Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 170.

Rain Soaks Thirsty Fields r .. ; • " s - ! ' ■ ■•. '’ %„ ■ , ' ' ' ■ ■ ' * ? : ' ■ i ‘ ■■ !<j!! ; "■■ ■■ ! ■ A 3~* e * ♦’wilW PEW DAYS AGO fields like this one in Jone’s County, Texas, now flooded by heavy rains, were powder dry and deeply cracked by the drought. The rains partially broke the drought over a large area of west Texas bringing new hope to farmers and ranchers. As soon as the fields are dry enough quick growing feed crops will be planted in them.

Reds Forbid East Germans < r *\ I - . I ‘ -. From Strikes Strikes Outlawed In Revo INR id den Soviet-Run Germany 7 dBERLIN, (UP) — Strikes were outlawed today in revolt-ridden Soviet-run East Germany. The hated woman minister of - justice, “Red Hilde” Benjamin, branded strikes “Fascist attempts to overthrow the government.” The East,’ German Red regime attempted to sugar-coat this blow to hard-pressed East German labor with Jn announcement that Russia will help feed the food-short Soviet zone. Russia has extended 231,000,000 rubles (about >57,000.000) of dsed- . its for food. But the East Germans will be required to repay the Soviets with manufactured goods and labor. “Red Hiide’s” harsh order is designed to assure that East German labor stays on the job to meet the Soviet bill for its help. In a speech, reported today in the official Communist press. Red Hilde warned that jail awaits workers in Communist East Germany who use strikes to protest intolerable working conditions. She repudiated a ruling made by her predecessor, former justice minister Max Fechner, that Cimmunist workers have the right to strike. That, she said, was an evidence of “weakness which will be corrected,” Her action threw the threat of tough prison sentences over thousands of East German workers who participated in earlier strikes against - Red industrial management. A wave of flash strikes .swept the Soviet lone of Germany following Fechner’s conciliatory gesture of three weeks ago. Fechner now is in jail facing charges as an “enemy of the state.” He was replaced by “Red Hilde.” West Berlin socialists said Frau , Benjamin had 562 persons released by Fechner rearrested as rebels. The official Soviet high commission newspaper Taegliche Rundschau today charged that ’ American planes dropped agents by parachute into East Germany to .start the June 17 revolt: It said thev were captured and confessed they had orders to lead the uprisings. I An American official said the report* was “nonsense.” New Citv Well Is I . Undergoing Tests Decatur's new water well is be- - ing pumped today at a rate of 350 gallons a minute and shows all signs of being a successful venture to alleviate the city’s serious summer shortages, announced 'Mayor John M. Doan today. The well was drilled to a depth of 400 feet by a Rockford, 0., well digging outfit and went into test today. A test consists of pumping the weU at the normal rate for Decatur’s wells for Itt hours. If water flow stays at the original rate it is considered a success and plans then ensue tor connecting it up with the water treatment plant and the city mains and building a pump house to protect The' well is located 280 feet north of the former city property line down the line fence of the Mrs. Fanny Dugan farm, northeast of town.

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Detect Polio Case At Scout Jamboree Precautions Taken At California Camp By united press The discovery of a polio case among 5v,00| Boy Scouts encamped at Newport , Beach. Calif,; for their national jamboree led doctors today .to isolate 'a “suspect” case and [peculate 11 exposed youths witti, gamma globulin. Meanwhile, reports circulated in central Illinois that some children may have received injections of gamma globulin :by “gate crashing” a .mass-inoculation program in Macon county.: And health authorities at Marquette. Mich., and; the border communities of Bristol, Tenn., and Bristol. Va..: prepared to begin community - wide inoculation programs Wednesday. Boy Scout kirk Mathews. 12. of Galiu. N. M., was hospitalized Monday at the jhmboree with a mild. non-paralytifc case of polio. His ( condition! is good. d Orange county*, Calif., health officer Edward Lee Russell reported that another “suspect” case had been plated in the county hospital communicable disease ward. Eleven other iScouts. who had been exposed to were given gamma globulin.

