Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 245.

Near Riot As POW's Object To Explanations Anti-Red Chinese Object Violently To Brain Washing k PAMMUNJOM. Korea (UP) — A Red Chinese officer kicked an Ameripijn interpreter today during a violent argument Over the repatriation of a confused anti-Com-munis t (Chinese prisoner. The Tbrain washing” session broke np with a near riot by kicking, freej-swinging Chinese prisoners who; objected to' the explanation sessions. Ninety-eight percent of the 450 anti-Red Chinese who faced Communist propagandists in the interviewing tents rejected repatriation. An Atperisan officer, Acting as interpreter, was angered ’by a three-hcitr interrogation of one prisoner. He cursed a Polish member of the repatriation team. During the heated argument oVer whether the prisoners should be returned to the POW compound, a Red Chinese officer kicked the American. ' . v Air forte Capt. Donald Stettler, of Anaheim, Calif., was the U. N. observer in the explanation tent. He told newsmen the prisoner became confused by the lengthy questioning and started out the repatriation door after the session. Stettler said the prisoner had attempted at' least 17 times previously to leave the tent through the door indicating rejection of '• Communism, but was called back by the Reds. " [ "* The ( American interpreter exploded with anger when the Polish observer sided ’ With the Communist ‘'explainers.” He called the '' Pole “a touching off the kicking attack by the Chinese officer. ?\' 1 The Cinese added injury to inmafny days. One anti-Red Chinese kicked a Communist officer in the Another Chinese picked up a chair in the interview tent and swung it at a Communist persuader but I I | “You killed my mother,’ one Chinese soluier screamed at a would-be interviewer as a tough Indian guard prevented him from asaulting the officer. \ "Shouts of "son of a turtle,” and ’ "down with Qie Soviet Union” could be heard by other Chinese awaiting their turn'to lie interviewed. , Indian Lt. Gen_ K. S. Thimayya, chairman of the neutral commission in charge of prisoners, put one of the wild-swinging Chinese under arrest'for making repeated « rTura Tn Tane Five)

Five-Cenf Pay Boost To Highway Workers Budget Committee Approves Increase F •INDIANAPOLIS,. (UjP)—A fivecent hourly wage increase* for about 2,000 Indiana highway employes was approved late Friday by the state budget committee. Thelwsige boost goes to all hourly-rated employes/ which includes most division Workers and - maintenance crews throughout ■the state. It will cost 1160,000 to SIBO,OOO a year. Highway chairman Albert J. WetTeking said the increase will come from a eix-month “economy — lit operations’’ savings of >288,323 and therefore .will not affect the departmenjt’s budget. The budget committee said the increase would give hourly-rated highway workers about the same increase is the 110-a-month hike vioted state workers on monthly salaries by the 1953 | general asI -Wjpbly. * The committee also allotted sl|,000 to the state school for the blind for boiler repairs and set the superintendent’s 1 salary at Richmond state hospital, at $112,900 a year The job now is vacant and the state has been unable to ; fill it at a lower salary. . Appellate court judges found little sympathy for their request y for $5,000 to build; toilet and shower facilities near the court chambers on the fourth floor of the statehouse. Budget director Don Clark said the committee was "not overly impressed'* and found adequate toilet facilities on that floor. Id .' The request was delayed for further consideration at the comI mittee’s Oct. 30 meeting.

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, t Testify On Radar Security _ : * mW MAJ. GEN GEORGE I. BACK (left), chief of the U. S. signal corps and Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton, commandant at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., appeared to testify regarding security regulations, at Senator Joseph McCarthy’s senate subcommittee probe of a Soviet spy ring suspected oi stealing defense secrets from the Ft. Monmouth signal corps laboratory, In line with the investigation McCarthy has announced he will question David Greenglass, brother-in-law of executed atomic epy Julius Rosenberg.

Three Called By McCarthy for Evidence , ■ j ■ McCarthy Asserts One Witness Tells Os Espionage Ring NtEW YORK UP — Three persons named by a witness' who broke down and "told all” were called to appear today before a sehate subcommittee investigating an alleged espionage ring set up in the army; signal corps by executed atom spy Julius Rosenberg. Chairman Joseph McCarthy did not identify the three persons as he began the sixth day of his senate permanent investigating subcommittee’s hearings here on alleged security leaks at the Fort Mdnmouth, N. J.; radar laboratories, He said the three were named Friday by a signal corps civilian employe who broke down under cross-examination and "‘identified individuals whom he thought part of Rosenberg’s ring who have' Worked at Fort Monmouth and other government agencies.” ' •McCarthy said one of the three still was employed at Fort Monmduth and the other two formerly were employed there. McCarthy ordered an armed guard for Friday’s witness who, the Wisconsin Republican -said, spilled complete deta'ls of how the spy ring at Fort Monmouth channeled America's radar secrets to Russia. He said the bald,-bespec-tacled witness, after reciting his story, had told the committee he “feared for his life.” McCarthy described the witness’ testimony as such "an important development” that he called off a scheduled trip to the Lewisburg, Pa;, federal penitentiary to interview atom spy David Greenglass and ordered today’s committee session.

