Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 205, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 205. 1

' .I' I ''/ 1 ' -! — 1 ' 11 ' * 11 ■"*< Second Freedom Run Ship Docks •* r’TT'WBaBHESE— ~ —w> . jm, ■ ' IB UWHiiOO . * t m Jr. ifli ■ fl' ’ 1- K Jw fl fl ’ Z&fl S : ' ■ I be nr •> *?* y Sp 'jf K r THE SECOND SHIP On the Freedom Run from Inclum, Korea, the Navy transport Gen. F. W. Hase, ^ Calif ’ Wi^h former Pw ’ s aboard. As the returnees eagerly line the ship s ran their parents and wives stand on the dqck waiting to welcome them.

Record Number Os U. S. Fliers Freed By Reds 51 American Airmen Released In Latest < Prisoner Exchange PANMT’.X'JOM. Korea UP — The ’ Communists released a record num* her of American airmen today and officers returning to freedom said the Allies may receive up‘to 500 “bonus'* prisoners i... Fifty-one captured airmen went through Freedom Gate along with 99 Americans, the largest number of. fliers released in one day ftirtce “Operation Big Switch*. * began 27 days ago. Some of the officers said the Communists may return more than the 3,313 Americans they had listed for repatriation. , i - The lad Americans repatriated today-brought the number of U. S. personnel freed by ; nists to 2.827. which would leave only 486 in the nearby feed camp of Kaesong. . But the returnees said there were from 1,000 to 1,200 American, British and other non-Koreanprisoners \ awaiting repatriation in Kaesong;,. They estimated the Reds would re- '• .lease at- least 400 more Americans *than originally promised. There was no way of knowing whether the “bonus" Americans had been captured in the late 'days of the fighting or were prisoners Whom the Reds had not intended jo release. s ; The Communists, however, announced Saturday they would repatriate all prisoners, including those convicted of real or imagi- ~ nary “crimes." ? • There were other important developments on the prisoner scene: 1. The first Indian officers arrived from their homeland of supervise guarding of prisoners of both sides who are resisting repatriation. The 'unarmed Indians were flown to the United Nations -base camp near Munsan by helicopter. 2. The joint military armistice commission met for an hour and 49 minutes in one: of its longest sessions, but refused to reveal the ' i topic under discussion. 38. Sout'h Korean prime minister Paik Too reaffirmed South Korea’s ambition to eventually absorb North Korea into the Republic. Palk discussed the subject with visiting U. S. Sen. William F. Knowlapd. The returning prisoners were processed at Freedom Village and then .sent to Inchon to await transportation home. About 320 men released previously went aboard the transport Gen. Black, which will sail Tuesday night or early Wednesday for San Francikco.

1 Mrs. Elizabeth Bolt Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Elisabeth Palmer Bolt, 78, mother of James C. Bolt of Decatur route five, died Sunday home, 2628 Fox Ave,. Port Wayne. Surviving besides the .son are two daughters, Mrs. Harry R. Parker of Fort Wayne and Mrs. P. 8.. Hummel of Wilmington, O; four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Klaehn funeral home. Fort Wayne. Burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery, Logansport.,

