Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1953 — Page 1

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Russian Fighter In U. S. Hands |jfe| n | THIS IS THE RUSSIAN built MIG jet fighter which was flown to” the UN air force base at Seoul by a North Korean lieutenant making his escape to freedom. The MIG was quickly dismantled and put aboard a 0124 GlObemaster, enroute to exhaustive tests by U. S. The Russian pilot, who insists, he didn’t know of thte reward, is now eligible to receive the >IOO.OOO offered by Gen. Mark Clark.

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; WASHINGTON UP 4- The government reported today the cost of living rose to a Record high last month due largely to‘ higher costs for transportation and rent; As a result, the nation’s; 1,3000,000 railroad workers will i receive a 3 cents an hour wage hike. The labor department's cost of living index. which measures changes in consumer prices, rose foi**the sixth successive month bes tween mid-July and mid-august. ! The index stood at 115 per cent of | the 1047-49 average Aug. 15, the department reported. f A This wag three-tenths ofiX-per cent higher than the r previous month, six-tenths of Jl per cent ( higher than a year ago, and 13 per ' cent over the pre-Korean livel. Railway workers comprise the * largest segment of the thrjee million or so persons covered by cost of lining wage contracts. lihey already have hour, in escalator increaseis. The new increase was indicated last week when a new formula for\ computing how wages are jtied to . the index was negotiated jby rdi| unions and management. . Other workers cost of living contracts ate affected by index changes in other months. I ; The department imported! an increase of seven-tenths of j 1 per cent in transpotration costs, last month, primarily due to the in-crease-to 15 cents of htewt York City subway fares. v | Higher gasoline and mqtor oil housing index rose two-tenths of prices also reported. The 1 per cent overall, primarily because of a 1.1 per cent Average increase in rents following the end of federal rent controlsi July 31Food prices rose three-tejnths of 1 per cent< but the average was 2.1 per cent lower than a year ago. Clothing prices dipped ope-tenth of 1 per cent: medical and recreation prices b|oth rose twptenths of 1 per cent: prices for motion picture theater tickets more than offset declines i|n average prices for television seis. ■■ — I American Economy \ Near Peak Levels WASHINGTON, UP — The American economy continued to ride at or near peak levels through August despite sdme scattered signs of weakness; the commerce department reported today; The department, in its latest i monthly survey ot the current business, said “the basic Sources of demand" for undiminished" last month. Standard Time To Return Saturday Night At Midnight Decathr and Adams county citizens, along with millions ol! other Americans, will have an opporu tunity Saturday night to regain that hour of sleep lost last spring. At midnight Saturday night,-De-catur. and the natidn, will return to standard time, ending the K months of daylight saving time, [ which went in effect last spring. Churches, schools. business houses, offices and Industries wIU revert to standard time Saturday night. Dedatur goes on dhylight : I1 time the last Saturday night in April and continues on the “fast time" until the last Saturday night in September. . | s - V J f \ J - .I J. d ...

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Doubt Escape Os Beria From Soviet Russia High Authorities Throw Cold Water On Escape Rumors WASHINGTON UP S — Intelligence and diplomatic authorities said today it is theoretically possible, but “extremely, unlikely,” that Lavrenti P. Beria, i deposed No. 2 Russian leader, has escaped from the Soviet Union and is hiding in a neutral nation. “1 would say that the odds are about one million to one against it.” said one highly-placed official who is in a position to know about any secret information reaching this government from abroad. Informants said the central intelligence agency and other government departments are still “looking into” the recent flurry of rumors about Beria’s “eschpe.” On the basis of their findings to date, thejr are “highly skepycal” of the whole story. The rumors' were understood to have been virtually discounted and pigeon-holed last week by government experts, who had heard variously that Beria was in Spain, Japan, Argentina and other countries. Public interest soared, however. when Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. announced that his senate investigating subcommittee was looking into the reports. Authorities familiar with Soviet affairs came up with only one possible explanation of how Beria. who was purged in late June, could have gotten away. Admitting their guess was “unlikely,” they said Beria might have received a tip that he was No. 1 on Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov's purge list and had made a break for > the border by air. But they took the -view that a purge involving a man of Beria’s power would have been so carefully planned that it could not have misfired at the eleventh hour. ' The best guess in official quarters is that Beria, headed the diead Soviet secret police, is now in prison in Russia undergoing the usual Communist “softening up” process preparatory to a public or secret trial at a later date. There fs some speculation that Beria may just “disappear” and never be heard from again. Students of Soviet history recalled \that former premier Josef Stalin had sent his enemy, Leon <Twra To P««e Two) Girl Scout Leaders Course Ends Thursday The outdoor session of the training course for Girl Scout leaders; which opened here Tuesday, whl be held at Hanna-Nutt-man from 10 to 2 p.m. Thursday, it was announced today. Those planning to attend t may register with Mrs. Gerald Strickler, phone 3-4196. The closing session of the course will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday qt the American Legion home, instead of Friday as originally announced.

