Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 157.

East Germans In Threat Os New Uprising Promise To Avenge Workers Killed By - Reds In Rebellion . fiERLTN UP — Anti-Commu-nist East Germans have promised “blood for blood” to avenge workers whb fell before Russian and Communist German guns in the revolt against the Red rulers of the Soviet-occupied tone, underground sources reported today. The' threats of new uprisings came as thousands of workers were reported to be continuing defiance of Red army 'tanks and combat troops with strikes and o’her anticommunist .demonstrations.** The “information bureau West.” ' a private intelligence organization based in West Berlin, said that the walls of public buildings throughout East Germany have been plastered with such signs as "blood for blood” and “We will rise again.” The bureau, which gathers widerground news about Communist Germany, is considered reliable. Reports of continued resistance against the Communist authorities also came from the bureau. it said flash strikes over the weekend shut down the vast Carl Zeiss optical factory in Jena, as well as many other plants through'out Red Germany. Soviet tanks* occupied) the Zeiss factory when the entire labor force walked out to enforce demands for the release of 900 fellow workers arrested during the June 17 rebellion. the bureau said. In Magdeburg, where the Reds had executed 18 Russian soldiers for disobedience, it said workers at the Salbke factory struck for four hours and forced authorities to meet their demands For the dissolution of the plant's Communistdominated Works Council. . The new reports of continued unrest were seen here as an indication that the millions of workers who sought to throw off the;, yoke of Cortmunism- June 17 have not been appeased by government concession's and efforts to return to noiimalcy.. _ West Berlin Lord Mayor Ernest. Reuter accused the Communist authorities Sunday night of resortingto Nazi style torture methods in their attempts to crush popular resistance. Latest concessions by the East German government included the release from jail of 7,753 Germans who had been held for "economic crimes.” The East German press office announced that the Red government “is examining the question of whether normal traffic can be restored again.” The \Reds increased from four to nine the number of crossing points Betliners with special passes may use to cross the East-West city border. Gates 4th District Legion Commander Columbia City Man Elected Commander James K. Staley, former Adams Post commander of this city and the Rev. Otto C. Busse of Preble, * former chaplain of the Indiana daVpartment of the American Legion, were elected fourth district delegates to the national Legion convention in St. Ijouis, Aug. 30. < ’Robert <E. Gates of Cojwmbia City, was elected fourth district 'commander in a meeting of the 34 district posts (held in over the weekend. He will succeed Charles C. Fraze Os Albion and assume odfice at the state Legion convention in Indianapolis, July 27. Other district delegates besides Gates, Fraze and the two local men are: Robert Gaskill, Arthur Wilkie, Harold Knobloch and Samuel P. Jones, all of Fort Wayne* .Lee Hrisch and Emory Boyd of Angola; Howard Tibbals, Garett and Harold Kryder of G rarbill. Gates 4s the son of former governor Ralph F. Gates and is associated with his father in the practice of law. Gov. Gates served as district commander in 19-29-30 and as Indiana commander in 193132. ( INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloudy south portion tonight and Tuesday. Local thundershowers extreme south this afternoon or tonight Cooler north and .central tonight Low tonight 60-55 north, 65-72 south. High Tuesday 80-86 north, 8590 south.

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Texans Pray For Rain ; f ' '*** wlyw ■'* i I bi K! WITH ALL THAT IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE hejng dope to relieve qi ought parched Texas, Gov. Allan Shivers set aside Sunday, July ath, as a day of prayer for rain. Hundreds of thousands of Texans, *.. ® Cyclone Davis of Dallas, shown here praying in a sun-parched field, kn£h to ask divine aid.

Oil Companies Deny Collusion In Price Hike Four Os Major Oil ? Companies Testify To Congressmen By i UNITED PRESS Four mgjor oil companies told congressman today they acted independently and nbt in collusion in hiking oil and gasoline prices. The four companies maintained that the price increase, as niuch as three cents a gallon of gas in some areas, were long overdue, i 1 The cohipanies’ representatives .claiined the increases were necessary to spur production vital to national defense. Their defense was laid before the house icomtuerce committee. It is investigating charges that the recent series Os increases involved f between the big oil companies? T. S. Petsrsoiv president of Standard Oil of California, told the comrqitteb. “I wish to say emphatically that niy company’s price decisions' 10ve been independently made!” J That was about the tenor of the statements from representatives of Phillips petroleum jCo., SoconyVacuunr Oil Co; and Esso-Standard Oil Cq'. T ‘ ? .■

