Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 263.

Waves, Tides j Lashing North j Atlantic Coast Hundreds Marooned By Severe Storms 1 On Eastern Coast NEW YORK UP — Forty-foot waves and gale * whipped tiAes lashed the northern Atlantic Coast today,, marooning hundreds >of families, paralyzing public transportation and threatening the Hyes of at least seven 'fishermen aboard *5 a foundering trawler off, the New Jersey coast. Seven duck hunters were missing on Long Island. A state of emergency was declared In Stamford, Conn., and Offduty police and firemen were called in to help remove residents from shore-front homes. Winds up to 55 miles an hour poured seawater into residential sections from exclusive Westport, Conn., to Atlantic City, N. J., and no relief was in sight. Wind gusts as high as 78 an hour were recorded in New England. ~~ The south shore of State Island and Queens and Nassau counties on Long Island —all in the metropolitan New Yofk area —was 'submerged by the surging tides and coast guardsmen, firemen and police working in disaster \ conditions removed' several hundfed > families their flooded homM It was feared the number might run into thousands. Other families stranded by water up to 6 feet deep waited anxiously, for rpscue. Seven duck hunters missing since Friday on the battered south shore of Long Island had not J»e£n located and police said they feared they may have drowned. In New York City swdllen tides flooded into the sprawling subway system, curtailing service on two lines and threatening as many, others. The Brooklyn - Manhattan transit line suspended- operations , . ’4 the Montague Street tunnel in. Brooklyn and diverted subway >«tlc above ground and across z the west side Interboropgh Rapid ’ the Manhattan bridge. Trains pn Transit line ceased to operate south of 14th Street because water had covered the tracks. The coast guard reported it had received no word since 4 a.m. from the 90-foot fishing trawler Helen M., reported foundering~“oft the New Jersey Coast with seven aboard. Patrol boats fought through 40 foot waves in search of the craft but failed to locate it in th.e fog, the coast guard said. The trawler radioed at 4 a.m. that heavy seas had smashed its ’ pumps and swept all dqries overboard. Three youths marooned overnight on a flooded island off Ventnbr, N. J., were rescued by the Coast. Guard. More than 100 families wdre removed by rowboat from Fairfield County, Conn., homes as the tides poured water into their homes. In Westport and Stamford police reported the water was "waist-high in the streets." a

McCarthy Challenged By Harvard Daily Assail Charges On Red Indoctrination CAMBRIDGE. Mass. UP — The Harvard Crimson challenged Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today to “put up or shut about his charge* that Harvard students are “oben to indoctrination by Communist professors.” The dally, published by undergraduates, said it knows of "no faculty member who acted as if were undqr Communist domina* tion.’ (McCarthy issued his blkst against the university in New York Thursday after jt Harvard assistant professor refused to tell £ls subcommittee whether he had e?er given secret radar information; to the Communist (Party. The senator said there was a "smelly mess' at Harvard. An editorial in the Crimson challenged ’McCarthy to “actually name the professors who are Com munlsts.” If he fails to do so, the paper said, “he will be admitting to the nation that he has consciously slandered a.university which is, contributing at, least a* much to the wotTd's flght against Communism as McCarthy himself.” Dr. Nathan Pusey, recently installed as president of Harvard, gave no indication whether he would reply to a telegram from McCarthy demanding to know (Turn To Pace PJve)

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Back Broken, Sent To Prison M . .. -’lr N / Jr’w I IF i *ll I I R ■SC -J wT - •' ■'i ■ ■L - .'id FLAT ON HIS BACK with a broken spine and two broken legs Raymond Cosme says goodby to his 5-year-old daughter and sister in King’s county court corridor. New York, after being sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. On Dec. 8, 1%0, he stabbed his estranged wife to death, then jumped out of a fifth floor window, acts which got him the injuries and conviction.

