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DAILY CHRONICLE FIFTY-THIRD YEAR NO. 153 DE KALB, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, JUNE SO, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS A in fo) rui ji UUYJ uuuu 1:1 REDS WILL NOT REDS PROMISE HEAT BLAST ACCEPT PLAN QUICK TRIALS THE DE KAL STRIKES HARD II V- VJW Clark's Call for Armistice Sizzling Southwest Cools Severe Punishment to Be Given Thousands of German People -v. -Aw- TORNADO WRECKS HOME. Walter Betts family nd neighbors survey wreckage of the Betts home near Adair, la, after tornado struck. Their son, LeRoy, 27, and shepherd dog, Bilt who were in the house when tornado lifted and carried it 100 feet, crawled away uninjured.

Twenty others, gathered to bale crowded into a nearby cafe and escaped injury. (NEAITelephottf) SURVIVE SHIP COLLISION. ma line rail of the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Tuckahoe on arrival in New Jfofk following collision between their tanker and the freighter African Endeavor.

One seaman was killed bit both Typhoon Makes Its Way Oyer Pacific Today TOKYO UP A 120-mile-an- Will Be Rejected by Opposition SEOUL, Korea UP The Com munists indiacted clearly today they would not accept Geh. Mark Vy Clark's call for an armistice wjh or without the support of Syitgman Rhee, now in a dead lock witn American truce "expe diters" on his terms for a truce. Radio Pyongyang. North Korea's, mouthpiece, called Clark's 1 request for assumption of negotiations insincere, and one of the communist news agencies blamed Clark for Rhee's release of North Korean prisoners. Rhee, unable to win approval from President Eisenhower's emissary on his demands for mutual security and a time limit on political" conferences after armis tice day, found his.policies grow ing increasingly unpopular at home.

Shin Tae Yung, his defense minister, resigned under the pre text that he could not serve Rhee competently in -dealing with for eigners in Korea because he could not understand English. He denied there was a rift be tween himself -and Rhee, even though he has been lukewarm in supporting the 78-year-old president's truce-wrecking policies. Leroy Hansen, United Press correspondent covering truce talks at Panmunjom, told Shin some Allied newsmen were speculating his resignation was brought-on by differences with, Rhee. "I suppose some friendly foreigners know there must be some reason," Shin replied. It was believed Shin, one of the most conscientious South Korean officials, decided to quit when he realized he could not continue to exert his full abilities for a government whose policies he opposes.

When Hansen asked him whether those differences in opinion still existed, he replied: "You'd better say that." Montgomery Is Filled Full of Gamma Globulin MONTGOMERY, Ala. UPSev-eral thousand youngsters, lined up today to receive injections of gamma globulin in the first community-wide attempt to halt a possible polio epidemic. Teams of doctors and nurses inoculated- children under ten years of age at 18 stations throughout Montgomery County. The huge "Operation. Needle" got underway as 80 cases of polio were recorded in the county, three of them ataL When the four-day assembly line operation is completed, some 30,000 children will have been inoculated.

A team of 125 doctors and 80 nurses administered the shots, working in rotating shifts of about four hours. This marked the first time in medical history that an entire community has been used as a testing ground for the effectiveness of gamma globulin. Heretofore, the blood derivative has been given experimentally at Houston, and Sioux City, but not on so large a scale. Survivors of the S. S.

Loide-Pana pv BIG SPY LIST NEVER FOUND McCarthy Suggests Former President That ITru- man Be Called Back WASHINGTON UP Canada's late Prime Minister Mac-Kenzie King gave former President Truman a list of suspected Communist spies at their 1945 conierence. tne names never reached officials who would normally investigate such matters. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, has suggested that Mr.

Truman may be called before his Senate investigating subcommittee to discuss the matter-! McCarthy said he has reason to believe King did give Mr. Truman a list of Americans Involved in the So viet atomic spy ring which Can ada broke in 1945. He i said he is "curious to know why" it did not lead to any prosecutions. Mr. Truman told reporters there was nothing printable he could say in reply to McCarthy's implied charge that he failed to transmit a secret spy roster to the Justice Department.

