Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 85.

New “Little White House”—To-Be “<77 '.■ wlpT 'fiß!Q|ilnSßHnHlMaSt .r ' . • '' 1 ■ t '■ . . j * ‘' ** ■ ■ •• >. . I . ...,xi ’"" " I I j! V '• U * I ,! d: I; ARCHITECTS’ DRAWING of the new “I'ttlei White House.” proudly called “Mamie’s Cabin,” which is to be built, on the Augusta, (Ga.) National Golf course for President Eisenhowe'r. Work on the cottage is scheduled to begin almost immediately. • \.

UN Negotiators ... , • - • V • \ Ready To Sign Exchange Pact General Mark Clark Authorizes Signing Os Exchange Pact PANM-UNJOM,_ Korea. Saturday UP —. United Nations negotiators prepared today | to sign an agreement providing for an exchange of sick and wounded prisonrs of war —the. first step th could, lead to an armistice in Korea:. ! / The U. N. liateori team had permission from U.-’N; commander Gen. Mark Clark to sign the JO-ipoint plan which would stprt " 605 ailing Allied prisoners, including 120 Americans, home within JO days. ■ In turn, the ztllies would- hand over to the Communists 5,800 disabled prisoners, including 5.100 North Koreans and 700 Chinese. Clark said in Tqkyo Friday night Me the agreement would -be signed Saturday when liaison officers mW at 11:20 a, m. ’ 1 V- , ( rApproval of the plan by the U. N. commander came shdmy- after (he Communist high command again submitted; a compromise bf- ~ fer to repatriate all prisoners of war and’ resume full-dress armistice talks. , The proposal was submitted in ‘ a letter from North , Korean Gen. Nam 11 to Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, U. N. chief negotiator. The Lettjer was handed to the U.N V . at Friday’s liaison meeting. In essence, the Communists sug- -■ gested that all prisoners' unwilling to return to their homelands /j be handed over toa neutral country. Chinese, premier Chou EnLai first made the’proposal late last month. The United Nations holds 46.600 such Communist prisoners, The other 81,500. hive told the *U. N. they want to gh baek to .the Reds.\ The letter did > not give a finishj ed or final plaq for .ending tpe "war, nor did it directly ask for aresumption of-tke talks. But it -indirectly suggested they he rfesumed by saying ‘‘concrete measures” can only be “discussed and ; decided’ upon” at the conference table. I • • ' 'Clark ma<ie no mention of the latest Red proposal in approving thp exchange of disabled prisoners. But he and studied it closely Friday night -and today to see-if it v gave any Hope for a' C- quick settlement of the war, \ It was learned that before receiving the note. Clark was -optimistic about the situation and hah hopes that progress to date might lead to the, working out of a truce. ". \ \ Sources close to Clark said he \ wouljd move slowly but would be willing to meet the Reds half-way if they are": sincere? The speedy negotiations on exehanging disabled prisoners was a test of their sincerity. . -j. f- . | As the plan approved by Clhrk calls for exchange to start within TO days, the Allied prisoners wo.lld begin returning through ITwr» Tn Ww Graduates Are Listed For Pleasant Mills, Pleasant Mills high school will graduate 22 students at (the annual commencement exercises at the school May 8, according to. principal Howard Hill. “ ' The graduates are: Rose Bilderback, Bud Case. Shirley Edwards, Shirley Fox, Kieth Frey. Audrey Gephart, Shirley Johnson, .Violet Judge, John King, Lester Manley, Marcile Manley. Ilene Mitchel and Lester Painter, Jerry Price. Rex v -ißaudenbush, Betty Sheets,\ Gerald Sipe, Marilyn Sipe, Robert Speakman, Janies Wilson, Calvin Wolfe, and Clarence -