Russell said th*re was an “adequate" supply of gg on hand 1 “just in ease” k of an epidemic outbreak at the jambqree. However, Scout leaders said the health of the Scouts was “excellent and far beyond expectations/’ At Dechtur. Ill*, county seat of Macon county, officials were startled to learn they had administered 21,111 injections 0f gg last Friday and Saturday. They had expected to give * i pr. A. C, Baxter, Decrftur city health superintendent, said he was convinced some children whodwere not residents of the county used false names and addresses to get gZ- ' ' Drs. C-. Elliott Bell, president of the county medical society, and Robert Atz, who j directed thd inoculations,! disagreed with Baiter, saying that population estimates may have been inaccurate, leading officials to the false conclusion that only 11,000 children were eligible. ■But Bell said tjhat perhaps a “very negligible number” of children were brought into Macon county from bthet areas for "bootleg” shots. He paid a few may have lied about their ages. Gamma globulin, due jto a shortage of the anti-poliq serum, is restricted to children Uhderi 10 in the mass inoculation programs. Despite th| injections at Decatur, four neW cases were reported, two of them among children who had received gg. Two cases Were also reported at Caldwell county. N.. C., which recently completed injections. Montgomery. Ala., which also, |ohdjicted a gg program, reported two new cases— Nos. 94 an<j 95—(after five polio.free days. IH' ; 1 ' \ ' I Five cases suddenly Cropped up in Avery county, IN. C.. which had been free of the disease, and authorities feared (the county may become a dangerj spot. Minnesota Reported 12 new cases Monday, and lowa 10. i I f 5,1 1 j: ■ -4— . INDIANA WEATHER Considerable ‘ cloudiness, local showers and thunderatorma tonight and Wednesday, probably ending in extreme northwest by Wednesday morning. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 68-72. High Wednesday 86-92.

Bishop Oxnam Hits Methods Os Committee Methodist Bishop Says Methods Play Into Hands Os Reds ; WASHINGTON. UP Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam charged the house un-American activities committee today with using meThods that play “into Communist hands” and promote “a new and vicious expression of Ku-Kluxism.” In a bristling 2.000-word statement. the 61-year old clergyman demanded . that the committee “publicly announce the mistakes” it made in linking him to Communist front groups. He also called on Rep. Donald L. Jackson. R-Calif.. “to apologize on the floor of the house" for his unprecedented and untrue statements” against hip). Jackson had charged Oxnam with serving “God on Sunday and the Communist front the rest of the week.” The vigorous Methodist leader made his statement as he began a dramatic appearance before the committee in a crowded caucus room in the house office building. The hearing was billed a# a showdown in Oxnam’s running feud with the committee. It also marked the group’s first public Session involving alleged Communist infiltration of. the clergy.

However, chairman Harold H. Velde, R-111., said in an opening statement “the hearing today should not be interpreted by any one as an investigation of religion. It is incidental to this hearing that the witness is a man of the cloth. No inference should be drawn from this hearing as' to the loyalty or disloyalty of any member of the clergy.” He promised that if the information on the Rev. Oxnam in the committee files “is inaccurate oy misleading, it should and will be corrected to reflect the truth or the falsity of the data.” Jackson said recently the I com mittee files showed that Oxnam’s name appeared in connection with a number of organizations which have been labeled subversive by the attorney general or by state and federal un-American activities committees. In reply, Oxnam said “Loyalty to my family, my church and my country are fundamental to me and when any man or any committee questions that loyalty, I doubt, that I would be worthy of the name American if I took it lying down.” \ “1 have never been a member of the Communist party.” he declared. “My opposition is a matter of public record in books, numerous articles, addresses and sermons, and in resolutions I have drafted or sponsored in which powerful religious agencies have been put on record as opposed to communism.” Oxnam attacked the committee for releasing “unverified and unevaluated material, for which the committee accepts no responsibility.” “It can be shown that these reports are the result of inexcusable incompetence or of slanted selection,” he said, “the result being the same in either case, namely to question loyalty, to pillory or to intimidate the individual, to damage reputation, and to turn attention from the Communist conspirator who pursues his nefarious work in the shadows, while a patriotic citisen is disgraced in public.” He said “the, preparation and publication of these files puts into the hands of irresponsible ipJTwra T» Pace Five)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 21, 1953.

