Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No 277

English Queen On Six-Month Empire Tour Arrive At Bermuda On Start Os Long Round-World Tour HAMILTON, Bermuda VP — Elizabeth II and the Dute ■_ 1 of Edinburgh arrived at this island | < o)or)y today for a brief but busy .visit starting a’ six-inonth world tour of the British CommonwealthThie Amerlcah-built Stratotruiser carrying the royal couple from i_ London via Gander, NewfoundI land, touched down at the Kindley United States Air Force Base a* 9:55 a.m. 7:55 a.in. CST, five minutes ahead of schedule. It was the first visit ever made to these islands, Britain’s oldest self-governing colony, by a reigning monarch, and the residents gave the young Queen a warm reception. Thp Queen’s loyal subjects at s Gander, where she made a 1-hour and 17-minute stopover, gave her a preview of the receptions she will receive on her long trip. -? 'Elisabeth was radiant and smil-, ing as she led her husband out of their special British Overseas Airways Corporation plane to a staircase wave for five minuses to early morning greeters at Gander. 1 ; Sorie 400 airport employes and local residents turnei out,]but th4 small, noisy crowd was larger than jhad been The Canopus took off for Berat 2:29 a.m. CST. Last-minute preparations for the first Visit by I a reigning monarch the islands into a huge fairyland in tribute to Britain's radiant queen and her handsome husband. .' . The' people rehearsed to meet .J royalty and police watched bunting. ahd flags to prevent souvenir hunters from remov; ig them. The Queen and Prince Philip will spend less than 24 hours on this 2£-square-mlle island and theft' schedule was crammed with activity, 1 It included; a short Welcoming ceremony, a visit io nearby -It. George for presentations ajLMarket Square and an insnecitlon of St. Peteris Church, a tour of Kindley .o FinldJ the U.S. air force base and a parade through Hamilton’s Street to parliament. The brief visit, following an address to parliament^-and a large outdoor audience "at Alduoy's Point,; will be climaxed by a state uinnej- tonight at Government Jlouse. ) 1 The) Queen’s ’tlsit was marre.. slightly by complaints from Bermuda’s Negro population of “discrimination” in arrangements for her visit. But ho demonstration of protest iwas expected to Upset her actlyities.The) complaints resulted from the exclusion of Negroes from the state dinner. Officials explained ov invitations were issued . ing ’to the list of precedence and twice that many would be needed. (Turn To Right) UN Prepares For POW Interviews Will Interview 22 American Prisoners PANMUNJOM. Korea (VP) — The United Nations made preparations today for the first time in two months to interview 22 Americans and other Red-held prisoners resisting repatriation. Brig; Gen- A. L. Hamblen.U. N. repatriation commander, requested information from the neutral nations repatriation commission on the number of “explainers,” interpreters and representatives ’ • needed for the long-postponed talks. J Hamblen asked the commission to permit 15 American, British and South Korean persuaders to talk with the prisoners who have declined to return to U. N. control. .i ■ . The neutral commission earlier had informed Hamblen that , the U. N. would be allowed only five interviewing representatives under :he armistice agreement which permits seven explainers for.each 1,000 prisoners. A U.N. spokesman indicated the interviews would start as soon as the commission irons out this technicality. |

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Tells Os Polish Slave Labor MARK KOROWICZ, Polish professor who fled from the Polish delegation to the U. N. tells veteran reporters William Oatis (left), who spent 25 months in a Communist prison, and James E. Kllgailen (center), that there are between 200,000 and 300,000 Poles in slave labor camps working for the glory of the Soviet. In most Instances, he said, the laborers’ only crime has been dissatisfaction with exploitation and poverty in their homeland.

