Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 100.

U. N. Command Warns Reds To Talk Business Third Truce Talk I Is Fruitless After 39-Minute Session PANMNUJOM. Korea, CUP) — The United Nations told the Communist truce team today to start talking business or face another rupturte in armistice negotiations. ] Lt. Gen. wjiMiam K. Harrison, senior U. N. delegate, gave the warning to North Korean senior delegate Gen. Nam II ata fruitless 39-minute meeting third of the resumed truce talks. The sticking point still was the disposition of the 50.000 Communist prisoners who refuse to go back _<q their Red-rulfd homeJande. ;’ ,■ ' j ■■■«'■ It was indicated Harrison was trying to speed' things up. Most observers believe the Communists really want an armistice this time They suggest that the Re is first may nominate India as a neutral to take charge! of Communist prisoners who refuse to go home.-and that the U.N. will agree. Then they \expect the Communists to accept the Ifc N. stand that the prisoners must remain in Korea until their future has been decided; J i The Communists spent nearly the entire 39-minutes of today's session rehashing proposals — U. N. already had rejectw^—for the disposition of the prisoner issue. Harriston got tough a-Uthe outset. He reminded the Commuriist« they themselves had urged resumption of armistice negotiations. ' ’ "It was our hope that we might he able to agree on a reasonable and honorable armistice which would protect the human rights of the prisoners of war that caused us to" consent to resuifce meetings,’' Harrison said. “We do riot intend to become involved ftl protracted and useless arguments. From your experience) in previous negotiations with us you should be well aware that' we mean what we The meeting was adjourned until 10 p. m. Tuesday, EDT. The “experience” to which Harrison referred was the action of the U. N. command in breaking off truce talks last Oct. 8 because ■the Communists insisted on forced repatriation. Nam II did not heed Harrison’s warning. He insisted during the meeting that the Communist prisoners who refuse '' repatriation must be moved to a neutral country, where indoctrination officers could: work them over and try to induce them to go home. He said he did pot believe that thousands of the prisoners have refused’repatriation. But blustering Nam II was comparatively mild, and on the defensive. ! ‘ -■ pThe bloody war that is incessantly producing prisoners of war can be 'speedily brought to an end." Nam II said. At the moment, the chances for a quick, armistice—or any armistice —did not seem bright. ■But Harrison, who talked so

roughly to the Communists today said Monday it was “far too early” to taik about another rupture in -negotiations. \ » i I’nJ ess Harrison has changed his J, * S'TMrw Tn HlKhtl Baccalaureate Sunday At Pleasant Mills j --' H V v - T Baccalaureate for the Pleasant Mills high school graduates will be held at the school gym at 8 p.m. Sunday, with the .» Rev. L. T. Norris delivering the baccalaureate sermoh. ' The program follows: processional, Miss Dorothy McLean: inj vocation, Rev. Norris; “Teach Me to Pray,” girls’ choir; sermon. ; > “Planning a Life,” (Rev. Norris,; ’■ L “Onward Christian Soldiers,” high school, ehoir; benediction. Rev. Norris; recessional. Miss McLean. Lady's Back Broken' In Accident Sunday , Mrs. Sarah Schwartz, 66, Gra--i. .bill, acjcident victim of Sunday when the r cav she was riding in crashed With a trailer truck on Ul S. highway 224 at Preble, was revealed by her doctor to be suffering from a broken back. She was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital following the mishap and her injury was desertin' , \ ed as a spinal injury. The driver of the truck, Robert White, 33 r of Wellington, 0.. was detained for Observation and left the hospital late Monday.

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Dulles Home From NATO'* i S i My : WiiMß.?' JjjM flllk SECRETARY OF STATE John Fo.'*er Dulles (1.1. is! greeted by French embassador Henri Bonnet at National Airport, Washington, D. C. on his return from the NATO council meeting in Paris. DuHes termed the meeting a "success,” and said “some good, bard, practical results" were accomplished.

