Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 93.

Red Party Is Labeled Puppet Os Soviet Union a Government Board Says Party Seeks 11 S. Enslavement WASHINGTON UP — The sub vereives activities control board today labeled the Communist party of the United States "a subsidiary and puppet of the Soviet Union” seeking enslavement of Americans, and ordered it to register with the attorney general. The government hoard said t.he party, "using the cloak of the United States constitution’ . . . strives for the establishment of a dictatorship of\the proletariat in the United States, a goal which would rob the American people? of the freedoms they have forged.” In a 218-page report on 15 months \ of hearings, the board said the Communipt party "labors unstintingly to advance the worfo Communist jdovemyftt?* The foard said Russia "has established. a requirement of iron discipline throughout the world Communist movement which imposes upon the Communist parties , and their members in the various countries the duty of following with unquestioned dpvotion the line laid dowp by the Soviet Union.’’ . The government cannot enforce the board’s order until the party \has exhausted all appeals to the courts. , j 'Former Rep. Vito Marcantonio ALP-N. ¥., attorney for the Communist party, intends to fight the order to the supreme court. \ The order broadly requires the party to register as a “cormnunistaction organization." if it refuses to register each official, and member, they must do so individually. The subversives activities control act of 1960, under which the board was created, also provides that the party submit annual finan►ohrt* statements to the attorney' genera £ Party members are forbidden to seek employment in the government. They cannot apply for or use passports. They cannot work in de- , sense plants. They must identify all material sent through the mails and any radio or television, broadcast that it sponsors. Contributions to a J registered Communist organization are not deductible from income taxes. The law provides a penalty of five years in prison and—or a $10,00(1 fine for non-compliance with the boards order. The board’s report was signed by chairman Teter) C&mtibell Brown and members Kathryn' McHale and Watson B. Miller. Membfo- David J. COddaire filed a separate report in which he said he was “fully In ) accord with an concur in the findings." There is one vacancy on the five-man board. A panel consisting c i Brown and ' Dr. [McHale conducted hearings fronvApril 23, 1951, to July 1, 1952. The full, board in its report today supported the panel’s ruling last Oct. 20 that the party is contrived by Russia. , - — ' Tornadoes Kill 11 In Southern States 3,000 Families Are , Rendered Homeless COLUMBUS, Ga. UP — Officials today began the giant task of rehabilitating more than 3,000 homeless lamilles and clearing miles of rubble left by tornadoes that claimed 11 lives in three southern states. ;\ \. Hospitals here and in a score of cities and towns of Alabama and Arkansas, were still jammed with injured. The toll of'injured soared well over 400 and hundreds of - others were slightly hurt. The vicious twisters Saturday first struck in Arkansas, where one \_was killed, and then ranged through central Alabama, killing , eight, before lashing this nietropolis in which two more died. The storms' final thrust with i 100-mile-per-hour winds aerbss the Alabama line into a residential section of this teeming army ea/mp city left 2,100 homes uninhabitable and '522 others damaged according to a Red Cross count'. M-Sgt. Lowell McCracken. ! One of 1,000 soldiers brought in from nearby Ft. Benning for patfol duty, said the devastated area “giv®s the people here a good idea of what Korea looks like.” INDIANA WEATHER -Fair and continued cold, to* night. Tuesday fair and warmer. Low tonight 26-32. H|gh Tuesday 48-56. . . - I V ' ' . i, ’ . V

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h \ Rescue Postscript w oik L Mr z H ” I f i ' .. . . — -at ... . WHILE AN EXPLOSION-FIRE was taking its toll in Chicago, in another part of theAcity another tragedy was taking place—fire Jn a nursing nome, with two baby lives lost. Here fireman Eugene Tietz winds up his rescue operation with a soothing chore. i £ •— -t ; i

