Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol, y. No. 192.

50 American Prisoners Are Freed Friday Report Reds Hold Bock Two, Told Os I Comp Conditions Korea VP — Returning American prisoners said Saturday the Communists were holding back two men at nearby / Kaesong because they exposed camp conditions to neutral Red Cross teams. They told newsmen they did not know the names of the men under detention at the Reds' base camp. Communist Red Cross representatives attended the interviews, the freed prisoners said. The Communists returned only 50 Americans Saturday, the small- . est number in a single day since “Operation Big Switch’’ began 11 days ago. ' - They were freed along with 50 Britons and 300 South Koreans. The Communists have promised to release 75 more Americans Kun- | day. It was believed the United Nations was trying to confirm the s reports that the two Americans were being detained because of 1 their conversations with trie' Red 1 Cross team. 1 The United Nations Friday ' formally demanded the return of | Mil captives of the Communists who have asked to be repatriated. The formal demand followed a (Communist claim that the Reds were not obliged to return so-called •’criminals” until they completed \ their terms. , U. N. spokesmen on the. joint prisoner of war commission pointed out that the Korean armistice agreement stipulated specially that both sides must release prisoners desiring to go home. Newsmen tried -to< enter the Panmunjom neutral processing area ' k when the first truckload of Americans arrived, but the Communists , W - refused to admit them. Lt. Col. Joseph hj. Simpson of Montgomery, Ala., X* N. duty officer, protested to a Communist officer who said he would relay the complaint to his superior. (A Communist guard said he had ' been ordered to refuse admission to personnel not wearing the green arm band which is issued only to officials. While the latest batch of Americans, all of them healthy, were going through the collection point, a second shipload of repatriates -prepared to sail home from Inal chon. , . The transport W. F. J Hase standing ofßlnehon was loaded. with 440 Americans, most of | them loyal but some known to be converts to Communism sent home X ’to “fight for peace.”; “Slick," an American returned JI in the prisoner exchange, was not aboard. Other men have called him a “rat” and “jnformer” and have promised to -Yg.et him” be- ’ cause of his catering to the Reds ( in the prison compounds. A At the last moment, i “Slick” became panic-stricken and appealed Bto a chaplain, who arranged for him to return to the United States through medical channels.

Few Bills Left For Eisenhower Action Only 18 Are Left To Sign Or Veto • DENWER. (UP) — 1 President Eisenhower had* only IS bills left to sign or veto today before he is' completely free to enjoy the rest of his Colorado vacation without the shadow of unfinished legislation from the 83rd congress hanging over him. The President was expected to dispose of the last 18 bills early this morning, then spend the rest of the weekend in Denver — relaxing on the Cherry Hills golf course and at the home of his 1 wife’s mother. v . s Mr. Eisenhower signed 21 minor i bill* Friday and wag expected to sign moat of today’s batch, although bis special counsel, Bernard M. Shanley, said several of today’s measures Would get a pocket veto. Shanley did not identify the bills to be vetoed but said they involved precedents in private relief cases which the White House and the justice department considered unwise or unwarranted. .. Mr. Eisenhower was expected to - stay in Denver until Tuesday night, when he flies to New York to register the next day to vote in the city’s fall mayorality election \ :Tara Ta Bia)

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SOLDIER turned conductor collects fares on the. makeshift “Military Bus Service." pressed into existence by the strike of Paris bus and underground employees. Coordinated by the army, 'I,OOO military trucks are supplying some relief for footsore commuters. Only 15 of the 1.800 regular buses are operating normally.

