Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 105.

POW Gampjpr Scene Os Needless Death MMH r

Y RADIO PHOTO of the Communist POW damp No. ! 5 at Pyoßtonsr. North Korea, where Army Sgt. James F. Daniel of Alameda. Calif., one of the first .repatriated, raid 1,607- Allied soldiers died of starvation, malnutrition and lack of medical carp between January and August, 1951. Daniel, a 30-year-old medical corp-man, said he kept the death count until Chinese took his records away. He is undergoing medical processing at Tokyo. j , < • . •I I . 1 1 1

UN Ultimatum Given Reds In Truce Parleys Demand Acceptance Os Pakistan For y | Neutral Custodian PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP — The United Nations told the Communists today to accept Pakistan as neutral custodian of Korean war prisoners or face another break-off of truce talks. Lft. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief U. N. truce delegate, earlier had offered a major compromise by nominating Pakistan as careI * taker country *<or 46.000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners unwilling to return to Communism. Pakistan was one of four Asian ' nations which the Communists had defined as acceptable neutrals, and when North Korean Gen. Nam 11, head Communist negotiator, ignored the offer, Harrison became blunt. “The continued evasion by your ? side can only be considered as inspired by motives other than those of reaching an equitable agreement.” Harrison told Nam. “Time -in these discussions is fast running out,” Harrison said.. A "Are you prepared to accept Pakistan as the neutral nation? If not, we have no further issue to discuss with you.” Harrison’s offer came as the two sides renewed discussions following an unexplained two-day recess called by the Communists last Saturday. In nominating Pakistan after the Communists had rejected Switzerland and Sweden as neutrals, Har- • riscm -said he was acting in a "sincere effort 'to achieve an agreement.” “We are prepared to. meet you , half-way in the matter of a neutral nation,” Harrison said. "We , are now prepared to nomihate one of the four countries which you have named. i "We now nominate Pakistan, an Asian nation berflT''neutral and competent and bne-'nf the four whose suitability you obviously implied in your question to us. Now we expect you to demonstrate your sincerity by agreeing to have this power serve as custodial neutral.” Nani, who had included Pakistan with India, Burma and Indonesia as acceptable neutrals, went into a long huddle with other , members of his team after Harrison had finished his statement. At the conclusion of the tete-a-tete. Nam began talking to Harrison about movement of all prisoners out of Korea, an old argu- | ment. The Reds repeatedly had * , said they would not agree to any neutral nation until the U. N*. agreed to transport the prisoners to that country to await final disposition. Without mentioning Harrison’s \ offer on Pakistan, Nani asked for a recess until 10 p.m. e.d.t. Monday. ’ ‘ / After the meeting, Harrison said the Communists “apparently don't ever) want to discuss the subject.” a —— INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional showers and thundershowers tonight and Tuesday, cooler north Tuesday/ Lbw tonight 45-50 extreme north to 60 south., High Tuesday 55-60 extreme * , V north to 65-70 south. C

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Outline Last Days j. For DHS Graduates Graduation May 21 Td Climax School i With the junior-senior party; held at Decatur high school last Fridaynight passing into memory, the attention of Decatur high’s seniors switch now to the hectic three weeks to follow, in which, thev will be girding for exams, parties and what-not that traditionally precedes graduation. The whirl begins officially Friday*, (May : 15, when seniors will submit to a “senior test" at the Lincoln i school at 8:30 ajm. pointed ioiit that this fa the first section ‘of ,the test and -will be a two- hour quiz. At 10:30 a-m., same da|y, the choir will have its rehearsal; and at 12:30 the regular class schedule twill be. invoked. That evening, at 8:30 o'clock, will follow the junior-senior 'Sunday, May 17. will be the annual baccalaureate ceremonies. The seniors will assemble on the second floor at 7:15 pjni. \ On (Monday the 18th, seniors will hold a rehearsal. This will take place at 9:30 and seating assignments will l>e given. The second section of the senior test, another two hours - resumes at the Lincoln school at 12:30 p.m. and the senior party cuts loose that evening at 6:30 o’clock in the gym. Tuesday the 19th at 8:-30 a.m. comes the cleanup from the night before. (This has been called one of the only officially Sanctioned mornings after the night (before.) Another choir rehearsal at 10:30 a.ni. and the ibrain work follows at 12:45 in the form or a Purdue University English test at the Lincoln school for seniors. Wednesday, May 20, seniors are directed to return rental books and locker keys - - and lockers: this I takes place at 8:25; at 12:45 ;per- ■ Records ar e to be compleAnother rehearsal of ( the high school choir will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. May 21, and the final commencement complete wjth pictures, follows at i 10 aan. Students are reminded to | have theii-caps and gowns. V Needless to, say, that night, ; Thursday, the long awaited moment arrives when the students will meet en masse (or th e last time and thereby officially shake off I their adolescence and launch into •the world. Friday come® the anti-climax- - /Tnrw Tq. Pare FZ!Ot> To Present Hospital Petition Next Month Cal E. Peterson, president of the Adams county memorial hospital boardt, said today the peti- | tions .circulating the county in fa- : vor of a $400,000 addition to the hospital, will probably be ready in time for the next meeting of the Adams county commissioners, who must pass on the matter. Commissioners meet the first Monday of each month. Nine Persons Drown As Boat Overturns HELENA, Mont. UP —A diver made ready today to search Canyon Ferry Lake for the bodies of nine persons believed drowned when their small boat overturned. The lone survivor, Mrs. Ed Akins of Helena, lost her husband, five children and parents-in-law in the mishap Sunday.

