Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1954 — Page 2

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Tobacco Industry Faces Competition Foreign Producers Increase Output WASHINGTON (INS) — The agriculture department said today that the V. 3. tobacco Industry is faring increased competition from foreign producers on the osele of e ellght decline in domeetlc consumption. In Ite regular report on the tobacco situation, the department’s agricultural marketing service has ruled oat tty substantial increase in O. S. tobacco sales overseas due to Btepped-up output by foreign producers. Officials said there are several favorable teeters in tee export picture including improved gold and dollar reserves by tee foreign nations and plans by the U. S. government to Mil surplus tobacco

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Correspondent Tells Os Trip Into East Germany

(Editor's note: For the test nine years the Soviets have been working hard to communite East Germany. Are they succeeding? How do the Bast Germans live? What are the problems thsy face day to day, hour to hour? What is the true picture of life behind the Iron Curtain? What does the average East German think about western plans for defending Europe? These and other vital questions are answered in the following second article of a series by International Newt Service Berlin bureau manager Joseph H. • Singer, just back from a trip deep into the Soviet sone, to Lelpsiz for the annual fair.) By JOSEPH H. SINGER LEIPZIG. East Germany (INS) — “Yon Americans! Learn your lesson from us here in East Germany. Don't trust the Russians.” A fiftyish. greying taxi driver gives you this warning, as you drlvh toward the fair grounds in Leipzig. Bitterly he goes on: "Peaceful co-existence? Sure, they’ll give it to you, Look at ns here in East Germany. We’re existing peacefully.” He underlines “existing” with a snarl. “Is this what you want, to just barely exist like usT” He and scores of other East Germans you talk to stress that they are not "living”—they are barely -• "existing.” They explain how they spend ail their waking hoars just keeping alive. “We were born to live — not just to work and exist,” they exctelm. "It's work, work, work, always work,” a middle-aged man says. "When we aren’t working we have to stand ia line and spend beers searching for food. The whole family has to work. And tor what? For a pitiful life.” it's true that things have gotten a little better since the June 17, 1953, uprising, they tell you. After the rioting, the Reds announced the “new course” to raise the standard of living throughout East Genßaay. “But any change would have been in improvement, even death," a nineteen-year-old boy quietly says. Clothing is a bit better and more colorful than it has been since 1945. Material quality is slightly higher. More food is available—but not often enough.

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"The Reds haven't changed thair plans, despite their new face," an old man tells you. "They are still planning to take over everything. But for the time being they are going slow and pretending to make things better for us.” Most East Germans you meet during your visit to Leipzig are hungry for the truth. Their heads are weary from the flood of ilea fed them since 1945. They see through Red propaganda which claims people in the west are starving and without work. They can see the truth with their own eyes. But the average East German finds it difficult to find the answers to more complicated political questions. He appears to he rather uncertain about the purpose of the European defense community, or a substitute for it. He tells you that the French rejection of EDC only makes the picture more confusing to him. “We want more liberty—but not at the price of a war which will grind us into the ground,” one working man says. The majojrijty of people with whom you talk try to be as unpolitical as possible, it’s safer to keep out of the puppet parties If you don't want to join the ruling Socialist Union party (Communist party). Also, the struggle to keep existing*, to find food and the necessities of life, takes all their time. Yet they somehow find the strength to resist the Reds —passively. "The state-owned movies used to show only Russian films. So we simply stopped going to those theaters. When the state saw that the plan was going to slip because there were no profits from the movies, they started showing German films,” a young widow- tells you. (Resistance? Yes, resistance of sorts that at least enables the East German people to hang onto a shred of pride. Another person tells how a group of travelers in a train prevented a Communist policeman from taking the identification papers of a passenger. They forced the Red cop to Imp oft the train as it pulled out of the station. A small victory? Yes, but never-, thless a victory. (NSxtr More about life under the Commpgjata) .

Gueat Speaker K I : .1 Rev. Arthur H. Ziegler The Rev. Arthur H. Ziegler, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran church, Huntington, and chairman of the hoard of education ot the central district of the Lutheran Church-tesouri Synod, will .be guest speaker at Zion Lutheran church. West 'Monroe street, Sunday. October 19, as the local congrebation celebrates its annual mission festival. "The Innor Compulsion of Missions” will be Rev. Ziegler’s pulpit theme at both the 8 and 10:30 worship services. Special mission offerings will be received at the services to help the local congregation meet its mission budget witich, this year, amounts to $5,350. The Lutheran church-c Missouri synod, with which the local church It affiliated, has a 1954 mission and education budget ot $8,100,000. Red China's Army General Elected Heir-Apparent To Red China Leader HONG KONG (INS) — Western observers speculated today over the possible significance in the election of an army general as the heir-apparent to Red China’s Mao Tse-tung. Gen. Ohu Teh, 68-year-old com-mander-in-chief of the army, was elected first vice president by the 1.2 W - member National People's congress in Peiping Monday. It was the first time a potential I successor to Mao has been named since the Communists came to power in China in 1949. Mao, who was re-elected to the, post of chefrlßSq ftf ,jftß\iblic. or president, will hold office for the next four years under terms of ißed China's new constitution. He also will remain chairman of the party's central committee, principal policy-making body. Chu’a election was mildly surprising since it had been expected that either premier and foreign minister Chou En-lai or Liu Shaochi, Communist party philosopher, would be selected, Potluck Supper At Party Headquarters The Adams county Democratic Women's club, their families, and the county candidates ami their families enjoyed A potluck supper at the Democratic headquarters, one-half block north of llie stop IL-ht on Second street Monday night. Mrs. Theron FenTermaker. Dene ocratic county vice-chairman, spoke on the Democratic funu program, and called lor the election of Fred \V. Unions, Democratic candidate for congress from this district, to allow ths Democrats i to carry through a forward-looking | arm program to replace the pres- , ent Republican one. | Dr. Huy H. Itebide, Dei.mcratllc county chairman, introduced | the cmufity dandidates, and the 'meeting clased with a social hour.

