The Daily News from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE WEATHER CUwdy, Hoi THE DAILY NEWS i rr. EDUCATION J3CI. J-A. VOLUME 32. HUNTINGDON AND MOUNT UNION, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1953.

5 CENTS PER COPY HO. 148. RHEE BLOWS TRUCE SITUATION WIDE OPEN AGAIN COUNTY TO SHARE IN FEDERAL FUNDS FOR CIVIL DEFENSE Expenditure of $7,029 for the purchase of emergency equipment and supplies by four political subdivisions of Huntingdon County has been approved by the Civil Defense Administration, Dr. Richard Gerstell, Pennsylvania civil defense director, announced in Harrisbu'rg today that municipalities In 53 of the state's 67 counties took advantage of the federal "matching fund program" during the fiscal year ending June SO. Total approved expenditures under the program in Pennsylvania amounted to 53,374,586.

S. Harold Fisher, Huntingdon County CD director, said today that Huntingdon, Mapleton, Three Springs and McConnellstown applied for federal approval of purchases under the matching fund program. Earlier this month, Gerstell that $2,378 for the purchase of a warning system for Huntingdon had been approved. The borough will pay of this amount and the federal government will furnish the remaining half of the total amount. Fisher has been informed that applications for funds from the other three towns are "in the mill," but he has been furnished no data as to amounts.

Apparently the other has been approved for these municipalities. Approved expenditures, for nearby counties, follows: Bedford, Blair, Centre, $11,275 and Mifflin, $10,472. A total of 736 fund applications (Continued on Page Eleven) FREE FOOD PLANS CONTINUE DESPITE PROTESTS OF REDS By KENNETH BRODNET United Press Correspondent Berlin, July 22 American spokesman-, said today to provide £or hungry Bast Germans will not be spite angry Soviet Soviet High Commissioner for East Germany Vladimir S. Sem- ttyonov in a sharply-worded note 'to U- S. High Commissioner Dr.

James B. Conant demanded that the fopd aid program be halted immediately. At the same time reports from SCast Genmany told of thousands of Soviet Zone residents massing fai front of empty state-owned stores to demand that President Eisenhower's offer of $15,000,000 wor.th of free food be accepted by the Communist bosses. Semyonov's nets charged that the recent food aid given to East Berliners by West Berlin was an attempt to recruit "Fascist agents" and demanded that 'taeasures be taken immediately" to halt all future pi ana to distribute food. An official American spokesman branded Semyonov's charges (Continued on Page Eleven) Om The WASHINGTON 9RSW PEARSOM DREW PEARSON SAYS: FINE FEATHERS FOOL SENATORS HEARING YAKEVIA.

INDIAN PLEA; NEW SDPA BOSS LAUNCHES STRONG FIGHT FOB SStALL BUSINESS CONTRACTS; FEW NEGRO APPOINTMENTS UNDER GOP REGIME. Senate Appropriations Committee was so dazzled by the feathers and trappings of a recent witness, Chief Rising Sun, that the Senators listened solemnly while he pleaded the cause of the Takima Indians once suspecting that he wasn't an Indian at all, but an overdecorated, Negro ex-bellhop. The big chief, whose Senate performance got him a full-page picture with feathers bristling in Life Magazine, Is otherwise known Alzamon Ira Lucas. His birth certificate shows that he was bom on Nov. 11, 1878, of Negro, not parents.

How he happened to show up In the Senate in chiefs headdress and Indian costume as spokesman for the Yakima Indians Is something the Yakima Indians would like to find out. Actually, the Yaklmas have a problem at their happy fishing grounds back In Oregon. The government is planning to build the Dalles Dam, which would flood celilo Falls and wipe out the tribe's fishing grounds. Somehow Lucas heard about this, and offered the tribe his services. He proposed organizing a mass meeting i Washington and another at Madison Square Garden in New York to protest the dam construction.

The Yaklmas (Continued on Page Six) Battle Casualty PVT. EARL G. MINNICK SIX MILE RUN GI REPORTED MISSING IN KOREAN ACTION A 23-year-old Six Mile Run infantryman, Pvt. Earl G. Minnick, has been reported "missing in in Korea since July 10, according to an official telegram from the Defense Department received by his mother, Mrs.