The Justice Department ducked out of the dispute with a "no comment." But inquiry here and in Ottawa brought these facts to light: Not one but two lists of names were supplied to U. S. officials after a lucky break gave Cana dian officials basic evijdence of Russian espionage in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom andj generally throughout, the western hemisphere, Neither list was transmitted, through Mr. Truman, then president of the United States, the United Press was informed. One of the lists which was delivered to U.

S. authorities contained- four, or five names of Americans which had turned lip in the Canadian inquiry. These were leads for Investigation. The investigations took place but without developing sufficient evidence for arrests. That does not assure the individuals' were not guilty.

But guilt could not be proved. 5 The other list contained 163 names which provided leads for (Turn to Page 2, Please) Off While Midwest Gets Additional Sun JUST PLAIN HOT! By UNITED PRESS Hot air blew back into the Up per Midwest today as rainstorms cooled large portions of the sizzling Southwest giving crops and cattle a new lease on life, i Showers were light, however, In the areas that need them most West Texas and the western portions of Oklahoma, Kansas and southeastern Colorado where a drought was bringing economlo ruin to farmers and cattlemen. There was a general warning in the central plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Eastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming, with some high temperatures over 100 degrees. i At Montevideo, where the Minnesota and Chippewa Riversrjoin, flood waters forced several families from their homes and about 25 others were threatened. Tlie Minnesota was expected to crest late today or Wednesday.

Two days of heavy to moderate rains In East Texas and Oklahoma dropped temperatures In those areas from 12 to 16 de grees after more than a month of what weathermen called the "worst early heat wave" In the Southwest's history. Agricultural experts said the East Texas rains-six Inches at Beaumont 2.81 at Houston were worth millions of dollars to the farmers of the region. .1 In many of 152 drought-stricli-en Western Texas counties, crops were already burned out. President Eisenhower named the Texas counties and 40 In Oklahoma disaster area, eligible for federal assistance. Meanwhile, Gov.

Dan Thornton of Colorado planned to plead for similar aid for southeast Colo-, rado, now plagued by dust storms. For the second summer in a row, forest fires threatened dry New England forest Three ma- jor fires blazed in New Hampshire. 3,090 Traffic Fatalities Are Reported CHICAGO UP The nation suf fered 3,090 traffic fatalities in May, 2 per cent below the same month a year ago but more than for any previous month in 1953, the National Safety Council said today. It was the first month this year in which traffic deaths have been below the corresponding period of last year. The May, 1952, total of dead was 3.150J There were 2,890 deaths in ApriL Council President Ned Dear born warned that traffic deaths have Increased 150 a month since February with the advent of spring and summer weather.

of GOP leader Robert A. Taft, O. -South Korean leaders turned MORE TROUBLE BERLIN UP The Communists declared today they will mete out "quick trials" and severe punishment to tens of thousands of Germans who rebelled this month against Red rule in Soviet Germany. Red Germany's Justice Minister Max Fechner said that "arsonists, robbers, murderers and other criminals" who took part in the wave of rioting that swept the Soviet Zone on June 17 will be harshly dealt With. He promised that demonstrators who "committed no criminal acts" will not be punished.

The Communist definition of "criminal" is so elastic, however, that Fechner's announcement seemed certain to mean long terms in prisons or slave labor camps for thousands of German anti-Communists. Some probably will be put to death. Fechner did not say how many Germans have been swept up by the Red dragnet, but West Berlin authorities estimated that Russian troops and Red police have arrested at least 40,000 persons. Reports filtering through the Iron Curtain said 68 prisoners have been executed. An announcement that the Communist Party had hailed Red Vice Premier Walter Ulbricht as a "true disciple of Marx and Lenin" on his 60th birthday appeared to djpeount rumors that he would serve as a scapegoat for the rebellion.

Otto Grotewohl, the Soviet Zone's renegade Socialist premier, already has confessed the "errors" of his regime, and it appeared likely that if a "fall guy" is needed Grotewohl will be chosen. Although Ulbricht nominally is Grotewohl's subordinate, he actually is considered to be the ranking boss of the Communist machine in Germany. Reports that could not be confirmed immediately said the Reds may call a session of their rubber' stamp "parliament" soon to pass new laws designed to appease strikers in the soufh German uranium fields and other vital industrial installations. Refugees continued to slip through the Iron Curtain into West Berlin despite the wall of steel thrown by Russian soldiers across the sector boundary which Is the traditional escape "route from Soviet Berlin and the nearby countryside. A total of 897 refugees registered here Saturday and Monday, for a week end average of 299 arrivals a day.

