Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No; 109.

UN Demands Guarantee By Reds In Truce Guarantee Against Any Attempts For Forced Repatriation Korea UP — The United Nations will demand at a truce meeting Saturday that the Communists give a firm guarantee against any attempt to force repatriation or anti-Red war prisoners, it was understood tonight. The demand would be made in reply to an eight-point Communist proposal on disposition of the antiRed prisoners which the Peiping Radio hailed as laying the basis for “immediately bringing about an armistice."’ J '■ It is believed that Lt. Gen? Wil? liam K. Harrison, senior U< NZ truce, delegate, will give the Allied reply, to chief. Communist negotiator Gen. Nam 11 at a truce meeting scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday 8 p.m. Friday c.s.t. T Harrison is expected to fire at Nam a series of searching questions as J to the Communists’ real Intention in proposing that the fate of the anti-Communist prisoners who refuse repatriation be put up *. to a political conference. was made plain in New York Thursday night by President Eisenhower personally that the U. N. will not accept any plan which Knight leave the anti-Communist prisoners in danger of accepting forced repatriation or facing endless imprisonment. The United States stand on the Red proposals was worked out at a meeting in Washington Thursday. Mr. Eisenhower presided, then went to\ New York and in his speech to Republicans said he would never agree to forcpd repatriation. Harrison is expected to meet the Communists at the truce session with a full and explicit statement of the U. N. stand based on instructions drafted in Washington. The atmosphe-e in this truce village is optimistic. But it is indicated that there are enough "bugs’’ in the Communist prisoner plan to require several more weeks of negotiations.

The Chinese Communist Peiping Radio, In propaganda broadcasts, represented th? Red plan to be the last word in conciliation —one which would “reveal whether the U. N. command has good faith tor an armistice or will raise new pretexts for delaying a complete settlement.'’ Peiping said the question of disposing of the- anti-Red prisoners - - was “settled" by the Communist proposal that their- fate be left to a political conference. The U. N. doesj not regard the issue as 'fettled.” The decision itself was being made in Washington where officials of the U. S.. Britain. France and - other nations involved in the fight- ■— ing were examining each of the eight points of the Reds' “revised” plan. 4 Poker-faced, chain-smoking Nam, who had been haggling 10 days over his demand to send anti-Com-mufaist Allied captives to a neutral • Asiatic country, handed the proposal to Harrison Thursday. Harrison, who previously had reported “zero progress" in the talks, said the Red plan which would set up five neutral nations in Korea as custodian of the prisoners, was so “important” that it had to be sent to Washington for close scrutiny. U. N. officers who did not wish L to be quoted because of the topj i r level' nature of the decision said they felt qnly the “details" or “bugs” had to be worked out. ’[/** FBl's Fingerprints Identify Nate Haley The identification of Nate Haley as the man killed Saturday night has been confirmed by the FBI. The federal law enforcement ‘bureau wired sheriff Bab Shraluka this morning and said fingerprints v of a man arested in Fort Wayne in May, !*♦!, for public intoxication match with those received this week as those of Nathan Clarence Haley. ’ 7” 7 Rotary Entertained By Berne Quartet A quartet from the Berne Rotary clufb entertained members of the Decatur Rotary Club last evening at the K. of P. home. Comprising the growp were Carl lE. Lugirlbill, Carl T. Habegger, Leland Neuen and Jack Purvis, the latter the newly elected president —of the Berne club. Gene Rydell was in charge of the program. , i

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Military Switch ■ BF V IBn rB If KrJM| | ■B ■ "**< I fiC- ' ■ B J| I ; . 4: IWF z. HUbI GEN. NATHAN P. TWINING, vice air force chief of staff (left), is shown after; his nomination, by President Eisenhower to succeed Gen. Hoyt S| Vanderaberg as air force chief of staff. It is also rumored that GenJCarlA. "Tooey” Spaatz (right), will be called back from retirement 0 replace Gen. Omar N. Bradley as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