Wheat Farmers Vote Federal Market Quota

Approve Federal Marketing Quotas By Landslide Vote CHICAGO UP —= Wheat farmers approved federal marketing quotas on their 1954 crop by a landslide margin, returns from a nationwide referendum showed today. By law, Friday’s vote directed the government’s course, unless an unforeseen emergency occurs. The farmers’ decision ensures continued high price supports — 90 per cent of parity — and stiff penalties for those who go over acreage allotments. , The official tally, with 47 states reporting, was:? For quotas: 358,981. Against quotas: 53,001. The vote ran about 87.1 per cent in favor of quotas—far more Two To One Here Th£ Adams county PM A of; flee reported that Adams coun- .! ty farmers voted two to one for the marketing quotas. The County vote was 89 for and 45 against. This ratio was 1 considerably below the national figure which was well over 80 percent for the quotas. than the two-thirds necessary to carry the proposal. In Washington, secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson said the vote was “not a surprise—I anticipated it would go about that way.” \ “The farmers have expressed themselves.” he said. “I’m sure they voted for what they believe to be their best interests. “Os course we’ll go forward and cooperate fully in carrying out their mandate.” Rep. Clifford R. Hope R-Kans. called the apparent landslide “very gratifying.” Hope, chairman of Ute house agriculture committee, said the vote “means that farmers are willing to use government machinery to adjust production to demaird.” The Kansan said he had expected farmers to approve quotas “but I thought the margin would not be as decisive as it seems to be.” Breadbasket states like the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska. Oklahoma, Minnesota. Texas, and Montana gave overwhelming support to the quota l plan and smothered nominal opposition in states where wheat is a less important part of the economy. The vote was a signal that farmers do not w<ant tot ‘tamper with current prosperity, even if they must submit to federal controls. There have been no marketing quotas since 1942, but secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson was forced to call this year’s referendum because the 1953 supply of wheat was more than 20 per cent (about 50 per cen'u more) above the “normal" amount set by law. Both Benson and President Eisenhower, have expressed distaste for “regimentation” of agriculture, but fTara Ta Paca Five)

62 Enrolled Here In Auction School Complete List Os Students Released Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the Reppert school of auctioneering, today released the names of the 62 students enrolled in the school’s summer semester. Representing 20 states and several Canadian provinces, the students are: ' . Dewey H. Abney, Crawfordsville. Ind.; Charles H. Bachman. ■Bareville, Pa; Omar F. Bonney. Hermiston, Ore; William L. Boothe.: Windham. Ohio; Doyle ;E. Chaney, Horse Cave, Ky; Lee Clingan, Kingman, 4nd; Wendell W. Cook. Springfield. Vermont; Roy D. Dedmon, Shelby, N. C.; Henry Diener. Chesterville, 111.; Newton E. Dilgard, Ashland, O.; Donhld Dirks, Reinbeck, Iowa; Coy Downey. Columbia, Ky.; James Dula. Farmington, Mich.; Daniel F. DuPlecy, Vernon, N. Y,; Newell Elnessi Garfield, Minn.; Clarence R. Ervin, Medford, Ore; Andrew J. Fetsch, East Chicago. Ind.; T. Fite, Lebanon. Tenn.; Marlyn O. Forsmoe. Canton. S. D.; Jack Furtick. Springfield. S. C. i?aul D. Gienger, LaOtto, Ind,; John S, Gray, State College, Pa.; Robert Grier. West Palm Beach, Fla.; Ernest Hale, Tolono, 111.; W. F. Harder. Burns Lake. British Columbia, Can.: Floyd L. Hopkins. Painesville. Ohio; Gayle Ingram. Brownsville, Tex.; Duane Jensen; Ewing, Neb.- Clair Kearns, Bentleyville. Pa.; Clarence F. Kern, Egypt, Pa.; Harry W. Kerns, Urbana, Ohio; Don E. Knapp, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Adrian S. Koliha. Schuyler, Neb.; Maynard R. Lehman. Berne, Inyi.; John L. Brookings. S. D.; James W. Lucas, Cincinnati. O.; Bernie O. Melton, Ft. Pierce. Fla.; Benjamin Metzler, Cicero, N. Y.; Harry. Jr. Miller, Wolcottville, Ind.; William “Bill” Morgan, North Salt i Lake, Utah; ( Elmer M. Murry, Lititz, Pa.; Frank Jatnes McCullough, High River, Alberta, Can.; Francis R. Neel, Parma, Ohio; M. Lee Newell, Lafayette. Ind.; Michael Oberlitner, Deshler, Ohio; Emery L. Parks. Crawfordsville, Ind.; Thomas E. Patrick, Bridgeport, W. V.; Chester Payne, Deßerry. Tex.; Gene Peters, LaOtto, Ind.; Reggie A. Rasner, Urbana. Ill.; Fred Richter. Camden, Ind.; L. Joseph Schmidt. Defiance. Ohio’, William E. Shields, Newton, la.; Robert H. Shore. Glanworth, Ontario. Can.; Lou H. Monongahela, Pa.; Linnie Stpne, Harrod, Ohio; Joseph R. Sweeney,' <Twra Ta P«r» m x » Says Red Statement Is Propaganda Lie ■ FRHEDOtM VILLAGE, Korea, UP — A returned American prisoner today exposed as a propaganda lie a Communist statement that prisoners “elected" men to discuss their imprisonment with a visiting Red Cross team. Sgt. Robert D. Wilson of Terre Haute, Ind., said there was no "secret ballot” as Peiping Radio had claimed. “The Communists picked out American prisoners who got along with the Chinese,” Wilson said.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 15, 1953.

