Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1953 — Page 1

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South Koreans To Cooperate On Conference . ■ Pledge No Renewal I ‘Of Hostilities While « Conference Is Held PANMUS’JOM? Korea. (UP) — Envoy Arthur H Dean guaranteed the Communists today the South Korean army would not resume hostilities while the Korean peace > conference is it session. Dean promised the Reds the South Koreans would cooperate after be/.iad submitted a 12-point plan for getting the long-delayed conference on the peninsula’s future started. ' South Korean President Syngman Rhee had threatened to wreck ithe armistice if the political conference flailed to achieve peaceful unification of the country JSO days after th|e meeting was to have begun Oct. 27. In a major compromise move, Dean told the Communists the L’nited Nations obviously wouTd igree to seat nbn-voting neutrals as “obserylers” at the conference. I He also suggested that the conference from four to six weeks after the preliminary talks <la. Which he and-the Communists How are engaged have ended. He proposed Geneva as the site. I Dean’s proposal would accept Pakistan and India as Communist nominations as , neutral participants at the conference and exclude Burma and Indonesia, also named by the Reds? I He limited the list of neutrals to be 'considered to “some or all of the now working in Korea’’ or others with “actual experience in Korean problems.’’ Nations (which would qualify under Deanes proposal would be Sweden. Swfitzerlknd, Czechoslovakia and Poland=-now represented on? j commissions in Korea. — and nearby Japan. i Under no conditions. Dean’s plan < rxnphasized, could Russia enter i the conference except on North < Korea and Communist China’s -< side as a belligerent. The Communists recessed for 45 minutes to study the proposal and announced they make an ’“important statement” Monday. Dean said all 16 nations which, fought against the Communists in Korea had lapproved his plan and that Rhee had promised “complete cooperation,” “The president promised that while the conference is in session hostilities will not be resumed,” Dean said. Rhee often threaterier to “go north” of the Communists fail to show progress in unifying Korea. Dean said ithe Communists told him his plan had “no merit” and leveled shopworn propaganda charges at the U, N. delegation to the pre-conference conversations. The Communists insisted that the meeting Monday, in which they will present their “important statement,” be a full session because of lack of progress by a subcommittee negotiating the time of tiie conference. • Dean also told the Communists he wished to make it “crystal ' clear” that anti-Red prisoners in Indian custody will revert to civfliph status on Jan. 21, 1954, as authorized by the armistice. .. The prisoner “come home” interview program remained in a state of suspension as the Com(Tors To Poaro six) A. f • 1 V '* '• ’ i’■ .. A; Three High School Net Players Killed t / One Other Dead In Allen County Crash FORT WAYNE, (UP) — Three Atwood high school basketball players, apparently en route to watch a game, and a 45-year-old North' Manchester contractor were killed Friday night in a head-on crash on U. S. 30 west of here. ”\ The dead were Ray Geiseking, James O. Cormany and Maurice Baumgartner, all 17 and members of the Atwood cage team, and I Ralph Jacobs, a grading contractor, riding alone in the other car. A fourth Atwood athlete, Stanley R. Yelter, 18, of near Warsaw, was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital in "very critical” condition with head injuries. State police said they could find no reason for the collision. They said it occurred on a. clear, straight stretch of highway. The youths, who were not scheduled to play Friday night, were believed to be travelling to watch another high schdol basketball contest.

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Wins Confidence Vote ■ LOOKING VERY DETERMINED, French Premier Joseph Laniel leaves his residence to attend the all-important meeting of the National Assembly which sustained his government by a close 31vote -margin. The assembly gave Laniel conditional approval .of EDC and assured France’s participation in the Bermuda “Big. Three” meeting.