•I Ike Keeps In Close Touch On Exchange Withholds Direct Comnnent On Trade Os War Prisoners AUGUSTA. Ga. UP — President Eisenhower kept in close toiich with Washington today on the Korean war prisoner exchange as he apd Republican leader Robert A. Taft planned another day of private talks and golf. For the fir|/ time the President has been coming to Aijgi|ista as chief executive, the White House set up its own private telephone switchboard. A-special telb-i type circuit 'linked fhej golfihg white house with Washington and couriers brought highly 'confidential matters to the President by air. V \ ■ . ■ |Mr. Eisephower withheld direct comment di| the first exchange of si'k and wounded prisoners until he had male facts at hand, but a Whitek Motive aide said the Chief executive Was pleased 'that the plan had gone intj operation. ,Mr. Eisenhower had not changed his last ptabiicly stated position that if the.; Reds meant business with theirf-jl peace overtures, that the exchange of woupded prisonwas a good starting point. Taft flevf here Sunday from to join the President. They played 18 holes of golf pv<jr thp Augusta National 'course Sunday afternoon, but 'their scords were so bad they slapped a top secret labeHfn them.' •- \fiobby Jones. founder of the Augusta National, apd Georgia’s alltinie golf hero, supplied the infofma|tion, however, that the President had an 86. The White House apparently tried to keep the chief executive’s score secret in deference to the »Ohio\ senator who shot in Ithe 90’s. The Ohio Republican and .the President Jfned up another game for this morning. then. Taft was to fly back to Washington this after-1 <TnrT Tn «Ib» ' Hr* —~—T —I'-’-r Harry KlppfensteinV Isi Taken By Death . Harry Klopfenstein, 59, of Bluffton, died Os a heart attack Saturday everilpg at the Wells county hospital following an illness of two weieks. Survivprs include his wife, the former (Maty MpKean, whom he married in 1925; ohe brother, Melviil at Bluffton, and four sisters, Mrs. George Rondos Pottsville Mq., Mrs. ;Hubner of Lafayette. Mrp. Robert Brandyberry and Miss Velma Hi°P fenste i n °f Bluffton, [ip 1 j\ Funeral services will be con-, ducted at 2 p.nt Tuesday at Jahn funeral hohm in Bluffton, the Rev. Matthew Officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery. - Ji', -

PTA Survey Deals With School Board For Appointments Out Os Politics This is the sixth of seven sur? veys recently taken by the Lincoln P. T. A. and deals with the board.” The committee dn this included Chester Dalzell, chairman, and John DeVbgs. It is recommended by the committee that appointments to the school board be taken out of politics and that a “concerted effort” be made to interest the public in the “problems of the school board.” This committee departed from the questions in the survey and confined its report to the opinions of itself and the School board. The committee concluded that the personal qualifications for membership in a school 'board should include: “1. Personal integrity.' ' “2. Outstanding capability as evidenced by personal success, not measured in firms of material success, but in terms of contribution to the lives of others in the community. “3. Evidence if community interests including those of the school board. “4. Social consciousness, recognizing, the rights and needs of .other people, individually and collectively. “5. An appreciaiton of the personality of children such as is needed by parents of children now or formerly in the school system. V' hl \ “6. Welcome to all qualified people regardless of religion.' political party, , education; pos tion or sex. “The Dqcatur school board consists of three members, of both political parties. They are appointed by the city council after being nominated by a letter) of application addressed to the city clerk. By law the school board is bi-par-tisan, with the partV in power having a majority.” The report continued with a statement of what - the school board believes its purposes are: “Opportunities for each pupil i to develop his own abilities to his ultimate satisfaction and of the greatest benefit to society. , \ “ ... To contribute to the pu\pil’s social, intellectual, moral spiritual and civic developement by providing a variety of curricular and extra-curricular exper- • (Turn To Page Two) \4—,'—-4 i :. ; :h 'J Treasurer Lists Taxpaying Hours County treasurer Richard D. Lewton today announced the special hours he will observe from today until the close of the taxpaying period, May 4. ; The office will be open from 8 a>m. through the lunch hour and close at 4:30 p.m. including the following two Saturdays, said Le<wton.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April £O, 1953.

