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i Refugees Streaming From Iron Curtain Countries Give Air Force Best Tips Page 2 UThTT TED EACON JOU Why Not Send Food Balloons? Pearson Plan Page 6 JO) FINAL EDITION Five Cents Ohio Most Complete Newspaper NO. 226 114th Year Monday, July 20, 1953 32 Pages AK RNAL SIGNING WITHIN WEEK? Armistice etails Drafted secret A i 9 'ii1 5j Ci-" lJ rrM J-" A WEARY OLD WOMAN from the East Berlin sector clutches a bottle of milk slje H'est Berlin's border at a relief station in the borough of Kruezberg after standing in line for many hours. In the Soviet sector in which she lives milk is sold only for children on ration cards and costs six times what this woman naid for the bottle she holds in her lap. AP. "THEN THE INJUNS come a-runnlnV recounts Otto Hornung, 77, to an enthralled audience of Boy Scouts during the National on a ranch near Newport Hornung claims to be the oldest noted story-teller.

AP, E. Germans Risk Prison In Food Rush Cease-Fire Officers At Panmunjom Hut Prepared For Ceremony PANMUNJOM UP) Teams of Allied and Communist officersincluding for the first time men who would over see a cease-fire worked in nin secret sessions today, on final details of a Korean armistice. Two staff officer sessions were set for 10 a. m. Tuesday (9 tonight Akron time).

The Reds, meanwhile, put the finishing touches on a large hut to be used for signing the historic document which would end th three years of fighting. There was no official Indication Jusi. when the armistice would be signed, but some observers said it could be within a week. Fighting would end 12 hburs after tha signing. A MONTH-LONG' deadlock In the negotiations was broken with a Communist announcament Sunday that the Reds were ready to prepare for the signing.

Three V. S. members of the MUl-I tary Armistice Commission flew here for the first time and met for an hour and SO minutes with Communist members. The" commission, composed of top officers from the opposing: armies, would control the buffer zone between the two forces. Red and Allied commission members discuflsed "suggested ar rangements which they (the Reds) will consider and probably com back with their proposal." Another meeting was planned, THE SPEEDED tempo of Monday's sessions heightened optimism for an early signing.

Total time spent by five dif ferent teams, including interpre ters and liuison officers, was seven hours, 42 minutes. The main truce delegations pre sumably are awaiting a call from lower level staff officers to set ft date for the signing. Both sides quickened the paca toward a truce signing in the wake of the Communist announcement Sunday that they were ready to go ahead with final preparations in return for Allied assurance that South Korea would abide by a cease-fire. BUT SOUTH Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tal hinted See FINAL TRUCE, Page 2 Major Terms Now Sin i ion Contrail hIhIimI Probe Faces Protestant Hot Potato Matthews May Get Hearing By EDWIN A. LAHEY Of Our Waihlnfton Stiff WASHINGTON This is "Protestant week" coming up for the House committee on un-American activities.

Neither the chairman of the committee, Rep. Velde, Illinois Republican, nor any of- its members is very happy about it. Today the committee was expected to consider the demand of J. B. Matthews for a hearing.

Matthews wants to defend his published thesis that the Communists have infiltrated the ranks of the Protestant clergy. And on Tuesday the committee has scheduled a long-awaited hearing atjwhich Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of Washington will finally be permitted to answer the attacks made upon him in the committee hearing room. THE MATTHEWS and Oxnam cases are unrelated, but come before the committee by a bit of un fortunate timing. Matthews recently resigned under fire from a Job' with Sen.

McCarthy's investigating committee. The heat on him came from a magazine article in which he said that the Communist party had a large body of support in the Protestant clergy. Matthews, himself educated for the ministry, thereupon demanded that the House committee on un-American activities give him a hearing, at which he offers to document his charges. NEITHER VELDE nor mem-berg of his committee wanted this hot potato from the other side of the Capitol. But their committee has jurisdiction in the matter, and there is little they can do but offer Matthews his day in court.

The Red issue, as its affects the Protestant clergy, has become a delicate matter crammed with bitter feeling. The House committee members sound privately as though they wished It had never arisen. But they must muddle through the problem in the next few days. TO SOME extent, the committee is on the defensive with Bishop -Oxnam, who has the militant support of the large Methodist community in Washington. Rep.

Jackson, California Republican, said at a committee hearing March 17 that Bishop Oxnam "served God on Sunday and the Communist front the rest "of the week." "Anyone who will make such an irresponsible statement, without regard for accuracy or decency, is unfit for the sacred task of preserving your liberty and mine," was the comment of one prominent Methodist minister, the Rev. J. Artley Leatherman tof Washington, on the eve of the Oxnam hearing. The Rev. Leatherman also defended the Protestant clergy 'Against the charges made by Matthews.

