Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 171.

United States Will Continue Food Shipments Eisenhower Asserts Shipments Continue Despite Red Stand WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower said today the United States has no intention of stopping its humanitarian shipments of food for relief of hungry East I Germans under Soviet rule. The food will be available for distribution by the pro-Allied West German government, Mr. Eisenhower said, and he invited hungry East Germans to come and get it despite objections and protestp by their Russian rulers. He told a news conference he deeply regrets the difficulty which has arison over his offer to provide the free food. He recalled the first offer was made July 10. After the Soviet rulers turned it down, .the United States went ahead with shipments to be handled by the federal West 'German government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The Soviet high commissioner for East Germany, Vladimir S. Semyonov, has delivered a sharp note to U.-S. high commissioner Dr, James B. Conant in Berlin demanding the food aid program be halted immediately, the official East German news agency said today. Semyonov accused the United States of offering the food in attempt to recruit “Fascist agents,” the news agency said. Os these reports, Mr. Eisenhower said Americans find it difficult to understand objections to such a humanitarian activity. / lAt the same time reports from East Germany told of thousands of Soviet Zone residents massing i in front of empty state-owned store# to demand that President Eisenhower’s offer pf $15,000,000 ( worth of free Jood be accepted by the Communist bosses. Semyonov’s note charged that ‘ the recent food aid given to East Berliners by West Berlin was an attempt to recruit "Fascist ag- 4 ents” and demanded That "measures be taken immediately” to ' halt all future plans to distribute ; food. An official American spokesman branded Semyonov’s Charges! “completely false and nonsensical.” ■ ' > The spokesman said that Ameri- [- can plans to deliver food for East j Germany "as promised by Presh! dent Eisenhower will not be,| ehanged by Mr. Semyonov’s let- , ter.” “We will deliver the food, which ■ iS' already on its way,” he said. , The first relief shipments left New' York last week. The West Berlin city government plans to start distribution of 1,000,006 food packages next week. [ ■West Berlin boroughs continued to feed hungry East) Berlin neighbors despite Soviet protests and ! Copimunist police made no move ' to confiscate food brought across \ the East-West city border. -j The American sector borough of ‘Neukoelln today distributed food parcels' valued at $1.25 to persons k Over 70 years old in the East Ber- ! ! lin borough of Treptow. The pack--1! ages contained chocolate, sausage. /margarine, canned fish and condensed milk. t Two hours before the distribu- !|. tion began some *SOO East Berliners were lined up. Semyonov’s protest was directed against justs such actions by the individual boroughs. However, he made it clear that the Soi viets object to any food aid as a “propaganda maneuver.** . • ■ ' ■ - - l ’ - L .i Wear And Tear Os National jamboree Telling On Scouts i NEWPORT BEACH. Calif. Up —The wear and tear of the national Boy Scout jamboree finally began to show today on many of the 50,000 youths at- j tending' the event. The noise and activity around camp decreased noticeably as ' more and more of the scouts, their i feet sore from hiking and their voices harsh from yelling, elected to “sack out” in their tents., The youths won some respite Tuesday when they 1 switched to the role of spectators to be enter- | tained by a rodeo, a huge reworks display and Hollywood film stars. ' Meanwhile, jamboree officials j emphasised that discovery of one polio case here was no cause for alarm. They said complete precautions bad been taken to guard against any possible polio en- . derate.

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Confer With Ike I ! . HI y HR jS? -'Wly ASSISTANT SECRETARY of State Walter S. Robertson (left), and Secretary of State. John Foster Dulles leave the White House after an unscheduled conference with President Eisenhower. Presumably they conferred about South Korean demands for “clarification” of U. S. truce pledges.: I

