Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 159.

Reds Agree To Go Ahead With Korean Truce Communists Agree To Sigh Armistice On Clark Assurance SEdl’L, Korea (UP) — The Cammuniets agreed today to go ahead with a Korean armistice on the basis of assurances from Gen. Mark W. Clark that he will do his best to keep the South Koreans from wrecking it. But South Korean sources warned the United Nations against ' taking “premature” action before completing its ‘‘separate discussions with its government. North Korean premier Kim II Sung and Chinese People’s Volunteer Gen. Peng Teh-Huai advised Clark in a note delivered at Panmunfjom that the Communists were ready to. put the armistice machinery back in motion. South Korean President Syngman Rhee’s official spokesman. Dr. Hong Kee’Karl. said the letter to Clark was a sly one. “It looks as though it aims at embarrassing the United Nations command by forcing it to lake pretnature action before it completes its consultations with the ROK government,” Karl said. Another vociferous opponent of the currently negotiated truce between the U. N. and the Communists, ROK Foreign Minister Pyun * Yung Tae, made several veiled threats when asked for comment on the note. The Communist note to Clark was begrudgingly conciliatory. Kim and Peng told Clark his handling of the Rhee revolt was unsatisfactory but that his intentions were good. The note, handed to Allied liaison officers, told Clark his handl ling of the Syngman Rhee revolt \ was unsatisfactory but did not demand return of 27,000 anticommunist North Koreans freed by Rhee. In a second major development of the day, assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertson met for minutes with Rhee and apparently received an important deci- \ sion from the aged South Korean president. Robertson, Presidept Eisenhower’s personal \ truce expediter, emerged from the meeting smiling but told newsmen he had promised Rhee not to disclose the development. ' \ ’ They had been deadlocked on Rhee’s demand for a 90-day time limit on a post-armistice political conference which w'ill attempt to settfe Korea’s future. He also wants a mutual security pact with the United States. Establishment of a date for the armistice signing and the time for the neutral nation prisoner commission appeared to be the only items left for discussion at Panmunjom. Clark was expected to propose a meeting for liaison officers Thursday to work out those details. The Red note to Clark was an answer to his letter of June 39 in which he disclaimed responsibility for Rhea’s action in releasing the ■ anti-Communist captives and said i‘ would be “impossible!’ to recover them. “You admit i that the incident of coercing the captured personnel of the Korean people’s army into leaving the prisoners pf war camps and of forcible retention of them by the Syngman Rhee clique is a serious and unfortunate incident,’’ the note began. “It is right that you do so. However, your explanation and handling of this incident are not satisfactory. “Every obvious fact proves that the United Nations command cannot completely evade the responsibility for this incident. Your side was aware of the premeditated scheme of the South Korean government and army for this incident. of which there had been indications - long ago, but your side did not take any preventive measures.”

Martha Koldeway Dies This Morning i Louis Koldeway of route 5, received word today of the death of his sister. Miss Martha Koldeway, 75. who died this morning in Fort Wayne at the home of a niece, Mrs. Art Diehmer. Miss Koldeway had suffered a stroke two weeks ago. . A former resident of Decatur, she had lived in Fort Wayne the past 30 years. Funeral arrangements have not • been completed. Survivors besides ' the brother, include William Koldeway, Mrs. Ferd Bleeke and Mrs. Sophia Grote, all of Fort Wayne..

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MARKED CONTRAST in witnesses before Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s inquiry into Communist-slanted books in U. S. libraries overseas was provided by author-playwright Arnaud D’Usseau of NeW York (left), and Mrs. Paul Robeson (right), wife of the noted left-wing negro singer. D’Usseau called inquiry “like shooting fish in a barrel” and the Senator called in twin jpolicemen to stop the author’s reading of a prepared blast at the bribe. Mrs. Robeson’s questioning, in contrast, was on a friepdly plane with the Senator declaring her “charming." Neither of the witnesses, however, would say whether they were or had been Communist party members.

