Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol.’Ll. No. 156.

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Report Russia Sending Tanks On To Poland Recall Reports Os Growing Unrest In Satellite Poland BERLIN UP —The Russians are rushing tanks eastward across Soviet Germany “to maintain internal order in Poland.” it was reported today. The official U. S. occupation newspaper Neue Zeitung said "a great number” of the 700 tanks massed in Berlin to crush last month’s workers’ revolt have been rushed to the “Polish border ' area.” Allied officials said an undisclosed number of tanks headed eastward out of Red Berlin before! dawn Thursday. The Neue Zeitung story recalled redent reports that widespread anti-Oommunisft uprisings exploded in Red Poland op< June 17, the same day that the German rebellion against Red ,rule began. Poles have been reported fighting Soviet and local Communist troops in at least six cities in former East German territories handed over to Poland at the end! of World War II to compensate for the vast areas of pastern Poland * annexed by Russia. Press reports here said the angry Poises stormed state - owned food stores, ripped down Communist propaganda posters, and tore up rails on the main Berlin-to-Warsaw railway line at several points. Today's Neue Zeitung story, quoting “Polish underground sources,’! said the Russians are creating a “zone of death” along Poland's eastern border —a lane nearly 3,000 feet wide, cleared of all trees and undergrowth and patrolled day and night by Soviet \ troops with savage dogs. The newspaper knew of no reason for the drastic border measures. It was reported earlier that brutal Communist guards » have slain at least eight prisoners: including a young mother, in new Nazi style concentration camps set up to house Germans seized during the revolt. Refugees who escaped from the Red prison, pens said three such camps have been set up in Soviet Berlin alone, one in an old slaughterhouse. It was there that triggerhappy Communist tommygunners shot down their eight known victims. . The killing of the captive mother orphaned two small children. "Many others were wounded by , the guards” one refu- / gee said. . 1 / “They fired at the slightest provocation — when somebody got up from the straw mattresses they made us lie on.” No one could say how many new concentration camps had been set up to house the 50,000 Germans arrested during the revolt. Soviet firing squads have shot down at least 80 prisoners, including 18 Russian soldiers, and uncounted other anti-Communists were slain - (Tara Te Slsl

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Second Man Is Held For Armed Robbery Local Man's Brother/ Held At Fort Wayne \ Richard E. Clpsson, 22, brother of Herbert j.~Ciosson, Decatur, detained in Fprt Wayne for his admitted part iiTaiji armed robbery in Fort Wayne Tuesday night of a gas station, has been apprehended I in South Bend. The fait that the jjair are in the hande of the law within two days of > of a money ibag with! $675j at the point of a gun is dire to the quick wits of a ■woman who, l>y chance, thought something was suspicious Tuesday night when ’ Herbert’s accomplice, allegedly Riqhard, dashed back to the car after the holdup. She reportedly heard one of the men say. ‘‘what the • } • took you so long, ’ and the pair Is ped away. The womai| took the license number down and, after reading about the holdup in the papers thie next morning, told police of her suspicions and the number. Fort Wayne police called Decatur for a check on the number and the car was identified. Traveling to Decatur, two Fort Wayne 1 detectives requested and got.the aid of sheriff Bob Shrataka who lent basic aid in finding the whereabouts of Herbert Closson the night before and other invaluable data? Detective captain Mitchell Cleveland, questioning Closson last night, said an armed charge would be lodged against Richard .in connection wiih the Marathon stickup. Cleveland said $45 was found on Richard. He said Richaird put $145 down on a used car. Combined with the sll9 found in Decatur yesterday in a receipts bag of Closson belonging to his epxployer here, the amount now totals $318.* “Richard iig reported nbt talking.”. Ulosson is being held under $lO,000 Ixmd on a temporary charge of loitering, and is on parole. Richard was convictied of burgl&ry 11 ■ Fort Wayne in 1950 and received a suspended sentence. Rites Sunday For Drowning Victim Funeral services will be held at 2 p. im. Sunday at the Yager funeral home for Fred Brough, Jr., of Ceylon, *-»who was drowned Tuesday evening during a storm in Michigan. The Berne American Legion post will conduct military rites at the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Saturday. He is survived by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frpd Brough. Sr., and four sisters, including Mrs. Cloyd Hamrick of near Decatur and Mrs. Delmar Girod of near Monroe. Brough’s Charles Ross. 17, is missing and efforts are continuing to recover his body. Noon Edition

