Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1953 — Page 1

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Record Heat; Wave Broken By Cool Air [ Record-Breaking | {Hot Spell Smashed . As Mercury Drops 'i By UNITED PRESS Cool.- Canadian air spread; southward and eastward today tb snap a record-breaking hbt spell Un the Central Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley. The leading edge of th ? cold front stretched from the’ Great Lakes all the way to s< lithern Texas, sending temperatures downward by as much as 30 deg ‘ees. At Alice, Tex., a creek, i wollen to the proportions of a riAer by a 3.2-inch rain, flooded alfnost a square mile and drove at least 60 persons from their homes. | : Meanwhile, the season’! most severe hurricane moved slowly along Atlantic shipping lands with top winds reported at 150 : miles per hour. But the hurricane was I.MO 'miles from Miami and not close enough to cause any. immediate threaf. ; Hot weather prevailed east of the cold front, but relief was on z ~ th«\way. the west, temperatures this morning fell to 29 degrees at Butt. Mont., and 38 at Lander, Wyo,/ and Chadron, Neb. Tnj Illinois, temperatures ; averaged about 20 degrees below the highs recorded during the intense heat of the last Week. After 11 days of humid, windless, record-shattering heat in the mid-west and east, the cold front finally came to the rescue of wilted Americans and sent the mercury skidding downward. Eastern states still sweltered in the summer’s worst hot spell, but the cold front was expected to reach the Atlantic by Saturday f and assure most of the nation pleasant weather for v the Labor Day weekend. r.The cool air rolled over Chicago a little before midnight and continued eastward at a 15 tb 20 mile an hour clip. The Windy City had suffered 10 straight days of 95 degree of more ' heat, only one of scores of new weather records set across the country in the last few dajfs. In some areas the coldl front brought welcome, drought «• breakingf rain thai: did much to restore browning corn fields, In othefr areas Lt brought almost frigid temperatures—'32 in &Tiltehall, Mont., 49 in Bismarck/ N.D., in Gdodland, Kan. Maximum temperatures ift the 70‘s and 80’s were forecast fob most 4 areas touched by the, cold? front today. V ' 4 [ In sizzling Washington, D. C., Thursday, three persons died of heat exhaustion, bringing the nationwide toll for the last' 10 days fTar** Weather Picture Is Confusing In State Cities On Western Border Are Cooler INDIANAPOLIS. UP — j cool , front gave chase to lingering heat wave today liut It wasn’t the kind of extended,relief a lot of Hoosiers had hoped for. It propabjy will be a //warm weekend with cooler weather in store -on Labor Day. The weatherman’s , forecast for today 'was confusing—cooler inthe northwest and southeast by temperatures in some parts Jof the state as high as 88 degree!. On a five-day basis. he said temperatures will average two to . .five degrees below normal, The forecast said warming over /weekend, cooler Monday.” J Cities along the western porder felt cooler temperatures at| mid-. morning, <1 at Lafayette ahd 65 at Terre Haute. Bitt it was a sultry 78 in Indianapolis. / Indiana waa to have cloudy skies through Saturday with the prospect of occasional showers in the northwest today and in the southeast tonight. Rainfall during the five days was to average onefourth to one-half inch. ( ! Farmers in central Indiana got the major portion of Thursday’s T' rain. The rainfall was measured at 53-100ths at Oaklandotf, just outside Indianapolis, 43-100ths at Spencer, 31-100ths at Indianapolis, and little more than a trace at South Bend, Terre Haute Lafayette. 1 • Evansville waa the hot split with a 98-degree reading. The high was 95 at Terre Haute, 92 as Fort Wayne, 80 at South Bend, And 87 at Indianapolis. , /

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First Waves To Shipboard Duty La KF 1 flu V ■ •fl iW “ ■ JI Hi II ■fl s ' \ i w ■J • \ < W: wlk li FIRST WAVES ever assigned to duty on shipboard pause as they go aboard the U. S. Navy ship Maurice Rose. Staten Island, N. Y. The Rose is part of: Navy’s military sea transportation service. The Waves will replace nurses, needed ashore. From left: Marie Meyers, Baltimore; Eileen Paluzzi. Conajohari, N. Y.; Annette Tillotson, Santa Barbara. Calif,; Mavia Cain. Los Angeles.