GOP Tactics Are Assailed By Stevenson • Says Republicans Humiliate Nation By Truman Attack ATLANTA UP — Adlai Stev m son. the Democratic party standard bearer, said today the Republicans have “humiliated” the nation before, the world by “waving . . . the red shirt" of the Harry Dexter White case in a “degrading assault on President Truman." “It was by this identical tactic of smearing the Democratic party as the party of disloyalty that the Republican party kept itself in power for. a generation after the xriiril war,” Stevenson said in a speech prepared for delivery to a joint session of the Georgia Leg’s lature. Stevenson said “the sorry counsels of partisan desperation have prevailed” in Republican bids for off-year election victories, “and our country has been humiliated before the world," The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate said the Republicans, in injecting the White case into the 1954 congressional election campaigns, will make it harder President Eisenhower to gain further Democratic support in congress. J'l “I am proud ... of the Democratic record in the last congress and nobody should be more thankful than 'the President (Mr. •'Elsenhower),” Stevenson said. “Democrats supported the administration when they thought it was right. It will be harder now, after this degrading assault on President Truman." \ Stevenson said the Republicans, by raising the ‘‘loyalty” issue in the promotion of White after the FBI reported he was spying, was “identical” to the party’s tactics in reconstruction days. “Then they called it, ‘waving a bloody shirt’,” Stevenson said, “and they clung to political power even when their policies were corrupt, reactionary and bankrupt. “And now. divided, becalmed and frightened, they are waving not the ‘bloody shirt’ but the ’red shirt’ —at a former President o' the United States who has done more than any living man to check the forward thrust of Communism.” Stevenson said Mr.\Truman “revitalized the free world, restored its will power . . . against stubborn Republican opposition most of the way”—in a series of “bold decisions.” Stevenson said he favored disclosing the “mistakes and failures of the past” and assessing the “reponsibility,” letting "the chips fall where They may” in efforts to “root out” agents of the worldwide communist conspiracy. "But for the love of heaven let us do it with dignity, objectivity and justice, and with some better motive than partisan strife that can only seriously weaken the United States in its mortal struggle,” he said. "The iseue isn’t which party de tests communism most, but how to deal with the serious problem of espionage in our government,” he said.

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Suspend Business Here On Thursday Quiet Observance Will Mark Holiday A quiet observance will mark Thanksgiving in Decatur Thursday. The following places will suspend business for the day: Post office, First State Bank, county court house, public library, all city hall offices except the police department. All county and city schools, public and parochial, will not hold classes either Thursday or Friday, resuming on the following Monday. Retail stores of Dircatur, also closed Thursday, will stay open until 9 o’clock Wednesday night to accomodate shoppers. The Dally Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday. The Protestant churches of Decatur, comprising the associated churches of Decatur, will hold a community service at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, the Rev. John Chambers as host. Lutherans of this* city will gather for special services Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock and at 9 o’clock Thursday morning, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church, officiating. / NO PAPER THURSDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat, in accordance with a custom oF many years, will not publish an edition Thursday, Nov. 26, which is Thanksgiving day. Remodeling Work Is Underway At Erie Railroad Station Being Remodeled The Erie railroad station, after nearly a century of uninterrupted service, is in for a complete overhauling and facelifting, according to W. M. Bumgerdner, station agent. Bumgerdner, employed in that capacity for the past 15 years, said that -with the exception of window sills the entire walls and major construction have remained untouched and are as durable as the day they were erected. Due for a complete going over are the -walls, ceiling, lighting fixtures and—floor layout. Ceilings ‘will <be lowered and faced with modern paneling; new walls erected; and partitions made that will provide a new office for the station agent a few feet "west of where it is now. In addition, said Bumgerdner, space will be provided for a baggage truck. Also, a new heating plant is to be installed at the extreme west portion of the building, a change from its eastern location in the middle of the main office at present. The appearance of the outside of the building will also be altered —walls are to be re-stuccoed and paint sprayed from stem to stern, he said. Bumgerdner estimated the cost of remodeling at “several thousand dollars." The partition work having been started last week, Bumgerdner expects the job Ito be completed in about three months.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 24, 1953.