Droughts-Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson urged speed in authorizing a vast program of emergency; loans to farmers and lanchers in Southwestern drought areas. He said there is a need for einergenc.v credit and it is the adininiijtfation’g hope the program will be “with a minimum of abuse and a maximum Os help.” Security^— Rohgrt L. Condon D-Cal;if. disclosed Tfiat he had been Harrod from witnessing atomic tests i:> n Nevada in May on grounds hb Wafe a security risk. He said hb tjnderstands. he now has been “cleared*:’ for? witnessing future atoipic 'tests. He said the against him —of associating with '(Communists or Commu-nist-sympathizers—were old “fabrications.” |He said he is not and never has; beep a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. Condon won the silver star,-for gallantry in action In World War 11. Pay-off-4-Sen. William Langer R-N. D. complained that some (Tarn To Pace Two) Charles Ross Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon for Charles Ross. 17, of Ceylon. Who was drowned last Tuesday when a boat overturned on a Michigan lake. Ross’ body was recovered Saturday. Services were iheld at the Yager funeral home, with ft burial in Riverside cemetery near Geneva. Services were held Sunday for Fred Brough, Jr:, 27, of Ceylon, who was also drowned when the boat be and Ross occupied was upset during a heavy wind; squall.

Slight Damage Done At City Plant Fire Combustion Fire In Giant Coal Hopper Decatur and Adams county enjoyed ft docile weekend, as far as accidents on the highways go, but fire at the municipal light and power plant here marred the otherwise good record. . About 15 regulars and volunteers answered a call at the plant at 5:15 a. m. Sunday when a spontaneous Combustion fire in the giant coal hopper set fire to a motor and fixtures, on the top of the hopper on the fourth floor. Fire chief Cedric Fisher ascertained the fire’s cause after he and his crew battled choking fumes in the close, hot stairway to get! to -the source of the flames. Light and power chief L. C. Pettibone estimated damage at about S2OO, $75 of it for rewinding' of the damaged motor. ■Chief engineer Lester Mitchell said coal take'n from the stockpile ;ad gotten hot due to the elow ate at which it was being.fed into the furnace, and finally reached the kindling point. Mitchell said ordinarily all safeguards are taken against spontaneous combustion by spraying down coal with water. Chief Fisher and his firemen said they withdrew from the scene within an hour of the call. County 4-H Meeting Here On Wednesday !. To Hold Meeting At ' Decatur High School \ n’ ■ ' b • -[ '• ''o ■ ■ [The program for the county 4-H meeting and demonstrations, to be held at the Decatur high school Wednesday, was announced today. The meeting will be held in the high school music room, instead of at the Lincoln school, as originally planned. The change was necessitated because of the remodeling program underway at the Lincoln school. The,program follows: 9 a. ni;—Call,to order, Alice IStuber. \of junior 4-H leaders; pledge to flag, 4-H pledge, group singing, introduction of committees for judging contests; special feature, “candles for all occasions,” Alice Joan Sprunger, Monroe Boosters club. Judging will then begin on the following demonstrations; baking, Carol Weaver, Geneva Cloveriblossom; Sunday dessert, Helen Rumple, Jefferson Work & Win; measuring and turning a hem, Joan Halberstadt and Judy Bollenbacher, St. Mary’s Kektonga; special feature; butterscotch pie filling, Mary Myers and Ruth Sipe, Blue Creek Up & At It; how can you save your health, Colleen Egly. Jefferson. Work & Win; baking] Beverly Fenstermaker, Geneva Clo verbi ossom. The afternoon session will open at 1 o’clock with group singing. Judging will be made of the fol- - <Tura To Page Two)

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Decatur, Monday, July 6, 1953.

Eighth Army Prepares Withdrawal Os Troops From Front In Korea ! I tit:. ‘ *>. . ■ i i

