Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 208.

Cool Front To Bring Relief To Americans Cool Air Preceded By Thundershowers Moving Eastward By UNITED PREfcS A cool front moving ward across the uppermidwest brought the first definiU promise of relief today to ftf browrnbpping Americans in the throes of a record-shattering h«ot wave. .Meanwhile), a mighty I hurricane with winds up to 138 toiles per \ houu churned the Atlantic 1.500 miles off the Florida coast| but no land mass lay in any infinediate danger. f A potent mass of cool Canadian air, preceded by drought-2§reaking thundershowers' swept across Iowa; Nebraska, Kansas apd Mitt nesota. Scattered local far in advance of the cool front gave Chicago and portions of, Indiana a foretaste of lhe relief that'was pn the way. ' Parched Kansas got jts first . widespread rain - in a nibhth of Up to 4.20 inches fell at Burr Oak, in the eixtrenfe north central section of the Across "the border, Superior, N&b-> got 4.29 inches. ? „ ; _• ShoWers afld cool swept across lowa so break the brought and halt serious damage, to the corn crop. Nearly an in<‘h;|pf rain fell in the Sioux City area. At Washington, D. C.. in agriculture department expert said hay and pastures were damaged most by the reeord.-breaki|ig heat waive, Which had sent temperatures into the high 90s a erf even above 100 degrees for more than -a week. This morning, the cool jifront's leading edge was located east of Duluth, Minn*;, southward to LaCrosse, Wis., and southwestward through Kansas City &d the Texas Panhandle. 1 ' ® Tempeirafureis behind front ranged this morning from She low 50s over the plains from [Kansas to North Dakota to the Ipw and mid 40s in .the lower Jevejs ?of the Rockies. . ,H is; In happy contrast to the heat, snow and sleft forced the?closing of the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National park. H But the .eastern third if the country stilj baked in thtfjuprec- . edented heat. ) I ;y- At Columbps. Ohio, biirglars broke into a restaurant, smashed coin vending machines and then cooled off with soft drinksbefore leading. ; I

Hold Family Night ' ■ i ': r i - ■ At Tent Services Tonight Is Church Membership Night .-Family night was observed at the community tent meeting at Dayton and Tbnth streets Wednesday night and] 350 personsEturned out to hear an inspiring message by . the Rev. Patrick Henrvh; guest . evangelist, I H ' • Couples attending who GO years old and older were iri| induced. Oldest attendant was 9& years of age. Don Gerig, song ||eader, sang. "Back To My Fats And Homk” . • - /I The final children's meeting was held Rev. and Mrs] Henry shared the spotlightat this session Ifijid announced plans fbr young peoples night -Friday night at thetftnt. /Tonight Is church membership night and all church members of all denominations are to attend at 7J45 o’clock|| Serv jces will be held every nl|ht including. the closing servicM next Sunday, night arid Sundajf| afternoon. 1 - p ■ At Wednesday's session t||> Revs Arthur ' Neuenschwander, (former pastor of Nuttman avenueplj. B. church, read the Rev. Henry's topic was “What U Your Refuge," { - The feature meeting is scheduled for next Sunday afternoon; when the guest evangelist will t'alkon "Will We Know Each Other We Get To Heaven." •' "z 1 h ■ INDIANA WEATHER Considerable.cloudiness W|th ecattefed 'thulnd'ershovvers Ho night. Turning cooler north and west portions. Friday partly cloudy, much cooler wiih possible scatjered thundershowers *• < near the’ Ohio i*lver. Low tonight ranging from 60-65 north to 68-72 High Friday 80-85 85 nortn, 82-88 south.

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Wainwright-Glory and Humiliation

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PASSING OF GEN. JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT, 70, at San Antonio. Texas, brought to mind his .great service for his during which he jmderweiit; his deepest humiliation, lie Teqeived hisrl nation’s highest honors at the hands of former President Truman ' (topi, following World War 11. and suffered a soldier’s greatest humiliation (below) as, under the watchful eye of a Japanese ! a.flcer, he broadcast to his troops and the world Op May 7. 1942, ! that he was surrenderirfg after rhe gallant defense of Bataan and Corregidor.

