Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LU. No. 11.

India Plans To Return 22,000.“ POWs Jan. M Back As Prisoners, Illegal For Either Side To Free Men PAKMUNJOM Uft — India announced today will, return more than 22,00<Ltnrepatriated war prisoners to tmeir captors next Wednesday, three days ahead of their scheduled release. .Lt. Gen. K. S. TMmayya, chairman of the r neutral nations repatriation commission, informed the United Nations and Communist commands -the men wit be sent back ar prisoners jmd It will be illegal tor either side to tree the men. Reliable said the U.N. command grill reject the Indian claims an# ship 14,000 antiCommunist Chinese to Formosa and 8,000 anti-Red North Koreans , to South Korean areas for rehabilitation. Communist China’s Peiping Radio had unleashed blasts at any kind ot prisoner release, demanding that the captives be held until 82 more days of “explanations” are concluded. who previously had floored releasing the men as civillark on Jan. 23 in accordance with the terms, said he acted without\£pnsulting other members of his commission after the decision had boon made by prime minister Jawaharlal Nehrus government at NfW Delhi. “I, as chairman and executive agent ot the commission and having the custody of the prisoners of war, have come to the conclusion that the only correct and lawful and peaceful course open is to restore prisoners to the custody of the former and respective detaining side immediately prior to Jap, 23, 1954," Thimayya’s letter said. The Swedish and Swiss members of the NNRC issued separate statements agreeing with ThimayyU’s decision to turn back the anti- -■ repatriate prisoners to their captors. But they protested against Thimayya's statement that the prisoners should then be held until their fate is discussed at a peace conference instead of being freed at once. Gen. John E. Hull, supreme United Nations commander in the Far East, said the United Nations was prepared to receive its prisoners afftt would send them on their way to freedom "Wlthta. 48 hours. No official word wtureceived immediately on what the Re3s«pJ, > an to do with the 348 prisoners who elected to stay with the Communists. including 21 Americans and a British marine. By returning the men to. their * former captors before the end of the scheduled 120-day period of neutral custody, Thimayya sought to leaVe the prisoner issue to further negotiation, between both commands. American marines and infantrymen staged a dress rehearsal of the prisoner release in U.N. territory just south of the demilitarized zone. Barbed wire lanes, wire enclosures, guide posts and collection points were ready for the antiRed Chinese and North oKreans. Break Off Talks On Big Four Meeting Agreement On Site Blocked By Russia BERLIN, UP—The west broke off four-power talks on a site for the Big Four foreign ministers conference today and said only a miracle could bring the statesmen together on Jan. 25. Western Off! cla 1 s expressed strong suspicions that the Soviets , want a conference at all. Maj. Gen. Thomas Timberman. U. S. Berlin commandant, called off the talks wi#i the permission of the British and French commandants and S«rgei A. Dengin, chief of the Soviet high commls eion in Berlin, , after’they had ne gotlkted for 14% hours at their fourth meeting. Timberman saW he saw no point in continuing. An American spokesman said Dengin blocked any agreement on a site by refusing to relax his demand for holding two in every four foreign ministers’ meetings in Communist East Berlin. ■ The Big Three representatives had offered to hold one meeting in East Berlin. Timberman said the western commandants would refer the deadlock to their governments b-ut observers here thought the nex‘ move was up to the Kremlin.

