Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 125.

Reds Execute Four Charged As U. S. Spies Announcement Mode By Soviet Press; Charge Espionage MOSCOW UP — The Soviet press announced tod*y the execution of four 'American spies charged with being dropped by parachute from an unmarked V- S. bomber on Ukranian soil last April 26 with espionage equipment. Izvestia, the government organ, and other Moscow newspapers devoted two columns of type to a u communique (from the ministry of internal security announcing the four had been, shot to death. The communique identified the men as Aleksandr Lakhno. Aleksandr Hakoy, Sergei Gorbundv and •Dmitri Remiga. They were tried by a military tribunal of the supreme court of the Soviet Union. According to the communique, Lakhno and Makoy, ,who were ■ \ caught immediately, (were saboteurs who gave fictitious names <V “Vasili Vasilchenko” and “Leonackovsky,” respectively. > The ministry said the four men were agents of the Nazis during t 'World War 11. Laghno, the communique said, was unmasked as a traitor who betrayed five Soviet patriots to the Germans who had them shot. _ Imkhno and Makoy “confessed they were \parachuted into Soviet territory by American intelligence with dfversionist terrorist assignments,” the communique said. Lakhno and Makoy testified the two other agents, who were arrested on the same day, had been given the nicknames “John” and ‘iDick” by the Americans. Lakhno said his nickname was “Alek” and ■Makoy’g >was “Pit." The communique said the agents “carried shooting instruments.” four short wave radio transmitters, American-made radio signaling instruments for guiding aircraft, secret writing materials and equipment for making counterfeit Soviet documents, large amounts of Soviet and foreign currency and anti-Soviet propaganda material." The announcement, said the defendants testified U. S. inteligence had sent them "to spy training center at Bad Wiessee near Munich for studying under the guidance of American inteligence officers. Soviet news reports said the men admitted they were flown from Munich to Athens on April 23 where they were met by a (Maj. Harold Fidler, an intelligence officer who had come to the Soviet Union thre e times in 1951 as a diplomatic courier. The reports said Fidler placed them on the bomber with instructions to land in the area of Kiev, (Tara T» Paac Five)

Rosenberg Stay Is Refused By Vinson Plan Fourth Appeal Despite Rejection WASHINGTON, UP —Attorneys for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg today planned a fourth appeal to the supreme court despite the likelihood that a new execution date for the condemned atom spies will be set early next weke. Chief justice Fred M. Vinson refused Tuesday to stay the execution to allow time for filing the new appeal. But justice department sources said it is Improbable that the hueband-wife spy team will be sent to the electric chair if an action is pending before the supreme court. The couple’s New York attorney Emanuel H. Bloch, and his associate, John F. Finerty, technically could hsk any other justice to grant a stay, particularly justice Robert H. Jackson, who administers the second circuit. But the chances of getting one are now exceedingly remote, at least -for the present. * The fourth appeal of the Rosenbergs, which must be filed by June 9, asks the court to reconsider its —action oFMoiiday rejecting a third appeal. This was a kind of habeas corpus action, distinct from the direct appeal of their conviction which was turned down last November. ~ When official word of Monday's action reaches tha trial court in New York, federal judge Irving R. Kaufman will be free to set a (Tara Ta Page Five)

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Oust Romanian Official IL. J y I J? w -IW .< y mF* at i * wßiiiii F* 11 u THE STATE DEPARTMENT has ordered Christache Zambeti (left), an official of the Romanian Legation in Washington, to leave the U. S. immediately because he tried to blackmail V. C. Georgescu of New York (right), a naturalized American citizen, into spying for the Romanian government. Georgescu, shown holding a picture of his sons. Peter and Constantin, charges that Zambeti threatened the safety of the boys, who have been held in Romania against their will for the past eight years. |

Patriotism Os Naturalized U. S. Citizen Praised Some Demand U. S. Close Romanian i Legation Here WASHINGTON, UP — Members of congress today praised the courageous patriotism of V. C. Georgescu. the naturalized American who spurned a chance to ransom his two children from -Red Romania by betrayisg his adopted country. The Communist attempt to blackmail Georgescu into espionage angered lawmakers of both parties and brought demands that the United States close down the Romanian legation. But official anger was mixed with a feeling of frustration, born from the knowledge that there is very little this country can do to protect the lives of the two teenage boys held somewhere in a Romanian prison camp. The state department, which already has ordered a Romanian diplomat out of the country for the "blackmail attempt, apparently planned no further action. Officials said this country had no plans to break off diplomatic relations with Romania.