General Dean Only Few Miles From Freedom 3,116th American Prisoner Freed In ! Latest Exchange PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Communists released their 3,116th American prisoner today and said their -nost important captive. Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, was only a few miles away from freedom. Os the; 300 ; Cofftmunist- held prisoners passing through Freedom Gate as the first month of ‘Operation Big Switch” enqed. 89 were Ameiiica’hs, including 41 from the 2nd Indian Head infantry division. The Communsits sfaid they would return 300 mole prisoners Friday. Ninety-five Americans were scheduled for repatriation, along with five Brftoni and 200 South Koreans. Peiping Radio announced that Dean, hero of Taejon who was awarded the congressional medal of honor for fighting alongside his men, had arrived at nearby Kaesong and was "due t, for repatriation.” ' ' Kaesong. former Communist truce camp now! used as 4 pool for repatriates, is only six miletf from Panmunjom. I The Peiping broadca st said Dean was "in very good health’’ 'nd had gained 60 pounds during Fiis three years ‘imprisonment. But Pfc. Larry K. Wpoldridge. one of the 12 24th division prisoners released today, said he had seen pictures of his old division commander shown s to Americans by' Communists and they “just iidnt look like the general.” "He looked like he was all bloated." Wooldridge, 20. Lynchburg. Va.. saiia. “I had seen pictures of him before he was captured but he did not look like the same man in the ones the Co m mil nis ta showed us.” Although the broadcast did not ?ive the date for Dea#s. release, he was expected to go through Freedom Gate not later .than Sunday. When the last of the 3,313 Americans listed foi" repatriation are freed. ; t However, Dean may be held Cor the final shipment to insure the return of 14 die-hard Red fanatics accused of inciting the bloody Koje Island prisoner riots and kidnaping the camp commandant last ' year. . ; L Peiping’s announcement was the first official word that Dean was in Kaesong. Prisoners returning to freedom earlier this week said they had heard reports he was (T»n Ta pace Elgat)

Old Comrades Mourn Wainwright's Death [ . . Hero Os Corregidor > i Mourned By Nation SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP , J-j The! body of Gen. Jonathan M-; Wainwright lay in! state at Fort Sam Houston i chapel today as old comrades in arms, including President Eisenhower, mourned his di’ath. The hero of Corregidor, known affectionately as “Skinny,” died Wednesday at the afce of 70, eight yeajrs to the day after the surrender of. Japan, which he witnessed aboard the battleship Missouri, A blood vessel obstruction in the old soldier’s brain caused his \deiwhJ . [President* Eisenhower expressed "t|he deepest regret of the passing .Qf m'y old friend.” “With his death,” the President -feaid, panothej’ dramatic figure of Worlds War II / has passed from the current scene. But his example of courage, fortitude and unshakable patriotism, all exhibited in the face of the most discouraging conditions, will lonk be an inspiration to Americans and free men everywhere.” , Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, ai-my chief of staff, said the nation “has lost one of its, w great soldiers’’ in the death of the hero of (Corregidor and fiataan. H.e said Wainwright’s “distinguished career was marked by courage, -fi+) delity, and ability of the highest order.” Wainwright, who; received thte congressional medal of honor, dieft in a coma at 12:27 p.m., c.s.t. in Brooke army medical center. Those in attendance blamed his 39 months in Japanese prison camps for his “generally poor” condition and eventual death. —• The ’ body was to ’lie in stale from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and Friday, with funeral services at 10 a.m. Saturday. Then the body will be transported to Washington, D.C.; for burial in Arlington National Cemetery. j Wainwright was the man left behind to fight as long as he could in the Philippines in 1942, when the late President Roosevelt ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Australia to prepare for counterattacks against the Japanese. Wainwright directed the rearguard action .from Lingayan Gulf to Bataan and Corregidor with men who were without food and medical supplies. It was inevitable! that the Philippine forces would fall. ! But his troops, almost without ammunition and Hying on the meat of their horses, and packmulesJ fought so long they were credited with upsetting the Japanese Pacific timetable and possibly preventing an invasion of Australia. MacArthur said he was “greatly distressed" at his companion's /Twra T» pace Klcbt)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 3, 1953.

