Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1953 — Page 1

Vol. Li. No. 269.

“"'•d * rr — Eisenßowers Pay State Visit To Canada < J !L "i 1 ’ ' Ev-> -JKL x v ■ MHfcii K_ MIKJSfsAV ?• f H c*T i«\-.^->. 1 Jf. ' WB - y w ' ARRIVING IN CANADA on a f two-day good neighbor visit. President Eisenhower is warmly greeted by Canadian Prime'Minister St. paurent at Ottawa’s Union Station. Mrs. Eisenhower and Canada’s Governor General Vincent'Massey from right), look on. It is the first \formal state visit that the Eisenhowers have made to another country since entering the White House. -'

Secretary Os Amy In Denial Os Espionage I i■ ■ F Stevens Says Army£ Finds No Espionage At Fort Monmouth WASHINGTON UP — Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens appeared at. odds today with Seq. Joseph* McCarthy R-Wis on the question of espionage at the Fort asnmouth, W. J., radar center. f \ Stevens said Friday night army has been 'unable to anything relating to esplonage’\St the signal corps laboratories during a lengthy add continuing ?|uvestigation. “We have hot got esiri I dence of espionage.'- he said. Hi 4 statement was in contrast with some made by McCarty when his senate investigating subcommittee was the Monmouth case. vs In <New York on Oct. 12, McCarthy said he was on the tea’*’ of “extremely ' dangerous espionage" of recent date at Fort Monmouth and dealing with “our Entire defense against atomic Jattadk.” On another occasion he eflid the Monmouth case ■ £ volvas espionage ’* McCarthy declined Stevfens statements when reached Friday night at Portland, Maine. But he promised “detailed h|ari Ings starting around pec. 1. pos sibly in New York City.” The senator said he had not “tried to publicly evaluate the testimony taken in closed hearings'* but had given the press a resume day ?by day.” i, Stevens, <who sat in with the. McCarthy subcommittee in New York last month and toured Fort Monmouth with the senator, indicated the FBI had investigated and also had found no evidence o* espionage at radar center. He disclosed that 33 Monmouth employes have been suspended t>n - loyalty charges, 27 of them shice McCarthys subcommittee began its Inquiry. Charges range “quite serious” — such as membership in subversive organisations — to “doubtful,” Sterns said, but none involves espionkk®He said "several’ employes „>re In process of being reinstated gnd all will have "fair bearings”* fore a service review board. • \ Reports of missing documents arose from the senate hearing^in New York. Stevens said there no missing documents as fatwas he knew. He conceded that some Fort Monmouth papers might hjjv.v found their Way into Russia?in Wor|d War II under “lend leaae or some other arrangement.” 5 ! ' ■ i . I H ■ ‘ . j| B L1 •i : ■ Reports Increase In Savings Bond Sales | T. F. Graliker, chairman of the Adams county U. S. savings bonds committee said today that Jthe county’s bond sales for October were $68,544 compared with $34,411 tor the same month last year. Indiana’s U. S. savings bonds skies for October were $11,469,235 and $8,813,223 for October, 1952 —i a gala of 32 percent. Noon Edition

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Western Powers Ask for World Arms Cut Ask U. N. To Adopt Disarmament Plan UNITER) NATIONS. N. Y. UP — The United Nations political committee was expected to approve a western resolution today calling for renewed disarmament efforts and major power consultation on a world arms cut. A week of heated argument; between Russia and the west appeared certain to end to another rebuff for tne Soviet bloc and Its time-worn proposals for disarmament. The United Nations joined 13 other western nations in sponsoring the resolution that calls on "all member states and particularly the major powers to intensify "their efforta> to assist the disarmament commission in its tasks.” The resolution also suggests that the commission study the desirability of establishing a subcommitte econsisting of representatives of the powers principally involved to seek in private "an acceptable solution to the Disarmament Commission”. It was reported the sponsoring nations desire a conference among the Big Four powers and aChada. Canada is a permanent member of the commission and is considered a vital power in < the arms_ question because of its work iu atomic development.

