Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1953 — Page 1

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._i , 'Atomic Blast Rocks Yucca Flats v ■ ■ 8 BMP*" ■■ ' A; -»3K \ > — SILHbuETTING the yucca plants as it billows skywiard, an atomic fireball likhts up the desert at. Yucca Flats. A pilotless propeller driven ffiane which yvas sent through the atomic cloud weni&out bfW control and crashed a few miles from the point troops and observers were stationed. Radioactive dust from the cloud fell in a narrow band on portions of I'. S. highways 93 and 91 nCar two small Nevada communities, ♦ . °

A - " 1 ' " ■7.'■ ~ , '~v ' —-— r~ Kyes Charges Poor Planning, Defense Waste Deputy Secretary Os Defense Lashes Past Administration 1 ' ’ 7 ■ ■ '._. ■ I WASHINGTON. UP — Deputy defense secretary-Roger M. Kyes today accused'the Truman administration waste, inefficiency and poor planning In setting up the current defense mobilizatio program. ' -7* j In an address before the tJ. S. Chamber of Commerce, Kyes said “We are paying djearly?.’ for two basic mistakes in defense plan- 1 ning: t ””[. ; * ,v <l. A too-severe cutback in military strength prior .to the Korean war. - 2. An .“unsound and unrealistic” rusk to mobilize after the outbreak of the war. 1 Kyes’ s speech was the first tna■jor ppjicy. address of the new Republican defense team and gave ' the clearest indication thus far of how the economy minded Republican administration is approaching the task of cutting the multi-bil-lion 'dolldr defense program. The , two principal economy guide lines laid down by Kyes were “sound” management tech-' niques to eliminate “waste,’' and a “complete review” of the mobilization program laid down by the ; Truman administration. The former General Motors ex-ecutive-laid “the greatest shortcoming’’ of the military "establishment has been the lack of “sound and adequate management.” With dbv’fous reference to .the number of industrial leaders now being brought into the Pentagon, Kyes said: “Once the secretary of defense is provided with adequate management support to handle the task, more rapid progress can, be made toward creating a hard-hitting, effective and economical organization for national security.” Kyes. also indicated^the Republicans are [ready to revise the ‘tbroad mobilization bhse” policy followed for the past three years in the defense buildup. The policy, in brief, calls for building up productive capacity rather than actual arms so that the nation would be ready, to move into full mobilization in event of ’ all-out war. ' : . ;. .-"‘w ' Britain And Egypt y Open Negotiations CAIRO, Egypt! UP — Britain and opened negotiations today aimed at settling the Jong dispute over British troops iri the Suez canal zone. , An Egyptian spokesman said the atmosphere Was /’very cordial” at the one hour and 20-minute meeting. - £ . - : ■ 7 Clarification Os . Red Views Sought MOSCOW ¥P — American Afo-bas-sador Charles E. Bohlen -is expected to seek clarification fromhigh Soviet officials this week on their views toward United StatesSoviet Union Issues. Bohlen will use as a basis President. Eisenhower’s foreign policy apeedh 6f Aiprll 16 and the unprecedented reply to it published by the two leading Soviet newspapers Saturday.

