Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No? 242.

Chicago Wives Stage Riot \ '"'''' ,v ‘•*WMI I .: „'j L j EMBATTLED white housewives, armed with clubs and bricks form a human against the attempt by negro families to move {into one of Chicago’s housing projects on the south side of the city. More than 1,200 policemen were placed on ’round-the-clock duty and Were used to hold back the rioting mob of women as three, negro families (bottom), moved into the project, until recently all-white occupied.

44 Killed As ' i . V- $ [I j ; 5. ■ s ’ Belgian Plane Crashes Today

V ; ... ■ ■ } - FRANKFURT, Germany (UP) 1 — A Belgian, airliner crashed in tat* ing off from Frankfurt's RhelnMaln airport today and carried 44 persona,* gHieved tb inclmlajper- ; haps nine Americans, *. to flaming death. I. | All**4o passengers and four crew members were killed. Bodies Os most were charred and mutilated beyond .recognition. Belgian Sabena Airlines, owners of the twin-engined plane, said the l passengers included American Wil* Ham Janovsky, his wife Freda and their baby. Their address was not immediately available. , The pldije had come from Saiz-; burg, Austria, and was taking oft j for Brussels. » i 1 Its passengers included Britons, Belgians, Swedes, Germans and Austrians. | ' ' i • J There was an unconfirmed report that an American soldier had boarded the plane, an American-, built Convs)irs. at the last moment,, bringing the passenger total to 41. The planp took off normally with Charles Dormael. 40, Veteran of thousands of hours of ilyiqjg time, at thb controls. ft gained an altitude of 100 to 200 feet. Then its engines Seemed to fail, j I r ‘ '! It faltered and plunged into thick woods near the airport. Hoprifled spectators saw a burst ol flame. » Rescue' squads found the plane had cut d ioo-toot swath of broken branches and leaves through the forest. ■ | . ■' United states air force and German fire brigades found the wreckage burning fiercely. They put out the flames, pulled the bodies from the wreckage and laid them in neat! rows covered with khaki blankets. Hans Bertil, German airpor| employe who saw the crash from the airport control tower, said: “The plape picked up speed until it was a|bout half way down the / that one motor seemed ' to have slowed/down. But the pilot kept and the engine picked up and lifted the plane off the| end Os the runway. when it was about half a mile beyond the end of the runway, the plane dipped and dropped from sight. Jt went almost vertically: downwards, 1 saw * a burst of' flame from the forest and then a huge column of smoke?* This was the first major commercial air tragedy in Germany since a Netherlands KLM DC6 air- ' liner crashed near the Rhein-Main airport en route from Rome to Frankfurt March 22. 1952,1 killing 45 passengers and crew members. A woman passenger and a stew* aidess survived. .1~~— ’i' ij INDIANA WEATHER . Fair tonight. Thursday fair and mild. Low tonight 40-45. High Thursday 70-75.

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Democrat Wins In Wisconsin; Blow For GOP Congress Election Seen Strong Rebuff { /Tor Farm Policies EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (UP) — Republicans feared today that Der.io- , crat Lester Johnson’s landslide l victory in the rurr.l ninth s tonal district means GQP ft rm policies are becoming a political liability. t Johnson, a 52-year-old district attorney, swept aside Republican state Sen. Arthur Padrutt Tuesday in a special election to become the Democrat ever to go to congress from the district. With all but one of 401 precincts reporting today, Johnson had 27,715 votes to Padrutt’s 21,357. f Padrutt said GOP farm policies had beat him as he conceded Johnson’s victory Tuesday night. “The election results show very .dearly that the farmer and the laboring man do not like the administration’s policies and took this opportunity to show their displeasure,” he said. * . ;; Padrutt’s explanation of his surprising downfall was echoed by other Republicans. GOP congressmen touring the midwest with the house agriculture committee were reported to believe Johnson’s victory indicates agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson and his farm policies are hurting the party’s chances at the trolls. - The Wisconsin congressional battle was regarded as a test of President Eisenhower’s popularity against farmers’ grumblings over tailing prices. However, Padrutt, 36. said he didn’t think Mr.. Eisenhower had suffered a personal rebuff. “I stood four square behind Ike and I still stand there,” he said. Johnson said Padrutt “made his sole issue support of the Eisenhowe? policies, I believe that the voters of this district, who voted overwhelmingly Republican less than a year ago, answered my opponent’s plea by their votes.” The victorious Democrat said the vote showed “The farmers, particularly, are deeply dissatisfied with indifference of the present administration to the rapidly declining farm income.” I Wisconsin Democrats were jubilant. State chairman James Doyle called the victory “a stinging rebuke’ to Mr. Elsenhower and WisRepublican Gov. Walter Kohler. Johnson takes the congressional seat left by the late Rep. Merlin Hull, I'l-term house veteran who died last May. I

