Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 176.

| + Marines Celebrate As Guns Still y."i’ * ■ -I, 11, JW g I - I I |f I I rr •"‘A ■ ■ 'l 7 '.. ■ 1 ;St. >1 i > •> / ijp n v >/wf h JkMiR. &Nk xl Ftm B X■ W sar. woMbS Xt WaEiaß H&iRIRSSr ■" —■ s .. n> J3RB • r J- ■• .***<'• M-W: JUBILANT LEATHERNECKS wave their rifles and helmets in the air as word reaches them that the guns have stopped firing in Korea. Just twelve hours after the signing of the Armistice the guns stilled tor the first time in three years of bitter fighting and bloodshed. According to the terms of the truce both armies are to pull back 1% miles within 72 hours to form a 2Vi mile buffer lone.

Reds Seizing Food Parcels Sent By U.S. Thousands Os East Germans Defy Reds To Line Up For Food • BERLIN, (UP) — Communist police started seizing some of the “Eisenhower food packages" given <o hungry East Germans by the West today and a trigger-happy Red border guard shot a West Berliner as he crossed the Iron Curtain border. The two incidents came as tens of thousands of East Zoners defied Communist threats : of penalties and came ,to West Berlin to receive the precious five-pound food parcels. . 1 West Berlin police said that Red police at the Bernauer Crossing point between the French and Soviet sectors* of the city confiscated the food packages of five East Berliners returning home, j They also took the names of some others. Western police said all those who lost their food or had their • names takqin were carrying the packages ppenly in net shopping bags. 'Most Easterners car Tied the food so it: could not be seen. .The shooting incident occurred as the West Berliner crossed the open liorder into the Soviet sector during the night of the mass movement which at times resembled the trek o*f displaced persons after World War H. For the second straight day Soviet Zone residents defied warnings of their Communist rulers and came in hungry masses for the « five-pound -parcels containing lard? condensed milk, flour, peas and beans. All night they moved across the border. When food distribution officers at 11 borough hails opened at 9 a. m. tens of thousands already were waiting. Some 130,000 came Monday and that many were expected today. Their numbers disproved the Soviet Claim that there was no hunger in East Germany. The East German Communists, smarting from >the impact of this demonstration in the battle of propaganda, called on the government today to smash an antiCommuniat underground the Reds . said exists throughout the Soviet zone. A proclamation of the party’s central committee said “An Amer-ican-organized and supported Fascist underground movement” has * been trying to overthrow the government and must be crushed. The food was made available through President Elsenhower’s $25,000,000 food aid program carried out despite Soviet rejection -of the President’s relief offer. T- 1 ’ INDIANA WEATHER , Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers northwest and extreme north portions tonight and in east portion Wednesday., Warm and humid but becoming a little cooler near 'Lake Michigan by Wednesday evening. Low tonight 68-74. High Wednesday 90-95 north, 95-100 south.

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Step Up Drive On Reds In Indochina Encircle Vital Communist Base HANOI. Indochina. UP — Ten battalions of tough French Union commandos and paratroopers today encircled a vital Communist base on the Annam coast in a stepped-up drive to crush the Reds in Indochina. Nine battalions went ashore in a pre-dawn amphibious operation and moved swiftly against the rebel-held: “joyless route" between Hue and Quang Tri, 300 miles south of Hanoi. Another battalion of red-bereted paratroopers Were dropped in the enemy’s rear from a fleet of 40 DC-3 Dakota transports. , By noon the two forces had linked up in an encircling action which threatened to wipe out two regular battalions of the Communist March ißegiment No. 95. Squadrons of American-built B--26 and Bearcat fighter bombers blasted a trail. of death through the enemy held jungle. They na-palm-bombed and strafed the enemy wherever he showed his head. The French moved swiftly to deal crushing blows to the Reds in this last active battlefront of Communism in Asia. The French offensive began to hit the stride 10 days ago. Concerned Over Cut WASHINGTON, UP --Administration forces in the senate concernedl over a 25 percent slash in U. S. aid for embattled Indochina today but they hesitated trying to do anything about it immediately. They were afraid that if they tried to Restore the cut on the senate flooi’, it might give the economy bloc an opening to shove through amendments cutting the foreign aid, bill even more. The measure comes up for debate Wednesday. 1 An informed source said, howI ever, that the state department was disturbed by the $100,000,000 slash since the Korean truce might increase the chance of direct Chinese Communist intervenXTwra T« f»«Ke Klrat) Two-Yeor-Old Boy Is Killed By Car LEBANON, Ind. UP — Two-year-old Eddie Perkins, son of Boone county conservation officer Robert S, Parkins, died Monday of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car in front of his home. Police said the youngster darted in front of an auto driven by Buren Sullivan. Lebanon. Sen. Taft Reported / As Not So Good NEW YORK, UP— Sen. Robert A. Taft’s .condition “has deteriorated somewhat in the last 24 hours”, New York hospital announced today. The Ohio Republican underwent abdominal surgery at New York hospital July 8 and had been scheduled to leave, the hospital Wednesday. It was announced Monday that he would not leave because further treatment appeared “warranted.”® The hospital bulletin today said: "Senator Taft's condition has deteriorated somewhat during the last 24 hours. He is responding less well to treatment and is not taking food satisfactorily?'

