Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1953 — Page 1

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Rosenbergs Ask High Court For Execution Stay Condemned Couple Asks Supreme Court For Execution Stoy WASHINGTON UP — Counsel for atom spies Julius and Ethel Rdsenberg today sought a supreme court stay of execution for the condemned couple so they may take their case (o the high bench for a fifth time.* it necessary. Defense lawyer Emanuel H. Bloch of New York made the new request for a stay. Court aides said it will be referred to Justice Robert H. Jackson. This is because Jackson administers the second circuit, where all the Rosenberg proceedings have taken place. Action can not come before Saturday, it was explained, because Jackson Is out of the city. The husband-wife spy team, accused of slipping U. ST atomic, secrets to Russia, is scheduled to die in the Sing Sing prison gleetrie chair at 9 pjn. next Thursday. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson rejected a previous request for a star of execution. The Rosenbergs already have lost three appeals in the supreme court from their conviction and a fourth x-that the tribunal reconsider Its May 25 rejection of a previous appeal — is on file. The jut|lce department today filed objections to the fourth petition, which the court is expected to act on next Monday in its last meeing of the present term. Today’s papers said: •‘The petitions are made in good faith and not for the purpose of delay. Unless the stay requested herein is granted the petitioners will >be irreparialbly injured.” If Jackson should grant the stay, the case could go over until the next term of the high court. There also is a possibility that the justices (tin T» Six) Brownie Day Camp

Is Ended Al Park Girl Scouts Take Over Next Week Eight troops of the Decatur Brownies —the junior edition of the Giri Scouts — ended their week-long day camp today leaving behind them a week crowded with almost every pastime agreeable to little ladies anywhere. The place: Hanna-Nuttman park. Camp chairman Mrs. Paul Handler is in charge of the format of the camp together with her aide Mrs. Byron Smlthk About 118 girls and helpers attended the annual camp this week and is intended to shape the personalities of the young girls to enable them to enter society when they grow up. The ages are from 7 to 11 years. Following are the activities and their leaders: Dramatics, Mrs. Reid Erekson, helpers * Greta Erekson, Joyce Franklin; singing, Janet Smith, helper Madelene Snyder; dancing, Janice Hetrick, helpers Carolyn McDougal, Marilyn Kirchenbauer; handicraft, Mrs. Marilyn Tutwiler, helper Beverly Poling; recreation. Janet Evetrhart, helper Mary Jane Smith; nature, Mrs. Don Cochran, helpers Mrs. Emma Johnson, Diana Johnson; outdoors, Dana Dalzell, helpers Jane Rentz. Vera Walters; first aid, Mrs. Florabelle Faulkner. In charge of registration was Mrs. Vincent Bormann. Transportation was provided by Mrs. Don Jeffries. The Girl Scouts of the city take over the cabin at Hanna-Nuttman park next Monday for a week. Dave Terveer Speaks At Rotary Meeting j An interesting explanation of * Little League baseball in this city was presented to the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening by David Terveer, Decatur Catholic high school coach and player agent for the league. Special guest was Tom Gross, one of the Little Leaguers, dressed in his regular uniform. Jerry Leitz was chairman of the program. The Rotary club will not meet next Thursday, but instead members will attend a group meeting at the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce building at 6:30 p.m., Monday, honoring Glen O’Laverty, of Bluffton, district governor-elect. Speaker will be Ted Harp, of Sidney .Reservations must be made with the club secretary by tonight.

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Defense Secretary A Defense Witness

DEFENSE SECRETARY Charles E. Wilson (center), former president of General Motors C6rp., enters the Federal Building in Chicago to testify as the closing witness tor the defense in the du Pont antitrust trial. Wilson told* the court that General Motors favored neither the U. S. Rubber Co. or du Pont tp the exclusion of other concerns in any bpsinesM deals.. With him are General Motors president and vice president Henry Hogan (left) and Albert Bradley.

