Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 146.

-i Unrest Grows In Red Germany * :’SBSS_ -z Z. <.y : ; .-,/, ’. ...4, * l w* xTsm^L^ 1 X».... j■ - Jbk 1 1 dWTIBM iWhSf* go ■-' B I ifflSg. NEW ANTI-COMMUNIST RIOTS blazed a troll aero ss East Germany, as Red tanks and troops sealed off I streets connecting East and West Berlin (above;), where the situation is reported quiet. Strikes para* lyzed almost every major industry and near So viet-zone-Czech border 100,000 uranium workers staged a pitched battle with Red soldiers. East Berliners attempting to flee to the West, like the two women pictured below, found themselves “escorted” back into the Communist zone.

New Repressive Moves Made By Reds In Berlin t Soviet Troops Are Reported Stoned, Strikes Spreading - BERLIN UP —Soviet troops were reported stoned, new strikes crippled industry amid widespread sabotage and the Russians clamped rigid martial law on broad new areas of the’ Soviet occupation zone today, the sixth day of EXst German revolt against Red rule.l Reports reaching West Beijlin from behind the Iron Curtain said columns of marching Soviet troops were stoned in the streets of Luckenwalde, an industrial city 20 miles southwest of Berlin. West Berlin newspapers reported Soviet troops with fixed baypnets occupied all public buildings in the town. Martial law and strict curfews have been extended to the-country districts of Meckelnberg, Luckenwalde. Forst, Jueterborf and Ludwigsfeilde, these reports said. The new repressive measures were said to have been taken by the Soviets after the rebellious populations refused to yield to earlier Russian back - to - work orders, staged new strikes and engaged in fresh auti-Communist , demonstrations. ’ ! The new crackdown was ordered by the Soviets soon after the East German Communist party had openly admitted that German workers are ,resorting to “major acts of sabotage” in their violent Leipzig was reported paralyzed by a general strike which Soviet troops and Communist police have been unable to break. Reports reaching West Berlin said angry mobs of 30,000 to 40,000 persons stormed the jail. Communist police headquarters and. Leipzig radio station during last week’s rioting. The West Berlin newspaper ?Der; Abend” said three demonstrators. t (Tam T < ——. Two Decatur Girls To Girls' State Unit 43, American Legion auxiliary, will sponsor two Decatur girls to Girls state, which will be held on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, June 23 to July 1. Ann \Ehinger, daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ehinger, and Willa May Goelz, daughter of Mrs. Alma Goelz, will represent the local aux- ■ iliary. Miss Ehinger is a student at Decatur Catholic high school and Miss Goelz attends Decatur high scfioc Mrs. Dallas Brown served as chairman of jGit»s state. All girls from the fourth district will leave Tuesday morning from Fort Wayne by busses. Mrs. Vincent Bormann and Mrs. T. C. Smith will be member* of the Girl’s State staff, and left for Bloomington Sunday. They will serve as social counselors.

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Plan Community , Sale On Aug. 15 Church Study Clubs Will Sponsor Sale ’ A feature of the sales training . course given the student-auction-eers of the Reppert school of Auctioneering will be the staging pfa huge community sale Saturday. August 15, sponsored by the . 24 | study clubs of St. Mary’s Cathoi lie church. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to the new church fund. Mrs. William Kohne. general chairman, and Mrs. Harold Engle, chairman of the. study -clubs, discussed preliminary plans for the benefit sale with Col. Q. R. Chaffee of Towanda, Pa., dean of the Reppert school, when he visited here last weelc. Dr. Roland Reppert, owner and manager of-the school, founded by his father, the late Fred Reppert. has given approval to the plan, which will give wide and practical experience to the student-auction-eers. The idea of a community sale for church benefit was suggested by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz. pastor, who contacted the study clubs and conferred -with Dr. Reppert in placing the sale on the school’s training calendar. Mrs. Kohne has named Mrs. Anselm Hackman of this city as cochairman and Mrs. Engle has pointed Mrs. Norbert Gase as her co-chairman. The women plan a general solicitation for livestock, merchandise. household articles, fancy work And\any item that has a resale value. It is not planned to sell used clothing, as several church societies and sororities conduct rummage sales which fill the wants of those wanting used apparel. . ; The sale will be held’ on Madison street, alongside of the Reppert building, and will be in charge of Col. Chaffee, his staff of instructors and students. It is planned to open, the sale , early in the afternoon and continue through the evening, after a recess for supper. The St. Mary’s parish women } are planning to have a tent erect!ed on Madison street, where sandwiches, coffee and soft drinks will be sold'during the sale hours. Mrs. Kohne stated a committee would be named to arrange this division for the sale. Merchants will be solicited for merchandise Which will be sold , at the sale, the worsen explained. Many have already volunteered r to contribute to the 'sale. The parish women explained that proceeds from the sale would be used in purchasing the 14 stations of Christ’s Way of the Cross for new St, Mary’s church. If this venture is successful the commun-ity-parish sale will become an annual affair, the women said. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday, not much temperature change. Low tonight 59-65 north, 62-66 south. High Tuesday 80-86 north, 86-92 south. !

