Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 73.

Begin Inquiry On H-Bomb Blast Victims r -7* if*" - ’- ■ — m -' ' fi : <.. WwWM In l®O ... . , . S »i W'Wmmm _ — B ? 1 lOh l 6 X, ,/ f 'i ua ,4* qu Wi’V h z THJE FIRST SESSION of the Japanese-U. S. medical conference on the Bikini H-bomb casualties gets underway aa delegates begin the discussion behind closed doors at the foreign office in Tokyo. Japanese fishermen, tar from the H-bomb firing were showered with radio-active dust and their cargoes contaminated. - ‘

Key Senators Endorse More Indochina Aid \ •-■■ . ;■*— c X.& A’... '•. > - ’ More Planes, Other War Materials To Be Sent To French WASHINGTON. UP—Key senators today endorsed the defense department decision to send more planes and other war materials to the hard-pressed French and native forces in Indochina, p Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) summed up the geueral congressional reaction when he said sending equipment Is far better than sending troops. No immediate criticism was voiced over the plan to dispatch 25 more 826 light bombers, as Veil .aa parachutes, ammunition and medical equipment, to help the French Union forces hold the embattled bastion of Dien Bien Phu against the Communist assault. The Pentagon announced the additional aid Friday night as Gen. Paul Ely. chief of French armed forces, left here after a six-day conference with top U. S. officials on the entire Indochina situation. Russell, ranking Democrat on the armed services committee, said the stepped-up aid is in line with established United States policy of supplying French forces with military aid. He said if the French continue to furnish the manpower there is little chance the conflict will flare into a larger war. But use of American troops might lead to open intervention by Red China, Russell warned. The defense department said the bombers will be sent to Indochina on a temporary loan basis "in the near future.” American officials hope the additional supplies to aid the French, Laotian and Vietnamese forces against the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels will have great propaganda as well as military value. They feel it is especially important, in view of the forthcoming (Tars To Page Six) - . Hrs. Grace Giessler Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Grace Giessler, 69. of Willshire township. Van Wert county, 0., died Friday afternoon at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of seven months. Mrs. Giessler was a member of St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church in Harrison township. Van Wert county. Surviving are her husband, Martin Giessler; two daughters, Mrs. George Reynolds and Mrs'. Richard Dellinger of Fort Wayne; a son, Carl Giessler of Willshire; a stepson, John Giessler of Long Beach, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Ed Hay of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Austin Fitzgerald of Cassopolis, Mich.; five grandchildren; a brother, Groce Tope of near Decatur, and a (sister, Mrs. Clarence Fegley of Rockford, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. EST Monday at the St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. Paul H. Graeser officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeraL home in Van Wert until time of the services.

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Two Men Arrested For Local Break-in ■<p • Pair Arrested In Colorado Friday Two men, Dexter John Meise, 22. Sauk City, Wis., and Donald Allen Joy, age not given. Milton, N. H., were arrested in Littleton, Colo., Friday and admitted the attempted burglary of Riehle Tractor and Implement Co. office here early this week and also the theft of an automobile belonging <o Eugene Mitch of Decatur, police were advised here this morning. Both were reported to be absent without leave from an army camp at Cherry Point S. C. The men confessed several burglaries and the shooting of an unknown New Hampshire man during a filling station robbery earlier this week, at the beginning of their cross country dash. ■ A .22 calibre revolver was taken from the Mitch auto when it was recovered by Littleton police, the message said. When the Decatur car was stolen following the attempted burglary, another car bearing New Hampshire license plates was left here. Police have been advised that the owner of that vehicle will come here and pick it up in the next few’ days. It had not been determined at noon today which state would get the two confessed robbers. Crimes were admitted in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Colorado and it is believed there is a possibility of federal authorities taking custody because of a Dyer violation involving interstate transportation of stolen automobiles. Prosecutor Lewis L. Smith and state police officer Truman Bierie will confer with officials of other states involved and it is possible that no decision will be reached until the first of next week. Terre Haute Robbery Suspect Is Arrested $1,700 Found Hidden Under Hood Os Car WASHINGTON. Pa. UP — Police manning a roadblock arrested a suspect in an Indiana bank rob- ! bery today as he drove through -the city with his 'wife and five children in his automobile. The suspect w’as identified as Carl D. Hoopengarner, 30, West Tere Haute, Ind. The West Terre Haute State ißank was held up Friday and robbed of about $1,600 by a bandit who fired a sawed-off slightly wounding a federal bank examiner. State police said they found $1,700 hidden underneath the hood of the car. Hoopengarner told police he was enroute to his former home in Providence. R. 1., with his family, including children seven years to two months old. Police s z et up the road block on receiving information the suspect was heading for Rhode Island. Hoopengarner offered no resistance. He was taken to state police headquarters with his family. At Terre Haute, the bandit slipped by heavy police road brocks. .Meanwhile, William Grady, 23, Racine, W’is., federal bank examiner wounded by pellets from the robber’s sawed-off shotgun, was released from St. Anthony's Hospital. j ««• Police said more than 50 cars were checked in the search for the short, rough-looking gunman who demanded money from a teller (Turn To Page Six)