Greenglass, brother ot Ethel Rosenberg, who died in Sing Sing prison’s 'electric chair with her husband last June 19 for passing atom secrets to Russia, has been identified by other witnesses before the subcommittee as having been connected with Communists employed in signa! corps laboratories. McCarthy said Friday's, witness made a “considerable about-face'' from his testimony in a previous appearance before the subcommittee. . ! He said the witness admitted he “kqew Rosenberg well" and once lived in the same apartment th it Rosenberg had occupied. “•He named people he said were members of the Rosenberg ‘clique,’ ’’ McCarthy said. “He said they were working at Fori (Monmouth and \in other govern ment agencies.” 'McCarthy said he did not want, to say. '“at this time’’ how deeply the witness was involved in the spy ring’s operations. The senator said that committee counsel Roy M. Cohn probably wottld be sent to Lewisburg next Monday or Tuesday to interview Greenglass, who is serving a 15year term for giving atom information to Rosenberg. County Ministers Tq Meet Monday \- I • The Adams county ministerial association will meet Monday morning at the First Methodist Church in Decatur at 11 o’clock for tbe regular monthly meeting, it will be followed by a dinner meeting of the ministers and funeral directors of the county.

Noted Entertainers At Annual Fish Fry ■- 5 ■ , ■ Annual C. G Event Here Next /Thursday Marv Crouse, Fort Wayne theatrical booking agent, wilt bring the Indiana Red Biy ds, nationally known radio ahd- television entertainers, to Decatur Thursday to share the spotlight with the General Electric Aeolian choir in entertaining at the annual Chamber of Commerce fish fry at Decatur high school gymnasium. The entertainment, which will start immediately following the dinner, will be one of the best ever presented here, Lyle Mallonnee, chairman of the entertainment committee, stated today. J. Ward Calland, Decatur, well known as an after d inner \ speaker, will be master of ceremonies. • Ticket sales will close Monday and indications areTnat this ynr» attendance will be the largest in the history of the annual event. The Jonah club of Silver Lake will prepare the food and local business men will serve the guests.

Crouse, Who- arranged the appearance of the. Red Birds, also Is a magician and will enteVtaih the audience with his regular magical show. He has toured Europe with his magic show and in recent years has made numerous appearances in thg middlewest. Olarence Ziner, chairman of the event, stated the advance ticket sale this year was far ahead ol previous years. He stressed the fact that the public is invited and those attending do not necessarily need to be members of the Chamber of Commerce. Ticket sale will close Monday evening at 6 o’clock. George Bair, dining room chairman said all table captains have named their assistants with the exception of one. The name of the captain appears first and the assistants follow in the following list: Butler, Dick LaFountain, Paul Moore, Dr. R. E. Allison. Ivan Stucky, Otto Beehler, Arthpr Suttles, David Meyers, Hugo Boerger, Lawrence Beckmeyer. Jack Gordon, Frank Lybarger, Bud Wertzberger, Dave Kaye, Joe' Dunit Gray, Thurman Wooley. Robert Smith, James Kocher, Jr., Gerald Vizard, Bob Sautbine, Burdette Custer, Bob Gay. . Doyle Rich, Carl Ray, Bryce Fisher, Ray Fager, Lloyd Spiegel. Kenneth. Shannon (No servers). Roger Kelly, Al Bob Mills, Gene Rydell, Ray Leitz, Paul Hancher. * Louis Jacobs, Earl Caston, Fred Ashbaucher, Roy Stewart, Clem Kortenber. Mike Pryor. L. R. Zintsmaster, Ralph Habegger, George Laurent. Bob Zwick, Bob Rumschlag, Dan Freeby, Elmer Winteregg. Earl Fuhrman, Harold Engle, Glenn Ellis, Adolph Kolter, Harry Hebble, Lowell Hamper. Harold Niblick, Dick Wertzberger, Bill Schulte, Bill Lengerich, William Kuhnle, John Bock. David Macklin, John DeVoss. Tom darner, -a Dale Albert Bob Worthman. __ ’ John Halterman, Tad Smith, Dick Macklin, Joe Murphys Wilbur Petrie, Norman Steury. Cal Peterson, Jim Lose, Tom Grimm. Roger Riley, Stew Schnepf, Allen Lehman. \ X* Carl Braun, Dick Walters, Joe Hazelwood, Paul Kohne. Jim Kane, George Stultz, Ed Heimann. Don , Forst, Fritz Faurote, Bill Mansfield, Ralph Loshe. Bob Lane, Leo Kirsch, Elmo Smith, John Eichhorn, Jesse Sutton, Harley Lehman. Ben Webster, Fred Corah, Clifford Brewer, James McKee, Dick Ehlnger, Dale Morrissey. William Linn, Roger Gen tie, GerTa Paata Vtvw>

