Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 187.

Freed Yankees Say Reds Use Gls As Spies Returned Prisoners Say Group Turned To Communism PANMUNJOM. Korea. (UP) — Returned U. S. war prisoners said today the Reds hope to use a group of Americans — turnedCommunist while in Red prison camps to spark a Communist revolution in the United States in about four years. They said at least 124 of the ~ V. S. turncoats are being kept behind, at their oyn will, for special training. ~ Others of these spies and wouldbe revolutionary leadens, they said, have infiltarted among war prisoners now being readied for return home to the United States. American authorities took these reports seriously enough to plant trained, counterspies among the released prisoners in an attempt to weed out the Yanks who have gone Red. The disclosure came as the Communists stepped up the number of U. S. prisoners being released. The Reds unexpectedly freed 125'Americans — largest number for any single day—after announcing that only 100 would be returned in today’s phase of Operation Big Switch. Among the returnees were several men who reported at least 186 American and British soldiers had chosen to remain behind the iron curtain. The latest group of prisoners—including 25 Britons, 25 Turks and 239 South Koreans — said their Communist captors had predicted their American converts will start a revolution ip the United States within four years. Those who remained behind at their own choosing, the returnees said, will study Communism behind the bamboo and iron curtains and try to slip into the United, States later. Cph* Purvis Webster, a Negro soldier who said he knew his way around notorius camp No. 5. told newsmen in the presence of censors that 124 Americans remained behind “for sure.” t < "I ’ understand a total of 135 Americans elected to stay with the Uommunists,” Purvis said. Cpl. L. F. 'Mansfield of Harnil-’ ton. O.» said British prisoners told him that 51 other Britons swallowed the Communist line and stayed with their captors. Mansfield said he was told Afnericans refusing reTiatriation would “tour China. Czechoslovakia and other Communist countries and then make up their minds whether they wanted to stay for good.” Cpl, Donald R. Staten of.NewI ton, N. C-, said he believed those who remained behind were men of (weak will who couldn’t stand up ujnder constant Communist indoctrination. ’ At nearby Freedom Village. Cpl. Jerry W. DeWeese, 23, of Detroit estimated “about 70 percent” of the prisoners in his company were “progressives,” or pro Communists, or “played along” with the Reds. ' A But Pfc. Lewis L. Gordon. 25, Webster iCty, lowa, said the American’ progressives were iTwrw six) ,

Few Df Fall Taxes Are Paid To Date k . , No Rush Expected For Several Weeks Only a small percentage of the flail installment of county taxes Was been paid in to the treasurer’s office so far, Richard Lewton. county treasurer, reported today. Taxpayers have until midnight of November 2 to make their fall payments and Lewton said he did not expect much of a rush until the last of September or early in October. Centray Soya Co. is the largest t single taxpayer in Adams county. Several utilities come next in amount of annual taxes paid. Miss Barbara Kelley, deputy treasurer, is taking advantage of the lull in the county office and is vacationing this week. Lewton will leave the treasurer's office December 31, having served two terms. , For the last several years there have been practically no delinquent taxes, it was reported, and during Lewton’s four years in j the office, only a few parcels of land have been sold for taxes.

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Lady Leatherneck A Heroine ■Ek J| Xu r ■IF / * A i MA . - t « SHF! I I j JHk I GEN. LEMUEL SHEPHERD, commandant of the marine corps, pins the navy-marine corps medal for heroilsm on tjie\ uniform of marine Sgt. Barbara Barnwell, of Kansas City.: Mo., at a ceremony in ington. Firet woman—ever to receive jthe decoration, Sgt. Barnwell won it for rescuing three persons from: possible dirowning.

Red Boast Os Hydrogen Bomb Taken Calmly Red Announcement Calls For No Change In Defensive Plans WASHINGTON; UP — Highlyplaced officials said today Russia’s H-bomb announcement does not call for any drastic change, in i U. S. defense plans. They said the Eisenhower administration is taking the Soviet boast calmly, and has no present intention of undertaking a “crisis program" of building bomb shelters. dispersing cities, moving industry underground oi hastily expanding the air .and radar defenses of the North American continent. ' . Authorities gave ’two reasons for the government's unruffled reaction to Soviet premier Georgi M. Malenkov’s assertion Saturday that "the United States no longer has the monopoly of tha hydrogen bomb." 1. There is a strong suspiclqn' here that Malenkov may have been bluffing. This suspicion is based on the fact that delicate scientific instruments, capable of reI cording atomic blasts in any part of the world, have detected no i test explosions in Russia since | October, 195 L i 2. Even if ’ Russia has succeedied in making d super-bomb, the basic facts of world atomic power have not changed. Long before Malenkov spoke out Saturday, U. S. officials were warning the : Union possessed enough ordinary A-bombs and long-range planes to . lay waste most of America's cities i in a single devastating raid. The administration’s unperturbed attitude was demonstrated by President Eisenhower, who left for a four-week vacation in Colorado soon after news of the Malenkov announcement reached the capital.

