Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI, No. 250.

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Allen Confers With Head Os Commission Apparent Attempt To Break Deadlock Over Interviews PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — '■ George V. Alflen, U.S. ambassador to India, met secretly today' With the Indian chairman of the neutral nations repatriation commission, apparently in an attempt to break the deadlock over “brainwashing” interviews. Alien talked with Lt. Gen. K. S. ' Thknayya fort * one And one-halt , hours, but neither would comment , on their meeting. Allen also met in Seoul with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, whoi-e government has threatened to renew’ the Korean war ts the coming Korean peace • conference fails to unify the nation. Competent observers felt sure Allen discussed the critical North Korean prise ner of war question with both Thimayya and Rhee. Communist members of the nation commission have insisted the 7,8©4 North Korean antl-Com-. munists be fbreed to listen to the “explanations” of the Communists. Earlier tqday,- Thimayya met with the five-nation commission in an unsuccessful attempt to reach agreement over the interviews.' Peiping Rjadio claimed that agents of Sojuth Korean President Syngman Rhee and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek were defying the J Indians by preventing the North Koreans from going to' the talks, i; “Our correspondent notes that the crucial question at present is whether the Indian custodial force .will take up the challenge thrown down by the agents who arf strikj ing at their authority with rebellious acts,*’ ■ the voice of Commuv nlst China said. The Communist “I dare you” psychology failed to impress Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya. head of the neutral nations repatriation commission and highest ranking Indian officer in Korea. ’ 1 j* Thimayya bluntly refused de mands by Communist Poles and Czechs on liis "neutral” commission for forcible movement of antiRed North Korean prisoners into the interview tents Saturday. The Indian general also Warned the Poles and Czechs following a fruitless tw<|>-hour meeting that “time is running out.”) There have been no interviews, with anti-Communist prisoners j since last Saturday, when >ll but nine of 440 Chinese captives' of the Unites Nations command refused to go home. « J * Thimayya reminded the Czechs ■ and Poles that 1.000 anti-Commu-nist Chinese were “ready and willing” to face Red persuader*. But the Czechsi and Poles, who ended a four-day boycott \of commission meetings Thursday, insisted on having North Koreans interviewed. While Thimayya end the impasse the United ifatjons 5 indicated it may start interviewing 358 pro Communist prisoners, including 22 Americans, soon. The break for which the U.N.C. < ' had been waiting came Wednesday when Pfc. Edward D. Dicken- • son of Crackers Neck, Va., rejected the Reds and returned to United States control. 5 1 Dickenson, now in Tokyo for examination and questioning, may y (Tara To Page aeveay

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Thousand Persons At Annual Fish Fry Big Crowd Attends C. C. Event Thursday

A crowd equaling\ one-eighth the population of Decatur —approximately persons—poured into the Decatur high school gymnasium Thursday night to take part in what was considered the most successful fish fry to date. Contributing toward that success were 126 merchants. Chamber of Commerce members, Lions and Rotary club members and a score of people who volunteered a lot of material to add to the atmosphere. That atmosphere was of the Halloween motif, the tables gaily decorated with black and orange crepe, the. railings witb oorn stalks and bittersweet, an’d the -tops of the tables with fresh, colorful arrays of garden flowers. Not least of the factors due*for a bow in the gigantic effort were the fish, large toothsome filets of pike done to a turn by past masters of piscatorial preparation, the Jonah Club of Silver Lake, whose love of their hobby reflected in the way the delicious food disappeared off the tables with alarming rapidity. But it was the sea of people that lent the greatest impact: from corner to corner, end to end, and top to bottom . . . people; by the end of the evening they had gulped down in excess of 500 pounds of fish, 100 gallons of coffee, untold poundage in cole slaw, a slew of cupcakes and gallon upon gallon of ice cream, not to mention the potato chips, carrots, celery . . . also a lot of tartar sauce. \

