Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. L|. No. 191.

Grandma Lays Down The Law r~- — - —— I • ' I ' ■ . i - . t I ' ’ .;■'■'■ ; t . » f A z . • < IL. . swW tern IK. Al < _ U,. \ X *>. _ ~ T °? N ’ * randnia « Mrs - Wanda K. Sienkielewski. i<j holding up a $3,000,000 sewer project until mrL a rPlmhUr ‘r e - for llama £ p done her lawn when the Leo (}. Bhtler Co., of College Park, Md., h f s P n,e of its equipment in her yard without permission. Here she guards the equipment which .“ s d £® hin d a wire fence. At other times, to make sure that no one takes her sign of lightly, sae stands vigil at a window with a small caliber rifle. ,

84 Americans Freed, Relate Red Bestiality Released Prisoners Tell Os Brutality a In Prisoner Camps PANMUNJOM. Korea (UP) — American prisoners came back to freedom Friday with sickening reports of Communist bestiality. Eighty-four Americans went through Freedom Gate along with one Canadian and 324 other Allied soldiers. Some of the Americans were listed as “sick" but they were able to walk. Their‘liberation on the 10th day of “Operation Big Switch" brought the total of United Nations servicemen released by the Communists to 8,411’ including 907 Americans. ' Some of thein gave eyewitness accounts of Red: brutality that shocked newsmen and other observers who have become accustomed to hearing reports of mass atrocities such as ,the 1950 death march. Pfc., Charles J. Wolfe. 23, of Wallace. W. Va., said Communist guards bayonetted and beat with rifle butts an American prisoner who had become insahe. Wolfe, captured in July of 1950 pt -Taejon along with ’M a J- Gen. William F. Dean,- said the man was bayonetted three times in the legs and dragged off to regimental headquarters where he was brought out for daily public beatings. “The Communists had been told the "man was mentally ill,” Wolfe said. had a desire just to walk around. He thought he was free. One day he started walking and ’a guard shot over his head. He grabbed the guard's weapon, then let go, stood there and just f looked at the guard. “The Communists tried to take him away, but the guys stopped him. Three or four days later the Reds came back and set up machine guns. The guards tj-ied to take him from the building, but the guys threw 'them out. The Reds started shooting through the building. The guys figured it was better to let them have one man.” Wolfe said a lieutenant in his camp (Camp No. 1) was shot for going after a drink of water at night. Another returning prisoner said the Reds tied captured Americans to tanks and sent them into battle. Pfc. James R. Hupt. 26. of Russell, Pa., who was captured at the same time Dean war taken prisoner, said he saw “the knocked out tanks.” 'Mangled bodies of the prisoners were splattered across the tanks. Hunt said. Hunt put the responsibility for most of the brutality on the northward death march to a sadistic North Korean police commander known as “The Tiger.” The Americans returning to freedom Friday were so eager to throw off the Communist yoke that one of them yelled “let’s get the hell out of here” when there was a momentary delay. Some of them cursed as they tore their blue Chinese prison uniforms off and threw them contemptuously into the muddy road in the reception center. One of the Americans said eight former inmates of potorious camp No. 5 still were being detained at <Twa T* Face Six)

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Farmers Cast Votes On Wheat Marketing Estimate 800,000 Eligible To Vote CHICAGO UP — Wheat farmers voted today to decide for themselves whether to sell their 1954 crop .under stringent federal man keting quotas and continued high price supports. It was considered likely that th? quotas would be approved, even though tnvo-thlrds of all farhiers voting must cast “yes” ballots to carry the proposal. An estimated SOO.ftOO fanners, from all. 48 states, weire eligible to vote, and the weather was generally fair as they went to the polls. The polls will c’ose in most areas at 5 p.m. local time, but in some states they will lose from 6 to 9 p.m. | Cautious grain traders and speculators w’ere apprehensive that the farmers might reject marketing controls, a decision that would drop price supnorts from 90 per cent of parity to 50 per cent, or about 'll a bushel Prices on the big grain exchanges like the Chicago board of trade, therefore, have fluctuated nervously all week, dropping as much as j 7 3-4 cents Thursday before rallying four to six cents. The question Che farmers were forced to decide was a complicated one. Acreage allotments, which are already in effect, will continue p? hiatter which way the vote goes. If the farmers vote "yes” to marketing quotas, every farmer who exceeds his farm’s acreage allotment will be subject to a marketing penalty of 45 per cent of the ‘parity price on his excess whe it. Those who stay within their acreage allotments will continue to receive ■ support loans of 90 per cent of parity. If the farmers vote “no,” acreage allotments—62,o(’ft.ooft for next I year—iwill still be in effect and any farmer who grows more than his allotment will be cut joss from all price supports of any [nature. Farm experts predicted! that a no vote would sw’ell production. The political effects of the vote could be great. Secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has expressed for “regimentation" of agriculture, but he was forced by law to call today’s electi6n, the first of its kind since 1941 when 'farmers voted overwhelmingly in favor of marketing quotas for the 1942 crop. The vote is mandatory when the estimated wheat supply exceeds a “normal” supply by '2O per cent. The total supply this year is more than 1.788,000,000 bushels, more than 50 per cent above thejnormal supply of 1,156,000,000 bushels fix%d by law. [ ,', ' . « 1’ . Playground Closed f At Worthman Field ■ ' I I; The playground at Workman field will close this afternoon for the summer season, officials; announced this morning. The playground. under supervision of steve Everhart. Bob Worthman, Deane Dorwin and Miss Sarah Krick, has been operated five days a week through cooperation of city and school officials. j} ■ J INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler Saturday. Low tonight 60-66, high Saturday 76-82 north, 82-88 south.

