Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1953 — Page 8

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Expresses Concern Over UE Presence jz Defense Department Expresses Concern WASHINGTON, UP—An industrial security officer. said today the defense department is ‘'concerned" about the presence of the independent United Electrical Uh-, Son in a large number of defense plants in all parts of the Country. Two of the plants are in the La Porte, Ind., area. 'Robert L. Applegate, director of the defense department’s industrial security division, said the department is “most anxious to have the situation corrected.” I Applegate said “according to in? formation available here" the UE hplds collective bargaining contracts at the Bastian Morelji Co. and the Allis-Chalmers Co. plants in LaPorte. “The UE was expelled from the CIO In 1949 on charges of following the Communist party Hline. Since then several cpngressnfen have “charged that the ‘union's top leadership is “Communist dominated." ’ - Applegate said the situation could be “corrected" by having the Vl} ousted as the bargaining agent in defense plants or by having the UE leadership “purge itself.’ 4 Applegate staid the defense, department cannot now exclude the UE frona defense plants as long

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as the union is certified as the bargaining agent by the national labor relations board. Rep. Charles J. Kersten (ILWis.) has said he will sponsor legislation in congress giving the defense department the right to exclude the UE fi;om defense plants for security reasons. Kersten, a member of the house labor committee, said UK’s presence In defense plants “constitutes a major current threat to American internal security.” A list drawn tip by the defense department last spring showed that the UE was the bargaining agent in 118 plants doing defense work. Applegate said, however, “the situation has changed considerably since then", as the local union’s contract ran out and a rival CIO union won control. - - - - —I 40 Ohio Counties Are Disaster Areas WASHINGTON UP — The Agriculture Department has designated 40 Ohio counties as disaster loan areas because of drought damage to crops and pastures. The action makes farmers In the counties eligible for low-cost emergency loans. | : \ XOTICB TO TAXPAYERS OF AIMHTKOX'AI. APPKOPRIATIOXS ' Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Rout .township, Adams county, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at tiheir regular meeting place at 7:30 p in. on the 15th day of Decerikber, 1353 will consider the fol-io-wing transfer of funds in appropriations and additional appropriations which said officers cons-ider necessary to. meet the extra ordinary emergency existing at this time. Special" School Fund Transfer from No. 21. |6SOL to No. 12. Transfer from No. 20 Library Fund Jits) to -No. 12. Transfer from No. 21 Water, light and power $l9O to No. 12. Additional Appropriations No. 12 Retpa.ir of bldg, and care of grounds $ 800,00 No. IX Doans, interest and Insurance 60.00 Bond Fund ...$ 25.00 Tuition Fund No. 28 pav of teachers 425 30.00 Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to. be heard thereon. The additional apas finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax -Cotirmissioners, which Board will hold further hearing within fifteen davs at the County Auditor’s office of Adams Cyunty, Indiana, <>r at sued) other place as may be designated. At such hearing, taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when and where s<u-eh hearing will be held. Trustee of Root Township Al’Gt’ST SELFING I>EC. 4—ll I If you nave somettHhg to sell oi rooms for \rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

