceilings off steel and a batch of other industrial items important to the defense production program. Price controls were ended on all consumer items a week ago. . Today’s action leaves the'.economy virtually free of all direct economic curbs, except rent controlsin certain areas, for the first’ time in more than two years. \Pric.e stabilizer Joseph Freehill told his final news conference, that he thinks Jiis January estimate that complete price decontrol will increase prices as. a whole more \ than $3,C00,900,000 over the - year is "still reasonable.’’ * Os this amount, he estimated individual consumers will pay about $1,000,000,000 in price hikes. More • than $1,000.000,G00 will be In defense post increases, he estimated, am| the remainder in higher business and industrial costs. »' z ' Churchill Says Russian Claims Utterly Untrue Says British Plane Wantonly Downed In British Territory LONDON, UP —Prime minister "Winston Churchill told an aroused house of commons today that Russian MIG-15’8 carried out their |“cruql and wanton" attack on. a British bombfer, in which seven British airmen died, < while . the plane was over British territory, in West -Germany. J He said the Soviet claim the British Lincoln bdm-ber fired Jirst ; before being shot down was “utterly urttrue.” ' ■ jChurchilP agreed that the royal lair force plane plight ’have strayed briefly across the Soviet zone frontier. l*'But evidence proved that the Russians repeatedly fired on the Lincoln and mercilessly destroyed ■it when it was actuallj- west of and within the allied zonal frbtitier,” h 0 said. \ •’ l rk “Thus the. pincoin was actually ifover our British zone when first , -and mortally fired on and the lives of seven British airmen weye cal-, I : lously taken for a navigational mistake which could have been dealt j with by the usual methods of protest and inquiry.” - V ' -* i The destroyed British bomber Was one of five British and' American aircraft attaced by Soviet and i satellite planes in Germany last week. j Churchill said the British bomber was entirely unarmed. Patrol Border FUERSTENFELDBRUECK U- S. ABRBASE, Germany, UP — Supersonic U. S, Sabre jets piloted by ; American Korean veterans patrolled Germany’s Iron Curtain border' today binder orders to shoot back if attacked by Communist aggressors. • The Sabrejeits were flown to this Bavarian airbase Sunday to put » teeth into thej U. S. warnings that further attacks by Communist. 1 fighters on American would ■ not be tolerated. An American Thupderjet was shot down a i week ago near the , .West German-Czech.) border by a Czech MIG-15. j. ' ;—i. . ' ■ ' b ' .r/ ' i ' BULLETIN ■ , fl- 1 s'. ’ - ‘ WASHINGTON, UP - A U, C I S. air force,plane cm a routine weather flight from an Alaa- \ kan air base was fired on by a Russian-built MIG-15 approximately 25 miles out over the Pacific Ocean east of Kamchatka Peninsula shortly before 1 9 p.m., c.s.t.f March 14, the alrc force announced today. -jb- * ' The American plane was intercepted by two MIG-15’s but ' only ode attacked, p The American craft—-a re-, connalssance RB-TO tylpe returned the fire but there appeared to be no damage to ? either craft,; the air force staged. t ■ L. ■

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Shells Burst Near Adlai On Korean Front StevOnson Smashing Os Reds' Assault By Allies ’J ? gEOUL, Korea I# 5 •' — Communist mortar shells buist near visitijng Adlai StevCnsonf today on the western front whor k e American infantrymen smashed a Red attack in one of the fiercest battles ill months. | i • The Red shells biitst near Stevenson and Lt. Geri; Maxwell D. Taylor as they stoos on \a hilltop waiehin'g American ground troops, artillery and U. N. mop up a Red attack agaiifiit the Little Gibraltar hill sector.| f Stevenson and Taylor arrived shortly after U. lnd division troops halted- an attack by 400 Chinese Reds nine miles Vrest Os. Yonchon. United Press correspondent Al Kass reported from' the <front that I. Chinese took ort in .the attack. He quoted, an ; hrmy officer as saying\the Reds were trying to \establish a permanent toehold on Little Gibraltar' and |llien move to Big Gibraltar, Which would give them control of a valley' leading south to Seoul. But Sth army headquarters said it did not believe Little Gibraltar attack was intended as a Communist offensive. 7 The Democratic presidential candidate was to have visited the front lines at Little but the attack forced him to watch the action from another position in the sector. c Stevenson, clad in an armored vest and army fields uniform and helmet, showed no uneasiness as a mortar shell hurst 30 yards away. How’ever, Taylor said tersely, "Le‘’s get the party moving.” Another shell burgt on the hill top as the party left. The Americans virtually annihilated the attackers who stormed their trenches. ‘They counted 65 dead and estimated 10 were killed and 120 wounded in the eight-hour battle *’ith bayonets, machine guns, rifles and Two Red companies pierced the main Allied defense and two more companies of reinforcements were blocked by Allied artillery in what apparently was planned as a battal-ion-plus attack. . .1 \ ' \ ’ . ' ~~ 37 " Henry W. Grunewald Ordered To Trial WASHINGTON, ui» — Federal Jqdge Alexander Holtz ass today, ordered Henry W. Grurielwald to face trial immediately for. ppntempt of congress despite a claim of ill health, a defense attorney said. William H. Collins.-'eiaid Holtllzoff made the ruling in a conference with attorneys after receiving amedical report from:; IDr. Bernard J. Walsh, a heart specialist. ’ b dr* 30) Physicians, |l2 i Dentists Are Needed - INDIANAPOLIS H? — Lt. CoL Frank R. Kossa, state selective' service director, announced today Indiana must furnish 3) physicians and 12 deintists to therqrmed forces during April. He expected most iot the quota will be filled by volunteers and the. men will not actually be drafted. The quota represent# a sizeable increase over March, when nine physicians and six dentists were required. N k-4 1 ■ '

