Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 188

25-Cenf Hike In Civil City Levy Proposed Decatur Civil City Budget Proposes Increase In Rate The civil city’s budget for 1954 totals $168,932.69 and carries a proposed rate of $1.61 on each slov of Decatur taxables, an increase of 25. cents over the carrent levy, Mayor John M. Doan stated today. Two new levies are included in n£xt year's budget. -A two-oent rate is levied for the fireAien's pension fund and five cents is allocated for the recreation fund. The police pension fund carries 1 a 4 two-eent levy, which was established last year. The general fund carries a $1.44 rate, compared to $1.26 this year. The park fund rate of eight cents remains the same. Debt payments of $9,530.62 For redemption of bonds and payment of interest 2on outstanding and northwest sewer project issues are listed. {■■* Jp ! The 1954 budget totals $216,857.12 and the proposer-fax rate will produce approxijnafely SJ6B,932.69. The balance of income will be derived from the state gasoline and liquor municipal and miscellaneous income. of The police, fire, street and sewer departments carry the largest appropriations. These three major divisions of city government carry $139,652 in appropriations. — The police department carries an appropriation of $42,980, about s>.ooo higher than this year’s budget. Mayor Doan explained that provision is being made to employ an extra policeman and to purchase a second patrol cgr. . In the fire department another fireman will be employed. The appropriation of $31,707 is $3,600 higher ’than the 1953 total and provides for one additional fireman and approximately SSOO foi* replacing plumbing in the fire engine house on S. Seventh street. The street department carries an appropriation of $64,965 for labor and materials. Up about $5,200’. the street department plans to bay a small suction type street sweeper and a new truck. y| The two-cent levies for the two pension funds will each produce about $2,083.68. The recreation levy will raise $5,209.20 and the park fund will .receive $8,334.74 from the proposed tax rates. The 1954 rate is based, on the city’s net valuation of $10,418,430. Hearing on the budget will be held Aug. 31 at the X’ity hall. Damage To Parked Autos Is Reported Three Smeared With Paint Monday Night City police have been alerted to watch tor someone who has been damaging parked in various partfc of Decatur during the night. Monday night, three automobiles were smqared with white paint at the rear of 121 North Third street, the police report shows. ' , Automobiles belonging to James Closson, Ronald Price and Melvin Hask, were damaged considerably when someone smeared white paint on the finish of the cars. Mirrors have been broken off of numerous cars the last few nights and windshields have been cracked with sharp instruments.. Local police are working on several clues and the investigation will continue. The vandalism is not limited to one area, but is widespread throughout the city. One theory is that there are several groups doing the damage. ’The incidents all occur late at night and most of them are not discovered until morning, leaving a cold trail for police to ■ work on.! However, police report that they have received some descriptions of late prowlers which may lead to the uncovering of the culprits. Ornamental street lights also have come in for destruction recently. One report recently stated that three small boys broke some lights in the west part of the city and were observed leaving iT»h> Paar* Plrei INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, a little warmer west portion. Wednesday Increasing cloudiness with showers beginning northwest and extreme west-central portions. Low tonight 72-6?, high Wednesday 95-90.

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Discuss PW Holdup ... _ - s -TX.T-- KPS ' A J W 1 > •!■ KA ' £ . t - -—ji MK-.. .......— BACK FROM KOREA where he met with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, isecretary of state John Poster Dulles confers with President Eiwenliower in the chief executive’s office at Lowry air forep base. Colo, Dulles later told newsnien that the UN may hold up the release of some Communist FOWsiif the Reds do not return every American prisoner in Korea.

Ike Requests Drastic Cuis In (Expenses Asks Governmental Department Heads Cut Down Expenses D E N V E- R (UP) —President Eisenhower tpday asked government department heads to cut expenditures as much as possible to head off the need for a Special session?of congress this fall to raise the federal debt limit. The President, from’ his summer White House; headquarters here, sent a letter to all department and most agency heads calling for an immediate economy campaign, plus “substantial reductions” in their planned expenditures for fiscal 1955. Press secretary James Cl Hagerty said the President’s letter was an effort to gvoid having to call a special session bn the debt limit this fall, but ihe said the White House was “W no means” certain that sufficient; economies could be put into effect t<i jvoid a session. : ! The President’)* new economy campaign was/ disclosed as he conferred, here with jAdm. Arthur W. Radford, incoming chairman of the jbint chiefs oft staff. Radfond does not replace Gen. Omar Bradley until the middle cjf this month, but he flew to tlie President’s vacation headquatterj* to start what will be for hini a new weekly assignment— briefing the President on world developments as seen through the eyes of the defense department. S I > No announqbnient was expected to come fro^i|Radford’s talk with the President/ In the letter; tb each department head, the President said: “It is absolutely essential that you begin immediately to take i every possible step progressively to reduce the expenditures of your department during the fiscal year

