Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 175.

Uneasy Quiet Settles Over Korea As Armistice Is Signed

Eisenhower In Warning U. S. Keep Up Guard

WASHINGTON UP —President Eisenhower, sounding the keynote of the Korean truce, said it was "an armistice on a single battle- . ground—not peace in the world" and America must keep up it s guard. In a radio and television talk Sunday night an hour after the Wlruce was signed. Mr. Eisenhower JVledged the nation to make the t?orean armistice a step toward a greater goal of a world at peace. He called on Communists to use the conference table, rather than “brutal and futile battle," for settlement of differences. And he said in the words of Abraham Lincoln — “with malice toward none" — that the United States seeks to achieve a just and lasting peace with all nations. Speaking soberly he expressed the nation's prayerful thanks and “solemn gratitude" for an end to the Korean fighting. Even as-the President spoke of how the United States and its allies of 15 nations met and stopped the challenge of Red aggression, ' the corpmunists begau trumpeting claims of a “glorious victory.” Congressmen generally welcomed the truce, but many cau- \ $ tioned against letting up on the arms buildup. Mr. Eisenhower received official word from Gen. Mark W. Clark, at 9:38 p.m. e.d.t. that the truce ' ? had been signed. Then he went to the broadcast room on the White House ground .’ i floor. Posing for photographers before the broadcast. Mr. Eisenhower set the tone for his five minute and . 30-second talk with the observation that now that “the war’s over,” he. hoped thal his son, Maj. John Eisenhower, who has been in Korea for many months, could come home soon. However, the return of American fighting men in the foreseeable future will have to continue on a rotation system. .Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson warned in a statement after tbe truce signing that it will be a "long time" before American troops can be withdrawn “w it h safety” from Korea. Mr. Eisenhower expressed “spe- \ cial feelings of sorrow” for the widows, orphans, and disabled veterans of the Korean fighting. Thanking the fighting men of all the U.N. ■ nations vflth forces in Korea, Mr. Eisenhower said that -f there the U.N. had met “the challenge of aggression — not with pathetic words of protest, but with deeds of decisive purpose.” He particularly saluted the “valorous armies" of South Korea an<| the inspirational leadership -of President Sygman Rhee. BULLETIN James K. Staley, prominent Decatur legionnaire and former commander of Adams Post 43 and fourth district commander, was elected as one of the northern vice-commanders of the Indiana department at the annual convention at -Indianapolis today. Edward F. Yahne Dies At Fort Wayne Edward F. Yahne, 52. 812 Lavine street. Fort Wayne, died ' Sunday at Veterans hospital. Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient since May 30. A former resident of this city. Mr. Yahne moved to Fort Wayne a number of - years ago. Surviving are his wife, Nell, a brother, ' Harry of Fort . Wayne, and his stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Colonel Foremen. Christian Science services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 p. t 1 ~m. at the D. O. McComb funeral home. Burial will be in Lindenv wood cemetery, Fort Wayne.

