Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1954 — Page 1

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Political Mud Slinging Grows On Lincoln Day Jenner's Charges Angrily Assailed By Many Derriocrats WASHINGTON UP — Republicans and Democrats slugged angrily at each other today in a freeswinging warmup to the crucial •fall election campaign for control of Congress. GOP Lincoln Day orators pressed their week-long attack on past Democratic administrations. Some Democrats answered the charges. Prom the sidelines, veteran Sen. Walter F. George DGa.. dean of the senate, said there was no stopping the vigorous political infighting that has steadily mounted In intensity. z • ' / •"This is a political year and I don't know what you can do to stop these things," he told reporters. Democrats, already doing a slow turn over Republican attacks linking their party to Communism, tlew up again over a new change by Sen. William IK. Jenner. The Indiana Republican said, in a Lin- / <&>ln Day address in his home state that "Fair Dealers" sent American troops to Korea with the intention of having them defeated. — George refused to ibe drawn into i that one. He said he didn’t know what Jenner meant and added: “He’ll have to do his own interpreting." „ Other Democrats fired back caustically. Hosee Democratic J Whip John W. McCorack Mass., called the charge "disgracefully I false." Sen. John W. Cparkman DAla., called It a "terrible indict- ' ment of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.’’ Republicans marked Abraham Lincoln’s, birthday (Friday night wlth one of their biggest rounds at spaaktag. Their remarks took on added interest in view of President 'Rlseahower’s news conference statement that he takes a dim view | of extreme partisanship. , In Baltimore, Sen. M. i Dirksen R>411., said Democratic 1 complaints against Republican at- t tacks “is another example of New Deal softness." _ - “They stomached Trumatf’s lias," he said, “but If we depart j from dilettante language they rise , in agony." But speaking at the same rally, Republican Gov. Theodore R. Me- . Keldin of Maryland said it was “not Only intemperate but absurd” j to make the party ' ' (Continued oa Pa*e Five)

U. S, Defense Plan Termed Inadequate Texas Congressman Hits Defense Plan WASHINGTON, UP—Rep' Olin E. Teague, D-Tex., said today the “new look” defense plan is inadequate to meet either an all-out atomic clash with Russia or 20 years of Koreas. Teague said that in a global conflict with the Soviet Union ‘‘we could easily have an atomic standoff” and lose the war as a result of Russia’s overwhelming land power.. ’ 5“ ■- ~ And if cold war clashes such as Korea continue, he said, we will have to fight on the ground and in the manner at the enemy’s choosing “unless we choose to initiate atomic wai.’ The administrations pared-down defense budget is geared to more emphasis on atomic and air power and less on ground; forces to ward off aggression. Teague, a World War 'II combat officer, quoted asst, defense secretary Roger M. Kyes as justifying the defense cuts on the ground that “we can no longer afford to prepare for every conceivable kind of war. Teague contended, on the other hand, that failure to provide for every conceivable kind of war frequently has led to defeat. “Needless to say we Will be forced to fight the type of war fqr which we are least prepared, he said In a statement prepared for the congressional record. Teague envisioned first an allout global clash with Russia. Big cities and production centers of both countries would be wrecked at once by atomic botrtbs. Then Russia would send her land armies in "all directions, Teague said, while her submarines harrassed IT. S. shipping. "At this stage, he demanded, “where does our new look concept turn the tide?”

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I ' ■ , , ■ . - - ■ ...A . ‘’'■•'KV-.’’-' ■IIIII R rz. : r t* fin i a du.. HONORING the birthday of the first great Republican Chief Executive. President Eisenhower reverently places a wreath at the base of. the statue of the Great Emancipator in Washington. Following th# ceremony the Chief Executive left for a short vacation In Thomasvllie»4la-