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Indiana Democrats .. ; 'r ’ ■ u ; In Annual Meeting Mention Parrish As Senator Candidate FRENCH LICK, Ind. .UP — Indiana Democratic leaders scoldI ed the party today for “secret plotting" in a tug-of-war for po- ’ litical control. t. They campaigned against the intra-party dispute almost as much as they did against Republicans duriqg >a weekend Routing at the French Lick Springs Hotel. There was crßicisra of the GOP on both state and national levels, probably the most caustic a charge that President Eisenhower's administration is favoring big business. Democrats believed the Republican shortcoming wou|d help turn them out of office. Former Gbv. Henry F. Schrlcker again denied \ political ambitions, but said he felt “obligated" to help in the campaign. He observed his 70th bifthday Sunday and marked it with a stinging attack on Governor Craig. National committeeman Paul M. Butler, South Bend, criticized bickering within the party at the Indiana Democratic editorial association's 73rd summer banquen. It was a hot, four-hour event climaxed with a speech by Sen. Olin D. Johnston D-S. C. Butler said he was “surprised” to find “so many sceretly plotting against one leader of another in fthe party.” . < ’ !K “It’s time to put aside selfish intertfcts and serve the state and party without regards tb personal ambitions,” he said. \ He would not mention names but apparently referred to friction between*; Democrats who owe their i allegiance to Schrlcker and state chairman Charles E. Skillen and a faction grouped around Frank E. McKinney, former national chairman. The party’s state committee set an example of the “kiss and make up" actions Butler sought, announcing it< will attend the Oct. 10 dinner honoring McKinney. Former President Harry S. Truman will speak. Skillen thereby made overtures for a McKinney friendship, though Schricker was not certain! if he could attend. U J ' f. National committee woman Mrs. Inez Scholl, Connersville, phrased the need for harmony a bit more bluntly than Butler. She indicated it’s as big a headache as the Republicans and made her plea in poetry: “Let’s all agree in *53 . . . and don’t get sore in ‘54 . . . then we’ll all thrive in *55. . .. and the Republicans will ,i>e nixed in *56." , Schrlcker urged capable men to run for the state legislature, calling it . “the most important department of government.” But as to speculation he might run himself, he said: “I’m not a candidate for <Twra Ta Puce Six) •

Mrs. Rachel M. Eme ? Is Taken By Death ~v Mrs. Rachel May Eme, 85, mother of Mrs. H. Vernon Aurand of this city, deid Saturday afternoon at her home in Roanoke. Besides the daughter ft» this city, she la survived by another daughter, Mrs. Gladys A. Kintzof Roanoke, and ope sister, Mrs. Florence Fetters oi Roanoke route two.J ■ Funeral servicee will be held at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne at 1:30 p.m. Tueeday, the Rev. Battle Miller officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. (J. ' .

T ’T: I/;’ Sen. McCarthy Questions Six On Red Moves Civilian Employe Os Army Termed Red Card Carrier NEW YORK UP — A woman civilian employe of the army who had access to classified defense information admitted she carried a 5 Communist party membership card. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. said today after a closed investigating session. McCarthy said the woman had been employed “as a minor clerk for the past three years." “But she is an important witness," McCarthy said. The senator declined to identify the witness, one of six subpoenaed to appear before his senate permanr/. InvestigatHng subcommittee at the federal courthouse here. He said the woman clerk knew of the shipment of food to Korea and Alaska and would therefore know of troop movements in those areas. ; The senator would not say whether he had knowledge that she had passed on the information to a foreign government, but added that he advised her to consult her attorney and that she would be questioned again. -In addition to her card-carrying, the wompn went to a school where Communist leadership was taught, but denied being a member of the communist party. She thought the card meant that she could attend meetings and lectures, according to McCarthy. The woman, the senator said, is presently on leave at her own request and is due back at work in September. McCarthy refused to say where she worked but identified her as "a New Yorker.” A second witness is expected to be questioned this afternoon. McCarthy said "it looks now*’ that he will hold closed sessions of the subcommittee here for the remainder of the week. He is sitting alone as chairman of the subcommittee. His chief counsel, Roy Cohn, and staff director, Frank Carr, aided him in the questioning. ■ j McCarthy said the military investigation was an outgrowth of his recent probe into alledged Communist espionage in the government printing office in Washington. He said he would not question any of the witnesses in public session until he has conferred with (Tarw Ta - Pace Float