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Name New Directors Os Community Fund \ ' i-v| L .'■' ‘ Annual Meeting Is Held Here Thursday Three new directors were elected last night at the annual meeting of the ( Decatur Community Fund held at, thj? Tom Smith of they Central : Soya Co., is the new director representing fraternal ,■ organizations Gfene Rvdell of Bag ; Service, Inc., will represent in- - dustry, and Huljert Zerkel, teach--1 er at the Lincoln School was named fdr schools. 'They will replace I Robert Ashbaucher, Charles Langston, anil Harry Dailey, who com-* jileted three year terms. Reports were heard from each of the organizations which are included in the Fund's budget. Earl M. CaSton, fund executive secretary, gave a detailed report of all receipts and disbursements durihg lite bast, year’s ojwiu'tion. He slated that dincp the|| 1952-53 drive campaign had agaijn been oversubscribed, all cf the agencies will receive their full allottments. The budget total had been set at 013 and receipts ; and pledges amount jtd >10,266.83. Rrty Kai ver reported on the . activities 6f ‘the Adams county cancer society. Mrst Tom iStmith summarized Girl Scout activities. Snd Clarence Ziner told rbout the Boy Scouts. Steve |Everhsrt gave a complete disbursement jeport for recreation committee. Its largest single item last year was - the purchase and! erection of a backstop at the Homestead playground i Other items include, roadside tables, slides, basketball hoop, etc. This' year’s program includes several pieces of equipment for Strat- ', ton Place playgrounds. I I Brigadier llerert H. Hill told of Salvation Army activities. He came to Decatur directly from Lewis, Ind., where the Salvation Army i was helpful at the ammunition train disaster! A 24 hopr service has been maintained, since March 28, meals, co Tee. lodgings and ■\ beds, clothing aiid furniture ■ other miscellaneous services provided tp civilians, the personnel i of the. Armed i-forces,, firemen, Railway officials. A -local committee _Qf the 'Salvation Artpy is active ’ in Decatur tq aid transients and provide aid in jnany sundry ways. E. H. Kilbourne of Ft. Wayne wa’s unabje to attend on behalf of Unitqij Defense Fund, Inc., but sent word that the need “for service to the armed Torces personnel I > was greater than ever. StOve Everhart, supervisor of the T)en reported an average attendance of teen agers per night. He staged that the Den is operated for all teenagers and that they are’all welcome. He also mentioned that youngsters from the surrounding area are served as well as those living in Decatur. Mrs. A l . R. Hblthoirke, Women’s club representative. requested Fund approval td continue tions of. the Den for another year , \and the group granted her request. Hoberjt Ashbaucher. retiring president, presided at last night’s meeting. Dorothy Sdhnepf served as' ( secretary. The board of directors, will meet soon to organize and elect its officers for the coming year. ■y" ■ . v__ Sharlene Lehman Will Speak Monday Miss Shaflene Lehman, Decatur high school student who won the Adams county and fourth district American Legion oratorical contest, wiir present her\winning oration at the regular meeting ot Adams Post 43. American Legion, at 8 o’clock Monday evening. i\ Don Cochran, post commander, urges all meihbers to attend and hear Miss Lehman’s address on the “Constitution.”’ Refreshments will be; served following, the? meeting. j