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Favors Cut In Taxes Paid By Stockholders First Step Toward - Eliminating Double Dividend Taxation WASHINGTON. UP—The hwee ways and .means committee voted today to cut by more than 500million dollars the federal tax on individuals who receive corporation dividend payments. The proposal, which would ease the tax burden ot the country’s stockholders, was approved by the committees Republican majority With some Democratic help and despite some Democratic opposition. The relief plan is one of some 25 the committee is studying in connection with.a tax revision program which would cut federal revenue by a total of 1%-billion dtrttwrs Wednesday the committee voted to give more fa.Yorg.bte treatment to taxpayers who are- heads of families but either not married or legally separated from their spouses. It also is considering, relief for working mothers, among others. ~ s -■ Today’s action was described by conuniUee sources as “the first step toward the elimination of double taxation of corporate dividends." Corporation earnings are taxed before they are distributed as dividends. The committee plan would gradually * reduce, but not eliminate, the tax paid by individuals on dividends. --- — -‘—T'other congressional news: Social security — President Eisenhower sent congress a program to boost social security benefits and add 10-mil Hon persons to the 70-milllon now covered. Chairman Daniel A, Reed. R-N. Y., of the house ways and means committee promptly introduced legislation embodying the proposals. Compromise— President Eisenhower has said he will not accept any version of a proposed amendment on treaty - making powers which would hamper his conduct of foreign affairs. Sen. John W. Bricker, R-Ohio, sponsor of the amendment, has said: he will oppose any changes which would weaken his proposal. Today senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, Calif., said “further efforts" will be made to harmonize the two viewpoints. Truce—-Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said the joint chiefs of staff see no signs that the Communists intend to renew the Korean war. The army staff chief made this statement in urging the senate foreign relations committee to approve the U. S.-South Korean mutual defense treaty. Seaway—A senate foe of the St. Lawrence seaway bill said he will "review” all arguments that have been made against the measure in the past 10 years. -> ° 12 PAGES °

Indiana CIO Scores Craig Appointments Say Union’ Ignored By Governor Craig INDIANAPOLIS, UP —The Indiana CIO accused Governor Craig today of "completely ignoring" the union in making state appointments and asked its 300,000 members Ao send him protests. But Craig replied he WML Only peeking the ‘‘pest informed sons.” The CIO said Craig’s appointment of 13 new members to the state advisory council on industrial codes a week ago was an “affront” because the governor appointed no CIO representative. “How can you defend your position?” the union asked in a letter mailed to Craig by state president Neal W. Edwards and secretarytreasurer George Colwell. “Your selection of persons to this council is an affront to the Intelligence of all Hoosiers,” the letter said. "You omitted naming anyone from CIO . . 7 the largest labor organization in Indiana ... and have chosen members who represent a mere handful of people.” Union men appointed by Craig represented the United Mine Workers, Federated Council of Labor, Brick and Clay Workers and ConstrucHSlfi "‘Workeraw— The governor replied in a letter his appointments “were made not on a basts of the individuals menjbership in any organization or any group. We sought to find the best informed persons possible on whom we can depend to provide the greatest degree of safety for workers generally." Craig said there was “no intention” to ignore the CIO. “We should have at least equal representation,” Edwards and Colwell replied in a statement. “Where ■ else but in CIO could Governor Craig find better informed people? ■_--— “We were not surprised on learning that we had been bypassed. It seems to be the policy of the present administration to completely ignore CIO in making any appointment.” The union leaders asked all CIO affiliated locals and councils to send protests to Craig. They said they wanted no one removed from ’.he. council but did want a CIO representative added. Three Guests Die In Montreal Hotel Fire MONTREAL, UP —Three guests were killed and 20 others jumped out of windows or ran through flame-filled corridors to safety today when a pre-dawn fire ripped through the 6ff-room Chateau Hotel. ■./ Firemen said a fourth victim was being sought in the wreckage. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional light anow defreezing drizzle north and poaaaional rain south tonight, Warmer. Friday cloudy and warmer with occasional J rain. Low tonight 25-32 north, 33-34 south. High Friday 3440 north, 40-45 south.

