Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 178.

All Os Allied Prisoners To Be Relumed Peiping Radio Says All Prisoners Wish To Return Home PANMVNJOM. Korea. VP — The radio voice of Red China said Thursday all 12,763 Allied prisoners in North Korea want to go home and will be repatriated in "Operation Rig Switch,” beginning next Wednesday. Peiping Radio's official announcement was a tacit confession that none of the Reds captives, including 3.313 Americans had responded to Communist propaganda or other instruments of indoctrination. Until Thursday there had been fears the Reds might have duped a few United Nations prisoners into believing they could enjoy a better life under Communism, There was no word from North Korea tQ back up previous Conimunist jieports the first group of prisoners had started down the old "Freedom Road” from the Yalu River to the Panmunjom ex- > change point. However, the first 600 Chines| awaiting repatriation arrived at the Allied base at nearby Munsan. They will, be held in a stockade until Aug. 5, when the exchange begins. | \r Some of the Chinese prisoners tore their newly issued uniforms in an effort td give the impression they had been jgjven old clothing. The North Koreans were obeying all Allied orders and "were cooperative. , ' The military armistice commission sent the first of seven U. N. * and Communist truce observing teams into the demilitarized buffer zone on the narrow waist of , Korea to check against violations. Both sides completed tneir withdrawal from the zone at f:3O p.m. (4:30 a.m., c.s.t.) 214 hours before the 10 p.m- deadline upon in the final armistice negotiations. Two U* N. teams left Munsan for their posts on the west central front. They will meet with their Communist counterparts Friday on the old battleground. Ironically, two officers on the teams going out Friday fought with the U. S. 7th division against the Communists recently in the same Porkchop-Old Baldy area. They are Lt. Cols. James R. Tul- 1 ly of Columbus, Oa., and Robert T. Dixon of North Attleboro, Mass., Henderson. Ky„ and Peoria. 111. The armistice commission met for an hour and 15 minutes Thursday, during -which time Maj. Gen. - Blackshear M. Bryan, senior U. N. delegate,, heard, the 10th Communist complaint o£ alleged Allied truce violations. ’ Bryan said he would investigate all of the charges. Eight complaints were made Wednesday. The latest charges of ceasefire violations said Allied planes, twice flew over the 2% mile wide buffer zone, "circling and reconnoitering” on July 29. "We will announce results of our investigations later.” Bryan 4 <Twr» T® Pa*® Five) Decrease In Pork j Prices Foreseen All-Time High Price Predicted To Drop By UNITED PRESS Oncfc-lowiy pork is now a highpriceid dinner table aristocrat, but market experts said today the cost pf bacon and pork chops should drop soon. - A spot survey showed that pork prices were as. all-time highs in New York and Minneapolis, and - not far from record levels in other cities. Last year - pork was the big’ butcher shop bargain, selling? at economical levels in almost all cuts. _ - The survey of 13 major cities showed that center cut pork chops have generally risen 20 cents a pound from a year ago. Bacon has climbed 20 to 30 cents a pound,.and loin pork roast showed increases from 10 to 20 cents. Sliced bacon that sold in New York City a year ago for 69 cents a pound cost $1 or more today. Minneapolis housewives were ” forced to pay 95 cents a pound for bacon today, compared with 73 a year ago. . J . But market experts said that at cornbelt stockyards the prices of hogs-on-the-hoof and the wholesale price of dressed pork have dropped in the last two weeks and are still falling. In a week or two. this will mean price relief for housewife shoppers the experts said.

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AT THft WHITE HOUSE, President Eisenhower confersi with his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower (right), following the Doctors return from an| extensive trip through South America as the President's personal! envqy. In his report Dr. Eisenhower. President of Pennsylvania State College, told the President that he had found both “unprecidented friendliness” and great misunderstanding to the U. S. in South America. ..

