Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 145.

Clark Accuses" Pres. Rhee Os Breaking Word Reds Charge U. S. Command Connived On Prisoner Release PANTMUiNJpM, Korea UP — Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme United .Nations commander, accused Korean President Syngman Rhee today of breaking his word by freeing anti-Communist prisoners. ■- y “1 cannot at this time estimate the ultimate consequences of thfs I precipitous and shocking action on your part,” Clark told Rhee in a bitterly phrased letter. The Communist high command, in turn, in a’-s letter to Clark, accuses.-th© U. N. command of connivingin the release of 26,000 prisoners. demanded that be recaptured and saaq: ‘‘Your side-must give assurance that similar incidents absolutely will not recur in the future.” And finally, the dediant South Korean government sent Clark a letter demanding tnat all remaining anli-Coinmunist Korean prisoners be set free. The letter openly hinted at the possibility of violent Korean ac.tion against the U. N. forces. Thug Clark was caught in the ■middle of an increasingly critical situation. The armistice negotiations thenselves were in indefinite recess after a meeting of the Cull truce delegations today at which the Communists delivered their protest. What seemed a pessimistic atmosphere was not reflected in Washington. Officials there believed the Communists still, want an armistice. Plans for the signing will go forward, they said, though of course ft can not now be held a«( soon as had been hoped. ■Defense secretary Charles <E. Wilson and the Joint chiefs of staff have given Clark a go-ahead to deal sternly with any new South Korean threat to the armistice, Washington dispatches said. Hie Communist letter to Clark rwajs written, it was disclosed, in yeply to a frank letter flay Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. ! , senior U. N. truce delegate, to Korean chief negotiator Gen. Nam H. Harison acknowledged that the prisoners “broke out” of confinement and said it was indicated “the action had been secret’;.’ planned and carefully coordinated at top levels in the Korean government.” Clark’s note reminded Rhee that in the summer of 1950, when the United States and other United Nations answered his call for help J in fighting the North Krean invaders, he assigned authority to the U. N. over “all, land, sea and . air force of the Republic of Korea.” | Notwithstanding this, Clark's letter said, Rhee had taken it Upon | himseirf to break this agreement on | hix own impulse by ordering the \ release of the prisoners "in clear violation of my authority.” Clark also pointed out that the 78-year-old president recently had assured him and Ambassador .Ellis O. Briggs that no action would be taken without consultation. Rhee, who said he would never accept a truce which leaves Korea divided and permits Chinese Communists to remain in North Korea, showed no signs of wavering; Following a cabinet meeting today, his acting premier, Pyun- , Yung Tae, said it would be impossible to round up the 26,000 escaped prisoners in compliance with the Communist demand made earlier at Panmunjom. Rides For Children To Start June 28 Free airplane rides for children at the Hi-Way airport will not be given until Sunday, June 28, Josephine Ivetich announced today. Children are asked to register for the "kiddie air lift” tomorrow, Tife rides will begin the following Sunday, beginning at 1 pm> From six to eight free rides will be given each Sunday afternoon, one of the pilots stated. Lions Club To Take Summer Vacation Decatur Lions will hold their last meeting of the season on June 30 as a family picnic at Hanna-Nuttman park, program chairman Harry Knapp announced today. Installation of officers elected for 53-54 season will be held next Tuesday night at the K. of P. home.

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Reds Indicate Truce Wanted Despite Move Officials Assert Plans For Signing Truce To Continue WASHINGTON UP — The administration breathed easier today as the Communists indicated they still want a truce in spite of South Korea’s arbitrary release of Red prisoners of war. Officials said plans for the armistice signing would go forward, although of course it could not now be held as early as had been expected. Already, it was learned, defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and the joint chiefs of staff havfe given Gen. Mark W. Clark a go-ahead to deal sternly with any new South Korean threat to an armistice. This was expected to go a long way toward meeting the Communist demand, submitted at Panmunjom Friday night, for assurances that South Korea will be kept in line in the future. ■Officials admitted, on the other hand, that it would be impossible to comply fully with the second Red demand—that all 26,000 anticommunist POW’s freed by South ; Korea be • recaptured—although every effort was being made to do i so r If South Korea chooses to fight, I officials said Mr. Eisenhower’s { June 6 offer of an American-Sputh Korean defense pact and posti truce economic and military aid 1 would be withdrawn. v President [Syngman Rhee already has reject;ed the offer as too high “price” I to pay for the proposed armistice. What action would be taken if : Rhee’ withdrew his forces from the iU. N- Command was not revealed !or hinted by officials intimately i connected with the Crisis. But it seemed likely Clark would carry, through United States’ tion to uphold h truce—by military means, if necessary. i The seriousness of the South Korean stand . against the truce was underlined here Friday by urgent conferences at -she White House, state and defense departments. There was nb word from the White House or state department on the exact wording of the Pres* ident's latest message sent to Rhee Thursday. Some legislators understood the President had told Rhee he was holding him personally re4T»ni To Pace StK)U Goshen Is Hottest In State With 99 -Ji ? H ' I INDIANAPOLIS UP — Hoosier swimming holes prepared for sellout weekend crowds today as the worst heat wave of the year entered its second day. The weatherman foresaw no relief before the middle of next week, and temperatures may well hit TOO, Goshen was Indiana's top “hotspot” Friday with a reading of 99. Evansville had 98, and it was 97 at the Indianapolis airport. she weather bureau said the hot-weatber streak may be broken temporarily with thundershowers Saturday night and Sunday, and again about Wednesday.