Ike Pledges Fight For Fair Peace In Korea <; i ■ Declares America Will Not Retreat \ From Moral l>tand\ NEW YORK UP/— President. Eisenhower said Thursday night America would never retreat from her "'moral” stand against forced repatriation of war prisoners to get a cease ifdye in Korea. 'He demanded a Korean peace settlement that would be “fair” to everyone, including enemy soldiers <who have been captured and do not want tp to Communist terror and; persecution in their homelands. s The President re-?nvphasized his position on the prisoner issue in off the cuff speeches at tw’O SIOO---plate Republican dinners here. Mr. Eisenhbwe? made no direct reference to the new Communist armistice proposal being studied by United Nations truce negotiators in Korea, This proposal would temporarily by-pass settlement of the thorny prisoner repatriation problem which has blocked a truce for months. But he said the U. S. attitude toward peace in Korea- must be 'based on the nation's historic respect for (persecuted peoples seeking (political asylum. \ ;\j “People that have become our .prisoners cannot by any manner or means be denied the rights on which this country was founded and which indeed 9ias been responsible for the presence of most .of the people—or at least a great number of people—in the United States today,” he said. “Consequently to force those people to gp (back to a life of terror and persecution is something that Would violate every moral standard by Which America lives. Therefore it would be unacceptable in the American code and it cannot be done.” The President pledged >his administration to a struggle for “true and tbtal” peace throughout the world, based on a policy of free trade among nations “to create conditions in which freedom can survive 14nd thrive.’ (He emphasized thafvthere was "no true di Vision” between foreign and domestic (problems, and that free world trade "Is the secret to the success o f our industrial and agricultural “The very*: prosperity of this country is inextricably tied up with the prosperity of those countries (with whom (We must trade in the world, thoed countries from which we must get those materials absolutely vital to our economy,” he said. '■ i Mr. Eisenhower came-by train from Washington with .secretary of state John Foster Dulles after bad weather forced cancellation of plans for kj flight by chartered plane. The President spoke first to a gathering of New York Republicans at the Astor Hotel and then to another group at the Wal-dorf-Astoria, •He used the same set of notes for both speeches, which were nearly identical except for some changes in jform and phraseology. Dulles, who also addressed the GOP meeting; said the United Nations would mot allow the Korean armistice talks to drag on indefinitely (while the Reds build up' military strength for new aggression. He said the free world was /Tent »• PM» Elsht)

High School Seniors Visit State School Visit Thursday At Fort Wayne School Fifty seniors of Decatur high school, students of government and sociology classes, went to the Fort Wayne State School Thursday to observe first-hand the treatment and education* of defective children by a state-run institution. r Accompanying the seniors was Hugh J. Andrews, principal, who said he thought the management of the school was good and the school “well-run.” ’ The students were not permitted to observe those inmates at advanced deterioration because,, they were told, “(H would be> too depressing for high school students to witness.” They were, however, allowed <to the sx-haol's ehotr at rehearsal and witness some of the inmates at work in handicraft Claeses. ' j j Displays were on hand ot intricate knitting, woodwork ana various other manual crafts. In addition the class inspected a typical cottage where a group lives and sustains.. The Fort Wayne state school was opened in July, 1890, with 300 patients. > As of May 1 there were 2,228 patients enrolled ’which includes 1,901 in the school and 327 "absentees” (those . who are' capable enough to hold outside jobs but are still under the care of the school). y The school is state owned and maintained and admits by, court commitment only those who are at least six years of age. A law passed in March, 1951, provides for a maintenance fee of $lO a week. ' Most of the school patients.have been rejected from , the public schools. The school department provides instructions in sense training, preprimary activities, primary academic, practical reading and arithmetic, home economics for both boys and girls, physical education, handicraft, weaving, art, piano, choir, rhythm bands, regular bands and orchestra . . sports are also included, such as basketball, softball and volley ball. All requests for outside placements are considered and attempts are made to place in the community those whojharo finished their training. A'bbut two-thirdof the patient® who are placed in convalescent status are successful in making social adjustments in the community—more would be successful if they met with understanding and kindly attitude on part of citizens. Election Os School Head Slated Saturday Adams county township trustees are scheduled to vote for a county school superintendent Saturday morning in the auditor’s office at the court house. At late reports the state still remained the same: Glol Custard. Layke Scherry and William “Jack” Lee. By law the trustees may hold off their election for yet another week, it being permitted to hold the election on the 15th of May, at the latest, according to an explanation by thd county auditor, Frank Kitson. BULL E T I N Otto Ehlerdlng, 64, of Decatur rural route 1, died at 1:20 \ o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 8, 1951