Postal Boost Knocked Out By Congress Congressmen Seek To End Session By Friday, Saturday WASHINGTON, UP —Congressmen hurrying toward adjournment this week end decided today not to let President Eisenhower have his four-cent—stamp. Chairman Edward H. Rees, RKans., of the house post office committee announced that no’ action will be taken in this session on the administration's request for a $240.000,000-a-year boost Hr postal rates. Part of the administration plan, now’ doomed till next year, was to raise out-of-town letter postage from three to four cents an ounce? Rees said his committee won’t act on the inail rate bill until next year and will hold no more hearings after Wednesday unless congress stays in session after this week. Congressional leaders, previously resigned to no action on mail rates, are determined to call it quits Friday or Saturday if at all possible. Rees’ committee did make one gesture toward reducing the post office's deficit of more than $500,000,000 a year. It approved a bill under which the post office no longer would carry the mail of federal agencies for free. That would knock about $36,000,000 off the postal deficit but it wouldn’t help the taxpayer by even a penny. 1 Other “adjournment week” developments: Money: The house cleared its calendar of three compromise appropriations bills and sent them to the senate for final congressional action. They appropriated $2,009,993,261 for the labor department and the department of health, education, and welfare; $447,429,499 for several independent agencies, and $47,000,000 for the District of Columbia. Rubber: The house gave its final approval to plans for selling the government’s war-built synthetic rubber plants. Rep. Carl T. »Durham, D-N. C., said the plants will bring $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 under the bill. They cost $437,000,0001 The senate was expected to approve \the, measure too. / . .}' Foreign Aid: Sen. Hohter Ferguson, R-Mich„ said he is confident the senate or a housesenate committee will restore $100,000,000 cut from the foreign aid bill item for Indochina. The cut was made by the senate appropriations committee, of which Ferguson is ranking GOP member. He said the committee knocked out the $100,000,000 because the administration had somehow neglected to explain its importance. New. Law: President Eisenhower signed a bill that gives farm programs more money than he asked in their behalf. The new law appropriates $718,395,398 for the agriculture department. That is $14,400,000 more than the President requested.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 28, 1953.'

Communists Agree To Begin War Prisoners’ Exchange On August 5

At Least Five Perish In Fire In Resort Hotel Fire Rages Through Resort Hotel Today In New York State , 1 f’ f ■ I KINGSTON. N. Y. UP — At least five persons perished today as fire raged through the Williams Lake resort hotel six miles south of here, and nine were hospitalized for injuries. A woman jumped to her death and at least four died in the flank ing main building of the hotel. The woman was identified as Mrs. Sophie Eckerlin 54, Ozone Park, L. I. Police and firemen, digging through the wreckage, said they found the charred remains of a man, woman and child in one room, identified only as the Matthews family. ~ . One or two more bodies were in adjoining room. Searchers were unable to immediately determine the exact number because of the condition of the bodies. Mrs. Eckerlin was reported to* have jumped from an upper win* - dow and broken her neck. ‘ State troopers and firemen were continuing to search the wreckage. Fire broke out in the rambling frame building shortly after 5 a.m. About 300 guests wer* believed to Jhave been vacationing there at the time.