Greek Hospital Is Crumbled By New Earthquake ■ Earthquakes Shake Islands Os Greece Fifth Straight Day , ATHENS, Greece, UP —A new earthquake crumbled a hospital on the island of Zante in the lonian Sea today and buried a number of patients injured in temblors df the past four days. Destruction of the hospital left only a school, the national bank and ai church standing in the capital city of Zante. Fire swept the rest of-the island. For the fifth straight day earthquakes shook Cephalonia and Ithaca and flame-reddened smoke mushroomed from the islands. American and British aircraft began a mighty mercy airlift, piercing the billowing smoke to drop water to thirsting thousands who have survived the series of earthquakes. Unofficial estimates placed the death toll at 1,000, but some authorities considered the number exaggerated. They said 400 bodies had been counted and at least 10(7 more presumably died. American helicopters and planes dropped containers of precious water to survivors. A smell of death hung in the smoke. Screaming men' and women trapped under debris in the 1 destroyed cities on the three is- ' lands slowly burned to death. “Ten minutes ago we had a terrible shock,” an American mutual security mission official said Thursday night in a broadcast from Cephalonia. “1 saw a mountain sliding into the sea.” The disaster was almost beyond imagination. A U. S. navy rescu team that moved inland ; from the sixth fleet flagship, the cruiser U. S. S. Salem, messaged Vice Adm. ♦ John H. Cassady aboard the vessels the destruction . was “terrifying, sickening and complete.” King Paul of Greece visited the ruined cities of Argostolion and Lixouri on Cephalonia. He walked among the attempting to soothe them with words of encouragement. The Greek government said it was ridiculous to believe the is- ■ lands would sink under the impact of the earthquakes, caused by a shifting sea bed between Zante and Cephalonia. But terrified Islanders spread the rumor among 45,000 homeless victims that their lands were sinking into the sea. By the hundreds they streamed to the coast, got Into small boats and canoes and paddied out to rescue vessels. Flotillas of ships standing by to careened crazily as strange currents boiled up in the sea. Marine Major Speaks At Rotary Meeting v ! , j Major Roland Marbaugh, a com.l manding officer in the U. S. marihe corps during World War II ■ arid during the Korean conflict, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Major Marbaugh. a resident of Willshire, 0., told graphically of the tough fighting in Korea and related maay Interesting and trag* ib experiences. Robert Smith -was chairman of the program. ( I

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 14, 1953.

Hurricane Howls Along Maryland Coast, Heads Toward Coastal Cities - __________ .

