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22 Americans Refuse Appeals To Return Home Reject Final Plea | By United Nations | For Return Home PANMUNJOM, Korea, Thursday UP —- American Cljs who have refused to return hozpe became exiles from homes, families and country on this Christmas Eve. ■ f They rejected, in an *orgy of ■f "wild dancing and singing of Soviet songs, a final plea by the United Nations command Wednesday change their minds. All questioning of anti-repatriate prisoners ended Wednesday night. 'The Americans, one British, and *, Fqsj*li Korean prisoners who have ttdd they will cast their lot with CkVmmunism, will remain in customy of the Indian troops here unX til Wan. ,23. Unless they change thell minds, they will then be sept to Communist territory—outcasts. The defense department will list them as ‘deserters as of Jan. 23. £ , > Mrs. Portia Howe, the Alden, Minn., farm wife who came here 1n the vain hope ,of seeing her anti-repatriate son, Pte. Richard A. Tenneson, left sorrowfully for home at 10:40 Wednesday night. . Her Northwest Airlines flight |0 was headed for Seattle, Wash. | “I’m putting all my confidence iq. the Lord,** she said at her liotel before she left, as she thumbed her Bible. I P Gen. John E. Hull, United Nations commander in chief, informed Nationalist China and South Korea that he will do everything to speed the movement of 22,060 anti-Communist prisoners to Formosa and South Korea when they revert to civilian status at 12:11 a.m. Jan. 23. ' | 'The Americans, the 103 South Koreans and the lone Briton Repudiated their homelands and Ibved ones on the final day of questioning even though strong Indian guards stood outside their compound, hoping some would make a break from the hard-core Coin-' munista who are their leaders. Nineteen of the 22 anti-repatri-ate Americans pressed against tbe barbed-wire enclosures which symbolised their choice of communion. They sang the "Internationale,’* the Communist anthem, as a l|st "come home** plea was made to them over a load speaker, n&e three others were in hospitals. ; Then they danced -with themselves and with South Koreans, five of whom wore gay women’s clothing, to primitive music. ' Allied newsmen and U. N. officials who had worked four months ’ on winning back the prisoners tifo democracy said they were disgusted by the exhibition. y* At times there was a certain ring of obscenity in the Communist songs. During the morning, the Americans, a youth with long - blond- hair, was seen holding hand ß with a South Korean. The Allies gave the unrepatriat:d prisoners 30 minutes to make p their minds and, after hearing Red songs and watching the men wave their fists, send the sound truck back to Munsan, automatic(Tara To Pare Six) . . INDIANA WEATHER f Mostly fair and a Httle cold* er tonight. 'Thursday mostly fair and warmer. Low tonight zero** above. High Thursday 25-30.

(ft 111 •%. ■ Perueal of the 30 pages i qf thls Issue of thia new»-|. paper will prove to you t that everybody wishes you i a Merry Christmas J This annual Christmas | Greeting edition convpys elneere wlahsa for yourJ<, Yulotldo happiness, and lp»g foresting features that wo j| hope will add to your g Christmas Joy. ,\||

‘Aiints’ Greet Korean Orphan —— f ' \5 ■a 1 HI '3K4 ■■ THREE OF THE TWELVE foster aunts and uncles with whom he will live welcome little Lee Kyung Soo at Idlewild airport. New York. The Korean orpan is held by his foster father, Chief Boatswain’s Mate Vincent T. Paladino, who found Jilm in ehelltorn Inchon a year ago and adopted him. Kissing the boy is “Aunt" Camille, while “Aunt” Janet (left) and "Aunt” Gloria Paladino wait their turn. In background is . New Rochelle, N. Y„ City Councilman George Vergara. New Rochelle ih the Paladinos* home town.