REPUBLICANS MEET THURSDAY County Convention Will Select the Delegates 4 or Judicial Convention Republican precinct committeemen from DeKalb County: will hold a county convention in the Circuit Courtroom at the Courthouse in Sycamore on Thursday night-at 8 p.m. The convention has been called to choose the county delegates to the district judicial convention which will meet in the Courthouse at Geneva on Friday, July 17, tQname the party's candidates foB circuit judge at the special election next September. County Republican Chairman Edwin R. Carlson of Waterman called the convention of the 44 precinct committeemen and will preside. DeKalb County is entitled to 28 delegates and 28 alternate delegates to the district convention, based on a delegate and an alternate for each 500 Republican votes cast for governor at the elections last November.

There are two vacancies in the 36th Judicial Circuit caused by the death of Judge Charles A. O'Connor of Aurora last fall, and the recent resignation of Judge Win GT. Knoch of Naperville to accept a promotion as U. S. District judge in Chicago.

There are numerous candidates for the posts in both DuPage and Kane Counties. DeKalb County's position in the race will be determined at the convention Thursday night. The public may attend the convention, Carlson said, HUNGARY HAS MADE CHANGE Commie Controlled Center Is Alive Today With Red Uniforms BUDAPEST, Hungary UP Rude changes strike the eye of the traveler returning to this capital of satellite Hungary after an absence of more than four years. Catholic bishops wearing Com munist red star decorations- on their robes I shuttered or empty stores' by the dozens the secret police headquarters in the biggest new buildings long queues outside pawn and food shops one uniform for" every three civilians. They reflect the triumph of the Communists over the pre dominately Catholic population, the victory, of collectivism over a -country of small shopkeepers and large landlords, the domination of the commissar over con At first sight, Budapest and Hungary may not make a bad impression.

The ruins of war have been cleared away. In 'their place are public parks and gardens. Many new buildings have been erected. A subway is under construction. Streetcars and buses trundle by and give an impression of bustle on the main intersections.

The blasts of sunlight on the cotton dresses of what have long been recognized as the most beautiful women in Europe is not an unpleasant experience. And there are a few Western style night clubs where a state, solicitious about the activities of foreigners, will be only too happy to supply a collectivized bar ehi for the night free of charge. Most important of all changes. is the way the Communists have cemented their hold on the nation. When I was here to attend the i trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindzenty in February, 1949, militiamen walked in pairs and carrying cocked tommyguns patrolled "almost every street and Soviet troops were also in plentiful evidence and the resentment of the population which had not yet forgotten the brutal and! rapine entrance oi the Red army in 1945 was bitterly acute.

People talked of leaving and (Turn to Pagre 2, Please) every banana in the place he can get his paws on." Cantanzarro and a few of his employes bated a cage trap for the elufeiv primate, but that effort backfired in a hurry. "We set the trap and baited it with oranges and bananas," Cantanzarro said. "And do you know what that monkey did? He came down from his hiding place. sprung the trap on the door of the cage, reached in and swiped the fruit." That called for a new method of attack and tear gas was de cided upon. Once again Cantanzarro, spearheading i "Operation Monkey- shines," i borrowed a tear gas bomb from a nearby police sta tioh and hurled it through a warehouse window.

"We waited until the stuff had cleared away and then we went back into the warehouse. There he was sitting on a rafter and Til swear he was thumbing his nosef at us, Cantanzarro re- ships remained afloat. Russian Wives Are Permitted to Leave Today STOCKHOLM, Sweden UP The first Russian wives of American citizens permitted leave the Soviet Union arrived in Helsinki, Finland, today. Eddy Gilmore, Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press, brought out his Russian-born wife and their two children. Others in the party were Robert C.

of the American Embassy in Moscow and his wife Eugenie, and Mrs. Ethel Balac-hova, Los Angeles born wife of a. Russian, and her two daughters. Mr. and Mrs.

