Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1953 — Page 1

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Ike In Bitter Blast Against 'Book Burners' Capital Speculates Eisenhower Prepares \ For McCarthy Test WASHINGTON UP — (President Eisenhower’s on “•book burners” stirred capital speculation ioday that he may be preparing for a test of strength with Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy RWis. There was -no immediate reply from McCarthy to the ’President’s impromptu remarks at Dartmouth College commencement Exercises in Hanover. N. H., Sunday. The Wisconsin senator spent the weekend in bls' native state but his office expected him to return to Washington some time today. ■Political observers here felt sure McCarthy sooner or later would take up the gauntlet which Mr. Eisenhower flung down with his declaration that every American has a right to make known his ideas even if they are distasteful to lhe majority.

Although Mr. 'Eisenhower men- ; tioned no names, his appeal- i “don’t join the book burners’ - 1 came as thousands of books were being removed from ,U. S. information libraries overseas at the' behest of (McCarthy’s senate In-! vestigation subcommittee. ■McCarthy sharply criticized the libraries operated by the state department for stocking books by known or suspected - Communist authors. But Mr. (Elsenhower said: “How will we ’defeat Communism unless w’e know what it is? Why does it have such an appeal for men? It is almost a religion, though one of the nether region. “We have to fight it and not try to conceal it from our o-wn people.” ■Xt another point, iMr. Eisenhower seemed to be defending, not only the right of loyal Americans to learn the facts about Communism, but also the right of Communists to speak their piece. ’They are a part of America,” he said, “and if their ideas are different, they have a right to have them, which is unquestioned, or it is not America.” The Dartmouth commencement, at which he received an honorary degree, was the next to last appearance in Mr. Eisenhower’s fhreday speaking tour of the upper ■Midwest, New England and Long Island, Me returned to the capital Sunday night after a final stop at Oyster Bay, N. Y., where he dedicated Theodore Roosevelt’s famous old mansion as a Sational shire. Speaking from the front porch of Roosevelt’s 23-room, trophycrammed White House” on Sagamore Hill, Mr. (Eisenhower indicated that he is emulating his famed Republican predecessor in his efforts to get along with congress. He recalled how “T. R- M dealth with one of his arch-critics in congress. ‘Me didn't go out and take the stump and curse this man. He tried reason and cajolery—even oreakfast.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly eloudy and warmer tonight and Tuesday; occasional thunderstorms north and central beginning late tonight or Tuesday. Low tonight northeast to near 7d southwest. High Tuesday 80-85 northeast to around 90 southwest.

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House Farm Bloc Is Set To Push Bill Ike Administration On Political Spot

WASHINGTON UP —The house farm bloc was set today to push through a bill to take the administration off a hot political spot with the nation’s wheat farmers. The trouble stems from: , 1. Prospects that this summer’s wheat harvest will pile up a record high surplus reserve of more than 1 700,000,000 bushels. 2. The rigid production controls provided by law for dealing with such surpluses. Under present law secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson apparently will be required within 16 days to invoke production controls calculated to cut plantings for next year’s crop by 30 per cent. The new legislation, already ap- ' proved unanimously by the house agriculture committee, would limit the planting -reduction to about 15 per cent. Congressional farm leaders were so confident of house approval they were considering calling it bp for a vote late today under a procedure that would limit debate, bar amendments and require a twothirds vote for approval. The bill would set the minimum planting allotment for 1954 at 66,i 000,000 acres. Committee chairman j Clifford R. Hope R-Kans. fears if I plantings were ordered cut to the 1 present legal minimum of 55,000,000 I acres, farmers might rebel against the controls and lose high level ' price support. The so-called “marketing quotas” must be approved in a growef referendum by a 2-1 vote to go into force. If farmers voted them down, government price support for the 1954 crop—now fixed at 90 per cent of parity—would automatically drop to 50 per cent of parity. That could set off a chain reaction depressing farm prices generally. In any event, wheat farmers would lose millions of dollars in income and that alone could be expected to have political repercussions in the midwest farm belt. Republicans are unhappy over prospects that marketing quotas—which haven't been used on wheat farmers for over a decade—-will begin operating under a Republican administration shortly before the 1954 congressional elections. Some of them suspect the Truman administration planned it that way.

