Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1954 — Page 1

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Appointment Os Samuel Sears Drawing Fire Selection To Run McCarthy-Army Row Drawing Criticism WASHINGTON, UP — Boston attorney Samuel P. Sears, who has publicly praised Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, came under fire today within hours after he was picked to run the investigation of the McOarthy«rmy row. Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Micb.) a member of the senate investigating subcommittee that selected Sears ’as special counsel for the inquiry, said he would ask Sears point-blank if he can conduct an impartial investigation. “I have no reason to doubt that he can," Potter said. Patter said he would put the question to Sears Monday when the attorney returns from Boston to start setting the delayed investigation into motion. Televised public hearings are scheduled to begin the following week. Sears' selection drew immediate criticism and added more fuel to the already explosive feud between McCarthy (R-Wis.) and the army that has rocked the Republican party. He was unanimously named to the counsel’s job by the sub-com-mittee Thursday after a 16-day search for an independent attorney to take on the task. McCarthy, subcommittee chairman who has stepped aside for the inquiry, did not vote. It was learned that Sears had sought the job, once rejected 1 by the president of the American Bar Assoclatipn, as well as the job seeking him. - Sears- told a news conference here that he had never taken a stand "publicly or privately” on McCarthy or “McCarthyism.” It w-as learned he made similar statements privately to the subcommittee. But dispatches from Boston quoted him as quarreling with three anti-McCarthy Harvard professors 1 two years ago and saying at that time McCarthy "has done a great job and he will continue to do so as he drives the Pinks and Commies out of government. He won’t sleep on the job until he finally accomplishes his aims." Mark De Wolfe fclowe, one of the three professors Sears criticised, said the attorney’s reputa- < Lion in Boston legal,circles "is one on the McCarthy side.” He said “a lot of people will doubt” wheth- ; er he can conduct an impartial in- j vestigation. The Liberal Americans for Democratic Action, long-time foe of the Wisconsin senator, joined in the criticism. Chairman Robert Nathan called the appointment the “obvious first step to whitewash Sen. (Turn To Puae Two) Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will hold its regular meeting at 10 o’clock Monday morning at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church.* Final plans for the Good Friday services will be one matter of business for this important meeting. All Decatur ministers are invited to attend.

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Millers On Strike At General Mills 4,600 Millers On Strike In Nation MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP) — Swing shift workers walked picket lines today as some 4,600 AFL. grain millers went on strike at 27 Genera] Mills plants in 13 states. It was the first national strike in the history of the milling industry. The walkout began at midnight Thursday night after negotiations broke down over a contract clause covering work schedules. Federal conciliators conducting the negotiatipps here had kept union and the flour company representatives working until midnight Wednesday and all day Thursday. WorkeiH reporting for the midnight shifts in General Mills’ scattered plants, located from New York to California, began the strike. In some cities —Wichita Tex., was one —they punched the time clock first and then manned picket lines. The strike was not over wages. Wage scales are negotiated separately by locals of AFL millers union at each plant. The negotiations here were for a master agreement between the company and union on work rules, fringe benefits and related matters. Federal conciliator ‘ Carl Carlgren said no further negotiating sessions were on schedule but tht he “would keep in touch with both sides.” General Mills has a total of about 13,000 employes, but only the millers were involved in the strike. The walkout shut down production, however, according to reports from many'plant superintendents. Four of the plants are located in Chicago, three in Minneapolis and two each in Keokuk, lowa, and Buffalo, N. Y. Other plants are located at Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Tex.; Belmond, Iowa; El Reno. Okla.; Great Falls, Mont.; Hopkinsville and Louisville, Ky.; Johnson City. Tenn.; Lodi, Los Angeles, Y f uba City and Vallejo. Calif.; Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah; and Wichita, Kan., and Rossford. Ohio. Burns Are Fatal To Four-Year-Old Girl INDIANAPOLIS UP — Cecilia Schultz, 4, whose clothing caught fire March 2 as she played with a cigaret lighter, died of burns Thursday in General Hospital. Her death was the 25th in Indiana from burns in the last month. Mrs. Myrtle Fuller | pies At Fort Wayne » Mrs. Myrtle A. Fuller, 68. of Fort Wayne, died Thursday at the, St. Joseph's hospital in that city. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Walter Sudduth of-Decatur, and several nieces and nephew’s. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Argo B. Sudduth officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Some snow flurries extreme north and chance of showers south Saturday. Colder north and central tonight and over state Saturday. Low tonight 24-'3B, nigh Saturday in 1 the 30’s north and 40’s south.