Sen. Douglas Favors Cui In Excise Taxes . Recommends Cut Go into Effect April 1 As Now Scheduled WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Paul H. (Douglas IMUi today that excise tax cuts scheduled for next April 1 be allowed to go Into effect to help bolster the country against a depression. Wiyie emphasizing that he is not predicting a depression, Douglas told reporters he sees some “danger’’ of an \ economic slump. He proposed that plans <be developed right away so the government would be prepared to combat, a depression in case one should develop. \ / “I would say that we are in a real recession,” he said. \: Douglas was a professor of economics at' the University of Chicago before his election to the senate. He said he has found farm implement factories “hit very, very hard," reflecting a drop in farm income, and that he understood that the automobile industry “is beginning to feel the pinch.” Both factors, he said, result *n a cutback in the demand for steel. His nervousness about the possibility of a depression was based on his fear that such factors could set off a chain reaction to cause an economics lump. He said, however, that he sees no danger of a depression asl serious as that of the early 1930’5. If the administration should conclude that a depression is coming, Douglas said, there should be a reduction in what he called "consumption taxes?’ He said this reduction could be achieved by cutting excise taxes (sales taxes on specific items) and by increasing the present income tax exemptions of 3600 a person. said that excise tax reductions would result in lower prices of the products affected with. a resulting increase in demand for them. The one billion dollars in excise cuts scheduled for April 1 wou’d affect automdb:les and auto parts, gasoline, liquor, sporting goods and cigarettes.

Annual Teen*Agers Dance Friday Night The annual Christmas dance for . teen-agers, co-sponsored by the Den and Adams Post 43,, American Legion, will be held at the Legion home Friday 'night from 9 to 12 o’clock, with music by Bob Gentis and bls orchestra. The dance hall and orchestra are provided by the Legion, with supervision by the Den. All teenagers and students home from college are invited to attend. There ta no admission charge.

Rules Out Early Pay Raise For Military Says Congress Not| Favorable To Boost WASHINGTON UP —Chairman Dewey Short of the house armed services committee today ruled out an early pay raise for the military, bat held out hope congress will take other steps to service careers zpore attractive. A The Missouri Republican said a defense department survey commission, which recently Recommended a cost-of-living pay boost for servicemen, made a good case. But he said the climate in congress in the new year will not be favorable\for passage of a pay raise bill. "I'm most sympathetic," he told a reporter. “But I would not want to create any false hope.” Short disclosed he has put on hja committee's agenda, however, consideration of other steps recommended by the defend department study group—for improving morale and attracting more gopd men to military careers. These include such things as restoration of curtailed "fringe” benefits like the post exchange and commissary privilege; an increase in the amount of household goods that can be shipped at government expense; and better housing. \ As the committee’s first business in January Short scheduled an administration bill to let the air force build its own service academy, comparable to the army’s at West Point, N.Y., and the navy’s at Annapolis, Md. The new, academy is estimated to cost from 150 to 200 million dollars, Short said. “I’m not-going to use any unfair pressure as to where it is located,” Short said. “But the two present academies arp bn the east poast and I think it should go somewhere in the midwest. I think Sedalia, Mo., would be a good place.” Also high on the committee’s work list he put a new authorization for military construction work, including bases for the new guided (Tara Ta !»•»• Six) ‘ Good Fellows Club , Previous Total $752.94 Rosary Society 5.00 Welcome Wagon Hostesses, Marie Hill, Kathryn Tyndall ....... 10.00 Edgar Mutschtar'- 20.00 A Former Delt — 1.00 Tippy .25 Change in boxes 3.39 Mr. & Mrs. W. Guy Brown 5.00 TOTAL ITfLSB Lions Entertain Children Tuesday Lion club mmebera entertained their children at a Christmas party last evening at the K. of P. home. Approximately 100 attended the gala affair. A picnic-type supper was served and Alva Lawson was chairman of the program. A movie, "Guiding Star," was shown. Santa Claus distributed treats to the children and was prevailed upon to accept last minute orders tor toys.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December, 23, 1953.