Tito Believes | Reds In Midst Os Real Change Urges West Powers Seiz£ Opportunity' To Make Settlement By HELEN FISHER (Copyright 1953 by United Prees» BffCDO. Yugoslavia UP — Yugoslavia’s (Marshal Tiio said today he believes. .Russia is id the midst ot a real change of policy, and he urged Western powers to setae this opportunity to reach 4 “realistic” international settlement. iHe (believed the Russian changes were the result of past in is takas and weaknesses, he said. Tito warned that: President Syngman Rhee of South Korea “is going too far’’ in opposing an armistice. “If they (the West) let hint go on, it could have serious consequences," Tito said, Tito cautioned that the west should not demand too much of a change ip Russia or expect the Kremlin to give up all its basic aims lest It reverse its rqcent policy and try to* emerge as -“the champion of oppressed nations.” Marshal Tito talked Tor 70 minutes with thid correspondent at his summer chateau id the mountains, discussing with, great frankness Yugoslavia's relationships with the Soviet Union and the United States, and analyzing: the changes taking place behind the Iron Curtain. [t| I He said that it was the remarkable policy shift in Hurigary which finally convinced him that the So- ( viet bloc, is in the throes of a real change. ' 4 | “I do not believe the Soviet Union will ever rbnounte its basic, aims,” Tito said. “But I do believe that right now they are in a phase of great accumulation of pressures result} Ing from the weaknesses and mis*takes of the past, and that ' the leaders of the Soviet Union must make great changes. These changes are real and not just tactical maneuvering, apd they are not yet ended. | ~I , “But further development ' depends not only on the Sovidt T’hion but also on whkt is done by the western countries, v *tl would advise them to lake advantage of this phase to sett’e important international problems such as Germany and Austria. “But they should not ask any 100 per cent change within th? Soviet Union or ask tlie Russians to give up all their basic aims.” * The president made these points: 1— The drastic -government changes in East Germany Hungary “give us great satisfaction” because they prove Yugoslavia was right in breaking With the Soviet Union five years agp. 2 — -It was Hungary that convinced him th e Russians were serious. ’Throwing put a whole set of the Soviet Union’s most loyal agents and replacing them by a new set who are not known at all, changing the entire state and economics administration of a country—-this is a decision not ©asy to reach which could only be motivated by very • ITrnra To p»ae Klarht)

Airport Petition Under Advisement Petition Presented To Council Tuesday The city council Tuesday night took under advisement a petition for the formation of a board of aviation commissioners. Miss Josephine Ivetich and a contingent of proponent* of the board presented a petition to the council, signed by -187 person*. Clerk-treasurer Vernon Aurand, after reading all. the names and the title, gave over the papers to Mayor John Doan for council action. Mayor Doan perpsed the petition, turned to the proponents and said the city couldn’t pass it Faces fell. But he hastened to explain that the wording of the petition was such that the city would take over the airport, agreeing to maintain it and improve it. Mayor Doan said he would be willing to offer »the petition to the council if all it asked for was a board to »be set up to study the problem, and not a guarantee the city would take over lock, stock and barrel. There was some nervous shuffling i and an explanation of what was meant rather than said, and Miss Ivetich called her attorney, Lewis L- Smith, about scratching parts of the petition. Meanwhile, Councilman Hugh Engle said the petition couldn’t be changed since the people who signed it agreed only to what was there at the time. City attorney Robert Anderson countered; that Engle was technically correct but he pointed out since the signers agreed to all three paragraphs in the petition, there was no reason they shouldn’t agree to two. Mdyor Doan joined the, fray, saying; ”... I guess it’s alright as long as they subtract and\ don’t add anything. In rushed Miss Ivetich with the news that Smith told her to scatch objectionable parts in compliance with the council’s attitude. In jig time, Mayor Doan called for a vote and the council took the petition under advisement and directed city attorney Robert Anderson to dra-w up an ordinance setting up a board of four aviation commissioners to study the needs of Decatur with regard to a city-owned and operated airstrip. The board, if it come* into existence — they are appointed by the mayor — would contain two Democrats and two Republican*; one would be in the aviation business, or interested flying; another would be an attorney; and the balance laymen. It was felt that the council <Tara T« Paar Five) Urgent Plea Made For Blood Donors Ah urgent appeal for 25 blood donors was made today by the Red Cross to fiirthe quota when the bloodmobile visits here Friday. The Red Cross announced that 144 volunteers are needed to fill the county’s ‘ blood quota of 125 pint*. So far about 110 persona have signed up for Friday’s bloodmobile visit. Reservation* can be made at the Red Cro** office, thus saving time of donor* who wish to contribute to the blood bank.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 8, 1953;