THE RT. REV. Henry Knox Sherrill, chairman of the National Council of Churches' Committee on Maintenance of American Freedom, said Sunday that revisions the committee has announced in Its procedure are "a wholly inadequate answer to the need for reform of certain un-American methods and procedures followed in the past." He wrote Velde that the committee's methods "bear too much resemblance to the techniques of J. B. Matthews to satisfy the minds and consciences of a re sponsible group of clergymen and laymen charged with the duty of studying ways of maintaining our i cherished freedoms," THEATRICAL MINDED observers at the House committee offices agree that it would make a pretty sharp TV production if the committee put Bishop Oxnam at one end of a hearing table, and Matthews at the other, and told them to shake hands and come out fighting, But badly as the House committee needs publicity (since its eclipse by McCarthy) it will be happy to get the Oxnam and the Matthews business out of the way this week with a minimum of furor.

Excellent Reception Highlights WAKR-TV By ART CULLISON Bescan Journal Rmdlo-TV Writer AKRON VIEWERS WERE pleasantly surprised by their first evening's viewing of WAKR-TV, the city's first television station. It wasn't that the programs news, sports and weather shows also the leature films had some minor bugs which will be ironed out later. It was the excellent reception and the news coverage that sold the dialers on A North Hill man commented np -i that "the picture came in much I fT I T1 1 if 1 were out of this world. The J)pj Ship To Port NEW ORLEANS A tug sent to aid the stricken freighter S. S.

Dorothea radioed Coast Guard officials here today that the ship is "not in sinking condition" and is being towed in. The Dorothea, a Panamanian vessel en route from Colombia, was reported to have blown a tube in the boilers, extinguishing its fire. No injuries were reported. The tug was expected to reach Mobile with the Dorothea sometime this afternoon. Scene of the mishap was about 120 miles southeast of the Alabama coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

Firestone Official Dies W. R. Murphy, 63, director of Industrial relations at Firestone Tire Rubber died today at his home, 618 Copley rd. A widely known figure In the field of industrial relations, Mr. Murphy had been with Firestone 46 years.

INNE FIRESTONE loss i $7,000 fn v. -j Scout Jamboree leach, Cal. Scout, is a Toil To Cut Japanese Flood Toll Whole Villages Washed Ah ay TOKYO UP) Thousands of Japanese were rescued today from debris-littered floodwaters as ground, sea and air teams worked feverishly to cut the human toll in the nation's second great flood disaster in three weeks. The sudden flood that started with cloudburst rains last Friday swallowed whole villages at Wa-kayama on central Honshu Island's Pacific coast about 200 miles southwest of Tokyo. National police headquarters here re-estimated the toll at 273 dead, 433 injured and 2,033 miss ing.

Earlier, police said more than 6,000 were dead or missing, but a spokesman reported later those totals listed many duplications caused by chaotic communications. MORE THAN 2,000 persons stranded on rooftops or trapped in flooded homes were plucked to safety by rescue teams searching the swirling waters. U. S. Air Force planes crisscrossed the flood scene, dropping tons of food to stranded persons, while Japanese ships and ground forces scoured the area for sur vlvors.

The rains stopped Sunday after two days of cloudbursts sent three mountain streams thundering down narrow valleys. Flash floods hit valley villages some before sleeping residents could flee. ALTHOUGH SKIES began to clear and the rivers to recede on central Honshu, new rains hit in the Tokyo area and the rivers there rose steadily. Thousands worked during the night to plug gaps at river dikes with sandbags. At Wakayama, Japanese wept as they were reunited with rela tives they thought dead.

One young couple, picked up after clinging to debris for eizht hours, told how they lost their two children. Shizuo Morimoto, 31, said: "We woke up and heard the roaring waters bursting the dike at 7 a. m. Saturday. Our house began floating toward the sea at 8 a.

m. At the river mouth, surf engulfed us. When we came to the surface, my 4-year-old boy was gone. "Our 7-month-old baby was washed away." Mrs. Onobu Mitsuda, 50, was the only survivor of a family of five.

"We screamed and screamed for hours from the roof top as our house drifted to the ocean," she recalled. "Then the roof broke up, and the waves swallowed my husband and daughter. A few minutes later a big log struck, and my mother ana anomer daughter were lost." Perlc Shuns Leave Pay MOSCOW (U.P1-A sympathetic gesturt by party giver Perle Mesta saved the government $7,319.50 today. Mrs. Mesta, currently touring Russia, announced she ham rinraH not to accept the money owed her by the U.