Early Action Is Expected On Labor Law Senate Committee To Resume Work On Bill On Wednesday By UNITED PRESS The way appeared clear today for early action by the senate labor committee on President Eisenhower’s proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law. Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) said the committee wpujd resume work Wednesday on a measure revising the labor law. He predicted action on the bill by the end of the week. Mr. Eisenhower opened the way for Smith’s committee Friday by sending congress a clarification of, his views on state vs. federal jurisdiction over labor-management disputes. Smith’s committee had halted work on the bill pending White House word on this issue. The President, in a letter to Smith and chairman Samuel K. McConnell Jr.. (R-Pa) of the house labor committee, urged broader Jurisdiction for states in labor questions. He pointed out that he had recommended in his labor message in January that state governors should be free to deal with labor disputes that imperil the health and safety of citizens of their states. He also said federal law should not prevent states from exercising "traditional” police powers in maintaining public order and declared they should be free to act in® the twilight zone of labor relations where the national labor relations board has not asserted federal authority. Other congressional news: McCarthy: The senate Investigating subcommittee’s plan to get hearings started by Monday in Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's fight with the army collapsed when the group failed to come up with a special counsel to Tie ad the probe, Meanwhile, the army reinstated Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, one target in McCarthy's investigation of the army, to her Pentagon job pending a final decision in her loyalty case. Spies: The senate internal security subcommittee apeared ready to resume its Investigation of alleged Communist Infiltration of the government under, the Democrats. A subcommittee aide| said former treasury secretary John W. Snyder, a close friend of former President Truman, will testify Tuesday. He will doubtless be asked about the late Harry Dexter White, a former treasury official whom attorney general Herbert Brownell called a Communist spy. Housing: Chairman Jesse M. Wolcott (R-Mich) of the house banking committee predicted the house would defeat Democratic efforts to restore a drastic cut in President Eisenhower’s request for construction of 140,000 public housing units in the next four years. The house appropriations committee turned down the President's request Friday. Taxes: Chairman Daniel A. Reed of the house ways & means committee was said to be "pretty dead set” against the liberalized excise tax reduction bill approved by the senate Thursday. The bill will be sent to a house-senate conference committee Monday. It calls for excise cuts of about one billion dollars.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 27, 1954.

