Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1953 — Page 1

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L JL I/ • i' Üba? UN Prisoners Change Minds, To Return Home Some Os Americans |j Change Minds, To Be Repatriated PANMUNJOM, Korea UP —An unofficial | Communist > spokesman said today that someij American prisoners who refuse to go hpme are now in nearby Kaepng awaiting transfer to the Custody of Indian troops in the. ne|trai zone. - tie reported others w|o had said they would remain with the Communists already have been repatriated. She said fellow soldiers induced them to change their minds, and that as the Result they were among the prisoners freed in “Operation Big The spokesman was Wilfrid Burchett, Australian born Correspondent for the Paris Comminiil newspaper L’Humanite.

Burchett said he could not say Jiow many Americans s till refuse repatriation. It has been estimated that the number is betw ten 20 and 30, out of a total of 200 to 400 lillied prisoners still in Red hands refuse to return hone' Burchett had said eailier today ome of these United Nations riHoners had decided t( go home fter aH. I ' Burchett said th# Communists will turn over all I .N. antirepatriates to (the Indian custodian troops by Sunday. i Allied officers will be permitted to talk to these men in an attempt tp get them to change thbir minds. If they do not, they w 11 be released eventually as civilians, free to choose a neutral c< >untrjr in which to live. - \ The U. N. command delivered 1,800 anti-Com m unist Cbl iese prisoners |o the Indian troops Monday. Mure than 1.000 additional Indians were flown into th| neutral acna tutoring their total to 4,000 and another 1,300 are en route. The Chinese Who arrived at “Indian Village" rioted when they sow Communist officers snd newsmen awtching them outside their compound. \ Only the quick appearance of Indian reinforcements kspt them from breaking out and attacking the Reds. But so serous was the threat of a major Incident that it was reported the neutral nations repatriation commission, w rich has jurisdiction over the inti Communist prisoners, would be asked to regulate the activities of Communist observers. 1

: ; I. - ; Adjustment (Board In Annual Sessic n Mayor Doan Chosen Chairman Os Board The county tax a< ljustment board convened this morning for its annual session for the purpose 1 ofi reviewing tax budgets. Elected chairman of tie board was .Mayor John Doan. He is a member of the board by virtue of his office as mayor of the (largest city in the county. Doan is a Republican. Named vice-chairman was Rufus Huser, Democrat, represei itative of ’the county council. Other members are August Selking. Democrat, representing the township trustees, and appointees hy Judge Myles F. Panish are Otto Fuelling, Democrat of Root township; Harry Fritringer. Republican of Decatur: Noah Graber. Berne Democrat; and W Eugene Snow, Republican of Geneva. . — Adams County Native Dies At New Haven Mrs; Mary Kpeneman, £l, a native of Adams county, died i Saturday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. /Edwin Heemsoth. Nei r Haven. Her husband, August, died in June, 1049. Surviving are thrive sons, Arnold C. and Edgar W., both of Fort Wayne, and; Alvir L. of New Haven; three other di .ughters. •Mrd. Edwin Lepper.and airs. Carl Unpick, both of Fort Wajme, and (Mrs. Albert Grotrian of Monroeville. Funeral services will be he'id at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Harper funeral heme tn New HSven and *at 2:10 p. jm. at the Djamanuel Lutheran church there, with burial in Concordia cemetery, Fort Wayne. * F

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* . 1 ■ > "p ' Discuss Stevenson’s Party Future gr ■ * Bl . Ji UK ~ - J !»4i V I 11 I ■ S IN CHICAGO for the two-day Democratic Party rally, ex-president Truman and Adlai Stevenson shake hands before going into conference to discuss Stecenson’s future roll in the party. It is understood that Truman offered to back Stevenson if be will campaign for the 195i5 presidential nomination but that the former Illinois governor refused to give him a definite answer. — -i~ - - - 5 ' '

