Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 235.

Report Contact In Kansas City Kidnaping Case Family Spokesman Denies Any Contact Made With Kidnaper KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP — Cotti -tact has been made tn the Greenlease kidnap case, reliable sources reported today. f-j The report came on the heels a Chicago newspaper report ttfgt Bobby Greenlease's kidnaper hlad . demanded >500.000 ransom fdwn the bojH wealthy parents. I 9 The flewspaper ia hhe Chicago American. Reporters immediately wen® to the door of the Greenlease h«ise and for comment. As a Mmily spokesman, Stewart M. Johnson said: g “It is absolutely not true. Tfrre has been no contact with the kidnaper nor any go-between.” g In suburban Mission HillAg a tense silence dominated the Ivytrimmed brick mansion where! he lived. Tension grew out of the fact |iat Robert Ledterman, who first aMed as spokesman for the sorrowing family, now has not been seen tor more than 48 hours. Speculation cast the 69-yeardld Tulsa, man in the role of Ledterman, a business partnemof the 71-year-old millionaire father, , Robert Cl Greenlease, was list seen fit 7:30 a.m. Sunday whence stepped outside in the rain to logk for a newspaper on the lawn. S Speculation was heigthened farther by |the longer than usual viSt of a priest and the newspaper story that Bobby’s abductor h&l . asked payment of >500,000 ransofn tor his return. The ransom repo|t got only a terse “no comment’ from the family and law enforcfment agencies. It was the heavy silence tha| most impressed the community an# newsmen outside the house. A purse answered the bell at B:3| a.m. and told newsmen that “they are all asleep” when asked if the reporters could see Ledterman. I At 9 a.m. Stewart M. Johnson, general manager of Greenleasy Motor Co., was asked if Ledterman was asleep. ! “No comment,” he replied. Contact with Johnson was made by telephone. He has been a meim , ber of the household in the emergency. J j _ ■ ■ Paul Greenlease, an adopted said Sunday night that Ledterma|i was not in the house. He to be drawn into a discussion o-f his whereabouts. Other queries - have .been answered by "he’s resting" or rhe is asleep.” | Newstpen pounding the pavement in front of the house were impressed Monday night by the total of activity. Two Cadillacs parked at the silde of the house were net used. I One flurry Monday resulted frqtp a second visit by Arthur B. Eisenhower, brother of the President. (Turn To Faux® Two) >

Warns Os Possible I ■ * Frost For Indiana Northern Indiana | Is Given Warning INDIANAPOLIS UP ~ ?The fir|l heavy frost of the season may ni|> vegetation in scattered ‘lndiana tonight, the wejther bureau warned today. | Temperatures as low as 30 predicted Forecasters said “could be a'heavy »rost that possibly do some damage.” . * chances were the fro|t will be light and will cover the entire state, they, added. Normal: date for the firs£ froat ranges from about Oct. if in the north to Oct. 27 in the Bout|j. Light frost was recorded in Indiana last month, including the Indianapolis area Sept. 22 when mercury propped near freezing, Temperatures fell after general rains soalked most areas of tie state, easing at least temporarily a long drought which dried |p crops In iome areas since Aug. WThe mejrcury slipped as low |s 42 at Forjt Wayne early today, |2 at Indianapolis and 44 at Evansville and £outh Bend following t|e coolest day of th£ season Monday Meanwhile, the weather bureau’s five-day outlook indicated temperatures averaging three to six degrees below normal, 69*|7 maximums and 45-50 minimums,- a warming trend Wednesday apd Thursday with a turn to cooler during the weekend. There will ije little or no precipitation, the o|t look Mid. ' ; |

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Classmates Pray For Bobby Mi ll • y I JL . JL I 9 * If I Eq Mr wF jwWa : CLASSMATES of kidnaped Bobby Greenlease, 6, pray for his safe .return in chapel at the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, school in Kansas City, Mo., where he was kidnaped.