West Germany Leader Urges Trade Pad k Non-Aggression And Trade Pact Urged On Election Eve BONN, Germany UP — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today prban non-aggre/ sion and trade pact for Europe, The 77-year-ol<l 'chancellor,, battling for the political life of his pro-Western government in SundayM important (parliamentary elections, put forward his plan, which held out hope for German access to the huge market areas east of the Iron Curtain, in an obvious move to Improve his elec-' tion chances. He was embarrassed Thursday by the open endorsement of United States secretary of state John Foster Dulles. This played into the hands ot his Socialist opponents who already were charging k that Adenauer is “an American tool.” His proposal for a rion-aggres-slon and trade pact between the six “Schuman-plan” nations of West Europe on the one hand and the Soviet block on the other was released through the Federal Press office only 48 hours before 33 million West German voters go to polls. I L , Adenauer’s proposal was apparently intended to counter Socialist charges that his policy of linking Germany to the West will perpetuate the division of Germany and eventually lead. to war. Federal Press chief Felix von Eckhardt said Adenauer’s lastminute proposal had no connection with Dulles’ statement in Washington that Adenauer’s defeat in Sunday's elections would’ endanger the chances for German reunification and« restoration of Serman sovereignly. > “In fact,” sajd! Von Eckhardt, ‘we were somewhat surprised by Mr. pulles statement.” Dulles’ off-hand remark set o*7 angry explosions from, the Socialist opposition. Adenauer, in an elecion rally at Boon Thursday night, attempted to dissociate himself rom the statement. Dulles, he iaid, was after ill speaking for and to the .American people—not ’.he Germans. 1 , American high commissioner officials also were upset. They recalled the furor .caused just before the recent Italian elections when S. ambassador Glare Boothe Luce made a similar remark. ’V• ' ' —H —-k Woman Driver Held In Hit-Run Death INIDTA NAiPOLIS UP — Police today arrested Mrs. Beth E. Nevins, 19,. Greenfield, in connection with the death y of George P. Healy, 84, Indianapolis. Police said Mrs. Nevins admitted driving the ear fatally injured Healy late Thusrday. She faced preliminary charges of leaving the scene of an accident Healy was struck down as be walked on the sidewalk hear his bolne. ' I • < ’H- ■I -

Children And'Youth Activities At Fair Sullen Skies, Rain For Indiana Fair INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Sullen skies and a sprinkling of rain marketj second day of the Indiana state fair today as chiHren and youth activities held the spotlight. - ] Officials prepared to run the first sblky races over a,half-mile cinder track if rain inired the dirt-?* packed mMe oval, ironically, the dirt track had been watered faithfully during the recent drought to keep It in condition. More than 250,000 gallons ot water were used. But the dark clouds failed to dampen fair-goers’ spirits. Concessionaires reported business “much improved” over opening day-when customers, briiving heat and occasional showers, were reluctant to buy. Surest sign of children’s day was the report that 34 youngsters had been lost. Attendance Thurs’day was held down slightly by the weather. Total paid admission was announced as 22,591, compared with an opening day of 23.238 last year. Judging of beef and dairy cattle and draft horses is scheduled for the Coliseum today, while sheep, swine and poultry competition also will continue. \ For the ladies, three style shows will be held in the woman’s building. Sports fans will crowd the grandstand for the beginning of a rich harness racing program in , the afternoon. At night, Irish Horan’s Lucky Hell Drivers, featuring 500-mile auto race favorite Freddie Agabashian, will headline the entertainment. A 14-y ear-old Lafayette youth walked off with one of the majoi 4-H blue ribbons Thursday. Ted Hunt, son of a Purdue University chemistry instructor, showed tfye grand champion steer, a polled Hereford. Bob Bennett, 17, Linden, <lWra T* P*a» Bta) Rev. Patrick Henry Speaker At Rotary The Rev. Patrick Henry, evangelist at the community tent meeting in progress in this city, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening/ Cal Peterson was chairman of the program. The Decatur club will be host to the Berne and Bluffton clubs next Thursday. Golf will be enjoyed during the afternoon at the Decatur golf course, with the dinner meeting at 6:80 p.m. at the K. of P. home. | ( Three-Day Labor Day Holiday Will Begin This Evening By UNITED PRESS Millions of Americane begin a three-day Labor Day holiday this evening, and the national safety council estimated that 440 of them will die in traffic accidents. Scores of other persoas were expected to die in other mishaps. The safety council’s death forecast was for the 78-hour period from 6 p.m. local times Friday to 1 midnight Monday, Labor Day.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 4, 1953.

