Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 218.

Stevenson In Plea For World Disarmament / Reports Unrest In Foreign Allies On Republican Moves CHICAGO, UP — Democrats today broke camp after a| rousing two-day rally with a new spirit of party harmony and a major foreign policy proposal by Adlai E. .Stevenson to offer to itho voters. - 4 ;i The harmony was es|abl«?hed during the_ rally to kick-, off; the 1954 congressional campaign, cli- . maxed by a speech in which Stevenson. the 1952 presidential candidate, urged a new try for world disarmament to spare the horrors of hydrogen-bomb j Stevenson's position ah party leader was buttressed by a vote t of the national committee, the Democratic governing body, to put — his hand-picked chairman; Steph- - en A. Mitchell, on a >25,000-a-year salary • amid a flood of warm " praise.' ’’ r ; Stevenson submitted tils plan , for another try at world disarmament, along with other foreign pol■s> icy moves, in a speech Tuesday night reporting on his ppst-elec-tion six-month tour around the woyld. * -The talk, broadcast and telecast nationally, was billed as “nonpartisan.” but it offered sharp jabs at the administration on such issues as defense cuts and “McCarthyism.” j ; Ho said foreign policy :is the “responsibility” of the but there Is nnrest among foreign allies over the trend of I recent events and Democrats in congress would help restore confidence if they were given the opportunity. Asserting that the advent'; of the has produced a “grim and preaqfpg urgency” in international affaffs. Stevenson said the United States -should take the initiative in exploring once more the changes of World disarmament. He acknowledged that Efforts for effective atomic control have been stymied but urged the new try anyway on the theory that the alternative is “more massi|e military spending and more frighten- ’ I ing weapons.” , I { -i Stevenson also proposed: .->■ •Renewed efforts to encourage and hasten European federation. The door be kept open to the conference route to world peace and that America not go into them, such as the Korean; peace talks, with a rigid decision which leaves no room for negotiation. He Said there is “anxiety” that matters “may be slipping from the respected bands of President Eisenhower’yinto control of others who are more concerned with the views of "Isolationists” elements in the country. | t "There is uncertainty abroad about America and our I objectives,” he said. ‘‘lnquisitions, purge's, book-burn-ing, repression and fear have obscured the bright vision pf the land of the free and the home of the bra,ve.” | He said the allies were having a hard i time reconciling talk of the SoViet peril and the cute made in defense spending. He said they have an “uneasy feeling” that the Eisenhower slogan of “trade, not aid,” is turning into a case pf “ho trade and no aid.” L Democratic leaders generally said they were highly pleased with the note of harmony which ended their two-day meeting, their biggest gathering since they ioist the 1952 election. \ | Eisenhower To End Vacation Saturday DENVER UP —President Eisenhower will end his Colorado vacation Saturday hnd fly back to Washington ‘’fairly early” in the morning, the 1 White House announced today. \|

Dr. N. A. Bixler Is Lions Speaker i Decatur Lions started off their fall program with a talk by Dr. N. A. Bixler of Decatur on the relationship between physics and philosophy. !- I'L Dr. Bixler reportedly attempted to dr*w a common chord between • - the physical laws and the philosophical concepts of the abstracts, ethics, logics, etc., which exert their forces upon them. The‘chairman of the program was Hugh J. Andrews. Plans were completed for the L Lions handing out next Tuesday of large safety stickers for display by all “JA" cars. The stickers will go on bumpers and will contain a safety slogan. i

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\ I Early Bird By 15 Days J W-W'J ■ HMWir i: (toMgCRL ' ,: i r i'ai n ...jAj FIRST IN LINE for the opening day of the World Series, Sept. 30, Bernard Hershkowitz of the Bronx, super-avid Yankee rooter, tucks himself up in his blanket for a short snooze as he begins his long vigil outside the gates of Yankee Stadium. The Yankees, following their usual pattern, clinched their fifth American League pennant in a row last Monday.