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Pickets Are Gone From White House Wanted Rosenbergs To Gain Clemency WASHINGTON, UP — The cheerless, weeping people, who wanted the Rosenbergs kept alive were gone from the White House sidwalks today. President Eisenhower, sure that the atom spies received “fullest” justice, turned to other problems. If the emotionalism that surged around the fence of the executive mansion for nearly a week affected the Presidents he showed no signs of it as he tackled such cold, tough issues as the troubled truce negotiations in Korea and Russian moves in East Germany. The President was with his family in their second floor quarters of the White House Friday night when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg went to the electric chair for giving atomic' secrets to Russia. A telephone was handy in case attorney, general Herbert Brownell, Jr., wanted to reach him at the, last But there was no need for the call. . ’ i. They might have won presidential clemency if they talked about their spy activities. But the Rosenbergs were sileritto the end. During the last living hours of the ’Rosenbergs, Mr. Eisenhower was the chief target of their supporters — the glum, sign-bearing pickets and defense attorney Emanuel Bloch ’who alternately denounced and pleaded to be heard by the President As the Rosenbergs were electrocuted, 400 pickets plodded, footsore and dejected before the White House. Police were afraid the local toughs among the 7,000 per? sons gathered in a park across Pennsylvania Avenue might rush the lipe. Two ’blocks from the White House, defense attorney Bloch slumped unhappily in an aijr-con-ditioned hotel room and muttered something about the end of dem- ■ ocracy in this country. Across town, FBI agents watched the entrance to the justice department. Brownell was secluded in a secret office, waiting by the telephone if the Rosenbergs decided to talk about their espionage activities and associates at the last minute. At the White House and the justice department, staff members huddled over news tickers. From the jam of automobiles inch- . ing along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, radios . blared the flash that the RosenI bergs were dead. | The crowd in LaFayette Park broke into cheers and cries # of “back to Russia, you bums” ’at the pickets. Secret service agents and uniformed police braced for . trouble, but it did not develop. . The pickets slowed their mourn- , ful pace even more. Many of the . women were crying. The men shook their heads and shuffled , under the stately elms along the sidewalk. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, occasional thundershowers northwest Sunday partly cloudy with occasional thunder-show- ; ers and somewhat cooler. High today 96-102. Low tonight 72-78.

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Decatur, Indiana/Saturday, June 20, 19531;