Allied Troops Brace For New Red Assaults American) Troops Brace For More Attacks By Reds •SEOUL, Kor.ea UP — American infantrymen on the east-central front braced for ; new Communist attacks tonight as the Reds increased their artillery The increased shelling -came at Outpost Harry after 15th regiment soKt-jrs beat off a night assault by 2,000 Chinese. ' Some 600 Communists were killed or wounded in the action. ' ■ \ ! Meanwhile, raln ; turned the battlefield around Oiftpost Harry into a quagmire as the Allies rushed to restore thetr fortifications against a possible new attack. Farther easty ( South Korean troops fought to a stalemate in their efforts to rojut Chinese from three positions tpken earlier in fierce battles. I 1 \ Bad weather limited air action, but U. S. Sabre Bombers broke a hole in the clotids to plant 46.000 pounds off bombs jin a Communist airstrip at Anak. West of Sariwon in North Korea. 1

The fresh force »f 2,000 Chinese had tried to ‘fadjust the battleline” by taking Outpost Harry on the main Allied defense line. The Reds moved toward Harry while Communist artillery laid down a ibartage of 100,000 rounds on the contested east-central front. Radio ‘Pyongyang said Communist troops only w ere "adjusting the lines” to better their position before the cease-fire which will freeze the battleline when it is signed; 1 Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, eighth army commander, hurried to the east-central front today and spent an hour talking with regimental commanders ordered to hold strategic Outmost Harry at all costs. “Gen. Taylor paid the highest compliment to the! men who del- - the outpost.| said Col. Russel F. VRed” Akers jof Washington, D. C., 15th infantry regiment commander. Akers said his men killed or wounded almost half of the 4.400, Chinese who hit hit outpost Wednesday and again Thursday night. Allied casualties also were heavy, Akers said, "but w r e are ready for them again, "This is one outpost we cannot* afford to lose.” Alters said. “If the enemy holds it ! } he woll look iright down on oqr regimental front. We have been told to keep it.” • !*.!]- Major John Eisenhower, son of the President and intelligence officer of the U, S. third division, estimated incoming artillery at the, rate of 100 rounds a minute during part of the attack. Fighting also continued at Sniper' Ridge and Christinas Hill. The eighth army disclosed that ah Allied plane had'caused an unknown number of casualties when it sjrafed an Allie'd front line position on the east central front Wednesday. _1 Eighth army said the incident was being investigated. I Charing weather sent the Allied air-force on one of Its heaviest (Tera Ta Six)

Camp Atterbury To Be Closed In 1954 Seven Army Bases To Be Discontinued WASHINGTON, UP —The army today announced the shutting down of seven bases throughout [the country in an economy move designed to save in the first year. Five of the bases will be placed on a standby basis and the other two will' ue ! declared surplus. Installations which will be inactivated by Jan. 1, are Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky; Camh (Roberts, at San Miguel, Calif.: and Camp San Luis Obispo,* Calif. ■ * Camp Rucker, near Daleville, Ala., and Camp Atterbury, Indiana are scheduled to be closed by June 30.1954.

The army said troop units and activities now at t;hese posts will be transferred to other stations or “phased out . . . fji order to consolidate activities and overhead.” Fort Crockett at Galveston, Tex! and Fort Adams, at Newport, R. I. will be declared unnecessary for the present needs of the army by July 1. The army estimated that "more efficient use” of army installations "brought about through redistribution of troops now stationed” at the seven basks will save $11,750,000 in the first year and $30,000,000 in the second year. The announcement was made after a 90-minute briefing at the Pentagon of congressmen and senators from the six states affected. The purpose of the briefing, held by army undersecretary Earl D. Johnson, was to meet in advance the anticipated political repercussions. The army pointed out that all of the camps to be inactivated were “urgently needed” after the start of the Korean war .to handle the expanding army. But with the army now faced with a 100,000manpower cut and lower draft calls, there is a decreased need for the troop training centers, the army explained. The two bases declared excess —Fort Crockett and Fort Adams — will be taken over by thg. general services administration for us 6 either by other government agencies or for eventual sale. The army said the five inactivated installations placed in standby status will have “caretaking” detachments. Funeral Monday For Dr. Dailey Jones 1 , Funeral services for Dr. Daniel Dailey Jones, veteran Berne physician who died Thursday morning, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church in Berne, the IRev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery, with graveside rites in charge of: the Masonic lodge and the Bern* and Decatur American Legion posts. Friends may call! at the Yager funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening until 9 a.m., Monday, when the body will be removed to the church to lie in state until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 65-70. High Sat--1 urday 88-95.

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Decatur, Ind io no, Friday, June 12/1953.