New Arrests Are Expected In Baby Ring 3 Million Dollar Black Market Ring . Exposed In Canada MONTREAL, llP—New arrests In a three-million dollar black market baby ring were expected today as authorities moved quickly to stamp out the "frightful” traffic. Official police sources said the ring had been operating out of Montreal for 10 y«ars and had many ramifications. Doctors, lawyers, nurses and social workers were said to be facing arrest. Early investigation indicated at least 1,000 babies born illegitimately in Montreal had been sold to childless couples in the United States at prices up to $3,000. Most of the infants were said to been sold tp Jewish couples in New York. Others went to points as distant as Chicago, Cleveland and cities in Florida. Ernest Mltler, assistant New York county district attorney who came here to aid in the investigation, said he had personally in-tel-viewed at least 70 couples in New York who admitted buying babies in Montreal. Existence of the ring was exposed by police Friday following the arrest of Herman Buller. 38. a Montreal lawyer. He was caught in a police trap at Dorval airport as he was about to board an airliner with three members of his family for a vacation in Israel. Buller was arraigned in criminal court on a charge of falsifying birth certificates. He was remanded to Feb. 19 for prelimlnary hearing and freed on $2,000 ball, reservations and returned home. The Montreal council of social agencies said it had known for some time about a black market in babies here but was surprised by reports of the “extent of the abuse.” A council spokesman said "frightful irregularities in baby placement’’ had occurred. Mitler estimated the ring’s 10year profits at three-million dollars. He said unwed girls who gave birth to the babies received -only pregnancy expenses "and perhaps SSO to get them on their feet.” The huge fees went virtually intact to the operators of the ring. False birth certificates were eaid to be the key to the ring’s operations. Couples purchasing the babies could take them across the border without difficulty with the false certificates. Police said there were other instances in which the babies were smuggled into the United States in trucks. United Press dispatches from New York recently reported some babies had been sold there for as much as $3,500. Many childless couples face long, heartbreaking delays in trying to adopt children from authorised agencies, the dispatches eaid, and sO turn to black markets.

Lincoln Day Dinner Held Last Evening Congressman Adair Principal Speaker “-Big government can become a fearsome thin g,” Congressman Ross Adair told Republican party members at Friday night’s annual Lincoln haPftaoL,.JHe Pointed but that one of the major alms of the party is to be concerned with the individual rights of citisens. Congressman Adair was tin principal speaker at the dinner which took place in the K of P hall. Guests at the event were introduced by Harry Essex, Adams county Republican chairman and chairman of the fourth district. The speaker commented "The abuses 20 years in accumulation cannot be wiped out overnight.” He continued by pointing to several things accomplished by the GOP during the one year it has been in power. The end of the shooting in Korea was the first accomplishment he mentioned. His second point was the reduction of taxes, set up by a previous congress but made possible by money saved through budget reduction. Adair went on to comment on reduced foreign expenditures. “We’ve begun to think of ourselves," he stated. He continued by pointing out a changed and well-defined foreign policy. According to Adair, the GOP foreign policy says, "We the United States, will keep ourselves strong enough to meet any aggressor . . . We will not sit back if attacked ... but will strike at the heart of th'e enemy.” It is Adair’s opinion that such a strong policy is the only way to avoid a third world war and he thinks that the United States is now further away from that war than for several years. “We have let them know,” he maintained,. “If they start it we’ll be there at the finish.” The campaign to clean up the federal government was another gain noted by the fourth district congressman. He also mentioned the 180,000 less people on the federal payroll, and the trend toward k more balanced division of power between the legislative and executive branches. In the future the congressman sees under the GOP a building of a peaceful America with sound economy, a return to the government “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Entertainment at the GOP event was presented by the Sentimental Four barbershop quartet from Fort Wayne. Lucius Sommers, state senator from Allen county, was a guest at the dinner and gave the opening prayer. Other Republican leaders from area counties who attended included Luther Yager, state representative from Wells and Adams counties?; Kenneth Meyer," Steuben county chairman; Cora Holland, Steuben county vice-chairman; Gene Browand, DeKalb county chairman; Mabie Lyons, DeKalb county vice-chairman; Jim Fifer, Noble county chairman; Corrlne Henn, Noble county vice-chairman, and Honor Harris, Wells county vice-chairman. Noon Edition

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 13, 1954.