House Group Votes For PreStrike Ballots Committee Votes Pre-Strike Ballot In Labor Disputes WASHINGTON UP —The house labor committee today voted to require a pre-strike "secret ballot under government auspices in labor disputes. President Eisenhower asked for this change in the Taft-Hartley law, but did not say whether it should be taken bofore or after the strike. By a vote of 23-5, the committee adopted a motion by Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.) stating that the ballot should be before the strike. The committee turned down a motion by Rep. Roy W. Wier (DMinn.h 17-ILthat there he ho strike vote at all. Details of the strike ballot will be worked out by the committee Monday, chairman Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. (R-Pa.) told reporters. As the committee moved toward a windup of labor law revisions, by a 22-5 vote it threw out a motion by Kearns to allow a second secret ballot after a strike has started if strikers petition to vote on management's latest offer. McConnell expects the committee will specify that the federal - mediation and conciliation service t will arrange for the secret ballots. t Tint the votes would be conducted r by state or local agencies. If state , or local agencies fail to conduct » the votes, the mediation service . could arrange for a private organization to do the job. t The mediation service would be j barred from conducting the vote > Itself, in an effort to keep the 1 federal government out of such . matters, he explained. > The committee adopted a motion 5 by Kearns, 18-9, to require that . a majority of those eligible to vote must cast ballots in order to make . the strike vote valid. The committee must decide later r under what circumstances a secret . ballot would be mandatory or t whether it would apply to every . Jtrikei.,.McConnell said. Penalty for failure to hold a required secret strike ballot, he said, would be loss of protection under . the Taft-Hartley act and would open the union to court injunctions . and other strike-blocking maneuvers. Still scheduled for action are a move to take unfair labor practice cases away from the labor relations board and give them to federal courts, and a proposal to give the states greater jurisdiction in labor disputes. More Damage Suits Pend Against City Notices Filed For Two Damage Suits Two more damage suits against the city by property owners near the new diesel power' plant appeared imminent today. Notice tips been served on Mayor John Doan, in accordance with the statute which requires such c notice, prior to filing of a suit. The notice must be filed within 50 days after the present damage is alleged. The notices, each a separate action, were signed by Toseph E. and Martha A. Kitson, 704 Dierkes street, and Jerome and’ Helen Gaskill. — The Kitsons charge SI,OOO present damage in their notice and estimate $14,000 future damage. The Gaskills allege SI,OOO present damage and SIO,OOO future damage. The formal notices pave the way for a damage suit against the city at a later date.’’ Several weeks' ago Mr. and Mrs. Alva Buffenbarg er brought’Smit against the city , tor damages to their property. ” Oliver H. Eggers, Fort Wayne attorney, who is representing the Buffenbargers, also is attorney for the Kitsons and Gaskills in their actions. All of the alleged damages are the result of Vibration, said to be caused by the new diesel power engine th the building located at the corner of Seventh and Dayton streets. Several residents of the area have appeared at previous council meetings and have charged that the vibration has caused walls and plaster in their homes to crack. They also have charged that the market value of their properties has depreciated since construction of the plant

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 2, 1954.

