Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. .147.

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Living Costs At Year's High Jn Month Os May Food, Medical Care Increases Boosting U. S. Living Costs WASHINGTON UP —The cost of living hit in May, the government reported today. :•? Rising prices of food and medical care led a 0.3 of 1 per cent advance be tween mid-April and mid-Msy In prices of all _The bpreau of labor statistics said the increase put its consumers’ price index for May 15 at 114 per cent of 1947-49 prices. This was just 0.3 of 1 per cent below the alltime record set last November. The bureau said the May index was 9 per cent higher than a year ago and 12 per cent above prices , in June, 1950, just before the Korean war. " Price increases were reported for housing, clothing, reading and recreation, and personal care. Food prices rose one-half of 1 per cent, the bureau said, due mainly to a 7 per cent hike in pork prices. Lamb prices climbed 4% per cent. All housing items rose slightly, led by a 0.7 of 1 per cent increase in residential rents. Costs for household operation, including dry cleaning and laundry services, rose fractionally, while house furnishings dropped slightly due to lower costs for textiles used in the home. Medical care over the period rose 0.4 of 1 per cent as costs for group hospitalization,medical care, dental fees, and hospital rates advanced in some cities. No major labor contracts were tied to this index. Adjustments for contracts tied to the index in the auto industry are due at a different month, whiles railroad workers, ' contracts are tied to a different index to be issued later this week. The bureau also reported retail food prices continued to rise in the 10 days following May 15. This increase will show up in next month’s cost-of-living report. .

. Begin Drilling New ~ City Well Wednesday Water department crews "will begin ’ tom orow drilling a new well to alleviate the city's poor water condition, warned last week by city engineer Ralph Roop. The drilling was announced today by Mayor John Doan to be done at the northeast corner »f the property, not witnin the corporate limits of the city, but owned by the city. First Polio Death Os Year At Brazil BRAZIL, Ind., UP —This city’s first fatal infantile paralysis case of the year was reported today and city health officials said they may close down swimming pools. Dr. Richard Mehne said Francis B. Shepard, 29, died Monday night of bulbar poliomyelitis, only six hours after being stricken. His sister, Emma Shepard, 16. and a brother-in-law, Clifford Sadler, 29. were hospitalized with polio, but their condition today was “improved,” Mehne said.

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Restrictions Eased 1 On Travel In Russia Travel Regulations . Are Eased In Russia MOSCOW UP — Foreign correspondents and diplomats were permitted to travel in many formerlybanned areas of Russia today in a large-scale lifting of restrictions by the Soviet government. The new travel regulations were disclosed Monday night in a Soviet note sent to the American embassy andall foreign envoys in Russia. notification tb Soviet authanties, foreigners now may travel to many previously restricted regions,, including parts of Siberia, Central Asia, the Baltic Republics and. the Ukraine. The note skid that with the exception of certain areas in the Moscow district, foreigners were no longer confined -to a 30-mile radius from Moscow. They may travel by automobile on highways out of the capital. Restrictions were maintained in border areas ranging from Norway , to the Black Sea and in certain, other Specified cities and areas. Propaganda Move WASHINGTON UP —The ad- > ministration was thinking today about letting Soviet d i p 1 o m'a t s move about more freely in this country now that Moscow has ' eased its restrictions on foreign ' travel in Russia. Officials said the surprise action ? Monday was .Qhviausly a propa- ' ganda move, part of the current r massive Soviet effort to ease eastwest tensions.

But they welcomed it as a step toward more normal Russo-Allied diplomatic relations and a possible opportunity to see more of the mysterious lind behind the Iron Curtain. I The state department declined to comment immediately. Officials were cautious; pending a full analysis of the Soviet decision. But if it turns out to be a genuine relaxation of travel restrictions, these officials made it clear' the United States probably would also ease the curbs it .put on Soviet diplomats. | , , On March 10 last year, this country barred all Russian diplomats and nationals, except those at the United from travelling more than 25 miles from Washinging or*New York without notifying the state department. \ I According to dispatches from Moscow, the Kremlin opened up vast new areas of Russia to foreign travel and swept away many of the curbs it imposed on movements in and around the capital.

