Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1954 — Page 2

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New Commission To 1 Study Stite Affairs Columbus Member Named Chairman INIDTANIAPOIJS UP — Indiana’* new “Little Manion* coman is si on delved into state government’e shortcomings today at request of Governor Craig. The cdtrifniasion, whit'h site- “ ceaded the "Little Hoover" c®nmittton, met Monday to organize and named Earl B. Pulses Cohim- I but, as chaiHnah. Craig challenged the commission o< 14 to consider government’s "sins” instead of Its accomplishments and recommend to the legislature Indiana’s needs. Another meeting was set for Feib. 24 to study highways, unampolyment compensation and disaster relief and discuss action on state and national levels. The commission, similar to the national intergovernmental relatione commission headed by Clarence F. Manion of South Bend, former dean of the University of Notre Dame laiw school, will consider overlapping of federal and state functions and methods of re-

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! dating and combining state functkMte. Craig said Indiana Is In ‘healthy” financial condition with a general fund surplus which might reach 82 million dollars by the end of the present fiscal year. He said before relief to cities and towns is considered, the state should direct more attention to health and corrections departments and highway safety and construction of a 15 million dollar wtate office building to ease crowding at the statehouse. Automobile Damaged By Hit-Run Driver Ah automobile owned by Clarence Miller, Monroe route 1, and parked at Si 8 High street, was struck and badly damaged by a hit and run driver Monday night about 11 o'clock. Damage was estimated at about $350. Police dre working on severe! elites tn an effort to find the offender. A piece of a late model aiitomoibile was found near the mishap and it is believed that it was torn off the offender’s car. Less than Iff percent of the world flax crop is used for making linen. Most of the acreage is seed flax, grown for the manufacture

Ernest Hemingway Jokes Os Good Luck Only Slightly Hurt In Pair Os Crashes ENTEBBE, Uganda, UP — Ernest Hemingway nursed a sore arm. a split head and a flock of mostyrito bites today and wisecracked about the good luck which brought him through two weekend Jungle plane crashes with minor injuries. "My luck,” he laughed, “I think she is running very good.” Back in civilization with his fourth wife, the former Mary Welsh of Chicago, who suffered two cracked ribs and an injured leg, Hemingway said he planned to write a book about his current African trip. _ — He also said he planned to fly again as soon as he found another airplane, though he declined to press his luck with a third flight after he survived one plane crash Saturday and another Sunday. Gripping a bottle of gin and a bunch of bananas, Hemingway arrived here by car Monday. Hemingway, his wife and Roy Marsh, pilot of a plane they chartered for a flight to Lake Victoria and Lake Albert, escaped when they crash-landed near Murchison Falls Saturday. MMrsh put their light plane down on an elephant track through thick scrub rather than risk a_landing on a sandpit inhabited by crocodiles. It wasn’t the big game that bothered them most, but the millions of mosquitoes—and his wife’s snoring—Hemingway said. He Joshingly said his wife’s snoring attracted elephants as they camped overnight near the wreckage on the banks of the upper Ntte. — “We held our breaths about two hours while an elephant 12 paces away was silhouetted in the moonlight, listening to my wife’s snores,” Hemingway said. Mrs. Hemingway smiled weakly. “And when we woke her,” the author said with a wave of the gin bottle, “she said, ’I never snore. You’ve got a fixation about it.’ “I replied, ’So has the elephant.’ " „ .An egg. is. About. 13. percent water. If you have-something to sell er ■wm -fov -rent, try. a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Evangelist Pat Henry Here Wednesday Night Evangelist Pan Henry will be at the Missionary church Wednesday night for a one-night gospel service. The service will begin at 7:30. Rev. Henry became well known in this community and won many friends during the community tent meetings Which he held here last August. The public is invited to attend this special oervice. Father Convicted In Diving Death Man Convicted On Manslaughter Charge MIAMI, Fla., UP — Wssell Tongay’s attorney today planned an appeal from the 10-year prison sentence Tonkay received in connection with the death of his swimming star daughter. The 36-year-old ex-coast guardsman was found guilty of manslaughter Monday. He was convicted of making his 5-year-old daughter, Kathy, perform a hightower dive last May 6 which allegedly caused her death. ' . ■ j - Kathy and her 9-year-old brother, Bubba, gained international fame aS the "Aquatots” with their swimming feats which included long distance jaunts in the Mississippi River. Tongay was freed on $5,000 bond after several hours in Jail and immediately went into seclusion. His slender blonde wife refused to see anyone today and the couple did not answer telephone calls at their home here. It took the six-man circuit court Jury, which included five fathers, only 52 minutes to return a guilty verdict and Judge Ben Willard fixed Tongay’s sentence at 10 years at hard labor. The sentence failed to shake Tongay’s stole calm. But-Mrs. Tongay, who appeared as chief defense witflfcss, wept. Defence attorney Louis Jepeway described the verdict "as a shockeveryone was surprised.” He indicated he would appeal the sentence and was granted four days in which to ready an appeal Mrs. Tongay. who took the stand Monday before the case went to the Jury, testified "It was as natural for Kathy to dive as for another child to walk around a pool. I knew everything the children were doing. I was very happy and proud.” Prosecut ion witnesses, including expert swimming instructors, had testified, however, that the blonde little girl never hit the water correctly while diving from the high tower. Dr. Robert Poppiti of Miami told the court that the type of injury Kathy suffered —an -autopsy disclosed she died of a ruptured intestine and complications — "was most likely due to some other ■ trauma blow than from a dive — ; a kick, an auto accident or falling i against a chair.’ ! Tongay. a former swimming instructor, once sought permission to have Kathy arid Bubba swim the English Channel but was turned down after a storm of protest. ■ 1 Inpan Bus Accident Kills 11 Persons TOKYO UP — A bits Slridrfed off an ley road today and plunged 20 feet in# a river bed, killing at least 11 persons aboard, and injuring 21, police said.