United States Likely To Agree To Russians In Far East Conference

New England's Coast Buffeted By Gale Winds Hurricane Weakens As Storm Veering Out To Atlantic NANTUCKET, Mass. UP —Gale winds buffeted Nantucket Island and the southeastern New England, coast early today as hurricane Barbara veered eastward into the North Atlantic. The second hurricane of the season was weakening as it blew out to sea, the U. S. weather bureau reported. It \claimed a| least seven lives and caused an estimated $1,300,000 damage as it boiled up the Atlantic coast from Florida. The monetary loss was due to ruined crops in North\ Carolina. Damage was slight iry jhe metropolitan area of New York City, which was buffeted during the night by a driving rain and gales of 4-Lmiles an hour, A weather bureau advisory said the storm was centered about 30 miles southeast of Nantucket at 5 a.m. with maximum winds of 50 miles an hour over Nantucket and Cape Cod. Gusts up to 70 miles an hour were recorded within the 100mile radius. The center of the storm, with winds up to 75 miles per hour, Was. moving out to sea in a northeasterly direction at a speed of about 20 miles per hour and “ap? patently weakening,” the advisory said. Police on Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard reported “nothfrig extensive in the way of damage” but the Coast (Guard said a number of yachts hall been washed ashpre on Nantucket. Several others were taken in tow when their anchors failed to hold. Two inches of rain were recorded’ here Friday night as the storm moved closer. The hurricane passed the southern coast of Long Island without causing serious damage. More than 1,000 persons on Long Island heeded j coast guard warnings and sought sanctuary for the (Tara Ta P»l« (txl

New Men Take Over Military Command Adm. Radford Heads Military Command l WASHINGTON, UP — A !new team of geherals and admirals, headed by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, took over the military high command today with the aseignment of taking a “new look” at the nation’s entire defense setup. Only simple ceremonies at the Pentagon marked the changeover In the membership of the joint chiefs of staff. But from the change may come decisions re ; vamping national defense policies followed for the past several years. . New chairman of the joint chiefs and the first navy man |o hold the top military post is the 58-year-old Admiral Radford, who succeeds Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Bradley’s last official act was to swear in his successor in the office x»f defense secretary Charles E. Wilson. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's turn to .take the oath came air hour later. The former supreme Allied commander in Europe succeeds Gen. J. Lawton Collins as army chief of staff. Gen. Nathan F. Twining has already taken over as air force chief of. staff, replacing Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg who retired June 30. Adm. Robert B. Carney, the fourth member of the new military team, will be sworn in Monday, succeeding Adm. William M. Fechteler as chief of naval operaTe FMe eixj

Petitions Oppose Hospital Addition Remonstrances Are Being Circulated , Remonstrances against the proposed $400,000 bond issue to finance the addition and Improvements to the Adams county memorial hospital are being circulated in Berne and Geneva, it was learned today! , 4 The remonstrance is a jqjnt appeal to the county commissionvers and the county council not to issue the ‘bonds. The . remonstrators state: “The undersigned remonstrate against such bond isue and request that ng such obligations be issued for the reason that such proposed issue Is unnecessary and excessive”. ' The j?ounty council will meet August 24 and 25 to consider the bond issue, ‘which already has received the approve! of the county commissioners. According to the remonstrance ifhose who sign it do not favor any bond issue, which step would prevent any modernization of tin 30-year told hospital building. The hospital trustees filed a petition signed by more th'arj 800 freeholders seeking jfunds to enlarge and revamp the hospital, according to preliminary plans, to increase bedroom space, hurgical and delivery rooms and a laboratory., In asking that bonds be issued, the trustees emphasized that the $400,000 issue w-as equivalent to only one percent of the assessed valuation of taxable property in the county. • .J»