India Not To Try To Stop Mass Breakout Custodian Troops Pledged Against Force In Breakout •PANMUINJOM, Korea UP — Indian custodian troops will not try to stop the 22,500 anti-Commu-nist war prisoners they hold m event of a mass breakout, the Indian chairman of the neutral nations repatriation commission said today. Nor, he said, in a major concession to the United Nations command, can the Indian guards tore's anti-Communist prisoners to listen to Communist "brain - washing” lectures. Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, commission chairman and senior Indian officer in Korea, said the .Indian troops could stop a mass break-out of the antl-Red prisoners only at the expense of “terrible slaughter.’ ’ Asked if the Indians would be willing to pay that price, Thimayya said: “I don’t think so. No civilized country would.” Thimayya said the Indians would not use force even though they have sufficient arms and ammuni tion to prevent a mass breakout. Indian guards are duty-bound tj escort any of the anti-repatriate North Koreans and Chinese to thq Communist indoctrination officers as often as the Reds desire, he said. But he added: “I don’t see how they can b? forced to listen.” Thimayya said he would not know what to do if an entire compound of anti-Communist prisoners went on a sit-down strike and refused to march to an interview session. \ “Search me, I don’t know what we could do,” he said. “I suppose ,I’d have to refer to the commission!.” J Thimayya said the anti-Commu-nist prisoners are arming themselves with makeshift weapons and are in an ugly mood. \ “The arsenal seems to be unending,” Thimayya said. “The only thirig we can do is be prepared to meet such weapons if they are used against us.” Thimayya said his commission’s rules on handling the explanations to prisoners are tentative only and subject to change as the elctiires progress. Thimayya also crashed Communist hopes of extending the period of “explaining” to prisoners why they should return to Red rule beyimd the Dec. 24 deadline agreed upon in the armistice document. Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme commander of Far Eastern United Nations forces, said the Allies would insist on the explanations ending on schedule. "I’m afraid the NNRC will have no alternative," Thimayya told a Communist newsman. Thimayya’s promises followed protests from the United Nations and South Korea on the five-nation neutral committee’s handling of prisoners. Clark emphatically told Thimayya in a letter the U.N. would not permit force to be used against the prisoners rejecting repatriation. The Koreans had threatened to “take up arms” against the Indians to stop bloodshed in the Indian compound where three AntiCommunist prisoners had been shot to death and 10 others wounded. V, .

Hearing Date Sei In Witnesses Case Appellate Court Sets Oct. 20 Date Oral argument has been set by the Indiana appellate court on the appeal by the Decatur board of zoning appeals against the Jehovah’s Witnesses of Decatur on whether or not the city made a mistake in not permitting the Witnesses to build a Kingdom Hall at the corner of Ninth and Monroe against the provisions of a zoning ordinance, date set for October 20 at 10 a. m. at Indianapolis. The date of argument was released jointly today by city attorney Robert S. Anderson and attorneys tor the Witnesses, Custer & Smith. Robert Smith said that Hayden C. Covington. Brooklyn attorney for the Witnesses, and their colleagues in the case, would also be on hand. The appeat is against thq action of Judge Myles F. Parrish who. on February 13 of this year, turned down the city in their request tor a new trial from a decision passed by Judge Parrish on November 20 in which the judge held with the Witnesses that their constitutional rights were infringed upon through the denial of the board of appeals tc permit them to build a church at Ninth and Monroe. ‘ The controversial issue had its beginning June 30, 195!, when the Witnesses bought the lot from Adam P. Kunowich, of 216 North Ninth, and filed for a building permit with city building inspector and engineer Ralph Roop, May 24 1952. Roop turned down the appeal a tew days later on the ground that set-back requirements of the zoning ordinance, passed by the city October 18, 1949, was not complied with and sufficient off-street parking was also not provided by the religious group. The Witnesses then filed for a variance with the city board of zoning appeals May, 31, 1952, but the board voted unanimously to turn down the religious group on the same grounds stated by Roop, that of insufficient set. back line and off-street parking. July 22, 1952 the Witnesses countered with a petition filed in the Adams circuit court attacking the legality of the decision by the board and denouncing it as “arbitrary and capricious.” In September a. hearing was held on a writ of \ certiorari requested by the Witnesses, asking that all records be brought before the (circuit) court to determine whether the decision of the board was legal and whether the other allegations of the Witnesses were true. On October 2 a writ of certiorari was issued and certified copies of the proceedings of the matter which were laid before the court October i7. November 20 the circuit court held with the Jehovah’s Witnesses that their allegations were true and that they had been denied their constitutional rights in the refusal by the A city to issue a variance to the ordinance. A motion hy the .city for a new trial was filed with the Adame circuit court December IS and in a 93-page opinion this motion was turned down by the court. - June 8 the city of Decatur filed an appeal with the appellate court to determine, In effect, who was right in the decision,* the Adams circuit court or the board of toning appeals. . INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder with’ * local frost likely tonight. Wed- , needay fair and cool. Low tonight 3240. High Wednesday 55-64.

Detatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 6, 1953.

