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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-01-29

Miss Dulaney, typing and book
keeping teacher, has been ap-
pointed to the Resolutions Com
mittee, which is a committee of
the Ohio Education Association.
This is the second year she has
been appointed.
Carolyn wheel.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-01-29

Named To Committee
Evening star., 1954-01-10
By The Assoeiosed Press

CHARLESTON, S. c.. Jan. O.
A Charleston man who was a
prisoner in Korea with Corpl.
Claude Bachelor declared bitter
ly tonight that "the boys hated"
the Texan who recently left a
pro-Red camp at his own request.
Eugene Hayward Tumbleston,
a service station operator here,
told the Charleston News and
Courier in an interview that
Corpl. Bachelor accused the
United States of waging germ
warfare in Korea and played
along with the Chinese"
1T just gripes me to have all
this fuss made over Bachelor. !"
the 22-year-old Army veteran
declared.
1.-The boys hated him but they
were scared Of the Chinese" Mr..
Tumbleston continued.
He Had Influence.
"Batchelor was the man who
wrote most of the so-called pro-
posals for peace which some
GIs sent from prison Camp
Five to the President of the
United States. He was the leader
of those Americans who called
themselves Progressives - who
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Trip in Picard Balloon Marks
l67st Anniversary of Flight

landed in a field near here, but
"the weather was closing in and
we felt it prudent to curtail the
venture"
The balloon, 54 feet across and
seven stories tall, required 10000
cubic feet of Illuminating gas
to be airborne. Mr.. Picard had
spent all of Friday night at a
nearby field preparing the ball
loon for flight.
Besides Picard, who lives in
Newark, Del, and is craftsman
in Wilmington; Francis Shields.
80, of Greenridge, Pa; Miss Kate
C.. Ornsen of Moyland, Pa, and
Miss Eleanor Vadala of Phila-
delphia made the trip.
Mr.. Picard is the son of Jean
Picard, professor emeritus Of
the University of Minnesota, who
made a record stratosphere bal
loon fight in 1884.
The elder Piccard's twin
brother, Auguste. also is a world
famed stratospheric balloonist.
Auguste and his son. Jacques,
turning in the other direction,
recently made a ord-breaking
descent into the Mediterranean
Sea in a device called a bathy-
scafe.
Evening star., 1954-01-10

tiated settlement is IAN encour-
aging sign that speedy DISPOSE
tion of wage requests and labor
issues is returning to our in
dustry." He recalled that delay
and Intervention by third par
ties" had marked bargaining
maneuvers in recent years.
Representatives of the major
railroads opened negotiations
Wednesday with another operat-
ing union, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. That
union demands 80 per cent
wage increase and seeks to re-
store higher pay for greater
skill"
Guy L. Brown, president Of
the engineers union, has said
his group would not be satisfied
with 5-cents-an-hour increase.
He commented today that the
agreements with the firemen and
trainmen will have absolutely
no bearing on the engineers
neQOtiationS
Evening star., 1954-01-10
DR.. Paul 6. Agnew, II,
Standardization Expert
By the Asseeinisd pr.ss

NEW YORK, Jan. 9-Dr. Paul
G. Agnew, secretary for % years
OF the American Standards ASso-
citation. died at his home tonight.
He was 70.
Mr.. Agnew was named secre-
tary of the association shortly
after its organization in 1919.
He remained in that post until
his retirement in 1947.
Under his leadership, the as
sociation grew from a pioneering
three-man group to a national
body representing more than 100
trade and industrial organiza-
tlonS.
He took part in the founding
conferences of the noW-defunct
International Federation of Ma
tional StandardiZing Associations
and its successor, the 28-nation
international Organization of
Standardization.
He contributed articles on
Standardization to periodicals
and encyclopedias.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
BY the Assoeio.sd Press