"In addition* tol this action, you will be expected to tial reduction* ip your requests i sos new appropriations and in the level of your /expenditures for the fiscal year 19£5, beyond those already indicated for the fiscal year 1954.” The White House disclosed at the same time that budget director Joseph W; Dodge today notified all department heads they were to subnijt their 1955 budget estimates to him by Oct. 1. Hagerty said thje President gave the departments no dollars-and-cdnts target to shoot at, leaving it to the individual department) head* to accomplish as much as, possible. )■ i . The President asked the GOP leadership for an increase in the $275.0e0.000.00|l federal debt limit shortly before congress adjourned, butjiis request >as dropped In the adjournment drive. -|~4 * Electrical Failure Blamed For Crash WIESBADEN, Germany UP — An electrical failure which blacked out lights and radio contact caused the of a U. S. air force C-119 in the Tripolitanian deseit Saturday, / the air force said today. All 24 airmen aboard the plane parachuted to safety. The plane was on a flight from Udine, Italy, to Wheelus air force base, near Tripoli. ' • I 1 ■III- ■/*

Louis St. Laurent Winner In Canada Landslide Victory For Administration OTTAWA UP — The middle-of-the-roac: Liberal administration of prime minister Louis St. Laurent was back in office for a historymaking fifth term today. The, administration, little changed since It took office in 1935, won anpther landslide victory Monday, the second in four years. It elected a powerhouse of at least 168 seats in a new parliament of 265 members. The Conservatives failed to make the gains even their most pessimistic supporters expected. What losses the government sustained went as victories for the C. C. F. and Social Credit Parties. But the balance of power tn the Commoner will be» virtually unchanged in the new house. The standings early today gave the Liberals 168 seats and the lead In 4 undecided contests. The Conservatives t had won 50 seats, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation C. C. F. 20 with leads in 3 contests, and the Social Credit Party 13 with leads in 2 contests. Independent candidates bad won five seatst The Liberal sweep rolled from east to west' across the nation. It hit heavily Ip Newfoundland, made gains in the maritime provinces, held its own across Quebec and Ontario, and then suffered a few setbacks in the west. “The decisive verdict \ you have given will strengthen the government in carrying on the policies which have given such «atisfaction in Canada in the last few years," St. Laurent said. He said the faibt that a Frenchspeaking Canadian had become prime minister for the second time “is an undeniable sign that the people of Canada respect each other, no matter what their respective origin, descent, religion, or language.”

Demands U. S. Pay For Downed Plane Formol Demand Is Made By Russians WASHINGTON, UP — Russia formally demanded today that the United States make full compensation for a Soviet transport plane shot down over Korea July 27, the state department disclosed. The department said U. S. ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, when presented with the demand in Moscow, stuck by the previous U. S. position that the United States had no responsTbility for the lost plahe because It was in the war zone. The Russians claimed the plane was over Red China when attacked. \ The Soviet Union in a protest July 31 claimed four American fighters invaded Red China and attacked the IL-12 transport while on a routine flight from Port Arthur to the Soviet Union. This government replied Aug. 1 that the Soviet claim was false. It said confirmed information in the hands of U. S. military authorities showed the plane was shot down by an air force fighter plane over Korean territory. BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP — The defense department today issued a draft call for 23,000 men for October. All will be induct* ed Into the army.

Decatur,. Indiana, Tuesday, August 11, 1953.