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Brownell Says/ No Knowledge Os Spy List No Secret List Os Communist Spies, Brownell Reports \ I / WASHINGTON UP — Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. said today he ha s “no knowledge" of a secret list of Communist spies which Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy says 'President Truman received in 1945. 'McCarthy said Tuesday that the list contained the names of about 150 AnneJyican citizens who were involved in aq atomic spy ring exposed. in Canada. He said the late prime minister Mackenzie King tended the list to Mr Truman at a{ conference in 1945 and asked Brownell to ascertain whether Mr. Truman ever passe I it on to the justice department for investigation. In a letter to which the Wisconsin Republican senator made put die today, Brownell said he would try to find out ■whether anyone in the justice department knows anything about such a list. ■McCarthy said he will wait for further wqjd from Brownell before Mr. Truman to testify' beifore his senate permanejsft investigating suflicommittee oq! the matter. McCarthy tpld newsmen earlier this week he might “invite” Mr. Truman to testify about the alleged incident. , f. •Mr. Truman told newsmen at thg, tim e that he had no printable comment. | „ • Defends Investigator WASHINGTOiN UP Sen. Joseph ,R. McCarthy defended his chief investigitor today as Democrats demanded his scalp for making a “shocking and unwarranted attack against th e American clergy.” ' He didnit endorse J. B. Matthews’ controversial charge that Protestant clergymen, form “the largest single group supporting thte Communist apparatus in the United States.” " And he declared firmly that his permanent investigating subcommittee had no intention of looking into clerical subversion, an idea j that got the head of the house un-l American activities comnnitte e Into considerable hot water. s But McCarthy made it plain in a statement that he would resist a Matthews ouster move that is ex«i •pected.to com e b/stere the subcommitee next Tuesday. He Called the X group's whitehaired staff director an “outstanding authority on subversion” and a “loyal member of the Protestant faith” with theological degrees from leading seminaries. He i said Matthews had even translated the Methodist hymnal into the Malay language. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and lom humid tonight. Saturday fair.

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French. Troops Being Rushed To Cambodia ■' '■ ■ H ■ I More Independence Offered By France For Three States F ■ ■ '<• SAIGON, Indoihina,; UP —r France rushed reinforcements today to Uambodid, where King Norodom Sihanouk is threatening a ••tenfold” increase in his artnjto press a fight for treedoni from the French. Truck convoys loaded with!, enough seasoned Arab troops to! double 3 French strength in Cam-! bodia moved southward toward the remote jungle kingdom. i An official spokesman here said that Gen. Pierre Langlade, commander to Cambodia, “haa now sufficient means at his disposal to cope with any eventuality.” At the same tijne, reports from Pnom Penh, the capital of Cantv bodia, said that 50 cadets from the royal army officers’ school—> half of this year‘» graduating class—have deserted. Other official reports from t|ie Cambodian capital said that rice —the staple food of its people—has virtually disappeared from markets during the past 24 hours, creating a threat of ‘dangerous movements” among civilians <a!A ready aroused by Norodom’s threats, , Offer By Franc e * PARIS. UP — France offered the three associated states of Indochina more independence today in an attempt to end he threat that they Will break away from the French union. J / Premier Joseph Lariel the offer in notes handed to diplomatic envoys of Camb tdia, Laos and Viet Nam. The foreign office alsc announced appointment of M uirice de/ Jean, now ambassador ito Japari, as France’s new high commissioner in Indochina in another move to end the critical situation there. It was understood the notes, which Will be made public tonight, offered the three states a new deal in which remnants ,of pre-war colonial administration would be abolished and proposed a joint study of the entire Situation. ' The notes also asked the states to approve the appointment of De Jean as high commissioner. C. E. Cornthwaite | Dies last Evening | Former pecatur Man Is Taken By Death Clarence E. Cornthwaite, 65. a former Decatur Daily Democrat linotype operator, died last evening in his home in Springfield, Hl., of a heart attack. He had suffered from |a hear ailment for the past three years, i■ , ■ Word of his death was received here by his brother-in-law, Frank Kitson, Adams county additor, who left immediately for Springfield. <Mr. Cornthwaite was employed here about 30 years ago. He and his family moved to Springfield, where he was employed as a linotype operator on the Illinois State Journal, and later as a supervisor of a battery of typesetting machines In the state capital’s newspaper! office. He retired about three years ago. His wife is the former Manie Kitson of this city. Besides his widow he is survived by three daughters Who live in Springfield and one son, living in Chicago. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon in Springfield.