Eisenhower Abandons Hope Os Balancing Os Budget; See Debt Hike

Powerful Atom Bomb Exploded In Test Today Called On/Of Most Powerful Exploded In United States LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP) — One of the most .powerful atomic bombs ever exploded in the United States was set off today* a half mile above an elaborate Ur ray of targets at the Frenchman Elat proving ground. Targets exposed to the flame, fury and deadly radioactivity of the atomic explosion ranged all the way from a- transplanted pine forest and steel bridges, built above the waterless desert, to jet drone airplanes carrying “crews” of monkeys and mice. The atomic burst came with a blinding flash that momentarily dimmed even the bright desert.sun at 8:30 a. m. and was seen brilliantly even from Las Vegas; 55 miles from the test site. The blast was felt only lightly in Las Vegas. A cloud mushrooming up from the explosion soared rapidly to 30.000 feet then lost its shape nnd began drifting toward the northeast. The test involved an A-bomb dropped from an air force bomber and exploded approximately 2,500 feet above Frenchman Flat, one of the .two A-bomb test areas on the desert northwest of here. The bomb was only mediumsized in terms of the growing family of atomic weapons, bqck was one of the most powerful ever detonated in the United States. •.» It was from one and one-half to two times as violent as the Abombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki In the; waning Slays of World War il. Beneath the. aerial explosion targets were arranged with elaborate care by military leaders. fTwrw To Paare Ktcbtl INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Saturday generally fair and a little warmer. Low tonight 4654. High Saturday low 70’s. ___ 16 Red Jets Sneak Out Os Sanctuary First Appearance • In Month Os May SEOUL, Korea, (UP)—Sixteen Red jets sheaked out of their Manchurian sanctuary today 1 for the first time since Gen. Mark Clark offered 1100,000 to the . first pilot to deliver a MIG-15 to the Allies. They found 10 American F-86 “MIG killer” Sabrejets waiting for them near the Yalu river. The outnumbered i Yanks damaged three MiG’s before the Red pack roared back to their haven. / The last air battle was fought April 30. Ground fighting flared up, also, after Cour days of minor action along the 15»5-mile battleline. - Chinese Communists hurled a 500-man detachment against "Outpost Porkchop” north of Seoul in the biggest fight of the week, but American 7th Divisioq troops and a thundering artillery and mortar barrage sent the Reds reeling back. Another 200 Chinese made a second assault on the U. S. defended hill and retreated after 45 minutes'of fighting. Fog slowed- up the shelling of a Communist-held east coast port but American warships used radar ■airhing devices to follow up Thursday’s attack on Red- shore batteries. B-29 Superforts dropped 140 tons of bombs on a large troop arid supply concentration southeast of Hungnam Thursday night.

State Starts Bonus Payments On June 1 56,000 Checks Now Ready For Mailing INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana will mail out more than $30,000,000 in veterans bonus checks June 1. ' It’s starting day for the bonus ’payment which by the end of the year shoulD fatten the bank ac(fbunts of an estimated 280,000 non-dishbled veterans of World War 11. ’ Jerrj Sullivan, who is in charge of the nine-step IBM machine operation processing the claims and writing the checks, said today about 56,000 bonus checks are ready for mailing at the state auditor's office',- about 19,000 process'.’ ed claims will be 1 s'ent there next week, and they should be 90,000 checks ready for mailing June 1. The average payment is $345, which would represent $31,050,000 in recognition of war service. Sullivan said there is a possibility doser to 95.000 checks will be ready for mailing, boosting the total even higher. Bonus officials to keep at least 20,000 checks’ rolling out each month. Veterans with lownumbered claims -the army starts at one and the navy at 350,0(H>— can expect theirs first. \ ( Veterans are eligible for |lff per hnOrrth for domestic service and sls per nionth for foreign service between Dec. 7, J 941. and Sept. 2, 1945. Sullivan figured the average army check at $365 and navy, $325. The difference, he explained, is that arthy men usually experienced longer and more continuous overseas duty. i Growers Urged To Supply Wheat Data ■ Bring Farm Program Records Up To Date Wheat growers were urged today to come to the county PMA office at their earliest convenience and not later than May 22. “Their help is urgently needed to* bring farm-program records up to date, in preparation for possible acreage allotments and marketing quotas on the 1054 Wheat crop,” Winfred Gerke, PMA committee chairman, said today. . This appeal follows a recent announcement by secretary qf agriculture Ezra Taft Benson that the U. ’S. department of agriculture would immediately start the pne.liminary work necessary ip case production and marketing controls are required for the next wheat crop year. [ ’ Accordlrig to Gerke, certain information, from farmers is necessary in order to do a sound administratis job of setting equitable acreage allotments for individual farms. Farm allotments wil) be determined by the county PMA committee, wi(h the assistance of the community committees. Data needed includes the farm’s wheat acreage and production data for the years 1951, 1052 and 1953. Gerke emphasizes that the final decision has not yet been made as to whether acreage allotments dr marketing quotas will he used for the 1954 crop of wheat. That decision will be made later, when more is known about* the supply and prospective demand situations. However, the! indicated wheat supply is such that production controls will probably be necessary, as directed by law. Proclamation, of a j national wheat acreage \allotment is mandatory unless dispensed with by the secretary because of a national emergency or a material increase in exports. V Proclamation of quotas is mandatory when supplies reach a certain point specified in the legislation, except under emergency conditions. An early start on the necessary advance work is particularly urgent, Gerke explained, because the decision - and proclamation must be made not later than July 1 for /Twra T* Pace