Rosenbergs Pay Death Penalty For Betrayal Os Their Native Land

Germans Set i Fire To Big , Russian Plant j Anti-Communists | ( Fire Biggest Red Plant In Germany BERLIN IT — Germap antiCommunists have set fire to Soviet Germany’s biggest industrial plant, and at least one other important factory is in flames, it was reported today. At the same time, the U. S. commandant in Berlin said «the Russians have created a potentially explosive situation In Communist Berlin by bringing in two mechanized divisions-25,000 troops -to “tamp down” the people; * iMaj. Gen. Thomas S. Timebrman said U. S. troops in Berlin are “outnumbered two to one” by the Russians, without counting the thousands of Communist police also massed in the Soviet sector." West Berlin newspapers reported four more deaths in this week's "revolt” against Communist rule in Germany l —two Germans slain by Russian tfiring squads and two Communist police lynched by riot- I ers. The Western paper Telegraf sail fires are raging in the nationalized Leuna synthetic gasoline | plant, which employs more than 20,060 •workers, and in the Schkopau synthetic rubber factory. Telegraf said also ‘hat two Germans in Magdeburg were shot' down by Russian firing squads enforcing the martial law clamped on much of Soviet Germany folloft- ’ ing the Wednesday riots. The newspaper iMorgenpost said rioters in Erfurt hanged two Red HVm Tn Pave six) —— Rev. Elmer Jaberg • Is Taken By Death I Native Os County { Dies In Nebraska J The Rev. Elmer C. Jaberg, 59, |a native of Preble township, Adams county, and pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed church in Talmadge, Neb., died in his honie Friday afternoon, his brother, Edward Jaberg of this city, wa? advised last evening. The death message did not glwe , the cause of death, but the brother ; presumed it resulted from a heajt ! ■attack. ■ : | Rev. Jaberg was born Nov. 1893, a son of Mr. and Mrs. ’SartU. uel Jaberg. He attended the Pr|ble township schools and entered • Mission House College, Sheboygan, Wis; He completes! his preparatory and theological studies there and was ordained to the ministry at the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church in 1921. f His first pastorate was in Inli- ; anapolis. He also served in Lfeiton, Ind., and in Sheboygan, wis. Three years ago he accepted the pastorate in Talmadge. > Surviving besides the brother |n this city, are his wife; three felmdren» the Rev. Vernon Jabeng. Klemme, Iowa; the Rev. Gene Jaberg. Sheboygan; and Rutji jiberg, a teacher in Talmage. A •brother, Dan of Fond du Lase, Wis., and a half brother, John Js--of Pitcairn, Pa., Three sisters, Mrs. A. L. Scherer, Alexandria, Ky„ Mrs. W. J. McPeak, Bucyrus, Ohio and Mis. George Gerber of Magley, alfco survive. “ H * Double funeral services Will tie held. Monday afternoon services will be held in the pastor’s churcb in Talmage. The body will be taken to Sheboygan where services will be held Wednesday a|ternoon In Dbeneser Evangelical and Reformed church. Burial wfl be in the Sheboygan church cemetery. . i

46 More Prisoners Flee Korean Camps Tension Heightens At Prisoner Camps i SEOUL, Korea, UP — forty-six more anti-Communist prisoners of war fled to freedom past Xmericati tuards Friday night and Saturday, is the crackle of gunfir® heightened tension at Korea’! POW camps. I » A South Korean guard Was shot to death and an American was wounded, apparently bjf ifsnipers, outside a camp where 21 North , Korean officers staged a ; 'successful break a few hours latjsjK Forty-five prisoners : escaped from camps during the nllfht, and 10 more walked out of A U. S. officers’ mess in Pusan, of the camp fugitives were r kaptur♦d later, making the thre6 day total of liberated captives 1 5,978. An undisclosed number oi American troops arrived here Friday to details at tie eight camps wTiere 9,352 prisoners still are being held. , ft May Cut Supplies | UNITED NATIONS, lit* The United Nations command mky cut off the South army’s supply of ammunition if thjp ROK forces try to resist a true®, diplomatic sources here indicted today. j | The U. N. was reported folding the ammunition supply as an “ace in the hole” in dealing with South Korea’s resistance to the' ceasefire agreement negotiated 4t Panmunjom. ; InRepublic of Korea forcesjHre depending on the United Nut ons — especially the Uiiited Stat »s —for ammunition and other iel. * -1 A high source here said the possibility of ROK resistancieito the trupe agreement was tahw; into consideration as long as year ago. At that time, President Syngmah Rhee’s government already was showing signs it might take defiant action if the armistice left South and North Korea divided along the battle line near tire 38th parallel. ' • ' ! 19 Jets Lost Last’ Week In Air War A I U. N. Air Fleet's Worst Korea Losi* SEOUL. Korea UP —ThOiUllies lost 19 jets last '(yeek, including an ultra-modern Starfire night tighter ; —the worst losses the U, air fleet in Korea had suffered, in a single week since the war began. The U. S. sth Air Forde announced today that the Communists also lost at least ly jets during the week. Four msre of their Rdssian-made warcrafM probably were destroyed, and J® were damaged. - • The Air Force announcement said Allied losses included a| Australian Meteor an,<| threb’W. S. F-84 jets shot down by antiaircraft gunners, and oiieldther E-84, the F-94 Starfire und,three U. S. Sabrejels iby, fother causes”—an indication that the night fighters may have ■ been forged down behind Allied llpps. 4 Nine more Sabrejets were lost during the week, the_ Air ’Force announcement said, but nonfe : fell in air-to-air combat. S' The .worst previous week jh the Allied hir history of the war %as in/ February, 1952, when 16 planet, were lost. t 1 Last week, Allied planes set new records ,for offensive action, dumping 5.0(10,000 pounds of bombs on Red troops and installations and flying 1,800 close support missions, Light Allied planes also, carried at least one battalion of Sopth Korean troops to the battle |in® to help halt the week's heavy’ Red ground attacks. .* t ' !' • • i Noon Editiont