Robert Minnick. Pvt. Minnick, known to' have been in action in the vital fight for control of Porkchop Hill, was serving with Company 17th Infantry Regiment, in the U. S. 7th Division.

It is assumed that he was involved in a fierce counterattack launched by American and South Korean forces on July 9 and 10. Mrs. Minnick had received a letter from her son mailed from Korea on July 8 when he reported that he was on the front lines and expected to be "pulled off" on July Further details are, not known, by Minnick's family. service; Octi and'tpok his training at. Iridiantown Gap.

Previous to that time he had been working on a construction job near Harrisburg. He went to Korea in mid- March. The Six Mile Run soldier has a brother, Harry, who is a first sergeant now on duty in Germany after 13 years of service. In addition, there are three other brothers and four sisters includicg Jack and Richard at Six Mile Run; Henry'at Chambersburg; Mrs. P.

Dewees Browne of Broad Top City; Mrs. Tony Angelo of Dudley; Mrs. James Rickabaugh of Chambersburg; and Mrs Howard White, Six Mile Run. FAIR, HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE The state will have continued fair and -hot weather, according to the weatherman, for tonight and Thursday, with the possibility of cooler air moving into the state by late Thursday. The high yesterday in the Huntingdon area was 93 degrees, the low last night was 57.

At 7 a. m. this morning: weather observer John R. Henderson reported a temperature of 61 degrees. ALUMNI GROUP TO ASSEMBLE FRIDAY BROAD TOP CITY SOLDIER WOUNDED IN ARM IN KOREA tPvt.

Harry Rinehart, Broad Top City infantryman, has become the second member of his family to be wounded in action in Korea. Young Rinehart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rinehart, wrote his twice-wounded brother, Glenn, that he had been wounded in the arm by shrapnel during recent action in Korea. He explained that he had spent little time" in the hospital, but was now "back on duty." His brother, Corporal Glenn Rinehart, received a medical discharge in June after being wounded twice during the fighting in Korea.

Glenn entered the service March 22, 1950, and was first wounded in March, 1951. The younger Rinehart, who was 21 on July 2, entered the Army December 2, 1952, and took his basic training at Port Knox, Ky. He left for Korea on May 1 and was serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment in the IT. S. Third Division.

"iPopeye," as he is known by his Broad Top his address as Pvt. Harry Rinehart Company E. 15th Infantry Regiment, Third Division, APO 468, Postmaster, San Francisco, California. The annual Summer meeting of the executive committee of the Juniata College Alumni Association has been called for Friday morning, July 24, In the Faculty Club. A six-point agenda has been prepared by Alumni Secretary Harold B.

Brumbaugh for discussion by the committee which is headed by LeRoy S. Maxwell, Waynesboro, as alumni" association president Committee members will discuss funds, local association af- (Conttnued on Page Fourteen) SENATE VOTE DUE ON DEFENSE BILL; IKE VICTORY SEEN BY UNITED PRESS Republican leaders predicted a legislative victory for President Eisenhower as the Senate met two hours early today to act on the $34,511,302,000 defense appropriations bill. Acting Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Cal.) said the ena stay in session, untU- tne measure 'is approved, top Democrats agreed pri-vateiy with their GQP colleagues that-M'r Eisenhower and the Defense Department will win their battle for cuts in Air Force funds. Chairman Homer Ferguson C'R- Mich.) of the subcommittee which drafted the bill expected the measure to be passed "pretty much" as approved by the parent Appropriations Committee.

Sen. Burnet R. Maybank said there was "a fighting chance" to defeat' Mr. Eisenhower's recommendation aiid boost Air Force appropriations, but some of his supporters (Continued on Page Fourteen) Lutheran Young People To Hear Caravaners Three classes of the St. James Lutheran Church School, the Willing- Workers Class, M.

H. De Forrest, teacher, the Fidelis Class, Mrs. M. H. DeForrest, teacher, and the Von Bora Class, Miss Dorothy P.

Wagner, will be hosts to the young people of the Lutheran Churches of Huntingdon County on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings July 23, 24 and 25 respectively, at 8:00 P- m. in a free dinner in the social room of the church. St. James Lutheran Church will cooperate in a program planned and promoted by the Luther League of. the United Lutheran Church of America to recognize and encourage the Importance of work with and for young people (Continued On Page Thirteen) Treasury Report i i- Alexandria Project Is Underway by L.