U.S. Opposes UN Debate Now On Armistice Warns Any Debate Now Might Harm | Armistice Hopes ; UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP— The United .States warned today that a United Nations debate on the Korean armistice at this time “could not possibly facilitate the crucial and delicate negotiations at Panmunjom.” Ambassador Ernest A. Gross told the U. N. political committee debating a Polish omnibus “‘peace” proposal that “we should avoid any steps here that may impede the negotiations.” ' • Gross said the Polish resolution galling for immediate cease-fire and the resumption of Korean truce talks is “at best unnecessary.” Referring to a highly confusing speech on Korsia, Thursday hy So-, viet Delegate Andrei Y. Vikhfnsky, Gross said the Russian’s comments “prove how unhealthful debate here can be.” ; bj ■‘W r hen an armistice copies about,” Gross said, “It will not be because of ,any debate here,” Gross rejected Poland’s' “peace package” apd said it was “out of tune with refcent Soviet statements indicating a more peaceful turn in Soviet policies/’ j t • Havipg dealth with the first part of the Polish proposal, which deals with a Korean armistice. Gross turned to the others and made these points: Disarmament: “The poles and their Soviet partners/ have reverted to the same old rigid formula which in the past scuttled Our disarmament efforts.” Germ warfare: The demand that all states-especially the U. S. —ratify the 1925 Geneva protocol outlawing bacterial warfare “is part of their campaign of lies about germ warfare in Korea.” Gross said the U. s\ is “Still wjaiting for the Soviet answer to our challenge —stop your lying campaign or agree to an impartial investigation of your charges.” North Atlantic, treaty organization: “The purpose of NATO is to prevent World Wfar IH.” Big Five peace treaty: "This is a mere propaganda device . . . q ithe need is for compliance with 'existipg U. N. charter obligations which in the, past the Soviets have violated.” This afternoon, east and west will observe their first major agreement in years when Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden is inaugurated as the U. N/s new secretly general. The oath wil\ be administered to Hammarskjold by General. Assembly | President Lester B. Pearson /before a plenary session'of the 60nation body at 3 p.m. e.s.L Hammarskjold will be escorted into the session by Trygve his predecessor. who is retiring on a $lO,000 J annual pefision Utter seven yeaijs and two months in the On the platform in the ’ gilded assejmbly hall will be the assemseven vice presidents and five)of the seven chairmen of per^ - manjent committees. Two—Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand and Amjiad Ali of Pakistan —are not now in NOW York. Hammarskjold will deliver his acceptance speech after taking the oath; and will asspme bis chair on the assembly’s high dais beside Pearlson. i / \t ■ . .s ' — ; T\ j Indiana Weather \i Mostly cloudy! north, partly cloudy south tonight Scattered light frost likely south tonight. Cooler with dim wishing winds. Saturday parti) cloudy and\ cool. Low toniglit 3G35. High Saturday 45 north to 50 south.

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Two Killed By Tornado At Albany; 28 Injured In Indiana And Illinois

Stevens Sap Ammo Supplies Good In Korea Secretary Os Army Says Problems Os Munitions Solved WASHINGTON. UP—Army secretary Robert T. Stevens testified today that Korean "ammunition are in good shape but supplies in this country may be below the level of safety. Stevens told a senate armed services subcommittee that supplies in Korea are “well up. all along the line,” and that past shortage problems there have been “completely! solved.” But Sen. Harry F, Byrd!. J>Va.. suggested the drain caused! by the. Korean war .in the past twjo years had caused “serious depletion” of ammunition stocks at home. Asked whether. correcting the Korean shortages -had reduced domestic supplies “below .th4 safety level,"' Stevens replied he thought that was “possible." | Stevens to,ld \the subcoiinmittee that by the end of this month certainly within 30 dajrs—the Far East command w/ll have the fuK 90-day stockpile akithorized for various kinds of ammunition. The secretary’s report on Stocks bf ; various kinds of ammunition walj so detailed that some of his aides at one point were disturbed for v security reasons. > Subcommittee chait’ma.n M ai > gapet Chase Smith, RftMeJ asked newsmen to hold up their | stories while Stevens and hip subordinates considered whether his testimony contained information of value to 4 the enemy. Apparently the decision was that security was not jeopardized, for Mrs. Smith told the ’ reporters to go ahead and file. The subcommittee is going deeply into the ammunition supply as a result of recent testimony before the full committee retired Gen. James A. Van Fleet that there were serious and even .critical shortages during the entire '22 months he was commander the Eighth army in Korea. Stevens, who went to Korea last mopth, for a personal check on ammunition supplies, told the subcommittee that: The army has broken a number of “bottlenecks” which will permit production of. 155-millimeter shells some six months ahead of T« Pare Kirfetv i ~ \ I' 7 . ’ v . Some Minor Damage Done Here By Storm - Over Half Inch Os Rainfall In City High wiptfs, rain and hail that swooped ddwn on the central part of the state last night spent some of its fury in Adams county and Decatur with a ,58-inch rainfall recorded and some minor damage inflicted by lightning. 'City light and power superintendent L. C. Pettibone said some transformer fuses were blown out through current surges and the fuse cut-out at ihe Monroe street meter house was hit by lightning,i causing slight damage. ! Lightning struck the wife between the Central Soya plant and the city 4 /but caused no damage whatever and no shut-downs, according to Central Soya plant superintendent I. Finlayson. The heavy flash-rains last night, although thq St. Mary’s river was at low-stage, saw the river take a rise during the night and measure 2.25 feet at 8, a. m. today, It iwah reported by l<j>cal weather observer, Herman “Hi" Meyer! / Berne's weather observer, H. M. Reueser, reported a rainfall of .41 inches but no damage caused either by winds or lightning.