Walkouts Shatter | Nation Labor Peace | Milwaukee Brewery Strike Nears End By UNITED PRESS A 76-day-old Milwaukee brewery strike was near settlement today, but the| nation’s labor peace was shattered 'by other walkouts among atoinic energy, cannery and telephone workers. Some 7,2k)0 CIO United Brewery Workers were scheduled to vote at a mass meeting today on ratification of all agreement to end their strike against six Milwaukee breweries. Approval of the undisclosed agreement was considered almost certain. The breweries, Schlitz, Fabst. Millers, Gettelman, Independent and Blatz, promised to have beer flowing within eight" hours of a settlement. Hopeful news caime from Chicago where the President of the CIO Communications Workers Union said the union had “decided to take another try at peaceful collective bargaining” with 11 telephone companies of the l nation ‘wide Bell System. Contract negotiations between the several utility systems ' and the CIO workers had been on the breaking point recently, and a fullscale strike was on in Indiana. / Meanwhile, AFL cannery porkers called a strike today against 40 California fruit processing plants, and California fruit growers asked President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley act with an anti-strike injunction* Wages were at issue. And in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the government was faced with a strike by some 3J>OO non-scientific atomic energy plant workers, including AFL craftsmen such as electricians and " plumbers. The strike halted wx>rk at atomic energy projects X-10 and Y-12 and stopped construction work at /a project known at K-33 when about 5,900 AFL construction workers refused to cross the picket lines. The striking craftsmen demanded a 10 H cent hourly wage increase plus Armistice Day off. The Carbide and Chemicals Corp., operating the research installations for the atomic energy commision, offered only a five percent wage increase.

Tax Collections In State 208 Millions 20 Million Increase Over Previous Year INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana taxpayers during the fiscal year ending June 30, auditor Frank T. Wiifis reported today. “ He said die combined collections qf all state revenue divisions jumped $20,066,296.97 above a year ago. Indreases were shown in all except the store license division and ranged from 5.5 per cent for motor fuel to 32.1 per cent for inheritance tax. ''{ The state's big money-maker, as usual, was the gross income tax. It netted $106,819,211.78, over the $100,000,000 mark for the first time in history. This was a 12.3 per cent increase over 1951-52 collections of $95,085? 859.06. Other revenue sources —the total collected and percentage increase over last year—were: ® Motor fuel tax $54,511,361.81, increase 5.5 per cent; bonus tax $36,182,527.51, increase 12.2 per cent; Intangibles tax $4,019,224.28, increase 10.8 per cent; inheritance tax $4,450,203.59,* increase 32.1 per cent; oil inspection fees $1,273,ii 11.31, increase eight per cent; petroleum severance coßeet lone $345,561.58, increase 10 per cent, and employment agency fees $2,050 increase 28.1 per cent. * Store license collections dropped to $543,942.20, three per cent below a year ago. U

Meshberger Bros. Low ; On Highway Projects INDIANAPOLIS. UP —The Indiana highway department opened bids today on highway resurfacing projects in* Adams and Vigo coun-' ties. Meshberger Brothers Stone Corp. Linn Grove, was low bidder for twto on a county road project off U. S. 27 southwest and northeast of Decatur. The bid was $25,098.34. : r _v Rhee Says Korean Aims Unchanged Full Guarantee Is Reported By Rhee man Rhee said today the 16 Korean war allies “are determined .tc fight with us jointly to punish the aggressors should they attack us as they did in June, 1950.” “Full guarantee has beten givep to Korea in this respect,” the president said in a message to thte Korean people. Rhee said the objective? of South Korea remain: as they have always been — unification .of Korea and complete withdrawal of iae Chinese Communists. “The South Korean aim has not changed, but has simply been postponed,” he said. "Tjie advisability <*f our remaining cooperative with the Unitei Nations and particularly <ith the United Stated rather then continu-. ing the wnr unilaterally against the wishes of the United Nations mad? us adopt this course to see if, during the limited time, the United Nations is capable of persuading the Chinese Reds to leave. Korea through negotiations. ‘Tf, after the said period of time, we succeed in this objective, it shall be a really great feat; but if we tfail, the United Nation* will join us in the undertaking of unifying Korea.” \ ‘ Rhee did not specify a time limit on the length of the political conference which U to follow th? truce. “We neither approve the present armistice nor dq we intend to ot» struct its implementation," Rhee said. .i! ■' "J