Jury Called To Study Evidence In Kidnap Case Jury Called Oct. 25 For Consideration 0 f Greenlease Killing KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)—The federal government said today a grand jury will be called for the week of Oct.' 25 to consider evidence ii| the case of kidnap-killers Carl Austin I Hall and Bonnie Jirown Heady. Judge Richard M. Duncan made the announcement through United States Atty. Edward R. Scheufler. Scheufler said the delay is necessary by reason of having to draw the jury from 65 western Missouri counties. Scheufler said he was still receiving information from investigators. Federal agents held hope that the confessed kidnap-slayers would lead them to the hiding place pf $300,000 ransom - money missing in the record $600,000 payment in , the Bobby Greenlease case. Scheufler showed no indication or abandoning the government’s “go slow” policy in preparing to prosecute the pair under provisions of the Lindbergh kidnap law. 'Hall and the Heady woman showed no remorse in their separate cells in Jackson county's skyscraper jail. \ In flStj Joseph, Mo.,\ where the G-year-old boy’s body was recovered from a shallow grave at the rear of Mrs. Heady’s house Oct. 7, William Rosenthal said he would continue to represent the woman as her counsel. “■I expect to talk to her today or tomorrow,” he said. Hall does not have counsel. Rosenthal said it was Mrs. Heady’s privilege to continue to talk to investigators, (hough she ha’s been charged. j * “I cafr~*advise tier not to talk,” Rosenthal said, “toujt I can’t keep her from talking.” Days of searching failed to produce anyi trace of the $300,000 which had vanished by the time Hall and his hard-drinking woman accomplice were arrested in St. Louis Oct. 6. Neither could give a coherent story of the disposal of the. money.

Government Buying Os Beef Is Urged Cattlemen Pressing Ike Administration t WATERTOWN, S. D. UP — Cattlemen with strong congressional backing pressed' the (Eisenhower administration today to spend millions of dollars to curtail the abundance of beef available to consumers. , ' , South Dakota livestock groups told the touring house agriculture committee Tuesday they want the government to trim “several million surplus” head from expanded' cattle herds. They asked that it be done through government buying of beef for shipment abroad with foreign aid funds. The object would be to bolster depressed cattle prices, which have slumped by one-third during the past year. The committee, traveling \ bv chartered bus, headed southward today toward Nebraska, stopping at noon in Sioux Falls, S.D. It will meet with cattlemen at Norfolk, Neb., tonight. ' Rep. Robert Harrison, R-Neb. said the committee probably will find considerable support in Nebraska for stepped up government beef buying. The committee last Saturday asked secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson to provide a support price for eattlo. But it hat found little backing for. that from midwest livestock from South Dakota farm spokesmen who told the committee government price guarantees for their products should be boosted. The government beef - buying plan would amount to Indirect price supports Tor cattle, ■■t would be In (Turn T« Pace Kight) | a— i Sell Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeiral services for Eli Orwin Sell, who died Monday night, will be held at 1:30 p.pi. Thursday at the Black funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Church of the Nazarene, The Rev. Burley .Hough will officiate, with burial in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 14, 1953.

