Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 36.

Study Plan To Further Help To Indochina Additional Steps Studied To Bolster Fight Against Reds WASHINGTON, VP — The administration Is considering additional steps Short of direct inter vention to bolster the French tight against the. Communists in Indo* china, informed sources revealed today. They said two proposals being studied call tor increased emphasis on the delivery of plgnes requested by France and the dispatch of a top-level military mission to take a hand in planning French strategy. - Another possible move believed to be under consideration is a naval blockade to try to stem some of the flow of weapons and equipment from Communist China to the Viet Minh rebels. America's chief military planning feels the west absolutely cannot afford to let Indochina fall, it was reliably reported, and that the United States can take various measures short of war to prevent this from happening. < Defense officials confirmed that Korean President Syngman Wtee has suggested he might send onKof his American-trained divisions to, help out the beleagued FrenchrVietnam forces. Two pemocratic senators—John J. Sparkman (Ala.) and John C. Stennis (Miss.) — warned that such a move would be an open invitation to the Communists to resum* tie war 1b Korea. Gen. John' E. Hull, commander of U. S. Far Eastern forces, said , after a White House call Thursday that there would be "certain advantages*' in the idea and that it would “not necessarily" bring new fighting in Korea. But in the Pentagon there was doubt whether the move would be worth the risk of weakening the Allied position in Ktfrea. Sparkman also mdde this point. State department officials frowned, saying it might send 'Red China troops into Indochina. America's role in the growing ■ Indochina cflsls is now being reviewed by a special committee headed by deputy defense secretary Roger M- Keyes and undersecretary of state Walter Bedell smith. . Army Unchanged On Closing Atterbury No Reconsideration On Closure Decision WASHINGTON UP — Army undersecretary John Slezak notified Indiana members of congress today that the army will stand by its decision to close Camp Atterbury and move the 31st division to Camp Carson, Colo. Indiana congressional and civic delegation urged Slexak last month to reconsider the plan. They contended that politics figured in the decision to move the 31st division to Colorado and there were suggestions that congress would take another look at army construction funds. Slezak said in a letter to Sens. Homer Capehart and William E. Jenner and Reps. Earl Wilson and William G. Bray, all Republicans, that the army has decided' Camp Atterbury "is not required as a permanent facility but is necessary for retention on a standby (Cantlaard on Pace Elsht) ~ Miss Marlene Laurent On Staff Os Democrat Miss Marlene Laurent, former newspaper reporter for the Zanesville, O. News, today became employed by the Daily Democrat as a general reporter. Miss Laurent also will do feature writing and special events writing. o The Democrat's new reporter is a former Decatur resident and a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school. Nine Youths Leave For Armed Service Names o! the nrne Adams county young menjwho left at 6 a.m. today for Indianapolis and induction into army sepifce, have been announced by the selective service board. They include Edward Frederick A- Marbach, Alvin LaVerne Ringger, Robert Charles Farrar, Kenneth Roy Isch, Louis Bertrand Laurent, Robert William Gase, Norman Edward Pollock. Max Thomas Meyers and Avon Dwight Scott.

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IN A CHICAGO POLICE STATION following finding of her murdered daughter's body, Mrs. Julia Wawrzyniak and her husband Henry, give way to their grief as the 15-year-oid high school girl’s slayer (bottom), breaks down during the inquest. The killer. Lee Parker, 20-year-old ne'er do well, admitted he strangled Corrine Baldwin and dumped her body in a Chicago alley. He told police he had an “urge to kill” and strangled the girl after picking her up at a drug store where she was employed until late at night.