i *' ■ ■ -■ if Supreme Court Delays Ruling On Rosenbergs Agrees To Decide Constitutionality Os Lobbying Law WASHINGTON UP — The supreme court agreed today to; decide the constitutionality of the 1946 federal lobbying registration law which one federal judge has ruled invalid. 4 At ths same time, the blah bench put off tar at le«fbt two weeks more rulings on the new appeal of doomed atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and on segregation in public schools. The court’s next decision day is May 18. The test of the lobbying registration law stems from charges . brought; by the justice department nearly four years ago against the national farm committee and three , individuals — Georgia agriculture commissioner Tom Linder; Ralph W. Moore, Washington commodity trader, and Robert M. Harriss, New York cotton broker. Another defen-dant-former i’exas agriculture commissioner James E. McDonald —died after the suit was started. Federal Judge Alexander Hbltzoff of Washington, D. C., ruled Jan. 30 that the law is unconstitutional. j In other cases today, the supreme court: . II AI / H 1. Outlawed, 7-1. focal election procedures in Ft. Bend county. Texas, holding they are an. unconstitutional device to prevent jNegroes from voting. The ruling went against the Jaybird I emdcratic association which was accused of devising voting ! procedures that the ballot fron Negroes, in its primaries for county and precinct offices in advance pf the regular Democratic primary and"general election. The supreme court ruled several years ago that Negroes have a constitutional right to vote in primaries. i ; i 2. Denied a hearing tp Harold ' R. Christpffel, former Milwaukee union leader, on his second conviction on charges' to the house labor committee in 1947 when he denied he ever was a ! Communist. But the tribunal sent the case back to trial court for 1 imposition of a lighter sentence. It noted that the maximum penalty in his case should have been five years. Instead he was sentenced lo 2 to 6 years. 3. In a authorized Tennessee to collect more than >4,000, ■ 000 in state taxes on federallyowned aviation gasoline stored in Memphis during World War II by Esso Standard Oil. The state Will collect from Essp, but Esso Will be reimbursed by the federal government. 4. Denied a hearing to Michael Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles mobster convicted of ihcome tax evasion. It means Cohen must setfte out his five-year prison. term and' pay a >IO.OOO fine. »< 5. Granted a hearing t\ the Alfred I du Pont estate and other interests opposing the merger of Florida East Coast railroad with ’ the Atlantic Coast Line. The consolidation had been approved .by ' the interstate commerce cominisI sion and a lower court. 6. Agreed to look into a 1949 - labor dispute involving the type of > picketing that may lead to firings. ' i The dispute was at Television 1 Station WBTV, Charlotte, N. C.

Decatur, Indiana, Mbnday; May 4, 1953.

