Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 98.

Foil Bank Holdup — Bandit Chooses Death a »SStts*3s? I !■ >. ~ t e I- . < jOgr Bwhwbi J 9 tejßr~~~ * J£.. <■ ;.|> * O’i ’ I wW<' ■ fIV . ay Iwwßfck I f~ x wHl • ■k 1 ■ > W\ »w-- Or Jto—- ■■ <■ J.L..* ZL*—x - ..wv.<*i.' ■./.*.a... POLICE stand over one df four bank bandits wouhded with a companion when they were flushed from a St. Louis bank by tear-gas bornite. Inside the bank, a third bandit, Frank Vito of Chicago, shot himself to death rather than surrender. The fourth holdup man was captured after he wounded a policeman in the exchange of gunfire. J i *

Russia Offers Discussion Os World Problems Accepts Challenge By Eisenhower To Discuss Problems BULLETIN, i WASHINGTON UP — The White House said today that the “milder tone” of the Pravda editorial on President Eisenhower's recent foreign policy speech is a “welcome change A from the usual vituperation against the United States and. the free world.” A White House statement expressed hope that the official Russian newspaper's editorial may be a “first step toward something concrete ” MOSCOW, UP —Official Soviet newspapers -said in unprecedented fronit page editorial® today that Russia is ready to discus® a friend-

ly solution of world problems directly With the United States or Within the United Nations. ■ [.But the -newspaper said they saw no evidence in President Eisenhowers “bid for peace" in an. April 16 foreign policy address that the United (States really wants to engage in S such talks. The editorial reply to Eisenhower’s speech in Washington to the Americaji society of newspaper editors was published by Pravda, official Communist party organ, - and Izvestia, official government > paper. \ It also was broadcast by Moscow Radio. Pravda and Izvestia bitterly attacked U. 3. secretary of state John Foster Dulles for trying to Convert the Eisenhower speech into an "act of war.” Dulles “militant” .pose would hardly achieve its objective,” the newspaper ®aid. Dulles, in evaluating Mr. Eisenhower’s address, said last Friday the speech "had created a ieituaition where it Is obvious that unless there is a prompt response from the Soviet Union in many respects it will be quite apparent that it will be necessary to move ahead on all fronts, west anti east, to develop a strong position. Eisenhower, in his ASNE speech asked whether the , new Soviet leadership was prepared to use its influence to achieve a truce in Korea and* peace in the Orient and whether it was ready to allow other nations to choose their own form of government. "As is known,” the Soviet editorial said today, “Soviet leaders are not connecting their appeal for peaceful settlement of international problem® with any demands to <he United States of America or any other countries which have or haye not joined the Anglo-American bloc. “Does thie mean the Soviet Union has no claims? Os course not.' In spite of this Soviet leader® wIH welcome any step of the United States government or the government of any country if it is directed towards friendly settlement of contentious issues. “This testifies to the readiness of Che Soviet side for a serious buaiheee-Mke discussion of problems both by direct negotiations or when necessary within the framework of the United Nations.” Pravda said the Soviet -people always had supported all moves K to bring peace in Korea. * In commenting on Eisenhower’s (Twra To Face Mx) I

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U_ MacArthur's Plan Finds No Takers " ■ ’■ F War-End Solution , Is Cooly Received WASHINGTON UP — Gen. Douglas MacArthur so far had\ no takers today ;f|or his plan to induce Russia to settlej the, Korean war by threatening to destroy Red China's industry and its supply link with the Soviet 'Union. The White Hbuse,, state depart- • ment and defense department all declined to comment on his proposals. And congressmen, some of them MacArthur admirers, cautiously avoided endorsing the plan while the United States and Its allies appear to be making some progress toward negotiating an end to the Korean hostilities. The MacArtblui 1 plan , was received sourly by Britain, one of many U. S. allies that have feared dramatic American action in the Far East might broaden the Korean war touch off: World War 111. I