Decatur, Indiana, Saturdy, October 17, 1953.

Death Toll Mounts To 35 From Blast And Fire Aboard Carrier Leyte

President In j New Orleans For Address Climaxes City's Celebration For Louisiana Purchase NEW ORLEANS, L*P — President Eisenhower flew to this Mar di Gras city today for a climactic celebration of the 150th anniversary pf the Louisiana purchase and a speech on the Importance of a strong foreign aid program. The President, making his first deep south appearance since entering the Wbite House was to apeak in front of the old Spanish city hall from where Spanish and French governors once ruled the vast Louisiana territory. Before his address, the chief executive led a giant military and Mardi Gras parade down famed Canal Street to Jackson Square in the French Quarter where he reenacted with French Ambassador Henri Bonnet the signing of the Louisiana purchase documents that turned over to the then youthmi for 4 acre. The President was greeted on hie arrival by 2,000 persons sardined against a wire restraining fence. The President came here from Kansas City where his speech Friday night was dedicated to beet. After he flew back in the late afternoon from a nostalgic pilgrimage to his boyhood home at Abilene, Kan., the President first wbnt to a whopping beefsteak dinner staged by the cattlemen’s association. The President offered the cattlemen no remarks, even informal, then went on to the dedication of a new headquarters building for <lie American Hereford assocla* tion. He spoke informally, at the dedication, flanked by agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benspn and Mfs. Oveta Culp Hobby, the secretary of health, education, and welfare. The President also was surrounded by GOP leaders from Missouri and Kansas, plus about a dozen gpvernqrs here to talk drought problems with Benson — and the President.

C. C. May Dissolve State Affiliations Break Seen Likely With Indiana C. C. It seemed possible this week that a break would take place between the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the State Chamber organization, around the first of the year, in favor of the formation here of a merchant's association or business group, a check of several local business men showed. There has been talk for some time ot making the Decatur Chamber a strictly local organization and from statements made this week, the breach has just about arrived. One informed member of the CC supported the above view apparently held here by making the following assertions: That the local CC members are not satisfied with the s2s* annual dues, in addition to which they must continually be opening their pocketbooks in answer to separate and expensive pleas for one project and another made throughout the year. That (Decatur) cannot stay a member of the State Chamber while charging less than $25 dues a year for each member. That while the pity’s Chamber is a member of the Indiana Chamber there can be no pre-allocatlon of dues by percentage to do away with the necessity of members here having to pay up for each separate (Tare Ta Page Six)

Approval Is Given For Sewage Plant Preliminary Plans . Approved By Sjate l Approval was given Friday at {lndianapolis to the preliminary plans for the construction Os a sewage treatment plant that must be built along the St. Marys river •here beginning not later than June a, 1954, by order of the state p»oard of health. Approval came from the state stream pollution department, fully •eight years after the first order 'was given to the city to construct the plant. The first order came in 1944, but due to the war nothing could lie done and the state granted an extension. (It was determined by the state that sewage being dumped into the river was arriving at the point where a dangerous situation was developing in the germ count of the river.) Plans drawn up by Cousoer, Townsend and Associates, of Chicago. were submitted and later delayed because of the amount of money, said to have been over gl mlHion. The city could then not have raised bonds for such an amount. Consoer, Townsend then sued the city for the money that went into the os «ar ToUaeted nothing. They are, however, still ( employed by the city. The Chicago firm submitted another set of preliminary plans on last October 5, with major 'changes that eliminated about 150,000 from the original estimate, this brought about mainly because of the construction of the Porte rHomewood sewer which will be' completed sometime next week. ■ No deflate cost of the plant has yet been givpn, but informed circles believe ft will cost the <jjty at least three-quarters of a million dollars.