S. State Department in terminal leave pay at the end of ner tenure as minister to Luxembourg. Mrs. Mesta said she is in "great sympathy" with the Eisenhower administration's efforts to cut government spending and, therefore, will refuse payment to which she legally is entitled. URW Local 7 To Take Strike Vote Firestone Local 7, URW-CIO.

voted unanmlously Sunday to hold a strike vote July 28, following the recommendation of the negotiating committee. The vote will be taken by secret ballot. Negotiations on a new contract, started June 23, resume today In Cleveland. You'll Find: Radio-TV 8 Theaters 4 Sports 18 to 20 Editorials ft H'omen'g Page flO Daily Magazine Inspect First Derby Cars On Tuesday The first of the more than 500 youths entered in the 16th Beacon Journal Soap Box Derby will report to the Rubber Bowl Tuesday for the official inspection of their racers. All boys living outside the city have been assigned to report Tuesday between the hours of 3 and 8 p.

The balance of the Derby entrants have been notified to bring their racers for inspection either Wednesday or Thursday during the same hours. EVERY BOY-BUILT racing car must pass the official Inspection to race Sunday in the 16th running of the famous local classic for boys. Each driver will have a trial run down the starting ramp and the racing course before his car is impounded by Derby officials. The driver cannot touch his racer again until race time Sunday. Officials report there will be an open house and display of all racers Friday in the Rubber Bowl from 6:30 to 8:30 p.

m. Every car will be on display along with the winning cars of previous years. Out To Find 'Speed Traps' NEW YORK (HE) An unidentified motorist was off on a nationwide tour today to find out how badly American drivers are being victimized by "speed traps." The "Mr. Average Driver" left here Sunday in a test car. His name, and the year, model, olor and license plates pf the car, were not disclosed.

The trip wm arranged by the American Automobile Association and Cars magazine, "We are Interested in complaints that innocent motorists have been victimized by traps allegedly designed simply to extract extra fines," said "Arthu Unger, editor of Cars. Youth Out better than anything I get from Cleveland." A West Hill housewife liked "the absence of Interference." A Firestone Park rubber worker said he "liked the feature film early In the evening." The opening program consisted of greetings from the Akron clergy. Mayor Bird and Blue Wright, program-production manager of the new station. The Rt. Rev.

Msgr, Edward B. Conry of St. Vincent Catholic Church was the first speaker. He reminded the viewers that about 2,000 years ago a message was given to the people to spread the Gospel. "THERE ARE still millions of people who haven't heard that Gospel," Msgr.

Conry said. "Per haps in radio and television we will have the means to find those people. All programs can't be religious but they can help us to spread the word." The Rev. C. Willard Fetter, vice president of the Akron Ministerial Association and pastor of First Evangelical United Brethren Church, reminded WAKR TV officials of their responsibilities in maintaining the freedoms.

"Vou at WAKR-TV must always realize, that the. people will See WAKR-TV, Page 2 Of Truce Draft, 2 Marine Outposts Engulfed SEOUL Wl Recklessly-attack ing Chinese engulfed two vital western front outposts defended by U. S. Marines last night and the first 14 Leatherneck survivors staggered back to Allied lines today. In their last act before their radio went dead, the trapped Marines back In the, hattlelines only three weeks called in their own artillery on top of them in a desperate effort to halt the violent onslaught.

The number of Marines In the battle was not immediately released. The Leathernecks of the 1st Marine Division, were the first known, survivors of the bloody battles for outposts East Berlin and Berlin, part of a key" hill area on the western front. Fatigued and wan, they staggered hack into Marine lines. Eight were from outpost Berlin and six from East Berlin. THEY SAII1 more Marines may still be alive in the battered bunkers and shell-ripped trenches on the outposts.

The survivors described the hills as a battle-torn no man' land. They said no Chinese were left atop the outposts, which were plastered by savage Red and Allied artillery fire during the Red assault. Allied fighter-bombers and Marine guns pounded the hills relentlessly, but there was no immediate move to retake them. The 5th Air Force said Its planes taking advantage of hot, clear weather slammed 500,000 pounds of bombs at Communist frontlines from the Berlin outposts to the Kumsong front In the east. A thunderous artillery barrage heralded the Reds' reckless assault on East Berlin and Berlin.

Two reinforced Chinese battalions about 750 men each stormed the slopes of the twin hills. About two hours later, a burst of machine gun fire signaled the end of the Marine resistance as the Chinese overran the outposts. No Reply Necessary JERSEY CITY, N. J. IPl The A.

J. Andersons have a patio built atop their garage roof and were using It quietly when a fireman poked his head over the edge of the roof. "Where's the fire?" he dc-' manded. Waiting expectantly below in the street were two fire engines, a hook and ladder truck and two police cars. Then he saw the steaks sizzling on the Andersons' outdoor charcoal grill.

