Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1953 — Page 1

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Urges Reds To Agree On Date For Conference Second Message To Pressure Reds On Korean Conference s' ’ ® ’ I The United States, speaking for the United Nations, told the Fat East Communists in a second message released today “these is nothing further to add” op Korean peace conference arrangements beyond. tbe resolutions adopted |a|st month by the general assembly. The htatemetft was included in a new message from secretary of state John Foster Dulleq to Com; munist China and Norm Korea, urging them to agree quickly to j a date and place for the conference. The message, the Seconal pressuring the Reds, was sent Thursday night via Sweden and tife Oriental Reds were expected to receive iit today}. The message renewed, the sug-. gestion made by the Allies Sept. 5 that the conference should begin Oct. 15 at San Francisco,'Honolulu or Geneva - The general jusembly approved *' a conference set-up to include any < or all of tbe 16 U. N. cqmbatantk countries, plus South Korea,’ cn world organization’s side and ftps. Far East Reds on tne other, plks Russia, if "the other side desires it,” t The Chinese and North Kdrealn Reds replied to the first, western message Sept. 15. They demanded a ‘ roundtable’’ conferenceicompri 5ing all tbe Korean belfigefedU, Phis Russia. India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Burma, and insisted the set-up be debated auew in the current assembly session. ? ' The U. S. released the text of th! new message as ( Australia ’ told * Russia in the assembly the way is clear for it to "try atnorehti--4 man and cooperative policy for the , future" but warned the West will \ not immediately, "lower its 1 guqjC” Australian external affairs 'minister Richard G. Casey appealed before the United Nations' general assembly for east-west agreement on atomic energy control before both sides reach a “saturation pojint” in miistear weapons that would, enable them to “destroy all the 1 major centers of the other side.” I | • J He also declared'in the assembly’s policy debate that Australia had hoped this session might have 11 been able to avoid further bitter debate concerning the Korean political conference. ? I j "There seemed,” he said, “littl! that could be added by this session and, Indeed, it might be J thought > that further discussion of this matter ip New York would o|ily tehd to complicate the issues facing the political ’conference and burden and embarrass it .1 The western powers pressing the Communists for la quick agreement on a date and Jsite for the conference. High School Class Officers Elected | J•■ ; | i Decatur High School Classes In Election The six classes of the Decatur junior-senior high school ■ elected J officers in class meetings Thursday. Sponsors of the various classes will be named next week; The officers follow: ,j Settlors: Marilyn Kirchenbauer. president; Bob Baker, vice-presi-dent; Carolyn McDougal, secreDon Aurand, treasurer. [ . Juniors: Art Callow, president' Stanley Allison, vice-president; Ronnie**Robinson, secretary; Sarah ! Gerber, treasurer. Sophomores: Dan Kruqkeberg. i president; Dan Cowans, dent; Carolyn Aumann, secretary Judy Keller, treasurer. Freshmen: Stanley president; Virginia Vetter, vicepresident; Betsy Embler,; Secretary; Tony Kelley, Eighth grade: Susan Gerber, president; Fred Locke, vise-pres|-dsnt; Kathy Cole, secretary; Janalee Smith, treasurer. Seventh grade: Betsy Burk, president; Jim Corah, vice-president; Cheryl Ashbaucher, secretary; Bob Shraluka, treasurer. Motorist Is Killed J As Train Hits Auto VINCENNES, Ind., UP — Ai auto and a Baltimore A Ohio pas senger train collided’ Thursday, killing the car’s driver, Otis A. Smith, 41, Vincennes. 11 ! r r < >.n

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the FIRST HELICOPTERS to attempt flight to the North Pole land at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland (top), completing a 4.050 mile trip from Elgin Air Base. Fla. Manning the copters which will be used in important Arctic experiments are: (front 1? to r.), T/Sgt Clay A. Danner, Valle. Crucis, N.C.; S/Sgt. Charles D. Reid, Hamilton. Ohio, and (back), Capt. Raymond D. Gottfried, Brooklyn, N. Y., pilot; Major Clarence E. Hoke. Lebanon, Pa., navigator for both ships, and Capt. Vernon C. McKenzie, Big Spring. Tex., pilot. I : — :