Eisenhower Declares Buildup Os Bombs Is JU Necessary Deterrent

Six Red Party Officials Are Under Arrest Second String Party Officials Seized In New Jersey, Ohio WASHINGTON UP — FBI agents today arrested six “secondstring” Communist party officials in Ohio and New Jersey. They were charged with conspiring to .advocate violent overthrow of the United States government. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover announced jointly that the arrests were made in Cleveland, Lorain and Steubenville, Ohio, and Newark, N.J. Besides the six arrested, the FBI also said it has made arrangements to bring charges against another party official now in prison at the Ohio state penitentiary, Columbus, for fictitious car registration. \ 'Hoover said all seven of the Reds have held or now hold positions in the party apparatus in the midwest. Some of them also hhve been active in other sections of the country. Hoover said. The six arrested today were: Joseph Brandt, 43: The justice department* said he has been active In Communist party affairs in Ohio since 1939 and was organiza tional secretary of tne Ohio party in 1951. He was picked up tn Newark, while on his way to work. David Katz. 40; The department said he has bedn active in party affairs since 1940 and was once treasurer of the Communist political association of Onio. He wao picked up in downtown Cleveland. Frieda Zucker Katz. 41, the wife of David Katz: She has been associated with Ohio Communist party affairs since 1940 and was at one time organizational secretary o r the party in Cuyahoga county. Ohio, the FBI said. Lucille Bethencoart, 26: described as a leading participant (Tun T® Pax® Tw®»

Fuel Testing Soon On New Diesel Plant Preliminary Fuel Testing This Week Finishing touches were being made on the giant diesel engine At the city’s new power plant at Seventh and Dayton streets today prior to preliminary fuel testing to be done sometime this week. The engine was "turned over” last Thursday and the results successful, according to Lima-Hamil-ton diesel service «ngineer Don Geron. The machine, said to be the largest power producing diesel east of the Mississippi, was primed Monday afternoon with fuel oil. Geron said -the engine will be using the cheapest oil available. Bunker “C” oil, for which tlje engine was designed, with an eye to keeping the operating costs cut to the minimum. He pointed out, however, that the fact of its cheapness does not indicate lack of qualify for the purposes for which it is intended. Geron asserted that While it is inexpensive 9 “the closest thing to road tar,” it is better than the more .expensive variette* because it contains more B. T. U.’s a high calorie producer per volume. ' , 4 I - The engine was expected to be dedicated when the floor and other finishes were installed in the plant, according to a previous statement by L. C. Pettibone, city light and power superintendent, but it was pointed out yesterday by Lester Mitchell, who will manage the new plant that the engine Will be turning out power before the dedication.

East German Leader j s Outlines Unity Plan Place All Germany Under Russian Yoke ' BERLIN UP —East Germany’s Red premier Otto Grotewohl laid today the Communist terms tor reunification of Germany —a made-in-Moscow scheme for placing all Germany under the Communist yoke. His statement convinced most western observers here that if talks on German unity §are held, they will be fore-doomed ?by Red demands for creation of a fCemmunlst • dominated government. i! Grotewobl’s statement, Issued for observance of the fourth anniversary of the Soviet Boners Red regime, lajd down jhese conditions tor unitv: I 1. The course of “fremom and democracy” being followed in the Soviet zone must be extended .to i.ll Germany. f! 2. Mines, the Iron and steel industries and chemical industries qiust be taken from “German and Aimerican monopolists” and "given hi the people.” fl 3. All West German estates of rfjore than 247 acres must be brokefc up and the land given to small farmers and tenants. \ |4. American bases 4u W«»t Germany will be destroyed and land confiscated for military uses distributed to farmers. <;*s. The West German tax syst'etn must be made, to conform to East German "social principles.” fGrotewohl said his Communist regime considers it a national duty to use all Its power to realize these gbals. ■ He pledged the Soviet zone would the living standards of its people and bring about an agreement between East and West Germany so that an all-German provisional government can be established, which then would hold allGerman elections. j'The Western Allies have Insisted 4|e free all-German elections must He held before rather than after fte formation or an all-German government. sources today reported meanwhile that the Soviets were troubled with internal problems in Germany. Three Soviet army deserters were said to have been killed by Russian military police in a gun battle which developed when <T«ra T* Pa** Twa)