First Day 01 Peace In Korea Far From Quiet * Demolition Teams Blast Bunkers And Trenches In Korea ■ t ■ i ! 1 I ■ SEOUL, Korea UP — United Nations and Communist troops today pulled back peacefully and voluntarily from a two and one* halTjsknile belt across Korea for whiciH up to a day ago, they fought, bled and died. : Operation “pullback” was the first phase of applying the truce, bought through mutual compromise and concession in two years of negotiations at Panmunjom. Within 72 hours all fighting men. Allied and Communist, must be out of the I demilitarized ,zone agreed upon in the armistice. Two South Korean soldiers were killed and a third was wounded when their jeep struck a mine in lyhat will the neutral belt. American officers said the three men disregarded warnings and drove up' a central front,road untraveled by Allied vehicles before the armistice. Men of both sides already had 4aHeo back from .many sectors today. The Reds were burying their dead, gathered up from the now silent battle fields, and were clearing away the ugly mechanisms of war from their side of the neutral zope, U. N. command was demolishing bunkers and fortresses and uprooting tangled barbed wire emplacements. Explosions set off by demolition teams resounded across the otherwise inactive and abandoned front. On the central front; scene of the recent bloody Kumsong Bulge Offensive. Chinese Communists burled their dead within full view of Americans and cleaned up the battle area around their positions. An American spokesman said some of the Chinese tried to bum cigarettes from U. S. troops after the cease-fire Monday night “but we didn’t fraternize with them.” H “Peace” messages blared from loudspeakers on both the western and central front. / A Communist loudspeaker on the deptral front drew only silence by/ inviting South Koreans, who had fought the Reds down to the last to “join in singing songs.” s Capt. Donald F. Peterson of North Hollywood, Calif., said Red shelling continued until almost the last minute of the three-year old O (Tara Ta Pace Five I

More Polio Cases j In Illinois County ’ Macon County Polio Cases Increasing } »DEOATU«, Hl. VP — March county’s polio count increas*-' (Monday as Timothy Crouch became the 34 th case of the yehr. | Four others had been admitted during the weekend. One was Mrs, Ursula Vail, 26, whose two children received gamma globulin preventive shats during the county's mass inoculations 10 days ago. The three children admitted td City public hospital during the weekend had received the GG shots. But most doctors said some had become ill several days before entering the hospital. were Francis Smith, 6, Frank Go'ilohon, 2; and Madeline Gray, 8, all at Decatur. The Smith boy was released the same day he was admitted and doctors said he #as a "recovering” case. 4 None tit the children suffere! paralysis. Gamma globulin is supposed to prevent or lessen para’ytic effects of the disease. Sixteen patients have been admitted with polio in the county since the inoculations.

1 i | 1 Legion Official James K. Staley —l. 1 > I ■ 1— James Staley Named As Legion Official" Decatur Man Named As Vice-Commander r James K. Staley, World sWar I veteran and 1943 commander of American Legion Post 43, of this city, was sworn in yesterday as •northern 1 vjicerconunander of the Indiana Department of’ the? American Legion, following his election at the state convention ip Indianapolis. Staley is the first man from this county to serve in this office. He served as fourth district commander in 1947-48. He was unopposed for the vice-comniandership, apd will serve with - Clarence Hipsjher of Logansport in the northern Indiana district. > Assisting ,the newly elected Indiana commander. Roy Apios of Goshen, Staley will more thpn likely be called on to give special attention to Legion activities in the fburth, fifth and third districts. Staley, is pmployed at the General Electric plant in this city and has been prominent in Legion for the last 30 jears. Other State Officers I Reed Beard. Bedford, and William L. Woodward; Terre Haute, were elected southern vice-com-manders. # New national committeeman is John C. Wilson, Bloomingto|i. Charles Bassett, Mariop. was elected Sergeant - at - arrps; Fr. Bernard Gerden, Indiapapolis, chaplain, and ?Barnett W. love, Indianapolis, was re-elected treasurer. Legion Auxiliary' Electa The Women’s Auxiliary sos the Legion elected Mrs. Rinda; Rains, Madison, as department president to succeed Mrs. Dallas Kennon, Kentland. Others elected, all without, opposition, were Mrs. Estelle Hutchinson, South Bfend, /portherp vicepresident; Mrs. Hubert i Smith, Brownsburg Southern vice i president; Mrs. John Kundrat, Indianapolis, secretary;' Mrs. Honjer McDaniel, Dunkirk, treasurer; Mrs. Betty Matthews, Indianapolis, historian. and Mrp.' Amy CoultPmJPell City, chaplain. \ Approximately 900 Names On Petition Approximately ,900 names are on the 19 counterparts Mo the $400,000 petitiqn for an addition to the Adams’ county» memorial 'hospital, according to county auditor Frank Kitson. Kitson said he expects afoout three piore counterparts to come into his office ,to make tpe petitioners* list complete. Kitson said he and his | staff commenced checking names on the petition against tax records to see if each of the signers' was an ovfner of taiaJble real estate in Adams county. Any of the signers found not to be freeholders is scratched from the list forthwith and disqualified. Kitson said he would make a public report qf the disqualifications and other possible challenges as soon as ready. I ' 'j. - L \ .'i?! 1 . ■

