Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 141.

Chinese Reds In New Gains On War Front Score New Gains On East-Central Front; Allied Port Bombed SEOUL, Korea, Wednesday UP — Chinese infantrymen scored new gains on the blazing east-central front Tuesday night and at least 15 Red planes bombed the big Allied port of Inchon, setting fire • to a petroleum dump. It apparently was the Communists’ strongest bombing attack of the war. It was the first damaging blow against Inchon, 20 miles west of Seoul, since the fall of 1950. Inchon is the port for Seoul and was the scene of the Allied amphibious landing in September, 1950. Earlier American Sabrejet pilots shot down four Communist MIG--15’s and damaged three in a new flurry of air fighting near the Yalu river in northwest Korea. On the ground Red troops captured Finger Ridge from South Koreans an<T expanded their “Bulge” into the critical | tral front. Flames from the burning petrol- . eum dump could be seen from the I Munsan truce camp 35 miles away. /There was no immediate report of casualties. “We can't get near the place.” a military policeman at Inchon said. The planes apparently struck jbst before air raid sirens sounded in Seoul at 10:30 p.rh. Fifth air force, tracking the attackers by radar, estimated 15 planes were in the area. The planes disappeared westward over the Yellow Sea. Nd bombs were dropped on Seoul. Communists used 6,000 men in a reckless attack for their newest victory in the “Battle of the Bulge.” They struck in force after the Sth ROK division hurled back an attack by 1.500 Reds on Finger Ridge outposts. United Press correspondent Frederick C. Painton reported from the front that the victory is believed to have cost the Reds “tremendous casualties.” Painton said the Reds regrouped after the initial throwback and then lunged forward in an attempt to take over a vital “pivot” point on the edge of the two-mile sag into ROK territory known as the “Bulge.” Other Red troops stabbed at ROK defenses at the critical hinge oh the western end of the Bulge and a short distance to the east. On the inside of the two-mile-deep pocket on group of counter-attacking ROK’s gained 200 to 300 yards. Estimated enemy casualties for the week ended Sunday amounted to 9,200, of whom 5,700 were killed and 3,500 wounded. This total does not include complete figures for the heavy offensive which started Sunday night. After grabbing Finger Ridge, the Reds must still fight to another knoll- called the “Link” and then to the commanding “Pivot” height. Complete Communist dommand of "Pivot” would knock back the shoulder of the United Nations line to the west in the Allies’ battle to halt the Reds “go south” drive toward the Hwachon reservoir. U. N. observers said the Reds paid a heavy cost in lives, indicating they may be willing to sacrifice many men in the last stage of the war to gain advantageous positions before the cease-fire is called. But in the sth ROK division sector, which had taken the brunt of the Communist attack Monday and Sunday, there was no fighting. Allied aircraft gave heavy support to the sth ROK units. Fifth air force said its planes “went (hit in force again this morning” after flying 1.835 sorties Monday. They claimed today to have damaged or destroyed 93 gun positions, 79 bunkers, five road bridges and 50 vehicles.*

Flag Day Services Held Last Evening Annual Flag Day services were held at the Elks home Monday evening, with Judge Wayne Hinkle of the Jay circuit court. Portland, delivering the address. The speaker urged renewed pledges to the flag and the United States, pointing to such observances as last night's as vital to the nation. George Bair v exalted ruler, and his staff of officers conducted the flag day ritual, with George Laurent, past exalted ruler, narrating the history of the flag. Color guards of the American Legion and VFW, who assist in the annual service, led the Decatur Catholic high school band, which played for the service, v

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Royal Greeting For Red Skipper ■K ™ PLJr S ■ ' EEFDURING THE CORONATION naval review at Spithead. Queen Elizabeth If and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh (right) receives the skipper of the Russian cruiser Sverdlov. Captain Rudakov (left) aboard the HMS Surprise. More than 260 ships, including the Russian vessel and the American heavy cruiser Baltimore were inspected by the Queen and her husband while one million spectators watched from the shore. I \