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Two Arrested For 1 Kill-For-Hire Plot Accuse Each Other Os Woman's Slaying DENVER, Colo. UP —A businessman and a 20-year-old youth who arranged a klll-for-hire plot to collect the meager $6,000 to $7,000 insurance of the businessman’s wife today accused each other of the 'The mem.' LerfA* Leick,''3o, and Gene Dukes, 20, Ya(|ed possible death sentences for the lead pipe beating and strangulation of 26-year-old Evalyn Leick. Denver district attorney Bert Keating said both men will be tried for first degree murder. "Regardless of which did the actual slaying, both are equally guilty under the law,” he said. “From the information I have, there is no question that it is first degree murder, involving the death penalty for both men.” Leick told police he Hired Dukes, formerly of Jessop, Ga., and a part-time the same brokerage firm where Leick worked, to stage a mock stickup Tuesday night. He told Dukes to beat Vera Monroe. 29. M r s. Leick’s sister, and himself to cover up the murder, Leick said. Leick. still weak from the. effects of the beating Dukes gave him with a pipe the night of the murder, said he hoped to collect between $6,000 and $7,000 from his wife’s insurance. He said he agreed to pay Dukes $2,000 to carry out his part in the plot. Leick said they had then planned to go to Mexico City “to see some girls." Suspicion first was thrown on Leick when Lucius R. Messervy, 25, told police that Leick had approached him in 1951 to take part in such a plot; Police said two othdr men also had been approached by Leick. One of them, Tom Ward, 39, said Lejck was “a paint salesman” when he approached him with the proposition. The other man, identified as Oscar Robbijis, was not located immediately, but was believed to be either in Denver or Phoenix, Ariz. Another New York Newspaper Closed Efforts Renewed To End New York Strike t • ;■ ■ ' i' 1 • NEW YORK UP — Strikers closed another New York newspaper today as federal mediators met with union and publishers’ negotiators in renewed efforts to get the presses rolling. Eight newspapers now have been shut down in the week-long strike situation—seven of them the big Manhattan dailies and the eighth a smaller paper serving the householders of Queens Borough. Their combined daily circulation is nearly 5,600,000. As a three-map mediation panel met separately with management and AFL photo-engravers representatives on the seventh strike day, it was indicated both had settled down to a tug of war. Walter A. Magglolo, 7 general counsel of the federal mediation and. conciliation service who flew here from Washington Thursday to join the mediation panel, said before negotiations began: “It’s the same old story—where they dig in their heels. and pull back.” r The latest newspaper hit was the Lohg Island Star-Journal, a largely home-delivered newspaper along the north shore of Queens Borough, which has been selling 90,000 newspapers a day recently. Its editor announced it was suspending publication because #ix stereotypers, reporting to work on the' day shift, refused to handle advertisements containing comics, news features, and columns from the six major newspapers which originally were closed by the photoengravers’ strike. In the dispute with the photoengravers. who process the engravings which enable newapapevs to reproduce photographs and advertising illustrations, the Publishers Assn, of New York City has refused to change Its pre-strike offer of a $3.75 weekly “package” increase or photcnengravers refused td qT Tonight, Sat & Sun. Continuous Sat. A Sun. WILD BILL ELLIOTT “THE HOMESTEADERS” ALSO—“Son of Geronimo” 2-Reel Comedy & Cartoon Only 14c-30c Inc. Tax

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take dispute to arbitration and demanded sls, which they now have cut to $7.50. Some 2u,000 other employes refused to cross their picket lines. . U. N. ASSEMBLY (Continued From Pane Ow) jaya Lakshmi Pandit, the assembly president. to reconvene the 1 chamber only if she found in a > poll that a majority of the 60 i members desired it. , 22 AMERICANS' (Continued From Puxe Oae> , already processed, the neutral na- , tions repatriation commission ap- , proved an Allied request to step up the rate of interviews to 40 daily. The speeduip would bring about sooner than expected the explanations to 22 Americans and ope Briton who refused to go home last summer in operation lijg Switch. ■, American explainers were ex-

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I pected to greet the expatriate Gls ’ with the same indifference shown i by KOK officers to pro-Communist i South Koreans. ■ ■ _■ _ SUSPENDS (CeaHawed From Page Oae) ted leaving the Kentucky army - camp Friday night with Rankins. ‘ was picked up cne-half hour later 1 by city police but was cleared of > any complicity in the crimes. Rankins’ attorney said this mornI Ing the boy was taken home by his father, who was to return the youth to the arrny camp today. PROBERS ASK * fC ’ ow * ln>> »< Frem Page Oae> * gerald were named in a Nov. 27. 1945, FBI report on Communist! 1 espionage in government which at- - torney general Herbert Brownell » Jr. said last month was sent tp ‘ the White House. Brownell also : said Kaplan was a member of the \espionage ring and was natneld by * the FBI .

Little | Damage Done By Fire Here Today * • < • A fire that apparently started from a carelessly thrown cigarette resulted in one frightened elderly man and less that SSO damage to the doorway adjacent Habegger’s Hardware Store, 140 West Monroe street at 1 p.m. today. Joe Lengerich, in his 7*oß, who lives directly above the store, had to be escorted down the stairs by a passerby, Vic Porier, who said Lengerich “didn’t know what was going the smoke from the fire below began to seep upstairs. Fire chief Cedric Fisher, who I already the minor blaze finder control five minutes after arriving with his crew, siaid someone probably threw a lighted cigarette into the doorway and it smouldered in a crack in the wood until a breeze came along to whip it Into a full-fledged fire. Damage was. estimated by the chief at less than SSO.

Divorce Suit Taken Under Advisement Judge Myles F. Parrish, has after a two-day trial, taken the divorce suit of SilVino Vergara against Natalie Vergara under advisement. The plaintiff, represented by G. Remy Bierly. declared the defendant was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment v . The defendant, represented by Robert Anderson, held that Vetgara was involved in an affair with a person referred to as “Miss X,” and was guilty of a marital offense and could not ask for a divorce. EX-G I TELLS (Co»tl»»ed From Page Owe) set it afire.” Herrman said he and his comrades hid in a bush until American trucks arrived and took them to | safety. I

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