Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 42.

Korean Peace Settlement Is First Target Big Four Powers, And Red China To Convene In April BERLIN. (UP)—The big tou» powers in their Far Eastern conference with Red China at Geneva April 26 will make a Korean peace settlement their first target, well informed western officials said today. ' It was “definitely understood" by the three western foreign ministers and Soviet foreign minister Viacheslav M. Molotov when they reached the Geneva conference agreement that Indochina would come second on the time-table and agenda of the meeting, informants eaid. Agreement was reached first, at the final meeting Thursday, to bold a conference on Korea, Informants said. Firm agreement to discuss Indochina was not reached until the end of the meeting, it was added. There has been some anxiety lest France delay ratification of »' 'the European defense community pact, which is to bring German troops into a West European army. fo¥ fear of antagonizing Russia while Indochina talks were pending. France urgently wanted the Indochina talks to begin as soon as possible, but Korea was nevertheless put first, informants said. “The mechanics of the Geneva talks were left up in the air to a great extent.” one informant said. “However, it was definitely understood by all four ministers that Korea and Indochina would be handled consecutively and not at 4he same time. It z also was definitely understood that Korea would take priority over Indochina.” Western diplomats said it is “almost certain” that all three western fereign ministers will attend the Geneva conference, instead of leaving negotiations to deputis. Europe resigned itself today to an indefinite existence as a divided land because the Big Four failed to unify Germany. Western observers said they saw no end to the cold war in Europe in the near future but expressed belief that it would not mushroom into a shooting affair. Russia's willingness to bring Red China onto a restricted international conference at Geneva on Allied, terms indicated, too, that the Soviets were anxious to bring to a close the hot war in Asia. It was Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov’s concessions on Red China that made it possible for the eastern and western ministers to agree Thursday (Turn To P«« Elrttl Union Head Assails 6.E., Westinghouse Selfish Practices Charged Companies N®W YORK UP — The CIO International Union of Electrical Workers accused the General Electric and Westinghouse comanies today of "narrow and Selfish” practices which helped create “mass unemployment victimizing the nation.’ The two 'big producers of electrical goods were charged with rejecting "all warnings against overproduction and over-extended inventories.’ The charges were made by lUiECJO 'President James B. Carey at the opening of the first joint meeting of the union's General (Electric and Westinghouse conference boards, representing an estimated 125,000 employes of the two companies. Westinghouse opens contract negotiations ■ with the union at Pittsburgh on April 1 and General Electric opens negotiations in New York April 20. The union’s contract proposals for the two corporations are basically similar, headed by demands for a guaranteed annual wage. Carey told the 100 delegates at the joint conference that General Electric and Westinghouse “are fully to blame, along with the Elsenhower Administration’s bj g business policies which they help shape, for the current economic crisis.” s , “They cannot escape responsibility for scores of thousands of Americans lining up at employment offices and unemployment compensation windows,” he said.

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MARINE CORPS Col. Frank H. Schwable, in the third day of hearings before a Board of Inquiry seeking to determine whether he should be court-martialed for a confession he made under duress wane a POW in Korea, is accompanied by Major Roy H. Bley who was shot down with him prior to his capture. Maj. Bley was Col. Schwable’s co-pilot.

