Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 230, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 230.

Earl Warren Is Nominated For Chief Justice

WASHINGTON. UP —President Eisenhower today chose Gov. Earl Warren of California to be chief justice of the United States. The tall, hamlsome Californian, at age 62. becomes the 14th man in U. S. history to occupy the nation’s highest,judicial position.' Warren succeeds Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky, who died of a heart attack Sept. 8. Mr. Eisenhower announced the i recess appointment at a new conference, his first formal meeting with reporters since July 22. j* Warren’s formal nomination will be sent to the senate when congress reconvenes in January. Mr. Eisenhower said he is confident Warren will make a great chief justice. I . He said he expects Warren in Washington for t}ie* opening next Monday of the 1953-54 term of the high, tribunal. Mr. Eisenhower said he had been thinking about Warren for the job since Vinson died. * 9*: He said the reason he selected Warren was that he is a man pf integrity, honesty, possessed of a middle-of-the-road philosophy and experienced in the. law as well as the operation of government. ■ Warren will be the second Republican on the benqji. The other \is Associate Justice Harold H. Burton of Ohio, appointed by former President Truman. Warren has been governor of California 10 yearns. His present term will not expire until January, 1955. As Warren loaves* the statehouse at Sacramento 15 months early, Lt. Gov. Goodwin Knight will move into the governor’s chair. Before he oecame governor. Warrpn wras California attorney general tour years. _ • Only a few days before Vinson’s death. Warren had announced formally he would not be a candidate for another term as governor. m Warren’s appointment marks the first time a Republican chief executive has named a man to the supreme court since President Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo of New York an associate justice in March, 1932. r Mr. Eisenhower and Brownell were in consultation over the appointment ever since Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Sept. 8. Until the announcement was actually made there was always a chance Mr. Eiseinhower might change his timing. This, however, appeared He wanted to name a chief justice by recess appointment before the court convenes for the fall term next MonTwo Packer Unions In Pad With Armour 1 To Set Pattern For Wage Settlements ■ OHJCAGO, UP—Two -bigj labor unions reached an agreerii'ent today with Armour & Co., sjetting a pattern -for wage dispute) settlements with other Big Four companies of the packinghouse industry. [ The agreement was reached in nightlong discussions between Armour officials and representatives of the AFL Amalgamated Meat! Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union and the CfO| United Packinghouse Workers of America; The discussions pririiarily weif With negotiators for the AFL union but Officers of the OK) group sat in op the meetings. The two unions had a previous agreement—hailed as a itep toward CIO-AFL unity—to hold off an Agreement withy the company unless both groups’ deihands were satisfied. I ■ : . Details of .the agreement were not immediately disclosed. . o Spokesman for both sidles''said some points of the settfelment still had to be worked out before an agreement could be signed. The agreement affects 35,000 em- [ ployes of Armour in plants throughout the nation. „ It Is expected to set the pattern fay hew contract arrangements with the nation’s other three leading ijneat packing firmg — Swift, Cudahy and WihonK. The agreement was peached asI Tn _ Mxk INDIANA WEATHER } Fair tonight and Toured ay, ; j cooler tonight and extreme ' south portion. Thursday. Low tonight 42-48 north, 46-52 soutn. ■ High Thursday 76-80.