Dulles Declares Soviet Hold On East Germany Is Menace To World Peace it ■ i \

.. ' * r ■. ■ rr / Secy. Wilson Defends lower Military Fund Defends Reduction: In U. S. Military | Budget In Address'! ; ST. LOVIS UP—-'Defense Sphejtary Charles E. Wilson the administration's reduced Military budget today before | Jthe American, Region's 35th national convention. He said “We now have the most.' powerful and effective air force in the world,’’ | “Our outstanding combat experience in Korea indicates have not only the best equipment hut- the best pilots.” Wilson |gid*. ,'We inust. continue to have.“air power second to none.” The secretary spoke befortlV a convention that was openly M>Bt over the administration's defuse cuts, chiefly the five billion dollar reduction in air force funds. || ‘Wilson said the reduced budget “anticipated progress in making intelligent savings and in imploding the effectiveness of the eptlre defense organization.” V t ‘He said the strength of tht' ai force is “to continue to Incrietse both through an increase; InHße number of wings fl-sind through better equipmept.’' -M Included in his estimate oiKhe nation’s air power was the strength of naval aviation. But he saldMhe air force itself had 106 activated wings on June 30, fki.of .which combat wings. 'He said the tW |U ‘ ber of effective wings by next June 30 should be at least 114. ; Wilson said aircraft production for all the services is about planes a month and . would Continue at the same rate, with an increase in the percentage || o‘.' combat craft turned out. 4 The secretary took note of cfitljcism of the current air -“fffi-C? program. But he said it was ; Le cause “the planning, • ‘he personnel planning and the ’ aircraft production planning >verej)4iot Jn balance and the facts were-hot well understood.” , ii | ■ ' 'J ' ' ; i Annual Fish Fry Is | Set For October 21 Annual C. C. Fish g Fry Is Scheduled Thursday night, October 22, Mas been set as the date for the annual Chamber of Commerce fish fi'y aniTthe event will be held at Decatur high school gymhasinm. This was decided at the first meeting of committee chairmen called by general chairman Clarence jjin■ier at the Elks home Wednesday night. I In addition to Ziner, chairrtien Include: | Tables and chairs. Wilbur Petse: ei/Lertainment, Lode Mallon|e; food. Cgrl Gerber and Robert CdU; tickets, Mike Pryor; dining ro6m, George Bair; supplies. Gene Mydell; P. A. system. Lowell Snj|tMi and W. Guy Brown; Robert J. Holthouse; rural tickets. }Villiam Linn. The committee chairmen also will serve as the executive comlnittee. Tickets will go on sale Monday. September 21, and will s£ll for $1.50 to the general public And $2.50 to Chamber of Commerce members. .;i The Jonah club of Silver Lak? again has agreed to cook the fish and serve them. Ziner reported at the first executive meeting session. Entertainment for the big evept will be announced later. r 4; Each committee chairman will announce his committee members in the next few days. All commit* tee members will be eontacted prior to the announcement, the chairmen decided, so a good working group will be in charge.

Scheduled Cut In Army Is Cancelled To Continue Draft At Present Rate WASHINGTON, UP — The defense department has cancelled a scheduled cut in anny manpower and will continue drafting men at about the present rate until stable I peace is achieved in Korea, it was J learned today. A high Pentagon official said the administration has decided it would be foolhardy to weaken the U. S. military position in the East simply because a truce has' been signed. The defense department previously had believed the Korean truce would make it possible to trim the army’s strength by 56.00(? men. and thu reduce draft calls from the current level of 23,OOtf a month to about 19,000 a month starting in November.’ ' I|ut the Pentagon official said the November draft call, not yet officially announced, will be £or/t 23,000 men. He said drat calls will remain at ‘thaL, level-barring an increase in enlistments —unless or until it appears, that “a firm has been reached with the Com!munists at the forthcoming Korean political conference. The 50,000 cut in army strength would have been in addition to a reduction of 100,00 ft men planned as an economy move before the Korean truce was signed. Higher enlistmerft rates could pare .future draft calls somewhat even Though the Far East situation remains unsettled. Army figures show that enlistments and re-enlistments jumped since the Korean truce. The 23,000 monthly draft call rate is based on pre-truce enlistment figures. If the high enlistment rate continues, the army obviously will rely less on the draft to meet its manpower needs. < . J' ' Max Schaler Takes Terre Haute Position Administrator For Union Welfare Fund Max Schafer of this city, who recently concluded a term as a member of the Indiana Industrial Board, has accepted a position ah administrator of the Indiana state council of the Laborers & Hod Carriers Union welfare fund, with offices in Terrel Haute. He will assume his duties Oct 15 and will be manager of the newly established Terre Haute of! fice. ■ Recently organized by contrac tors and workers of the building trades, the Indiana council Wil have a membership of approxi mately 20,000. Contractors ant trade Workers are equally repre sen ted in the union and the welfare fund is jointly administered by the two groups. Trustees' of the welfare fund employed the Deca tur man to administer the vasl operations of the council. A veteran in the field of manage-ment-labor relations, Schafer ha> devoted more than 40 years to thh type of work. Prior to coming to Decatur in 1941 as director of laboi relations at Central Soya empany he was a conciliator in the Indiana division of labor in the administrations of Gov. Townsend and Gov. Schricker. In 1949, Gov. Schricker appointed him a member of the five-man Indiana .industrial board, a post !he held until last Aug. 31. Commenting on leaving Decatur, he said. “I sure hate to leave, but one must go where h»is work calls. I love Decatur and her people and it was here that I was employed by one of the greatest industrial concerns in the country. I enjoyed my associations here and feel that I helped establish the fine relations that exist between management and labor at Central Soya Co. I hope this feeling continues <Tua Te Pean Kiot)