House Group Agrees Oxnam No Communist \ House Committee \ •Hears Evidence Os Methodist Bishop WASHINGTON. UP—The house un-American activities committee declared unanimously today that Methodist Bishop jtl. Bromley Oxnam is not affiliated with the Communist party. ? Republican members of the committee generally were convinced that Oxnam had lent his name to Communist fronts, while their Democrat colleagues in (general defended the bishop, baying he merely had exercised his rights as a citizen. Oxnam maintained throughout almost 10 hours Os give-and-take with the Committee Tuesday that he is a vigorhus exponent of the American way of life and a longtime foe of Oommbnism. The motion to make: clear the committee's conclusion that Oxnam has no Communist party ties was made hy Rep. Clyde Doyle D-Cal., and seconded by Rep. Donald L*. Jackson, R-Cal., who has charged Oxnatn with serving “God on Sunday and the Communist front the rest of' the week.” Oxnam said he *;hoped to show Jackson that what the congressman said was “exaggerated.” Jackson replied only that he hoped to have “the opportunity” to discuss the matter With Oxnam at some future date. Oxnam leaves for Europe Friday to attend a church conference jin Vienna. Committee counsel Robert L. Kunzig disclosed Tuesday night that the group previously had received secret testimony that| three Methodist church officials, including one minister, were members of the Communist narty. Oxnam acknowledged that?3e knew them, although he said he had disassociated himself with two of them and never had much to do with the third. j The testimony was taken July 7 in New York froiri two _gelf-styled former Communists, Manning, Johnson and Leonard Patterson. Kunzig said they named as Communists the Rev. 1 Jack Richard McMichael. Harry F. liVard, former professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York and now retired, and Winifred Chappell, who was active in Methodist youth wfork. Oxnam said he did not know. Miss Chappell well, and\ that she is now dekd. He said he knew, McMichael and Ward well at one time but tha,t he had not been close to them after he found that they allegedly had Communist leanings. McMtehael. former executive Secretary of the Methodist . federation for social service, now has a pastorate. Oxnam said, but he did not say where. The copimittee sbemed to go out of its way to treat Oxnam with courtesy. But he objected strongly to - the committee “procedure,” contending that by making available information tn its files it harmbd innocent persons. Chairman Harold H. Velde, R--111., defended the committee and insisted that it never had listed Oxnam as a member "of any subversive organization.” Velde said at the end of the hearing that the record of the public seskiop will be made a part of the committee’s file on Oxnab. He Te Pa»e Fire) * ■ ■ I’■ \ i I

Inoculation Costs Over Million, Half NEW YORK UP —(Mass gamma globulin inoculation of children in seven states haye cost the National foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the American Red Cross $1,555,680. The gamma globulin blood fraction, which tests indicate reduces the chances of paralysis in polio cases, has been administered in mass injection programs in Alabama. North Carolina, New York,! Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois and Michigan. News Parley Is Held Today By Eisenhower Says Policies Based On Convictions, No McCarthy Comment WASHINGTON UP —President Eisenhower said today that if Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. or anyone else disagrees with his policies that is just too bad. Mr. Eisenhower said at his news conference that his policies are based on firm conviction that they are right. Asked if he believed the Republican party could achieve greater discipline by cracking down on McCarthy, the President said he never deals in personalities. But if anyone sees fit to disagree with his policies, he said, thht is just too bad. p McCarthy hai In the past fought some administration actions, notably the appointment of Charles E. Bohlen as to Russia. Mr. Eisenhower went on to say he believes his administration is making progress on a program that is in the best interests of 157;000,000 Americans — although it is not moving along as fast as he had expected.\ He said varying opinions within the Republican party had to be reconciled. On other subjects he said: 1. Despite differences vVith both the North Korean enemies and our “South Korean Allies, he still hopes and is reasonably confident that an armistice can be signed soon. , 2. The United States will make food available to the Soviet Zone pf Germany despite any objetetions from the Kremlin. .3. He believes the $1,100,000,000 cut voted by the house appripria:ions committee in foreign aid , funds is too heavy on thej basis of national security. 4. No politics whatsoever was involved in designating counties eligible tor federal relief in the , drought-stricken southwest. I He said the only consideration is the plight of the people. 5. He ppposes putting quotas on oil imports so far as the Western Hemisphere is concerned. 6. The: proposal that a seventh member be added to, the tariff commission had raised more sound and fury than he had antic- ( ipated. He said he guessed he had not studied the matter enough. In a discussion of his first six , months in office. Mr. Eisenhower (Twra To Pace Five) New Serial Story “The Juniper Tree,” by Faith Baldwin, will start Thursday in aerial form In V The Daily Democrat. It Is the kind of a story by a famous author, whlqh will make you laugh and cry., You’ll enjoy reading every chapter of this penetrating story of love against despair.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 22, 1953.