Freed GI Prisoners To Start Long Trip Home; Will Be Flown To Tokyo

POW's Happy For FreedomFrom Prison Little Touches Are Welcomed By GI Prisoners Os War FREEDOM VILLAGE, Munsan Korea, (UP) —The little commonplace touches were the tangible first evidences of home and freedom for the men who came back from Communist prison camps today. I American cigarettes, packs of stateside matches, <he w chance for a bath and a change of underwear. An opportunity to shuck oft ihelr worn underwear was to many of the returning GTS as welcome as the friendly greetings of the men who welcomed ’ them back from behind the Bamboo Curtain. Some who came were too sick or weak to talk and smile. Some arrived laughing and threat their arms around the first American they saw. Some came onl stretchers. Others walked with'the aid of a medic. All were dressed in clean outer clothing, provided by their Communist captors ,for the occasion. ■But underneath all Wdre dirty, ragged underwear—-.the common badge of their *fTheir underwear was almost filthy and some of it was badly torn.” said United Press photographer Ed Walter Durrell, one of the seq newsmen permitted inside the prisoner processing center. “They had a common desire for a bath and a chance to clean themselves up.” Mpst 0f them shrugged off the Red efforts' to indoctrinate them with during their terms in POW camps. Some said they had not even been subjected to Red propaganda. Others told of required clashes >in which Communism and Ichatges of American' germ warfare 1 were? drummed into their ears. \ A few were believed to have been influenced. But most of them —even the litter cases—came 'back to their- own <Tnr» Tn P«ee Stxl ' ■ Schwartz Hearing On This Afternoon Deputy attorney general Humble, of Danville, represented the s;tute today in the Peter L. Schwartz hearing on a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. Huhu ble took office on January 12 witli chahge of state administration tp Republican reins. The hearing began at 1 p. m. before Judge Homer Byrd .of Bluffton in the Adams circuit eburt. ' ! .

Fort Wayne Soldier Is\., One Os Freed Prisoners

j\ FORT WAYNE. Ind., UP — A brother and sister “too dumbfounded 1 * to say anything expressed their happiness in hugs and kisses Sunday night when informed Pfc.. David dale, their brother, was among the first American (wounded released by the Communists in Korea. A radiant Mrs. Ruth Fidler, 30. Waynedale. rushed to \ the side of her brother, Jackson Ludlum, 28, tn Fort Wayne, to share the exciting \ news. Neither had heard the, radio broadcasts on the prisoner exchange, and they were informed by friends. ( David, whose parents are lived with his sister. Mrs. Fidler said she \and her brother seldom heard frqm David and his letters were sketchy. She said she did not know the extent of his injuries, but he (wrote of receiving “good medical treatment’’ in a Communist hospital. * Mrs. Fidler said sometimes David “apeared to write freely and at other times he Seemed to be under streak” But she added there was no indication |of Red senti-

| 4 Armistice Is First Korea Step—Dulles Political Problems , Follow Armistice WASHINGTON UP —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the administration favors an armistice in Korea and then going on to quick discus#ion of political problems. Dulles told a news conference that in his view the United States, its Allies are copimitted to this procedure jnder section 60 of the draft armistice agreement. It provides that a pdlitilcal conference be held within 001 days after ah, armistice is signed;' But he indicated that govermpent would want consideration a£ quickly as possible after dn armistice of- political problems in Korea. Dtilles. made his comment after senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft and some othgr influential GOP senators had voiced the opinion that political questions should he taken up with the Communists as part otdny afoiistice. Dulles the order of events already had begn fixed. Dulles ;»aid he did not think it would be possible and, in fact, would be extremely difficult to link the two puestfons • - He indicated other ways might be found to let the Communists know r cA the U. S. interest in a political settlement. Dulles also said: He not aware of any planning for a meeting of the big powers with the Soviet Union “at the highest level” as suggested today by British prime minister Winston Churchill. { There has been no discussion in the state,department or with Britain regarding a partition of Kotea at the -‘‘narrow waist” some 80 miles north of the present fighting line or consideration of placing Formosa under a trusteeship. He hopes the Soviet Union will 1 take .a new look at the possibility of signing an Austrian treaty Which he Said w’ss one of the few dets which could be handled sim* bly and be highly important to world peace. ■ — Hog Prices Highest Since Last August CHICAGO, tlP.— Some of the highest hog prices since last August were paid today at midwestt#n livestock markets. . Prices at Chicago were 50 to 75 dents higher, with a top price of $23 per hundred pounds. i At Indianapolis,\ Ind., the top price was $23.50. Rising hog prices recently were attributed to a seasonal decline in supply and to i improved wholesale demand.