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17 Killed In Air Crash At Rome Airport Four Americans In Crash Killing All Aboard Airliner ROME UP — Seventeen persons, today in the mysterious crash of including four Americans, died a Philippine Air Lines DC6 whose pilot averted a greater tragedy by turning to miss a crowded workers’ settlement. It was the second mysterious airliner crash over Italy in less than a week. In both today’s crash and that of- a British Comet jet airliner in which 35 persons died, -eyewitnesses reported hearing explosions shortly before the planes plunged to earth. City official Mario Ferrero and other witnesses credited American chief pilot Ira Broome with heroically banking the stricken Philippine airliner on one wing and crashing it into a wheat field to Avoid smashing into a huge work, ers housing project where scores might have been killed or injured. Impact of the crash gouged out a hole 30 feet deep and hurled, flaming wreckages nd the fragmented bodies ot the victims over an area the size of a football field. PAL officials announced seven commercial passengers and nine air line personnel including the crew were aboard. Americans were pilot Ira Broome, 35, World War hero and veteran civil aviation pilot; Copilot William Rose, Alton, 111., and Royal Jordan. 57, Boston, Mass., European director ot PAL. The fourth American was ideijjifled only as G. Batavia, whose U. S. passport number was 227759. The plane came in for its landing in a driving rain without notifying the Ciampino control tower. Sixty yards from the apartment houses, two of the plane’s four engines cut off. It banked, and plunged into the earth with a terrific impact. The plane exploded. It dug a crater 3b feet deep and -36-Xaetwidein a rain-sodden field. Only bits of wreckage/amt'-btes of bodies, remained. Searchers found a piece of sponge rubber, ripped suit cases and mail bags, torn magazines, a photograph of Miss Universe, a Finnish girl who married a Filipino. The wives of Rose and Jordan are in Rome. Rose’s wife is expecting a baby. Jordan’s wife is his second. The plane was on its way from Manila to London. It had stopped at Beirut, Lebanon, to refuel. ■lt was the second mystery crash (Tm Pw fit«i Draft Board Sends Two Groups Today One For Induction, One For Examination Two groups -of Adams county young men were sent ‘to Indianapolis this morning by the Adams county selective service board. One group of four was dispatched for active induction into the United States the other contingent of 11 men was sent for physical examinations prior to active duct ion. Those who reported for active induction, all volunteers, were Donald Selking. Franklin Paul Becker, Leroy Daniel Robert Werling and Kenneth Leroy Schueler. Members of. the contingent sent for physical examinations were: Walter Wayne Bertsch, Sherman Wesley Nyffler, Charted Edward Kaehr, Robert Frederick Sprunfter, Walter Leßoy Graber, Stanley J. .QkUogljr, . BielliWd. , DuaSJUSeiner, Wesley Harold Milter, Glen Delbert Stratum Kenneth Roy Isch and Benjamin Neuenschwander.

Expresses Concern On Navy Reduction Democratic Solon Seeks Explanation WASHINGTON UP A Demo-g-ratlc congressman today called on the administration to explain its Sffiiysterlous formula” for gearing the nation’s defenses to a possible. Red attack while cutting ground and sea strength. Rep. Olin iE. Teague D-Tex expressed “deep concern" about the administration's "new look” mili.tary planning as the- navy announced it will put 50 ships in mothballs as a result of defense spending cuts in the fiscal year beginning July 1. Teague, a purple heart combat infantry officer in World War 11, compared the administration’s defense plans to former defense secrteary Louis Johnson's military cutbacks before the start of the Korean war. He wanted to know If the administration has information it hasn’t passed along to con|gress£. about a lessening of the Communist threat. Teague questioned the cut in naval strength and said the United States has been “repeatedly warned” of the rapidly growing Russian stgmiarine fleet. 4 "irt the face of a drastically reduced naval anm. what solution is being advanced In the new look to deal with this growing threat to our naval superiority?” he asked. The navy cut is In line with the ' wk ‘oeonl ?p the “new look” military planning under which the nation's global defense strategy will be geared to greater emphasis on atomic weapons and with less emphasis on a large standing army and conventional land and sea weapons. Navy secretary Robert B. Am Turn To Pace fSiKkt- ——• • Judge Murdered On Bench By Gunman Suspected Revenge LiStlnvestigated .WARREN, Pa. UP — An electrician who pumped two fatal bullets into a judge during a court session and then shot himself may have planned to kin seven superior court judges, it w’as revealed today. A suspected “revenge list” was investigated as the slayer, Norman Moon, 26, lay critically wounded with a self-inflicted bullet wound in the neck. He turned his .45 caliber pistol on himself at the end of a 10-mile chase by state police Wednesday aft er he shot —J udge Allison D. - Wade 51, in the latter’s courtroom and fled. Deputy superior court prothonotary Helen Steel said in Pittsburgh that Moon came to her Jan. 4 and demanded the names and addresses of seven superior court judges who refused his appeals from a wife support payment order issued by Judge (Wade. The judge ordered Moon, in 1952, to pay hie estranged wife, Janet, S3O a week for support on grounds he had deserted her. Judge Wade prepared to sentence Moon for failure to observe the order when the shooting occurred. Previously he tyad warned Moon, after an appellate court upheld his. decision, that failure to pay would make him liable to imprisonment for an indefinite period. •Moon pulled the automatic pistol from his pocket just as Judge Wade was about to pronounce sentence. He fired twice at district attorney Myer Kornreich. The dis-, trlct attorney dashed from the' courtroom on the second floor of Warren county’s two story, red brick courthouse. Aa Kornreich. .ran, .'Moon turned., the gun on Judge Wade, who struggled to his feet and thrust a (Continued on Pnge Five) .