At Least 271 Persons Die In July 4 Traffic Half Os Deaths In Last-Minute Rush To Return Home By UNITED PRESS Traffic accidents killed 271 persons during the Fourth of Jply week end, more than half of them in the Jast 14 hours of the holiday period when motorists Webe rushing to get home. A final tally today showed that 133 persons drowned during the period from 6 p.m. Friday until midnight Sunday. Plant crashes killed three 'persons and 53 died in miscellaneous mishaps. Fireworks killed one person and injured scores. The overall total of violent deaths was 461. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the national safety council, said the number of traffic deaths doubled in the last fourth of the holiday period. He said this “was a tragic comnientary on what impatience and fatigue can do to mass motoring in the big homeward push that closes a holiday." < The council had issued a preholiday estimate that 290 persons would be killed, and revised its estimate to 215 Sunday morning on the basis of the rate at that time. h: Deaths from , injuries suffered during the week end probably will boost the Independence Day traffic toll to more than 300. At Lancaster, -Ky., seven persons suffered fatal injuries and three, others were injured seriously in a head-on collision between two automobiles. Three persons were killed and. five seriously Injured in an auto accident near Sisseton, * ■>- • ■ «n The single fireworks fatality occurred at Willows, Calif., during a supposedly safe, display. Edward Nolta, 15. was killed when a dyd aerial bomb struck him in the head. Other “duds;” left by community fireworks displays were picked up by a 13-year-old Auburn, Me., boy and a 12-year-old boy at Medford, Ind. Both exploded, ripping off the first youth’s right hand and mangling the Indiana boy's left hand and tearing off a thumb. Robert Petroff, 16, of Belqit, Wis., tried to manufacture makeshift flares by mixing gunpowder with his chemistry set. The mlx(Tum To Pace TMree) Wilhelmina Wente Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon 'Mrs. Wilhelmina Wente, 92, a former resident of Preble township. died at 7:15 o’clock Saturday evening at her home. 1026 Eckart street. Fort Wayne. Although she had been in failing health for four months, her death was unexpected. 'She was born in Hanover, Germany, Aug. 3, 1860. a daughter of, Henry and Dorthea Balte-Dreips, and wis married to Christian Wente in 1880. Her husband died in 1914. Mrs. Wente moved to Fort Wayne 26 years ago. Mrs. Wente was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Fort Wayne. , Surviving are two daughters, Misses Emma and Minnie Wente. both of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchil-dren. One son, preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Zion church at Friedheim, the Rev. Paul L. Dannenfeldt officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral (home until time of the services. -

Holiday Death Tdi i (s' Win j I Only Nine Traffic Deaths On Holiday By UNITED j A Indiana motorists upset (|ne experts during the holiday Weekend ka Hoosier traffic deaths, by two double fatalities, were to nine. Three other persons died-j? miscellaneous mishaps. But; • there Were np drownings reported; a type of accident which rirnnklly a heavy summer Fair w'eather lured thousands to traditional July Fourth Despite crowded i however, thC death toll was bel(|w last year’s 15. n State police were out full force in an effort to keeps in line and attend to the gr|tn task of investigating highway tjrkshes. The v woltpacks” miles in 50 counties, but < 9-97 .troopers encountered no fat,als, although they investigated Occidents and handed out 707** arrest and warning tickets. !J > Even state police Supt.! Frank A. Jessup joined in patrol duties, flying over hundreds of rti ilea of highways seeking trouble spots •nd coordinating the work Jof the "wolfpacks.” , Among the victims wereffThomas Ray Taylor, 18. and Pit Jbhn Sampson Fields. 20. both ofc Montpelier. State police said tihelr car, driven by Fields, went out‘lf Control on a curve on Indiana j 303 south of Montpelier and sthtck a tree. Another, multiple fatalitylclaimed the lives of Willard Laurence. 28, Bloomington, and Sexton, 27, Indianapolis. Thejf were killed when kheir can hit a fjarked truck west of Bloomington ipn Injdlana 46 as they returned|hdme from a fishing trip. 3 k | Robert Sarider, 27, was in a ti’o-car collision near JAvilla, and Mrs. Dorothea T. Chicago, died in a head-ongcnash near Otterbein. '1 ? .