Communists Promise To Free Record 275 U. S. Prisoners Today

Dean Relates | Experience As Reds' Captive |. Released General h Tells Os Steady fe Red Questioning it DREEDOM VILLAGE, Kottea UP—Maj. Gen. William F. Dein. shakingwith excitement, add sweating under the television lights, told today how his Communist captors questioned him fbr 68 straight hours, threatened ;to •convict, him as a war criminal and kept him in the living death of solitary confinement. y America’s No. 1 hero of the Korean war, his sandy-red hair turned white, clad in a shoddy dust-covere<f double breasted spit the Reds have given him, back to freedom, after more th|hn three years in captivity, with of his fellow American fightipg men. L “Today,” he said, “is the fi|at day I’ve seen an American airjk-e July, 1950.” | He said causually he did know until December, 1991. that truce negotiations had started five jnonths before. • fcic He told how he did mathematics problems mentally to keep his sanity in solitary confinement, jle was refused writing materials. BFajcing massed newsmen aftd photographers, the fighting gend&il told the whole story from the 4gy jn July, 1950, when he heroic lakt stand with a little Itroup of his men at Taejon, until today. He told how he escaped the flaming city and spent diie month, like a hunted animal, behind the enemy lines until Korean civilians betrayed him , into ijn ambush and he was captured.' i ' “They questioned me at grd&t length,” he said, after he W 8 taken prisoner. “They asked wligt the United States aims were ;*in the Far East, what secret weapons we had. what our plans of maneuver were to be.” Teams of intelligence agents dm’ vTmra Kurett f /President Treated For Sore Right Arm I Osteopath Treats . g Eisenhower's Arm ; DENVER UP — President Eisenhower went to an osteopath today for treatment of a sore right arm that has bothered him nearly a month. The White House declined 'tc give any details, saying merely that the President was attempting tp “accelerate the recovery” of-a bruise he suffered in Washington before coming to Colorado Aug.;B He was accompanied 'by his personal physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, When pressed for more inforrfta tion, Murray Snyder, assistant jlress secretary said, "there a*t some details we prefer not to gite <xut.” /. ; The injury has interfered occasionally with the President's fi!h Ing and golf during his stay ber,e. but he planned to play golf again this afternoon at the Cherry Hills country club, indicating there wls nothing too serious about the injury. | I The atop at the offi’ce ot the unidentified osteopath was ma&e ' early thia morning while the President waa on his Way from the home of his mother-in-law, Mgs. John Doud, to his summer House offices on Lowry air fonce base. < The assistant press secretly said the theory behind the treatment this morning was “that treatment of the arm would help the elbow,” according to Snyde&j. I "The objective is to accelerate the recovery,’ the assistant * press Secretary said., lit is not interttr- ;■ M* <Ts« Ta Pace «tt) :

351 h Annual Legion Convention Closes Connecticut Man Named Commander ST. LOUIS UP — The American Legion, its 35th annual convention completed, was pledged today to carry on campaigns for strong military forces, adoption of universal military trailing-and “rooting out” subversives in government. Pro - Eisenhower legionnaires managed to head off open criticism of the President’s judgment in cutting the air force budget by more than $5,000,000,000. Arthur J. Connell of Middletown, Conn., the newly-elected national commander, said in his. acceptance speech Thursday that the legion is “determined our nation shall remain strong and alert in the face to the current Communist threat.” •There is no early prospect for reducing the defensive strength ot our armed forces.” The new commander, who will receive a $15,000 salary plus a $25 ,000 contingent fund, also said that 1954 would be the “year of final decision" on UMT and said that the congress must be made aware of legion support for the universal military training measure. ’ ‘ » ■*' Secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson told the closing sassion of the convention that air force strength would continue to increase “in the number of combat wings and through better equipment” despite .the budget cuts. Walter Reuther, president of the CIO and the first top official of that organization ever to address a legion convention, said America must'be as strong “on the social and. economic front” as in military affairs. ’ : J' Fire At City Dump Early This Morning Problem Continues On Fires And Odor Fires at 2:30 a.m. today lighted up the sky ovqr the city dump, smoke befching forth in great volume. Thus the problem of fires and stink at the dump continues as merrily as ever, despite the measures taken to correct the situation in the council by erecting a fence and a unanimous agreement that the attendants at the dump be ordered to quit firing refuse. Mayor John Doan said this morning that when last Tuesday’s action was taken he saw little hope of enforcing it outside of ordering city employes to desist with the fires. The mayor gave the opinion /that young boys were sneaking into the dump late at night and setting a match to the heap, always ready to erupt in fitful flames. Since foi years, implied the mayor, fires have been set at the dump, the 1 ones at the bottom never quite go out, and so all it takes for a good hot fire to get started is a little push beyond the kindling point, n It was suggested to the >tnayor that perhaps the heap could be 1 wet down immediately as refuse Is dumped. \And it was pointed out that a hydrant could be\ installed ’ there etpressly for that purpose. Mayor Doan said it might not be ' a bad idea. While two or three weeks ago < residents of First, Second and Third streets settled back, satis- 1 fied that the step of closing the 1 dump during the night hours would stop the awful smells the dump 1 waa turning out, they are not now 1 as settled. One of the councilmen said at the last meeting that the dump stink has circulated so effectively that it is even blamed when it appears that such is quite impossible. Ha said be received a complaint from a party last week that the dump was smelling up the fTan Te KlcM>