Leslie Hunter New Commander Os VFW Annual Election Is Held Monday Night Leslie Hunter, an employee of Stewart’s bakery in this cifir, was elected commander of Llmberlost Post 6236. Veterans of F6reign Wars, at the annual election Monday night at the post home on North Third street. ' 1 Hunter will (succeed Clarence Weber following installation next month. Hunter is a veteran of ,World War 11, having served witth military police batallion 787, spending nine months in London and 11 months in Paris. £ Other officers are: Clarence Hook, senior vice commander; Don Burke, junior vice commander; Larry Jennings, chaplain; Harry Martz, quarterihaster; Severin Schurger, judge advocate; Dr. Arthur Girod, surged; Stults, trustee, one" year; lifdward Voglewede, trustee, two years; Clarence Weber, (trustee,— three years; Theodore Baker, house Committee, one year; Ronald Ballard, house committee, three years. Hunter and..hie staff of officers will be installed by Harry Martz Monday, April 6, in joint installation meeting with the ladies auxilary. Eats and refreshments will be served following the meeting. Marshal Tito And Churchill Confer Disc uss Situation After Stalin Death x LONDON, (UP) — Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito tonight discussed with prime minister Winston Churchill the situation behind the Iron Curtain resulting from Josef Stalin’s death. Yugoslav sources close to Tito said the Yugoslav leader told Churchill the west should concentrate its efforts on splitting Russia from her satellites. These sources said Tito — who himself* broke away from the Cominform five years ago — advised against any violent western propaganda campaign against the Cominform. He blelieves. they said, that more can be accomplished by a more subtle “psychological warfare” aimed at inducing other Balkan satellites to follow Tito’s example. . 1 The 60-year-old Yugoslav president called at No. 10 Downing Street after a busy day during which he changed costumes three times. The changes were necessitated by a visit to the ancient Tower of London, a luncheon with Queen Elizaibeth — at Buckingham Palace and a visit to the London county council which governs metropolitan London. Tito was expected to sqpk from Churchill the. west’s plans for pro y /Tare To F?lKht> Walk-Wait Signal Lights Erected 7 Light and power department workers today installed walk-and-wait signal lights at the intersection of Monroe and Second streets prior to the installation of neon lights that were contracted for four months ago. The lights that are up today are the common Variety stencil type with an ordinary incandescent lamp as the source; the ones that are to be placed permanently afford much better vision at a greater distance and are more distinct.

Pedqffur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 17, 1953.

