Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 287.

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Death Toll In Vicksburg Now Increased To 30 - ■ ■■ - j' ■ J ■ / [ Mississippi City Is Racked By Tornado Saturday Evening VICKSBURG, Miss.. UP — The death toll in a 25-million-dollnr tornado rose to 30 today as gtlttt bulkier crews, groping through piles ot debris, uncovered the bodies ot two more of the twister*? victims, -| The bodies were not immediately identified and it was not known whether One of them was that of Kay Warren, 19, who had beejpf reported missing and believed trapped in a shopping district store. Her mother, Mrs. Leonard Warren, escaped with Injuries from the caved in building. The tornado struck Saturday, cutting a 16-block swath through buildings and home's in the heart of Vicksburg. The leveled struct ures included a theater where a Children's matinee was in progress. ......... Maj. Gbn. W. P. Wilson, state adjutant general, estimated thp damage ivouid exceed 25-millioii-dollars. ' - ' j ’. ? ? More than 230 persons were injured. The Red Cross said some 1,200 persons were homeless. United Press staff correspond- >- ent H.jL. who flew over Vicksburg in an army observation plane reported: “Ten blocks of frame dwelling? and- sharks were almost leveled. A solid block of shanties burnedFour of 16 large freight trucks were hurled together. A frame churph was turned on its side.’’ I Ninel-year-old Roger Powers was one of 34 [children inside the Saenger theater when the tornado roared through town at 6:45 p.m. e.s.t“After [the roof fell in." he recalled from his hospital bed, “I heard screams. I kept trying to ■ talk tq /klv in but-he never, would answer. Nine-year-old Alvin Harwood was one of five children found dead in tie theater President Eisenhower, reached at the Big Three conference in Bermuda with a plea from Gov. Hugh White for federal aid,] declared ths historic city a major disaster area. s'," ,-tl B The national Red Cross pledged its “full support” to thd stricken city. Increased School Enrollment Seen . WASHINGTON UP — The Census Bureau estimated today that , public school enrollment will continue to increase at a rate of more than 1,300,000 a year until it reaches a total of about 39 million when this year’s crop of babies enters school In 1959.. f I j ,Tt said elementary school attendance in 1959'wi1l total about ' 30 million, an increase of nearly 8 million n seven years. s It said high school enrollment In 1960 a ill reach about) 9,400,000 a rise of 2 million by 1965. There now are about 7 million pupils in high schools. '. . i . 7 .

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I ■ - ■ -- Young Father Held For Death Os Family Held On Suspicion Os Murdering Four CHICAGO, Up — The sweetheart of a youpg father held on suspicion of murdering his wife and three children and burning their bodies in a “perfect crime" plot said today “he promised to marry me if it took 20 years.” Police confronted the father, Vincent Ciucci, 28, with his mistress, Miss Carol Amora, 20, late Sunday night. They kissed and she said: • -“Tkey got a lot of stuff on you.” “I know,” he replied, “but I didn’t do it.” Miss Amora. denying knowledge of the crime, said she lived with Ciucci for nine months, bore him a child an d gave him about $1,30Q of the modest $2,200 estate left by her father. , -y Ciucci. who was moved ‘from county hospital to the well-guard-ed hospital at the. Bridewell jail, told police he met with Miss Amora for about 15 minutes last Tuesday in a saloon. The fire that swept through Ciucci’s home and grocery store Saturday was first believed to be only a tragic accident. The charred body of his wife, Anne, 28, and , his children. Virginia, 8, Angeline, 4 and Vincent Jr., 9, were found in the ruins after Ciucci, cut and burned himself, gave the alarm. But an autopsy by a painstakingpathologist showed each victim had been shot in the head. “This , is murder,” said coroner Walter (Turn To Pave Three) Find Lake Cottage Victim Os Thieves Heller Cottage At Oliver Ransacked Thieves sometime last week broke into the Oliver Lake cottage i owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert : Heller, 1014 Central avenue, and stole furnishings and articles valI ued at about $1,200. >\| The Hellers were at the cottage : laist; I end, s£id Heller, to find the burglary. He reported the thefts to LaGrange county sheriff Arthur E. -IGerren, now investigating. The local insurance man and his wife found that a new 21-inch television valued at $425, two sofas i at S4OO, Sind a new boat worth S2OO, two end tables, six pillows, three aluminum chairs and others articles had been removed. Speaking with ■ the sheriff, Heller said it is be- | lieved the job' was done by “professionals” because of the selection chosen by the thieves. Entry, said - Heller, Was gained easily through t cut window screens, a crowbar-jim- - mied dqor and - broken panes of ? glass. Heller said the cottage had acti ually never been “closed” because ) he and his wife planned 'to visit the cottage on weekends. Heller reported the theft as the t first one to occur on Oliver Lake, r but It was suspected that a gang operating in Steuben county might t have decided to switch operations ) to another county. t Heller, operator ot Heller real i estate and insurance, repprted he was completely insured tot* the loss. ■< < \ .