Worst Tropical Storm Moves forward No Immediate Danger From Hurricane 1 ■ tSI' ' s ’ MIAMI, Fla4< UP — The year’s worst tropical Sjtorm moved with slower but no letup in fury as |iUHhurned Atlantic shipping today with winds of, per hour. In an the weather bureau estimated the hurricane was centered miles northeast of San Juan, .Puerto Rico, at 5 a.m. (3 a.m. with gales extending 225 to the north and 75 miles to Its forward; had become a bit sldw! and the weather bureau predi<|tad'' continued northnorthwestward movement at a “slightly lower” «peed for the next several hours jMth "little change in intensity.’*' An air force plane was ordered to find whethe®- there had “-been any increase iq£ the 150-mile-per-hour winds clocked by plane ■ThttrsddF- « . | j The storm h|p| shown d, StaKfc increase in Thursday, and weatherman Leonard Pardue said it “could be a"-'humdinger.” No land area was in immediate danger, however, ar.d no ships >ere known to be in path. g Pardpe said while the sreat storm how appefe>ed aimed at the Carolinas on United States mainland, hurrjtanes usually change timesilmfore covering a great distance. ~ '■ W Cyclist Is Killed When Hit By Auto ■ NIEIW ALBAi|r, Ind. UP — Albert Ruddell, ‘l6, Jeffersonville, was killed late Thursday when his motorcycle hit a car driven by William Ryan. 65, alsq of Jeffersonville, on Ind. 65 near here. ' ' J, I ‘ h-i Young Peoples Night At Tent Services Series Os Meetings Will Sunday Two hundred and seventy persons attended /church membership night at the Community tent at Dayton and Tepth. streets Thursday night. crowd is expected /tonight when young peoples night will he observed, \ I The meetings sponsored by seven local churches will close Sunday night after fhree busy weeks, which have drawn an ttttend»nce ot more than persons, k Saturday night’s message Will be “Will we ksjw each other when we get to Heaven”. ' j On Subday Afternoon, the Rev. Patrick guest evangelist, will talk on Wwhat is the next thing God wilt do in relation to this world.” '-0 Laat night’s-sermon was based pa Mark 1$: 2ML “So far frbm the Kingdom of God ” The Rev. Lawrence T. Norris pt Union Chapel read the scripture. The essence ot all of Rev. messages has been that it is fcecessary to accept Christ and not- rely f entirely on church membership. The three weeks of servi<jss will close with a special farewgll service Sunday night at 7:45 o’clock. WEATHER Considerably cloumness and cooler tonlglit with ahowors •outhoaet half of state. Saturday partly cloudy, cooler aouthaaat half. Low tonight 52-58 north, 56-62 south. High Saturday near 70 north, mld70*1 south. 4 ]

Lincoln School Open | House Next Tuesday Many Improvements Are Made At School Lincoln school, all painted up and with several major improvements including three new classrooms, hot water in the lavatories and many new desks and chairs. Was placed on display last night by superintendent of schools W. Guy Brown and principal Bryce Thomas. j, \ b Visitors at the pre-showing included j school board members, several officers of the Lincoln parent-teachers association, and Mayor John Doan. . A public open house will be held next Tuesday night between 7:30 and 9 o’clock and the general public and especially those who have children attending the school are invited to inspect the improvements. The largest improvement is the addition of three large classrooms with the latest type of electric lighting and ventilation. These rooms have been made by reducing the size x»f the auditorium and will be occupied by a third grade and tw.o first grade classes. . / v / \ The auditorium, with the stage intact, -will still seat more than 150 persons and will availaide for small concfertsMd amall general meetings, in addition it will be used as the Lincoln school assembly room. Hot water has been added to the rest rooms. This improvement has long been a must on the par-ent-te*chers program. Other improvements. including painting and redecorating, also have been completed in the rest rooms. All of the rooms have been repainted and the rooms and halls are al! polished and ready for school opening next Wednesday.It is believed that by the addition I of the three rooms it will not be r*rwr« ram mnt)