Imprisoned Atomic Spy Says Rosenberg’s Ring Is Still In Operation

Ike Flies To Georgia For Thanksgiving Plans Holiday With Family Preceding Terrific Schedule AUGUSTA, Ga. UP — President Eisenhower put aside the cares of office today and flew here to indulge in aq old American tradition a Thanksgiving holiday with his family. The presidential plane, the Columbine. larded at the Augusta Airport at 1:37 p.m. EST, after’a stop at Ft. Banning, Ga., where the President’s three grandchildren and Mrs. John Eisenhower, wife of his army major son, boarded the plane. \ A small White House traveling staff accompanied the Eisenhowers when they took off from National Airport m Washington at 9:01 a.m.' EST. The Vacationer* are scheduled -tV return Sunday to the nation’s capital where-the President must get rbady for a terrific' schedule, starting with a Big Thiee meeting in Bermuda next week. There was a brief family r•union at Columbus this morning. Mr. (Eisenhower and Mamie stepped off the plane to be greeted by John, who was kissed by hh> mother. They went off to the major’s quarters to get the youngsters and their mother. (Just before taking uff for Augusta, the President asked Maj. Gen. Guy S. Maloy, commanding officet of the infantry school, if Arrangements could be made for a private plane to fly John to Augusta or | <Twr» T« Pare Klvet Philadelphia Cracks Down On Teenagers Curfew Is Ordered In Police Crackdown PHILADELPHIA, UP — Policemen and policewomen began their crackdown on late prowling teenagers Monday night and early today, particularly “girl gangs" which are rivaling gangs of boys in cunning and viciousness. As a result of a weekend mass raid that rounded up nearly I,oob persons, the police department ordered an 11 p.m. curfew for girls under IS years throughout the city. In the center city area, both boys and girls fell under the order. Senior policewoman Norma €ar\ son said the city is “faced with\ the problem of more serious offenses committed fry girls than ever before.” “We have received complaints of girls (burglarizing homes and businesses, and helping gangs of boys steal, automobiles; We have cases of girls stealing autos,” she said. Mrs. Carson ordered the 24 policewomen under her command to question all girls found on the streets at an “unreasonable” hour. She said, however, that the organization is handicapped by an insufficient number of policewomen. ,"l must have a greater force to throw into the campaign against the increase of juvenile delinquency among girls," she said, adding they are even committing such offenses as arson and gang fights for “supremacy of the neighborhood.” The policewoman said her organization, which works with the board of education, resorts to arrest only when a talk with the girl and her parents produces no positive results. Since the drive on Juveniles began last weekend, two women have been criminally assaulted by< «T*wa T« Pimm

City Extends Bid for 4-H Show Here Formal Invitation Extended By City The city of Decatur, through Mayor John M. Doan, has sent a formal invitation to leaders of the 4-H movement in Adams county, for the 4-Hers to use Hanna-Nuttman park for their annual county show. The Invitation is one similar to the one issued several years ago except that during the 4-H annual fair., that group would have exelusive use of the grounds and facilities and there would be no general fair in connection with it. As the ground is developed and permanent buildings are erected, city officials Indicated, 4-H chibs would have first priority on use of i facilities. However, the city jwould retain contrpl of the buildings during times other than those when they are used by 4-H clubs. The county 4-H advisory committee rejected the invitation several yeais ago, presumably because the plan at that time was to hold the 4-H fair in connection with the of Commerce free fair. Leaders felt that the young peoples* event should be separate and as a result selected a site at the edge of Monroe where the annual show has since been held. The leaders of the youth farm movement are now looking for a permanent home ahd the city has sent another invitation for them to consider the Decatur park as a permanent site. Several other sites also have been suggested including the parking area at Adams Central; Monmouth high school; a tract of land at the county home, and the Decatur site. It is believed that the 4-H advisory committee will determine a permanent home site soon. ; [ —— / I Hearings Are Held On Appropriations The state board of tax commissioners held hearings in the auditor’s office this morning on special appropriation requests by Decatur and Berne civil cities. \Decatur’s, hearing took place at 10 a.m., Berne’s at 10 30 a.ri(j Union Thanksgiving Service Thursday Union Services On Thursday Morning Union Thanksgiving services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, it was announced today. The Rev. John [Chambers, pistor of Trinity church, will act as host to the annual services and other Protestant church ministers will take part in the annual prai e service. . The Rev. B. G. Thomas, pastoof Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, will deliver s he sermon. The President’s annual Thanksgiving proclamation will be read at the opening of the service. Following is the program: (Prelude —‘IPraise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.” Call to Worship and Invocation —Rev. John Chambers. Hymn—‘‘Sing Os The Lord Os Harvest.” ‘Reading President's Proclamation —Uleij B. Custard, principal. Pleasant Mills high school.. Special f 'Music—“Prayer of Thanksgiving." • Offering—'Rev. Ray J. Walther, First Presbyterian church. Hymn—“For The Beautiful 3! The Earth.” Sermon—Rev. B. G. Thomae. »' -Hymn—“America The Beautiful.” Benediction — Rev. Romaine Wood, Church of the Nazarene. Postlude.

