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READ TODAY'S CLASSIFIED ADS THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding WEATHERj Clearing, cooler tonight. Pair Wednesday. VOLUME NO. 63, NO. 283 LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTi Indians Won't Halt Breakout What's Doing in The World US and State ATLANTIC CITY Eisenhower called on Americans today to strive faithfully for a firm and just and durable the world fall into what he called the other alternative, terror and death through H-bomb warfare.

WASHINGTON of State Dulles told a news conference today that the United States is considering the possibility of assuring Russia against a revival of German aggression. WASHINGTON Iff) Six more Communist party leaders have been arrested by FBI agents and charged with conspiracy against the government. Attorney General Brownell said all hold or have held top party jobs in the Midwest. NEW YORK A partial back to work move today followed the government's securing of a temporary injunction halting the east coast longshoremen's strike. Dock workers were still idle at Brooklyn docks.

TOKYO dispute over fishing rights in the Sea of Japan today threatened to snag Japan-Korea peace talks, hours after the twice-interrupted negotiations resumed. The chief of South Korea's mission, Kim Yong Shik, called on Japan to accept the so-called "Rhee Line," decreed by ROK President Syngman Rhee to protect fisheries up to 60 miles from the Korean Coast. Kim presented South Korea case after Japan had demanded the immediate return of 34 Japanese fishing boats seized by the South Korean Navy inside the Rhee Line during the past month. BERLIN U. S.

high commission newspaper Neue Zeitung reported today that Russian mili tary police fought a gun battle several days ago in East Germany with deserters from a Soviet tank unit trying to escape transfer back to Russia. The paper said three Russian soldiers were killed in the shoot ing in a wooded area near Finowfurt, Brandenburg. Neue Zeitung did not say whether the dead were deserters or MP's. By MILO FARNETI and GEORGE McARTHUR PANMUNJOM UP)-The senior Indian officer in Korea said today that Indian troops would not attempt to halt a mass breakout of anti-Communist war prisoners because of the "terrible slaughter" that would follow. Lt.

Gen. K. S. Thimayya made the statement at a news conference even as thousands jammed streets in the South Korean capital of Seoul in a demonstration against Indians guarding POWs who have refused to go home. It also came amid renewed threats by South Korean leaders to drive out the Indians, whom they denounce as pro-Communist.

India is chairman of the five- nation repatriation commission. Thimayya said, "We are not concerned if South Korea threatens us because we have the huge U.N. Command" and Communist forces "at our disposal." He said the U.N. Command was responsible for preventing South Korean troops from entering the neutral zone to attack Indian forces. Asked if the 5,500 Indian troops guarding the POWs would try to quell a mass escape attempt, Thimayya answerefl with a flat "no." The Indians put not without attempted breakouts by anti-Communist prisoners during riotuous demonstrations last week.

Three prisoners were killed and 10 wounded. Thimayya did not comment on a letter sent him today by Gen. Mark W. Clark in which the retiring Far East commander said the United Nations will not waver from the principle of freedom of choice for the 23,000 anti-Communist prisoners in Indian custody. Thimayya said it was "highly likely" that the long-delayed interviewing of the balky POWs would begin next Tuesday.

Allied and Communist teams were to begin meeting Sept. 26 with the prisoners in an attempt to persuade them to return home, but a dispute over facilities for the interviews forced postponement. Thimayya, said the "explanations" could begin as soon as the U. N. Command finishes temporary interview booths demanded by the Communists.

The UNC s-aid the job would take about seven days. City to Call in State Police to Help Find Missing Records GOLDEN END OF GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Hank Bauer crosses the plate with the winning run in the last of the ninth inning of the World Series sixth game at Yankee run that crushed the Brooklyn Dodgers and made it five World Scries in a row for the New Yorkers. Bauer scored on a single to center by Billy Martin, his twelfth hit in the series. Dodger catcher Roy Campanella walks sadly away. (International Soundphoto) No Contact Made with Kidnapers By AL DOPKING KANSAS CITY Iff) In a voice strained with emotion, a spokesman for the wealthy parents of Bobby Greenlease today said there had been absolutely no contact with the kidnapers of the 6-year- old boy.