Okay Pay Boost B i Hospital Employes!* Tentative Approval !- To State INDIANAPODLIS UP —Jr h e Indiana budget committee *lmui,s--day stamped tentative approval bn a plan to raise pay of state dental hospital employes under aii increased appropriation voted by ttie 1953 legislature. The comniittee also tighter supervision of per>’piem payments to £ll state employes and voted some $500,0011 ip for building and expenses. f I The new salary rate requested by Gov. Craig. A stti |if $5,479,000 wa|=! appropriated jit by the general assembly, bu| fcuhget director Donald Clark said it was doubtful if the !entirbp?ttjn would be used during the biennium ending in 19"»5< fi; I Rep. Laurence D. Baker, man of the committee* saidjjaj)proval was given only for for qualified personnel, rathet! a blanket increase. • Clark said the new per d|em regulation now requires ployes submit proof they spent tT’SO dally allbtment. Ahrong other things, the new regulation requires employes to ujse overnight facjltytes of state institutions when available, or present receipted hotel b|lls with their cMms. Clark said the per diem jwMrala-' tibns were overhauled last in He said the general revision Was designed to provide a* more accurate check bri spending, which he estimated would save the: state about $35,000 yearly. ' s The committee also approved allocations including: 1. $213,430 for a service and b»ntral stores building at Indiana University Meidical Center, q-j: 2. $109,000 toward a personnel building at the :®ort Wayne State School. ' ||| R 3. sßß,47o'for operation of the|d«partment of corrections next 4. $5,704 forjcompletion of LaHue carter hospital. 5. SII,OOO for roof repairs (at Central State hospital. 6. $2,0001 to secure easemeutsfat Baer Field in Fort Wayne, where Indiana's air ! national guardfc||bt wing is to be based. Clark pointed out the new saftry (Turn Tn Pave Six) . . 1 ■' '.41- j! Believe sfy Pool ’ y Leak Is ■ 11 Nothing Definite On Pool Reopening j f There’s Rood possibility the lejik that has closed the municipal ming pool has beeh found. ||| * Thursday, Lester Mitchell, bhief engineer at the ligl'it and p<swjer plant, and Merita Johnson, a er clad in swim suits, went tci|t|s«. bottom of the pool for several hours inspecting the rutbber gasv ket around thk sewer outlet t% ! at 'was out of -place. They remoyed the grate and gasket and replaced it with a wood plug sawed fsdm a utility pole. i Almost immediately, MitchelUijeports, a two-tach stream than ijlad fbeen coming out of a tile outlet in the drain of the pool slowest to a mere trickle. Mitchell says tfie leak may stop altogether when; fhc wood plug swells tight in the diiita at the bottom 01 the pool. 4 Es, however, 1 the leak st&ps, there remains the problem jbl whether well 1 can be spaced from the city's dwindling supply to feed the pool. If it could, the pool would again be filled-to the gutters, circulation started the pool opened. All ifs, but upon which the pool depends for lits reopening. Late this morning neither Mayor John Doan or Ralph Roop could be Reached on the hpportant question. & i ' ' ’ ‘ ; I®' ’

Slash In Air j Force Fund Is Voted By House Senate Democrats Gear For Fight On Slash To Air Force By UNITED PRESS Senate Democrats today geared for a ‘‘fight to the finish” against* President Eisenhower’s controversial request to cut the air force budget by $5,000,000,000. Administration forces won a majo4victory in the house Thursday when it passed a cutback $34,434,140,500 defense spending (bill over the: opposition of most Democrats. The key vote, 230 to 141, came on an amendment to boost the air force allowance by $1,175,000,000. After that test wan out of the : way, miethlbeps passed the measure on a roil call vote, 386 to 0. h The big issue in the senate, ,as in the 1 house, .is the administration's plan tq cut air force expansion goals from 143 to 120 wings. Sen. Barnet R. Maybank D- S. C. said Senate Democrats .will ‘‘pitch to beat the hand” to give the air force enough money to keep building towards tlie 143-wing group. Other congressional news: Trade: The house and senate were headed for a hot argument today over their different of a bill to extend the reciprocal trade law. The senate in approving its version Thursday night knocked out a house provision increasing the six memlber tarriff commission to seven members, four Republicans and three jjeinu-' crats. In the past the commission has beenta bipartisan agency. 