They converged upon the suddenly small gym from all parts of the county, attested to by the three varieties of license plates sported on the cars whihh jammed streets, alleys and drived for blocks around. After the food was tucked neatly away, It was due for no little jouncing around from the belly laughs that were to follow . . . and follow they did. Able toastmaster of the evening was J. Ward Calland, a talented local gentleman who could easily switch to another Held should he tire of soy beans. He took the floor at a critical time, after the food, and rolled ’em in the aisles with his witty repartee and humorous introductions for a good threequarters of an hour, during which time the digestive processes of the thousand people present must have suspended momentarily when he referred lovingly to L. E. Archbold’s (the county agent) bald pate "tyhich may be bhre, but not eroded.” Also taking bows at the head table were CO president Ralph Habegger, Ben Mazelin, chairman of the county extension l committee, P.M.A. head Winfred Gerke, Roy Price and E. W. Busche. Mayor John Doan took the floor briefly to wefcome the guests. Leading off the two and a half hour entertainment program were Joe Taylor and his Indiana Redbirds, purceyors of folk tunes fresh a la from the airwaves a la Fort Wayne radio station WGL. They kept the audience applauding over a period of 40 minutes, the act ending up with L. R. Zlntsmaster demonstrating his agility as a dancer on the stage. Zlntsmaster wound up bidding high on a chenille bedspread which was auctioned off by Redbird leader Joe Taylor. \ A young blonde, Carol Ernsting, worked up the folks with a few tunes on her accordion, and one using, at the same time, the marimba, <Ta» Te Pace Five)

Ammo-Laden r Truck Explodes In Nebraska Buildings 20 Miles ! Away Rocked; None Killed In Explosion 5 Axtell, Neb., UP—An ammunii tion truck blew up near here today with a shattering explosion that rocked buildings 20 miles away. The semi-trailer truck, believed ' to be carrying bombs, “just dis- ‘ appeared” in the 'blast, and a crater 16 feet deep and 50 feet in diameter was left in V. highWay « about ftnir miles east of here. A relief driver, Ralph Archer, , Denver, on the truck, .owned by , Watsoh Bros. Transportation Co., > Omaha, wae reported to have inj haled smoke and fumes from a f fire preceding the blast. He was ' hospitalized at Minden, but was believed in good condition.

No one else was reported injured. State safety patrolman T. J. Shorney, Hastings, said the blast was touched off by a tire which went flat and caught' fire. He said there were two small explosions about half an hour after the tire was noted, then a large one which disintegrated the truck and its cargo. Officials from the nearby Hastings ammunition depot said the explosion had "all the characteristics” of bombs. Shorney said the “third explosion came seconds after the second one, and all of a sudden the truck was gone.” V- o J He said that could be found of the trailer was a tire and part oi an axle in the crater. Truck driver Kenneth Voorhies, Denyer, noticed the tire burning, and unhooked the cab from the trailer. He said he drove on to Minden and reported the fire. The Minden fire department rushed to the scene and was working to get the tire extinguished when “they noticed one of the bombs was changing color,” Shorney said. The fire fighters withdrew, and "just let it blow.” Police said there was no trace of shrapnel, and the chargee all "seemed to have gone off together.” \ The blast was directed to the south* and left a 'scorched area several hundred yprds 1 square. The blast ripped up a rail on the Burlington railroad’s main line, which parallels the highway. Rail traffic was expected, to resume about 4 p. m. today.

Two Draft Calls Set Here November 10 The Adams county selective service board today announced two draft calls, both slated for Tuesday, Nov. 10. Four men will be cabled for active induction on that date, and six others will be called for physical examination. James K. Staley, board chairman, also announced , that the board will operate on a 32-hour week schedule, effective as of next week. The office will be open Monday through Thursday, with offic hours from 7:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., and closed during the noon hour from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 23, 1953.

32,000 Aviation Plant Workers Strike; Halts Work On Jet Airplanes ■J ' . . ■ Jl

First General Rain In Texas In Four Years Cooler Weather In Midwest Forecast; No Rain Promised . By UNITED PRESS The first big rain in four years swept drought * parched south 1 Texas, but record-breaking hot, dry weather hung on in the midwest and egst today. The rains hit Texas as a big cold front smashed into the sun-baked state Thursday. As much as five inches were reported. The downpour was described as the first general rain of any signify cance to douse the area since 1949. Dried-up Oklahoma farmland* also got a soaking, with 5.60 inches reported at Lawson. The same cold front promised t* cool off the midwest and east, where a record-breaking October heat wave still held sway. Normal October temperatures were scheduled to return to the west and central midwest some time today and sweep eastward Saturday. | But the Chicago weather nwreaudescribed the new weather trow as “a northwesterly flow <4 cool, dry air,” indicating the east and midwest may still have to wait for rain. The prolonged dry spell, one of the worst in the nation’s history, prompted federal and state offp cials to mtfve to ease conditions in 454 affected counties. Farm officials from 16 droughtstricken states met in Kansas City, Mo., to discuss the crisis. , J They estimated about 1,200,000 tons of out-of-state\ hay will be needed during the next six months (Tara Ta Paa* Five)