Stewart Johnson, close friend of the family's, appeared at the door shortly before 11 a m. (CST) of the huge Greenlease mansion and told newsmen: "There has been no contact with ft go-between. There has been nothing." Johnson's eyes were filled with tears. His voice broke as he said: "The is open to have little Bobby return. Reports a contact has been made with the kidnapers aro absolutely untrue." It was the first time since Monday that the family has said anything beyond "no comment." Earlier in the day, a missing spokesman at the home had aroused speculation a break might come any time in the 9-day-old case.

NIXON STARTS TRIP WASHINGTON Vice President Nixon started a trip early today as President Eisenhower's personal emissary to Far Eastern leaders. Nixon took off on the first leg of his 72-day journey to visit 18 countries, a flight from Washington to San Francisco. NOTICE! Our store wil be closed Wednesday afternoon, October re-wiring. FARMERS' EXCHANGE STORE 519 South James St. Zoning Request Decision Delayed After hearing arguments for nearly two hours on proposed changes in the city's zoning code, Ludington city commission decided Monday evening to meet Oct.

19 to debate the request that the area on Lake Shore drive from Court street to Tinkham avenue be changed from one-family dwellings to allow two-family units. A large crowd of spectators who attended Monday evening's session watched without comment as commissioners approved a zoning shift on North Washington avenue so that a confectionery store can be built near Ludington's new $650,000 junior high school. But, when debate on the Lake Shore drive project came up, commissioners listened to more than an hour of sometimes blunt, cutting remarks and then decided to weigh the whole situation at the next meeting. Neighbors were in some instances at cross-purposes over the proposal to allow two-family dwellings in what, up to now, has been for single family units only. Advocates of the they came supported with long lists of area that many of the buildings in that area are readily converted to two-family dwellings.

Real Estate Broker John Findling led the discussion in favor of the shift. Opponents argued that the change was only the first wedge to change the avenue into a commercial area. Former Mayor Harold F. King, Russell Sauers and A. P.

Sisko led this discussion, together with some others. Court Order Due to End Strike on Waterfront NEW YORK went back to work on New York docks bright and early today in compliance with a court order halting their "no contract, no work" strike in East Coast ports. In hiring shapeups at several piers, several hundred members of both the International Longshoremen's Assn. which was recently evicted from the AFL and members of a new rival AFL union reported for duty -speedily and Serving Through the Community Chest Michigan Children's Aid Society without incident. There were no mixed work gangs, however, for the rival unions control workers at different piers.

The court order issued Monday night enjoining further strike activity for 10 days under Taft- Hartley law provisions left unsettled the basic jurisdictional dispute between the ILA and the new AFL organization, and there have been indications of further work stoppages in the interunion struggle. The five-day tieup of ports from Maine to Virginia cost an estimated 7 million dollars in New York. President Eisenhower Monday ordered the Justice Department to seek a Taft-Hartley injunction. Asst. Atty.

Gen. Warren Burger flew to New York with a petition and Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld ordered a 10-day halt in the strike to prevent "immediate and irreparable injury" to the national welfare. He set next Tuesday for a formal hearing, at which he is expected to extend his order to the full 80-day period permitted under Taft-Hartley. Weinfeld's order quickly was served on Patrick J. Connolly, ILA executive vice president, and he directed the return to work of an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 ILA dockers from Portland, Maine, to Hampton Roads, Va.

The ILA's strike followed failure of the union and the New York shipping representing 170 shipping and stevedoring companies, to agree on a new contract. The ILA asked a wage-welfare package of 13 cents an hour. The employers offered an 8Vz cents package. The present basic rate is $2.27 an hour. SPRINGPORT head of cattle, fafm machinery and grain were destroyed in a $20,000 fire which swept a barn on the farm of Robert Seifert near here Monday.

Origin of the blaze was undetermined. NOTICE Friday is the final date to pay city taxes without penalty. GRACE COLEMAN, City Treasurer In an effort to familiarize its readers with the agencies that receive funds from the Community Chest The Ludington Daily News will feature each agency, giving an outline of their functions and what it means to the citizens of this community. A little known but important society that receives funds from the Community Chest is Michigan Children's Aid society. What are the functions of this organization? The name Children's Aid society implies that this agency deals with children, more specifically what service do they render? There are about 12,000 children in the state of Michigan whose own homes-, and parents for reasons of death, divorce, illness, neglect or unmarried parenthood, can not give children the care they need and deserve.