Washington, July expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through July 17: Expenses, receipts, 2,114,650,293.70: deficit, cash balance, public debt gold reserve! 22,374,794,623.00. Committee Finds Oxnam Is Not Affiliated With Reds Washington, July 38. House Un-American Activities Committee declared unanimously today that Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam Is not affiliated with the Communist Party. Republican members of the committee generally were convinced that Oxnam had lent his name to Communist fronts, while their Democrat colleagues hi general defended the bishop, saying- he merely had exercised his rights as a citizen.

Oxnam matntained throughout almost 10 hours of give-and-take with the committee Tuesday that he ie a. vigorous exponent of the American way of life and a longtime foe of communism. T)u motion the committee's conclusion that Oxnam has no Communist Party ties were made by Rep. Clyde Doyle (D-Cal.) and seconded by Rep. Donald L.

Jackson who has charged Oxnam with serving "God on Sunday and the Communist front the rest of the week." Oxnam said he hoped to ahow Jackson that What the Congressman said was "exaggerated," Jackson replied only that he hoped to have "the opportunity" to discuss the matter with Oxnam at some future date. Oxnam leaves for Europe Friday to attend a church conference in Vienna. Committee counsel Robert Kunzig disclosed Tuesday night that the group previously had re- oa Page Seven) Construction Work On Scout Building Starts Alexandria's Scout Community Building' was under construction "photo-taking' 1 cere-" 'nic-ny to mark the beginning of a project that has gained community-wide support. The one-story structure, to be erected by L. c.

Anderson and Sons of Huntingdon, is being built on a Shelton Avenue plot near the village square. Construction is under way in spite of the fact that sufficient funds are not yet available to cover estimated cost of $3,000. The committee has raised 51,665 for the project to date, according to Mark Learner, treasurer of the bunding committee. "Every effort will be made to raise the balance needed and we will get the money," Mrs. William McDaniel, president of The Scout Community Home, emphasized at the ground-breaking.

The committee is being aided Oy Boy Scout and Girl Scout project. The Boy Scouts conducted a car-wash project last Saturday and the Girl Scouts are cookies to aid in the fund drive ean while, the contractor was with the 'hope of completing 0 the building -the latter part of 1 1 Ike Hopeful Truce Con Be Signed Soon Washington, July enl er toda ttat despite differences with both North Korean Communists and South Korea he still hopeful and reasonably confident an armistice can be signed soon. The president said at his news conference that there was very little he could add because the armistice talks at Panmunjom are bemg conducted in secret sessions. he would not say anything that might be taken as a Ot he official secrecy surrounding those Asked to spell out what he dlffe with both South and North Korea, Mr. Eisenhower sa ld the southern problems had been fully reported In the newspapers and that the secrecy applies to differences remain- with the Communist (Contmued On Page Two) ffiGLEYTAKES OVER AS NEWJA CHIEF Washington, July 22.

V. Higley took over aa head of the ans Administration today the expressed hope of sidestepping "troubles" In his political, ly-sensitive job. The 60-year-old Industrialist from Marinette, was sworn at a White House ceremony less than 24 hours after the Senate confirmed his appointment Higley told a reporter he plans changes at present" in the huge Veterans Administration because "I to take time to find out what it's all about" son. It will be 24 32 feet in size with a steel framework, and- cinder "block Asides; The will' be gas heated. Alexandria Borough Council provided the 50 160 foot plot for building on a 99-year lease.

is located on the site of the only jail which the borough operated but demolished some 52 years ago. ii In addition to a meeting place (Continued on Paga Eleven) NEW NOTEls SENT TO SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT BY U.S. Washington, July State Department has sent South Korean President Syngman Rhee a new note trying to allay last-minute fears about an armistice, it was disclosed today. The subject was treated with delicacy by American officials, apparently for fear of arousing the aging South Korean president and his foreign minister and upsetting in an advanced for signing of a cease-fire agree- with the Chinese Commu- It was learned that the new note was drafted and cabled to Seoul in the late hours of Tuesday after receipt at the State Department of a cabled message, from U. S.

officials in Korea, containing several specific questions raised by Rhee, evidently on post-armistice problems: The State Department maintained strict silence on negotiations with both the Communists and South Korea. But officials nevertheless held high hopes that tne long-sought armistice is in sight at last. Rhee warned today that the Cbl- (Continucd On Page Fifteen) STOCKnCAfRACES SET FORSATURDAY Stock caf races will highlight the opening of the new one-third mile race track at the Huntingdon County Fairgrounds at 2 p. m. this Saturday, July 25.

