Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 285.

Ex-61 Tells ilt Os Atrocities. i By Communists Evansville Soldier Gives Testimony To Senate Group WASHINGTON UP — A former GI fingered a Communist propaganda poster si ained with the blood of his comrades and told senate investigators today he would like to call Soviet diplomat Andrei Viehinsky “a liar direct to his face.” 1 , s < Frederick C. Herrman. a former corporal fron Evansville, ilnd., said he heard that Vishinsky had called U. S. charges of Communist atrocities in -Corea “a bunch of lies.” : - IJerrman. wto told how he plAyed/dead as N< rth Korean soldiers shot seven American prisoners to death and wounded him in the leig. said: 1 ' ; “I would like to see Mr. Viphinsky. I would like to-call that man i a liar direct to his face, because ‘i . 1 have a par tally paralyzed leg from a Russian bullet-.” Herrman identified a large North > Korean 1 propaganda poster •~1 from the room where Communists | fire ,on him and other American prisoners. Chairman I Charles E. Potler R-Mich. said ttye poster was stained with blood spashed on it < uring the massacrje. Other witnesses before the Senate subcommittee investigating Red atrocities in Ksrea told of finding bodies of five American Gls who apparently were shot, tortured with hot bariiboo spears and finally stabbed to death; of an unarmed chaplain shot in the back as he was administering Inst rites to wounded men; and of ‘ tens of thousands” of South Korean civilians slaughtered by the Reds. Potter said Berrman’a testimony and similar statements before the U ± subcommittee are “the beat anr . swer to the Soviet bloc and mis- ’ “'*'■**?. aided dupes in this country.*’ 1 • “I have another word for, them ■ kind of people." Herrman broke iri, / “but I don’t think fit to print/’ Herrman, formerly with the Ist cavalry division said a dozen. Americans were captured near Kumchom, Korea, when their trucks were ambushed They were held in a house where they sat in a halt circle on the floor. “This little guy came in,” Herr m>n said. “I naw him pull back the bolt on his rifle. I don’t know whether anyon s heard me, but I said, ‘This is it.’ ” ’“He shot, and the guy in front -*of me fell forward. I spun around and stuck my* head under a desk. .Then 1 heard all kinds of shooting.” ' |■ ■ -J -Tr H■R 1 Herrman said he was shot in the leg but played dead and "prayed to God they’d go iway.” Five men survived the shooting. That night they crept down to the road and found that an American artillery unit had been ambushrid there. - I “Some of th’m were just plain * downright mt.rdered." Herrjnan said. "Their be dies were black as coal where they (the North Ko- , . reans) poured .gasolinh on them and Tara to Post* Rlskt Driver Is Killed As Truck Hiti Abutment r •■ • , INDIANAPO MS. UP — John Home, Sr., 51. Oaklawn, 111., was killed Thursday night when the big truck he was driving left U.§. 52 northwest o! here and struck a bride abutmen:. i Woman Pedestrian \ Is Fatally Injured I FRANKLIN, Ind., UP — Mrs. Sue Brown, 79, was injured fatally Thursday night when struck by an auto In front of, her home just inside the north city limits of Franklin. The car was driven by Francis CheekJ 19, Franklin: Mrs. i Brown died s|x hours after Re accident in Memorial hospital. Buys Health Bond The Research club has voted \ purchase* of a- $6 health bond, x ” L officials o f HetpßghtTß the Christmas seal campaign > ]! in Adams 5 jl 1 county an5 ynounced t o - ? jT;!day. Al i P ro ' < ceeds from ? ;I the -annual , Chri s t m a s Buy Christmas Seeds seal sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on tbq fight against the “white plague/* The sale is conducted by the Adams county tuberculosis association.

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LONE STAR, the 1,500 pound «rand champion steer pf the 1953 internation |livestock exposition seems to be the only member of this happy group who isn't celebrating. The white-faced Hereford brought the all time record price of S2O-a-pound—s2o,loo—when it was sold at auction Thursday. Albert Pick (left), who bought the Steer smiles happily while Ellard Pfaelzer, who handled the bidding for Pick gives a congratulatory hug to White Star’s owner, pretty 18-year-old Sut White of Big Springs, Texas.