Pres. Rhee Blows Truce Situation Wide Open As Dulles Tells Os Pledge

Dulles Says U. S. Counting On Rhee Honor Makes Public Some Os Concessions By' ( U. S. For Korea WASHINGTON. UP—Secretary oi state John Foster Dulles said' today the United States is counting on South Korean President Syngman Rhee to honor his written promise to abide by a truce in return for vast American Economic aid and military protection for his war-torn country. As the aged South Korean president threatened once again to cause a blow up in delicate dtmistice negotiations, Dulles made public, in part at least, some of the Korean concessions President Eisenhower agreed to. They included: V .1. “To initiate immediately upoii conclusion of a<i armistice a program of rehabilitation which will cover a four to five year per* iod and involve heavy expenditures.” 2. A promise to negotiate promptly a security treaty with Korea, along the of the U. B.’ Philippines mutual security pact, including certain features drawn from the U. S. Japan treaty which Rhee ' thought desirable. 3. Assurances that if the Communists renew aggiession in Korea. the United Nations "will vigorously act to restore peace and security.” ' Dulles issued a statement saying Rhee personally wrote President Eisenhower on July U that in deference to the president’s request "he would not obstruct in any manner the impleimentaltion of the armistice terms.” .Dulles said Rhee also wrote him tTnm Pa«e Ktskt) Burial Here Thursday For Klepper Infant R. Anthony Joseph Klepper, six-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Klepper of Tiffin, O„ died at 6 o’clock last night at his home. He had been ill birth. Surviving in addition to his parents are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. William Hartman. Rawson, Oi. The body will be brought here Thursday at 11 a.m.j for burial in the Catholic cemetery. State Asks Use Os Atterbury Hospital Request Made Today By Governor Craig INDIANAPOLIS UP —Use of Wakeman general hospital at Camp Atterbury by the state was requested today by Governor Craig in a letter tp Lt. Gen. William B. Kean, f|fth army commander.; Craig alpo telephoned Maj. Gen. George Armstrong, surgeonl general of the U. S., and a native of Springfield, Ind,, for his support of the proposed transfer. The formal first step in the proposed acquisition, will be forwarded to Washington from fifth army headquarters at Chicago. | ( Craig said Indiana hopes to acquire Wakeman on or before June 30, 195 M. when Camp Atterbury is to be closed. Officials had considered petitioning for use of both Wakeman and Billings at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Craig said an inspection of Billings hospital, 1,000-bed installation with a 100-bed psychiatric ward, showed it to be in poorer condition than j Wakeman. However, use of the Harrison institution had been urged because of its nearness to the Indiana University Medical Center at Indianapolis. Wakeman had been considered rrans T« pass BUckt)

Doubt Korean Army Could Fight Alone Inexperience Shown Up By Red Advance • CENTRAL FRONT. Korea. UP t—Chinese Communist successes in the recent central front ’*bulge'* 'Offensive convinced many Ameriran officers today that the South Jvorean army could not fight . alone. The Chinese drive which forced the ROK's back as much as 10 miles at one point showed up the' inexperience of the young army, observers noted. "It was too much for such a young army,” one American officer said. "The withdrawal might have turned into a rout if the Chi-, fiehe had -kept coming south." President Syngman Rhee repeatedly hast threatened to send his 16 divisions north in a. drive to the: i'alu river. Only today, in. a statement to newsmen. Rhee said South Korea would be “at liberty to follow our pwn course of action" if the ChL; £ese Communists do not get out; f Korea within six , months after: krmistice day. > But American advisory officers:, attached to ROK units believe the’ South Koreans would have thqlt hands full,, if they tried to attack the\numerically superior Chinese. : Quiet On Front SEOUL, Korea. (UP) — South Korean troops threw back a force of 1,000 attacking Chinese today while United Nations fighter bombers half a million! pounds of hombs on the Kumsong The unsuccessful Red drive in, the central front bulge was ; the only major action along the “corn-: paratively quiet” battlefront, which truce officers were attempting to reduce to a buffer zone. - ! American Sabrejet pilots shot, down three Cdmmunist MiG's at sundown in battles along the! Yalu river. ' J •. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday. Cooler tonight. Low tonight 62-68. High Thursday 80-85. • To Close City Dump During Night Hours j Councilmen Order Fence Around Dump A measure unofficially tabbed “stink control” was taken bk the 1 city council in the decision to put up a fence around the city dump and padlock it from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. • Jesse Sutton appeared at the meeting and asked outright wheth-1 er the city was going to do anything about the .pungent odor that has been coming put of the city dump of; late. With very little delay the council plunged into dis-; cusslon of the odious matter. Firstly, the council decided thq trouble was that persons or firms were throwing a kind of material on the dump and causing it to smell up the town. The council is of the opinion this inatter is dumped after dark and the only way to stop it is close the place after dark. Sutton complained that along about midnight Monday the same smell as exuded last week began to come out of the dump again. Ed Bauer, councilman, asked if the G. E. wa.s dumping cutting oil on the heap, causing the odor. He was assured by the city attorney that John Welch, manager, told him the plant was taking that refuse to Fort Wayne for disposal. As the discussion left off after it was decided to fence in the dump and lock it for certain hours, there was some talk about stationing a man at the dump with a camera and taking pictures of parties dumping objectionable material as evidence against ihem. ‘ I ' '