U.N. Refuses .•! \ » Membership i To Red China Smashing Victory For United States In U.N. Assembly \ ■ . UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.. UP— Soviet Russia was believed ready today to press tor reconsideration of the Korean peace conference membership plan and the United States was set to oppose it. The potential battle shaped up on the second day of the United Nation’s 1953 session and was expected to occur in the steering committee of thie assembly which is scheduled to meet at' 3 p.m. e.d.t. The United States won a smashing victory in the general assembly Tuesday when members voted 44-10 to deny consideration of membership to Communist j China for the rest of IBs>. The vote defeated a vigorous effort by Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky to persuade the member nations to expel Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist delegation from the U. N. and admit ’ Red China in its place. Far Eastern Communists, in communications now circulated as official U. N. documents, have demanded that their plan tor organization of the conference be| put up for consideration <by the assembly. ; • ■ i This exact line may be adopted by Vishinsky in regard to the Korean conference, if it is, a steering committee battle was certain to follow. If he demands jonly that the assembly reopen debate on the conference set-up under Korean items already on the agenda, the Us S. will seek to delay such a discussion as long as possible, informed sources said. Communist China and North Korea rejected the membership plan the assembly approved at a special session in August and advanced a plan of their own. it calls for all belligerents in the Korean war to attend the parley, along with five “neutrals” — Russia, India, Indonesia, Rakistan and Burma. The debate and subsequent voting on Communist China came even before Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit as India was elected first woman president of the assembly by a vote of 37 to 22. She succeeded Lester B. Pearsop Os Canada. The election of subsidiary officers, a matter usually considered routine for an opening session, was forced to wait’ until a morning meeting today.

10 More Americans Believed Captured WASHINGTON, UP -ft The defense department Tuesday night identified 10 more Americans —all air force personnel—believed captured but never accounted for by the Communists. Included on the list was Ist Lt. David P. Barnes, son of Maj. Gen. Earl W. Barnes, deputy .commander of the tactical air command. Barnes; was reported missing in action on April 22, 1951, while flying an F-84 over North Korea. With the lateat list, the department now has Identified 934 of the 944 men on the list originally submitted to the Communists along with a demand for an accounting of their fate.

Family Os Missing Diplomat Vanishes Wife, Children Os 1 Diplomat Missing UP —The wife and children of missing British diplomat Donald D. Mac Lean have disappeared in Switzerland, the foreign office announced today. Reports from Geneva expressed fear [that they may have been kidnaped behind the Iron Curtain. Two British security officers have been rushed to Geneva to cooperate with Swiss police in a search for American-born Mrs. Melinda Mac Lean and her three children, last seen in Geneva last it was announced. Britain and Switzerland unlisted the aid of the police and intelligence services of «ii Western Europe in an attempt to solve this latest phase of perhaps the most baffling mystery of the cold war. . Mac Lean, head of the foreign office department dealing with American affairs, and Guy Burges, foreign office expert on Far Eastern affairs, disappeared from* Britain May 25, 1951. There always has been speculation Whether they went behind the Iron Curtain. Both possessed diplomatic secrets that would have been of great value to Soviet Rusria. Fir st news of the disappearance of Mts. Mac Lean came from Geneva, sphere she had been living. Het - mother, Mri. Melinda G. Dunbar, formerly of New York City, who was with her in Geneva, telephoned Geneva police for help after Mrs. Mac Lean failed to return from a supposed weekend visit with friends. Mrs. Mac Lean always had said the last time she saw her husband was when she said goodby to him an<) a friend —Burges, it developed later—at their country home at Tasfiekl,’ England. The two num were going to London “tor a But they went to Southam boarded a channel steadier for France. They vanished. It was thought at first Mac Lean and Burges might have gone on an unofficial vacation. But reports soon circulated that they had gone behind the Iron Curtain. The foreign office always had been very cautious in speaking of the disappearance. Last October, however, foreign undersecretary the Marquess of Reading said in the house of commons that information had come to light that Mac Lean was a Communist or fellow traveler. After that there was official silence. But today William Ridsdale, head of the information department of the foreign office, read a i carefully prepared statement to a packed pres* conference, confirming that Mr*. Mac Lean and her children have disappeared from Geneva. The wife of the missing diplomat left Geneva Friday in a black Chevrolet for Montreaux. She was scheduled to return Sunday so her two sons could go to school on Monday. She. was last seen driving the auto. Her children, Fergus, 9, Donald. 7, and Belinda, 2, were with her. Mrs. Mac Lean and her family moved to Switzerland more than, a year ago to avoid further rumors and speculation about the whereabouts of her husband. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and warmer Low tonight 45-50 north and 48-54 south. High Thuraday 8086.