\ The story of parental heroism came to light Tuesday when the department announced the expulsion of £hristache Zambreti, first secretary of the Romanian legation here. It disclosed that he had approached Georgescu in New York with an offer to release their children to come to America if the parents would 'become spies for Romania. Instead, Georgescu went to the FBI with the whole story, trusting that outraged world opinion would prevent Romanian authorities from harming the children. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S. D.) said he was deeply impressed with Georgescu’s “patriotic devotion to his new homeland.” Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) a member of the senate foreign relations committee, extended his "greatest sympathy” to the parents, and said they had "demonstrated their willingness to make a great sacrifice for democracy.” Rep. Charles J. Kersten (RWis.) said the incident shows that all Communist Embassies in Washington are “centers of espionage that should be closed up kit and kaboodle.” ' Rep. Albert P. Morand (R-Conn.) urged the house foreign affairs committee, of which he is a member, to investigate the case. \ Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) said “this is an example of the terrorist tatties of the Communists which ate modeled on those of the worst blackmailers in existence and ’indicate what would happen if they get control of the world.” NO PAPER SATURDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Saturday, May 30, which is Memorial Day. Friday's edition will go to press at noon, affording employes a longer holiday weekend. O —S O 12 PAGES 0 1' : 0

Butter Speaker At Democrat Meeting Indiana National Committeeman Here Paul IM. Butler, Indiana democratic national committeeman, delivered a “pep-talk” here Tuesday night to more than 100 Adams county Democrats, and called for increased party unity. The occasion was a Democratic banquet at the American Legion home, arranged by the Adams county Democratic committee and its chairman, Dr. Harry Hefrble. Butler asserted that the “trouble” with the Democratic par* ty in Indiana is the tact that ‘ there are people' Who work for the party before the elections and after it refuse to follow the leaders.” Butler blamed the “attractiveness" of President Eisenhower as the reason many of the women who voted in the last election went tor Ike. “. . . It is women’s organizations who defeated us in the last election ... their enthusiasm over the political scene brought them into politics last November and it is their influence that will decide the congressional elections next year.” Butler confined most of 'his remarks to the mechanics of the office he holds and made few’ statements regarding high Democratic policy or th e most recent political' hot potato, tidelands oil. “Preciritt workers deserve the credit for the success of the party but are not changed with the failure, when such things come about.” asserted the youngish national figure. ' . “. . . The office I hold was formed for the purpose of advising in Washington with (the national committee of our party on conditions in which vitally affect the well-being of the party, and come back here to work out those things which .will prove best for the organizatTSn,” explained Butler. Butler referred briefly to the newly formed advisory committee of the Democratic party—to which Ed Jal be ng, IDecatur. and Conn Sterling, Fort Wayne, were recently named as representatives of the fourth district. “There are 32 members to this committee in Indiana and they are called upon to advise with the national leaders of our party. He said more money was spent on campaigning in 1952 and left the party with a deficit <* $790,000, which has been brought down to $203,000, and it iwas, stated Butler “the job of the advisory committee to help raise funds for the ■party to wipe out the remaining deficit.” -y “®d Jaberg will call on Democrats in the county for contributions to the Democratic party,” and he added: “To give you an opportunity to give back some of the money you’ve made during the last 20 years (of Democratic party power.) *iMore money,” he predicted,” will have to be spent in the future for national coverage because of the expense of radio and TV.” Butler said a "Democratic digest” will soon »be printed—in the form of the Readers Digest, beginning in July "to point out the mistakes of the Eisenhower administration and spread propa<anda—in the good sense.” Women will take subscriptions to the magazine, said Butler and it the circu<Ta*a Te Pace Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 27, 1953,