The coolness with Which the general’s proposals were received indicated to isome' experts they Would be shelved. Biut if negotiations with the Communists break down completely, strategists could bring them out for new consideration. : * — MacArthur’s threaten-Chiha idea, made public Friday, included, a bitter debuhciation of the Truman administration’s handling of the Korean war as well as a defense of his previously stated’idea of hitting directly at Red China. Mr. Truman, vacationing in Hawaii,, said “ho comment” to make Ont MacArthur’s statement.'? / - ■'[ ' jVh ... ‘. In a bristling, l;500-word letter to Sen. Harry F. Byrd D-Va. ? the deposed Far Eastern: commandef said the Soviet Union would hate to see a Red China military debacle which the United States has the potential to bring about. He did not 1 specificaly suggest bombing, but it was clear that was what fie meant. ' "A warning of aCtjion .6? this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed." he. wrote to Byrd, who had asked MacArthur’s views on Korean ammunition shortages. While the White House and stafe department declined comment, informed soufces\ said the Eisenhower administration lor the present intends to make nq change in U. S. policy, Schwartz Hearing Os Monday Is Postponed The, Peter Schwartz hearing On his petition for a Writ of error corum noibis which wqs to have been conducted Monday in Adams circuit court before special Judge .Homer Byrd, Bluffton, has been postponed, at the request of Judge Byrd, it was learned today. Judge Byrd called Prosecutor Lewis L. Smith of this city this morning and stated that because of a personal matter he would be unable to come to Decatur Monday. No W e . has been set for hearing? the balance of the case. . . [_ i .. | i 1 \ ' . ' 4 Hoosier Is Victim |Of Auto Accident KNOX, Ind., UP — Russell Circle, 4(F, Star City, was killed Friday night when his auto crashed on a curve on U. S. 35 two miles south of here.

■ r ' \ — — Reds Reluming More Prisoners Than Promised Armistice Talks To Be Resumed Sunday Aimed At War End PANIWUNJOM, Korea UP — The Communists return a "bon us" group of 84 sick and wounded United Nations prisoners Sunday, and a little Later in the afternoon U. N. and Communist negotiators resume full armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean war. The negotiators' chSneeg of reaching agreement and ending the nearly three-year-old war appeared better than at any time since the deadlock last Oct. 8. Seventeen Americans and 83 other Allied prisoners were freed today. Thirteen Americans and 71 South Koreans, are to be freed Sunday. They will bring the total of U.N 1 . prisoners freed to 684 and the total of Americans to 149. The Communists, in the original agreement to exchange sick and wounded prisoners, said they would free 605 U. N. soldier#', including 120 Americans. \The GFs who came > back apd passed' through Freedom Gate today told collective stories of the deaths* of about 4,000 more. U.N. prisoners in prison r According accounts of returned prisoners so far, nearly 7,000 prisoners died in Comthunlst hands due to neglect, mistreatment or murder. Undoubtedly many of these duplicate each other; some [ may be exaggerated. Many prisoners can hot say at which camps ' they were kept. Sunday’s truce session will start at 2 p.m. midnight Saturday e.s.t. The attitude of the Communists may indicate whether the atrocity ' stories told by U. N. prisoners will hurt the chances of peace. Most 1 officials believed not—the Communists have v made atrocity charges themselves. - • ■- V ■ ' ; s The big question on the prisoner ’ issue was whether the Reds, after their first “bonus,” would continue repatriating ailing prisoners for she duration of the war, as the Allies propose, or let the flow trickle down to nothing. \ It appeared that both sides were awaiting the outcome of Sunday's armistice session before making any new specific proposals for continuing and broadening the exchange. \ The Communists have indicated they are willing to give up on,the forced repatriation issue. The truce talks soon will ihake it cleat wheth(Tarn T« P««* Six) County Council To Meet Here May t \ A special meeting for additional appropriations will be held by the Adams county council May 7, 10 a.m. at the county auditor's office at the court house, it was learned today. The meeting follows on the heels of the announcement,this week by the state board of accounts on action taken by the state legislature this year on per diems to be allowed the various county officers. - The total amount to be asked is $11,535.24, a breakdown of which will appear in a legal notice in Monday's 'Daily Democrat. At the May 7 meeting, taxpayers are by law given the right to be heard on the appropriations. \■« | p

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 25, 1953.

Senator Morse Speaks More Than 22 Hours In ' . ■ ■ ■ . 1 ■ Tideland Filibuster Z'.' ■■■''■, i . I ■ I : ’ V I i * I -JI \ ■