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— H ----- -- \ -— Iran's Police Chief Is Tortured, Slain Enemies Os Premier Mdssadegh Blamed EHR'A-N, Iran UP — .Government sipdkeemen blamed the military and political enemies bf premier Mphaimimed Mossadegh todf»y for the kidnaping and torture slay- ’ ihig of Iran’s polic'd chief. \ The- spokesman said the government was seeking to lift the parliamentary iiimntinity of: opposition deputies .Mozaffar Baghai and Shams-Ghana fobadi. accused of involvipent in the murder, so they can be brought! to trial., ■/-. Police Sunday found the body of their chief. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Afshtantooi, misJng since last Monday, on the Las ikorak sski gjounds. 20 miles from fcehran. , Arshartcos’ b >d.4 was found in a muddy, shailov grave inside a cavfe. Idis han is and feet were bound and h mdkerchiefs were stuffed nio ]his mouth. Afshartoos had been strangled with his own belt. pjl’ ' I ’.My-/' '' Detectives sa d tiw® retired brigadiers Had lured Afsiartbos to a i house on the pretext of arranging aMreconciliaiiipu between Mossadegh and opposition deputies. Th- 1 detectives said the owner pf the house -gpnlfessee. thpt four masked. men attwcKedj Aishartoos. and took him awteiy.l • Police 4aid there was evidence - that Afshajrtoo|s Juul been tortured. They said a hyjpod *rfnic; needle had been injected into thdipolice chief’s neck before he was strangled. fin addition Baghai GhanataJxadi, hijgh police .officials accused Mujitapha Kasliaui. Mon of Majlis parliament speaker Ayatollah Sayied Kashani, of involvement iit the kidnapiklaying. Two retired brigadier generals lAli Asgjhaf- Mozayeni and Ali Monazelj, jtnd a nwmiber of minor offenders tirere jailed ini Connection with -Afshartoos’ disappearance and death. - i " Police and legal authorities released a jonig statement Sunday night in which the government claimed AfshartoosYwai murdered in an act |of revenge* designed to intimidate I the Mossadeph regime. Shortly be'of-e Atfshartoos’ body was dis*?o4ered, Foreign Minister Hossein Fajtemi told newwmen that Mossadegh! and Shaji MoliamAed Reza had ironed out their different e-s. ' Massadpgh and the young shah had beep Sending over the ruler s parceling t>f royal lands to peasants as well as over his use of court The had charged ■ that Mossadegh’s land distribution had caused unrest among the peasants. M ■ urges Cooperation In Exam , City superintendent of schools W. Guy Brown today urged full cooperation \ witk the Lincoln P. T. A. pre-school examinations Thursday morning at the Lincoln school. ’ | Y Brown pointed but tjie difficulty experiended last year |at the skart of. school children showed up bn the first day w-ho had not been anticipated. Said Brown: “We hope this year all parents who anticipate sending children to kindergarten ’ will report with therti at the Linbofn school Thursday morning at 8 o’clock.” Chairman} of the activity is Mrs. 'D. Burdette Custer, (assisted by Mrs. Roberjt Odle and ’ Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg. Only 4e children, it was pointed out, who will be five years bld by 'September 15, will bq for kindergarten.

Cut Nearly 64 Billions from h Agency Budget Social Security Budget Program Slashed Heavily WASHINGTON, UP y The Eisenhower administration has sliced $63.983.891 from former President Truman's budget for agencies now in the new department of health, education and welfare, it was disclosed today. \ These offices, formerly lumped in the federal security agency, have been given cabinet status in a department headed by secretary Oveta Culp Hobby. e *' Before Mr. Truman's retirement in January, bis administration -prepared requests totalintg $1,786,528,”61 for new appropriations for the security agency, during ? the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1. Authoritative sources said the Eisenhower administration has given congress kina 1 appropriations committees revised requests totaling $1,772,544.8.70. A compilation of all the biidget revisions nj-ade by the Eisenhower administration thus far shows that it has already cut more than $1 Y--000.000.000 from the appropriation requests of the Tr?uman ad-minis-; tration. I Npw defense Ms nd foreign a I d budgets, which account, for about two-thirds of federal spending, ai'e still to come. Most of Mrs. Hobby’s budget is earmarked for the’social security program,? for Which she is requesting $1,374,223:000 in .new appropriations. -a reduction of $2,052,000 from Mr.- Truman’s figure. Grants to states for public assistance. included in this figure, are fixed by law and are thus virtually inimune from year-tp-year control by congress and the administration. ■ | '.The other major divisions of the department are the public health service and the office of education. , ' ' \- . For the public, health service. Mrs.. Hobby asked; $219,665,000, a reduction of $51,228,000 from -the Truman budget \ A She asked for $85,876,370 for the Office of education, a reduction of $8,448,391. E&rl J. McGrath resigned as commissioner of education last week in protest against this reduction, which *he called crippling. « Mirq Hobby’s Uud get provides for 36,442 jobs in her Thiq represents a cut of 671 jobs fronj Mr. Truman's budget and bf 1,09!f from the number authorized for the current year. \ Herman Kruec ceberg Home From Hospital Herman H. Krueckeberg. cashier, of the First SUte Bank, was brought home Saturday evening from the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Although he will be required to rest for several wqeks, he Is making progress toward recovery. He first underwent surgery Feb. 16 and two weeks ago re-entered the hospital for remedial surgery. ■ - ’ / '' ’ INDIANA WEATHER Clearing «nd somewhat colder tonight with frost or near\ freezing temperatures. Tuesday partly eloudy and warmer. Low tonight 30-38. High Tuesday 62-66 north, 66-72 iouth.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 27, 1953.