General Clark Oilers Reward For Red Plane SIOO,OOO Offered For MIGdS Jet, \ 'Freedom To Pilot HP — Gen. Mark W. Clark will undertake new psychological warfare moves in Korea if his offer of a reward induces a Red pilot to fly to freedom in a MIG-15 jet, informed sources predicted today. ' ' They said the unorthodox offer is an experiment to see how much demoralizaticfn can be ; produced in the enemy by such attractive invitations to desertion. At the pfficials believe ;the tempting regard will sow mutual suspicion arid discord among Communist and thereby decrease their battle efficiency. At best, it may also give the United Nations command a late-model MIG in good condition for operational flight tests. Since the first rule .of psychological warfare is to “keep ’em guessing,” higlu administration officials were reluctantto say very much about, the strategy behind Clark’s offer, or future plans along the same line. In fact, it took several hours of high-levql conferences, interspersed with numerous telephone calls between the &jr force psychological 'warfare branch, its research and \ development / section and the joint chiefs of staff, to produce the sole/official statement on the affair. It said: “The Department of Defense has verjhed the fact that Gep. Clark has offered asylum and remuneration lo Communist pilots flying MIG4S or other jet aircraft over to U,N., lines. Such remuneration would- come from air "force con tingency funds.” In addition ..to the SIOO,OOO re-, ward for the first piilot to bring in a Soviet-built fighter, Clark promised $50,000 for each subsequent delivery. . : An air force spokesman said ..he did not kriow how much • money avriilaple to pay Communist pilots for bringing in Russian-built planes. EJatJh military service sec 1 retary has a “contingency fund" which he ntay use at his own discretion to meet unusual situations. Congress doubtless would be glad to supplement the Bind if Clark’s offer Should iiji niass desertions in the Red air force. The spokesman said the offer applied only to Korea. Jf a Red pilot landed a plane in one "of the western European! countries, it would have io be returned, he said./ This occurred when Rolish jet pilot Francis .jjkrecki flewi a MIG-15 to Denmark recently. He- was returned to Poland after it was studied by experts. : > The U.S. immigration service announced meanwhile that Jarecki will] arrive in New York by plane Wednesday for a 60-day visit in the United States. e INDIANA WEATHER Showers and scattered thunderstorms developing tonight and?-continuing Wednesday; a little warmer tonight and* In . south and central /Wednesday. 1 Low tonight 45 50-55 south.-j High Wednesday 52-58 north to 68-74 south.

11 Sailors Die In Carrier Explosion | Boiler Explodes On ’ Carrier Bennington ■ 'X■ ■ ' ■ ■ ■ GUANTANAMO. Cuba UP — A bo-iler room explosion aboard the U; S. aircraft carrier Bennington about 50 mites offshore from this naval base caused .the death of 11 members of the crew. ; ■ The 1T.,-S. naval base authorities here-said four other person aboard the Bennington were injured in the explosion Monday while the flattop was engaged in maneuvers between Guantanamo ancF Puerto Rico. ' Naval authorities refused so identify the men who were killed th the blrist until next of kin have been notified. The navy said the ship was navigating at a low rate of speed at the time of the explosion. The 27.100-ton ship topk part in the first carrier attack on Japan in 1945 and furnished air cover for troops during the invasion of Iwoi Jijna. Planes from the Bennington also bombed- and strafed Japanese positions bn Okinawa, in March. 11945. shortly before, the island was invaded by American forces. During the Okinawa operations, the Bennington was credited with sinking an entire -Japanese convoy. ' . ® List Victims WASHINGTON. UR—The navy today announced the '\\following' men were killed in a bd/iler room explosion almard the IT. S. aircraft carrier Bennington off Xluarntanamo. Cuba. Monday. \ Fireman Charles- Arthur Arrowwood; wife. Mrs. Hildegard Arrowwood', Milwaukee, Wis. Fireman Paul Raymond duvar; father, Paul Quvar Jr., Granite .City, 111. \ Fireman William Arnel Garretson; father, James A. Garrttson. Cornell. 111. Fireman-'Richard JosephuMott: father, Sherman E. Mott, Detroit, Mich. \ Norie of the other identified dead were from the midwest. The navy said names of seven injured would be' released Fater today.* ■' I ' 1 Monthly Meeting Os C. C. Next Monday The regular monthly meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held at 8 F .p.m. next Monday at Mies Recreation. Bob Heller, Decatur realtor, will speak on the cobperation of Chambers of Commerce and industry in other cities and these cities have used to bring in small industries, A discussion will also he held on the question of having retail stores open on Wednesday evenings. '! \ \ ; Pythian Sisters To Entertain Convention) The Decatur Pythian Sisters Will,, be hostesses to the 43rd annual convention of district four, Pythian Sisters, at the K. of P. home on North Third street Thursday. Thi 3, convention-, will be a daytime event, witli registration opening at 8 a.m., and time of/tjie first session set at 9 o’clock. Marguerite Stahl, of Uniondale, district deputy, will conduct thb meeting. Members of the Adams county chorus will serve dinner at the noon hour. \

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 28/1953.

