Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 289, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1953 — Page 1

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WITH RUSSIA'S Andrei Visbinsky (left), who had applauded his entrance listening intently. President Eisenhower (right) outlines before the United Nations the alternative to peaceful atomic development among nations, East and Wesjt Mr. Eisenhower portrayed Russia and the U. S. as “two atomic collossl doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world” if the atomic arms race is not ended. -L .. ,7 r ' \ '

Wilson Orders Armed Forces To Take Cuts Overrides Service J Protests, Orders Cut hi Manpower WASHINGTON UP W Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson has overriden service afad ordered the anny, navy and marine corps to take manpower cuts .of about 10 per cent in fiscal 1955, It was learned today. The services, the army foremost among them, had argued ajgainst the reductions, but Wilson was said to have stood firm. Is. derision will mean a saving of one Millon dollars or more in military pay for the 12-month fiscal period beginning next Jily 1. Unformed sources said many millions more in secondary costasuch as for supplies—will be saved I by the action. The air force will not be required to reduce its strength, j Overall, the Wilson decision will mean that the United States will have about 3,200,000 officers and men in uniform 'by June 30, 1955, the end of fiscal 1955. . - It also will mean, informed sources eaid, that between June 30, 1954, and June 30, 1955, the army will be forced to drop approximately 140,000 persons, the m trines about 23,000, and the navy about 77,000 —a grand total of about 240.000. lit was learned that Wilson, army secretary Robert T. Steveps and assistant defense secretary W. J. McNeil, the Pentagon’s fiscal expert, settled the quest.on at a long conference on Saturday. Wilson, at the conference end, was understood to have placed i ‘ top secret” label on the decision but new’s of it spread eround the Pentagon nevertheless. The big issue in the army arguments against the cist was whether it could be made without reducing (Turn To PncrElght) I Robert Sprunger Is Lions Club Speaker Decatdr Lions Tuesday night ; at a regular meeting heard <i talk ty Robert Sprunger, IFYE representative tyhp spent the summer working on the farms of France and Tunisia, to gain a better understanding of farming problems in those areas. Sprunger also showed color slides of nome of the places he had visited!, with an accompanying talk. Members noted that they will attend charter j night} of the Berne Liohs club Thursday at 7 pm ’ ' V Mrs. Emma M. Bleeke Is By Death I ! 1 ■' ' L Mrs. Emma M. Bleeke, 71, a native of Preble, died Tuesday in Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne. She lived her daughter, Mrs. Helen Knight, 931 Nuttman Ave., Fort Wayne. ’ ; j besides Mrs. Knight are a son, Lawrence of Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Otto Bieberich of thia city, Mrs. Augusta Hagist of Oakland, Cal., and a brother, Charles Kirchner of this city. Two grandchildren also survive. Services will be conducted Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in the Klaehn funend home. Fort Wayne, with the R jv. Paul L. Dannenfeldt officiating. Burial will be in Emmanuel Lutheran cemetery, north of Decatur. t j • . ■ ■' -V j .

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President Spells Out Atomic Views