First Americans Freed In Prisoner Exchanges Enroute Home Today

17 Former War Prisoners Rest In Honolulu Leave Tonight For States, Eager For Sight Os Homeland HONOLULU, UP — Seventeen former war prisoners, thiji and weak but eager for the sight of home, rested here today waiting for a Plane to take them on the last leg of their flight to the Cnßed*'States. • Nurses traveling with the sick and wounded prisoners, the first to be released since the Korean armistice, said the men were in good spirits and anxious tp hear the latest news from home. , . Their departure from Hawaii was tentatively scheduled for 9, p. m. EDT. They will head fi»r' Travis air force base. Calif., 'a flight that usually takes from 10 to 12 hours. All of the men were litter patients. but a military air transport service officer said they seembd to be in "exceptionally good spirits.” f The officer said the 17 men were thin, but none looked emaciated.. In general, he said, they all looked good, considering how long they had spsnt in Communist prisoner of war camps. As they left the plane. Red Cross girls gave each a floral lei. Reporters were kept behind a roped area. • The returnees were taken to Tripier army hospital for baths, hot meals and an overnight rest.; One of the former prisoners was’. Pfc. Richard Montanaro of Npw York, whose mother and father' died while he was in a Communist prison camp. Repo ters were not permitted to interview the former prisoners. fTara Ta Six)

Speculators Await Friday Wheat Vote Market Hectic As i Vote Is Awaited CHICAGO T’P — A hectic week of trading in the wheat market seemed certain today as speculators nervously^waited the results of Friday’s nationwide referendum on federal marketing quota!. t- " Some traders, refusing tq gamble on the vote, tried to unload Moniiay, dropping wheat] prices .from 9'4 cents a bushel to the daily limit of 10 cents. 1 It was believed they suffered heavy losses. Prices today fluctuated nervosly on the Chicago board of trade. Wheat prices moved through a range of five cents a * bushel, opening higher, falling and then rallying • » . The government crop forecast, due for release today, could touch off another market break if it shows a bigger winter wheat crop than had been expected. Anxiety about the crop forecast was a factor in Monday’s selling. Experts said, however, that the traders were primarily afraid that wheat farmers would vote against federal quotas next year, a vote that wquld force the government to lower price supports from 9b to 50 percent of parity. Some analysts estimated that would mean a drop of about $1 a bushel in 19&4 future contracts. «• Moss surveys and informed opinion have predicted that the farmers will not, reject quotas and endanger their support prices, but evidently many traders felt they couldn’t afford to take a chance. On the Chicago board of trade, the nation’s largest grain market* wheat for delivery next March fell the limit of 10 cents. Other wheat contracts were down 9% to 9% cents. The selling in the wheat pit. T» P»se

Army To Release Red Lisi Os Prison Dead ‘ Cross-Check List Provided By Reds WASHINGTON, UP—The army this week will begin releasing the names of about 1.000 Americans reported by the Communists to have died in Red prison camps. 1 spokesman said today. The army said It is cross-check-ing the Communist list of dead prisoners with its own information and\ will notify next of kin before beginning to make the names public. ! A spokesman explained, however. that the Communist list is not leftepted at its face Value as. completely accurate. ,_C \ The listj of soldiers who. died in prison camps was handed over by the Communists last weekend in accordance with a provision in tbs armistice agreement. Radio Peiping reported Monday the list contained 481 non-Korean soldiers and that another 569 have been ! reported as dead in a previous list handed over by the Communists in December, 1951, : While confirming the Radio Peiping report as substantially correct, a spokesman said the army is not accepting the tot&l as final. $e pointed out discrepancies jrere spotted immediately in the 1951 list, and for this reason the army never has notified the next of kin of existence of the Communist report. Even after cross-checking the Communist list, the arrqy will not state officially that the soldier has died in a Red prison) camp. Rather, it will report to the next bf kin that the Communists have reported him dead. Army officials frankly admitted the Communist total of men who died in prison camps was; not as large as had been expected. They had looked to the Red list to give a clue as to what happened to thousands of American soldiers un[ accounted for in the war, tind also to explain in part the discrepancy between the number of prisoners to be returned by the: Communists and the larger number which the l nited "States believes the Communists, hold. The defense department’ lists 8,705 men as missing in action in Korea and 3,001 as definitely captured. While the Communists have pledged to return 3,313 (Tara -iw »*•— . f ir ■ I