Deputy Warden Quells Riots By Prisoners Official, Held As -J Hostage, Ki Ik‘Two Os Rioting Convicts SANTA M. UP — A prison official, shooting over the heads of ducking hostages, broke the back of a prison riot by dropping, two ringleaders with a single rifle bullet each. The day-long disturbance Monday by iloo convicts was quelled when state police managed to slip a .30-30 rifle to deputy warden Ralph Tahash. v Tahash, one of 13 guard hostages seized by the. rioting convicts, broke away from his captors as the New Mexico state police advanced on 30 die-hard convicts in the barricaded prison hospital. The rifle was handed to Tahash through a window and he faced the rioters in the tear-gas filled ward-room. Wheh Tahash challenged the convicts, armed with knives and holding the 12 guards before them [ as a shield, one the the guards ducked and Tahash shot convict Homer (Lee Gossett through the" throat. He fell dead. Another guard, also ducked and the deputy warden pumped a shot into the chest of Adolfo Benavidez, who slumpeid to the floor fatally wounded. That broke the riot. State police rounded up the rioters and placed them in the maximum security cell block under heavy guard. One- of the guard hostages, Esteban Rodriguez, was stabbed in the shoulder by a rioter but was not Seriously injured. Several members of the state police were cut by flying glass but none seriously. I The riot .began at 7 a.m. when convict Alexandre Garcia overpowered keeper Juan Griego he entered the maximum security cell to sweep it. Garcia then released about 100 prisoners in cell block No. 1. p . About 30 convicts, led by Gossett, 37. Plainview, Ark., who had been in solitary confinement for the last 13 months from a previous escape attempt in which he killed a guard, then seized deputy warden Tahash and 12 guards and barricaded themselves in the prison hospital. I

CIO Approves New Contract With G. E. k WASHINGTON, UP — The CIO Elecmcal Workers today approved a new contract with General Electric Co. providing an average sev-en-centan-hour increase for 76,000 workers. \ Delegates from 44 union locals voted for the contract negotiated a week ago to run for one year. The agreement provided for a 3.15 percent general increase and a one to eight cents an hour additional for skilled workers.

Dulles Asks Common Sense On Book Issue No Conflict With > t Eisenhower StancT . .'d WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles made it clear today that U. S. officials should „exercise “a little more common sense” in removing conitroversial books from overseas !i braries. But he maintained the general policy of banishing Communist propaganda did not conflict with President Eisenhower’s attitude towarft book burners. In an informal address ‘Sunday, Mr. Eisenhower urged Dartmouth College seniors not to "join ‘he book burners” but to read everything that did not offend their own “ideas of decency.” 'lt is .impossible to fight Communism, he said, by trying to “conceal” the facts about it or, in general, to restrict the expression of controversial ideas, i v It was a frank plea for intjelleccourage and freedom. In the opinion of some congressmen, it also was a jab at Sen. Joseph R. 'McCarthy, who has been accused , so book-burning because of his attack on the ovtrseas library program. Under pressure from McCarthy’s permanent investigating subcommittee, thousands of books have 'been, removed from overseas libraries. Eleven even have been burned. Reports have circulated that many of thse were merely controversial — not Communist. In other words, said Rep. Emanuel Celler D-N.Y!., the President’s “glowing statesmanlike” warning -goes "unheeded in his own official household.* ’ At his news conference Monday. Dulles shed little light on the nature of the books being banned. But in urging more common setose, he seemed to. indicate the removal campaign had been too' sweeping. I , ■ "My own feeling Is that boohs which are of an essentially propaganda nature," he said, "should not fee books on which we should expend rather meager funds which are resigned for quite a contrary purpose.” McCarthy R-Wls. declined to comment immediately on the President’s remarks. But Sen. Karl E. Mundt R-S. D., second ranking Republican on the investigating subcommittee, made two points: That the 'President did not favor putting Communist books in overseas libraries nor allowing Communists to teach in schools. Chairman William E. Jenner R-JJnd. of the senate internal se- , curity subcommittee which has been investigating Communists in education, declined to comment. But a subcommittee member, Sen. Pat McCarran D-Nev., calli ed the President’s statement "a pitiful thing.” He said "somebody must have sold him a bill of goods.” , i

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 16 z 1953.