Ike Tells Governors Os Responsibilities In Nation’s Welfare

Eisenhower’To' Warn Against Big Aid Cuts Strong Sentiment In Congress For , Foreign Aid Cut • r ■ ' s WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower will Warn Congress this week -that a >1,800,000,001. spending cut is all the foreign aid programdean absorb without jeopf ardizing free world security, in| formed' sources said today. They said he will send < special message <to the house and perhaps today, requesting: >5,8(10,. 000.000 in new mutual security, funds for the 1954 fiscal year be*? ginning July 1. This represents a cut of 11,800,000,000 frtnn former President Tnumam’s budget and is: the new administration •’•& rock-: bottom estimate of what must bei •spent to bolster Allies in 1 Europe and the Far East. j|. But there fa strong sentiment? in congress for even deeper cute. Driving to balance the federal budget and clear the way J for tax relief. Republican leaders: :have eyed the <froeign. aid program as one of the few places where major savings can be achieved. , Chairman Styles Bridges, R| N, H., of the senate appropriations committee predicted flatly that congress will cut deeper than the administration. And Sen. Eugene D. Millikin. R-Colo.. head 'of the senate Republican ; conference, said congress probably will take “a rather merciless attitude" toward the program. Secretary of state I John Foster Dulles, defense secretary Charles E. Wilson, mutual chief Harold E. Stassen and Gen; Omar N. Bradley will open testimony on the new program Tuesday : before a joint session of the senate and house foreign relations committees. / In overhauling the foreign aid, program inherited from the? Democrats, the new administration .ha? revised basic concepts as well as figures. h \ Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles al- 1 ready have given congressional leaders these guideposts tq their planning. | ; 1. They hay e abandoned “paper” goals for the number of ground troops and aircraft tlo be placed in Western Europe by fixed "target dates.” Instead the pro-' gram calls for a slower but steady buildup which can l>e maintained for as many years as tension with Russia runs high. 2. Defense spending, both that of the United States and It® AlITOra To Pa«e Klahn Mrs. Allie Melchi Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services will be I conducted Tuesday at Fremont (or Mrs?* Allie Melchi, mother of Eugene Meicbi of Decatur, who died Friday night at the home of a daughter,. Mrs. Opal Adams;’ Anderson. 'Mrs. Melchi. a resident of the Jamestown community near i Fremont, had been living at* Ahdterson since February. Death followed a short illness. | ’ Surviving are five sons, Eugene of Decatur, Earl of Grabill. Virgil and Woodrow, both of Orland,: and Jesse of Fremont; three daughters, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Howard North of Englewood, Fla., and Mrs. Elsie Stetler of Pleasant Dake; 23 grandchildren; 22 greatgrandchildren. and one brouter, Jack Blalock of Hicksville, O. Services -will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Beams funeral home in Fremont, the Rev. O. L. Pusey officiating. By rial will be in the Leo cemetery. The casket will be opened at the grave.

Julies Urges Trade I Program Unchanged I Asks Congress Not | To Change Program UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles told congressmen today that placing »e«w restrictions on the reciprocal trade agreements program woujd play into the Soviet Unions hands. ‘Dulles urged congress to leave the trade (program as it is while a thorough study is made of Ameriforeign economic policy. He strongly opposed a Republiqah, sponsored proposal to put the restrictions in a new law extending the 19-year-old reciprocal trade act, now scheduled to expire June 12- ' ' . ■; . f ■ J i “Our political, our security and our economic interests mesh,’ Dulles told the house vtays and means, committee “The fact is that the ability of other free countries to resist IComimunisi aggression and their willingness to unite ‘with us on certain common security policies defend largely upon their economic swell-being. That, in turn, is influenced by our own tariff policy.” I Dulles made a strong pita to the Republican majority on the committee to «el behind , President Eisenhower’s request that the Pte-a ent reciprocal trade program be left undisturbed for a year while a special commission undertakes a study of it. Thgre is strong Republican sentiment in the committee for taking away the present discretionary authority of the President to overrule the tariff commission in establishing new tariff rates. i Dulles that Soviet leaders “'have consistently proceeded on the theory that economics was the Achilles heel of the west.” He also urged the committee s o (Tnm t« P«se Ktght) ■ Seven Persons Hurt When Autos Collide , . . /■ ■ I Only Two Victims _ Still In Hospital

All (but two of the sevjpn people Injured in a two-car crash at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning south of the (St. Mary’s (bridge ijn Us S. highway 27,\ have left the Adams countymemorial hospital faith the ones remaining not considered serious. At the hospital arp John Stanley, 20, route 2, Geneva, driver of one of the cars, and Brandyberry, of Fort the driver of the other vehicle. Both have puts and bruises and faere said to have suffered shock following the piis-hap. \ . » Sheriff Bob Shraluka and state trooper Ted Biberstine miade the investigation and .* that |he cars sidenwlped when Stanley, heading south, emerged from the bridge and collided with the Brancar going, north. After the brash, said |both cars Continued in a curve toward the east guard rail of the bridge, which finally stopped both cars, just 30 feet from each other at the Closest approximation. > A Others who received minor injuries and who left the hospital shortly, iwere: Janice R. Brandyberry, 10, and Roselyn Butler,- 20. cif Fort Wayne; Theodore Sovinev 38, and Patricia Ann Sovine. 10, of Fort Wayne; and ’Dorothy I>arras, 18. of Van Wert, O. iMiss Darris was (the only passenger in the car driven by Stanley. The Decatur prowl car and a car driven by a passerby on therbad, took Some of the injured to. the'hospital while the rest were removed from the scene by a local ambulance. '*; \ % The cause of the accident, according to the sheriff, twas not directly determined but it was considered that some illusion of the drivers might have caused ■them to come too close to each other. r i • ■ •«. .: ■ ■ r