Two Elusive Michigan Convicts Captured By Richmond Police Today

Slight living Cost Decline Is Reported 7 Drop In Food Price Mainly Responsible For Slight Decline WASHINGTON, UP —■ The government reported today the cost of_ living declined slightly in November for the first time in eight months. A 1.4 percent drop in food prices was chiefly responsible for the decline. W The decline meant that 1,100,000 railroad workers lose out on a 1 cent-an-hpur wage increase under their contracts which are tied to the cost of living index. < , bur Mh« «f labor statistics reported its index of consumer prices edged down three-tenths of 1 percent from October and stood at 115 percent of average 1947-49 retail prices. Food prices accounted for practically all of, the decline in the index. The sharpest declines in this field were in meats and eggs. Transportation costs, due to lower used car prices, declined H of 1 percent. Apparel prices were unchanged. All other items Which reflect the cost of living rose during the month. Housing, due to rent increases, went up tWo-tenths\ of 1 percent; medical qare, up tour tenths of 1 percent; personal care, due ’to toilpt soap price increases, up two tenths of L-percent; reading and three tenths of 1 per cent, and all other goods and services were up four tenths of 1 per cent. The overall Index stood sixtenths of 1 percent higher than a (Tmtx Te Ps«» KUrbt) Nixon Will Report To Nation Tonight Radio-TV Network Broadcast Tonight WASHINGTON UP —Vice President Richar<TM. Nixon is scheduled to report to the nation tonight on his recent 45,000-mile tour of Asia. The report, his first public accounting since he returned to the capital a week ago, is to be carried over the Rational Broadcasting Co.’s radio-TV networks at 9:30 p.m. CST. There was a possibility, however, that the vice president might change his plans at the last minute to fly to the bedside of his father who suffered a critical stomach hemorrhage Tuesday night. Fj-fends said he had not decided early today whether to make the trip immediately. The elder Nixon, Francis A. Nixon, 73, suffered the attack while en route by air to his Whittier, Calif., home from Birmingham, Ala. He was hospitalized in Phoenix, Aria, and pronounced in critical condition. In Washington, the vice president’s office said Nixon still planned to go on with his nation wide speech tonight on his round-the-world trip. / Nixon’s aides said he had no plan at present to go to his father’s bedside, for the elder. Nixon was reported to be “responding well to treatment” 0 o 30 PAGES

Mrs. Howe Leaves for United Stales | Will Not Abandon | Hope Son To Return | TOKYO UP —Mrs. Portia Howe left for the United States tonight, Asserting she will never give up hope her son will someday renounce Communism. | Mrs. Howe left Tokyo International Airport aboard Northwest Airlines for Seattle, Wash. "I'm putting all my confidence fn the Lord,” the graying mother paid before she boarded the plane. Her son, Pfc. Richard R. Tenneson, one of the 22 American pls who have decided to stay with the communists, rejected her plea jto return home. | Mrs. Howe was composed but tired after her 12-day ivigil in Tokyo. : She carried Christmas presents for her husband and her th*be other children .back home in Alden, Mimu | A few hours earlier in her hotel, she thumbed a worn Bible until 'she found the right passage. j “It’s from Proverbs 22:6.” she said. "Listen to iL There’s no Itime limit." She 1 read slowly, “ ‘Train up a child in the way he should go and .when he is old he will not depart from it.’" | She looked up from the Bible 'and said, "Richard’s only 20 years {old. I’ll pray for his return to some day." | The Alden, Minn., farm wife who ■flew 7,000 miles in a vain effort to see her boy\ Pfc. Richard R. Tenneson, was pot discouraged when she heard how he ignored {a broadcast appeal today. While an American officer’s voice bellowed into the "Communist” camp Over a loudspeaker ’system, Richard played a game resembling billiards. « Like the other 21 Gls who have refused to return home, he turned Ja deaf ear to the broadcast. ; Richard’s denunciation of home ;and family left no bitterness in his another. “Oh, no,” she said, her face as if amazed by the -thought. ; "He is my son. I will take him .back dny time.” Mrs. Howe, , who flew to Tokyo rl2 days ago, left for home at 9:45 <lWra To Pare Four)