GOP National Chairman Says Sen. McCarthy’s Effectiveness Lessens

324 Passengers Stranded By Port Strike Luxury Liner Unable To Land Vacationers Because Os Strike NEW’ YORK UP — A shipload of passengers whose Caribbean cruise ended in a stalemate with striking tugboat crews waited for hjgh tide today and another attempt to get ashore. The luxury liner Empress of Scotland, with 324 vacationers aboard, did an about-face Friday within hailing distance of her Manhattan pier. No tugboats were 1 available to nose the three-funnel ship into dock and high winds prevented her docking unassisted. The Empress ' steamed back down the Hudson River channel and anchored off Staten Island in New York Bay. Ship officials threw a party for the passengers and made plans to attempt another docking at high tide today. Tugboat crews Friday were spasmodically honoring a “floating picket line” established by striking members of the International Longshoremen’s who, have crippled traffic in the port for 23 days. ■ Strikers boarded a chartered launch to scurry about the harbor reminding tugboat crewmen who belong to the same union that their leaders had agreed to support the longshoremen in their strike. No settlement of the walkout was in prospect for the weekend. A national labor relations board examiner recommended Friday that a union election held among longshoremen last December be thrown out and a new ballot taken. The NLRB is expected to ratify the findings next week, calling fgr another election for dock workers to choose whether they shall be represented by the old ILA or a new AFL union chartered to replace it. The White House Friday reaffirmed that President Eisenhower would not act in the labor dispute as long as it was involved in court action. Contempt of court charges are pending against the ILA and shippers plan further legal steps in an effort to end the walkout. Free Music Contest Here Monday Evening The Adams county federated women’s clubs will sponsor a county-wide free music contest at 6:36 o’clock Monday evening at the Decatur high school. Vocal and instrumental (no piano) students may enter the contest. Prizes will be nine-day free music training at the liidiana University music camp. IN DI AN A WE AT HER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Colder north * Sunday. Low tonight 30-35 north 35-40 south. High Sunday 38-45 north, 45-54 south. "

(By Rev. Harley T. Shady, Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church) A Fine Art Os Living "He (God) has showed you, O man. what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but’to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” —Micah 6:8. Some say that man has lpst the art of ,“doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly , with God.” It would be hetter to. say that many have never found the art of “doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with God,” a fine art of living. One cannot lose that which he never had. But he can find that which he has never had. This spokesman for God. Micah, calls attention to what, man has received from God; and then asks the question, “What does the Lord require” of man? Then he proceeds to answer the question in the words of our text. It is indeed a fiqe art to “do justice, and tolove kindness, and to'walk humbly with God.” Many have found this art and their lives hatfe had peace, and strength, and joy. But many others have never found this art. May we all be searchers for it any may ■we find it to the end that our lives may be abundantly rich and full of the things of God; and that we may serve as instruments of God in a world of great need.

Sergeant Schick Is Sentenced To Death Convicted In Death Os Child In Japan TOKYO. UP — Master Sgt. Maurice L. Schick, a former Sunday school teacher and scoutmaster, was sentenced today to death by hanging for the "urge to’ kill” flaying of a 9-year-old girl. Schick, of Canonsburg, Pa., etood at attention while a board V>f three generals and four colonels found him guilty and ordered him executed for strangling Susan Rothschild last Nov. 21. After hearing the pronouncements, Schick saluted sharply, made a military about-face and returned to his seat wearing an odd, smile. ; “It was the weirdest, strangest ’emile I’ve ever seen in my life,” 'one spectator said. Schick's only defense during the six-day court martial was that he must have been insane because he had a “sudden urge” to kill and received complete sexual satisfaction in the slaying. The prosecution charged Schick was sane and guilty of premedicated murder. The soldier, a purple heart veteran of World War 11. was described by army psychiatrists as an “anti-social perDefense counsel Major HarlowHuckabee, Mt. Royal. Va., -sald he would continue to press the sanity issue in his appeals. “We’ll request in writing a further psychiatric examination,” Huckabee said. “We’ll fight it like hell from here on.” Schick did not testify but he claimed in a confession introduced into evidence that he did not plan to kill Susan, daughter of an American colonel, as they talked on a lonely, wooded lane near her home. Schick’s confession said, however. he felt a “sudden urge to kill” and selected Susan “just because she was there.” The confession said he experienced a sexual climax after choking the girl and holding her down in a drainage ditch with his foot to make sure she was dead. Testimony of four U. S. army psychiatrists who examined Schick shortly after his arrest conflicted sharply with that of two Japanese doctors who told the court Schick suffered from the split-personality type of insanity that is known as schizophrenia. Schick wore the weird smile and chewed gum intensely as he walked handcuffed to a military policeman through a corridor lined with spectators, including some witnesses who had testified against him. Among the spectators was a small Japanese girl whose identification of Shick as a man she saw near the scene of the crime led to his arrest and conviction. She did not testify. The prosecution sought the death penalty on the charge that Schick strangled the girl because he was afraid she would tell her father of some sexual advance or “lewd statement” he made during (Turn To Pave Five) *