Troops Two Miles From Atomic Blast Unharmed In First Test Os Year

Says Atomic Blast LittleFelt In Trench Correspondent And Men Disappointed Blast Effects ‘Editor’s note: unite#, Pttess Staff Correspondent Robert Bennyhoff, who has reported 21 previous atomic explbafons in Bikini and souther# . \ witnessed today's “O|> . eration St. Pat’’ blast from a trench only two miles from the detonation tower.) L ? By l ROBERT BENNYHOFF (United Press Staff Correspondent) TWjb MILES FROM GROUND ZERjbj Atomic Test Site, Nev. UP^t— j I stood two miles from an atoniid explosion today expecting to getithk jolt of my life—but what I saw; apd heard and felt wks disappointing. » A- xiuclear device exploded virtually In our laps at 5:20 a.m. PST’. but the intense light of.the detonation lived up to the advance I pelt none of the intense heat the sciebtlljus had predicted we would feeL The shock of the blast was Howheie near as violent as 1 expected.. 7 f It felt more like the gentle but detfcHtfftned roll yof an earthquake than] the jolt of nuclear fission. Nor wasTilie atomic cloud anywhere -1 hear as beautiful, as many other prev ot)s tests had beeti. i Therie was none ot the boiling fireball and of the violent Chaiigefe of hue as the traditional mushroom began to form. I I bdnd myself wondering if the scientists had not been absolutely right Virhen they said only Monday thatluje would have been just as sateltiLtrenches only ohe mile from verier of the explosion. The blast notified us it was here by 'S brilliant wnite light. The wal)S the trench against which we liu4dled began to vibrate —slowly. bitt; unmistakably. > Fv£ been in earthquakes before. This? was an earthquake. I disappointed in the noise. The first we heard was a loud clapjl like a sharp rgp of thunder. Then\i|! began echoing like thundet recei ing, back and forth across the deseit -for nearly 30 seconds. It;.Was' pretty chilly in that tren,dhhiut we didn’t feel the slightest of heat. Msn; after man expressed the same- thought—disappointment. Title :dust cloud which swept across jtte trenches was choking and blinding and for more than five minti tep we could see only a few feet around us. Th rt-y minutes after the explo-sion,-the dust cloud still hung low overs ‘fground zero” and it was impb ss ble to see whether the 300-. foot detonating tower had dis- - /Tnra Ta »

TftecUtet&M, ■I I i , ' ! : (By Rev. Traverse W. Chandler, First Christian Church) , 1 “A NEW KNOWLEDGE” - *-L I' " ' i■ - • -V:' ■ i Romans i!4;8.: "If we live, we live to the Lord, and ?; w we die, we die to. the Lord; so then, whether we live ‘ ; or whether we die, we' are the Lord’s.” Si season of Lent is a time of self denial born out of a > I duty and obligation to the Savior. It is a time when one that the real test of faith comes in the application of the n Principle to everyday life situations. i Paul of priceless Christian experience told his troubled x. “Welcome a man of weak, faith, but not Cor the purpose ng judgment on his scruples.” He had come'to know, by the knowledge that was his aftar'his conversion, the way in which -his Savior would have hitn regard the irreconcilable differences! of men. His associations with those around him were guided by the conviction that it was not a matter of his righteousness pittef against their unrighteousness, but an opportunity that he mighl show them the Christ thai had raised bim to a newness of life. ,To him the reign of God wis not a matter of eating and drinking, but righteousness, joy. and; peace" in the Holy Spirit. This was the plane upon which he served his Christ. I ikay thgt Christian faith -be the guide and stay of all who love the Lord, in this day as it -was then. a ■ .

To Participate n H Government Affairs Industry bivision Os C. Os C. Meets • A resolution calling for extern ( 9ive participation in all phases of. •county and municipal government was passqd by the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce at their monthly\meeting Monday afternoon, according t to chairman Charles Ehinger, president of the Citizens Telephone Co. ,v The industrial division of -the •CC represents about 50 percent of all the taxes taken in Decatur. Hereafter, the division will dispatch groups of two men to all (neetlngs of the Adams county- memorial hospital the Decatiir city council, the Decatur School board. The groups will revolve, interchanging members for each month’s round of meetings. Assigned at Monday’s meetings were: Wjlbur Petrie and fcirl Caston, to attend tonight’s meeting of ibe city council: Cal Yost and fear! Fuhrman, to attend the next meeting of the hospital board; arid Harold Engle and Jamels Cow\an.,io attend the next meeting of the school board. i x The purpose of this step-up in .activity; of the division, as Ehlng•■tr Irtit tt: "We have been expect* ing a handful of men to devote fhetr time and energy to solve all the problems of the city,and county and have done nothing ‘(the industrial men) to contribute to solutions jOursel veA” A meeting has 'been arranged with the hospital \ board and the industrial division for April 13 at fhp Moose home. The 1 invitation was forwarded to Cal Peterson, chairman of the hospital bdard. yesterday, and has been accept'ed. \ ' Chairman of the civic participation progrSm for the rest of the year is Robert Bradtmiller. presiwnt of the Wayne Novelty Co., who said of the coming meeting with the hospital board: . . The meeting will be for thle purpose of discussing with th<j hospital board in the vitjal services ft provides.!’ \i, ;It has been strongly indicated that the hospital. board meeting nekt month will have a lot to do with rumored plans for expansion of the hospital. Prime boine of contention with some members of the division, in this matter, is the fkct that the hospital oeprates as a deficit yearly ot $40,000. , t Members of the industrial division represent every industry in the city and it was stated L|y one source in the division, regarding the flurry of activity that, has been launched, because ‘of the great deal of taxes paid, by the members of the division without proportional say in the bodies that spend that money. It is also felt .that the information to be gained ,by attending meetings will be valuable information to possess in <Tara To Pace Two)

