Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 62.

Hits McCarthy In TV Speech fl fl / Ci ' .y ik ■■«»?< ■■ jg ACTING AS President Eisenhower's spokesman in the official Republican reply to Adlai Stevenson's speech a week ago, Vice President Nixon addresses a nationwide TV audience. While he did not directly name McCarthy. Nixon said that men who have done "effective work in the past have by reckless and questionable methods, made themselves the issue rather than the cause they believe in.”

Secy. Wilson Defends U. S. Defense Plans Gives Testimony As Hearings Opened By Senate Committee WASHINGTON, VP —Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson said today the government's “new look” military program will provide “adequate” security under present world conditions but may be altered if conditions change. He forecasts further cuts in military and civilian manpower, reduced armament production, increased spending for planes, guided missiiles and electronics, and “adequate support" to the “most promising and urgent” research projects. Wilson testified before the senate appropriations committee as it opened hearings on President Eisenhower's 137,600.000,000 spend■ing request for the armed forces for the 12 months starting next July 1. Sen. Burnet R, May.bank, DS C., said earlier that the administration's military budget “has been reduced tod much" and that more funds are needed for the air force and army. And Sen. J. William Furbright DArk., called for a “new look at the new look” because “only the most naive could believe that the reductions in military expenditures . have strengthened our defense.” In his prepared testimony, Wilson did not reply directly to questlons,about the "hew look” raised by Acflai E. Stevenson, former Democratic presidential candidate, and other Democrats. Asserting there is a “lot of confusion” about the “new look,” Wilson said it was a "natural evolution” from the “crash program” adopted after the start of the Korean war “when it was feared that this might become the opening phase of a new world conflict.” Hefoaidthenew military plans, approved by the new joint chiefs of staff, the national security council and Mr. Eisenhower, are "glared to improving our state of preparedness over an extended period of time.” “They are of course predicated on the international situation as we see it today." he said. "Shguld it change we might have to revise our plans." Mrs. Chester Walter Dies In New. Jersey Mrs. Chester Walter, 57, formerly Miss Thresa Fahrenbach of this city, died Saturday in her home in 'Upper Montclair, N. J. Born in this city, Mrs. Walter moved to Fort Wayne more than 35 years ago. She moved east after her marriage. Surviving besides the husband, are a son, William Walter, a first lieutenant with the air force; and five sisters, Mrs. Charles Niblick, Mrs. Grover Witzigreuter, Miss Anna Boitet, Mrs. Robert Warren, all of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Oscar Berber of Fremont. Funeral services will be held in Newark, N. J. The body will be brought to the Geft & Cahill funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 10 a-nv. Wednesday. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery, Fort Wayne.

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Kokomo Family Os Four Dies In Fire Family Trapped In Garage Apartment KOKOMO, Ind. (UP) — A family of four was burned to death Sunday night, trapped in their four-room garage apartment. The dead were Paul Imlay. 24. part owner of a gas station; his wife, Betty. 24. and their child-' ren. Cindy, 3, and Billy, 8 months. The fire broke out shortly before midnight. Imlay, a former Kokomo high school football player, ran out of the apartment shouting it was burning. Then he ran back upstairs apparently to rescue his family. He died Ip the flames. .The bodies of all four were found close together hi a Bedroom. Tom Parker and Ed Ricketts, neighbors of the 1 inlays, heard Imlay's alarm and tried to enter the apartment through a kitchen door. But they told authorities the apartment was blocked by flames. They hoisted a ladder to the second-floor apartment above the garage of_the W. E. Ricketts residence. But when they broke two windows the fire and smoke puffed out and prevented their entry. Light Traffic Toll Recorded In State Bad Weather Cuts Driving In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Icy winds and snow showers discouraged traffic during t h e weekend and authorities reported a relatively light toll of five deaths on Hoosier highways. Snow-packed roads upstate were blamed for the death of Jack Floto, 69, Chicago, who was killed Sunday and three other persons injured seriously in a collision near Michigan City. Injured, were Jack Floto. 28. Saugatuck. Mich., a nephew of the victim, apd Marion Strycker, 37,- Goshen, and his wife, Edna. 39u State police, said the Stryckej car skidded on icy I'. S. 2b into •he path of the Floto car. ' Another Sunday night wreck on U. S. 20 killed Wong Wing Soong, 68. Chicago, and injured four others. State police said a cardriven by Sing Lee Mask, 41, Elkhart. slid on icy pavement 6 miles east of Springville and crashed head-on with a pickup truck driven by Everett Ray Warren. 27, Monroe, Mich. Injured were both drivers and Chow Sing, 53, Chicago, and Gum Lee Chin, 65, Elkhart. Melvin Clingerman, 69, North Manchester, died Sunday in’ a Wabash hospital of injuries suffered a few hours earlier when his car and another collided at the intersection Os Ind. 15 and Ind. 114 in Wabash county. At- Fort Wayne, Cynthia Bauer, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Bauer, was killed Saturday when struck by a car near her home while crossing a street to join playmates, . Also Saturday, John Seward, 63, Royal Center, was killed da a two-car crash in a county road near his home. Driver of the second car was James Kochel. 37, Royal Center.

