Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 165.

Robertson In Report To Ike On Rhee Talks Says Syngman Rhee To Collaborate In Korean Armistice WASHINGTON, UP —Assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertson. reported to President Eisenhower today that President Syngman Rhee of South Korea his agreed to “collaborate” on a truce and that the United Nations command is ready to sign one whenever the Communists are. Robertson made a 40-minute oral report to Mr. Eisenhowe? shortly after his arrival here following 2*4 weeks of conferences with Rhee in Seoul. Robertson later told reporters that Rhee has not changed his opposition, to an armistice “but has agreed to collaborate.” 1 “We can proceed immediately in good faith to sign an armistice when the Communists are willing to sign.” Robertson said. Robertsbn■ said the talks with Rhee were conducted in an "atmosphere of frankness, friendliness and cordiality.”) He said their differences were only as to how best to achieve their common objectives. ' The talks with Rhee ended in "wide areas of agreement,” and smaller areas” of disagreement, he said. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles accompanied Robertson to the White House. "He (Robertson) has made it possible to have an armistice,” Dulles said. While American officials maintained hope for an early armistice. the news from the battle* field and the truce-negotiating sites was ominous. Red forces were cracking 1 United Nations lines in massive assaults. And U; N. nefekUtetors have called on the Reds to stop stalling and “put up or shut up.” Dulles greeted Robertson at the airport, and said he “has done a splendid job” in getting U. S.South Korean relations on a better and more solid basis.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, UP—Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson today fixed a national allotment of ,62,000,000 acres for next year’s wheat crop and set Aug. 14 for a national referendum to determine whether growers will abide by stiff marketing quotas on their 1954 crop. Sam Goldstein Is Given Prison Term Recalls Kidnaping ' r Os Sheriff, Deputy Sam Goldstein, 62, of Fort Wayne, who kidnaped Adams couni ty sheriff. John Baker and deputy i sheriff Dallas Hower in 1926, foli lowing a holdup of the Linn Grove bank, was sentenced to prison yesterday by Special Judge Walter B. Brubaker in the Noble county circuit court, for participation in-two burglaries. Goldstein was found guilty by Judge Brubaker, who meted out sentences of 2-5 years and 2-14 years, both sentences to be served concurrently. The alleged breakin -V took place in 1950 in Ligonier. Gold? stein was tried in 1951 and sentenced. to 10 years imprisonment, but was granted a new trial. He has served many years tn prison and was convicted in the bank holdup and kidnaping case in this county. Goldstein and William Reiley, • an accomplice clubbed Hower and forced him and Baker into their car. They ■' headed north and a squadron of police met tbeir car on Fairfield Avenue, n'ar Rudisill Blvd., in Fort Wayne. The car turned over and Hower was injured. Sheriff Baker and his deputy apprehended the bank bandits at a filling station then located at the intersection of Line and Winchester streets. — K Commissioners To Meet Here Monday Adams county commissioners will meet in special session at the court house Monday morning to receive blds for a six months supply of coal for the court house -and discuss road work to be done under the federal aid program in the county this lummef, commissioner Lewis Worthman announced today. 1

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Trapped 40 Hours In Shaft J rlr d K ' l’ w '" y ‘ War ISM . -C? . & * • iifUlSB 11 j i JI tFwt. -RRIifW \ \ RESCUED after being trapped 40 hours in the pit of a Newark N J firm’s elector shaft, Anthany Di Padma of Nutley, N. J., shows patrolman Frank Hughes friction burns be incurred on his hands in futile attempts’ to tree himself.