Police Battle Demonstrators In Rome Today Fierce Fights Rage In Central Rome In Protest To Trieste ROME, UP —Nationalists and police battled for hours in central Rome today with clubs, tear gas bombs and rocks in the second day of riots in protest against the killing of Italians in Trieste. Police sources said one student was killed. Approximately 50 policemen and 120 students were injured in fierce battles that raged through Rome's ancient streets and squares. Mobs fought determinedly to reach the United States and British Embassies to protest th? Trieste killings, but the police—some using high-pressure hoses—turned them back. Demontrations, some riotpus were reported in 14 other Italian cities. Students broke into the British consulate at Bari and threw rocks at it when the consul refused to hoist a black-bordered Italian flag (ft mourning for those killed in the Trieste riots. The Sam Giovanni hospital here, where one seriously injured student was taken, refused to confirm or deny the police report jthat he was dead. Police Lt. Giuliano Gegli Effetl was injured critically, the authorities reported. Twenty students were injured seriously and more than 100 others bruised or cut. Police eaid they were detaining 200 students. Some l?,000 youths, reportedly led by Fascist members of parliament. sparked the new riots. The neo-Fascist party MSI today demanded that Italian troops march into Zone A of Trieste immediately to restore order in the port where ,7 to 10 persons have been killed in riots. • 'The students marched on the American*? embassy for the third time in 24 hours, but were turned back by a solid cordon of 500 riot police around the building. The mob swerved through downtown Rome smashing windows of British Airways 'Offices in the Plaza Hotel and overturning a British car. The students shouted “Down With Britain” as they marched, giving the Fascist salute. They stormed toward the walled British embassy. There they fought a pitched battle with police who prevented the mob from crashing into the embassy. Police hit the students with clubs and then fell back and fired tear gas bombs into the crowd to break its charge. A Another "battle was fought by the police and students in the shadows of St. John’s Lateran, the second largest basilica in the world, and near the Lateran Palace, the former “residence of Catholic popes. The rioters ripped up cobblestones from the square and built barricades and then pelted riot police with rocks and broken paving stones. Police fired more than 100 tear gas bombs. They charged the students at (Turn To Pace Six) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy southwest, cloudy with occasional light snow northeast half tonight and Sunday; little change in temperature. Low tonight 2633. High Sunday 38-45.

Thousand Persons In Baby-Sitter Search 15-Year-Old Youth Freed As Suspect LA CROSSE, Wis. UP —Chureh groups, labor anions, college students and auxiliary police formed a search party of about 1,000 persons today to look along roads south of here for traces of missing baby sitter Evelyn Hartley. The searchers planned to concentrate on Wis. Routes 14 and 31 and the county trunk highway, jlt was near these roads that the only substantial .clues to the disappearances of the 15-year-old girl were found. The search party will also go out Sunday, it was announced. Evelyn, missing since Oct. 24. was believed by police' to have been abducted by a sex maniac. Friday, Prof. Richard Hartley pleaded with his daughter’s possible abductor to “please la some way” reveal information about her whereabouts. ' 1 * *. • “I do not expect him to reveal his identity, but be can give us something to lead us to the girl,” Hartley said in a message to the press. Dist. Atty. John Bossbard released a 15-year-old boy questioned as a suspect in the case. Bosshard said the boy, who lives in nearby Onalaska, proved by a hotel register that he was th Wisconsin Dells, Wis., about 130 miles south of here, at 6:30 p.m. the evening Evelyn disappeared.

Seven Men Drowned When Ships Collide Woman Operator Os Radio Is Praised BREMER HAVEN, Germany UP — Fellow survivors today hailed a woman radio operator who stuck to her post when ,her Swedish freighter collided witt an lAmeric in Liberty ship and sank, drowning seven seamen. Mirham lEbkola, 28, Finland, and 17 soaked male survivors were picked up by rescue boats and rushed to the seamen* shelter here. "She stayed aboard ship until the very last minute, risking her life to send out’ radio calls long after most of us had donned life jackets and were In the sea.” the third officer of 2.258-ton Bjoerkoe said. _ The crash cut a 1-foot gash in the bow of the American ship. No serious damage or injuries were reported aboard the American ship, the 7,1!78-ton Seawind, owned by the Sea Traders Shipping Co. of New York and under charter by the U. S. Military Sea Transport Service.' The Swedish vessel .was heavily laden with ore. Bodies five seamen were recovered. Port authorities gave up <Tnra To Pace Six) , \ Kcate Parkview jifral Sunday The elaborate new Parkview Memorial hospital at Fort .Wayne will be formally dedicated at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. C. Dwigh‘ Shirey will preside as master of ceremonies, with the dedication message by Dr. A. Wesley Pugh, Fort Wayne district superintendent o Methodist churches. Tours of the hospital will start immediately following the program, and will continue for 10 days between the hours of 3 and 8 p.m. ’i■ >