Local Man Reports j Robbery, Slugging j Thomas Stallbaum . Slugged Last Night Shortlf after midmight last night Thomas E. Stallbaum, 43, Mefber avenue, who was bleeding badly from a cut oven his left eye, ported' to city police that he had been slugged and robbed of gif: as he headed south on the Monmouth road, returning from work-at oasad engineer depot, New Haven, it was reported by the sheriffs department. Sheriff Bob ShralUka, who investigated throughout the bight With state trooper Walter Schindler, said Stallbaum told them be Was driving down the road wheti he saw a car on tlfe west side of. the road, apparently stalled, with two men attempting to flag him down, and one other behind the wheel. Stallbaum reportedly told the ’.officers he went a bit past them Ind stopped, backing toward the ear with his left door open so he could see where he was going. Stallbaum. said the sheriff, told them as he pulled up, someone on the right side jerked the door open and he was hit on the back of the neck by someone else on the driver’s side. He told them he regained consciousness with his headon the pavement and his feet in the car, his wallet, emptied of |l9. lying on the front seat. Stallbaum eaid he remembered the first letter of th«l prefix of the license plate as being "D” on a car that appeared to him to4.be of the Chrysler make,. possibly green. 5 Shraluka said a check was made with state police post at Ligonier and a car with Indiana license plate number DL M>2l was recently stolen from Montpelier, O. State detective Truman Bierie has been assigned and he, in addition to sheriff, state and local officers are attempting to make a connection between the Ohio theft and the robbery last night. \| -

Scientist Records Statement In Probe i McCarthy Discloses Plan For Hearings , NEW YORK, UP — A recording made by an unidentified scientist 1 who fled from Communist East Germany will be played at a public hearing soon in the investigaof alleged espionage at the Fori Monmouth radar laboratory, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today. \ / . ’ : ' v McCarthy disclosed that the German scientist’s statement had been recorded in Europe and is being translated. The senator said previously that the sciehtist had told of seeing \ copies of top-secret U. S. radar documents while working in a Communist laboratory behind the Iron Curttin. The Wisconsin senator began questioning nine Fort Monmouth employes or former employes. Whom he described as “hostile” witnesses at a closed hearing this morning. He held a IV4 hour closed hearing h«re Thursday night after conducting a one-man hearing earlier Thursday in the radar laboratory at Fort Monmouth. The recqrd statement of the 30year old refugee scientist presumably was brought to the United * States Thursday by James Juliana, •an investigator for McCarthy’s pervnaMatit investigattnifr sutoewmmittee. Juliana arrived by plane with what he described as “some good evidence.” McCarthy said Juliana spent a full day questioning the German radar technician who sought political asylum in West Germany. The scientist said Russian officials bragged about having secret U. S. information. At Thiiysday night’s hearing. McCarthy said, he questioned three completely uncooperative witnesses.” The senator described cne witness as a Navy Bureau of Ordnance employe who refused under the Fifth amendment to say whether he was a Communist or ever -had engaged, in espionage. The employe, according to McCarthy, had free access to classified radar information 1 from 1943 to 1945 while working for a New (Tara To Page Kight)