Big Three Put Communists On Defensive Challenge Russia To Frea Austria And East Germany WASHINGTON, UP — The UnPted, States, Britain and France today foriirialiy invited the Soviet Union to a meeting on Germany and Austria, informed sources ’reported. The invitations, carried in Similar notes, were delivered in Moscow. The notes asked Soviet Foreign Minister V.' M. Molotov to join the Big ’ Three Western foreign ministers in talks on the critical German and Austrian problems. The notes reportedly suggested a Big Four foreign ministers meeting in late September after the German elections. The notes did not suggest a place for the conference. The decision to seek a conference with Molotov was made by the U. S,, British and French foreign ministers during their meeting here in an 'effort to put the Soviet “peace offensive” to the acid test* They also declared solemnly that their governments would resume the war in Korea if the Communists violated an armistice. And they warned against any new Red thrust anywhere in Asia after a truce. These were the highlights of the discussions of secretary of state John Foster Dulles, acting British foreign minister Lord Salisbury and French (foreign minister Georges Bidault. The general feeling was that the decisions gave the Allies the diplomatic initiative just as unrest was sweeping the Soviet empire and reaching into the Kremlin itself. Diplomats said Russia’s answer to the bid for Big Four; talks would help decide whether there will be an east-weSt settlement in Europe tind provide a clue to Kremlin policy now that the struggle for power is on in full force. On Korea, the Big Three pledged to work for a truce while warning that any violation of t its terms would bring quick Allied retaliation on the. battlefield. They said the Allies, if the Reds renewed their aggression, would “again support the restoration of peace and security.” They pledged support for the war against Communism in Indochina. In Europe, the Big Three likewise stated their determination to continue building defense forces under the North Atlantic treaty system to safeguard freedom. Officials said the German-Aus-trian offer would be in Soviet hands this week. Britain's ailing Winston Churchill had urged early Big Four talks among himself, President Eisenhower, French premier Joseph Laniel and Soviet premier Georgl ! M. Malenkov. France agreed, ijj The United States had been reluctant tomeet the Russians right away, thinking it better to let the power struggle run its course. The compromise > was to (Ten Te Face Six)

CIO In Attack On Ike Administration Refusal To Appoint CIO Man Assailed , WASHINGTON. UP — The CTO launched a full scale assault against the Eisenhower administration today for refusing to appoint its candidate to‘a top post in the labor department. The CTO released two letters from CIO President Walter P. Reuther to presidential assistant ShanoM . AdAIPS / the White House with “appeasing immoral political forces" In failing to nominate CIO official John W. Edelman to be assistant secretary of labor. Union officials published the letters, dated May 5 and June 9, after it became apparent that the CIO would be frozen out of its traditional post in the department. The letters carried the sharpest CIO attack on the administration to date. President Eisenhower’s choices for two of the three assistant secretary jobs in the department— Harrison C. Hobart, assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Spencer Miller. Jr., New Jersey roads commissioner — were approved Tuesday w by the senate labor committee. The third poet has been offered to businessman M, M. 01ander of the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. J; A CIO spokesman said Reuther had not received an official reply to his letters but union officials were convinced their candidate had been rejected once and for all. This is the first time the CIO has publicly stated its position on the Edelman issue which has been hanging fire since last February. In his letters, Reuther noted that Adams had sought to persuade the CIO to withdraw Edelman’s name. He pointed out to rnm Tn pace Ktokt) Berne To Install Softening Plant Berne City Council Votes For Plant A The Berne city council voted last night to install a water softening plant, providing a sufficient water supply can be obtained, Grover C. Moser, clerk-treasurer, stated today. Plans are already underway for drilling an additional well. The council also received pfbposala last night for the construction of a 250,000 gallon water storage! tank, which will greatly increase Berne’s reserve water supply. The Plttsburgh-DesMoines company was the low bidder on the project. estimated at approximately $53,000. \ The council appointed Jack Purvis, manager of the Winner House, a member of the city school board. He will begin his term August 1. . Purvia, an active business and civic ( leader in Berne, is president of tb« Rotary club. Mayor Forrest Balsiger announced the appointment of Dr. Robert , Boze as a member of the city health j board. He suepeeds Dr. Myron Habegger, who recently moved to Cocoa, Fla. |

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Thousands Os Chinese Launch New Attacks On Korean Central Front h

Showdown On Truce Talks ' 1 \ ' ■ 1 '• ■; t Slated Today UN Ready To Walk Out On Reds If Stall Continues •9EXXUL, Korea. Thursday UP United Nations and * Communist negotiators hold a "shoU’down'* Jieetlng on the Korean truce toay, with the U. N, to walk out on the Reds a second time; If they continue to stall. The issue will be whether the Reds finally are ready to accent U. N. assertions that South Korean President Syngman Rhee has pledged to "collaborate" on an armistice. The Reds have accused Rhee of an “arrogant stand ’ in opposition to a truce, but have been challenged by the U. N. to go ahead and sign a truce, and then “sea who makes the first violation/* Today’s meeting starts at ,11 a. m. 8 p. m. c. s. t. It was scheduled despite a Peiping Radio charge that the Americans had walked out on Red negotiators Wednesday. A reliable source said today's session may be, the crucial From the tone of both sides, It was obvious conditions were deteriorating rapidly around the Panmunjom truce table. The U. N. accused the Reds of bad faith, deliberately delaying the armistice to carry out their crushing 100,000-man Offensive cm the flaming Central Front. The Reds charged that South Korean (President Syngman Rhee “haji not budged from his arrogant stant in opposition to and violation of the armistice " Peiping Radio said chief U. N; negotiator Lt. Gen. William K Harrison and his aides walked Out o' Wednesday’s 21-minute session after “unilaterally declaring a recess.” Although Wednesday’s discussions were -secret, reliable source! said Harrison told the the U. N. has Rhee's pledge td "collaborate” an armistice challenged the Reds to sign th<i truce and “see who makes the first violation." ’ These informants also said the U. N. accused the Communists of bad faith In deliberately delaying an armistice in orde r to carry out the crushing communist offensive on the flaming central front. • ■ The Reds, who mounted an offensive with eight divisions Mon; day, made new gains today as they (Tara Ta Paca atx) , D