Elderly Man, Unidentified, Killed By Car Authorities Seek Identity Os Man Killed Near Here 'J ■ > Police herb have given? iip in 100a! attempts io disposer the idfhi|ity of an eldlrly mah who was killed wheriistruck by two cars on north of Biecatur, at 11:50 p.m. Saturday. Sheriff Bob Shraluka said the holies of identifying the man were dissipated* Sbnday after a thorough ch( <:k was ijiade of the area where the man was. hit and nothing turned up. He said a\return from F. 8.1. fingerprint Jfiles , iaf! Washington, D.iKh, is being awaited. The sheriff said the man—whose is placed at hbout 75 years—waW in the nprthbound lane of traffic. .about a Toot and a half east of thejk-enter Rne, when he was hit by a eftki drivenjby Forrest R. Scheeter, ( 21,jh of Ossian, headed north. told police a car . ing him blinded him -so that h e didn't see the victim, and dapiage to His car shows a <ent on the left frqjit fender where, according to the) sheriff, ihe man was struck as Scherer made an attempt to swerve to the right at last moment. } Another northbound car, driven by :i Pontiac, Mich., man, Charles Rupjen Peters, 21. caught the man an<( rolled over him, which is Jwhat qapsed the severe mutilation of the body. The sheriff said the body was badly mangled but the face: was intact and the mystery lies, in the fact that ho one knows! the;'man. Reters told police the firs|tihe knew something was wrong wad when he felt “something rowing under the c|r.” After Peters’ car weiit|pver the length of the body, it rolled over |nto the west side of the , highway; where it lay 80 feet frdfptlnhere it was hit by Sheerer’s car. I | ( ■; ' Jj? ... . (;• Sheriff Shraluka said that he and state;? trooper Ted Biberstine, who collaborated with him On the investigation, were agreed that the death was npt the fault of either Scheerer or Refers. ] Shraluka said a hitchhiker, William Attebuiiy, 26, Battle Creek, Mich.; had spoken to the man near the Fairway Restaurant shortly before , the accident and it' didn’t ap pear; to him, he told police, that the man ? had beein drinking. The body was removed to the GilligJ& Doan funeral home. Roland Grofe Dies Sunday Afternoon ’ Jes ’ Funeral Services r Tuesday Afternoon Roland F. Grote, 59, farmer and carpenter residing six miles northeast of Decatur in Union township, died at 12:35 p.m. Sunday at the Adams; county memorial hospital. He had been ill for three months and acrioua for the past few days. A lifelong resident of Union township, he was born Aug. f 25. 1893 to; Henry and Caroline Schoen-stedt-Grote, and was married to Louisi Marbaugh Oct. 19, 1919. Mr. Grote, was a member of the •Immanuel ; Lutheran church in Union township. x Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Ralph and Donald Grote, both of Union township, and Gerald Grote, at home; five grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Esther Germans of Ohio City, O. \ Funeral services will be conduct- 1 ed at jt:3o p.m. Tuesday at the ' Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. G. Vetter officiating. . Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. .f. ' •

Battleship Blasts Korean Coast Port New Jersey's Guns Pound At Hungnam SEOUL, Korea UP — The Battleship New Jersey bombarded thfe east coast port of Hungnam jfoday and United Nations war planes dug deep craters in four Red airfields in North Korea. Hi iCelebrating her first vislk td Hungnam since returning to|! Korean waters, the New Jersey. Turn? ed her big 16-inch on the Communist port in-=a as? sault. V The “Big J” destroyed an jlelectric* power station, blew two ammunition dumps and leveled 23 buildings. ; -fl B-29 Superforts cratered j two runways on the outskirts ot the North Korean capital 6f Pyongyang, one of them long lenough to accommodate jet planes in an Emergency. ji F-84 Thunderjets hit the Yonah airfield for the third time ifti less than a week and marine Corsairs bombed another airstrip at Haeju. Air force planes, penetrated a heavy overcast land battered? several targets and marine Panther-? I jets dropped 40,000 tons Os l>ombs on a troop concentration 10 miles north of Pyongghng, destroying of damaging 19 buildings? F-66 Sabrejets flew up and ‘dowri MIG alley but sighted no enemy Planes. < The navy said the New Jersey destroyed 80 per cent of ope of Hungnam’s ammunition storage areas. Several secondary explosions f oho wed shelling of another:; ammunition depot. \ - Ground fighting slumped Sunday night and early today with eighth army reported 19 minor contacts along the front. . h i Red Troops Seeking To Divide Kingdom j Red Forces March | On Thailand Bordej HANOI, Indo-China UP —| A Communist-led Vietminh troop umn advancing through Laos Was] reported today ;be marching?on Paksane on the Thailand border, in an Effort to cut the invaded kingdom in two. The French command said ’’re-