Girl Scouts' Week Will Open Sunday. * Week's Observance Planned In Decatur . More than 2.000,000 Girl Scouts throughout the United States will participate in the observance of national Girl Scout week, which opens Bunday. An Interesting series of events has been planned for Decatur Girl Scouts, according to Mrs. Max Spencer, program chairman of the local council, and general Chairman of Girl Scout week. The week opens with Girl Scout Sunday, when the girls attend churches of their own faith. They are asked to wear uniforms, if possible, or some insignia of the organization. Catholic girls will attend mass at\9 a. m., Lutheran girls will attend the 10:30 a. m. service, arql girls of other churches In the community will attend the <lO a. m. services at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. AU girls are asked-to be at their respective churches at least 16 minutes before time for services so they* may meet their troop leaders and enter the churches in a body. Each day of Girl Scout week has special significance In that some area of Girl Scout activity and training is emphasized. Monday is “homemaking day,” Tuesday is ‘‘citizenship day,” Wednesday, "health and safety day," Thursday, “international friendship," Friday, "arte and crafts,’’ and Saturday, "out of doors.” V The week’s observance will dose with the annual roundup party at Sunset park Saturday afternoon, Oct. 31, with the Brownie party • <Tara To Page Bight)

U.N. Planning For Discussion On Holy Land Critical Tension In Holy Land To Be Studied By UN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — Diplomats today hastened preparations for full scale discussion of the “critical” tension in the Holy Land before the U. N. security council next week. U. S. assistant secretary of state Henry A. Byroade planned to meet at lunch with Israeli Ambassador Abba S. Eban. He held urgent conferences Thursday night with Arab delegates in an attempt to pave the way for immediate Results at the session on Palestine to be held Monday or Tuesday. Eban also held high level discussions with U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd. He attempted to alleviate the mounting strain by making public the text of a note sept July 9 to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. M expressed Israeli eagerness to ' reach agreements with Arab countries for the development of the River Jordan. Other urgent backstage talks aimed at easing the Holy Land tension were held by Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, chief of the U. N. truce observation commissioner in Pales-, tine, who arrived Thursday from Tel Aviv at the summons of the Security Council. Bennike prepared to submit a full report to the Security Council on Holr Land conditions and his recommendations for their solution. Among the suggestions he will submit is one that the present demilitarised zones between Israel and some of the bordering Arab countries be cancelled and replaced <yith regularized frontiers. Upon his arrival here Bennike said Holy Land tension was “critical” \but would probably nbt erupt into “a major dispute.” However, he said part of his report would Include photographs of the Jordkn border village of Kibya which, according to reports, was attacked by Israelis who killed 42 Arabs on Oct. 14. The Kibya incident led the United States, France and Britain to call for the Security Council session on Palestine.

Indiana Heat Wave Is Brought To End No Rain Promised As End To Drought INDIANAPOLIS UP — The longest and warmest “heat wave” ever this late in the season ended today and a five-day outlook from the weather bureau said normal temperatures will prevail. \ But no rainfall to end a long serious drought was forecast. The mercury stayed in the 50’s and 60’s this morning under a blanket pf -clqpds. Insignificant rainshowtiHk reported at South Bend and Evansville. Temperatures will average near normal maximums of 61-69 and normal minimums of 40-44 Satunday through Wednesday, the outlook said. The weather will be cooler Saturday with no important changes thereafter, the outlook said. Precipitation will be less than onetenth of an inch as showers Tues-« day or Wednesday. Temperatures ranged as high as 87 Thursday In Indiana in the fifth day of a "heat wave." It was 87 at Terre Haute and Evansville. At Indianapolis, it was 84, one degree short of the all-time record for the data.

State Ban On Fires Proving Effective . Confusion Reported Over Craig's Order PNDB.4NAIPOLIS UP — Spokesmen for the Indiana conservation department said today Governor Craig's emergency proclamation oanning outdoor apaprently is effective. - They said despite the dry condition of the countryside, they had heard of no fires caused by violators of the order. The order resulted in considerable confusion, particularly ove* whether city residents could burn leaves. Craig simply issued a brief proclamation invoking a 1953 law. He said it wag up to the conservation department to interpret it. The department pointed to the law.The law, spokesmen said, says during a period of emergency proclaimed by the governor it shall be unlawful to throw burning material from motor vehicles and unlawful to burn rubbish or leaves Or anything else out of doors. ' The proclamwtion affects cities and towns as well as rural areas, the department said. However, spokesmen said the conservation 1 department is Hot equipped from a personnel stand Pdtnt to wpCqrce the q»an in ernes well as rural areas. R‘ is up to local authorities to enforce It, th/y said, since state laws supersede city ordinances. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Saturday mostly fair north and rather cloudy extreme south. Cooler. Low tonight 40-46 north, 4d-b2 south. High Saturday In the 60s.