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File Petition For Addition To Hospital Petition Seeking $400,000 {Addition Filed With County A petition asking for major improvements at the Adams county memorial hospital aha bearing several hundred freeholder signers was presented today to the Adams county hoard of commissioners. Following the statut -, the petition was delivered to Frank Kitson. county auditor,>whose duty it Is to check each signe • for eligibility and attest the correct number to the board. Property owners of Adams county are the only persons who cun sign the petition. The request -i the cotn miss loners is for the is suance of “not to exceed $400,000 in bonds to provide money for the improvements,” which would include increasing the number o* rooms and otherwise making *he county hospital? one of the most modern in Indiana. The petition as presented today contined 20 counterparts and it is understood that several additional sheets will be turned over to auditor Kitson this week, swelling the number of signers. The proposal to modernize the hospital is favored by, the present hospital board including Ca* E. Peterson, chairman; Dee Fryback, secretary; Wilbur Nussbaum, Berne, and Lester Stuckey. Geneva. John DeVpss, Decatur atto - ney, is attorney, for the board. Kitson said today that it would take his staff several days to complete the checking of petitioners* names. It will not be known for several dayfc whether the uetition will bqVrpady for presentation to the .commissioners at their tegular August meeting next Monday. If not, Kitson stated, the commissioners would return to act on the matter as soon as verification is ready, ? Auditor office personnel star*ed immediately the task of scrutinizing each signature. The'petition I as presented hears names of land I and property Owners in every I township of the cdunty. i The plan to build an addition was presented stvert;! months ago to the hospital board because of the crowded conditions at the in stitution. On many occasions it has been necessary to care for patients in the halls of the present building. The exact size of the addition, if the proposal is accepted, is not known at the present time, bokrd members said. The addition depends on the avulability of funds and the size of the approval by the commissioners. It is understood that the commissioners have; the authority to grant any size of a bond issue not to exceed the maximum amount requested in the petition. i During the past several weeks, I hospital board members and other I interested persons have met w-ith various county groups to answer questions concerning the need of additional facilities and it is the consensus o< opinion that a large majority of freeholders favor the addition. /,\ I•' . I —i—L INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. A little cooler] extreme north tonight. Continued < warm south portion. : Low tonight 66-72. High Tuesday 85-90 north, 90-95 south.

Shooting Ends In 37-Month-Old Korean Warfare Strange Quiet On Korean Front As Guns Are Stilled SEOUL, Korea UP—-The shooting in the 37-month-long Korean war ended at 10:00 p. m. tonight (7 a. m. iCST.) with the smell of death and of cordite from high explosive shells still heavy in the strangely silent frontline positions] Intense artillery barrages bled across the front until riiinutes of the cease-fire United Press frontline correspondents reported the last Redfartillery shelly of the war fell on the eastern front at 9:50 p. m.M 10 minutes before the cease fire went into effect. The western and central fronts had fallen quiet minutes earlier. United Press staff correspondent William Miller described the final Red artillery barrage along the western front as among the heaviest in Several days. United I Press staff correspondent Frank Jordan reported from the central front that diehard South Koreans ha<l the satisfaction of firing the last shots of the war. They kept blazing away, with small aftffs, mortar and tank fire, Jprdan reported, until the very moment of the cease-fire. Death continued taking its toll until shortly before eighth army Commander Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor broadcast the official cease-fire order. Men fell to mortar shells and the raking fire of machine guns. As the cease-fire order was broadcast in nine languages over the armed forces radio station, the bugler off the Ist U. S. marine division played taps over the silent lines. Marine searchlights lit up the sky to signal the beginning of the long-awaited armistice. Colored flares burst in the brilliant light of the full moon which bathed the starred hills, the bunkers and the fox holes In which prayerful men sweated out the last hours of the war. Then there was silence. But the stillness was broken (Tuna To Pace Three) Sister Mary Grace Dies In Wisconsin Native Os Decatur Dies Early Sunday Sister Mary Grace, 5-7, a member of the Order of Sisters of St. Agnes, died Sunday at 3:15 a.m. in convent hospital Fond du Lac, Wis„ following an extended illness. The former Catherine Holthottse of this city. Sister Mary Grace entered the convent 42 years ago. She was a teacher in the Catholic schools and had served in l Yonkers, N. Y., Hays. Kan., Belo’t, Wis., Oak Park. 111. and Altoona. Pa., being principal of the parochial schools 1 at several of these places. A daughter of the late John B. and Mary Gast Houthouse, Sister Mary Grace was iborn in Decatur December 6, 1896. She attended St. Joseph’s Catholic school and then entered the noviate at Fond du Lac. She is survived by her st®mother, Mrs. Mary Holthouse of North Third street; two brothers, L. A. Holthouse Os route three, and F. W. Hol thou se of Louisville. Ky.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Jack Brunton and Miss Margaret Holthouse of Decatur, and Mrs, Hugh Kent of Galesburg, 111., three halfbrothers, John B„ Hugh and Robert Holthouse of this city. One ■brother and tw’o sisters are deceased. ’LI. A. Holthouse, F. W. Holthouse and Hugh Holthouse will leave tonight to attend the funeral. ‘Requiem mass will be celebrated at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning in St. Agnes convent chapel. Burial will be in the convent cemetery Fond du Lac.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 27, 1953.