■' ?'~**^***^**T*X- ji , fr 1 "~i ’ Launch Probe In Battle for Air Supremacy Far Reaching Probe Opened By Senators In East-West Race WASHINGTON. (UP) — A far reaching investigation into the East-west race for air supremacy has 'been launched by senators who fear the United States may be lofting it, it was disclosed today. Sen. Styles Bridges, R-N. H., chairman of a -five-man armed service investigating subcommittee t eaid that a source of “deep concern” has been reports of recent Russian air progress, particularly in the jet plane field, and Indications that this\ country's program is “lagging." , His group inncludes Democratic ■ Sen. W. Stuart Symington. 'Mo., i the nation's first air force eecreitary; Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va.. ’ who has spark-plugged the recent inquiry into ammunition shortages. and Sens. Ralph E. Flanders. R-Vt., and James H.. Duff, RPa. Bridges said in an Interview , that staff experts already are gathering information on both American and Russian plane production, air force procurement practices. I contact awards, plane design, and over-all spending for the project- ’ <ed though delayed 143-wing air -force. I.\ “The data gathered to date is i alarming,” Bridges sai<|. The inquiry, which will develop , into public hearings later, is dove . tailed closely with pending »con- ; gree&ional consideration of new . air force funds. Former President Truman estimated that SB.I 700.000,000 would be needed for . aircraft procurement in fiscal > 1954, and congress now is awaiting President Eisenhower’s revision of this figure. ?' Sen. Homer Ferguson. R-Mich.. . who as chairman of the military t speeding subcommittee hopes to t cut $6,000,000,000 from the defense t budget, told a reporter that tie has 5 received Bridges’ assurance that . material turned up in the inquiry j will be channeled to him at once. Duff emphasized that a primary t purpose, insofar as he is concerned, will be to make certain j that while, any “wastb” is eliminf <Tir» T» Fit* Six) I■' ■ »■? .1' r “~■ n ■ : : Court Order Halts I \ 4 ■ ' • I , Nickel Plate Strike r ■ ' . y ■ . . \ ~ Threatened Strike ’ Is Halted By Court r JOL®VELAND, O. UP — A court order halted today a threatened 1 strike by 2,300 members of the ’ Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen ’ i against , the Nickel Plate railroad ’ and its subsidiary, Wheeling and Lake Erie division. . tA temporary restraning order ; was issued-Friday night by com- ’ mon pleas Judge Adrian G. New- ’ comb shortly after the union announced it' would continue with plans to walk out at 6 je.s.t. today despite appointment of a presidential fact-finding board to investigate the dispute. \ qjnder the railway labor act. creation of such a, board would prohibit a strike for 60 days. The temporary injunction was ■ Issued by Judge Newcomb at request of railroad officials and will be effective through Tuesday. The railroad may seek during that period to have the Injunction made permanent. Immediately after being notified of the cour| action, union vice president William E. B. Chase an--1 nouneed that “we are now making 1 the necessary telephone calls and sending telegrams to all points ; calling off the strike.” \ ’ The dispute, which would idle 1 more than 18,000 workers on both <Ta*a Te Pam Ma) / . ■ \

Says Mankind Can Exterminate Race Atom Commissioned Warns Os Dangers f NEW YORK UP —Atomic energy commissioner Thomas E. ttfurray said today that ‘l'man'kind tow has within 2the range of his grasp means to -externJUiate the race.’' He was referring to the. gigantic hydrogen test explosion set off ftst fall at the AEC's Eniwetok proving ground in the Pacific, “As the possibility total annihilation becomes clearer,” Mur* ray said, “our search; and prayers for peace must ever increase in intensity.” | Murray warned of a possible “man-made abomination of desolation” in at ceremonies observing the 100th birthday of Manhattan He asserted, that the public must face up to what he called the “most ugly subject short of hell” atomic energy. He deplored “unconcern about an future which is darker than man has ever faced before.” “Only if our eyes are wile open to danger can right adwh be taken.” he said? Murray said it was unfortunate that the public-televised atomic explosion in Nevada last .March ‘V7 waft so “small,” that! explosion' was equivalent to 15,000 tons of ThlT. B)it, he said: “i cannot emphasize enotigh that this particular test that you saw on your television last month was but a token of the destructive power this country can nbw lohse in a single nuclear explosion. “Had you been with ihe\ last fall, you would have no doubt that mankind now has within the range of his grasp means to exterminate the human race.” . l Daylight Time Goes In Effect Tonight Most Os Indiana To Effect Time Change INDIANAPOLIS UP —The bulk of Indiaha will lift an hour of daylight from the morning side of the clock and transplant it on the evening side early Sunday. At 2 a.m.,‘ all except a few thousand ' Hoosiers switch their clocks from central standard «to centra) daylight saving time. v That means losing an hour tonight. The hour will be>gafngd next September when the switch back |o standard time is made. T'wiT'o’clock Sunday morning becomes 3 a.m. as the change occurs. 'the immediate result will be some forgetful Hoosiers will show up an hour latejbr church Standay. Then it will take a few days to get used to changes in bus, train and airline schedules. All of Indiana except a few cities in the southwest will make the switch j Evansville set the example and other smaller cities in \ the area followed the lead to remain on standard time. 1 > Drinkers will benefit by the changeV Taverns may remain open until 1 a.m. daylight time. They close at midnight during standard time. Daylight time operation is in violation of a 1949 state law decreeing that standard time is the official time for Indiana. But there is no clause. ; A few courthouse clocks will defy the law, but most remain on standard time. Officials adjust to the, new time by Imposing summer work schedules calling employes to their jobs an hour earlier. This, in effect, makes them conform to daylight time ‘Without changing their clocks. INDIANA WEATHER : Mostly cloudy with a few ; light showers north, partly cloudy south Saturday night Cooler. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. Low Saturday night 38-46. High Sunday near 50 north, 55-65 south.