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No Word Is Receded From Boy's Kidnaper Millionaire Auto Dealer Waits For Word From Captor KANSAS CITY. Mo. UP — Millionaire auto dealer Robert Greenlease sat by the telephone in his suburban mansion today waiting for word from the kidnaper who took his brown-eyed six-year-old son from < convent school two days ago. \ The 71-year-old father, near collapse astir two days of anxious waiting, offered a “blank check” to the kidnapers if they would return his son, Bobby, alive. But Kansas City detectives reported there had been no word front the red-haired woman who posed as Bobby’s aunt Monday to spirit him away from the fashionable Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, where he was a first grader. The telephone rang frequently in the pretentious English-style man-, sion where his 45-year-old wife and their daughter, Virginia Sue, 12. waited in dry-eyed silence. But the callers had all been cranks, persons with worthless tips or sympathetic friends. The most significant tip Monday led police to a dead end. A truck driver in Johnson County, Kangas, across the state line frorti Kansas City, Mo. fj told authorities he had seen a pickup truck occ'upied by a man, a woman and a child dressed in clothing similar to that worn by Bobby. He said he thought the woman was trying to hide the child. , L Sheriff Normal Williams of Johnson county said his deputies worked for hours trying to trace the truck, but with no success. Greenlease, whose wealth stems from Cadillac auto dealerships, said he was ready to “do anything” to get the boy back. , ‘9 Speculation was growing strong that the abduction was not aimed at colleicting ransom. Police point out that ransom kidnapers usually are quick to make their demands for money. This left the possibility that Bobby was stolen by a deranged woman with an overpowering desire to possess a child. The federal bureau ot investigation was reported to be taking part in the cautious Investigation of the kidnaping, but FBI agent in charge Janies H. Robey answer•ed all questions with a "No comment.” The investigation was being handled with extreme care lest the boy’s life be endangered. Local Man's Mother Dies In Nebraska Mrs. Julia Vandertook, 76, mother of Clyde H. Vandertook, of 518 Mercer avenue, died early this morning at her home in Panama, Neb., following a hearV attack suffered earlier this week. The Decatur man was enroute to Nebraska when his mother died. Surviving to the son In this city are three other sons, eight daughters, one sister and one brother, all living in Nebraska. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Tax On Retail Sales Ruled Out By Eisenhower No Intention To Ask Congress Levy Retail Sales Tax WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower said today the administration does not intend to ask congress to levy a federal retail sales tax. - . • Mr. Eisenhower volunteered the information to *a crowded news conference to quiet speculation on the subject. He said the treasury department has made a thorough study of the sales tax proposal and has concluded that, according to -all logic, this field of taxation belongs to state and municipal governments. )But Mr. Eisenhower did not rule out the possibility that the administration might ask congress to approve a general manufacturers tax. ' ' He said excise taxes at the manufacturers level “have been leyied for years and he did not know how the treasury would reassort excise taxes in its new tax program now being formulated. 'Mr. Eisenhower said the administration is trying to draft a tax program that will be fair, just and raise the revenue that is needed for national defense and other governmental functions. Report To Nation WASHINGTON. UP —President Elsenhower plans to report to the American people on what effect Russian development of hydrogen weapons will have on international relations and the chances of, reducing world tensions. The President in a news conference discussion of foreign affairs today also: 1[ Denounced the forced retirement of a Roman Catholic cardinal in Poland as a mnUM geep resentment to the American people. He referred to the Polish suspension _ of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynskli* 2. Said Ije has not been approached about the revival of the postponed Bermuda conference with British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and French premier Joseph Laniel. 3. As for a number of proposals for Big Three, Big Four or Big Five meetings, the\ President said all of these are under study at the state department with a view to taking the fullest opportunity of any discussions with the Soviet Union or her satellites to lower world tension. He conceded that no conclusions have been reached. Disclosure of his plane to make a report on the international situation came after he was asked whether disclosure of Russian ability to produce the so-called hydrogen bomb would affect defense expenditures in this country. The President conceded the knowledge Russia has the H-bomb posed an x acute problem for the defense department. ' _1 1-’ Fred R. Bechdolt Dies Last Evening Prominent Lawyer Is Taken By Death Wired R. Bechdolt, 60, for 20 years an Indiana deputy attorney general, died suddenly of a heart attack at 5:4*5 p. m. Tuesday at Indianapolis, where he had resided for the past 20 years. A native of Jay county, he was a prominent attorney in Portland for many years, and was well known \ in Decatur and Adams county. He was assigned as legal counsel to the state highway department until ill health forced his retirement\ last November. Highly active in legal, -fraternal and civic affairs, Mr. Bechdolt was a member of the Indianapolis Athletic club, Indianapolis Press club, Scottish Rite, a pas£. master of the Portland Masonic lodge, past exalted ruler of the Portland Elks lodge, past commander of the Portland American Legion post, a member of the 40 & 8 and the Last Man’s club at Portland. Surviving are his wife, the former Helen Ruth Rupel; two daughters, Mrs. Martha Forshee of Indianapolis and Miss Marilyn Bechdolt, at home: one grandchild, and a brother, C. D. Bechdolt of New Orleans, La. 'Funeral services -will be held at 10 a. m. Friday at the Baird funeral home in Portland, with burial in the Gravel Hill cemetery near Bryant.