Urges McCarthy Cancel Tour To Clear Up Scrap Senator Knowland Presses For Early Cleanup Os Dispute WASHINGTON, UP — Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland today urged Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to cancel a projected speaking tour and remain here until his explosive fight with the army is cleared up. Knowland told newsmen the charges detonating around McCarthy and his chief subcommittee counsel, 'Roy M. Cohn, are "sufficiently important that all members would want to give it priority consideration over all other engagements." The Californian made the statement after newsmen commented that McCarthy, who has tentatively scheduled for Tuesday a meeting .of his permanent investigating subcommittee, plans to be tied up for some days thereafter with a series of speaking engagements. Knowland said he thought all members of the subcommittee should give the dispute immediate attention. McCarthy tentatively a closed meeting of the subcommittee at 9:30 a.m. CST Tuesday to discuss the Cohn-army fight. He is scheduled to speak in Chicago Wednesday and remain away from Washington for the rest of the week on speaking engagements in the midwest. Sen. Henry M. Jackson IDWash.), a subcommittee member, proposed that two senate subcommittees hold joint hearings to determine who is "telling the truth” in the dispute. Knowland said an investigation to find all Jthe facts should not be delayed. “It should be proceeded with this week — and very promptly," he said, whether it took one day or two, or a week. Knowland said Un factfinding hearings are the primary responsibility of McCarthy's senate permanent investigations subcommittee, or of its parent group the government operations committee, of W'hich the Wisconsin Republican also is chairman. However, Jackson thought the McCarthy* subcommittee and a subcommittee of the senate armed services committee should hold a joint inquiry. He called that the "sensible approach.” Newsmen asked Knowland if he thought that a reported pledge of loyalty to Cohn, circulated among the subcommittee staff, disqualified them from investigating the fight. He said settling tne dispute is “the responsibility of senators on the committee. If they feel they need to get additional .staff 'help, they coeld do so." He said he did not think this put McCarthy in the position of investigating himself. Alert For Draft Call Step-up Sharp Increase Is Foreseen In July —WASHINGTON, (UP) -Army secretary Robert T. Stevens said today draft calls in the year starting July 1 will run at a rate of about 25,000 monthly. Stevens also told a senate military appropriations subcommittee that it will lie necessary to continue the draft as long as the army maintains a strength of more than □OO,OOO men. During the fiscal year starting July 1, Stevens said the army will have to draft nearly 300,000 men. , “This we shall do at the rate of approximately 25,000' men per month.” he said. Draft calls have been running at the rate of 18,000 men monthly for the past several months. Starting next- July, however, the army inters a year <sf heavy personnel turnover necessitating higher draft calls. j - - s' ,■ ■ Although army strength is to be cut by about 250,000 men in the coming fiscal year, Stevens said manpower losses through men jetting out of the service will exceed this reduction in strength. The step-up in draft calls was forecast earlier in testimony released by a house appropriations subcommittee. Draft director Lewis B. Hershey said the increase is made necessary by the two-year draft term. Heavy calls in fiscal 1981, after the Korean war began, were followed by lighter calls in 1952, then heavier calls in 1953 to replace (Turn To Page Six)