Pearson Warns Reds Not To Delay Parley No Justification For Communists To Delay Conference UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. UP— Canadian external affairs minister Lester B. Pearson warned the Communists today they have no justification for delaying or boycotting the Korean , peace conference. Pearson tjald the United Nations general assembly Korea “will provide an acid test for the hope and claim that successful negotiation can and mdst be conducted now, not only on the future of Korea but on European and cold problems generally, in order Ito bring about an easing of fear and tension and a peace that will be something < better than a cold wdr.* « He called upon Communist China and North Korea to name their representatives to the parley “withviews *on time and place of the out delay" and to express their meeting. This was in line with the mev sage now enj route to the Far East Communists from the United States, proposing as face-to-face meeting at San Francisco, Honolulu or Geneva to settle the site and date lot that conference. The United States suggested the Redis could (seek to raise the issue of participation of “neutral” countries —the stumbling block in the arrangements —once the conference actually got underway. Pearson also supported this view. In an apparent reference to threats by | South Korean President'Syngmin Rhee to resume the Korean war if the peace conference bogs dpwn, Pearson formally notified the assembly: "So far as the Canadian government is concerned, we will not support any military action in Korea that is not U. N. action, and we would be opposed ■ to any attempt to interpret existing U. N. objectives as including unification of Korea by force. “On the other hand, we are aware that the signing of an armistice does, not discharge us from obligations we have already undertaken in Korea as a member of the U. N.” Charles Slater Is Lions Club Speaker \ Specialization Age Cited By Speaker Lions last night at their regular meeting heard a talk by Charles Slater, manager of industrial relations of the Fort Wayne General Electric plant, speak on the “Need for conditioning our ideals tor the age of industrial specialisation.” ■< Program chairman was Paul Hancher. V Slater told the group that it was expected that industrial business would double by 1961. and. the resulting increased need for speciall.zatlon would call for stepped up training and education to meet its challenge. He pointed to the doctors who are narrowing their scope to certain fields,. and indicated this was a forerunner of things to come in industry. -\ \ ‘ Plans for placing safety stickers on every car 4rith a JA license plate —some of which could already be seen this week—were reportedly completed and the cooperation of the police department here was secured, it was stated. The stickers k will be given out sometime this week.

Decotur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 23, 1953.