Hydrogen Test Is Tentatively Set April 22 Hydrogen Superbomb Test Is Scheduled During Next Month WASHINGTON UP — Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa.) said today he wil fly to Bikini to witness a hyrogen supenbomb test scheduled for some time between April 16 and 26. Other sources said an explosion tentatively set for April 22, weather permitting, will be the biggest of the current test series at the Eniwetok-Bikini proving ground in the Pacific. * So far in the series only one test shot has been announced. That was the March 1 hydrogen explosion at Bikini which dwarfed all previous U. S. atomic blasts and obliterated the island on which it was detonated. Van Zandt has said the March 1 explosion was powerful enough to wreak total destruction in a. metropolitan area 12 miles in diameter. The blast planned for April 22 is expected to be more awesome than that. Informed sources here said the second shot of the series, believed scheduled for the latter part of this week, has been postponed. Although the atomic energy commission announced the March 1 explosion, it has said nothing of a second. Originally, according to informed sources. It was planned to explode six test devices’ this spring, five of them hydrogen. The unexpectedly tremendous size of the first explosion, plu% erratic weather conditions, may have forced revision of the schedule. Omer A. McManama Dies Last Evening Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death \ ■ Omer Arthur McManama, 53, a former resident of Decatur, died at 6:05 o’clock Friday evening at his home in Waterloo following a heart attack. He had been in failing health for five years with a., heart ailment. Mr. McManama moved to Waterloo eight years ago after purchasing the Green Parrot case in that town. He was born in Logansport July 27, 1900, a son of Mr. and Mrs. George IvfcManama, and was married in Decatur Feb. 4, 1922, to Reba Frances Roop. Mr. McManama was a member of the United Brethren church and of the Moose lodge in this city. Surviving are his wife; his father, who lives in Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia Ray of Joplin, Mo., and Mrs. Barbara Jean McCann of Auburn; one son, Cletus A. McManama of Deshler, 6.; seven grandchildren; one brother, Howard McManama of Moline, III.} a sister, Mrs. Mary Overholser of South Bend; a half-brotner, John Bridge of South Bend, and a halfsister, Mrs. Naomi Bowman of Berne. “ Ftmeral services wiH be- -conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zwiek funeral home, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Graffis funeral home in Waterloo after 7 o’clock this evening until 10 a.m. Monday. The body will then be "brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday. The Moose lodge will hold memorial services at the funeral home at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

Director Os Budget Dodge Resigns Post Joseph Dodge Quits Position April 15 WASHINGTON UP — The White House announced today Joseph 'M. Dodge will resign as director of the budget bureau April 15 to return to his position as chairman of the board of the Detroit gank, Detroit, Mich. President Eisenhower said in a letter to Dodge that he was accepting the resignation “only With the greatest reluctance.” Dodge has -been in office 14 months. He first joined the President as economic advisor shortly after the 1952 election. The White House Said Dodge had expected his government service to be only temporary and has been op leave from his banking position. White House press 'secretary .James Hagerty said no successor has been selected. Dodge has held various government posts in the last 11 years. He held an advisory pbsition’*to Mr. Eisenhower in post war Germany and also was economic advisor to President Truman and to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan. In his letter. Dodge said the budget program accomplished under President Elsenhower's administration "is attributable principally to your unfailing cooperation and support.” “No one could hope for a more generous and helpful relationship,” Dodge said. * Dodge said he previously had informed the ’President of his intention to resign “as soon as practicable” after the 1955 budget was presented to congress. Cold Weather Is Forecast Sunday INDIANAPOLIS, (UP)—lndiana > temperatures were due to ease up- ! ward and slide downward today r and Sunday. The weather bureau said it will be cloudy but warmer today, with highs of 48-57 degrees. The outlook for Sunday was colder. Two U. S. Soldiers Killed In Korea SEOUL, Korea (UP) — Eighth army disclosed today that two American soldiers in the 65th infantry regiment were killed Friday when struck by live ammunition during a training problem. Names of the men were with- ‘ held pending notification of next of kin. Both Parties Name List Os Delegates a J/.'. . No Opposition To Slate Os Delegates