U. S. Rejects Red China's Demand On UN l Round-Table Talks On Korea Rejected By Uifited States UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — The United States firmly rejected today a Communist Chinese demand that round-table talks, including Russia,, India and three other “non-belligerents” be substituted for the two-sided Korean | political conference plan approved by the United Nations last month. The Chinese Reds Sunday turned down the assembly’s approved set-up for an across-the-table conference. They demanded that all Korean belligerents, plus Russia, Indian, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Burma, be invited to participate in a round-table parley and that the entire issue be reopened at the general assembly Session about to begin. The United States promptly announced it saw ho reason to reopen the debate, and indicated it would stand on the plan for the conference It engineered in con-

junction with 14 other member countries whose troops fought in the Korean war. A major tussle on whether the assembly should reconsider the conclusion it reached in a twoweek special Korean session last montb was expected later this week when the powerful steering committee meets. , Th 15-member committee makes recommendations on the adoption of the agenda and its findings usually are confirmed by the full assembly. , * j 1 The Chinese Communists submitted an eight-point rejection of the U. N. plan, declaring: , 1. TAe projected parley is nbt only a Korean peace conference hut must decide other Far Eastern questions tot larger scope. ** : \2. The assembly was dominated by American “plans to wreck the conference! in approving g twosided parley. 1 3. An injvitation to Russia is welcome to the Communists, but the Soviet Union must not be tainted wjth the “belligerent” brand—which would label her an aggressor, in effect. 4. The makeup of the conference “can only be settled” through joint negotiations, and Communist China and North Korea must be invited to the assembly for this' purpose. V 5. Thd (conference should comprise all toe belligerents in the Korean war, plus five neutrals—Russia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Burma, 6. Decisions of the conference must have “the unanimous agreement of both belligerent sides in the Koreh war.” 1 Only after the composition of the conference has been decided at the U. N. —with participation of Red China and North Korea—could the two belligerent sides decide the time and place of the parley. 8. Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold should circulate Red China’s cablegram to all U. N. members, except Nationalist China, and include it as an agenda Item for the new assembly. T

State Traffic Toll Comparatively Low . Only Eight Deaths Counted On Weekend By UNITED PRESS J Indiana counted only eight week-end traffic deaths today, one of the smallest highway tolls of the summer. Another victim was struck and killed by a train. Delbert Ellis, 22, died in Ball Memorial hospital at Muncie today of injuries suffered Sunday in a tWv-car collision southeast of Muncie. Wayne Osborn, 43, Tipton, was killed and his 10-year-old son, David, was injured in a two-car crash a mile southwest of that city Sun* day. \ Osborn’s auto was struck by one driven by Troy Wallace, Lake City. The smashed vehicle overturned in a ditch on a county road. Ernest Eberly, 47, Shelburn, was killed Saturday in one of two single auto fatalities. His car crashed into a ditch on Ind. 41 south of Farmersburg when he attempted to pass another car. John S. Green, 22, Perrysville, died in a wreck in which two other persons wore injured on Ind. 63 two miles north of Perrysville. A two-car wreck Friday night on Ind. 66 east of Evansville killed Walter Scheessele, 40, Newburgh, and Minnie Merrick, 74, Evansville, and two Indianapolis pedestrians were hurt fatally in separate accidents. They were Fred Pattman, 79, and Reuben (Tara Ta Pace Thrae) TB Patch Testing Planned In Schools Schedule Listed By Authorities' The schedule for TB patch testing for the schools of Adams county Was jointly announced today by Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams qounty tuberculosis association, and Miss Marie Felber, county health nurse. It follows: Sept. 14 —Hartford, Geneva, Jefferson, Lincoln and Kimsey. Sept. 15 —Bobo, Pleasant Mills, Monroe, Sackett, Berne and Deßolt. Sept. 21 — Adams Central, St.' Paul, St. John, St. Peter, Emanuel and Schnepp. ! Sept. 22—Decatur Lincoln, Decatur high, Decatur Catholic*and Monmouth. \ The flrsf -group tests will be read on Sept. ’ 17; the second on Sept. 18; third on the 24tb; and the fourth on the 25th, authorities said. ' , * Eligible for the teats will be the (irst grade, freshmen and sophomores. also students who had come in contact. Local Lady*; Brother Dies At Portland . ’ Frank Miller, 85, died Sunday afternoon at his home in Portland after a week’s illness. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Emma Staley of Decatur; a brother, Henry, of near Portland; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Ethel McLaughlin and Mrs. Elbert Swarts of near Portland; two grandchildren and 20 step-great-grandchildren. The body wls removed to the Williamson funeral home in Portland, where friends inay call. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 14, 1953