4 Clergy: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. defended his chief investigator as Democrats moved to oust him because of an article he wrote claiming Protestant clergymen form “the largest single group supt porting the Communist apparatus in the United States.”. McCarthy said J. JB. Matthew’s article Was “hardly ah attack upon the Protestant clergymen.” v ' . ♦ Statehood: .Ex-Communist Crouch whs called before the sen* ate interior committee today to tell how he helped the Coipmunisti phrty get a foothold in Hawaii: The comniittee is holding hearings on Hawaiian statehood. , . Spy list; Attorney General Her* <Twr» To Pace six) — — 91-Year-Old Woman Is Taken By Death .Quigley Funeral To Be Held On Sunday Mrs. Quigley. 91, of Monroe, didd at 1:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon the home; of her daughter, Mrs. Hubert Sprunger, one and ; one-half miles south and two miles east df Monroe. She had been 111 for the past two weeks. » Mrs. Quigley was a member of the Monrbe Friends church. Surviving in addition to the daughter are a granddaughter, Miss Opal Sprunger, and three sisters, Mira. Tom Bess and Mrs. Arley Marshall, both of Decatur, and Mrs, Notyle Smith of Liberal, Kan. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. nt. Sunday at the Sprunger residence and at 2 o’clock at the Monroe Friends church, the Rev. Vernon Riley and the Rev. Byron Leaser officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed froth the Lobenstein funeral home to the I Sprunger residence, where friends may call after 10 a. hl Saturday.

Slaughter On Stale Highways Continues Death Toll Is Nine 1J Higher Than n '52 INIMAiNiAiPOLIS UP b- Hoosiers preparing far the Fourth of July? holiday were faced wi:h sobering traffic statistics today. They showed that increased efforts by state authorities to cut the slaughter on Indiana highways wer e futile. Nine more traffic deaths were ’recorded this year than last in the January-t<hrough-June period. State police figures show that while increased patrolling has been in force and a safety campaign has begun, 550 persons died on Indiana up to July 1. ; In a comparable period last yeai; 541 were killed in traJfic accidents, iwhen enforcement action against violators was 27 per cpnt lower. ■Because of expected ijeavy traffic this week end, stgte police Supt. Frank Jessup urged private citizens to aid in developing and carrying out an effective safety program. ' “This is a challenge po one can ignore,” Jessup said. “tThe senseless slaughter is everyfbody’s concern because it involves homes, job, financial security *and hopes for the future.” v H He said * figures show June was. the worst month, with a tentative toll of IQ9 lives lost. The worst month in 1952 was May, with 124 deaths. The fewest number of victims—77 —each year were killed April. “The most troublesome months are ahead,” Jessup warned, recalling 736 persons were killed in smash-ups the latter half of 1952 to- bring the year’s death toll to 1,2d7. / : ROK's Recapture Lookout Mountain Rest Os War Front, Is Reported Quiet SEOUL, UP J- South Korean troops recaptured vital Lookout on the east-central front today and drove back attacking Chinese neats Finger Ridge on the west edge of the Bulge. ROK 3rd division infantrymen jumped off at 4 ajn. in four separate striking forces and pushed to Lookout’s crest almost 10 hours later. To the east of Lookout, which was taken earlier by the Reds in their big political offensive designed to show: the ROK’s they can’t fight alone, the Chinese tried to take the position in the Finger Rjdge area. 1 