One Indictment Is Returned By Jury Grand Jury Report Is Filed Lase Today The Adams circuit court grand jury, in session with' prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith since. Dec. 2. was dismissed at 1:50 o’clock this afternoon and handed down one indictment in a report filed a few minutes later. However, the name of the indicted Will remain secret until a warrant is issued and served, according to given by Judge pro tem Hubert R. McClenahan, appointed to take the place of Judge Myles F. Parrish, ill with a heavy cold. No indictments were handed down in four casles now pending on the Adams court docket, including the Peter L. Schwartz incest case, freed recently after serving of a two to 21 year prison term after he pleaded guilty to incest. Three (others against whom no indictment were handed down were Kenneth E. Roth. E. M. Enterkin and George Orvis Treece. Evidence was heard from 22 withesses, said the report. In seven cases the grand jury ordered no prosecution for- the rea. son that . . . Ha considerable amount of time elapsed and being more than 18 month and it appears that no defendant has been apprehended,.. . . recommend that same be nollled, left off the criminal docket and the warrant be returned ... to the clerk of the Adams circuit court.” The following reports were returned in the annual inspections of the County Jail, court house and infirmary: County jail—“We found broken window glass in the basement windows which should be repaired, recommend mesh wiring be placed on outside of basement windows: window broken at landing to back (Tuni T«t Paare Klxht) , - I, Hold Discussion On Conservancy Plan C. C/s Industrial Division To Meet For their last eeting of 195(1, the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce has prepared a program for next Monday moon at the Moose home to consider a topic which in the past has caused much controversy to spread over the entire northeastern portion of Indiana —the proposed formation of a “conservancy district.” An announcement by the industrial committee named the speaker as Thomas P. Riddle, Jr., executive secretary of the Fort Wayne Citizen’s Civic Association, foremost proponents of the conservancy district. Riddle’s speech is entitled, “The Maumee valley project—our productive plant and its future.” \ , A form invitation to the meeting points up the awareness in the local industrial group of the controversy ihe proposed water measure has raised: “ ... As you know, the proposals toward establishment 6f conservancy districts for the entire Maumee Valley-have caused considerable comment, both pro and con, since it seems to effect so many in this area .... the program promises to be unusually entertaining. Also invited to the meeting, according to Charles Ehlnger, president of the industrial group until the end of the year, is L. iE. Archbold county agent, one of the most outspoken voices in Adams county against the district.

6. E. To Fire Any Admitted Red Employe Policy Statement Is Issued Today Py Company President NEW YORK, UP — The General Electric company announced today that 4t will discharge any of its 25(7,000 employes who admit to being , Communists or spies and will suspend, pending clearance, any who refuse to answer such charges or clhim constitutional immunity before congressional or other authority. Employes of several GE plants are presently under investigation by Sen. (RWis.). In a statement of policy over the Signature of GE president R. J. Cordiner, the firm also urged that the government set up an independent security agency which would give suspended employes an opportunity to be cleared of suspicion and re-instated. The company said it believed it was essential that “all General Electric employes should be free of any real question of dislfiyalty” because in the evenTMt national emergency “practically all company plants would -become essential instruihents of national defense. ’. The statement said the company believed present government security regulations were “not fully adequate in the present condition of world affairs.” Under these reg* ulations, the statement said, the firm is notified that certain Individuals must not be employed on secret work because they are classified as security risks. The firm said the government did not, however, advise the company which. Individuals Were so classified because of suspected subversive intent and which were so-classified for “reasons not indicative of disloyalty”—such as a tendency to drink, or be overtalkative or a possible threat to relatives behind the Iron Curtain. The policy statement, effective immediately, provides for the discharge of “any employe who, as a matter of public record after the date hereof admits being a' Com munist, or admits being-engaged- in any form of espionage or sabotage, or who makes such admissions to the company.” It provides “as an interim measure pending the development of a more adequate one by the government" for the suspension, with ■pay, for 90 days, of: \ “Any employe who, having been identified as a Communist by testimony given under oath in a public hearing of a congressional committee or other government authority, declines to accept an opportunity offered him to Jestify under oath before such committee or authority concerning his alleged Communist affiliation, espionage or sabotage . . .” or of: “Any employe, who, in a public hearing of a congressional com- • mittee or other government authoriyt, invokes the fifth amendment in refusing to testify concerning Communist affiliations, espionage or sabotage on the ground that his testimony would tend to incriminate him.” i In Boston, President James B. Carey of the CIO electrical workers’ union recommended government action to keep secret' war contracts out of plants where the rival United Electrical Workers have bargaining rights. Carey said *23 UE organizers who haye taken part in the union’s Tam Te Pace MkM>

