Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 281, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1953 — Page 1

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Senate Probers Map Strategy In Spy Issue Jenner Demand For Chcmge In Canadian ? Stand Is Rejected i WASHINGTON, UP - Senate investigt tors mapped new strategy (or unearthing Red ppies in past Democratic administrations today, in Republicans and Democrats traded blows on the apies-in-government issue. The senate internal security subcommittee will meet Wednesday to lecide whether t<j accept the Can tdian government's terms tor intefcyiewing Igor Gouzenko, Russian code clerk who exposed, a wartime Communist “Py. ring in Canada. The Canadian government has ruled th it it must have the final decision on what the subcommittee could make public after ques.tioning Douzenko. Subcommittee ■ chairman William, E. Jenner. RInd., hat objected to the j stipulation. R ' Secret.try of state John Foster Dulles Saturday refused Jenner’s 'request to ask Canada to back -.down on its later stand. <<hief counsel Robert [Morris said 1 the inquiry will proceed r£ gardless of the subcommittee’s decision and the group will question a number tof witnesses in secret hearings. He gave no indication of what the group is seeking from the. witnesses. The political hassle continued, meanwhile, over the Harry Dexter White case and the subcommittee’s investigations of other alleged spies Vwho held government i posts during the Truman administration. A. daytor Fritchey. deputy chairman of the Democratic national conimitte*, said there was “great ' regret in Democratic circles’* that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover had brought into the controversy over the White case. **'' ? Fritchey said the FBI grew under Democratic administrations from a t mall outfit to a major organization and that most of Hoover’s powers were “given to him by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman?’ ■ y “I would be happy to see the FBI get out of politics and stay there,’’ ha said in a television interview Sunday night. ’■ , In other developments: 1. Democratic national chair■...man Stephen A- Mitchell, told a i party gathering at St. Albans, Vt., I the Republicans “are letting the leadership of the free world’s struggle against Communism slip from their grasp while their spend their energies chasing dead •pies.*' He sak. Republicans are pot fostering b -partnership in foreign policy when they “ask for help (Tur® T® Page Six) Swiss Skier Killed In Mountain Climb Jon Lindbergh Party Meets With Tragedy >IOUNT SHASTA, Calif. UP — Adventurous Jon Lindbergh, saddened by the death of a fellow \ mountain climber, today refused tq I J’discuss his part in a dramatic 16hour fight to save the life on an alpine snowfield. •V The victim, 3d-year-old Werner i Hops of Berne, Switzerland died Sunday in a hastily-built igloo on the 10,5)0-foot level of Mount 'ShaSta after-he tumbled 800 feet down an ice chute. Lindbe-gh. son of, the famous New Yorlr-to-Paris flier, and others in the party brought down the body Sunday aftefcnoon. They declined to discuss the tragedy with anyone except Siskiyou county coroner Lloyd Nc ble. } Noble uoid Hops, Lindbergh and seven other men and eight women, all members of the Stanford University Alpine club, arrived here Thursday ■to go mountain climbing over the Thanksgiving week- _ end. They pitched their tents at Hors & Camp, 7,f 00 feet up the mountain. At 4 a.m. Saturday,, six of the men Including Lindbergh, started out on skis to try to reach the 14,162-foot summit. The temperature was below’ freezing and,a hard crust of ice _ covered :he snow. By 8:30 a.m„ the party had worked Its way up to a point just below an area known an the Red Banks, 12,000 feet up. (_ Hops, a|n experienced climber engaged tn television research at Stanford, was leading the tray up r (Tiara To Page Six)

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Leaves To Accept Peace Prize a 'l' H” BOUND FOR OSLO, Norway to accept the 1053 Nobel Peace Prize, General George C. Marshall waves from the deck of the Italian liner LAndrea Doria in New York. The former U. S. Secretary of State told newsmen that he looks on the award as a tribute to all of the American people. \ \ . \ >