Democrat Party Heads Seek Harmony As Rally Is Opened In Chicago

National Sales Tax Study To x Be Continued GOP Administration Continues Study Despite Warning WASHINGTON, UP—The EisenJj hower administration went ahead with studies of a national sales tax 1 today despite a warning that congerss will not approve any such levy. The warning was Issued hy chairman Daniel A. Reed of the tax-framing house ways and means committee, the veteran New York Republican who fought a stubborn but losing battle at the last session against President Eisenhower’s request for a six-months extension of the excess profits tax. Reed served notice in a weekend statement that he is prepared to battle the administration again if it proposes a national sales tax to offset the 10 percent cut in personal income taxes due to take effect Jan. 1, 'He confidently predicted that such a tax “will nos be approved.”' v* 4 Administration officials, who don’t' want to quarrel with Reed until they have to, firmly refuse to comment on his statement. But a treasury, spokesman said that a national;shies tax is “still under active cotrsideration.” He emphasized that the tales tax is only one of “many” revenueraising proposals which the administration is studying, and that no decisions have been made yet on what will be proposed to congress next year. | The treasury has estimated it will lose 15,000,000,000 in revenue next year from the cut in personal income taxes and the expiration of the excess profits tax. <t stands to lose an additional >3,000,000,000 unless congress approves Mr. Eisenhower’s previous requests to postpone cuts in regular corporation and excise taxes due to take place next April 1. Mr. Eisenhower has already told congress he will ask for other taxes to make up the loss if he finds he can’t balance the budget without them. A national sales tax is believed to loom large in administration calculations for the simple' reason that it is one of the few heavy revenue sources which the federal government has* not yet tapped. v • \ . \ .\. V

WilHam Oatis Relates Imprisonment By Czechs

(Editor's note: William N. Oatis, Associated Press corre-* spondent who was imprisoned two years in Czechoslovakia, has written a copyrighted aeries of . articles on his imprisonment. The United Press has prepared a series of five articles. Oatis is a native of Marion. Ind.) NEW YORK, Sept. 14 UP—Wllliam N. Oatis, Associated Press correspondent who was imprisoned two years in Czechoslovakia, said today the first sign he was in trouble came eight months before he was arrested on espionage Charges. ■ Oatis, in a copyrighted series of •tides on his imprisonment, said his coverage of the World Congress of the International Union of Students on the outskirts of Prague in August, 1950, resulted in his losing his accreditation. I For two months, he said, he had been gathering nows mostly by rewriting the official Czech news agency and local newspaper copy, and news broadcast notes. Occasionally he got some information from diplomats, but the student congress was his first chance to cover a story in Prague. Oatis said he reported that some I ' 1 ' " ■ .i . J’

Further Effort To Settle Bell Strike z Status Os Ousted Workers Lone Issue INDIANAPOLIS, (UP)—The future status of 24) Indiana Bell Telephone Co. employes, dismissed for ’’misconduct,’* was the one isSue preventing settlement today of a 55-day-old strike against the utility. L Arthur Pierson, federal mediaj tor, was expected to cajl negotiaBtors to a meeting either today or Tuesday. .Sunday officials of the CIO Communications Workers accused pell of planning to fire other strikIng workers who were arrested during the walkout. Mrs. Mae Mann, Indiana CWA director, said a Bell spokesman informed her the utility might dismiss all those against whom affidavits had been sworn during the violent-ridden strike. Mrs. Mann said the union had no exact figures on how many arrests had been made during the strike. Estimates passed the 50 mark. ; Negotiators remained deadlocked over the weekend on the issue of Bell’s right to fire strik ing union employes. Bell officials said the 20 strikers, Including officers of the CWA. received letters more than a week ago informing them of their dismissal for alleged “personal misconduct.” They could have appealed to the national labor relations board last week to protest their innocence, the company said. John Crull, CWA international vice-president, countered that Bell had no right to “fire strikers without recourse to arbitration” and without giving them “any reasonable opportunity to defend themselves.” . . • i He said the union had the assurance from its members that they will “stay out until the snow flies, it necessary,” to support demands for arbitration of cases involving fired CWA personnel. State Police Posts Engage In Wolf Pack INDIANAPOLIS, UP — All 13 Indiana state police posts participated in weekend wolf-pack patrol activity, scanning 740 miles of highway for trouble. The 100 participating troopers encountered one fatal accident, three personal injury mishaps and eight property damage collisions. They also arrested 209 motorists and handed out 62 warnings.