In this community these children are the special concern- and charge of the Michigan Children's Aid society. Many people think of the Michigan Children's Aid society primarily in terms of placing of children, especially babies, for adoption. This service forms a large part of their work, however the care of children in closely supervised, licensed boarding homes takes an even greater portion of their worker's time. The people of Ludington, through their contribution to the Community Chest for the work of this agency can know that, because of their gifts, homes have been provided for 121 children during the past year, 14 of them from Ludington. Each of these children receives necessary medical care, dental care and eye examinations.

School contacts to watch their school progress, purchase necessary clothing and help them with their personal problems. Another function of the Michigan Children's aid society is their services to the handicapped children. At the present time they are boarding six handicapped children who need to be in Traverse City to attend the School for Crippled Chil- Ice Box Claims LiieoH-Year-Old GRAND HAVEN abandoned refrigerator has brought tragedy to one more home and near-tragedy to another. Little 4-year-old Pamela Pfishner became the year's 14th U. S.

victim of such a tragedy at nearby Ferrysburg Monday. Pamela's 4-year-old playmate, Lila Mae Carpenter, all but died with her. Both were unconscious when found but Lila Mae was revived. Pamela, daughter of Mrs. Glen Bolthouse, and Lila Mae were trapped in a refrigerator that Lila Mae's father, Robert Carpenter, had left in his yard with plans to bury it later as a container for fish bait.

State police said the little girls either locked themselves in or were locked in by two smaller children with whom they were playing. Mrs. Carpenter found the two missing when she returned from an errand and located them at the end of a frantic search. Neighbors rushed the unconscious children to a hospital, dren and special rooms not, available in their home community. It is a real job finding boarding parents who can take on the extra responsibility of all that is involved in caring for a child who may be on crutches or in a wheelchair.

Special thanks are owed to these boarding parents for the encouragement and strength as veil as actual physical care they give these children who need so much. These youngsters, of course, return to their own homes during vacations and are boarded only during the school year. Does the $1,000 requested from the Community Chest support all Luclington city commission Monday night voted to call in Michigan state police to make a further investigation into the missing field assessment records of former Assessor Hugh Earner. Commissioners listened to a five- page report written by a special investigating committee i ended with this statement: "We are disappointed that we have not been successful in securing the return of the field records but, in view of conflicting statements, the committee makes the following recommendation: 'That the state police be called in to make a further and without debate or comment voted to execute the recommendation. First Ward Commissioner C.

Evert Johnson, chairman of ths special investigating committee, said that the appeal for state police assistance would be made by Mayor Dan R. Rathsack and Chief of Police Fred Nankee. This will be done at once, he said. The report shed little additional light on the missing tax records but noted conflicts in statements made by persons interviewed. The committee in its report said: are conflicting statements in regard to the keys that gained entrance to the city assessor's office.

have been able to account for two keys to the east door, which arc now in the possession of Earl A. Miller, (present assessor) and Arthur Lange (municipal building custodian). have not been able to account for the two keys, which supposedly gained entrance to the south door up to the time that the lock was changed on Aug. 14. examined the work order of Aug.

14 which showed that Earl Marmon (a city employe) changed the lock on the south entrance to the city assessor's office. Mr. Marmon and Mr. (James Cartier (assistant city manager) took the tumbler from the door directly opposite the entrance to the police department and placed this City Commission Action in Brief Luclington City Commission Monday night: to call in the Michigan state police to investigate the disappearance of former Assessor Hugh Earner's field records. to take up the rezoning of Lake Shore drive from Court to Tinkham streets at the next meeting.

the 700 block on North Washington avenue from residential to commercial. Health Chiefs Deny Michigan Did Not Use All GG Possible the work done? No, the amount tumbler in the lock of the south requested is only a portion the operational budget. The agency is state-wide and our brapch office serves the northern 17 counties of the Lower Peninsula. Other funds are received from the other 16 counties, for the work done there but Ludington funds support the work done here and are used only for children of Ludington. A board of directors made up of representatives from various parts of the district guides the agency in its work.

The Ludington member of the board is Mrs. James A. Rye. Plan to Inspect Buildings Here Fire Prevention week, being observed in Ludington this week, will include the inspection of schools, public buildings and businesses, Fire Chief Arthur Lange said today. Residents who wish to have their homes inspected during Fire Prevention week are asked to call tele- phona numbers 60 or 964.

Ludington firemen will entertain fire chiefs from Western Michigan and their wives at a dinner at 12:30 p. rn. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Eagles' hall dining room. Hal Boyle Says The Years Have Not Tarnished the Memory of Hero Ernie Pyle By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK The din of the second World War is dying in the distance of time as the world wheels on to fresh woes and wars and new truces.