Urges Congress To Vote Relief For Taxpayers Senator George In Appeal To Congress To Up Exemptions «•" - - . .... • ■- ■ - By UNITED PRESS F.- George; D-Ga., today Tfgfed congress to vote tax relief for consumers "before the economy falls flat on its face.” The Georgian, senior Democrat on the senate finance committee, introduced legislation to increase personal income tax exemptions in order to bolster the nation’s buying power. He proposed to raise the exemptions for taxpayers and dependents from |6OO to |BOO this year and to 11,000 in succeeding years. George declared that he is “not an alarmist" about the way the economy is going and is "not a prophet of doom.” But he said congress should “take this forward looking step before the economy falls flat on its face.” George is a conservative Democrat and possesses great prestige not only among members of his own party but also among Republicans. i' He noted that President Eisen hower this week "expressed awareness of economic conditions in the United States” and indicated he might propose consumer tax relief to bolster the economy if employment does not swing upward next month. Other congressional news: Dividends: The house ways and means committee modified its controversial proposal to give a special tax break to persons who receive income from corporation dividends. It left intact provisions to let them claim a 5 percent tax ci edit for dividends this year and a 10 percent credit in 1955. but eliminated a proposed 15 percent credit for 1956. The proposal is part of the committee's broad tax revision bHI. Labor Rackets: A house investigating subcommittee which held hearings in Detroit last year charged in a formal report that Detroit Local 985 of the AFL teamsters union has mulcted millions from workers and businessmen through “racketeering, extortion and gangsterism.” It sharplycriticized Detroit police and local authorities for what it called Inaction. • Communists: Rear Adm. Ellery W. Stone, president of American Cable and Radio Corp., told a senate internal security subcommittee that members of a Commu-nist-dominated union have access to coded messages sent abroad by the state and defense departments. He urged revision, of the TaftHartley law to require unions to oust officers who have been Communists since the start of the Korean war. Bricker: The senate went back to debating the Bricker treaty amendment after taking time out to confirm a new Republican member of the national labor relations board.

Eisenhower Enjoying California Vacation May Prolong Visit Until After Monday PALM SPRINGS, .Calif., UP — President Eisenhower is enjoying his vacation so much he may prolong it. White House aides accompanying the President indicated today the President may stay on at this desert resort beyond Monday, set originally for his return to Washington. Mr. Eisenhower arrived here by plane from Washington Wednesday night. He and the First Lady are the guests at” Smoke ” Tree Ranch home of Paul Helms, proprietor of a Los Angeles bakery chain. Host with Helms is Paul G. Hoffman, who used to head the federal government’s foreign aid program and now- is chairman of the board of the Studebaker Corporation. The President lined up a golf game today at the popular Thunderbird course. But he was faced with catching up on some paper work before he could get out on the links. < James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said a mail pouch arriving from Washington would keep Mr. Eisenhower busy for a few hours. In the pouch were a series of bills which congress has passed in the last few days. The President tried out the Tamarisk Country club course for the first time Thursday. He and Ben Hogan, the triple champion of 1953, played against Helms and Hoffman. "I’m doing good for me,” Mr. Eisenhower said with a grin to reporters who watched him make a difficult approach to the 9th hole and then sing a three-foot putt for a par four. Hogan, the old master, did no better.

15 Persons Die In French Plane Crash TUNIS, Tunisia UP —A French military plane , crashed Thursday night on a mountain peak 36 miles west of Tunis and all 15 aboard died in its flaming wreckage. Elex Tour Pictures Shown To Rotarians Frank Brower of Fort Wayne, who with his wife joined the G. E. Elex club tour to Europe last summer, showed Rotarians 1,600 feet of colored pictures of the countries and places visited by the American tourists. The countries included Ireland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. The Browers and Miss Eloise Noll, nurse at the Decatur G. E. plant, who also made the tour, visited Belgium in addition to the above countries when plane connections were rerouted because of the strike in France. Miss Noll was a guest at last night’s meeting and George Litchfield was chairman of the program. The Rotary club will meet Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at the Masonic hall with the Lions club and members of the American Legion, for supper, and prior to taking about 75 Boy Scouts to a hockey game in Fort' Wayne.

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China Denounce Peace Meet With Red China

Says Red Cell Operated In 6. E. Plant Admitted Former Red Testifies At McCarthy Hearing ALBANY. N. Y.UP An admitted former Communist told Sen. Joseph McCarthy at a public hearing today that a Red cell of 15 members operated at the General Electric plant in Schenectady. Jean Arsenault Jr., 26, tqld McCarthy at a public hearing In the jammed federal Court House here that he was a member of the Communist Party from “the summer of 1949 to 1953” and that he worked at the General Electric Schenectady plant until the end of January 1952. "" Arsenault, the first witness summoned by McCarthy, was questioned by committee council Roy Cohn. The hearing was interrupted shortly after McCarthy started when a woman spectator ran up the aisle and began shouting at him. Robert Pierson Northrup; Schenectady, was on the stand when the proceedings were interr.upted. The woman was identified- as .hla wife. She had been sitting in the back of the room with their 4-year-old daughter. The hearing was interrupted several times by disturbances. A man identified as Louis Alpieri. a General Electric employe, was escorted from the room by polite amt McCarthy said he would be cited for contempt. The public hearing then was adjourned until Saturday morning. As the hearing got under way this morning, A crowd milled through the federal building corridors. The crowd was believed to be mainly members of Local 301, United Electrical Workers Ind., which represents several thousand shopworkers at GE'S Schenectady, N.Y., plant. Fourteen UE members are among some 20 witnesses who have been called to testify before McCarthy today and Saturday.