Plan Training For Girl Scout Leaders! r ' Leadership Course Here Sept 22-25 . The Decatur Girl Scout board of directors announces plans for a basic leadership training course to be conducted from Tuesday, September 22 through Friday, September 25 by Mrs. Robert M&cFarland, professional trainer of Quincy, 111. All training is tB be held in the American Legion home except September 24 when a day of outdoor events is being planned. The location for these events will be announced later. [ The course is to be open to the public and especially to all old and new scont leaders and other adults interested in Girl Scouting. Leaders of lone troops and other interested persons insurrounding communities also are invited to attend. The course consists of 16 hours of training and every petson completing the requirements is to receive a certificate. j f The Decatur Girl Scout assoc la tion is now recruitint Girl Seoul leaders for the coming year. Ap proximately 18 new leaders are needed. The organisation committee is contacting women to fill these places and any woman interested in becoming a leader should call Mrs. Roy Kalver. The need is great and presents an excellent opportunity to render worthwhile service to the children and youth of the community. “If you have a child in Girl Scouts or if you are a person interested in children and in helping them to become good cßizens of tomorrow, why not call Mrs. Kalver in time to enroll in the valuable training course now being offered under the splendid direction of Mrs. MacFarland?" a Girl Scout spokesman said. Funds of the community chest allocated to the Girl Scout Association make it possible to bring Mrs. MacFarland, a professional trainer, into the community.

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Reds Surprise U. N. Command With Promise Would Bring Total Os Freed Americans Above 3,313 Pledged t- PANMUNJOM, Korea, (Saturday UP — The Communists promised . to free a record 275 American prisoners today, the next to" last day of historic “Operation Big Switch.” That will bring the total ot Americans repatriated to 3,486 — 173 more than the Reds admitted they held when the exchange of war prisoners started. After the Reds turned over 95 prisoners, including Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, in Friday’s exchange. they gave the United Nations command the surprising news that they will free 275 Americans, 25 Britons and 13 South Koreans today. - , I -The Reds had scheduled only 3,3(13 Americans for repatriation. The release of Dean and 94 other Americans ' Friday brought the total <0 3.211. The 275 to be released today would bring the total to' 3,486, or 173 more Americans than originally scheduled, r Previous returnees had told newsmen the Communists were preparing to release ' more men than had been expected, but these reports had not been confirmed until Friday. The Communists did not indicate whether the 275 were the last Americans to be repatriated. Lt was possible they were, holding more for release Sunday. Some of the men released Thursday said the Commuhists were holding 35 “B. W. Boys,” men wbo hgd “confessed" waging bacterial warfare • They said the “B, W. Boys” were taken to nearby Kaesong in an isolated group and held separately from prisoners who resisted Communist pressure. Peiping Radio, voice of Communist China, indicated that Americans still were being held as hostages for imprisoned Red leaders of the Koje Island riots last year. The broadcast said the Communists are giving the United Nations until Sunday to return 401 North Koreans and Chinese whom they say are being detained “forcibly.” The deadline indicated the Reds ermnt T» Pee* iMskt) Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Today

Blood Donors Give Blood To Program The American Red Cross blood program began at 10 a.m. today and at noon was working at about halfsteam, taking a pint of blood from each of the volunteers, the blood to be used for the armed forces and hospitals. Mrs. Max Schafer has released the following list of volunteer helpers who are donating thefr services in expediting the day’s program: | ' Doctors: Until noon today Drs. John C. Carroll and Arthur H. Girod had -volunteered their services. The names of other doctors wbo will relieve them will be published Saturday. /Nurses aides: Mrs. John Holthouse, Mrs. Helen Sprungefr. , Motor corps: Mrs. Catherine Tyndall and Mrs. Anita Baker. Volunteer registered nurses: Miss Margaret Biting, Mrs. Edna Myers, Mrs. Wanner. Boys unloading: Wayne Brunner and Max Myers. Canteen workers: Mrs. LR. C. Hersh, Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. Edgar Reinking, Mrs. R. Gleudening. Mrs. Robert Railing. tU Staff aides: Mrs. William KeUer, Mrs. Norbert Case, Miss Glennys Roop, Mrt. T. C. Smith and Mrs. - Joe Hooter. Chairman of the day is Mrs. Ed Bauer. ' ’ ‘ I