Truce Negotiators Are Split On Four Points On POW Repatriation

Urge Congress Vote Revision Os Trade Laws Reciprocal Trade Opponents Seek To Revisd Agreement WASHINGTON, “UP-Opponents of the present reciprocal agreements Iqw urged congress today to revise it to provide greater protection for American indusW* ' 5 1 N ./■. V ' The present law expires June 12. As the house ways ahd means committee opened hearing on proposals to extend it for another year, the law catne under the sharpest attack in its 19-year history. M : 0 M ; V 1 . President Els'enhofwer wants the law extended as is for one year' qnd Republican congressional leaders agreed today to create a joint committee to study trade and economic policies during the year. , G- .-R. Strackbeln, chairman of the national labor-management council on foreign trade\ policy, led off in criticism, saying the time has come for congress to reassert its power over the regula-., tion of foreign trade. . s “This does not mean the rewriting cf the tariff by congress,” jhe said. “It does not mean a neturn either to the log-rolling of the past or th!? Hawley-Smoot rates of 1930. “It does mean re&ssertion by the congress of its authority over foreign trade and duty-making and rescue of the tariff epnimission ' -from the' blight of domination by the executive power.” I ■ ’ Strbckhein endorsed the bill sponsored by Repi Richdrd M._ Simpson (R-Pa:) 'to put new restrictions on the operation of the rWpuoeal trade agreements law. Simplon has proposed tliqt the discretionary power of the President to overrule the tariff commission in the negotiation of trade agreements be taken away. '■ said Simpson’s bill is /'moderate . . r in the light of congressional responsibility in this field.” Strackbein '-said it "is . clearly (Turn To race Two) Home Is Damaged When His By Truck Rams Into Building Following Collision \ Two persons were injured and a Preble house badly damaged Sunday in a truck-auto collision four miles west of Decatui- At the intersection of the Pederson road and U. S. highway 224 at 4:47 p.m. Mrs. Sarah Schwartz, 66, of Grabill, a passenger in the car, was reported late last nig&t ; to have sustained a spinal injiury while the truck! driver, Robert White, 33, Wellihgton, 0., is regaining at the hospital reportedly for observation. The driver of thfe car, Aaron Schwartz, 20, injury. The mishap occu r e d when north on Peterson road, was crossing the intersection with the federal highway as the trailer outfit* heading west, entered it. After the collision, the truck kept s on going, state reporis, and hit lhe Glen Baumgartner bouse' on the northwest corner of ihe intersection, pushing it several inches off its foundation. None df the Biumgartners were in the bouse at the time. 1 | The impact of the trtack with the house actually pushed lit, apparently quite gently, because a mirror on the wall near thelppint of contact still hung from the] (wall intact. The house appeared to;have been warped so that none mt the doors could be opened and entry was gained through a window. Office l * investigating were sheriff «Bob Shraluka and his deputy, Jim Cochran, and state tfeopers Walter Schindler and Ted Biberstine. ; -' - ( l : L'! \. • : M .■ W' . !'