Many of the heroes of the great conflict are slowly being forgotten. But Ernie Pyle, the man, has become a legend, and the years have put no tarnish on the luster of. his name and fame. People in thousands of homes across America still cherish scrapbooks in which they pasted his stories, and they still get them out and read them. Why are they so loyal to him eight years after his death? I think it is because he was so loyal to them, and their sons, brothers, fathers or sweethearts in uniform during his lifetime.

He was the greatest typewriter tourist guide in history. Nobody before him or since has ever been able to take the home folks by the heart and lead them up lo the front and realize the hell! their loved ones were going through. In a National Newspaper Week ceremony Monday they put up a plaque at his old school, Indiana University, in his memory. Ernie became the ninth of America's famous newspapermen so honored by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity. door to office.

The tumbler from the lock in the (Please turn to Page 10. Column 2) son Bradley, paid him tribute in the main address, and Ernie would have liked that. But if Pyle, the little man who wasn't there could have heard the praise he would probably have chuckled later in the general's ear, "Brad, you're never going to get anywhere until you pull yourself together and learn to quit telling such whoppers." For Ernie wouldn't have been able to keep his elfin face sober at the ceremony, particularly a ceremony honoring himself. He always thought people managed to make themselves look ridiculous on solemn occasions like bears riding bicycles. Yet he had a vast sense of the true dignity of man.

For all his fun and warmth and sympathy, his own skinny 112- pound frame had an unshakeable dignity, and all you had to do was to see the purpose in his blue eyes to be aware of it. And that bave the real power to his writing. Ernie Pyle wasn't the first reporter to make a hero of the infantryman. He did much more than that. lie was the first to make the nation aware of the immortal dignity of the doughboy, who on every battlefield keeps the stature of a man in the face of the indignities of danger, dirt and Ontario Crash Takes 4 Lives SARNIA, Ont.

UP) Violent, multiple death that so often rides in automobiles jumped the international boundary from Michigan Monday night and took four lives here. It had claimed five near Saginaw, only hours before. Members of three generations of one family were killed in a smash-up on the outskirts of Sarnia. Three persons were critically injured. Two cars hit head-on, police said, when Arnold Wiles, 53, attempted to pass a truck and pulled into the path of an oncoming car driven by Jack Miller, 23.

Wiles, driving three women and a baby home from a bingo game was killed. So were two of the women and a baby. Miller and his passenger, Ambrose Stark, 33, were critically hurt. All were from Sarnia. The only person in Wiles' car to survive was Mrs.

Pauline Kettle, 18, whose 6-months-old daughter, mother, Mrs. Mary Walsh, 42, and grandmother, Mrs. Julia O'Con- ness, 62. were killed. The five were killed outside Saginaw on M-13 as a new convertible loaded with 10 persons slammed into a concrete bridge abutment.

Five who survived were critically injured. Among the victims was Mrs. Bernice Wood, 30, of Shields, mother of four, and Mrs. Tula Griffen, also of Shields, mother of three. A traffic collision yesterday also took the lives of two Detroit soldiers near Troy, 111.

They were Pvts. Benson J. Coloriti, 20, and LeRoy S. Spiker, 20, stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. A truck struck their car.

And Lexington, yesterday, a Wyandotte, father of eight was killed. He'was Walter'B. Stewart. 55. J.

Lindsy Nunn, 67, told police he suddenly saw Stewart walking in front of his car and did not have time to stop. LANSING State Health Department officially denied charges in a national magazine (Look) today that Michigan was one of 15 states that: did not use all the gamma globulin they were entitle to this summer. At the same time, officials revealed there is growing concern that the polio-fighting injection may be doing more harm than good. Charge Scare Tactics State officials described as "scare tactics" a statement in the article that if the offending states had used gamma globulin to the fullest "many children now crippled might have escaped paralysis." The article charged that six slates did not use gamma globulin for mass inoculations at. all and that nine others, including Michigan used it only on a limited scale.

"In dozens of counties throughout these 15 states," the article said, "the number of new polio cases reported each week had risen to a level that, made mass inoculations imperative. State health officials needed only to apply to the Offfee of Defense Mobilization (ODM)'to obtain the GG. But neither the ODM nor the U. S. Public Health Service could force states to use gamma Dr.