Americans Fly Supplies Into Invaded Laos French Forces Warn y Reds Rollback May Be Only Temporary can civilian pilots, flying the latest model jUi $. cargo planes, today 'began parachuting emergency supplies to; the main French-Union defenses of; invaded Laos. The Americans went into action as warned that a Communist “rollback” from previous advance positions inr the invaded Indo-China state may be “only a temporary maneuver.” The pilots, identified by the French; Command as U. S. civilians. dropped five tons of supplies from each of two “flying boxcars." .I \ . . J' ' The operation was reminiscent of the exploits of the American Flying Tikers during the early phases o£ the Siho-Japanese war. A French Command spokesman said the air drop to thq defenders on thej Plaine des Jarres was a trial rqn to give the Americans the fee! of the country. ?. f ,r. Ail slxiot the huge cargo planes which arrived at Hanoi recently from Korea will go into operation on Saturday, a spokesman said. • French . authorities said the build-up of Indo-China’s defenses must continue because it is possible the V’iet Minh Communist forces maj| be regrouping for\ a concerted (hpunt against Paksane, the Mekong river town on the Thailand t ran tier.. The spokesman said air reconnaissance! showed the position of the enemy forces unchanged from Thursday, The main Red troop concentrations are some 50 miles north of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. The splinter force that drove within 25 miles of Paksane still is poised iiv the same position. French pilots estimated the strength of the main enemy concentrated had grown to more than a regiment in the past 24 hour®, with another 3,000 troops strung oqt farther south. Land and air reconnaissance* revealed |mat Red units were continuing to pull hack from the area of Luang Prabang and the French defense position on the Plaine Des Jarres. ; I The pommnntatfl attacked several French; outposts far north ot Luang Pfabang, apparently in an effort to clear communications links with the withdrawing spear- . fTurw T» pase ' — Lawreiice Schlagel f Dies this Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Lawrence C. Schlagel, 76, of 444 North, Seventh street, a resident of Decatur practically his entire life, died ht 8:45 o’clock this morning at ajliori Wayne nursing home. He had >been in failing health for some time. ; / r ''' , ' ■ He was born in Adams county March 1,11877, a son of Gas and Belle Gtim-Schlagel. His wife, the former iPeari Baxter, died in 1932. Mr. Schlagel was a blacksmith until ill health forced his retirement. He Was a member of the Loyal Qrdef of Moose. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Sherman Fonner of Decatur; two grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. One sister preceded him ,ih; death. Funefel services will be conducted ju 2 p.m. Monday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Romaine Wood officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m-, Saturday.

Foreign Aid Slash Sharply Criticized Hearings Continued By Congress Groups WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minri., charged today the Eisenhower Administration is playing a "dice game” with free world security in cutting military foreign, aid spending. Chairman Alexander Wiley, RWis., of the senate foreign relations committee admitted the administration program represents <a "stretch-out” in free world rearmament. ' But Wiley said ther£ will be “no cutbacks” from the original goals. It will just take “a little longer io reach those goals,” he told a reporter. The exchange over the effects of the administration’s $1,800,000,000 cut in foreign aid came as senate and house committees continued closed door hearings on the proposed $5,828,000,000 program for the coming fiscal year. Defenie secretary Charles E. Wilson wks called before the house foreign affairs committee, while the seftforeign relations group galled treasury secretary ■ George M. Humphrey and mutual security administrator Harold E. Stassen. Humphrey cited teethnqny by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chief® of staff, to batik up his attack on the cut made In the foreign aid program proposed by the Truman administration. Bradley told the house foreign affair® group Thursday the Eisejihower administration pared “considerably” the original estimates prepared by the joint chiefs for shipments of arms to the Nojth Atlantic treaty countries in Europe. Os the total foreign aid bill. President Eisenhower recommended that $4,024,000,000 go for the NATO arms shipments. Bradley did not stipulate precisely what the cut was. He said that while the joint chiefs supported the administration’s foreign aid program, despite the cutback, he y found no reliable intelligence estimates indicating the Soviet threat » T* p»se Kight)

