Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 63.

Kennel Puts General In Dog House Bill Wj- - -_(j| 'ORE ik&BiiM i /wu MAJ. GEN. RODERICK R. ALLEN (inset), scoffs at charges made by a House subcommittee that he squandered 11200 in tax payers money to jiuild an ultra kennel for his four dogs at Fort Dlx. N. J. Allen, now commander at Ft. Devens, Mass., says he built a similar kennel (above,) with the help of an orderly using salvaged government material.

Democrats To' Press Drive For Tax Cut President Appeals To Nation To Back GOP's Tax Plans WASHINGTON UP — Democrat leaders refused today to accept President Eisenhower’s formula for taxes “fair to all” and made plans to press their drive to cut income taxes by boosting exemptions. Jhey demanded and got free radio and television time tonight to answer the President’s statement opposing any ’’unsound tax proposal." Three congressional spokesmen will present the Democrats case from 9 to 9:16 p.m. EST. Democrats generally claimed the President’s grass roots appeal Monday night hadn't changed any votes in the house where debate on the income tax issue starts Wednesday. But Republicans counted heavily on Mr. 'Eisenhower’s request that the, “unsound proposal" be rejected by congress. They hoped the address would tush the tide against' the Democrats’ tax plan. The Democratic aim is to knock out of a pending big tax revision bUJ a section easing the tax load on income from dividends, and to substitute their plan to increase each personal exemption from S6OO to >7OO. Mr. Eisenhower denounced this as unfair. He said it would let some taxpayers off entirely, while others made up the loss. He said it would wreck his efforts to balance the budget and bring back deficit spending. “We know, from 'bitter experience, what such a policy would finally lead to,” said the President. “It would make our dollars 'buy less. It would raise the price of rent, of clothing, and of grocer ies. It would pass on still larger debts to our children." Mr. Eisenhower said income taxes were cut five billion dollars in January. H e safd when the time should be cut. House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. R-Mass praised the President ’ s plea—and predicted —the house will heed it. Several Republicans who were committed to support an increase in personal exemptions said Mr. Elsenhower hadn't changed their minds. Rep. Alvin IE. O’Konski R-Wis. announced he will vote with the Democrats, as planned. He said rising unemployment, falling farm income, and reduced overtime for factory workers show the need for relief for the small taxpayer. Rep. Sam' Rayburn -Tex., house Democratic leader, said the President failed to put over his plea. “I didn’t see anything in it that was convincing enough to change the vote,” Rayburn asserted. Rep. Herman P. tE'berharter DPa., a key member of the taxwriting ways and means committee, forecast a Democratic victory but said he heard “a lot of Democrats don’t hope so fervently now to put it over.” Mr. Eisenhower praised the ad-ministration-sponsored genreal tax revision bill coming up for debate in the house Wednesday. It carries benefits for stockholders, working widows with children, those with heavy medical expenses, and pent Turn To P*»e Six)