Summer Dawns In Aftermath Os Bad Storms Scores Os Drowning Deaths Reported Throughout 11 S. By PRESS The first full day of summer dawned today after a weekend ot blistering heat, violent midwestern storms, a freakish lightning tragedy in New York and scores of drowning deaths across the country. Ironically, the weatherman promised the day would bring some relief from an over-hot spring heat wave that broke temperature records in several cities. New temperature records for June 21 were set at Memphis 101, Knoxville, Tenn. 99, Cleveland 95, Hartford, Conn. 95 and several smaller cities. Cleveland and Hartford,. as well as Indianapolis, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis reported hew records Saturday, as well. Temperatures in the 100’s were southwest again today but most of the rest of the country could expect nothing worse than highs in the 80’s and 90’s. At least 51 persons drowned during the weekend while trying to escape the heat—most of them Sunday. Michigan alone counted 19 water deaths and one tragedy caused by a dive. Minnesota bad eight drownings, Chicago six, and Wisconsin six. Jackson, Miss., reported its eighth heat-caused death of the year, and two New Yorkers collapsed and died. Lightning killed two persons in Ohio. Shortly after summer made its formal debut at 1 p.m., e.d.t. Sunday, two storms unleashed their deadly, destructive power I —one above crowded New York City play grounds and beaches and another on the sun-baked Kansas prairies. m Lightning bolts stabbed down from a thunderhead over New York, killing three persons and injuring seven in one small, isolated area of the country’s biggest city. The Kansas storm delivered a (T»m t* p«k» ata) Ralph Rosenwinkle Is Taken By Death Ralph Rosenwinkle. 51, assistant sales manager of a Fort Wayne department store, and former Decatur resident, died Sunday a|ter an illness of several weeks. x Rosenwinkle was 'born in Decatur, lout had resided in Fort Wayne most of his life. He is survived by his parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rosenwinkle;, a halfbrother. Vane Thompson, all of Fort Wayne; a daughter, Mrs. Lulu Blanche, North Africa;" a 'step-daughter, Suzanne; and a step-son. Jay, the latter two also of Fort Wayne. He was a member of the South Wayne street Baptist church and served in the U. S. navy in World Wars I and 11. Funeral arrangements have not been learned.

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Sef Big Three j Bermuda Meet For July 8 Conference Date Is Set Definitely At | Bermuda On July 8 WASHINGTON, UF — The Big Three Bermuda conference definitely Will be held July 8, it Wits disclosed today. If France hasn’t picked a premier by then, it was said, otmfr representatives of the French government will be on hand to talk over east-w.es't problems with President Eisenhower and prince minister Winstjon Churchill. ;,' White House press secretary James C. Hagerty expects Ms. ■Eisenhower to arrive in Bermuda July 7. Hagerty' believes “French representatives” will be there, topThiii was supported by word from 'Paris that France has told the United States and Great Britain officially that it agrees to the July 8 date. The meeting between Mr. Elsenhower Churchill and a French premier has been delayed several times because the French assent bly has been unable to approve selection of a new government. J There have been reports that 17 the French have not selected a new government. President Vi# cent Auriol may attend the meet! ing himself, or appoint a special delegation. Auriol has asked exj premier Antoine Pinay to form g government. ' ih (I Pinay Offered Job PARIIS. UP — Former business) man-premier Antoine Pinay de? cides today whether he will re-en* ter the “political lion’s den” to try to form a French government in time for the twice postponed Bermuda Big Three conference. J Pinay, independent party leadef famed for his “save the fraricj campaign during his premiershi| last year, was offered the .job again Suiday night by President Vincent Auriol. Pinay told Auriol he would need a day to consider the offer and tq confer with assembly floor leaders on his chances. He was scheduled to give his decision in a meeting with the president. When Pinay quit in disgust las| Dec. 23 after a relatively long nine[ and one-half months in office, he told the national assembly he xag 1 glad to be getting out of “that political lion’s den.” | i He was now being asked to re- i turn in an effort to end France’s longest postwar political crisis} which has seen four candidates for the premiership rejected in more than a month by the nation? /Twrw Tn P»*e Right) -'. ' . 4 John Cramer Dies | Saturday Evening i n 'V Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon John S. Cramer, 77, retired pointer and wallpaper hanger, died at 9:15 o’clock Saturday night at a Richmond hospital following a year’s illness. A lifelong resident of Decatur, he was born in Adams county Aug. 29, 1875, a son of U. E. and, Mary ! Amrine-Cranier. Mr. Cramer was a member of the : Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church., Surviving are his wife, Grace;; one son, Richard Cramer of Van Wert, O.; two half-brothers, Toby/ Cramer of Portland and George Cramer of Monroe; a half-sister}! Mrs. Naomi King of Dayton, 0.<4 and four grandchildren. . i'j' | Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Black’ funeral home, the Rev. F. H. Willard officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may ■ cdll at the funeral home until time; of the services. ■„ ‘ 7 ".2 •