Living Costs Climb To New Record High Rise Fourth Month In Row During June To Hit Record High WASHINGTON, (UP) — The cost of living climbed for the fourth straight month to a new. record high in June, the government reported today. Rising prices for food, housing, and medical care between midMay and mid-June boosted living costs twb-thirds of one percent above the previous high set last November.. ’ . ! The bureau of labor statistics reported prices advanced foultenths of one percent during the 30-day period to put ’its , consumers’ price’ index for June at 114.5 : percent of 1947-49 prices. This was one percent higher than a year ago prices in; June. 1950. i Paychecks of some 100,000 aircraft ai>d glaas workers are tied to this month's Indw. The rise may bring them a one cent an hour pay boost. That be determined later. Major auto and railroad “escalator” contracts are adjusted in other monthly periods. ; !BLS said a 1.4 {percent advance in food prices led the increase. That rise canceled out most of a food cost decline earlier this y£ai*. It returned the fdod index nearly tp the level of last December. Sharpest food price increases wbre 5.6 percent for fruits and vegetables! and 1.9 percent for i meats, poultry and fish. . Household operating costs werle up three-tenths of one percent. Higher telephone rates were mainly responsible. Covered Bridge At Ceylon Inspected State Agent Joins In Inspection Trip A state agent from the flood resources commission and county officials Tuesday afternoon inspected the Ceylon covered bridge ! the first,, step that may spell the end of the ancient county landmark. Max ftfltchell, the agent, county commissioners Lewis Worthmar and Harley Reef, auditor Frank Kitson and county road superintendent Frank Singleton looked over thb bridge and the site Singleton said. Singleton explained the state Will make a watershed field check to determine the amount of water that flows beneath the bridge—a minor tributary of the Wabash—and reconimend the bridge be maintained or torn down. Singleton added the commissioners have the say over what happens to the bridge regardless of w’hat the state reCommends. Auditor Frank Kitson affirmed August 5 as the date the engineer’s report of the state would be made; r During the waitjng period for the report, and conceivably after it, the commissioners will be keeping an ear to public sentiment over the bridge. So far the only voices raised against tearing down the covered bridge—estimated at 70 years old —have dome from the Berne chapter of the. Indiana Audubon society. They petitioned commissioners at Monday’s special session not to tear down the bridge. If needs be, they said, donations would be collected among themselves add other interested organizations to “save the bridge.” In ths meantime, commissioners will be waiting for others to speak up. ■' ' v ... J