35 Jubilant Americans, Freed From Red Camps, Leave Tokyo For Home

Reveals Theft Os Plans For Russian Agents • Former Communist Tells Probers Os G. M. Plan Thefts WASHINGTON, UP —A former Communist senate investigators today. how he stole plans for a landing craft engine during World War II and delivered them Co Russian agents. *. | " ■ Thad Mason, then employed at a General Motors plant in Cleveland, 0., said he took the plans in 1944 or 194f>. He said the blueprints were secretly delivered' to the plant .cafeteria photographed there and-later returned to the files. Testifying before the senate internal security subcommittee, Mason said he had previously delivered a Du Ront chemical formula for a livestock disease remedy to the party for transmission to Russia. Mason said his Communist superiors told him to seek a job in the General Rotors diesel plant inspection division. Mason said he got the job and later was advanced to file clerk when he pleaded that bad eyesight made him urn suited for a "bench” inspection job. - | “1 was told to contact a Certain comrade working in the cafeteria,” Mason said. He explained that the cafeteria was independently operated and had its'own gatesf which were less carefully guarded than the plant’s. j ( “I always would come to the cafeteria with a newspaper in my hand, and I would'hand it to the couriterman,” he said. ' “Naturally. I wouldn’t just give him the paper. I usually inserted a blueprint. He had another comrade in r the storage room who worijd photograph or photostat the blueprints.”'/ Acting subcommittee chairman Herman Welker (R-Ida.) commented that the “second assistant dishwasher in the basement” had; a complete photographic set-up for reproduction of plans. MasOri said the plans were returned to the files by . the same I*Tiim> To Purr Klarbt) , * ' . ■ :\ —■ — County School Head Election Saturday Trustees To Elect Superintendent Here Washington townchip trusted William Linn today affirmed -tt|e time ami place of the election Saturday of a new county superintendent, together with some of the pertinent regulations. Lirin the 12 trustees and .the county auditor, Frank Kitso/ will meet at the auditor’s offidc Saturday 10 a. m. in. the event of a tie the auditor will cast the deciding vote. ' i Already having expressed themselves aS in the race for the high county post for the next four years, are Glen Custard, present county superintendent, and Layke Scherry; driver training end social studies instructor of \ the BerneFrench high school. A trustee who did not wish to be quoted by name, said William J. Lee had spoken with The trusabout the position but, said the source, there exists a money question that would have to be ■settled before he,- Lee, would throw his hat in the ring. \Lee is the principal of Genova' high school. The job pays $6,000. a year. Trustees are: Floyd Meyer, Blue Creek: Eli Graber, Frenci: Emil Stauffer, Hartford; - Hugh David, Mo-seer, Jeffersons Lester Adler, Kirkland ." Noah Neuenschwander,’ Monroe; Ed Aumann, Preble; August Selking, Root; Nimrod McCullough, St. Maty’s; Fred Bittner, Union; L. A. Mann. Wabash; William Linn, Washington. "-ife-

Yost Low Bidder On Adams Central High General Contractor On High School Unit Sfost Construction Co. of Decatur was low bidder on the general icbntract for construction of Adams County Centra! high school building at Monroe, a tabulation of Monday's bids< revealed. The low bid was 1112,448. Othe? general contract bidders included: > Russell N. Carey of Huntington H. F. Reiff Construction Co. bf Bluffton. The; plumbing and. heating contract went to A. Hattersley and Sons of Fort Wayne on a bid of 127,575. Other bidders were: Haugk’s Plumbing grid Heating, Decatur; Lehman’s of Berne; M. T. Max-Donald, Fort Wayne, and T. B. Arnold Co., Fort Wayne. The electrical contract went to McKay Electric (’’<!>., Fort Waype on a bid of 18,463. Other bidders were: Kiess Electric, Decatur; T. B. Arnold Co., Fort Wayne, and Berne Electric. Berhe. The total low bid was $148,486and the estimate was $160,000. D. Burdrite Custer,, of Custer and Smith, Decatur attorneys for the school board, said that legal de.tails would be completed at once And construction would Mart 4n the next two or three days on; the high school unit of the school property- j \ ’ j The high school unit wpl include eight class rooms pnd a large utility room. The contract with the general contractor will call for a completion date of December 1. 1953, with a SSO a day penalty clause for each additional day it takes to*complete construction. All-Night Sessions Threatened By Taft I Seeks To Wear Out Tidelands Bill Foes By UNITED PRESS I Senate Republican leader Robert A.l Taft O. said today he is prepared to keep the senate in continuous session through Wednesday night if necessary to wear put foes Os the “tidelands” bill. Senate enemies of the measttre to give coastal states\ title to offshore lands have successfully ptalled off! a Vote for weeks. As the debatp its 21st day, Taft ordered penate sergeant-at-arms Forrest A. Harness to install cots and blankets in the cloakrooms. Taft had not exactly given up his efforts to get agreement from op ponents of the bill on a voting time. At the outsell of today’s session he said, “I‘C‘lTj’ on these gentlemen to sayj when they will be prepared to vot>.” He Added immediately that the senate will stay “in continuous session tonight, >tomorrow, and tomorrow night, probably, in order to proivide, them full time to present their views.” Other congressional news: . Foreign trade: Spokesmen for several U. S. industries urged com gress to restrict the President’s tarffbcAtting powers. The house ways aipd means committee is holding hearings on 1 — Mr. Eisenhower’s request that \the reciprocal trade agreements act be extended one year and 2 —a bill by Rep, Richard M. Simpson R-Pa. to limit the President’s powei/s under the program. Today’s witnesses approved the Simpsop bill’s restrictions. Gas tai: Big city mayors op posed a proposal by the nation’s governors that the federal govprniqient Stop taxing gasoline. They recommended, however, that Congress return to the states in thej form federal highway aid Allj reveiaue from the two-cent-a-gallon tax—wi|.h a bigger percentage earmarked for the cities. The governors had recommended that gasoline taking be tutned entirely over to the mates.