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23 Jap Fishermen Claim Atom Burns Claimed Trapped In Radioactive Dust TOKYO, UP " — Twenty-three Japanese fishermen, their skins burned black, hands swollen and hair falling from what Japanese scientists said are radiation burns, today claimed they were trapped in a radioactive dust storm from ah American atom bomb test March 1. The Japanese government asked the United States for a report on the warnings issued in advance of the explosion of what apparently was a super-strength nuclear device in the Marshall Islands atomic test site; - V" ■ —-— One of the Japanese. Sanjiro Masuda, still was under hospital treatment today. A United Press photographer who took his picture said his entire face was burned black, his ears were covered with pus scabs and his hands were badly swollen. The entire tuna and shark catch of their Japanese fishing vessel, which was sold in a provincial port, was condemned as being heavily tainted with radio-active poisoning. Their vessel was being, checked td’dftyTor radiation contamination. -Scientists at -Tokyo University said ash taken from the vessel set Jeiger counters to clicking when leld seven feet from the test-tube samples. Warnings were° being issued in ill areas where the contaminated ish were distributed against eating deep sea food. The United Stated atomic energy commission in Washington, previously had announced that 236 Marshall Island natives and 28 Americans were showered with itomic dust from the same explosion. However, they were said to have escaped without serious consequences. The atomic energy ommission said it had not yet eceived reports on the Japanese ishermeh. The burns they suffered were sot reported until the Fukuryu Waru put into its home port of Vaezu. 120 miles southwest of Tokyo. —Cremutn said they became : alarmed and headect" for their home port-vyhen,. about three days after the atomic blast, burns and □listers began showing up on/ttleir skins. ~ . The fishermen said their vessel was working SO miles east of Bikini in the Marshalls, and well outside the normal closed zone surrounding the test site. At about 3 a.m. March 1. they said, the sky was brilliatly' lighted by the atomic blast. Five to seven minutes later, they said, a tremendous concussion followed. Then they saw the familiar mushroom cloud rising into space. Two or three hours later, they said, a rain of fine white dust began falling on the ship and continued into mid-morning. The crew did not immediately wash themselves, their clothes or their ship, and when they finally did, the ash would not come off. Skin that had been exposed to the ash began to redden, blister and then turn black. They decided then to head for home. At Yaezu all 23 were treated for radiation burns. All but two (Turn To rage Six) INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight a<id Wednesday, warmer Wednesday. Low 20-25 tonight, high in the 50’s nortn and central and about 60 extreme south Wednesday.

Adm. Radford Defends U. S. Military Plan Says Strategy Does Not Rely Solely On Atomic Retaliation WASHINGTON, (UP) — Adm. Arthur W. Radford said today the administration's “new look" military strategy does not rely solely on massive atomic retaliation and expressed surprise that the army has misgivings about the program. In obvious reply to Democratic attacks on the mew strategy, Radford said “our planning does not subscribe to the thinking that the ability to deliver massive atomic retaliation is, by itself, adequate to meet all our security needs.” “It is not correct to say we are relying exclusively on one weapon, or one service, or that we are anticipating one kind of war. I believe this nation could be a prisoner of its own military posture if it had no capability, other than one to deliver a massive atomic attack.” Radford testified before the senate military appropriations subcommittee which is considering the $37,600,000,000 defense budget for the coming fiscal year. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, army chief of staff, told the subcommittee Monday he-“accepts” the new military program but repeatedly declined to say he was “Satisfied” with it. Ridgway complained that the army’s strength was to be cut from 20 to 17 divisions without a corresponding cut in the army's global commitments. Radford left unanswered whether the administration had imposed a budgetary ceiling in drawing up the military plans —a charge made by Democrats. To meet local Communist aggressions. Radford emphasized the importance of building up of “collective allied strength" — or local forces. Radford aimed part of his remarks at Democratic charges the "new look" or massive retaliation poltcywastailoTedtofittheGOP economy drive and is iH-suited for dealing with limited aggressions without starting World War 111. Savings Bond Sales Increased In County Adams county accounted for the sale of slll,BOl worth of U. S. savings bonds during. February as compared with $48,725 for the same month last year, T. F. Graliker, chairman of the. county U. S. savings bonds committee, reported today. Savings bonds sales for the state during February were $13,787,629. Sales for February, 1953, were $10,376,486. Ralph 0. Stogdill Dies This Morning Ralph O. Stogdill, 55, a native of Monroe, died suddenly of a heart attack at 3 a.m. today at his home. 4811 Melrose Ave., Fort, Wftype. He was associated with the Stogdill & Kuhn insurance agency in that city. Born in Monroe April 2, 1898, he was a son of Jarnos and Ada Blos-som-Stogdill, and graduated from the Monroe high school. Surviving are his wife, the former Lois Abbot, and his father, both of Fort Wayne. Mrs.-Albert Beinekeof this city is a cousin. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Two Indochina Airports Cut Off By Reds Biggest Battle Os Indochina War Is Reported Underway RANCH. Indochina, UP — "Unbelievable” Communist artillery cut off Dien Bien Phu’s two airports today and its besieged 10,-000-iqan French garrison fighting against odds of four to one. French commanders admitted the worst was yet to come in the biggest, perhaps most decisive battle of the seven-year indochina war. Communist hordes estimated at start of the battle Saturday at 40,000 men, pressed their ground offensive, ignoring their own dead; piled against Dien Bien Phu’s barbed wire defenses. Some of the Reds made “human bombs” of themselves, lashing dynamite around their chests and □lowing themselves to bits -against the wire. Others poked explosive-packed bamboo rods through the French barbed wire thickets to blast paths 'or new attacks., The besieged .180 miles west of Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong, could be supplied only by alr-dfop. American-built (34.7’8 braved withering anti-air-craft fire and flew in under an 1,800-foot ceiling to. parachute supplies. -- Almost every privately owned lir transport .plane from bases all aver Viet Nam was requisitioned 1 by the French command for the lir .lift. The Reds dropped their hit-run tactics of the last seven years and were fighting from dug-in positions and in human waves similar to Communist tactics in Korea. Red foot soldiers already had overrun two of the eight main defensive works, and Red commander Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap had not et thrown in his reserves. When he does, the French command said, the battle would be "decisive." The French were stripping other isolated strongholds such as Luang Prabang and Xieng Khouang in Laos in attempts to reinforce the Jien Blen Phu garrison whose Foreign Legion, French and native defenders were suffering "severe” losses. But while the defenders’ losses vere heavy, the attackers’ were leavier. Authorities said 2,500 Viet Minh lead littered the Scarred and .moking battlefield and hung grotesquely on tire -barbed wire.- The French counted wounded and other memy casualties from air bombardment and artillery counterlire at a three : to-pne ration to account for the 10,000 enemy casualies claimed so far. Throughout the night French plots flying U. S.-made Rearcat' tonibers lighted the Communists’ (Turn To Pn»e Two)