Ike Leads In U. S. Homage For Lincoln Eisenhower Places Wreath At Base Os Statue Os Lincoln WASHINGTON. UP —President Eieenhower paid homage to Abraham Lincoln today, 145 years after the founder of the modern Republican party was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. , The present GOP leader placed a wreath at the base of the ( massive, white statue of a brooding Lincoln to highlight a brief, solemn ceremony in the marble memorial overlooking the Capitol, Immediately after the ceremony. Mr. Eisenhower took off from National Airport for Thomasville, Ga.. ■where he will spend Saturday quail hunting on the plantation of treasury secretary George M. Humphrey. * Following a precedent he set las year, Mr. Eisenhower set the wreath at the foot of the great emancipator’s statue. In the past, presidents had stood at attention while aides laid the wreath. For the first time, the Sons of the Confederate Veterans participated in the exercises honoring the Civil War president. They were invited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, their northern counterpart. Accompanying Mr. Eisenhower on his southern trip were Hum phrey. Cliff Roberts, an old friend from'New York and' Augusta, Ga., ondpress secretary James —C: Hagerty. The President is expected to return here by late Sunday afternoon. Trek To Tomb SPRINGFIELD, IU?, (UP)—The. notion today honored martyred President Abraham Lincoln on the l(4sth anniversary of his birth. Led by a representative of President Eisenhower, hundreds Os persons made pilgrimages to the tomb near here where, Lincoln’s body is enshrined. Activity in Springfield, heart of the country -which calls itself the "Land of Lincoln,” came almost' to a halt for the holiday. All state, county and city offices, banks and most businesses closed for the day to honor the Great Emancipator. The day is marke' witty more notice here than the birthday pf« George Washington Feb. 22. Army Lt, Col’. .Leonard C. Cooke laid the wreath at the tomb for Mr. Eisenhower, accompanied by officers and men from she navy, marine corps and air force. Other organizations making tfaditiional visits to the tomb in Oak (Continued on Page Four)

Annual C. C. Dinner Held Last Evening Small Towns Lauded By Dwight Peterson The foundation of a great and strong America lies in its small communities, “such as Decatur”, J. Dwight Peterson, president of City Securities Corp., Indianapolis, and a native son of Decatur, told an enthusiastic Chamber of Commerce audience at the Moose home last evening. The occasion was the 24th annual banquet of the Chamber, attended by 350 .men and women. In a sense it was a home-coming for the successful Indianapolis securities executive and educational leader, who refers to Decatur as “his home town.” An honored guest at the (banquet was .Mr. Peterson's mother, Mrs. Olive Peterson of this, city. Having observed her birthday anniversary Wednesday, the crowd stood and sang “Happy Birthday” to her. Installed as president of the Chamber of Commerce was Ronald Parrish, manager of the Bellmont Trucking Co, Twelve direci tors also were inducted in office. In sounding the keynote for this year’s activities, the president said, *lMore in ’6'4”. Robert (Heller, local realtor and a former member of the Indiana general assembly, was toastmaster. He introduced guests and the Chamber of Commerce officers and presented the speaker. Operas Are Presented Romance and the thrill of song were entertaining features of the outstanding program. Topping off the highly encouraging view of the speaker oir- the future of smal 1 towns, students of Indiana University's school of music sang arias from two old operas. Directed by Wolfgang Vacana, the studentactors also presented a comic skit, “The Telephone”. Act two from “Der iFreiscliutz” and act three of “Der Rosencavalier.’ were sung by the cast, to the delight and hearty applause of the audience. Live In Great Country Mr. Peterson reminisced for a moment in his talk, mentioning Decatur school teachers and several local business leaders who encouraged and helped him as a boy and in his financial career. A graduate of Decatur high school, with the philosophy of the “home town' always, in hfc blood stream, Mr. Peterson said: “This is a great country. Many things have contributed to the progress of America 'but perhaps no other one thing has contributed more throughout the years than the building of strong, substantial, small communities throughout the nation. “There are many which have contributed to • the progress we have made in this country dur- ( Continue* on Pace Hight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 12, 1954.

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Craig Aiming For Capehart Senate Seal Craig's Friends See Senate Goal Os Governor Craig INDIANAPOLIS UP — Governor Craig’s goal in the Indiana Republican factional fight is to take U. S. Sen. Homer E. Capehart's seat in Craig's friends said today. At the same time, the Craig faction served notice it will not oppose bids of three state officials for re-election. The three afe aligned with Capehart and Sen. William E. Jenner against Craig. Even when Craig ran for governor, it was speculated he had hiseye on Capehart's senate seat. But the governor's friends said Craig did not definitely decide to oppose Capehart until little more than a week ago. His decision, they said, was prompted by a Jenner-Capehart “d’ouble-cross' when they booted out Craig-man Noland C. Wright as Republican state chairman and I replaced him with Paul Cyr. Craig said he was not consulted