Russia hads übmitted amendments that would strip the westerin proposal of its main provisions and substituted the Soviet’s own provisions for disarmament. The Russian proposals called for immediate prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons and simultaneous establishment of an international control agency to supervise the use of nuclear energy. The west has this plan repeatedly on grounds that prohibition cannot be enforced until the international control agency ha? proved workable. The Russians also called upon the disarmament commission to submit to the security council by next March 1 proposals “providing* in the first place for a substantial reduction in the armaments" of the United States, Britain, France. Red China and Russia. This marked a slight change (Tarn To Pa«v Blx> Deadline For Art Exhibits Nov. 19 Deadline for entries in the first annual all-city art exhibit to behe|d at Decatur high school November 24 under sponsorship of the Color Wheel, members of the high school art class taught by Miss Kathryn Kauffman, has been set as November 19. The art show will be open afternoon and night to the public, and all persons attending will be asked to vote on the various entries. There is no age limit on entries in the first annual show and the only restriction is that only paintings will be accepted for the exhibit The show will be extended to other efforts in art, it was said by those in charge, provided there is sufficient interest locally to warrant a continuation of the annual project No cash awards will be made in the show, but each exhibitor wi|l have an opportunity of knowing what the public thinks of each entry. Entries should be made with Miss Kauffman at Decatur high school. \

Deadlock On Korean Peace Talks Broken Compromise Made For Discussion Os Korean Conference PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Allies and Communists, broke a three-week deadlock Saturday with a compromise agreement for simultaneous discussions of time, place and composition of the Korean peace conference. , Special United Nations envoy Arthur H. Dean indicated that several subcommittee talks pn the arrangements for the conference will begin simultaneously next Week. The compromise was negotiated by staff advisors in six secret meetings. The agreement aga I n raised hope that the peace conference may be called to settle Korean problems before the South Koreans carry out their threats to resume the fighting. Dean voiced cautious optimism Saturday after a crucial plenary session agreed to the compromise. “This is just the key that opens the door,” he said.. “The real hard wprk is just commencing.” The Communists gave no indication that there had been any compromise on the Red demand that Asian neutral nations and Russia be invited to attend the conference. . • The Communist insistance that this issue be discussed before all others deadlocked the preliminary arrangement talks. The agreement provides that the first two items of the agenda—composition and place first and time second — will be discussed simultaneously by two subcommittees. . ’ •_ The compromise agenda adopted' was substantially what Dean proposed Oct. 31. However, the inclusion of composition in the first Item of the five-point agenda surprised some observers, because Dean had said he*would never agree to discuss, the makeup of the talks first. ' The agenda called for: “Agreement on the agenda and procedure of .discussions. "To exchange views and seek a settlement on: “1. Composition and place of the political conference. \ "2. Time of the political conference. \‘ “3. Procedural matters of the political conference. “4. Administrative arrangements of the political conference. “5. Expenditures of the political conference.” The agreemeht provides thajt final settlement of any item on the agenda will be held in abeyance pending settlement of all items on the agenda. . ; Congressman Adair Touring Formosa TADPEH, Formosa UiP — Four American congressmen arrived in Talpeh today for a three-day tour of Formosa. They are Walter H. Judd jlt-Minn., Margaret S. Church R IH., ffiV Ross Adair R-Ind. and Clement J. Zablocki D-Wis. President Chiang Kai-Shek will give a reception in their honor before they leave for Korea.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 14, 1953.

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Sharp Dispute Is Raging On White's Case •. Dispute On Truman I And FBI Handling Harry White Case WASHINGTON UP —A sharp dispute raged today over whether the Truman administration was working with or against the FBI in its controversial handling of the Harry Dexter White case. 1 After a week-long storm of charges and counter-charges, poll* tical bickering and congressional hearings, this still stood out as one of the biggest of many unanswered questions. Rep. Francis E. -Walter D-Pa., apparently reflecting the views of Democratic leaders, said he was informed Truman officials and FBI; Director J. Edgar Hoover agreed to keep White in the government after he was accused of spying "ln| the hope he would lead to others suspects. Sen. William E. Jenner R-Ind. tchairman of the senate internal security subcommittee which is in? vestigating the White controversy, Hoover .never entered into any such agreement permitting sub-J versives to remain in government.” He said, however, that he would question Att. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. about the matter at a subcommittee hearing Tuesday. Brownell fired the original charge that former President Truman promoted White from assistant treasury secretary to U. S. director of the international monetary fund in spite of two FBI reports that he was a spy. The United Press was informed in official quarters that at no time did the FBI enter into an agree-r' ment to move White from the treasury to the monetary fundi The United Press also w*as in? 'formed that at no time did Hoover ever discuss the White matter with (Turn To Page Six)