I ,Dr. Ralph Lapp, an atomic scientist, promptly urged Mr. Eisenhower to consider calling a special session of congress to work on new air defense plans “of a tototally unprecedented nature.” But Ben. James H. Duff CR-Pa,) said \it would be absurd to call congress into session on the basis of Malenkov’s ‘‘propaganda claims.” “We’ve been blackmailed and blackjacked by. these fakers before.” he said. Officials emphasized that there is no disposition in the administration. to belittle Russian atomic capabilities. On the contrary, it has long taken for granted here that the Russians w'ere working on the H-bomb, and that th* had received valuable aid • front - (Tan To Pace Six! ’ . s V; ’*'«» — — Hear Traffic Cases On Monday Mornings By agreement between prosecutor Lewis L. Smith and Mayor John Doan, all traffic cases will be heard once a week on Monday starting immediately. The previous custom was to try the cases the day I following an arrest.’ Many difficulties arose because at times the prosecutor and mayor would not be available \at the same time. i • i Under the new system, all cases of the week before will be heard on Monday morning. Also other week-end arrests wil be taken up at the Monday morning court.

24 Parachute To Safety From Plane < Parachute To Safety In African Desert WIESBADEN. Germany UP — All 24 American airmen aboard a C-119 Flying Boxcar parachuted to safety Saturday before the plane crashed into the North Africa desert. the U. S. air force headquarters here announced 1 today. The air force ipeviously had announced that. 21 of the men aboard the plane had been found alive near the wreckage of theii 1 plane and transported by helkfoptet “to Wheelus air base hospital near Tripoli. A search party latter discovered the other three survivors. They also were airlifted to Wheelus. I VNo serious. Injuries were received by the six man crew and 18 passengers,” the jait force said. Names of the men involved in the /crash were,scheduled to be released later today. The air force sa d the plane, which ran into trouble on a flight from Udine, Italy, to Wheelus was piloted by Capt. Jan es Sholty. Cause of the crash has not yet been determined, they said. A board of air force officers was to be formfed at Wheelus later this week to conduct an investigation. First reports that the plane was down Indicated it had plunged into the Mediterranean. The air force said garbled communications were responsible for that report. The wreckage, scattered across the blazing desert sands. Was first spotted by a British search plane froin Malta. It reported that 21 survivors had been seen beside the shattered plane, 60 miles south, of Tripoli. The other three survivors had become separated from the larger group during the process of bailing out from the falling aircraft. Rescue teams set out from Tripoli and Malta and an air-sea rescue helicopter reached the site at mid-morning. Other helicopters were called in and evacuated the men to Wheelus. A number of ambulances were sent out from the U, S. air base, but the condition of the men was so good they were not -needed. Mrs. Laura Bosse On Library Board Mrs. Laura Bosse of this city has been named to membership on the Decatur public library board, effective at once. Mrs. Bosse will replace Mrs. Mary Willard who resigned last week when the Willards moved to Wabash. ; * The new member will serve ou the unexpired term of Mrs. Willard, which runs until August 3. 1955. Mrs. Bosse will attend her first board meeting in September. The appointment was made by Judge, Myles F. Parrish; | . Five Youths Leave For Army Service Five Adams county young men left this morning by bus for Indianapolis where they will be Inducted into the army as the August quota from this county. They are: Robert Francis Braun, Raymond Koenemann, Samuel G. Lehman, Donald Elmo Miller and Floyd Charles Braun, the latter being transferred from local board 111, Massilon, O. At Indianapolis induction center the five young men will be sent to a basic training camp, not yet designated.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 10, 1953.