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 9, 1951

Eisenhower In Urgent Appeal For Peaceful Atomic Development

United Slates Has Stockpile Os H-Bombs ' ’ ; f 'I Superbombs Held By United States Have Tremendous Power WASHINGTON UP — The U. S. atomic stockpile now possesses a family of hydrogen superbombs — tho feeblest member of which packs more violence than a million tons of TNT. That, a high atomic source said today, is “the plain English” of one revelation-filled sentence in President (Elsenhower’s, address to the United Nations general assembly Tuesday afternoon. The sentence: “Atomic bombs today are more than 25 times as powerful as '.he weapons with which the atomic a.'fe dawned, while hydrogen weapons are, in the ranges of millions Os tons of TNT equivalent.” In subsequent paragraphs thePresident gave the world, for the first time, an order-of-snagxritude statement on the size of America'? atomic arsenal, revealed that this country has enough nuclear might to lay waste an entire aggressor nation, and confirmed that all branches of the U. S. military can now wage atomic war. He also implied that Russia may have exploded more than one test H-bomb, and he conceded frankly that there is no “absolute” defense against atomic aggression. But with that one 33-word sentence he disclosed more hard information about U. S. atomic weapons development then had come from any other source since the war. The two A-bombs which killed more than 100,000 Japanese ’n World War II were 20,000-tonners in terms of TNT. The only official statement on the modern A-bomb, until the President spoke, had been a cryptic remark by the atomic energy commission that today’s weapons were “several times more than the wartime models. Scientific circles here had believed that it would be difficult if not impossible to build an A-bomb equivalent to more than 200,000 tons of TNT. But Mr. Elsenhower’s statement means that the big A-bomb of 1953 packs the blast effect of more than tons of TNT going off all at i onpe. It was the second half of hie sentence, however, that started his ITbhi To p IIe Rtcbfl

Good Fellows Make Plea For Donations To Club

(Editor’s note: This is another of a series of articles prepared on the work: of the Delta Theta Tau sorority’s “Good Fellows Club.”) The Good Fellows are urgently tn need of more “Good Fellows.” To date the response to our annual drive at this time has been good, but not good enough. Last year it took more than SI,OOO for the expenses involved to help the needy families in our city, and I’m sure it will be in excess of that amount this year, so this is a plea to all of you to “pitch in and help as much as you can.” | ' Comparing figures with those of ten years ago, we needed only $421.77 to provide clothes, toys, food baskets, and miscellaneous items for 64 families including 189 children. But In 1952 we, had 75 families and approximately 140 children, but needed SI,OOO. Now don’t you think you can afford something to become one of the ‘Good Fellows.’ A few years ago we tried a phase in our drive which proved very successful. The sorority members personally solicited most of the merchants in Decatur. The results for. the most part were tremendous. Last year we talked it over and

Lone Bandil Robs Bank Al Evansville Robbed For Second Time In Six Months (EVIANWILffjE UIP — An Evansville bank was held up Tuesday for the second time in six months, ( and employes who stared into a gun bare! again said the lone jbandit was the one who robbed Them last June. The bandit got nearly >1.1,000 at the Old National Bank after ordering the customers into a vault and forcing three clerks to lie on .the floor while the fourth filled his cloth shopping bag with cash from counter drawers. The bank was held up last June and the same teller, Grady Walker, was forced to hand over |23,354 in cash to the bandit. “Brother, I’ll tell you that’s the same guy,” Walker said, adding “I didn’t think it could happen twice.” Thomas Estep, assistant special pgent in charge of the FBI offie'e at Indianapolis, said his agenejy Was investigating the possibility that the same man pulled both robberies. , The tall, 1 handsome bandit also is suspected of robbing an East Chicago loan firm of >IO,OOO and looting banks at Bourbon and Hamlet of more than >IB,OOO. The five robberies netted about $62,000. The search tor the robber, who was believed to have fled in a stolen car, spread to Kentucky He eluded and Vanderburgh county road blocks. Walter Bischofff vice president, said the gunman, wiho carried a sawed-off shotgun, walked in and said, “This is a holdup.” He de scribed the man as about 30 years old, about 6 feet tall and wearing a long brown jacket. Manager William R. Claybourn, who had been out to lunch, returned while the bandit was behind a teller’s window, and walked by without seeing him. “Get in back with the rest and you won’t get hurt,” the mail shouted at Claybourn. H It was the third bank robbery in a week and the seventh unsolved bank holdup in the state since June. On Dec. 1, two bandits held up the Jasonville bank and the, same day three men robbed the Walton bank. The loot in two stiokups was about $53,000. INDIANA WEATHER Rain this afternoon ending and turning colder \tonlgnt. Thursday considerable cloudl- . ness, windy and colder. Low tonight 28-33; high Thursday 3845. . - >-\ ■ 7