East Germans Planning Mass Food Marches • -t i Tens Os Thousands Organize for Mass Marches On Berlin BERLIN, (UP)! — Tens of thousands of East German workers who Sparked the June 17 revolt\ started organizing today for mass marches to West Berlin in defiance of Commuhist threats and intimidation to pick up their “Eisenhower food packages." According to Soviet zone residents arriving |n western sectors, workers voted at •, many factory meeungs to march together this week-end to prevent Red police from employing the terror tactics they have started against individuals. : The workers will go on their day off to pick up the food which is unavailable to them at home. Some planned to Come from -as far as 120 miles away. Worker? of the Heningsdorf feteel mill outside Berlin sent an advance delegation! to warn the ■ Communist police at the EastWest city border they were coming. The police were told to ' “stand aside or be prepared to fight.” I - 1 An estimated quarter of a million East Germans -poured across the border Into West Berlin for the free hve-pound food parcels, exceeding Wednesday's figure. Altogether, in (he firsit four days of the program some -650,000 have joined “tho longest breadline in the world.” East German Premier Otto Grotewhol, who endorsed the Soviet rejection of President Eisenhower’s original relief offer, now has offered to buy the >15.000,000 worth of food being shipped from the United States “or more.” He proposed paying “world market prices,” Grotewhol at the same time labeled the western relief program for East Germans “a provocation." - ; Thfe lower housfe of'the East German parliament Wednesday night endorsed Grotewhol's rejection of the offer by Mr. Eisenhower to feed hungry Germans following the anti Communist uprisings last month. •> East Germans reported 20,000 <T®r® T® P»*«* Six) r “ s Study Effectiveness '• Os Gamma Globulin WASHINGTON, UP —The public health service announced today that a nationwide study is being made to find out just how effective gamma globulin is in combat-' ing polio. i . , The purpope. of the Research program is to gather as much “useful information” as possible about the new polio weapon. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, service chief, said. The research will seek to determine how much gamma globulin reduces paralysis in polio victims. Petition Not Yet 1 Ready To Present County auditor Frank Kitson said today that he didn’t expect the $400,000. petition for an' addition to the Adams county hospital to be ready for presentation to the county commissioners next Monday. The auditor explained that the checking of names with the county tax rolls would most likely not be finished.

County 4-H Fair At Monroe Next Week I . . ' 1 -» Make Preparations For Annual Event ,■ ! ■ i '■ !! ■ ' ! 1 To the 4-H'ers and farmers of Adams county the annual 4-H fair at iMonroe is the daddy of them all For that is where 1 they can show off the ibest they have been able to aec&tnplish with plants* and livestock during the past year. This year's rural extravaganza will be off and running with a parade on the evening of August 4, which will-begin the festivities Ifor the following two days. Farmers and 4-H cltfbs, besides just exhibiting their fanciest beef on the hoof and fattest grain on the stalk, delve into almost every facet of nature in the country. The best of: pheasant, rabbit, bee, forestry, soil conservation. Right along with it wiR come the crafts that farm women become expert at: baking, food preparation, gardens, all manner of handicraft. iNo less awaited will be the trae tor pulling contests for the menfolk. The younger set will present exhibits in entymplogy; rural electrification, flowers, home improvement, and so forth. Opening night will be August 4, a grand parade to mark the ever t. Rural youth of the county will run a refreshment and novelty stand just east of the pre-fab building on the grounds. They’ll sell > 4-H shirts, caps, pennants, jewelry, and soda pop, plus a host of other goodies and mementos, i 'Possibly the most patiently flwaited' single project of the fair is the food tent. That’s the place you 'will be able to buy, at fantastically low prices, the very best cookery of the farm wife. For those who’ve been fortunate enough to visit the fair before you 'know what we're referring to: newcomers will have to see for themselves. There’s another delightful angle to the food tent, besides the obvious draw Os the victuals, and that’s the fact that ft is the one time during the year that farm wives from all over the county can meet, gossip and compare notes. In the food tent women from one end of Adams to another engage in the activity they love most. For three short days they are public relations representatives for their own townships. And they have never failed yet to put their best foot forward. 'Donors to the annual 4-H event come from the Adams county 'Farm Bureau, S & E leaders, home demonstration clubs, rura’ youth—and the firms who purchase advertising space in the 4-H catalog. There will be entertainment — home style—each night of the fair, even the possibility of one act from the state fair, conducting an amateur contest on the basis of district competition. The dams couny merican Red The Adams County ,American Red Cross will provide 'facilities for first aid and will be open to anyone who falls ill at the fair. The.'tent will be manned by competent Red Cross first aid workers and will be in operation during all regular fair hours. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Friday except for some cloudiness extreme north tonight. Continued warm and humid south and central and! becoming warm and humid again In extreme north Friday. Low tonight 68-72 north, 70-75 south, High Friday 90-95 north, 94-99 south.