Selective Service Calls Are Received The Adams county selective service board today announced an order for active induction Into the armed forces of three men for Wednesday, Sept. 9. and for 10 men to report for physical examinations Thursday. Sept 24. Juniors To Register On Tuesday Morning Decatur high school students who will be members of the junior class in the school term opening nextHweek, will register at the high school office Tuesday, beginaing at 9 a.m. ri, x Juniors are rsqueatsd to bring money with them to pay for rental of books during the coming school year, as these rentals must be paid in advance.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday; August 31, 1953~

Two Walkouts Settled, New Strike Threatened At Goodrich Factories

Years Worst Heat Wave In Second Week Little Relief In Sight As Nation Still Sweltering By UNITED PRESS The worst heat wave of the yetr entered its second week today with little relief in sight as flooding Texas streams forced thousands of. persons out of their homes. Weathermen forecast more 95 plus heat today and Tuesday for the eastern two-thirds of the country and only mild relief Tuesday night, to be followed by 90 degree, weather for several days. No rain was in sight for the parched midwest, and lowa corn crops were in acute danger. In Chicago, every rise in. the temperature meant a new record was being set. Sunday was the seventh consecutive day of over 90 degree heat. The high for the day. a blistering 96.3. set a new mark. It was the sixth consecutive day of 95 plus weather; another record. Sunday was also the straight day without rain, 12 short of the record set in 1919. The recoid for consecutive days of over 90 is eight, set in 1934 and twice since. The east coast sweltered along with most of the rest of the country as millions of cliffdwellers jammed New York state beaches. A high of 95.9 was reached lag New York City, topping the previous Aug. 30 high of 92.1 set in 1945. As in Chicago. Sunday was the seventh straight 90-plus day. Pittsburgh reported a record snapped when the mercury soared to 97.3, shattering a mark set in 1881. Philadelphia counted seven morej deaths from ailments induced by record heat,.for a total of 43 since last Tuesday; Boston, Mass., and other eastern cities simmered under near 100 degree heat and no rain or cool weather was in sight 'for the eastern section of the nation. . x A 100-degree reading at Columbus, Ohio, broke a record that had stood since Aug. 30, 1881, but 133,(Tara Ta Pace Three)

-- I ' Juries Are Drawn For September Term Grand, Petit Jury Panels Are Drawn Jury commissioners Ed Berling and Frank C. Rowley this morniris chose panels for the petit and grand Juries to serve the Adams circuit court during the September term. Grand Jury Roger Bentz, French township;* Albert McGee, Wabash; Martin Blomenberg, Preble; Esther Hartnett, Berne; Fred Nussbaum, Monroe; John J. Eversole, DecaturRoot; Elmer Gerber, Kirkland;/ Wilbur Blakey, Union; Marie H. York, Decatur-Washington; Theo-\ dore O. Morningstar, \Jefferson;’ Joe Sapp, Blue Creek; Gorman E. McKean, Berne. Petit Jury Denn|s Leichty, French; Lillard Fawbush, Preble; Max R. Spencer, Root; Harvey L. Haggard, Kirkland; Willis A. Presdorf, French; Dale F. Parr, Geneva; Grover C. Moser, Berne; William Kauffman, Blue Creek; George W. Rentz, Decatur,Waphington;’ Chauncey G. Manley. Blue Creek; ‘’Clarence Rowden, Monroe; Arthur F. Weaver, Jefferson; Carl H. Frey, St. Mary’s; Elmer F. Dubach, Hartford; Charles Weikel, Hartford; Elmer Gaunt, Union; August C. •Nagel, Berne; Thomas E. Mosser, Geneva; Uoyd Kuhn, Jefferson; NBsxU. Case, St. Mary’s Francis H. Geimer. Union; Otto W. Longenberger, Monroe, Clifford E. Blue Creek.