New Communication Is Sent To Rhee In Bid To End Balkiner Armistice

Fighting Lull Reported On Korea Front “ 1 ‘ ‘ j: Fighting Dwindles To Two Assaults By Communist Troops SEOUL, Korea, UP -Fighting along the Korean front dwindled today into two unsuccessful Communist assaults as truce map makers tried to plot a stable ceasefire line. 1 “The Chinese offensive' is over,” a high-ranking South Korean officer told United Press Correspondent William Miller at the front. A single Chinese battalion struck soutneast of Lookout Mountain near the junction of the Kjrnisong and Pukhan rivers before midnight, 'but South Korean repulsed the thrust after almost two hours of fighting. < In the other abortive assault, two 'Red companies the Kumsong and hit a South Korean position on the south hank. The ROK’s drove them back across the river. , Enemy casualties Afor the 24 hour period ending at 6 p.in. Monday estimated at 1.590 killed and 900 wounded, a total of 2.400, i The Chinese attacks were regarded as final efforts to grab more property before staff officers at Panmpnjom draw the ceasefire line and set up a mile buffer zone separating the two armies. The Reds’ most important property grab of the new week was the capture of East Berlin and Berlin outposts on the western front. Only 14 of a group of 30 to 60 piarine defenders survived. United Press correspondent Frederick C. Painton reported from the western sei-tor that the marines who remained on the butpoists had died or captured because they had been taught to stay and fight. Painton said three generals, after considerable debate, decided the outposts weren’t worth recapturing. “The hills were just pipsqueaks,” a colonel said. I 1 Pfc. Horace Sawyeir. an 18-year-old soldier who fought with his Lare hands, said East Berlin was a “death trap.” As the fighting died down, both sides tried to stabilize their posi(Twra Tn porn K.iKhtt

Mrs. Evelyn Detter Joins Teacher Staff Hired As Teacher For Second Grade Mrs. Evelyn Detter. secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, has been employed as a teacher in the second grade \qf Decatur public schools, superintendent W. Guy Brown announced today. Mrs. Detter. an Ohio State University graduate. will assume her teaching duties it Lincoln school in September. With the naming of the second grade instructor, only one vacancy remains in the teaching staff of the, Decatur public schools, that being a first grade instructor. Superintendent Brown said that he has several applicants and the lone vacancy oh the teaching staff would be filled in a few days. Remodelling work at Lincoln school, where the auditorium is being converted into three class rooms, is progressing rapidly. The carpenters have completed their work and the plasterers have moved ift to make the three new rooms sound-proof. Almost half of the auditorium will remain as an assembly room and also a room for small meetings. The stage will remain the same as it was and the three new rooms will be on the north side of the auditorium. After the plastering is completed, only wiring the rooms will remain and this will be done several weeks before the start tot the fall term of school, it was said.

Asks FBI To Probe Matthews' Charges

Request Is Made , By Senator Byrd WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Harry F. Byrd said today he has asked the FBI to confirm or deny J. B. Matthews' charge that Protestant ministers are the "largest single group” supporting (Communism in America. The Virginia Detnocrat, who previously demanded that Matthews support his charge or be branded as a “cheap demagogue.” said he wrote FBI director J, Edgar Hoover because Matthews implied In hia controversial magazine article accusing the Protestant clergy that Hoover supported his accusation.. *: As a result of hisS charge, Matthews resigned undfer pressure from President Eisenhower as executive director of the senate investigating subcommittee headed by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, -RWis. Meantime, McCarthy said criticism of Roy M. Cohn and G. David Schine, two of his subcommittee staff investigators, amounts to "an anti-Semitic movement.” In making the statement' tb newsmen. McCarthy ignored the denuheiationi of “pure and arrant demagoguery” made by Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, DN; Y.. following McCarthy’s charge of “anti-Semitism" iu a telecast Sunday night. The furor over Matthews* article led to the resignations of the three Democratic members of McCarthy’s subcommittee, who charged McCarthy with “one-man rule.” Chairman Harold H. Velde, R--111.. bf the house un-American activities committee said Monday the group will grant Matthews’ request to he heard in support of his magazine article charge bf Communism in religion, but probably not before Oct. 1, He said the committee had not decided whether to question Matthews in public or secret session.-