Plans Are Rushed For Jlfoze Mass

By UNITED PRESS Authorities rushed plans foday to inoculate moire children with gamma globulin as a makeshift defense against polio until a valid test can be] made of an unnamed and revolutionary vaccine. The new vaccine may “solve” the polio problem by providing actual disease prevention rather than gamma globulin’s temporary* benefits, according to Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Nstional Foundation spokesmen said that the 100,000th child to receive gamma globulin in the United States would be inoculated sometime during a mass injection program at polio-stricken Decatur, 111. The mass inoculations at Decatur and surrounding Macon county in central Illinois are scheduled to begin Friday with 10 clinics established in school buildings. Some 12,000 children, meantime, began lining up for GG injections in NeWton, N_ C., and surrounding Catawba county after three new polio cases and two deaths were reported. In nearby Caldwell coun-

James A. Hendricks Dies This Morning Ex-County Official? Dies Suddenly Today James A.’ Hendricks, 89. first ,4<lams county road superintenda former county commissioner Mid well known retired farmer of Monroe, died unexpectedly gt;|:3o & lock this morning of a heart ati A frequent visitor to’ Decatur,’ Jr. Hendricks called on Jrlpnds in this city last week. A public official for piany years, Mr.. Henwas known throughout’the. epunty. He was the owner -of |tho l*nd at the west edge of Monroe, Where the new Adams School is being constructed, jj J 1 , For many years a leader ip the Democrat party, Mr. HendHcks Was elected a county commissioner in 191(f. In 1914,- he resigned tlhis elective office to accept! the position of county road supierin-' indent, an office which had been ijscently established by'the State legislature. . Mr. Hendrlcsk received several reappointments to the road superIn tendcy and set up the first organization for the upkeep of the bounty’s 700 miles of mud and macadam roads. During his Incumbency many of the township roads Were macadamized and-; the first state highway routes -Were established. ■' A lifelong resident of this county, Mr. Hendricks was J>orn; in Washington township, Decefliber 11, 1863, a son of Basil and Mary Hendricks. His father was on#i of the early settlers in this county and was agent of the Pennsylvania railroad (GR&I) at Monroe? Prior to engaging in farming, Mr. Hendricks was ertiployed -for 23 years in the railroad company's office in Monroe, and followed "his father as general agent. I Mr. Hendricks married Elizabeth Thompson of Washington township, on Feb. 23, 1885. They observed their 68th wedding anniversary last February. i? „ He was a member of the Monroe Methodist church. Fraternally he was a member of the Masohic lodge in this city and a member of the "50-year club.” He was a member of the Fort Wayne Scottish Rite. y •? Besides hii wife, he is survived fey two sons, Clyde W. Hendricks of Mt. Etna and Howard Q. Hendricks of Monroe. A thir(J |qh, McGee, is deceased. Two brothers and five sisters are Four grandchildren The Rev. Ralph Johnson cos the Monroe Methodist church WillfpfTlciate at the funeral Which at press time were not complete. Burial will be in the! Deea(Twrx T» P»*e Klatt) j- 1 * M if-