Rhee Preparing Letter Rejecting Eisenhower Plea To Accept Truce

To Slash Aid For Korea If Truce Defied Deny Emergency \ y Food Supplies To Also Be Cut Off WASHINGTON UP — American officials indicated today that military aid to South Korea will be cut off if President Syngman Rhee orders his troops to defy a truce. But the state department formal; Ty denied a statement by Koredn Ambassador Dr. You Chan Yang that emergency food deliveries also would be stopped. Yang charged at a news conference in Philadelphia Thursday nigfit that “officials of the- United Nations” had threatened to clamp an embargo on military and food shipments if his government failed to agree to the current peace terms. "Any implication that the United States uses famine and human suffering for political purposes is false,” a state, department spokes* man declared, "and those who make such statements know that it is false.” The department did not comment officially on the military aid question. But officials made it plain this country eould not logically continue to send arms ter the South Koreans if they violated a ceasefire pact which the United States and United Nations agreed to honor. . “In the confusion,” one official said, “we might even find the South Koreans shooting at our own troops.”

Yang emphasized that’ the alleged threats were made by U. N. officials and not the state department. But U. S. authorities felt his attack was leveled indirectly at this country. They made no effort to disguise their irritalion at what they considered Yang's obvious attempt to build popular support among Americans for his government’s bitter stand President Eisenhower’s decision to accept the armistice now pending at Panmunjom. The flareup over the threatened cutoff of aid came as the state department announced that India had given a "preliminary favorable reply” to an invitation to serve on a five-nation truce commission. Its note was understood to have indicated, however, that India wanted assurances that South Korean troops would not interfere with its dispatch of forces to supervise the post-armistice texchange of prisoners of war. | Sweden and Switzerland agreed to serve on the commission Wednesday. Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia revealed their acceptances Thursday. Two Welfare Board Members Appointed Appointments Made By Judge Parrish Judge Myles Parrish of the Adams circuit court, today appointed two members’ of the county welfare department board. Reappointed was 'Mrs. Lulu Fruchte, who has served as a member since is the second appointment to a four-year term. | ' , ' Francis E. Shell, of the Shell Bros, heating and plumbing ebncern, was appointed to a four year term, succeeding Joseph Laurent. Other board members are: E. W. Baumgartner of Berne; Eli Graber, trustee member from French township; and Mrs. Lenora Glendening of Geneva. Baumgartner ii president of the board. The annual organization meet* ing of the members will be held in August, Miss Bernice Nelson, director of the department, stated.

Five Persons Killejd As Bus Hits Truck 11 30 Others Hurt Inti [ Greyhound Bus Crash HARRISBURG. Pa. (UP);'-4‘.A Philadeiphia-to-Pittsburgh *houhd bus crashed into a parked tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near here early today, killing five women and Jolting 30 other persons. f . Dauphin County Coroner jrhbm’as J. Ftitchey, who visiten the feene, said identification of ithe dead would take some times with one exception. , ? p, <He said he was sure one of the 1 victims was a Mrs. South<laind, about 45, of WashingtoiK- Pa.. from information contained n) her purse. ■ ’ " 1 ? He said Mrs. Southerland was a member of the Order jjrf; the Eastern Stai\ and it Was believed others of the victims also might belong to the order since iCs annual state convention closed Thursday night in Philadelphia/ Fritchey said there were 35 passengers on the bus driven/ »by Francis Garoff, of Philadelphia. 'State Police Trooper G H. Mixell, **of the Hafrrisburg barracks, said the ibus hit the |eft side of the parked tractor-trailer, shearing off the right front, side of the bus. . - I' Harrisburg hospital said ;‘nine persons were admitted and*' the other injured were treated In the dispensary. ~ Admitted to the hospital were Viola Kapsner, 19, Hillman. R. :D.. 1, Minn., and her sister, Alice, 22, 5112 Gerald Ove., Hillman; ;and Ann Thomas, 38, 4033 Coble Pl., Detroit, Mich. — • i. Ml

City's Recreation • .. ' ' . ' Program Underway Program Will Open Officially Monday ; Decatur’s summer recreation program at Worthman field Will be officially opened Monday.’ The program is sponsored by city and officials. ' 1 Supervising the program Bob Worthman, Steve Everhart And Miss Saratf Krick.