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Challenge By Stevenson To Shed McCarthy Stevenson Charges Nixon Giving Out Misleading Data WASHINGTON UP — Adlai E. Stevenson has challenged President Eisenhower to shed Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy “as a party, spokesman” to prove he is the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party. Stevenson declared that Vice President Richard M. Nixon's speech Saturday night confirmed his belief that “McCarthyism was injuring the government, dividing the nation and diverting the attention from the real issues.” Nixon's address was the official Republican reply to a pseech a week earlier in which Stevenson charged that Mr. Eisenhower had embraced McCarthyism. The vice president did not say so Saturday. But he dearly had the Wisconsin Republican in mind when“he said that men who have done good work hunting Communists have “by reckless talk and questionable methods made themselves the issue rather than the cause they believe in so deeply.” ' Stevenson, 1952 Democratic presidential candidate, fired back late Sunday, in a statement issued through the Democratic national committee here. "Vice President Nixon assured us that the President was the ‘unquestioned leader of the Republican party.' That is fine, as far as it goes. But will the Republican**tional committee continue to use Sen. McCarthy as a party spokesman?” Stevenson, who is vacationing at Hobe Sound, Fla., also accused Nixon of giving out “misleading” information about the number oL subversives ousted in the administration’s security program so that 'we don't know yet how many Communists, if any, they have caught and dismissed." Nixon said 422 federal employes fired or allowed to resign under ihe program has files indicating subversive activities or associations. He did not list any Communist dismissals. Stevenson said the administration's policy of defense based bn massive retaliation was “disowned in the middle of the week" but "reaffirmed by the vice president at the end of the week.” . _He referred to * statement last week by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, that the "new look” policy is based on' other devices and weapons besides massive retaliation. Generally, the reaction to Nixon’s address followed "party lines with Republicans praising it and Democrats criticizing or remaining silent.

WtedtfaticM * (By Rev. Paul D. Parker. Nuttman AAenue United Brethren in Christ Church) DETOURS”' Isaiah 68:9-12 <> A casual study of the human rack since the entrance of sin Into the world will reveal the faet that it la not very difficult to divert men from the course which God had intended that he should take. The prophet in this chapter was commissioned by God to lift his voice like a trumpet, and cry out against the transgressions, and sins of the house of Jacob. The worship of Israel had degenerated to a system of formalism. They were keeping their feast days, they were observing their fasts, they were seeking God daily but God was paying no attention to them. This they could not understand. God was npt well pleased with their heartless religion. s , Through the message of the prophe| they were shown the true spirit of worship, and if they would conform to such they would be blessed of God. They would become as a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. They should be known as. “The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isaiah 58:12.” •

/ ■ Wanning Test Sale; Os Surplus Butter Pilot Operation Is Announced By Benson " WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today he will set Up a “pilot operation" in some areas by April 1 to test the sale of surplus government tmtter at cut-rate prices. | Benson did not announce what Specific plan would be tried nor did he name the cities for the “pilotoperation." If the operation proves practical It will be extende< to wider areas. Benson told a news conference that beginning April 1 the department also will spearhead a nation - - •wide promotional campaign designed to step up consumption of all dairy products. Benson said the butter disposal operation would mean “inevitable loss" to the government. He said the pilot project may also involve disposal of government — Owned dried milk and cheese. April 1 is the date for the 15 per cent cut in dairy price supports to go into effect. Benson has estimated the price support drop will cut butter prices about 8 cents a pound. He defended the dairy price support reduction, which dairy state .congressmen to. Soften. Beusmr said dsiry x prt>ducta “should be classed with other perishable products” like pork and eggs, which the government iV not required to support. \ Under the current dairy support program, the government buys products from processors at prices reflecting 90 per cent of "fairprice” parity. However. Benson said producers' dairy* prices actually have averaged only 84 per cent of parity. He said the department believes it can maintain producer prices at 75 per cent of parity under the scheduled program, th esame level at which it will buy products from processors. Benson said if the promotion and disposal programs cannot bring "supply and demand for dairy products into balance, “the government may have to do something to control milk production." Election Held By Russian Citizens MOSCOW UP —Russian citizens Sunday elected 1,331 members to the supreme soviet, the nation's highest legislative body, in voting from one end of the vast country to the other. Muscovites elected 19 deputies for four-year terms to the two houses,, the soviet of the union and the soviet of nationalities. TheMosrowcaiHlidatercincluded premier Georgi Malenkov, foreign minister V:M. Molotov. Communist party first secretary "Nikita Khrushchev and defense minister Marshal Nicolai Bulganin. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. Continued cold except" a. little warmer Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 18-23, high Tuesday 32-38.

