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THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE THE KOKOMO DISPATCH VOL. 87 CITY EDITION KOKOMO, MONDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1953 TWENTY PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS "Hi" ll'jtljtl MERCHANDISE MART BECOMES MAMMOTH GREETING The Merchandise Mart in Chicago. SrSSdf largest mercantile building, is ablaze with multi-coloredI lights a mammoth Christmas greeting display, enhanced by reflection the Chicago River. Merry Christmas" is spelled out in letters two stories tall, with strings of colored farming a 12 sTorV Christmas tree and a score of smaller trees.

Floodlights outline the structure of the building, and stars wink on and off from various points. (AP Photo) Two Marion Men Confess To Walton Bank Robbery H-Bomb May Be Greatest I Blast Known Its Power Larger Than That of All Bombs in War II WASHINGTON hydrogen weapon blast the United States plans for the Bikini Atoll test this spring may exceed the total power of all bombs dropped by the huge American Air' Forces in World War n. That figure was slightly over two million tons of TNT. President Eisenhower said in his speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly that "hydrogen weapons are in the range of mil- ions of tons of TNT's equivalent." The Bikini demonstration well may help resolve any doubts left after that speech about the need for. international atomic accord, although the test was not devised for the primary purpose of giving the world's citizens the "comprehension" of atomic warfare and danger.

Planned long before Eisenhower took office as 'president, it will be another stage of the progressive stepup in hydrogen explosions. The test at Bikini will show what could happen to the United States as well as to Russia in a war with hydrogen awesome argument for atomic peace. The last atomic explosion at Bikini probably will become, by comparison, a puny little pop. The two Salvation Army Raises Funds To Brighten Christmas for Needy Used Car Dealer, Salesman, Admit Dec. 1 Holdup MARION, Ind.

CD-A debt-ridden I Marion used car dealer and one TnQse Cnristmag bells and iron.no person was lowly. The Salya- of his salesmen confessed Sunday kettles together with the Salva- tionists particularly are bending to the $11,590 robbery the Cass; tjon A people who tend them, their efforts in behalf of children, County State Bank at Walton vorWng for a goal of none will be overlooked 1 (to provide Christmas needs for 100 Almost one-half of the Salvation 'police Chief Emi! McPherson: dese rving families of Kokomo. Army's $2,000 Christmas Fund goal ties downtown, Capt. Rawlin stat- used car business, Shell, 37, one of his salesmen. jcapt.

Hubert Rawlin. The Salva- Tbe chief said Baylors' business tion Army commander here said venireTh a been a failure and he that 300 children will receive toy ed was reported in debt upwards of Another JM persons -ill be rece 530,000. Neither man given candy and fruit, it is planned, had a police record these will be residents of Ild.ua. jjw fen-ma OTlH CS- the county home and nursing es- lnnt in I tablishments in Kokomo. ed.

Some of the contributions have jnse to let- ed several weeks ago to friends of the Salvation Army. Capt. Rawlin asked that applica- Dulles Urges Unity For Central Europe GI Non-Repals Are Stalling Explanations Thimayya Thinks They Don't Want To Be Coaxed By GEORGE McARTHUB PANMUNJOM Indian Lt. Gen. K.

S. Thimayya said today he believes the 22 American prisoners of the Korean War who refuse to quit the Communists are attempting to permanently stall off Allied attempts to coax them ome. Thimayya said the Indian command would make every effort to get the explanations started, but there was little possibility they would get under way in less than four or five days. Time is fast running out; the explanation period ends Dec. 23.