Probers Ask For Dates Os FBI Reports Ask Dates Justice Department Sent Repprts On Hiss : ' '■ ' ’H" ' WASHINGTON UP — Senate investigators today asked the justice department for the dates the TrUman administration was sent FBI reports on Alger Hiss and four other workers accused of Red-ties. The internal security subcommittee asked for the information to wrap up the list of nine "critical -cases” it is studying in the spjes-in-government inquiry set off by* the Harry Dexter White case. The subcommittee has said at least nine persons remained on the federal payroll for considerable periods after the FBI submitted "derogatory" reports on them to high-ranking officials of the Trum'an’ administration. .The state department, meanwhile, revealed that formal negotiations were underway with Canada to arrange for the subcommittee to talk with former Soviet code clerk Igbr Gouzenko about Communist espionage in the United States. A spokesman said secretary of state John Foster Dulles Jtad' gent a note to Ottawa designating chairman William E. Jenner R-Ind. and counsel Robert Morris as the U. S. representatives to question Gouzenko. The subcommittee reluctantly agreed to Canada's terms for meeting Gotizenko. a closely-guarded ward of the Canadian government who fled from the Russians in 19R> and helped crack an atomic spy ring. Canada wil have the filial say over what part of Gouzenko's testimony shall be made public. The. tjtate department spokesman said the “time and place” of. the proposed questioning could not be made public because of Gouzenko’s security. Gouzenko has been quoted recently as saying he tip* longer wishes to talk to U. S. authorities for fear it would endanger lis family, who Hyes with him in hiding in a small Ontario village. Morris told reporters the justice department had been asked to disclose when the FBI circulated reports op Hiss, Harry Magdoff, Maurice. Halperin. Irving Kaplan and Edward J. Fitzgerald. /Similar information has already been obtained and placed in the record on the other four cases— Harold Glasser, Virginius Frank Coe, Victor Perlo and Solomon Adler. Hiss was a top state department official until January*. 1947, after he was accused of Communism by Red Whittaker Chambers. He is now serving a five-year perjiry term for denying he gave secrets to a Soviet spy ring. Hiss. Magdoff, Halperin and FitzTara Te Pace Ei*ht«

Suspends Sentence For Young Forger Willshire Youth To Go Back To Army Rex L. Rankins, 18, Willshire, 0., soldier AWOL from Fort Knox, Ky., arraigned on a forgery charge this week. Thursday ;Ja&uioon pleaded guilty to the charge and received a suspended sentence of from two to 14 yeans in the state reformatory. Rankins was ordered by Judge Mylea F. Parrish to pay a $lO fine, in addition, and make full restitution. The young soldier was promised leniency by <Maj, Gee. i.illlam R. Stevens, commanding general of the third cavalry, according to Rankins’ pauper attorney, D. Burdette Custer. Custer said the youth would be permitteJ to finish advance basic training without suffering punishment by th army. The Willshire soldier was Arrested last Saturday night by sheriff Bob Shraluka who obtained a signed statement by Rankins that, since th|e latter part of October, he fprged four checks, reportedly using the name of Fred Lautzenheiser as the maker in all cases. Rankins admitted passing spurious checks at Hoosier Pete’s gas station, Myers Home & Auto Supply, the M & C Truck Stop (of which there i no trace as yet), and the Decatur Newsstand, a.i Decatur businesses. Another AWOL soldier, Lanuel Stancomb, 17, P.edford, who admit(Tara To Pace Klckt) — Luella C. Bolinger Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon V i Mrs. Luella Chase Bolinger, 87, a former, resident of Adams county, died at 4:20 o’clock this morning at the home of a son, Frank H./ in Van Wert, 0., following a long illness of complications. She was born in Tipton county Jan. 21, 4866, a daughter of James and Susie Chase. Her husband, David E. Bolinger, preceded her in deajh. Mrs. Bolinger was a' member of the Methodist church at Willshire, O. Surviving are two sons, Frank of Van Wert and Ralph of Rockford, 0.; one daughter, Mrs. Harold Kirsch of Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchil-dren; one brother, Arthur Chase of Kokomo, and one sister, Mrs. John Harreß of Elwood. Two sons and one daughter are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. (EST) Sunday at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. Argo Sudduth and the Rev. Willis Turner officiating. Burial will be In Albright cemetery, Howard county. The body was removed to the Lobenstein funeral home, where friends may call after noon Saturday.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 4, 1953