Top Secret Documents Disappear; Show Up In Soviet Zone Os Germany

Dirksen Says Highly Secret Papers Stolen Senator Says 26 Os 57 Top Secret \\ ' Papers In Germany CHICAGO, (UP)—Sep. Everett M. Dirksen, R-lIU said today documentary material “of the highest importance to the security of the United States” had disappeared from the army signal corps laboratory at' Fort Monmouth, N. J., and has “appeared” in the Soviet zone of Germany. Dirkaen said in an address before the Desk and Derrick club here Tuesday night that 26 of 57 tup secret documents stolen from the laboratory had appeared in the Soviet zone. Asked in an interview today to elaborate, he said he preferred not to do so. He said he expected Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., head oi tlie permanent senate investigating subcommittee, to make other statements on the matter, and that “any elaboration on what, i said should come from him as head of the committee.” The committee is investigating bow the material sould have been stolen from the United States and end up in 'Soviet hands. Dirksen did not say whether the material had been Recovered. Dirksen declined to say definitely today that the documents referred to the radar defenses of the United States 'but McCarthy said in New York the documents concerned radar and other vital matters. “I told you the material was ol the highest importance to the security of the United States,” Dirksen said, and added that it was as much as he. could reasonably tell. After his address, however, he said that the “whole secret of our radar defense screet may have been peddled off. That would be colossal treachery.”

■ Mr Adams Central Plans Dedication Nov. 16 Opening Net Game Is Not Dedication The new Adams Central gymnasium will not be formally dedicated on October 28, but will be opened to the public with a doubleheader basketball event, Martin Steiner, president of the school’s PTA, announced today. “We are planning a dedicatory program for Nov. 16, the day of the regular meeting of our PTA,” he said. The program is being arranged and as soon as acceptance from the speaker is obtained, plans will go forward for a formal dedication of the 3,000 seating capacity gym,” he added. On the opening night the Zollner Pistons and the Milwaukee Hawks will stage thrilling exibition game. The preliminary game will be played between Decatur Klenks and Rousseaus of Fort Wayne. Steiner invited the public to visit the new gym on the opening night. Tickets for the game are on sale in this city and at the school. The PTA president said “We appreciate the wide interest in the opening of our new gym and hope that a large crowd will attend the exhibition games. As soon as the dedicatory program is complete, details will be given to the press and we invite you back a second time.” The gym is the first building of a three unit consolidated school project to be Grade school buildings and a high school will also be built on the site, which is directly west of of Monroe. - More than 750 pupils are enrolled at Adams Central.

Tests Are Held Os Hew Diesel Engine First Severe Tests Held At City Plant There was no vibration and IU tie appreciable noise as a result of standard operation of the giant mew diesel engine at the and Dayton street* plants Tuesday and this morning ’ in 'fiita’t real •teat*. 1 ** Start of the engine was' witness , ed by almost every city officia’ business and industrial leader of i the city. » Lima-Hamilton service engineer . Don Geron, who was at the starting wheel at the south side of the engine, turned the diesel on and off several times to give a chance tor adjustments that had to be made and iron out the understandable “bugs” that creep in in any new operation, more so with a gigantic undertaking of the kind witnesed Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 4 o'clock, most of the problems were solved—th it of sychronizing the diesel plant with the old power plant in (Third street, adjusting RDM's, and so forth—and the engine was run continuously for a while. At 10:30 a.m. today the engine had already been run* for more khan an hour and L. C. Pattlbone, city light superintendent, reported all was well and no trouble anticipated, only a few relay adjustments witty the old plant. Power from the diesel, 3,810 kilowatts, will be used at first to supplement power generated by the steam plant, about 7,190 kw, and then to carry most of the load of the city when the time comes for another diesel to' be purchased, in a few years. Onlookers Tuesday evinced viried reactions . . . moat were hopeful of the engine’s capabilities; a few were skeptical; and some were already condemning it — reaction that was expected by the city council in so expensive an undertaking, and one that was achieved through much controversy (Tun To Pom Ei*ht)

Ask Zone Board To Rule Out Junk Yard Board Sets Hearing For November 10 Residents of the south part of Decatur on High and Grant, streets have started aq all-out campaign 1 to rid that end of the city of the large sprawling junk yard, which they claim is causing a depreciation in the value of their property D. Burdette Custer, attorney of the firm of Custer and Smith, appeared before the Decatur board of zoning appeals Tuesday night and asked that a hearing, severa’ weeks old, which was postponed be completed as soon as possible. The board agreed to complete the hearing . November 10. Custer, who represents more than 25 property owners near the junk yard, stated that his clients would be glad to appear at the hearing and present .their case to the zoning board. If the appeals board determines that the zoning ordinance is being violated in the operation of the junk, yard, in all probability it will request its attorney, Robert Anderson,.to proceed with the filing of. an affidavit. Each day of operation can be fixed as a separate violation, the ordinance states. Brice Roop, operator of a gr” ery store at. UO9 Washington street, appeared before the Tuesday night meeting of the appeals board and asked that he be granted a variance to extend his present building, which is in a neighborhood shopping area, to within two and a half feet of his property line on the west side. The ordinance requires normally a five-foot limitation. The variance was granted at ter Roop dis* played approval signatures of hU neighbors.