Only hours before they were test bombs used there in the 1946 scheduled to appear, the 22 balky ieoacii bv Louis H. Babb, president of the bank, and Mrs. Betty Lou Bruner, teller, who were brought to Marion by State Police Detective Sgt. Abe Taylor. The Indianapolis FBI office, which joined city and state police in making the arrests, said a federal warrant charging bank rob- berv was authoried by Phil Mc- Nagny, assistant U.S.

attorney at Fort Wayne. Twenty-four hours of fast police work cracked the case and the first break was a tip that Saviors had been seen washing 12 Lives Lost in Weekend Traffic Mishaps in Indiana mud-! Inmate of State School Killed As Car Hits Bridge vered car 5 which apparently had! Traffic accidents claimed 12 Mded "to a side ditch. The lives in Indiana over the weekend, maeo. imo including one inmate of the Mus- catatuck State School out for a ride with two women institution employes. Shirley Gullion, 17, the inmate, was killed Sunday night when an skidded into a getaway car was known to have had such an accident.

Patrolman Ned Blanchard received the tip and relayed it to Chief McPherson Saturday. "The rest of it was routine, Blanchard said. "Saylors always had his cars cleaned up at a filling station. His particular interest in this car seemed peculiar. A check up showed he was in bad financial condition but had been paying some bills since the robbery.

The Sunday morning arrest, identifications and confessions fol-j Indianapolis FBI office saidj ase aarently had! Kokomo Jaycees Extend Deadline For DSA Entries the Walton case apparently no connection with the wave of tended Indiana bank robberies in recent weeks. Jaycees Monday ex- The Walton stickup obviously was the work of rank amateurs," an FBI agent said. "One of the the deadline for nominations for the organization's annual distinguished service award with the new closing date to be Tuesday, Dec. 22. The previous deadline was to be a week earlier.

the place." The bank at all over! The award, which will be made a local man in recognition of automobile struck an abutment on U.S. 50 at Butlerville, just outside the institution grounds. Supt. Alfred Sasser said two off- duty Mrs. Ann McClellan, 29, and Miss Merajuana Crews, 28, had taken the Gullion girl and another inmate, Juanita Jackson, 17, for a ride.

Sasser said the taking of the girls off institution grounds was "in direct violation of school rules but they were just trying to be nice to the girls." State police said the car was driven by Mrs. McClellan. Miss Gullion died in Seymour Hospital. The others were reported in satisfactory condition. Sasser said the two employes would be discharged.

And out-of-state accidents killed three Hoosiers. Robert L. Wardlow, 32, and Gordon L. Harrison, 32, both of Fort Wayne, died in a car that hit a parked truck at U.S. 30 and Ohio 49 eight miles west of Van Wert, Ohio, early Sunday.

A two-car collision west of Cincinnati killed both Skidmore, 51, Lawrenceburg, and Thomas Hart, 21, Hamilton, Ohio. Walton. 38 miles'community service, will be pre-j. Saturday traffic victims in Inure after will a nart of the Kokomo ob- Chester E. Bennett, 46, Knox, about three and a half hours after will be a part of the the People's Trust Company at servance of Nationa Jaycee Week Jaionville was robbed by two gun- The 1954 award will be the 13th men of more than 340,000.

in a series. certain from thej Nominations are to be made on tests had an energy equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT. An air- burst bomb sank ships, crushed others with the shock wave, set others to burning. An underwater burst sent a big carrier, a battleship and other vessels to the bottom. But neither left any mark on the islands fringing the lagoon.

Sometime next spring, when the seasonal change comes in the direction of the trade winds, which can carry radioactive contamination long distances, the face of the atoll may change in a fierce and fleeting instant. The release of a force equaling two or more millions of tons of exploding TNT could erase all trace of not only one but possibly several of the islands fringing the lagoon. There were reports, never denied by the Atomic Energy Commission, that the 1952 test of a'" everaf points be clarified" in relatively small hydrogen device the South Korean POWs stand, destroyed the island upon' which! Thimayya did not amplify, ex- mounted. Thaticept to add that the Americans i-etok they were not attempt-1 conducting'ing to impede the work of the! nuclear commission. The general said the Americans commission asked that their one fellow POW Americans refused to meet with interviewers.

They said they won't leave their barbed wire compounds unless fellow pro-Communist South Korean prisoners also agree to attend the sessions. This the South Koreans have refused to do for three days. The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, headed by Thimayya, met for an hour studying protests filed by both the South Korean and American prisoners. Thimayya labeled absurd some of the South Korean complaints and said they only could have been made to stall the explanations. The Korean POWs, Thimayya said, were insisting on the right to make counter-explanations and long statements to explainers.