■ ■ ' • • ' - IS \ if" ty, where children were inoculated ; Idst week, five new cases were-re ! ported but officials said the outbreak appeared to have j peak.” f At Decatur Tuesday doctors diagnosed another case of the dis- , ease, bringing the total to |ls-in the town of about 70,000. JThree . deaths have been reported. J \ • Protests from anxious nipthers at. Elmira, N. Y., forced author!I ties to reopen emergency gamnpa globulin clinics - there after |34,901 children had be’en inoculated. 1 The mothers, whose children had failed^ to receive the ‘ brought more than 1,000 children to 1 the reopened clinics. j 1 Gamma'globulin, a blood deriva- • tive,’ls believed to prevent |r lessen the crippling effects of linfantile paralysis for about six wedßs. ‘ Then its effectiveness is lost 1 O’Connor’s announcement at San 1 Francisco Tuesday was one of the most encouraging statements since • health experts began all-out war ’ on polio with mass gg > at Houston, Tax-, last sumnfer. r O’Connor said the drug so ’ new it did not yet have a ?name, Te mm wnu j

Taber Not Yet Sold On Added Foreign Help Eisenhower Seeks Taber Backing On Foreign Aid Funds By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower failed today to sell Rep. John Taber, R-N. Y., completely on the administration’s request for more than $5,000,000,000 In foreign aid funds. Taber told reporters after a 75minute White House?'breakfast that there are a “lot ,df things] I want to know before I jump.” As chairman of the house appropriations committee Taber has a lot to say on how ! much the President gets for his foreign aid program. He is the Nq. 1 champion of economy ih the house. Mr. Eisenhower , is. however, fighting hard to check congressional drives jto cut foreign aid. He is understood to have argued that he already has cut his foreign aid requests to the bone. S tS^X/ S^i"ru e nitS r states shobM withhold all aid from Britain until she settles her dispute with Egypt over control of the Suez Canal. Other congressional news: V Drought— President Eisenhower asked congress to put up $-150,000,000 for a loan fund with which to help cattle raisers in drought regions. Congress already had authorized creation of the fund. In asking it to appropriate money for it. Mr. Eisenhower said the need is “desperate.” Atomic stockpile!— Rep. James T. R-Conn., said the government) is not doing all it should to protect its stockpile of atomic weapons, i Patterson is chairman of a house-senate atomicenergy security subcommittee. He said the subcommittee will make recommendations for “improving the security of our atomic arsenal.” ( .

Indiana weather Fair tonight. Thursday mostly' fair and wartji. Low tonight 64-68; high Thursday 90-95. Joseph Cloud Dies Suddenly Tuesday Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Joseph L. Cloud, 73, well known Decatur carpenter, diod suddenly of a heart attack, at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday night at his home,’ 1725 West Monroe street, about an hour after retiring. > z A lifelong resident of Decatur. Mr. Cloud was associated with W. E. Moon ip home construction for 40 years. ' He was born in Decatur Nov. 18. 187 p. a son of Clinton and Jane SteeleUloud, and was married to Qiphp Bluett May 18, 1908. My. Cloud member of the First Christian chutch. ’ Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Frank DeVor of Bronson, Mich.; one son, Charles B. bloud of Decatur; one grandchild; two brothers, Frapk Cloud of Hot Springs, Ark.,' and Jess Cloud of Kalamazoo, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Lettie Peters of Fort Wayne and Mrs. H. O. Swoveland of npar Berne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Traverse Chandler officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral homff* after ■ 7 o’clock this evening.

London Strangler Is Executed On Gallows John Christie Dies On Prison Gallows LONDON, UP j— John Christie, confessed strangler of at least six women in bizarre orgies of passion, died today on the gallow's in gloomy old Pentonville prison. The near-sighted, 55-yea'r-old railway clerk ironically paid .for hfii crimes in the same fashion as his victims had fta strongling noose around his thin neck. ? z - , \ • ki Four minutes after Christie dropped through the trap of thb scaffpld. a silent crowd of 150 persons read his death notice posted on the gates of the prison.’’ ! ? The w.hite slip of paper; announced that John Halliday Christie had been executed in accord* ance with the death sentence passed upon him after his trial two weeks ago at the Old Bailey. Christie was convicted of luring his victims to his shabby little apartment in. the Nottinghill district, which gave him the nickname of “The Nottinghill Strangler.” One of his victims was his wife, Ethel, He buried two of his victims in the tiny garden behind his apartment. Three he walled into an alcove in the kitchen and his wife? he buried under the floorboards. At his trial the defense implied] that Christie had also strangled Mrs. Beryl Evans, a ; neighbor .whose 14-month-old daughter, Geraldine Evans, was also strangled. Her husband, was hanged for the murders and the 'suggestion that he might have died innocently caused a furor that reached the house of commons. The home office appointed attorney John Scott Hepderson to investigate whether there had been a miscarriage of justice tn the Evans case. He reported late Tuesday that in his opinion Evans had been properly convicted and that Christie lied when the said he was responsible for. Mrs. Evans’ dehth.