realized that merchants were Solicited literally “to death,’’—so we thought it best not to do it last year. However, we still do need their help, and we are asking for it in this way. If any of them feel that they have any merchandise that the “Good Fellows” can use, they are to contact any of the members. if. there are others who would like to make a cash contribution, «re are most anxious to accept. Without the continued cooperation of these merchants our cause would definitely be a lost one. There are boxes in Holthouse Drug Store, the First State Bank, and the Decatur Democrat office for said contributions, or checks can be made payable to Mrs. Medford Smith, 1021 W. Madison St., or to Rosemary Spangler, R. R. 4. We are appealing this year for Clean used clothes, providing they are in good condition and marked according to size. Also for used toys in good condition, which are re-touched' by opr ever-willing fire department and their volunteers. They have rendered so much assist-, ance to us in the past-that we must make mention of the fact. Without them we would not be able to carry on on such a large scale. If anyone <Tom To Paco Vtvej

West Europe Hails Ike's Atomic Plan Proposal Hailed As * ■'V _■ • »-* r New Hope Os Peace • In Troubled World LONDON UP —Western Europe hailed President Eisenhower’s atomic stockpile plan today as a new hope for peace l which could save its cities from the nuclear destruction of the “terrible 20th century.” Newspapers here and on the continent, frequently critical of United States policy and pronouncements, reflected new faith in American leadership. French foreign minister Georges Bidault, arriving in Paris from the Bermuda Big Three conference, said of the President’s plan:, “It clearly shows the spirit in which the Atlantic Allies consider the anxious problem of the atom hi wg>r_ and peace. \ “it’ W anpArfluoaz to tell you that the British prime minister and ourselves very warmly welcomed the suggestion of the American President.” "France welcomes with warm interest the perspectives of peaceful exploitation of atomic energy suggested by President Eisenhower,” a French foreign office spokesman said. Pending formal reaction after an official study of the Presidept’s speech to the United Nations assembly Tuesday a British foreign office spokesman said: “It was a profoundly moving speech which seems to advance very constructive proposals on the atomic problem.” , Informed quarters saw the President’s "jplan as a renewed hope for peace and prosperity, but all phasized that everything depended upon the Soviet’s attitude. In Austria, an official spokes said Mr. Eisenhower’s speech Can be regarded “as a most important step toward the achievement of world peace.” Informed British sources said their country would leap at the chance to take part in a new United Nations atomic agency. They also said privately what newspapers said openly that the Presidents proposal would revive much of the flagging faith in America’s wisdom and ability to lead the world. London’s tabloid Daily Mirror spoke for the majority of London and Paris newspapers with its bannerline: “Ike appeals to Russia: Stop This Atom Madness.” But the Communist press — the London Daily Worker and L’Humanite of Paris—sneered. Dr. Ray Slingely Elected By Masons Annual Election Is Held Tuesday Night Dr. Ray St ingely was elected worshipful master of the Decatur Masonic lodge at the annual fish fry and election held Tuesday night at the Masonic hall. Dr. Stingely will serve as head of the' lodge during 1954. Other officers named for next year include: Ted Hill, senior warden; Weldon Bumgerdner, junior warden: Richard Eichhorn, treasurer; Ed Jaberg, secretary, and Paul Moore, retiring master, trustee for three years. The annual election followed a fish fry participated in by a large crowd of local Masons. Installation of officers will be held at the close of the current year. Applntive officers will be teamed soon by Dr. Stingely.