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Eisenhower Requests Congress To Increase Federal Debt Ceiling

Production Os Atom Weapons At Record High Semi-Annual Report By Commission On Atomic Progress WASHINGTON UP — The atomic energy commission disclosed today that it is blueprinting a new atom engine which will drive submarines “significantly” faster than the two sUb engines already developed. At the same time the ABC reported that: • ; 1. Production of atomic! explo slves hit an all-time record high in the first six months Os this year and soon will go even higher. 2. The 11 experimental devices exploded in Nevada this year — In the “longest and most complex series yet conducted" — foreshadow “substantially greater atomic weapons capability for the United Staten.” 3. The first of two land-based submarine engine prototypes has produced “substantial anfouhts o r power” already and will product* more when ft is brought to full operation. 4. New raw material sources and new techniques of exploiting them give promise that atpniic forces will be “a major source of energy, for many years.” These disclosures were the highlights of-the AEC’s 14th semiannual report covering’ the first six months of 1953. It said the period “may be best remembered” for developments in reactor "atomic furnace” and power phases of the atomic project. '“This half-year,” the AFC said, produced "a greater number of, significant events in reactor development than any previous six months in the commission’s history," The report did not allude to the hydrogen super bomb, except inferentially in an announcement that construction work is proceeding at Bikini, recently added to neighboring Eniwetok as a Pacific test site for atomic weapons. 'Another disclosure bearing on, the H-bomb is thtut preparations are being made to start production from the 41,500,000.000 Savannah river plant. It will make both Hbomb and A-bomb explosives. The ABC was enthusiastic about (Tara T* Pawe Flvari French Destroy Big Red Indochina Base 2,000 Rebels Escape From Trap By French \ HANOI, Indochina, UP —French Union troops finished their job of destroying a big Communist base on the Annam coast today but about 2,000 rebels escaped from their trap in a rectangle of death; The French command said several | battalions of French and Viet Namese infantry and mortar pulled out of the small rectangle and moved northward in an attempt to overtake the fleeing rebels. A Command spokesman said destruction of the" base near the Annam capital of Hue ended the newest operation in the seven-year-old war against the Communist Viet Minn in Indochina. He said that even though twothirds of the entrapped 3,000 Reds had escaped, the operation was a success because it removed a key enemy base for attack against French defenders around Hue. A spokesman for French Union Commander - in - Chief Gen. Henri Navarre said at least 200 rebels were killed in the offensive completed today. He said, however, the enemy death toll will, mount since French artillery and mortar steadily bad bombarded bamboo thickets "inside the narrow mile pocket.

General Mark Clark Is Welcomed Home ; • ]■ I y ; ; Warns Korean Truce Doesn't Mean Peace SAN FRANCISCO UP — Gen. Mark -W. Clark returned to |he United States today to a hero’s welcome and said the Kokan truce is ‘merely an fllent between military commandjßrs .to stop shooting.”! j : bands blared as the specal plane landed, including the b ue and gold dressed 57-man sijjth army band and a red and greeo k lied pipers band. , A smartly uniformed 60-mjan ponqr guard, highly polished whiteiaced paratrooper bootisl flashing ;ih the bright sun, marched up to the plane as it pulled up before the terminal. v On hand to greet Clark, who signed the Korean truce agreement last Sunday, were San Francisco Mayor Elmer E. Robinson and the general’s' old military friend, 14.. Gen. Joseph M. Swing, sixth army commander. Also present were the Clarks’ daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Oosting, residents of S»n Francisco. The Clarks will depart Saturday for New Orleans ! |o attend the wedding, of their son, ? As be stepped from the plane mo Meet cameramen and reporters, the four-star general again repeated a warning issued during a bri£f< stop at Honolulu Wednesday night. A| Honolulu, Clark said the armistice pact signed at Panmunjofn “doesn't necessarily mean peace. It remains to be seen it the Communists who have! been preaching peace for so long really mean it. “Meanwhile, we still have to be on guard.” he said. The general and Mrs. Clark rocje In |Open sedans over a 10-niile route to city hall and a subsequent ticker parade through downtown San Francisco. BULLETIN ; O’NEILL, Neb. UP A helicopter crashed near here today and first reports said sig persons aboard were killed. Tension Mounts In Bell Phone Strike Pickets Massed At Indianapolis Office INDIANIAiPOLfI'S iVP — Tension mounted in the Indiana Bell Telephone strike today after some 1,000 tpickets swarmed around the company office her? and at least a dozen police squad cars were called to keep order. The pickets marched oft the Ke/ phone building Wednesday night following a mass meeting called > earlier In the evening to outline new strike procedures. 1 The crowd, which stretched across Meridian St. and blocked •traffic on this city’s main artery, formed two picket lines around three sides of the building and matched for two hours before their ranks diminished at midnight. r Night police inspector Leo Troutman, who was on the scene and gave the crowd estimate, said union officials and pickets were “very cooperative and there was no violence.” He said the pickets shouted “scab” at non-striking workers leaving the building after night work but did not attempt to stop them from crossing picket lines. The demonstration followed a move by Indiana Bell officials to halt other mass picketing at three more strike-bound exchanges. The utility sought and an order from (Madison Circuit Judge Russell <E Stewart prohibiting mass picketing or chain picketing at exchanges at Elwood, Anderson and Alexandria. Stewart’s action followed a report by Bell that three non-union operators twere overcome by gas fumes when a pipe from the exH 1 T»