Negotiated Truce Ends 37 Months Os Fighting In Korea Battle Lines

Germans Pour Across Border For U. S Food Estimate 100,000 Pour Across Border To Berlin For Food BORLIN, UP — An estimated 100,000 hungry East Germans poured across the border into West Berlin * today to get "forbidden” food offered under President Eisenhower’s relief program. Residents of all parts, of the Soviet zone crossed the 6pen eastwest city border and entered West Berlin by foot, railway and subway on the first day of the twoweek program. They lined up by the thousands before 11 West Berlin borough halls to get five-pound food packages. The West Berlin city government set aside 1,0’00,000 .packages valued at $1,250,000 under the program jto carry out President Eisenhower’s relief offer. But trie flood of applicants was so great it was believed the number of packages might have to be boosted. East Germans who arrived In West Berlin told city officials there was real hunger in the Soviet zone. They laughed at reports that Russia was sending in foodstuffs. “We haven’t seen any Russian food yet," one man said. All were bitter at the Soviet rejection of Ms. Eisenhower’s $15,000,000 aid offer. A ‘ ■ Long lines included men and women, young and old. City officials . said “mapy” fainted from exhaustion and hunger. "These people really are hungry,” an official said. The Communists had warned East Germans not to accept the packages on the grounds tfiey would be recruited as spies and saboteurs. They came from all parts of the Soviet zone — East Berlin, Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anholt and (Tin To Xlxl

Truce In Korea Causes | Little Impact In U. S. 1

By UNITED PRESS Truce in Korea — one of history’s most tragic anti-climaxes—-hit America at dusk Sunday with about the impact of a soft summer breeze. There were a few whistles and scattered handclapping in Times Square in New York when the 'baseball results were interrupted and the news of the truce signing crawled across the huge electric sign. There wer§ several hundred strollers in Times Square. Most Just kept strolling. Perhaps 300 stopped to look at the news. One was a marine corporal who wore a purple heart won in Korea. He said: (‘•Well, now they got — what, 90 days? — to bicker in before they begin again.” Americans acrpss the country expressed relief, surprise, occasional bitterness, thankful prayer, skepticism, puzzlement, and: “It’s about time they signed that truce.” In Washington there was no excitement on the streets, only nor-

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Filling Sfalions Robbed Last Night Break-ins Reported At Three Stations v Burglars sometime Sunday ( bight broke into Thirteenth street filling stations, cracking open cigarette machines arid emptying cash registers. Cash losses were not immediately estimated. Broken into were Hoosier Pete’s. Jack’s Shell Service, and Bob's Standard Station. The. city patrolman on duty made his last check of the estaljlishments at 2 am., and as each , ( >perator opened his station at about 6 a. m. today, the burglaries were reported. I * The Shell station near the north city limits is owned by Jack Batlmgartner and the hreak-in was reported by him when he opened this morning. Entry was gained through a window on the south side of the building that was smashed in by a two-by-four, police said. A door was unlatched'. A cash register was removed from its place in the office and carried behind a grease rack where is was pried open, SSO in change taken. Tile same treatment was given to a cigarette mat-hine, the front pried off and change removed. Bob Laurent, operator of Bob’s Standard, reported his place broken into this moaning hnd police discovered had been gained through a south wiridow after a small jjjiece of concrete had been used to smash a hole in the window and the door unlatched. Here the thieves found the register had 'been left unlocked and SSO was removed. A half-box of five-cent cigars was also taken from the shelves despite the fact that other brands of more expensive cigars were present. The burglars left by a window in the (Turn To Rlx» BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Roy Amos, Goshen, today was elected commander of the Indiana department of the American Legion. ; ' '