Begin Negotiations On Rail Wage Hike Four Unions Make Increase Demands CHICAGO, UP — Negotiations began today on wage increase demands covering an estimated 200,COO train service employes nation’s railfoads. J The wage demands were made ( by four unions — the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen’s Union of North America. The firemen and enginemen and most of the trainmen seek a 37 H cent hourly pay raise. The con,ductors seke graduated pay increases based on locomotive weights. The switchmen want 40 cents an hour more. Another major “operating” rail union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has demanded a 30 percent pay raise. A spokesman said the union demanded a percentage increase of this size to “restore” the system of “pay according to skill.” 5 But the engineers do not want to negotiate on an industry-wide basis, and proposed last week that 1 negotiations be conduce** iaf sti ’ between the union and individual * roads. * A committee representing .the major railroads held out for in--1 dustry-wide bargaining and pro- ■ posed Jan. 6 for the start of negotiations. The engineers now are polling their local unions on the proposal. .Meanwhile, the national media tion board has 'been meetfcig with representatives of the railroads and 15 “non-operating” unions representing an estimated one-million rail workers not involved in the actual operation of trains. The 15 non-operating unions have demanded life insurance equal to one year’s pay, all medical costs for employes and their families, free longer vacations, more holidays and triple pay for holiday work, extra pay for Sunday work and liberal pass privileges for workers and their families. Wage demands will be presented later. The railroads have asked the U. S. district court here to rule on whether the insurance, health and welfare demands are legitimate subjects for collective bargaining under the national railway labor acL Negotiations on vacations and holidays have proceeded. Goods Stolen From Lake Cottage Found Heller Property Is Found Along Road Robert Heller, of this city, from whose Oliver Lake cottage items estimated at $1,200 were stolen sometime last week, is out of town today to claim the stolen goods, found along a gravel road three and a half miles east of South Bend Tuesday morning. It was reported that a television ret valued at $425 had been damaged slightly in handling, but the balance of the looted goods was not damaged. Recovered goods included, besides the TV set, two sofas worth S4OO, a new S2OO boat, a radio, two end tables, six pillows, three aluminum chairs and other articles. The LaGrange county sheriffs department and St. Joseph’s county sheriff’s department, with state police, reported that the stolen goods were apparently unloaded from a truck and left “neatly” in the grass along a gravel road in an undeveloped area. \ Mr. and Mrs. Heller discovered the breakin and thefts when they visited their cottage last weekend. Entry was gained through screened windows and doors, which were jimmied, according to Heller.

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Moscow Silent On Appeal By Ike Before UN I Most Os World's Capitals Support \ Eisenhower Stand ■r. ■ I UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP— President Eisenhower’s invitation to Russia to become the West’s partner in an atomic pool won the support of most world capitals today but Moscow remained silent. The President’s urgent appeal for peaceful atomic development in a personal appearance before the United Nations general assembly Tuesday crossed the Iron Curtain over the Voice of America Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishihsky, whose boasts that Russia has exploded a hydrogen bomb and developed secret atomic weapons party were responsible for the President's decision to make his unprecedented speech, applauded Mt. Eisenhower frequently and joined other delegates in a standing ovation. Vishinsky, who often conferred with Soviet} colleague Jacob A. Malik, during the address, later said only that Vthere is a necessity for a careful study of this speech.” Vishitsky’s reticence indicated he would reserve further comment until the Kremlin’s experts had studied the speech thoroughly. It was considered a certainty Vishinsky would not reiply before the 60nember general assembly adjourns its eighth annual session late today. Thus it was apparent the next steps taken by the world’s big powers would be conversations behind locked doors at the U. N. headquarters on the East River. Some delegates referred to the President’s request for international pooling of part of each nation’s atomic material as “an atomic point four program." Mr. Eisenhower’s plan would: 1. “Encourage worldwide investigation into the most effective peacetime uses of fissionable material. 2. “Begin to diminish the potential destructive power of the atomic stockpiles. 3. "Allow all peoples of all nations to see that, in this enlightened age, the great powers of the earth, both of the east and of the west, are interested in human aspirations first and foremost, rather then in building up the armaments of war. 4. “Open up a new channel for peaceful discussion and initiate at least a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved in both private and public conferences if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and make positive progress toward peace.” Mr. Eisenhower said Jie would present his plan to congress with “every expectation of approval.” Since British prime minister Winston Churchill endorsed the plan at the Bermuda conference which ended early Tuesday. Britain's parliament also was expected to approve it. The Voice of America’s 82 radio transmitters carried the President’s message in English and 33 ‘ foreign languages to all parts of the globe, and American news radio printers brought it to newspaTan Te Pa«» EUtbt*

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