Hoosiers Soak Up Heat, Humidify Steaming Weather Continues In State INDIANAPOLIS UP — Hoosiers soaked up heat and humidity today as the weatherman promised more steaming temperatures the rest of the week. / Forecasters said the state will sizzle under one-to-three degrees above normal highs of 90 in Northern Indiana and 94 downstate. The trend will run warmer Wednesday. turning a little cooler Thursday or Friday and warmer Saturday. Scattered showers were promi&d sfatewide Wednesday and in the extreme south Thursday. More showers were expected to develop 'Saturday or Sunday. The humidity, too, played a in sending Hoosiers scurrying for swimming pools, electric fans and cool drinks. The air was 95 per-' cent water-soaked at Indianapolis early Monday morning, although the thermometer read only 70. Later, as the mercury crept to 92, the humidity dropped to 44 —still a red-hot combination. Other Monday afternoon readings were 96 at Fort Wayne, 94 at Evansville. and 92 at Terre Haute. A smattering ot local showers fell in the state. An early forecast said more scattered thundershowers were on tap, today.' tonight and Wednesday, with a high today of 88-95. Tonight’s lows were to be 68-73. Scattered Rain By UNITED PRESS Midwest temperatures hovered around 80-90 degrees today. Scattered river-chokihg raina fell from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern seaboard Monday. In La Crosse, Wis., residents along the lower La CroSse river tTun Pace KlOt)

Post-Armistice Peace Parleys Being Planned American, Other UN Officials Look To Post-Truce Talk SEOUL, Korea. UP—Diplomatic and governmental officials here have begun planning for the post--armistice peace conference, it was learned today. Ameficdn and other U. N. officials are forward to the political roundtable as a possible means for easing tension throughout Asia, but Korean leaders expect lt 4o.be a showdown struggle for “freedom or slavery” in Kojjea. “The post-armistice political conference will be the big test, the big turning point,” said a high Korean official. “It will show whether we won or lost, whether we survive as a nation or ultimately will'come under the rule of International Communist aggressors." The officials pbint out that ROK President Syngman Rhee has no confidence in tne ability of the political conference to solve Korea’s i problems. \ The political conference is to be called within thfee inonths after the armistice has been signed. As yet, the exact date has not been set. Also still undetermined are \the site and the nations to be represented. In some American quarters there is an inclination to limit the conference participants to those countries which actually had troops fight in Korea. There has been considerable speculation as to where these representatives might get together. American quarters indicated the United States is- not particularly concerned 1 about where the talks are held. One high American diplomatic official suggested Bandung. Indonesia, mighl be a suitable “neuttal” site. The cities being mentioned in official speculation are New Delhi, Mqcao, Rangoon and Colombo.

' BULLETIN BONN, Germany UP — Six Germans, including two women, have been arrested by British authorities on charges of spying for the Russians, It was announced today. : — ■ Slate Distributes Funds To Schools Adams County Will Receive $192,100 Indianapolis, up — state school \ superintendent Wilbur Young today announced a total o. >32.855,850 in tuition support funds will be distributed among Indiana 'school units this week. Most of the money will be Xor ■teacher’s salaries, with the remainder sjet aside for transportation and other non-instructional Costs. Another distribution, amounting to >34,45*4,000, will be made in February, according to Young. , | State auditor Frank T: Millis, in charge of writing the checks, said they should be ready for mailing Wednesday. Largest, share of the fund will go to Marion county, >3.600J)00. while Jefferson township in barroll county will receive only "a nibble, >26.31. The breakdown by counties ! Adams >192.100, Allen $1,035,100. Blackford >llB,lOO, DeKalb $234,100, Huntington $241,000, Kosciusko >283,500, LaGrange $136,200, Noble $202,000. Steuben $130,900, Wabash $241,500, Wells $155,100, Whitley $166,100.

Overseas Program Defended By Dulles Program Threat By • Senator McCarthy WASHINGTON I'R —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles today defended the American overseas Information which Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy has threatened with heavy budgetary cuts. Dulled told a news conference he has been tremendously impressed .during, his world travels by the number of persons who showed up at the Ahrerican overseas Jbraries to read U.' S. books and periodicals. l His remarks came as the senate appropiations committee, of which McCarthy is a membb*'. opened- hearings on a bill providing supplemental money for the prog rani. Dulles said the international information administration has a splendid program and a future of great value to the United States and to the free world. He said he hopes it® worth will not be impaired by fund reduction. . Dulles did not| refer directly l > | McCarthy’s threat. He tdmitted there may have been past imperfections but said the net balance has been one of favorable influence for American foreign policy. .McCarthy changed’ that chances of congress appropiating “adj quate funds’’, had been “sabor taged" by Dr, Robert L. Johnson, outgoing head of the international information administration. „ , He told Johnson in a 900-wcrd letter made public Monday tha» in “trying to smear such ardent anti Communists as Karl Baarslag” he seemed to be continuing the policies of the .old Truman administration. • Baarslag, research j director McCarthy’s permanent investigating subcommittee, '.vas denounced by Johnson for saying in a newspaper interview that uJ S. uversetis libraries "just don’t go in for anUSoviet literature.” 'McCarthy is a of ao 'appropritions Subcommittee handling funds for the state, department. ,