y ■ — ■J? — (Washing Machine Co. mead Dies Suddenly || CHICAO, UP — John R. ffejey 45, president of the Thor/ Cbrp., machine manufacturers, suddenly at his summed home in Lake Forest Sunday. i |IF \ Hurley was the son of t»te Edward Hurley, Sr., founderiof the firm. Hurley started with tli.e (torn.pany as assistant cashier m fi|32 ind was made president | South Koreans On Offensive To Take Rid|e J I Two Outposts ' Recaptured Fronf Communists Force j SEOUL. Korea UP — African Sabrejets shot down 'six 1-MlG‘s today in blazing dogfights# While South Koreans recaptured tfeoi outposts, one on each end ofJIU eastcentral front “bulge.” | i£' The jets also damaged tWp illussian made MiG’s near Y4lu river while screening er strikes on a rail bridge ciojnnjunications center. | ’’’South Korean troops swung do the offensive to take M-f RtdgH> a vjtal position on the easter < edge of the 15-mile-wide, two-mifp-depp Communist-held bulge. ; ,At the other end of the>lnflge. troops of the Eighth ROK Division knocked 40 Chinese off Stepping Stone Hill and hurled baejt- |wo Red counterattacks. American patrols in the f?uhchbowl sector silenced an |hejny machine gun after the position had been attacked with high tank fire. rj. - The Sabrejets, which hatft: beqn grounded for two days bi. bad Weather, went aloft on their greening mission and caught, a pack of MiG’s just south of the Communist sanctuary which lies i&ybnd the Yalu. Col. Robert T. Balowin. ot|s?herman Oaks. Calif., became 4 ni ® ri ’ ca’s 35th jet ace by shootingjdqwn his fifth MIG. i Other American pilots kills were Capt. James G. N|cl|ols of Denver, Colo.; 2nd Lt. Jerry Carlile of Sigler, Okla.T MajjJihn M. Bolts of Sanford. Fla;|Bnd Lt. Alvin Bouchart of Kansm|<|ty, Mo., and Ist Lt.? Philip DangvUr. of Phoenixville, Pa. Damage claims went tp l®tsLt. Gaylen C. Eox of Selma, fldlit.. and Ist Lt. Kenneth F. Hile iof Pittsburgh, -Pa. 4 Theadore Roth Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services |i| Thursday Afternofd Theadore Roth, 69. retir(e||j« ftnber buyer, who resided North Third street, died j&t’ 3 o’clock this morning at thf‘ Adams county memorial hospital, qf a cerebral hemorrhage s <n ired last Wednesday. He was born in Harrison township. Van Wert county, 10, 1883, a son of Frederick! and Tracy Bittner-Roth, and a buyer for the Lenhart Lumber Co. until his retirement. Hi&®Jmf4, the former Pearl Helm, prfdecled him in death. ! Surviving are two brotherj, William Roth of Decatur and H&hhan Roth of Wren, O.; and thrbe sisters, M. W. L. Standiford Wayne, Mrs. Emma Belfi^d! -of Las Vegas, Nev., and Mrs. Pauline Anderson, with whom he home. One son, one brother} and one sister are deceased. j! Funeral services, will ducted at 2:30 p. m. Thursday aV the Zwick funeral home. th|r!Kev. L. T. Norrii® officiating. Bitrial will be in Clark’s Chapel cemetery. , Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Tuesday. J? t S ' c