Van Grant Condition Reported Critical The condition of Van R. Grant, Rensselaer, and former Decatur resident is reported to be very critical today; Mr. Grant is the father of Mrs. Dick Heller of this city. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Wednesday except for some cloudiness and scattered thundershowers In extreme ngrth - early Wednesday. No dechfed temperature change. Low tonight 58-64 north, 64-88 south. High Wednesday ranging from near 80 in extreme north to 92 along the Ohio river.

Crop-Willing Heat Baking Southwest Majority Os Nation y j Enjoying Ideal Summer Weather •By UNITED PRESS Crop-wilting heat baked the southwest today while most of the .nation j enjoyed ideal' summer weather. ' , Cool sir from Chua da dropped the teniperatnre-to 35 degrees at Spooner, Wis., early today. By contrast, Gila Bend, AHs., recorded a high of 116 degrees Monday. Cooler weather prevailed today in the Great Lakes and MiddleAtlantic states. U. S. weather forecasters reported there were no major storm systems anywhere in the nation. Scattered showers and thunderstorms occurred during the night in Kansas, Oklahoma, southwestern Missouri, lowa, Minnesota, Montana, southern Florida and at a few points along the east coast. Wilson. N. C.. had four and onequarter inches of rain during the night in a four-hour period. The deluge blocked highways, flooded streets and damaged some homes. By contrast; the southwest was in the throes of a drought. Dust storms that had left drifts six feet deep threatened the cattle raising industry in four southwestern Colorado counties, according to a Colorado state representative. Meanwhile, the U. S. weather bureau said tornadoes were re»ported early today at Pampa, Tex., Topeka, Gage, Okla., and Scottsbluff, Neb. Twisters had been reported at Gage and Scottsbluff Monday night, but did not touch ground or do any damage. Weathermen said they did not know if this morning’s twisters touched ground or damaged property.

The Dallas weather bureau said an “instability line” spawned the twisters. Such a line is defined as a sharp atmospheric division between dissimilar air masses, in this case cool air aloft and hot ground air. _ The line extended from 40 miles east of Emporia, Kans., through Chanute, Kans., and Enid, Okla., and 40 miles south of Gage early today. It was moving eastward and southward 15 to 20 miles per hour, heading for a line through Butler. Mo., Joplin, Mo., and Hobart, Okla. Severe thunderstorms were forcast for the path of the instability line, but the danger of more twisters* was considered to be diminishing. The Southwest, principally Texas, Oklahoma and the desert states were baking in the start of theli fourth straight summer of almost uninterrupted drought. Secretary of Agriculture Earn Taft Benson announced in Washington that he had called an emer> gency for Friday io consider ways of alleviating losses of cattlemen in the area. As the heat wave ended in the northern tier of states, a death toll showed that at least 123 persons lost their lives from Friday to Monday, including 100 who drowned while trying to escape the stifling heat. There were 18 heat prostration deaths and 13 caused by lightning. Gov. Dan Thornton said he (Tara To Page nve>

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Merciless Reprisal Is Dealt On East Germany By Reds’ Guns, Courts

Four Persons Are Killed As Trains Crash Freight Train Hits Locomotive Today In California; Six Hurt MERCED, Calif., (UP) — Four persons were killed today When a speeding northbound freight train smashed into the locomotive of a southbound Santa FA passengermail train 10 miles east of here. Six persons injured. . The accident took place at Planada, Calif., about 3:45 a. m. when the freight train collided with the passenger train at the siding. More than 125 feet of track was torn up. One of the dead was identified as K, A. Roberts, Richmond, Cal,, engineer of the passenger train. His body was pinned under his overturned Diesel ’ locomotive. D. C. Curnutte, 40, Calwa, Cal., fireman on the freight, died in a Merced hospital. The third victim was identified tentatively as Natolio Pacios, 23, a Mexican who was riding in a flat ear. The fourth victim was unidentified. Tie was buried under lone of sheetrock spilled from the car bf the force of the impact. Dean Quantance. 23, Oakland, Cal., a brakeman on the freight’ told authorities he saw the Diesel bearing down on his train and jumped. He suffered minor injuries. “That passenger Diesel looked like the biggest thing in the world from where I stood,” Quantance added. ? \ Four other persons hospitalized were described as Mexican national farm workers, illegally ip the United States. They were riding* in the freight cars. Sheriff's deputies said the passenger train was on a siding with the nose of the locomotive apparently protuding a few feet onto the main line. \ Z' As the northbound freight passed, it threw the passenger locomotive onto its right side. The power unfit immediately behind \was tipped over at a 45-degree angle. The mail and passenger cars remained upright.