; V mCnts in his letters. David attended high school at Roanoke, Ind., and enlisted in the army in -Npveipber, 1949. He was stationed at Guam, and went to Korea in! August, 1950. Mrs. Fidler received notification in June that David was missing in action as of May 15, 1951. > i The brother arid sister said nothing was cut from his letters ahd he -recently wrote of being well treated and well fed. c To Meet Son. (ROCK ISLAND. 111., UP — The mother of released prisoner of war Richard O. Morrison said today she’ll meet him on his arrival in the United States “if U’s humanly possible.'’ \ “We're so happy.” said Mrs. Dorothy E. Morrison of Burlingtop. la. “It’s the day we’ve been wditing for.” j “All we want; now is to have him home as soon as possible," she said. “We‘’ll go to wherever he is if it’s humanly possible." Mrs. Morrison and her hueband were in Rock Island to appear cm (Taura Te Pace Six)

J Protest House Group Ban On Public Housing J Two Congressional Leaders Os G. 0. P. Protest House Ban WASHINGTON, UP —Two Republican congressional leaders protested tgday that t£e housd appropriations committee carried its economy driire too far in applying the ake to' government housing programs. Senate GOP leader Robert A) Taft took issue with the commit* tee’s decision to bar new publid housing. He told reporters he will support President Eisenhower’s request for authority to start 35,000 hew public housing units in the coming fiscal year. i Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott o( ‘the house banking committee criticized the move to halt government purchases of home ■mortgages insured by the veterans administration or the federal housing administration. He said jit is “mpre important” for the govi eminent to encourage private home building than to balance the bl-dgpf. j ; The controversial economies s Iwere embodied in the first federal spending bill for the 1954 fiscal year. As it emerged from the house' appropriations committee last week, it carried $451,020,493 to run 23 independent \ agencies during the year beginning duly 1. The measure comes up for! house hoor action Tuesday. |-L ■ . Rep. Clarence Cannon (Ij)-Mo.). ranking Democratic member of (he appropriations committee, disputed GOP claims that the jnoney foil w’as slashed 61 percent below 1 former President Trfopan’s budget estimates. He asserted that most of the claimed economies were “fake.” ! Mr. Truman recommended a 75,-000-unit public housing program for the coming year, but Mr. Eisenhower in revising the federal ;|udget dropped the request to 35,000. i Taft, one of the authors pf the (Turn To Pave Tno) U p ' I—x1 — x . J tollins Testifies At Ammo Hearing Regular Reports By Van Fleet To Tokyo WASHINGTON, (UP)—Gen. J. fyawton Collins, army chief of staff, said today “the senior peo* pie” in the Pentagon , probaMy were not alerted to a Korean ammunition shortage until* the fall of 1951. \ Collins told a senate, armed services subcommittee, which is investigating the shortages, it is difficult to reconstruct how the shortage reports finally did come to the Attention oit the top command at headquarters here. | But he »aid the regular battlefield .reports from Gen. James A. Van Fleet, former eighth army bommander in Korea, apparently Went to Far East military head* quarters at Tokyo. Collins told Sen.\ Harry F. Byrd, that he thinks they were routine reports on ammunition fired and \on future needs. They would not normally con)® t 0 bim ar to the secretary of army, Collins said. “ I Van Fleet prompted the present investigation by charging there were shell shortages throughout h|s 22 months in the Korean command. He said he made numerous reports io Washington on the situation. The subcommittee is trying to find out what happened to these reports. Former army secretary Frank C. Pace, Jr., told the subcommittee last week he never received Van Fleet’s reports on shortages-and first heard of the shortages in October, 1961.