House Group Opposes Power To Staff Chief Committee Knocks Out Key Features Os Reorganization j WASHINGTON UP — The house committee on government operations voted today to knodk out Jcey features of President EisenMiwer’s reorganization of the defense department which would increase the authority of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Members approved—l 4 to 12 and 12 to 11 — alternative measures to put the rest of the reorganization plan into effect but to strike put the controversial sections giving’ l more power to the chairman. , The plan's critics, including for- , mer President Hoover, had warned . that this extra authority might be . a step toward military dictatorship. The committee’s recommenda- . tiou is not binding on the house t but will be influential. As a re- . serve weapon the committee voted . to take up Wednesday, if necessary, a resolution to kill the. re- > organization plan outright. t Ordinarily a presidential plan jo ( shake 'up one of the government , agencies is not subjedt to amendment. Under a general reorganisation law it goes into effect automatically unless vetoed by an absolute majority of house or senate. Today’s action was a parliament(ary maneuver to get around this provision of the law’. The committee does not object io most of the defense plans. It does object strongly to the joint chiefs featutds. x To strengthen its hand in the unusual move to amend the plan, the committee acted on two separate measures —a resolution by chairman Clare E. Hoffman R-Mich. and a bill by Rep. Robert L. Condon D-Calif. Either, if approved by and senate and signed by the President, would put in effect all provisions of fbe President’s plan except those relating to the chairman of the joint chiefs. Either can be passed by a simple majority. A majority of the committee’s (Tan To Pace ■!*) Resurfacing Work To Continue In County . Continue Work On State Roads Here Resurfacing work on state roads in Adams county will continue this week. True Andrews, sub-dis-trict highway superintendent said today. Main street in Berne, which is state road 118,,wi1l be resurfaced with the identical material used in Decatur’s business I section. The resurfacing job in Bernewill start Wednesday morning, Andrews said. Harry “Peck" Essex, Decatur, member of the state highway commission, said that the Berne job would extend from the east corporation limits west to U. S. highway 27. ' A coat of black-top also will be placed on state road 118 from U. S. 227 west to the bridge at Linn Grove. This work will start Wednesday, and will be done by state employes with rented equipment. The Berne project is on contract •with Meshberger Stone Cbi It also was announced that work' already had started by highway employes on the laying of a hard surfaced mat on state road 124 from state road 1 east through Wells county to the county line. Two methods are being used by the state, it was explained, in the resurfacing work. In some instances private equipment is leased by the state and state employes do the work. This usually is the case when a lighter material is used. On heavy traffic roads, like city streets, the work usually is let by the commission on contract.

Rosenbergs Buried Sunday Afternoon Huge Crowd Jams Brooklyn Streets NEW YORK UP —Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were buried Side by side in tr common grave Sunday after a funeral service in which they were eulogized as “martyrs” by the lawyer who Died for two years to save I'.mm from death in ;he electric chair. \ A cm cd estimated by police at 10,000 j?n.a street in front of the Brooklyn mortuary where Jew.ish funeral r’tes were conducted for the husband-wife spy team whose career in atomic espionage came to an ignominous end Friday night at. Sing Sing prison. r Mourners hissed a rabbi who urged them to “bear no grudge” against the government thet sent the Rosenbergs to their doom. They ' sat in silehce while defense attorney Emanuel Bloch denounced President Eisenhower as a “military dictator garbed in civilian attire” who was responsible for the “murder” of the couple. Scores of policemen held back crowds of sympathizers and curi-osity-seekers at the funeral home and at Wellwood cemetery on Long Island where thq spies were buried. No serious incidents were reported. The national committee to se- > cure justice in the Rosenberg Case, which conducted a fervent publicity and fund-raisfag campaign during the Rosenberg prosecution, handled arrangements for the funeial. Admission was limited to 50G ticket-holders. A press section had beer, set aside, and loudspeakers were installjJ to carry the wor4s of speakers to the crowd outside. Police forbade use of the loudspeaker's, however, because a permit had not been obtained. Au estimated 10.000 persons filed past the white-shrouded bodies from 9 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday in tire funeral parlor. Mrs. Sophie R’senberg, mother, of Julius, who last visited him at the Sing Sing death house last Wednesday, collapsed twice at the funeral nailing “my baby, my I baby .. .” , [ I . ■Mrs. Tessie! Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg’s mother, was not there. She .has been in seclusion since the, Rosenbergs - were electrocuted for giving 17. 3. atomic secrets to Russia. , The Rosenberg children, Michael, 10, and Robert, 6, did not attend Jhe funeral. Bloch, who carried his legal struggle for the Rosenbergs to the supreme court and the White House, delivered a|i impassioned eulogy. / . He denounced the execution as “an act of cold deliberate' murder.” “I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door of President Eisenhower, attorney general (Tara Ta »»■«. six) Frank McGath Dies At Missouri Home Father Os Monroe Lady Dies Friday Frank McGrath, 73, father of Mrs. Albert Coppess of Monroe, died Friday at his home in Salem, Mo., after a stroke suffered the > previous day. _ _ He was bora in Spencerville, 0., Dec. 26. 1879, a son of Joseph and Mary Keith-McGrath, and was mar- , ried to Myrtle Miller Dec. 25, 1902. Mr. McGrath, who had been ill several years, was a retired drilling contractor. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and was a member of the I. O. :O. F. lodge and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are the wife and two daughters, Mrs. Coppess and Mrs. Ray t*. Hughes of Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services were held at Salem Sunday, and the body is enroute here for burial in tbe Decatur cemetery, with the Zwick funeral home in charge.