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Under UN Pressure To Exchange Reds Will Release 400 Qf Allied War Prisoners Daily ■ ■ ■ ? Ji -i PANMUNJOM. Korea UP — The Communists agreed today under U. N. pressure to begin returning; United Nations prisoners—including 3,313 Americans—at a 400 per day clip beginning Aug. 5. The United Nations command wanted to get the exchange going sooner and - move it faster. . But tjfe Reds confessed that their rickety communications sys- i tern and inadequate facilities for handling the 2,400 men the U. N. will , return daily made an earlier date or mor£ rapid handling imrj possible. • The Communists said that within one month' they will be able to. exchange more than 12,000 Allied prisoners they hold for 74.000 Chi-' nese and North Korean POW's who want to return to Communism. The Communists said they would, be able to return 400 prisoners daily, compared to 2.400 to be rei patriated qach day by the Allies; More than 25,000 Chinese and . North Koreans resisting repatria- ! tion will be turned over to a five- . nation uetjtral custodial commit slon, ■ j ' American army teams flocked • to the nearby Allied base at Munsan to prepare for the prisoner exchange. J. ■ / /■■ They assembled at “Freedom Village," where sick and wounded prisoners were exchanged in “Lit- , tie Switch*' last April, i ' Construction gangs also went to work buildipg up the over which Communist vehicles must travel to reach the prisoner ex-' change point- " | ’ Maj. Qeri. Blackshear M. Bryan, senior United Nations delegate on the armistice commission, said the Allies could have started the ex- ' change ‘’within a week."! Thel Allied movement of Communist repatriates was reported in (progress already. Most famous of the American prisoners is Major Gen. William F. Dean, who was captured by the Communists ,ou July 22, 1950 while withdrawing from Taejon. First prisoners to be exchanged by the Communists will bq about 500 men who are sick or wounded. . Col. L. Q. Friedersdorff, dhiet of the Allied gtaff of the joint prisoner: repatriation committee, announced that the schedule was agreed upon in the committee’s first meeting Tuesday afternoon. . Biryan’s group scheduled its second 'meeting fqr 10 p.m. e.d.t. Tuesday. ■’. / ; ' 1 ■ J I When Bpran was asked for his reaction to his first negotiation with the Conimunists, he said it was “just tike: walking on a tightrope?’ jf; j • .' ' , ' Cdl. Johq K. Weber of San Antonio, Tex.,' and his staff conferred; with the Reds on selection of a site for the armistice commission's permanent headquarters here. j And senior officers of both delegations to the joint observer teams which will /watch the 2 1-2-mlle demilitarized buffer zone held their first meeting to exchange creden- V tlals. - i Ij' " > " Eighty Swedish and 10 Swiss delegates to .the neutral nation team were expected to arrive here Tuesday. The Czechoslovak and Polish members were reported on their way by train from Peiping via Manchuria; There were no Incidents to mar the first full day of peace. The only noise in the battleaone was heard In |he low neutral buffer zone. Demolition squads were busy destroying bunkers and other forti- , fications. , There were familiar Communist faces in Panmunjom. Gen. Lee Sang Clio, the moat bitter antiAmerican on North Korean Gen. Nam U’s truqe negotiation staff, showed up as head of the Communist section of the armistice com- ■ <T«ra Te ftwe six)