Mrs. Chas. Herman Is Taken By Death Funeral Services , Tuesday Afternoon ‘ ! Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Mrs. Charles Herman. 40, of northwest of\ Geneva, who died Saturday evening at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton following a long illness. Surviving are her husband; five sons, Leonard Herman of Genevg, and Wesley, Richard, Jimmie and Jerry, at home; three daughters, Mrs. Ellen Butcher of Berne, and Doretta and Frieda, at home; her mother, Mrs. Frank Herman of near Geneva; five half-brothers, Donald Herman of Linn Grove, Merlin of Berne, Cpl. Daniel, who returned Saturday from Korea, and Robert and Alvin, at home, and three half* sisters, Mrs. Gartner H. Bixler of Decatur, Mrs. Burvil Watkins of Pleasant Mills and Mrs. Alton Wable of Monroe. ■' . Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, the Rev. J. J. Klopfensteine officiating. Burial will be in the Alberson cemetary- V I'v ■

UN Planes In Vain Effort To Halt Red Tide Communists Push South Korea Troops Back For Two Miles PANNMUNJOM. Korea, UP — The Unltfed Nations command has decided to sign an armistice agreement with the Communists despite President Syngman Rhee’s opposition, reliable sources said today. Agreement on the armistice was believed imminent, with the actual signing ceremony taking place in only a few days. Americans on the truce team are hoping Rhee will go along with the final agreement and there is growing optimism that he will. However, the U. N. realizes it falls short of Rhee’s desires. \ Staff officers \raced toward final agreement on armistice terms. One team met four times here today, and the other twice. The meetings will be resumed at 11 a. m. Tuesday (8 p. m, OST Monday.) Army bulldozers cleared ground at the U. N. base in Munsan for the erection of tents to house armistice personnel and war prisoners. Ambulance drivers, clerks, military policemen and troops started to arrive. The Munsan airstrip was widened and the roadway improved. The Chinese Communist Peiping Radio said Kaesong, the Red base on the other side of Panmunjom, was “a bustle of activity” preparatory to the signing of an armistice. '

Peiping said one team of staff officers was still working on a map—evidently of the cease fire line. The other team, which has been working out final details of the prisoner exchange, appeared with maps for the first time today, the broadcast said. *lt said the maps on which the teams were working will accompany the armistice text and will show the cease fire line, the northern and southern boundaries of the mile buffer zone between the armies, and the 10 ports o r entry in South and North Korea through which supplies and men may be brought in during the armistice. Reliable sources who informed United Press the U. N. had made its decision to go ahead with or without Rhee’s approval said the United States had gone to great lengths to\ calm the South Korea president. / In addition to the report from reliable sources, there were other signs that an end to the fighting in Korea is near. Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, eighth army commander, cautioned bis trodps Sunday not to be lulled into believing they can go home just because an armistice is about to be signed. Taylor and South Korean army chief of staff Paik Sun Yup went to the east central front today to get \a first-hand view of the biggest Communist offensive In two (Turn To Pace Two) Flag Day Services Here This Evening The VFW color guard will escort the members of the Decatur Catholic high -school band to the Elks home at 7 p.m. for the Flag Day services, which will begin at 7:30 this evening. Formation of the parade will be at the Catholic school. Judge Wayne Hinkle of the Jay circuit court, Portland, will deliver the address. The flag day services are co-sponsored by the Decatur Elks, the VTW and the American Legion, The public Is invited to the ceremony, which will be held, on the lawn of the Elks home.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 15, 1953.

Supreme Court Refuses To Delay Execution Os Condemned Atom Spies

U. N. To Sign Pad Despile Rhee's Sfand

Believe Agreement On Armistice Near; See Early Signing SEOUL, Korea, VP — United Nations planes turned the east central front into "an inferno today in a vain attempt to stop Communist troops who pushed the South Koreans back two miles; in a pre-armistice drive toward the 38th parallel. Reports from the front Indicated that some South Korean units had been c.ut off and were trying to fight their way back to their own lines. Flying In shuttle runs, the planes took off in flights that varied from one plane to 20. They churned a 30-mile square area into dust and rubble. The planes* pounded the Redheld area with 2.226,000 pounds of bombs and napalm. Some planes flew as many as four missions: during the day, unloading their bombs and returning to basq for another. Returning pilots reported smoke and dust rose 9,000 feet and made damage assessment difficult. Meanwhile, the giant Red Assault continued to roll forward under the devastating aerial assault and it appeared nearly certain that several South Korean units were cut off and still fighting it out. , ■ The Red assault, launched by some 25,000 troops Sunday night, slowed somewhat during the day. The Communists were trying to push the battleline back to the 38th parallel. Late reports said the Reds had knifed about two miles into RQK positions on the east central front. Casualties continued to mount steadily. Figures from the combined U. S. 3rd and 9th ROK division defense of Boomerang Hill, northwest of Kumhwa where the Reds hit with 3.000 mem showed 597 Chinese had been killed and (Tara To Paso Four)