He said 21 of the 22 balky Americans signed a petition asking that JUST AS SHE 'PICTURED' HIM Tiny hands size up Santa Claus as Linda Woelke, 4-year-old blind child, gets a private interview with the jolly fellow at a Chicago department store. tinda was one of 60 blind children invited to private interviews by the Parents of the Blind, a Chicago' organization, which explained that long waiting lines to sea Santa Claus was a hardship for sightless children. Linda disclosed she would like "a pet duck, a windup merry-go-round, and an electric train." (AP Photo) Kline Promises 'Right Answer announced, without explanation, it was including the long-unused Bikini Atoll, also in the Marshall Islands group with Eniwetok, in its testing ground. This made it apparent that projected tests were to be of such magnitude that it was considered inadvisable to endanger permanent installations at Eniwetok. The lesson at Bikini presumably will be written almost entirely in the records of intricate measuring instruments, many of them of automatic radio sending deeign.

There may be no graphic portrayals of the destruction at the point where the bomb exploded. Blue Pacific ocean water probably will cover the spot where the bomb island stood. Only on the more distant islands surrounding the 20- mile-wide lagoon can measurements of the explosion be recorded on test structures. who didn't sign the petition go before the explainers, but that he refused. Thimayya did not identify him.

Thimayya said he couldn't understand why the Americans suddenly changed their position and refused to go to the explanations. "They promised me, honestly, they would come out," he said. Meanwhile, the saddened mother who flew across the Pacific from her Minnesota home in an effort to see her prisoner son received Farm Bureau To Tell Government Farmers' Needs Soldier Just Back From Korea Killed BEECHER, 111. H) A former Army private released three days a letter from him bitterly attack- tra tj on will seek at the coming CHICAGO President Allan ago after service in Korea was B. Kline said today the annual '-convention of his American Farm Bureau Federation- would give the "correct" answer to the question of what kind of program farmers want.

The answer, he said, will not be what members of the powerful House Agriculture Cdmmittee came up with in recent farm area tours. The committee will have much to say about new farm legislation the Eisenhower adminis- ing the United States. Mrs. Portia Howe Alden, (session of Congress. killed in a traffic crash early today.

A companion was injured critically when their automobile skidded off Route 1 and struck a light pole near this Will County town. Benjamin L. Reed, 20, Schneider, was killed. Pfc. John Franklin Mital, 18, a Marine on leave from Quantico, a passenger in the car, was hurt critically.

Mital also is from Schneider. sional committee read the letter from her son, 20- year-old Pfc. Richard R. Tenneson. "Don't misunderstand me," it said, "I still love my family, my people and my country, and wheth- (Continued on 2, Column 5) want present war-born 90 per cent of parity price supports continued for major crops.

Parity is a standard for measuring farm prices, declared by law (Continued on Pago 2, Column 5) 'Where Did I Fail Mother's Anguished Cry TOKYO did I fail (in her lap a Better rom him. Oh, where did I fail?" an' mother sobbed today after learning from her son that he will not leave the Communists and her soldier son, one of the 22 Americans in the barbed wire pro-Communist camp at Panmunjom. "I know that you want to take home with you, but I have return home jmade up my mind and I am not Tears welling in her eyes, ni pfc Richard Ten neson died in a car that collided with large truck on U.S. 30 east of Hanna. The truck overturned.

David Oden, 29, Edward E. Bode, wno at tt. "Kokomo Walter M. Pfaffenberger, nd Loan Company and are 17, all of Seymour, were ed Police holdups. Savings and Loan Company and are 117.

all 01 Seymour, were The distance involved, different; to list achievements, nature of: one collision north of Sey- tcchniques and fairly complete I service, nature of participation and mour. FMinburir descriptions of the men involved! leadership of the nominee. Blanks) Herman Anders, 18, Edmburg, were the basis for discounting any i may be mailed to DSA Contact (Continued on Pago 2, Column 4) organized operation in the two Man. Kokomo JACs, Box on the same day. I Kokomo.