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Russia Demands New Debate On Korean Parley Hints Communists Ready For Parley If Neutrals Listed UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP— Russia demanded today Jhat the United Nations political committee launch immediately a new debate on the Koredn peace conference. « At the same time, Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky gave the 60-nation committee a hint the Communists were ready to start the conference immediately if they had assurances from the Western Allies that “neutrals’* eventually would be included, in its membership. Vishinsky’s remarks came In a clash on the order of the agenda at the first meeting of the political committee, the general assembly’s most powerful subsidiary .organ. Vishinsky said also “time is running out’’ on the deadline set by the Panmunjom truce agreement for the start of the Korean peace „ conference—Oct. 28. This warning, paradoxically, bed been issued to Russia by secretary of state John Foster Dulles In his policy speech to the assembly Sept. 17. Australia’s chief delegate Sir Percy Spender, told Vishinsky today that if time was growing short, It was the fault of the Communists whb had done nothing about getting the conference started. Waferfront Strike x Slated At Midnight Shippers Appeal To Eisenhower To Act NEW YORK, UP — Atlantic Coast ports from Maine to Virginia girded today for a waterfront strike beginning at midnight that may erupt in violence when two unions of tough longshoremen fight for supremacy. Police officials in New York began mobilizing all available police strength to meet the threat of bloody hand to hand clashes in the union loyalty struggle. All officers not assigned to regular patrol were to be ready foxw waterfront duty. It appeared that intervention by President Eisenhower — considered highly unlikely—was the only hope of stalling a “no contract, no work*’ walkout scheduled for 12:01 a.tn., e.s.t. Thursday by the orphaned International Longshoremen's Association. Shippers Tuesday rejected a “final’’ wage proposal from the union. The walkout could tie up shipping at all ports from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Va., and cost an estimated $1,500,000 a day in business loss in New York alone. ; s The New York shipping association late Tuesday appealed to President Eisenhower to use his Taft-Hartley law peers to delay the strike. But Washington sources said Tuesday night that although the President -would give the appeal careful study there was scant possibility he would act. A work stoppage was regarded as Inevitable although some of the ILA’s 40,000 cargo handlers in the Atlantic coast district already have voted to desert the discredited union and join a new one chartered by the AFL to replace it. The ILA was thrown out of the AFL last week for allowing gangster elements to flourish In its locals. A committee of the new AFL union was scheduled to meet today to plan its strategy in the event ot a walkout Although the wage negotiations, involved only New York shippers, the strike call went out to aR 85 (Tm «e Fa«e Ma>

Annual Halloween Parade October 30 Ran Callithumpian And School Festival The 28th annual Callithumpian will’ be held here Friday night, Oct. 30, Kenneth E. Shannon, ftbairman of the retail division ot the Chamber of Commerce, announced today. ♦ “You can announce that the annual Halloween celebration will be .held and that we hope to make it more spectacular than ever,” the chairman said. The annual nA, fail festival at the Decatur high[ school and Lincoln building will follow the gigantic parade, Shannon said. The program for this event is being prepared by Dr. James Burk, PTA president, and hii committees. • Shannon stated that local merchants are sponsoring the Cal'.U thumpian and that cash contributions from them will assufe the staging ot the annual Halloween celebration. Prize money totals more than S6OO and committees have already raised about SSOO, with the promise from individuals to support the program to its full extent. Marshals of the parade will be ..Will Bowers and Clyde Butler, two veterans of this community eTent. The parade will form oh South First street in front of the jail and head west to Second street and then wend its way through business district. Shannon said that the committee hoped to have a minimum qf a dozen bands in the parade. Big prize money will go to the bands, tops being SIOO. A token in lieu of expenses will be given to every bapd, he said. Decatur’s Callithumpian, one of the firsts staged in Indiana, was originated by the late Jesse Rice, hotel proprietor, who brought the idea to Hoosierland from Ohio. Mr. Rice served as first general chairman in 1925 and with the exception of war years when the parade was suspended, it has been staged each yean Officially, Holloween | comes on Saturday, but local merchants decided on Friday night for the reason that stores will be open on Saturday. Scout Honor Court Held Last Evening Honor Court Is Held For Lions Troop 62 Boy Scout troop 62, sponsored by the Lions club of Decatur, was honored at a special Lions meeting last night by being presented with three awards from