beaten VftedifatuM (By Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren Church) HEART POWER "He giveth power to the faint." Read Isaiah 40:27-31 The people of Judah complained that God paid no attention to them; he had forgotten them. The prophet replied that their trouble was that they did not know the Lord. “The Lord is an everlasting God, The Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, ... He gives power to the faint. Even the youths shall faint and be weary And young men shall fall exhausted. But they tJat wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.” ~~ A lady suffering from a heart attack was frightened and panicky. A minister came and read to her the promises of God. Her thoughts were centered on the Heavenly Father. In faith and in quietness they prayed. Suddenly she realized the pain was past, her heart was calm, the crisis was over. Time and again persons have carried on in an emergency and given this testimony: “I could not have done it without God’s help.” "H» giveth power to the faint.” But even God cannot help a person who turns away from him, J

Huge Atom-Smasher Put Into Operation U. Os California Completes Smasher BERKELEY, Calif., UP — The University of California announced today it has put into operation the most powerful atom-smasher ia the world, a new tool to reveal the still-unsolved mysteries of the atom. The new machine is called abevatron. It cost nine million obllars tobufld and went into operation Feb. 2. The atomic energy commission provided the money. The bevatron will be used to produce synthetic cosmic rays and mesons, which are the ,2 glue’’ that bfuds together atomic nuclei. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the AEC, in a statement issued in Washington, said operation of the bevatron is another step in the AEC's program to keep America in the forefront of atomic progress. “Nuclear progress is not simply a matter of building power plants and weapons with present knowledge," he said. “It is even more a matter of learning, for future use, what we do not yet know about the atom." Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the University of California radiation laboratory and Nobel prize winner, said although science has extracted energy from the atom, "we are still far from an understanding of the forces and processes that govern the atomic nucleus." “The bevatron gives us the means to make laboratory explorations of the nucleus that have not been possible before.” In building the bevatron. the University of California regained the atom-smashing championship held for the past two years by the Brookhave- Laboratories on Long Island, N; Y. The new bevatron contains the world’s largest magnet, the outside diameter of which is 135 feet, The magnet stands 14 feet high and is roughly doughnut-shaped. Its total weight is 10,000 tons. Spring To Arrive On Saturday Night WASHINGTON U'P — This is official, from the naval observatory: Spring will start in the northern hemisphere at 9:54 p.m. CST, Saturday, March 20. That will be the time “the sun crosses the equator in its northern journey.” American Soldier Killed By Korean SEOUU^Xorea”’UP“ — Eighth army today confirmed a report that an American ** soldier on a night patrol in a village had been shot and killed by a Korean. -The army-announcement said the shooting Monday was accidental Name of the soldier was with held pending notification of his next of.-kiiu—