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Reds' Tactics On Prisoners Are Protested Swiss Delegate In ’ Threat To Retire From Commission PtANIMUNJOM, Korea UP — Swiss and Swedish members of the neutral nations repatriation commission protested Communist stalling and pressure tactics Saturday and warned the Reds tfieir actions' threaten the “come home” prisoner interview program. ; Armin Daeniker, the Swiss delegate to the five-nation commission, threatened to withdraw from the group unless the Communists change their tactics of mercilessly uestionlng anti-Coqminunist prisoners for three and four hours. ' Daeniker said the Communist propagandists violated the Geneva convention and the spirit, if not the letter, of the rules of procedure governing - interviews with prisoners who have refused repatriation. ' 'Maj. Gen. Jan Stenstrom, the Swedish delegate on the neutral supervisory body, said he “holds little hope for the explanations to prisoners being resumed.” Indian chairman of the neutral commission, Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Friday cancelled Communist interviews with the prisoners after rebellious anti-Communist Chinese refused to attend the "brain washing” sessions. There were no interviews scheduled for Saturday, India’s national “Festival of Light" holiday, and the commission does not work Sunday. Stenstrom said "only a different approach” by the Communists would win interviews with some 20.000 anti-Gommunist North Korean and Chinese prisoners who have not yet faced Red political officers. The Swiss threat to step out of the commission followed a Communist slowdown oC explanations Wednesday and Thursday. The Communist tactics formed separate Swiss, American and Communist walkouts from the Interview tents. 'A Stenstrom said the explanation program would end if a solution is not found in a few days. Sweden "will do everything possible” to keep the interview program going, he said. The Swiss delegate, Daeniker. proposed to the neutral commission that the NNRC observers be authorized to end an interview any time if the explanation infringes on the prisoners rights under the (Tura To Po«e Six)

Brave Tommy Mann Dies Today Os Cancer

Tommy Mann, 11-y ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Mann, route 2, Decatur, died at the Adams county memorial hospital at 6:30 o’clock this morning after a year’s illness. His passing will be noted by many hundreds of people, those who contributed to him when they thought there was hope that he would win out against cancer, and those who comforted him recently when there was no longer any hope. Very few of Tommy’s last days were spent without great pain, from which he was free only when fed drugs to deaden the nerves. Withal he found time to be useful, weaving hot pads, colorful, skillfully made hot pads. Mr. and Mrs. Mann spared no effort during the past year to see that Tommy was treated by every weapon against cancer known to science. When radium treatments at Chicago failed to help, they took him to Windsor, Canada, where he was given serum doses which did no, good. While Tommy did not know much. of what was going or around him these past days, he know last week that bo had not been forgotten. He

Committee Formed to Prevent Strikes Top Labor Experts Form Committee WASHINGTON, (UP)—-The administration's top labor experts have formed a watch-dog commitfee to prevent “potentially” serious strikes from blowing up into national emergencies. - Led by labor secretary James P. Mitchell, representatives of defense department, mediation and feobilization agencies will meet finery two weeks to "keep abreast” of the strike picture and prepare 1 into any critical disputes, ft accessary. \ * The committee met for the first time Friday. Mitchell said it found no situation "where the government should take action.” Among the labor disputes discussed was the New York longshoremen dispute. current labor strife in the aircraft industry and negotiations jnow going -on throughout the railroad industry. Mitchell organized the confer?ence, indicating that he may wind up as the administrations chief trouble shooter in labor disputes. Former White House assistant John R. Steelman handled this post fnder the Truman administration, president Eisenhower has indicated that all efforts will be made to illreveiit labor dispute* from reaching the White Hoiise under his regime. Mitchell said he set up the committee to get information on labor matters rthat potentially might affect the national defense program.” "We want to keep abreast of vfhat’s going on . . we want to spot some of the storms before they get too bad," he said. Attending the conference were defense mbbilizer Arthur S. Flemming, national mediation! board chief Francis A. O’Neill }r.; associate director of the federal mediation service, Carl Schedler; Philip Ray Rodgers, member of the national labor relations board, and defense department officials John Fanning and James M. Mitchell, representing John A. Hannah, assistant secretary of defense. C. Os C. Meeting Here Tuesday Night A meeting of all members of the Gecatur Chamber of Commerce will be held at 8 o’clock Tuesday night at the city hall. A Christmas program and store hours for the Christmas season will be decided! at the meeting,\ according to an announcement by Kenneth Shannon. chairman of the retail division.