Full Truce Delegations Meet? One Report Says PacLASigning June 25

Sees Approval Os Vandenberg Air Force Plan Predicts Senate Ta Approve Cut-Rate - Expansion Program WASHINGTON. VP—Sen: John L. 'McClellan predicted today that the senate will approve Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg’s cut-rate expansion program for the air force. The Arkansas Democrat, a member of the military appropriations subcommittee, thinks- the senate -will vote “within $30(1.000,000” of the $13,123,000,000 which Vandenberg recommended Monday to finance the air force buildup in the 1954 fiscal year which' begins July 1. Vandenberg’s new program, sl,435,000,000 more costly than President Eisenhower’s and $3,655,000,000 cheaper tl|an former President Truman's, was \ submitted tp the appropriations subcommittee Monday. It would realize the 143air wing goal of air force plan-ners--but not until Senate Democrats were expected to line up behind Vandepberg’s proposal as a likely comprotitiae point in the dispute over President Eisenhower’s defense bud-get. But one Democrat, Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, said he Is “worried’’ about the 1957 date for the 143 wings. Maybank said he wants to study the program before he commits himself to it.. Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and air force 'Secrqjary Harold E. Talbott also are studying the proposal. Both have testified that no funds are needed by the air force ‘beyond the $11,688,000,000 requested in President Eisenhower’s revised budget, Maybank and McClellan Said they will ask subcommittee chairman Homer Ferguson, R-Mich., to recall Wilson and Talbott for tionihg about the Vandenberg compromise. Vandenberg’s proposal wpuld speed up, by exactly one year, the 120-air wings now programmed in Mr. Eisenhower’s budget ' and make that force available .in the middle of 1954 instead of 1956.

Eisenhower Names Three Ambassadors President Names i New Ambassadors WASHINGTON UP —president Eisenhower today nominated new ambassadors to Brazil, Portugal and Norway. \ $ James S. Kemper, 'Barrington, 111., former treasurer aiid chairman of the Republican national finance committee, was nominated to succeed Herschel V. Johnson as ambassador to Brazil. M. Robert Guggenheim, 69-year-old Washington, D. C., social leader and retired executive of several big metals firms, was nominate# to succeed Cavendish W. Cannon as ambassador to Portugal. L. Corrin Strong, 60, Washington, D. C., active here last year in Mr. Eisenhower’s campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, was nominated to succeed C. Ulrick Bay as ambassador to Norway. > Kemper, 66, is chairman of the Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Co., Chicago. Johnson has retired frpm the foreign service. Guggenheim, a colonel In the army reserve, is a friend of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New Yprk and he and his wife have a first-person acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower. NEW StRIAL STORY A new serial story, “Cruise with Death,” starts In today's edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat. This action-peek-ed mystery is written by F. Draco.

Sass Germans Walk Off Jobs For Reds Thousands Shout .ji Anti-Red Slogans BERLIN (UP) — Thousands of East German construction workers walked off their jobs today on Communist projects and ewarmed through the streets shouting antiCommunist slogans. ; '. It was the first such demonstration since the creation of the East German Red regime. |? Communist police made ho move to interfere with the columns of angry workers. x J Western newsmen ~wh<£-/witness-ed the demonstration estimated at least 12,000 men werei involved. Demonstrators told western'’correspondents they were >rlotesting a “speed-up” which increased their work quotas by id percent.' The speed-up orders, they said, were not accompanied by increased pay. • The Communist East; German government ordered allf.workers in the Soviet zone to: increase their output by a flat percent in a decree issued May 28. The East German demonstrations were similar in nature :to the prwests whtrh have swept Communist Czechoslovakia •: in the wake of a government reform" that wiped out all savings, cut the pay of all; laborers and salaried persons and required unlimited overtime without extra pay on the demand of Communist bosses. 1 ' . ■ Most of the men involved In today’s East Berlin demonstrations were said to be employed on the “Stalin allee” construction project—a huge Soviet-style: workers’ apartment project. First reports of the demonstration were brought-tb West Berlin by Dr. Ivar Harris, editor of the Stockholm. Sweden, itfejrapapef Expressen and his West' Berlin correspondent, who saw iit

Sprunger To Leave On European Tour . I Robert Sprunger On Farm Youth Exchange Tweny-three year-old Robert Sprunger, of route 6, whoihas bent his efforts in many phases pf* 4-H work during the past seven years, will get his reward Wednesday when he leaves for the 'nation’s capital preparatory to sailing for Europe on the first leg of )$s inte< national farm jyouth exchange (IFYE) summer program., I Sprunger is the son of slr. and Mrs. Mart Sprunger, of ftciute 6. Mart Sprunger is the manager of. Steffen Implements, Third street, Decatur. S'/

