Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 106.

UN Irked By/ Red Refusal Os Pakistan U. N.'s Chief Truce Delegate Doubts Reds' Sincerity , PANMUNJOM, Korea. UP—The United Nations chief truce delegate* accused the Communists today of using a “negotiating smokescreen” and said he saw no evidence they "really desire” a Korean armistice. Lt. Gen. William was irked by the Communists’ refusal to accept Pakistan as neutral custodian of 46,000 Red prisoners who do not want to go home after the Reds had said they “welcomed” his nomination of that country. "We have been negotiating • about nine days now.” Harrison said, "and up to the moment 1 have had nothing to indicate the Communists really desire an armistice.” Even though Harrison felt the . Communists were wasting the U. N.’s time he agreed to their request for a recess until Tuesday at 10 p.m. e.d.t. Harrison told Ndtth\ Korean Gen. Nam 11. chief Communist negotiator, Monday the Reds must accept Pakistan as the neutral custodian or face a breakup of the truce talks. ‘ He had hoped his nomination of J Pakistan, which the Reds included among four Asian nations they had listed as acceptable, would end the dispute blocking an armistice. Nam, who had ignored Harrison’s offer Monday, came back to the truce hut today with the announcement his side “welcomed” Pakistan. Then Nam began haggling over disposition of North Koreans and Chinese Red* .reluctant He asked three questions: He asked htree questions: * 1. What steps would the U.N. command take to remove the military control of the detaining side over the unrepatriated prisoners? 2. How would the Allies at the same time enable the neutral nation to take control of the oners3. How would your side maintain order and tranquility in the / prison camps? •s V Harrison told Nam the questions involved matters that could be "readily and effectively solved in such a manner that custody can be exercised efficiently and with due fairness to the individual prisoners concerned." Nam told Harrison “your side agreed yesterday that an Asian nation be named to serve as neutral nation and specifically nomiated Pakistan. This action is worth ■welcoming." Without accepting Pakistan. Nam asked Harrison if the United Nations also agreed to transport prisoners to the neutral nation. ‘The reply is no,” Harrison said. ■ I Again he told Nam it would be "impractical” so move thousands of men overseas. I After the conference Harrison referred to the three questions as a "negotiating smokescreen.” The plan was in effect a means of “securing the forced repatriation of all the prisoners,”, he said, an isdue which caused the breakoff in talks last October.

County School Head Election Clarified Attorney General Clarifies Sections "4 IND’IXNA POLIS UP — Attorney general Jadwin K. Steers today clarified sections of 1951 and 1953 laws which govern the selection c' county superintendents of schools throughout Indiana this month. Steers answered questions subjfanitted iby Wilbur Young.< state, superintendent of pitfilic instruction.l<He said: The vice-president of the county board of education should schedule th® meeting for electing or re-electing a superintendent between -May 1 and May 15. If no meeting is scheduled, the board, should automatically meet May 15 in th e county auditor's office. The present county superintendent has no vote, nor does the county auditor, whose job it is to keep record of proceedings. Township trustees have a vote if their schools have been consolidated and have selected a school head.

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CALLED TO WASHINGTON by President Eisenhower for an unprecedented federal state "teamwork” meeting on domestic and foreign affairs. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York (left), strolls with South Carolina's Gov. Jimmy Byrnes on the White House grounds. They were among the chief executives of 44 states and five territories attending the 2-day briefing conferences.