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28 Killed As Airliner Crashes, Burns Near Albany, N. Y. Airport

Wagner Sweeps To Victory In New York Race Whips Impellitteri » For Nomination As Mayor By Democrats NEW YORK, UP — Robert F. Wagner, Jr., won the Democratic domination for mayor ol' New York today in a landslide victory for the “New Deal” faction of his party. Mayor Vincent R. mpellitteri, seeking i Democratic endorsement for the job he has held since 1950. conceded early today he had lost the election. Wagner was leading by nearly 400,000 votes in returns from three fourths of the sprawling city's 4,392 election districts'. ! Wagner, Manhattan borough president and son of the late U. S. senator, had campaigned with the support of such liberal Democrats as Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Sen. Herbert Lehman. Impellitteri was backed by the mote conservative wing of the party, in* eluding former Democratic national chairman James A. Farley. The outcome of the hotly cenr tested primary fight Was believed to have stymied a return by Farley to active leadership in New York party affairs. He might have become state party chairman or a national committeeman if Impellitteri had won. Wagner’s opponents in the November city election will bg Republican Harold Riegehnan, Liberal party candidate Rudolph Halley and American Labor candidate Clifford T. McAvoy. The other three candidates had no opposition in primary balloting. The door was still open for Impellitteri to enter the November election as an independent .candidate, as was the case when he Was elected mayor three years ago to fill out the unexpired term of William O'Dwyer, who resigned to become U. S. ambassador to Mexico. It had been rumored before the ITarw *r» \ ~ Atomic Artillery Units For Europe Six Battalions To Be Sent To Europe WASHINGTON, UP -L* More than six atomic artillery battalions will be sent to Europe under American plans to give the west an atomic punch on the ground as well as in the air, informed military sources said today. Each battalion will be equipped with six' mammoth 280 mm guns of the type tested last May at the atoniic energy commission’s Nevada proving grounds. The May test indicated to some authorities that the gun’s relatively small projectile — 11 inches in diameter and about three feet long —packs wallop equivalent to that of the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a giant B-29 bomber on Aug. 6, 1945. That bomb had an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Army secretary Robert T. Stevens announced Tuesday night that the first battalion of the 280 mm guns, the 868th field artillery bat* talion, Fort Bragg, N. C-, will "shortly” go to Europe. He said “several” more will follow, but gave no number. The announcement apparently followed long debate inside the government on the advisability of sending atomic artillery to the continent. It also came in the wake of evidence of new Russian atomic tests, possibly involving nuclear weapons of the so-called “tactical" or “small” sizes. Defense officials would not say •whether actual atomic shells will be stored in Europe, but it was indicated the guns could be brought into play almost immediately In event of war. That sug<Tnni T» fmw itx)

Draft Calls To Stay At 23,000 Monthly Modifies Cutback In ROTC Program WASHINGTON, UP —Assistant defense secretary John A. Hannah said today monthly draft calls will stay at 23,00 H for “some time.” Hannah told a news conference the defense department will review the manpower situation arid Korean developments in November or December to see if the draft calls can be lowered to about 19,000. Hannah also said: \ The defense department has modified its recent cutback in the air force ROTC program. All students now in the program will be allowed to continue their college courses, even those wtio do not take flight training. Not all of the non-flying ROTC students, however can be commissioned by the air force upon their graduation, Hannah said. The defense department has offered to amend a security provision In its contracts with universities handling U. S. armed forces institute courses. Fourteen universities rejected the contracts, claiifiing they would give the governrTwm Pam Fish Fry Committees Meet This Evening . Chairmen of the various Chamber of Commerce fish fry committees will meet with general chairman Clarence Ziner at the Chamber of Commerce offices at 7 o’clock this evening. Plans for the annual county eating event will be discussed and various committee members will be given final assignments. All (jhalrmen of the various committees are asked to attend; Brief Session Held By City'Councilmen Ordinance Passed By Council Tuesday The city council held a brief meeting last nignt tn which one ordinance was passed and a matter held in abeyance pending a special meeting. Anthony Faurote’k request of two weeks ago to change an R1 zone to an R 2 zone near Eleventh and Marshall streets was granted by unanimous vote of the council. Faurote said he planned to build 14« duplex apartments', which he could not do in an R1 zone. The matter was approved by the city plan commission Monday night and a favorable recommendation was made to the council. A letter was received by the council asking for the construction of three lateral sewers, to be in corporated into the Porter-Home wood sewer system. The requests were for the Decatur Casting Co.. Brice Roop and Giles Porter tat eral sewers. The councilmen saic they wanted time to study the various types of material for lat erals. and Mayor John Doan called a special meeting for next Monday night at the city hall, the public invited.City attorney Robert Anderson told a reporter he had obtained figures of what is paid by Berne and Bluffton for trucking and disposal of garbage. These are his figures: , (Contracts were let on a bid basis with,private parties.) Berne recently received a low bid,for annual service at >10,900. Bluffton has garbage hauled away during the winter at >1,700 a month, and during the summer at >2400 a month. The service includes piekup, Anderson said the council would try looking for a site and enter into direct contract, rather than bidding by parties. The city attorney aaid he understood the state board of health has given the city one more week’s extension in which to find a suit<Tu« Te Pace nve>