Eight Persons Die As Tornado Strikes Georgia Cold Weather Still Prevalent In Much Os United States By UNITED PRESS After a weekend of violent storms, the weather turned placid today. But with spring only six days away, the air still had a winter bite. Temperatures were below or near freezing in the entire northern two-thirds of the country, except the Pacific Coast. The only precipitation was very light snow flurries which fell in an area from the southern Great Lakes northeastward to the Canadian border and southeastward to Virginia. Although skies were clearing in the midwest, many highways were glassy slick with ice. At least four ice-caused highway deaths were reported in the midwest. In Chicago, traffic was slowed to a crowl by icy streets. The death toll in tornadoes thati twisted across Geolgia Saturday, doing Wvy dkmage to military installations, wag seL#4 eight.. At least 58 other persons were injured in the windstorms that slammed into Macon, Ga., and nearby Ft. Benning and Lawson air force base. Today's cool weather extended as far south as Texas where Brownsville reported 49 degrees. A 7-year-old boy was killed Sunday afternoon when his father’s light plane crashed in snow covered North Dakota. The boy was Michael Turgeon. His father, Richard Turgeon, 33, was hospitalized at Carrington, N. D., with serious injuries. Little Warmer INDIANAPOLIS UP — Snow clouds were expected to leave Indiana today after dumping up to two inches of snow upstate. The weather bureau said flurries would end today In the extreme north, where South Bend found a 2-inch accumulation under foot this morning. Goshen cdllected one inch on the ground in a 24-hour period ending this morning. Precipitation measured .05 inch at Fort Wayne, and only a trace at Terre Haute, Indiaggpolis and Lafayette, Brisk low temperatSHres this morning ranged from Lafayette’s 22 to 25 at South Bend and Fort Wayne. Most Sunday highs were near 30 degrees. would be 30-38, tonight’s lows. 2025. “A little warmer" weather was promised Tuesday afternoon. Brief Truce Called In Indochina War * Brief Lull In War To Assist Wounded HAONI, Indochina. UP —French and Communist troops called the first truce of the seven-year Indo china War today to let medics remove wounded soldiers from the stench-filled battlefield around the French fortress of Dien Bien. Phu. The cease-fire lasted four hours, from 8 a.m. to noon. Shortly’ after noon, Communist artillerymen trained in Red China opened fire on the strategic French bastion in north Viet Nam. French military spokesmen eaid the Red artillery was so carefully camouflaged that French artillery observers were having difficulty pinpointing it. During the brief lull in the fighting and artillery duel that had bee:; going on day — and night throughout the weekend, medics of both sides recovered their wounded from the battlefield where at least 1,000 Communists (Turn To Pace Six)