South Koreans Bitterly Oppose New U. N. Plan For Korean Armistice

Eisenhower And Churchill Back New U. N. Plan Greatest Display For Allied Unity, During Truce Talk WASHINGTON. UP—The greatest display of Allied unity since •the Korean truce talks began put the Communists on notice today that the secret new United Nations plan is the best chance for peace they will get. In an unusual move. President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill issued special statements Tuesday emphasizing the free world’s united support for the proposal. It was in effect a formal notification that the split on truce policy that has plagued the Allies for nearly two years had been healed. ft also was a warning to the Communists that they no longer can use free world differences tp wring new cohcesrjAns but must decide quickly whether to end the war or continue it. Mr. Eisenhower said the Allies were “in full accord” on' the U. N. formula for handling prisoners unwilling to return to their homelands, the one issue still holding up an armistice. Churchill said the new plan was “very close” to the Indian proposal and had “the complete support of Her Majesty’s governriletvt.” in keeping with U. N. requests, neither Mr. Eisenhower nor Churchill revealed any of its specific terms. But the President said Certain “basic principles” of the U., N. position were not subject to change and these presumably were contained in the plan. As outlined by Mr. Eisenhower, they were: 1. No prisoners will be repatriated by force. ' , 2. No prisoners will be coerced or intimidated in any way, 3. There must be a definite limit to the period of their captivity. 4j The procedures used in handling the prisoners must re-, fleet these principles. ' . “In all this, our Allies are in full accord,” he said. “These principles Accord also with the fTera Te P«<e iCte*t> Discontinue Monthly C. Os C. Meetings General Meetings To Be Discontinued Ralph Habegger, president of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today that general meetings of the Chamber of Commerce held heretofore on the first Monday of each month, will be discontinued. Said Habegger: “We can‘t get anything accomplished at the general meetings.” He said the gatherings so far have shown themselves to be fields for dispute among the membership and it has been abandoned in favor of initiating meetings for the retailers only, much the samp way, said Habegger, as the industrial division holds its meetings. He said the new group will be called the “retail division of the OC.” The CC president advised that George Stultz is in charge of the preparations for this new group, but Stultz, however, said there is “no release at this time” about immediate plans for the new division. ‘ It was also stated that a meeting of the board of directors of the commerce group will be held Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce offices on South Second street.

Four Czechs Given > , ’ 4 ‘ j ,«(• < . - r Long Prison Terms Prague Purge Trials j ■ Are Being Continued VIENNA, Austria, UP —Richard Slansky, brother of executed Czech Communist chief Rudolf ■ Slansky, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage in an apparent continuation of last yearns antiSemitic Prague purge trials. • A Prague radio broadcast Tuesday night said the Communist supreme court also sentenced three former Czechoslovak diplomats to prison terms ranging v f*rom 25years to life for high treason or espionage. Eduard Goldstuecker, ex-minis-ter to Israel, received life imprisonment. Karel Dufek. former minister to Turkey, and Paval Kavan, ex-secretary of the Czech embassy in London, got 25 years. Richard Slansky formerly wa’i Czech charge d'affaires inTehran, Iran. J; . At least three of the defendants either were mentioned of were witnesses at the espionage trial of Rplolf Slansky and other 4 purged Ctech officials in Prague last November. ; S ■Rudolf Slansky, ex-Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis and nine other defendants were hanged last Dee. 3. Three other defendants were sentenced to life terms. Study Proposal For Atomic Production ij - ■ t Proposes Private* Industry To Aid « L • ' \ • ‘ WASHINGTON UP — Rpublican leaders said today congress will give long and careful study to the administration’s history- making proposal to let private industry in dp the development of peacetime atomic power. It appears likely ’that congress eventually will pass legislation relaxing thq government’® tight monopoly on construction and operation of nuclear reactors. But chairman W. Sterling R-N. !Y. said his congressional atomic energy committee will hold extensile hearings on the plan, beginning next month, and the bill probably will not be brought before Congress until next year. n The atomic energy commission started the legislative 'ball rolling Tuesday fry submitting tb Cole’s committee a proposed 'bill (Which would authorize private firms to build and operate atomic power plants, and even buy and sell atomic fuels under government licensing and supervision. t The commission said the time has come to .bring the fabled *knjowhow” of American 'private Industry to bear on the problem of producing atomic power that will be “economically competitive” with power produced from coal; oil and hydroelectric plants. ji • The long-range impact of opening up a great new source of , power for American industry apparently were up ifor top-level discussion at President Eisenhower’s meeting with the national security council today. t 'j Although the White Mouse gave out no information about the secret meeting, its nature could be guessed from the list of participants. It included chairman!Gordon Dean of the atomic energy commission; Dr.L Vannevar Bush and Dr. J, Robert Oppenheimer, two of the nation’s foremost atomic scientists; secretary of interior Douglas McKay, whose department' is concerned with hydroelectric (power, coal and oil resources; and officials from the Petroleum Defense Administration. i