NETCONG, N. j., Jan. g.
Donald Picard, member of the
famous balloon and deep-sea
diving family, today completed
a very smooth" balloon fight
from Conshohocken. Pa. to
commemorate the first aerial
flight in America January. 9,
1893.
Mr.. Picard, who was accom-
panied by another man and two
women. estimated the distance
travelled at so to 70 miles. 1t
took an hour and a half.
The balloon, carrying an open
wicker basket for the passengers,
was essentially the same type
that Jean Blanchard used 16l
years ago to make the first fight
in America" he said.
That fight was from the CEN
ter of Philadelphia with Presi-
dent George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams looking on. Mr.. Blan-
chard was accompanied on the
flight by a little black dog. In
addition to the Nations leaders,
chronicles of the time say. nearly
all of Philadelphia's $4,000 resi-
dents watched Mr.. Blanchard
and the dog go aloft.
The 29-year-old Mr.. Picard
said there was plenty of lift left
in his balloon when the party
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Mrs. Elizabeth Stern,
Gandhi Biograp|ler,
Dies in Hospital
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. o.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gertrude. Stern,
author and newspaper columnist
who used the pen name Eleanor
Morton. died today in Lankenau
Hospital. She was "a.
Mrs. Stern'S most recent book.
"The Women in Gandhi's Life, "
was published last year. The
book, to be translated into Ben
gall, is a biography of the for
mer Indian leader told in terms
of the women who became his
disciples.
She wrote IL other books. Her
first, and perhaps most noted,
MY Mother and l." was pub
lished in 1917 and was later ex-
= panded into a f1ctionalized biog-
raphy of immigrants in America.
Mrs. Stern had written articles
and columns for several Phila-
delphia papers, the London
Times, the New York Times, and
the New York Evening World.
She was formerly a social
worker. and with her husband,
Leon Thomas Stern, a profess
sional conSultant on penal af-
fairs, wrote articles on social
and penal problems.
Mrs. Stern is survived by her
husband, two sons and a sister.
Evening star., 1954-01-10

turned over to grass or trees
or other soil conservation prac-
tices."
But tens of thousands of ex-
perienced workers are now being
laid off from industry" Senator
Symington said, land the Secre-
tary hasn't yet taught the
farmer and his family how to
digest the grass"
He did not identify the official
by name.
Remarks Twisted, Says Morse.
UnderSecretary of Agriculture
True D. Morse said in Washing
ton that Senator Symington re-
ferred to a twisted" version of
remarks he made before a group
of agricultural editors last spring.
Mr.. Morse said he had no inten-
ton of trying to get people off
the farms.
Il said something to the effect
that land that should not be in
cultivation and that is eroding
badly would be better off in
grass or devoted to forestry or
timber" Mr.. Morse told a re-
porter.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Mrs. RusseI H. Stafford,
Wife Of Federal Official

Mrs. Russell Horton Stafford.
the former Cora Rowland, died
yesterday at Circle Terrace Hos
pital, Alexandria. She lived at
Belmont Harbor, Lorton, Va.
Born in Chicago, Mrs. Stafford
lived in Glen Cove, Long Island,
for many years where she was
active in Girl Scout work. She
and her husband had a summer
home in Kennebunk Port. Me.
Mr.. Stafford is with the Rene
gotiation Board. Her father,
George Carter Howland of Lor-
ton is former professor at the
University of Chicago.
Mrs. Stafford was graduated
from Smith College in 1917.
Besides her husband and
father, she is survived by three
daughters. Mrs. Wilson K. Ray,
jr., South Bend, Ind; Mrs. John
G. Bruce, jr., Woods Hole, Mass.
and Miss Sally Horton Stafford
of the home address, and a
brother, Col. John R. Rowland.
Lake Forest, III.
Funeral services will be at 2
pm. Tuesday at the Demaine
funeral home, Alexandria. Burial
will be private.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
BIC Celebrates
Sherlock Holmes
Tooth Birthday
By the Associnted Presx

LONDON, Jan. 9.--Sherlock
Holmes celebrated his Tooth
birthday this week by ignoring
a sinister warning from that
evil genius. Prof. Moriarty.
The British Broadcasting
Corp, which wasn't around when
Holmes matched wits with his
famous foe, held a birthday
party in honor of the great de-
tective and broadcast a record
ing from a Swiss village near
Reichenbach Falls where Holmes
and Moriarty locked in desper-
ate battle so many years ago.
You have foiled me so far"
warned Moriarty. but you will
not foil me again, Sherlock
Holmes"
The Baker Street Irregulars
sometime ago decided Holmes
was born in 1854 because in the
last story. His Last Bow" DR..
Watson says Holmes was so.
That was in 1914.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
$4,000 Rail Firemen
And Enginemen Win
Scent Pay Increase
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan. s. The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men ard Enginemen and the Ma
tion's railroads today agreed on
a basic wage increase Of five
cents an hour.
The higher pay rate was made
retroactive to last December Is,
and covers $4,000 firemen and
enginemen.
The scent increase is in addi-
ton to 13 cents an hour the rail-
roads have been paying under an
escalator arrangement. The s.
cent and 13-cent boosts add up
to total increase of $1.44 in
the basic daily rates.
The escalator provision was
terminated when the new agree
ment was reached.
Additional Vacation.
Firemen with Is years of serv-
ice will get an additional week of
vacation under an agreement to
increase the maximum paid
vacations from two weeks to
three weeks.
The agreement between the
union and the carriers was
reached in 80 days of negotia-
-tionS.
The union originally asked for
an increase of 3712 cents an
hour.
A railroad spokesman said
that, under the old rate, men,
bers of the union in yard serv-
ice averaged about $436 month
while those in road service av-
eraged about $500.
The firemen's organization was
the second of the five operating
unions to come to terms with
the railroads. The Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen received
an increase of five cents an hour
December II.
Settlement Hailed.
H. E. Gilbert. president of the
f1remen's union, said the nego-
Evening star., 1954-01-10
First Cabinet Ministers
Take Office in Sudan
BY the Associated Press


KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan. g.
Sudan's first cabinet ministers,
chief justice and high court
judges were sworn in today be-
fore the Governor General Sill
Robert G. Howe.
The cabinet includes Ismail El
Azhari. prime minister and in
terror minister; Mohammed Nur
el Din, works; Mirghani Hanna,
education. agriculture, and ir-
rigation. and Hammad Tewfik,
finance.
The Sudan. which hitherto has
been governed as British
Egyptian condominium, began a
transitional period of self-givern-
ment today which will not last
in its present form more than
three years. Under a British
Egyptian agreement, a plebiscite
will be held next year to deter
mine whether the country will
be independent or icin Egypt.
Evening star., 1954-01-10

to us and suggested We elect 3
peace committee. They said the
men elected would get to travel
TO Europe and let our folks know
how we were.
! was one of about 20 elected
from the camp. / got $50 votes.
We wrote a peace appeal and
went around getting others to
sign it. We were told that if we
did this the American people
would realize they were wrong
and sign a truce.
On this peace committee We
had access to the library. I began
reading all I could about COM
munism. read Lenin. books on
the Soviet Union and books con-
demning American participation
in the Korean war.
We got some Daily Workers in
and I read those too.
Refused To Inform.
In, August, there were a lot of
reactionaries prisoners who re-
sisted all Red wooing> being sent
north. The camp officers called
me in and tried to get me to in
form on several of the fellows. I
refused and talked them into
letting several stay back.
In August, 1851. I dcided to quit
the Progressive movement. I
had been reading books on COM
munism all this time and never
once did I see anything contro-
verSial. I decided was too young
to understand and that would
wait until / got back to the
United States and learn more
about II.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
The Boys Hated ButcheIor,
Fellow War Prisoner SAYS

played along with the Chinese
and who got food. fine treatment
and soft living while the regular
GIs died, starved and suffered.
He did try to help us out on
food once but that didn't work
out. He had influence with the
Chinese interrogators. They
would listen to him but not to
us.
If you remember that germ
warfare propaganda. well. Batch
elor would tell us that he knew
definitely that the United States
was using germ warfare on the
Korean civilians.
Had Special Privileges.
"One time an Air Force Of
flcer-I believe his name was
Quinn-was brought to oui camp
to talk to us. He made a con-
fession' that he practiced germ
warfare and Bachelor sat right
there beside him. Then, when
it was over, Bachelor got up and
asked US, now, why would you
want to 60 back to a country
that does things like that?"
Mr.. Tumbleston, %, entered
the Army in 1949. He was cap
tured at UnSan November 5,
1850, the same day Bachelor
was taken prisoner.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Harrison Fires Blast
At Administration

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Jan. 8 (P1.
The national head of big
railroad union said today the
railroad business is bad and he
blamed the Eisenhower admins
tration for it.
George Harrison. president
OF the independent Brotherhood
OF Railway Clerks. said in a
newspaper interview that the
hard money" policy-general
Evening star., 1954-01-10

When ! told the instructor that
I wanted to quit. they kept me
in a room at headquarters. After
about week I got lonesome and
asked to go back.
There were several other times
when I got to thinking and quit
the Progressive movement. but
every time they would send me
up to the headquarters. There
was an instructor up there who
used to talk to me about the
class struggle inv China, how
American intervention had in
terferred in the Korean war and
things like that.
Planned Escape.
got to know Frank Noel, AS
sociated Press photographer
when he came around. We talked
a lot and decided to try and es-
cape together. but then Little
Switch came along and we gave
up. We both decided we would
be getting home anyway. CLittle
Switch" was the release of sick
and injured prisoners. Mr.. Noel
was release during Big
Switch.~
Just before the war ended
asked to go back to my company
! felt real elated because the
war was going to be over and
decided ! would 60 home and be
a peace fighter. A peace fighter
they said, didn't necessarily
have to be a Communist. but
merely one who would fight for
peace because that is what the
common people of the world
wanted.
Then just before Big Switch,
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Symington Charges
Billion Was Wasted
In Cutting Air Force
BY the Assoeiated Press