mal Sunday night crowds. A .Chicago telephone operator shrugged and said: “What’s the use. We’ll have to keep on fighting them some day. and my husband is over there.” Mrs. Marcella Krzyowski, whose son Edward* a medal of honor winner, was killed leading Jiis men up Heartbreak Ridge, said: “Let’s hope and ,pray this is a real truce.” Church bells rang out the news in Houston, Tex., i in a prearranged signal; sirens, church bells, and factory whistles signaled the signing in Boston. i It was just “an ordinary Sunday night” in Philadelphia, in Albany, N. Y., in Dallas, Tex., Fort Wayne, Ind., Hartford, Conn. (In Kanias City, Mo., police said it was “moi-e quiet thin usual.” In Raleigh. *N. C., the telephone company put on extra help but let them go when no extra business turned up. |"■ In Cleveland, police reported several television viewers phoned complaining because programs <Tura Te Pan Six)

Doubts House Approval For Postal Boost Opposition From Democrats Poses Problem In House By UNITED PRESS Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., said today that "overwhelming Democratic opposition” makes house approval of the proposed $240,0b0,0U0 postal rate ’increase "exceedingly difficult.” * Martirvs«*id passage of the rate increase bill, asked by President Eisenhower, is "Very doubtful.” t But the spe'akeV does not expect congressional adjournment to be decayed much beyond the target date of this weekend. -He expects congress to complete w’ork on “must” legislation —except the postal increase—and adjourn on schedule Friday or Saturday, probably Saturday. Republican leaders feel they have the votes to get the postal rate hill out of committee, where there is strong Republican as well as Democratic opposition. But the leaders, including Martin, are doubtful about its fate on the house floor. There were reports the bill wuold not cdme to a house vote. Martin would not comment on this. Congress elsewhere: ’Refugees—Martin said Mr. Eisenhower’s proposal for admission of some 200,000 refugees during •the next three years will be con-sidTred-by the house Tuesday. The senate alkp is scheduled to act on the bill within the week. Martin predicted house passage. aid—Republican senate leader William F. Knowland said he thinks the administration “can live with’* the foreign aid budget T» six)

Clyde Snyder Dies Suddenly At Home Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Clyde F Snyder, 67, prominent resident of Van Wert county, 0., died suddenly of a heart attack at 7 o’clock Sunday morning at his home on the Indiana-Ohio state line along U. S. highway 224. Mr. Snyder, a well known farmer, also was a former school teacher in Van Weri county and former cashier of the Wren, O. bank. He was born in Harbison township, Van Wert county, Dec. 1, 1886. a son of Charles H. and Alice V, Smith-Snyder, and was married to Sarah Sheets Dec. 28, 1912. Mn Snyder was a member of the -Pleasant/View Baptist church. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. T. W. Parrott of Harrison township; one grandchild; and two brothers, Carl Snyder of Coldwater, Mich., and Dwight Snyder of Convoy, O. Two sisters preceded him in death. I Funeral services will be ; conducted at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the 'Rev. Durward Gehres officiating. Burial will b « in Woodland cemetery at Vari Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. :

Communists Hold 12,763 Prisoners 3,313 Americans Included In List PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Communists disclosed today they are holding 12.763 Allied war prisoners—including Major Gen. William F. Dean and 3.312 other Americahs—and some will begin returning to freedom this week. All of them we/fe expected to accept repatriation and be releaseci in the “Operation Big Switch" prisoner exchange. In two months, the gigantic operation must be completed.’ The United Nations command has promised io ( repatriate approximately 74,000 Communist prisoners. Communist authorities said they would repatriate about 300 Allied prisoners per day. indicating it would take 42 days td complete the operation. But U.N. negotiators asked £hem to increase the speed of delivery and ,the Reds said they would take the request under consideration. According to the transcript of truce negotiations, the U. N. said it would return 2,160 Red’Prisoners daily through the Panmunjom exchange] point, Including 360 sick and wounded until all of the incapacitated have “been repatrited. The U. S. army announced plans to. return American prisoners home by ship on a thiee-week cruise from the port of Inchon, giving them enough time to rest, eat all they want and receive medical treatment. Those more seriously ill or wounded will be taken aboard either evacuation planes or hospital ships, most of them directly from Korea to the West Coast.