West Reacts Angrily To Russian Proposal Neutralizing Austria

President To Ask Exchange Os Atom Data Special Message To Congress To Trade Tactical Knowledge THOMASVILLE, Ga. ~ UP — President Eisenhower will send a special message to congress next week asking special legislation to make possible a greater exchange of tactical knowledge of atomic weapons with American allies, it was announced here today. According to White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, the President's message also will ask tor legislation to encourage the peacetime use of atomic energy in the United states by private enterprise. The message will have no connection with the President’s December proposal to the United Nations for creation of a special U.N. pool of fissionable material and atomic knowledge. Hagerty’s announcement resulted from press inquiries made here where the President is spending the weekend hunting quail. The President’s atomic message, will follow through dn fec3mmendations he sketched briefly in fils January state of the union message. Under present law, the United States, for example, cannot report to the NATO Allies on the results of tests being made to determine the effort of atomic weapons on troops. Hagerty said that in addition to asking a new law to encourage peacetime industrial development of atomic energy, the President would propose amendment of the atomic energy law "to permit our allies to have more tactical knowledge of the use of atomic weapons and their effects so that they, themselves, in their planning with their general staffs can take into account the use of atomic weapons." _ Hagerty did* not know when- Mr, Elsenhower would be ready to ask congress for legislation necessary to American participation in the U. N. atomic pool. Nor did Hagerty know what day next week the current atomic message would be submitted to the house and senate. ■ i Devastating Floods Threatening Italy Nation Threatened By Rain And Snow ROME UP — Rain and melting snow threatened Italy today with devastating f 1 oods. • The Tiber River overflowed its banks north of Rome and a dike of the mighty Po River collapsed Friday night at Stienta, in the Polesine area where 273 persons were drowned in thel96l_floodß.„ Authorities said the Tiber was flowing well below the level of Rome’s ancient streets. The river was expected to rise to 40 feet later today when the crest from th mountains hits Rome. The Tiber’s normal level in Rome during February is only 13 to 17 feet. Traffic was blocked on flooded roads north of Rome when the Tiber poured over its banks in the Marsciano mountain area near Perugia. Heavy crop damage was reported as the muddy swirling Tiber waters spread over €.OOO acres, covering them to a depth of up to three feet. In the north, emergency crews started repair work Immediately on the 20400 t dike which was undermined by waters of the swelling Po River. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 30-35 north, 34-38 south.High Sunday 45-55 north, 50-60 south.

ply Offices Taken Over By Boy Scouts Part Os Observance Os Boy Scout Week Dave Embler took over duties as Boy Scout mayor of the city at 8 a. in. today. A members of Lions troop 62. Dave was elected U> the post by his fellow scouts. Serving under him for the oneday term are Roger Bieberich. Jroop 62, street commissioner: ■ ‘Larry Hoffman, troop 62, city engi- '■ neer ; Stan Alger. Rotary troop 61, ' fire chief; Ronnie Hesher, troop clerk" treasurer; Bill Smith, ■ troop 61, power plant engineer; : Pat Durkin, Legion troop 63, chief of police; Steve Edwards, troop 1 63, power plant ettgineet, " and ’ Steve Sutton, troop 63, superin- : tendent of the water department. ( The youthful city officials reported at 8 a. in. today at the city hall for their duties with the exception of the fire chief, electric plant engineer and street comI missloner who took over their du- [ ties at 7 a. m. at their respective ! points of operation. The project, a part of the nationI al Boy Scout Week observance s here, was planned by Jack Gor- ; ,don, program chairman for the trl-county area which Includes r Adanfs,, Jay and Wells counties. Its purpose is to acquaint Bo? 1 Scouts with the duties of city off 1- ■ cials. Boys taking part will report on their experiences to their 1 respective troops and later at the 1 Scout Jamboree. ’ On the agenda for local ecouts j is a trip to Fort Wayne Feb. 23 to attend, a hockey game at the j Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum. } Reservations have been made for t 100 scouts and the sponsors who t will accompany them to the game. , A buffet supper at the Masonic . home at 6 p. m. will precede |he . trip and the entire group will j leave together. Arrangements for . the event are being planned by . Jack Gordon. t ■ — Eisenhower Enjoys b■' ' ~ j Hunting In Georgia Seeks Legal Limit Os Quail On Hunt THOMASVILLE, Ga. (UP) — President Eisenhower hoped to shoot his legal limit of quail today on the southwest Georgia estate of treasury secretary George M. Humphrey. His chances were good. Quail were plentiful on the 600-acre plantation and the President planned to start out after the small game ( birds early in the morning. —ln less than three hours late Friday afterneon, Mr. Elsenhower 1 shot 10 birds. The daily bag limit r is 12. } He’ll have to make the most ot today, because hunting is illegal in Georgia on Sunday, and the ■ Chief Executive’s schedule called ’ for him to be back in Washington r by late Sunday afternoon. t There was a rumor he might go t tq California some time next week fb? some more time off. but press 1 secretary James C. Hagerty re- } fused to comment on this report. The President has announced bngagements in Washington next Monday and Tuesday. s Mr. Eisenhower’s hunting companions here were the treasury secretary, Cliff Roberts, a golf crony and retired New York investment banker, and W. Walton Jones, board’ chairman of the ’’ Cities Service Co. of New York. In addition to being experienced 3 hunting companions, they also made up a bridge foursome. There was a possibility that if the President bagged the bird limit * iu the mornin, he might play a few holes of golf during the afternoon. But hunting was the top Item on his agenda. As he said Friday afternoon, “Just give me a chance to go shooting and I’m not going to fool around.”