ffigL 111 ’ jasNDBH William N. Oatis ■delegates demonstrated for Stalin while western students sat silent. He quoted an American speaker - as making a speech proclaiming, “In America, wo will ahont, ‘hands -off Korea!” Pass Torn Up Later, ho said, ho Wont onto the convention floor and talked to the (Vena Te Fem Sip)

French Troops Drive Against Rebel Forces ■ \ Outer Defenses Os Red Rebels Broken By French Assault HANOI, Indochina UP — An assault force of several thousand French Union troops smashed across the Day river under an air cover jof American-built Bearcat fighters today and broke through the outer defenses of 50,000 Communist rebels massing for an autumn offensive. The French forces were led by paratroopers who hit Red concentrations around Chdnhai, in the mountain strongholds about 30 miles south of Hafaoi. Three Communist - held villages -were “neutralized" In the first assault as other troops hammered across the Day river and chopped off Red salients on the south edge of the enemy position. As the French forces carried on their “limited offensive”, in Viet Nam, Cambodian foreign ministar Sirik Matak sent a cable to U. S. senate majorly leader William Kno Via nd to rest fears that Cambodia might take a neutral attitude toward the Communists. Knowland, on a fact-finding tour of the Far East, agreed to go to Cambodia after receiving the message “explaining” a broadcast in which Premier Penn Nouth said “Cambodia has never taken sides against Communism.” The California Republican was reported to have cancelled his trip to the Cambodian capital of Pnom Penh after being informed of the premier’s broadcast. French sources interpreted the “explanatory" ..cable from Matak as indicating the premier was preparing to withdraw his bid for Communist support. They said. Penn Nouth “realised his political error" and was planning to correct his statement calling for the Viet Minh to lay down its avfns in return for neutrality in the seven-year-old war. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing west, partly cloudy east tonight with showers ending extreme east this evening. Tuesday generally fair, somewhat warmer Northeast half. Low tonight 45-52. High Tuesday 68-78. Lewis A. Brunner * Dies Early Sunday Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Lewis A. Brunner, 86, a retired farmer, died in his sleep of a heart attack early Sunday morning at his home, 504 Patterson street. He was born in Switzerland Jan. 31. and was married to Anna Musser March 16, 1886. Mrs. Brunner preceded him in death several years ago. Surviving are four daughters. Mrs. Lovina Mullen of Van Wert. 0., Mrs. Lillie Sapp and Mrs. Lydia Strahm, both of Monroe, and Miss Della Brunner of Decatur; -tour sons, Wallace Brunner 4>f Berne, Albert Brunner of near Mowtoe, and/Harvey and Clarence Brunirer/ both of Decatur; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchil-dren; three brothers, Emile Brunner of Decatur, George and Jule Brunner of Scottsburg, and one sister, Mrs. Jennie Kiefer of Decatur. Three children, one brother and three sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Black funeral homo, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be In the MRE cemetery st Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