Warn Foreign Aid Program Facing Cuts House Passes Bill Authorizing Fund; Faces House Fight By UNITED PRESS Republican leaders warned today that President Eisenhower’s foreign aid program still faced possible major .cuts though the house approved a $4,998,000,000 authorization bill Friday night. House economy forces — beaten down by |>a 280-108 vote —were expected tb muster more strength when it comes to voting on actual appropriations to finance the administration's program. Although the bill fell $476,000,000 short of the president’s request, GOP leaders described the House action as a vote of confidence in the; administration. house-passed measure carries a provision — opposed by the administration —withholding more titan $1,000,000,000 in military aid for Europe until the European nations agree to a unified defense force. • \ Other Congressional news: Taxes: president. I Eisenhower hailed Rep. Danjel A. Reed (RN.Y.) to the White House today in a personal effort to get him to call off his boycott against extension of the excess profits tax. Mr. Eisenhower intervened after Reed once more rejected the pleas of GOP xongrssional leaders to cut the .extension legislation loose from his ways and means committee. \ Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Celjer (R-N, Y.) maintained today the’house will never vote on the move to 'impeach supreme court justice William O. Douglas for his To Part* Six) Charles Archbold Is Taken By Death Native Os Decatur Dies At Cleveland Word was received here today of the death, of Charles L. Archbold, 73, native of Decatur and famed advertising creator, in his home, 20609 Balfour Road, Warrensville Heights, Cleveland, on June 15, following injuries in an auto accident June 5, enroute to this city. Near Van Wert, Ohio, their auto was involv d in an accident. They were; guests at the Rice hotel and returned to' their Cleveland home the following week. Mrs. Archbold is the] former Erin Bobo, a daughter di the late Judge James R. Bobo. Although his injuries were ' not considered serious at the time, Mr. Archbold suffered an injury to his chest in the car crash. The Archbolds moved to Cleveland in 1903 and for several years he operated in the advertising Jield as a free lance. In 1909 he joined the. National Refining company as advertising manager, holding that position until he retired in 1939. / Mr. Archbold gained wide" attention wherever the company had ' service station? by epigrams which he wrqte ! and which were painted in station billboards. Thgy were changed every few days and were keenly awaited by customers and motorists who drove bynthe stations. They were frequently quoted* throughout the country. He was a member of the Cleveland Advertising club and the Pentalpha Masonic lodge. Surviving besides his wife, are one son, Ronald of York, Pa., and one grandchild. Funeral services were held at the J. H. Brown and Son funeral home, Kinsman Road, Shaker Height*, Cleveland.

Van Fleet Says Rhee Action Is Logical Says UN Terms For [ Truce Appeasement DETROIT, UP —Gen. James A. Van Fleet says that South Korean President Syngman Rhee’s release of 26.000 anti-Commun|st North Korean war prisoners was “very logical.” i The former commander of the eighth army in Korea also told reporters here Friday United Nations terms for a truce in Korea amount to “appeasement”’and that the current Communist offensive in Korea could be be,aten back easily. , i Van Fleet, enroute from an Alaskan hunting trip to New York, passed through-here on an errand that brings thousands of other; tourists to the motor city—to buy a new car. The four-star general said Rhee’s action “came as- a big surprise, but when I sit down and reason it out, it seems very logical. “I’m not defending Rhee'S action. but President Eisenhower’s decision to agree to armistice was a tremendous shock to Rhee’s people. 1 “I don’t think that one-half of the American pedple would sit back and let the other halt as Communists take over blood relatives and friends who wish to remain free.” Van Fleet said Rhee’s action made for great uncertainty over “wherq;we go from here” in Korea. He sai#: it may mean “an entirely new line of departure.” He said the truce terms amount to “apeasement” and a “tremendous victory for Communism” although he conceded they may be “the best possible solution we can work out with our allies in the framework of the U. N.” < Van Fleet said he believes that the Chinese Communists have worn themselves out in their current offensive and that a counterattack ‘‘by a fresh division could turn the fight into a field, day.” — , BULLETIN PERU, Ind. UP —Two persona were killed and the injured were being “hauled away in droves,” following a buecar accident on U. S. 31 two miles south of here today. Early reports said th.e accident occurred on a hill, and the number of injured was not immediately determined. Four ambulances were rushed to the scene to carry the injured to * Peru memorial hospital. - ' ‘i ' Severe Storms Hit Portion Os Midwest; i Relief Promised; From Record Heat By UNITED PRESS Severe storms, including several tornadoes, hit the midwest today atid forecasters promised' that they would bring relief from a record-breaking heat wave. A small tornado hit near Whiting, Kan., late Friday, smashing two barns. Other twisters were reported at Vernon, Tex., and Craig, Mo., but these w’ere j not confirmed. ’ Sixty-mile-an-hour winds blew across parts of <lowa on a track from St Joseph, Mo., through | Corning, Winterset/ Des {'Moines and Hubbard. Stratton. Ja. r was hit by ; winds of near tornadic force and some damage was reported to farm buildings in the area. ■ ■ A national guardsman Was Injured by lightning at Camp Ripley, Minn., and a woman was hurt by a falling sign during a windstorip at Minneapolis in which store windows were broken and trees uprooted. • The storms, accompanied by cooliqg rains, were bringing relief to northern areas from the season’s worst hot spell and forecastPeace Ka>