Thousands Os French Ignore Strike Orders Communists Seek To Intensify French Strike Enthusiasm PARIS, (UP)-—The Communists tried to intensify the waning French strike enthusiasm today as thousands of workers ignored walkout orders, others straggled back to work, and the government increased its emergency measures to restore order. Speculators, black marketeers and opportunists smuggled watches, nylons, gold and other precious commodities across uncontrolled borders in an effort to reap quick* fortunes in the disorder which the strike of 4.000,000 union workers has brought. i A Communist brain trust convened at party headquarters to map plans for concentrated, widespread' demonstrations next week to coincide with tfae nintjh anniversary of the liberation of Paris, Informed sources said this effort was aimed at keeping the current genera! strike from petering out into ,a aeries es scattered, ineffective and easily controlled walkouts. as the government of premier Joseph Laniel earnestly hopes will happen. .To keep things stirred up during the week end. -the Communists created isolated incidents throughout Paris. i '] The afternoon newspaper Paris Presse reported withbut confirmation that lhe Communists again were issuing knives and bludeons to their shock troops in fpreparation for the liberation day “ceremonies?’ No new strikes began today and no important npw strike calls were issued as the country started a week-end religious’” and bank holiday in observance of! the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption. Workers, feeling the pinch of 10 days without pay, were showing less enthusiasm for the mass walkouts. ’ ! > More than 6,000 of the 32,000 workers who keep the Paris bus and subway system running were back on the job. About one-fourth of the subway trains I were in operation, although Only about 15 of the city’s 1.200 buses were on the streets.!\ , 1 Most international line trains were running, although provincial service was stalled and suburban rail travel was non-existent. Many Frenchmen and foreigners took advantage of the lack of customs guards to make quick fortunes. They drove to neighboring Switzerland. Belgium, Germany <*rwrw Tn Face Mix) State Tax Rate Is Fixed At 15 Cents (Kate Is Unchanged At Legal Maximum IiNDFANAPOIjTS U>P — Indiana’s Finance 'Board has set the 1953 state tax rate at 'IS cents for SIOO, the maximum allowed by law. ■lt is the same as the 1952 rate on which local property laxes are being paid this year. The rate, certified Thursday to the state board of tax commissioners which in turn certifies it to local taxing units,, includes seven cents each for teachers retirement fund and common schoal tuition, 3 1.-2 mills for state fair board and 6 1-2 inills for state forestry fund. The 15-cent rhte f maximum set by a 1932 special legislature, will raise about $9,039,253, based on present -valuations of $5,0©6,1«8,071. Board members who determined the rate are Governor Craig, auditor Frank T. iMillis and treasurer John Peter a

Red Rioters Turned Back In West Berlin ■ . ■ '' "J Attempt To Disrupt Food Relief Plans BERLIN UP — Communist hoodMms attempting to disrupt the American food relief program turned tail and ran back today when west sector police riot squads appeared as soon as the Red toughs crossed the border from East Berliu - s , ’ The neas nea so quickly the police did not have to uxe their clubs or riot weapons which hadß been assembled for such an in-, yasion. -' West Berlin city officials ordered riot squads on\ an alert and. hauled out powerful waler cannon and other equipment to deal with the expected attempt to smash the distribution centers and steal their. 1 records. « The West Berlin city government said it »had been informed by trustworthy sources inside East Germany that Red bosses had ordered employes of Communist factories and offices to take part in a huge “hunger march.” The Reds were said to have decided upon this step after western authorities announced an 11-day extension of American food distribution program which has handed out J7.50ft.000 pounds of food to the German wards of the Communists in the past 19 days. West Berlin authorities said all distribution centers \ have .been warned of the Red plans and all possible precautions tp thwart such a move are being taken. Red hoodlums on Several occasions have raided Wfjst Berlin in forces up to 5,000 strong in an attempt to disrupt the food program but have been driven off in each instance after bri£f street fights wit.h West Berlin’s riot squad. Decatur Youth Hurt In New York Wreck Escapee From State Boys School Injured JAiMiESTOW,’ >N. Y. IUP — Two admitted escapees from the Indiana boys school in Plainfield, Ind., w’ere captured by police today after the stolen car they were traveling in failed io make a .curve, cleared a three-strand cable gtiard fence, and overturned in a field. Police identified the youths as John Glayton Trowbridge, 17, of West Washington, Ina., and David Linhemeier, 16, of Decatur, Ind. Both were hospitalized here. 'Linnemeier was in serious condition with a possible punctured lung. / : • Suburban Falconer police spotted the two in a car bearing Ohio license plates and decided to investigate because of their apparent youth. In an ensuing chase, the boys’ vehicle left the road -while traveling .at 9Q miles an hour. After their capture, they admitted escaping -from the boys school last July 11. They also confessed to stealing three cars and a pickup truck while committing burglaries In Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and New York. J ' ' 5 ■ _ • Lived In Decatur David iLinnemeier, 15, seriously Injured in a Jamestown, N. Y. automobile wreck, is a son of Herman iLinnemeier, who resides at the 'Mercer avenue trailer camp. Young iLinnemeier -will be remembered -by residents of the .south part of the city as a newspaper carrier atbout a year ago for the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. He also mowed a number of lawns and helped residents of the south part of Decatur -with chores around their homes. He was committed to the Indiana boys school about six months ago from Adams juvenile court after he allegedly had run aiway from his home on several occasions.