and terhied the ouster a, "cwd d’etat.” ' Since then, Craig took obvious strides to oppose state headquarters. He attacked Cyr's political speeches to statehouse workers as “bad politics and bad manners.” Most recently, he approved establishment of a campaign fund independent of the state committee. William E Sayer, Craig's administrative assistant who handles the governor’s patronage, blessed the candidacies of three GOP state officials for re-election today. He said the Craig faction will ' not oppose secretary of state Crawford Parker, treasurer John Peters 1 or superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young. Another leader in the Craig faction, Marion county clerk H. Dale Brown, added that the Craig forces did want to select the Repub- ' lican nominee for state auditor. ' That nominee would seek to succeed Frank M Illis, who cannot seek i the office again this year. • -- Brown said Parker, Young and Peters “have done a good job . . . f There is no reason we should op- . pose them.” i On Craig running Tor senator, ; one of his friends explained it this (Coattnued on Purr El«ht» Television Sets For County Home Firemen, Lodges Provide Two Sets Both men and women residents at the Adains county hoh>e can tow enjoy television programs with the Installation of a second television set through the efforts of the Decatur volunteer firemen and ' the coperation of seven Decatur lodges, Uhrick Brother? and Smith Scrap Iron Co. Several weeks , ago the firemen purchased a new set tor their own quarters and installed their other set? at the county home. Later, the firemen learned that the men and women had separate lounge quarters at the county home. The members contacted the seven lodges including the American Legion, Moose, Knights of Columbus, Elks, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Eagles and Disabled American Veterans and obtained sufficient money to purchase a second set for the home. Uhrick Brothers furnished the set A the group at cost and Smith i Scrap Iron Co. furnished material , for the aerial. The firemen did the installation work and now both the i men and women can enjoy the programs tn their own lounges. , Joe Mcßride, member of the fire , department, was assisted in his fund raising work by other firemen and O. W. P. Macklin.

• ■>' ■- - —....— Food Stamp Plan To Aid Nation’s Needy Legislation To Be Submitted To House WASHINGTON UP —Mrs. John B. Sullivan D.-Mo. proposed a “food stamp" plan today to distribute up to one billion dollars worth of government-owned food surpluses to needy families. ’ Mrs. Sullivan said it was “absurd and tragic" to let “mountains” of surpluses pile up while families in need or tin relief “struggle along on less than a minimum diet and iiY some cases actually go hungry.” She planned to offer legislation to get the food out of government storage and into hungry stomachs, gens. George D. Aiken R.-Vt. and Hubert H. Humphrey D.-Minn. have introduced, a similar bill *n the senate. Mrs. Sullivan’s bill would authorize the secretary of agriculture to issue food stamps to state 4R- local welfare agencies. These agencies would turn the stamps in for government-held food stocks which would be distributed to eligible needy families. 1 Department of agriculture offiJeials. meanwhile, played down the kignificancei of growing government give-away of surpluses to scattered areas of unemployment

suffering throughout cqjib try. s Although the department has made no announcement, reporters learned that since mid-January 12 states have requested government surplus food stocks for relief purposes. Five have already received aid. Food shipments in carload lots already ate moving to Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania. Missouri and Wyoming for unemployed coal miners and farm laborers. The shipments Include dried milk, butter, cheese and in some cases canned beef and gravy, i - A spokesman said the relief operation is so tar considered a “small Bcale"~affair. No accurate figures on volume of food shipped or number of recipients are yet available. Mrs. Sullivan estimated 5,000 farm workers are unemployed in Missouri. Sketchy department figures indicate West Virginia has the largest number of needy—•sl,ooo. Three Governors To Make Tour Os Korea To Visit Korea On Ike's Invitation By UNITED PRESS : *fhree state governors, members of the executive council of the governors’ conference, said today they would go to Korea soon at President Elsenhower's invitation to take a first-hand look at the situation there. Three other governors said they were forced to-turn down invitations, a third had not made up his mind and another had not received his invitation.The three state executives going are Govs, John S. Fine of Penn«vlvania, Dan Thornton of Colorado and Johnston Murray of Oklahoma. s (3ov. Robert Kennon of Louisiana said./'I have received preliminary notice from Frank Bane, secretary of the council of state governments,” but added, "I have made no definite plans one way or another." Gov. Lawrence W. Wetherby of Kentucky, a member of the executive council, said jie bad not yet received ap invitation. Govs. John D. Lodge of Connecticut and Frank J. Lausche of Ohio said they could not go because of pressing business within their states. Gov. William S. Beardsley of lowa, also turned down an invite tion. Mr. Eisenhower suggested that Thornton, chairman of the gov(Coatlaoeg on Page Eight)