To Improve Traffic Directions At Light Channeling Lines At Monroe And Second iMuch attention has been shown Decatur in the last two weeks by the state highway department; and the end’s not yet in sight. \ A detachment from the Bluffton state highway garage today painted lines in and around the city's main intersection, Monroe and Second, and it has been Announced that a step will be taken to make the corner safer. 'First, channeling lines are being painted 150 feet from the southwest corner to the intersection and from the northeast corner to the intersection for thesame distance. This is being done to lead traffic making a right turn into the lane closest right and to keep those going straight ahead 'n the center. ■ln addition to this, a “safety diamond” is to be painted in the intersection itself to guide vehicles making any turns. It is designed so that there would be no confusion no matter in-which direction the driver wants to go. Traffic will have to be halted for a time and police chief James (Borders said he would announce trdrivers when traffic wbuld be rout ed alway from the crossing. . <A highway department worker on the job today said the diamond idea was tried in Huntington with great success and should have a good effect on traffickers.

thousands To Lose Civil Service Rank Order Expected By Pres. Eisenhowerp 1 ■ i W ; ■ WASHINGTON UP -4 Government personnel experts sikidv today thousands of high-salaried federal Workers will lose civil sejptiie job protection under a forthcoming order of President Elsenhower. The order is the latest; ktep in the*tnew administration's to “clean house” by oustinoft>emocratie holdovers from ksy jobs. Mr. Eisenhower has already jtaken one long step in this direction, by removing all policy-making.i jobs from civil service coverage. The new order, which qivlllservip. commission chalrmaif, Philip S. Young said Mr. Eisenhower will issue in a day or. so, wiir jipply to so-called ‘‘Schedule A” for which no civil service Examinations are required. | i Not all of the 134.000 “Schedule A” jobholders now have J civil service status. Former President Truman in 1947 extended civil Service coverage to those ’’’Sjphed•le A” jobholders who hadi previously held regular caritfer [civil service positions. What Mr. Elsenhower to do is simply rescind this prefer. pYowig said in annountilfE the plan Monday that It was pletely unreasonable, - nequity” tor Mr. Truman l give workers In these jobs the same protection against being fired as federal employes who gqj [fhelr jobs after a competitive eixathination. a j| Under the contemplated;! order, heads of government be able to remove such eHirdpyes from their posts withdu|| filing charges and ’permitting ■ Al l|; Firsl Safety Winner - ' 1-r ■< Wins $5 Award For Safe Driving Her|? 11 Al Brushwiller, of 803 f North Second street, happily picketed a >5 Chicago Motor Club chpck todajk after it was proved |o ,h.im that 30 years of careful, courteous driving can pay off in mor| ways than one. 1 < | Al is 60 years old ancbha<B been a licensed- driver for 30 Cjwtrs, never, he said, having gotten into an accident. i | Harley Lehman, a judgft fcas cruising the streets yesterday', on the lookout for a safe driver, >nd one who did a little mord than was required of him. He picked up Al a little bit south lof the Monroe-Second intersection and trailed him to the main crossing. Lehman said he observed willer didn’t sjieed oft whqn* the lights turned with him, bust Waited patiently for the “people, <eaught on the streets when the flights changed, to get to the sidewalks. Stopping the on Second street a bit further down. Lehman gave him the happjrlnews ’that Al might be the provided he had a license. Hte .did and he is. ’ x | ■ Al came into the Daily pemocrat office this morning lor pick up his check and admitted {rankly he was /kind of anxious <When he was stopped and wondefed to himself what business this guy had stopping him. The f|o#nß noon" disappeared when Lehipah told him to go get his checkt ‘ Al, operator of ’Decatur Tailqrs, .155 South Second, says he giyes the credit for his good drivipgvto the fellow who taught him in the old Model **T” » long time back. He said the teacher told hfi» { tQ always mind the fellow in front of him. Al added a rule tb >ild own that guides him when on the Toad: **f always try to consider the other person.”