Favors Hike In Payments For Unemployed Secretary Os Labor Also Favors Boost In Minimum Wages WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of labor James P. Mitchell said today he expects the administration to “substantiae improvements' 'in unemfcitbynienl insurance to make it “a better shield against _ economic reversals.” He said the administration also wants to raise the present 75-cents-an-hour minimum-wage rate and broaden coverage. Mitchell said the unemployment benefit rqte and the duration of benefits should be increased. He said he expects both chaffages will be recommended in January because the administration is “convinced that substantial improvements are needed.” He addressed the CIO United? Auto Workers two-day conference on full employment which Sunday heard CIO President Walter Reuther assail administration officials who “believe a little bit of pression is* a desirable thing.” Mitchell said unemployment insurance reserve funds can become a “great force to prevent a downward spiral’ ’in the economy if a substantial part of that reserve can be released when needed, Unemployment benefits average about $23 a week and the duration such payments averages about 22 weeks. States set the amount and duration of .payments and pay the benefits from a payroll tax on employers. The administration and congress could recomipend that states increase the benefits and the duration of payments. Besides the unemployment insurance improvements, he said the administration also wants to raise the minimum wage rate and increase the number of persons covered by minimum wage. He sa|d the income tax cut of about 10 per cent scheduled'for Jan. 1 will be a factor in helping to bolster consumer spending. = .... In his speech Sufaday, Reuther urged the . administration to take vigorous action to head off “mounting unemployment.” High School Pupil Dies Os Injuries KOKOMO. Ind.. UP’— James Forester, if, Sodth Btfnd Riley high school student, died Saturday in a Kokomo hospital as the result of injuries suffered In a car-truck collision which killed a school Bill Rosbrugh, 16, was killed in the accident Friday afternoon. Forester and Rosbrugh were in a party of five fans riding to Indianapolis to see the 'Riiey-Crispus Attucks basketball game. Good Fellows Club Delta Theta Tau $106.00 Tri Kappa 100.00 Total ... $200.00

j—c—- \ Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 7, 1953.