Jet Bombers Crash, Three Men Are Killed Air Fot|:e Bombers Collide, One Sent Crashing In Flames OVERBROOK, Ken., UP — Two aii force 847 jet bombers colliedd today over eastern Kansas, sending one crashing to earth in flames. The other reached its home field at Wichita air force base with a damaged tail section. Three bodies were recovered at the crash scene, the farm of Ira Faust, three miles east and two north of this small town. Part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage landed in a corn field (Ebout 10b yards east of the Faust farm home. Other parts were scattered for a quarter of a mile along a wooded ravine. Charles Fawl, Richland, who was about four miles north of the scene, said he saw the 600-mile six-jet plane on fire in the air. “it looked like it. just went straight down,” he said. Fawl also said he thought he saw anoUier plane in the air, anparentlyw this crippled Bs7 involved in the collision that landed at Wichita. Another man at the scene thought he saw a parachute about a mile north of the wreck and air force and civilian officials were searching for if The collision and crash occurred about 9a. m. The wrecked 847 still was burning at 10:30 a. m. The crew which made it safely to Wichita air force base, a training field for 847 combat crews, was not injured. . On Aug. 30, 1951, two Boeing airplane company test crews flyng 847 s which had not yet been turned over to the air force were (Turn To Page Two) AFL Longshoremen Returning To Work Wildcat Walkout Os Rival Union Broken NEW YORK, (UP)—AFL longshoremen went to work on more than half a dozen strike-bound Jiiers today to break the 12-day Wildcat walkout of the rival independent dock union. Full AFL gangs went to work on five previously shut-down Manhattan piers under heayy guar±o. billy-carrying police. Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Assn., Ind., •ap peared in force before the piers, out no disturbances were reported. Other AFL work gangs reported to strike-jammed Brooklyn pier, inder similar guard. John Dwyer, AFL-ILA port com mittee chairman, said about l,oo£ AFL longshoremen went to work at all Brooklyn and Manhattan piers where ships were waiting to be worked. Dwyer said the men had agreed Monday night to return to work at army piers, but did not do so because of “the same old fear o the old ILA’s ’enforcers’." The army began hiring longshoremen, without question of union affiliation, on a civil service basis to work the ships. Their union affiliations was not known, but ILA men have “broken” their own strikes bfefore under similar conditions to keep military cargoes moving. »- AFL dock workers, contending with the ILA for representation qf the port's 20,000-odd longshoremen. had until today stayel away from all but a couple of docks, apparently fearing violence if attempted a show of union strength. A spokesman said early In the walkout that the ILA’s battle was with the government and the AFL was willing to let the law settle the dispute.