Housing Plan Is Outlined Io Congress 'New Look' Housing Plan Presented By Pres. Eisenhower WASHINGTON —President (Eisenhower ’today presented congress with the detailed plans of his “qew look”- housing program designed to help all 'Americans live in better homes. The President placed special emphasis in his program on encouraging all Americans — from those living in slums in those in well-to-do residential suburbs ;■ — to buy their own homes. The program includes a special “experimental” plan to help lowincome families (buy homes costing up to <B,OOO for as little a S2OO down payment. The government \would guarantee 100 per cent of the 40-year ' mortgage. These homes, however, would be limited to families “displaced" by slum clearance projects. It also would “liberalize” present federal housing authority mortgage terms and increase allowable FHA mortgage coverage to $20,000.

Jfh> Prertdeut would tbe. givgn “discretionary” power to cut downpayment requirements on all FHAguarantede homes to 5 per cent and Increase the mortgage terms to 30 years. The details of the President’s housing program were spelled out in identical hills introduced in congress today. Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott R-Mich o fthe house banking committee and chairman Homer E. Capehart R-Ind. of the senate 'banking committee introduced the administration 'bills in their respective chambers. Included in the program is a broad and perhaps far reaching program of slum rehabilitation and prevention. It provides five million dollars for cities and towns to conduct experiments “on new and improved techniques for preventing and eliminating slums.” It also requests authority to loan cities and towns 700 million dollars to carry out slum prevention programs. Another 250 million dollars would be made available for outright grants to cities for this work. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; not; quite so cold north tonight, warmer Saturday. Low tonight 15-22, high Saturday 35-40 north, 40-48 south. Jobless Pay Claims Over 70,000 Mark Fourth Week In Row Above 70,000 Mark INDIANAPOLIS Us» — The ranks of the unemployed claiming job insurance payments topped the 70,000 mark for the fourth week in a row. the Indiana employment security division reported. Director William C. Stalnaker said 73,035 claims last week included 2.631 from jobless Korean; War veterans. The claims of Korean veterans were included for the first time in the Hoosier totals, because the federal government reimburses the state for such payments. However, Stalnaker added, the number of Korean vets out of work “has been growing steadily in recent weeks.” The claim total was more than 53,000 higher than that for the corresponding week in 1953, and more than 20 per cent above a Comparable period in 1949. .Conditions in the Muncie area improved with settlement of a labor dispute. But at New Castle ' and Kokomo, claims climbed due to -automotive plant layoffs. Ordnance industry force reductions in the New Albany area. ,

Knowland Refuses Comment On Jenner Personally Opposes Partisan Attacks WASHINGTON, (UP) — Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland. Calif., said today “you can’t draw party lines” in politics on the basis of patriotism. Knowland told reporters that “personally. I've never gone in for blanket indictment of the Democratic party as an organization.” The Republican leader refused, however, to comnfhnt on a speech in which one of his colleagues. Sen. William E. Jenner, R-Ind., asserted that the Truman administration sent U. S. troops into Korea With the object of having them defeated by the Communists. Jenner made the charge Thursday night at Columbus, Ind. Knowland said he had not seen -the speech and would not comment on it or on any other speeches being made by Republican Lincoln Day orators. "Every person who makes a speech has to assume his own responsibility,” Knowland said. President Eisenhower Wednesday rejected the notion that all Democrats are tinged with treason, counseled members of his administration against extreme per-