Eisenhower, Churchill And Laniel Launch Big Three’s Conference

22 Americans Reject Gilt 01 New Testaments Prisoners Refuse Gift But Request Red Newspapers PANJJUNJOM, Korea (UP) — The 22 American war prisoners who have refused to return home have rejected New Testaments and asked instead for Communist newspapers, an Indian spokesman revealed today. ■ The spokesman said the selfexiled Gls natly turned down a gift of 22 individually-wrapped New Testaments sent to them from the United States. The snub of Christianity’s mostsacred writings was revealed after South Korean officers failed for the third straight day to coax home any ROK prisoners. Young Korean officers have talked to 90 prisoners but all elected life under Red rule. -\ ' The Indian spokesman said the American prisoners, called “pro 4 Communiats” by the Reda, asked Indian guards to give them news-, papers and books from North i-ea instead of New Testaments. The spokesman did not make clear whether the rejection was made by each prisoners individually or by their self-appointed leaders. American officers believe the Gls are controlled by a handful, perhaps no more than two, of firmed Communists who do their thinking for them. The Indian officer said the prisoners’ request for North Korean newspapers was denied, but reliable sources reported the Americans secretly are receiving Communist periodicals. I These sources said Englishlanguage Chinese and North Korean newspapers are smuggled to the Gls within two days of; publication date. The. Yankees also have Communist books in their mud prison camp huts, including a history of the Communist party. ; ROK explainers. meanwhile, shortened their explanations to obviously pro-Communist South Koreans today. \ It was so obvious that the prisoners were pro-Communist that the explainers took only half the time used for two previous days of 8 interviews with hard-core South Korean Reds. ‘‘All you could hear was explainers calling, ‘Next’!” one officer said. "This place is beginning to sound like a barber shop.” , With 90 — or 25 percent of Communist-held South Koreans — (Ton Te Poo KI«hO

Good Fellows Club Is Devoted To Aid Needy

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles prepared telling of the work of the Delta Theta Tau’s Good Fellows Club.J The Good Fellows Club is devoted to assisting those in need at the Christmas season. While many of the townspeople give jip service to the commendable nature of this work, the purpose of this club is to appeal to more than that. Last year with ypur generous help and donations, they were able to feed, clothe, and give toys to some 73 families in’thls community. Many of you no doubt do not believe that in our thriving community there exists such conditions as these. But if examples were to be cited, I’m sure that each and every one of you would be more than willing to donate to such a worthy cause. The happiness of needy children and their parents cannot be realised without the cooperation of other organisations, church societies, business firms, and the individuals themselves, together with our ever willing fire department and volunteera, the Jaycees, Lione

McCarthy Requests Letters On Issue Urges Letters, Wires Sent To White House WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. said today he invited his supporters to ’bombard the White House with letters and telegrams on the trade-with-China issue because “I think it’s a good thing for the President to know how the country feels.” He denied any intention of challenging President (Eisenhower's "overall leadership,” but said the GOP is "not a one-man phrty” and ‘’differences of oplniori are healthy.” \ +' ■ P IMdCarthy made the to reporters as White House aides revealed that 120 telegrams -were revived Thursday after McCarthy urged "every American who feels as I do” to .write Mr. Eisenhower demanding that he cut off U.S. aid to nations trading with Red China. The 120 telegrams were received before the White House offices were closed foi the evening at 8:30 p.m. E&T. That was approximately nine hours after McCarthy had appealed for public pressure on Mr. Eisenhower to change <J<S. foreign policy. Most of the Initial batch of teltgrams supported McCarthy’s post tkm. but no precise breakdown *of their contents was made public. Administration sources noted, ho - ever, that the first flow of messages was not large by White House standards. When public sentiment is inflamed by a major con troverey, the President sometimes receive® hundreds or even thousands of telegrams in a single day. McCarthy’s appeal was made in an impromptu addition to a formal statement which he issued Thursday reaffirming his belief that th? administration should get tou.;h with gllied countries whic hengage In what he called "blood with Red China. President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles had previously declared that the ITura Tn Paam Wlve» Eisenhower Host At Stag Dinner WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower was host to 14 promi nent men at a White House stag dinner Thursday night. The guest list included Eugene Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis News. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness north and central and mostly fair extreme south tonight; colder. ' Saturday mostly fair and colder. Low tonight 28-34 north, 34-39 south. High Saturday 34-40 north, 40-48 south.