Harry Truman i Speaks Today As Bond Rally Likely To Discuss Harry White Case With Party Heads CHICAGO, UP — Former President Harry S. Truman arrived to* day to, “speak from the heart” to an Israeli bond rally and probably discuss the Harry Dexter White case with Democratci bigwigs... Mr. Truman arrived at 7:30 a.m\ The former President \ was greeted at the Dearborn Station by a crowd of about 100 persona, led by Democratic national cbair- ' man Stephen A. Mitchell and lldinois national committeeman Jacob M. Arvey. \ When Mr. Truman noticed an “I Like Ike" sticker pasted to a photographer’s camera, he said smilingly, “Do you think he still feels that way?” 1 A motorcade took him to the Blackstone hotel, where he breakfasted with Mitchell. Arvey and leaders of the bond rally. l Tonight he was to talk to an expected 2,000 persons at Chicago Stadium, scene of some of his most important appearances during his political career. \ Mr. Truman’s speech was billed as a plea to raise funds for the Israeli government in commemorating the 3,000th anniversary of the city of Jerusalem. democratic leaders said he would speak without, a prepared text. They said they did not know whether he planned to make the tally a platform for a reply'to recent criticisms of his administration. However, political problems and the explosive Harry Dexter White case were expected to up for discussions earlier wlyen Mr. Truman lunched with Democratic leaders. It was not known -whether two of Chicago’s most prominent Dehv ocrats, national chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and 1952 presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson worild attend the luncheon. Jacob M. Arvey, national committeeman from Illinois, and Reichard M. Daley, Cook county \Democratlc chairman, were to be pres- ■ ? ent. ’ _, . • '\\ Mr. Truman has not spoken out i on the White case since his nationally televised speech last week. At that time he said he approved the promotion of White, a suspected Communist sympathizer, to an internlational monetary fund post in order not to disturb inves(Turn To Pace Six)

50 Persons Driven From. Home By Fire CHIiOAGO UP — A pre-dawr apartment house fire drove 50 persons, many of them in night clothes, into the street today. About 12 persons escaped by ladders from the top two fldore of the four-etory building. \ A fireman carried an Infant tc safety down: one of the ladders. The child’s mother collapsed after the rescue arid was treated at Henrotin Hospital for shock. x

Famous Playwright Eugene O'Neill Dies Renowned American Playwright Is Dead BOSTON, UP — Eugene O’Neill, renowned American \playwright, died late Friday after suffering seven years with a disease which halted his literary production. He will be buried in a, private ceremony as he wished. O’Neill, 65, succumbed at the Back Bay Hotel suite where he had lived in seclusion for the past two years. His physician. Dr. Richard L. Ohler, said death was caused by bronchial pneumonia. The playwright, who made more than a million dollars with his literary production,: left one unpublished play that must remain secret from the public for 25 years, according to a provision imposed by O’Neill. It was reported the play was so frank —and probably autobiographical—that it coul<9 not be produced during the lifetime of persons who might be recognized as prototypes of the characters. The unpublished play will remain in a vault until 1987. At the author’s bedside when he died were his third wife, the former Carlotta Monterey, and a nurse. The final years of O'NelU’s life w’ere as tragic as the plays that made him world famous. He suffered from palsy-llke Parkinson’s disease, which made him unable to write since “The Iceman Cometh” was produced on Broadway in 1946. His doctors said his mind was not affected by the disease. But the malady caused his hands to jerk convulsively and prevented him from writing in longhand, as he had written all the works that made him one of the world’s most respected dramatists. After the affliction struck. O’Neill tried in vain to compose a play by dictation and his sufferings became more, acute. “It’s terrible,” Mrs. O'Neill said in 1949. “H gets worse. The hands tremble and then the feet. God knows if he will ever be able to write again.” Efforts to regain his health in New York and California failed and he returned to Massachusetts where he had written the first df his plays. Unable to work at a searide home in Marblehead, he moved to the Boston hotel. 3 O’Neill, whose plays won the 1936 Nobel Literature Prizp and three Pulitzer Prizes for drama, was born Oct. 16, 1888 W New York. His father was James O’Neill, a well-known actor who fre(Tara Ta Stx)

SIOO,OOO Fire Loss. At Linton Today \ J LFNTON, Ind. UP — Firemen from four communities today rought flames for four hours in 25-degree weather in a >IOO,OOO blaze that destroyed a drug store, post office ants a dwelling and threatened an entire business block. Firemen said they believed the blaze was touched off by an overheated furnace in the drug store. The flames broke out in the drug store’s paint department and spread rapidly to the other build-* ings.