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Ex-Prisoners Are Called To Witness Stand Senate Committee To Turn Files To Justice Department WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate tovecstlgatone will call mare «x---prisonera of war today to guppor* •testimony that an, Americanoperatttd magazine in Shanglhaii fed the Comiimuvkst propaganda machine in Korea. At the same time the internal security subcommittee, •wh+oii ie conducting hearings on the publication, “China Monthly Review,” promised that government action would be taken and said it is turning over it® tiles on the probe to the justice department The ‘‘Review'” was operated before and during the Korean conflict by John B. Powell, of San Francisco, now a seif-styled lecturer and free-lance writer: Powell was bluntly labeled a “murderer” tn testimony by one ex-POW late Monday. The former editor of the Shanghai publication took refuge in the fifth amendment wiven questioned Mpnday about political and editorial activities, hie wife's employ* menu and friend® he has visited to Washington, D. C., after tils return. to the U. ». The senate group said it would call more ex-prisoner® at today's 'hearing to testify on the truth or falsity of the "Rerlew’e” descriptions of prison camps and treatment of captive® by the Reds. CarrOH Wright Jr., an Arlington, Vr., real estate broker, who spent 34 months In Korean prison camp® declared that Powell was a "murderer.” He recalled in hi® testimony having the “China Monthly Review” as part of required reading. Concerning Powefl, Wright declared: “thfe man should definitely receive some punittre action. He does not deserve the rights of an American citizen." Two soldiers still in uniform toM in more restrained tones how Powell's publication was thrust on American POW's who sometimes suffered brutal punishment rather then approve 4t. The 25-year-aid widow of a prisoner who died in a Korean prison camp of malnutrition awl dysentery choked up and subbed a® she totd of lettew Powell wrote from Shanghai “as a fallow Missourian'' early in 1951. Mr®. Delores CriH of Kansas City, said Powell assured her that American news report® on Communist treatment of prisoners were mostly “dßbric«ted atrocity etories" Powell called to the eland, admitted writing to Mrs. Gill—wtv-se husband. Jnd Lt Charles L. 0411. died in a POW camp — but challenged the right of subcommittee chairman William E. Jenner (RInd.) to question his motives. Low-Cost Flooring By International Newt Service Budget-careful housewives wii* are coneMeritH the installation of new composition flooring materials might take a tip from one of the nation's leading decorators. William Pahlmann, who nas detv routed some of the nation* fanciest homes, say® he often prefers he cheaper grades of vinyl plastic, linoleum or rubber because - they usually are not so slick as 'he more expensive grades and therefore take on a richer luster with repeated waxing. It you have somutblng to sell or mom* for ent, try a Democta - Want Add It bring* result®. Trade 'n a *a»o<i i*,wn — Decatur

A„ - A Volunteers Needed To Pour Foundatioa T _ Volunteens are needed for mixing and .pouring the cement foundation for the pre-gab building, which will be moved soon to the county 4-H grounds, next to the Adams Central school, Peter B. Lehman, chairman of the grounds committee,s aid today. The foundatioa will be laid Thursday morning at SI o'clock, Lehman said, and volunteer workera should bring their shovels, epades. or wheel barrows to help la the work. t Jefferson Club To Hear Judge Byrd Judge Homer Byrd, of Welle county, who recently issued an Injunction which prohibited Got. Craig from interfering with the Bluffton street fair, will be the speaker at the Jefferson club meeting next Monday night at Democratic headquarters, onehalf block north of the atop light on Second street. The meeting will be at 8 p. m., and refreshment® will be served afterward, Mrs. Walter Koos, vicepresident, said today. Thie will be the laet meeting before the elec-

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tton, Mrs. Koos exphasized, and all members are urged U> attend. MAP LOCATES Hakodate and Iwanal, two disaster scenes In the typhoon which Iss htd Japan. A big ferry capsized in Hakodate harbor, with more than a thousand persons lost, and Iwanal, a city of 23,000, was reported four-fifths burned out The typhoon struck Kyushu, southernmost Japanese island, veered eastward to touch Tokyo, then struck west into the Japan sea It swerved east again with 100-mph winds to strike northern Honshu and Hokkaido, where damage ts said to be the meet severe.