Justice Department Absolves McCarthy Treasury Is Still Probing Finances WASHINGTON UP —Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. had a clean bill of health from the Justice department today, but the treasury department is still inves-'j tigating his finances. \ Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr.* dlisclosed that his department uncovered no violations of ‘federal law during its long investigation of McCarthy and of the 1950 senatorial election in Maryland, in which McCarthy played a controversial role. Brownell made the disclosure in, separate letters to chairman William E. Jenner of the senate rules committee. A subcommittee of this group—the senate elections subcommittee — conducted the inquiry into McCarthy's activities and into the stormy Maryland election in which Sen. John Marshall Butler R-Md. defeated former Sen. Millard E. Tydings, a Democrat In its McCarthy report last Jan uary, the subcommittee made no specific charges or recommendations. But ft said McCarthy’s financial dealings had raised serious questions and sent fts report and files to the justice department for official scrutiny. The report mentioned specifically that McCarthy received SIO,OOO from the Lustron Corp, for writipg a housing pamphlet. It also questioned whether McCarthy had diverted to his own use funds donated to him for his campaign against Communism. ' In his letter to Jenner, Brownell said that the report was “carefully reviewed” by the justice department's criminal division “as to possible offenses within the department's jurisdiction.’' "The report fails to show the commission of any such offense,” he Said. i„ In New Tork, McCarthy was noncommittal when notified of the ac(Tara Ta Pa«a Six) ’

Big Three In Approval Os Hole To Reds Offer To Discuss Pact With Russia On Non-Aggression LONDON (UP) — The United States, Great Britain and France approved a note to Soviet Russia today offering to discuss an EastWest non-aggression pact — but only after agreement has been reached on the future \of Germany and Austria. The note was approved by secretary of state John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Anthony EMen and French foreign minister Georges Bidault at a meeting at the foreign office. It had been modified to meet objections by the West German government against any premature discussions on a security pact. Now it is expected the note will be delivered in (Moscow this evening or Sunday. The Big Three foreign ministers, ranging over a wide program of discussion of world issues, also new sggreision ln the Middle Busi as the result of a bloody Israeli attack on a Jordan border village. 'Critical situations piled up around the three ministers on the second day of their three-day meeting — the note to Russia, in a new attempt to get going on treaties for Germany and Austria; the Israeli attack, and Trieste including a threat’ by Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella to resign unless Italy gets the northern part of Trieste territory as promised by the Big Three. One result favorable to the United States in the meeting was reported by diplomatic informants — that prime minister Winston Churchill has decided to wait a while before pressing for a Big Foar meeting including hhnself. President Eisenhower, French premier Jpseph Laniel and ’Soviet premier Georgi M. Malenkov. As they met for the second day (Tara Ta Pace Six)

George P. Colchin Found Dead Friday Funeral Services Monday Morning Funeral services will be held 'Monday for George P. Colchin, 76, who was found dead In bed Friday afternoon at his home, 28-4 South Fourth street. Although he had. been in failing health for some time, his death from a "heart -stuck was unexpected. , He was found by a brother, Edward, at their homo shortly after noon. Death is believed to have occurred about 10 a.m. He was bom in Adams county April 2, 1877, a son of Mr. \and (Mrs. Nicholas Colchin, and was a lifelong resident of Decatur and vicinity. * ♦ , * (Mr. Cotchin was a member of St Mary's Catholic church, the Holy Name society, Third order of St. Francis, and the Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus. Only survivors are three brothers, Edward, with whom he lived, Clem ot near Decatur, and Otto of Dayton, O. "*• Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St Mary's Catholic church, the Rev. Robert Content officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the GlMlg & Doan ftfneral home, where friends may call after 6 o'clock this evening. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8:90 p.m. Sunday. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warm tonight and Sunday, ow tonight 45-50. High (Sunday SMS.

To Speak Wednesday Alex Campbell Alex Campbell Here On Wednesday Night To Speak Here On Hiss-Chambers Case Plana have been completed for .the appearaace in Decatur of Alex Campbell, Fort Wayne, attorney and forme)’ bssistanf attorney general of the United States. Campbell will speak next Wednesday night at 7:90 o’clock at the First Christian church under sponsorship of the Men’s Christian fellowship of the First Christian church. Campbell, who prepared the case for the United States against Alger Hiss, will speak on the “Hiss-Cham-bers case.” While Cairipbell served as assistant attorney general he was in charge of the criminal division, which involved supervision of 75,000 criminal cases a year. Those in charge of the Decatur appearance of Campbell here said today there would be no charge and the public is invited to attend the meeting, which will be held in the auditorium of the chnreh. Campbell has long been a foe of Communism and has delivered his "Hiss case” address throughout the country. He is a lifelong friend of the Rev. Traverse Chandler, pastor of the local church. Rev. Chandler will introduce Campbell at the meeting.