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Husband, Wife Spy Team Die At Sing Sing Rosenbergs' Lips Defiantly Sealed At Death's Door SING SING PRISON, N. Y. UP • —The United States had exacted full payment today from Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for the atomic age betrayal of their country. Their lips defiantly sealed to the end. the husband and wife spy team went to their death in Sing Sing's electric chair shortly before sundown ushered in the" Jewish Sabath Friday night. The Rosenbergs were Jews. x The government had hoped to the last they would talk. Executioner Joseph Francel sent 16,000 volts of electricity through their Julius, the weaker, went first. He died with a grotesque; smile on his lips.-A wisp of smoke curled toward the ceiling as the current charged through Mts. Rosenberg. Sp|t drooled down her chin. Her „neck muscles swelled as it to burst. * It took three shocks of 2,000 volts each to electrocute Rosenbetg. Four jolts swept -through Mrs. Rosenberg and still she was Bot dead. A fifth was ordered. They died without revealing the secretS'Of a Soviet spy ring which many experts fear may still |>e operating In this country. The Rosenbergs refused to the end to trade the secrets for their life. • The Rosenbergs were the first American Civilians to die for spying. They were accused of sending a rough sketch of the atomic bombs to Russia. ' _ \ ■. “Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you committed,” Judge Irvlrig i Kaufman said in sentencing thein to death on April 5. 1951. Relatives claimed the bodies of the 35-year-old electrical engineer and hi?, plump, 37-year-old wife, Thfey wefe expected to leave here by harse for a htill unannounced burial ground. • - Under the Jewish faith, no burials—not evenjnournlng—is permitted on the Jewish Sabbath which extends from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. So presumably their burial will be on Sunday. | Julius Rosenberg, a look of defiance on his face, his eyes staring straight ahead and displaying no emotion was the first to die. H$ was placed in the chair at \8:ol p.m. e.d.t. and was pronounced dead at 8:06 3-4. . Moon faced Ethel came calmly, stoically, into the death chamber only, two minutes after her husband’s body has been rolled Into an autopsy room less than 20-fjpet ?way. 1 ■ ' Mrs. Helen Evans, a prison matron who had been in constant attendance on Mrs. Rosenberg during the two years the convicted spy had been in the death house her, and Mrs. Lucy Many, % a prison telephone operator, accompanied the ■condemned woman to the chair. As Mrs. Rosenberg reached the grim waihut chair, she turned suddenly, , impulsively, grasped Mrs, Evans’ hand and then kissed her on the right cheek. She mumbled, “Goodbye, thank you.” Then, the dumpy little woman turned, took another step forward and sat down in the chair. - At 8:11 H the switch was thrown. Four and one half minutes and after four more shocks Ethel Rosenberg was dead. Doctors H. W. Kipp and George McCracken applied their stethoscopes to her chest. Kipp turned to the warden and \said: “1 pronounce this woman dead.” , Ten official witnesses, six prison guards and Francel were in the 40 by 40-foot death chamber to see the Rosenbergs die. They were U. S. marshal Wifliam A. Carroll; warden Wilfrd L. Denno; Rabbi Irving Koslowe, of Marttaum T. p«c« six)