Robert will visit farms ip France and in Tunisia, learning their ways of farming and how they differ from American methods. For the summer Robert will be an emissary of the United States and for that son he will take a one-week course in Washington getting briefed. A graduate of Pleasant Mills high school In 1948, Sprunger w<nt. pn to get his degree at Purdue University, graduating last month. I. Seven years ago Robert’got into county 4-H work and siri ie then made a good record wit|| dairy, beef and swine projects. On June 24 or 25 Robertiwill sail on the M. S. Georgic for France with boys and girls off farms like him from 37 states, including three others from Indiana. ' Robert has promised t-o write stories of his during the summer and send them in for a first hand report. He is scheduled to return with his troupe ia November, at which time he will speak to farm groups throughout the state and show color slides of pictures he’s taken the past summer away from home. »■

Attorneys Ask Douglas Grant Execution Stay 9 Rosenberg Lawyers Ask Supreme Court Justice To Delay WASHINGTON, UP—Two rival groups of attorneys today asked supreme court justice William 0., Douglas to postpone the execution of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They presented papers for Douglas to study in his chambers. They were prepared to argue personally before Douglas in case he called them. Defense lawyers took their case to Douglas after failing Monday in three separate Efforts to persuade the full court to intervene on behalf of the condemned couple. The Rosenbergs are scheduled to die’ in the Sing Sing electric chair at 9 p. m. CST Thursday. A single justice may grant a stay of execution after the court . itself has refused one. Tradition holds that he should invoke the poWer only if he is confronted with new evidence which he th |nks would be of compelling significance to at least three othbr members of the tribunal. It takes the votes of at least four justices to bring a case before the supreme court for review on its merits. Rosenberg attorneys obviously took their latest appeal to Douglas in -belief they tfiight get a more sympathetic consideration from him than from justice Robert H. Jackson, who has routine jurisdiction over the circuit which includes New York. The law permits a litigant to approach any one of the nine justices when the court is in recess. Two lawyers directly representing the condemned couple asked Douglas for a stay of execution until a fifth appeal can be filed with the high -bench. This will deal with recent adverse rulings in lower courts denying the Rosenbergs a new trial and a hearing on a reduced sentence. Two other lawyers representing Los Angeles resident Jrwin Edelman asked 'Douglas to issue a writ of habeas corpus. The same petition was thrown out Monday by trial judge Irving R. Kaufman in New York, who called the lawyers “intruders and interlopers.” The attorneys, Fyke Farmed. Nashville. Tenn., and Daniel G. /Twrw T» pace Kt*kt>

Farmers Vofe For Soil Conservation Favor Setting Up Soil District Here By a plurality of 1,688 votes, the farmers of Adams county have yot-. ed so install in the county a soil conservation district, ** it was r revealed today by figures of William Schpepf, Sr., soli conservation committee referendum polling superintendent. The total vote was 2,383, 347 turning thumbs down. Sixty-six percent of the 3,606 landowners in the' county voted, therefore, 85-4 per-,, ■cent in favor. Soifconservation district machinery now moves into high gear and two county men w|ll be appointed to serve on a five-man committee. Following Jheir signing of an oath and certificate of organization, comes a 30-day waiting period for any objections. This being done, six men are nominated, of which three will be chosen to round out the committee panel. A program will then be worked out to fit the particular needs of the county and the special needs of its individual farmers. That should take the district into, late August for Its first positive action, it is estimated.

Continue Hunt For | Illinois Legislator | Request Governor Offer Big Reward CHICAGO (UP) — State Clem Graver’s colleagues the Illinois house asked the governor today to ppst a $25,000 reward for the safe return .of the legislator who was kidnaped Thursday night. Police, Jneanwhile, were picking up known? police Characters iq the west side district which Graver, a Republican, In Springfield, the house unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Rep/ Peter C! Granaia and a score of other representatives asking Gov. William G. Strutton, also a Republican, to post the reward “for any Information tifet would lead to the return alive” Ls Graver. '\ ? ' \ Shortly afterward, Rep. John fC. Morris introduced a bill to appropriate SIOO,OOO as are Ward. “This is one of the most a|ocious things that ever happened Illinois," said Granata. \ “The perpetrators of this thihg should £e brought to justice and sent to electric chair. “I know how every member feels about Clem. Hb was an honorable character. He was upstanding in hie community." - -Granata and Grafer twrt* wfera | members of a bloc oTTegishitOrs from Chicago’s west side wfa|ch frequently cross party lines ;to vote as a unit. Detectives today seized Janies Rancatore, 23. for questioning jin Graver’s disappearance. He denied knowing Graver but admitted knowing several hoodlums, now dead, for whom Graver had pbt up bond. Rancatore agreed jlo take a lie test. , - Investigators also were contemplating questioning all precinct captains in Graver’s district Jn hopes of gaining clues -To tHe kidnaping. ; | State -police, operating out df Freeport, 1)1., f ranged Into th|e wooded areas of Winnebago, Stephenson and Jo Daviess countl4s searching for- the lawmaker’s body or an abandoned car. / Detectives of the secret Scoj- , fTmra T« Pa<r Ktrhtl