Cut In Armed J ’ ' ' I■' Forces Planned By Eisenhower ( \" Plans Trimming Os 200,000 Men From UJS Armfed Forces WASHINGTON. UP — Republican congressional leaders said today President Eisenhower’s plan to trim 200,000 men from the armed forces will not impair thee "real security” of the nation. Democrats privately expressed misgivings, but declined public comment at ‘this time. Several indicated to reporters they are holding their fire until Mr. Eisenhower formally announces the reduction. Defense official's let it be known Monday that the administration’s economy blueprint calls for lowering military strength from the present 3,51)0,000 men to about 3.300,000 men during the 1954 fiscal beginning July 1. They said; the manpower cut probably will l>e even deeper if the Korean war ends. One result will be smaller draft calls. The manpower reductions are expevted to cut about $1,000,000.000 from the $45,500;000,000 military’Spending progrma originally proposed Jby former President Truman for toe 1954 fiscal year. Another $1,100,000,000 spending cut is expected in military procurement, Pentagon officials said. “I'm sure this will not reduce our real security.” said Sen. Homer Ferguson, R-Mich., who heads the senate military appropriations subcommittee. Repj James E. Van. Zandt, RPa; ( a member of the house armed sertvices committee, agreed thgt further cuts may be possible. ‘fin son e places they have people fa ling over each other,” Van Zand. said. He mentioned r the military service fortes, the military police and the, so-called ‘ chairborne" services — especially in the Pentagon itself. Officials said no final decision had been made bn how the manpower cut will be distributed ampng the three services. But the army, which now has about 1.4851,000 men, was expected to absorb most of it. The navy’s present strength is about 800,000, the marines 245,000 and the air force 97-5,000. q - Smaller! draft calls were in prospect even before the cut was ordered. The June call fell to 32,000 men compared to 53,000 for each of the previous* months of this year. Size of the July call has not yet been (determined. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with occasional light rain north- and scattered showers south tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, scattered showers mostly north. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 45-50 north, 50-58 south. Hiflh Wednesday 60-67.

Red Troops Flank French Defenses Thrusts Os Rebel Forces Alarming HANOI, Indo-Chlna UP —Heav-ily-armed security guards were thrown around the royal palace in Luang Prabang today as Commu-, nist-led troops invading . Laos flanked French to push southward toward the border of Thailand (Slam)." \ French officials here termed the new southward thrusts of rebel forces “alarming.” .1 ! But they scoffed at rumors of a desperate enemy plot to snatch bed-ridden King Sisavang Vong from the Communist - threatened royal capital of Laos. The reinforcing of guards about his palace was called “a routine security measure.” Communist vanguards are only nine miles (from Luang Prabang, which is bristling vtith thousands of French Union troops. An informed source in Bangkok. Thailand, said the Red timetable for the invasion of Laos calls for the capture of the royal capital this week and the surrender of the old king’s administrative powers to his young cousin’. Prince Sowphanu Vong., „ * Communist units stabbed toward the Mekong river boundary between Laos and Thailand after overrunning Tatom, some 120 miles southeast of Luang Prabang. . . Directly in the southward Red invasion path was Paksane, which straddles the Mekong 80 miles east of the Laotian administrative capital of Vientiane. Army Not Sure Os Red Indoctrination Most Os Prisoners Kept Up 'Pretense' WASHINGTON UP — The army said today it still Isn’t sure whether any released American prisoners actually fell for the Communist (propaganda they got in Red iPOW .camps. I 1Officials believe a number .pretended to fall for it to save their lives or to Obtain better treatent. But they feet few, If any, were really converted, j An army spokesman was asked if he could say there were no genuine converts. "We just don’t know yet,” he snapped. He said the army was still investigating th« problem. The army said last week a small group of returned prisoners “who have shown symptoms of having succumbed to (Communist indoctrination” would be taken to Valley Forge Hospital near Philadelphia for “special consideration.” Ten at the first group sent there •told newsmen Sunday, however, that they were “insulted” at the suggestion they had bought the Communist propaganda line. POWs singled out for "special consideration.” officials said, have included those.-who made broadcasts for the Chinese Comunists, led Communist group discussions (Ten T» »!*) ’ - ' ’t ' ’ '

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 5, 1953.