Approve Plan For Garbage Disposal 30-Day Temporary Plan Is Approved: The state board of health has approved a 30-day temporary arrangement for the city of Decatur to bury garbage in an area east of Decatur. The work is being done with leased equipment. While the present arrangement is for a short periods city officials believe that permanent plains will be ready for announcement soon. Permanent plans call for the leasing of a large area south'of Decatur, where the garbage jwilt be dumped and immediately plowed uider with a leased Bulldozer. This method of disposition in other cities has met with approval of board of health authorities and indications are that such a plan #ill Be approved here. Announcement is pending Return of a lease on the area undet consideration. The temporary arrangement was made wheis the farm land which was being used for garbage disposition wasvwuled out by state and federal jiealth authorities. 'Mayor John Doan said that details of the new plan would be announced in a few days. ;|ft is known that the city plans to use leased equipment to dispose of the refuse.' No money was set up in the new budget for the purpose of purchasing bulldozing Equipment. x

100 Americans Are Released In Exchange Reds To Release 100 More Yankee Prisoners Today PANMUNJOMi Korea UP More Americans strolled to freedom here today as the first shipload of returnees left Inchon and the first plane carrying the sick and wounded neared home. The Communists ended the first week of- “Operation Big Switch” by , freeing 100 Americans and boosting 1 the total of U,. S. soldiers repatriated during ,the past seven days to 648. '• Os the totil, 17 stretcher cases were aboard a military transport plane expected to reach the West Coast Wednesday and 328 liested on the decks tjf the transport Gen. Nelson M. Walker as it left Inchon today on a two-week,voyage homeward. I In addition to the Americans released today, the Reds freed 25 Britons, 25 Turks and 250 South Koreans and promised to free 100 more Americans Wednesday. Uniformed counterspies mingled with former prisoners aboard the Nelson Walker watching the movement of certain Americans accused of accepting Communism and plotting to further the Red cause aL home. At Freedom Village, prisoners in the newest batch released by the Communists said they considered the number of hard-core American converts miserably small. Cpl. William T. Costlow of Saint Michael, Pa., said about a dozen Americans became militant Communists at notorious camp Nd. 5 and six or seven returnee in “Operation Little Switch” h.st April as “sick and wounded.” Costlow said about sis! or seven refused to be repatriated and, to the best of his knowledge, none ot the 12 went through Freedom gate here in “Operation Big Switch.” Ta Pa«» Kl*kt>

Circuit Court Will Reopen September 7 Summer Vacation Os Court Near End Sam Bentz. Adams circuit court bailiff, will ’Start this week on his quarterly task of tidying up the court roonk judge’s chamber and library on the second floor qf the court house for the opening of the September term of Adams circuit court. The September court calendar already has numerous hearings scheduled and indications are the term will be a busy one'. Bentz stated that he would rewax the w’alls and floors this week and otherwise prepare the rooms for heavy use during the fall months. Judge iMytlee F. Parrish, in his five years on the bench, always has taken pride in the interiorappearance of, the rooms and each quarter during vacation the walls and floors are cleaned and minor repairs are made. Miss Romaine Raudenbush, circuit court reporter, has returned from a vacation in the east and is spending several hours each day preparing records and transcripts to be used during the September term of court. 4 , •Court will qpen September 7 and the first three days will be consumed in setting criminal and civil cases to be heard during the (fall term. Then ’ on September 10, hearing of cases will start. Judge Parrish has not taken a summer vacation and has been available on call for emergencies during 'tlje vacation period. He also has held vacation court each Friday for. disposition of certain legal matters which can be recorded in vacation. \

Work Stoppage Is I Spreading In France More Than Million 'i I’” ' ' !ip' I ! ‘ 1 Workers On Strike a PARIS IP — More than 1,600,600 government workers and pmployes in nationalized! industries were on strike today in a spreading Work stoppage which crippled railway, postal, telephone, telegraph and gas services. Coal production also was serverely hit- by refusal of miners to ejnter the pits. . ; service was reduced to’ a trick|e. Subway .and bus workers debated a renewal of their week-, end walkout. Ground service personnel at airports voted ,a 24-hour walkout. Merchant seamen at Marseille already were out and ejnployes of the nationalized electric systenY warned they would stay home. The strikes and slowdowns were labor’s answer to 4he economy measures proposed by the rightwing government of premier Joseph Laniel. IHs cabinet Monday published orders providing for tougher retirerpent and pension qualifications, more rigid job requlremjentt! -trftd higher rents. Labor accepted these decrees as proof it [would be asked to bear the burden of Laniel’s efforts io get France back on its economic feet. The rail porkers began heeding a call by Communist and Socialist unions for indefinite walkout this morning. Latht of commuter trains skyrocketed absenteeism among the staffs of offices and factories already depleted by vacations. Reports reaching Paris on the communications network, crippled by a week-old strike, indicated the rail Walkout has thrown transportation into chaos. New strikes loomed in gas. electricity, shipping, airlines, municipal tubways and and other government - run industries and services. - [ They threatened to increase the total of idle to the 2,000.000 figure reached at the height af.lastVeek’s 1 strikes against the policies of premier Joseph Laniel. In addition the new walkouts w'ere expected to last for an indefinite, period compared with the 24-hopr limits set in most of the strikes last week.