♦ - JHoover Commission Named By President To Hunt For Ways To Save Tax Money WASHINGTON. UP —The Eisenhower administration’s new “Hoover commission” will hunt for ways to save tax money by cutting down on the activities of the huge federal government, two of its prospective m en >b€rs said today!. . This forecast came from Sen. , Homer Ferguson R-Mich. and Rep. Clarence J. Brown R>O., congressional sponsors of the law to create the new commission on government operations. Both, are expected to be named to the 112member group. Meanwhile, former President Hoover continued a round of conferences with Republican congressional leaders on plans for setting up the commission. He was one of President Eisenhower's guests. Tuesday at a luncheon at which these plans were discussed. Mr. Hopver, .who is expected to , head the new group, directed the old commission on government re- ’ organization which Congress creat--1 ed in 1947. That commission produced ma n y recommendations ( which have provided the basis for much of the legislation and presit dential reorganization plans which have since been ' laid before Con- . gress. , Mr. Hoover viHted the Senate Tuesday night and got a standing ovation from Republicans : and Democrats and the visitors gallery. The new (commission will be empowered to study what the government is doing—its policies gnd functions — to decide whether they should be revised, . eliminated, or enlarged. • j r Avialion Board To Be Organized Here Council Approves Board Formation A year-long promotion of a , handful of residents in the city reached a successful conclusion at last night’s city council meeting as the council unanimously adopted a resolution to organize a “Decatur 'board of aviation cdm’r inissioners.” ; . Following the action of ihe Council. Mayor John Doan .said he would soon appoint a board of four men to serve without pay to carry out the purpose of the resolution, legal byway of a state act of 1945, eintitled the “Airborne Act.” ■ ' 1 The members of this board'shall consist of no more than two | of one political faith. The board: I - 1. Determines the need and/or desirability of a municipal airport for the city of Decaitur. 2. A desirable site. 3. Cost pf acquisition. 4. Operational costs, expenses', revenues. 1 The couttcilinen also disposed of’four, routine issues. I r The appointment of Ed 1 Kauffman as deputy clerk-treasurer during the convalescence of H. Vernon Aurand fronn an emergency operation was affirmed fun-, animously by the council. Kauffman was given full emergency' powers of the post of clerk-treas-urer. •; I 1 i It was unanimously agreed to adopt a resolution thanking the state highway commission for the extensive roadwork done oh the streets of Decatur last month. A contract was approved between the city and Moody Brothers of Rockforo, 0., drillers of the city’s new hreli that was brought in yesterday and officially aver-’ aged 262 gallons a minute for a 10-hour test It was explained that the reason the contract approval came after the well had been drilled was because the city had acted so awlftly in organizing the actual drilling, paper work was lagging behind. :

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I Rhee Renews ■!• .’ . j- ■ : Demand Troops Be Pulled Ouf Reiterates Demand Despite Assurances In’Washington Note SEOUL, Korea. UP—President Syqgman Rhee blew the Korean truce situation wi.de open again today. 1 '• Despite new assurances contained in another note from Washington! the South Korean president renewed demands thdt Chinese Communist forces be out of Korea within six months after armistice day, and said ? any promises he may have made to cooperate in a truce were “conditional.** He <sai4 that Jf his condition* were not met “We ®hall be at liberty! to! tolipw our own course of action." 1 The.latest United States note to Rhee reached Seoul late today. But" whatever promises it contained, they did not satisfy Rhee and once more, whether or when.: there would be a trucq in Koitea was anybody’s guess. Uh|il Rhee’s latest blast, the United Nations Far East commander Gen, Mark Clark had hope# an agreement wofild be signed within seven days. U. 8. secretary of state John. Foster Dulles, in Washington, had warned that the hot and cold Korea negotiations might blow cold again but he said there were no obstacles that could not be surmounted if the Communists really watate(l a truce. , United States officials have insisted that Rhee agreed in writing not to obstruct the armistice, ■without attaching any time limit. Rhee j and the United States were in such sharp disagreement that it appeared only publication of the pledges exchanged by Rhe® and assistant secretary of stat® Walter! Robertson could settle the dispute. Rheems latest explosion came in Response to questions Submitted hy correspondents. ' The, 78-year old South Korean president’s statement (followed a charge by his foreign minister, Ryun Yung Tae, that the U-nlted, States had, repudiated *promises made to Rhee on post-armistice matters. Pyun intimated that Rhee, in his recent dealings with United States diplomats, had insisted on put'ting a definite time limit on a political conference*s efforts to unify Korea and resolve the issue posed by thq ( presence of 1.000,000 Chinese Communists in Korea. j Rhee’s statement was in direct contradiction tp U. S.. APcretary of state John Foster Dulles’ version of, the agreement reached in 15 days’ of negotiating between Rhee and the special truce jenvoy of President Eisenhower. Dulles told h preps conference Tuesday there was no time limit on Rhee’s agreement to refrain from obstructing an armistice. Rhee said the agreement was “conditional.” “If the United Nations does not consider our desire for survival, we cannot regard the. understanding as binding on us.” Rhee said. i Federal Judge' Leahy Dies Early Today BRISTOL, R. T„ UP —Federal Judge Edward L. Leahy, 67, who was appointed a U. S; senator to • succeed Democrat J. Howard M<fGrath of Rhodp Island, died ac his home early today. He had been in failing health for several months. I i . When McGrath resigned in Angust 1949 to assume a post in President Truman's cabinet, Leahy was named to the senate vacancy. He served until December 1950 and the 'following month was sworn in as a federal judge. : ' * i ui