Russia Ready To Join In Peace Talks Diplomats See New Plea For Big Five Meeting As Come-on MOSCOW, UP —The Sbviet feoyerfurient fcave its approval today to an appeal a world peace partisans congress for a Big Five conference aimed at settling all serious international problems. All SoViet newspapers gave prominence to the appeal and the Soviet government’s favorable reac, tion to the suggestion for peaceful negotiations among the USSR, United States, Britain, France and" Communist China. Foreign ‘ minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Soviet answer “op the instructionsyof the Soviet government.” His . reply was "published in the toW right hand corner of page 2 in Pravda. xFrench scientist Frederick Jol-iot-Gurie head of the peace partisans’ committee, sent the appeal. The reply represents , a restatement of the Soviet desire for a big power peace pact which Soviet spokesmen in the United Nations had -been advocating for many years. Molotov also took advantage of the opportunity to repeat premier Georgi Malenkov’s declaration to the Supreme Soviet March 15 that there “aren’t any controversial unsolved questions ' which could not be solved peacefully.” The initiative/ for the proposal came from Joliot-Curie’s group, not the Soviet Union. Reaction Cool WASHINGTON, UP—Diplomats reacted cooly today to a new SovietJbacked bid for a Big Five peace conference to iron out eristwest differences. They said the proposal, sponsored by the world peace partisans congress in Paris, looked like fbe same old come-on to get the Allies" entangled in negotiations that produce a lot of propaganda but no peace. > ' The endorsement of Soviet foreign minister ¥. M. Molotov, they said, seemed to indicate that Russia was trying indirectly to get the talks going as part of its peace offensive. -< There was no indication in the proposal—or in Moscow's reply last w/eek to President Eisenhower’s peace program—to indicate the Russians are ready to any of the basic concessionriXthat would make top-level taljts riseful. Communist Troops Near Laos Capital French Positions Overrun By Reds \ HANOI, Ihdo * Chl n a UP Communist-led Viet Minh armies overran Frerich positions northeast of /Luang Prabang and pushed spearheads today within 12 miles ’of rhe Laos !royal capital. The advkricing Reds, helped by anti-French Laotians, installed local of 'the so-called "Ff«Hj~ Laos Government’* of SoupshanoU Vongj in each center captured. V 1 Advance elements of two Communjist Columns marching on Luang I Prabaiig , Monday reached Sopti, 30 miles to the west.' Today Compunlst spearheads were spotted ground tjhe outer defense perK meter of the,city 12 miles away. The Reds also captured Pakserig, 40. qiiles northwest of Luang Prabang and orie of the last solid barriers before the city. French commanders of scatteredoutposts in Red-held territory were ordered to fight to the last man to dfelay concentration of enemy troops before Lqang Prabang. . Increase Aid WASHINGTON UP—The United /Tans Te P*se Klcht)