U. N. Rejects Reds' Plan On Korean Parley Will Not Agree To Seating Russia As 'Neutral' In War frANMUStaOM, Korea UP U Thjb United Nations rejected a Communist plan of Convening the tvorean peace < inference today because It would exclude Russia from being bound by agreements. U. N. envoy Arthur H. Dean called the Red proposal on Russia “joke” and told the Communists the Allies would never agree bn seating the Soviet Union as a ‘‘neutral” in the Korean War. Dean called a one-day recess to give the 17 Allied nations an oppoi tunity to study the Communist proposal though he indicated in advance he would report “a coinplete lack of progress.” Following his Monday meeting with the Communists, Dean hinted the United Nations might make! a final concession and agree to let Russia participate with full voting rights and responsibilities but sit cn neither side. Russia then wd’ild be bound by all agreements. The Communist conference plan, an answer to Dean's 12-point proposal, made two major concessions to the United Nations. » 1. The Reds suggested holding the meeting at New Delhi, India on Dec. 28, thus dropping their insistence on Pa ununjom as the ference site. A 2. The Communists agreed to in vite neutral nations to participate as non-voting “observers.” Dean did not comment on the proposal to hold the conference ,t New Delhi. An earlier announcement said Dean had Indicated New Delhi might be acceptable, but an official spokesman said this report was wrong. The U.N. envoy had no instructions from the governments he represents on New Delhi, the spokesman said, and thus could not comment on that part of the Communist plan. Some observer's believed the South Korean government might refuse to attend a conference in India, which President Syngman Rhee has accused of being “proCommunist.” The Communist proposal was *ne most detailed plan either side has made since the preliminary talks began Oct. 26. It Included the first agenda offered by either side: 1. Prisoners of war. 2. The question of withdrawal all foreign troops from Korea. 3. Peaceful settlement of the Korean uestion and "other related matters.” K _____ Requests Hospital Visits Be Limited Officials \of the Adams county memorial hospital today issued a request that visits to patients at the hospital be limited to the immediate families only. The request was made, officials , said, \because of crowded conditions at the institution. it ‘ • | V ' ’ ' *

Would Lower Price Supports On Crops Tentative Plan By Ag Commission WASHINGTON UP — President Elsenhower’s agricultural advisory commission tentatively has agreed on proposals under which farmers Would get lower price supports Tor wheat, corn, butter and probably cotton. It has about decided to recommend the so-called "two-price plan for wheat, cotton and possibly rice. It also will propose th&t congress stop exempting wheat, corn, peanuts and cptton from the modernised parity formula applied iu 1950 to other crops. Both steps would mean lower average government price guarantees for the nation’s farmers and a correspondent cut in federal support outlays *prbvided other factors remained equal. The recommendations of the commission will be sent to agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson after the commission meets here next month. Benson will study the proposals in sending his new farm program to the White House; The commission’s proposals are aimed at reducing the government’s role in the direct marketing and storing of farm products’ The government now has a nearrecord four billion dollars invested in farm surpluses. While the commission’s propos’als represent the views of outside advisers consulting with agriculture department officials, it is known Benson and his top aides generally hold the same opinions. But that is no guarantee the plan will be adopted. Even if it were embraced by the Eisenhower administration, it would be likely to run into strong opposition from some Republican farm leaders tn congress, who feel it would be political suicide in an election year to give farmers lower price supports than those voted by the last Democratic congress. Th4 advisory commission has tentatively agreed on a system of different price support systems for different crops. They call for: I.—‘Direct subsidy payments to wool growers financed by a t.ir levided on processors. '2.—The two-price plan for wheat, cotton, and possibly rice to encourage big, unsubsidized exports. Other big producing nations presently tare able in most instances to undersell the United States on the world market. i \ 3. —Continuation of present high price supports on tobacco with perhaps some minor changes in this part of the farm law. 4. —'Lower price props on feed grains used in producing meat, eggs and dairy products. J ! 5. —Elimination of price* support for tung oil, now mandatory. The commission has just about decided that lower parity prices should be put into effect gradually, starting in 1956, on wheat, com, peanuts and cotton. INDIANA WEATHER - Clearing and colder tonight. Tuesday fair and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 22-28. High Tuesday 38-44 north, 43-48 south. \

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 30, 1953.