UN Secretary Not To Rehire Fired Workers Ng Reinstatement Os Four Americans As U. N. Employes UNI®D NATIONS, N. Y.; UP —- Sectary Qeneral Dag |lamiperskj|id has rejected recommendationsrOf the United Nations administrative tribunal and declined to reingtpte four Americans disU. N. jobs on loyalty IBs Action was immediately hailed ik "ill line with the thinkj* ing feeling of the people.Jkby Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (reptahU a member of the senate security subcommittee. Hamnlrskjold announced Wednesday yjght that “I have come to the conefusion, on the basis of any authority under the of the tribuna!i|not to reinstate the peH sons In he said only that reinstatement “would be able frogi? the points of view which it is mjfvduty to take into consideration. ’iU,\ ! \ The general’* decision verdict of the tribunal, the U, N.’s set asidft a portion of the recent highest court, which recommended reinstatement >of the four and ordered a total indemnity of sl||s.ooo paid to sefen other-M.mericans in lieu of reinstatement. j The 11 employes, and one other vbere fired for refusing to tell the senate internal security subcqnjniittee if they Were Communist*.' They refused ' under provisions of the fifth amendment —that their answers might to incriminate them. \ - Irummerskjold Jlajd the four employes of questioned loyalty would be paid an indent ity, as werethe be paid an indeihhity, as were the seven not reinstated. The termined by theflribunal. The case of tie 12th employe whose dismissal yev|ewed by the tribunal wag referred to a joint appeals bo.trd on technical rrara T« f '' Simon Suddenly Last Night Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Simon Beinekei. 75, retired farmer and a lifelong resident oi Preble died suddenly at 9:30 o’clock Wednesday night at his home, two mfles north of Mag ley. He had been in failing healti, for several years but death was un expected. , , he wa4 horn in Preble towndhip Feb. 18, 1878, a son of William and Sophia Hilgeman-Beineke, and re sided on the same farm his entire life. He was marked to Anna Hildebrand Oct. 30, Air Reineke a\ member oi the Magley Evangelical and Re formed church 4 Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs Rqfus Scherry of Preble township |nd Mrs Danie: Jaberg of Fond Lac, Wis., two sons, Elmer of township and Alvin of Peom. Ill.; I>l grandchildren; one' Wreat-grandchild. Four sisters and -fne brother pre ceded him in deat>> Funeral be conducted at 3:15 p.m. Saturday at the home and at at the Magley and Reformed church, the H. E. Settlage officiating. be in the church cemetery. body was removed to the funeral home, where frlendb may call after 7 o’clock this evading until Friday evening. whe< it will he removed to the where friends may call aher 7 p.m. Friday.