Eisenhower Promises Taft-Hartley Changes To Remedy Law Def ects

UN Completes Its Delivery Os Prisoners Deliver More Than 23,000 Prisoners To Indian Guards PANMI'NJOM, Korea (UP) — The United Nations completed today its delivery of more than 23,000 anti-Communj«t Chinese and) North Korean prisoners to Indiari custodian troops. The Communists are still holding 23 American’s and more than 300 other U. N. prisoners who refuse to return home. Apparently because of this, an Indian spokesman said questioning; of anti-repatriate prisoners by indoctrination officers will be delayed 24 hours and 'Will start Saturday. ■ ( . The Indian spokesman 'Said 20 newsmen from each side. U.N. and Communist, -will be permitted to attend the interview of the indoci trination officers with thie prisoners who refuse to go home. The spokesman said photttgra phety, newsreel cameramen ond, radio reporters would be barred from the interviews to be held In the two prison camps that make up Indian Village. I’i | The interviews will be conducted over a 90-day period as ’'explainers’ from each side will attempt to convince prisoners who.j do not wish to go home thai they should change their minds. An American colonel said two United Nations observers would witness the interviews of antiCommunist North Koreans and Chinese to prevent Red “explainers" from intimidating them. Similarly, Communist observers will watch Allied “explainers” attempt to reconvert the 300 prisoners. including 23 Americans, who said they do not want to go home. The United, Nations command said it was geared to handle 16 interviews simultaneously, using hand-picked “explainers” who will worjc with five groups of prisoners at the same time. The Communists have not announced their plana. Announcement of the program (Tin Ta Pace Five} Slop Woman's Leap From Tribune Tower Woman Teeters On 20th Floor Ledge CHICAGO UP — A 36-year-old divorcee teetered for an hour and a half on a 20th-floor ledge of the Tribune Tower today, threatening to jump, but was pulled to safety by a priest who lured her to a window with her pet dog. Mrs. Millicent Armin, an unemployed switchboard operator, war being taken to a police station for psychiatric treatment when she eluded her father, ran into the building, facing on Michigan Blvd: and took an elevator to the floor where she climbed from the window. She was on her perch 1 hour and 35 minutes before she was rescued. Hundreds of persons crowded the streets below watching her and for a time traffic was slowed. The Rev. Robert Herne of the Roman Catholic Holy Name Cathedral was summoned to the scene as Mrs. Armin’s father, Sigmund, pleaded with her to leave her perchand re-enter the building. The Rev. Herne added his entreaties to that of Armin who finally rushed to his Northwest Side home with a police escort and returned with Mrs. Armin’s dog. The priest held the dog, a big brown Boxer, at the window and a fire department official called out to Mrs. Armin: “Lucky is here." Mrs. Armin took a step or two (Tans Ta MxJ

Maynard Frisinger Is Taken By Death Former Postmaster Dies Here Tuesday V 1 . ’ ■ Funeral services will be held -Friday afternoon for Maynard A. (Dyke) Frisinger, 69, former Depostuaaster and retired city mafl tarrier, who died Tuesday afternoon at the Adams eounty memorial hospital. He has been seriously ill for more than two ’ months, Mr. Frisinger was appointed as * postmaster of the Decatdr office [. June 11, 1906. and served until the appointment of W. A. Lower June 14, 1910. He was the youngest man ever appointed postmaster of an office the site of Decatur. He was a substitute carrier in Natchez, Miss., until 1922, and was I appointed a substitute carrier in •' Decatur June 4, 1923. He served ■ as a city carrier iri Decatur until his retirement*Nov. 30, 1950. Mr. Frisinger was an active member of the First Presbyterian church, serving as an elder for i many years. Fraternally, he was ) a member of the Masonic lodge. Born in St. Mary’s township, near Decatur, Dec. 22, 1863, he was a son of John and Jane petersonFrisinger. His father was, aprominent horse buyer and stock farmer. Mr. Frisinger was married to Alma Dailey Oct. 30, 1907. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Robert D. Frisinger, assistant Decatur postmaster; two daughters, Mrs. William Gay of Stanton. Mich., and MTs. Robert Heiser of Lima, O.; five grandchildren; two brothers, J. F. Frisinger of North Webster, and Richard Frisinger of Greenfield, and two sisters. Mrs. J. Dwight Peterson of Indianapolis, and Mrs. George Myers of Palp Alto, Calif. One sister preceded him in death. Services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwlck funeral home, the Rev. Ray J. Walther officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Thursday until time of the services. Start Rural Ticket Sale For Fish Fry Tickets Available Throughout County Rural ticket sale for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce annual fish fry started Tuesday under the cochairmanship of Roy Price and William Linn. Tickets for Adams county farmers are available at 12 places in the county, the leaders announced. Farm tickets for the event will sell tor |1.50, and all Adams county farmers and their wives are invited to the annual event, which will be held at Dedatur high school gymnasium Thursday, October 22. Linn and Price have placed ticksts at the following places: Riley’s market at Bobo; Everett’s-grocery and Clark’s Service station at Pleajant Mills; Salem grocery at Salem; gtuckey department store and Zuerc|ier service station at Monroe First Bank of Berne; Bank of Geneva; Linn Grove hardware itore; Coppess Corner; Lister’s grocery and Preble restaurant at Preble. The rural sale will continue until October 20. Sales in Depatur and the eounty the first two days indicate that the 1,200 tickets will be sold long before the October 20 deadline. When the present supply of tickets is consumed no more will be available because of the limited space, it was announced. A complete program for the annual fish fry will be announced soon, Clarence Ziner, general chairman, said. , ' - ... l— INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 50-56. High Thursday 77-85.

