Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 117.

Wife Flies To Meet Oatis ‘ >®ol JfcaL Ji x S Sill IB RADIO PHOTO (right)* of William Oatis, Associated Press correspondent as he crossed the Czech border into the!American sector of West Germany at Waidhaus, ending two years? bf imprisonment in the iron curtain country on charges of spying. Op hand at New York when he arrives home, will be his wife (lefti who flew from her .Minneapolis home as soon as news of fais release reached her.

Band Parade Tonight Will Open Festival

Decatur’s spring festival, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the city's retail merchants, will open formally at S o'clock this evening with a parade of high school bands, augmented by the city's auto and implement dealers. The parade will form at the jail yard, with the line of nArch to start at Five Points and move north on Second street to the festival site. Workmen today were busily setting up business for t|e festival ’ Rides and coneession»fcrd tocatea on Madison street, from Second street east, including the lot at the east end of Madison. The display of implements is located on Madison street, between Second and Third. The tent for the amateur contests, which will be held nightly beginning Tuesday atid .continuing through Saturday, has been erect--ed at the corner of Second and Court streets. These contests will be held at 8 p.m.. Tuesday through Friday, with the final contests Saturday night at 9:30 o’clock. Six rides are being set up by the Gooding Amusement Co. They are the ferris wheel, merry-go- . roujid, the whip, roller-coaster, swings, and toy cars. Among the concessions which reported in today are: May’s French fried hot dogs, Clark's carmelj corn and taffy candy. Armentrout’s foot-long hot dogs. Edward J. Hackett’s chinaware and glassware stand, basketball free throw and the Elks high striker. Craig’s jewelry, Powell’s salt water taffy, the Prop Floppers (model airplane) club coke stand. Harkenrider’s eating Stand. Robert Hamilton's carmel corn, taffy and popcorn, the Delta Theja Tau fish pond, and a’-duek pitch. I Jim Cochran Quits As Deputy Sheriff James H. Cochran, of route 6. has resigned his position as deputy sheriff of Adams-county to take a job as city patrolman, filling the space left vacant by the resignation of Charlie Arnold. Cochran is 27 years bld and has been deputy since January of 1951. Sheriff Bob Shraluka reports he has received , several inquiries about Cochran’s job. Zoning Board Will Hear Three Appeals Three appeals for variances to the city zoning ordinance will be heard by the board of zoning appeals Tuesday night starting at 7:15 o’clock, Clarence Ziner, chairman of the board, announced today. All zoning board meetings are open to the public.*'Rules of the board ipeteify that before an appeal will be heard, consent signatures of adjoining land owners must be obtained. BULLETIN NEW ORLEANS UP — A tornado, the sixth in tnree days to batter this weather-weary state, ripped through the small community of Cherie-Winehie today, Injuring one woman seriously and demolishing seven homes. .

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[l3 Acts Tuesday In Amateur Contest - . -i , ' } To Hold Contests During Festival I ! | “ ' Tbirteep acts are scheduled for the opening Tuesday night amateur contest, sponsored by the Decutur merchants in connection with the spring festival this week. There will be programs on Liberty Wa y Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday and Friday nights starting at 8 oi’clock and the winners of first and seconp place each night will enter the finals to be held at 9:30 o’clock Saturday night. Nightly prizes will be $25, for I first; sls for Second and $lO for ! third. The. winner in the final Saturday contest willireceive s4o;\second street midway Where the rides have, ; place will get ;S2O and third and fourth places wjll receive $lO each. All finalists will receive $5 whether ; or not they are] winders. The Tuesday pight program is as [follows: i > ; payie Custer and Cheryl Ash- , baucher, piano duet. : Jack LaWson, ;singing 'iolo. Peter Dalzell.-musical solo. Carol Schulleil, accordion solo. Joe Younis and Russell Coe, AlI bion, guitar duet and singing. ' Mrs. Betty Eacrit, Fort Wayne, accordion solo. I Thane Custer,; pliano solo. Barbara Kalvpr, .solo in seventh grade band. > J John Paul MeAhren, guitar and harmonica. ? ■ \ Donald Thomas, guitar and vocal solo. "* I j, Violet Walchlp and George Sonner. | x • Raymond McjAhren. humor in verse. Barbara and Lynn Orr, Bryant, acrobatic dance. All entries are] from Adams county, unless their; address is given following their names. The entire will be free to the public and awards will be . made each nighL The nightly program will be con- ; eluded in plenty of time for all those attending to spend the balance of the evening on the Madison street midway where the rides hav been set up. All awards will be made in cash from the pool preated by the Decat tur merchants. Rites Held Today For Meyer Infant Service* were held this afteri noon at St. Mary’s Catholic I church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. ] Seimetz officiating, , for Dennis I Meyer, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. [ Ambrose Meyer; 216 North Sev- *' enth street, who died at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday shortly after birth. Burial was in the Catholic cemetery. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Angelia Marie, and the grandmothers, Mrs. Tony Holthpuse and Mrs. Anna Meyer. [ Services were conducted by the home.