Many Freed POW’s Have Malnutrition Faulty Diets For Allied Prisoners ■ FREEDOM, VILLAGE, Korea TjP — Nearly every American freed by the Communists |n the exchange of ailing p isonerb is suffering from malnutrition, an examing physician said “1 would estimate that li’etween 9. 1 ) and 100-per cent of tire men who came through Freedom Village suffered-dietary deficiencies,” Lt. Col. Charles G; Hollingsworth, ,of Chickasha, Okla . said. ( Each bf the 149 sick and wounded Americans freed was examined in a tent of the*4sth army mobile surgichl hospital which Hollingsworth commands. “Thesq men have been living rhainly nn a diet\to| which they are not accustomed.” he said. “You can gain weight -unhealthy fat -on grain andrstil develop dietary deficiencies.” The repatriated prisoners had told neksmen that rice was their basic food in Communist prisdn ■camps. . . | Next to malnutrition, the most common ailment otl freed .prisoners is lung trouble, mainly tuber* culosis. Hollingsworth said. V No psychonemotic cases found in examinations here, he said. ( Ai (South Korean isurgeonk attributed many tuberculosis cases among freed South, Korean soldiers to malnutrition and unsanitary conditions. | [Maj. Choi Kun Ybo, deputy srnr- \ geon of the South Korean stn army w(ho made the statement, saU also tljat tubercular prisoners were not isolated and therefore infected others. - .! 1 •• ■ \ ' ' i - • • (■. ; Sen. Monroney Hits At 6.0. P. Policies Speaks To Indiana Democrats Saturday INDLVNAPOLIS up — sen. A. S. 'Mike Monroney has attacked the, administration's farm policy and its proposals for tax [cuts as “foolhardy” in the face of national and international dangers: “One often wondensi if the Republicans ever learn from paat disaster,” the Oklahoma Democrat Told 1,000 guests at a $25-a-plate Jeffer-son-Jackson Day dinner Saturday bight. \ He; charged the GOip had nothing to show for its three-month rule but “some funny bookeeping” ’and. a governmental Reorganization plan borrowed from the Democrats. He said the Republicans are learning it's far more difficult to do a job than criticize the way someone else is doing it. Monroney cited a recent decline in farm prices as “reminiscent of the period of apd 1929.” Ho claimed the GOP dissolved more than $5,000,000,000 In livestock equittes to cause “the most precipitous decline in livestock \prlces since the depression.” The senator also charged that administration attempts to justify a reduction in taxes could be acebm.plis.hed only by citipplfog ths nation's armed might. ' “All the fat they wej-e going to reduce in government spending is turned into a slashing of 1 Uncle Saan ! s muscles,” he said. “The big savings are In hardware for ouir fighting forces.” He said a $1,200,000,000 slash in the budget by Republican leader ship in congress came mostly |from proposed defense appropriations. ' Chide* Craig . ( INDIANAPOLIS UP — (Fcirmer Governor Scbricker chided ’hib successor Saturday for expanding the executive* staff at the statehouse. He told the Jndiaha Democratic editorial association at a luncheon that while there may have been mistakes in his party’s previous state 'administration, “they wei*e mistakes of mind, not mistakes of (Turn Td F*«e Two)

Break Near In Filibuster On Tidelands Oil Opponents Ready To Start Vote On Bill Amendments XyASHINGTGN, UP—Opponents of the administration-backed tidelands bill said today they are ■ ready to start voting on amendments, apparently the signal for a break ih their 19-d'ay filibuster. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, I>-N. ‘ M., said after a strategy mee fog with; other foes of the\ bill lhat “our major objective has been : accotnplished—arousing the antagonism of -the country agai|nst 'this legislation we think is bad.” Anderson said there is “quite a • little’’ chance that a final vote on the bill may be possible this week. I The measure wOald give coastal states title to submerged kihds out i to thefo historic -boundaries. This is three miles for most states and ! lO for Texas and western - Florida. ‘ Anderson said there nay be “eight or 10” major ameadfoents intended: Lo “clear up several am- ? biguities’* so the bIW. ) The Senate entered its 20th day • of debate on substitute bills, beck--1 ed by Anderson and Sen. Lister ; Hill, D-Ala. Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft had Announced earlier tlpit he will try for a test vote today by mdqjng to table the substitutps. ’ Taft planned to follow up this maneuver with another effort to’ gej opponents of the measure tol on a date for a final vote. 1 HbL threatened round-the-clock senate sessions beginning Tuesday if they refused to end what he has called a filibuster. There whs no clear indication how lorfg foes of the bill would continue the tidelands debate — now so its 20tb day. Sen. Wayne i Morse, I-pre., set a new senate record Friday and Saturday with a 22-hour and 26-minute speech against the will.’ ■ i '' ~M — Eight Children Die i During Flash Fire \ SAULT STE. MARIE. Ont. UP —Grief-stricken parents prepared today l to bury eight children who were burned tq death when a flash fire And explosion , ripped through a frafoe home on the outskirts df Sault Ste h Marie. The victims were the five children jof Mr. and Mrs. Philip Derry and t(he th>eq children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tnidel, being cared for by the Derrys. John H, Hesher Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon H. Hesher, 14, retired, died at 5 olijlock Sunday morning at his home pn Decatur route 6 following an ilfocss of three years of compliHe ivas born in Wells county Oct. 8, 1878, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam 'HesheL and had live(J in br near Decatur for the past 31 years. Surviving are his wife, Mary; twb EdWUrd Hdsher of Decatur and Rcfobrt Hesher of Van Wert, IO.; \dne daughter, Mrs. Mildred Garris of Poneto; fivle grandchildren, and three brothers, Frank Heshef of White Pigeon, Mich., Charters Hesher of Bluffton and James (Hesher of! Detroit, Mich: One daughter, due Son and one brother are deceased. ( .’i A Funeral services will be conducted at ? p.m. Tuesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. ‘ Johg (E. Chambers officiating. Burial | will be in Fairview cemetery at! ■ Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral hqfoe after 7 o’clock this evening.

‘ ' ■■ : i Secret Agreements Are Charged To Ike Wisconsin Solon In Charge On Secrecy .WASHINGTON, (UP) — Rep. Clemtn J. ZablocKi, D-Wis., said today the Eisenhower administration has entered “secret” international agreementis, one of which might involve American ' troops in Indo-China. s despite Republican - protests against “secret” agred- * manta, “the new administration - has evidently and necessariiy*bnl tered into secret agreements of its own." ! .i, j ' Za-blocki is a member of the ; house foreign affairs committee : and recently returned from a trip i to South Asia. I - “Just two weeks ago," Zabiocki i said in a letter to his constituents, “while questioning French and i Vietnam officials in i members of[ thfc foreign affairs committee learned that our .govl ernment promised to aid Indot China in -their fight against the ? Communists. 1 “This commitment was- made i without the knowledge of congress.” he said, “and promised e American military aid, alnd -possis bly American troops.'to fight Comi- munism there.” Secretary of state John Foater jr Dulles recently said- the -adminis- - plane to step up aid to C fndo-China. . * • . ( i ' Zabiocki also said "it was re- - cently L disclo®ed that United States r support of Britain, in the Anglo- > Egyptian controversy over the Suez OanaL was in the i Eisenhoweff-Eden agreements —a fact whicti was not known to i| congress.” J Zabiocki said he was not opposed to the agreements but said he • wanted to know whether Republicans winy "bitterly assailed” secret agreements under Democratic administrations "will also criticize > \their own administration's secret agreements.” Six Persons Killed On State Highways Four Are Killed In Out-State Mishaps , , By UNIErD PRESS Six persons died in Indiana traffic during the week en«k including a 68-year-old man who leaped into the path of a car in an attempt to get out of the rain. In addition, four Hosiers were killed in out-of-state misliaps. [ Otto Stoughton. Shirlfey, died Sunday of injuries suffered Saturday when he leaped over a fence into the'path of a car on a Hancock county road east of .Markleville, police Said Stoughton and two fishing companions were caught in a heavy downpoiur. Jane Dye, 15, Wolcott, was fatally injured and three other teenagers returning from a high school prom were hurt Saturday when their car smashed into a bridge near Wolcott., I, ! Injured were Loena Brown, 16. Jerry Field, 17, and Vernon Lehman, 16. ' - Charles Hartman, 77 •was fatally injured Saiurday*in i. two-car crash about two miles north of Warsaw. Injured were his wife, A>nha, 69, and John Bowers, 17, Wakarusa. J Mrs. Eva Meyndke. 