Orders Release Os Parolees Speeded Welfare Department Criticized By Craig INDIANAPOLIS UP — Governor Craig today ordered release of paroled prisoners speeded halting of re-design work on a proposed Ohio ißiver toll bridge. iHe criticized the state welfare department for a parole system which kept 41 state prison inmates and 79 reformatory inmates behind bars up to nine months after parole boards approved their release. The governor ordered department workers to go to the inmates’ home counties and seek to arrange their freedom within two weeks. Flans for a proposed toll bridge at Lawrenceburg were halted until a route is selected for Indiana's proposed north-south toll road. Craig said a traffic count and engineering survey on the road should be completed within 90 days and the bridge then will be built to accommodate the' proposed toll road. He also defended the state toll road commission from its critics, notably some state legislators who complained the commission was going over-board in planning roads throughout the state. Said Craig: “Toll roads offer the only opportunity to solve the heavy truck problem and relieve congestion on other highways." Welfare workers said the parole backlog was parttally dtib to the fact some inmates were "unemployable" or unacceptable in their <Tara Ta Faaa Tw«)

Rep. Mason Assails Adams As Pipsqueak Denounces Role In Ouster Os Manion LA SALLE. 111. UP — Rep. Noah M. Mason 'R-111. today criticized presidential advisor Sherman Adams as a “pipsqueak” for pis role in forcing the resignation df Clarence E. Manion, former Notre Dame University law school dean, as chairman of the commission on inter-governmental affairs. He said Adams should pe fired. Mason, visiting here before returning to Washington, said he believed the administration sought Manion's removal because it feared the commission, created to study the relationship between federal and state governmental units, might return a report "going too far” in returning power from the national government to the states. "They (the administration) wanted a milk-and-water report,” said Mason. Mason, a member of the house ways and means committee, resigned from the inter-government-il study committee after Manion's resignation. He said he had received a telegram from Manion asking that he reconsider, but said he would not do Sib. He said he did not think the commission study .would amount to much now, t The Illinois congressman com■pared the requested resignation.of Manion to the iction of the Truman administration in removing Douglas MacArthur as commander of United States forces im the Far East. —'

Two Men Arrested In Extortion Plot SIOO,OOO Plot Is Thwarted By FBI /CHICAGO UP —The FBI early today arrested two men, one of them armed with a loaded, cocked .45 caliber pistol, in a SIOO,OOO extortion plot One of the men. Benjamin Alleman, 37, admitted he tried to squeeze the money from Benjamin F. Bohac on threats of death to him or his family. The other man, Ronald W. Greer, 23. said he was duped by Alleman and did not know the plot was under way. Bohac, president of the Talman Federal Savings and Loan Assn., cooperated with FBI agents and state’s attorney's police in laying a trap for the then. Alleman was arrested at a rendezvous spot in Palos township where he was tb take the cash from Bohac at about 1,2:15 a.m. Greer was arrested nearby in an automobile. Neither man resisted. “ Alleman said he tried to extort the money from Bohac because he was $30,000 in debt in his cabinetmakiug business. FBI agents said Bohac received a threatening telephone call, which Alleman admitted making, last Dec. 22 in which Alleman asked for the cash “or else.” Bohac said that the next day he got call which told him to get ready for the payoff. On Feb. 10 a letter warned him again and was signed “Good Luck.” Bohac inserted a newspaper personal ad, as instructed, which said “Have bag packed ready for departure. Ben.” A second letter came Thursday. It told Bohac to follow a certain route to the redezvous and deliver the monpy. Before he reached tile spot; FBI agents had moved in on Alleman and Greer. Alleman said he was responsible for the plot. He said he asked Greer last Sunday what he could do with SIOO,OOO. He said Greer answered: “I could do a lot.” When they left tor the pickup spot, Alleman told him only that he was going “on a deal with a guy that may be hard to handle,” Greer said. Greer was to efrele the area at 30 minute Intervals and pick up Alleman in the getaway car. . , c