was told of the large box that contained the hundreds of cards and letters—including one from the White House—from people who will never quite forget the boy’s battle. Funeral Tuesday Tonrmji, a fifth grade student at the Monmouth school, was born in Decatur Nov. 12, 1942, a son of Clifford and Helen Beery-Mann. He was a member of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Gerry, and two Bisters, Mary Ellen and Trella Jane Mann, all at home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, the Rev. John Mishler and the Rev. Russell Weller officiating. Burial' will be In the Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Any who wish to remember Tommy and his courageous fight may make donations to any charitable organisation in his name.

U. S. Soldiers On Guard In Tense Trieste „ Americans On Duty At Key Buildings Throughout City TRUESTE UP — United States troops with rifles and fixed bayonets guarded key buildings today ready to “shoot to kill" if new riots develop. - Americans of the 88th “Blue Devil” Divisions 351st regiment stood duty at ail main buildings of this tense city, ncluding Allied military government headquarters. The Gds replaced British sentries Friday night wlren it became apparent the Americans were- more popular than th.e Tommies with Triestines. The British, who share the 7,000-member occupation, force with the United States remained Inconspicuously in reserve. Residents of the Adriatic port held the British to blame for ths police killings of the past two days because the pqlice are Britishtrained and led and the military government is largely under Brit ish control. The pro-11alian press kept anger one-sided reports of now demonstrators were mown down by police ballets. The military government officially admitted 7 persons killed and 48 hospitalized. “Why do the police shoot down these innocent boys?” was the typical reaction o>f the average Triestine who read his morning newspaper. Civil authorities arranged for the students and other demonstrators killed in the rioting to lie in state this morning at the San Giusto Cathedral. Reports of demonstrations lin Italy made little impression on ‘he overwhelmingly Italian city of Trieste. The trouble in Trieste had become a private fight between the. and police with signs that it would last,for several days. Riot squads patrolled American and British installations throughout Italy. Thousands of dollars' damage had been done to windows and cars. Premier Giuseppe Pella evidently feaued his government would fail unless there was a uick Italian entry in Trieste. He rushed Lo Naples to Confer with Italian Presi dent Luigji Einaudi cn the crisis. The Gl* of the 151st regiment, many from North and South aCrolipa, took the whole situation as just another army chore. Company “I” slept on the marble floor in ar. (Turn To Pace Six)

75 Hospital Births Here During October Hospital Trustees Meet Friday Night The Adams county memorial hospital was the scene of more “new life” in October than.all the homes in the county, according to Cal E. Peterson, president of the board of hospital trustees, -y . . Seventy-five babies were born at the hospital last month. This increase in population is almost a record, Peterson said. The obstetric’s (OB) room showed cash, receipts of 11,116 tor October, the hospital president said. The trustees met at the hospital last evening and transacted routine business. A monthly financial report showed net income of 1128.32 for the month, Peterson said. The trustees awarded a cointract to the Otis Elevator Co., for new eight-etrand cablet on the hospital’s elevator at IS4B. .: A chock showed that every private room in the hospital eras occupied last night and only two beds in wards were vacant <

Staff Advisors In Peace Talk Parleys | Seek Deadlock End On Korean Parleys .PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP — The deadlocked Korean peace conference negotiations were handed over to staff advisors in closed meetings today, but Allies and Communists said they held little hope of success for the new approach. .1 United States special ambassador Arthur H. Dean, representing the Allies, has lost most of thfe optimism he had when he arrives from Washington for the talks> \ A source close to the United Nations delegation said that after 11 j fruitless meetings with the Reds Dean now realizes he is powerless to negotiate the main stumbling block to agreement L_ the Communist demand that neutral nations be invited to the peace conference. Dean has been authorized by the United Nations to negotiate only the time and place of the peace conference. U. S. state department Far Eastern expert Kenneth Young and Col. C. Stanton Babcock represented the- U. N. Saturday as they met North Korean and Chinese staff advisors in a 1-hour and 40minute session. The Reds were represented by Harvard - educated Cbtaese PH Shou Chang and the North Koreans by Chong Dong Hyok. South Korean Col. Lee Soo Young was an observer. Young said after the meeting that the advisors were “charged solely with the question of an agenda, a technical matter, and we remain at a technical level.” “Both sides agreed that until we can report to our representatives we will remain non-committal in public,” Young said. , The advisors scheduled a second meeting for Monday morning. -