Korea Pledges No Interference On Explanations . Red, Persuaders To Begin Attempts To Win Back Prisoners IPANtM'UfNJOIM, Korea UP — South Korea promised today to behave when Red persuaders begin attempting Thursday io lure some 22,500" balky prisoners back to Communism. Dr.' H. K. Karl, official government spokesman, said no attempts would be made. to prevent Indian guards from escorting the anticommunist North Koreans and Chinese to lecture booths built by American engineers. The Communists notified ' the neutral nations repatriation commission they wanted to interview 1,000 men Thursday, beginning at <8 a.m., 6 p.m., e.s.t. Wednesday. At the same time, the Communists reserved the right to have private “explanation” talks later. The sessions are expected to la it up to eight hours daily and wi‘l continue until Dec.. 24, deadline set in the Korean armistice agreement. ' Although South Korea promised not to interfere. Allied observers expected trouble. The captives have been told they are required to appear either singly or in groups before the Communist .“explainers” and hundreds have vowed to kill the persuaders. Numerous threats against the Indians, whom the South Koreans consider pro Communists, have been made by South Koreans in responsible positions. ‘But Karl said acting foreign minister Cho Chung Hwan spoke without authority last week in saying South Korea might take up arms against the Indians. Karl said Cho gave ‘merely an expression of personal views" which had caused South Korea’s allies and the Communists to tear the ROK government might wreck the truce. South Korea, Karl said, “will net interfere with the implementation of the armistice terms so long as the copflitions upon which the government agreed to the truce ar? met.” Neutral repatriation commission officers from India, Sweden, Swit® (Turn Te Pave Six)

State Auditor Is Lions Club Speaker Decatur Lions Club Hears Frank Millis State auditor Frank Millis told Decatur LiOns Tuesday night at the K. of P. home that he would like to see a greater part of the 1350 million taken in by the state edch year go back to the citiee. ~ Millis spoke as a guest of the Lions and was secured through program chairman Mayor John Doan. Millis eaid the state legislature io taxed with tod much work each session—7oo to 900 bills—and Is ’forced' to employ lobbyists to allegedly give the true picture in each category of law-making. • The state’s principal sources of income are derived from gross income tax. gasoline tax and license plates and permits. •He outlined the “problems” facing Indiana thusly; Each year Indiana schools are burdened with 25,000 jnore children, although, on a national average, Indiana ts better off than the rest of the nation. He asserted Indiana spends 33 percent of her income for schools while the national average ts 27 percent. n i Other problems, ho said, were the highways, correction and penal institutions and state aid tn cities, although on the latter Millie io not reported to have made any concrete proposals.

Warns Os Dangers From Gas Attacks Defense Head Says U. S. Must Prepare INDIANAPOLIS, Cp — Civil defense administrator Vai Peterson warned Tuesday the United States must be prepared for a gas attack as welF as atomic raids. The former Nebraska goxternor addressed the closing meeting of the American Legion’s <wo-day annual national conference of department commanders and adjutants.v He said his agency is considering defenses against gas attacks because “we know that the Russians are busily engaged in making nerve gasses at the present time.” Peterson said gas warfare has the advantage of destroying resistance but leaving factories and facilities intact. “Whether they will use gas or not I don’t know,” he said, i “I’m just telling you that you have to think of all the potentialities of one pf these attacks.”, Peterson reierated his r stand that Russia now has the airplanes and atomic weapons to" “deliter’ an attack on nearly all, if not all, of the metropolitan industrial centers of the United States simulaneouftlv.” Peterson turned from an inspection of defenses in Europe where several nations, ineluding Sweden and Norway, are emphasizing underground installations. He said ft would be impractical to try building underground defenses and shelters for the entire nation, and said the best system was a combination of below-the-surface and evacuation defenses. Peterson suggested the legion take part in the defense program by organizing volunteer rescue teams or squads of eight to 24 men in each, legion post. He said the groups would work with local defense directors aj jobs prescribed by them. Peterson also suggested the posts become acquainted with rescue training aids and erect rescue sets for emergency use.