Dulles Says U. N. May Be Forced To Action If Some Os Prisoners Held

First Os Freed Prisoners Start On Flight Home Sick And Wounded American? Home By Airplane 1 TOKYO UP — The first sie-t and wounded Americans released in “Operation Big Switch” tla* home tonight on the “Freedom Airlift” but the flight offered lit’le comfort to one of the men. A mi liar J- air transport service C-54 took off from international Airpori at 7:07 p.m. 5:07, a.':i. i c.s.t. with 17 former prisoners : apd one routine air evacuee aboard. Seventeen were litter eases. Aboard the big four-engine transport was Pfc. iiichard Montanarq of New York. His joy at being freed by the Communists was washed away by news that his mother and father had died while he was a prisoner. American Red Cross officials in Tokyo did not know how Montanaro* was informed of.. his parents’ death but believed he read about it in a newspaper. Montanpro took the pews with deep sorrow and turned dowu a Red Cross offer to cable or telephone other relatives or clow friends. None of the prisoners showed any sign of emotion as they were carried aboard the big plane. There was no ceremony at the airport and no army “brass” to see them’off. | , f Their plane is due to reach Midway Island at 8 a.ni. Tuesday 5 p.m. c.s.t. today for refueling, The flight from Midway to Hlekam 'Field, Hawaii, will take another six or eight hours. They will be the first to reach •the United States. Healthy men will return by apip from Inchon, Korea, on voyages that will take two weeks. The first ship was expected to leave Tuesday.

Install New Floor At Court House Today •Employes of the Jack Laurie Tile Co., Fort Wayne, today installed a new tile floor at the entrance to the offices and court room on the seqpnd floor of the court house. The new installation matches the new' tile recently Installed in the lobby of the first floor. U. S. Population Now 160 Million Number Recorded On Automatic Machine 'WASHINGTON UP — The population of the United States reached 160,000,000 at 9:02:07 a.rtj., c.s.t., today. The number was recorded on the commerce department's autbmatic population calculator which lit up like a juke box and rang a bell as the figure 1€0,000.000 fell Into place. The milestone was marked by a brief ceremony in fr >nt oi the calculator or “census clock.” Census director Robert W. Burgess told a crowd of 200 mostly newsmen and photographers, who gathered to watch the* population rise that “it is now appropriate , for all Fourth of Juiy orators to use the figure 160,000,000 when referring to our nation’s population/’ The calculator is a map of the nation standing 10 feet high, topped by a gadget which,, registers population as an automobile speedometer registers mileage. <lt adds a new resident every 12 seconds by calculating a birth every eight seconds, a death every 21 seconds, an immigrant every two minutes and someone leaving the country every 17 minutes, A «Tm T» Six)

Wheat Farmers To Cast Votes Friday J To Cast Votes On Marketing Quotas UP —For the first t|mte in 12 years the nation’s itiieat farmers will vote Friday on Whether federal marketing quotas will be placed on next year’s wheat crop. Under the law/ speh a vote must whenefvej- the total supijly of wheat available for the marlfeting year exceeds the so-called formal supply” by 20 percent. There«will be voting in all states. This year’s actual wheat supply is estimated at 1,760,000,000 bushels—the biggest supply in the nation’s history. This staggering amount Is more than 50 percent above the “normal supply,” esti- ■ mated under a formula provided by law at 1,156.000,000 bushels. A vote in favor of wheat quotas would mean strict federal control of output, stiff fines for violators producing too much, and a continuation of high federal, support of wheat prices.; A vote against the quotas would mean no federal controls except for acreage allotments, and virtually no government price support. Grain trade sources said a vote against quotas might mean a further build-up of the wheat surplus 4ud skidding prices. Some traders at the Chicago board of i trade became apprehensive Friday that farmers might vote agaipst restrictions on marketing next year's crop, resulting in heavy :\ selling that dropped prices 4Mi to 6 7 /* t cents a bushel. The sentiment was not unanimous however, aud some traders expressed belief fanners would not vote themselves out of price supports. At least two-thirds of the eligible farmers who vote Friday must approve the quotas to place them into effect. Any farmer who produces more than 15 acres of wheat is eligible to vote. Quotas do not .apply to farms producing lesser amounts.' Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson has stressed that the government has done no campaigning (Turn To Pace Five) Plan Welcome For Released Prisoners families Joyful At Freedom News By UNITED PRESS Tpe of names greijv. and the families of released prisoners of war pushed aside the blitter frustrations of the past and looked to the future. , ( “I’m going to see he stays home after this —no more wandering,” said Mrs. Lucille B. Nance, mother of Sgt. Donald I. Nance of Rockford, 111. Mrs. Nazarena Sentini, South Bound Brooks N. J., learned her son, Sgt. Nazeruo Sentini, 22, was lamong the 125 men who reached Freedom Village Sunday night. “He was a boy when he left,” she said. “He is coming hbipe a man. Five years is a long tlrtie.’* Many families accepted the news that their sons and husbands were free with devout gratitude. “Oh, I’ve waited so long, and prayed for it so long—-I believe God heard my prayers,” said Mrs. Lillie Brewton of Toledo, 0., when she learned her son, Pfc. Leonard Brewton, was free. fc-Dr. William Wagner of St. Francis hospital at Columbus, 0., told a partially-paralyzed, 64-year-old woman that her nephew, Sgt. Benjamin Conley, was freed. f The woman, Mrs. Rosia Gates, who had reared Conley, raised herself on one elbow and cried out “praise the Lord.” Kent Waller of Creston, Ia„ was ao excited when a newsman told him that his brother, Pfc. Donovan D. Waller, 24. had been released by the Communists that he ran across the street barefoot to 'T W » t» run ate)