Banker Disappears With Town's Cash Alabama Town Asks Government Help CLIO, Ala. UP — Churchgoers of almost penniless Clio heard a fiery sermon on the evils of money, then began a hopeful wait for federal help to avert economic chaos in this farming community of 840 population. A big chunk of Clio's cash, about $250,000, disappeared a week ago with trusted banker Royal Reynolds, and since then most townspeople have lived meagerly on what little credit merchants could give. 7-. ‘J While Mayor Dan 'Easterling appealed to the FBI, the federal housing administration and an Alabama congressman for help the 115 members of the Methodist church gathered Sunday to hear the Rev. William Griggs denounce greed. Without naming the absent Reynolds, Griggs told the congregation that money “is one of the minor things in life” and greed is a terrible sin. Many members of the congregation whose savings and ready cash was wiped out by Reynolds' alleged embezzlement readily agreed with the latter point. Easterling said. “This is the worst thing that ever happened in Clio.” Reynolds was charged with taking all the money and records of the unchartered, unbonded'and uninsured Merchants Exchange Bank, which he had faithfully operated for 17 years, and disappearing with his family. Easterling appealed to the RBI for help in finding Reynolds, and especially the records, without which depositors cannot touch some SBI,OOO that was held for the bank by the First National Bank of Atlanta. The case did not appear to qoine under RBI jurisdiction, however, but Rep. George Andrews D-Ala. obtained an agreement of the FHA to investigate the case to determine whether the town qualities for federal loans. Until help comes, Easterling said, “the merchants are just going to have to extend credit to the people who lost all their money.” Announce Winners In Essay Contest Decatur Students Take First Places Miss Gretchen Zintsmaster, a senior at Decatur Catholic high school, and Rosalie Voglewede, a student at St. Joseph’s grade school, won first places In the 1954 essay contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary unit 43. In the senior high school division, 1'52 essays were entered from Adams county high schools and 201 were entered in the junior high division. “What America Means to Me” was the subject of the essays. Other awards in the senior group went to Miss Alice Kukelburg, Monmouth, second, and Miss Rita Rumschlag, Decatur Catholic, third. Honorable mention was won by Miss Marcella Gillig, pecatur Catholic; Miss Carolyn Terveer, Decatur Catholic, and Miss Kathryn Singleton, Monmouth. "Second place in the junior division was won by Jean Wan of Lucky school and third place went to Mary Frances Backmeyer, St. Joseph's. Receiving honorable mention in this group were Eva Mae Plumley, Lucky; Larry Marbach, Lucky, and Michael Durkin, St. Joseph’s. The winning essays have been sent to compete in the fourth district contest. Miss Margaret Biting was chairman of the local contest. Judges were Edward Jaberg. Severin Schurger and Robert Smith. ... ' ...

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Gives Preview Os Radio, TV Speech Tonight Tells Congressional Leaders Proposals Harmful To Nation WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower told congressional leaders today Republican congressional tax cutters have gone a little too far and Democratic tax reduction proposals would be too much. Mr. Eisenhower gave his views to Republican congressional leaders at the White House who received a preview of the national radio and television speech he will make tonight at 8 p.m. CST on taxes. House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. told reporters Mr. Eisen, hower thinks the house ways and means committee already has gone “a little too far” .in making federal excise (sales) tax cuts. He further believes the Democratic drive to boost individual ~ tax exemptions by SIOO would be “too much." The Democratic proposal would mean a loss to the treasury of about 254 billion dollars a year. The house elreai’« has approved excise tax cut ssdsh which - means a loss of about one billion dollars a year. In addition, the tax-writing ways and means committee has approved a general tax revision bill which means a-further cut of $1,300,000,000. Martin said those proposals, plus a three-billion-Hollar cut in individual income taxes which went into effect Jan. 1, and a two-billion-dollar cut in excess profits taxes on corporations would represent a total of more than seven billion dollars in tax relief this year. The Massachusetts Republican said grave concern was expressed in the White House conference that if they went beyond that figure it would endauger the administration's program and delay a balanced budget for several years. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland Calif, said he hoped the senate will be ready to take up the excise tax cut bill the first of next week. Knowland said that because ot~~' its heavy work schedule the senate probably will not take a full week of Easter recess as the house plans to do. Easter Sunday is April 18. He said the senate recess probably would be from' Thursday to Sunday. Sen. Walter F. George D-Ga., who has proposed an increase of t2OO ih personal income tax exemptions, predicted in an interview that Mr. Eisenhower will abandon the fight against the excise slash. He said he knows Republican congressional leaders h»vw advised the administration the battle is quite lost. And a Republican lead- l—er confided that he is convinced the administration is now reconciled to this. The 15-minute speech will be carried at 9 p.m. EST tonight by all major television and the ABC and CBS radio networks. Television and radio re-broadcasts will be carried later tonight. (Tarn To Pae* Six) Foundation Directors - Will Meet Wednesday A meeting of the directors of the Decatur Memorial Foundation has been changed from Wednesday evening to* Wednesday afternoon, C. I. Finlayson, chairman of the building committee, announced today. The directors will meet with L. L. Rado, architect, for the proposed Community and Youth Center, at 3 p.m. at the Citixens Telephone office. Action will be taken on the contract for the building. The Yost Construction Co., of this city, submitted a low bld of $205,000 for the building, less alternates. The , directors expect to sign the contract this week. ? j