Prospect For Korean Peace Talks Fading Insist Retraction By Reds On |nsult To United States PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — Prospects for an early resumption of Korean peace conference talks faded today as the United Nations insisted on a Communist retraction of an insult against the United States. Liaison officers of both sides held their first meeting since the Allies broke off the talks Dec. 12, but failed to make progress. A second meeting was set for 11 a.m. Friday, 9 p.m. EST Thursday. Kenneth Young, U. S. state department Far East expert, said the first liaison meeting was “pretty inconclusive" and predicted several sessions would be held before an agreement was reached. U. N. liaison officer Edward Martin told North Korean representative Ku-Man-Sun the Reds must apologize for charging that the United Stages helped South Korea free' 27,000 anti-Communlst North Koreans or U. N. negotiators Arthur H. wobld not return to Korea. Young waited in a nearby hut while Martin met with the Communists in a mud and straw building on the truce line. Communist newsmen said Martin suggested holding the first session in secrecy in order to discuss the “correction” of the insult but that Ku refused. Ku then proposed reopening of the preliminary talks Saturday, but Martin declined to reply. It was believed,/however, that Young and Martin had received instructions to make a compromise, but neither would reveal what “correction” of the record of talks between Dean and the Communists meant. Recent 5 reports from Washington indicated, however, that the Unlt<Turn To Paa* Fl»e» Congressman Adair Protests Contract Opposes Generator Contract To British WASHINGTON — (Special) — U. S. Rep; E. Ross Adair today called the action of secretary of army Robert T. Stevens and the U. S. army corps of engineers in awarding a contract for two large electric generators to a British and asked that the bid of the General Electric be reconsidered. The Indiana congressman pointed out that even though the British firm’s bid was "somewhat lower" than the GE’s that the military leaders had failed to take into consideraUon the importance of maintaining industrial strength at home in* case of any future emergency. He said that he favored implementing, the military arm as economically as possible, but that it was a “short-sighted policy to award the contract to the British firm for a bookkeeping savings of approximately $600,000 when the manufacture of the generators abroad would mean the loss of a fnililon dollar's in taxes to the government and a $600.00 employment for 500 men here in the United States. , Adair said that the army was not looking out for the best interest of the nation by awarding this contract to a foreign firm. . _ Jh case of a future emergency, he added, “we must depend upon the industrial manpower, knowhow. and Ingenuity of such firms as General Electric to do the job, less of- employment and tax revenue will weaken rather than strengthen this (nation's defense (Turn To Paso Six;

Candidate « hl dfek Lewis L. Smith Smith Is Candidate For Prosecutor Seeks Renomination On Democrat Ticket Lewis L. Smith, (Decatur attorney and prosecuting attorney for the 26th judicial district today announced his candidacy for renomlnation to' that post, subject to the decision of Democrat voters in the May primary election. Smith is starting the second year of his first term as prosecutor and In that short time has achieved an enviable record in the office. The candidate is a 1942 Indiana law school graduate and on two occasions his law practice has been interrupted *>y army service; first in World War H and later when he was recalled for another stretch of a year to 1950. Smith is married and he and Mrs. Smith and their two sons, reside on South Winchester street. He is a member Os the First Presbyterian church; Scottish Rite and Masonic lodges; Loyal Order of Moose and Elks. He also is a member of Adams Post, American Legion and has (been active in the organization of the Adams county Jefferson club. He also has served as Democrat precinct committeeman. Smith has been a , ''BWWbeT”"fCT""‘seveTal”"’yCTMi'” , cf'“'tnO“ Decatur Lions club. For 10 years the candidate has been active in local and state legal circles. IHe tea member of the Adams county, Indiana and American bar associations and has been admitted to practice in the Indiana Appellate and Supreme and the United States Supreme courts. He