German Police Halt Election Sabotage 1 Weekend Invasion j rßy Reds Thwarted I I' ' JgBONN, Germany UP — Ai’est <>*rnian police crushed a weekend “Invasion'* by 10,000 agitators from jme Soviet zone who had orders to 'lijbotage the'Coming West Gerfnan elections, and announced today fti|ey had arrested 3.000 of the trouble makers. authorities ordered all bfirder points watched closely for fi|rther Communist attempts to atouggle in Red toughs in hopes OF wrecking West ciurSt alignmment with the'/vlrest er the leadership of Chancellor irad Adenauer. |The wholesale arrests and discover of the plot to wreck the Sept, pr elections in which Adenauer’s will be at stake, was disclosed by the govbfn;mj?nt here. ; ' ! i The east zone agitators, tnostly rtpt-trained members of the Free youth, infiltrated Into West Germany by train and bus during tile weekend. The majority of the Mds were picked up at frontier icHeck points. Hundreds of others MPho slipped through were arrested in West German cities. j jiWest Germany’s 100,000-jhan police force and 10.000 border deT«hse troops maintained a statt of* aßfert. However, officials here : Injßljhed they had the situation under control. ’Federal border police were put pd an “alarm basis’* after the gtihrd’' of a 10,000-man Red invasion foyce was caught trying to sn ?ak across East-West zonal borders funddr orders to provoke riots in the Ruhr and other industrial areas. Police said the arrested youths, Inostly students or ipembers of the blue-shirted Communist Free Gerp34 (Taro- Ta Page Three)

Legion's National Convention Opens H 35th National Meet ; Opens In St. Louis * ST. LOUIS. Mo. UP — Some 5'0.000 American Legionnaires opened jthelr 35th national convention at jbe site of the Legion’s birthplace today against a backdrop of irngksy truce, hydrogen bomb development and United Nations crises. Members of the world’s largest veterans’ organization frolicked as usual and scheduled a mammoth, 110-hpur parade. But bitter floor fights .were expected over the Legion’s stand on some national and international issues. speakers scheduled to address the convention include vice | president Richard M. Nixon, secretary of state John Foster Dulles, defense secretary Charlee E}. Wilson, navy secretary Robert E. Anderson and presidents George Me Any of the AFL and Walter Reuther of the CIO. More than 150,000 Legionnaires, armed services members and other marchers will take part in the big parade Tuesday. It will pass the site of the Legion's founding here m September, 1919. S National Commander Lewis K. tough of Pasadena, Calif., set the sood for traditional legion revelry by Earning against “super celerating.” . <On the serious side, the resolution* committee assigned nearby 700 resolutions to such committees 48 national security, foreign relation*, Americanism and child welfare. Committee recommendations will be presented to the 3,160 off Jclal delegates at Kiel Auditorium Wednesday. 11 1 ■ Several resolutions called on the legicui to label the Korean truce' as a "negotiated defeat.” Others called for United States withdrawal from the United Nations and crftijised government methods ot rooting out Communists. « i All are expected to bring rough; and tumble debate on the conven-1 To six)

East Germans “ Face Loss Os Homes, Jobs Threaten Homes, Jobs Fcfr Seeking Free Food Os U. S. BERiIJN i*'P — Hungry East Germans defy their Communist bosses tolheek free food in the West today fgeed loks of homes and jobs. fe ' i ‘ The new Red threats of (retaliation came as SWay® 1, Ernst Reuter of West.®erl(|h hailed the American relief program as a defeat for the Communists as great as the June 17 workOTs revolt against the Red masters \of the Soviet-occu-pied zone. i; In a speeclij hirer the American radio station iR'IAS Sunday night. Reuter /aid pibre than 3,00d,')0<) East Germans defied Communist blockades and terrorism to pick up the food packages" ' distributed by W’est Germany. And. he said, more are “coming every day.” of fCommupist concern over the impact of the food distribution 4n -teHt German residents was" the. order tb discharge employes who ‘go to the west for the free food as well as those campaigning for better working conditions in Soviet zone factories. The order on the heels of Communist action iq evict foodseekers from pthiir homes. new Cpmmunikt measure, obs|ensibly to jelimlnate “provocateurs” from factories was disclosed by thep Communist party newspaper -Neuies Deutschland and the Soviet zone’s Communist union chief. \ J| *. The Neues Deutschland reported that a 66-yeah-old \ construction worker named Richard Sieloff was fired from a stjate-owned construction firm and arrested for picking up a food parcel and volunteering to serve in the JWest German army <Twr» Te »•»•-» Mx» t v j > —