the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. t The occasion was the periodic court of honor, presided Over by president of the court, W. Guy Brown, superintendent of Decatur high school, the program arranged by Herman Krueckeberg, who was chairman. Scribe of the affair, witnessed by over 80 friends and relatives of the Scouts, was Steve Everhart, local Boy Scout leader and instructor of Decatur high scohol. f- The three awards made by* the national council were for -high level of enrollment, leadership down the ranks, and. quality and achievements in the .various Boy Scout activities. a ■ Presentation of the first class award was made to Edwin Bean by Krueckeberg. Second class honors went to John Krueckeberg, David Sheets, Edwin Bean, Ronnie Highland, Scott Halterman, and Jay DeVose. Making the presentation was Glen Manlier. The following merit badges were awarded by Glen Ellis: Stanley Algur, first aid, canoeing, nature; Bill Zwick. nature, canoeing; Edwin Baan, basketry, swimming, first aid. firemanshtp; BUI Smith, nature, basketry; Jer(Tua Te Face

Allies Charge POW's Sold Out To Reds Commission Rules On Persuasion Are Assailed By Allies PAN'MUNJOM, Korea UP - Allied officers charged angrily today the neutral nations repatriation commission had sold out about 22,000 antl-Uornmunist prisoners to the Reds, but were told there would be “no appeal” from the commission ruling “persuasion” plans. l«t. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian chairman of the NNRG, refused to withdraw “ground rules” under which explainers from both sides will try to persuade reluctant prisoners of war to go home; “There is no appeal from the commission ruling,” Thimayya said. Thimayya said the ground rules, bitterly protested by the United Nations as a “sell-out” were adopted by a unanimous vote of the fivenation commission. - The commission includes Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia, #w«hm. Switzerland and India. U.N.’ iJffluMß had chanwi the principle of voluntary rspatrlatim “has been murdered” by the rules, which require every prisoner to attend counter-brainwashing sessions even if he does not want to. They voiced their sentiments shortly after the NNRC handed down its 23-point set of rules which permit the Reds to interview 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners -individual and as often as they desire. He admitted there was . an “error”, in the letter to prisoners concerning the rules. The neutral commission, he explained, rejected an English text of the statement because a ’few words” were obvious hints for the anti-Communists to request repatriation. A new English text was prepared, and approved, he continued. However, he added, the rejected text somehow was translated into Chinese and distributed. .. , j, l . Mrs. Wm. Faurofe Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. Mary Catherine Faurote, 69, wife of William E. Faurote, and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died early this morning at her residence south of Decatur following an illness of five months of a heart ailment. She was born in Decatur Dec. 8, 1888, a daughter of Andrew and Ann \ Sendelback-Appelman, and was married to William E. Faurote Aug. 25, 1909. - Mrs. Raurots was a member of St Mary’s Catholic church, the Rosary society and the Third Order of St. Francis. . Surviving in addition to her busband are five sons, John. Herman. Leo, Edward and James Faurote, all of in or near Decatur; five daughters. Miss Bernadine Faurote, at home, Mrs. Bernard Lengerich, Mrs. Albert Braun. Mrs. I Herman Braun and Mrs. Leo Hackman, all of the Decatur community; one brother, Joseph pelman, and two sisters, Misses Lena and Rose Appelman, all of near Decatur. One son is deceasFuneral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Saturday at St. ■Mary’s Catholic church,! the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial wii| be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends indy call after 7 p. m. Thursday. The Rosary society will meet at 8 >. m. Fritey.

Harvest Os Soybeans Is In Full Swing Beans Rolling Into Central Soya Rant The soybean harvest is In full swing and the golden pellets are rolling into Central Soya company at the rate of nearly 300,006 bushels a day, company officials stated. Operating on a 16-hour shift, Cliff Steiner, supervisor of the elevators. said thatl.492 truck loads and 127 carloads of-beans were unloaded at the local plant yesterday. This is a high mark for so early in the season, although not a record of unloading. One day last fall 800 truck loads of beans were dumbed into lhe elevators. The fleet of trucks delivered 121,,000 bushels of beans yesterday. With an average of 1800 bushels to the car, freight cars brought in another 228,600 bushels. The towering silos have a capacity of about eight million bushels. The beans are of high quality and those delivered by truck had a low average of 10.6 moisture content. The freight car beans had a higher moisture level. . - All beans are delivered to the local plant through elevators in this area. Payment is made to the owners by the elevators. During the bean delivery nub the plant’s elevators will operate 1 frpm 7 a.m. to 11 p m. Steiner stated. R. Indiana