Release Names Os War Dead On Red List Defense Department Stresses Lists Os Dead Unverified •--.> :p ' ' WASHINGTON UP — The defense department today made public the names of 123 American servicemen 'who the Communists i claim died In North Korean prison camps. [ It was the second such “heartbreak listl’ released in the pasit 24 hours. The department stressed that it has no verification of the Communist reports: • The first list, released Thursday I night, contained names of 121 American prisoners from a roster of 1.022. The Communists also claimed that 147 other Americans “escaped" from prison but the defense department said not one of these had returned to American military control. This list has not yet been published. The defense department was highly skeptical at the Communist roster. r Officials, expressed strong misgivings about its accuracy, and also doubted whether the Communists had included all prison camp deaths. The unreliability of the Communist accounting was demonstrated by the air force, which said the Reds reported one officer dead in prison several months before he was missing in action. In notifying next of kin of the meh named by the Reds, the defense department stressed that the report came from Communist sources and could not be verified at this time. Publication of the names was held up for 24 hours after telegrams were sent to next of kin. The defense -department plans to issue the names in daily installments until the lists are cleared up. / The Communists reported that 1.022,, Americans died in prison camps and another 14? “escaped.” The defense department pointed out that not one of th§ “escapees” had returned to U. S. military cop<Tara T® Pu* Mlxi Benefit Auctions Here On Saturday Auction Students Will Conduct Sale With several hundred useful articles donated for the St. Mary’s parish benefit sale, the stage was being set today for the afternoon and night sessions of the sale that will be conducted Saturday by the students of the Reppert auction schdolJ The auctioneer’s platform will he located on Madison street, and the oneblock area between First and Second streets will be closed to auto traffic. A tent will be erected where sandwiches, soft drinks and coffee will be sold during the afternoon and night. < 1 Cbl. Quentin R. Chaffee of Towanda, Pa., dean of the Reppert school, and his staff have been tutoring the student-auctioneers for Saturday’s big workout. “The men are delighted to help in this good cause,” Col. Chaffee commented. . f’We hope to make it a success and urge the public to attend for there will be many worth-while and money-saving values,” he said. -Dr. Roland Reppert, manager of the school, enthusiastically supported |he chutch benefit sale. “With a large crowd at the sale the students will be given valuable experience in selling and in overcoming stage fright” More Items Listed Mrs. William Kohne and Mrs. Harold Engle, co-chairmen of the sale, representing the women of (Taea Te P«re Ma*

Hunt For Suspected Reds Branches Out McCarthy Calls In More Witnesses WASHINGTON UP—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said todaiy the search for suspected Reids in the government printing office has “branched and involves more than one employe who has figured in the (inquiry. . T «t Wisconsin Republican called! foiy new witnesses to nppear in secret before his permanent investigating subcommittee today. One “Important” witness, he said, was ’coming to Washington from a “very long distance.” has continually done during his investigation, McCarthy refused to identify witnesses or targets in the inquiry. He said this would have to await the public hearings which will begin Monday. The only names to come to the surface have been thos« of Edward *M. Rothschild, a bookbinder at the printing office, and his wife. Esthbh who revealed through their attorney. Stanley B. Frosh, that they kie under subpena \by the subcommittee. , “I can say very definitely that ■ Frosbfs client Ik not the only one involved." McCarthy told reporters. “It has branched out a little more. “IFwill involve others presently employed in the priming office or at least who were employed there within the past few days.” McCarthy said, meanwhile, he had asked a member of hlsf staff to contact the atomic energy commission to clear up an apparent conflict over whether secret AEC printing is or is not handled bv the Gl*p. He said Thursday* the subcommittee heard sworn testimony that a printing office employe, who been identified as a Communist, had ’’access to top secret material having to do with the A-bomb and the H-bomb." j AEC spokesman said no. T® ! Pa«r» aix> Mobile X-Ray Unit In County Next Week Public Is Invited To Use Os Services The; annual visit of the mobile X-Ray unit, sponsored by the Adams county tuberculosis society and the state board of health in cooperation with th? Adams county medical society, will start (Monday afternoon,'Mrs. W. Guy Brown secretary oif the organization said today, „ , I | i The unit <will be aL the north side of the pourt house on Madison street Mqnday afternoon from 3:30j to 5 o’clock and in the evening «frbm 7 o’clock until 9 o’clock. All persons are invited to visit the unit and have a lung X-Ray taken *without cost. All cost of the week’s project is paid by the annual sale of Christmas seals. The unit will remain at the 'Madison street address Tuesday and kours will be from 9:30 o’clock in the morning until 12:30 o’clock in the afternoon and from 1:30 o’clock until 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. On .Wednesday the unit will be at the General Electric ulant in Decatur frona 10 o’clock until 11:30 o’clock jn the morning and from 12:30 until 5:30 o’clock tu the afternoon. On Thursday the equipment will 'be taken to Berne, where hours will *be maintained in the morning from 10 o'clock until noon at the (Dunbar 'Furniture factory. On Thursday afternoon from 4 o’clock until 5:30 o’clock and from 7 o’clock until 9 o’clock in the evening the unit will be stationed on Main street near the Public Service Co. office. On Friday from 9* o’clock until 10 o'clock In the morning the unit will be at the Smith -Furniture Co. and will close its week’s stand in Adams county in the afternoon at Berne Furniture Co. <«*■» Ve Fe«o nv«»