Gilmore came on to Stockholm and said the others would follow after a stay of two or three days in Helsinki, Gilmore declined to comment on the decision of the Soviets to permit American wives to leave. NEW YEAR'S EVE FOR GOVERNMENT 1933 Gives Way to 1934 on Government Calendar in Washington WASHINGTON UP This was New Year's Eve for thfe feid-eral government, and as usual it brought a lot of headaches. On the fiscal calendar which the government uses, 1953 will give way to 1954 at the stroke of midnight tonight. No bell-ring, horn-blowing or wild parties were planned to cle-brate the occasion, but admin-stration and congressional leaders were abundantly aware of the date because: 1. The books which the Federal Treasury will close out to night are more deeply stained with red ink than at the end of any fiscal year since World War II.

The prospective deficit was estimated at close to $8,500,000,000. This has already been covered by borrowing. 2. The Defense Production Act which gives the government power to allocate scarce materials to defense industries, expires at midnight Legislation tb extend it. is tied up in a deadlocked Senate-House conference committee, which meets again today: 3.

The start of the new fiscal year will ind only two federal agencies the Treasury and the Post Office Department- with 1954 operating funds. Congress has i not. finished work on any other appropriation bills. Bjit this happens every year and Congress met! the "crisis" this time jas it always has in the past. Monday a stop-gap bill was rushed to the White House authorizing all agencies to continue spending at the level of their fiscal 1953 appropriations until their new appropriations are passed.

4. 1 The National Production Authority, one of the home front control agencies set up after the Korean war began, was supposed to go but of business at midnight But I the Commerce Department said it will be kept alive for one more month until new machinery can be set up to take over its few remaining functions. Layoff notices for several thousand employes alto will go into effect at the end of today's business. They include 900 in the National Production Authority, 1200 at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; more than; 500 at the Labor Depart ment, 700 in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and several hundred in the Civil Aeronautics Administration. STORES OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT Retail Merchants to Follow Saturday Schedule Night Before Fourth DeKalb stores wil be open on Friday evening July 3, for the convenience of the shoppers.

As Memorial Day and Fourth of July fell on Saturday this year, the Retail Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce voted to remain open the night prior to the holidays. The decision was reached after a survey, had been conducted among the retail merchants with a vast majority of the retailers favoring the opening schedule the night before the twp holidays. Saturday Schedule A regular Saturday schedule will be followed on jriday of this week and the business area Is expected to be jammied as it was the Friday evening: prior to Memorial Day. Although there is a long week end coming up, the vast majority will be remaining at home for the holiday and. the Friday night opening will be for their convenience.

1 1 With the exception of the DeKalb Municipal Band program on Saturday evening, there will be little, if any other, observance of the Fourth of July holiday. The band program will be presented at the Hopkins Park amphitheatre at 8 p. m. Saturday and will conclude with a fireworks display. Patriotic numbers will feature the program.

Hopkins Park and the swimming pool will be other attractions for the holiday week end. Teacher Says All Should Tell Truth MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP An Ohio school superintendent today condemned educators who hide behind the Fifth Amendment of the federal Constitution when questioned by investigating committees. "All educators called before congressional investigating committees should give full and honest answers when their loyalty; is at stake," said Dr. Martin Essex, Lakewood, superintendent of schools.

i I Essex was to preside as chairman over a meeting of the Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom at I the annual convention of the! National Education Association here. "I am fully aware of 'the lack of fairness Idisplayed by many congressional investigations, but we educator cannot condone a teacher's refusal to give evidence about himself," Essex said. "Of the very few educators suspected of Communist tendencies, I am glad to report none has been an NEA member," he added. Reporting on a nationwide survey of the teaching of controversial subjects, the Ohio educator urged that local school boards adopt orderly procedures for handling such cases. Such procedures, accompanied by written and publicly understood policies on teaching controversial subjects, would go far to re-establish teacher confidence and feeling cif security, the committee report said.

WARM-HUMID Mostly fair, warm and humid today and tonight. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair, warm and humid. hour typhoon churned across the South Pacific toward Japan today, bringing the threat of new storm and flood damage to battered Kyushu Island, where torrential rains over the weekend caused more than 2,000 casualties. Latest tabulations place the number of flood victims at 2,134 47S dead, 974 injured and 687 missing. More than 1,000,000 Japanese were driven from their homes.

No American casualties were reported, but late reports said the United States Tomino ammunition depot, near Kokura, was "seriously damaged" by the floods. Servicemen's families have been evacuated from; the area. Lt. Gen. Paul W.

