Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LI I. No. 67.

Health, Education And Welfare fli PRESIDENT EISENHOWER chats with secretary of health, education and welfare, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, and Roswell B. Perkins, 27-year-old assistant secretary of the agency at a White House conference. Perkins, a New York attorney, is the youngest man in the administration to hold such a post.

McCarthy In Bitter Attack On Democrats McCarthy's Speech Is Angry Reply To Stevenson Address MILWANKEE, Wis UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy has, lashed back at Democratic attacks with a 2fl-count "indictment tor treason'’ against the party and charges that Adlai E. Stevenson uses •’Communist methods.” The ailing Wisconsin Republican rose from a sick bed Friday night to deliver tils, most blistering attack against the Democrats and their 1952 presidential candidate in recent months. The' speech before an overflow Milwaukee Young Republicans Club meeting was the highlight so far of his speech-making swing through the nation’s midsection. McCarthy was scheduled to fly to- , day to Oklahoma City. Okla., to make another speech. He turned dowu a doctor's advice that he rest up with the statement “I’ve never backed out of a commitment yet.” McCarthy’s speech was an angry reply to Stevenson’s recent Miami, Fla., address attacking "McCarthyism?’ McCarthy gave Stevenson equal billing with the party he leads as a target. In addition to his charge of Stevenson’s "Communist methods," he asked after each of his 20 ’’indictments" "Hb’w plead you to this count, Adlai, guilty or not guilty?" A Stevenson aide in Boston Mass., said the former Illinois governor would not comment on McCarthy's speech until he reads it “sometime Saturday.” McCarthy said his “Indictment” against the Democratic party, “constitutes at best criminal stupidity—or at worst treason." The “counts," “picked at random," included charges that: Stevenson in 1943 helped formulate postwar policy for Italy which was “t<» bring Communists into the Italian government and to bring the Communist leader, Togliatti, back from Moscow.” There, was. .a.,.:hmcret. .army...di.-. receive which authorized the grant-2 ing. of commissions in the I'. S army to members of the Communist conspiracy.” McCarthy di d j not dlaborate. — former U.N, commander in Korea, was “nstructed not to win.” That Gen. Douglas MacArthur wanted to bomb Yalu River bridges when Chinese Communist troops were pouring over them, but the “order was countermanded from Washington.” That the Yalta agreement after World War 11 meant "millions of free men, women and children were sold into Communist slavery." Turning his attack directly on Stevenson, McCarthy accused him of using the “officially approved and published Communist methods” in his attack on the senator at Miami. To baek up-his charge, McCarthy referred to a pamphlet he said was a record of the national coherence of the U.S. Communist party in 1953. He said the patm phlet urged Communists to attack him, while at the same time being careful not to attack President Eisenhower.

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Economic Trend To Settle Tax Issues Democrats To Press For Exemption Hike WASHINGTON UP — Se. Walter F. George said today the economic trend during the next 30 to 40 days will probably determine the senate fate of a Democrat drive to cttt income taxes. The Georgia Democrat added, however, that he sees no likelihood of a shift great enough to call off his plans to press for an amendment to boost personal income tax exemptions. The senior Democrat on the senate finance committee, George is leading the party fight in the senate to Increase the present S6OO xemption, for each taxpayer and dependent to S.BOO this year and to SI,OOO in 1955. President Elsenhower is opposing the plan on grounds the treasury cannot afford the loss. A Democrat move to increase exemptions to S7OO was defeated in the house, 210-20 M, Thursday by a largely party-line vote. George said he is advising fellow Democrats against raising the exemption issue on the one billion dollar excise tax reduction bill approved by the finance committee Friday. That measure probably will come before the senate late next week. The Georgia senator said previously he feared attaching the exemption amendment to the excise bill would invite a veto by Presi-dent-Eisenhower. House Democrats made their fight to raise exemptions on the administration's general tax reform bill, which the house passed Thursday. George wants to make the senate fight on the same bill. He told reporters he expects the viote to be clofce and said the result “will depend a great deal on what happens economically in the sext 30 or 40 days.” Grant Commissions To Catholic Schools Recommendation By School Inspector Word was received -today that the Indiana state board of education has granted a first class commission,. to . the.. Decatur. high school (grades 7-12 land a continuous commission to grades 1- 6. A recent visit to the school by state school inspector Harvey Dnvltfson;" restrttS3~ in" a 'recom-' mendation for this split commission. Among the reasons for this promotion, Davidson listed: The fulfillment of all statutory requirements: an exceptionally strong, well-balanced faculty—all degree personnel in grades 7-12; a good library and facilities; complete cumulative record system; an excellent gymnasium and facilities. The faculty for both grade and high school is composed of Sisters of St. Agnes. Enrollment in high school totals 93 and the grade school has an enrollment of 373 students. Sr. Mary Rosemary is school principal. Charles S Brown Dies This Morning Charles S. Brown, 82, of Fort Wayne, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the Lawton nursing home in that city. Survivors include a niece, Mrs. O. K. Baker of this city. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