Are Violating Korean Truce Says Reds Moving Planes Into Korea After Armistice SEOUL, Korea, UP — Lt. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson, sth air force commander, charged today the Reds moved planes into North Korea after armistice day and Gen. Mark W. Clark quickly called a conference with his staff to discuss reports of the truce violation. Anderson, highest ranking United Nations air force officer in Korea, said he knew a week ago of the Communist plane movements. A fugitive from Commdnism confirmed the reports Tuesday. Clark, supreme U.N. commander in the Far East summoned staff officers to hisi headquarters and it was learned that he may break his silence on the alleged Communist air buildup Thursday. Anderson said radar had picked up the movement of enemy planes and showed they had ventured farther south than they had dared to go wHcm Sabre jet* Ware is the air to challenge them. The radar findings were backed up Tuesday when young Lt. Nob Keum Suk of the North Korean air force gave an eyewitness account of the Communist treachery after turning over his MIG-15 fighter jet to the U. S. authorities. Noh Wid the Communists were building up their air strength in North Korea because they had no faith in a lasting peace in Korda and were preparing to resume the fighting. A U. N. spokesman in Tokyo said Gen. Mark W. Clark was expected to demand a thorough investigation of the Red truce violation by a neutral team of inspectors. The MIG surrendered by the 22-year-old runaway North Korean, who will receive >IOO,OOO, tax-free, for his action was the “first complete MIG” to fall into U. S. hands. It was dismantled and put aboard a giant C-124 transport plane which will take it to the United States tor studyi. An air force spokesman at Dayton, Ohio, said the MIG would be tested at nearby Wright-Patterson air force base. It will be examined and then reassembled for flight tests. j Anderson said qppert engineers Spiritual Emphasis : ■ ... . -'i Services Jan. 3-10 \ Indianapolis Pastor Chosen As Speaker At a recent meeting of the Associated Churches of Decatur, the dates and plans of the gmntial spiritual life emphasis week were > announced. The union services will be held during the nationally observed/ week of prayer, January 3-10, 1954. The Associated -Church council approved the plans of the committee to secure the services of the Rev. George St. Angelo, pastor of the New York Avenue Evangelical United Brethren church, Indianapolis, as the guest preacher-for the eight-night series. The services will be held this year in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The committee in charge of arrangements has appealed to the various organizations of the city to cooperate with the effort to reserve the above dates tor this union series of community interest. | Committee members are: the Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church, chairman; the Rev. Ray Walther, pastor of the First Presbyterian church; Ralph E. Kenworthy, First Baptist church; and Chaimer Bollenbacher, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. • r ’ ' I _