62, Tfoton, t was killed late Saturday in a three--car collision ,near Tipton. Wayne Reber, M, Manilla, Mas killed Sunday when thrown from hi® car after it swerved off Ind, 44 near. Shelbyville. Karl Lynn Geoft, 24, Anderson, was killed the same day in a two 1 auto crash on U. S. 47 near Oak- 1 landon. Injured were David Wills, 29, Anderson, and William H. Ball ' Jr., 26, Muncie. ( 'I * Horace Payije, 64, Muncie, was [ killed and his wife was injured ’n a crash involving three cars in 1 (Tara Ta Pa*a Three)

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Growing Hope Os Compromise On Armistice Truce Negotiators Meet Again Tonight On War Armistice / i PANMUNJOM, Korea pP United Nations and [.Communist truce negotiators split today on four poldts concerning the repatriation of prisoners under an armistice, but there was growing hope a compromise may be shaping up. The points of disagreement were: 1. Which neutral country shall take charge of Communist prisoners who refuse to go home; . ,2. Whether these prisoners shall remain in Korea; 3. Hpw long prisoners shall remain in custody; I 4. What is ta happen, in the end. to those who refuse repatriation under any circumstances. But it was believed, in some » quarters that a compromise was. ■ possible under which the U. N. I would accept a Communist propos- - al to make India the neutral cus- ■ todian of anti-repatriate prisoners and the jCommunists • would agree ’I that the prisoners be kept In Korea - until their status has been deter- ’ mined filially. Lt. Gen. William H. Harrison, senior U. N." delegate, rejected at a 52-minute truce meeting today a six-point Communist -proposal by which prisoners whql refuse repatriation would be takien to an unspecified country and kept there for six months. After that, the status of those who still refused to go home would be. settled at a political conference. Harrison said this blan was designed merely to keyp anti-repa-triate prisoners in a foreign country until,, “exhausted iand discouraged,” they realize they must either give themielvjes up or face “endless captivity.” The next ses-. sion will be Tuesday 9 p.m. c.s.t. XJonday. But after the meeting, Harrison emphasized that the truce negotiations are just getting under way again and there is “no real basis for assuming the Communists will, not negotiate in good faith.” After today’s meeting, Harrison made a hurried visit to Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor’s eighth army headquarters in Seoul. He was back at the U. N. base camp in Munsah in an hour. There was no explanation- for his viiit.-y •“Operation Little Switch,” the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners, continued on a one-way basis today along with the truce talks. The U. N. handed over 400 more Communist prisoners at the exchange center here, including 50 mental cases. It will take until Friday for the delivery of the last of the 6,033 CommuniSt prisoners the/U. N.-promised to free: | The Communists announced Bunday that their part of the exchange has been completed with the handing over of 684 U. N. prisoners including 149 Americans, as against 605 including 120 Americans they promised originally to free. * v The Communists have not yet replied to a U. N. proposal for a continuing exchange of ailing prisoners until the war ends. In Tokyo, ah army official said the first plane load of freed American prisoners will be at home in the United States by the end of this week. C__ Lions, Rotarians Will Meet Tuesday Decatur’s service clubs, yons and Rotary, will hold a joint meeting at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday evenfog at the K. of home. Guest speaker to# the meeting will be Hilliard prominent sports annuoncer of station WKJG, Fort Wayde. This joint meeting will replace the weekly Thursday meeting of the Rotarians.