Marines Hurl Back Chinese Assaults Sought To Dislodge Marines From Hill IBEOUL. Kofea UP*— Chinese loudspeakers blared “to hell with Eisenhower” coday as the Communists tried tb dislodge American marines from Carson Hill near the Panmunjom truce site. The Communists lobbed artillery, and mortar shells onto' the hill, tired colored flares and blew bugles and whistles, but the marines refused to budge. A marine patfol killed 16 Chinese and wounded eight in two fights in “no man’s land” near the truce site. The remaining Reds broke and ran. The pursuing marines encountered another Red unit but fought their wajy to safety after a six-minute engagement. South of Panmunjom. South Korean marines beat back forays' against two listeninig posts. The iSmtt’h Koreans also recaptured Outpost Texas on the east-central front., after losilng it 'briefly to the Reds, !The Communist activity around (“arson Hill, . v hich the marines recaptured under heavy fire Thursday, was ineffectual. "The war is over." loudspeakers !nlwed. ‘To with Eisenhower.” The propaganda did not keep the marines from |firing at the hill. Ih the air, 'flglH er bombers struck at targets North Korea, hitting Red troop and supply areas and: destroying 1 hree bridges. American Salirejets scored their first claims in jthree days against the Red air fofee when Safirejct pilots damaged two Owwmhriist MIG-15’s. . J \' -j : Veterans' Groups Hit Benef t Cuts t Hit Ceiling On New Congress Proposals WASHINGTON. UP -r-The big veterans organizations were hitting; the Aceiling today at congressional proposals to do some economizing on the multi-billion-dollar Veterans benefit program. , ITIJey were girding especially for a, fight against moves by Reps, j;qhp Phillips (R-€al.) and Olin it. Teague (D-Tex.) to put stricter limits on free hospital care for /Veterans whose ailments are not due to military- service. j Phillips, chairman of an appropriations subcommittee handling funds for the veterans administration, has charged that hundreds bf fjuch veterans iwho could pay tor private medical care getting it free, instead, VA hospitals. ? Hduse members, more seriously than at any time sineg World War fl. are looking this year for ways to save bn veterans outlays, both lh the. hospital field x and elsewhere. 4hey say waste, anjd abuse must be weeded out pf the program. \ : Counter-attacks against the economy moves have been launched by both the American Legion and |he Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two biggest veterans groups. Jheir leaders see the drive as a wedge for another “economy act” like that of 1933, when all veterans benefits were cut to the bone. “This thing apparently goes further than just trying to get the fchiselers out of the hospitals,” said Omar Ketchum, VFW legisla- ’ live;director. The .Disabled American Veterans said it will stand with the **big two” in opposing new legal restrictions on veterans medical carp. A spokesman, said abuses such as those dted by Phillips be corrected by the Veterans Administration. I Am vets, a World War H > exservice group, declined to join the veterans’ attack on Phillips and othejr economy advocates. “They are not antFveteran,” said Rufus Wilson, Amvets legisITwm T» page Blgnt) - : ■:■ ■ ' ■ .