House Committee Ends Long Stalemate Over Excess Profits Tax < - y •

100,000 East Berlin Workers Stage Sitdown ; Report Movement Is Spreadng Over V All East Germany r BERLIN UP — Up to 100,000 East Berlin workers went on a sit--down strike today, demanding fw lease of anti-Communists arrested in the June 17 revolt, and Allied! officials said the movement was’ spreading all over East Germany. The possibility of a general strike throughout the Russian occupation zone was foreseen.. Allied and German officials said they had received completely authentic reports that strikes, sit-; downs and slow-downs were in progress throughout the Soviet zone in coal mines, steel factories, shipyards and other plants; The Communists moved a Soviet tank division back into East Berlin in case sullen workers there decide to revolt again. The Reds announced that normal traffic between the east and west sectors of the divided city will be! restored Thursday. The Russian - armor apparently was sent in as a warning to work-' ers not to take advantage of the situation and go over to open rebellion. There was no violence today and the Communists apparently felt they could cope with the strikes without continuing the measures which have split this city in two. Ending of the border restrictions was one of the demands voiced by workers who demonstrated Tuesday. 1 Martial law still was in fOrce in East Berlin. Today’s Red announcement had no effect on that. The East Berlin city government said that beginning Thursday Berliners may cross the east-west ci(y border freely without passes as, they did before June c l7. Inter-city elevated railway traffic and subway traffic also will 1 be resumed. Simultaneously, however. East Berlin police president Waldepiar Schntidt warned West Berliners against attempting to “incite unrest, arson, demonstrations or similar crimes in East Berlin.” 1 Such persons, he said, would be arrested immediately and “punished with the full severity of the law.” j The Western Allies repeatedly had protested Communist closing of the city border, and had describe ed as nonsense Soviet charges that fTara To Paste ElKkt) Bobby Heller Named Districf Officer Named Treasurer Os Young Bobby Heller, Kirkland township and Adams county Young Democrat president, was named treasurer of the district Young Democrats at the annual election of officers held Tuesday night at the Hotel VanOrman, Fort Wayne. Young Democrats from the entire fourth congressional district attended the meeting, which was preceded by a dinner. The visitors were guests of James Koons, Democrat district chairman. Al Moellering, Fort Wayne attorney, was named chairman of the organization and Miss Mary Jo Cool of Auburn was elected vicechairman. Richard Hilmer, Albion, was elected secretary. The group made plans for numerous activities during the coming year. The first order of business was plans for delegations from each county attending the state convention later in the summer. Heller will head the Adams county delegation. The various county units also decided to offer their assistance to regular Democrat county during the 1954 campaign.

Quartet Confesses • I" ' ' f ' ‘ !•’ »I To More Robberies i Clearing Up Crimes In Indiana, Ohio ; f v i Four men being held ip Fofrt Wayne for armed robberies, breakins and burglaries—three of them from Decatur —are “singjni” a tune in jail that is beginning Io clear tip past offenses all (>v|r fiorthern Indiana and at least n Ohio. 1 ']■ I The quartet are now hooked jo robberies committed ini foH Wayne, Toledo, 0., South Ben£, Columbia City. Decatur, Plymouth and LaGrange. , j||Hl Herbert CloSson. 22, of Decatip - , was tentative!# identified as gunman who robbed Fgulktjp<s Sunoco service station in northern Fort Wayne on June 19. (Jlo*son denied it but Detective Cap?. Mitchell Cleveland, says ClossOn will be questioned further. li | Richard Closson, 23. Herbert!* brother. Paul Lambert. 27, and Everett E. Iholts, 26, cleaned burglaries in South Bend: The. Ajnprican Bus Lines. $10Q; an unidentified filling-station where a drifting tool and flashlight were itiften; and the latest in Fort Wqyne, the Marathon filling station Tuesday night of last week. . | The thrUe also admitted stealing >IOO from the money drawer i the Morningside ' hotel in sburh Bend; and >2OO from the safe Os the Columbia City hotel. “ | They burglarized, according to their story, a dry cleaning 'Wop near South Bend and obtained- sf. Lambert, an employe for’ s«retal weeks of the Mirror Inn here, admitted breaking in to the sac£ about three weeks ago togdt.hel' with his other gun-liuddys, taking cigarettes, Richard Closson and Iholts. A Sinclair filling tion near LaGrange was vic.thhiz|ed by them $25 worth and churches broken into .at Warsaw’ with nothing taken.- s | t The amazing string of included a restaurant, in Huntington, where only candy bars wpr| 1 remembered by the three as htfavj ing been taken; an expensive,; from the Safety Cab Co. Fort Wayne, after which- they drove it to South Bend where; i| was used and later abandoned..!; | Lambert and Richard Closson UTura Ta Pag, Kight) Jolly Kelly Fund 1 Is Organized Here i|, ■ . ■ Local Women Form • Organization Here?:; J ' A group of Decatur women, Who desire to remain anonymous, have organized a “Jolly Kelly FuiM The group proposes to raisd, a sizeable .a m o u'n t of mot»W through small contributions, for Mrs. Jolly Kelly, Decatur woman* who has suffered from a hqqrt ailment for several years following a siege of rheumatic fever! i j Contributions of all sizes* W1 be accepted and should be seht to “The Jolly Kelly Fund,” p(>dt: office box number 4, Decatur. The : women will collect the envelopes' , each 'day and the jnames of contributors will be published several times each week in the Daily Democrat, similar to the used in the Tommy Mann fund. Mrs. Kelly recently underwent an operation in the east in anief-i fort to obtain relief from her ment and at present is confined to a clinic in Bluffton. She is the wife of Joe Kelly of this city.vj ! ] The local women, sponsors ; the fund, are now contacting pecatur ministers in an effort to get support of their drive from jail local churches. They also plant to! contact lodges, sororities and qiher groups to get contributions..t<ii One of the women has written 1 an article appearing in the ple’s Voice column of today’s Dally Democrat. (t It was pointed out by the group * that the Idea of raising the fund » is their own idea and the Kelly 4 family has no advanoe knowledge of the drive.