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General Clark Says Signing Up To Reds ■ ' ■ \ ? U. N. Commander \ . ; Holds. Conference With Sygnman Rhee ■» SEOUL, Korea UP—-Gen. Mark ?W. Clark said today he was authorized to sign aKorean truce with or without South Korea and was to h,ave so informed President Syngman Rhee in a se:cret, 70-minute conference. Clark told newsmen after his meeting with Rhee that the signing of a truce “depends on /he r Communists.’’ He added that its success “would depend on the of co-operation received {from tbe Koreans.” ' ■f Sources close to Clark in Seoul ; und Tokyo said he did hot deliver any kind of “ultimatum” to the rebellious Rhee, but he dld seek a. |firni statement |rom the president jon what he intended to do aftar tan armistice was signed. | Clark apparently did not receive • r an answer today. Instead of re-| : to his Tokyo headquart- ■ 'ers, the U. N. commander remain- • ed overnight at eighth army head- ■ quarters. | • He said he “probably” would • f meet again with Rb«« Tuesday. Rhee called his cabinet minist- • ers and top military leaders into session immediately after Clark’s ' visit Korean sources, usually willing <o “leak” information on Such cohferences, professed to have no information on the meeting. Clark and Rhee talked alone in the presidential mansion. Clark told newsmen the next meeting with the Communists will ye held after he answers their questions pn Rhee’s unauthorized release of some 26.000 apti-R.eq ‘Nlirth Korean prisoners. > The, Communists have demanded the recapture of all of the prisJ oners as a prelude to the hrmistice signing. 'I Clark said he had “a friendly and i encouraging conversation” with Rhee, and although he warned against undue optimism, he indicated the talk had eased some of the tension between Rhee and the U. N. Fqreign minister Pyun Yung Tae. however, sajd in an interview, that South Korea was “prepared for the worst” arid reader to figlit for Korean unity after an armistice. • Clark said that one of the subjects he and Rhepi discussed was the reissuing of Instructions to prevent any clashes between South Korean and other U. N. troops. ’y’ The U. N. commander said he and Rhee had discussed the possibility that Rhee might withdraw from the U. N. command in the event of an armistice but that Rhee had promised to inform him ip advance. • That time has not come,” V T» Pace Kt«bt) Decatur Firemen Water Ball Champs The Decatur volunteer fire department’s water ball team won the state championship fpom 18 ’other volunteer department teams at the state contest held Saturday in connection wtih the annual state convention at Rensselaer. The lopal team, composed of Russell Baumgartner, Joe Mcßride, chief Cedriq Fisher and Ed Hurst defeated thri' Chesterton team in the final contest, after winning all preliminary scraps. Several members of the Decatur department attended the 'state meeting, which was held at St. Joseph’s college at Rensselaer. The athletic events were held ori the campus of that'college. It was the first time the Rensselaer volunteer, fire department was host to the state organization and several hundred members and delegates attended the sessions.