■connaissance pilots reported <he Red Column, made up of light fantry units, was spotted some;; 25 miles south of the French stronghold on the Jarfes plain. The French were hastily j*e» inforcing Paksane and other Mekong river points. Communist capture of that frontier post would cut Laos in two parts. Jjf- the QommunKs reach the river boundary, they could also establish contact with pto-Vietmiph elements among 50,000 Vietnamese who have settled in Thailand. | The new Communist as the tense royal capital of Luahg Prabang girded for a full-scale Rod atack following 1 the first patrol clash of French troops and eneniiy spearheads outside the city. s A French communique said defending paratroopers clashed with a Conimunist patrol at Nam Suong. just nine miles north of beleaguered Luang Prabang. It said the occurred Sunday but released no details. . \ | I U. S. —made Bearcat fightejrbombersJand B-26 bombers attacked Communist forces surging |- round Muong Khoua, a French Putpost 105 miles northwest of Luang Prabang. x Luang Prabang’s defender! strung barbed wire, dug Slit trenches and laid mine fields around th| city’s approaches. The enemy’L main forces remained encamped some 20 tnilea away to the north and east—a day and a half s march through steady jungle. f The royal capital was being constantly relaforced by airlift, and its atmosphere was calm. Goutridf den king Sisavang Vong sat aut| rounded by his 13 wives in the ttun Ta Prate mcho

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Opens Two-Day Conference On U. S. Problems To Brief Governors * On Security And Peace Problems WASHINGTON, UP Eisenhower today told governors of 45 states and Hye territories., gathered- here for an extraordin- - ary briefing bn»-security and peace problems, they must shoulder a "tremendous responsibility” soy national welfare. Opening -the twmd’ay conference, Mil- Eisenhower said h« “firm bejieF’ it wiH be “a step towand the goal of a united ' people determined 1 to defend itja way of life, to prove worthy of the I leadership of the free world,” Oandiidly, he said political wisi dom is not concentrated in the ■ White House or in. <ll of'washing--1 ton, but instead, "it comes from ■ the miiKls and hearts of sincere • and demoted men, wherever their i field of action.” ’ . . s The governors, he said, have *■ “tremendous responsibility for'the • security and welfare of our peos ple.f He noted that the conslituy tioii makes the ‘ federal government responsible for foreign affairs qnd “the business of war f ano peace.” Then he added* ? “But in times like ours the dan- ’ ger to our cohntry involves the ' civilian population in the cities and towns and on the farmsjof our states. The responsibility of til local governments fa immense.” The White House released excerpts of Mr. Eisenhower’s remarks to the opening session. ?\, Newsmen: wepe barred and will be for the Remaining sessions. White House press ) secretary James C. Hagerty stressed that the governors were invited hereby Mr. Eisenhower for "no routine briefing” and they will get the real “inside” details from the top echelon in the President’s official family. Alien W. Dulles, director of the central intelligence > agency, led; off for the administration with a report oh the world situation as summarized from the files of his super-secret organization. In his opening remarks, Mr. Eisenhower .borrowed l from a Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson, to explain his ambitions for this conference. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower quoted; Wilson’s opening remarks at a conference df governors and mayors assembled here in 1919 to discuss labor problems. 'I \ ' “Consultation always is a simplifying process when it is frank and fa intended for the common interest,” 'Mr. Eisenhower quoted , from Wilson. “We wish to simplify our task of leadership by taking ourselves acquainted with all •the elements of the complex problem we are upon to deal with. This we can do by informing ourselves and by informing one anothejr.” ! Hagerty (said this was the fourth conference of-this type ever called by a President. But Hs theme andscope were far more sweeping then any of Rs predecessors. The current subject is global problems arising from' Hie cokl war wiAi world Communism, the hot war in Korea and the best means of achieving security at home. * The prior presidential conferencesl of a similar kind were in 1908, Called by President Theodora Robsevelt on national resources; In 1919 'by Mr. Wilson on labor; and in 1933 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, on economic problems including conflicting taxation, unemployment, and the high rate of mortgage foreclosures. ' Besides getting detailed reports on world and national probdems, the governors will see eecrot films of the newest secret weapons in the American arsenal. Mr. Eisenhower is to address the governors again Tuesday, near Ue end of their meetings.