Government Reports Unemployment Higher By 54,000 In March

Reds Step Up Savage Attack In Indochina Take Toe-Hold Only ‘ 1,000 Yards From Fortress' Center HANOI, Indochina UP — Coftv i munlst Gen. Vo Nguyen Clip, with a toe-hold established Only 1,000yards from the center of the besieged French fortress of Dien Bien Phu, today hurled three Red divisions into the savage battle in a gigantic effort to crush the French defenses. ' « French sources said the Communists threw one entire, fresh', division into the crumbling western defenses of Dieu Bien Phu in a slashing pre-dawn attack. Two other Red divisions renewed a powerful assault on the eastern bulwarks of the flaming fortress. The other blows ranging the length of the Indochinese peninsula, the Communists sent a strong column of Viet Minh regulars dig miles into the sleepy, unprotected kingdom of Cambodia, 500 mile* to the south. /They also opened a new guerrilla campaign in the Red River delta, heart of the French military strength in Indochina. The Red attackers at Dien Bien Phu poured into the breach in the western defenses in human waves. They disregarded point-blank fire from French gunners, fatigued After three days aud nights of continuous attack. More .than 1,000 Reds were cut down in the first hours of the new assault. But the rebels clawed their way over the bodies of their fallen companions, ripped out French barbed * wire with their hands and kept coming, faster than the guns could drop them. Late reports from t<e battlefront said the Frencji were holding on all but the western front. In spite of the odds. French military spokesmen predicted that Dien Bien Phu can be saved, if the heroic defenders can hold out until Sunday. Half-exhausted by three weeks of siege and assault, the "Fighting Fools" of Dien Bien Phu fought in a furnace of smoke and dust in a grim, bloody effort to save the fortress. The Reds advanced through artillery and machine-gun fire. Wave after wave trampled upon the bodies of their dead and upon their wounded as the battle approached a climax. . Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap appeared willing to make unlimited sacrifices of manpower in his numerically superior forces to wipe out Dien Bien Phu and its 11,000-tnan garrison, of what was left of it. French officials indicated they expected the worst. They said they 'iad underestimated the Communists' military progress and training directed by Red Chinese officers. They said their information on the Reds' ammunition and supply had been insufficient. The French said the invasion of Cambodia, where Red activity has been limited to minor and sporadic • guerrillas assault, was an organized and coordinated military ; movement and not just a maneuver to sap away reinforcements intended for Dien Biefi Phu.

.dente* IftelifatiM (By Rev. John E. Chambers, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren, Decatur On Looking Up "Unto Thee lift I up mine eyes.”—Psalms 123:1 Isn’t it rather marvelous that whenever we think of coming into the presence of God, we always turn our minds, our hearts, and even our eyes upward. In Psalms 121, the Psalmist declares, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my " help?’ In the play Seventh Heaven there is a character named Chico who has had many hardships and failures, but he learns to live with them. Listen to his secret: "I work in the sewers, “but I live near the stars. I never look down, I always look up." The secret of true happiness is in looking up into the face of God—finding His help. His strength, His Presence —to meet your needs today. '

France's Military Budget Is Approved National Assembly Upholds Juin Ouster i M 1 : j PARIS UP —The national assembly upheld . the* government's firing of Marshal Alphonse Juin by passing the 1954 military budget today over the stormy protests of right wing deputies who tried to block it in retaliation. j The budget, which includes allotments for Indochina, passed by a vote of 302 votes to 232 although right wing Gaullist opponents of the European defense community , turned the session into an uproarious defense of Juin. Defense minister Rene Pleven who helped originate the EDC, had threatened to resign if the national assembly failed to pass the budget. Juin was reported to have offered to resign as central European commander of the North Atlantic treaty organization, but reliable sources said Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther told him to wait for a decision by all 14 NATO nations. The right wing group strongly attacked the cabinet decision to strip Juin of his national offices for insubordination and used the incident to attack EDC. ThoysaM the real reason Juin was sacked was because he attacked the proposed six-nation defense pact: The 65-year-old Juin, France’s only living marshal, was deprived of his French military positions after refusing to obey an order from premier Joseph Laniel. The action recalled the firing by President Truman of Gen. of the Army Douglas MacArthur. Laniel ordered Juin to appear before him to explain his attacks .on the EDC without consulting his civilian superiors. President Rene Coty said Juin was fired because he disobeyed Laniel. Everhart Speaker . At Five-State Meet Local Teacher One Os Panel Leaders Steve Everhart, a member of the Decatur school faculty and widely recognized youth leader o this city, was one of the panel leaders at a five-state meeting of health, physical education and recreation leaders yesterday in Indianapolis. Director of the school's summer recreation program and super visor of the park programs for children in the city, Everhart summed up 10 ideas in recreation. Everhart is supervisor of the Den or youth canteen which operates during the fall and winter months. The meeting of recreation, and youth leaders was sponsored by the midwest American association tor health, physical education and recreation. Leaders m this field from five adjoining states attended the seminar and planned programs for their communities during the coming months.