New Effort By Reds To Halt Food Delivery Make Spot Checks Os Identity Cards In German Plants BERLIN UP — The Communists made spot checks for identity cards throughout the Soviet zone today in a new effort to terrorize East Germans seeking “Eisenhower food packages.” - |, r I Special squads were reported being sent to factories to force workers to produce their identity cards. Those who did not have the cards with them were reported to police for action, according to East Germans who ran the blockade to West Berlin. . East Germans who could not borne to the west themselves for the free food have .been giving their identity cards to friends and relatives. West Berlin distribution offices issued a food parcel for each identity card presented by any person. The spot checks combined with a tightened rail-and road blockade cut the flow of East Germans to the Western officials estimated dess than- 100,000 persons applied for food parcels Sunday and today. The previous daily average was about 150,000. Westl' German officials met to discuss a new and bigger free food despite the new squeeze imposed on East German foodseekers by Soviet zone authorities. -The give-away program went into its third week with more than 2,020,000 seven-pound parcels of lard, flour, milk and dried beans carried into Cominunist Germany. About 500,000 packages are left to be distributed before the present program ends next Saturday. Mayor Ernst Reuter of West Berlin met with representatives of the Bonn government to work out a second food campaign to go into effect when the first one ends. President Eisenhower has promised food will be flown in at a rate of 5,000 tons a week under his $15,000,000 program. East German authorities kept their police and propaganda machinery in high gear against the "Eisenhower food, packages.” Both threats and force were used by the Communists to discourage East Germans from picking up the food.

Funeral Held Today For Crash Victims Rites Held Today At Trinity Church Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at Trinity 'Evangelical United Brethren t-hurch for Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence <R. Walters of Pennville, formerly of thia city. The former Decatur couple met death in a head-on auto collision Friday night on U. fll highway 131 pear Schoolcraft. Mich. One of the first persons to reach the scene of the collision in which three other persons were killed, was Kenneth Beard Os this city, who was returning home from a Michigan fishing trip. He assisted in extricating the. bodies ffom the wreck. | The bodies were taken to the Baird furieral home in Portland and then to Pennville. Tjrhe bodies lay in state in the church from 10 a.m. until the funpral hour. Burial was made In the Decatur cemetery. T*he Rev. John Chambers, pasto-, .conducted the double funeral Fites. Prior to moving to Pennville in 19f8, Mr. Walters operated a glove comjfeny in this city. He was owner of the Ideal Glove Co,, in Peunville.

15 Traffic Deaths Reported In State Tragic Mishap Wave Recorded In State By IGNITED PRESS Traffic accidents claimed one life every three hours in Indiana during ttie two-day weekend. At least 15 persons died on highways. the bulk of them in a tragic wave of smash-ups Saturday. Three persons were killed at Gary Sunday when two autos collided head-on with .such violence they were left standing, in the highway with their front wheels locked high in the air. The victims were John W. Murraly, 28, Mrs. Betty Dexter, 40, and Raymond O. Olson, 18, all of Gary. OJson and Murray were the drivers. Three other persons riding with Olson were ’injured. Near Kokomo on U, S. 31, Charles E. &omsel, 81, Galveston, was injured fatally Sunday when his car collided Ufith a truck. . James W. Collins, 35. Cincinnati. 0.. was killed. Sunday night when his motorcycle smashed into a car. injuring Virgil L. Yandy. 26. Indianapolis, and Elona Jane Padgett. 2. who were riding in , the car. Police said Collins rounded a curve on the wrong side of Ind. 4€ three miles east of Nashville. The toH Sunday wa| 10, ipd three of veven fatal accidents killed two persons each. , !. David J. McCord. 19. Vincennes, and Henry L. Conkright, 19. Owensboro, Ky„ airmen from Chanute air force base at Rantoul, 111., were killed Saturday in a cartruck era's!) near Veedersburg. Mrs. Gertrude Zerkel. South Bend, was killed Saturday in a car-truck crash near, her home city. z ‘I Donald J. Steele, 17, Evensville. <*as Injured fatally when his mo‘torcycle struck a parked car in Evansville. In earlier Saturday accidents, two Chicagoans were killed near Farmersburg; a Bloomington men was killed in a bus-auto Wreck hear Bloomfield In which 18; persons were injured; two men from Goshen and South Bend were killed ip a Mishawaka car-truck crash, and a Muncie mother of two died in A two-car collision.