146 Casualties WASHINGTON UP) The Defense Department today Identified 146 Korean War casualties In new list No. 860. The total Included 9 killed, 128 wounded, one missing, one captured and 7 injured, BERLIN (U.P) Hungry East Germans today openly defied Communist threats to jail them as American spies and swarmed across the Iron Curtain to West Berlin to get free food. They came to accept coupons good for five West German marks ($1.20) worth of food even though the Red German regime said they would be considered spies and agents of the "imperialistic Americans" and become liable to stiff prison sentences. Distribution of the food coupons began in the American sector border borough of Kreuzberg.

More than 1,000 East Germans were queued outside the borough hall before it opened and many more arrived as the coupons were handed out. Willie Kressmann, impetuous mayor of Kreuzberg, organized the local relief action after becoming impatient with American and West German officials who, he said, "talk too much." Kressmann set up special food markets for East Germans last week and sold them fruits, potatoes and milk at bargain prices. AMERICAN and German officials have still not come to any decision on how to distribute the $15,000,000 worth of food promised East Germany by President Eisenhower. The offer was scornfully rejected by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov. But despite the rejection, the first shipment of American food already is en route to Germany. With the coupons distributed today, East Germans will he able to buy sorely needed flour, butter, margarine, meat, fruits, vegeta bles, milk or other foods in any of Kreuzberg shops. The East German Communists charged the food program actually was a scheme to "blackmail" Soviet zone residents Into serving as western agents. Todays Chuckle Butcher to Housewife: "Two pounds of steak! Would you like it gift-wrapped?" Too WHILE TIIF, YOt'THS ad- milted more than 40 thefts, Leonard said police could find ohiy .10 reported cases they could trace to them.

Most, of the traceable thefts Leonard said, occurred In For-tuna's old neighborhood, and many of the car recoveries were near Fortuna's home in South-field Twp. In none of the traceable thefts were the cars damaged. "I'olice," the detective ex-plained, "would just find the cars parked at Jljie curb." A boy picked for questioning Friday spilled the beans, Akron HcircsN HolilWri Anne Firestone Gems Stolen At Harvard Allied Pledges PANMUNJOM UP Here ara major terms of the Korean truca draft: FIGHTING STOPS 12 houra after the truce signing; troops withdraw from buffer zone 2V4 miles wide across Korea; troopa and arms frozen at truce level but rotation of 35,000 men monthly permitted; Allies withdraw within five days from North Korean coastal islands. MILITARY ARMISTICE commission fit five officers from each side supervises armistice terms; neutral nation supervisory corn mission (Sweden, Switzerland, Po land, Czechoslovakia) observes truce terms. PRISONERS WHO want to go home to be exchanged within two months; balky POWs turned over to repatriation commission (India, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Poland); India supplies guards for POWs; Red agents (seven per 1,000 POWs) maka "explanations" during 90-day periodin presence of neutrals to encourage repatriation; POWs who change minds repatriated on commission majority vote.

RECOMMENDATIONS a for a political conference to begin within 90 davs after an armlsHe to discuss reaceful settlement of entire Korean question; problem of POWs persisting In refusal to go home handed to conference for ju aays; after the 30 days, thosa still refusing repatriation released to civilian status In South Korea with right to go to neutral na tions of their choice. COMMUNIST reserve rlghtt plsujc before political conference See TERMS, Page CanH Get Late Steals 40 Cars DETROIT W) Because he stayed out late at night and busses had stopped running by the time he went home, Detroit police loday quoted a 17-ycar-old as saying he stole more than 40 automobiles to get home in. Police hold Charles .1. For- JEWELRY valued at $7,000 Is missing from the Harvard University suite of Anne Idahelle Firestone, 19-year-old daughter of Harvey S. Firestone chairman of the board of the Firestone Tire Rubber Co.

Miss Firestone reported the theft today to Cambridge, police. A JEWEL CASE containing 30 valuable pieces, including a $1,650 diamond ring, vanished from her three-room suite in Wigglesworth Hail while Miss Firestone was weekending at Newport, 1, Miss Firestone shares the suite with Miss Anne Vermillion, who also was away for the weekend. No other property In the suite was touched. Miss Firestone is attending classes in Summer school at the university. Rain? Maybe! Partly cloudy and warm today, tonight and Tuesday with a chance of widely scattered afternoon thundershowers today and Tuesday.

High today 90 to 95, low tonight 70. Sunday's high 85, low 67. Records for this date, high 100 in 1930, low 46 in 1929. Relative humidity at 8:30 p. m.

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m. m. tuna of Southflcld three juveniles he Identified as car-taking pals. No formal charge has yet been placed against any of the quartet. f- Detective John Leonard said Fortuna told this story: The youth's family moved from its long-time Detroit residence to suburban Southfleld Twp.

Charles liked to visit his pals back in Detroit and to go to movies in the old neighborhood. Usually by the time wag reajjv ta go home it was too late .0 catch a bus, so Charles took a car. v. mh mMjkj.