Reds Fail To Account For Missing Men Special Session Os Armistice Group Is Summoned By Reds PANMUNJOM, Korea (UP) — The Communists called a special meeting of the joint military armistice commission today but failed to account for more than 900 missing American fighting men. \ Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, chief United Nations delegate to the commission, hurried to the extraordinary session hoping receive news about the fate of the men. But when the meeting convened, the Communists made no mention of the list of more than 3,000 missing Allied personnel which Bryan had handed them at a previous session. Bryan , said the special session was a “humdrum" affair with only minor issues brought up for discussion. « when wyan gave the Dst to the Communists, tfe warned the Reds to give an accounting—“or else.” Each of the men on the roster was known to have been in Communist custody at one time. The information was received from returning prisoners and Communist broadcasts. None of the men was ever reported captured by the Communists, however. Bryan said he reached an agreement with the on press in' the demilitarized zone where the .United Nations is turning over to neutral Indian guards some 21.000 anti-Chinese and North Koreans who refused repatriation in operation, “Big Switch.” The commission agreed to allow 400 correspondents from both sides to enter the demilitarized zone dally to cover Communist attempts to re-convert the anti-Red prisoners. One of the 14.000 Chinese captive^of the y.N. who originally stated they did not want to return to Communism changed his mind Wednesday and went back to the Peiping regime. Nine riorth Koreans were returned to the Communists Tuesday. Burglary Suspect Taken In Custody Fort Wayne Police Capture Suspect FORT WAYNE, (UP)—A bank burglary suspect was turned over to federal authorities today after FBI agents and city police surprised him and a companion ar they walked out of a taverq. Donald E. Medsker, 32, Muncie was arrested Tuesday night as t member of a gang which staged 140 Indiana burglaries, including an attempted looting of the Willow Branch State Bank last July 22. Two other alleged members o.' the gang previously were arrest ed. Medsker was to be arraigned before U. 8. commissioner Robert Fleming today. His companion, Hobart Rayhill 43, Fort Wayne, also was arrested and held for questioning. Police said Rayhill may have been another member of the gang which operated in at least three other states, v Police learned Medsker was in the tavern and posted a guard around it until he came out Although he was armed, he offered no resistance. “Well, boys, you've got me,” police quoted him as saying. “That’s what you’re paid for.”