U. S. War Dead To Exceed 30,000 Men 7,000 Americans On Missing List WASHINGTON, UP — The official toil of American deaths in the Korean war will rise to more than 30,000 in the months ahead as the defense department writes “dead” across the names of thousands now listed as missing in action. With the prisoner exchange completed. the services now will try to determine the fate of some 7,000 Americans still missing. In many cases their fate will never be determined definitely. But military officials sadly admit that for most of missing the only conclusion can be that they are dead. Before declaring a missing man to be dead, the services must make a detailed investigation, piecing together all available scraps of information about what happened to him. It will be a time-consuming job. The army estimates it will be two years before it has official--1 ly determined the fate of all its missing in action. By the time [ the job is complete the Korean ■ death toll, which now stands at 25,604, is expected to top 30,000. Unlike World War 11, the serv--1 tees will not be able to obtain the conclusive proof of uncovering the ! man’s body buried in enemy terri tory. Instead, they must rely on • I reports of fellow soldiers and re- , turning prisoners, with only par- . tial credence given to Communist ! lists of Americans who died be- [ hind their lines. The services have postponed starting their job until now, hoping to obtain more information from repatriated prisoners. Until the missing soldier is declared dead, his next of kin continues to receive monthly pay allotments. With the declaration of death, the next of kin receives a “death gratuity” equal to six months pay plus |IO,OOO In life insurance. ■ • - .• Veteran Film Star 4 Lewis Stone Dead 1 Death Ends 50-Year Career Os Acting HOLLYWOOD, UP — Funeral services will be held Wednesday for veteran film star Lewis Stone who died of a heart attack while chasing three boys who threw lawn furniture into his swimming pool. Stone, 73, collapsed and died Saturday night. He had been chasing three teen-age boys who had sneaked onto his property. His wife, <Hazel, said the whitehaired actor had summoned police when he heard the youths throwing lawn furniture into the fool. So said that only moments before she had warned him of overexcitement. He had suffered a. heart condition for six years. The boys were taken into custody by police but later released to their parents. Stone’s death ended an acting career of more than 50 years. In his later years as a' film star, he was best known for his portrayal of Judge Hardy and the "Andy Hardy" film series, co-starring Mickey Rooney. The stage lured Stone when he was graduated from college 55 years ago. He first appealed on Broadway at play, “Sidetracked.” and went on to stardom in such stage hits as “The Girl of the Golden West” and “Bird of Paradise.” gtone interrupted his stage career to serve as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American war. Following that, he took a job as a colonel tn the Chinese army to help train Chinese troops, resigning when the Boxer rebellion broke out The actor returned to the stage and later became a star of silent films in such pictures as “Scaramouche,” “Don Joan’s Three muhß Te p»et» a*sj

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Seek To Avoid Fight On Parly Loyalty Pledge Leading Southern 1 Democrats Score Pledge As Insult CHICAGO, UP — Leading southern Democrats today denounced the so-called “loyalty pledge" as an “insult" that could wreck the party in Dixie but conservative northern leaders moved swiftly to Smooth over the issue. "AU factions of the party seemed to be seeking harmony so Democrats could unite for next year's congressional campaigns. « 1 ' Even the spokesmen for. the "Youtog Turks,” who forced the loyalty pledge through the 1952 national convention, said they in- ' tended to try to avoid the issue : in the two:day conference that opl ened today. The chief aim of party leaders > apparently was to present a united » front against the Republicans at 1 tonight’s 6100-a-plate fund-raising t dinner where addresses of top Democrats w|ll be televised. The loyalty pledge was ‘brought e up first at a meeting of Democrate te state chairmen but a movo to go I- on record against the oath wls n squelched by the meeting’s moder- - ator, New York state chairman - Richard Balch, who said it was t “not the proper forum” to cosslden • I*- ? \ Georgia’s pemocratic chairman. I Jim Peters, was the first person to ■ bring the subject of the loyalty 1 oath into official discussion at the party’s two-day conference which opened here today. An equally-important northern Democrat. lowa state chairman Jake Moore, arose quickly to express sympathy for Peters’ views and satdP the party should “stffp talking about Loyalty” os run the risk of losing the south and next year’s congressional elections. Peters spoke at a breakfast for state chairmen in an impassioned plea for phrty unity which would accept southern Democrats as full “partners.” Peters made his plea amid indications at the meeting that the loyalty iesue had started to fizzle. Meanwhile, in another morning session, a special study group recomended that the Democrats .pass up a mid-term convention in 1954 and concentrate bn regional meetings to line up thetr congressional campaign. A mid-term convention, rejection of which had been expected, j would have inevitably come up against the party loyalty oath issue which leaders hoped to defer amicably. Peters began by saying that Georgia gave the party’s 1952 presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, the largest majority of any state. “The thing that did more harm to the south than anything else was the 1952 convention here In Chicago.” he said. “Millions of Americans are looking at television. They qan see the expressions on your faces. They watch yotfr eyes. They know When something is phony. “Wi cannot Save any more of that. You are going to lose the Democratic party in the south unless yon do something about it.” He said there had been less than four' party appointments from Georgia. ‘‘You cannot forget about us,” he said, pounding the table. “We won’t forget you. j “That loyalty pledge is an insult 'to, the south and to us —we who the party for 50 or 00 years. Our fathers were Democrats, our grandfathers were Democrats, and their fathers were Democrats. '■ ! I ‘That (the loyalty pledge) is a direct Insult.” Then Peters pleaded: “Take us into partnership.” “We will -work with you and wo will votq with you but you have to take «* feto partnership. It is no longer a solid south. “In the 1956 election wo will *» vmw «ta>