Ike Assures U. S. Seeking Korean Unify Assures President Os South Korea U. S. For Peaceful Unity WASHINGTON, UP—President Eisenhower today assured Korean President Syngman Rhee that the United States is looking forward to the peaceful unification of Kor rea and intends to work for it after an armistice. , The President at his weekly news conference, however, did not endprse Rhee’s demands that the war be resumed, if a political conference fails to unify Korea after three months of deliberation. The President said the question of trying to reunify Korea by warfare is something that would have to be weighed against the future of the United Nations. He said the hopes of all are high for the success pf the world organization. The President said he hoped the efforts to negotiate with Rhee would lead to a settlement in Korea. But the President said he could pot deny that there are troubles. He said no ope cpn Cell exactly- how the situation .will come out. j At the outset of the news conference. Mr. Eisenhower noted that the Communists had accepted Vhlted 'Nations’ suggestion that peace talks be resumed despite the Allies’ troubles with Rhee. He said he wanted to ipake it clear, in that connection, )hat everybody in the United States, understands the aspirations* of Rhee and have very warm snots in their hearts for what South Koreh has done to help fight the war. He said we must never lose sight of the fact that the Korean . incident is an Ideological as. well as one of arms. We look forward to the peaceful reunification of Korea and in-i tend to work for it, the President rdeclared. . T He sidestepped a direct answer] to a reporter who asked whether! there had been any; indication that Rhee would be willing to go along Pax* Six) William Biggs Dies Tuesday Afternoon \ Funeral Services Friday Afternoon William P. Biggs, 80, retired lumber company owner and operator of one of Decatur’s first moving picture houses, died Tuesday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital.. He had been in failing health for several years and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage four weeks ago, Mr. Biggs and his son operated a hardwood lumber company ir. Petersburg for 27 years until 1945 when he retired and returned to Decatur, ‘ where he made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Goldie Gloss, 1'222 North Second street. He was born at> Bingen July 4. 1873, a son of Eleazer and Elmira Parker-Biggs, and was married to Nancy Stout July 23, 1891. Mr. Biggs was a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Modem Woodmen of America', and Ben Hus court 15, Fort Wayne. ,> 3 \ 1 Surviving are his wife; the daughter, Mrs. Closs; two sons, Lawrence and Marion Biggs,, both of Petersburg; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Two sisters and four brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwlck funerkl home, the Rev. Ray J. Walther officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Wednesday.