Resurfacing Os Road 116 Nearly Finished Part Os Highway Improvement Here Resurfacing with rock asphalt of state road number 116 frdfo Geneva east to thg county line will be completed in * the next three days. True Andrews, state Stfbdistrict highway' superintendent, stated today. Work has been progressing sot the last week and the final top surface is being spread at the present time. Completion of this project will almost complete the extensive state program in Adams couny; which included resurfacing of the main thoroughfares of both Decatur and Berne. j Un the north part of the county, state road 101 also was given a top of hard surface material from the intersection with U. S. highway 324 and the Willshire, O. —(Monroe road. The latter road also was resurfaced from Monroe west to the Wells county liffe. The only main road through Adams county which is badly in need of resurfacing is U. S. road 27 from Decatur north to Fort Wayne. Highway employes have constantly patched this higlyway.’ but heavy traffic soon weara the patches out and there are many hazardous ruts. Minister's Mother Dies Friday Night The Rev. Eugene McAllister, pastor of the First Baptist chtirch, received word last night of the death of his mother in New Kingstown, Pa. Details were not received and Rev. McAllister and bls family left immediately for his parental home. Mrs. McAllister was known here and had visited with her son three weeks ago. Cal E. Peterson of the Baptist church, announced that the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick of the Church of God would fill Rev. McAllister’s pulpit Sunday. Noon Edition

10 Kitted As - Two British Trains Crash Trains Collide On B Viaduct, One Coach Hurtles Into River ‘ P MANCHESTER. England. UpU Two speeding trains collided on a suburban viaduct today and a crowded rajlway coach hurtled SO feet into the River Irk. First reports from \ the scene indicated at least 10 persons hdd been killed and 37 others injured in the early-morning accident. “We don’t know exactly how many are dead.” a police official said, “but it sems to be at least 10. There may be more in that coach in the river. We don't know yet. But 37 injured have been, taken to three hospitals.” f Unconfirmed reports from the scene said the toll pt injured was closer to 100. One of the trains was believe! to be carrying weekend excursionists. Hundreds of rescue workers went to the crash scene where the coach had “dug in” the shallow waters-of (he river., \ ' T At least four other coaches and "bne engine' were derailed atop the viaduct. - The collision occurred when a conventional steam-powered locomotive picking up speed on a run from Manchester to Bacup couldn’t stop in time to avoid hitting the inbound electric train from Bury, a city 10 miles away. Cause of; the crash was not immediately known. The collision’s impact was so” great that the viaduct’s parapet snapped, otherwise the coach might not have plunged into the river. Almost four hours after the collision only four bodies had been identified. All were Manchester area residents. Fleets of ambulances sped Jo the area to take the injured to hospitals. All train service across the heavily-traveled viaduct was blocked. . County School Head Into Office Monday j Shirley Gerke Is Named Secretary ! ' . ? ' j ' Gail Grabill, Adams county’s new superintendent of and bis newly appointed secretary, Miss Shirley Gerke, daughter 01 Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Gerke, Root township, visited the offices to day preparatory to assuming their duties Monday morning. Actually, the term of county superintendent starts Sunday jnornlnfc. but superintendent Grabill -will not assume his duties until Monday. Grabill succeeds Glen Custard, who served out the unexpired term of the late Hansel Foley. Custard will remain in Adams county, returning to Pleasant Mills high school as principal. Grabill, former principal at high school, was electe.l to a fgur-year ternij by the Adams county board of education last June, He has been visiting the office daily for several weeks to become acquainted with the work. With only, two weeks remaining* until the ebunty schools start thp 1953-54 term, Grabill reported everything in readiness. Almost all teaching vacancies have been filled and few details remain before the formal opening at schools. ) ( h INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight, cooler in south " and east portions. Sunday 1 fair and pleasant. Low to- 1 night 53-58 north, 58-82 south. i

Plaij Third Annual Fish Fry In Fall T■ ; . i f j Clarence Ziner Is j (general Chairman Extensive plans were started today to njake the third annual Decatur fi|h fry, sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerefc, the biggest fall event of the year. ; kbnneth Shannon, chairman jof the merchants' division, named Claienee; Zin er as general chairman. Ziner stated that he would name Vallows committee chairmen, next (week and these chairmen would select the. date for the annual event, which' draws around 1,000 persons annually. i The big supper will be held as! usv al Degatur high school gymnasium, {he chairman said, and ticketp wijl be distributed through the member? of the sponsoring group. Chairman Ziner already has contacted members of the Jonah club, who have always served the supper si|nce it was started, and plans are progressing for securing the, usual entertainment talent for the show. Ziner |s an old hand at sponsoring tHi§ type of event and has promised the 1 retail group that he'will devote all the |ime necessary to make the 1953 event the biggest ever held. / Shannon stated that there would be no effort on the part of the retail committee to make a profit on the fish fry gnd ail money collected from the, skle of tickets will be used in promoting the affair and ing talent for the show. A complete announcement of committee chairmen, cost of tickets and the date of the supper will be made in the next few days, Shannon and* Ziner said.