Bell Complains Os More Cable Damage Company Declares Workers Returning INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and striking CIO Communications Workers went back to the negotiating table today as Bell complained of cable cuttings in Linton. The utility said Linton was ‘‘completely isolated” during' the night when five long distance cables serving it were cut. One was cut in at least three places, the utility said. Repair (taws were sent to restore service. The strike is in its 57th day. Today’s negotiation was the first meeting between management and union in four days. Federal mediators have met with both sides in efforts to erase a stalemate on one issue—dismissal of 19 CWA members fer “misconduct” during the walkout.; Bell said “more and more” strikers, weary of the walkout, are returning to work. The company spokesman would give no estimate how many returned, saying only there was a “definite upturn” of returnees this week. But union representatives said a check at -South Bend, where the Utility reported a large hack-to-work movement, revealed that five out of about 400 striking workers had returned to their jobs. "We don’t call that a back-to-work movement," they said. ; At Evansville, police questioned a worker who brandished a dummy hand grenade at two pickets who followed her as she left work. She told police she got the harmless missile from her husband and carried it in her purse after receiving an anonymous telephone calL She said the caller threatened there would 'be “trouble” if she went back to work. She had said she was quitting the union and returning to her job. k Yost Firm Awarded $400,000 Contract Big Sewer Project East Os Anderson The Yost Construction Co., or .this city has been awarded a contract for construction and materials foa a >400,000 sewer project east of Anderson, it was announced today. The 10 miles of concrete and vitrified sewer will be built by the Fairwood Bluff conservancy district, and will furnish a drainage system for an Anderson suburban area that parallels state road 109, which is a relief highway for In diana road 9. Work is subject to the sale o'bonds offered -by the newly estab Ushed conservancy district, Ca' Yost, president of the construe tion company stated. The cost will be assessed against benefited property in the conservancy district Yost will furnish both labor tand material for the sewer. Os five biaders submitting proposals on the job, the local firm was the only one agreeing to furnish material for the underground tunnels over the wide area. The sewer will vary in size from' 42 inches to eight inches in diameter and will be constructed of concrete and- verified tile. The concrete tubes will be manufactured by the Yost company, which purchased equipment for this purpose and made the large concrete forme for Decatur’* northwest sewer. A Trenchers and backhoe cranes of the company will be used in excavation work for the sewer. Appyoy Igg 15 m*.? yffl fee m** ployed on the job, Tost estimated.

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25 Passengers, Crew Os Three Die In Crash Airliner Strikes Radio Tower Near Airport At Albany ALBANY, N. Y. UP—An American Airlines Convair plane en route from Boston to Chicago crashed and burned near the Albany airport today. State police said all 28 passengers and crew members were killed. Airline officials said the plane, en route' from Boston to Chicago, was attempting to land when it struck a 365-foot high radio tower and plunged to the ground. It narrowly missed a trailer camp on the Albany*Schenectady road. American Airlines said 10 passengers had been scheduled to get off in Albany, and 15 were en route farther west. The plane carried a normal crew of three, including the pilot, a first officer and stewardess. The flight. No. 723. left Boston t at 8:15 a. m. and was scheduled , to make stops in Springfield, ; Mass., Albany, Syracuse. Rochester/ -Buffalo, and Detroit before terminating in Chicago. The plane crashed into a small cornfield after striking the center tower of a three-tower array near the airport. All bodies were taken to SC Peter’s hospital morgue in Albany. The crash occurred near the suburban village of Colonie on the Albany-Schenectady highway. The plane, coming in for a landing on. schedule, circled the airfield in overcast skies for about 15 minutes before starting its landing approach. Witnesses said they heard “two loud -backfires.” Then the plane struck the tower and plummetted. Lester Hanson told the United Press he was filling an oil truck at his service station nearby when he heard two loud “backfires.” Hanson said the plane plunged to earth and burned. “I ran to the plane and pulled two bodies from the plane.” he added. “It got too hot and I had to run.” ' Hanson said apparently there were no children aboard. A woman’s body was thrown 50 feet from the wreckage. Mrs. Alphea Craig’s trailer home was scorched by the flames. Mrs. Craig said parts of the plane landed only 10 feet from her trailer. She was bathing her year-old-baby at the time. “I saw smoke, roused other members of the family and ran,” she said. Another piece of the wreckage landed in the front yard of Floyd Davidson’s home nearby. He aaid the plane- was waiting “in the clear” for a landing. The first person to reach the ' burning plane, Barney Feulner, 44, Schenectady, said he saw th* plane at tree-top level with one engine on fire just before the crash. > ! “It was skipping and sputtering," he said. He ran to the plane when it crashed and was burned In pulling four bodies from the flaming <Teve T* r»rs» Mrs. Carrie Gwimmer Dies At Kansas Home •Mr*. Carrie Blackburn-Gwinner 89. native of Decatur, died Tuesday at her home in Dodge City. Kan., according to word receivett. by her sister, Mrs. Dick Burrell of this etty. A daughter of Mr. - and (Mrs. William Blackburn, she was a member of a pioneer Decatur family, and was a member of the first graduating claaa of the Decatur high school in Wl. She taught school for several year* and left Decatur after her marriage. Mrs. Burrell ia the last surviving member of the family. Funeral service* wW be held at Dodge City Saturday afternoon.