Former Chief Os Air Force Dies At Noon General Vandenberg ’ Dies Os Cancer At t Capital Hospital .WASHINGTON UP — Gen. Hoyt S. Vanderberg, former air chief ■ of staff who helped develop Ameri ica’s mighty air. armada, died toi day of cancer. ' Vanderberg, 55-year-old, hand- ■ some four-star general, died at ■ Walter Reed army medical hospital. His wife, son and daughter were i at his bedside. Death came at 1:05 p.m. EST. Although Vandenberg’s illness never had been officially disclosed until his death today, it was known he had cancer of the prostate gland. Almost two. years ago he underwent abdominal surgery while still air force chief of staff. ...He. retired last June as air force .chief of staff, and entered the hospital Oct. 30. . . At his bedside when he died were his wife, Gladys; his son, Ist Lt. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., who returned front Germany to be with his father; and his daughter, Mrs. Robert L. Miller of Colorado Springs, Colo. Air secretary Harold E. Talbott and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air i force chief of staff, said Vandenberg's death is a great loss. ! “He was a great airman and an • inspiring military leader,” Talbott ■ said. “As a brilliant air strategist and one of the first chiefs of staff ■ of the air force, he was a prime i architect of today’s powerful modi ern air arm. Both t*e military servi ice and the nation he served sd> > well have lost a great champion and friend.” Twining, who succeeded Vandenberg last June 30, said “Only those of us who worked closely with Gen. Vandenberg were fully aware of the depth of his thinking, the careful balance of his judgment and the soundness of his. decisions.”— Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson said "the loss of such a man is a real loss to the country and 1 expend my deepest sympathy o his family.” It was against Wilson’s cuts In the air force budget that Vandenberg fought his last great battle before retiring last summer. He contended that the cuts would be ■’disastrous” to the air force buildup. Although Wilson successfully opposed Vandenberg’s arguments, the defense secretary this year subscribed to the air-atomic concept which Vandenberg and his staff always preached. I — District Meeting Is Held By Legion Decatur Is Host To District Meeting A fourth district meeting of the American Legion here Thursday night was attended by about 150 legionnaires from 34 posts in the district which includes, Adams, Allen. Whitley, DeKalb, Noble, LaGrange, Wells and Steuben counties. . A dinner served at 5:30 p.m. was followed with a business session which featured the first nomination of convention delegates. Another nomination will take place next month and the delegates will be elected in June. Entertainment was provided by boys of the Knightstown Home, maintained by the Indiana department for orphan children of veterans. Guests at the event included Robert Gates of Columbia City, fourth district commander; Frank Hlpser of Logansport, northern vice - commander, and William Dunn of Wabash, fifth district commander.