All facilities of the field /available daily, Monday through Friday, from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. in., ‘ifor the city’s youngsters, " and recreation will also be available to adults d ur i n g the evenings,; Miss Krick will be in charge: of craft work, which will be rfvallaible every afternoon, and Worthman and Everhart will conduct other activities at the school athletic field. Facilities at the field, in addition to the baseball diamond ./include shuffleboard, horseshoe, 'tennis courts, swings -and sandbox. The Decatur softball league,(Fill open play Monday night, With two games, the VFW and Decatur Merchants playing at 7:30 p. followed by McMillen and Briers. Bi Little League baseball occupies the field each Tuesday and Friday night, with two games staring at 6:30 o’clock. Farm the Little League will play Tuesday and Friday morning, also two games each day. ' * Klenk’s team in the Federation league will use the field Thursday nights and Sunday afternoems stor regular league games. r Charles Knapps Out V Os Tornado Zone Word was received today from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knapp, whb are spending the summer near Worcester, Mass., that they both survived the tornado and storm -in f community Tuesday which' claimed almost 100 lives. 4 The Knapps are at ShrewtebmT. a suburb of Worcester, and tljtey were about twb miles from the center of the storm, a letter to the Daily Democrat states.

Steel Union Studies Offer Os Wage Boost Settlement Offer Made By U. S. Steel To Union Officials PITTSBURGH, UP — Top officials of the United Steelworkers 010 met today to decide whether .an BM| cents an hour offer will satiq£s. their demands for am industry-wide general wage increase. U9W President David J. McDonald said "we have a lot of work to do” as he entered the first of two key conferences which could bring a settlement with the U. S. Steel Corp. 18 days before the union strike deadline. McDonald, under pressure \to win a strike-less victory, said he hoped he could “clean it up”) by about 3 p. m. but "I do not know.” The union and U. S. Steel appeared near a settlement on a wage package which industry sources said amounted to B\4’ cents an hour, plus some further fringe benefits such as increased pensions and adjustment of the north-soutK pay differential * Union sources later indicated the proposed settlement 'tiundle” would total more than nine cents an hour. ' McDonald met with his union executive board for ’4O minutes. He goes before the powerful 170man wage policy 1 committee at noon GST. That key group, which drew up the union’s demands for a general wage increase two months ago, will make final decision on any settlement offer. Industry sources said the U. S. Steel settlement offer hinged on the condition that McDonald recommend acceptance by! I the wage policy committee.

_ The USW opened its 1935 wage negotiations with ft. S. Steel and some 60 other basic producers May 14. Negotiations with the other' companies have been hanging fire pending outcome of bargaining with U. S. Steel which traditionally sets the pattern for the union's . 1,200,000 membership throughout the steel industry. Mrs. Wm. Parent Dies Last Evening; Funeral Services Tuesday Morning 'Mrs. William Parent. 76, of 317 West Adams street, a lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 6:10; “o’clock Thursday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital/ Although she had not been well, her death was unexpected. She was born in Decatur Oct. 28, 1876, a daughter of Herman, and Mary Hackman-Kortenber, and was married to William Par-j ent, who died several years ago. (Mr/T Parent was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society, Third Order of St. Francis an 4 the St. Vincent de ‘Paul. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Eltheldreda Roop of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Andrew Wolpert of Decatur and Mrs. F. M. Miller of Fort Wayne, and two brothers, Dr. William C. Kortenber of New Haven and Clem Kortenber of Decatur. Three brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be con-, ducted at 9 a. m. Tuesday at St. Maryas Catholic church, the Very Rev. -Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Citholic cemetery. The ‘body was removed to- the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call-after 2 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. The Rosary society will: meet at 8 p. m. Sun-