However it was considered a Judging will be on the following; I 7 remote possibility until Sunday's basis: arrests that the Walton robbery! l. Contribution to community wel- was "the work of the so-called noon-, fare and betterment. Democrats reviving old slogan- hour bandit blamed for at least; 2. Participation in all-around 20. four of the seven bank robberies: community activities and civic en- England's chance for gayest iterpri'es Christmas since war is marred by 3 Evidence of lasting contribu- threat of railway 13.

i tion to community welfare. i President Eisenhower may he 4. Evidence of leadership, ability. laciiiK most critical year of his 5. Success in own vocation and term in 10.

i personal business progress. Congress may make all state di- 6. Co-operation with individuals vorcc laws 6. in Indiana since last June. Today's Chuckle It's better to have loved a short fellow than never to have loved a tall.

Indiana Weather INDIANA: Cloudy with snow and civic organizations. Following the deadline for nominations, the award committee, headed by John Jeroski, will submit the unopened entries to the judg- 7 tilt uiiulieilcu n.n flurries tonight and Tuesday. Iso comm ittee which is to be made decided chanRC Kokomo citizens over the age Low tonight 24-29. High Tuesday eligibility for tne award Judg 32-36. Tribune Weather Report ing will be on a point system basis.

Age requirements for the award For 24-hour period ending 1 p.m.)specify that, nominees must be 21 Monday: Maximum, 41; years of age by Jan. 1, 1953 and 22. must not have passed a 36th 1 p.m. Monday: 34. day prior to Dec.

31, 1953. Nomi- Reading Dec. 14, 1952: Maximum, nees need not be members of the 26; minimum, IB. Jaycee organization. OTHER VITAL NEWS AIsop Column- -1 Births Classified Comics Deaths 19 Editorial Edson Column 4 Hospital Notes 10 Lawrence Column 1 Peru News 15 Badio Society 8-9 Sports Television 15 Tipton News 15 miles in the hope of persuading him come back.

i His letter renounced life in the United States and heaped scorn on his country. A New Testament in her hand, the 43-year-old mother spoke bitterly of "I want his whole letter I leased to the public. I think peo- Iple should know how vicious a i thing Communism is. If it can de- I stroy a home, it can disintegrate a nation. "I have not given up hope thai 'someday my son will come back Uo me.

I have not given up my faith in God nor Richard. Sooner lor later he see the light." PACKS HIS PAPERS U. S. Envoy Arthur Dean packs away his papers into brief ease following a press conference at Munsan, Korea. Previously Dean had broken off preliminary peace conference negotiations with the Communists at Panmunjom.

(AP Wirephoto) And, turning to her Bible, she read from Proverbs 22-6: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." In his letter, the 20-year-old Tenneson, only 17 when he left the United States, jeered at his country and said United States authorities are afraid to let her visit him at Panmunjom. The Defense Department has banned visits by relatives to the 22 Americans lest it create complications in the already tangled prisoner explanations. "They are afraid," Tenneson wrote. "They have probably told you I was framed, doped, brainwashed or some other horse manure that they use to slander and defile people like myself who will (Continued on 2, Cebmn 4) Truck Driver Injured in Crash East of Kokomo Maynard C. Underwood, 48, 1130 S.

Calumet was injured late Saturday night when the pickup truck he was driving crashed into an abutment on the north side of a bridge over Deer Creek, about four miles east of Kokomo on the Touby Pike. According to Sheriff Tex Scott, who investigated, Underwood suffered cuts on the head, a possible fracture of the left leg and a chest injury. The injured man was taken to the St. Joseph Hospital in the city's emergency ambulance. Sheriff Scott said that apparently Underwood fell asleep as he was driving west on the Touby Pike.