Unseasonably Warm Weather In Midwest Record Reading In Chicago Predicted By UNITED PRESS Unseasonable temperatures in the high 60s and low 70s were predicted for most of the Midwest today. i A record high of 70 degrees was forecast for Chicago. And forecasters said the mild weather would Extend into the Dakotas and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. However, the first storm of the season battered 'northern California for the second straight day. Winds reached 85-mile-an-hour velocities near San Francisco late Friday and more than an inch of? hard-driving rain fell on the city. The high winds knocked down trees, telephone and power lines in the area and cut off cations in Eureka, Calif., for. more than two hours. The 7,000-ton freighter SS Margot was drifting helplessly in heavy? seas about 1,100 miles northwest; of the Oregon coast. A coast guard cutter standing by reported; there was no immediate danger, ji Early, morning readings in the midwest were mostly in the 40s and 50s, but the Far West and Florida already had 70-degree weather. , \ . Only the northern Rockies, New England and portions of the Ohio Valley reported sub-freezing temperatures. Elkins, W. Va., had the lowest reading, 22 degrees. Skies Were clear across, the country except for local cloud formations in North Dakota, along the west coast and In the north* eastern Great Lakes region. Continuing dry weather increas(Tern T* Page llx)

Meeting Wednesday On March Os Dimes ( > ' Show Film, State Leaders To Speak "The Mother’s March of Dimes,” stirring Helen Hayes, fanfbus actress who lost a daughter to dread polio, will be shown to the public at*» o’clock next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the Moose lodge home. There will be no charge and tile public is invited to attend. Following the film, Edgar Burton and Don Sparks, Indiana representatives for the National Foundation for itifantile Paralysis, will speak on plans for the annual March of Diihes campaign and also on activities of the national foundation. Mrs. Ralph Hobtis, Adams county campaign dlrectop for the March of Dimes, today also announced appointment of the following community campaign directors: Decatur— Mike Pryor, assisted by Gene Rydell and Lyle Mallonee. p Berne —Roger Augsburger. Geneva —Mrs. Thurman Baker. Monroe —Mrs. Ronald Mitchell. > Linn Grove —Mary Schlagenhauf. Pleasant Mills — Mrs. Claude* Mann. \ Prebla —Mrs. Walter Peck. Monmouth —Mrs. Harold Owens. Magiey—Mrs. Robert Beery. Peterson—-Mrs. Russel Baumgart-. x-, j . * Honduras —Floyd Arnold. Bobo—Mrs. Thomas Sheehan. Herman H. Krueckaberg has been appointed campaign treasurer and Victor H. Eicher has been named publicity chairman. - , ' All community directors and assistants are asked to meet with Mrs. Hobbs after the Wednesday meeting for instructions and plans to put Adams county "over t,he top" during the coming drive.

Russia Worried On Big Three Meeting Fear Strengthening Os Allied Position WASHINGTON UP —State department officials eaid today Russian leaders are worried over prospects that next month’s Big Three meeting in Bermuda might further strengthen the Allied position in the cold war. I Kremlin apprehension, they said, makes it vital that President Eisenhower, Brjtish Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel find ways (to solve their differences. New evidence .of the Soviet concern over the Bermuda meeting ►was brought out at surprise press conference held by Soviet foreigp minister V. M. \Molotov in the Soviet capital. ' ] Although Molotov’s main objec ■tive was to tone down bad reaction throughout the non-Red world to Russia’s rejection of Big Four peace talks oh Germany, experts were keenly interested in his poke at the Big Three meeting set for Dec. 4. • "Conferences of this kind which tend to put certain states in opposition to other states,” said Molo tov, "can lead to directly contrary results and even increase international tension.” ■y State department officials recalled that radio Moscow only two days ago had voiced similar hornplaints about the Bermuda parley. And Russia’s Nov. 3 rejection of talks on Germany opened with a complaint about the "separate collusion” of the recent Big Three foreign ministers’ talks in London. I The state department said Molotov’s press conference clearly showed he is worried at the unfavorable reaction* to the "curt” Soviet' rejection of talks on Germany. Mr. Eisenhower and secre? tary of state John Foster Dulles had labelled Russia’s conditions for the talks as "impossible” and "unacceptable.” Conditions included Red China’s participation tn peace talks on Europe, junking of Western plane to arm Germany, and abolition of. the North Atlantic ( \ (Tara Ta Pege Bia)