Rhee Continues To Balk At UN Armistice Plan Eisenhower Sends Personal Envoy To Make Offer To Rhee SEOUL, Korea, Wednesday UP — A personal envoy of President Eisenhower flew toward Korea toan offer -of miliary 4uppor£ which’, It was hoped, might soften the bitter opposition of Korean President Syngman Rhee to an armistice. Assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertson is expected to arrive in Tokyo late today—unless his plane heads directly for Seoul —in an attempt to . bring Rhee into line. Army chief of staff Gen. J. Lawton Collins is with him. I A United Nations source said Robertson has been authorized by the President to guarantee continued United Nations military support to South Korea during an armistice and in the event the war is resumed. Still defiant, Rhee said Tuesday, his army will “fight alone” it an unacceptable truce is signed and warned his troops XvllU fight'any Indian soldiers brought here to guard anti-Communist war prisoners. The 78-year-old Rhee made it clear in two public statements and at a 15-mlnute meeting with Get). MaitW. .Clark that South Korea's “final” decision was to continue the fight against the Communists. Rhee also gave Clark a threepoint armistice plan that\ would remove Chinese Communist, troops from North Korea, giye Rhee j a mutual security pact with the United States, and limit a postwar political conference in Korea to three months. He told Clark at the presidential palace in a remarkably friendly meeting that his decision to Reject the current agreement between the United Nations and Communists is unchanged. Clark flew back to Tokyo shortly afterward, giving Rhee a cordial back-slap before getting on the plane. Rhee denied reports Clark had handed him an ultimatum during

a 70-minute meeting Monday and the brief encounter today. “It would be more correct to say I delivered the ultimatum,” Rhee said. United Nations officials - and eighth army officers appeared convinced the rebellious Rhee actually would not send his 400,006man army against 1,000,000 Chln(T»r»T« pa«» KtahO ■ ■?* ■ I

Mrs. Sarah Banter Dies Monday Night V \ Decatur Resident Is Taken By Death Mrs. Sarah Jane Banter, 78, ot 317 West Oak street, died at 9:15 o’clock Monday night at the Davis nursing home, south of Bluffton, following an . illness of several months. She was born in Wells county Sept. 29, 1874, a daughter of Horace and Nancy Elizabeth Speece-Perryf and was married to Samuel Banter Dec. 18, 1890. Her husband died April 1. 1935. Mrs. Banter, who had resided in Decatur for the past 12 yea,fs, was a member of the Christian church at Hartford City. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Meldren Kreps of Decatur; two grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Two children and one sister preceded her in death. The body was removed to the Black funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Plan Three Rooms At Lincoln School To Partition Part Os Large Assembly Plans for addition of three new rooms at Lincoln school,, each accommodating up to 35 pupils, ready for occupancy by September, were approved by 'the Deca i tur school board Monday nighs and announced today by tendeht W. \Guy Brown. The rooms, each with ample lighting and heating facilities, wil| be made by partitioning off part of the large assembly room at thd Lincoln building. The three rooms, will occupy the. north half of the auditorium ana the* northeast room will be sipped in Such a manner that use of the stage by the smaller auditorium will not, be lessened. Each will have an entire side of windows. Money is available for the conversion and all construction will ;be done on a time and material basis. No general contract will be let. Plans for the conversion were prepared by Oscar -Hoffman. Detroit architect and former Decatur resident, who also prepared the original plans for construction, of the Lincoln school. » It is estimated, that the erection 1 of the partitions and material cost will be approximately Sl.aiX'. There WIFI be some additional cost' for improvement of the present ventilating, heating and lighting, it was said. Superintendent Brown and principal Bryce Thomas, of Lincoln school, met with the board last night and principal Thomas also approved the plans to provide for additional pupils. Work will start in the next few weeks and all work will he completed before the fall semester of school starts, superintendent Brown said. , It is believed that th© addition of three rooms will greatly relieve the elementary school problem, at I least temporarily. The school board still plans to use the public i library auditorium for class i rooms.