4 ■ J ■ ' ’.i ■ I'' Richard Roop Dies Here Early Sunday Funeral Services ! Tuesday Richard B. Itoop, 79,' of 134% East 'Monroe street, and \a well kpown Decatur- resident, died at o’clock Sunday morning at |he Adams courity memorial hospital. He bad «been in failing health for two ? years with complications, but his condition has been serious only two days. | Mr. Roop was the last surviving charter memberr of the Moose lodge in and one of the fra-ternal organization's oldest members. z ] He was born Adams cqunty Aug. 6. 1874, a son of Jacob C. and Harriet Troutndr-Roop, and was married to Mar|ha E. Drummond in August pf lw»4. His wife preceded mm tn death three years ago. / | . Surviving are daughter, Mrs. Cleo Linn of Decatur; two sons. Ralph J. Roop of Decatur and George Roop of 1 Wren, O.; seven grandchildren; 1V great-grandchil-dren; a sister, Hila Murray of Decatur, and a | brother, Charles Roop of Hammond. One son, one brother and two’ sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Black funeral honSe, thg Rev. L. T. Norris, officiating, by the Rev. E. B. McCaUister. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may calj at the funeral home until timqppf the services. All members and officers of the Moose lodge are asked to meet at the lodge home --at 7 o'clock • this evening, and wi!|f go in a body to the funeral home to hold memorial services at 7:45

8,000 Aid Rebuilding Job At Flint, Mich. Tornado-Flattened District Rebuilding FEIN'T, >iich. f UP —“Operation Tornado,” in which 8,000 volunteers jqlned in a mammoth work bee to rebuild the twister-flatten-ed Beecher district jiere, was detdared an “unbelieveable” success today. “I’m completely overwhelmed by the spirit: and the accomplishments of these volunteers," said M. F. Borgman, chairmaft~of the local committee' which planned the two-day project. “The whole thing is unbelievable, more tremendous than Ae ever expected.” The committee set an original goal of 7,500 workers to combine in rebuilding in two days the homes that were destroyed in two minutes last June 8 by a shrieking tornado which took 119 lives. An estimated 8,000 skilled and linskiUed workers answered the call Saturday and Sunday, although only about 5,000 of them were on the job at one time. The weary volunteers, both men and women and including some from Ohio and Indiana, celebrated their “job well done” with a victory dance whkh lasted well into this mornlug. The dance was held under the stare in. the Beecher high school gymnasium, still lacking a roof which was blown away in the June tornado. Os the 200 homes swarmed over by the volunteer army, 93, of them had only foundations. By dusk Sunday, 80 of the 93 had roofs. The other 107 homes were in various stages of construction before, the project, billed by its promoters as the "world’s biggest work bee,” got started. One resident, whose homq was swept away by the winds, said his dwelling was rebuilt so fast “it seemed as though I just held up a door frame and these people (Tara Ta Fa«a> Sta)