Transport Jammed By Holiday Travel 1 1 1 . ■ I Council Predicts | 510 Traffic Deaths I By UNITED PRESS £ Americans making their annual pilgrimage home for Christmas were already jamming rail, air and bus centers today. ; Highway travel, too, was building up to the peak that will come and Christmas day itself. I I Much of the auto travel in the Central portion of the country was over icy or snow-packed highways, i The national safety council predicted 610 tfcfflc deaths in ’the official holiday period from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday. I One airline predicted a record passenger volume this holiday season, and rail travel was expected to surpass last year’s mark. United Air Lines said the expected record would see an estimated to percent Increase in passengers departing from Chicago y R. T. Anderson, general passenger traffic manager of the Banta ‘,'fre Railroad, said the line had pressed every available piece of passenger equpiment into service.

Warm Breezes Predicted To End Cold Snap Warming Trend For ,Midwest Areas On \ Thursday, Friday By UNITED PRESS ' The Severest cold of the season chilled almost the entire aFea east of the Rockies today but warm southwest breezes were racing to the rescue., Forecasters said many areas expecting a white Christmas will have a slushy one. The cold wave swept southeasterly during the night into northern Florida. . The coldest spot in the nation was International Falls, Minn., , when? the mercury touched 24 below aero, ft was 15 below at* HI. Cloud, Minn.; 9 below at Kirksville, Mo.; and 12 below at Park Falls, Wis. Knifing deep into Dixie, the wave of Artic air dropped temperatures to 15 above as far south -as Little Rock. It was 25 at Jackson, Miss.; 34 at Atlanta; and 41 at Pensacola, Fla. x Ahead of the cold front, however, there was a sharp contrast. The mercury didn’t go below 60 at Tallahassee and Jacksonville, Fla. A freak "bubble” of cold air shoved temperatures downward nine degrees in 2% hours at Springfield, 111., early today. At 5:30 a.m n it was two above zero. At 8 a.m., it was seven below. Half an hour later the mercury was back to five below and rising. The weather bureau said southwestern winds beginning tonight would bring a warming trend to much of the midwest Christmas (ContiaaeU m Pane Ei*ht)

Ike's Christmas Message Thursday World Peace Plea On Christmas Eve WASHINGTON UP — President and Mrs. (Eisenhower will open their Christmas gifts from each other around a fimlly tree in their private White House sitting room Christmas Eve. They wil laing carols — including Mrs. Eisenhower's favorite ‘Silent Night”. * « ; On Christmas Day. the first family will fly to the President’s golf course cottage in Augusta, Ga., to join their son, Maj. John Elsenhower, their daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. (Mrs. (Mary Jane McCaffree, Mrs. Eisenhower’s secretary, said the First Lady ie just about over a bronchial ailment and personally wrapped the Eisenhower presents for relatives and friends. In the traditional tree-lighting ceremonies on the White House lawn Christmas Eve, the President will deliver a plea for world peace. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said the ceremony will be carried by the TV networks of the National Broadcasting Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the American ■Broadcasting Co. from 4 to 4:SO pan. OST. | NO PAPER FRIDAY \ In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Dally Democrat will not publish an edition Friday, Dec. 25, which la Christmas Day.