Refuses To Subpena High Court Juslice House Committee Refuses Subpena UP — The house judiciary committee today refused to supreme court justice Toni C. Clark, to testify before its investigating subcommittee. Chairman Chauncey W. r Reed R--111. said he was not at Bberty to reveal the vote. It was reported that the subpena was rejected by 25 to 5. Clark last week declined an “invitation” to testify. He said his appearance would be contrary to the principle of separation of judicial and congressional functions. Chairman Kepneth R. Keating R-N. Y. of the subcomnyttee investigating the justice department then asked that Clark be “compelled” to appear and r defend his record as attorney general from 1945 through 1949.' He made It clear to reporters that he was displeased -by the outcome. “It seems to me unthinkable that Justice Clark shoulcj again escape from- being required to give an accounting of his stewardship,” he gaid. Reed, said a “variety of reasons” were given in rejecting the aubpena. “Some feared if it came up ih the house it would be decided on a partisan basis rather than on ite merits.” Reed said another reason given in voting against the subpena was that it might establish a “practice” that would be regretted later on. He said he saw “no reason” now whr the Keating ! subcommittee should be continued beyond its June 30 expiration date. Reed and Keating said that nearevesne. We nme Mt*

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Red Execution Squads, Courts Make Reprisals All West Germany i f In Mourning State On Red Reprisals BERLIN UP — Russian exequ- - tion squads and Communist counts dealt out merciless reprisal todgy for East Germany’s June 17 uprising) while all West Germany went into an official state of mourning. . . West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew to Berlin from Boiin to address a mass meeting at Berlin city hall and to pledge “we shall not rest” until the entire German people “have freedom ©gain.” < , Flags throughout West Germany flew at half staff. The Communists disclosed that a second East German had been executed as a' ringleader in last week’s bloody revolt —this time at Jena., scene of some of the wildest rioting in the Soviet zone. . Eight cozens of West gertin were known dead and at leait 218 others weVe missing as result of ! the revolt Which exploded first in * Soviet-run East Berlin and spread ‘ to the entire Soviet zone op ' L Russian burp guns sounded again in East Berlin Monday night. In West Berlin, an angry mob sacked the fourth Communist party office since last Wednesday. From at least seven other East German cities came continuing, reports of clashes between ragged East German workers and Russian tanks and troops. In the uneven J struggle, the demonstrators hurled bricks and stones at the tanks which in turn fired at point blank range, \ Twenty-five were reported killed n Leipzig alone where some of She demonstrators were crushed beneath the tank treads. Throughout the entire seething tone, Russian reprisals were swift’ and harsh. ’ Five, persons were reported ex|ecuted at Magdeburg. The Communist press revealed prison sentences for four in East' Berlin loday, and a fifth—Willi Goettling—was known to havs been executed by a firing squad.; Rioting and bloodshed were reported frdm Magdeburg, Unterwel-

lenborn Quedlinburg, Merseburg, Leipzig, Thale and Shierke. Eight coffins rested side by side on the West Berlin city hall steps today as Adenauer “a 'solemn oath on behalf of the whole r German people” not to rest until the Soviet Zone’s 18,000,000 people are freed and Germany is united again. Seven of the coffins contained the bodies of Berliners who died in West Berlin hospitals. \ The eighth was empty, symbolic of Willie Goettling. \ "The entire German people be-, hind the Iron Curtain appeal to us not to forget them,” Adenauer told a mass meeting which attracted up to- 100,000 West Berliners, The meeting was led by West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter. The West Berlin newspaper Telegraf estimated tl>at by Sunday evening 4,000 had been arrested in East Berlin and 12,000 in the Soviet Zone. g It said that’ the mayor of the ' Soviet Zone town of Doebernitz had been executed by a firings squpd for striking down a Com(Tara Ta Pace Sevea)

Swedish Commission Enroute To Tokyo STOCKHOLM, Sweden. UP — Sweden; striking the first sweet note in the Korean armistice discord, said ; her truce commission team wxiuld leave by plane today for Tokyo. : The government announced 15 officers, five interpreters and a load of equipment would leave Brom ma airport outside the city aboard a U. S. military transport plane.