and Rotary clubs, and various men who in the past have not onjy donated gifts, money, toys, but some of their valuable time. For most of these individuals who actively participate in this undertaking, it is a matter of leaving their own homes, families, and devoting so much time to the investigation of these families. That accomplished, the clothes are sorted, grouped according to sizes and families, shoes bought for the children, and the many food baskets filled. In the last two years we have not Accepted used clothing* but due to financial circumstances, we are going to accept them this year with pome few stipulations. First of all, they must be clean, in good condition, and marked according to size before they will be accepted by any of the club members. The items of clothing needed are sweaters for children, coats in good condition, underclothes, dresses and pants suitable for children from size 8-14. I might mention here there is another group who is aiding imc (Turn To Pa«r Six)

U. N. Assembly Moves Toward Adjournment Debate Evacuation Os Nationalists' Troops From Burma UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) V —The United Nations general assembly moved rapidly toward adjournment today as its political committee debated evacuation of Chinese Nationalist troops from Burma. The presence of Chinese Nationalist squatters on Burmese soil gave Vice President Richard M. Nixon his biggest diplomatic headache on his recent visit to Rangoon on his round-the-world tour. Burmese officials feel that the United States is responsible for the Chinese being on their soil because the United States recognizes Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek’s government on Formosa. Nixon assured the Burmese, however, that every step will be taken I to evacuate the Chinese, remnants of the forces which were defeated by the Communist Chinese. general aesembly’s political committee was expected ' to dispose of the Nationalist ChinaBurma dispute in one day’s sitting and then tirtn to the last item on the agenda—Korea. With general agreement prevailing among the western and “neutral” powers to postpone reopening of all-out Korean debate at this session, prospects were that the assembly would adjourn next week. Submission of an adjournment resolution by India, which seeks to clear up the status of unrepatriated prisoners of the Korean war, helped advance the time for adjournment. Only minor adjournment details need to be worked out. The western powers were reported planning their own resolution, which would call for Adjournment next week with postponement of a full-dress Korean debate. ’ -- It would permit India’s Mrs. Vi Tara To Paso Eight — Mrs. Herman Girod Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Clara M. Girod, 46, of one mile east of Salem, died at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Blufftdn following an illness of 16 months. She was born in Adams county Oct. 1, 1907, a daughter of Emile and Magdalena Amstuts-Egley and was married to Herman Girod April 24, 1937. She owned and operated the Vogue beauty shop in Decatur until 1938. i c Mrs. Girod was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and the Eta Tau Sigma sorority. , ' Surviving In addition to her husband are a daughter, Marlene, at home; five sisters, Mrs. Charles Merkey of Bluffton, Mrs. Alva. Miller of tdnn Grove, Mrs. Walter Conrad of Magley, Mrs. John Barkley of Decatur and Mrs. William Wittmer of Fort Wayne, and seven brothers, Lewis Egley of Bluffton. Walter of Magley, Ralph of Decatar, Glenn, Levi and Albert, al! of Convoy, 0., and Noah of Monroe. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:45 p. m. Sunday at the Zwlck funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Zion. Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be In the MRE cemetery at Borne. Friends may call st the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. The casket will not be opened st the church.