Harry Truman May Report To U. S. On Case Studies Rddio-TV Report To Nation Over Controversy NEW YORK, UP — Former President Truman indicated today he may have kept suspected Communist Harry Dexter White in government service in order to aid the FBI in its investigation of the late International Monetary Fund executive. “That is a possibility,” Mr. Truman told reporters when asked if there was any truth in published reports that he shifted White from the treasury department! to the monetary fund in 1946 to give FBI agents a chance to obtain definite evidence against White. “I have not examined the record on the matter,” he said. "My memory is rather hazy on that.” When told that New York Times correspondent Arthur Krock was one of the writers who had speculated on "an agreement between the FBI and Mr. Truman, the forRier chief executive said: ‘lt ArChwv Krack waM that happened, well—Arthur Krock tells the truth usually.” Mr. Truman said he was considering making a radio-television report to the nhtion on his role in the White case. He refused Thursday to answer a subpena to tell his story to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Mr. Truman revealed that he spent the time from Tuesday, when he received the subpena, until his announcement Thursday in documenting the historic precedents for chief executives, refusing to subordinate themselves to the legislative branch of the government. Mr. Truman was accompanied on his final pre-breakfast walk before leaving New York by scores of well-wishers who shouldered" out the reporters and photographers in order to greet him. The crowds seemed enthusiastic over Mr. Truman’s stand In the turbulent White case, and several suggested that he run for the* presidency again in 1956. I "No indeed.” Mr. Truman replied. “Let somebody else have a crack at it.” Mr. Truman breakfasted, with* newsmen who had been walking vrith him all week and then spent the morning packing for the return trip to Independence, Mo.

Order Is Canceled By Ag Department Disputed Ruling Ordered Canceled WASHINGTON UP—the agriculture department has cancelled a controversial order which would have required "basic" crop farmers to obey controls on alj crops to get price supports for any of them. The order had been protested by farmers. “We just made an honest mistake and felt we should correct it,” Howard H. Gordon, administrator of the department’s new Commodity stabilization service, said Friday. The order applied to the six basic crops—wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts, tobacco and rice. Gordon said department attorneys decided Monday that the regulation would hot be legal for this year’s wheat crop. ._. The department first announced on Oct 8 that wheat farmers would have to obey an basic crop acreage allotments to qualify next year for price supports on wheat On Oct. 22, the provision was extended to the other five “basic” crops. As the regulations stand now, a wheat farmer need only obey wheat (Ten To Paso Ms>

Mitchel Assails Brownell-Charges White Case Plotted For Political Usage ‘ ST. PAJJL, Minn. UP —Democratic national chairman Stephan A. Mitchell, who Friday night accused Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell of plotting his Harry Dexter White charges to win a congressional election, indicated today that Democrats have still more ammunition to fire. Mitchell made a slashing attack, Friday night on Brownell, accusing him of assailing former President Harry S. Trum%h to "ball out a protege of Vice President Nixon.” Brownell and Republican national committee Officials made careful plahs for exploiting the case before Brownell unleashed his charges in a speech before a Chicago luncheon club a week ago, Mitchell said. The purpose of the charges. Mitchell said, was to help elect GOP congressional candidate Glenard Lipscomb in California earlier this Week. “Just consider the spectacle of a party's j political managers joining with ■ its responsible officials to mastermind a treason charge against a former president of the United States.” Mitehell said at the aajional young Democratic convention. 1 ‘ ***■“• - —-i—■ - Mitchell said today he didn’t think his fiery speech was the Democrats* last words on the Brownell charges. He said his blistering attack on Brownell was his own idea, and was not based on consultation with other Democratic leaders. But he added that he has been gathering opinions on the case. Mitchell’s speech was a direct attack on Brownell’s charge that Mr. Truman promoted White after ignoring FBI reports that White was a Russian spy. Mitchell’s answer included accusations that: 1. "The political nature of the attack” c wkß shown by "the timing of.tlfe charges . . . the advance preparations for publicity . . . the master-minding of the operation by the Republican national committee . . . and the other unusual preparations made to assure maximum public attention.”