A 'hit-run driver was blan&d for the death of Linda Kay Grubbs, 2, Indianapolis, who was killedfwhen she darted into the street near her home. < y A hit-run driver caused the death of Alfred Garfield gHunt, <T»n To F«*o Six) * 1 — Plan Tent Meeting, ! Here During August v Churches Community Meet ■ f 1 ' ; \ Plans are being made far ;the Decatur community evangelistic tent meeting, opening August. 16 and continuing for three iyeeks. This service is sponsored by all the churches in the north half ’|f the icounty, interested in evangelistic meetings. The tent will be located the Porter addition of Tenth street, and the Rev. Patrick Henry, nationally known evangelist, of Nashville, Tenn., will preach) In a recent meeting, the Ryv. Jferald Welty of the Missionary Church and Earl Chase of the Union Chapel E. U. B. church were elected cochairmen of the program.-|ju Other officers [are: theb' Rev. Lewis Strong of the U. B. church, secretary; holiday of the Methodist urer; Ralph Myers of the Missionary church and the Rev. Arthur Neuenschwander of the Njgtman Avenue U. B. church as co-mernbers of the finance board. The RfV. E. B. McAllister of the Baptist church was appointed as the leader for the pre-service prayer meeting group, Wayne Troutner ofrthe Union Chapel E.U.B. church as head usher and Janet Brown.pt the same church as press rejfcrtar. There will be a meeting tonight at the Nuttman Avenue U. B. church at 7:45 and pastors of alf the churches are invited to attend thlß meeting and assist in furthering plans for the evangelistic services.

Russia Steps Up Concessions For Satellites Romania Is Latest To Join List After \ Hungarian Shakeup VIENNA UP — Communist concessions to hungry and restless populations spread through the satellites today. Romania became the latest to join the list with the announcement l»y Bucharest Radio that bread would be taken off the ration list Tor the first time in eight -years. The government also said it would increase the ration of potatoes and fruit. The Bucharest announcement fol-low-ed by only a day a startling shakeup of the Hungarian governmept, accompanied by admissions that! the drive to build a heavy industry in a country which has inadequate supplies of coal, iron and electricity had resulted in short crops and threatened famine. Hungarian Communists still were explaining today the government changes which placed Imre Nagy in the premiership, replacing the veteran Maty as RakosL The -Communist newspaper “Szabad Nep” described Nagy’s sensational program as “a turning point of extraordinary importance in our economy.” It said of the Rakosl regime: i

“While they worked for the nation’s bright future, they neglected its present .> . kt happened that instead of the continuous increase in the standard of living, it -even declined lately.” The reference to a “decline’ ’in the of living was an oblique admission that thousands of acres Os Hungarian farm land, formerly. a breadbasket of eastern EuYdfre, now lie-idle and that J hose that have been planted are prOduring less than they should. Promises of improved conditions for Hungarians and Romanians were in line with similar promises made to rebellious East Germans and apparently were an attempt to prevent uprisings similar to those which already have occurred in East Germany and Szechoslovakia and also have been reported in Poland. In England, the Manchester Guardian reported trouble also had flared in Communist Bulgaria. Tobacco workers demonstrated against introduction of Soviet-type work methods in tobacco factories and forced the government to repeal them, the newspaper said. ' • Habegger Funeral Is Held This Afternoon ■ i I Mrs. Dina Habegger , Dies At Berne Home Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mirs. Dina R. Sprung-er-iHalbegger, 81, who died at 2:30 p.m. Friday at her home in Berne following a long Illness. Mrs. Habegger, a native of Monroe township and a resident of the county most of her life, was a memiber of the First Missionary church at Berne. ' Surviving are her husband, Louis; two sons, Wilfred Habegger of North Manchester and the Rev. Tillman Habegger of Van Nuys. Calif.; four daughters, Mrs. Charles iShoatf of near Decatur, Mrs. Percy Gould of Berne, Mrs. Rufus Kneusa of Celina, 0., and Mrs. Jess e Speheger of Fort Wayne; 13 grandchildren and seven' great-grand-children. Services were held at the First (Missionary church, the Rev.; J. J. Klopfenstein officiating. Burial was in the MIR® cemetery.

City Swimming Pool Reopened Saturday Leak At City Pool , Repaired Saturday Quick action and a smart amount of detective work reopened the municipal swimming pool Saturday only -days after reports had given to believe it would be a long, hard pull and a lot of excavation before crowds could dunk in the cool green water once