Taft's Blast At U. N. Draws Solons' Fire Senator's Blast Is Roundly Criticized By His Colleagues WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sharp criticism of the United Nations by Sen. Robert A. Taft drew reaction from his senatorial colleagues today which ranged from emphatic opposition, to studied “no comments.” Chairman Alexander Wiley, RWis., of the senate foreign relafions committee, choosing his words carefully, said: /‘lf ever there was a time when Americans needed to be uhderatood, and for us to understand our world allies, it is now.” • Taft said at Cincinnati Tuesday night the United States should “forget the United Natins” in trying to settle the Korean war. He said it should take a “completely free hand” in dealing with Communist expansion elsewhere.in the Far East. Taft h< believes in the United Nations, “hut not as an effective means to prevent aggression.” - \ Wiley, upon whose committee Taft sits, first ueclined to comment. Then he Was reminded he receitly told on American bar association meeting here that the U. S. must reject a “go it alone” policy. WRey then permitted the quotation on the need for common understanding. Tout’s statement drew much tent ion in legislative quarters, not so much because of its content as its timing. The Republican leader often in the past has expressed similar sentiments both privately and publicly. But the current armistice discussions in Korea and the sense of finality surrounding the Panmuhjom talks cast Taft’s remarks in a new light. Democratic Sen. J. William Fulbright, Ark., a foreign relations member took sharp and open issue with Taft. * “I don’t agree with it (Taft’s speech)” he said. “Particularly if he meant to say that if this specific negotiation at Panmunjom fails we are through with the (Tar® Ta Pace Four) Lions Hear Talk On Little League League President Is Speaker Tuesday Lions Tuesday night heard a talk on Little League activities from its president, Gene Rydell. - Rydell explained the rules and regulations of the league and paraded many of the pieces of equipment used by little leaguers before. the Lions. Twelve-year-old Wayne Lee Myers, member of the midget outfit, came to the meeting 'in full baseball regalia and gave the Lions a pretty clear glimpse of the outfitting when coupled with t t he display of bats atid other accessory pieces of baseball equipage shown by Rydell. \ In charge of the program was Lion Ben. Webster, also vicepresident of the Little League. 'Discussion also carried on regarding the party for the cast of the Lions minstrel show here last February. Some difficulty was evident, however, in getting a suitable date set but it is thought that it will take sometime next month. ’ ' . Next week’s program of the local service club will be a talk by the Rev. Samuel Emerick who was on a missionary mission to Cuba recently. In charge of this program will be Hany Knapp.