Leonard Hall Is Chosen As GOP Chairman Unanimous Choice Os Committee To Succeed Roberts , ... . j 1? . WASHINGTON, UP — Former Rep.« Leonard W. Hall of New York today was elected Republican national chairman ahd promised a hard-hitting, winning 1954 congressional election campaign. Hall was named unanimously by the Republican national committee. He had the solid backing of President Eisenhower and Republian congressional leaders. His was the only name offered as successor to C. Wesley Roberts of Kansas, <wW resigned after a Kansas state legislative committe’e accused him of violating the spirit of the state’s, lobbying law in com nection with a building sale for which Roberts got an tee. Election of the 52-year-old excongressman was a mere formality. He indicated he would give up his $28,000-a-year judgeship jn a New York surrogate court to. devote full time tp whipping the GOP orgahlzation'lu'to shape tor next year’s congressional election campaign. > His name was offered by committeeman J. Russell Sprague of New York with an "explanation that Mr. Eisenhower left the choice “completely and wholly in the province of this committee” and was sure it would show “good judgment." j Sprague described Hall as “the only one man who completely fills the bill.” President Eisenhower and GOP congressional leaders solidly backed the Oyster Bay, N. Y„ politician who began his work in; party ranks 30 years ago. A scrappy politician who won tbe respect of his colleagues during’ his six as head of the GOP congressional campaign coni? rnlttee. Hall was the particulay choice of house Republicans who i started candidacy as soon as C. Wesley Roberts of, Kansas announced on March 27 that he was resigning as national chairman. Roberts juit after a Kansas state legislative committee accused him of violating the spirit of To Pose ... County And Decatur Receive State Pay Distribution Made In Highway Funds UP — Checks totalling >14,111,037 were on their way, to Hoosier counties, cities and towns today as their share of the $30,023,485 quarterly motor vehicle highway fund distribution;. ; The fund showed an increase ’of 5.85 percent oyer the same period in 1952, with the state, highwjay department, taking the largest slice, >15,912.4<47 or 53 percent. Counties A’eceiyed 32 percent of the fund and cities and towns 15 percent, ' iMoet of it he money ’ available for distribution came from the state motor fuel tax and from motor vehicle license and registration receipts. The distribution to counties included : Adams >85,982; Allen $274,549; Blackford $44,407; 1 DeKalb $90,988; Huntington $91,251;' Jay $87.567; Noble > $10O,«58; Wabash $99,156; Wells $86,280; and Whitley $79,719. City distribution included: Auburn >10,429; Bluffton >lO,779; Columbia City $8r417; Decatur $12,898; frort Wayne $237,023; Hartford City $12,867; Huntington $26,750; Kendallville $10,855; Portland $12,531; Wabash $18,8hl; Warsaw $11,752. I

Says Reds Seek To Infilfrafe Schools Hoover's Testimony Made Public Today for J. Edgar Hoover is convinced that Communists are trying to infiltrate th? faculties of American schools “io poison the minds of our youth.” In testimony before a senate appropriations subeommittee, made publid today, he inairectly. endorsed current congressional investigations of alleged Red penetration of the educational system. Both the house un-American activities committee and the senate internal security subcommittee are conducting such inquiries. They have been sharply criticized by educators and others as a threat to academic freedom. While Hoover did not refer to the controversy in so many words, he made clear his sympathies by telling the subcommittee: 1. FBI studies “definitely establish that the Communists have endeavored to infiltrate into the various educational systems where there is a chance of indoctrinating the receptive minds of American youth." • 2. “No element of academic freedom" is involved in the question of barring Communis’s brom teaching jobs. “A person, iM order to be a teacher, ought to have a free intellect. You cannot have a free intellect if you are a Communist." 3. Congressional investigations have played an important role in focussing public attention on various aspects of the Communist ‘‘menace.” Hoover testified at a secret session on March 27, to support the FBl’s request for $77,000,000 in operating funds during the 1»54 fiscal year beginning July 1. This would be an increase of $6,700,000 over the current year. \ ! The FBI chief said i the money is needed to hire additional agents and other staff employes to handle an ever-growing job of maintaining internal security. •He told the senators that subver1 (Tnm T* Pace Kl*ht>