tUansbip, and said he- hoped Republican national comtaittem would follow his example of po31f o 1 A 1 ore~ .-' '. ' ■' ~ titTcat tolerance. Jenndr said the fair dealers with the aid of Communists drove real Democrats out Os party control and sent to Korea American troops which were “supposed to be defeated.” - Jenner was prepared to expound his charges in a speech prepared for later in the day at Jeffersonville, Ind. Sen. Guy M. Gillette, D-lowa, said today that speeches like Jenner's “are so viciously unreasonable that they will fall of their weight.” “In the long run the people will hold them inthe contempt they have drawn upon themselves,” Gillette said of Republicans like (Continued on Powe Five) Single Small Tab For 1955 Plates Reflecting Paint To Be Used Here INDItA NAPOLIS UP — Indiana’s 1955 license plate -will be a single small taib carrying red numbers on a white background painted with a reflectorized “safety paint,” the bureau of motor vehicles announced today. Commissioner 'Morris J. Carter said county prefiv letters will not be used but instead the single tags will be numbered from 1 to 2,300,000. He said because the paint is ussd, tabs attached Lo a rear license plate will be visible for 500 feet as an added safety factor. The tags will harmonize with 1954 large license plates, which are in reverse color. This year’s plates are maroon with white numerals. In years, county prefix numbers were added and two tabs were used instead of one. The letter prefixes were eliminated to simplify law enforcement, Carter said. There has been confusion frequently concerning whether a policeman was listing original large plate numbers or a later-year tag when making a report. The number will foe for audit purposes Only. Carter said the tabs, beihg manufactured at the Indiana state prison, will cost 1.1 cents more for one than two of the old kind. But officials felt the safety paint was worth the added cost. The bureau hopes to use a similar single tag arrangement on cars and trucks In 1956 unless the 1955 State Legislature decides otherwise.

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Dulles Issues Challenge To Soviet Russia Austrian Foreign Minister Appeals To World Leaders BERLIN, (UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles challenged Russia today to sign an Austrian independence treaty "here and now.” Addressing Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov at a plenary session of the Big Four foreign minister conference, Dulles called on the Russians to sign the tieaty and thus end the “long and shabby story of delay, disillusion and lack of candor” —a lack of candor by the Kremlin. Austrian foreign minister Leopold Figi had appealed eloquently to the foreign ministers to sign a treaty that would give back to his tiny country the independence it lost when Nazi Germany seized it in 1938. Dulles responded to the appeal by saying: “The Austrian problem does not simply call for eventual solution. It cries aloud for immediate solu-

tion matter what measure of i politics or economies or humanity. <-r International decency is applied to it.” * Molotov, whose government has obstructed the Austrian treaty ever since the end of the war, preceded Dulles. He merely proposed that deputies of the Big Four foreign ministers draft a "final” treaty text within three months. The deputies had been trying to do just that for seven years. Molotov proposed also to keep occupation troops tn Austria until a German peace treaty is signed, "in order to prevent any attempt at a new anschlus»”the German word for the "union” in. whose name Adolf Hitler seized Austria. Molotov did propose that occupation troops be withdrawn from Vienna, the capital, whenever the . Allied control commission for Austria might be abolished. That would leave ViemrS still ringed by the Red army. To make Austria -by treaty, a sovereign and independent state again, would lead to “a true relaxation of tension in international relatfons and the preservation of ‘ security in Europe,' Figi said. The foreign ministers held the plenary meeting this afternoon, after meeting in secrecy for 90 minutes this morning on the situation in the Far East. No agreement was reached at the secret session on the Allied attempts to get the 'Communists started on Korean peace talks or on getting Soviet Russia to ask Red China to stop supplying the Viet Minh Communist rebels in Indochina. But well informed sources said that some agreement might yet be reached on the Korean and Indochinese issues. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov was reported still holding out for a Big Five conference including Red China on all world issues. The Western Allies want separate, strictly limited conferences on Korea and Indochina. Well-informed sources said secretary of s'ate John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Bidault have advanced two proposals in secret sessions: 1. A conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Korea with Communist China. South and North Korea represented. 2. A separate conference on Indochina. Molotov was reported to have continued to evade a direct reply tc the Allies on Korea and Indochina at today's secret meeting. But Western sources said discussions had not been ended and another secret session would be necessary. ■-