Senate Committee | Voles Seaway Bill ' ' h St. Lawrence Bill Approved By Group | . WASHINGTON, UP — The sen? ate foreign relations committed today approved the St. Lawrence seaway bill to open the Great Lakes to ocean shipping. - The committee has approve# similar legislation in other sessions but congress so far has ref fused to pass it. i Chairman Alexander Wiley. (R| Wis.) said the senate group vote on the controversial proposal was! ►l3 to 2, Sens. Walter George (63. Ga.) and J. William Fulbright (6j Ark.) opposed the bill. The bill would provide a 27-foot deep channel by Way of the St! Lawrence river to the Great! Lakes. Most of the construction! would be centered in the interna-! tional rapids section of the rivers The waterway would be jointly® developed by the United States! and Canada, Canada has said it; will undertake the project alone! if congress does not approve the! joint venture, f. The bill deals only with the proposed waterways which, through toll charges, would be seif-liquidat-ing. The state of New York and the province of Ontario are ready to undertake power phases of the project as soon •as the federal power commission approves. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler to» - night, preceded toy scattered thundershowers east and south early tonight Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler. Low tonight 60-66. High Wednesday

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Officers Give Out No Hint On Progress Full Delegations Meet Tonight For First Time In Week PANMUNJOM, Korea, Wedne|- - day (UP) —The full truce delegations meet today for the first time i in a week but officers gave no hint as to whether the renewal mepnt progress or fresh difficulties. . i There were reports the Allied and Confmunist delegates ihlght be ready to sign a truce by June • 25, third anniversary of the Korean war. There also was speculation the continuing Communist ground offensive was making it difficult to draw a line of demarcation. The chief delegatee had turned - over to staff officers the job o setting the line that will separate the two armies during an armistice. Speculation as to the purpose Os today’s meeting included: 1-—: The U.,N. command is not satisfied with the progress of the staff officers’ work, and; hopes to speed 4t up; 2—Staff work had progressed to the point where the full delegations can meet to approve what has been done. 1 The United. Nations command: ' announced at its nearby base at! Munsan that Lt Gen. William K. Harrison and his sUff would confer with North Korean Gen. Nain Il and his delegation at 11 a. m. ’ (8 p. m. CST Tuesday.) Harrison and Nam recessed i their top-lbvei negotiations “indefinitely” on June 10, turning over the truce hut to staff colonels i of -both sides to draw the cease- I fire line and settle other minor business. ' ! Their lasi two meetings had ■ ended in an atmosphere of good humor. Harrison, who often had addressed Nam in severe language before agreement was reached on j exchanging prisoners, smiled as he talked' to newsmen. .. y .

At the time the two generals and. chief spokesmien fori their side stepped aside in favor of their assistants, there was general belief they would not return to the truce until all of the kinjrs had been irone# out of the armistice agreement. Allied authorities gave no reason for resumption of full-scale talks, and earlier today sources said the cease-fire probably wop Id not be signed until June 25—-third* ? anniversary of the Korean War. . The meeting was | called as Communist forces captured finger ridge on rhe blazing east-central front for another victory in their new offensive to gain high ground before the cease-fire is called to freeze the battleline. There was another Unusual development today. < I American officers charged with * running "Big switch,” the exchange of war prisoners after “A” day, held a high-level meeting at Munsan, but what was said remained a secret. Brig. <}en. Ralph Ai. Osborne, member of the U. N. truce delegation, headed the secret meeting! It was believed he called his section chiefs together to outline briefly their duties in handling the ’ We Paa* Wtve) H Mrs. Linet Jacobs Dies At Cleveland ■ t ‘Mrs. Lina Jacobs, former resident of Dpcatur and Berne, died this morning at her] home in Cleveland. O. She was the widow of L. D. Jacobs. The body has been returned to the Yager funeral home at Berne, where friends may call after 7:30 o’clock this evening. Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed -church, the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will bo in th# MRE cemetery.