Submits Foreign Aid Program To Congress

50 More U. 5. War Prisoners Enroute Home Freedom Airlift £)f y Liberated Yankfees Is Near To Finish HONOLULU UP — ThA “free dom airlift’' of liberated Apterican war prisoners to th<ir homes neared an end today with sft more en route across the Pacific p three planes, Two planes carrying 19 men each arrived her from Tokyo Monday night and early, today". Another was en route from Tokyo with 12 Americans, six Columbians and two Canadians. With 'the latest flights all but two of the 149 Americans telegsed in the exchange of sick and. wounded prisoners were in U. S. territory or in flight. ; The fifth “freedom airlift’* plane arrived here at 4:18 a.m. 8:J8 a m. c.s.t. Its passengers were delayed for several hours when the C-54 was forced to turn back to Tokyo because of mechanical trouble. - The fourth plane, also carrying 19 men, was expected to . take off tor Travis ah- force base, CAM.,' today. The series of trans-Pacific (flights that began a week ago today has delivered 97 former prisoners to their homes or nearby hospitals in Hawaii, the mainland U. S. and Puerto Rico. Two liberated prisoners who. remained in Japan were Capt r Zach Dean, a fighter-pilot whose wife is a Red Cross worker in Tokyo, and Pfc. Clifford Smith. Lakes Charles, La., was still undergoing niedlcal treatment. (j • , A C-54 Skymaster that arrived here Monday night with 19 Men aboard was the fourth “Freedom Flight” in the series. Last to leave the plane were two itter cases, Army Cpl. Carl ;E, Himpel, Bloomer, Wis., and pfc. Wayne T. Cottle, Preston. Idaho. Men of the fifth flight received Z'Twrw To P-wo RlkM> Building Permit .: Request Refused Garage Extension Proposal Rejected A building permit request by Adam Kunowlch to use part of a proposed extension to his garage as a music ®tore has been turned down by (the city engineer’s office on the ground that it violates a zoning ordinance. Kunowlch operates the Decatur Music ‘Hbtrse; North Second street. ih .1 i Kunowich said he will file for a variance to the ordinance with the' city board of zoning appeals, probably notifying city attorney Robert Anderson today. Kunowich said he proposed tb add a 14-foot extension on. his garage and use that for his car. while the portion of the garage left empty he would use as a display room and sales room Tor musical instruments. Kunowich received the rejection from the engineer’s office on April 27 tor the reason that it, in effect, violated 1 the R1 zone, a residential sone, where music stores are not covered. Kunowich said his ultimate intention was to mqve hte place of business from the North Second street address to his home address, 216 North Ninth stireeU when the lease on his store exv' pires in about a year, he said. I Instead of using his front room tb sell instruments and display them as he now does, said Kunowich, the garage portion he proposes using would, if accepted, be finished' like his store, with hardwood floors and decorations. A time for the zoning board of appeals meeting will be set upon the filing of such a request by Kunowich. r

Graduate Speaker . i I |Bzß| i * I Kfl ■ i John Lewis Bracken John L. Bracken Graduate Speaker n .1’Prominent Missouri Educator Is Speaker John L. Bracken, superintendent tnA schools in Clayton. 'Mo., averted educator dnd a former president of the American association of school administrators, will deliver the address at the 72nd annual commencement of Decatur high school May 21. A class of 60 will tie graduated from the school in exercises which will l>e held !in the high school auditorium at 8 p. m. Selection of the famed educator and author of the tektbook. "Health and Physical Fitness for All American Children and Youth” ( was made by IW. Guy Brown, superintendent of city schools, who lias heard Bracken speak ait several national meetings. The subject of his address is. "Futures Unlimited.” . 1 p Superintendent of the' Clayton schools since 1923; Bracken is a former teacher and School administrator of wide experience. He has served os instructor and consultant at various coHege®, include (ng the Univerpity of Chicago and '(he state universities off Kansas. Missouri, Oregon, Colorado and Wyoming. ( : He was president of the AASA in 1949-56. He is a former president of the St. Louis> county teachers’ association and of the Missouri state , teachers association. # Currently, Bracken is chairman of the national commission of teacher and professional standards and is a delegate to the American council on education. f Bracken received his LL.D. degree from the college of Emporia Kan., and his master’s from the . University of Chicago. \ I - ■ K.. ■ 1 v- ■ Consultation Clinic Planned Here May 14 A consultation clinic, sponsored by-the Adams county\ tujiercuio&is association, iwill ‘be held in Decatur Thursday, iMay 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mrs. JW. Guy Brown, secretary of the association, announced today. I jThe clinic is a service to physicians (with showing symptoms of tuberculosis. Dr.j O. T. Kidder, of the Irene Byroh sanatorium, will be in change of the clinic. Appointments by the physicians for Jhe clinic may be made yr|th LMrs. Brown. 1.5-Year-Old Youth Is Killed By Train . i ri ■ 7 SYRACUSE, N. Y. UP — Fifteen year-old Philip Felicia, who wanted to see how long he dared stand on a railroad track in front of an onrushing train, was killed Monday night when he failed to jump in time. i '