U. S., Russia Far Apart On A-Development Dulles Hands U. S. Plan For Peaceful Atom Development WASHINGTON UP — The United States and Russia apepar far apart on how to cooperate in harnessing the atom for peace after the first exchange of detailed plans officials indicated today. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles Friday handed Soviet am.ibassador Geordi N. Zarubin this country's "concrete plan to further the peaceful development add use of atomic energy.” At the same time the state department dlsclosd that the Soviet Union has submitted its own proposals but would not say when. Although negotiations on President Eisenhower’s atomic peace plan were cloaked in tight secrecy wraps at both the state department and the Soviet embassy, offihinted the exchange has done little to bring the world’s major atomic powers together. No details of either plan were released. But it was believed the Kremlin was still insisting on an outright atomic weapon ban as a condition for any agreement on peaceful use of the atom. Officials said the United States has given Russia the substance of the idea unveiled by Mr. Eisenhower last December before the United Nation General They said the next move now is presumably up to Russia. The U. S. plan, as outlined 'Ey Mr. Eisenhower, follows these lines: ,1. The United States, Russia and other atomic powers would create an international atomic energy agency. 2. Ebch of these powers would contribute a share of their fissionable materials to the agency. 3. The agency would be responsible for storing and safeguarding the material. $280,000 Damages Sought From Union Complaint Filed In United States Court FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Damages of $280,000 are sought against Local 915. United Electrical Workers Union (Ind.), and the UE International Union in a complaint filed in U. S. district court here by the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., parent firm for the Capehart-Farnsworth Co. The amended complaint, which stems from a sitdown strike at Capehart’s and Wayne knit plant last fall, replaces a complaint filed by I. T. T. for Capehart last Oct. 21. The original suit for damages against the Capehart UE Local and its parent union was for $250,000, plus additional damages of $50,000 a day as long as the alleged work stoppage continued. The amended complaint names as defendants in the action the UE international union. Local 916, which represents the bulk of production and maintenance; employes at Capehart; John T. Gojack, president of UE’s district 9 and international vice-president of the union; Robert Rice, UE field organTzer; WanT Fox, president of Local 91$; Frank Sims, vice-presi-dent of the local; and 55 other _ board members .and stewards _of the local. In asking for total damages, the complaint breaks down tlje damages as follows: Operating loss at both plants of $70,000, between Oct. 13, 1953 and Nov. 13, 1953,-"as a direct result of the defendant’s violation of the collective bargaining agreement which completely disorganized the company’s production schedules." A loss of $150,000 in profits “due to cancellation of orders and continuing overhead” at the plants. An additional loss of $50,000 “from loss of customer outlets and goodwill.” Former Communist Vassel Thamel, a field organiser In Fort Wayne for the United Electrical Workers (Ind.) at a meeting of Local 910, UE. admitted he had been a member of the Communist party, but denied he had ' “hedged” when askied if he was still a member at the party. Thamel sald hs told those attending the meeting that he had been a member of the Communist party, but dropped out of the party in 1945.