Murder Warrant For Swimmer's Father j Claim Death Caused t By Brutal Beating MIAMI, Fla. UP —■-Police held a second degree murder warradt today for the father ot a five-year-old girl swimming star whose death allegedly resulted from “aq brutal” \beating. Convictioq on the charge could bring 20 years to life imprisonment for Russell Tongay, 36, for the death of his famous "Aquatot” daughter Kathy, whom he trained as a professional swimmer before she could walk. Tongay gained freedom oh a habeas corpus wfit just before the warrant was issued Thursday night and could not be found, but police expected him to appear to? day tor a habeas corpus -The stocky ex-coast guardsman whs dazed and incoherent whqn hk walked from jail after Intensive questioning about Kathy’s death Wednesday night during a seizure of convulsions following two exhibition, swims. j:T'l An autopsy report stated Kathy died of a ruptured intestine and detectives said her body was cov r efed with bruises from “an ex? tremely brutal” beating- received 24 hours earlier. Homicide Lt. Chester Eldredge said detectives would “question everyone we can find who might be able to add any Information on the child’s death,” i ' \ He would not comment, however, on whether witnesses noticed any bruises when she performed her usual swimming feats under Tongay’s tutelage earlier 4n the day Wednesday at resort pools in nwra Te rem KKM)

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Treasury Head Gives Word To Senate Group Abandon All Hopes Os Budget Balance; To Hike Debt Limit WASHINGTON UP — The Eisenbower administration announced today it has. given up all hope of balancing' the fiscal 1954 budget and that It may have to ask congress to increase the national debt limit. This word was passed to the senate foreign relations committee by treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey. “There ■is no prospect at all for anything but an increase in the national debt at the present moment,” Humphrey said. The na\ tional debt is, $265,583,000,000. “Although am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year, I do not\ believe it should be balanced this year.” he said. Committee chairman Alexander Wiley R-Wisj., made clear that Humphrey was talking about the 1954 fiscal year beginning this July 1. i “The risk® that would involve in our security would sinjply be too great." Humphrey said.! The present debt limit, as set by , epngvies® i® $275.000,000,000, Humphrey said that “the legal limit on the size of the national debt may have to be Increased." “I am very disappointed in our ability not to go farther in reduring the cohtempl&ed budget deficit,” Humphrey said. "We have not been able to make the reductions I personally hoped to make.” Former President Truman. estimated a deficit of $9,900,000,000 for fiscal 1954. The administration hopes to reduce this substantially but had not disclosed its target. Humphrey told the senators that his chief difficulty in cutting the budget is that about 65 to 70 per cent of government spending is for national security programs and about half the remainder for such fixed items as paying interest on the national debt. .*

“That 'leaves only 15j to 17 per cent of the total budget which is really subject to reduction unless you involve security,” Humphrey said. A further difficulty, he said, is that $81,000,000,000 in unexpended appropriations is outstanding and largely obligated to pay for goods ordered but not delivered. Humphrey testified in closed session on thq administration’s $5,828.000,000 foreign aid appropriation request. But he gave -the legislators a complete takeout on the' national budget picture, and a statement quoting bis remarks was issued later by Wiley. Wiley further said that Humphrey felt that copgress should refrain from further cuts in security programs—the foreign aid Account and the new request for the V- S. domestic military program. Minister's Father Dies Thursday Night (Lewis S. (Emerick, ;74, .father of ■the Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church in this city, died Thursday night at his home near Cumberland, Md.. following a receiit Illness. He is survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter and six grandchildren. " (Funeral details have hot been completed. Rev. Emerick will leave Saturday morning for Cumberland. Arrangements have been made f° r services at the local church to continue as usual.. C. Os C. Directors Meet This Evening Chamber of Commerce president Ralph Habegger has called a special meeting ot/he board of directors tonight at the OC offices nt 7:30. (Habegger said the meeting was a general one and not particularly for the discussion of the pending street festival. i I