Army Cutting Back Strength In Europe - Strength Reduced About 20,000 Men WASHINGTON, UP—The army has quietly reduced its strength in Europe by* about 20,000 then during the past nine months as . part of the Eisenhower administration’s economy campaign, it was learned today. The cutback — the numerical equivalent of an infantry division —was made in the face of official denials that the United States planned to reduce its strength in Europe. Defense secretary Charles E Wilson issued a statement—backed up by President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles —Oct 27 that the United States had “no immediate plans for taking any troops out ot Europe.” Wilson made the statement after earlier remarks he made created apprehension among European leaders that the United States planned to pull some of its troops out of Europe on the theory that "new weapons” could supplant men. Top policy officials insisted, however, the cutback had been made In "support elements and left actual “combat strength” committed by the United States to European defense untouched. INDIANA WKATHKR ' Pair, warmer south and ew> • tral tonight Sunday fdr and < 1 mIW. Low tonight 85-40, High I Sunday 67-72. . j

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Ike Speaks To Parliament Os Canada Today Neighbors Alerted By Eisenhower To Espionage Threat OTTAWA. (U£)—President Eisenhower declared today that enemy espionage threatens both the United States and Canada and must be dealt wjth promptly. He also calle<| on the western, world to reject Soviet "wile” lest Russian propaganda suck the de- * mocracies intlp “the suicide of nuclear war.” In a speech to members of the Canadian parliament, Mr. Eisenhower made clear that he wished to alert American neighbors to the north that new spy trouble mar be brewing. I , “The threat is present.” said the President. "Now is the time for action on all agreed measures.” He carefully skirted any mention, of what these specific anti-espion-age steps might be, but he said that from the work being done by both governments would come a pattern of success. "implicit in the consultations and detailed studies which must -cowtium-wad RuUm defense which we have already mounted, is world - wide vigilance and strength,’ Mr. Elsenhower said. “But the purpose is defense. We* have no other aim.” The President spoke from B pared text, carefully checked by the state department and submitted in advance to the Canadian government. American and Canadian teelvision and radio stations carried the speech. The U. S. chief executive was flanked by the Canadian governor general, Vincent Massey, and the prime minister, Louis St. Laurent. There were more scarlet-coated members of the Royal Canadian mounted police around Mr. Eisenhower’ than these were guarding the 3.000-mUe border between the two nations. , | The President emphasized at the outset of his address that he felt certain “no Soviet wile or lure” would disrupt relations between the United States and Canada.

“Out of our partnership has evolved a progressive prosperity and a general well-being, mutually beneficial,, that is without parallel onearth,” said Mr. Eisenhower. "In the years ahead the pace of our mutual growth will surely be no less.” The President was not completely pessimistic about the future despite his grim warnings about atomic war and the dangers of espionage. * He voiced the prayerful thought and hope that Canada and the United States would march forward together “toward,the horizon of a world where each man, each family, each nation, lives at peace in a climate of freedom.” Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower arrived by train Friday and will leave late tonight to return to Washington. « | > The trip, the second by the chief Executive to a foreign country since he entered the White House, was chiefly a courtesy call. I The President and First Lady dined in state Friday night at 118-year-old Rideau Hall, the residence of Canadian Governor General Vincent Massey. They met nearly 300 top government officials and members of the diplomatic corps in Ottawa at a reception following the dinner. Tonight the President and Mrs. Eisenhower will be hosts at a state dinner in the residence of U. S. Ambassador R. Douglas Stuart. After dinner, there will be a reception and then the presidential party will re-board tbe White House special train for Washington. Ottawans jammed the streets of the Canadian capital each time the President and his wife appeared In public. They applauded and cheered politely. Office workers shouted "Hi Ike” from root tops and upper story offioa buildlaga.