Heads Elks Lodge if I Ji Wt? Ji < || i ' i . Oran Schultz l' New Officers Are I Installed By Elks Oran Schultz Heads New Lodge Officers Oran Schultz was installed as exalted ruler of the Decatur BPOE Lodge 893 in a ceremony Thursday evening at the Elks home. The new exalted ruler is employed at the General Electric Co. Others assuming office were Robert Smith, esteemed leading knight; Clarence Ziner, esteemed loyal knight; Hubert Schmitt, Jr., esteemed lecturing knight; Wilbur Petrie, trustee; Kenneth Beard, secretary; A. L. Colchin, 1 treasurer, and Roman 'Raudenbush tiler. Appointments made by the new ' exalted ruled include Harry King, ’ inner guard; Herman Keller, chaplain; George Laurent, esquire, and ’ Hubbard Steiner, organist. Stand- '* ing committees will be announced by Schultz in the near future. Guests at the installation meeting were Al Banghart, past exalted ruler of the Wabash Elks lodge and a member of the Indiana Elks inter-lodge activities; Marion Martin, present exalted ruler of the Wabash lodge; Charles Bender, also of the Wabash lodge, and Frank Mundy of the Van Wert, 0., lodge. Special Category On Loyalty Risks Keep Communists From Being Drafted WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Charles E. Potter proposed today that a special category of “loyalty risks” be established to prevent Communists from being drafted into the army. The Michigan Republican recommended that any draftee refusing to sign a loyalty oath be rejected and his draft card and all records stamped: “Declared unfit for military service for loyalty reasons.” Potter’s proposal, which he plans to incorporate in legislation to be introduced next week, is designed to meet the main problem in keeping Communists and subversives out of the armed services. Defense leaders have told the senate armed services committee that the subversive question among enlisted men and officers is answered by having them sign loyalty oaths prior to. entering the service. But draftees, the defense leaders say, present a different problem. While not wanting subversies in the armed forces, military leaders said men should not be allowed to escape their military obligation by Invoking the sth amendment or claiming to be communists. The compromise ordered by defense secretary Charles E. Wilson is that any drafted loyalty risk 1 will be kept in the lowest enlisted 1 grade and isolated in a non-sensi- 1 tive job. Potter, however, expressed dis- 1 satisfaction with this compromise. He said “It should be an honor to 1 (Turn To Fuse Tw«) <

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Usual Pickup Os Employment Fails To Show Unemployed Total ' Now 3,725,0001 n - U. S. Labor Ranks WASHINGTON, UP—Unemployment increased by 54,000 and reached 3,725,000 last month, the government reported today. But employment also increased by 45,000 to reach 60,100,000. The civilian labor force increased by 100.000 to a total of 63,825,000. Industrial workers bore the brunt of the unemployment rise. Agriculture employment increased by 171,000 while the number with jobs in non-agri-cultural industry popped off by 126.000. The commerce department said that in addition to the 3,725,000 counted as unemployed there were an additional 235,000 workers who had been temporarily laid off but had promisee of their jobs back within 30 days. A department spokesman attributed the increase in unemployment to the fact that some additional factory workers had been laid off in March,., He said that employment did noVshww the usual seasonal pickup because of this factor, a late Easter, and bad weather in some parts of the country. The March unemployment total was the highest since March, 1950, when it reached 4,123.000. The commerce department interpreted the relatively small increase in unemployment last month as a leveling in the upward trend In the number of jobless since last October, when a post World War <ll low of 1,200,000 wa,s registered. “The stability of unemployment between February and March was a marked departure from the sharp increases recorded' each month starting last November,” the department said. But this was only the second March since World' War II that unemployment has increased. The other was March, 1946, when unemployment jumped 50,000. March decreases have ranged from 45,000 tn 1949 to 561,000 in 1950. The commerce department said another favorable indication last months was “some pickup" in full time work among factory workers and a corresponding drop in parttime work. Unemployment rose by a whopping 584,000 in February. And some government economists inerpreted a smaller increase in March as an indication that unemployment was beginning to level off and that a definite upturn would come soon. They also did not believe the March unemployment would justify President Elsenhower’s taking iny drastic anti-recession steps. Me said last Feb. 17 that if employment did not show a definite ’pturn in March, it would be a vanning calling for a number of neasures—possibly including furher tax cuts for lower-income ’onsumers. Mr. Eisenhower last week said hat he meant a new examination of the problem would be required ather than that any slam-bang mergency measures would he put nto effect Instantly. Mild Heart Attack Suffered By Jackson WASHINGTON UP — Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson was reported “out of immediate danger” today following a heart attack that will keep him off the bench for an indefinite time. Jackson’s physician. Dr. Hill Carter, disclosed that the 62-year old justice suffered a mild heart attack last Tuesday. Hill said Jackson is “responding to treatment excellently and is oat of immediate danger." Hill said he could not predict when Jackson would resume his duties. >■