Russia Claims Perfection Os New A-Bombs ’ ( I ; Successful Tests Or New Types Made In Recent Weeks MOSCOW, UP — The Soviet Union announced today it has “successfully” tested “severkl new types of atom bombs” in recent weeks. . The announcement was made nearly one month after the government disclosed it had exploded “one of a variety of hydrogen bombs.” \ * AU Soviet newspapers \ gave prominent display to a dispatch by the Soviet news agency Tass confirming the series of tests bf atomic bombs in the past few. weeks. The announcement implied the bombs were neither the hydrogen nor cobalt type. Diplomatic observers believed today’s announcement together with the Aug. 20 statement on the H-bdmb meant the Soviet delegation was likely to submit a new proposal for outlawing atomic weapons at the current session of the United Nations general assembly in New York. Tass said the Soviet Union "is compelled to pay attention to the production of atomic weapons” so long as responsible circles in the United States reject, Russian demands for banning them. It added Russia considers its most important task “to achieve the utilization of atomic energy to serve the cause of peaceful progress.” The government will continue “trying to reach agreement with other couhtries on the absolute banning of the atomic, the hydrogen and other types of weapons of mass annihilation” along with armaments reduction —aU t under “strict international control,” Tass said. • j In Washington, a spokesman of the atomic energy coittmission said the Tass dispatch “confirmed the information released by the AEC on Aug. 61 when it was stated that the Russian explosion of Aug. 23 was in the same range of , energy releases as our recent Ne- . vada tests and would appear to be part of a series. The Tass dispatch said: t "Several new types of atom . bombs were tested in the Soviet . Union in recent weeks in conformity with the plan atomic en . ergy scientific research. The testa were successful. They fully con- ( firmed the calculations and conjectures of scientists and designers.” ■ ' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with widely scattered showers and turning cooler tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler. Low tonight 5544 north, 04-68 south. High Saturday 70-75 north, 75-80 south. f E t ‘ ’"I

Five-Cent Postage I ' Rate Is Proposed More Air Delivery Os Mail Proposed WASHINGTON, UP — President William C. Doherty of the AFL Letter Carriers Union, today urged “serious study’* of. a proposal to charge five cents for all mm-local mail and carry most of it by Mir. [The head of the 100,000 - menroer union told the United Press the plan I “might be the answer to the high cost of transporting mall,” which has run up big annual deficits for the Post Office Department!. ? At the same time, Herbert B. Brand, chairman of the railroad industry’s mail transportation coihilnittee, told a reporter his group will “do everything possible to keep mail service on the railroads.” Doherty, however, said “Anything that will expedite mail service and meet the high cost of it is worth looking into.” He noted that his union has for years recommended wider use of air carriers in mail deliver?. But Doherty, a membef of the senate post office committee’s advisory* council, said some provision would have to be made for railway postal workers who would lose jobs under the new plan. The proposal, which committee chairman Frank Carlson (R-Kans.) said is being considered by the advisory council, would provide for: 1. Hiking the cost of first class letters Aggressed outside city limits from three to five cents. 2. Cutting the airmail rate from six to five cents and eliminating it as a special classJ 3. Delivering all mgil by air to destinations jnore than' 400 miles away—in some cases much closer than 400 miles. Carlson said the plan, if approved, would reduce the department’s current annual $450,000,000 deficit by $330,000,000. He said it “has great possibilities.” \ Gen. Dean Returns To States Tuesday TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Cajil., UP — Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, who was a prisoner of war for more than three years, will arrive here from Tokyo next Tuesday. Mdx ScEafer Speaks * At Rotary Meeting Max Schafer was guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rtotar? dub Thursday evening. A member of the club for a number of years, Schafer will leave Decatur next month for Terre Haute, where he has accepted « position as administrator >f the Indiana state council of the Laborers and Hod Carriers union welfare fund. Schafer, former labor relations director at the Central Soya Co. plant in this city, completed his term as a member of the Indiana industrial board Aug. 31. Robert Heller was' chairman of the pro gram. j '