Kendall, deputy U. S. Army commander in the Far East, flew from Tokyo to take charge of disaster relief operations, and American Army units were directed to do everything they can for flood sufferers. Two U. S.

airmen who battled the raging, flood-swollen Onga River in a frail rubber boat to ferry 11 Japanese to safety Friday night have been recommended for the soldier's medal America's top decoration for non-combat heroism. They are T-Sgt. Sam Neiran, Pasadena, and A 2-C William Stromer, 1127 Carney Marinette, Wis. The two men first rescuecj three Japanese who had lashed themselves to a railroad track td keep from being swept away byl the torrent, and then "ifter a short break for coffee, went out into the flooded area again and rescued eight more victims be fore they called it a day at 4 a.m. Saturday," the Air Force said.

Southwest Is in Dire Need of Supplies WASHINGTON UP Agriculture Department officials today got ready to ship up to $8,000,000 worth of livestock feed into the drought-parched counties of Texas and Oklahoma and indicated the railroads havegreed to cut freight rates on theernergency shipments. A spokesman said the Santa Fe line, one of six serving the area, may cutlts shipping rates 50 per cent. He said William Farley, president of the American Association of Railroads, assured Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson that railroads will give their "wholehearted cooperation" to the requested reduction in rates. Shipment of feed Into the areas reduced freight rates, and estab-ishment of a special federal credit plan were the main points of the drought relief program outlined by Benson Monday after a White House conference.

The $8,000,000 will come from President Eisenhower's special emergency fund. New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas may be included later in the designated disaster area, but not until a formal request is made by the governors of those states. The federal relief- money will be used to reimburse the Agriculture Department for the difference between the bargain price charged ranchers for the feed and the price the department paid for It under price support operations. IThe board of the Commodity Credit Corporation will decide just what price the ranchers will have to pay. LAST MEVUTE NEWS PARIS UP New Premier Joseph Laniel won an vote of confidence In the National Assembly today fbr his 29-man right-of-center cabinet.

He started to work at oncei on the most urgent of his many problem the national finances; and preparations for a Big: Three foreign ministers meeting in Washington. MonkeyMaking Monkeys Qui Of Warehouse Men WASHINGTON UP The Senate today approved a bl-partisaa amendment which would let President Eisenhower at his discretion withhold $1,000,000,000 in European arms aid until the unified European army treaty is The amendment to the $5,318,000,000 mutual assistance bill was approved by voice vote less than five minues alter it was proposed by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Tex. with the support SEOUL. Korea, Wednesday UP against President Eisenhower's special trouble-shooting envoy today and one of them Invited the United states to pun its troops out or Korea, If It wanted to.

The truce talks were doubly deadlocked. The Communists indicated clearly that they would not accept Gen. Marie W. Clark's call for a armistice with or without the support of South Korean President Syngman Rhee. PITTSBURGH UP Officials at the Pittsburgh Produce Yards had a bigger problem on their hands today than the proverbial bull in a china had a monkey loose in a banana warehouse.

The hairy visitor apparently had "hitch hiked" from somewhere in South America, by boat and freight car before arriving here last Friday. Since then he's been causing quite a bit of confusion with his "monkey business." John Cantanzarro, co-owner of the Banana Supply Company, said repeated efforts to evict the monkey from his "paradise" had failed. "Despite our efforts to capture the little devil, he's been making monkeys out of us for four days now ever since he and one of his brothers jumped out of a freight car and headed, for the warehouse," Cantanzarro said. "We got one of "embut the shrewd one ha been eating WASHINGTON UP Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the U. British, and French foreign ministers will meet here around July 10.

The British had suggested the meeting as a preliminary to the often-postponed conference of Big Three heads of state. Dulles said at a news conference that he had Just received word that the new French government wants to participate in the proposed foreign ministers' meeting. WASHINGTON UP President Elsenhower today telegraphed the governors of Oklahoma and Texas that $8,000,000 of the federal funds is being: made available to help cattlemen in drought stricken counties of the two states. Forty Oklahoma counties and. 152 in Texas were designated as major disaster areas.

In identical telegrams to Gov. Johnston Murray of Oklahoma and Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, Mr. Elsenhower said that assistance will be provided the cattlemen by the Agriculture Department and federal eiril 4e UttdL I i.