General Meeting Os Decatur CC June 29 Jack Rush Will Be Principal Speaker A pacesetting genera) meeting of the Chamber of Commerce has been set for June 29 designed tc( usher in a period of renewed vigor and spirit for local businessmen and merchants, it was announced today by Ron Parrish, publicity; chairman of the general meetings. The place will be the Elks Lodge, 8 p. m. Invited to .speak at the meeting has been Jack Rush, of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, who will speak on the topic, “What; the Chamber of Commerce means to a community." Rush will be sneaking to virtually every member ot the CC and constitutes part of a program at which ' will be shown films, .and refreshments served. i The meeting is dedicated to all the past presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, said Parrish, itt an effort to draw from their experience as leaders of the local group ideas and suggestions how to make a better Chamber, more profitable to the community and members. ; . J (Parrish said the meeting will be the last such until, fall, the success of which will be measured only by the cooperation shown by each and .every member of the CC. General chairmen of the monthly meetings, which, Parrish affirmed, will be definitely continued, is Michael Pryor.

Cautions Against Major Draft Cuts No Sharp Cut If Truce Is Reached * WASHINGTON UP — Deffense officials cautioned the public toj day against expecting a sharp drop in draft calls if a truce is reached in Korea. (Maj. Gen. E. C. Lynch, director of the defense department’s office of manpower requirements, 1 Said there will be “no substantial change” in draft calls for proba- ’ bly six months. ' } Even after that, he did hot an--1 tlcipate that draft calls would drop much from the present low 1 rate of about 23,000 inductees monthly. Behind Lynch’s prediction is defense secretary Charles E. iWiison’s recent warning that it .will be at least six months bejorie |t will be possible to start reducing the army in Korea. The defense department position is that a truce in Korea will not mean final peace and it would be dangeious to succumb to another “bring the boys home” feeling such as •wept the nation after World War IT. * To meet replacement demands, the army regularly has about 50,00*) men j n the “pipeline” stretching from training camps in this country to the Korean front, Wilson has .stated that once a peace is reached in Korea, the army strength con be deduced ib/ this 50,000 in additfm* to the 100,000man, cut already planned. ’ .Once the shooting stops ip Kqrea, army personnel officiate believe it will be possible to start turning off the “pipeline” by. extending the tour of men in and ending the early-release program for draftees who have jaeen* Korean service. The result of this gradual process will be lower manpower demands, and. a possible tapering off in draft calls to about 20,000 monthly in another six months, Army officials therefore expect draft calls to start rising again in the middle of next year. Traffic Ticket To | Helicopter Pilot ALBANY, Tex., UP — A |jwlicopter pilot was arrested and’giv-| en a ticket by a highway patrolman Sunday when his plane hit telephone and efectric wires after taking off from a gas station where it had been refueled. B.jj Robert W. Hardy of Norfolk, Va., said he landed his helicopter at a filling station along a jbusyhighway "when he ran low on 'gas. y .’5 |j| . Gerald Smitley Is I State DAV Officer r! Decatur Man Named At State Convention Gerald Smitley, Decatur, was elected third junior er of the Disabled American Veterans, at the state DAV convention held at Evansville. . £ Gerald Hunt, Boonville,. iwas elected state commander; Harley W. Ward, Fort Wayne, first senior vicecommander; Lewis Caton, Terre Haute, second senior yicecommander; Charles Bigham, Michigan City, first junior Yicedommander Dale Wtork, Evan* ville, second junior vice-command-er Irwin Richards, Tell City, fourth junior vice-commander; Ernest Wiles, Indianapolis, treasurer; Joe Rodino, Elkhart, iser-geant-at-arms; Ernest English, English, chaplain. The DAV convention unanimously voted endorsement, of Howard Watts, Indianapolis, present state adjutant <or national commander of the DAV at the national convention to be held in. Jansas City the last week in August. : Michigan City was chosen as ,site for the 1954 state DAV convention. . < : '*• z • ’ + '