SI,BOO County Goal For Mental Health Campaign Planned In City, County The Adams county group of the Indiana mental health, association has been asked to raise 111,800 as its quota in the state drive tojraise $300,000 this year to improve the welfare of those who are mentally ill and io conduct programs designed to prevent mental illness, Leto Kirsch, county chairman, announced today. Kirsch said that he is cognizant of the fact that such drives should bte part of the Decatur community fund and he added that he had contacted directors, of the combined fund’ raising organization. He has been informed that that board will consider the petition of taking the mental health association into the combined fund raising, drive, next year but that no funds are available to meet Decatur’s share of : the SI,BOO quota this year. Committees, will be named. Kirsch shid, to solicit for the drive' in all parts of the county during the rest .of August and the early part of September. \ s ' Theodore F. Graliker, president of the First State bank, has ac the position of treasurer ol the drive-and all funds will be turned over to him. \ " ! Kirsch' said that he was sure this would be the only individual mental health drive and that his group would become a part of the community fund next year. He did stress the importance of the emergency, however, and has asked that all citizens who are able assist in the State’s effort to aid the mentally in. Committees will be named in the next few. days. - Four More Ailing Prisoners Enroute TOKYO UP —Four more ailing American ex-prisoners left by air force hospital plane today for the United Slates in the third freedom flight. i The plane took off from Tokyo International Airport at 8:09 p.m. It will make one stopover at Honolulu before landing at Travis ai> force barn bmi Saa Francisco. JI. : ' -

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May Agree To Russia As UN [ ' ■ <. ■ . J' '• ■• . " !’ Representative Indications Point To Agreement To Avert Open Break w UNITEp NATIONS, N. Y. UP— , i The United States indicated today it might agree to accept ithe Soviet Union as *a United Nations rep- . resentative.at the forthcoming Far Eastern political conference. Reliable sources said that although thq United states still was i 'dead' s set against including India \jn the talks there were indications /j it might be willing to accept the Soviet Union provided the Russians were not given "red carpet treatment." The U. 'S. previously had flatly opposed the iniclusjon of Russia and India among the countries that will reprerent the U. N.J at the political conference scheduled to start by Qct, 271 ■ r In an effort to avert an open ■ break with her western allies on ! the issue, the L’nited States met secretly for the third time today 1 with the D> nations that fought the 1 war for the U. N. J United Nations sources said the 1 United States presented the 14 i combatant countries with q slate -of nominees for the political conference. The list included Aus- ■ tralia, Canada, Colombia, Frence, > the Philippines. Thailand, Tarkey, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. , •, Britain, ' the : Commonwealth countries and some of the Western European powers want both Russia and India to attend the conclave. ■ ’ ! ' • h . . j,., ■ : . Most sources said that the British. with the support of some of the other close allies of the Unit- ’ ed States, were prepared to carry the fight to the floor of the gen- 1 eral assembler session, opening next Monday,; to gain seats for Russia and (India. j . The British were said to fear that if Russia were slighted as u I. N. chojce, the Soviets would boycott the conference rather than permit itself tq be picked as a representative of the Communist countries yrtilch have beep branded by the world organization as the : agressors In Korea. | , Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge . Jr., chief of the U. S. delegation, said Friday he had no objection to the Soviet Union as a representative of the Communists. M’ithout Russia, Britain and her supporters believe, the political conference would be doomed from the start. British delegates Selwyri Lloyd and Sir Gladwyn Jeb|) went to a, meeting of the 16 nations that \ <Twra TW Pa<» ntx> List Three Hoosiers > Who Died In Camps WASHINGTON U? — Three more Hoosiers were listed by ‘he defense department today a£ having died in North Korean prison camps, according to information supplied by the Communists, bringing the total thus far announced to six. They were: Sgt. Carl R. McVoy, brother of John Eu- McVey, near Huntington. Pvt. Robert E. Perkins,;son of Mrs. Bessie Seizer, Richmond; Pfc. Gene Sechman, son df Mrs. Rena Sechman, Route 2, Coatesville. Pleasant Weekend j Forecast In State INDIANAPOLIS UP j- Temperatures hit 96 pr better In most Hoosier cities Friday, but a pleasant weekend wks in store. ■ -' With half the usually sultry month of August marked oft the calendar, temperatures thus tar have averaged just about normal. Fair and cooler “weather was on the mfuu for today, fair and pleasant Sunday, with temperatures ranging no higher than 88 the aouth.