Senate Fight On Tidelands Bill Near End T Final Passage Os > Tidelands BiU Is Predicted Today / ( By UNITED PRESS The Senate came to the.end of a five-week battle over the tidelands bill .(today, with final; passage expected. Mbre‘ than 10 amendments were to be disposed of before the last big vote —on the administration — backed bill ■ itself. Votiqg on the amendments was expected to require about an hour. Advocates of the b|ll, to give ■coastal states clear tite'to offshore lands but to their historical boundaries, had confidently piedi’eted victory by approximately two?to one.. Opponents of the measure' conceded defeat. The house has passed similar legislation, but' a joint house conference committee will be required to ou|t the differences. The principal difference is that the house bill necessary legal authority for iaarff ing bf federal leases /on the Continental Shelf beyond state seaward boundaries. The senate plans to deal with this in a separate measure at some futurertlme. , 4 Other congressional de v e'To pments: ? L 1 -11" Subversives: Prof. WJlliam Olson. an English tbacher at New York University, . to tell senate in ves t i K ator S whether he ever : “induced or recruited’ ’students hr faculty members inttr the Communist party. I I Taft-Hartley: Former Rep. Fred A. Hartley Jr. R-N. J., who with Sen; Robert A. Taft R-0.. wrote the* 'taft+Hartley law, asked congress-; to change the measure’s name| Reason: The (ict has been denounced so violently by its foes, Hartlfy said, that the very name has come to be a symbol of evil in some' minds. Hartley sjaid he is proud Qf the law and renaming it would hurt his- “personal pride." But he\ said the change should be made Anyhow. Senj Irving M. Ives RN. Y| introduced a proposal to achieve the objectives of fair employment practice legislation of the sort often defeated in the past. Ives did not,’ offer his ( plan as separate legislation, but as an amendment to the Taft-Hartley | <T»r» To Pace Stx) ' ! — — 'J -■ V ’ 1 Bob Heller Speaks As C. C. Meeting j I- I ■ V Asks Concentration Oct Local Problems Bob JHeller, local real estate and insurance agent, told a meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce night to concentrate on solving loial problems, and developing loqal business to a greater extent than going out to get new businesses. | At the regular monthly meeting of the CC at Mies Recreation, Heller’s talk revolved about four main points: (1) Present Industries should be treated; better and more cooperation should be given so that they could', hnlaifee their activities and thus employ more persons. (2) Make Dfcatur more desirable for the Ideation of industry. (3) Improve the economy of local peoble and encourage them to start businesses of their oyrn. (4) Try and make Decatur more desirable as a> ? place to live for workers who might not live here but work elsewhere. . Lyle Mallonee,. chairman of the spring festival committee, reported ,to the businessmen that plana were moving alpng at a good clip and progress in the programs was satisfactory.

Heads Ministers r '-..j"' — n fl w W, V fl iflF> ’ J® - ; Mna. .■■■■■■■ Rev. John E. Chambers : ' " Hi "J Rev. John Chambers ' ' 'I Io Head Ministers I Named President Qf Local Association } The Rey. John E. Chambers, .pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, was elected president of the Decatur Bnim iaterihl association at the annual election of the organization, (held Monday. Other officers include: the |tev. Herald J. Welty, pastor of the.( Decatur Missionary church, ticepresident; the Rev. Ray J. [Walther, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, secretary-treasurer. The new officers will assume their duties in September. j Announcement was also mkde that the' annual daily vacation Bible school will be held May? 25 to June 5, inclusive, j/ j The Bible school, sponsored iby the ministerial association, is designed for the entire community. The Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and feeformed church, reported at Monday’s meeting that, organizational work for the school has been completed and a fine school is anticipated.