Protest Vibration from Diesel Plant : Residents Complain Os Plant Vibration A number of residents living near the new diesel plant at Seventh and Dayton streets complained this week about vibration coming from the engine, it was learned today. Mayor John Doan declined to make any statement but a city official said the vibration is “an engineering problem" and would be referred to Toledo, 0., engineers, presumably Emery, Marker & Emery. designers. A man who lives In the vicinity, refusing to have his name used, said his “windows rattled." Yet another is reported to have had to “rearrange dishes." because of the vibration. Workers at the plant admitted this morning that there is a “shimmy" when the engine is not turning out full power, “the same aa an automobile engine when it itties too slow." Prior to the building of the plant at the Seventh and Dayton location, 350 residents signed a petition against it There is a consideration by the same city official quoted above that the window shaking may be due to the exhaust stack on the west side of the plant He said it might be corrected by heightening, but he said ft was a job for engineers. Purdue Professor Is Taken By Death WASHINGTON UP — Col. Edward W. Maschmeyer, 43, professor of air science and tactics at Purdue University, died Friday at Walter Reed army medical center after undergoing an operation for a brain turnon Maschmeyer entered the hospital Nov. 1. Burial will be Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.

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More Charges To Follow Up Brownell Blast Says High Treasury . Official Promoted Despite Warnings y WASHINGTON, (UP) — A high administration source said today that executive departments ami 1 agencies are preparing new corruption or communism blasts at the administration of former President Truman. This source expects new charges, comparable to Of Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. who said in a Chicago speech Friday that Mr. Truman promoted a high treasury department official despite FBI warnings that he was a Russian spy. Brownell’s charge, involving the late Harry Dexter White, kicked ; up a violent political storm and a clash between Mr. Truman and the Whke House. Shortly after Brownell’s speech, chairman William EL. Jenner, R-lnd., announced the senate internal security subcommittee will quiz Maj. Gen. Harxy H. Vaughan, vet.. Mr. Truman’s former military aide, on t Ute BrowooU charge. ... Brownell said the FBI in 1945 sent Mr. Truman a report through Vaughan saying White was n Soviet spy. Vaughan denied receiving any sueh communication. He called Brownell's statement “* lot of malarkey." Mr. Truipan, in Kansas City, Mo., also denied Brownell's accusation. He said White was fired as soon as it was discovered he was not loyal. The White House retorted that White was not fired but resigned, two years after the reported FBI warning, and that Mr. Truman accepted the resignation reluctantly. It cited a letter which Mr. Truman sent to White at the time. , The White charge is just one of several to be aired, the administration source indicated. He said executive agencies have been searching their files ever since the Republican administration took over last January for evidence of corruption and communism in the Truman administration. 'Hu noted that the Eisenhower administration has fired as security risks hundreds of federal employes, hired by the and said this was part of a continuing campaign to expose the Republicans’ predecessors in office. In the past four months, this ‘ source recalled, the administration. has dismissed 1,456 persons as security risks for one reason or another —because they were homosexuals. drunkards, “blabbermouths,” or subversives. Although these persons were hired before the Republicans took office, security invistigation of some of them had not been completed before last January. The administration source in- . dicated the possibility that at least part of the text of the alleged 1946 FBI reports on White may be made public next week. Brownell aald in Chicago the FBI twice informed Mr. Truman of White’s activities and that copies of the reports are in the I FBI files. A search is being conducted for the originals at ‘the White House. The attorney general Said in his Chicago speech that for security reasons the reports cannot be made public even at this late d«£e. But when he was asked by reporters' if they might be declassified. Brownell said to ask him that on Monday when he returns to his office here. In his speech, Brownell said that despite the FBI warnings. Mr. Truman not only promoted White but commended him for ."distinguished” service. - Neon Edition