Cars and drivers from Central Pennsylvania will compete In eight heats in the headline attraction of tha third annual ox-roast sponsored by the Woodcock Valley Lions Club. The ox-roast Is scheduled Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 23-24-25. Meanwhile, volunteer workmen are actually working day and night to put the finishing touches Pi dirt track which has full approval of the AAA, according to Glair C. Johnson, president of the Huntingdon (Continued on Page Eleven) EXPLOSION THEORY GIVEN IN DEATHS OF THREE HUNTER Gaspe, July unsolved ftt djsapplearantfa of "hunters prompted today that 'a dynamite explosion, and not bandits or bears, them and scattered their bodies in the wilds of the Gaspe The dynamite theory was ad- vkhced unofficially by a member of a 15-man police team penetrating the bushland here daily in search of a tangible lead to the fate of the hunters. Apparently no one saw the hunters after June 12.

A battered body nearly stripped of flesh was found a week ago and was presumed to be that of Richard Lindsay, IT, of Brooke's Mills, near Hollidaysburg-, who vanished with his father, Eugene Lindsay, 45 and a companion, Fred Claar, 20, of East Freedom. Another 10-inch leg bone found Tuesday night by the police team appeared to belong to the same skeleton. Calcinated bones discovered in a caitnping ground and believed at -first to be those of the elder Lindsay and Claar proved to (Continued On Pege Three) THE WEATHER Partly Clondy And Hot Today, Increasing Cloudiness With Showers And Thundorshowcrs Tonight And Thursday. Cooler Thursday Night. The High Today 88 To The Low Tonight To 64, Community Chest Meeting Set For Friday A proposal that all charitable organizations consolidate their fund-raising drives Into one "united effort" will be considered at a meeting in the grand jury room of the Huntingdon County Courthouse at p.

m. Friday, July 24. Directors of the Huntingdon Community Chest, hoping to determine If such a single-effort campaign is feasible, have extended invitations to 15 organizations to send representatives to the meet Ing. J. Oscar Bergantz, president of the board of directors of the Huntingdon Community Chest, pointed out -today that "this meeting will of necessity be purely preliminary as far as a combined campaign Is concerned." However, he encouraged all rep(Continued On Page Fifteen) ROK President Renews Demands That Reds Be Out Within Six Months By EARNEST HOBOERECHT United Press Correspondent Seoul, Korea, Juiy 22.

Syngman blew the Korean truce situation wide open again today. Despite new assurances contained in another note from Washington, the 78-year-old South Korean president renewed demands that Chinese Communist forces be out of Korea within six mpnths after armistice day, and said any promises he may have made to cooperate in a truce were "conditional." He said that if his conditions were not met "we shall be liberty to follow our own BIG ROADBLOCK ON ASSEMBLY DOCKET IS PUSHED ASIDE at course of action." The latest United States note to Rhee reached Seoul late today. But whatever promises it contained, they did not satisfy Rhee and so, once more, whether or when there would be a truce in Korea was anybody's guess. Until Rhee's latest blast, the United Nations Far East Commander Gen. Mark Clark had hoped an agreement would be signed within seven days.

U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in Washington, had warned that the hot and cold Korea negotiations might blow cold again but he said there were no obstacles that could be surmounted if the Communists really wanted a truce. United States officials have insisted that Rhee agreed in writing not to obstruct the armistice, without attaching any time limit. Rhee and the United States were in such sharp disagreement that it appeared only publication of the pledges exchanged by Rhee and Assistant Secretary of State (Continued on Page Two) DeHicatiori Of Myers Building To Be Saturday Dedication of the O.

R. Myers Memorial Building at Camp Kan- esatake wUl be held on Saturday afternoon, July 23, at 2 o'clock. The 30th anniversary of the founding of the Summer training and recreation camp will be marked at the same program which will be held at the assembly hall at the camp. A large attendance from, the three-county area of Huntingdon, Blair and Centre is expected to attend the event. The 55,000 memorial building, built with funds contributed by Sunday Schools and church leaders, is a tribute to the late Prof.