The scene of the accident was about 500 feet east of the Municipal Airport driveway, the sheriff said. Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported $236.00 Anonymous Ben Ervtagton Steve Ervington Elaine Ervington Brad Bayl June Ann Parker Anonymous T. F. and Clark Kellie John Jackson 2.00 1.00 1.M 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 10.00 1.00 Total $256.00 Today 9 News Briefs BOSTON John D. Effner.

22, of Lawrence, was held without bail in municipal court today on a charge of murder in the rooming house death of John P. Boland, 26, nephew of a former Northampton mayor. NEW YORK Joseph B. McCarthy told a balky witness today his refusal to answer questions "In effect" branded him a spy and traitor. INDIANAPOLIS Chasteen of Indianapolis was informed today that his son, Airman Franklin J.

Chasteen, had been killed Sunday in a shooting gallery accident to Wichita Falls, Tex. NEW YORK stock market improved slightly today after hesitant start. WASHINGTON Supreme Court today agreed to review a lower court's dismissal of government anti-trust charges against the Borden Co. and four other dairies in the Chicago area. Asks Accord Thai Makes War Unlikely Thinks France, West Germany Can Keep Peace PARIS W) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today urged France and West Germany to "create a union that would make it impossible" for war to break out between those two countries again.

Dulles told a news conference the United States would support a European policy of this kind. He said it could be carried out "with in the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty through association with the European Defense Community." Dulles talked to newsmen a few minutes after making what was described as a major policy speech before a. meeting of ministers of the 14 NATO nations. Dulles said the United States is trying to cooperate with European policy and would do so as long as it remained "sane and sensible." The American secretary of state said "We now face a serious challenge from a materialistic state" and this "challenge is formidable because the West has been weak." Dulles said he spoke briefly on the Far East and quoted Stalin as saying "The East is the road to victory over the West and the West can never neglect the East." He praised France for carrying on her heavy burden in fighting Communism in Indochina. Earlier, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told the ministers President Eisenhower's plan for an atomic pool for peace would "divert an immense material power from a deathly destruction toward the peaceful progress of mankind." Dulles said that if the EDO Treaty is not ratified by the six European a i ons, the United States will have to do some "rethinking" on its own European policy.

The EDC is aimed at bringing West Germany troops into a European army for the defense of Western Europe. The nations Involved are West Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Luxembourg. Dulles said "The re-thinking would not involve abandonment of NATO. He said it would involve "re-thinking on how to implement the NATO treaty." Bidault, chairman of the meeting, declared to the nearly 50 foreign, defense and finance ministers from the 14 North Atlantic nations that a positive Soviet reply to the Eisenhower proposal would bring "incalculable political consequences." He added: "Never before would disarmament convey so many promises of a happy life." The ministers crowded into the huge conference room of the Palais de Chaillot overlooking the Seine liver for their 12th meeting on railding up the defense of Western Europe. Later today U.

S. Secretary of State Dulles was expected to tell them they must press on with their rearmament program no matter what they hope will come out of the Big Four's projected Berlin conference. In his address today, Dulles was due to emphasize: 1. That the Russian threat is still very great to-the Democratic way of life in France and the other NATO nations. 2.

That the European army reaty must be ratified and the one uniform, six-nation force brought into being. 3. That the 12 German divisions to be raised for the army are not the only important feature of the pact; that equally important is the impetus it will give to the integration of Western Europe commercially and socially as well as raise living standards and counter Moscow's blandishments. But Dulles also was reported planning to tell the French unless the European Defense Community Treaty is ratified by next spring, he can't promise how much money Congress will be willing to appropriate for European defense bills. "If we could feel sure the French would ratify EDC by May 1, I would relax," said one important American official.

"If it drags on later than that, I don't know what Congress might do." Bidault was expected to ask that the North Atlantic Treaty be extended to 50 years from its present limit of 20 years. That would make its binding ties on America last as long as the EDC Treaty binding Germany and France together provide an additional obligation on the United States to protect France against any future German invasion. In Bidault's speech at the opening session, he said an agreement on President Eisenhower's atomic proposal would make It possible, 'in spite of evil memories, to establish cooperation and even an i. Column 9).