Dies Thursday wk I B ' • u ■■ Roy E. Mumma Roy E. Mumma, Civic Leader, Dies Thursday Prominent Decatur Mari Lumber Firm r Head, Dies Thursday •Roy ®.| Mumma, 66, prominent Decatur citizen, president i- and manager Os the Decatur Lumber Go., died at 3:05 o’clock Thursday afternoon the .Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. He had been in critical conditkmsince undergoing major surgery two weeks ago. •Mr. Mifflinia was a native of Oden but;’ had lived in Decatur most of his life. He had been associated with the Decatur Lumber Co. for the past 45 years, and-had been president and manager of the firm sihee 1927. Highly* prominent for years in; civile activities olf Decatur, Mr. Mumma was a member and trustee of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, a charter member of the ’Decatur Lions club, a member of; the 'Masonic-lodge, the Shrink, Knight Templar,, the Scottish Rite,; and the Knights of Pythias. | (Always keenly interested In the development of the city’s schools, iMr. (Mumma served as, a member of the Uecatur School board from 1940 to 1(952. He was born near Oden Nov. 1, 4885, a son of Reason F. and Ellen Steelil-Mumma, and was married to Blanche Jeffers Aug, 24, MHL Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Harold Mumma, associated w|th his father in the lumber company; a daughter, Mrs. Herald Hitchcock of Decatur; four grandchildren; one brother, George (Mumma of Elnora, and five sisters, Mrs. Nellie Auth of Grand Junction, C 010.,/ Mrs. Sarah Smith of iDe(Nova, Ohio., Mrs. Mary Cook of Decatur/ Mrs. Emma Flinn of ’Linton and 'Mrs. Ella Ferguson of ILyons. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 4:80 p.m. (Monday at the Zwick ftineral home and at 2 pan. at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Bprial will be in the Decatur cemetery.! Friends may call at the funeral homt-After 2 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. The casket will |iot be opened at the church. —— ■ ■ ■ ■ •/' i New Unemployment Claims Increased * ...... INDfANA>OUS, UP —Hoosiers filed 3,887 initial claims for unemployment insurance lass week, five percent more than the previous week,. and [ '"considerably more” than in March and April.

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Truce Teams Carrying On Without Rhee Korean Spokesman Dedares Rhee To Reject Ike's Plea ) SEOUL, Korea. Saturday UP I—President Syngman Rhee is preparing a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower rejecting his plea that. South Korea accept the proposed armistice agreement, it was reported today. An official spokesman s|id a public statement which the 78-year-o|d president Issued Thursday, sayirig , •that the armistice "simply means death to us,” amounted to a rejection of Mr. Eisenhower’s appeal. The spokesman. Dr. Hong Kee Karl, intimated that Rhee would take this line in replying formally ;to the President, A high-ranking South Korean official ' said President Eisenhower had sent a new message to RheO in an attempt to get him to change • his mind, but in Washington White House spokesman James C.i Hagerty said; - s "That is not correct. There has been no message of letter.” Hagerty added that the Whit® House has not received Rhee’s reply to Mr. EiaeobojreCs appeal of June 6. * Both the Allies and the Communists proceeded, despite South Korea, with preparations for the armistice, and the neutrals named to supervise anti-Communist war prisoners prepared to dispatch their teams to Korea.

A United Press Stockholm dispatch said the Swedish government ordered the defense ministry Friday to organize the Swedish delegation which will number about 50 military officers, legal police officers, physicians and prison camp experts. Col. Arne Francke will head the team. » A New Delhi dispatch said both the United* Nations and the Communists had made formal approaches to India to serve. Official sources there said the Indian government has notified both sides that it agrees provisionally to serve but is still working on details. The staff officers who are drafting the final text of the armistice ’ agreement meet at 11 a.m. today 8 p.nj., Friday c.s.t. They met three times Friday, ■! recessing finally at s:f>9 p.m.' : The North Korean Communist Pyongyang ' radio said that the fighting on the battle front is delaying the drawing up of a ceasefire line along which the contending armies would be “frozen’ ’after the signing of the armistice. “Concerning the military lines, agreement still is lacking on the ■ central and western fronts,” Pyongyang said. “The reason is that the Communist forces are advancing southward bi those two fronts.’* ’ However, the broadcast added that the fighting was not likely to delay agreement long. In another / broadcast, Pyongyang said' that the attacking Reda are only trying to adjust their line before a ceasefire front is drafted. There was no letup in the stubborn South Korean opposition, to (Twra Te Pace Six) Hearings Monday By Board Os . Review * The Adams county 'beard of review—convening this month at the assessor’s office in the court house —has completed one leg of its job, that of soldiers and mortgage exemptions and has only to perform the tally of the assessment sheets before going into hearings. This was announced today by Richard D. Lewton, treasurer. Lewton reminded residents that z beginning Monday the board will hold hearings on grievances on both property and real estate assessments. Members holding the hearing Will be. besides Lewton, Miss Florence .Holthouse, county assessor Albert Harlow, and Richard Berdg.