(Continued on Page Eleven.) SKIING SEASOH IS ALMOST FINISHED Concord, N. July skiing season is coming to a belated close in New Hampshire. Joe Dodge, guide and hutmaster for the Appalachian Club, said there was still snow on the headwall at H. The season has lasted about a month longer than usual. FIBERGLAS UNION OFFERS TRAINING Lotfal 1034, Textile Workers Union of America, CIO, began a three-day educational program, yesterday, to promote better union-imanagement relations at the Huntingdon Owens-Corning Fiberglas plant The training will help the 30 department stewards and other union members do an efficient Job of enforcing the contract and especially the incentive system, according to Frank Davis, union (Continued on Page Eleven) Latest Glamour Girl For Communists Is RedHilde By PHIL NEWSOM tTP Foreign Editor Newest glamour girl of the international Communist set is Frau Hilde Benjamin, also known as "Red ffilde." She presides over what for some strange reason is called East German's Ministry of Justice, and takes over the glamour girl title from Romania's Ana Pauker who was not competing this year.

The beefy, lantern-jawed Ana, who turned in her own husband as partial proof of her right to be Commies' No. 1 girl, is In retirement. Ana was Romania's foreign minister and deputy prime minister untfl she gathered the reward usually tor high meaning that someone faster on their feet than she reserved either a prison cell or a firing squad for her, the Western world Isn't wire which. But now we have Hilde. HSlde is female, wears her hair in a bun at the back of her head and has a weakness for Paris gowns.

But right there and then any similarity with a cozy date for cocktails for two ends. Hilde is the mannish type who in the United States would go in for a that is, with capital letters. Hilde joined the Communist Party in 1924 at the age of 22. No one can say for sure when Hilde learned to hate. It may have Oa Two), Harrisburg, July scoreboard today read two down and only a handful of major legislation to go in the General A-ssembly's big push for final adjournment Saturday afternoon.

The last big roadblock on the docket was pushed aside Tuesday when the House passed, virtually on a party-line vote, the bill to re- apportion the districts of that a "must" by Republican leaders. Senate Republicans, while declining to reshuffle the districts of- their own expected to. put their stamp on the bill and quickly send it to Gov. John S. Fine.

Democrats in the Senate may delay final passage of the redistricting- measure for a few hours by introduction of a series of amendments. Senate Minority Leader John H. Dent said tha minority argue the merits of 'the proposed amendments but predicted there would (Crntinued On Fifteen) ROKTROOPSTHROW BACK RED ASSAULT, ON CENTRAL FRONT Seoul, Korea, July 22. South Korean troops threw back a force of 1,000 attacking Chinese today while United Nations fighter- bombers dropped half a million pounds of bombs on the Kumsong. bulge.

The unsuccessful Red drive in the central front bulge was tha only major action along the "comparatively quiet" battlefront which truce officers were attempting- to reduce to a mile buffer zone. One company after another attacked South Korean positions on the Allies' new defense line along the Kumsong River, but the RQKs threw them back, one at a time. Allied fighter-bombers pierced a heavy cloud layer to dump 500,000 pounds of explosives on Chinese troops and positions in the area. Night-flying superforts flew near the Yalu River and bombed (Continued on Page Seven.) Late Bulletins Washington, July Rep. Donnld L.

Jackson (R-Calif.) said today the House Un-American Activities Committee has not "cleared" RJethodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of all connections with Communist front organizations. Jackson, a committee member who previously had charged Oxnam with serving "God on Sunday and the Communist front the rest of the week," said that at marathon 10-hour session of the committee Tuesday Oxnam was neither cleared nor found guilty, Berlin, July 22 The West Berlin city government and Hie United States defied angry Soviet protests today and went ahead with plans to feed hungry East Germans the West Berliners by distribution of 1,000,000 food packages and the United States by a gift of 515.000,000 in food. FUNERAL HELD IN BOSTON FOR TOBIN 'Boston, 'July services were held today for Maurice J. Tobln, 52-year-old "boy wonder" of politics who died Sunday while reading a newspaper in bed.

Former President Harry S. Truman, in whose cabinet Tobin. served ag Secretary of Labor, headed the honorary pallbearers who escorted the body Into Holy Cross Cathedral for the solemn requiem high mass sung by Archbishop Richard J. Gushing. Francis Cardinal Spellman of.