Oatis Arrives In New York, Met By Bride Hoosier Newsman Returns From Long Czech Imprisonment NEW YORK, UP — Newsman William who spent 22 months in a prison behind the Iron Curtain flew home today to a reunion with the bride he has not seen for nearly three years. A Oatis. who was released from Pankrac prison in Prague after his dark-haired wife had written a personal appeal to the president of Czechoslbvakia, arrived at New York International Airport on a Pan American flight from Frankfurt. where \he was taken after his release Mrs. Oatis, a bride of three months when the newsman left London to become Associated Press correspondent in Prague, hoped for a private reunion with her husband before he talked with reporters. Mrs. Oatis disclosed she had worked long and hard on the letter to the Czech president which was credited with winning her husband's release. Mrs. Oatis arrived at New' York International Airport with a clean shirt, socks aryl a necktie for her husband, who. she said, is “a very meticulous dresser.” Oatis spent 22 months in a Czech prison after his conviction on what the state department termed “trumped up" espionage charges. Mrs. Oatis said she had hot seen him s?nce June 23, 1950. Mrs. Oatis said she repeatedly re drafted the letter appealing for her husband’s release. She said the decision to send the letter was her own. She formerly was an advertising copywriter in New York. Mrs. Oatis arrived at the airport two hours before the plane was due. She said she felt “inarticulate and stunned” and almost “in a state of shock.” She said she and her husband had nd definite plans but probably would go shopping this afternoon, f'[ The dark-haired Mrs. Oatis arrived here by plane Sunday from St. Paul, Minn.,■ to spend the last long hours of phtient waiting for his return. Oatis. released from Pankrac prison in Prague last Thursday night after an official pardon, brought with him the yet-undis-closed details of his arrest and “preparation” for\ the trial at which he recited a confession to charges of spying against the Czech government. The 39 year old Associated Press correspondent from Marlon, Ind., spoke guardedly of the trial in brief interviews before leaving Europe Sunday for the United (Tnr» To Pa<o Six) Study Second Bill j 1 p ' L ' On Tidelands Oil . Senate Committee Begins Bill Study

WASHINGTQN. (UP) —The senaite interior committee took up the “second installment” of the tidelands oil legislation today even as president Eisenhower prepared to sign the first bill into law. The first bill, enpptqd after a five-week senate battle, given coastal states title to offshore submerged lands out to their historic boundaries, which are three miles in most cases, 10% miles off Texas and western Florida. Plans for the signing of the first bill were switched. The Whtte House said it will not be signed today but some time later this week. Last Saturday the White House had announced the President would sign the bill today. The second bill, already passed by the house, would set up necessary legal machinery for the federal government to grant of! leases and otherwise exercise jurisdiction over the remainder of the continental shelf, the seabottom ledge which runs out as far as offshore in some places. \A controversy broke out around the continental shelf biM even before the interior committee called its first witness. Former Sen. James P. Kern, RMo„ complained that leasing provisions of the senate bill are inadequate. Kern, who represents a Gulf of Mexico sulphur firm, said the bill deals entirely [With oil and gas leasing machinery and makes no provision for production of sulphur or other minerals. Some of the 'Twa Ts Face Six)

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Ridgway Tells Congress European Allies Gravely Short Os Need ed Supplies