Says Survey Shows ft Lower Beef Prices I \ Generally Reflect Lower Farm Prices WASHINGTON UP — The agriculture department reported today that retail beef prices “have generally reflected” the declining prices farmers gbt for cattle 'in 1952 and 1953. 4t said there were "scattered” cases of "extremely wide” farm-to-housewife price spreads on lower grade ibeef. But it ifaid most of these wide middlemen's margins were found in smaller markets. It gave big markets and chain stores a generally clean bill of health. The department undertook the survey after several congressmen charged that retail beef prices did not reflect thes harp skids in cattle prices which have taken place for the past two years, an< espe : dally this fall. The lawmakers sng gested that middlemen might bj« making exorbiant profits at the expense of farmers and consumers. * Secretary of agriculture Ezra r. Benson ordered the study last September. He asked his aides co “examine and report to me quickly on this spread between the price the farmer receives and the price th housewife pays Jor beef.” The 33-page report was concerned only with retail store sale* and did notcov er hotels or restaurant beef prices. , For some reason, not explained by the department, none of the 25 charts and tables |n the report (Ceatlaaed ea p a *e Five) More Russ Papers Lash Out At Beria Early End Is Seen To Treason Trial MOSCOW UP — Two more Russian newspapers joined the campaign against Lavrenti P. Beria today as western observers predicted the ousted secret police chief’s treason trial may end‘soon. Trud, official labor organ, and Izvestia, the government newspaper, lashed the fallen former No. 2 Communist with stinging editorials and dispatches reporting increasing resentment throughout the country. l\ A Trad editorial was headlined: “Traitors will not escape retribution.” The dispatches told of workers* expression of “boundless wrath.” Western observers believed the official announcement of Berta’s trial and fate might be expected at any time. The newspapers gave no indication of the progress of judicial proceeding against Beria and six of his secret police officials but said only he had been "committed for trial ” . Reports of the nation’s anger and editorials against Beria previously had been published only in Pravda, the Communist party organ. “The Communist party teaches Soviet people to be constantly armed against the intrigues of imperialist reaction and its agents,” lavestia said. “Our task is to lacrease vigilance to the utmost give prompt rebuff to hostile seis of capitalist encirclement." "Revolutionary vigilance is our weapon against all enemies,” Iz veetta added. Beria was accused of misusing the ministry’s secret police apparatus to help foreign imperialists end trying to grab power following Premier Josef Stalin’s death.

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Arrest Today Ends Roundup Os Escapees , Pair Os Dangerous t Escaped Convicts• Captured In Hotel RICHMOND, Ind. (UP) — Two elusive Southern Michigan prison escapees were arrested today despite a last-minute attempt by ope to grab a gun while police were watching him. « Their capture, in a hotel about dawn, resulted from a routine investigation of a ear they stole in Detroit, Mich. The fugitives. Roman Usiondek, 37, convicted of killing a tavern owner during a 1942 holdup, and Robert Dowling, 27, serving larceny and breaking and. entering terms, were jailed pending arrival of Michigan authorities. Dowling and Richmond police Capt John Rizio struggled briefly in she Mack Hotel room when Dowling grabbed a German pistol loaded wi.th one bullet from beneath a hat on the pretense ha was reaching for identification papers. But Rizio jumped forward and twisted Dowling’s wrist, forcing him to drop the gun. Usiondek was Geing watched by policemen Elwood Clark and Harold Ryan and offered no resistance. Police said the fugitives, among 13 convicts who broke out of prison at Jackson. Mich., Saturday night, apparently drove into Richmond shortly after midnight. The other 11 convicts previously were arrested and these two had become the object of an intensive police search in the Detroit area. Usiondek was described as a “psychopathic murderer" who had sworn vengeance against the prosecutor and four trial witnesses who helped send him to-prison for life. Dowling was considered capable of putting up a “vicious” fight if cornered. A police * patrol car spotted a new auto -bearing Michigan license plates parked near the hotel about 1:15 a. m. They checked its ownership and learned it had been stolen in Detroit last Sunday night. ► —• The hotel night clerk told officers two men who registered as “Joe Beck” and "John O’Conner" of Troy, Ohio, entered the hotel from the direction of the parked car. \ Both men were awake when Rizio and the two officers pounded, on the hotel room door about 5:15 m. They first said they knew nothing about the Michigan auto. When Rizio asked if they had credentials. Dowling replied "Yes, right over here." He stepped to a dresser, Rizio said, picked up a hat and grabbed the pistol lying underneath. Rizio lunged forward and grabbed DowTe Pwe

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