Seeks Drivers For School Bus System \ Part Time Help Is I Needed To Operate Whether Gay’s school children transportation system, inaugurated in 1952-53 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gay, will operate during the coming school term depends on the ability of the school bus owners to get the required part time help, Robert Gay stated today. The two buses are ready to cover the four routes daily picking up school children in all parts of the city, but to date there are no drivers. Work at Gay’s Mobil Service requires the addition of two parttime men or women drivers for the buses.; Gay stated that he hopes to be able to conduct the service again this year and he is anxious to interview men or women over 21 years of age who would be interested in the part-time work. ■ It is necessary for the drivers to pass a physical examination and secure a public conveyance driving license. School officials are anxious that the service be continued this year, it was learned. The two buses make two trips each, ’morning, noon and afternoon, and deliver school Children from their 'home to school and return. Gay said ''today that- if help could be obtained, he would announce the fall schedule Boon.

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Troopship Is '■ ■' !< ! '■ Enroirte Home With Americans, Strange Assortment Os Loyal Soldiers, - Reds, Counterspies INCHON, Korea, UP — Tlie troopship Gen. SJelson K. Walker Sailed for home today with a strange assortment of loyal Americans. Communist traitors and trained counterspies. Aboard the Nelson Walker as it glided out of Inchdn Harbor were 328 former freed from Communist compounds in the first five days of Operation Big Switch. Also on deck as the former /prisoners looked at the shores of Korea for what they hoped was: the last time were about 1.000 regular troops going home on rotation. \ The two-week voyage to the Uhited States was expected to be a tense and dramatic one. For most of the liberated Amermany of whom had suffered In Communist prison camps for three Years, the 14 days would be an eterifitity. , But for an unknown number of converted Communists, the Nelson Walker was *‘U. S. S. Trojan Horse” Wnd the trip stateside was the beginning of an assignment to work for a man- named Malenkov. intelligence, agents also were aboard in the guise of rotatevs, and ,the loyal Americans had pointed out the men who were re*turning to Democracy to help'destroy it. The crew of the Nelson Walker had been alerted to watch for trouble as several returned prisoners vewed vengeance / against the “rats” who accepted Communism anjl became stool pigeons for their Chinese captors. A Navy spokesman said the Nelson Walker woiftd reach San Aug. 24. Meanwhile, the returnees learned' to relax with* out fear of Red police. Many rested comfortably on, clean white sheets and others basked on the [hot deck of, the gray-blue two stacker. pj They played j cards and read American magazines. . iiChow (sail was! sounded at 12:30' p.m. and repatriates filed past a steam table where rotaters on KP filled their stainless steel trays ■with soup, meatloaf, carrots, corn vegetable saladj ice cream and cookies. Others poured «cups oft ice-cold lemonade and hot They: will eat a special, nourish-’ ing dieft on the [homeward trip so they pan gradually build up the bodies that wasted on rice, crack-j ed corn and ipillet for almost-’ three, yparg. t

Work Is Progressing 1 On Northwest Sewer* Indications are that the northwest sewer, beiqg constructed by Yost . Constructilon Co.* in the northwest part of Decatur, will be > completed by the end of this month. When the main sewer is completed, work will start at once; on cutting laterals into the newt sewer. City engineer Ralph Roop already has several petitions for laterals. These will be built,-under contract, and the cost will be assessed against those the new sewer will benefit hundreds of property owners in the t northwest part of Decatur and will eventually open many acres of u new building larid for home construction. The tiles being used in the main sewer are being inanu- / factored by the Yost Co. at their plant nprih of Decatur. The remaining, work will progress faster / than previously because the balance of'construction work is alt most a straight line. ;—- r BULLETIN CHICAGO UP The AFL | executive council today voted | go suspend the International I Longaho rem on’s Association from affiliation until the I union complies with a cleanup edict.