Lodge Assails Red Campaign Os Persecution Assails Religious Persecution Policy Os Soviet Russia UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP— The United States charged today the Russians were pursuing a policy of religious persecution and denounced the arrest of Stefano Cardinal Wyszynski as part of a vast “hate campaign.” U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., told the United Nations political committee that the Iron Curtain each year was becoming "heavier and more widespread.” 4 He said the hate campaign and the Iron Curtain had expanded because there were no free newspapers or free radios within the Russian realm to counteract them. Lodge said Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski was [arrested for “antistate activities”] and branded a* “a spy and an imperialist agent” because his religious beliefs and the Communist line did not coincide. The U. S. charges were made as the political committee pressed its debate on Russia’s annual propa-ganda-packed “peace” resolution which condemns other countries for inciting “enmity and hatred.” Polish deputy foreign minister> Marian Naszkowski denied before the 1 committee that Cardinal Wysizynski was arrested for religious reasons. He said the United States and the Vatican supported the churchman in what the Pples contend were “anti-state activities.” The Soviet proposal accuses a num|ber of nations of using propaganda to incite enmity and hatred among nations. It also calls for unconditional prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons, a one-third cut in the armed forces of the big five powers, a general disarmament conference and elimination of military bases on foreign soil. Speakers in the debate on the Soviet “peace package” also include Peru, the Philippines, France, Poland, the Ukraine, Bolivia, Byelorussia, the Netherlands and Russia. In the security council, Pakistan prepared a series of amendments to a western-sponsored resolution fTeva T« Possible Conquest Os Polio In 1954 ¥lew Vaccine Test o Start Feb. 8 RALEIGH, N. C. UP -r Thf executive director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said today that th'? conquest o' polio may be realised In 1954. Raymond H. Barrows also told a group here that the serum gamma globulin, which was used extensively in'l9s3, is known to have prevented some cas?s of paralytk polio. ' \ “It ia even, felt that certain localized polio epidemics may have been altered in their course through gamma globulin,” Bar rows said. I Barrows, addressing a statewide pre - campaign polio foundation meeting, said that “an exciting new weapon” will oe used for the first time in 1964 in perhaps the “largest teat of its kind Jn all medical history.” The new vaccine, rleady tested in the laboratory, will be used first on Feb. 8, 1964, Barrows sal 3 . “Starting somewhere in the south, we will begin the tremen(Tata Pam Six)