New Principal Loren S. Jones has been nanieef principal of Monmouth high school effective August 1. Jones comes to the Root township school from Hoagland, where he hais been a teacher and playground supervisor for (he last several years. Kalver Is Reelected Cancer Group Head Kalver President Os Cancer Society Roy Kalver, operator of Kalver Theaters in Decatur, was re-elect-ed president of the Adams county cancer society at the annual meeting held Tuesday night. Kalver has headed the county group since its founding seven years ago. Dr. Jitmes Burk, president of the Adams county medical society, was named first vice-president and Dr. H. R. Frey. Decatur optometrist, was named second vicepresident. Other officers, included Mrs. Ci I. Finlayson, secretary; Theodore Graliker, treasurer, and Dick Heller, publicity director, were reelected. The group authorized the officers, who also Comprise the exec utive committee, to revamp the advisory council, and name several new members. The county society is founded largely to provide new information concerning cancer detection and cure development and is affiliated with the state and national societies. Its funds are obtained from the Decatur Community Fund and also by solicitations in the other towns of the county. The advisory council will be composed of leaders throughout the county and each member will head a committee for. 1953-54. An annual financial report prepared by treasurer Graliker revealed that the society has paid its annual assessment to the state kpd national societies and has a balance of more than $1,200 to spend locally. The county group assists Adams county persons afflicted with the disease, when a patient is unable to get proper care because of finances. Beds and a wheel chair also are available to local patients l|nd when it is necessary them to <Twrn Ta Pas* Five) Appeal Is Issued For Blood Donors - A plba for bfood donors was made today by the Red Cross, •reservations for Friday’s visit of the bloodmobile lacking 43, in meeting the quota. So far 1(M. per- h sone have registered for a blood donation. To assure 125 pints of blood, the registration list should be* 14'4, Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary of the Red Cross, said. i A . ■ The bloodmobile will be at the Legion home from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Reservation periods are open between 11:30 a. m and 1 p. m.. , and between 2 and 2:30 p. <n.. Mrs. Schafer eaid.; ‘•‘The chapter desires to meet its quota and we urge donors to enlist today,” Mrs. Schafer eaM.

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U. S. Officials Seek To End Angry Revolt Bitter Opposition , May Block Signing Os Any Armistice SEOUL. Kprea UP — United States diplomatic and military officials teamed today in attempting to end an angry revolt of the South Korean government against the , new United Rations truce proposals. American, ambassador Ellis O. ' Briggs conferred with Korean PresI ideht Syngham Rhee while Lt. Gen. • Maxwell D. -TaVlor, commanding the eighth army, conferred with Ko- , rean defense rtiinister Shin Tae Yung. t The South Koreans have not dis- • closed publicly their reasons for opposition to the truce proposals—- . opposition so. bitter that it conceivably could block the signing of an armistice. ■ i But it is reported that they want, first, to get all Chinese Communists out of (Korea after an armistice has been concluded, and second to leave the way clearly open for the later unification of South and North Korea. | i It is reported also that Rhee is . angry because he was not told that the new U. N, proposals were being made until a few minutes before the U. N. truce delegates submitted it to the C'bpimunists Monday. A South Korean army spokesman bluntly contradicted President Elsenhower’s statement Tuesday that “our Allies” support the new U. N. truce proposals. South Korea, he said, is one of the Allies and decidedly does not support the proposals. The spokesman confirmed that Gen. Choi Duk Shin, South Korean member of* the five-man U- N. truce team, is boycotting /truce meetings on instructions froth his government. Reports circulated in Seoul that the South Korean government has drafted a seven-point plan of actipn - for use in event that its protest against the truce plan is not heeded; First, it was said, South Korfia may formally withdraw from negotiations. Second, according to the report, President Rhee might withdraw all South Korean troops from the battle line. Third, it w(is said, if troops are kept there, mightbe ordered to an independent attack on the Communists in open violation of a truce. ft was pointed out here that if ,Si>uth Korea rejected a truce, the might refuse to sign (Tim T» Face Klckt) Veterans To Visit Graves On Saturday Graves of war veterans in local cemeteries to be visited by veterans’ organizations on Memorial Day have been selected, Leo Ehinger, graves registration chairman, - announced today. Military rites will be held in the Decatur and Catholic cemeteries. The VFW will conduct services at the grave of Frank Crist in the Decatur cemetery and the American Legion will be in charge of the rites at the grave of Clarence Berber in The Catholic cemetery. \ „ The services will begin at -9 a.ro. and the public is invited to attend. Ehlnger announced that flags to mark veterans’ graves were still available at the Legion and VFW homes. ! \ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, somewhat cooler extreme south. Thursday considerable ck>ud>neae, occasional thunderstorms extreme southwest. Low tonight 44-50 north, 50-56 south. High Thursday 65-79 nortn, 7075 south.