J U -uT i J u;-i ■ Atomic Sias! Is Set Off In Nevada Today \ Explosion Is Start Os Largest Atomic Maneuvers Tested \ , LAS VEIGAS, Nev. UP — Sixteen congressmen and hundreds of military aqd official observers witnethsed a top-secret atomic explosion at 4:30 ajm. todMy,’ the start cf thelargest atomic military maneuver ever attemipted. A remote-controlled navy plane ■crashed in the first announced attempt to fly into the “thermal envelope” of hn atomic blast. The “therrpal envelope” is a “heat cloud” that bubbles up from 1 an atomic explosion before the familiar mushroom cloud begins to form. The plahe which flertv in carried no pilot or crew. J | The Atomic Energy Commission said there were noi casualties as the maneuver started, . The powerful explosion hit scientists in the AiBX? Control point with the hardest jolt they ever have ex* perienced, however. v It broke “several” light globes and shattered window panes in a juimffrer of guard sfath ns and other Wildings on the proving ground, the AiEC said. ? 1 The blast signaled 2,400 soldiers to move out of their trenches two and [three miles away and advance toward (ground zero, the site of the explosion. ■ It was disclosed eight volunteer officers withstood th e explo sion from a slx-foot\ deep trench much nearer to the tower. Sheep, raJWtiits and mice also wer e used' ip various scientific tests in connection with the blgst. Air Force planes participated as observers. \. The A>EC has disclosed three more atomic blasts Will held during the present series. Ffring of first atomic shell fpftnt the army’s new 11-inch. 85tbn cannon is expected at Frenchman Flat May 21. Today’s bomtb was the seventh in the current spring serieg at the Nevada A-ix>mb test site. It was the 38th Atomic explosion set off in the United (Sixteen congressmen witnessed the i test and the subsequent war game from a knoll. They* Included G. R. Withrow, Wis.; John A. Blatnik. Minn.; John B. Williams, Miss.; H. R. Gross, la.; Thadeus Mach row icz, Mich.; and W. L. Springer, 111. ' I F ■ Recommend WKJG For TV Station Proposes Denial Os WGL Application , y WASHINGTON UP —A federal communications commission examiner recommended Friday the Northeastern Indiana Broadcasting CO.. Inc., be given a permit for a television station at Fort Wayne. Ind., instead of News Sentinel Broadcasting, Inc. s \ \ 1 Miss Fanney N. Litvin, the ex-\ aminer, recommended denial of the, News Sentinel application for a oh Channel 33, the one jsqught by Northeastern. | Miss Litvin said granting the permit tp. Northeastern “would serve to promote greater diversification of media of mass communications in Fort Wayne.” Northeastern operates Radio Stations WKJQ and WKJG-FM. The News Sentinel operates Radio Station WGL. The WGL broadcasting firm is headed by Helene R. Foellinger, who also is president of the company which publishes the Fort Wayne News Sedtinel, the city's only Afternoon newspaper. * Noon Edition