Railroad Conductors Cancel Strike Plans Cancels Plans For > Strike On Sept. 10 WASHINGTON UP y- The national mediation board announced today the 35,000-member independent conductors union has canceled plans for a nationwide strike for Sept. 10. ;, ' Board" ’’chairman Francis A. O’Neill;, Jr., said thfe union agreed to call off its proposed stride after reaching aty agreement- with management for handling its wage demand after Oct’. 1. Roy O. Hughes, chief of, the Order oL Railway Conductors, told reporters the union would move on Oct. 1 or shortly thereafter to resume its drive fpr a new pay scale. The union is demanding that its members be paid on a “graduated” basis in line with the power of locomotives on their trains. They are now paid on a basis. The carriers had refused to bargain on the, issue at this time, claiming that present rail contracts forbid new wage demands until Oct. 1. By its action today, the union agreed to postpone its demand until the'Contract “mortatorium” runs out; The agreement Was reached in the third day of talks guided by the mediation board. Junior High Students To Register Friday Junior high school students will register at the high school office Friday morning, with eighth grade pupils registering at 9 a.m., and seventh grade students 1 at 10 a.m. The junior high students are, requested to bring money with them to pay for rental of books during the coming school year, as these rentals must be paid in advance. 9 . - - : ■‘ ; I . ' .'I ’/ Relief 1$ Brought By Overcast Skies Temperature Above 100 Here Wednesday Overcast skies and temperature in the 70’s brought relief to citizens this morning, folltWing Wednesday's record-breaker in the heat wave. ' Yesterday was the hottest day of the year and probably the hotest on record. The Daily Democrat thermometer, located at second floor level on the building and facing west, registered 107 degreesat about 3 P-m. Passersby shook their head when they read the indicator. Official readings were 100 and above during the afternoon heat blast.' Thei ten days of scorching sun has turned much of the corn field* into brown stalks, with drooping ears. Some damage has been dont to corn, but Jack Schnepf, whe with his brother Wayne, operate a 500-acre farm north of the city, was not too alarmed over the out look. “We still think it wil bft t fair harvest,” he said. Ahead of tb« regular schedule. Schnepf said that they were starting today to fill silos with corn. Last Rain Aug. 9 4 The; drought has existed here since | August 9,\ Herman “Hi” Meyer, local weather recorder, stated today. “The last showei was on August 9 and we have been waiting for rain every day,” he commented. Soybeans have been damaged to some extent, growers say. Tomatoes have suffered, although picking goes on and trucks are hauling the crop to canning factories. Country roads are a mass of dust and the atmosphere is heavy with limestone dust. \ > , NO PAPER MONDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat, following a custom of many years standing, will not publish | an edition Monday, •ept. 7, which le Labor Day.

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Stubborn Hold By Reds Seen Peace Menace Also Sees Danger Os Chinese Reds Over Indochina WASHINGTON UP—Secretary of state John Foster Dulles declared today that Moscow’s “stubborn” hold on Eastern- Germany “is a menace to the peace.” Dulles told a news conference he also sees a danger that Red China might use several'hundred, thousand troops near the Indochina border to invade Indochina if the guerrilla Communists fighting the French there defeated. He said he sees a danger that the pattern of Chinese intervention in. Korea might bg followed in Indochina, y. 1 He read a prepared I statement denouncing continued partition of Germany between east) and west as a “scandal” and “a crime.” He said it was never intended that the original postwar division of Germany into American. British and Soviet zones would be continued indefiaitely. ? ■While the three western powers over four years ago put their zones together. Dulles said Russia, “has stubbornly held on to tie part of Germany it occupies.” | « “This is not only wreng to the Germans; it is a menace to the peace,” Dulles said. Because ,of the Sovie: decision to cut off the East Germans for more than eight years and to subject them “to the despotic rule of Soviet puppets," he said, the oppressed peoples are becoming increasingly restless. He said they had sought the socalled "Eisenhower food packages” at great personal risk and that their growing resentment at Red rule was shown by the riots' and strikes which led Germans armed only with stones to resist Red army tanks. r i Now. iMilles said, on the eve of next Sunday’s West German elections the Soviet leaders now are making another in a long series of “propaganda gestures”—and giving “lip service” te the idea of German unity. He said these schemes had been nullified and rejected again the Russian proposal to bring Red China , into proposed Big Four talks on Germany. The Western powers Wednesday invited Russia to a Big Four eign ministers’ conference on both Germany and Austria. Dulles said Moscow’s response will test wheth- . er it really wants to solve; outstanding problems “w'hich threaten international peace and which create grave international tension?’ Battle Police n BONN, Gefmany UP — A riotous mob—of 1,000 Communist hoodlums sent into West Germany under orders to sabotage next Sunday’s important parliamentary elections today battled West German police at the Iron Curtain frontier city of Helmstedt. The fighting developed as West German border guards made mass arrests of the Red agitators who were attempting to cross by the thousands all along the frontier. Police had arrested between 1.500 and 2.000 Communist “invaders’’ during the night. Those who staged today’s riotous disturbance broke out of an un-used factory building and turned on the police who were guarding them. ' Police met their assault with clubs. Scores of the Communist hot-heads were reported injured in the battle. .Reinforcements of Lower Saxony troopers were rushed to Helmstedt to guard against further disorders. Arrests made during the night brought to more than g.OOft the number of Communist troublemakers who have been arrested #Twr» 0 * * 0 12 PAGES