Postal Rate Increase To Be Requested Postal Department Asks Across Board Boost By Congress WASHINGTON UP — Hou<o speaker Joseph AV. .Martin Jr. RMass.’ said today the poet office department will ask congress this Week to raise rates; “across the board,;* including those on first class postage. Martin told reporters Republican congressional leaders conferred for 90 minutes with President Eisenhower and that postmaster eral Arthur E. Summerfield reported there would be a 1594.250.000 postal deficit in the next fiscal year beginning Jflly 1. Almost the entire conference. Martin said, was devoted to a discussion of “how to get rid of it.” 'Martin said Summerfield hopes for higher postal rates effective Oct. <l, but . did not disclose what ’specific rate increases he would seek from congress. •Martin said he “presumed* the postmaster general would send the congress a bill outlining his recommendations this week. The speaker declined to hazard a guess as to the chances of congress passing a rate-raising bill. “We’ll have to canvass the chances,” Martin said. Asked to what the present threecent first class postage would oe raised, -he said, “I suppose :t would go to four-cents-no more.” Today’s discussion with Summerfield, (Martin said, was the first time congressional leaders had “officially" had the rate question put up to them although they had “heard of it befoijp.” Martin said Summerfield will not propose in his recommended bill that the postmaster general be given permission to raise rates himself -without congressional approval. but also would not oppose such a provision. Asked about the congressional franking privilege and possible action on it in the anticipated post office recommendations, (Martin remarked: ’That’g mere flea bite.” Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R<Tur» T» Pam Five)

Mrs. Abner S. Elzey Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services 7 To Be Wednesday >~ Mrs. Siddie E. .Elzey, 87, of Ossian, widow of AJbner S. Elzey, and formerly of this *city, died at 10:55 Sunday night in Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne, of complications following a fall last Tuesday in which she fractured a hip. Born in Indianapolis, Sept. 30. 1865. she was a daughter of Solomon and Mary Ann Miller Linn. She was married to A'bnes S. Elzey in this city in December. The couple located in Ossian and for two years operated a hardware store. Mr. Elzey then established an undertaking business which still continues under the name of Elzey and Son. His death occurred Nov. 20, 1949. Mrs. Elfcey Is survived by a son, Dale E. Elzey, who operates the funeral home; one daughter, Miss Ho R. Elzey, also of Ossian; one brother, Chester C. Linn of Fort Wayne; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Ossian, Methodist church and the Pythian •Sisters. The body is at the Elzey & Son funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. today. Services will be held from the funeral home Wednesday at 2 ‘p. m., with the Rev. R. Edwin Green, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Lawn cemetery, Ossian. t

Harry Bridges Is Freed By Justices Union Leader Freed By Supreme Court Washington up — The Supreme ruled today/ that property owners cannot be sued for dainages if they break agreements against allowing non-Cau-casians to move into “all-white neighborhoods." The tribunal held in a 6-1 decision that to allow such suits would be to encourage the/ontinuance of restrictive real estate covenants and to use the power of state courts to enforce them. A justice department lawyer' said it would he assumed the railing would apply equally to anti-Semitic: agreements. Before recessing for the summer, the court also: 1. Freed Harry Bridges, west coast union leader who was convicted in 1950 of ITing to obtain U. S. citizenship and was sentenced to.five years in jail. In a 4-3 split, th& court held 'that the indictment; against Bridges should have been dismissed because it was brought "too latie to be effective.” Bridges had been convicted for perjury for denying in his citizenship application that he ever had been a Communist. 2. Upheld, 6-4 J, the convictions of three New Yorkers sentenced to die for the hold-up murder of a messenger dlt f f a Reader’s Digest truck. The ruling leaves New' York state fffce to go ahead with the of Harry A. Stein, Nathan Wissner and Caiman Cooper. Convicts Riot In New Mexico Prison i Deputy Warden And Nine Guards Seized SANTA FE, N. M. UP — Convicts armed with knives seized a ; deputy warden and nine guards as hostage at the New Mexico sta4e penitentiary today and barricaded themselves in the prison hospital.