Salvation Army Is Assisted By Fund Community Fund's Budget Aids Army i The Salvatioh Army, which is to receive 11200 from the current Decatur Community Fund drive, is no newcomer to Decatur. It had conducted its own campaigns here for many years before the present plan of incorporating eight appeals into one drive was organized. Since 1889, when it was first incorporated in Indiana, the Salvation Army has been quietly and faithfully serving the erring, the bewildered, and the unfortunate. The army was organized by General William Booth and his wife, Mrs. Catherine Booth in London in 1865. It har since spread to 62 countries. <lt has no formal creed and gives little attention to the discussion of doctrinal differences. Admission to membership is not founded upon any acceptance of a creed but is based upon solemn pledges to Christian conduct, including total abstinence from intoxicating liquors and all harmful drugs. These pledges ar< known as the “articles of war” and must be signed by every soldier. Most of the army’s religious work is aimed at the conversion of those sections of the community often not reached by the church, especially the vicious and criminal classes. Each Salvation Army corps is constantly alert to serve personswithin its area. It might be a fire, which completely destroyed someone’s horns; it might be an unwed mother who does not know whore to turn; it might boa family who suffered sudden illness or death and is without funds. Servicemen will remember it* (Tam Te Fane Right)

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Data On Radar, Other Secret Papers Missing McCarthy Reveals |. Stolen Documents Used By Communists t NEW YORK UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said today top secret government documents concerning radar and other vital matters have turned up in Russian East Germany and “were used by the Communists.” McCarthy’s permanent investigation subcommittee is investigating the disappearance, and possible theft of the defense documents from the army signal corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N. J. The senator said tie had “completely convincing testimony” that the papers were found in the Soviet zone. •McCarthy refused to say how many documents managed to find their way into the hands of the Communists, but Sen. Everett M. Dirksen said Tuesday night that 26 of 57 missing documents were involved. Dirksen is a member of the subcommittee. McCarthy refused to reveal how his investigators located the documents. He said, hoyever, that the disappearance of the docum<sats. “definitely involves espionage.” The Wisconsin Republican opened the third day of hearings into security leaks at the secret signal corps installation by calling two former Fort Monmouth civilian employes, who were recently suspended as security risks(. The witnesses Hyam G. Yamins. 43, Newton, Mass., a radar specialist who acted as liason man to the Massachusetts Institute ot Technology, and Harold Ducore, 34, Long Branch, N.J., and electronics engineer. - It was the first appearance before the subcommittee for both. Both have admitted being dismissed from posts at Fort Monmouth, but say they are innocent of any wrong doing. The subcommittee also planned to question Aaron H. Coleman, 35, «■ Long Branch, an electronics engineer who has admitted knowing Morton Sobell, convicted member of the Rosenberg spy ring, in college and in business. Coleman also was suspended from his job at Fort Monmouth. He,'too, deniedwrong doing. . Army secretary Robert T. Stev-

ens. who. sat in on the hearings Tuesday, returned today to hear more testimony about the “security leaks" at radar laboratory. Stevens said he. was “intensely interested* *in the testimony. The investigation took on added weight Tuesday when secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson said in Washington he feared the Fort Monmouth case “might be more than a security leak.” He disclosed for the first time that his department was conducting its own investigation at Fort Monmouth. The interior department also announced Tuesday it had suspended six employes, not identified, for “security reasons." There was no indication whether the suspensions were connected with the Fort Monmouth investigation. McCarthy said in New York Tuesday the signal corps radar intrant Te Pace Stt)

Witnesses Case Is Reset For Nov. 4 Final date for oral argument in the appeal by the Decatur board of zoning appeals against the Jehovah’s Witnesses has been set by the appellate court November 4 at 10 a*m.. by order of chief judge John A. Kendall. The re-set date is in response to attorneys for the Witnesses tor changing the original October 20 appeal date set by the court. Judge Kendall made it clear in his order that November 4 is the final date and other motions that might be made to. change that would not be entertained. Ea.’>. side will be given 45 minute* for argument.