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Air Force Flying Boxcar Crashes In Flames, 18 Servicemen Are Killed

Unemployment Jumps In Most Industry Areas Labor Department Report Discloses Unemployment Rise WASHINGTON UP - Unemployment has jumped in nearly all the nation’s major industrial areas and has reached “substantial” proportions in almost a fourth of them, the government reported Friday night. A labor department report for mid-March — the month President Eisenhower has termed critical in gauging the nation's economic health — also said unemployment has spread to a “wide range” of industries in the past few months. However the report added there are some indications the job decline is slackening in some areas and indsutries. Mr. Eisenhower has said it will be time to consider emergency government action, possibly including consumer tax reductions, if unemployment fails to. take a turn for the better this month. Conclusive figures on this will not be available tar several days. The labor department report said the rise in unemployment indicates that the nation's 149 leading job centers are "nearing the end of the winter season with generally looser tabor markets than at any time within the last year.* Meantime, the department said the number of workers claiming unemployment insurance benefits dropped slightly in the first week in March. The number of new jobless claims also dipped in the second week in March after rising during the first week. In making public its mid-March report on industrial employment conditions, the labor department added nine more major areas to its “substantial unemployment” list, bringing the total to 34 of the 149 covered by the survey. They now are entitled to special federal contract consideration. New areas classified as having substantial unemployment were Charleston, W. Va.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Duluth, Superior, Minn. — Wis.; Huntington—Ashland, W. Va. —Ky.; Paterson, N. J.; Portland, Ore.; Racine, Wis.; San Antonio, Tex.; and Wheeling—Steubenville. W. Va.—Ohio. Smaller areas rated as having substantial unemployment were Bay City, Monroe and Port Huron, Mich.; Biddeford, Me.; Bluefield ind Clarksburg, W. Va.; Kittan(Turn To Page Six)

beaten WteUtotoM, (By Rev. O. C. Busse, pastor of St. Paul’s ♦ ’ ' —- —' " — '/ Not Ashamed Os A Debt z to the wise, and to the unwise. For I am not-ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is a power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” Rom. 1, 14, 16 Paul was,not financially in debt to the Greeks and Barbarians. Yet, he acknowledged an indebtedness to them and also to the wise and unwise. Indeed, he felt himself debtor to the whole human race. - ' - - -> ■ Why did he have this deep sense of obligation? Had he borrowed something that put him under such enormous obligations? No, but he knew that Christ had come to redeem people from sin. Knowing that all men were sinners and under the wrath of God, and, knowing also that the redeeming Christ alone could save, them from their sins and their nations from decay and ultimate ruin, he considered himself obligated to preach Christ to them. Freed though we are, through faith in Christ, from the debt of our own sins are we not obligated, as Paul felt himself to be, to discharge the debt we owe others by doing all we can to bring them to Christ? ’ . " - ' • We are living In a materialistic age, an age in which antiChristian theories and systems of government whose heart is the denial of God hold out the promise for "the better life." Paul faced similar situations in his day. but he knew and we must know there is a greater power in the world now—the power of the Gospel of Christ. It is a power unto salvation. It redeems and transforms the souls of men. It takes, them from the empire of sin and places them into the Kingdom of Grace. It is a power that outlives empires and is even now stronger than all the powers of darkness. Our personal salvation, as well as the prosperity of the nations, depend upon the acceptance of this Gospel. Let us not be ashamed of the saving Gospel of Christ.

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Com Belt Farmers Ignore Allotments Indicated Planting Is Near 1953 Crop WASHINGTON, UP — A report by the agriculture department indicated today that corn belt farmers are virtually ignoring federal corn acreage allotments designed to cut this year's plantings tyy 17.4 percent. ■ The report also showed that (grmers outside the controlled "commercial area.” which takes in most of the corn belt, plan to increase their acreage enough this year to offset any decrease in the corn belt. The crop reporting board said this year's indicated planting of 81.037,000 acres is only four-tenths of one percent less "than the J 953 drop. With average yields, that acreage would produce around 1,100,000.000 bushels, down only About 77 million bushels from 1953. j Violators of corn allotments stand to lose only their eligibility tor price supports. In 1950, the last time corn controls were in effect, there was only a 50 percent compliance with government allotments. The report showed wheat farmPre —who unlike corn farmers face penalties for violating theit allotmeut—are staying fairly qjose to their 63-million-acre allotment. The reduction in wheat acreage, however, showed up in big gains planned for other crops. The board said farmers on March 1 were -planning tohike barley acreage by 46.9 percent over last year; oats. 7.4 percent; flaxseed. 18 percent; sorghum grains, 27,8 percent; and soybeans, 12.4 percent. Some department officials argued that many corn producers did not know their individual acreage allotments by March 1 when they reported their planting intentions reflected in the crop reporting board’s report. They predicted the actual planted acreage, to be announced in July, will show at least sotjie reduction. lowa farmers planned a 5 percent cut in corn plantings while their allotment called for about a 20 percent cut. In Illinois, which has all but one county under corn allotments, a 2 percent cut was indicated instead of about the 22 percent cutback called for by the allotments. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Snow flurries likely near Lake Michigan. Sunday partly cloudy and rather cold. Low tonight 25-32. High Sunday 38-45.