Dulles Indicates U. S. Will Agree To Russian Bid For Big Four Meet

Senate Group To Probe Jury Tampering Case Challenge Brownell To Answer Charges f In Gambling Case WASHINGTON UP — Chairman William Langer R-N. D. announced today the senate judiciary commjv tee, will investigate a jury-tamper-ing case at Denver, Colo., which has kicked off a new political row. The case involves two Denver gamblers. A Democratic official Sunday night challenged Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr., to answer what he called charges by a federal judge that Brownell “tied the hands of the FBl” in the inves-, tigation. t \ Langer issued a statement refer-i ring to remarks of the U.S. district judge at Denver that the FBI had refused to help in the investigation. “The senate judiciary commit--tee is very much interested in tbe judge's charges and among other things wants to find out whether the United States attorney Was fired because fee secured these convictions,” Langer said. ■ The committee hearings will begin at Denver Dec. 12. Meanwhile, Brownell is expected to reply sharply to the Democratic challenge. Justice department sources indicated he would accuse his critics of distorting tbe facts for political purposes. The case involves Eugene and Clyde Smhldone, alleged kingpins of a milllon-dollar gambling racket in Colorado, who Were sentenced last week to 60-year prison terms for tampering with a jury that heard an income tax evasion case against Eugene. In sentencing the Smaldone brothers. Federal Judge Willis R. Ritter of Salt Lake City, a Demo(Tor® Ta Paa» Six) Reports Gouzenko Will Not Testify Newspaper Quotes Gouzenko Decision i . \ - ST. LOUIS, Mo. UP—The PostDispatch, in a copyrighted story, said today Igor Gouzenko has decided "he cannot in safety" testify before the U. S. senate internal security committee. The Post-Dispatch quoted the former Russian cipher clerk, now hiding from the Russian secret, police. as saying in an exclusive interview at an undisclosed place in Canada, that he has nothing new to give except advice. Goukenko told the newspaper “the choice before me is either the conversation with United States officials of the safety of my family and myself. “I choose safety, not because to do otherwise would be foolish courage . . . but because I consider the safety of my family Is not just a personal matter." The Post-Dispatcb said Gouzenko believes that to testify before the senate committee “would endanger the disguise he "has so carefully cultivated to hide his identity and new home, somewhere in Canada." The story was carried In the Post-Dispatch under the byline of Gotfzrinko. ' Gouzenko, who fled the Russian embassy at Ottawa Sept. 5, 1945, and was granted asylum by Canada, \ said “Canadian and United States security is also involved. “In fact it has a direct bearing on the advice \l had intended to ■give to the United States representatives. As il hive already stated twice, I have no information I have not already given to the Canadian government “My reason for thinkinc the talk with the Americans would bar worthwhile 11 because I can give (Tan T® Pace Twe)

14 Persons Killed On State Highways Ice, Snow Increase Driving Hazards By UNITED PRESS Fourteen persons, eight of them teenagers, were killed on Indiana •streets and highways during the weekend as ice and snow increased driving hazards in northern areas. The toll brought the number of traffic fatalities to 28 from the start of the Thanksgiving holiday Wednesday evening through Sunday. Reports showed two wrecks whick claimed three lives Sunday occurred oh snow-packed roads at North Manchester and Gary. And at Michigan City. 13 cars and a transport, truck piled up on an icy overpass on U. S. 20, injuring five, Elnora Wagler, 17, of n4ar Montgomery, was killed late Sunday when an auto driven by Amos Lengacher. 17, Loogootee, crashed head-on into one driven by Ivan Wagler, 16, Montgomery, on a county road near Cannelburg. The drivers and nine other youths were hospitalized at Washington. Miss Wagler was a passenger in the Lengacher vehicle. She wai not related to I Van. Frank Peterson, 61, aud Mrs. Mary Shira. 41, Chicago. Were killed at Gary in a wreck which occurred when Peterson’s car skidded across a snowy highway into, another. Nancy Wing, 17, North Manchester, was killed on another Icy road when a car driven by John Morrissey, 17, Liberty Mills, collided with one driven by Willis D. Coon, 21, North Manchester, on Ind. 13 near that cits. A pedestrian, Vancie Fury, 74, Indianapolis, -was struck and injured fatally as she walked across a capital city street Sunday. Mrs. Lola M. Bragg. 33, Elwood, was killed when thrown from a car driven by her husband, tßalph, 42, in a collision of two autos near Arcadia late Sunday. Two other wrecks occurred Saturday and six persons died Friday night. \-*« An inquest will be held Dec. 7 concerning a two-car crash Friday night which killed Ralph Jacobs. North Manchester contractor, and three 17-year-old Atwood high school basketball players, Ray Geiseking, James C. Cormany, and Maurice Baumgartner, of near (Tam T® Pox® Champion Steer At Show Disqualified Junior Champion Is Ruled Over Age CHICAGO, (UP) — The junior champion steer of the international live stock exposition was disqualified today on grounds it was over the age limit: The steer’s owner, Richard Carey, 19. Mineral Point, Wis.. was barred from further competition in the first such case in the 54-year history. Carey, whose family has exhibited at the big show for the past 18 years. 1 was ordered to turn backthe purple championship ribbon and* several hundred dollars in prize money. Two of the youth’s older brothers. Gerald and Rill, denied flatly that the steer, an Aberdeen-Angus named “Blackie," was over age. They said they would get.;* lawyer and appeal the disqualification. The youth, himself, was unavailable for comment His brothers said he was “all broken \up.” Show officials said the junior championship will go to Carlyle Greathouse, 18, Hindsboro, 111., whose Angas named “Little Stuff" was chosen as reserve Junior champion Saturday. Greathouse’s father said he wanted it understood it was not his son or himself who had complained Carey’s steer was over the (Tur® To Page Two)