Fortunately, the happy news of the pool’s repair came in time for the big Fourth of July weekend. Late thip morning the level of the pool was within an inch of the top and it looked like “operation wood plug” was at a successful Conclusion.) The pool was closed last Tuesday after Hubert Zerkel. Jr. reported to city authorities that it had been losing an alarming amount of water, which was later set* at 30.000 gallons in twelve hours. The pool had been losing water at abountuhalf this rate almost as soon as it was opened, but since well No. I—supplyingl—supplying the pool — was not to he used for the city water supply, the leak was disregarded as not serious.) Later last week. LesteV Mitchell and Merlin Johnson, light and power department employee, dove repeatedly to the bottom of the pool and found a gasket whose purpose was to seal off the main sewer outlet. It was found faulty and removed together with the grate. Meantime, a large crack in the east, wall of the pool was discovered and Mayor John Doan ordered the sidewalk adjacent to the pool’s edge to be broken into to uncover a possible leak. After this turned up nothing, all attention was turned to the seWer bn the pool’s bottom. > \ The way out of the difficulty seemed to be to seaj off the sewer completely, but? unfortunately, no regular piece of equipment was on <Twrw To Poxo «tx) Bloodmobile Unit £ In Decatur Friday Volunteers Needed To Meet July Goal The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Decatur Friday at the American Legion homo and volunteers are needed to fill the quota, Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the blood program, stated today. Pledge cards have been distributed in a number of business houses and at this newspaper office 'by William Linn, recruit chairman for the: county . blood program. ■- The county’s quota is 125 pWjts of blood, which requires about' 145 volunteers for the program. The local chapter would like to exceed this quarter’s quota due to the failure last May 29 in meeting the 125 pint goal. Blood for servicemen is very important and servicemen sing the praises of their fellowmen who have given blood for the saving of their lives, as stated by Sgt. Robert McCoy, stationed in Korea, who wrdte his mother. Mrs. Vana McCoy of Nitro, West Virginia: “You keep telling me that Jean writes often. I can’t imagine why I receive your mail and not hers. As you can see, if it wasn’t for the Red Cross I would be lost for writing material. 'They have also done many things for us. The most important is their > giving of blood. If - it wasn’t for the Red Cross there would be lots of us die without blood. On our Baldy Operation they gave me and about 27 others blood and they didn’t ask a price either. "Whenever you can, please help these people, and apeak to others. We all want to live, but we need blood to replace ours when we get hit. Please don’t forget.*'

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Hope Fades Os Truce Support By South Korea Plan; Withdrawal Os lson-Koreans If Armistice Signed SEOUL,; Korea, UP — Eighth army ma<£e plans today to withdraw its weight non-Korean divl-

sions from the front as hopes for South [Korean support of an armistice begarf to fade. i Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,' fltjh prniy commander, summoned = hlfs nine' corps commanders and all American ’ advisers to the RoK army io his headquarters to s|ud|y their next; move if the United Nations signs a truce with the -Communists President Synjgman Rhee’s wishes. if the -withdrawal plan is pllit into effect the non-Korean troops would move hack one and oijequarter miles behind the battleaccordance with the armistice waiting signature at P«nmunjoni. ‘ ‘ \ This w<|uld leave Smith Korean troops aloe against a reported 1,000,004) North Koreans and Chinese Communists on the other side of the line which cuts across the ' peninsula* and dips a few mires below the 38th parallel near the west coast. - - j Rhee i |hen would have the choice of fusing his troops on t|be line as defense force and maintaining aifluneasy peace, or throwing themif northward against the Communists as he often has to do. | 4 Rhee h£ld his 10th meeting with assistant secretary of stale’ Walter S.’'Robertson at the presidential palace 1 as 50.000 anti-truce demonstrators massed outside ; in drenching 'rain. Taylor's | conference was "secret.’’ but it was learned they talked about pulling out one British , and aevep American divisions from the front and turning over the battle] line to the South Koreans. | Taylor said Sunday he did not expect any difficulty in “reassigning” his upite if Korea decides to continue tie War against the Communists after th® United Nation)®) signs fhejtruce. At present, the South Koreans man two-thirds of the fighting i forces now opposing the Communists on tfie battlefront. The conference was the first Taylor had had with his field commandefs since he returned )’ from top secret talks in Tokyo five days ago with Gen. Mark W. Clark and Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief- of staff. Korean sources -speculated Tay-f lor was relaying to the corps commanders and the American advisers methods of imposing armistice conditions on the Korean army. | | As Robertson left the palace, lie (Txy To page Six) Funeral Held Today For Edward Newport Decatur Man Dies At Hospital Friday Funeral services were held this afternoon for Edward Newport. 7s. of died at 9 o’clock Friday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following an Illness of four months of complications. • Services Were held at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. John E. :Chambers officiating. Burial was) in the Ray eemetery near Monroe. A resident of Decatur most of hi* life, he was. bom in Indiana Feb. 3, 1877, a son of Lewis and Suzanna Newport His wife, Edna, preceded him in death. Survh-ing are a sister, Mrs. Pearl Swygart of Decatur, and two brothers, William and Ernest. rfF aiding in Aykanses. , \