East! Berliners Buy Potatoes In West I ' ■ 1 ' ' ' Bargain Rates Set By West Germany BERLIN, UP —East Berliners bought sacks of potatoes _at bargain rates in West Berlin today amid increasing indications that Soviet .occupation ' bosses are growing more concerned over smoldering resistance in Red Germany. J 1 ? ] The official Soviet newspaper Taeglidhe Rundschau said “thousands” of sabotage and espionage plots have been smashed by Soviet zone security police. The statement vfas seen here as indication that millions of Germans who openly rebelled last month have, gone over to underground resistance. Also regarded as reflecting Soviet anxiety over the effectiveness of anticommunist groups- was a Russian demand that Western Allies liquidate anti-Red organizations in West Berlin. Soviet , high commissioner for East Germany Vladimir $. Semyonov made the demand in formal notes to the western high c°rumissioners. The Neue Zeitung, official organ of the U. S. high commission, said today the Russians brought 20 tanks: back into Berlin Tuesday and stationed them in the woods in the city’s Biesdorf area. Western Allied officials could not confirm this report. The tiny American sector border borough of Kreuzberg sold sacks of potatoes and milk to hungry East Germans today in the second round of the ’.‘battle of butter" between Communist East, and free west. Potatoes, mainstay of the German diet, are one of the most scarce commodities in food-short Red Germany. Several thousand East Berlin--OWn Te Ma> h ... ’ ? ■ ;

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Yank Officer Says Situation Very Serious Three New Attacks. Punch Holes Along Allied War Front j|' ' ! SEOUL, Korea. Thursday, Up— Thousands of Chinese lami ched three new attacks.- on the Central front late Wednesday and punched hcjles in the South Korean front In at least two places, dispatched from the battle line said today. Red (loops were reported lushing southward on a 20-mlle “Welve got a hole in our’Line.” an American officer said. “The situation on the front bs very ger- ( ious.”? The Chinese hit the wester 1 tend of the; “bulge” they had driven in the United Nations line. ? They jumped off at 4 p.m., a United Press dispatch said, j, About 2,000 Chinese rammed the right flank of the new* line which. South Korean troops were trying to orraniao after being thrown back for miles. One thousand to 2,060 hit the center' of the front 6f the division holding this sector. An “unknown” number hit a third point, i The, exact size of the new Red attacks and the extent of penetrations were blacked out by tight security precautions. But it was known the Chinese broke through at several points and censors passed a dispatch which said that the Allied line -was sagging under pressure from 1 an estimated six Chinese Sdivlsions. The enemy had committed upwards of 10Q.000 men to their biggest offensive in two years. They had scored gains of up to three i miles and then had punctured the ' -- line again after it apparently'had been stabilized. Tight s e cJu ri t y precautions blacked out details of the offensive, but front dispatches dis* » closed jits seriousness. United Press front correspond* ! ent William Miller told how' American scout* plane pilots flashed back the news that Chinese infantryman were pouring southward across the Kumsong and Pukhan\ The Chinese were advancing without artillery, mortar or tank support, the scout pilots said they had outdistanced their heavy weapons. Miller 1 said that Sabrebombers ahd other fighter bomber planes were 'streaking down, thropgh holes in the clouds to blast the advancing Reds. B-29 j Superfortress bombers, rushed J from Okinawa, dropped 240,000 pounds of bombs on |ront line Red buildup positions. A’ front dispatch by U. P. correspondent Al Kass told how two American artillerymen, trapped trapped when the Chinese overran their position, came back after spending 16 hours watching the Reds. •. I: ’ The artillery men described being herded back as prisoners by Chinese guards;. Front line officers said the Chi-| nese must have thrown new ahnies into the battle to reinforce Slight divisions which mounted the . offensive Monday night. Reports revealed* four South Korean* divisions which withdraw under opening impact of the Red drive abandoned thousands J of trucks, tanks and guns. Both South Korean President Syngman 1 Rhee and eighth arm? commander Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor flew to the front for first-hand information. Only the far western tip of the j 2j9-mile bulge stood fast as massed I artillery firing without letup for 24 hour* halted the Red offensive there. J Kass iaid Allied artillery was firing **glmost hub to hub." . W !" 'LM k ■