, A,*:— Rules Natural Gas Rates To Be Regulated High Court Rejects Appeals To Ruling i In Gas Test Case ASHINGTON, (UP) — The supreme court today left standing a lower court ruling that the federal power commission should regulate the natural gas rates of 2,300 producers who sell to interstate pipelines. in a brief order, the court rejected appeals from the ruling in a test case involving Phillips Petroleum Cp., Bartlesville. Okla., one of the country's largest producers. The FPC originally declined jurisdiction over those companies which produce gas and sell it to interstate piiWlines. But the U.S. court of appeals for the District of Columbia ruled last .May the commission was wrong. The .lower court said the natural gas act of 1938, from which the commission derives its regulatory powers, was intended to apply to companies, like Phillips. ‘ - The wIR- btrre determine whether Phillips* present rates are reasonable. Federal regulation of independent gas producers has been in controversy for some years. The FPC never has sought to exercise control over them. * These companies gather gas—perhaps purchasing large amounts from other producers—-and sell it to pipeline companies. Then the gas is transported all over the country and sold to local utility companies. Thus the prices charged by the gatherers have ah important bearing on those exetntually paid by the ultimate consumer. - During tbe Truman administration, Sen. Robert S. Kerr, D-Okla., (Tur® To Pax® Six) Three Children Die In Basement Fire c Two Chicago Boys, Sister Are Killed CHICAO, UP — Two small boys and their sister suffocated iff a basement fire Sunday when their frantic efforts, and those of a neighbor woman, failed to unlock their bedroom door. Another sister, 4 years old, was rescued. \ - Authorities said the children’s parents were away when the fire broke out. The blaze was apparenty caused when the oldest boy stuck a straw broom into the flame of the bedroom heating stove, then ignited laundry'hanging in the room. Those suffocated were Albert Guy, 5, Phillip, 2, and their 8-month-old sister, Geraldine: Sylvia Guy, 4, was rescued by firemen after she finally managed to work the spring lock on the bedroom door and escape tbe room before collapsing in a smoke-filled - bathroom down the hall. Firemen found one .of the tiny, bodies on a mattress on the floor, and the other trwo huddled on one of two beds in the room. Fire chief Frank McNulty said it appeared the children had climbed' on to the beds in fright as smoke and flames billowed through the room. Mrs. Rachel Hendqrson, a neighbor, said she was awakened by smoke, burned to the Guy apartment and found the door locked. She pounded on the door and Albert responded to her frantic pleas over th® terrified screams of the others. But the door would not unlock. .'?■ Willard Guy, 35. ths children’s ( father, is an L unemployed steelworker. He told police he left the apartment to bring the children’s , mother, Marilyn. 34, home from her all-night job aa a waitress,