Lions Governor z iß°y Price - j Roy Price Elected As Lions Governor Decatur Man Named District Governor / Roy Price, former Adams county treasurer,, and prominent in civic affairs of Adams county was elected ,governor of district 258. International Lions, at the 32nd annual state convention at French Lick this last week-end. Rrice, long active in the Decatur Lions club, is the-first'member of the local group ever to hold the high state office; He will be Installed at the Lions international convention at (Chicago July 8-11. and will serve fj)r one year. District 258 includes 58 Lions clubs in northern Indiana. During his tenure of office. Price will visit all of the clubs which are located in 12 northern Indiana counties. He was placed in nomination by Ron Parrish, president' of the Decgttrr club, at the nominating session of the state meet. The nomiwari seconded by Charles 'D. Casper, past governor and international counselor. There are six districts in Indiana. Highlight of the annual state conclave was the address by international president Edgar M. Elbert, Maywood. 111. Others attending from,Decatur included Mrs. Price; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Butler; Mr. and Mrs'. Ronald Parrish; Harry Schwartz. Walter Sittman and DaVe TerVeer. I Bad Weather Slows ■ ' • Fighting In Korea \ Korean Warfare Is Near To Standstill j'~ J ■ • SEOUL, Korea, UP —Rain and a heavy forecast lioday slowed fighting in Korea 40 almost a standstill on the ground, air and propaganda fronts. But B-29 Superfonts reported they hit a “tinderbox” supply and troop area 23 milqs, north of the Kaesong Communist truce camp Monday night and saw flames sweep through 80 acres of build- ’ \ f I United Nations troops engaged only in small scale patrol actions and, turned back two Red probing attacks. South Koreans on the Eastern Front fought dozen patrol clashes in '“no man’s land” north of the XTwrw T« »»■<«• vcurnt)

Indiana Weather Is Like Roller Coaster (INDIANAPOLIS UP. — Indiana weather will act like a roller coaster during the next five days. ./The weather bureau said today will dip and rise from Wednesday through Sunday. (Mercury readings .will average three to six degrees below normal. The normal readings The normal maximums are 68 north, 73 south; minimums, 44 northj 49 south. r

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First Os Freed Americans Are Enroute By Air First Flight Due In California Air Base On Wednesday TOKYO. UP —Thirty-five jubi-• lant American, soldiers’; freed from. Communist prison camps, took off for Honolulu, California and home today in the first flight of the army’s “Freedom Airlift." They are due in Honolulu this afternoon and at Travis- air base, California, Wednesday. When they will be sped by plane to their homes in 21 statejs. Eight of the boys who came back were on stretchers —'but, all fiomeward bound from the horrors of the Communist hellcamps in which thousands of their comrades perished. Another" will follow them over-the broad . Pacific Wednesday» weather peimittrng, and- others wHI leave here on succeeding days. I Ft is hoped that all 149 Americans treed in the exchange of aick and wounded prisoners will be able <0 make the trip. The pi’s, on the flight back over the Pacific, were under the care of a crew of hospital corpsmen and four nurses—one of them a luscious, wolf-whistle blonde. The wo4f whistle started when the boys saw her ht the ptoneside here. 1 There were no doctors on the plant-proof that * the Gl's have made an amazing comeback since they were freed in Korea last week. " -..-J, , ' “None were needed,” an force officer said. They took off at 2:55 a. m. Tuesday EDT., from Tokyo International airport under a beating hot. bright sun in an immense C-97 transport plane, military version of the Boeing Stratocruiser, pn the 13-hour flight to Honolulu. They wore new uniforms, with Eiseohower jackets, and the insignia, of their old outfits were back on their sleeves. They will be followed in succeeding days by 114 of their comrades, released with them unde< the agreement with the Com munfets for exchange of sick and wounded Korean war prisoners. Army bands blared in front of the two hospitals in which the Gl’s had gone through final processing as they came out and piled into ambulances for the ride through the streets of Tokyo. Their motorcade arrived at the airport at 2:30 p. m. The 27 able to walk scram bled: out, laughing and frolicking, and took shelter from the blazing sun under the of the plane. The efgfit - stretcher cases follo wt-d. J ■ ' ■ ' At 2 a. m., EDT., the Gl’s got into their plane, the eight stretcher cases carried in by orderlies. They .found they were back in the army. The big plane—a topplush one in civilian flights—was of -the “bucket seat” type, with flat canvas seats running lengthwise along each side of the interior. But there was a litter for every man in case he wanted to die down. ». Unless the pilot decides to make an interim atop for refuelling, the CTwrw T« P*c* EtKht)

Another Man Dies From Chicago Fire ' CHICAGO TP — The death toll in the tragic Haber Corp., blast and fire April 16 stood at 35 today with three of the 18 hospitalized persons still listed as "critical.” Warren Rodriguez. 32. died Monday of burns which covered twothirds of his body’. + Firemen recovered 34 (bodies from the wreckage of the screw machine company. Soane 36 persons wer e injured in the disaster but 17 were released from hospital* shortly afterward.