Eisenhower Will Speak To United Nations On Atom, Hydrogen Bombs

Urge Supreme Court Outlaw Segregation High Court Opens Historic Hearings On Race Segregation WASHINGTON. (UP) — Jfefcro attorneys urged the supreme court today to end racial segregation in public schools and wipe out “a sorry heritage from slavery.” Spotts wood W. Rbbinson 111. Richmond, Va.. and' Thurgood Marshall of New York led off for the National Assn, for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the\high court opened two days of historic hearings on the issue. John W. Davis, onetime Demobratic candidate for president and an expert on constitutional law. headed an array of legal talent ready to defend segregation. Robinson argued that segregation in schools is a direct viola tiou of the 14th amendment and' its guaranteed of ' “legal equailtyj’f for all Americans' regardless or creed, color, or rade. He said the amendment wan intended to prohibit the States from maintaining “caste systems predicated on race” and contended that this “necessarily embraced’’ public schools. Un this connection, a brief filed -with the court by the Negro attorneys said: “Candor requires recognition that the plain purpose and effect of segregated education is to perpetuate an inferior status for Negroes which 'is America’s sorry . heritage from slavery.’ - Robinson irevlew’ed legislative history on segregation dating back to the bill which finally led to the Mith amendment. He said the implementing act of the amendment, adopted in 1866. conferred on the courts “the positive duty to determine if racial segregation is valid.” The challenge to segregation is contained in five separate suits, filed against school systems in l South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, 'Delaware and the District of Columbia. Davis, 80, is the chief attorney in the case for Virginia ami v South Carolina. The 50 seats allotted to the public in the white marble court chamber were occupied within minutes after the doors were opened. Hundreds of would-be spectators were turned away. It was the first great case to come before the court under the new chief “justice. Earl Warren.

Good Fellows Club Ist Organized Here In 1917

(Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of articles prepared on the work of the Delta Theta Tau sorority’s ‘Good Fellows Club.’) ——4 J The Delta Theta 1 Tau sorority has sponsored the Good Fellows Club since 1917, whose purpose is to provide some essentials and necessities for the less-fortunate families in our city. The names of these families are given to the sorority from the township trustee, the welfare department, and from the city schools. Before 'a family receives any benefit from the club, they are thoroughly Investigated as to whether they do have any source of income, or whether they are dependent on other sources. If we feel there is definite need, we then provide for every possible assistance. There are' some on our list whom we assist each year, regardless. These are older people who ate remembered with a Christmas basket. For many of them it is their Christmas dinner. Other than that all of our families are investigated thoroughly. We will elaborate on the fact that all of our

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Yugoslavia Begins Withdrawing Troops New Proposals Made On Trieste Issue BELGRADE. Yugoslavia UP — -Marshal Tito started withdrawing his troops from the Italian frontier today and at the same time It was reported his government had made new proposals to the United States, Great Britain and France to settle the Trieste issue. Yugoslavia and Italy reached agreement Saturday on the simultaneous withdrawal from the frontier area of troops they sent there during the recent crisis. The Yugoslav troops started fulling back this morning. It was expected Itheir withdrawal would be completed within two weeks. The forces are estimated to number about* 100,000. h It was believed foreign minister Kot-a Popovic had outlined to diplomatic representatives of the United States, Britain and France at a 90-minute meeting Sunday night a series of suggestions for negotiations on Trieste. It was believed Popovic proposed that a five-power meeting be held — the United States, Britain, France. Yugoslavia and Italy —on the basis of conditions to be specified by both Yugoslavia and Italy. • Under these conditions, Italy would be permitted to send some Italian administrators to the port city of Trieste provided some Yugoslav administrators be admitted to Slovene-peopled areas of Zone A. the northern part of Trieste. The United States and Britain occupy Zone A. It was their proposal Oct. 8 to turn over Zone A to Italy that precipitated the Trieste [crisis. Says Soviet Russia Holding Prisoners TOKYO, UP —Soviet Russia Is holding American servicemen and a large number of European prisoners in notorious Wladimir prison 100 miles northeast of Moscow, a Japanese repatriated from that camp said today. Mother, Four Young Children Are Killed f BALTIMORE. Md. UP — Five persons, a mother and her four young children, died today in an apartment fire apparently started by a cigarette. The victims were Identified as Mrs. Evelyn Weitzel, found burned fatally on a flaming divan, in the living room of her apartment, and her four 9, Edward 6. Danny 5, and Sandra Lee 3.