Supreme Court Delays Ruling I On Rosenbergs Also Delays Rule On Validity Os School Segregation WASHINGTON (UP) — The supreme court today again put off a decision on the appeal of doomed atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and on the constitutionality at segragation in public schools. Meeting briefly, the tribunal handed down two decisions, accepted several cases for review, rejected others and then recessed until next Monday. The court: [ , . ‘ 1. Agreed to decide whether franchised automobile agencies which operate within one state are subject to the Taft-Hartley labor law. A lower court has held they are because they get their franchises from a concern that operates in interstate commerce. The supreme court's decision, which will not come until the next teain. may well affect franchised dealers in other products. 2- Agreed to docMe , whether gambling machine dealers doing only intrastate business mtist register with the U. S. attorney general under a 1951 law. The law requires dealers to list all sales and deliveries to states that have not exempted themselves by legislation. A lower court has ruled the registration and report sections unconstitutional in the case of two dealers who confined their operations to Georgia. 3. Again denied the aFI Teamsters a review of a Michigan labor law which bans “use of force or unlawful threats” to compel union membership. Two lower courts forbade the union to picket for the purpose of signing up nonmembers of a | Jackson, Mich,, bakery. 4. Refused to its April 13 action clearing the way for extradition to Texas of L. B. Benny Binion, Las Vega’s, Nev., gambler. Binion faces federal income tax evasiop charges in Dallas, where he once lived. 5. Ruled, 5-3, that the three ITara T„ p„,

Administration To * Step Up Spain Aid To Speed Signing Os Defense Agreement WASHINGTON UP — The Eisenhower administration has decided to increase American aid to Spain if congress approves. 'I Administration sources said today the sttp should speed signing of a defense agreement providing for American use of Spanish air and naval bases during an emergency. They disclosed that President Eisenhower’s $5,800,000,000 foreign aid program now before congress, provides for new aid to Spain in the fiscal year beginning July 1 under a general $300,000,000 request for defense support and economic aid for Europe. The exact amount of new dollar aid for Spain was not revealed. But officials indicated it would be under $100,000,000. The administration also Is seeking congressional authority to spend after July 1 $125,000,000 pre, viously voted for Spanish aid but never used because of in signing the defense agreement. Authority to use this money would have ended on Jude 30. The decision to boost Spanish aid marks a new phase in AmericanSpanish relations. Former President Truman opposed aid for Spain but congress voted it anyway. American diplomatic and military officials are confident that <Tua T» Bi*)

Jfaccalaureale Riles Held Sunday Night . Rev. F. H. Willard Delivers Sermon to .' ’ll. . ii. ‘ \ 'On the occasion of the 72nd baccalaureate of Decatur high school the Rev. F. H. Willard, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, spoke last night at the high school on the theme: “What is Life?” Said Rev. Willard: “We are tending to make too much of the swondary things in life and forgetting . v . the neally important things, the things tfiat matter qiost of all . . . ” He pointed to the fact / that a firm once paid $25,000 for a recipe for a cookie and took advertising tp task for the use of poor values ip its copy. He said he read an aid where using jello was proclaimed to be the home savfer and the thing which would “wo*” the family. Rev. Willard doubted it. More than 300 parents, friends and teachers turned out to witness the baccalaureate, almost hftlf of which was carried through tn the dark. Due to a misunderstanding in the orientation of parts for the power plant connection, a nine hour delay resulted in throwing schedules all over town down the drain. Key. Willard tor the moet part gave a highly theoretical and philosophical discourse, touching oil nearly every aspect in life and the stations held by most people. He raked the modern j tendency that surpresses or exclude* the church in daily thinking and chided the couples who think that all they need is each other. "The years that science is adi ding to peoples'j lives guarantee quantity and not quality,'’ said the preacher, “it is up to us what we do with it.” The order of service followed from bhe invocation, delivered by <the Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church. There was rendered a hymn, “For fTarvt TS PS** Ktarkt) — 13 Highway Deaths Reported In Stale State Police Chase Ends In One Death By UNITED PRESS ? t T-wo double fatalities and a hitrun collision during a police chase contributed to one of Indiana’s heaviest week-end traffic tolls as at Jeast 13 persons died on the highways. t An unidentified motorist trying to elude state police was blamed for an accident' which killed Glen Coghill, QB. Nelson, Ky„ and injured three other teen-agers. Officers said the speeding auto forced the victim’s car into a bridge on Ind. 56 near Vevay. Injured were Carl Gammons, 19, and Jennie, Welch, 16, both of Carrolton, Ky., and Rqbert Harmon, 17, Nelson. Police said they were forced to swerve their patrol car into a barbed wire fence io avoid hitting the damaged carA The officers were not; hurt. A man and woman who stepped from their parked car onto Ind. 10 near Kentland were killed by a car driven by Marvin Prohosky of Lake Village. The victims were Beecher Huff, 28, and ; Minnie Nus&rSO, both of Renssalaer. ‘ \ Another double fatality near Kendallville claimed the lives of Everett Jayhart. 22, and Marvfd Lowder, 17, Corunna. They were killed when their car swerved into a truck driven by Eugene Santor, 26, Chicago. Santor was hurt, A truck passing on a hill on Ind, 167 near Bloomfield crashed headon into an auto, killing 1, Verna Neill, 23, Bloomfield, and seriously injuring her husband and son. State police said truck driver Fred Crowder, 35, Bloomfield, was attempting to pass another vehicle. Injured were John Neill. 25, and the couple's four-year-old 'Tara T» ram SMtM)