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U. S. Prepares Resolution To Condemn Reds Present Resolution To United Nations On Red Atrocities UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — The United States today prepared, a resolution condemning Coramtfnist atrocities in Korea for presentation Monday in the United Nations. The resolution will omit any request for an investigation, Amerb can officials said, because the evidence builds an “irrefutable case” against Communist China and North Korea. Britain, France, Australia and Turkey will join the United States in putting th« Resolution before the world parliament. A U. S. spokesman said strong opposition would obviously prevent any investigation commission from '"penetrating the Bamboo Curtain.” The U.S. charges that Cotpmunists tortured and killed tens of thousands of U.N. troops and civilians. including many American* will be presented directly to the general assembly tor debate. The United States already has presented to the United Nations an inch-thick compilation of evidence of the atrocities, amplifying details first announced by the Pentagon last month. The army’s report said 57,599 cases of Red atrocities had been reported in Korea, of which 29,815 were considered “probable.” It said 10,032 bodies of had been recovered and 216 survivors Ibcated. The U. S. resolution will recall that the Geneva conventions of 1929 and 1949 required humane treatment of prisoners and civilians in time of war. In the light of those conventions, informants said, it will ask the as-\ sembly to “condemn atrocious acts” against such persons and demand specifically that the U. N. “express its grave concern” regarding the atrocities commitleft by the North Korean and Chinese Reds. “The United States,” a wellplaced source said, “is seeking to arouse the conscience of the world to the fact that the North Korean and Chinese Communist forces (Tnra To Pave Six)

Plan Beautification Os New City Plant Landscaping Work Planned At Plant \ When complete, the land surrounding the new light and power plant, Seventh and Dayton, home of the giant diesel, will be “neat, appearing . . . attractively landscaped” and should beautify the neighborhood. That remark was made by L. C. Pettibone, light and power superintendent, in commenting on the phase of work that is going'’on at present—cleanup, paintup and preparations for laying the floor in the plant’s interior. Pettibone said Yost construction men, builders of the plant, are nearly done with laying concrete sidewalk and curbing to border the north and east sides of the building. In addition, grounds around the plant are being prepared for the grass and shrubbery to be planted early next year. Pettibone said he expect* lights will be erected around the building. Flooring material for the upper and lower floors is expected to be complete in the near future, consisting of red quarry tile blocks. Pettibone visualized the grounds around the plant, when developed, like this: “We expect it to be neatappearing* trimmed with shrubbery and attractively landscaped in gen‘ eraL”

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South Angered At Segregation Issue / Southerners Want Color Line Retained WASHINGTON UP—The Eisenhower administration's entry into the politically-explosive school seg? legation fight crew bitter reaction today from southerners who want the color line retained in Dixie schools. \ Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. told the supreme\ court it has authority to outlaw racial segregation in public schools. But he said the justice department was acting as an “objective” observer in the bitter legal fight. Brownell did not specifically discuss the contention of Negro plaintiffs in five separate case* now before the court that segregation itself, is a badge of inequality and a violation of the 14th amendment. But he argued in a 188-page brief that the amendment “forbade all legal distinction* based on race or color.” Georgia's Gov, Herman Talmadge, who has threatened to abolish* his state** public schools rather than permit co-racial education, said Brownell’s stand was a “left vAag" attempt to stab the south “in the back.” Mississippi Gov. Hugh Whit* accused Brown*. S«ll of “otretebing" th* ponstitution. { There also, was angry reaction i>-from some southern congressmen. Rep. E. <?. Gathings D-Ark. denounced the brief as an attempt to circumvent the will of congress which, he said, has “consistently” refused to pass anti-segregation laws. He called for legislation to prevent the court from passing on the cases; Sen. Olin D. Johnston D-SC said Brownell was “out of place? and declared “The justice depart l ment has plenty of cases of its own without going into others. ’ One highly placed southern Democratic senator raid Brownell's ove would hurt the Repub lican pkrty politically in Dixie President Elsenhower cracked the Democratic ‘‘Solid South” November by carrying four states. Brownell’s breif. filed with the court Friday, carefully pointed oil (Tura To Paar Six)