Cites Vandalism To Outdoor Fireplace . ■ ’i> i Fireplace Spotted With Yellow Paint? Halloween season vandalism has been kept down to a minimum and city officials, the sheriff and property owners have been thankful; but a Harvester Laue resident complained today that she has very little to be thankful for. Mrs. Grover Clouser, of 104 Harvester Lane, related to a reporter that during the week, probably Tuesday night, an Indiana limestone barbecue fireplace in K ber backyard was splattered with yel low paint and she has been told it would be close to impossible to have it removed. “I th|nk it’s just terrible," she said; "we have worked so hard on it and now it might be ruined —it ought to be stepped, just like the ones who are going around marking up windows of cars and shops." She declared that early this week three children visited her'and her husband asking for a treat, but she had told, them it would have to wait as»they were 'in mourning. Going out the door, Mrs. Clauser testified, she heard one of the kids say: "iefs trick her.” She pointed out that the residence of L. C. Pettibone bad also been hit with yellow paint splattered over a window screen, which might have to be replaced. Also, she said, the Charles Franks' residence, Monroe street (route I), across from her, bad been splashed with the same yellow paint

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Fear Toll To Increase As Probe Starts Aircraft Carrier Rent By Explosions At Naval Shipyard . BOSTON UP —The death toll mounted to 35 today and more were expected to die as a naval inquiry board joined intelligence officers and FBI agents seeking to learn if the blast aboard the/90-milllon-dollar aircraft carrier Leyte involved sabotage. At. least five of the 24 hospitalized injured were near death from burns and other injuries suffered Friday when the war vessel was rent by four blasts while being refitted at a naval shipyard pier in South Boston. ' Eight officers, 22 enlisted men and 4 civilians died in the explosions and ensuing fire. There was a possibility that other bodies might be found deep in the stillsmoking holds of the 27,000-ton craft. There were, reports sabotage rather than the careless handling of a torch around explosive fuel oil might have caused the worst ship disaster in Boston Harbot s history. Rep. Thomas J. Lane D-Mass. sent h telegram to defense secretary Charles E. Wilson demanding "immediate and thorough investigation.” A navy spokesman said it was fortunate no ammunition or jet plane fuel was aboard the Leyte. Otherwise the casualties might have been as heavy as when the destroyer - minesweeper Hobson sank after a collision last year with the aircraft carrier Wasp. The loss of 176 lives in that accident was the navy’s worst peacetime tragedy. Navy men plodded weirily through the giant warship, dreading with every step that they might find additional shipmates killed in the ( fiery inferno which swept the carrier Friday. So fierce was the paint-fed blaze that firemen working knee-deep in water said the heat from the steel decks could be felt through i their rubber hip boots. “It was like walking on a hot pavement barefooted,” one fireman said. | Streams of water directed at white-hot bulkbeads turned into blinding steam. Most of the bodies were sprawled in the warrant officers* quarters. Other victims floated lifelessly in passageways fjlled with water from fire hoses. Some hung grotesquely from. ladders, burned or overcome by smoke as they tried to escape topside. -j j Ten enlisted men were found in a bomb elevator, their bodies piled one on top of the other. Rescuers told of hearing screams for help and fists of trapped men pounding - on bulkheads. Clergymen boarded the ship in the midst of the fire to comfort the injured and administer last tites to the dying. One of them said some of the victims apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning, while - others were killed instantly by the blast. .[ \ - I] ■ - Survivors said : the explosion “rumbled through the ship like a subwajnrtrain.” It was followed by smoke*clouds and flames (boiling up through the hatchways. The fire flashed, through ” the Leyte’s brig, but fortunately It had been emptied earlier of prisoners who were on work details. > The deafening explosion preceding the fire occurred while navy personnel and civilian dtaployes swarmed over thq vessel, which was in the process- ot being overhauled. The first blast was followed moments later by another. . The 27,000-ton Leyte, battle-test-ed veteran of the Korean War, normally carries a complement of 2,000 men. But only 1,400 were assigned to the ship when the fire broke out. Os those, some were on liberty. Noon Edition