Six Convicted Reds Sentenced To Jail Terms Judge Makes Offer To Help Defendants To Move To Russia DETROf¥, UP —Federal judge Frank A. Picard sentenced six convicted Communists to terms ranging between four and five years and maximum fines of SIO,OOO each today after offering to help them mote to Russia “If Sny of you would care to go.” None of the defendants — five men and on® woman —took up th® judge’s offer immediately. The six were found guilty under the Smith act by a jury of five men and seven women Tuesday of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government. » “That's akin to treason," Judge Picard said. "You have been convicted of the gravest offenses of which a citizen may be guilty, a plot, a conspiracy to overthrow your government by force and violence; a plot that has been in existence a number of years’ but which I believe and hope if being gradually eradicated or at bast made Jess dangerous.” Then he made The oner to help send the Michigan party leaders to Russia. “I have the power to Change my sentence I give* you here today and If any of you would like to go to Russia to live, and I cdn arrange it, i’ll be inclined ' to change your sentence to make that possible,” he said. Sentenced were Saul Wellman, acting state chairman, 4 years, 8 months; William Allan, Daily Worker Correspondent arid vice chairman, 4 years, 6 months; Nat Ganley, former editor of the Michigan edition of the Worker, 5 years; Philip Schatz, 4 years, 4 months; Thomas De Witt Dennis, Jr., 4 years, 6 months; and Mrs. Helen Winter, wife of Carl Winter, one of the«top 11 Communists convicted in New York in 1949 as the first Smith Act defendants, 4 years. • , Allan, the only foreign-born defendant, also faces deportation to his native Scotland. Asst. U.S. district atty. Dwight Hamborski said denaturalization proceedings will be started early next week. Allan is accused of falsifying his application for citizenship. Jobless Pay Claims Increase In State Claim Total Is Now 76,166 In Indiana —INDIANAPOLIS UP — Claims from newly-unemployed workers dropped last week but those from persons out of work a r .week or more took another sharp step upward, the Indiana employment security division said today. The claim total was 76,166, a rise of about 3,000 from the last previous week, according to director William C. Stalnaker. Stalnaker said 9,192 newly-un-etnployed workers filed claims, a drop of 1,600 from the week before. But 64;241 continued claims and 2,733 veterans claims represented Increases, the continued claims total nearly 5,000 above the week before. (Stalnaker said declines in new unemployment were especially evident in the Muncie, New Albany and New Castle areas. Recalls to work of some quarry,.radio and television workers eased the jobless claim load somewhat In the Bloomington, (Bedford and Linton areas. But generally speaking the volume of recalls was too small to -offset the unemployment resulting from many small layoffs of indefinite duration around the state, Stalnaker said. '