I . Lions Speaker f - <.." ' ; Jfli Ik BifIH Ed Wimmer, of Cincinnati. 0., vice-president of the national federatoin of independent business. Will be the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decafor LionS clul) Tuesday Outlook Brightens For Tax Reductions . ■ Senator Flanders Sees Cut June 30 WASHrNGTON, UP — Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt ). a member of the senate finance committee. said today the! outlook is growing brighter for cuts in Individual and corporation foxes this summer. j “I’m about ready to predict that, the expiration of the excess profits tix and a reduction for individuals will takei effect at the same tinfo” he told a reporter. "I think that will be June 30.” Other members of the tax-writ-ing finance committee are less’ optimistic. With President Elsenhower insisting that a balanced budget must He "in sight’k before there is any reduction in government revenue, they think tax Relief may have to,; wait-until next year. - / The time table for tax (.cuts suggested by Flanders is the same as that, proposed by chairman Daniel A. Reed (R-N. Y.) of the house ways and means committee. I Under present taw, the excess profits t»x on corporations is due to expifo June 30' and a 10 percent reduction for personal income , taxpayers is scheduled for next Jan. 1. eThe Reed bill would push the individual tax reduction ahead six months to coincide with the death of the excess profits tax. ’yhe Vermont senator emphasized, that the tax outlook will become clearer when congress gets <Tant Te Pace Ffve» * — ' ■ r '“ 7 •’ ’• v. Homes Are Damaged By Egg Throwers - One Decatur Youth Is Under Arrest I Police have arrested 22-year-old Tom Allen, of 110 South First Street, for his alleged implication in an egg-throwing spree \ Friday night in the county. Sheriff Bob Shraluka said two juvenile girls and another youth are involved and another arrest is expected shortly. The sheriff said 15 dozen crates of eggs Were stolen from the Fred Lautzenheiser residence in Blue Creek township Friday, after which the inside was given a plastering with eggs and flour was i dumped on the floor, in addition -to other acts. Shraluka sfod a visit was made to the Eva Brewster house in Moinroe later on and was egged. Also, he\ said, two Decatur homes were hit. The time for the deeds was placed at shortly before and after - night Friday. Making the investigation with the sheriff were state trooper Walter Schindler and state detective Truman Blerie. Allen was picked up in Decatur by a city policeman.

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30 American Soldiers To Be Home Soon Big Hospital Plane To Take Released Prisoners To Tokyo t PANMUNJoif, Korea, Tuesday UP Thirty American soldiers, freed in the first prisoner exchange of the Korean war, will start the long journey fo>rne today, it was announced Moijdiiy night. They are expected to take off for Tokyo in a giant hospital plane shortly after 8: $0 a.rh. In Tokyo they will enteij army hospitals for. final processing and ) rest before they fly back: across the Pacific to their homeland. Thirty-five moi-e Americans are to be freed ih the second day’s exchange of [sick and wounded prisoners with -the {Communists, starting at 9 afoi today. The announcement by an army hospital spokesman in Seoul that all the Americans frjeed Monday are able to fly to Tokyo meant, ’foone of them was in such serious condition as so need emergency treatment in In Tokyo it was announced they will be available for. interviews with correspondents Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday. 1 The smoothness with which the* first day's exchange was carried but was taken as a happy omen for the truce negotiations which are to be resumed Saturday, ending a deadlock that began last October. Bin the war wdnt on. Little fighting was reported along the 155mile front. But at the prisoner exchange center here' the heavy rumble of artillery could be heard echoing in the hills; | . Reports from) the evacuation hospital jn Seoul at the freed Americans spent Monday night indicated attempts- by the Communists to indoctrinate them wifo Red ideologies—had failed. But the South Korean defense minister announced that South Koreans freed in the will be'given a six month? coutse in counter - indoctrination before they * are set loose.' • The Americans and Other Allied prisoners who came back Monday looked tanned and fit, though some limped and a few were) carried on stretchers. The Americans had played such games as they could. They had held dimple religious services. The Negroes had sung their spirituals. They came bahk in new blue Communist:uniforms—with ragged underwear. Some of the freed Americans said therp remain in ICommunist hospitals in North Korea Americans who are in worse condition.: than those being freed this week. _ One hundred Allied prisoners in all—3o Americans. 20 other ponKoreans and 50 South Koreans—* were exchanged for 500. Commo(Tun To Pace Tliiee) Court House Clock \ V/ill Be Operated On Daylight Time County commissioners, said today the court house clock will be set forward one hour pex| Saturday night in observance of daylight saving time. The Decatur city council took similar action at its last meeting. The court room ;clock, however, *aid Judge Myles F. Parrish, will remain, on CST in accordance with g state statute that Indiana shall observe central time all year round.' What permits localities to switch their time is the fact that the state legislature never added a penalty clause to the act and so it has no “teeth.” Commissioners said the gong in djufoe court house clock will soon . be sounding again as the repair on it has been contracted fbr. It was learned that the switching from one time to another affected the gong, but it will be repaired nevertheless. ' ; '■ I- '■ ■