i ' Amateur Show To Feature Festival Spring Festival In . Decatur May 18-23 Decatur merchants’ amateur talent contest, with $450 in cash prizes, will be a feature of the annsal Chamber of Commerce spring festival to .be held May 18 to 23, inclusive on Madison street to the river, including the parking lot at the east end of Madison street. ?■' ■ J ■_ • A talent contest with cash awards will be held each night of the festival. A huge fbtm implement show also is' planned in conjunction with the festival. Lyle Mallonee. Decatur filling station proprietor, is general chairman (for the event. Ferd i<lenk is of the impleinent show and Martin Spruntger is chairman of the talent sho'*. Sprunger said today that entry blanks for the talent show can b e Obtained from any Decatur merchant. Entrants do not necessarily have to reside in Decatur .or Adams county. However, all entrants' must be amateurs; Dick Ehinger will setjve as chairman of th e committee on judging the nightly contests. Details of the six big contests will appear in the i Daily\ Democrat in a few days, t those in charge said. • (Included In the annual festival wiM be a halt dozen rides and stiowg to be brought here by the Floyd E. Gooding amusement company. The rest of the midway will be composed of exhibits of local merchants, the implement show and refreshment stands. Several other Committees are at work on details for the festival and as report to the general chairman, plans will he announced, Mallonee §aid. | Cite High Cost Os Cleaning Roadsides New State Law In Effect On April 1 INDIANAPOLIS, (Special)—Appalled at the high cost of keeping roadsides free of debris, Gov. has asked Albert Wedeking, chairman of the state highway commission, to look into the matter in an effort to Come up with some means of reducing the cost. In April, 1952. the highway department spent $119,428.6? in patroling and cleaning the roads in the sfgte system, and for the entire calendar year of 1952 the state spent $1,110,521.11 to keep the highways clean, and this didn’t include cleaning off the ice and snow, ac cording to the governor. “Over a million dollars, and 20 percent of the trash was beer cans,” observed the governor. “Not only is this hazardous practice of drinking along the highway a contributing factor in Air high accident toll, but it also costs hundreds of thousands of dollars u year to dispose of empty cans,” he complained. ' \i\ . j ? A state law effective April 1 of this year which makes throwing trash along the highways a misdemeanor anft anyone found guilty can be fined as much as SIOO, plus up to 30 days imprisonment and a 30-day suspension of driver’s license. “I hope all peace officers and judges will cooperate with us in the enforcement of this law,” the governor said, “so we can reduce' this expense to the very minimum.” According to Wedeking, the law already is being enforced. A South Bend f .justice of peace the other day flnedl a violator $8.35 each for ' four -been cans he had thrown on the roadside. In otheur cases, highway employes have offenders ajnd threatened to swear out warrants for their arrest uhless they pitted up the trash they’d thrown aljong the road. True Andrews, sub-district highway superintendent, said in com(Tura TW Fag* Ms) \ . ■r i ! '

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Shatters All r Oratory Marks Before Senate Hits At Giveaway . Os Billions From Tidelands Measure WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sen. Wayne Morse broke all records for senate oratory today with 22-hour. speech against the tidelaiftfs oil bill which lacked just an hour and 34 of running a full night. Morse, who never once sat down during his endurance ordeal, start- \ ed talking at 11*;40 a. m.. EST., Friday. He stopped at 10:06 a.m. EST today, having talked frotn one morning into, th® next. \The previous all-time record for senate talkathon was set 45 years ago by Wisconsin's famous Progressive. the elder Sen. Robert M. Lafollette, who spoke for 18 hours and 23 minutes. Morse, a senator from Oregon. Is a native of Wisconsin. Despite obvious fatigue. T e g cramps, ind a tendency to stumble 1 over words oces*ioßoily. the Ore--1 gon independent appeared fit at ' the end of his record-buster. He sat down, shook hands with a few senators who walked 1 to his desk, and a few minutes later strode jauntily from the senate chamber. He had concluded i his speech with the declaration that “in the national self-interest of the country” th4 revenues from tidelands oil should be safeguarded by the federal government for the l>eirefit of American schools, colleges, and unl'fersities:” 'Morse conceded that his record- ) setting talk had “the characteristics of the filibuster? But he insisted he was not interested in records or even in delaying a senate vote on the measure to hand title of the tidelands to coastal states. His qole purpose, he said, was to dramatize what he called a multi-billion-dollar “giveaway? There appeared little doubt that neither Morse nor other senators, mostly Democrats, who have been filibustering against the bill ulti- , mately would be defeated. The Republican leadership nev- ' er has had the slightest doubt about being able, to pass the measure—when they can get it to a vote. This they hope to do next week. There had been no intention of trying to force a vote Fri- • day night or today. This was the first all-day, allnight senate session since. September, 1950. i Other jsenators took turns going home to sleep or catching naps in the cloakroom; sometimes there were only a couple of them on the floor. But all through the day Friday, all through the might, and on into the sunny new day, Monse stood at his desk talking, talking, talking. No quorum calls were asked to give hirti a bit of rest and a chance to vdsit the washroom. Only a tew times did senators even interrupt to ask him questions. Now and then he sipped ’tomato juice, cos- ? fee, tea, or soup. Once a senator handed him a candy bar. •Vice President Richard M. Nixon took the night off and let- other senators fill in for him in his role as the. senate’s presiding officer. Nixon strode into the chamber at 8:45 a. m. and took over the gavel. Although Morse and other opponents of the tidelands bill have been waging a filibuster against it . . for many days, the Oregonian’s iron-Blunged solo was not likely to delay a vo|ft much more than it , would have been delayed anyway. Republican leader Robert A. Taft already had decided to let senators talk some more Friday and today, before pressing Monday for a test vote on the ‘administration backed bill to give coastal states; title of off-shore oil lands. * \