Six Red Parly Leaders Seized In Philadelphia Six Are Arrested Following Secret 1 Meeting Os Leaders •PH4Li\DELiPIHIA UP — The FBI seized six Communist party leaders, one as he emerged from a secret underground meeting, today on charges of teaching and advocating overthrow of the government iby force and-violence. The dramatic arrests, timed to catch the City’s “highest” Communist party man as he came out of hiding, brought to 87 the number of party officials and functionaries who have been arrested in the nation so far for conspiracy to violate the Smith act. Shackled in pairs, the 3ix Philadelphia'—area leaders were brought before a U. S. commissioner and held in a total of $175,000 'bail for a turther hearing Aug. 6. Top catch for the FBI was Joseph Kuzma. 44, described as the big man of the party in the eastern (Pennsylvania — Delaware area with the title of ‘trade -union secretory. He Was held in >50,000 ■bail. The other 1 five were held in $25,000 bait ‘ Ray J. AWbaticchio Jr., agent in charge of the Philadelphia office of the FBI, said federal agents have been aware for years of the activities of the local Communist leaders. The decision to take them into custody early today, Abbaticchio said, -was keyed to the reappearance of the Brooklyn-born Kuzina, Who went into the underground some time ago. When he left his hiding place, the FBI was ready and waiting. Kuzma was seized while walking on the street after attending the secret meeting in a hquse in the Germantown section of the city. Also arrested was .David Dubehsky, better known as David Davis, Russian-born former member of the national committee of the 'Communist party now employed as a labor union organizer in Philadelphia. j The others seized were identP fled as Sherman Labovitz, 29, a party organizer; Walter Lqwenfels, 56, for many years associated wjth the Communist newspaper. The (Daily Worker; Thomas N’ab<T»r» T« Pace Ffre> 'i f j 1,352 Polio Cases Reported Last Week 20 Percent Below Cases Os Year Ago WASHINGTON UP — The public health service said today that 1,352 polio cases were reported last week. The hunyber of cases reported was eight per cent more than the previous week but 20 per cent below cases in the corresponding week last year. Polio cases increased in Ohio, 'Michigan, (Minnesota. lowa, and Arizona last Week, the service said bbt cases declined in Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, North- Carolina, and eastern south central states. The service listed 16 polio deaths last week: Three in Ohio, two in New York City, two in Michigan, two in St (Paul, (Minn., one tach in Macon and Shelby counties, IP., one in Baltimore, one in Brevard county, Fla., one in Yakima county, Wash., one in Kern county, (Calif., and one service victim in •San Diego county, Calif. t The public health service said the totals of polio cases since the polio “season" started in April is below last year, with 6,720 cases this year, compared to 7,088 for the corresponding period of IMS.