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Sen. McCarthy Ousts Lawyer From Hearing Attorney Forcibly ' Removed On Order 4 Os Jen. McCarthy NEW YORK; UP— Seri. Joseph R? McCarthy had an attorney forcibly removed from the hearing room today to prevent his making “a, Communist transmission belt out of tkis room.’* k ■ An assistant United States marshal pul|ed the attorney, Abraham Unger, away from the witness chair and led him from the courtroom amid a chorus of hisses from the spectators. It not immediately apparent who being hissed. The room was jammed with spectators. It was the same courtroom in whieb the 11 members of the Communist party American politburo were on trial for nine months, in 1949. in the corridor outside, Unget protesting to the gugrd, and he was escorted out of the building onto the steps facing Foley Squared Unger, directed to appear toda£ for testimony, never got into the witnSsw chair: As he approaches it, McCarthy announced he had spoken 79 minutes in Thursday’s closed session and added: “I’m not going to waste time with a filibuster from him today ■unless he wants to deny John Lautner's testimony or tell us whether he is a member of the Communist party.” Unger, his hand on the back of the witness chair, began to talk tabout his rights and talking as McCarthy banged tie gavel. Finally McCarthy called out, “Officer, remove that man,” and Unger was The incident occurred as McCarthy* sat for the second straight day as a senate subcommittee of ohe in open hearings inquiring into the possibility of American Communists filtering into the United Nations. The hearing began today with testimony by John Lautner, a foriner high Communist functionary who was expelled from the party in 1950, that both Unger and Unger’s law partner, David Freedman, had been known to him as Communist functionaries. Lautner defined a functionary In rrwvw i* pace Kf*nt) v Two Bum To Death In Illinois Fire Seek More Victims In Building Block GRANITE CITY, 111. UP — Firemen today searched among tbe ruins of almost a block of frame buildings for more victims of a fire which burned to death a man and woman and injured at least nine others. The dead were not yet identified. More than 100 persons were driven from their homes Thursday night as flames roared through frame apartment and business buildings in an off-lying area. Z Firemen and residents fought the blaze for more than four hours, bringing it under control only after it did an estimated 1200,000 dam- ’ age. \ - • [ Fire chief Elijah King said at least eight business buildings with * apartments on a second story were destroyed. A . Buildings gutted included a pool * room, confectionery and a cleaning shop. tyre fighting unfl* from five 1 neighboring towns fought the blase and two Red Cross units were call- > ed to tbe scene. . * At least nine injured were kept > overnight in a Granite City hoei pital. Others driven from their L homes found shelter with neigh* bors in bousing arranged by church groups.

President Os AFL Lasher Eisenhower Says CanTControl Reactionary Forces ST. LOUIS, Mo., UP — GSorge Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor, charged to- < day that President Eisenhower can’t control \ the “reactionary 1 .forces’* that have taken over the administration and hasn’t strength to “stand up for his point of view.” Tbe AFL boss made it clear that he regarded “reactionary” businessmen and the national association of manufacturer! as the “forces” exerting the greatest influence on the administration. Meany leveled his blast at the President in a speech to the AFL building trades department convention here Thursday. “The national association of manufacturers is in a position of great influence in the government,” Meany declared. seem to think they can run the administration.” Then taking a swing at secrei- , tary of Defense Charles E. Wilsdn, Meany said “We don’t take the position of Charlie Wilson. He I says what’s good for General Mo- ' tors is good for America. The AFL takes the opposite position. We aay what’s good tor America is good for us.” ; | — In the convention audience .was former labor secretary, Martin P. Durkin, who resigned his cabinet post recently on the grounds that the administration had broken an agreement on “amendments” to the Taft-Hartley law. Meany said labor would continue to fight for amendments to the Taft Hartley law and shouted fWe're not going to be pushed hroifod.’* Completes Naming Os Commission v New Commission Completed By Ike" \ DENVER, UP — President Eisenhower today completed the organization of the 25-member commission which he hopes will develop plans for “the elimination of frictions, duplications and waste from federal-state relations.” Cleaning up a large amount of desk detail before ending hi£ Colorado vacation and flying back to Washington Saturday, the chief executive in a formal statement said he hoped members of the new commission would be able to come up With legislative recommendations which would result, in increasing the efficiency of government on all levels. Several weeks ago the President designated Dr. Clarence E. Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame Hw school, as chairman of the commission. Today he designated the public, state and federal members. Earlier ' the house and senate selected 10 members. “The President’s appointments today: t Public —John E. Burton, Republi- ■ can, vice president of Cornell University and chairman of-the New 1 York state power authority; Mrs. 1 Alice K. Leopold, Republican, Connecticut, secretary of state; Law- ’ rehce A; Appley, New Jersey Re- ; publican and president 'of the American management association; ’ William Anderson, independent, professor of political science at : tbe University of Minnesota; Sam 1 Jones, former Democratic governor ! of Louisiana; Charles Henderson, Republican mayor of Youngstown, 1 Ohio; and Clark Kerr, independent, chancellor of the University Os California. ’ Representing the states —Govs. ’ Allan Shivers of Texas. John S. ' Battle of Virginia, AKred E. Driscoll of New Jersey and Dan TnornL Ton of Colorado. Driscoll and Thornton are Republicans and Sbir vers and Battle Democrats. * To represent { the executive f branch of government, Mr. Eiaan(Tw* Te fkwe rtvey