Albert E. Heustis, state be drawn, he emphasized. But the purpose of the investigation is to see whether the temporary protection from paralysis produced by gamma globulin prevents the patient from developing a natural immunity. "Polio is more serious the young adult than in children," Dr. Leeder said.

"If we protect children with gamma globulin, are we possibly in danger of doing nothing more than postponing the attack of polio on some people until later in life when it is most dangerous?" health commissioner, said that only Marquette County met the ODM criteria for the epidemic use of gamma globulin. When the county met these criteria, he said, his department promptly applied for and got enough gamma globulin and got enough gamma globulin to inoculate 10,203 children between one and nine last July. He said the magazine article writer may have used the standards of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to determine that other counties in Michigan had outbreaks that qualified them for mass inoculations. "After all," he said, "it is the ODM and not the Foundation that has the gamma globulin. We had to go by ODM standards." A health department source said privately that the magazine's "scare article" was well timed January.

Dr. E. S. Leeder, director of the division of disease control, revealed is working with the University of Michigan school of public show if gamma globulin might be doing more harm than good. Not Complete The experiments are not yet complete, so no conclusions can Judge Praises Court Repairs Circuit Judge Max E.

Neal, in opening the October term of Mason county circuit ourt Monday afternoon, spoke appreciatively of the newly repaired and redecorated courtroom. court to express ap- "for the improvements been raadft to the courtroom and my office since my last session here. "It is a great improvement ia this room which has been made very cheerful and pleasant in which to carry on our work. "The court wants to thank building committee which was charge of the work and also board of supervisors which authorized the improvements." Two cases were moved onto the criminal calendar by Assistant Prosecutor William Stapleton. They were an appeal, brought by Matthew Urka of Scottville from a justice court decision, for the hearing of which a date will be announced later, and the case of the People vs.

Lyman Chamberlain of Amber, charged with breaking and entering. Arraignment of Chamberlain was deferred, pending outcome of a case in Tennessee where he is being held on a charge of larceny of a car. Remainder of the session was devoted to arranging the calendar for the term. In addition to the two cases moved onto the criminal calendar, 12 cases were added to the civil calendar. RUN OVER BY ROLLER MALONE, N.

Y. Eugene Harrington, 22, is in a hospital here nursing a crushed nose, and he's lucky to be alive. Harrington, a laborer employed by the town of Malone, fell off a truck Monday and into the path of a steam roller. Fellow workmen said the steel cylinder passed over only part of Harrington's face. His old itrifijuL Gen.

Omar Nel- death, hunger and hardship. 2 Autos Damaged in US-31 Crash Cars, driven by Russell Carlson of Ludington Route 3 and Jack Douse of Big Rapids, were involved in an automobile accident, which occurred at 11:10 p. m. Monday on US-31, south of the viaduct and in front of Larsen's tourist court. According to Mason county sheriff's officers, the accident happened when Douse was turning into the tourist court as the Carlson car was passing.

No one was hurt, but both cars sustained considerable damage. The Weather (U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast) Lower Michigan: Clearing and cooler with frost or freezing temperatures likely tonight. Fair Wednesday, warmer in the afternoon. Low tonight 24-28 north, 2832 south.

Highest temperature one year ago today, 52; lowest, 35. Highest temperature this date since 1872, 87 in 1946; lowest, 36 in 1935. The sun sets today at 6:06 p. m. and rises Wednesday at 6:35 a.

m. The moon sets today at 5:12 p. m. and rises Wednesday at 6:18 a. m.

Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 24 hours ending at 12 noon: Maximum 52, minimum 43. FOR SALE! 809 W. LOOM IS ST. Beautiful view of the lake.

15' 28' living room with new carpeting. Modern kitchen. Three bedrooms and bath. See or call Meny-Washatka, phone 98 Chest Total NOW Ludington's Community Chest total today is $1,778 toward its $13,982 goal, Drive Director C. Evert Johnson reported this morning.

Epworth Heights total today is $342, according to Community Chest records. Srvice clubs have collected the following amounts in contributions, Lions club $200, Optimist club $138 and Rotary club $68. City Tax Penalty to Start Friday Friday is the final date to pay city taxes without penalty, City Treasurer Grace Coleman announced this morning. Taxpayers paying taxes after p. m.

Friday will be charged a four percent penalty. Mrs. Coleman reported about $123,000 of the total tax roll of 000 has been collected to date. NOTICE! There will be no meeting of THE HAMLIN LAKE IMPROVE- MENTASSQCIA- 10 evening, October South IHamdn is using thf to.