Black Panther Loose Near Los Angeles Carnival Escapee Sought By Police LOS ANGELES, (UP) Eerie screams that "sounded like a cat but only more so,” early today -sent policemen into a wooded area north o( downtown Los Angeles in a search tor an escaped black panther. Two policemen the screams several times after they uere summoned to the area by a man trembling with fright. Other officers who had been searching in a residential section about four miles away, where the missing 140-pound "killer” cat was reported seen Monday night, were called in on the new search. Patrolmen M. N. Alexander and R. E. Brown sent out a call for reinforcements at about 4 a. m. today only minutes after they answered the call of the frightened man. Moments after the man toli them of hearing “a terrible catlike scream” from a clump of nearby trees, the officers reported, they, themselves, heard a scream. “We heard an awful screeching and It was .icJose." Alexander said. “It sounded like the scream of an Injured cat.” Officers armed with shotguns plunged Into the wooded area but failed to flush tße black cat. The animal, pound for pound one of the most vicious of all game animals, was reported Monday to have escaped from a traveling carnival. ' Police who searched the area where it was reported seen Monday night were spurred by a warning from the panther’s owper. Wayne Roberts. “Don't fool with this baby and don’t try to capture him alive,” Roberts said. “He’s uncompromisingly vicious , . shoot him on sight.” Police were earlier armed with ■isles, but turned them Tn for shotguns to prevent possible gunfire from wounding innocent bystanders. The first report* came about five hours after a carnival owner reported the panther had escaped from its cage Friday. Most residents of the neighborhood watched the search frpm behind closed windows, and police (Turn To Pace Five) Organize Jefferson Club Here Tonight Final Organi*zation MeetinglsPJanired Final organization of the Adams □ounty Jefferson club will be made tonight *t dinner and meeting starting at .6:30 o’clock at the Hotel coffee shop. Permanent officers wilP be named and immediately following the business meeting at 8 o’clock. Oliver H. Eggers, Fort Wayne attorney and Democrat candidate for congress from the fourth Indiana district, will ?ive a public address. It was stressed by those in charge of the Jefferson club organization that the 8 o’clock meeting would be open to the public and the dining room tables will lie cleared away to make room for all who care to hear the Fort Wayne attorney. Gerald Vizard, former Democrat county chairman, will introduce the guest speaker. Lewis L. Smith, temporary chairman of organization for the Jefferson dub. will preside at the business session until permanent officers are named. Adams county Democrats can still become charter members of the new Democrat club and the charter will remain open until the close of tonight’s meeting, members said. While the Jefferson club is not an official part of the county Democrat organization, it has the blessings of the regular county organization and also state and district organization officials.

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Oust McCarthy Temporarily As Chairman Senate Committee Votes Hearings On Charge Against Cohn WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s Senate investigating subcommittee voted unanimously today to hire a special staff and hold public hearings on army carges against its chief counsel, Roy Cohn. In a closed session lasting nearly three hours, the subcommittee voted to displace McCarthy temper- - arily as chairman and proceed with the investigation. They voted to hold no other investigations until they clear up army charges that Cohn used threats and pressure to try to get favors for his friend and former • aide, Pvt. G. David Schine. The Investigation also will include McCarthy’s counter-charge that the army tried to “blackmail” him into dropping an investigation of “Communist coddling.” • Sen. Karl E. Mundt R-S. DC sec-ond-ranking Republican on the subcommittee, will conduct the investigation. , The group scheduled a meeting a week from today for a progress report on hiring a special counsel and staff to substitute for Cohn and his staff. The closed-door meeting adopted a series of five resolutions. There was no opposition Vote, though Mundt voted only “present” on one whtich made him temporary chairman. Mundt presided over today’s session. McCarthy had said earlier he would step aside and let Mundt run the investigation. Mundt said- the first resolution means he will continue as chairman in- the-Conn investigation. He said he voted only “present” on this for two reasons —he had hoped the investigation might be handled by some impartial senate committee, and he did qfit feel It appropriate to vote for himself as chairman. All members of the subcommittee attended today’s meeting, McCarthy brushed by reporters at the door and entered without speaking. All members of the investigating subcommittee except McCarthy have urged immediately inquiry into the charges against Cohn-charg-es which the counsel and McCarthy already have termed false. McCarthy said earlier that he already had investigated the army’s accusations. In its sensational report last Frlday, the army charged that McCarthy applied pressure and Cohn threatened to “wreck the army” J if the drafted investigator, Pvt. G. David Schine, didn’t get favored treatment. McCarthy countered that the army compiled the report merely to “blackmail” hifn out ot investigating Communist intlltra- ~ tion of the military. The running battle over who is telling the truth raged amid these other developments: 1. McCarthy bluntly rejected the urgent plea ot Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland that he cancel his speeches this week so that an investigation of the dispute is not delayed. 2. Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall denied McCarthy s splitting the party. In spite of some “differences,” he insisted the party is "united behind President Eisenhower.” 3. Draft board 105 in Los Angeles said “Schine went into the armed forces for the same reason any other person enters who is eligible. He was found acceptable and ordered tor Induction. Who he worked for made no difference to the board.” McCarthy had suggested Schine would not have been drafted if he had not been a subcommittee investigator, 4. McCarthy said he dispatched a letter to army secretary Robert T. Stevens today inqurtng when the secretary plans to keep his (Tur* To Page Six)