GOP Promises Breakdown On 2,200 Firings Promise To Reveal How Many Os 2,200 Involved Disloyalty WASHINGTON UP —The Eisenhower administration will tell the public how many of the 2,200 “security risk” firings from the government involved disloyalty, Rep. John Taber R-NY disclosed today. "I The decision to. give - a breakdown came after repeated Democratic charges that the Republicans are trying to make political hay by implying that all 2,200 were guilty of treason or disloyalty. Actually, Democrats’ aaid, very few, it any, real subversives were ousted by the administration. Taber, chairman of the house committee, said the breakdown may take three weeks to three months but added "it will come." "R isn’t going to be possible to classify all the firings to suit Demscrats who have been trying to dodge their own responsibilities,'’ TabCT said. “But the breakdown will give them all the information anybody has license to ask.” Chairman Philip Young of ihe i civil service commission said a few weeks ago that President - Eisenhower and the national security council will decide “in the near , future” whether to issue a breakdown of the federal "security” find- : tugs. — , Taber would not say where he got his information. : Meantime, house Democratic , whip John W. McCormack D.-Mass. said information available to the Democrats indicates that “few if any Communists" hhve been turned up In the government by the administration. If there were any, McCormack added, they were in the process of being fired by the Demo- - erats before the Republicans took uver; Other Democrats charged that the 2,200 figure ftcludes some who left the government voluntarily without knowing they were to be later branded as suspect. Democrats have been urging President Eisenhower to make 1 public a breakdown of the security firings. Mr. Eisenhower has said he is looking into the matter but has not promised that such a br’eakI down would be made. Tabor said flatly “a statement on this will I come later.” . - . I Legion Oratorical Contest On Tuesday High School Pupils Engage In Contest ' The annual Adams county high : school oratorical contest, sponsor--1 ed by the American Legion, will be • held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 ■ o'clock at Decatur high school ■ auditorium, ft was announced today by the committee in charge. - The exact number o( participants ’ has not yet been determined. Each ’ high schodi in the county is en- • titled to one entrant in the county • contest and the winner will repre--1 sent the county in the district con--1 test.. The date for the latter meet- • Ing will be announced soots, Ed F. I Jaberg, member of the Sponsoring > committee, said today, j It was indicated by those in f charge that there would be at least i three county contestants and posl sibly more. Adams post of the • American Legion will give the winner sls; second place $lO and third i place $5 in the couhty contest. -Ail • talks will be on "The Constitution.” > The public is Invited to attend ; the contest and all Decatur high school students also will attend.