Gens. Harrison, Clark Confer On Truce Strategy Hold Secret Talks On New Strategy To End Truce Deadlock TOKYO, UP —Gen. Mark W. Clark and Lt. Gen. William K; Harrison held secret talks today ° n Nationp command strategy to end tlje Korean truce deadlock on the war [ prisoner issue. , It was believed the Far Eastern supreme commander and his chief truce negotiator had exchanged with Washington by radio teletype. Robert JD. Murphy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and now Clark’s special diplomatic adviser, took part the closed-door sessions in the supreme commander’s Pershing Heights headquarters. Harfison will confer again Tuesday with Clark and Murphy before returning to the Allied truce camp at Munsan, Korea for the resumption at Panmunjom Wednesday of truce talks, now in recess. I Harrison called the recess last Saturday "for administrative reasojb»” as his delegation locked herns with Communfet negotiators on final disposition of prisoners of war who do not want to go home. There was some speculation that the United States wanted to seek some kind of an understanding with Great Britain, since Prime Minister Winston Churchill had endorsed, with reservations, the eight-point truce plan submitted by the Communists and rejected by Harrison on advice from Washington. When Harrison arrived here Sunday he refused to comment on the deadlock or his reason for seeking conferences with Clark. “t don’t want to talk about negotiations," he said. A reporter asked Harrison if he were pessimistic about the chances for peace in Korea. "A soldier is never pessimistic,” Harrison said. “He just takes what comes.” The Communists were not .reticent, however. Through radio Peiping, the voice of Red* China, the Reds blasted the Allies’ 26-point counterproposal to their eight-1 point plan as “entirely wrong” and “fundamentally impossible.” Both plans accepted the creation of a five-nation neutral commisT« Riffkt)

Entire Battalion Ot Reds Wiped Out Big Indochinese j i Victory By French tHAiNOI, Indochina 'OP — The French command said today that French troops wiped out an entire Communist ibattalion in smashing a bloody bid by 5,000 (Red attackers to capture Indochina’s ‘(Maginot .Line” defenses south of 'Hanoi. French forces won their biggest Indochinese .victory in six months in the savage week-end fighting. They regained complete possession of the vital Yen VI defense works guarding the rich Hanoi rice bowl. But French observation pilots reported that the battered Viet Hinh Communist force* were re-group-■hrg today only a few miles south of th© battlefield. It *wa» 'believed they might launch a new assault soon against the -French ateel-and-concrete bunker system. 'French paratroopers, aided by tanks and planes, recaptured all the, concrete bunkers of the defense line at Yen Vi, 30 miles south of here, after Viet Minh rebels had temporarily cracked the key fortifications. The (French high command said th* Communists suffered “terrible losses” In the fierce 28-hour battle which ended Sunday morning 'tws Te P*w Bskt)

Report Haggard Is Seen In Fort Wayne Schoolmate Relates Meeting On Friday It’s been definitely established that Dean Haggard, 26-year-old involved in a triple wreck last Friday morning that cost the lives of three people, is alive and apparentlyin good condition, according to statements by sheriff Bob Sbraluka. The. sheriff reported Haggard was seen outside of the Fort Wayne National Bank building at about 9:30 a.m. Friday, nine hours after the crash, an ex-schooknate of his, Ruben Clark. 26, of Ossian. Clark is reported to have exchanged greetings with Haggard, and noted to authorities that his clothes did not match those described in a description. Clark said Haggard was wearing a matched work suit and didn’t seem as though he was hurt. T -- The sheriff said ! Clark didn’t know at the time thit Haggard was being sought by police for his part in the wrecks and the report of the meeting was delayed. Police seem satisified now that one burden has been lifted, the fact that Haggard isn’t lying out in a field somewhere. A searching party of Ossian people and Haggard's parents fine-combed the area around the truck stop ton U. S. 224 last Saturday. Until Haggard makes an appearance anything certain on how the accideiit actually happened will be in the dark. A score of" guesses and counter-guesses have been made by both officials and newspapers, let alone individuals, and in no* two cases v are the versions the same. It is thought that since Haggard has apparently been able to recognize his former schoolmate and is walking the streets in an evidently unharmed condtion, speculation on any shock he might be suffering is at an end and the reason he is staying away can be boiled down to fear of the consequences if he shows up. Prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith said there is no affidavit against Haggard at this time. v