1 Award Contract On \ Court House Tiling { Fort Wayne Firm Is j Low Bidder On Job 1 Commissioners Monday awarded the contract to furnish the mair corridor of the count house with a new layer of tile to the Fort Wayne firm of the Jack Laurie company at their bid .of $1,190. : Others who entered bids on the job were of Decatur, and the Arc-Con Specialty company. Font Wayne. Commissioners accepted a peji tion to clean and repair the Ohler Fleming ditch ini Union township The petition was headed by Robert M. Burger and signed' by other residents. ' ? A petition was received to blael top about a mile and a quarter b! road near the southwest limits 4f Decatur, headed by Oran C Schultz. A similar petition, it is reported, must be filed with the Decatur city council as part of thje proposed work Jails in the corporate limits of Decatu|r. ' NoT time was specified when the petitloh would' be presented to the • city, j Commissioners late yesterday afternoon viewed a ditch alons a farm belonging to Herman Brown in Root township, I I I Gus Yoke, Ed Arnold, Wilbuy Bryan, farmers, requested conimiesionere ,to blacktop 'a length of road a short distance south of Decatur of U. S. highway 27. This proposal was deferred until nett year ’ i 1 Local insurance man Kenneth Runyon came before the commissioners and proposed a flat Insun ance policy on county property, it /Tam Ta Fam Mwbt) i ?

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Declares Aid Program Vital ■ (■ for Defenses ( Special Message To Spells Out \ Vital Defense Needs -■ ■') ■ - WASHINGTON, UP—President Eisenhower proposed to congress today a 15.800.600,600 /oreign aidprogram he said is vital for the defense o( free nations agaiinst the “great pepl” of Red aggression. The President’s program for the fiscal year starting July 1 would oe smaller than the one recommended by former President Harry Truman in hiis last budget message. In a special message submitting his program, Mr. Eisenhower told congress that: [ . . “The blunt, sober truth Is that, we can not, afford to relax our defenses until we have seen clear. ’ irnmistakable eviddni'e of genuinely peaceful purposes on the part of the Spyiet Union.” Even before the President's message was read 0 congre«L the cirauft of .proposed legislation detailing the foreign aid. program had reached, the Senate. Most of the total wopld go for continuing the buildup of free Europe’s deI senses. some $400,000,000 I would be earmarked- to help 'the I French, resist Communist forces attacking Indb-China and other hundreds of millions would In? spent to bolster the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa, y • | • Foreign aid chief Harold E. Stassen said the United States would take over aitout 40 percent of the cost of fighting the war against the Communists in IndoChina. / "For France approximately 40 percent of the edst of the TniloChina war would be covered by Contributions in various ’ forms from the United (States,”, Stassen said. ■

; As Mr. Eisenhower’s message was being read in the house. Stassen and secretary of state John Foster Dulles testified for the program at a joint meeting of Che senate foreign relations and the house foreign affairs committees. What the administration is asking now is an authorization, not appropriation. Specific sums will be sought later to carry out the program. (Dulles said it is just possible the full amount of the authorization will not be asked in outright appropriations. He warned that "anything appteclabily less wpuld be dangerous to our peace and i security.’’ The figure asked, he. said, represents an amount! consi4ered adequate for the free worldfs defense while being tit the san|e time “within the capabilities of the .United States~hndj consistent with moving as rapidly as toward a balanced budget.” j • Mrs -Eisenhower, using round figures said $5,25(HX)0.000 of the total would go fOr military aid. He said the remaining $55000.000 would be spent fori what he called •technical and ebopomic and development The President told congress he could state "unequivocally’’ that spending the proposed sum "judiciously” abroad should add more to - America’s security than even a greater amount being spent oh U. S. military forces. "Were the United States to fail to carry out these purposes,” he said', “the free world could become disunited at a moment of. great peril When peace and war hang precariously in balance.” Mr. J Eisenhower said the pro- e posed program is based on five conclusions: ' ! -1. The United States and its Allies must stand rbady “for many years, if necessary” to defend themselves. 2; Military strength must ~ be based bn a solid economic foundation. Its buildup must not be so rapid as to “seriously dislocate" iWhmi Te F«ab KtakO