Rhee Pledges Not To Disturb Truce Sees Armistice As Lead To More War SEOUL, (U>)—President Syngman Rhee promised today “we shall not disturb the armistice” while a political conference tries “within, a’ limited time” to unify Korea. “I have opposed the signing of the truce,” Rhee said in a statement, “because of my conviction that it will prove to be the prelude to iriore war, not less; to more suffering and ruin; to further Communist advances by war and by subversion. ! i - “Now that it is signed. I pray that my Judgment of its effect riiay turn out to •be wrong. We .shall not disturb the armistice while a political conference undertakes within a limited time to solve peacefully the problem of the liberation and unification of Korea. “Our understanding with the United States insures effective cooperation between our two nations in maintaining the security of thearea of our mutual interests." In the statement, issued by the South Korean office of public information, Rhee promised his people that the rehabilitation of South Korea would proceed promptly and effectively, Addressing Koreans ip North Korea, he said: “To our suffering brethren who remain for a time under the Com<T«rx Te Pace Five)

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SEOUL, Korea, Tuesday UP — The uncertain and uneasy quiet of a negotiated -tKice settled oyer the Korean battle lines today. The armistice documents ending the bitter, stalemated efforts of the Communists to seize all Korea 'by force-were signed at 10:01 a.m. Monday 701 p.m. c.s.t. Sunday in “truce- village” of Panmunjom. 'I? Exactly 12 hours later official orders for a cease-fire were broadcast to troops on both sides of the battle lines. The war was over after 37 months. The last Red artillery shell of the war burst on the eastern front 10 minutes earlier. South Korean troops on the central front continued a rattle of small arms fire almost to the moment of the deadline.. : Then the strange silence of the cease-fire settled over the moonlit lines. But the end* of the military phase of the long and costly United Nations Collective efforts to end aggression must be followed by a delicatie political conference to start within 90 days. This will in the end determine whether the truce Will last: Whether the ceasefire can be extended into a genuine peace for Korea. The truce and the cease-fire wrote the end to a “police action” which ‘developed into one of the longest and most costly wars in American history. it was entered Upon under a United Nations pledge to halt aggression and it ended almost where is began—in a specially construct- 1 !, ed “peace pagoda" in the little mud hut village of Panmunjdm just below the. 38th parallel. As war merged into truce. American warplanes turned back to their bases with bomb loads still undropped and Allied soldiers dug in. , alert against a surprise last-minute Communist attack but* under orders not to start a fight of their own. By 9 km. e.d.t. Thursday each side must withdraw two kilometers to leave a two and a half mile “demilitarized” zone between them. Within that same time the first , of 12,763 Allied prisoners held by the Reds may be on their way home. Approximately 3,000 of the i prisoners are American. . As the war ground to a halt, the Co'mmUnists threw one last punch. I ■ The made a 250-man attack against South Korean troops on the central front this morning but were turned back with at least 140 men Rilled. And exactly When the armistice was signed, the Reds Opened up with 20 rounds of mortar and artillery fire on an American heavy mortar company just behind the ROK lines. i There were no American casualties. i ji •■ i Thus the war which began With a surprise Communist attack against the South Koreans on June 25, 1950; ended three years and 32 days , later. The war took 24,966 American lives, and resulted in 101,368 wounded and more ‘than 10,000 others captured or missing. It cost the United States around $15,000,000,000. Three hours after the Allied and Communist negotiators signed the , bulky documents in the ceremony T» Pace Itx) BULLETIN ] INDIANAPOLIS UP — Gov- - ernor Craig announced today he has turned down an appolnt- . me nt as a U. S. delegate to the United Nations general a» || sembly because the state con- , stHution forblde him serving j In that capacity and as governor at the same time.