~1 — ■ ■' -Li . Auction School Is I Opened Here Today 45 Students Enroll As School Is Opened . The Reppert school of auctioneering got underway this morning, concluding its 33rd consecutive year of operation at Bellmont park, a roster of 45 students from 18 states and Alaska all intent on one thing —making the successful sale. For the second session, following his retirement from the practice of medicine, Dr.* Roland Reppert takes bis place as administrative head of the schobl. reputed to be the oldest auction schocl in America. Col. Quentin Chaffee of Towanda. Pa., long associated with the institution, will again carry out the duties of dean of instruction. He at once administers the discipline, maintains the high st«ndards by which Reppert’s is known, and instills the warm spirit that seems to be a trademark of Reppert’s. Three other familiar and locally well-known figures will be on hand to lend their knowledge and increase the odds, of the students becoming suc-esses in whatever field of auctioneoiiLg they n-.ay choose. Heading these is Cot Guy L. Pettit, of Bloomfield, la., speech instructor and auctioneer of vomand registered cattle. Also. Homer Pollack, real eatat® man of Delphos, 0., and the youngest instructor, Clyde Wilson, furniture house auction operator of Marion, O. The school is beginning its 67th straight session, since it first erme into being in 1921 under the inspired guidance of tbe late Col. Fred Reppert, recognized as one' of the finest auctioneers this country has ever produced, and many of whose records still remain unequaled and unapproached. , Col. Chaffee said the school is not at present planning on giving any special' courses in the auction field, but he reminded that a% students keep rolling into the park all this week there may be some unusual requirements. On the whole, 1 he stated, there will be stress given tp tbe general auction. Customarily, the school keeps a roster of instructors on hand from which it draws in case of requests for special instruction. There will sales conducted on the streeyi of Decatur, he said, because of the weather. However, he hinted that sales would be conducted in nearby sales barns, as in the past. Asks More Money On Soil Conservation More Appropriations Urged By President WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower said today he thinks the government ought to spend more money on soil conservation. The President asked secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson to see if he could use some of the money he hopes to save elsewhere in the agriculture department tor the soil conservation program. “I’d like to see the whole appropriation for soil conservation work go up,” Mr. Eisenhower said. He made the statement after inspecting 'an agriculture department display on what happens to farm\ land where conservation practices are not followed, and what improvements can be madO. Benson’s recent agriculture department reorganization plan brought bitter protests from some soil conservation agencies because it abolished seven regional offices of the soil conservation service. Technicians and other experts in the regional offices were transferred to state SCS offices or to headquarters here and Benson insisted the program would be strengthened rather than weaken* ed. The department has this year an appropriation of about 200 million dollars for Its conservation work. (Twa T® Pag® Six)

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Hints Strongly At Acceptance Os Invitation British Cabinet Is / Agreed To Accept Offer For Meeting WASHINGTON UP Secretary of state John Foster Dulles indicated today the United States will agree to Russia's offer for a Big Four foreign ministers meeting, i The British cabinet agreed today on acceptance of the Soviet offer. Dulles gave the strongest hint thus far that the United States likewise will agree. “. . . we welcome opportunities to settle specific disputes between us; to end the race in armament particularly atomic armament, and to reduce the risks of war.” Dulles said in a statement prepared for a house committee. "But let me also assure you of this. We do not look on the conference table as a place where we surrender our principles, but rather as a place for making our principles prevail. That is our resolve —a resolve which' I am confident t is backed by the congress and by . the American people.” s In leading up to the prospect of j f the conference, Dulles "w® .[approach a possible meeting with > ‘ the representatives of the Soviet Union.” This was an apparent reference to th® Russian offer last Thursday —in response to constant prodding by the Western Allies —for a Big Four meeting on German and Austrian problems. Russia suggested Berlin for the conference site. The tion to Berlin and the city may be British apparently have no objecacceptable to the United States. President Eisenhower, British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and French premier Joseph Laniel are expected to discuss the situation in detail at this weekend’s Big Three meeting in Bermuda. .. Mr. Elsenhower returned Sunday night* from a six-day Thanksgiving holiday in Georgia to prepare so? the Bermuda sessions. He was expected to devote much time also during the week to studying the Russian “offer.” A final decision on any Big Four meeting is expected to be made at Bermuda. Dulles gave an indication of thefeurrent administration thinking is the statement he read to a special house committee investigating Soviet seizure of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940. I Members of the house committee did not question Dulles on any portion of his statement. British Accept LONDON UP — The cabinet, meeting today on prime minister Winston‘fchurchill’a 79th birthday, agreed Russia’s offer of a Big Four foreign ihinisters meeting in .Berlin should be accepted. Foreign minister Anthony Eden, announcing the decision in the. house Os commons, said he has every reason to believe the United States will agree to the conference and that the four foreign ministers may meet “at an early date." Negotiations with the United. States and Franqe on the Soviet note proposing the Berlin conference are proceeding “rapidly and satisfactorily,” Eden said. The'cabinet, in addition to approving the idea of the foreign (Tfer® T® F®«e Sfx» ~ ’ — — :

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