Tail's Condition Is Reported Unchanged Ambassador Son At Hospital Bedside NEW YORK UP —Sen. Robert A. Taft's ambassador son arrived by plane today from Ireland to visit at the bedside of the ailing Republican leader who was, aMe to sit up for breakfast. “I think he’s better than he was,” said William Howard Taft HI, t’. S. ambassador to Ireland, as he left Idlewild Airport for New ,York hospital where his father was in serious condition from an undisclosed illness. A morning bulletin issued by the hospital said the condition of the Ohio senator “remained relatively unchanged..” It was learned that Taft his legs over the side of his bed and sat on the edge to take breakfast from a bedside table.. Young Taft, 37, the eldest of the, senator’s four sons, appeared haggard and when he arrived from Shannon, Ireland. Hje was cleared quickly by immigration authorities and sped to the hospital by tajci. The hospital’s delayed morning bulletin read: “Senator Taft’s Condition remains relatively unchanged. He is resting comfortably, and continues to have no pain.” Two sons, Robert Jr., 35, and Lloyd, 30, were with their father this morning and were expected to remain with him in bis hospital room* The senator’s wife, Martha, herself an Invalid, returned to the Taft 1 home in Washington Wednesday after coming here Tuesday to visii her busband. A fourth son, Horace, 27, was in Los Alamos, N. M„ according to an announcement by the University of Chicago, where be is working on a doctor of philosophy degree. Taft, who is being treated for an unannounced rallied somewhat during the last 24 hours. A hospital bulletin issued at 10:45 Wednesday night said he was “resting comfortably.” It added there had been no ’ <Twr* W® P&mv* Six) Pastor Denies Ever Being A Communist California Pastor Appears At Hearing WASHINGTON, UP —The Rev. Jack 'Richard McMichael swore today that he has never 'been a Communist and is ready to take a lie detector tesl to prove it. The 36-year-old Methodist pastor from Upper Lake, Calif., appeared before the house un-American activities committee to f answer charges by previous witnesses that be was a Communist. 5 The Rev. McMichael denied these accusations and denounced the committee for “having circulated a false change across the country” Which “my six-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy heard on the radio.” ■ < The committee had testimony by two people, described as former Reds, that the preacher was a Communist. .■ . “They are liars and perjurers," the Rev. McMichael shouted, “and should be so charged- and tried.” “No one is charging you with lying and there is no need for a lie detector test,” chairman Harold H. Velde, R-ftl., said. The charges against the Rev. i McMichael cropped up during the committee’s questioning of Methodist Bishop G. Brumley Oxnam last week. i Committee members said during the hearing that two former Communists — Leonard Patterson and Manning Johnson — had testified under secret New York hearings earlier that the Rev. McMichael had been a Communist. I ! Hot words flew between committee members and the pastor 1 before the committee Anally got ! around to asking him the big quea- 1 Fra* ntx) ’!

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Clouds Hopes ! For Weekend Adjournment . Foreign Aid Funds Bill Passes Senate After Long Session • BULLETIN . WASHINGTON UP — Chairman Daniel A. Reed of the house ways and means committee said today President Eteen- ! hower will send a message to congress later today asking for an increase in the national debt limit. j\| ! 7 • By UNITED PRESS i .. :L'. I 1 ■' ' — ■' ■ A presidential request for a boosi in the federal debt ceiling clouded congressional plaps to adjourn this weekend. I President Eisenhower pus the request at a White \House conference with both Republican and democratic legislative leaders. The i ceiling is now $275,000,000,000. the ilatlohal debt around $272,500,- » 000,(M&0. The leaders Were'*, told itmay be necessary to pierce tbei I ceiling by Jas. L . j ; Congressional leaders said Mn 1 Eisenhower left open t— pending I further discussipns during the day — the questions of when congress should act and of how much the c siling should be raised. Not even acting Republican senate leader U’illiam F. Knowland Calif, could siy what was going to happen. But one thing appeared certain: V If it is decided to press for action on the debt ceiling by this session of congress, weekend adjournment plans will have to be scrapped—the proposal has too many determined foes for quick disposal. Chairman Eugene D. Millikiu R-Colo. of j the senate finance committee said he and Chairman Daniel A. Reed R-N. Y., of! the .house ways and means committee will canvass their groups and report to the White House. Meanwhile, there were tyese other developments: Korea: The sehate voted President Eisenhower authority to spend $200,000,000 as a starter on rehabilitation of South Korea. The money would come out of the big appropriation for the armed forces. Security Tex; Chairman" Daniel A. Reed R-N. Y. of the house ways and :means committee said it is unlikely congress will do anything to slop the social security ' tax boost scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. Unless congress suspends the increase, as it has many years in ;the past, the 1 1-2 per cent tax will automatically go to two per epnt. Balance of Power: Sen. Wayne Morse Ind.-Ore. said he will Vote to keep Republicans in control it ailing Robert A. Taft R-O. is unable to return to the senate. If . Taft retires and Democratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio names a Democrat to his seat, Moirse could throw the balance of power to the Democrats. But he said be would do nothing to defeat the will of the people as expressed in last November’s voting. !- ' ® Foreign Aid: The senate.cleared away one of its major pre-adjourn-ment burdens by passing the omP troversial foreign aid bill. ’ After a marathon 15-hour session, the upttor chamber early today to give the administration $4,862,653,811 in new money—considerably less than it asked for lb finance the aid program for the current fiscal year. 1 The action came after administration forces in a narrow 53 to 35 vote, beat down an effort to slash more than half a billion from the cutback program. The measure now goes to a senate-house conference committee for adjustment with the house* bill that calls for $4,438,679,000 in new funds. Both bills also provide authority for the admlniafration to use about $3,000,006,000' in unspent funds carried. over from appropriations approved tai previews years. •. ■ r