Study Plan To Assure Russia Os Peace Aims United States May Join Europe Allies In New Assurances WASHINGTON (UP) —The United States is weighing the pros and cons of joining European allies in a new assurance to Russia that the expanding military power of the west is purely- defensive. Informed sources said today the idea is still very tentative, and no decisions have been made. The final answer may depend on future international events and a thorough analysis of how genuine are Russia’s fears of possible aggression from the west. Already heavy emphasis is being placed by important spokesmen here and in Western Europe on the point that the proposed European defense community is meant to guarantee peace in Europe and will therefore provide greater security for Russia as well as the west. These reassuring statements obviously are aimed at . tfhdhky Western Europeans. The “peace” theme is being stressed anew because the chances of eventual approval of EDC have been reviewed now- that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has won a decisive majority in the West German elections. EDC wOuld join West German military forces in a six-nation defense pact with those of France. Italy. Belgium. Luxembourg and the Netherlands under the North Atlantic treaty. Some experts on Russia, including former ambassador George F. Kennan, have long felt that Soviet fears of western attack are deepseated and genuine, however preposterous they may appear to* American minds. Kennan has contended that offsetting this Soviet phobia must be one of the major alms of U.S. diplomacy, lest Kremlin leaders some day become panicky and plunge the world into t* six* Mrs. Leimenstall Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Attaway Leimenstall, f 6. lifelong resident of near Craig rille, died at 4:25 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Blpffton following an illness of six weeks of pneumonia. She was born in Adains county Juy 28. 1877, a daughter of Jeremiah and Barbara Ann GaskillBarton, and was married Oct. 17, 1896 to Charles- Leimenstall, who preceded her in death April 22. 1946. Mrs. Leimenstall was a member oi the Evangelistic 'Mission church at Craigville. Surviving are three sons, William and Walter Leimenstall of Uniondale, and Lloyd Leimenstall of Decatur joute 4; four daughters, Mrs. j Mary Fell of Monroeville. Mrs,;Hazel Zttnmerman of Decatu rorute 4, Mrs. Martha Crozier of Craigville. and Mrs. Mildred Straw of Bluffton; 17 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and one eister, Mrs. Jennie Summere of Fort Wayne. Three daughters and one brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the home near Craigville and at 2 o’clock at the Evangelistic Mission church, the Rev. Roscoe Coleman officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Dale cemetery in Kirkland town- , ship. Friends may call -at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton after 5' o’clock this evening until 10 a. m. Saturday, when the body will be removed to tbo home. ■■' . j