is a director of the Indiana Law Enforcement Institute. His service in the armed forces was in connection with the intelligence division and during his two times'in the army he gained wide and useful experience in connection with law enforcement. Smith is a member ot the law firm of DeVoss, Smith and Macklin. He said that if successful in (.Continued on Face Five) . Noblesville Man Commits Suicide NOBLESVILLE, Ind., (UP) — Herschel McLiney, 52, operator of a nursing home for the aged, killed himself , with a shotgun Wednesday night a few hours after his wife filed suit for divorce. The . family lived at Alexandria until two or three years ago. South Bend Woman is Killed By Auto SOUTH BEND, UP —Miss Violet Jones, 46, South Bend, died Wednesday in Memorial Hospital of injuries suffered when she was hit by a driverless automobile Sunday. . p The car collided with another at a city street Intersection, .throwing .driver.. Joseph Brytewskl, 62, South Bend, tp the pavement. The empty car. out of control struck taisa Jones..

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More Benefits For All Asked By Eisenhower l Would Hike Taxes Maximum Os sl2, Broaden Coverage WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower asked Congress today to hike social security taxes a maximum of sl2 a year, grant eaverage to XO-milllon more persons, and boost old-age and survivors benefits for all. Chairman Daniel A. Reed R-N.Y. of the house ways and means committee, which originates social security legislation, immediately introduced bills to carry out the President’s recommendations. The President said in a special message that his alm is to “reduce both the fear and the incidence of destitution to the minimum." “The human problems of individual citizens are a proper and important concern of our government.” Mr. Eisenhower said. He asked congress for "early and favorable consideration” of his program, which would: 1. Increase old age and survivors ’nsurance benefits for all by an amount te be determined under a- - formula which Jbealth, education and welfare secretary Oveta Culp Hobby will unveil later. The present minimum individual benefit is $25 a month; the maximum SBS a month. 2. Increase the wage base on which employes and employers pay social security taxes from $3,500 to $4,200 a year. This would affect some 15-million persons, permitting them to contribute more to the insurance program, thus increasing ■heir ultimate benefits. Persons normitting.tbem to contribute more to the insurance program, thus ucreaslng their ultimate benefits. Persons earning $4,200 or more thus would pay SB4 a year, and sl2 more than the $72 they now pay. 3. Add 10-million persons—such as self-employed professional people—to the 70-mlllion now covered. <. Liberalise the “retirement test.” A beneficiary now loses his nayment for any month in which he earns more than $75 in wages. Under a formula proposed by the .EwsMm a. a S2OO-a-month job for five months without losing any federal payments for those months. 5. Compute benefits on a “fairer basis.” The four lowest years of earnings would be eliminated from the computation, thus increasing the benefit. The program also would give added protection to the benefit rights of totally disabled persons. 6. Revise the system under which the federal government contributes a maximum of $55 a month to public assistance payments made by states. The federal share in such aid for needy ased, dependent children, and blind persons would be calculated on the state’s per capita income. And the $55 federal maximum would be put on an average rather than individual basis, balancing high payments in cases of acute need against low payments where the need is,less. ——— The President declared determination to preserve the social security system’s “basic principles” — contributions by both worker and employer and payment of benefits “related in part to the individual's earnings.” This appeared to be a slap ,at a "proposal by Rep. Carl T. Curtis R-Neb. for a minimum payment CTwra T« Pace Kiaht) Three Families Are Driven Out By Fire INDIANAPOLIS UP — Fire swept through a duplex early today. forcing three families, including six children, into a snowstorm. William Smith, 26. saved his 2-year-old son, Kenneth Ray, by tossing him from a second-story porch- root into tha arms of a firstfloor occupant, Robert Smith, 38. The blaze was blamed on defec- » tive wiring in a first-floor hallway.