Breakin, Robbery Is Reported Here Saylor's Motor Co. Is Scene Os Theft Saylor’s Motor Co., Nprth Thirteenth street, was broken into sometime Friday night or this morning and than >IOO in change was taken from a cash register that was removed from the ptemises and cracked open with a latge rock. Police have announced they are in possession of a fragmentary fingerprint believed to belong to a person involved in the incident. .Entry was made through aMWlndow on the west side of the building which was broken, the thief or thieves lifting the inside latch and raising the sash mechanism, according to police. Once inside, the door that leads from the garage to the offices was smashed down and an "amateurish” attempt made at getting into the office safe by removing the hinges. Police chief James Borders said the felons are. evidently non-professionals because no safecracker would do such a thing. Next, having failed to open the safe, they went to the cash drawer in the repair parts department—using tools found in the shop—but again the attempt failed. A cash register in the outside office was removed from the building intact and found later on West Monroe street. 30 feet West of the bridge and about 80. feet from the Erie railroad tracks. A rock about eight inches in diameter- was found near •tie register, smashed after an attempt to pry the drawer open with (Tun Te Page Six)

Delay Further Social Security Law Hearings House Group Split On Law Changes By Partisan Wrangling WASHINGTON, UP —Chairman Carl T. Curtis of a house subcommittee on social security laws today postponed until after Christmas further hearings by his group that has peen sharply split by partisan wrangling. -I\ ?. The Nebraska Republican said the subcommittee would meet again in January, however, to try to agree “on a few basic recommendations.” • The subcommittee’s hearings have been marked by bitter exchanges between Curtis and the Democrats on the subcommittee Reps. Herman P. Eberharter, Pa. and John D. Dingell, Mich. The two Democrats (Friday accused Curtis‘of trying to wreck the social security system. Curtis said today that the hearings have shown that workers covered by social security do \not have real “insurance contracts.’' Formew social security commissioner Arthur J. Altmeyer promptly challenged the remark. President Eisenhower has asked congress to extend the already extensive social security program to include another 10,500,000 persons. Mr. Eisenhower wants ( self-em-ployed farmers, additional farm workers and domestic workers, dentists, lawyers, architects, acand other professional workers to be Included. He asked that clergymen be made eligible on a voluntary basis. Curtis said he personally has no recommendations to make on the program and said the subcommittee would make no attempt to draft legislation. But he said he wants to find out whether subcommittee members could agree on any basic changes to be made in the program.

Ransom Money Hunt On In New Orleans Newspaper Reports On Greenlease Hunt NEW ORLEANS UP — The New Orleans Item said in a copyrighted story, today that search for the missing 1300,000 in the kidnapmurder case of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease has moved to New Or leans. The. newspaper said that it had learned that an FBI agent "named Kennedy” questioned two inmates of Parish prison about the mlss’ng ransom money. The two are held for trial on a series of safe robberies and confidence games. ' They were identified as Thomas Bordelon and Victor Lihkletter. Carl Austin Hall, a one-time playboy, and bis girl friend, Mrs Bonnie Brown Heady, are in death row at the Missouri state prison awaiting death in the gas chamber Dec. 18 for the kidnap-murder. The two extracted >500,000 in ransom from Bobby’s father after they had killed the youngster. About half of the ransom money was found. The ROm said it learned that when Hall wah in the Kansas City jail, in an adjoining cell was a *man named Rasmussen. Hall reportedly told Rasmussen that Bordelon and Linkletter had a portion of the missing money. The FBI obtained this information. Further checking indicated that the money bad been purchased by a Detroit syndicate that dealt in hot money. The syndicate had paid 25 cents on the dollar for the money. The syndicate then distributed the Inoaey throughout the country and Mexico, and some of the money had been sent Bordelon (Tun To Page Three)