Albert Musser, 79, Is Granted Parole \, Former Linn Grove Resident Paroled CITY, Ind., UP — Albert Musser, 79, the “granddaddy” of all inmates at Indiana State Prison, was paroled today from a life term for a murder committed in the “Gay Nineties.” t The prison parole board took up Musser’s case first on a list of prisoners eligible for clemency consideration arid granted a parole which will open the doors to freedom for Musser ini time for Christmas. Arthur Campbell, a member of the state correction department, said Musser probably win be released next week so he can spend the holidays with former in-laws in Shelby county who offered him a home. Musser is a former resident of Linn Grove. Musser shook hands with Campbell and all five board members and said he was “very happy and most grateful,” Campbell said. Only a technicality stands between Musser and the prison’s open gates. The Shelby county welfare department must approve plans for him to live there. Musser was sentenced in 1898 for killing Mrs. Louisa Stoltz, 72, a Portland widow. Evidence ip prison files showed he was convicted on circumstantial evidence in Blackford county, to the surprise of a courtroom spectators who believed he would be acquitted. Musser always denied the crime. The board acted after Governor Craig commuted Musser’s sentence to time served to life. Musser, prisoner No. 1365. spent his lifetime in prison from the age of 24 except for two parole periods totaling 13 years. Educator Speaks I To Service Clubs C. Emmet Eiler Is Speaker Thursday €. Emmet Eiler, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, was the guest speaker at a joint meeting of the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs Thursday evening at the K. of P. home. Eiler, a native ofTKirkland township, discussed some of his experiences as a school administrator in Germany in recent years. The educator told of some of the problems faced in providing proper schooling for American children in Germany and of the need for increased facilities of schools in that country. & . - - The state official served as school principal in Fremont and Avilla before serving 30 months overseas with the U« S. army in World War 11. After the war, he was principal at Plainfield until 1949, when be accepted a position as superintendent, of American schools in Wiesbaden, Germany. He resigned that position after his appointment aa assistant to Wilbur Young, superintendent of public instruction.' W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the public schools, was chairman of the program.

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Seek To Put World Back On Road To Peace Initial Meeting Os Big-Three Leaders On This Afternoon TUCKERS TOWN, Bermuda (UP)—President Eisenhower joined British prime minister Winston. Churcllill and French premier Joseph Laniel toisy for a Big Three conference designed to put the world back on the road to peace. The three chiefs of state arranged to hokj the first meeting of their four-day conference on world tensions at 3:30 p. m. CST. It was expected their chief decision in the conference would be to accept—with reservations —a Soviet Russian proposal for a fourpower conference of foreign ministers ip Berlin, probably toward the end of January. The President’s special plane Columbine landed at the United States air force Kindley field base at 10:12 a.m. CST after a flight of 3 hours and JO minutes from Washington. , ' - j With the President were secretary of state John Foster Dulles, atomic energy commission chairman Lewis L Strauss and a staff of aides. Four thousand persons greeted the President, many standing on packing cases or folding chairs. • Churchill and Laniel arrived three minutes before the plane landed to head the welcoming party. The official party left for the Mid-Ocean club, headquarters of the conference. r if The President’s arrival was a big moment for Bermuda. He got a perhaps bigger and even more enthusiastic greeting even than did Queen Elizabeth II wirien she arrived here last week to start her world tour. The crowd cheered repeatedly, the cheers rising as the President faced one way and then another. The Big Three are to try at their meeting here to coordinate plans for the defense of Western Europe and the entire western world. Churchill came to the conference with the hope it would lead to the crowning achievement of an amazing career—peace in our time. He was expected to do most of the talking. Even though Italy and Yugoslavia were not represented, the Big Three chiefs of state were believed prepared to take up the Trieste issue, if time permits. A possible Big Four meeting ” with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov obviously was the first item on the agenda. British foreign j secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Georges Bidault held a 90-minute informal meeting Thursday night and agreed to accept the Soviet proposal for a four-power meeting of foreign ministers in Berlin. Their next move will be to win the support of U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles at their scheduled 3 p. m. EST meeting, a preliminary to thft, opening of the conference. It was learned that, in deference to the wishes of the, Unite® States, Eden and Bidault agreed the west must make clear to the Kremlin that a Big Four conference Would take into consideration only the German unity and Austrian treaty issues. Warsaw Men Killed By Train In Ohio WOOSTER. Ohio UP —Thomas D. Hackworth. 28, and Orville R. Secor, 32. both of Warsaw, Ind., were killed Thursday when their truck waa struck by a Pennsylvania freight train at a downtown crossing. They apparently failed to see a watchman’s warning.