families are investigated so none of you will get the idea that anyone In our city will call the Good Fellows and say they want a Christmas basket. We have had too much of that in the past and from past experience' we have learned whom tp help and who Is merely trying to get a “free meal.” Last year, being our most successful year,, gives us more incentive to make this year even bigger and better than ever. I hope all of you will be as generous as possible this year. For it is, your cooperation that makes our project a success. If every reader of this article could in any way give to this great and most worthy cause, l*m sufe this «(ould be the most successful project we have ever had. By this time moat of our members have most of their investigation of these worthy families already done bo As to report at our regular meeting. If we the total ’of 73 families again this year as we had test year and the year before, I am begging all of you to please try to give a little to help the Good Fellows. It is indeed a project that each and every one (Tans Te Page «U)

Rules Pickets May Be Fired For Criticism High Court Ruling Puts Limitations On Labor's Rights WASHINGTON (UP) —The supreme court ruled today that picketing employes may be fired for deriding their employer's product if the criticism has nothing to do with a labor dispute. The 6-3 ruling put an important limitation on labor’s rights under the Taft-Hartley law does not list “disloyalty” as a reason for discharge. In other actions before it began hearing arguments on segregation in public schools, the tribunal: 1. Ruled 5-4 that a slot machine dealer doing business wholly within one state cannot be compelled to register with the U. S. attorney general- The court majority said the justice department’s interpretation of a 1911 law carried the federal government too far into the law enforcement area reserved to the states. 2. Agreed to examine a New York state low which forbids commercial banks, including national banks, to use the word “savings” in advertising and elsewhere. ' 3. Denied a hearing to columnist Drew Pearson in connection with a libel suit brought by Mrs. Mary G. Gariepy of Detroit on the basis of two 1949 Pearson broadcasts. The action means a' jury now may < hear Mrs. Gariepy’s charges. 4. Ruled, 7-2,\ that an investor may sue a broker for damages for alleged misrepresentations despite an advance agreement >, to arbitrate controversies. The court said the federal act assures this right. The majority opinion in the case of pickeing employes was written by Justice Harold H. Burton who said: • ' - “There is no more elemental cause for discharge of an employe than disloyalty io his employer. * It is equally elemental that the i Taft-Hartley act seeks to strehgthen. rather than to weaken, that corporation, continuity of service and cordial contractual) relation between employer and employe that is born of loyalty to their (Tara Ta Pace di*ht> Fred Allmandinger Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Frederick Allmandinger, 84. retired farmer of near Ohio City, 0., died at 4:25 p.m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill since September. He was born near Hamilton. 0.. Sept. 12, 1869, a son of L. J. and Rosa Snyder-Allmandinger, and waa married to Anna Kallenberger Jan. 8, 1895. His wife died Oct. 2, 1944. Mr. Allmandinger, who had lived in Van Wert county since 1911, was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm, O. Surviving are three sons, George of Ohio City, Rudolph of Willshire, • 0., and Karl of Celina, O.; three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Merkle of Van Wert, Mrs. Harold Glessler of Ohio City and Mra. Harman Schaekel of Prebla; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Three sisters and six brothers .are deceased. Funeral be conducted at 1:30 p.m., EST Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church in Schumm, The Her. Werner Kuhlberg officiating. Burial will be in the church cametary. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services.

Four Jet Pilots Are Crash Victims Rain, Fog Blamed For Crash Os Jets MARIETTE, Ga. UP —Georgia air national guard officials believed today that rain and fog blinded four young F-84 Thunderjet pilots who plunged to fiery deaths in tight formation 20 miles from their base.