To (HF Wilson To Testify On Defense Plans Senate Committee To Query Secretary On Defense Policy WASHINGTON UP —Chairman Alexander Wiley D-Wis said today the senate foreign relations committee will call secretary of defense . Charles E. Wilson for questioning about the administration’s controversial “new look" defense policy. Committee Democrats questioned whether the nation has the military strength to back up the new “massive retaliation" policy Secretary of Sjate John Foster Dulles" testimony Friday. Sens. Mike Mansfield D-Mont. and J. William Fulbright D-Ark told Dulles they did not see much “pew” in the plan. And Sen. Walter F. George D-Ga questioned Dulles’ statement that the president has authority to hit back, for example, in case of an attack on Paris without consulting Congress. In his first full-dress public questioning by congress, Dulles said the new Jo«k military policy does not necessarily mean atomic retaliation or turning all local wars into general wars. The main Democratic criticism of the policy is that it might touch off a third world war. Dulles also said as of “today” he. would consider an attack on Paris the equivalent of an attack on this country. He said President Eisenhower could strike back -first and ask congress afterward in case of an attack on 'Atlantic treaty nations. The secretary of state conceded some parts of the retaliation theory were in effect under the preceding Democratic administration. In his testimony, Dulles stressed the following points: 1. The North Atlantic treaty does not affect the sole right of congress to declare war, but the president could act to repel a sudden attack on any NATO member without consulting Congress. 2. The “new look" does not mean that the U. S. is "committed” to massive retaliation in event of Soviet attack but does mean having “the capacity for massive retaliation.” He said the program offers “flexibility” which would permit retaliation to be tailored to the immediate circumstances. 3. Allied nations have been consulted fully about the policy and nbne of them has complained. Re(TtaraTo Pace SIxT Annual High School Revue April 1 And 2 Musical Revue To Be Presented Here _ The annual Decatur high school musical revue, entitled “Steppin' Out,” will be presented at Decatur high school auditorium Thursday and Friday. April 1 and 2, It was announced today. This year’s revue is a musical variety show with three distlnce backgrounds, American, Japanese and Italian. A cast of 60 Decatur high school students will take part. There will be vocal solos, duets, choruses and dances in addition to the dialogue which provides the continuity in prologues before each of the three scenes. Tickets may be purchased from any junior-senior high school stu? dent and the complete cast will be announced soon, those in charge announced. The faculty supervision for the production includes: Musical direction, Miss Helen Haubold; dialogue. Miss Charlotte V«ra; costumes, Miss Catherine W eidler; dances, Mrs. Rebecca Worthman“; stage setting, Miss Ksthryn Kauffman and Amos Ketchum; lighting, Lowell Smith.