SPR1N(fFlELD, MO-, Jan. -
Senator Symington. Democrat,
of Missouri says the Eisenhower
administration has admitted its
cut in the Nations air power
was a tragic mistake and has
cost taxpayers two years in time
and over 81 billion in wasted
money.
In a speech today before a
Democratic rally, Senator Sym
ington said the Republican ad-
ministration less than six months
ago was fighting bitterly before
Congress to justify cutting
% wings from the Air Force
143-wing program.
Senator Symington, a former
Secretary of the Air Force, said
the Eisenhower administration
has now put back into the new
program the same number of
combat wings formerly in the
143-wing program" which it
fought so bitterly.
AssaiIs about Face"
"This remarkable about-face
will go down in history as one of
the most rapid and complete
changes of direction in strategic
military planning ever to occur
in time of peace" Senator SYM
ington said.
The Defense DEPARTMENTS
inexperienced civilians" have
bungled in the Juggling plans
for the aerial arm of the Nations
defenses," the Senator told the
annual Jackson Day diners.
Hundreds of millions of dol
lars were wasted by this latest
juggling. through cutbacks in
construction and training-and
this money can never be
recovered" he said.
Air Force Dropped $4,000.
"The number of men in uni
form. all services. dropped $4,000
in 1953," he added. Every man
OF that number came out of the
Air Force-and all $4,000 were
thrown out in nine months"
The States junior Senator
spoke to about 1900 Missouri
Democratic leaders here for the
3lSt annual affair which marks
the launching of their 1854 con-
gressional campaign.
The Defense Department had
no comment on his speech.
While he devoted most of the
talk to the Defense Department.
Senator Symington didn't spare
the Agriculture Department for
what he called its incredible
administrative mess" in handling
relief for Missouri's drought
stricken farmers. That mess"
he said, had resulted in thou
sands OF our farmers going bank
rupt."
i believe the reason the will
OF Congress was so completely
nullif1ed in this matter is pri-
marty because of the philosophy
OF the heads of the Department
OF Agriculture" he said.
ASSails Agriculture Official.
AS evidence of this, he said
he called attention to a pur-
ported statement by the Under
secretary of Agriculture that 1T
would be better if the marginal
farmer got out of farming and
into industry and his land we're
Evening star., 1954-01-10

Corpl. Bachelor, recently re-
leased at his request from q
pro-Red camp in Korea, got
his first pass from a Tokyo
Army hospital and iDrote d0iDn
exclusively for the Associated
Press his innermoSt feelings
about iOhdt he did.
By corpl. Claude BotcheIor
TOKYO, Sunday. Jan. 10. .(P)
Il was a Pro.
That's what they called me up
at Camp Five .(his Korean
prison prior to being brought
down to the Pro-Red camp in
the neutral zone) because I got
along with the Chinese and made
friends with them: because /
believed that what / was doing
was right and wanted to help
my people.
understand lot of folks back
in the States resent my coming
back. On the other hand ! have
received a lot of letters from
people congratulating me.
greatly appreciate their senti-
ments. However, there seem to
be some circles that resent my
coming back.
That's funny. because when we
were up there in the Non-Repat
camp everyone wanted us to
come home. Now that I'm back
it seems that some of them are
sore. Okay, l made a mistake.
I was wrong in some of the
things I did. But I am ready to
go home and face prosecution.
But let me tell my side Of the
story.
Joined Up at Is.
I was 16 when I joined the
Army and 18 when / got cap
tured by the Reds. I was in the
9Th Cavalry Regiment of the
1st Cavalry Division, near Unsan-
nj. so miles north of Pyongyang
On November /. 1850. tn e
Chinese attacked our company.
We were one of the first outfits
to be hit by the Chinese. We
didn't even know that they came
into the war.
We were five days wandering
around up there with nothing to
eat or drink. We had a lot of
close calls.
On the fifth day we were at
the base of a mountain when
the Chinese walked right up on
us. We gave them quite a fire
battle for half an hour. D.
Our lieutenant, 1t. Arias frcm
California; don't know his first
name-finally told us we were
outnumbered and said he'd leave
it up to us. After some confu-
sion, we decided to surrender.
Lectures Attack U. S.
About week after the Reds
set up Camp Five at Pyoktong,
they started these lectures. They
called us into the theater and
lecturers made all kinds of slams
against the United States.
They came around one day and
appointed me monitor of my
squad. I understood that job was
to go to the lectures and then
come back and tell the others
what I had heard.
In June. the camp officers came
Evening star., 1954-01-10