Elks Speaker * ■ G. Remy Bierly Memorial Service At Elks Dec. 6 Bierly Will Speak At Annual Service Attorney G. Remy Bierly of tins City, a former stale legislator end a member of the Anthony Wayne parkway commission, will deliver the address at the annual memorial services of Decatur Lodge 993 Os the B. P. O. Elks on Sunday, Dec. 6. George Bair, exalted ruler of the lodge, announced today. The services will be held at 2:30 p. m. in the lodge room of t,he Elks home on North Second street. The public is Invited. Mrs. L. AJ Holthouse will l>e the pianist and in charge of the music. A men’s quartet. Milton Hoffman, Leo Kirsch. Earl De Weese arid Wesley Lehman of this city, will sing. Exalted ruler Bair and staff of officers will conduct the ritualistic ceremonies. Secretary Kenneth Beard will read thq roster of deceased members. The death of one member occurred during the year. Joe Zimmerman will act as chaplain* diying the service. A former county clerk, prose cuting attorney and a member oi the Indiana general assembly from Adams and Wells counties, Bierly has had wide experience on the platform. During his term in the legislature he sponsored legislation for the Gene Stratton memiroal high way and was a leader in many of the progressive acts adopted bj the general assembly.

$490 Donafed Here As Mailmen March Muscular Dystrophy \ Drive Held Friday Decatur citizens contributed 1490 to the muscular dystrophy last evening when local mailmen rewalked their routes and called at the homes where porch lights were turned on to signify that they wanted to donate to the campaign. Lawrence Rash, chairman of the “Mailmens’ March,” said that six carriers participated in the drive. “The people were wonderful,” Rash said, and “more than half of the homes had their porch lights on to welcome us,” he commented. Rash was pleased with the amount donated to the drive. Donations may be sent to the Decatur post office up to the end of next week. The letter carriers distributed special envelopes and leaflets to every home In the city in promotion of the campaign. Donations may be enclosed in the envelopes and sent to the post office. Noon Edition

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Americans Are Startled Over British View Apparently Split I On Significance Os Offer From Russia WASHINGTON UP — Presidefat Eisenhower and British prime minister Winston Charchill today prepared for their Bermuda meeting with their governments apparently split over the significance of Russia’s surprise offer of Big Four talks. Diplomatic observers said the Reds may have met some success if their proposal was designed- to drive a wedge in western ranks on the eve of the Big Three Bermuda conference which opens Dec. 4. it appeared that one of the first items of business would be to patch up the Anglo-American differences. American diplomats were startled by the optimistic British reaction to the Soviet note proposing a Big Four foreign ministers conference at Berlin. The note was deliveied to the American. British and French embassies in Moscow Thursday. A London foreign office spokesman described the Russian offer as a welcome “acceptance” of ( previous Western offers to meet with the Soviets. But the state department took an entirely different and more pessimistic view of the KremliA's move. The department said in st formal statement Friday that the note was “disappointing” and indicated the Russians are trying to block European unity measures and “gloss over” Moscow’s previous unwillingness to ease world tensions through negotiations. British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins appeared to agree with the state department view. He said the note “may be designed to have a disturbing and divisive effect upon the Western Allies.” But “I am sure it will be prevented from having” such an effect, he said in a television interview Friday night. France’s reaction was less clear than that of the United States and Britain. But French officials said the Soviet note undoubtedly *ould be the main job confronting Eisenhower. Churchill and French premier Joseph Laniel at Bermuda. Lahiel' Friday managed to win a shaky vote of confidence on the question of West German rearmament, despite some speculation that the Soviet note might cause hia downfall. | American officials said Russia was “back tracking" on earlier objections to a four-power conference and the note amounted to nothing more than a “change of procedure.” They pointed out that Moscow first had demanded a five-power conference, including Red China, as a prelude to four-power talks. By reversing the order of approach, experts said the Reds “had not backed down a single step on previous policies or substance.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy south and cen-tral,-cloudy extreme north witn raln or snow beginning extreme north late tonignt or Sunday. Not so cold tonight and over south and central Sunday. Low tonight 22-30. High Sunday 4048 except 35-40 extreme north.

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