Prisoners Stage Press Conference United Press Men Banned By Reds PANMUNJOM UP — Pro-Com-munist prisoners staged a “press conference” today for a group of United Nations newsmen selected by the Communists. The 347 prisoners, including 21 Americans and a Briton, marched from their compound on the northern side of the demilitarised zone to the "peace pagoda” in Panmunjpm where the Korean armistice was signed. The conference was arranged by Communist correspondents Alan Winnington of the London Dally Worker, -and Wilfred Burchett of the Paris newspaper L-Hutnanite, who specifically banned United Press reporters and photographers. The United Press has been the object of frequent abuse by the Communist Peiping Radio. United Press correspondents also frequently clashed in heated arguments with Winnington and Burchett when U.N. and Red correspondents were in contact during Korean truce negotiations. Also uninvited to the "conference” were the British news agency Reuter and the French Agence France Presse. Represented at the conference were the American news agencies Associated Press and International News Service and the National Broadcasting Co." Also present was a correspondent for the London Daily Express and Indian and Communist newsmen. Winhington and Burchett Issued their invitations to the press conference on Sunday. NBC’s first nominee for the interview. James Robinson, was vetoed by the Reds, aj was George MacArthur the Associated Press’ first choice. Both men are veteran Korean war correspondents. Substitutes named by the two organizations were accepted. The approved newsmen were taken My Winnington and Burcjrett Over a back road that lies entirely in Communist territory, by-passing an American military police check -pelnt on the demarcation Hne- on the road normally used in Panmunjom. • , The “conference” which lasted afrout three hours, came after the United States defense department announced the dishonorable discharge of the 21 Americans. A transcript of the "conference" revealed the Americans made these claims: 1. They are not now Communists. but some of them hope to become Communists. 2. They have asked the Red High command to give theiu the immediate status of civilian "peace fightars.” 3. They ridiculed reports that some among them had been coerced into remaining with the Reds by threats of death from other proQommunist prisoners. 4. They said they knew they would be “prosecuted and pei’secuted” if they returned to the United States, aid that they would not return home until they could “fight for world peace without being persecuted.” ' 5. They denied the Communists had offered them rewards for turning their backs on their honjelaud renouncing the. west. i Sgt. Richard Corden, East Providence. R. 1., was the-principal spokesman for th© group. assisted by Sgt. Larauce V. Sullivan, of Omaha, Neb.

Bad News Piles Up For Ike's Administration Split Over Bricker Amendment Alarms Party's Leaders WASfHIN’GTON UP — Some bad ne*s at home and abroad i» piling up against the Eisenhower administration In the first weeks of an election year session of Congress. The Repuntwen spilt caused by the proposed Bricker amendment to the constitution Is the development whk>h most alarms party leaders. It would limit the president's treaty-making powers. iMr. Eisenhower is making an all-out effort to defeat the amend-' meat in congress and, failing that, he would fight it in the states. The dispue within the party already is angry. If it goes to the senate and house floors for a show-down, this dUpute among Republicans will become bitter, indeed. It is the destructive effect this party fight may have on the business of this entire session that alarms Republican leaders. The amendmen would need a twothirds majority in each house before it could even go* to the states for ratification. The administration probably can beat it in congress. But great harm to party harmony will already have been done if last-minute compromise efforts fail and the debate goes on, as scheduled. There, is bad news on the foreign, fam and labor fronts, perhaps on the money front, as well. The first day’s diepatches from the Berlin Big Four conference of foreign ministers amply contributed to the free world’s anxiety about Soviet Russian intentions. V. M. Molotov rejected proposals advanced by western powers. He made counter proposals, including abandonment of the European defense community idea and requiring acceptance of Red China. The Berlin conference is dead already if the Russians stand pat. Administration foreign .policy ..Is. further hampered by steadily increasing* pontmunist Influence in .Italyto a lesser extent,‘in VrUndS**France, itself, Is close to political bankruptcy for lack of

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26,

Motorist Fined For Running Red Light Ann C. Smith, IS, Decatur, paid a fine of |1 and costs totalling $1'4.76 in Justice of peace court Monday night on a charge of running a red tight. The alleged offense occurred Monday evening at the corner of Thirteenth and Monroe streets. Proyer Band Rally At Dunkirk Sunday The Rev. James R. Meadows of this city will be the principal speaker at a Victory prayer band rally at Memorial Gospel Center, Dunkirk, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, it was announced today. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the prayer band, Os which Rev. Meadows is the founder. Dwight Darr of Bobo will lead the singing, preceding the rally, and Mrs. Darr will preside at the piano. t Baking was regarded as a fine art in ancient Rome when bakers enjoyed high prestige and special privileges. ‘