tightening of credit-of the Re-
publican administration has Gre
ated a downward economic trend
that has hurt the railroads.
Rail carrier business is of 10
per cent over this time last year.
the union leader said, adding
that about 10000 railroad en-
ployeS had been laid off in recent
weeks.
Mr.. Harrison arrived here from
Cincinnati headquarters to at
tend a dinner given by mid
South members of his union.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Mrs. Leo Mae Dunn, 73;
Once Noted Swimmer
BY the Assoe,o.sd Pres.

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Leo
Mae Dunn, 73, once a noted
swimmer and first woman Ii
censed boat captain in Florida,
died today. She had lived here
since 1908. and az the time of
her death was owner of the
Dunn Boat Yard.
Under her maiden name, Leo
Mae Hultgren, she won medals
for swimming and diving in New
York, and was one of the first
women to swim from the Battery
to Coney Island. She taught
swimming at the old Royal Palm
Hotel. the Flagler hostelry
around which the city Of Miami
grew. Her husband, Capt. Will
liam S. Dunn, died IA years ago.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Bachelor Tells Why He Chose, Then Rejected, Reds

rthere was Chinese officer who
called me up. Man, he could
really talk up a stream. I found
out later he was not only a sales
man, but deceitful too.
Well he talked to me for three
days about staying behind. He
said ] would go to Europe. South
America and everywhere in
Asia talking about peace. He
eventually got me to say I'd stay
behind and made me feel would
be more help to my own people
There were three of us Texans
and we talked it over and all Of
us decided to stay behind. There
| were nine from our camp alto
gether, eight Americans and one
Britisher.
The day the others moved out
for Big Switch, we moved out to
another camp. We were ioined
by the Non-Repats from the
other camps. We finally went
down to Kaesong.
Anyway, all the Non-Repats
decided to elect seven repre-
sentatives. I got all the votes,
everybody's. The Britisher was
second with 20.
I had a talk with Burchette
| Communist correspondent for
the Paris L'Humanite) and he
told me that Paul Schnur had
been given year in prison and
a dishonorable discharge. (Ac-
tually the released San Francisco
soldier was discharged June 80.
1858, from the Army as "disloyal
and subversive" but it was not
listed as dishonorable and did
not deprive him Of rights and
! benefitS)
Afraid of Being Shot.
He told me there were others
who were going to be shot.
Naturally this scared us all.
One time Burchette drew up
a statement and asked me to
have the others sign it. l did.
When we first got into the
demilitariZed zone, tried to talk
some of the others into going
back. I realized they would be
no use to us and didn't really
know why they were there.
A lot of factions developed. I
began to get fed up with the
whole thing. The others knew
l was fed up and I began to
worry about what they might do
to me. They could very well
kill a person. the way they felt.
Finally l decided that would
go home and face the music.
decided l mad done wrong and
hoped the American people would
forgive me. but I had to 60 home.
At 1:20 am. on New Years
Day. went to the Indian guard
and told him I was sick.
had to argue with him for
a minute, but l finally made him
understand wanted to go to the
hospital. There I told them I
wanted to be repatriated and
here I am.
I have tried to help the Ameri-
can Army authorities by telling
them all I know. They have been
very fair with me.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Frunk B. Teed, Lowyer

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (P.-Frank
B. Teed, 83. an attorney who was
prominent in Chicago legal cir
cleS for half a century, died to-
day after a brief illness. For
years he was known as one Of
Chicago's leading divorce law
yerS.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Napoleon Deoth Mask
Recovered in Paris
By the Assoeioted Press

PARIS.-A death mask of Ma
poleon, the only proven original,
has been found in the Paris
suburb of Malmaison.
1t was made by DR.. Francois
Antomarchi about 20 hours after
the Emperor's death on St. Hele-
ma. Later. Antomarchi made
several copies in bronze and
other metals. but not until 1853
was his original discovered.
Evening star., 1954-01-10
Assails Agriculture Official.

ASSdHS agriculture Official,
AS evidence of this, he said.
ne called attention to a pur-
ported statement by the Under
secretary of Agriculture that 1T
would be better if the marginal
farmer got out of farming and
into industry and his land were