Army To Close Three Big Training Camps Camp Breckenridge One To Be Closed WASHINGTON, UP —The army plans to shut down Camp Breckenridge, Ky„ and at least two more big training bases as a result of economy cuts, officials disclosed today. The 101st airborne training divisions, stationed at Camp fiireckenridge, will be deactivated. A final decision on the other training bases to be closed is expected this week. Among those currently being, mentioned are Camp Roberts, Cah, home of the 7th armored training division, and Camp Chaffee, Ark., base of the: sth armored training division. In addition, officials said, a number of smaller training facilities in various parts of the country will 4 be closed under defense secretary Charles E. Wilson’s plan to cut army manpower to 1,421,000 men and cut draft calls in half during the coming year. The overall I drop in army strength will be about 100,000 met). About half of .it will be absorbed in this country, with the remaining 50,000 men coming out of over-’ seas commands in Europe and the Far East, under present plans. This would represent a cut of about, 10 percent in total army forces overseas. The air force was hardest hit by the new* administration’s economy program. Informed sources disclosed over the weekend that the air force is now planning to have 110 wings during the coming* 1954 fiscal year, compared to 193’ planned under former President' Truman's budget. Os the 23 wings to be eliminated, five would be taken from the strafTem Te rags Wghf)

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Gravely Short In Airpower, Other Supplies Backs Appeal From Administration For Foreign Aid Program WASHINGTON, UP — Gen. Ridgway tol<l congress today the Allies in Europe are “still gravely short of airpower” and have “major deficiencies” in supplies and ammunition. ijThe supreme Allied commander in Europe appeared before the house \ foreign affairs committee to bolster the administration’s plea for $5,800,000,000 in foreign aid. ,1 Ridgway said even with completion of the 1954 goals set by the North Atlantic treaty organization "we Uill still fall short of the minimum defensive strength required to prevent serious reversals in thf« early stages of a determined attack.” “Despite the rapid increase ih. ! strength of the past tvyo years,” he testified, “we are still gravely short of airpower. • “To countet-the threat from Submarines and mines, we need additional escorts and minesweepers.” Ridgway said. “We must in* crease the reserves of our land, forces, strengthen their supply troops, and insure the continuous supply of all our forces.” Ridgway, who steps up to armychief of staff next August, said the administration’s foreign aid request “is essential to the security of the United States as Well as to all the NATO nations?' Jj j Although NATO strength has in-' he said, [ “nevertheless there are still major deficiencies, for example, in support units, logistical establishmeints. and stocks of ammunition.” "Today, as a year ago,” he said, “air-power is still the weakest link in our defense.” Ridgway warned that Russia’s satellites have built their military power beyond the point needed merely for defense; ' . - Ridgway said * J in the air, the Soviets have made- significant progress in re equipping their forces with high-performance jet aircraft, and in increasing overall coriibat efficiency. : . . “The Soviets’ well-known disregard for their own casualties further increases their offensive capability,” he said.

Eight To Report For Army Induction June 11 The Adams county selective service office has received orders for eight men to report for active induction into the nation’s armed forces Thursday, June 11. i ' •• Arnold Resigns As City Policeman Charlie Arnold, of 803 Line street, for more than two years a city patroln|an, has resigned from the forcerto take a position with the Erie uilroad Co. Tho place left vacant in the nine-man police department will be filled by Jim Cochran, deputy sheriff, who applied for and was accepted on the local force. Twenty-eight-year old Arnold came on* the force in February, 1051, as a temporary policeman but remained on the force until late last week, when he decided to make the change. INDIANA WEATHEIt Mostly fair nortn, partly cloudy With with scattered showers over most of south to- : night and near the Ohio river Tuesday. Not much change in -*• temperature. Low tonight 48>52 north and central, 52-58 extreme south. High Tuesday 66» -74. A-