Seek Perpetrator Os Hoax On Family Cruel Hoax Telling Os Veteran's Safety CAMDEN, N.J. UP —The family of a soldier reported killed in Korea promised today to do all In their power—"no matter how long It takes” —to apprehend th® perpetrator of a cruel joke thtft for six days led them to hope he was alive. _ Ever since last Saturday the family of Pvt. Richard Tartar was hoping against hope he would return. At that time they received t» telegram from New York. It read: “Hello Pop, will be home Thursday. Dick.” As the seconds ticked in a new day, the family grew more and more aware that the 22-year-old soldier reported killed 11 months ago would not return—that they were the victims of a vicious hoax. “I have no idea who would have done this thing and I don’t know whether we will ever find him," Richard's father, Walter, said at the end of his 24-hour vigil. Anxiously waiting with the 64-year-old shipyard worker was one of his three sons-in-law, Edward Checkkiey. -He swore he would spare no effort to "track' down this person a twisted mind—no matter how long it takes.” Checkkiey said he had consulted with congressman Charles A. Wolverton R-NJ concerning the telegram, which authorities said was sent from a bus terminal telephone booth. He said he was going to keep in touch with Wolverton for further clues as to the identity of the sender. /__/. The boy’s father was surrounded by reporters; photographers and newsreel > cameramen as he sat in the living room of his modest home. Tense with expectation, he ( Continued oa Pace Eight) Tornado Warnings Issued Two Stales Severe Storm Kicks Up Clouds Os Dust By UNITED PRESS ” Tornado warnings were issued for Oklahoma and Arkansas today as a severe storm kicked up the worst dust clouds of the year from the Texas Panhandle to the Nebraska border. A U.S. weather bureau advisory said that a “few tornadoes” were expected in connection with severe local thunderstorms moving eastward in a wide belt from McAlester, Okla., to Little Rock, Ark. Meanwhile, a vigorous storm centered over Northwestern Oklahoma sent winds up to 60 miles per hour whistling across the central Great Plains, including western Kansas and eastern Colorado. At Garden City, Kan., winds up to 65 miles per hour smashed plate glass windows and swirling dust cut visibility to zero. Throughout the western third of Kansas, in the nation’s richest wheat lands, soil parched by winter drought swirled upward in choking clouds. East of the storm center, moist southerly winds created thunderstorms from central Texas northward through the lower Missouri Valley., Temperatures over the eastern half of the country were above normal, and balmy spring-like weather. prevailed In the Mississippi Valley. Some Offices Close Here February 22 Business in several Decatur offices will be suspended Monday for the legal holiday observing George Washington’s birthday anniversary. Included amopg the offices which will be closed are all county offices, the post office, selective Service board, the First State Bank arid all other federal offices. The public library will remain open as will the city offices.

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Agreement Is Held Sell-Out To Communists South Koreans And Nationalist China Denounce Conference TOKYO UP — South Korea and Nationalist China bitterly denounced the Big Four agreement to hold a Far Eastern peace conference with Communist China today as a sell-out to the Reda. In Washington uneasy congressmen asked whether the agreement meant that the Chinese Commtinlsts had succeeded in putting their feet in the door leading to United States diplomatic recognition. But Europeans saw the decision as the sole fruit of a foreign ministers conference which left the unification of Germany and the signing of an Austrian independence treaty as far off as ever. The West German government in Bonn angrily denounced Soviet ■Russia. "The Soviert Union has prevented the restoration of freedom in its sone of occupation and thus prevented the reunification of Germany in peace and freedom.” a government communique said. “Even to consider a proposal as the Geneva conference is to break faith with the Republic of Korea and with those who fought and died for freedom in the Korean War,” the newspaper mouthpiece of the South Korean government said in Seoul. “It looks as if the United States —high pressured by the growing pacifist attitudes of Britain and France —contemplates a sell-out of its envoy who conducted preliminary peace talks at Panmunjom, of Korea and even of itself." "Communist China is an aggressor," Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh said in Taipeh. "The four power conference has no binding force on Nationalist China.” Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek told cheering members of the Nationalist Partiament that Red China must be crushed if the world is to have real peace. Chiang thinks that the only good Communist is a dead Communist and he wants to make a good Communist out of Chinese Red leader Mao Tse-Tung. The West German government, in Bonn, charged Soviet Russia with torpedoing hopes of early German unification. . “The West German government will prosecute with determination its aim of German unification in peace and freedom,” a Bonn government communique said. Elsewhere in Europe some saw the Berlin conference as a victory for Russia and France. For Russia because it leaves Soviet occupation troops in Germany and Austria for the foreseeable future and because Red China is to be admitted to a conference. For France because the Geneva conference offers some hope .of ending the costly war in Indochina. Others in Europe saw the whole conference as a draw —and as a failure insofar as Europe is concerned. March Os Dimes Previously reported ...........45323.69 K. of C. Council No. M 4 10.00 Washington Township— Mrs. Roy Price 11.00 Mothers March of Dimes, Additional 1- 5.00 Delta Theta Tau Sorority .. 5.00 Decatur Woman’s Club .... 10.00 ' ’ TOTAL „ 45364.69 INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, windy and mild. Occasional ' thundershowers tonight tsturday showers endIng and turning colder. Low tonight 45-50. High Saturday in the low 50’s. ■ * .