1 Th e ROK Bth division laid down barrages of withering fire and the force of 400 attacking Chinese with, drew hastily. > \ '- •Flseiwhere along the 155-mile battleline, South Koreans and Chinese maintained unofficial “little armistice” that started Thursday after 37 days of bloody fighting. Heavy cloud layers limited United Nations air strikes during the morning. But the bad | weather failed to stop night attacks by U. N. bombers. I M i . < ! f ' . • —4-j— , ( NeW Rotary Officers Installed |Thiifsd<iy|| Robert Ashbaucher, recentlyelected president, and new officers of the Decatur Rotary club assumed their duties at the. weekly meeting of the service club Thursday evening. Ashbaucher presented a past president’s pin to Harold Engle, who t , retired as president after serving for the past year.

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Say President Rhee Changing Stand On Truce American Quarters t ’ Cautious On Report Os Rhee's Change SEOUL; Korea UP — Korean sources said today President Syngman Rhee appears willing to compromise on his two major demands, which have blocked an armistice. A source dose to the 78-year old | \ president said Rhee had changed his position on pljacing a. definite 90-day time limit on a post-armi- ’ stice political conference’s work on unifying Korea. Other quarters said Rhee had became convinced that President Eisenhower coqld not guarantee quick senate ratification of a mutual security pact between the United States and itorea and therefore had dropped his demand for a pre-ar-mistice treaty. Rhee’s previous stand on these' two demands had been immovable and had resulted in mfssions to i Korea by G.en, Mark W. Clark, I Far Eastern Upited Nations commander, and assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertsqh, President Eisenhower’s personal truce envoy. The source close to Rhee said straight talking by Robertson in meetings Thursday and today had swayed Rhee into a compromise. Robertson won fthe concession from Rhee l|y dealing firmly with the rebellious South Korean leader, the source skid." In these sessions, Robertson was reported to have flatly spurned Rhee’s Remand for Un|ted States agreement to. resume the fighting in Korea if t|e political conference failed to submit a unification plan acceptable to the South 7 government. : ' I Informed sources in Washington said Thursday night the States might consider breaking oft the political conference if.the Communists deliberately stalled against reasonable plans for unifying Korea! But these informants emphasized the United States would not kowtow to Rhee and start shooting ggain just because he might happen to dislike the suggestions on thei future df Korea. The Washington sources said the United States would confer with Rhee if the Reds used stalling tactics but would not give him assurances of resuming the war. The political conference will be held at Panmuhjornl following the signing of a Korean armistice which is awaiting signature. American quarters remained cautious, however. They pointed out that Robertson was confident early in the talks that he was near agreement jWith Rhee, only to have the aged ROK president suddenly stiffen his position. Once Rhee and Robertson iron Out the minor wrinkles remaining in the political conference issue, they can turn to Rhee’s plea for guarantees of military assistance should his country be reinvaded. Rhee and Robertson met<_for an hour and five minutes this morning and at the end of the meeting the American diplomat said only that “the discussions are continuing.” —r —\' Milton Eisenhower Confers In Ecuador . QUITO, Ecuador UP — Mlltop S. Eisenhower, brother and special ■representative of the U*. S. President, says a special commission from the World Bank wiU. tome <h«re next month to study Ecuador’s economic problems and recommend means of solving them. 1 Eisenhower announced the coming visit of the ranking commission after conferring with financial, business and > agrtcultur® leaders on Ecuador’s economic difficulties. L