Woodlands Blistered By Fires Three-Yedr-Old Boy Is Killed By Fire By UNITED PRESS A pall of smoke hung over baked and blistered Indiana woodlands today after a series of fires killed a 3-year-old boy and burned over 3,000 acres of land. The year’s biggest brush fire for a time threatened 20 homes in the Sullivan county village of Wilfred Tuesday. Only 15 miles away, other volunteers saved 15 homes west of Linton from another blaze. Worried conservation officials banned fires in state parks and state forests because of extreme danger from dryness and warned they would be. closed if drought and heat continued. Indiana has had no appreciable rainfall since Aug. 7. Fire departments in nearly every town were called to extinguish grass fires and conservation officials reported brush fires in many counties. ( Farmers who attempted to plow firebreaks in Lawrence county, where 646 acres were burned, found their machines could Scarcely break the parched earth. At Washington, firemen called to douse a small fire in a vacant lot found 3-year-old Stephen J. Mullen dead in the smoldering ruins of a children’s lean-to playhouse. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mullen. A playmate, Craig Smith, 6, escaped. A vicious blaze fanned by strong shifting winds roared wrat across a three-mile front near Wilfred and was stopped by trenches dug hastily only 150 yards from the village. But shifting winds sent the fire out of control and the flames end smoke turned night skies a murky red despite' efforts of five fire departments and 500 volunteers. District fire warden Ernest Craven of Brazil estimated the flames would blacken 1,500 acres of wood and brush land before they die out. He said the blaze at one time threatened a powder magazine in the area. \ ! near the little oil-field town were Craven said no storage tanks in the threatened area, although earlier they were reported threatened. A barn and a tool shed nearby were destroyed. Firemen and three trucks from Shelburn, Hymera, JasonvHle and Fairbanks were hampered by lack of water and drew what they rMta To WM)

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Reynolds And Erskine Hurl Opening Game Yankees Jump Into Early 4-0 Lead In First Inning Today Score by innings: RHE Brooklyn 000 013 100—5 12 2 New York 400 010 13x—9 12 0 Today's Lineups Brooklyn New York Gilliam, 2b McDougald, 3b Reese, ss \ Collins, lb Snider. c< Bauer, rs Robinson, If Berra, c Campanella,*, c Mantle, cf ' « Hodges, lb Woodling, If Furillo. rs Martin. 2b * Cox,-3b Rizzuto, ss Erskine, p Reynolds, p Umpires—Grieve (AL); Stewart (NL); Hurley (AL); Gore (NL); Soar (AL); Dascoli (NL). j ~ NEW YORK UP — Carl Erskine; Brooklyn’s trim 26-year-old 20-game winner and Allie Reynolds, New York’s veteran righthander, were the opposing pitchers today as the .Dodgers met the Yankees in the first game of the World Series. Despite Erskine’s more imposing record, the Yankees, seeking an unprecedented fifth straight I eries triumph, were favored 6H | 5 to take the first game and also the series. Erskine lost only six games against Fbls 20 victories this summer, while Reynolds, who alternated this season between starting and relief assignments, wound up with only 13 victories against seven defeats. A play-by-play report follows: DODGERS FIRST Gilliam worked the count to 3-2 and then singled on the ground through the middle .into center field. With a count of one ball. Reese lifted a short fly t 0 Bauer. Snider bounced to Martin on a 1-1 pitch and was an easy out at first. Gilliam taking second. Rizzuto fielded Robinson’s sharp grounder and threw him out at first. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. YANKEES FIRST McDougald took two strikes and a ball and then popped to Gilliam. Colins walked on four pitches. Bauer lined a 1-2 pitch into right center field for a triple, Collins scoring to put the Yankees in front, 1-0. Berra foued a 3-2 pitch into the lower right field stands and then went down swinging. Erskine, way off the target, walked Mantle on four pitches. Woodling also walked on four pitches, tilling the bases. Jim Hughes started to warm up in the Brooklyn bullpen.' Martin lined a 1-1 pitch into deep left center field for a triple — Bauer, Mantle and Woodling scoring to put the Yankees in front, 4-0. Rizzuto bounced out to Cox. Four run’s, two hits, no errors, one DODGERS SECOND Reynolds’ first tax) pitches to Campanella were strikes but the third hit the Dodger catcher on his right hand and he was first base. There was no apparent injury done to Campanella’s hand. Hodges lifted a shallow fly to Woodling plose to the left field foul line. Furillo worked the count to 2-2 and then was called out on strikes when'Reynolds fooled him with a slow curve. Cox lined Reynolds* first pitch Into the left field corner for a double, Campanella going to third. Wayne Belardi batted for Erskine. Belardi want down swinging on four pitches. No runs, one hit, no errors, two left p , YANKEES SECOND Hughes replaced Erskine on the mound for the Dodgers. Reynolds went down swinging on four pitches. McDougald worked the count to 1-3 and then bounced out to Reese. Reese wont into short center field to take cotuns* short, looping fly. (Ten Te mu