Decafur Home Badly Damaged By Flames Dave Kaye Residence Is Damaged Today A candle taken as a souvenir from the fish fry Thursday night, by mid-morning today had educed heavy damage to the Mr. and (Mrs. Dave Kaye house, 816 North Second street, and rendered the Kayes, their two children and a cocker-spaniel homeless for the present. -Nearly a casualty of the blaze was Taffy, the dog, who was trapped on the second floor after the Kayes fled from their bed after being told by son Steve, 6, that there was a fire in the downstairs clothes closet. Kaye dashed back into the smoke-filled house after donning a gas mask, and retrieved the dog, which he found unconscious at the foot of the upper landing, burning his wrist in the process. Mrs. Kaye ran to the office of 'Dr. R. E. Allison, veterinarian, and Mrs. Allison applied respiration to the dog, which revived. Firemen fought to get close to the closet causing the fire, but it was not brought under control until hundreds of gallons of water had been pumped into the house, windows broken, about everything •badly smoked up. Kaye said he was in bed when his son rushed upstairs and an nounced that there was a fire in the downstairs closet Kaye got his wife, daughter, Sharon, 3, and Steve out of the house. Kaye said his son accidentally started the fire with a candle they had brought back from the fish fry. Kaye said Steve got up before the rest of the family, got the candle from where it wat stuck in a pumpkin in the kitchen, and lighted it with a match from the cigarette table. He then walked into a closet The Kayes were in their night clothes as they didn’t have a chance to dress before getting cut iTw» To rue fiw)

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Production Os Air Force Jet Planes Halted Employes Os North . American Aviation Go Out On Strike p \LOS ANGELES UP — Production of the air force’s, new super Sabre, the FIOO, and the FB6 Sabre jet of Korean war fame came to a vitual halt today when 32.000 North American aviation employes went on strike. The strike began at plants here and Columbus, Ohio, at midnight when the contract between North American and the United Auto Workers CIO expired. E. D. Starkweather, director of industrial relations at North American in Columbus, immediately accused the UAW of deliberately starting the strike. “Even while negotiations were going on in Los Angeles .<. . word came through that the union had walked out at Columbus and had established picket lines.* be said. Starkweather said that although North American had offered, wage increases, increased life and hospitaUsaUon benefits “the union ! leaders took their strike vote before letting their members have a chance to vote on this bffer.” Another 1.100 employes were expected to walk out at North American’s Fresno. Calif., plant at midnight tonight when the UAW contract there expires, p • North American unveiled its production model of the Super Sabre only this week. Air force officials said the supersonic jet fighter would give this country air superiority. In addition to the Super Sabre, company officials said production will be paralyzed on the F-86 jet k fighter, the F-86-D jet the F-J-2 Fury, and the propellordriven T-28 trainer if the strike continues.

Whether production continued depended on whether all workers heed the strike call .-and fail to report on the regular shift today, the spokesmen said. Negotiations were being continued at the company’s main office here, with company and union teams meeting with federal mediator John Fenton. . Union spokesmen said a mass membership meeting of Local 887 has been called for 8 a.m. today to discuss strike plans and report on the latest company offer. A similar meeting was scheduled by Columbus workers. Local President Paul Schrade declared the company’s “final offer” contained “no substantial changes and gave us only minor concessions.” Workers here and in Columbus answered the strike call promptly at midnight, leaving a shift that was to run until 2 < a.m. Orderly picket lines were set up at plant gates. The strike affected some 19JJOO workers at 22 North American plant units here and 13.000 workers in Columbus. The union demanded a 26-cent hourly increase, which it said was necessary to bring wages up to those received by its members in the auto industry who are doing aircraft work. . Early in negotiations the company offered a four per cent wage boost and then announced a twocent hourly cost of living increase, which it said goes into effect for rrwva To Pace Ptv*» Tw<f Women Die In . Apartment Fire GARY, Ind. (UP)—-Two women died in their sleep today when fire swept through their apartment building. Firemen carried 15 persons, including several children, * from the flaming building. About 40 others fled in their nightclothes authorities said.