Caliand Will M. C. Fish Fry October 22 11 Ward Caliand Will i Preside At Meeting ■J. Ward Caliand, Decatur, well known as an after dinner speaker, Will be the master of ceremonies at the annual Chamber of Commerce fifth fry to be held Thursday night, October 22. at Decatur high school g|rmnasuim, Clarence Ziner, general chairman announced today. Caliand will take .charge at the opening of the program and his selection was heralded as another headliner in the top*notch program for the annual event, according to the general chairman. The Rev. A A. Fenner, pastor of Friedheim Lutheran church, win deliver the invocation. I Tickets for the big event are spiling rapidly and while the deadline for sale of tickets is not until October 20, the ticket committee predicted that all available admissions for the program would be sold in another week. Much interest has been shown throughout the county and more rural tickets have been sold this year than in any preceding years. < Tickets can still be obtained from Chamber members, but Ziner said today that after the present supply of tickets is gone, no more Will be available. | The program will include selections by the General Electric Aeolian choir and presentation of a Variety show by several radio and television headliners.

Dock Workers Obey Order To Return To Jobs Taft-Hartley Court Order Sends Dock i Strikers To Work NEW YORK, (UP) — Striking, longshoremen of two rival unions returned to work on Atlantic coast piers today' under a Taft-Hartley court order banning their strike for at least 10 days. Tugboat crews and cargo handlers, idle since last Thursday’ ip a walkout that tied up more than 200 shills in eastern ports, began an early but sporadic response to the back-to-work order. Normal operations were not expected to be resumed until tonight or Wednesday, however. International Longshoremen’s Association officials warned that their men probably would refuse to work at piers where AFL longshoremen were employed. Patrick J. Connolly, acting head of the discredited union which has tied up traffic In eastern ports since last Thursday, announced late Monday night hie men would start returning W work with the night shift tonight. He said an earlier resumption of activity on the docks would be impossible because of “confusion.” “We’re not going back willingly,” Connolly said. “We’re going back because it’s the law of the land.” He referred to a temporary restraining order issued Monday night by Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld under the Taft-Hartley law. President Eisenhower earlier had ordered the attorney general to seek an injunction because the walkout threatened the “health and safety” of the nation. Weinfeld Issued a restraining order and set a hearing for next Tuesday to decide whether it shal' be extended to the full 80-day period allowed under the law. Union leaders indicated they would not fight the 80-day injunction if shippers would agree to make any contract signed during the “cooling off” period retroactive to Oct. 1. The lEA, which claims 65,000 members in its Atlantic Coast district, struck when its contract expired Oct. 1 without agreement on a wage increase. The walkout came only a week after the AFL ousted the union for Its underworld tie-ups and chartered a new one to take its place. Although Connolly announced <T»n T® Pave Tw®)

Jefferson Club Is Organized Monday Monthly Meetings Planned By Club More than 26 Adams county Democrats attended an organisation meeting of a hew county wide Democrat club held at Riverview Gardens Tuesday night. The new organization will be known as the Adams county Jefferson club. Ed Jaberg, Adams county clerk was named temporary secretary of the organization and a permanent organization committee including Lewis L. Smith, prosecuting \ attorney; C. H. Muselman, Berne, county prohation officer; Merle Affolder, deputy sheriff, Geneva: Mrs. Artie Jackson, St. Mary’s township, and Mrs. Walter Koos, Decatur, was named to report at the November meeting. It was decided to hold monthly meetings of the new club and regular dinner meetings will be held the first Monday of each month. The permanent organization will be completed at the November meeting. v Plans were made, at the first session to secure a number of nationally known Democrats to appear at various times on the programs. z

Four Persons Killed As Train Hits Auto Driver Disregards Guard Rail, Lights GARY, Ind., UP — A motorist who drove around a lowered guard rail in an attempt to beat a train to a crossing carried four persons to their deaths Monday. Their auto w r as rammed by a Nickel Plate passenger engine at an intersection just west of here. The ‘victims were listed as Mario Torres, 39, Gary, Rafel Rodriguez, 26, East Gary, Rafel Sarvedra, Bingham Canyon, Utah, and an unidentified man with themPolice said the speeding, auto bearing Utah license plates disregarded the guard rail and a flasher signal at the crossing. Engineer John E. Beach, 64. Chicago, said the Chicago-to-Buffalo train was traveling about 45 miles per hour. Two of the men were thrown out of the car and ground under, the train wheels. The Rev. Francis McGuire, Hinton. Okla., en route to Notre Dame University, stopped at the crash scene and administered last rites. The third victim died in the car wreckage and the fourth died on the way to the hospital. Seven Killed EAST LOS ANGELAS, Calif., UP — Six children and a mother died Monday after their sedan was crushed by a giant trailer truck loaded with 2ff tons of steel. The children, 2 to 5 years old, were being taken on a swimming party by the woman, identified as Mrs. Helen Lee, 29, mother of one of the victims. The huge truck ground the car over the pavemenf for more than 150 yards. Highway Patrolman N. C. Smith booked the truck driver on suspicion of manslaughter.. Parents to tjje young victims, called to the scene, were numbed with horror as ambulance attendants and firemen extricated bodies from the twisted wreckage.'