The single-engine jets roared into a wood-and-pgsture area near, Duluth, Ga., 12:13 a.m. EST Sunday, while making a routine land-ing-approach 'turn that should have been made, at 11,000 feet, guard officials said. Investigators at the sparsely- 1 settled crash area said overlapping debris of the planes indicated they plunged groundward in follow-the-leader fashion after the foremost pilot became confused. Capt. Idon M. Hodge Jr.. 30, had given no warning of the crash in a | radio contact he made as ,flight leader moments before, military authorities said, but radio monitors heard mention of ba d weather. Gen. Ernest Vandiver said a monitor at the Atlanta naval air station nearby overheard one pilot. in a radio conversation say, “It’s getting rough,” and another replied, “How do you think I feel?” Moments later they xoorwad upon the thinly Wooded pasture, howling over pine trees. Officials from Dobbins air force base, from which the jets wete completing a round trip flight to Miami, Fla., said the craft struck ground apparently in box formation. They exploded and disintegrated as they hurtled for three quarters of a mite. Four Directors Are Elected By C. Ot C. Directors To Meet Here This Evening (R. W T . Bradtmiller, Wayne Novelty Go., Adolph Kotter, burial vault manufacturer and member of the city council; Dr. James Burk, physician; and Fred Foos, manager of the A. and P. grocery store, were elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of the Decatur -Chamber of Commerce. it was announced today by Fred Kolter, secretary. Voting was completed Saturday and the counting committee certified the election. of, the four men today. The regular December meeting of the directors is scheduled for tonight at the Chamber of Commerce rooms and a date wiP be set at that time within the next 10 days for the reorganization of the board ot directors. A president will be named from the board personnel and he will name committee chairmen from the membership to serve during 1954. There are 12 members on the board of directors, three 4 being elected each year. (Directors do not succeed themselves. They are selected by the Chamber members, two at large; one representing industry and one representing retailers, each year. Ralph Habegger is Ihe present president.

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Big Three In Discussion Os Far East Issue I ' | ‘ ; I N. ! i •President To Make , Historic Speech To Assembly Tuesday u -_ TUCKER’S TOWN. Bermuda UP — The ijMg Three delegates discussed the stormy Far East —with special attention to Korea—today in a 2-hour* and 20-minute meeting. But the proceedings of the chief delegates were overshadowed, on the final day of their Bermuda conference; by the news President Eisenhower will take the world Into his confidence Tuesday in m historic speech on atomic and hydrogen bomb warfare liffore the United Nations. The President, prime minister Winston Churchill and French foreign minister Cteorges Bidault met 'from 9:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. at the Mid-Ocean club, headquarters, of the conference. A brief communique said merely that they discussed “the situation in the Far East.” An official spokesman said he hoped for a full communique later. The President, it was made kuowiL will climax his Bermuda, talks by flyfng direct to New York City to make his first speech to the U. N. assembly at 4 p.m. Tuesday. with “the perils that confront the world in this atomic age” aa his topic. The speech is expected to be one of the most important of the President’s administration. Mr. Eisenhower's decision to accept a long-standing invitation from U.N. secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold to discuss atomic ware fare overshadowed the Big Three power’s agreements to send their foreign ministers to Berlin next- month for a conference with the Russians. The Western Allies agreed Sunday to accept Russia's proposal for a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Berlin, and it was understood their note to Moscow would suggest that the ? meeting start Jan. 5. Bermuda conference activities started today with a meeting of the Big Three delegates at 9:30 a.m. with Far Eastern problems and especially Korea on the program for discussion. The conference will wind up with h* dinner tonight. It was expected there would be a communique possibly as late as midnight The subject of Mr. Eisenhower’s address will be “The Perils (that Confront the World in this Atomic Age.” . These perils, about which the President has been acutely conscious and wanting to tell Americans and Russians for a long time, will be outlined in a broad manner. White House staff members regard the speech, which has the fifm backing of Churchill and Laniel, as one of Mr. Elsenhower's most Important utterances since he became President. Informed sources said Mr. Eisenhower began working on the criti- ' que before he Went to Denver last summer on his long vacation. The speech will be broadcast and televised nationally. Informed sources said Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief U. S. delegate to the United Nations, told Hammarskjold some time ago that the President was ready to make his first appearance before the general assembly as America's chief executive. When MrJ Eisenhower arrived in Bermuda Friday morning for the beginning of the four-day conference with Churchill and Laniel. he received a cabled invitation from Hammarskjold asking him to appear before the assembly at its closing session. H INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and , ! Tuoaday; little warmer tonight; colder north Tuesday. Low tonight 30-38. High Tuesday 38-44 north, 45-52 south.