May Delay Building Os Atomic Carrier May Delay Carrier Plans Indefinitely \ WASHINGTON UP — Navy plans to build an atomic-powered aircraft carrier may be postponed indefinitely, it was learned today. Congressional ani military sources said the step would be taken mainly for, economy reasons. In the background there also is a controversy over the merits of an atomic powered carrier. There are objections to it in some congressional circles and reportedly even within the navy. Under the plan now being studied., the 60,000-ton supercarrier that was to have had atomic, power would still be built. But .it would have conventional power like the f|rst two “Forrestal class” supercarriers' now on the ways. A member of the joint congressional atomic energy committee who favors deferring the -.atomic power project for about six years, (told the United Press that the first nuclear reactor for an aircraft carrier might cost as much* as $250,000,000. A well informed official in the executive branch of the* government thought that figure too high but said the development cost would be at least $100,000,060 and probably considerably higher. A carrier would need two\ of the nuclear engines. 1 Taking the lowest estimate on engine costs, the first atomic carrier might have total cost, including ordnance, electronic equipment and aircraft, of close to $600.000,000, The estimated cost of the first supercarrier, the conventionally powered Forrestal, is SJ3B,000,000' Including planes and other ITarn Te Pa*e : ’’ I 111- ' -I' I

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At Least A Dozen Cities And Towns Hit By Tornddoes ALBANY, Ind., UP—Tornadoes* in Indiana and Illinois .killed at least two persons, smashing buiklingh like dollhouses and< tossing people through the air like straws. The twisters dissolved into hail and thunderstorms into Ohio earl/ today. I At least a dozen cities and small towns and numerous\ farms were hit by the winds sweeping across east • central 'lllinois and central Indiana. Indiana reported 18 persons injured, of whom 12 were hospital- ■ ized. Illinois had 10 injured, and • i)ne man died of a heart attack • during the storms. Restoration of s communications lines in some ; areas was believed lively to reveal i additional damage. Damage could not:be estimated. - immediately, and communications a and power linea were down in i- many areas. v o Mrs. J. S. Green, 45, and. her I e son Arnold. 11, were dead on, b arrival at Ball Memorial hospital ' ’in Muncie, Ind., near here. The j dead yoman’s husband and two i other children were injured, the - hueband critically, when the tor- : nadic winds collapsed their home about |wo miles from Albany. Green was tossed into a neighbor’s. yard by the winds. * “The auto at the Green house was thrown about 100 yards and completely deplenished.” said Sgt. Max Branch of the Pendleton state police post He reported that ac least nine other persons were injured in the Albany area, including an l>l-month-old girl, Linda May Smith. About six frapie houses were demolished here, and Branch said some of them were ripped from. ;their foundation and thrown into the highway. . ■ State police reported that am-bulances-were called from Muncie to help rush the injured in the Albany area to hospitals. ' In the western portion of the state, officers said that from 155 to 200 buildings had been damaged or demolished. the towns hit by the ' twisters were McLeon and areas around Potomac and Bismarck tn Illinois, and areas near Roby Roy, Romney, Clarks Hill, Linden, Antioch and Cyclone in IndianaNear Tipton, all buildings on the Glen Paul farm were destroyed and 30 cattle killed by the tornado. FarmeC L. C. Freed, living nearby, said he escaped death only by diving underneath a tractor while hts barn roof tumbled down around' him, killing two cows. The Violent wiilds hopped across the state for alx»ut 2% hours. They struck near the Illinois border about 7 p. ki. and wrecked homes near the Qhio border short- « ly after 9 p. m. These were the first killing tornadoes in Indiana since May 21, 1949. when Shelburn and Terre Haute Were hit Rain which accompanied the high winds measured up to 1.16 Inches at Lafayette. South Bend reported .94 inches; Fort Wayne and Terre Haute recorded .67 and .40, respectively. Only a trace fell at Indianapolis. Six members of one family were hospitalized after the high winds struck their farm home near Pptomac, HI. One of them, one-year j old Mary Childress, was blown 75 feet into an open field. Roy Childress, 27, said they flattened themselves on the floor of thelf farm house just before the wind hit. Neither Childress, his wife Marie, of the children were believed to be in serious condition. State policeman Richard Connington said that at least two frame homes here “were squashed and flattened and three or four /Won To P*ge Klftbt)