Patronage-Hungry Republicans Active Seeking Ouster Os Democrat Holdovers WASHINGTON UP — Patronage • hungry Republicans today pressed for a "house-cleaning” of Democratic holdovers at the agriculture department’s commodity stabilisation service. Top GOP politicians stepped up their demands after the resignation of commodity stabilisation chief Howard H. Gordon Friday. Gordon, although appointed by secretary of agriculture Exia T. Benson, was reported to have been unpopular with some congressional Republicans." It was learned that Benson, in a move aimed at appeasing GOP patronage demands, will oust at least three more top CSS officials In the near future —all Democratic holdovers. M- 1 Chairman John Taber R-NY’ of the powerful house ways and means committee, indicated there may be shifts over the weekend. Taber,. Whb has long urged a re-’ shuffle of the price agency, said he would not comment on Gordon’s resignation “until the job is done, possibly Monday.” Benson Friday named New York Republican farm leader James A. McConnell to succeed Gordon. A high GOP source said congressional Republicans were opposed to Gordon because he was an official of the old farm security administration under the Demo- . crats from 1934 to 1943. Since 1943 he has been with the Southern States Cooperative at Richmond, Va. It was reported that successors , for the three Democratic holdovers have already been picked. The I GOP source said they are from Illinois, Indiana and Kansas. The farm belt selections, he said, are designed to keep midwestern Republicans happy. McConnell, executive vice president of the Grange League Federation Exchange, Ithaca, N. Y., will head the stabilization service on a "temporary” basis until one of the three inldwesterners moves up, according to the source. Indochina Warns On Any Deal On Peace Hints Indochina May Ignore Action SAIGON, Indochina, UP — Viet Nam's foreign minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh hinted today that Indochina’s associated states may ignore any "peace deal” the big powers work out without consulting- them; ------ In an exclusive interview, Dinh warned the Western Big Three not to negotiate directly with the Communists on Indochinese problems over the heads ot Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. “It would be an extremely serious matter if the agenda of any future Big Five meeting on Asia were to Include a study of negotiations with Ho Chi Minh (Red leader in Indochina),” Dinh aaid. “Important consequences might result in our country. “Anyway, Viet Nam would not recognize any obligations entered into without its approval.” He would not amplify his remarks about "important consequences,” but observers here considered it a clear warning to France that Viet Nam may fight on alone rather than accept an unsatisfactory settlement. Dinh added, however, that Viet Nam’s government "would not be upset, quite the contrary,” if the Big Three were to ask Russia and Red China to stop their aid to the Communists in Indochina. He said officials here expect a complete briefing on the current Berlin talks when they meet French leaders at the meeting Feb. 23 of the permanent committee of the French Union’s Natfdnal Council. ;

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Molotov Plan Called Brutal And Cynical Neutralization And Occupation Demands . From Soviet Russia BERLIN, (UP) The west reacted angrily today to Russia’s demand for a permanently neutralised and occupied Austria. One western spokesman called the five-point plan introduced by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Mqlotov Friday as "about as brutal and cynical and as far removed from anything we can stand for as can be imagined." The western foreign ministers and visiting Austrian foreign minister Leopold Figi prepared to deliver a resounding “no” when the Big Four conference holds its 19th meeting at 3 p. m. Figi, w'ho appeared before the Big Four ministers Friday to make an impassioned plea for Austrian independence only to hear Molotov’s depressing proposal, framed his reply on instructions from the chancellery in Vienna. It was understood, too, that U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Georges Bidanlt had prepared a scorching denunciation of the Russian plan. Reports from Vienna said the seven million Austrians Who have lived under foreign domination since Hitler’s infamous anschluss of 1938 despaired of hope for freedom after hearing Molotov’s unrealistic demands which, if granted, would make Austria forever vulnerable to Soviet aggression. In his speech Molotov made it clear his price for signing the long delayed Austrian state treaty is guaranteed neutralisation of Austria, Germany and Trieste. Figi held a telephone conversation with Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab in Vienna before conferring with members of his delegation on the reply to Molotov’s proposal. The Austrian deadlock was the third obstacle between the East and West since their fruitless meeting started here 19 days ago. They became as expected on German reunification and free elections and efforts to ease tension in the Far Bast. But it had been believed they might reach a settlement pn Austria. Dulles, who already has informed Molotov he can’t stay much longer in Berlin of other pressing duties, held a strategy meeting with Eden andBidanlt before attending the afternoon plenary session. . , ™ They were united in their opposition to Molotov, but determined to explore every possibility of finding a solution to conference problems. Former Mayor Stults Reported Improved John Stults, former mayor of Decatur, who suffered a heart attack several weeks ago, is still confined to his home at the corner of Third and Adams streets. On eeveral accasions, Stults has been able to sit up for short periods and members of his family say his condition is improved. Rev. Tinsky Leaves Pastorate Sunday The Rev. Robert J. Tinsky will preach his final sermon as pastor of the Church of Christ, 121 West Grant street, at the evening service Sunday. Rev. Tinsky Will assume duties as paator of the Thomas Ave. Church of Christ, Columbus, 0., Sunday* Feb. fl. Mrs. Tinsky. teacher in the first grade at the Lincoln school, will remain here until the close of |he school year.