Truman Political Career Is Ended Never Again To Seek Any Public Office INDIANAPOIJS iUP — Harry S. Truman said today the Democrats lost the election last November because voters "were prosperous, fat and easy-going?’ and they “let demagoguery get the best- of them.” 1 " The ex-President said at a news conference during a vacation trip stop that he’ll never be a candidate for public office {again, that h?s party is “optimistic” about its chances for future victories, and he plans to meet Adlai Stevenson soon. “People were prosperous, fat and easy-going and thought . maybe they wduld like to have a change,” (Mr. Truman said in artswer to a question as to whythis party was defeated in 195<2. f ’ " ! ' “They let demagoguery get the best of them.” (Mr. Truman met newsmen in the living room of the ’horiie of Frahk E. McKinney, Indipnapolis! banker Who was of the Democratic national committee during the 1952 election, i-ampaign. Mr. and (Mrs. Truman stopped overnight en route by auto from the east to their home at Independence, !Mo. J The Trumans left shortly after the conference and indicated they might reach Independence tonight. They declined to pay what route they were taking, but presumably would head out .UJ S. 40 through Terre Haute, Ind. Asked if he was optimistic about the party’s future prospects, Mr. Truman said. _ ; • “iDemocrats are always optimistic. They wouldn’t be Democrats if they were not.” Mr. Truman said he would continue to be active in Missouri state politics but ! ‘l’ll never Ibe a candidate again.’ ’ !. ; , He said he hadn’t heard anything about talk of a Stevenson-Truman I ticket in 1<156. But h? said Stevenson, the party’s 19521 presidential J nominee, was doing “a remarkI able job” on his world tour. Ho I " ITwrw »T« •'.)*»<) I Regular Session Is Held By Councilmen Recreation Board Files Oath Tuesday The recreation board, set up three weeks ago lo administer the planned Community Center, filed an oath with the city council at last night’d meeting to uphold duties in their new capacity to the best of their abilities. i It was signed by Frances Dugan, Arthur R. Holthouse. Al K - Beavers, Harry Q. Irwin and Robert S. Anderson. The ooundii referred to committee a petition- sighed by Cletus Miller and 28 other merchants of Thirteenth street, for lights to be installed along U.~ S. highway 27 from Washington to j the Erie railroad. i A contract was approved between the city of Decatur and the town of (Monroe for the fqrmer to supply (Monroe with a 6,600-volt line, service having already begun July 1. ; The contract: is to be renewed from year to year, with no les* than six months notice given by Monroe in case of a requested cessation of power by Monroe. \ State sanitary engineer Max L. Barrett informed the city council that a well site now being drilled, and a second one, were approved for consumption under certain conditions provided no industries come up within 200 feet of either site. Barrett said wells would be condemned in «uch a ca*e because of sanitary problem* that would arise. i, --j ! Mayor John Doan directed city attorney Robert S. Anderson Ut with the approval of the unani- <»«*■ Ta VW* WM)

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Group Votes For Extension To January 1 ' Legislation Backed By Group Despite Reed Opposition WASHINGTON UP — The house ways and means committee broke the long stalemate on the excess profits tax today and voted 16 to 9 to-Continue it until Jan. 1. The extension measure, which administration leaders bave.been pressing for, is scheduled to be taken up. on the "house floor late this week or early -next week. The legislation was approved by the committee despite the unyielding* opposition of chairman Daniel A. Reed R-N. Y. Reed had succeeded in keeping the legislation bottled up in his committee for weeks while administration T leaders made futile attempts to ! get it dislodged. It was not ■ until house Republican leaders threatened to by-pass . Reed’s committee to get floof action on thp that he eyen went sp far jis to call a meeting of his committee. He did not have • the legislation on the jigenda for consideration today. Richard M. Simpson R-Pa., acting for the administration forces, made the motion to take up the biH. ; The excess profits tax, imposed oh corporations which make more than “normal” profits, \ expired „ June 30. But the present bill would restore it. retroactive to that date. Republican and Democratic supporters of t,he tax extension joined in defeating amendment after amendment proposing to change the law so as to give relief to some corporations. These corporations contended that the law was 1 unfair to them. But the committee voted to extend the excess profits tax without change. The committee vojed down a move to let the excess profits tax expire oh Oct.; 1 and to grant individual (income tax !relief at the same time, j | The committee also approved legislation today to put new restrictions on the reciprocal trade program. It approved a bill, sponsored by Simpson, to establish new import restrictions on oil, lead and zine. _ " The committee also approved a bill to simplify customs procedure and eliminate some of the red tape. 1 At one time speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. and other administration leaders' started a move to bypass Reed’S committee, but they called this off at th4. last minute when, they got assurances that * other members would force a vote on the excess profits tax issue at today’s meeting. The old excess profits tax law expired July 1, but the new on<B is scheduled to be made retroactive to that date. The new expiration date will be Dec. 31. Reed tried Mainly to get the admlnistratiqn to agre£ to advance the date for the individual income <Twra T« P*** «lx) i i Leland F. Hurst Is New Game Warden INDIANA<pOLrS. UP — Assignment of 55 new “game wardens” representing more than half the total staff was announced today by Indiana conservation director Doxie Moqre. Included in the assignments is Leland F- Hurst, a new officer, assigned to Adams county. Hurst is a resident of Portland. Other area wardens are Merl Moes, Allen county; James Pitzer, BlackfordJay counties; Bobbie L. Harris, Wells county; Rollie Bullock, district headquarters in Wells county state game farm. ’,’ ■ > INDIANA WEATHER and cooler tonight Thursday fair and pleasant. Low tonight 54-W north, 6065 aoutik Nigh Thursday 7M3.