Start Remodeling Os Covered Bridge Work Starts Today On Ceylon Bridge Work started this morning on remodeling the covered bridge at Ceylon under supervision of Frank Singleton,' county highway superintendent and the county board of commissioners. The structure will be raised several inches and the base will be strengthened and new steel supports will be placed beneath it. It is estimated that the work will take several days. The covered bridgg, one of the county landmarks, mcame a matter of controversy several weeks ago when it was learned that there was some talk of replacing it with a modern structure. Attorney Earl DaWald, Geneva, It he Limberlost Association, The Geneva Lions club and the Berne Rotary club and many other residents of southern Adams county came to the bridge’s rescue and appeared before the commissioners asking that the landmark be kept intact. The commissioners agreed to remodel the present bridge and make it safe for traffic and with approval of the state highway commission work started today. After the base is strengthened, the ends of the structure will be reanchored to stone banks and the flooring will be repaired and replaced. INDIANA WEATHER’ s F|lr tonight and Tuesday, warmer Tuesday. Low tonlgnt 5»«4. High Tuesday EMO. -

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Secretary 01 State Reports To Eisenhower Fear Some Os U. N. [ Prisoners May Nos Be Given Freedom DENVER, Colo. (UP) — Secretary ,of state John Foster Dulles reported after a conference with President Eisenhower here today that the United Nations might be forced to take retaliatory steps against the Chinese Communists: and the North Koreans if the Communists do not return all of the sj war prisoners they now hold. Dulles said after 70 minutes with the President that the fear some United States prisoners might not be exchanged by the Communists was a source of great concern. If all of the American prisoners are not returned “we presumably would adopt reciprocal measures j with the 'prisoners we hold." Dulles, ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Jr„ chief United States representative, to the United Nations, and assistant secretary of state Walter S- Robertson flew here non-stop fropi Honolulu to report to the President on their recent conferences with the leaders of the Korean and Japanese governments. Dulles told reporters as he left for his plane and a return flight to Washington that during the course of submitting “a very full, report" to the President ’today he told him he had conferred by telephone with Gen. Maxwell Taylor. 'Com’manding general of the eighth army, conferring on “precaution- ; | ary measures” to “make at/sure as humanly possible that we will get back all our American boys.” Dulles said the precautionary measures were still in a formative stage, but that Taylor was checking with American prisoners as they are released by the Communists in an effort tp identify those still known to be in captivity. The state secretary and Lodge both tol4 newsmen they were ipipressed by the prisoner exchange which they saw in operation only a few days ago at Freedom Village in Korea. Lqdge was struck pratlcularly by the better treatment the United Nations eras giving its prisoners turned back to them in contrast to the sterner reception thfe Communists are giving their prisoners. Other high points of news dis’- : cu ssed by tlje secretary following.hh meeting with the President:ii. His talks with President Syngii an Rhee of South Korea ended on a note of “complete agreement and ’cordiality.” 1!. He wanted to emphasize a portion of his communique with Rhee stating that there were no secret agreements reached in eheir lalks. "The whole w’orld knows what we talked ahbut and what we agreed to do.” u 3. He emphasized that Rhee had assured him that until a mutual defense pact between this country and South Korea Can be expected to comp into effect, the South Korean forces will remain under the United Nations command and abide by armistice. Dulles said the treaty would be submitted to the American Congress for ratification in January and he hoped it Would come up for action in February. He conceded the possibility of some delay of congressional approval but he di£ not think this woqid product any crisis in Korea. 4. Out of the talks with Premier Yoshida of Japan, came the announced conclusion by Dulles that Japan should be given a role of greater responsibility in her own area. • 5. He had not had an opportunity to atudy the recant apeech by Soviet premier Gaorgi Malenkov, and said the speech received only scant attention in Japan and that he had seen only meager accounts of the address |p which the Russian leader claimed the United (Tam we vers i