There is no ftpposition to either the Democrat or Republican slate of 12 delegates chosen from Adams county for the respective, state conventions to be held in Indianapolis later this year. The number of delegates allocated to each of the two major political parties from the county is based on the number of votes cast in the last general election for secretary of state. One delegate is selected for each 500 or major portion of 500 votes cast. Following are the. Repubican delegates nominated: • True Andrews, Charles Fuhrman, Ell Curtis Engle, Gerald Edwards, Leo Engle,' Floyd Aspy, Menno Lehman, Clovis Oberli, Cal F. Peterson, Cal E. Peterson, John Doan and Harry Essex. Democrats named the following delegates: Herman Moellerlng. Harry Hebble, Gerald Vizard, Leo Ehingef, Gene Hike, Richard Moeschberger, Theron Fenstermaker, C. H. Muselman, John Blakey, O. W. P. Macklin and Robert H. Heller. Convention dates will be chosen by the respective state committees in May.

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McCarthy Feud With Army Is Scored By Hall Republican Party ■ Will Not Endorse Joe As Spokesman OMAHA UP —Republican nationalchairman Leonard Hall says Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s "effectiveness” has "diminished’’ since he started feuding with the army. Hall served notice on local GOP leaders that it’s up to them whether they want to ask McCarthy's aid in the coming congressional campaigns. Hall made it clear that McCarthy will not have the OOP’s endorsement as an official spokesman during the campaign. However, he conceded that the controversial Wisconsin Republican is in great demand as a congressional campaign speaker — to the point that he has more requests to speak than he can possibly fill. Hall garb a new insight into the official Republican view of McCarthy’s feud with the army when he arrived Friday at the Omaha meeting of GOP state chairmen and other leaders -from 21 midwest and Rocky Mountain states. He said it is "up to local officials" whether they invite McCarthy into states where pivotal congressional ■or senatorial races are being fought. On the other hand, he said, the national Republican committee “has not assigned the senator” to make any campaign speeches. Only President Elsenhower or Vice-President Richard Nixon speak for the Republican party, he said. Hall said he believes the "effectiveness of Sen. Joseph McCarthy has diminished” in the last two or three weeks — weeks that have been high-lighted by McCarthy's fight with the army and administration officials over his investigative methods. Hall said this dispute “hasn’t helped anyone." The GOP chairman said his talks with Republican leaders throughout the nation showed differences of opinion about McCarthy, but “not much more than at any other time." Schine Graduates CAMP GORDON, Ga. UP — Pvt. G. David Schine, controversial former aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, was graduated from the army’s military.police school today and temporarily assigned to a photography laboratory here while the army reconsiders his bid to become a criminal investigator. Schine's commanding general, Brig, Gen. Francis A. Howard, held a news conference following the graduation ceremonies at which he said Schine had been “a good soldier.” He said he was sure Schine’s’Character rating would be graded excellent and his efficiency rating superior. < - -; General Howard said he had been “under absolutely no pressure” from the Pentagon or elsewhere in regard to the disposition of Private Schine. The tall, good-looking former McCarthy aide was graduated with a company of 228 men at a brief chapel ceremony. Schine was pale and tight-lipped as he marched in the front row of his company ,i|j the ceremony, but he later grinned broadly as photographers and newsreel men followed him qn the way out., Schine refused to make any statement when he fell out of ranks. As reporters attempted to press him for answers, a sergeant yelled, “Inside, Schine,” and he disappeared into his barracks. General Howard said Schine had not received reassignment orders but will be a member of a receive ing company here available for casual labor. 0- . ...■■■■ —————o NOON EDITION