Gen. William Dean Is Back Home Today Disclaims Honors But Praises Gls BERKELEY, Calif. UP —Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, the fighting hero of Taejon, was back home today after six long years in Korea. His first words were for the “real hero” of the Korean war—the GI. In characteristic fashion, he disclaimed all honors for himself when he arrived at 10:05 p.m. Tuesday at nearby ■'f’ravis air force base on a routine, air evacuation flight from Tokyo. A Dean, who won the congressional medal of honor for his heroic stand at Taejon that resulted in a three-year imprisonment, called himself “just a dog-faced soldier.” Then he praised Gl’s who, he said, underwent worse experiences than his and still “clung to their American ideals." v After speaking briefly to Teporters and a cheering crowd of 500, Dean went straight to his home in Berkeley, along} with his wife. Mild led. and 18 other members of his family. . . \. i ! Mrs. Dean had cooked a ham i “so that nn matter what time he • came, we’d have it for him.” > Mrs. Dean’s eyes were moist as 1 she bustled around the kUchen» and dining room of their home. She said the last three years have been “full of hopes and disappointments.” ; * “Now I epn’t express any emotions,” she said. “I can’t put them into words.” She said she and her 54-year-old husband were just going to “take things easy" for a while. Dean’s plane arrived an hour ahead of schedule from Honolulu. When the plane taxied in front of the terminal building, a ramp was pushed up to the nose door of the C-97 and Mrs. Dean went aboard /Twra Te \ -'T Airport Approved By State Official Says Site Appears An Ideal Location Robert H. Mclntyre, director of field services of the state uero nautics commiseion, met with De catur’s board of aviation commissioners Tuesday afternoon and advised that the Hi-Way airport ep peared to be an ideal location tor future operations that might be administered 1 by the city. Said Mclntyre: “Any town that’ is bypassed by the air age will suffer in the future." Mclntyre was about in the same boat as the commissioners, in so far us not knowing -whether Deca tur needed an airport at this time, but he offered: “How will we know what the requirements of the city will be 20 years from now.” He said the public had to be educated to the uses of the air, as much as they had to be educated to the uses of the automobile many years ago. Mclntyre later inspected the field with board president Andy Appelman and expressed pleasure and a bit of amazement at the lengthening possibilities of the field and ‘the apparently reasonable cost to the city if it wished to lease it. He observed that it is possible to lengthen the strip to almost three-quarters of a mile, making it possible to land the medium heavy type of airertaft, expanding later on to an all-weather airport including sight operations. He did advise, however, that the city lower power lines along the eastern approach to ths field, on U. 8. highway 27, to 15 feet above the ground; that, combined with cutting down the tops of trees in the area directly east to provide a safe glide path of about 65 feet tn height, would be acceptable to the state, and he advised the board and other proponents to work toward that end. i LJ ' ■

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AFL Officials Not Satisfied With Promise Labor Source Says Promises Less Than Campaign Pledges ST. LOUIS, UP —President Eisenhower told the American Fpderation of Labor today he will send to (congress next January ifecom- *. mendations to correct “a number of defects” in the Taft-Hartley la- • , bor law. Mr. Eisenhower said in a message to the AFL national conven--1 tion he believes the controversial ’ act is essentially sound but needs , some revisions. i It was over the issue of recom- - mendations to the Taft-Hartley act that Martin P. Durkin quit Mr. - Eisenhower’s cabinet as secretary , of labor. » Mr. Elsenhower's message was , read to the AFL convention by f Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Immediate reaction among AFL i officials to the President’s Taft' e Hartley program was that it promised even less than the President s had offered \jn a campaign address A at the AFL convention last year, e An AFL source described four oba jectlves named by Mr. Elsenhower > tor study as “gobbledegook.” He said the convention wanted to hear » “specific” recommendations and i predicted that the convention would not accept the administraI tion program. s Durkin, attending the convention as a delegate from the AFL plumb- ■ ers’ union, was asked to comment . on the President’s remark that a ’ Taft-Hartley study committee “has i not yet completed its task.” Durkin had said that this committee made up a list of proposals to 'Send to congress more than a } month ago. Durkin said. “I will have no comment except to say my answer was in my speech yesterday.” The delegates did not applaud at any time during the reading of the message. They sat unsmiling when Nixon read the statement that the Taft-Hartley act was a “substantial contribution to the quest for sounder labor-management relations.” Mr. Eisenhower said he believes enactment of the Taft-Hartley act was a “substantial contribution to the quest for sounder labor-man-agement relations.” He conceded the past six years have “revealed a number of defects which should be corrected.” He said the defects had been . under “critical study” and that be - would send his recommendations for revisions to congress at the opening of its next session in Jan- . ' , Mr. Eisenhower’s message was sent to the federation amid contradictory statements by Durkin and the White House over whether Mr. Eisenhower ever had approved 19 proposed changes in the Taft-, Hartley law. t . The President listed four objectives of the administration’s “critical study” of the Taft-Hartley law: 1. To remedy defects which caused conceim on the part of workers over possible uses of the act to the detriment of their welfare. 2. To Insure efficient, speedy. All Aboard Crashed Transport Escape MILES CITY, MonL, UP —The pilot of a crippled Army-chartered C-46 transport plane, which burst into flames shortly after making a crash landing near here, praised the calmness of his passengers during the emergency. . The two-engine plane with 44 persons aboard made a belly landing in a wheat field when one of th/ engines caught fire shortly after take off from the Municipal Airport here Tuesday. The transport carried 37 Kor»> an war veterans and a crew of eeven. AB aboard had made an orderly escape from the wreckage.