The rioting convicts demanded that “tough” guards and employes of the strife-ridden prison be fired. Shortly after the start 'of\ the outbreak, the convicts sent' out a not warning that every convict hurt by guards would be revenged by infliction of a similar injury to a hostage. ' No injuries to either guards or rioters had been reported. New Mexico state fioltee and prison guards surrounded the hospital, located behind the ancient prison’s red brick walls on the outskirts of Santa Fe. I , Gov. Edwin L. Mechem went to the scene apparently] to parley the prisoners they demanded that he listen to their grievances.' ‘ A similar riot occurred at the prison, a trouble center for months/ when seven guards were seized but later were released unharmd a year ago. The prison* also Was the sub ject of a legislative inquiry earlier this year. Prison authorities announced that deputy wardin Ralph Tahash was seized with file nine guards. Warden Morris Abram said he had promised the rioters, whose numbers could not be Immediately determined, an interview with reporters and also with the governor if they would end the disturbance and return to their cells. Prison officials said they believed the ringleader wgs l \a 39-year-old escape artist, Homer Gossett, who last April was tried t{or the murder of a guard but was saved by a sympathetic jury from the death penalty. The reported demands were the discharge of Tahash and six.guards. The convicts reportedly complained that the guards so tar unidentified, had been “too tbugh.” The rioter* were quoted a* saying the guards had been “pushing them around.”' / The riot started at 7 a.m.» a (Tm T» Pace

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Supreme Court Refuses Stay To Rosenbergs Execution Slated Thursday Night In Sing Sing Prison. WASHINGTON- UP — The supreme court refused today to delay the execution of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who are scheduled to be electrocuted at Sing Sing prison Thursday, j u tribunal also refused for tjie fourth time to review their This apparently means the condemned couple will go to the electric chair on schedule at 9 . p.m. c.s.t. anniversary—unless they can prevail on President Eisenhower to granj. them clemency. Mr. Eisen- . bower once before —on Feb. 11— ; refused them clemency. The Rosenbergs wer'e convicted 'j in March, 1951, of conspiring to slip’atomic secrets to Russia, but ; had managed to delay their doom , through a series of legal irianeur. vers ’ j Defense lawyer Emanuel H. Bloch of New York has said he will appeal tb Mr. Eisenhower again sot executive clemency for the doome4. husband-wife spy learn. , t During the-past t»vo weeks Bloch , has tried unsuccessfully in lower J courts in New York to obtain f ' new trial for the Rosenbergs on grounds of newly-discovered evidence in their favor. He has also sentences--, Adverse rulings in these proceedings were upheld by the sed'ond U. S. circiuit court of appeals June 2, 3 and 11. Bloch wanted a stay of execution to appeal these decisions to the supreme court; I Although today's order denying a review of the case was the fourth •by the high bench, only two appeals actually have been filed. t > The court today also rejected a ifourth petition for review by Morton . co-conspirator of the Rosenbergs, who drew a 30-year prison sentence. | * s Almost- 7,000 demonstrators paraded before the executive .mansion Sunday in what police described as the largest crowd to picket the White House in recent years. During the night about 17 Rosenberg sympathizers maintained the 24-hour vigil promised by tfie national committee to secure justice in the Rosenberg case. The Rosenbergs are scheduled to die in the electric at New York’s Sing Sing prison at 11 p.m. e.d;t. Thursday, their 14th wedding anniversary. I in New York. Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman was scheduled to (Tun T* Pace Five) ’1

Ritral Mail Routes Here Above Average I . ■! ■ ' . •• Well Above Average Throughout Nation ‘ , A. survey taken in the Decatur post office as a result of an order arising from a statement made in newspapers quoting the average post office route as 45 miles, reveals the local post office to be JO and 40 percent higher than this stated average. * t was disclosed today from figures released by Leo Kirsch, Decatur postmaster. It shows route 1, the largest of Decatur's six rural routes, to serve 382 families over a 74.26-mile distance, covered by one man. The next largest, route 2,' serves 300 families over a 71.975- mile route. i . V .Postmaster Kirsch said he foresees, a reapportionment of routes 1 and 2 to give the less crowded routes more business and relieve she overcrowded ones. Route 3 Covers 65.31 miles and serves 258, families: route 4, 280 homes, 60.44 miles; route 5, 274 homes. 6Q.42 miles; route* 6, 306 families, 62.20 miles.