Farmers Petition Road Improvement Other Petitions Are Filed With County Nine farmers of Blue Creek and French townships appeared Monday afternoon before the county commissioners to remind them of a road petition that has been pending for about 15 years. Petitioning for about two and one-half miles of road 26% in Blue Creek township were Leroy Bollenbacher, Don Raudenbush, Ray Edward, Earl Sipe and Vercil Hoblet. Petitioning for “a mile or so” of road 15 in French township were Martin, William, Eli and Alfred Klpfer. The contract to provide the Adams county home with groceries for the balance of this year went to a lone bidder, the Linn Market of Decatur at >380.34. A petition for a subdivision at the west limit of the city of Decatur was approved by the commissioners for Leland and Esther Frank, Decatur Attorney Robert Smith making the request. County auditor Frank Kitson said the subdivision would be marked off into lots at a later dhte.

Commissioners went on record as saying no nightwatchman would be needed for the men’s rest room at the county courthouse. October 22 was set as the .date commissioners would receive bids for work on. the Durbin-Duer bridge in Blue Creek township, the abut? ments of which became undermined through a nearby deep ditch.* A county source said the engineer on the job had figured the job to cost in the neighborhood of about >4.000. A petition was received to close an alley in Williams, on the AllenAdams county line near Bingen, about seven tfilles north of Decatur, Hubert R. McClanahan representing the netitioners.

Price Five Cents

Tells American Public Buildup Vital To U.S. President Speaks ' To Delegates To Church Conference ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., UP 1 — President Eisenhower in carefully chosen words informed the American public today that the United States’ build-up in stocks of atomic and hydrogen bombs is necssary to deter attack by Russia. “We are forced to concentrate on building such stores of armaments as can deter any attack against those who want to be free,” said the chief executive, speaking in Convention Hall here to 5.000 delegates to the 6th national assembly of the united church women, national council Churched of Christ. it was a somber speech with references to the dreadful possibility of “windrows of unidentifiable dead’’ in event of an “anharnassed i blast.” The church women accepted it as a serious declaration, applauding only at the start and finish of the President’s address. , -Mr. Eisenhower flew here from Washington. 'Mr. Eisenhower was far from completely pessimistic in his address and after listing the possibilities of future international relations, he outlined "a host of intricate labors” which could lead* the world to peace. He counseled a military build-up to assure the free nations "reasonable safety from attack,” then proposed a program to liberalize international trade and a considered plan of eliminating, or at least reducing, age-old prejudices and tensions between nations. “We know —and all the world constantly reminds us—that the future well-being of humanity depends directly upon America’s leadership.** he said. Administration sources said Mr. Eisenhower’s speech was the first in the I “operation candor” campaign to alert the American people to the dangers posed by Russian possession of the A-bomb and Hbomb. They said the administration -has about ruled out a contemplated plan for the President

to take up the awesome subject in a series of radio and television speeches. Instead, they said, the matter likely will be developed in a series of* speeches to selected, audiences, such as today’s. But with Russia "compelled by its purpose of world domination,*' he declared, the epochal new power sources “cannot yet be made exclusively to serve the advancement of man’s welfare and happiness." “Instead, we are forced to concentrate on building such stores of armaments as can deter any Attack against those who want to be free,’’ he said. He said the United States “mujst certainly make sure that all the world «omprehends. in simplest terms the paramount alternatives of our day”—an atomic war or a “world ever advancing in peace and prosperity through the cooperative efforts of its people.” The President said the “future | (Tur» T« Pace Three) Gus Smith Dies At Midland, Michigan Gus Smith, «S, formerly of this city, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Midland. Mich. He is survived by his wife, three sons, Harold, Gus, Jr., and Larry Smith, all of Midland;' and two daughters, Mrs. Rudy Wagner and Mrs. Frances Parkison, also of Midland . Mr. and Mrs. Carl Archer ard Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Archer of Decatur, left this morning for Midland. 1 Funeral arrangements were not complete, but Mrs. Sherman Archer said that burial would be In, Midland.