Boy Missing From Decafur For Month Dog Tags Found At Miami Beach Dog tags belonging to a boy missing from Decatur for a month and returned here by a Miami Beach person, has raised the fear that he hay have drowned July 12, although no report to that effect has been (made by Miami authorities. The parents of the missing hoy. James G. Whittaker, 15, 437 McBarnes street, received an. envelope this week frjom an unnamed party In Miami Beach who stated simply; “found these (dog tags) on Miami Beach nt, Third street on Sunday. July 12.” . s The dog -tags were the type distributed in schools and contained the name, address and other information. A cheek by the sheriff’s department with the Miami Beach police has so far failed to reveal anjr trace of the boy and no alert was reported on the beach about a boy of-James’ description being drowned. His description follows: five feet foUr inches, 120 pounds, wears shell-rimmed glasses. Police have considered the possivillty ’that the youth merely “took off” for the summer and removed the dog tags from aroupid his neck before going for a swim, at the famous beach. He may have lost -the tags in the saad. said police, and they turned up again When the othet* party arrived, on the beach, and were consequently sent to the address on the Lags; 1

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Red Radio In Prediction Os Early Signing Rhee Maintaining < Ominous Silence On Korean Armistice PANiMUNJOIM, Korea. Wednesday UP —The United States today sent a nejv communication tJ South Korea’d disgruntled Pres ! - dent Syngman Rhee in a bid to lift his last minute threat to bglk the sigping of a Korean armistice. Every thing else pointed to an early end to the two years of truce negotiations and the savage and costly Korean war. - < The North Korean Communist Radio at Pyongyang predicted (hut, a Korean truc e would be signed momentarily.” It was the most op- 1 timistie broadcast to date -from either Pyongyang or Peiping Radio IP acting prime minister 11. A?i> Butler Jold the house of commons the west has hopes j that "the agreement can be signed without further delay.” But U. 8. secretary of state John Foster Dulles warned a Washington hews conference Americans should be neither too- ! optimistic or o’*®* - pessimistic. 'Dulles said, the chances /or a truce hinge on Communist desires 1 for peace. . Sources here Rhee's position js equally orgmore decisive. Ji (Rhee himself was maintaining-, an ominous silence. But his foreign minister. Pyun V un K Taj > said the South Korean government has sent an utgqnt cable to Washington demanding clarification of U. N. assurances to the Communists that South Korea will abide by trice terms indefinitely. He said Washington’s answernow on its way-will determipe Wb'etlier. Korea will stand by or renounce i|s earlier pledge to adhere to the truce. \ In Washington, Dulles took Hie position that Rhee’s promises to assistant secretary of state Walter Robertson bound him firmly and without qualification not to obstruct qn armistice. Dulles said he was not sure what the Bopth Korean 'complaints arc aliout. Pyun said senior U. N. delegate Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison’s assurances, as revealed in a statement released by were in direct disagreement with the understanding reached a? Seoul in the “little truce talks’* between Robertson and Rhee. "g The RQK foreign minister said following a meetmg in Seoul with,' U..S. ambassador Ellis O; Briggs: “Everything, will be det-ided we get the definite answer ■from Washington." Pyun said the ROK government agreet not to obstruct an armistice on two conditions: 1. That the U. S. government promised to protect South Korea against itay future Communist aggression or else make a mutual security pact. 2. That the U. S. government’ (Twra T» ra*» Kis»t> Will Revise Plans For Disposal Plant Representatives of ConsoerTownsemJ Associates, engineering firm of Cfhicago, will arrive in Decatur today with a request from ' the eMy council and Mayor John M. Doan Jthat original plans drawn by them- tor a sewage disposal ' plant be revised. The Chicago firm had the original contract to draw plans tor the disposal plapt ( here, but since the first plans were submitted, •the northwest sewer has been started here and the new plans will take, that into consideration; Decatur -was mandated several year* ago to build a disposal plant and city officials informally agreed to comply! with the mandate,. provided state health authorities permitted the construction of the fiorthwast sewer first