Russia Charges U. S., Britain Continuing War Russian Paper Soviet Union Seeks| End To Korea War MOSCOW UP — The Soviet Communist 4 party newspaper Pravda accused the United States and Britain today of continuing the Korean war while Russia was doing all in its power to stop it. The newspaper in an editorial said the Soviet government thruogh said the Soviet government through posed last autumn that), a “cease fire” be arranged immediately “on the basis of a project already accepted by parties.” The Soviets also proposed the question of “complete repatriation of prisoners of war” to be transferred to “a commission charged with settling the Korean’ question,” the editorial said. ' "However, this proposition was by the \Anglo-American bloc.” Pravda riaid. The editorial marked the fourth anniversary of the signing of a Soviet-North Korean pact by late Josef Stalin and Premier Kim Ir-Sei). The Soviet U. N. delegation recently again asked the War in Korea be stopped, the said, but “once again the Anglo-Ameri-lean bloc rebuffed the Soviet proposition and unmasked itself anew before everybody as responsible for the continuation of the bloody war in Korea. “Straightening oir t|ie Korea question does not suit American ruling circles Which kre doing everything to transform Korea into a springboard for developing war in the Far East. ■ ' “the USSR is fighting with all its power to stop the bloody war in Korea in order to end American military atrocities,’* (the newspaper said. another said {Turn To P«<e Bickt) ” »D‘ • To Plan Building Os Community Center Foundation Heads T 6 Meet With Allen A conference between F. Elwood Allen, park and recreation planner of New York City, and the director of Decatur Memorial Foundation, I tic., on plans for Decatur’s proposed Community anti Youth Center, will be held as soon as Allen can come to this city, the board annpuheed today. The directors met last evening at the First State Bank and empowered & I. Finlayson, chairman of: a building planning cbmmittee. to contact the New York consultant who designed preliminary plan« tor vhe civic center in 1949. Headed by four directors of the Foundation, a building planning committee will be named to advise with the board in formulating final plans for the building. Representatives of the twq\ high schoOis will be invited to serve on this advisory committee. The committee directors are Finlayson, Charles D. Ehinger, Robert Anderson and E. W. Lankenau. A preliminary estimate in 1949 set the cost of building construction* furnishing and equipment, landscaping and roads apd architedt*s service at T. F. jGraliiu-r, treasurer of the Foundation, reported payments, of $165,169.98. Central Soya company will make a gift for pne-half this amount. ’ —|, i\ j \ INDIANA WEATHER increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight with showers beginning .southwest tonight j and overspreading state Wednesday; mild Low tonight 38-44 north, 44-48 south. High Wednesday 55-65 north, 65-70 south.