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Resort Town Os Ocean City Is Evacuated Hurricane Gathers Speed; One Killed |n North Carolina NEW YORK UP A homing tropical hurricane smashed aloe# the Maryland coast today and head- r ed north with increased speed toward the coastal cities and heavily populated beach resorts of New Jersey and New York. Tlte storms left onq dead in North Carolina, raked across the Norfolk, Va., area and was centered shortly after 11 a.m. 35 miles off the Maryland beach resort town of Ocean City -The resort town was evacuated __ x as the storm approached. Wind?) in gusts up to €6 miles per hour whipped waves 10 feet aboVe the normal high tide lihe as vacationers jammed highways in a bumper-(o-biimper exodus. The weather bureau at Washing-? , ton reported in a noon advisory the ’ storm was expected to piass 40 miles off Atlantic City. N. J., about 8 p.m. High tides and swirling ’ winds had. already flooded streets ' In Ventnor and Margate, south ot Atlantic City. I Streets ywere flooded in towns m the entire southern coast of j i ' New Jersey as the fide rose. Board- ‘ walk stores . reported extensive wind and water damage and pedes--trians waded knee-deep iji the business district of Wildwood. Municipal and county offices at i ■Atlantic City were closed at 1 p.m.; so workers could get home ahead of the storm peak. But the Atlantic City race track announced it would run eight races as scheduled thlls afternjoon. Thousands of vacationers occu- ?. pying cottages along the eastern tip. of Long Island's sand-spit beaches were warned to prepare.} for possible quick fllgh|. First fatality of the storm was a man swept? off a fishing pier at Wrightsville Beach. N, C., by a giant wave Thursday night. i ships welre disabled irt the storm but managed to ride out the biow. Coast guard planes began searching at dawn to alert the cabin cruiser Marwig, en route from, New York to Atlantic City. The craft was found safely tied up at Brielle, N. J. , . ' The U. S. weather; bureau In Rali eg h reported “considerable damage was done on the North Carolina coast by this storm.” ' The ■ tropical blow,: spawned off Florida Wednesday, slammed, across the Norfolk-Virginia beach area before 6 a.m. today, then moved off-shore on a northeasterly path expected to carry it up the Atlantic sea-board and possibly inland again on the Delaware-New Jersey coast. A Norfolk weather bureau spokesman said it appeared the blow would miss striking the east- ' ern shore peninsula of Virginia and Maryland with full fotce, however, probably passing to the ocean * side. . The center of? the hurricane moved east of Elizabeth City, N. C., ■about 1 a.m. east and then roared into the southeastern corner of Virginia. It slammed inland for the first time here Thursday bight a* 8 p.m. and the most severb damage was hi the Morehead Clty-Beaufort areas. '' d ' Incomplete and fragmentary reports from the huricane’s wake across the sparsely-settled Pamilo country and outer banks indicated l no serious loss‘Other than Several ? damaged -homes and buildings, flooded roads, disrupted communications, felled trees, broken windows and overturned cars. A Norwegian tramp freighter caught in the path of the hurricane off Cape Lobkont, N. C., was helpless/ sor 1 more than 6 hours as shrieking gales and mountainous seas battered it. ; . The freighter Mama, out of Oslo, later radioed that she rode out the hurricane. Her crew poured .oil on Te Pace KU* t > ’