Launch Final Week Os Tent Services Community Tent Services To End Decatur’s community tent services started the final week today with a full program scheduled for' the closing week of the three-week session sponsored by seven local churches at the tent,- corker of Dayton and Tenth streets. Attendance at the first l(j meetings, since the starte two weeks ago, totalled 4,113, it was announced at the Sunday night meeting. Tonight is Sunday school night? Tuesday night is good neighbor night; Wednesday will be designated as family night; Thursday will be church membership night and Friday will be young-peoples night. There also will be special young peoples services Wednesday and Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Saturday night, the Rev. Patrick Henry, guest evangelist, spoke on “Satan,” based on Job'24-10, The Rev. Joihn Chambers, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, read the scripture. Sunday Rev. Henry spoke on ’"Hie Coming War With Russia.” Rev. Henry said God would never permit Russia to rule the world, because the Russians say that there Is no-God. A quartet of, young men from Berne sang special numbers during the afternoon, r ; Last night, the Rev. Eugene McAllister, pastor ot FJfrst Baptist church, read the scripture. A men’s quartet of Portland postal employes presented the special music. The sermon by Rev. Henry was based on Luke 16:11-32, the story of the prodigal son. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and continued ■< hot and humid tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 68-74. High Tuesday 7 . S ! *-'. I i' ' i

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Labor Picture Brightens As Pair Settled 78,000 Return To Jobs In Telephone, Rubber Industries By UNITED PRESS Seventy-eight thousand workers went back to their jobs todays ending strikes against a telephone company and a rubber manufacturing firm, hut a new strike Was threatened for tonight against another rubber company. ’ A spokesman for the CIO United i' Rubber Wooers said the union was “all set”i to strike at nine B. F. Goodrich Co. factories at mid-, night? About 18,000 workers would be affected, j . I , A l Negotiations were continuing at Chicago on the union’s demand for a pay increase similar Col that won today by workers ip eight Firestone rubber plants. Fifty-thtee thousand CIO |Communications of America I members began returning to their jobs in Southwestern Bell telephone Co. exchanges and installations ip sit states. , ■ ' Another 25,000 production employes. members of the;CIO rubber workers, reported back to work si eight Firestone Rubber Co. plants. Negotiations at Cleveland produced a new contract Sunday which graned workers* an average 5-cent hourly pay boost and increasing i,oieir average; wage I to 92.05 an hour. 1 The Firestone strike agreement affected workers in Akron, Los Angeles, Des' Moines, Memphis, Fall River* Mass., Pottstown, Pa„ and Noblesvlllg and New Castle in Indiana. ' r Meanwhile, negotiators redoubled efforts to head off a threatened [strike by the nation’s long distarib® : telephone operators, ( -also members of the CWA. against the American Telephone and teleCp. Violence abated in an Indjatip telephone strike. , phoned dq. repprtedAtbat long distance ' lines between Bloomington and French Llitjc were cut south of Bedford, 1nd.,1 today. The break was patched quickly, the company said. , ■ j r . ' The agreement between the CWA arid Southwestern Bell resulted from a| matathon 13-hour bargaining session at St. liouls that wound up at dawh today.i A union Spokesman said| the agreement was “generally satisfactory” (o thil Union. A company* demand iSfor h‘ clause against strikes was compromised to “cover only grievances and arbitra- ’ lion ot interruptions of service.” “The membership is stttl free to strike : any Ume,” the spokesman said. “What we have agreed is that we will not order or sanction a|strflfe until the grievance procedure is followed.” The liinlon spokesman said “we got vhpt we I Ranted,” including pay boost of $1.50 to |3 weekly, differential increases, upgrading of some towns In wage schedules, and Some job Reclassifications. The strike sorted 11 days ago when workers talked out in Missouri, ’texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and p|trts of Illinois to enforce demand for a 7H cent . ; r*” T¥r ** ) I—■ 1 —■ . Local Lad/s Sister Dies At Indianapolis was received here of the death Os Mrs. Charles Doriot, a sister of Mrs. Bert HaJey of this city, who died suddenly at her home in Indianapolis Sunday of a heart attack. Minn. Doriot had vis-\ ited in Decatur on several occaaions. J; ; ..if ■ Besides Mrs, paley, another sister, jJKH. Minnie William* of Chicago, and brother. Harry Pence of flfuntington, survive, as do -nieces and ' nephews. Mr. and Mrs- HaleyMeft immediately {for Indianapolis. Funeral servieetjhave tentatively been arrangmHliM* Tuesday. ■ ;