Ban On Indianapolis Hog Trading Ended Eight-Day Ban At Hog Market Ended INDIANAPOLIS UP — An erghtday ban on all hog trading at the nation’s third largest hog market was lifted today. Indianapolis Stockyards officials announced that hog shipments would be accepted after 5 p.m. today. The U. S. agriculture depart-, ment clamped a quarantine on the yards last Monday after two shipments of swine to the East were reported i infected With vesicular exanthema. , Federal authorities said the ban j would be lifted after, 30 acres of I hog pens were cleaned and scraped. ' Stockyards officials said the j cleaning, w’hich included pens, al- 1 leys, Dutbound railroad chutes and even overhead crosswalks and telephone booths, was nearly completed this morning. Trading will start Wednesday. Officials said about $2>.4d0.000 worth of hogs were kept from the market here during the six days the yards would normally have been open for trading. They estimated 10.000 swine at an average of S4O japiece are normally brought here during dne day. \ Authorities skid a quarantine such as was imposed here was a “hard situation th cope with” since the Indianapolis yards depend to a great extent on out-of-state packers to supply thkir market for hogs. They said loss of 12,000 hogs caught at Indianapolis when the quarantine Was imposed March 9 was prevented when most of the swine were sent to state" packers and others in Cincinnati and Louisville beforey the 24-hour limit on disposal. Officials hoped a meeting of InditTaro Ta P«*e KfOO To Attend Annual Youth Conference Decatur Youths And Adults Will Attend Local students as well as instructors and welfare workers will attend the third annual Citizen's conference of the Indiana Council for children and youth planned for March 24 on the campus of Indiana Central College at Indianapolis. According to an observer at last year?a meeting, when no students wertl participating, it was felt by those present that the attitude of the young people was absent and that henceforth studehts should be- invited to supply the massing ingredients. And so this year four students as well as adult leaders have been Invited. They include three students from Decatur high school and one from Decatur Catholic, Shirley Fuelling, Marilyn Jaberg, Jim Row ; ley ana Joe Costello. Deane Dorwin, vocational guidance counselor at Decat\ir high. Mrs. Lawrence worker, and Miss Berniece Nelson, welfare department head, will accompany the students and take past ip the discussions. Governor George Craig will convene the sessions and speak in detail on his plans concerning the youth of the state. Dr. lEvelyn Millis Duval will be the guest speaker for the day and will speak oh the theme: Makes, Youngsters Tick — and How.” During the mornlng Dr. Duval will conduct a question-and-answer period when she will take queried from the audience. \ Students from other schools and the local student detachment will discuss! problems as they-arise today. With some help from adult participation they will outline steps toward possible solution. Registration will begin at 9 a m. on Match 24 and continue until 9:45 ajn. The general session will then

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'Atomic Test > Is Held Today IAI Nevada Site American Soldiers j i In Trenches Unhurt l In Test Explosion ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev., UP — American troops in trenches within two miles of the first atomic 7'bomb 'blast of '1953 cams I through the historic expedience on | Yucca Flat today without inj”-iry. jyithin an pour they were out of tieir trenches and moving . fori ward to assigned objectives. I There were 1.600 troops aVitf j military observers, 20 newsman l and a few civiLdefense officials ' in fixed positions two miles from where a slendeif steel tower vaporized with a blinding flaah. Only humans thlt close to - -a nuclear explosion before were the Japanese ill Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The pre-dawn blast was beard in Pasadena. Calif., 300 miles to the west. It was felt as far away as Cedar City, Utah. 175 njiles to the northeast. In Las Vegas, Ney,, 65 miles to the sefutheast. the brilliance of the flash made thej neon signs along gambling rjows appear dim. ’ ■ A predominately purple Cirdball sparked atop the detonation tower- It disappeared quickly as a weird, ice-topped cloud formed its characteristic mushroom top. At the base, turbulence whipped mF >a dust cloud that for manyminutes obscured the desert where the troops < were entrenched and where typical American homes and autos had been subjected to the nuclear-blast. i Test manager -Carroll L. Tyler described the experiment as "carried: out very nicely from our standpoint.” i "There was a heavy concentration of radiation in -the vicinity of the test houses,” Tyler told newsmen, He > estimated radiation at 10 roentgen units which would be dangerous to humans. | . "I doubt if the radiation would kill the people in house No. 2. a mile and one half from the blast, bdt they would become ill if they there for five hours,” tie added. \ ■ Tyler said it. miglit be two days •before newsmen—who had Groped to nlake an inspection of the cHil defense exhibit this morning — could approach the test homes, radiation was so intense. The test director flew over the houses and cars in a helicopter. House No. 1, three quarters of a mile out was “hard hit,” but did not burn. House No. 2. one and one-half miles from “ground zero.** did not even appear to 1 have broken windows.’ I \ Mannequins in the parked autos, Tyler reported, were “not disturbed.” Soldiers and correspondents who returned to Ndws Nob after advancing within 300 yards of, "ground zero” said house No. 1 was "completely wrecked” and 1 it appeared the first and second floors had collapsed into the basement. They looked at house No. 2 through field glasses. Dust clouds prevented thorough examination. They said, however, it appeared a light was still burning in house No. 2. Automobiles in the vicinity of house No. 1, a half, mile from the blast tower, appeared badly wrecked. Some were upended and others lay’on their sides. Some of the cars *#ere smoking? One behind, bouse No. 2 was burning. ” Pars which were about two or three miles from the blast were damaged. Those with their windows shut appeared to have their tops crushed in, perhaps by suction. Those with doors open seemed practically unharmed. ' Dummies in cars this far back appeared unharmed. ' ; The troops and correspondents passed within 300 yards of the blast; tower. Field bunkers of the in Korea, sandbagged | fTam Ta BtgktJ