Small Tornado Hits Connersville Friday Thunderstorms And Rain Over Indiana CONNERSVILLE, Ind. UP . — City and state police reported a small tornado dipped into this Eastern Indiana city Friday as thunderstorms and heavy rains swept most of the state. No one was injureu when the storm dropped into two northeast side residential areas, badly damaging a Nazarene church, knocking down trees and television antenna, blowing off a few roofs, flattening a few rural sheds, and overturning a motor freight 'firm semi-trailer. State and city police and residents reported it was a tornado. But the U. S. weather bureau at Indianapolis said the nature of the was not confirmed as a twister, A weather bureau spokesman said it was “possible” a funnel formed during storm activity west of the city and after parsing over hills surrounding the west side, dropped into the suburban area and then disappeared. Connersville police said the wind missed the factory and business district, which got almost no wind and rain, by several blocks “or there might have been a lot more damage." Heaviest damage was done to the church, where the roof was twisted and walls badly cracked. An orchard ■was “destroyed," police said. They said the wind dipped first near the IRC & D Motor Freight Go., tearing oft doors and overturning a truck, then apparently rose and dipped again a few (blocks farther, Hitting the church, a few roofs and the orchard. Dwight (Bennington, a northside resident, said he saw a black funnel reaching out from low clouds. He threw his youngsters to the floor and, took cover. He said the twister was traveling northeasterly. Confer On Critical Indochina Situation Ike Confers With Military Leaders WASHINGTON UP —President Eisenhower conferred for an hour with his military and diplomatic high command today on the critical situation in Indochina where Comtnu ff is t forces have surrounded a key French outpost. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty announced that Mr. Eisenhower consulted on the Indochinese fighting with defense secretary Charles E. Wilson, secretary of state John Foster DuHes, and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the- joint chiefs of •ifiiffr--.-— - ———-———- Hagerty did nor say wtat"gpe-~ cific aspects of the Indochlpese situation they discussed or otherwise amplify his announcement. Dispatches from Hanoi today said American civilian pilots are risking their lives to fly vital supplies to the Red - surrounded French outpost at Dien Bien Phu. Tfie 24 U. S. fliers involved were sent to Indochina under a private contract by retired Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s civilian air transport line. In addition to these men, hundreds of U. S. technicians are in Indochina helping to keep antiCommunist airplanes in shape to tiy. Some Democratic senators here have expressed fear that some Americans might fall .into Communist hands and that this country might get involved, through the Indochinese "back door,” in World War 111. But President Eisenhower has discounted these fears. He said at a news conference a week ago Wednesday that only congress can deciare this country at war.

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All 18 Aboard Flying Boxcar Die In Crash Crashes, Explodes In Flames During Heavy Rainstorm ANNAPOLIS. Md., UP —A giant Air Force Cll9 "Flying Boxcar” bound for New York crashed and exploded in flames during a heavy downpour near here Friday night and all 18 servicemen aboard perished. Tfee smouldering wreckage or the twin-engine plane was scattered over a half-mile area. The burned and mangled bodies of the victims were hurled from the plane by the force of the crash. An air force team dispatched from Andrews air force base near Washington worked through the rainy night inspecting the debris and identifying the dead which were gathered up and covered with parachute canvas. Air force officials said the six crewmen and 12 passengers were, killed instantly. The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Local police officers said they thought the passengers included men from all three branches of the service. Officials at Andrews! air fore® base said the passengers apparently were aerial hitch-hikers, some of them perhaps homeward bound on leave. —- Andrews officials tentatively listed the dead as Including 11 from the air force, five from the navy, one from the army, and one from the marine corps. The plane was based at Ardmore, Okla., and was attached to the 744 troop carrier squadron. The cause of the crash was not immediately determined. The air force said the crash occurred at 10:29 p. m. EST., —the time when one of the victim’s watch had stopped—just 17 minutes after jhe big plane had taken off from Bolling air force base, Washington, on a flight to Mitchel Field, Long Island, N. Y, The lowflylng craft crashed into an open field near the tiny hamlet of Lothian, Md., about 15 miles south of Annapolis. It sheared off the top of a clump of trees on the edge of the field. Mrs. Alice Ridgely, a farmwife, heard the crash and saw the flames leaping into the air after the explosion. She said "the flames made my house glow a bright red” although it was a quarter of a mile away. :*lt sounded like the plane was going to land on my house it was flying so low.” she Said. "Then there was an awful explosion and it burst into flame.” Fire-fighting equipment from a number of nearby southern Maryland towns was rushed to the ’ scene. One of the first firemen to arrive, James Redell of Little — Deal, Md., said it was "the worst sight I ever saw.” Bomber Crashes A MELI A, Va.-- (UP) — An air -—— force 826 bomber with four men aboard crashed into a swampy area and exploded near here Friday night, authorities reported. Sheriff M. M. de Krafft who hastily visited the isolated crash - site to organize a hunt for possible survivors said wreckage was "scattered all over a great area.” De Krafft said nothing could be learned immediately at the scene six miles east of here just off state route 609 of the fate of crew " < (Torn To Page Six) Jobless Pay Claims Increase In State INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Claims for unemployment benefits jumped —— again last week. William C. Stalnaker, director of the Indiana employment security division, reported today that 85,429 claims were processed last week, a gain of about 7,500 over the last previous week. Stalnaker blamed temporary layoffs in a large automotive plant and an apparel factory.