Santa Claus Arrives In Decatur Saturday Official Christmas \. Opening Saturday Santa CTaus hows to me.air age next Saturday when he will comb winging into Decatur with a sackful of goodies for the little boys and girls ofAdams county and Decatur. Kenneth Shannon, chairman of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, said that, as a result of a meeting of his group at - city hall Monday night, the whole thing has been arranged by direct hookup with the North Pole, and the kiddies may rest easy. Promptly at 1:30 p.m.—and Shannon hopes there will be large crowds on hand —Santa will touch down at the Hi-Way airport, at the south limits of the city on U. S. highway 27, and proceed from there, escorted by a bright red fire truck, to the' county court house. There Santa will set up shop in the main corridor, the kids to line up along the east side of the building; they are to enter the east entrance, chat with old St. Nick and receive their gifts, leaving by the west entrance. Shannon said Santa will be very much disappointed if he does not see a good showing of youngsters from the length and breadth of the county. Candy will be distributed by the fabled gent from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and from 6 to S o’clock in the evening. The retailers will officially open the Christmas season Saturday evening, when the switch will be thrown to light the colored bulbs strung along Monroe and Second Itre'ets. Dedication At Berne School This Evening Dr. Harold) H. Church, director of division of research and field service at Indiana University, will give the address this evening at the .formal dedication of the ad ditipn to the Berne-French school in fierne. Supt. E. M. Webb is in charge of tLc program. City Carriers To Make Drive Friday Rewalk Routes For Muscular Dystrophy City mail carriers will rewaik their routes Friday evening between 5:30 and 7 o’clock and collect contributions from the homes for the muscular dystrophy campaign, Lawrence Rash, of the Decatur letter carrier force, announced foday. Citizens are asked to turn on their porch lights as ah .indication that they wish to contribute to the campaign. Rash stated. Th* carriers will stop at homes where the porch light is turned on. The drive is being , conduct ad under the auspices of the muscular dystrophy associations of Amarica. This is the first lime that the mail carriers have participated in a nationwide fund drive. Their participation has the approval of the post office department and postmaster general Arthur E. Summerfield is honorary chairman of the/‘Letter Carriers’ March”. Funds raised in the nationwide campaign will go toward therapy and research to conquer the mysterious disease which afflicts hundreds of thousands of persons, most of them children, Rash explained. Persons not at home Friday evening may leave contributions., at the poet office, or mail their gift to the MDA chgirthan, Decatur poet otflce.V A salute to the carrier* for their unselfish and public-spirited gesture in conducting the drive, will be broadcast Wednesday by radio and television state. r

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Sen. McCarthy Opens Hearings On Radar Probe David Greenglass Says Ring Has Not Stopped Operations NEW YQRK JUP —lmprisoned atom spy David Greenglass has told Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's investigating sub-committee that, as far as he knows, the Rosenberg espionage ring has never stopped its operations in its attempt to steal American radar secrets for Russia, McCarthy said today. The Wisconsin Republican read Greenglass' testimony, taken last month at the Lewisberg, Pa., penitentiary, int,o the record as he opened his first public hearings of alleged espionage at Fort Monmouth, N.J. According to the record. Greenglass was asked when the ring set up by executed atom spy Julius Rosenberg for the purpose of obtaining radar defense secrets stopped its operations. -Greenglass replied : “As far as I know these operations never stopped and could very possibly be continuing to this very day.” Greenglass said Rosenberg told him the Russians had a “very small and a very poor electronics industry” and that it was of the “utmost importance” that they receive radar information from American spies. He said Rosenberg told him that he had given “all of the tube (electronic vacuum tube) manuals he* could get his hands on to Russia** including some material classified top secret. Greenglass said Rosenberg informed him in 1947 that “a firend’’ had passed him information relating to -a “thinking machine” which could send out interceptot* guided missiles to knock out enemy guided missiles which had been detected by “our radar.” According to Greenglass, Bosenberg said the machine was a “top American scientific secret.” - Greenglass repeated the testimony be gave against the Rosenbergs at their trial concerning the theft of a proximity fuse by Rosenberg while employed by the signal corps. The proximity fuse was a device used during World War II to detonate bomb, shell or rocket war heads in flight. McCarthy, chairman of the senate permanent investigations subcommittee, had announced previously that Greenglass had given his investigators “important new information,” but the Greenglass deposition covered mostly the kame material that was made public at the trial of Rosenberg and his wife Ethel in 1951. | McCarthy claims he has gathered evidence here and abroad indicating American spies handed America’s radar defense secrets Over to Russia. One bit of evidence Will be a recording of a statement of a German scientist . who allegedly testified classified documents from Fort Monmouth flowed into a Russian laboratory in East Germany, the- senator said. McCarthy admittedly opened his public investigation earlier than he planned because of Stevens’; statement Nov. 13 that an army investigation of Fort Monmouth paralleling the senator’s had “been uqable to find anything relating to espionage.” Since Steven* sat In on a number’ of McCarthy’s closed hearings, the senator said it was “important to end any confusion” arising from the army secretary’* X announcement. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and somewhat colder tonight, rain’ southeast and extreme south portions.,Wednesday Gonsidsrsble cloudiness and colder. Low tonight 34-39. High Wednesday 3F42. I