———l Lisi Probable Red Atom Bomb Targets List Published To ; Spur Civil Defense . WASHINGTON UP — Officials expressed hope today that public interest in civil defense will increase from publication of a list 1 of 193 probable Russian atom ‘ bomb “target areas" in the United States. . : ' A civil defense spokesman said , a major purpose of making public the hitherto secret list was to'spur civilian:* to volunteer as air raid wardens, reslue workers, and ground observers to spot low-fly-ing enemy wkrplanes. He said that it was only a coincidence that the publication followed so closely after the first Russian hydroghn-bomb explosion , last month. He said the list had been in the works for several months and was in line with ad- . ministration policy of making pub- . lie more atomic information. , The target areas comprised all I U. S. urban centers containing at 5 least one city of 50,000 or more t population and the capitals of , states, territories, and posses--1 sions. ' , Os these, 70 were listed as “critit cal target areas” because of their B industries. The “critical’’ nlasalflcattoir wOS- gWetf to areas ? or more manufacturing 5 employes. s Such “targets" were concentratt ed mainly in the industrial north- . east and upper midwest. r Washington. D. C.. was listed In the “critical target” category “be- . cause of its importance as the na- , tion’s capital.” Military targets, including atom- ( ic energy installations, were re- . moved from the list before it was made public. A civil defense spokesman said a Russian spy, could figure out the list by going V to any library. He said that if the Soviet strategic air commanders did not already have such a list. • “they should be in Siberia.” v High School Pupils Hear Superintendent Aims Os Education Outlined By Brown Students of the Decatur high school, meeting in special assembly this morning, heard W. Guy Brown, superintendent, discuss what the schools strive to teach, the pupils. “Our schools strive to teach the fundamentals of life, how to live . a better life and how to cooperate . with people. Schools strive to . teach one to play as well as to work, how to use leisure time in helpful play, reading of good books, art, music, science, photography, etc., and in other wsys broadening the viewpoint in education.” The social side of training in the -schools was also emphasized by the educator, who stated that men have lived together since the beginning of civilization, they must continue ’to live together, hence the schools attempt to make a social being but of the pupil. "Education does not end with school books.” “So the schools today believe . that; it is necessary not only to know how to be able to read, to . write, and to figure (the 3 R’»), . but it is also necessary to know, something of the 2 C’s, courtesy, . courage, citizenship. Then there . should be added the 4th R, recreation. “Now in education we have the 4 R’s and the 3 C’s. Education i without a 4th C is valueless. This ; C is character. No education , which does not include character ■ is complete and adequate. "You are in thii school to grow ■ and make improvement oYu are ► not here to recite lessons to please ■ the teacher or to make good > grades. You are here to improve 1 yourself with the aid of your good teachers.’ ■I: -- * V r fc - '. • :

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Threatens To Half Delivery Os Anti-Reds ■ i-- ' j * Intimidation Os Captives Charged By Korean Marshal s PANMUNJOM. t Korea (UP) — President Syngmah Rhee’s provost marshal threatened today to disrupt the Korean truce agreement by halting the delivery of antiCommunist prisoners to neutral Indian guards. \ Lt. Geh .Won Yok Duk, who released 25.000 anti-Commuijist North Koreans last June on orders from Rhee that delayed the arm is-, tice, accused the Reds of intimidating captives resisting repatri- : at ion. j f Won said he would halt the . turnover of the 2.100 anti-Red prisoners still in Allied custody . unless tbe Communists quit; using r “pressure tactics.” ir. Thaprovost marshal said the r had been trying to ? force the prisoners to go back to / Red China and North Korea - against their will by threatening - reprisals against their; families. z He objected also to the fommni nisi? practice of taking the names ; \ - and addresses of prisoners as they • are released to Indian guards who have been assigned to protect ■ them. The Communists announced that 10 captives thtey are holding* in Kaesong had changed their minds about refusing to go home and will be repatriated. i However, the neglected to inform the United Nations command whether the prisoners were South Koreans, Americans or members of oth ernations which fought the Communists. Under the armistice agreement, both sides in the Korean war must hand over to the Indians all prisoners who refuse to go home. They will remain in Indian custody for three months, during which time explainers” of both sides will attempt to convince them they should be repatriated. Those who refuse to go home after hearing the “explanations” may reside in the country of their choice. s ( , 4 Won’/ statement, issued at Seoul after he had witnessed the transfer of prisoners at Indian Village near here did not alarm Allied war prisoner officials. However, observers recalled that Rhee’s warning that he would turn loose anti-Communist prisoners had not been taken too seriously. Shortly after Won had made his statement, Maj. Gen. William S. Lawton. in charge of the prisoner delivery, said the rentaining antiCommunist captives will be turned over to the Indians by Sept 64. “We are required by the armistice to get them there by the 24th of September,” Lawton said. Os the 2.379 Chinese and North Koreans delivered to the Indians Friday, only seven requested im- . mediate return to Communism. There were no demonstrations in the latest turnover, but the Indians “ remained watchful of every prisoner move. Adjustment Board Will Meet Monday . The county tax adjustment board, which met last Monday and continued its session until next Monday, will meet next Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock instead of in the morning as previously announced. \ ' t The. corrected meeting time was announced today by county auditor Frank Kltaon, who urged that all persons who plan to appear, take note of the time change.